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Vortex: Efficient and Programmable Sparse Attention Serving for AI Agents

Vortex is a new system that simplifies the development and deployment of sparse attention algorithms for large language models, enabling researchers and AI agents to rapidly prototype and evaluate efficiency improvements. The platform demonstrates substantial real-world performance gains, with optimized algorithms achieving up to 3.46× higher throughput than full attention while maintaining accuracy, and successfully extending sparse attention to emerging model architectures.