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Applying Sliding Window Attention to pretrained LLMs at inference time [P]

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I've been working on a practical implementation of **Sliding Window Attention (SWA)** for pretrained Hugging Face causal LLMs. The idea is simple: instead of allowing every generated token to attend to the complete historical KV cache, maintain a bounded cache consisting of: **attention sinks + rec…

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  1. 2026-09-06 21:06 · r/machinelearningnews
    Applying Sliding Window Attention to pretrained LLMs at inference time [P]

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