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Episode 33: Tri Dao, Stanford: On FlashAttention and sparsity, quantization, and efficient inference

Generally Intelligent

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Adaptive sparsity and approaches for efficient attention in language modeling

The data sparsity is an interesting aspect to consider/nAdaptive sparsity can be useful for ignoring irrelevant tokens/nBetter results can be achieved by attending to the right information/nLocality sensitive hashing is a technique for clustering queries and keys/nAttention computation can be limited to within the same cluster/nHashing and clustering approaches have shown positive results in some cases/nThe scalability of these approaches for language modeling is still uncertain

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