NSA: A Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse Attention Mechanism for Efficient Long-Context Modeling
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The article introduces NSA (Natively trained Sparse Attention), a novel sparse attention mechanism designed to enhance efficiency in long-context modeling for language models. By integrating algorithmic innovations with hardware alignment, NSA aims to reduce computational costs while maintaining model performance. The work is presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
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· 3 pulledSparse attention offers a promising direction for improving efficiency while maintaining model capabilities.
We present NSA, a Natively trained Sparse Attention mechanism that integrates algorithmic innovations with hardware alignment.
Long-context modeling is crucial for next-generation language models, yet the high computational cost of standard attention mechanisms poses significant computational challenges.
Jingyang Yuan, Huazuo Gao, Damai Dai, Junyu Luo, Liang Zhao, Zhengyan Zhang, Zhenda Xie, Yuxing Wei, Lean Wang, Zhiping Xiao, Yuqing Wang, Chong Ruan, Ming Zhang, Wenfeng Liang, Wangding Zeng. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for
