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REQUEST TO TOKENS · 041 LAYER IN 4 KEEPS EVERY TOKEN
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When Most Layers Stop Caching: Hybrid, Sliding, and Sparse Attention, Sized

Why a 27B model holds 262k tokens of context on a 24 GB GPU: what hybrid, sliding-window, and sparse attention store and read per token, on real models.

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