Ring Attention with Blockwise Transformers for Near-Infinite Context
Shard one sequence across a ring of devices, rotate the KV blocks — context scales with device count.
Liu et al. · ICLR 2024 · Kernels. Read the paper ↗
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Questions
- What is Ring Attention with Blockwise Transformers for Near-Infinite Context?
- Shard one sequence across a ring of devices, rotate the KV blocks — context scales with device count.
- Who published Ring Attention with Blockwise Transformers for Near-Infinite Context, and where?
- Liu et al. — ICLR 2024 (arXiv:2310.01889).
- Where can I find a visual explainer of Ring Attention with Blockwise Transformers for Near-Infinite Context?
- 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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