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SparseGDN framework enhances linear attention efficiency for long contexts

Researchers have developed SparseGDN, a new framework designed to improve the efficiency of linear attention mechanisms in sequence modeling. This approach addresses the computational costs associated with long-context prefill by introducing structured intra-chunk approximation and input-dependent recurrent-event selection. The framework's GPU implementation selectively materializes updates and reconstructs token outputs, leading to significant speedups in prefill operations. Evaluations on Qwen3.5 models demonstrated substantial performance gains while retaining a considerable portion of the recurrent events. AI

IMPACT This framework could lead to more efficient training and inference for large language models, particularly those requiring long context windows.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Jiedong Zhuang, Peng Zhao, Jialin Tang, Haoji Hu ·

    SparseGDN: Chunk Sparse in Linear Attention

    arXiv:2610.41420v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Gated Delta Networks (GDNs) offer linear-time sequence modeling, yet long-context prefill remains costly due to dense intra-chunk computation, recurrent-state updates, and intermediate state storage. We introduce SparseGDN, a hard…