SAS: Simple Attention Sparsification via End-to-End Optimization of Context Ranking

arXiv:2609.13141 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-11 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-11

Updated: 2026-09-11

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Simple Attention Sparsification — 2× in this paper
• Sparse Attention — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Agentic Task — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Tasks — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Attention Mechanism — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Downstream Tasks — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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