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The Sparse Frontier Explores the efficiency-accuracy trade-offs of sparse attention in Transformer LLMs. Findings: - Efficiency trade-off: For very long sequences, big models with high, sparse attention outperform smaller, dense ones. - Phase sensitivity: Decoding can… https://t.co/agTfnfTUx9

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