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DeepSeek-V4: The Interesting Part Is the Attention Architecture
CSA, HCA, shared KV, mHC, ... How to make a good and efficient model with 1 million tokens in context
DeepSeek-V4 is a million-token-context model family.
Expert Masking for More Efficient Expert Offloading
This week, we review:
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⭐Why Fine-Tuning Encourages Hallucinations and How to Fix It
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Temporally Extended Mixture-of-Experts Models
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Micro Language Models Enable Instant Responses
DeepSeek-V4 was released last week. While its...
8x Faster Inference: DFlash with Block Diffusion Draft Trees
This week, we review:
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⭐Accelerating Speculative Decoding with Block Diffusion Draft Trees
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IceCache: Memory-efficient KV-cache Management for Long-Sequence LLMs
The Salt - Curated AI is a reader-supported publication. To receiv...
Longer Context Silently Shortens LLM Reasoning
This week, we review:
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⭐TriAttention: Efficient Long Reasoning with Trigonometric KV Compression
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LightThinker++: From Reasoning Compression to Memory Management
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Reasoning Shift: How Context Silently Shortens LLM Reasoning...
Memory Sparse Attention to Get to 100 Million Tokens in Context
This week, we review:
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⭐Why Does Self-Distillation (Sometimes) Degrade the Reasoning Capability of LLMs?
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MSA: Memory Sparse Attention for Efficient End-to-End Memory Model Scaling to 100M Tokens
The Salt - Curated AI is a reade...
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