DeepSeek Cracked The O(L²) Attention Bottleneck

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DeepSeek V3.2 introduces DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA), reducing attention complexity from O(L²) to O(Lk) by using a Lightning Indexer to select only the top 2,048 relevant tokens per query, regardless of context length. This achieves 2-3x cost reduction for long-context inference (128K tokens) while maintaining or improving

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Opik: Open-source LLM evaluation platformDeepSeek cracked the O(L²) attention bottleneckP.S. For those wanting to develop “Industry ML” expertise:

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