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Autoregressive attention

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  1. Reiner PopeNeutralApr 29, 2026· Dwarkesh Podcast

    Autoregressive attention is generally dominated by memory fetches rather than matrix multiplications.

    “this process of attending this single token, attending to all of the history of tokens, that's attention, it is mostly dominated by memory fetches rather than matrix multiplies”

    Listen at 7:18

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