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TileMix: Tile-Centric Mixed-Precision Attention for Faster LLM Inference

TileMix introduces a tile-centric precision-routing kernel to accelerate long-context prefill in large language models by optimizing dense self-attention computation. It addresses the quadratic complexity of query-key scores by enabling mixed-precision routing over hardware-aligned score tiles.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-08-18T03:53:02+00:00 Detected 2026-08-19T05:20:53+00:00
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TileMix introduces a tile-centric precision-routing kernel to accelerate long-context prefill in large language models by optimizing dense self-attention computation. It addresses the quadratic complexity of query-key scores by enabling mixed-precision routing over hardware-aligned score tiles.

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Long-context prefill in large language models (LLMs) incurs substantial computation and memory traffic because dense self-attention computes quadratic query-key scores. Existing methods either use a uniform low-precision path or select token interactions, leaving spatial precision routing over hardware-aligned...

This approach reduces computation and memory traffic during LLM inference, improving efficiency without sacrificing accuracy. It offers a new method to handle precision dynamically within attention mechanisms, potentially enhancing performance on hardware accelerators.

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