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Native Sparse Attention
A sparse-attention method described as having compression, selection, sliding-window paths, and a learned gate.
Also called NSA.
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NSA originally has three parallel paths (compress + select + sliding window) plus a learned gate. M3 keeps only selection.
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Other methods under model architecture :: token mixer :: sparse attention.
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