Published on September 14, 2026, Simple Attention Sparsification describes how language modeling loss can optimize which KV blocks each query attends to.
Simple Attention Sparsification, from Tencent, presents a method for training sparse attention. Language modeling loss directly optimizes the selection of KV blocks attended to by each query. The listing reports no performance metrics or other quantitative results.
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