How Attention Sinks Keep Language Models Stable
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StreamingLLM solves catastrophic failures in long conversations by keeping the first four tokens as "attention sinks." These tokens act as parking spots for unused attention, stabilizing model performance. This simple fix—permanently preserving these tokens while sliding the window for others—enables processing millions of tokens instead of thousands, and has been adopted by HuggingFace, NVIDIA, and OpenAI in their latest models.
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