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SpargeAttention2 (26 HuggingFace upvotes, top paper Feb 20) — Tsinghua researchers achieve 95% attention sparsity and 16.2x attention speedup on video diffusion models. Could substantially reduce inference cost for video generation and long-context processing.

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