AWhat changed
Distributed blockwise attention and feedforward computation across sequence shards, overlapping ring exchange of key-value blocks with local attention computation.
Scientific scope
Distributed blockwise attention and feedforward computation across sequence shards, overlapping ring exchange of key-value blocks with local attention computation. Extends Blockwise Parallel Transformer and existing exact online attention. Near-infinite refers to memory scaling with finite added devices, not an infinite context on fixed resources or verified long-range understanding. Communication is hidden only when block compute is sufficiently large relative to network transfer; dense-attention compute remains quadratic.
Evidence
The linked original sources describe the stated contribution and its evidence limits. WRS has not independently rerun the experiments or certified a proof. Extends Blockwise Parallel Transformer and existing exact online attention. Near-infinite refers to memory scaling with finite added devices, not an infinite context on fixed resources or verified long-range understanding. Communication is hidden only when block compute is sufficiently large relative to network transfer; dense-attention compute remains quadratic.
Contributors
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