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Act II · Scaling up

PaperStanford

FlashAttention

Reorders the attention computation to minimize GPU memory reads and writes; exact results, much faster.

3×training speedup on GPT-2

Why it matters

Became standard in nearly every training and inference stack, making long contexts affordable.

Built on

Transformer

Source: arxiv.org ↗

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