Native Sparse Attention ; Hardware-Aligned Breakthrough for Long-Context LLMs 🤖✨

Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse Attention — a breakthrough in efficient long-context modeling for large language models! 🤖✨

Why NSA would be a game-changer:

âš¡ Dynamic hierarchical sparse strategy: Combines token compression & fine-grained selection to optimize both performance & hardware utilization.
🚀 Faster computations: Significantly accelerates decoding, forward propagation, and backward propagation while maintaining accuracy.
🔧 Hardware-aligned & training-aware design: Optimized for modern GPUs to enable end-to-end training.
📊 Benchmark results: Achieves comparable or superior performance to full attention models across multiple tests.

The research also delves into alternative sparse attention strategies and attention pattern visualization.

A major leap forward in making long-context language models faster and more efficient! Kudos to DeepSeek AI team.

Paper


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