Focus learns a few centroids to gate long-range token attention, producing sparse attention that matches or beats full attention quality with up to 8.6x speedup at million-token lengths.
Native sparse attention: Hardware-aligned and natively trainable sparse attention
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Focus learns a few centroids to gate long-range token attention, producing sparse attention that matches or beats full attention quality with up to 8.6x speedup at million-token lengths.