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Pruning and Compression as a Consequence of Sparse Attention
A direct consequence of the sparse attention assumption is the ability to prune the majority of attention weights. By disregarding the connections with near-zero weights, the attention model can be represented in a more compressed form, leading to significant computational savings.
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Ch.2 Generative Models - Foundations of Large Language Models
Foundations of Large Language Models
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