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Nous Research Proposes Lighthouse Attention: A Training-Only Selection-Based Hierarchical Attention That Delivers 1.4–1.7× Pretraining Speedup at Long Context

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Date Occurred May 16, 2026 22:23 UTC
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Recorded May 16, 2026
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<p>Nous Research has published Lighthouse Attention, a selection-based hierarchical attention mechanism that wraps around standard scaled dot-product attention during pretraining and is removed afterw

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