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most citedEfficient Streaming Language Models with Attention Sinks

36 citations · 44 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CL2026

SparDA: Sparse Decoupled Attention for Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference

Yaosheng Fu, Guangxuan Xiao, Xin Dong +2

Sparse attention reduces compute and memory bandwidth for long-context LLM inference. However, two key challenges remain: (1) KV cache capacity still grows with sequence length, an…

cs.LG2025

Optimizing Mixture of Block Attention

Guangxuan Xiao, Junxian Guo, Kasra Mazaheri +1

Mixture of Block Attention (MoBA) (Lu et al., 2025) is a promising building block for efficiently processing long contexts in LLMs by enabling queries to sparsely attend to a small…

cs.CL2025

BLASST: Dynamic BLocked Attention Sparsity via Softmax Thresholding

Jiayi Yuan, Cameron Shinn, Kai Xu +19

The growing demand for long-context inference capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs) has intensified the computational and memory bottlenecks inherent to the self-attention m…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

StreamingVLM: Real-Time Understanding for Infinite Video Streams

Ruyi Xu, Guangxuan Xiao, Yukang Chen +3

Vision-language models (VLMs) could power real-time assistants and autonomous agents, but they face a critical challenge: understanding near-infinite video streams without escalati…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

XAttention: Block Sparse Attention with Antidiagonal Scoring

Ruyi Xu, Guangxuan Xiao, Haofeng Huang +2

Long-Context Transformer Models (LCTMs) are vital for real-world applications but suffer high computational costs due to attention's quadratic complexity. Block-sparse attention mi…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

LServe: Efficient Long-sequence LLM Serving with Unified Sparse Attention

Shang Yang, Junxian Guo, Haotian Tang +7

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable potential in processing long sequences and complex reasoning tasks, yet efficiently serving these models remains challenging due…

cs.LG2025

Twilight: Adaptive Attention Sparsity with Hierarchical Top- Pruning

Chaofan Lin, Jiaming Tang, Shuo Yang +6

Leveraging attention sparsity to accelerate long-context large language models (LLMs) has been a hot research topic. However, current algorithms such as sparse attention or key-val…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

DuoAttention: Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference with Retrieval and Streaming Heads

Guangxuan Xiao, Jiaming Tang, Jingwei Zuo +5

Deploying long-context large language models (LLMs) is essential but poses significant computational and memory challenges. Caching all Key and Value (KV) states across all attenti…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Quest: Query-Aware Sparsity for Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference

Jiaming Tang, Yilong Zhao, Kan Zhu +3

As the demand for long-context large language models (LLMs) increases, models with context windows of up to 128K or 1M tokens are becoming increasingly prevalent. However, long-con…

cs.LG2024

BitDelta: Your Fine-Tune May Only Be Worth One Bit

James Liu, Guangxuan Xiao, Kai Li +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) are typically trained in two phases: pre-training on large internet-scale datasets, and fine-tuning for downstream tasks. Given the higher computationa…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

InfLLM: Training-Free Long-Context Extrapolation for LLMs with an Efficient Context Memory

Chaojun Xiao, Pengle Zhang, Xu Han +5

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a cornerstone in real-world applications with lengthy streaming inputs (e.g., LLM-driven agents). However, existing LLMs, pre-trained o…

cs.CL2023★ 36 cited

Efficient Streaming Language Models with Attention Sinks

Guangxuan Xiao, Yuandong Tian, Beidi Chen +2

Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in streaming applications such as multi-round dialogue, where long interactions are expected, is urgently needed but poses two major challeng…