An intuition: sliding window attention as a special case of modern linear attention
tokenbender · x · 2026-09-03
tokenbender shares an architectural intuition: instead of arguing linear attention vs SWA, one can view sliding window attention as a special case of modern linear attention methods. The author was inspired while reading a recent release and wrote up a short explanation for those interested in attention design.
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