Sliding-window attention beats quadratic attention in new paper

woadwarrior · reddit · 2026-08-31

Highlighting a new paper from Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau et al. The research proposes replacing quadratic attention with sliding window attention combined with attention sinks, requiring no post-training. This method could significantly reduce memory usage for local LLM inference on memory-constrained hardware.

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