Nuno M. T. Gonçalves

AdaSplash-2: Faster Differentiable Sparse Attention

Sparse attention has been proposed as a way to alleviate the quadratic cost of transformers, a central bottleneck in long-context training. A promising line of work is $\alpha$-entmax attention, a differentiable sparse alternative to softmax that enables input-dependent sparsity yet has lagged behin…