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Sparse Attention Kernels for Long-Context Transformers
Priya Ramanathan · IIT Bombay · with two co-authors
We introduce a hardware-aware sparse attention kernel that reduces memory traffic by 38% on sequences above 16k tokens, while matching dense-attention accuracy on long-context benchmarks...
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