YOCO architecture expands with a Sparse Attention variant, becoming an architecture family

donglixp · x · 2026-09-11

The YOCO (You Only Cache Once) architecture is expanding beyond its looped variant with a new YOCO + Sparse Attention branch, evolving "from looping to sparsity" into a broader architecture family, per author donglixp. Links to both the Looped YOCO stack and the new sparse attention work are shared.

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