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Sliding-window beats linear attention

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Interesting new paper from Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau (of Tiny Recursive Model fame) and collaborators. They seem to be able to replace quadratic attention with sliding window attention + attention sinks and no post training. This could be big for memory constrained local LLM inference. EDIT: Fixed…

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  1. 2026-08-31 16:35 · r/MachineLearning
    Sliding-window attention beats linear on long-context reasoning [R]
  2. 2026-08-31 14:12 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Sliding-window beats linear attention

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