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Partitioned attention along sequence positions, balanced causal-attention work, overlapped key-value transfers and reused memory-efficient attention rematerialization to avoid a redundant forward pass during checkpointing.
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Original version is titled LightSeq; DistFlashAttn is its later bibliographic name, not a second independent contribution. Distinct from unrelated LightSeq inference libraries. Inherits exact online attention and FSDP; speedups and longer contexts are measured configurations, not unrestricted hardware or accuracy guarantees.
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Dacheng Li; Rulin Shao; Anze Xie; Eric P. Xing; Joseph E. Gonzalez; Ion Stoica; Xuezhe Ma; Hao Zhang
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LightSeq / DistFlashAttn: balanced distributed attention and checkpointing
Partitioned attention along sequence positions, balanced causal-attention work, overlapped key-value transfers and reused memory-efficient attention rematerialization to avoid a redundant forward pass during checkpointing.
Scientific scope
Original version is titled LightSeq; DistFlashAttn is its later bibliographic name, not a second independent contribution. Distinct from unrelated LightSeq inference libraries. Inherits exact online attention and FSDP; speedups and longer contexts are measured configurations, not unrestricted hardware or accuracy guarantees.
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People and systems
Dacheng Li; Rulin Shao; Anze Xie; Eric P. Xing; Joseph E. Gonzalez; Ion Stoica; Xuezhe Ma; Hao Zhang
Source-listed authors or explicitly credited technical contributors for the cited versions. Family entries retain source-specific attribution; a combined list is not one original-paper byline or equal individual work. Names alone do not establish resolved identities.