arXiv:2604. 00757v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Vision Language Models show impressive performance across image and video understanding tasks, yet their computational cost grows rapidly with the number of visual tokens.
By Dong-Jae Lee, Sunghyun Baek, Junmo Kim
arXiv:2509. 07963v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The core component of attention is the scoring function, which transforms the inputs into low-dimensional queries and keys and takes the dot product of each pair.
By Yilun Kuang, Noah Amsel, Sanae Lotfi, Shikai Qiu, Andres Potapczynski, Andrew Gordon Wilson
arXiv:2607. 24331v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As the inference phase of Large Language Models (LLMs) requires handling long context windows, the Key-Value (KV) cache initially appears to address this challenge but eventually becomes a significant bottleneck as the context window continues to grow.
By Tan T. Nguyen, Quan V. Dang
The paper investigates how attention dynamics evolve across recurrent depth in language models, finding that attention support stabilizes early while hidden states and outputs take longer. It proposes WISE, a training‑free method that uses full attention in early steps and then reuses the discovered sparse working set for later steps, preserving performance on multi‑hop QA tasks. Experiments show that WISE maintains quality up to 2K context, offers measurable speedups, and highlights the importance of recurrent discovery of attention support.
By Ke Wan, Chen Chen
arXiv:2507. 01900v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pruning is a highly effective approach for compressing large language models (LLMs), significantly reducing inference latency.
By Songtao Liu, Peng Liu
arXiv:2609.13141v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Post-training attention sparsification reduces the quadratic cumulative attention cost of pretrained Transformers by selecting a small set of context u...
By Zhiwei Li, Lei Zhu, Hao Gu, Xiang Hu, Yan Wang, Haitao Mi, Sirui Han, Leo Liang, Zhijiang Guo
arXiv:2601.06787v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are known to contain significant redundancy, yet a systematic explanation for why certain components, particularly in...
By Jaewon Sok, Jewon Yeom, Seonghyeon Park, Jeongjae Park, Taesup Kim
arXiv:2606. 01294v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Linear attention reduces the quadratic cost of softmax attention by maintaining a recurrent fast-weight state, but it consistently lags on in-context retrieval and long-context tasks.
By Dong Le, Thong Nguyen, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Anh Tuan Luu
arXiv:2602. 03681v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The quadratic computational complexity of softmax transformers has become a bottleneck in long-context scenarios.
By Difan Deng, Andreas Bentzen Winje, Lukas Fehring, Marius Lindauer
arXiv:2510. 07651v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) with extended context windows enable powerful applications but impose significant memory overhead, as caching all key-value (KV) states scales linearly with sequence length and batch size.
By Yuzhe Gu, Xiyu Liang, Jiaojiao Zhao, Enmao Diao
arXiv:2607. 20214v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The quadratic $N\times N$ attention score matrix remains a central obstacle to extending Transformers to longer input lengths.
By Mahdi Heidari, Mohammad Mahdi Rahimi, Jaekyun Moon
arXiv:2512.20636v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Many self-attention sublayers in large language models (LLMs) can be removed with little to no loss. We attribute this to the Attention Suppr...
By Dhananjay Saikumar, Blesson Varghese