What happened: On-Demand Attention: Language Models Know When to Recall

On-Demand Attention selectively activates global attention during language model decoding based on predicted necessity, reducing full-context reads while maintaining performance.

Why it matters: On-Demand Attention: Language Models Know When to Recall

Matters for engineers optimizing long-context inference in production systems where full attention overhead limits throughput and latency at scale.

Watch out: On-Demand Attention: Language Models Know When to Recall

Method trains only a recall head on pretrained models; actual speedup depends on GPU conditional execution implementation and may vary across architectures.

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On-Demand Attention: Language Models Know When to Recall

arXiv cs.AI · Published September 17, 2026 · 3 min read

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What happened: On-Demand Attention selectively activates global attention during language model decoding based on predicted necessity, reducing full-context reads while maintaining performance.
Why it matters: Matters for engineers optimizing long-context inference in production systems where full attention overhead limits throughput and latency at scale.
Watch out: Method trains only a recall head on pretrained models; actual speedup depends on GPU conditional execution implementation and may vary across architectures.

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