Packed FlashAttention speeds a Transformer vocoder
A publication dated July 20, 2026 reports a 48.64% increase in QPS after optimizing waveform reconstruction in a Transformer vocoder. The available excerpt does not state the size of the latency reduction.
A publication dated July 20, 2026 reports that, in a text-to-speech (TTS) system with a Transformer vocoder, waveform reconstruction—not autoregressive decoding—was the main latency bottleneck. The described approach combines Packed FlashAttention, variable-length packing, causal local attention, and RoPE. The report states that QPS increased by 48.64%; the supplied excerpt ends before giving the amount by which latency fell.
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