How to make any Sparse Attention / KV Compression look good? [D] [R]

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Original Article - https://x.com/p_nawrot/status/2089315591010079034 I've spent the last few years working on efficient attention and KV Cache Compression. I've read many papers, dug deep into reference or official implementations of methods, and inspected appendices—and I think I've learned a few things. One of them is definitely "how to make things look good, even when they aren't." I'm guilty too, but trying to get better every day. 1. For single-hop retrieval, make sure there are no distract