New Study: Simple Sliding Window Outperforms Linear Attention
jm_alexia · x · 2026-08-31
A new study presents a counter-intuitive finding: a simple sliding-window attention mask with attention sinks (added at no cost) outperforms linear attention that has undergone post-training. The paper notes this approach requires no extra post-training, reduces memory usage, and achieves better scores.
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