Tencent Hunyuan Open-Sources SAS: End-to-End Sparse Attention via Context Ranking
Tencent-Hunyuan · hf · 2026-09-14
Tencent Hunyuan released SAS (Simple Attention Sparsification) on Hugging Face.
- Adds continuous gating inside the attention softmax, training the selector end-to-end with the language modeling loss
- Avoids a separate context-ranking module, improving ranking quality
- Yields better context ranking under tight token budgets; code is open-sourced
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