Uncertainty-gated selection for block-sparse attention
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arXiv:2607.07724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Block-sparse attention scales long-context language models by replacing the O(N^2) softmax with a per-query top-k selection over key blocks. This cutoff is myopic: when the k-th and (k+1)-th blocks are nearly tied in score, the selector commits without spending extra budget, and a dropped block carrying answer evidence is unrecoverable downstream. We propose a value-of-information router that measures, for each query, how decisively the top-k cut…
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- arXiv:2607.07724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Block-sparse attention scales long-context language models by replacing the O(N^2) softmax with a per-query top-k selection over key blocks.
- This cutoff is myopic: when the k-th and (k+1)-th blocks are nearly tied in score, the selector commits without spending extra budget, and a dropped block carrying answer evidence is unrecoverable downstream.
- We propose a value-of-information router that measures, for each query, how decisively the top-k cut….
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