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SepLLM: Accelerate Large Language Models by Compressing One Segment into One Separator

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Pith's one-line read Separator tokens act as compressed segment summaries, so a transformer can drop most of its KV cache and still match full attention.

desk verdict A practical KV-cache compression method with strong matched-KV controls, but the 'separator as segment summary' mechanism is overclaimed and the theory section is sloppy. read the letter →

arxiv 2412.12094 v6 pith:XE55HDQM submitted 2024-12-16 cs.CL cs.AIcs.LG

classification cs.CLcs.AIcs.LG
keywords KVcachecompressionseparatortokenssparseattentionefficienttransformerslongcontextinferencestreamingsinkstokenpruning
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The reading

This paper claims that punctuation and whitespace tokens—commas, periods, newlines—are not noise but compressed summaries of the text segments they close. On that basis it builds SepLLM, a transformer attention mask that lets each token see only a few initial tokens, all separator tokens, and a local window of neighbors, while discarding every other key-value pair. With Llama-3-8B this halves the KV cache on the GSM8K-CoT benchmark (down to 47.36% of the original) while keeping accuracy at full-attention levels, and it extends streaming inference to millions of tokens under a bounded cache. A sympathetic reader would care because inference memory and attention cost scale with kept tokens, so a fixed-token compression that preserves accuracy makes long-context deployment cheaper.

What carries the argument

The machinery is a binary attention mask $M$ that zeroes out every attention pair except those between a query and (i) the first $a$ initial tokens, (ii) the separator tokens that have already appeared, and (iii) the $n$ nearest preceding tokens; the paper also implements a Sep-Attention kernel for sparse matrix multiplication. Separators are the load-bearing element: the list $\{\texttt{.}, \texttt{,}, \texttt{?}, \texttt{!}, \texttt{;}, \texttt{:}, \texttt{ }, \texttt{\t}, \texttt{\n}\}$ defines the segment boundaries, and during training the mask forces the model to condense each segment's content into the corresponding separator's key and value. For streaming, four cache blocks (initial, separator, local window, past window) keep total usage under capacity $c$; once full, past-window non-separators are dropped and separator KV moves into the separator cache, giving a periodic cache evolution whose average usage tends to $(w+c+a+s)/2$, strictly below $c$. The universal-approximation appendix shows that the class of SepLLM networks with $H=2$, $d_h=1$, $d_f=4$ can approximate any continuous sequence-to-sequence function.

What would settle it

Take a long passage with a fact embedded mid-sentence between commas, then ask a training-free SepLLM to retrieve that fact from a prompt of thousands of tokens; if accuracy drops sharply relative to full attention while a same-budget StreamingLLM also fails, then separator hidden states alone are not carrying segment content in that regime.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim is that information within a segment of text is functionally stored in the hidden state of the token that ends the segment, so a model does not need to attend to the segment's interior once it has seen the separator. SepLLM operationalizes this with a data-dependent sparse mask that keeps three classes of tokens: initial attention sinks, separator tokens from a fixed set of nine punctuation and whitespace types, and the closest neighbors of the current token. The authors support the compression hypothesis with attention visualizations showing separators receiving disproportionately high scores, removal experiments in which deleting separator KV hurts reasoning, and a fixed-interval variant that attends at regular intervals and performs worse. In training-free mode on Llama-3-8B, SepLLM retains 47.36% of the original KV cache and achieves 77.18% on GSM8K-CoT versus 77.79% for full attention; in streaming mode the cache stays bounded and perplexity remains stable out to millions of tokens.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that a fixed set of nine separator tokens is sufficient as long-range anchors for every input—that every fact a token needs to recall sits in the hidden state of a comma, period, or similar separator—so inputs where important information is not adjacent to a separator (code, formulas, punctuation-sparse prose) may not be compressible this way.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • With the Llama-3-8B backbone, the KV cache drops below half (47.36%) on GSM8K-CoT with no meaningful accuracy loss, which directly reduces the memory cost per decoded token.
  • SepLLM is trainable from scratch and via post-training, unlike many KV-compression methods, so its sparse mask can be baked into pretraining and fine-tuning rather than applied only at inference.
  • In streaming settings the cache stays bounded by capacity $c$ while processing millions of tokens, with average usage tending to $(w+c+a+s)/2$, so long dialogues and document streams no longer require unbounded memory.
  • Training with the SepLLM mask cuts FLOPs by roughly 30% and wall-clock time per iteration by about a third while achieving the same training loss as full attention.
  • The universal approximation theorem says a small SepLLM network can approximate arbitrary continuous sequence functions, so the sparse pattern is not inherently capacity-limited.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Editorial inference: if separator hidden states really serve as RNN-like memory, tokenizers that insert explicit boundary tokens could make the compression more robust than relying on the nine-natural-punctuation list.
  • Editorial inference: the fixed nine-token separator set is an English-centric inductive bias; languages with different punctuation, or code with operators as boundaries, would need a different anchor set, and the method's performance there is a direct testable extension.
  • Editorial inference: the compression hypothesis implies a hierarchy of segment granularity—short separators (commas) inside longer ones (periods)—and a natural next step would be checking whether attention to higher-level separators carries more global information than lower-level ones.
  • Editorial inference: comparing SepLLM's cache against a learned policy that picks boundary tokens by attention score would separate the value of "separator" as a linguistic category from the value of "high-attention token" generally.
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Summary. This paper reports that separator tokens (commas, periods, spaces, newlines, and similar) receive disproportionately high attention in pretrained LLMs, and hypothesizes that these tokens compress the information of the text segments they delimit. On this basis it proposes SepLLM, a sparse-attention method that retains only three groups of KV-cache entries: a few initial tokens, all separator tokens, and a local window of neighboring tokens. The method is evaluated in three regimes: training-free inference (Llama-3-8B on GSM8K-CoT and MMLU, achieving a KV-cache reduction of over 50% at near-vanilla accuracy), training from scratch (Pythia-160m on the Pile), and post-training (Pythia-1.4B), plus a streaming variant that keeps a bounded cache and runs on sequences up to 4M tokens (PG19). The controls include a matched-KV StreamingLLM baseline, a fixed-interval anchor baseline (FixLLM), and standard KV-compression baselines (H2O, SnapKV, PyramidKV). An appendix contributes a universal-approximation theorem for an encoder-based variant of SepLLM, adapted from Yun et al. (2020).

Significance. Conditional on the results, this is a practically useful contribution: SepLLM is a simple, plug-and-play KV-retention rule that requires no importance scoring, integrates into both training-from-scratch and fine-tuning, and ships with a hardware-efficient kernel and released code. The experimental program is broad and internally consistent. I credit in particular the matched-KV StreamingLLM control (Table 1), the FixLLM fixed-interval control (Table 17), which rules out the trivial alternative that any uniformly placed sparse anchor would work, the systematic ablations of cache hyperparameters (s, w, c, separator list, initial tokens, positional shifting), and the range of backbones (Pythia-6.9B/12B, Llama-3-8B base/instruct, Falcon-40B). The main caveat is interpretive: the experiments establish that separator positions are effective sparse anchors, but they do not directly establish that separator hidden states contain compressed summaries of the preceding segments. That caveat affects the framing claims in Section 6 ('native sparse attention') and the title more than the validity of the method as an engineering contribution.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3.1, §4.2, §4.6/FixLLM, Appendix H] The compression mechanism is underdetermined by the reported experiments. The evidence offered for the claim that 'information of the segments... can be effectively condensed into the separator tokens themselves' is (i) attention heatmaps (Figure 2; Appendix A shows layers 0-2, head 0 only), (ii) the removal ablation against StreamingLLM at matched KV (Table 1), and (iii) the fixed-interval control FixLLM (Table 17, Appendix I). All three are also predicted by the rival hypothesis that the paper itself states in Appendix H: separators are extremely high-frequency tokens whose keys act as generic attention sinks and whose positions coincide with syntactic boundaries. Because a fixed-interval anchor at position k is also computed from the full prefix in the training-free setting, FixLLM compares anchor positions but cannot distinguish 'separator hidden states summarize the preceding segment' from 'separator positions are good places for prefix-computed anchors'; the Needle-in-a-Haystack result (Appendix F) is likewise consistent with both readings. Consequently, the sentence in §4.2 ('This indicates that the KV of separators indeed encapsulates information contained within their respective segments') overclaims what Table 1 shows. Since the mechanism is used to justify the training mask (§3.1) and the 'native sparse attention' framing (§6), I ask the authors to either (a) add direct evidence—for example, a frequency-matched non-separator anchor (a common content token at the same positions), a probe of whether separator KVs encode segment content, or an evaluation on tokenizers/languages with different separator frequency—or (b) restate the contribution as the empirical finding that separator positions are effective sparse anchors, and correspondingly soften the abstract, title, and Section 6.
  2. [§5 and Appendices J-K] Theorem 5.1, as stated in the main text, claims universal approximation for every f in F over arbitrary inputs, but the proof in Appendix J relies on an assumption that appears only in the appendix's class definition: 'for at most s successive tokens, a special token will appear in the sequence.' This bounded-gap assumption is used in the token-transmission step of Lemma K.4 ('the last token can attend to the nearest special tokens with the help of neighboring tokens, requiring at most ceil(s/l) layers'), so the construction does not cover inputs without special tokens or with arbitrarily large separator gaps. The main-text statement omits this restriction, and the class notation T^{2,1,4}_{Sep} does not expose the parameters l and s, so the theorem as stated overclaims what the proof establishes. In addition, the theorem is proven for an encoder-based variant with bidirectional local windows, whereas the evaluated SepLLM is a causal decoder; the paper should state explicitly how the encoder version bears on the decoder architecture used in the experiments. Please restate Theorem 5.1 with the separator-regularity assumption made explicit and the layer-count dependence on n, l, s, and delta given.
minor comments (7)
  1. [§4.4, Figure 6] The post-training section presents only loss curves in the main text; the downstream evidence for post-training appears in Appendix D (Table 14) but for a different setting (LongAlpaca fine-tuning of Llama-3-8B rather than continued pretraining of Pythia-1.4B). Please add downstream-task results for the post-trained Pythia-1.4B checkpoint (for example, the tasks used in Table 2) or make the relationship between the two experiments explicit.
  2. [Tables 4, 5, and 11-13] The perplexity protocol is underspecified: please state how the test text is chunked, whether caches are reset at chunk or book boundaries, how positions are assigned after compression, and whether perplexity is computed on ground-truth next tokens or on model-generated continuations. The absolute values reported (Vanilla 302.6/1090.8 on PG19 at 20K/64K; StreamingLLM around 31-38 for Llama-3-8B) are far outside the ranges typically reported for this model, so these details are needed for reproducibility.
  3. [Introduction and Table 10] The introduction states that SepLLM 'reduces computational costs by 28% and training time by 26% while achieving the same training loss,' but Table 10 reports 2524.45 ms to 1648.11 ms per iteration, which is a ~35% wall-clock reduction; please reconcile the 26% figure or identify the setting it refers to.
  4. [Appendix A and Figure 2] The attention-visualization evidence shows only head 0 of layers 0-2; because the paper claims a consistent pattern across the model, an aggregate statistic (for example, the fraction of heads and layers with high separator-attention mass) would be more convincing than three individual attention maps.
  5. [Throughout, Figure 4, Eq. (1)] Please unify naming and notation: 'StrmLLM' in the tables versus 'StreamingLLM' in the text, 'streamingLLM' in §4.5, and the typo 'SegLLM' in the Figure 4 caption; also align the mask notation in Eq. (1) ('Mul(Q, K^T M)') with the elementwise definition in Eq. (2).
  6. [Table 16, Appendix G] The separator-choice ablation fixes n=256 while the separator list shrinks, so the rows with fewer separators consume less KV budget; a budget-matched comparison (increasing n in the reduced-separator rows) would isolate the effect of separator identity more cleanly, as the StrmLLM (n=380) row does for the no-separator case.
  7. [Appendix H] The second explanatory paragraph contains a non-sequitur: 'separators need to be generated by the language model very frequently. Therefore, their attention values with respect to any other token cannot be too small.' Output-token frequency does not imply high attention mass on that token as a key; this argument should be removed or reformulated, particularly since it appears in the very appendix that discusses alternative explanations.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: SepLLM's separator-retention claim is evaluated against external benchmarks and controlled alternatives, not derived from its own construction.

full rationale

The paper's chain is observational and empirical rather than definitional. The retained-token set (initial, separator, neighbor) is motivated by attention visualization, but the central claim that separator KV is specially valuable is tested by ablations: StrmLLM removes separator KV at matched budgets, and FixLLM replaces separators with fixed-interval anchors. These controls show the benefit is not merely that any sparse anchor works, and no parameter is fitted to the evaluation targets. The training-from-scratch mask forces long-range information through separators by construction, but the favorable loss/FLOPs and downstream results are contingent outcomes, not identities; the same mask could have failed. The universal approximation theorem in Appendices J-K adapts Yun et al. (2020) with an explicit regular-spacing assumption for special tokens; it is an independent mathematical result and is not used to define the empirical compression claim. Self-citations (SparseBERT, LightGNN, Self-adjust softmax) appear only in a general sparsity parenthetical and are not load-bearing. The skeptic's attention-sink alternative is a mechanistic underdetermination and a correctness risk, not equation-level circularity; the paper itself acknowledges the high-frequency explanation in Appendix H.

Assumptions & free parameters 5 free parameters · 3 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The method introduces no new physical or mathematical entities. Its load-bearing choices are the hand-chosen hyperparameters (a, s, w, c, separator list) and two domain assumptions: that separators are frequent enough anchors and that their hidden states can compress segment information. The universal approximation proof additionally assumes the special-token frequency condition, which is not stated in the main text.

free parameters (5)
  • number of initial tokens a = 4 (default; 0 and 32 ablated)
    Number of attention-sink tokens kept at the start; chosen by hand and ablated in Table 8.
  • separator cache capacity s = 32/64/256 depending on task
    Maximum number of separator KVs retained in streaming; ablated in Table 6.
  • local window size n/w = 64/128/256 etc.
    Number of neighboring tokens kept; ablated in Tables 2 and 7.
  • total KV cache capacity c = 324/800/1024
    Streaming cache bound; ablated in Table 7.
  • separator token list = 9 tokens: . , ? ! ; : space tab newline
    Choice of which tokens count as separators; ablated in Table 16 and Appendix G.
assumptions (3)
  • domain assumption Special tokens appear frequently in the input (at most s successive tokens without a special token)
    Required for the universal approximation proof (Appendix J); omitted from the main-text Theorem 5.1.
  • domain assumption Separator embeddings contain sufficient segment information to predict the next token
    The compression hypothesis in Section 3.1 and Appendix H; empirically tested but not mechanistically proven.
  • standard math Standard universal approximation toolkit: piecewise constant approximation, hardmax/softmax equivalence, ReLU piecewise-linear representation (Yun et al. 2020)
    Used in Appendices J and K to prove Theorem 5.1.

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  title        = {Pith review of: SepLLM: Accelerate Large Language Models by Compressing One Segment into One Separator},
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Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited exceptional performance across a spectrum of natural language processing tasks. However, their substantial sizes pose considerable challenges, particularly in computational demands and inference speed, due to their quadratic complexity. In this work, we have identified a key pattern: certain seemingly meaningless separator tokens (i.e., punctuations) contribute disproportionately to attention scores compared to semantically meaningful tokens. This observation suggests that information of the segments between these separator tokens can be effectively condensed into the separator tokens themselves without significant information loss. Guided by this insight, we introduce SepLLM, a plug-and-play framework that accelerates inference by compressing these segments and eliminating redundant tokens. Additionally, we implement efficient kernels for training acceleration. Experimental results across training-free, training-from-scratch, and post-training settings demonstrate SepLLM's effectiveness. Notably, using the Llama-3-8B backbone, SepLLM achieves over 50% reduction in KV cache on the GSM8K-CoT benchmark while maintaining comparable performance. Furthermore, in streaming settings, SepLLM effectively processes sequences of up to 4 million tokens or more while maintaining consistent language modeling capabilities.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. The loss comparison between vanilla Transformer and the proposed SepLLM. SepLLM achieves lower loss w.r.t different computation costs and different training time consistently. tasks, including natural language processing (Zhang et al., 2020; Raffel et al., 2020), computer vision (Dosovitskiy et al., 2020), and scientific machine learning (Geneva & Zabaras, 2022). However, vanilla Transformers that rely on next-token… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. The visualization for attention scores of different layers given the input “Natalia sold clips to 48 of her friends in April, and then she sold half as many clips in May. ...”. Note that the separator tokens like “,” and “.” contribute massive attentions. itations by preserving attention sinks and local tokens to reduce computation and memory overhead. However, it omits many intermediate tokens, resulting in perform… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. The overall paradigm of SepLLM. The left side illustrates the attention mask in the training or pre-filling stage given the input “ABC,DE.FG\n”. The right side illustrates the KV cache management in the generation stage. former with full attention. See more in Appendices H and I. Neighboring Tokens. Language tasks usually exhibit strong local dependencies and interactions, since adjacent tokens often form coherent p… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Overall framework of the proposed SepLLM tailored for streaming applications. The KV pairs are storaged in four cache blocks (displayed as four columns), and are updated in each iteration (shown in a single row). Once the runtime usage Sizerun reach the max capacity c,…
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Training loss curves for training from scratch. 5(b) shows the ratios of the loss values of different methods to that of Vanilla with respect to FLOPs. StrmLLM (n=256) utilizes only 26.00% and 37.73% of the KV for the GSM8K and MMLU tasks, respectively, which are less …
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Training loss curves for the post-training setting. PG19 1M 1.5M 2M 2.5M 3M 3.5M 4M StrmLLM 39.5 38.2 38.3 37.6 36.4 35.8 36.1 SepLLM (s=32) 37.7 36.6 36.6 36.0 34.9 34.2 34.5 SepLLM (s=64) 37.1 36.0 36.1 35.4 34.3 33.7 33.9 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: The evolution of KV caches in the streaming setting. C. Training Acceleration We list the detailed wall-clock time per iteration and through￾put in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Needle-in-a-Haystack test results for StreamingLLM (n=64) based on Pythia-160M-deduped [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_8.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Needle-in-a-Haystack test results for our SepLLM(n=64, H/T) based on Pythia-160M-deduped [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Needle-in-a-Haystack test results for our SepLLM(n=2048; first/last 2 layers (4 layers in total): full attention) based on Llama-3-8B-instruct. 4 initial tokens are kept [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_10.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Needle-in-a-Haystack test results for our SepLLM(n=2048; first/last 2 layers (4 layers in total): full attention) based on Llama-3-8B-instruct. 32 initial tokens are kept. 18 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_11.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: An example of attention map in Llama-3-8B-Instruct (Layer 0 and Head 0). 19 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_12.png]
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Figure 13. Figure 13: An example of attention map in Llama-3-8B-Instruct (Layer 1 and Head 0). 20 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_13.png]
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Figure 14. Figure 14: An example of attention map in Llama-3-8B-Instruct (Layer 2 and Head 0). 21 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_14.png]

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    4 initial tokens are kept

    Needle-in-a-Haystacktest results for our SepLLM(n=2048; first/last 2 layers (4 layers in total): full attention) based on Llama-3-8B-instruct. 4 initial tokens are kept. Figure

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    32 initial tokens are kept

    Needle-in-a-Haystacktest results for our SepLLM(n=2048; first/last 2 layers (4 layers in total): full attention) based on Llama-3-8B-instruct. 32 initial tokens are kept. 18 Accelerate LLMs by Compressing One Segment into One Separator Figure 12.An example of attention map in ...

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    InfLLM: Training-Free Long- Context Extrapolation for LLMs with an Efficient Context Memory

    Xiao, C., Zhang, P., Han, X., Xiao, G., Lin, Y ., Zhang, Z., Liu, Z., and Sun, M. InfLLM: Training-Free Long- Context Extrapolation for LLMs with an Efficient Context Memory. InNeural Information Processing Systems, 2024a. Xiao, G., Tian, Y ., Chen, B., Han, S., and Lewis, M. ...

  7. [2018]

    Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems

    Cobbe, K., Kosaraju, V ., Bavarian, M., Chen, M., Jun, H., Kaiser, L., Plappert, M., Tworek, J., Hilton, J., Nakano, R., et al. Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems. Preprint arXiv:2110.14168,

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    The Llama 3 Herd of Models

    Dubey, A., Jauhri, A., Pandey, A., Kadian, A., Al-Dahle, A., Letman, A., Mathur, A., Schelten, A., Yang, A., Fan, A., et al. The Llama 3 Herd of Models. Preprint arXiv:2407.21783,

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    The results in Table 17 show that FixLLM has a significant gap compared to SepLLM in both mathematical logical reasoning and knowledge-based reasoning capabili- ties

    and MMLU (Hendrycks et al., 2021)) benchmarks under a training-free setting, based on the Llama3-8B-Instruct backbone. The results in Table 17 show that FixLLM has a significant gap compared to SepLLM in both mathematical logical reasoning and knowledge-based reasoning capabil...

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    Long- former: The Long-Document Transformer

    Beltagy, I., Peters, M., and Cohan, A. Long- former: The Long-Document Transformer. Preprint arXiv:2004.05150,

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    Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Chal- lenge

    Clark, P., Cowhey, I., Etzioni, O., Khot, T., Sabharwal, A., Schoenick, C., and Tafjord, O. Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Chal- lenge. Preprint arXiv:1803.05457,

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    SampleAttention: Near-Lossless Acceleration of Long Context LLM Infer- ence with Adaptive Structured Sparse Attention

    Zhu, Q., Duan, J., Chen, C., Liu, S., Li, X., Feng, G., Lv, X., Cao, H., Xiao, C., Zhang, X., et al. SampleAttention: Near-Lossless Acceleration of Long Context LLM Infer- ence with Adaptive Structured Sparse Attention. Preprint arXiv:2406.15486,

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