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New HiCI module enhances LLaMA-2 context to 100K tokens

Researchers have developed a new attention module called HiCI (Hierarchical Construction--Integration) designed to improve long-context language modeling. This module explicitly structures information hierarchically, constructing segment-level representations, integrating them into a global context, and then broadcasting this context to condition attention. When applied to LLaMA-2 with minimal parameter additions, HiCI extended context windows to 100K and 64K tokens, showing consistent improvements across various benchmarks. AI

IMPACT This research offers a new architectural approach to extending context windows in LLMs, potentially improving performance on tasks requiring long-range understanding.

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New HiCI module enhances LLaMA-2 context to 100K tokens

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Xiangyu Zeng, Qi Xu, Yunke Wang, Chang Xu ·

    HiCI: Hierarchical Construction-Integration for Long-Context Attention

    arXiv:2603.20843v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Long-context language modeling is commonly framed as a scalability challenge of token-level attention, yet local-to-global information structuring remains largely implicit in existing approaches. Drawing on cognitive theor…