AI Architecture & Systems

System Support for Sparse Models and Long Context

5.25.1Weight Sparsity and Sparse Weight Storage#

5.25.2Indexing, Routing, and Cache Access in Sparse Attention#

5.25.3Dynamic Token Selection and Batch Organization#

5.25.4KV Pruning/Compression and Memory Management#

5.25.5Load Balancing and Communication Under Dynamic Sparsity#

5.25.6Sparse Compute Gains Versus Preprocessing and Metadata Overhead#