Adaptive Attention Sparsity for LLMs

Adaptive Attention Sparsity for LLMs

Dynamic efficiency for long-context language models

Twilight introduces an adaptive approach to attention sparsity that dynamically balances accuracy and efficiency in LLMs.

  • Implements hierarchical top-p pruning that adapts to varying computational budgets
  • Achieves up to 2.2× speedup while maintaining model performance
  • Automatically adjusts sparsity patterns based on input context requirements
  • Outperforms fixed-budget approaches in real-world deployment scenarios

This innovation enables more efficient processing of long-context inputs, making advanced LLMs more practical for production environments with varying computational resources.

Twilight: Adaptive Attention Sparsity with Hierarchical Top-$p$ Pruning

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