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LazyFlash: Forward-Dense, Backward-Sparse Attention for Accelerated Long-Context Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2610.31911v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) process increasingly long sequences, attention becomes a major computational bottleneck. Sparse attention mostly targets inference, yet many methods still train densely or cannot support sparse training, and their added complexity makes sparsity hard to turn into wall-clock speedups, leaving dense attention widely used in practice. This paper introduces LazyFlash, a forward-dense, backward-sparse attention method built on the observation that attention training is dominated by the backward pass. LazyFlash keeps the forward pass exactly dense, so the trained model remains a standard dense model that existing systems such as vLLM can serve without any change. For the backward pass, LazyFlash proposes a gradient-a

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ClickHouse release 26.9

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Qwen2.5: A Party of Foundation Models!

GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Introduction In the past three months since Qwen2’s release, numerous developers have built new models on the Qwen2 language models, providing us with valuable feedback. During this period, we have focused on creating smarter and more knowledgeable language models. Today, we are excited to introduce the latest addition to the Qwen family: Qwen2.5. We are announcing what might be the largest opensource release in history!

Qwen2-Audio: Chat with Your Voice!

DEMO PAPER GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DISCORD To achieve the objective of building an AGI system, the model should be capable of understanding information from different modalities. Thanks to the rapid development of large language models, LLMs are now capable of understanding language and reasoning. Previously we have taken a step forward to extend our LLM, i.e., Qwen, to more modalities, including vision and audio, and built Qwen-VL and Qwen-Audio. Today, we release Qwen2-Audio, the next version of Qwen-Audio, which is capable of accepting audio and text inputs and generating text outputs.

Qwen1.5-MoE: Matching 7B Model Performance with 1/3 Activated Parameters

GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Introduction Since the surge in interest sparked by Mixtral, research on mixture-of-expert (MoE) models has gained significant momentum. Both researchers and practitioners are keenly interested in understanding how to effectively train such models and assessing their efficiency and effectiveness. Today, we introduce Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B, a small MoE model with only 2.7 billion activated parameters yet matching the performance of state-of-the-art 7B models like Mistral 7B and Qwen1.

Introducing Qwen1.5

GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Introduction In recent months, our focus has been on developing a “good” model while optimizing the developer experience. As we progress towards Qwen1.5, the next iteration in our Qwen series, this update arrives just before the Chinese New Year. With Qwen1.5, we are open-sourcing base and chat models across six sizes: 0.5B, 1.8B, 4B, 7B, 14B, 32B, 72B, and 110B, and also an MoE model (see blog for more information).