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SAS: Simple Attention Sparsification via End-to-End Optimization of Context Ranking

Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-09-11 in cs.CL. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.

Published 2026-09-11 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-09-14

Category: cs.CL · 自然语言处理 · first seen 2026-09-14

Abstract

Post-training attention sparsification reduces the quadratic cumulative attention cost of pretrained Transformers by selecting a small set of context units (tokens or blocks) for each query. Existing trainable methods usually use a lightweight selector to score context units, followed by hard Top-K selection that blocks gradients from the language modeling loss. Consequently, these methods commonl

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