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ACL 2026

RoBSA: RoPE-based Blockwise Sparse Multi-head Latent Attention

Xinyu Shi, Kairong Luo, Zhen Zheng, Wenguang Chen

Training-free blockwise sparse attention for MLA reduces long-context decoding latency with minimal accuracy loss.

The RoBSA workflow showing RoPE score calculation and blockwise token selection.
RoBSA workflow · Fig. 6
  • ACL 2026, Volume 1: Long Papers, pp. 1028–1044
  • My contributions: experiment analysis; assistance with paper writing
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RoBSA is a lightweight, training-free, and layer-aware blockwise sparse attention method designed for Multi-head Latent Attention during long-context decoding.

Xinyu Shi, Kairong Luo, Zhen Zheng, and Wenguang Chen. (2026). "RoBSA: RoPE-based Blockwise Sparse Multi-head Latent Attention." ACL 2026.