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AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Mar 177/10

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Mixture-of-Depths Attention

Researchers introduce Mixture-of-Depths Attention (MoDA), a new mechanism for large language models that allows attention heads to access key-value pairs from both current and preceding layers to combat signal degradation in deeper models. Testing on 1.5B-parameter models shows MoDA improves perplexity by 0.2 and downstream task performance by 2.11% with only 3.7% computational overhead while maintaining 97.3% of FlashAttention-2's efficiency.

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AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Mar 176/10

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Self-Indexing KVCache: Predicting Sparse Attention from Compressed Keys

Researchers propose a novel self-indexing KV cache system that unifies compression and retrieval for efficient sparse attention in large language models. The method uses 1-bit vector quantization and integrates with FlashAttention to reduce memory bottlenecks in long-context LLM inference.

AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Mar 37/106

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Spectral Attention Steering for Prompt Highlighting

Researchers introduce SEKA and AdaSEKA, new training-free methods for attention steering in AI models that work with memory-efficient implementations like FlashAttention. These techniques enable better prompt highlighting by directly editing key embeddings using spectral decomposition, offering significant performance improvements with lower computational overhead.