arXiv AI By Kai Liu, Peijie Dong, Xinchen Xie, Jianfei Gao, Qipeng Guo, Xiaowen Chu, Shaoting Zhang, Kai Chen

Architecture-Aware Reinforcement Learning Makes Sliding-Window Attention Competitive in Math Reasoning

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arXiv:2606. 11634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid progress of reasoning and agentic large language models (LLMs) has increased the demand for long-context inference, but self-attention (SA) scales quadratically with context length.

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