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Autonomy-of-Heads Enables Data-Free Sparse Attention for Long-Context LLMs

Autonomy-of-Heads (AoH) is a new data-free method addressing the quadratic attention and KV-cache bottlenecks in long-context LLM inference. Unlike prior approaches, AoH does not rely on runtime attention scores or input-dependent mechanisms to select tokens or heads, simplifying deployment.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-08-07T06:18:18+00:00 Detected 2026-08-10T05:21:39+00:00
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Autonomy-of-Heads (AoH) is a new data-free method addressing the quadratic attention and KV-cache bottlenecks in long-context LLM inference. Unlike prior approaches, AoH does not rely on runtime attention scores or input-dependent mechanisms to select tokens or heads, simplifying deployment.

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Long-context LLM inference is bottlenecked by quadratic attention computation and growing KV-cache costs. Existing sparse attention and KV-compression methods typically decide which tokens or heads to preserve from runtime attention scores, observation windows, calibration prompts, or learned gates, making head...

Reducing the computational and memory costs of long-context LLM inference can enable more efficient and scalable applications. AoH's input-independent sparse attention approach offers a promising alternative to costly, data-dependent methods.

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