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Tencent's HiLS Attention Extends LLM Context to 4 Million Tokens

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Tencent's Hunyuan team has developed a novel sparse attention mechanism called HiLS Attention, detailed in a new paper. This method makes chunk selection a learnable part of the model by using landmark tokens that summarize chunk content. This approach allows the model to maintain full-attention quality at in-domain lengths while extrapolating to contexts over 64 times longer than training, achieving a 13-15x speedup at 512K tokens. The HiLS Attention mechanism is available on Hugging Face, with open-sourced code. AI

IMPACT Enables LLMs to process significantly longer contexts, potentially improving performance on tasks requiring extensive information retrieval.

RANK_REASON Research paper detailing a new attention mechanism for LLMs. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Tencent's HiLS Attention Extends LLM Context to 4 Million Tokens

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Prabhakar Chaudhary ·

    HiLS Attention: How Tencent Built a Sparse Attention Mechanism That Extrapolates to 4 Million Tokens

    <h1> HiLS Attention: How Tencent Built a Sparse Attention Mechanism That Extrapolates to 4 Million Tokens </h1> <p>Long-context modeling has a persistent tension at its core: full attention is accurate but scales quadratically with sequence length, while sparse attention is fast …

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