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Local Block

A fixed-pattern selection that always includes the local block; the evidence does not establish a more specific selection rule.

Also called forced sink and local window, forced sink and fixed local selection.

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the local block containing is always selected as part of during both training and inference.

usedtraining objectivein MiniMax-M3MiniMax

the final recipe does not force the first block or a large local window

not usedmodel architecturein MiniMax Sparse AttentionMiniMax

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Other methods under model architecture :: token mixer :: sparse attention :: fixed-pattern sparse attention.