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arxiv_cs_ai · Nov 6, 2026 · paper
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Attend at the Right Resolution: Head-Adaptive Sparse Attention via Query-Key Interaction Structure
arxiv.orgNov 6, 2026
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Attention is a major scalability bottleneck in large language models (LLMs), with its computational cost and key-value (KV) memory traffic becoming increasingly prohibitive as context length grows. Sparse attention addresses this bottleneck by restricting each query to a subset o