TLDR AI · MISCELLANEOUS
8BIT HIPPO ATTENTION MAY BE 3X FASTER THAN FLASH ATTENTION V2
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A quantization-aware attention alternative that speeds up inference substantially over some state-of-the-art implementations. Its creators also claim 700 TFLOPs on MI-300X. The details are sparse, but it would be quite an achievement if so.