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What podcasts say about Sparse attention

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What experts have said about Sparse attention

2 statements · 1 positive · 1 negative

  1. Reiner PopePositiveApr 29, 2026· Dwarkesh Podcast

    Sparse attention scales better with context length than dense attention.

    “Sparse attention actually scales much better than that.”

    Listen at 12:29

    Open the episode · Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
  2. Reiner PopeNegativeApr 29, 2026· Dwarkesh Podcast

    Excessive attention sparsity degrades model quality.

    “if you go too sparse you lose too much quality”

    Listen at 1:54:55

    Open the episode · Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served

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