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Understanding Sparse Attention Selectivity in Long-Context Foundation Models via Counterfactual Evaluation

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Understanding Sparse Attention Selectivity in Long-Context Foundation Models via Counterfactual Evaluation 2025 , eprint =

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Understanding Sparse Attention Selectivity in Long-Context Foundation Models via Counterfactual Evaluation Understanding the Physics of Key-Value Cache Compression for

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Understanding Sparse Attention Selectivity in Long-Context Foundation Models via Counterfactual Evaluation ReST-KV: Robust KV Cache Eviction with Layer-wise Output Reconstruction and Spatial-Temporal Smoothing

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Understanding Sparse Attention Selectivity in Long-Context Foundation Models via Counterfactual Evaluation Make Each Token Count: Towards Improving Long-Context Performance with KV Cache Eviction

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Understanding Sparse Attention Selectivity in Long-Context Foundation Models via Counterfactual Evaluation Llama See, Llama Do: A Mechanistic Perspective on Contextual Entrainment and Distraction in LLMs

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This paper cites PoisonedRAG: Knowledge Corruption Attacks to Retrieval-Augmented Generation of Large Language Models.

Understanding Sparse Attention Selectivity in Long-Context Foundation Models via Counterfactual Evaluation PoisonedRAG: Knowledge Corruption Attacks to Retrieval-Augmented Generation of Large Language Models

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Understanding Sparse Attention Selectivity in Long-Context Foundation Models via Counterfactual Evaluation Towards More Robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Evaluating RAG Under Adversarial Poisoning Attacks

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Understanding Sparse Attention Selectivity in Long-Context Foundation Models via Counterfactual Evaluation Scandinavian Journal of Statistics , volume =

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Understanding Sparse Attention Selectivity in Long-Context Foundation Models via Counterfactual Evaluation SCBench: A KV Cache-Centric Analysis of Long-Context Methods

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Understanding Sparse Attention Selectivity in Long-Context Foundation Models via Counterfactual Evaluation Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) , year =

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