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arXiv Computation and Language September 14, 2026 By Zhiwei Li, Lei Zhu, Hao Gu, Xiang Hu, Yan Wang, Haitao Mi, Sirui Han, Leo Liang, Zhijiang Guo

SAS: Simple Attention Sparsification via End-to-End Optimization of Context Ranking

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