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Sparse Sinkhorn Attention

2 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Yi Tay et al. in Sparse Sinkhorn Attention

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Sparse Sinkhorn Attention is an attention mechanism that reduces the memory complexity of the dot-product attention mechanism and is capable of learning sparse attention outputs. It is based on the idea of differentiable sorting of internal representations within the self-attention module. SSA incorporates a meta sorting network that learns to rearrange and sort input sequences. Sinkhorn normalization is used to normalize the rows and columns of the sorting matrix. The actual SSA attention mechanism then acts on the block sorted sequences.

PaperSourceSee Code · lucidrains/sinkhorn-transformer

Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

9 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.

TaskPapers
3D Human Pose Estimation1
3D Multi-Person Pose Estimation1
3D Pose Estimation1
Document Classification1
Image Generation1
Language Modeling1
Language Modelling1
Natural Language Inference1
Pose Estimation1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Sparse Sinkhorn Attention: 2020 to 2022, peak 1 1 0 2020: 1 paper 2020 2021: 0 papers 2021 2022: 1 paper 2022
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