Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse Attention

Trainable, hardware-aligned sparse attention: 3 gated branches, 11.6x decode, beats dense

Yuan et al. · ACL 2025 · Kernels. Read the paper ↗

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What is Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse Attention?

Trainable, hardware-aligned sparse attention: 3 gated branches, 11.6x decode, beats dense

Who published Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse Attention, and where?

Yuan et al. — ACL 2025 (arXiv:2502.11089).

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Right here — a free, interactive, animated walkthrough of the whole paper, with exhibits computed from the real formulas and verbatim quotes from the source.

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