Intuition: Sliding Window Attention as a Special Case of Modern Linear Attention

Developer tokenbender argues that instead of debating linear attention vs. sliding window attention, SWA can be viewed as a special case of modern linear attention methods, and used a model to turn this intuition into clear diagrams and explanations.

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