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SIFT: Selective-Index For Fast Compute of RAG Prefill by Exploiting Attention Invariance

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arXiv:2606. 09441v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) injects LLM queries with relevant documents to improve response quality.

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