Million-Token AI Now Runs on Regular GPUs: New Method Slashes Memory Use by 8x

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Overview

• Novel approach enables running large language models with million-token contexts on regular GPUs
• Exploits natural sparsity patterns in attention to reduce memory usage
• Achieves 4-8x memory reduction without accuracy loss
• Works with unmodified pre-trained models
• Makes long-context AI more accessible without specialized hardware

Plain English Explanation

Think of a language model like a reader trying to remember details from a very long book. Traditional approaches force the model to remember everything equally, which uses a lot of memory - like trying to memorize every single word. This paper shows that, just like human reader...

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