Microsoft: sliding-window attention with sinks beats post-trained linear attention
microsoft · hf · 2026-08-31
Microsoft shares findings on Hugging Face: sliding-window attention with sinks outperforms post-trained linear attention on long-context tasks, without requiring retraining — offering a cheaper and more reliable inference solution. A direct reference point for choosing attention mechanisms in long-context deployment.
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