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To introduce a natively trainable sparse attention architecture engineered to align directly with modern hardware constraints for efficient long-context modeling.

January 1, 2025Open Access

Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse Attention

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To introduce a natively trainable sparse attention architecture engineered to align directly with modern hardware constraints for efficient long-context modeling.
Designed a sparse attention algorithm tailored to the memory access hierarchies of modern hardware accelerators.
Formulated a natively trainable mechanism that enables gradient-based optimization of sparse patterns directly during pre-training.
Accelerated long-sequence computational throughput by aligning sparse pattern retrieval with underlying hardware architecture.
Preserved full model expressiveness and training stability without requiring post-hoc approximations or secondary sparsification stages.

Implication

Algorithmic evaluation demonstrates hardware-aligned sparse attention in language models, suggesting efficient long-context training without architectural bottlenecks.

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Jingyang Yuan, Huazuo Gao, Damai Dai, Junyu Luo, Liang Zhao, Zhengyan Zhang, Zhenda Xie, Yuxing Wei, Lean Wang, Zhiping Xiao, Yuqing Wang, Chong Ruan, Ming Zhang, Wenfeng Liang, Wangding Zeng. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2025.

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Yuan et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69ffbb54581c6e761e7788dd https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.1126

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Algorithmic evaluation demonstrates hardware-aligned sparse attention in language models, suggesting efficient long-context training without architectural bottlenecks.

Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse Attention

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Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse Attention

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