HySparse 2 called 'DeepSeek-coded' as SWA becomes standard in sparse attention designs

eliebakouch · x · 2026-10-17

Researcher eliebakouch notes HySparse 2's design is 'very deepseek coded,' but both it and DeepSeek use SWA (sliding window attention) layers in the YOCO part — and SWA now appears in nearly all new sparse attention mechanisms. The thread also observes Xiaomi adopted SWA, speculating about its next model's architecture.

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