llama.cpp PR enables sparse FlashAttention for Qwen, another inference speedup
jacek2023 · reddit · 2026-09-21
A CUDA pull request (#28770) by am17an in ggml-org/llama.cpp enables sparse FlashAttention for Qwen (Flash Next) models, delivering another inference speedup. It's part of ongoing community optimization of local inference performance in llama.cpp.
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