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ARXIV:2603.28458 · LLM OPTIMIZATION · SUBMITTED 31 MAR · 20:18 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.28458LLM OPTIMIZATIONSUBMITTED 31 MAR · 20:18 UTCFRESHNESS STALEYufei Xu · Fanxu Meng · Fan Jiang · Yuxuan Wang · Ruijie Zhou · Jiexi Wu · +8 at arXiv
HISA offers a drop-in replacement for sparse attention indexers, enabling 2-4x speedups at long context lengths with minimal quality loss.
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Pain HISA offers a drop-in replacement for sparse attention indexers, enabling 2-4x speedups at long context lengths with minimal quality loss.
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HISA offers a drop-in replacement for sparse attention indexers, enabling 2-4x speedups at long context lengths with minimal quality loss. While the downstream sparse attention scales efficiently, the indexer still scans the entire prefix…
Token-level sparse attention mechanisms, exemplified by DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA), achieve fine-grained key selection by scoring every historical token for each query using a lightweight indexer, and then computing attention only over the selected…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Token-level sparse attention mechanisms, exemplified by DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA), achieve fine-grained key selection by scoring every historical token for each query using a…
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HISA offers a drop-in replacement for sparse attention indexers, enabling 2-4x speedups at long context lengths with minimal quality loss.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.28458HISA offers a drop-in replacement for sparse attention indexers, enabling 2-4x speedups at long context lengths with minimal quality loss.
Abstract
Token-level sparse attention mechanisms, exemplified by DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA), achieve fine-grained key selection by scoring every historical token for each query using a lightweight indexer, and then computing attention only over the selected subset. While the downstream sparse attention scales efficiently, the indexer still scans the entire prefix for every query, introducing an O($L^2$) per-layer bottleneck that becomes prohibitive as context length grows. We propose HISA (Hierarchical Indexed Sparse Attention), a drop-in replacement for the indexer that transforms the search process from a flat token scan into a two-stage hierarchical procedure. First, a block-level coarse filter scores pooled block representatives to prune irrelevant regions. Then, a token-level refinement applies the original indexer only within the remaining candidate blocks. HISA preserves the exact token-level top-k sparsity pattern required by the downstream Sparse MLA operator and requires no additional training. On kernel-level benchmarks, HISA achieves a 2$\times$ speedup at 32K context length and 4$\times$ at 128K. On Needle-in-a-Haystack and LongBench, we directly replace the indexer in DeepSeek-V3.2 with HISA, without any fine-tuning. HISA closely matches the original DSA in quality while significantly outperforming block-sparse baselines. Moreover, the token selection sets produced by HISA and the original DSA exhibit a mean IoU greater than 99%, indicating that the efficiency gains come with virtually no impact on selection fidelity.
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HISA offers a drop-in replacement for sparse attention indexers, enabling 2-4x speedups at long context lengths with minimal quality loss. While the downstream sparse attention scales efficiently, the indexer still scans the entire prefix for every query, introducing an O($L^2$)...
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Token-level sparse attention mechanisms, exemplified by DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA), achieve fine-grained key selection by scoring every historical token for each query using a lightweight indexer, and then computing attention only over the selected subset. While the downstr...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Token-level sparse attention mechanisms, exemplified by DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA), achieve fine-grained key selection by scoring every historical token for each query using a lightweight indexer, an...
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LLM Optimization moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
On kernel-level benchmarks, HISA achieves a 2× speedup at 32K context length
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and 4× at 128K.
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the token selection sets produced by HISA and the original DSA exhibit a mean IoU greater than 99%
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HISA (Hierarchical Indexed Sparse Attention), a drop-in replacement for the indexer... and requires no additional training.
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HISA replaces the flat prefix scan with a two-stage coarse-to-fine search.
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the indexer still scans the entire prefix for every query, introducing an O($L^2$) per-layer bottleneck that becomes prohibitive as context length grows.
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Crucially, the output of HISA isthe same data structureas the output of the original DSA indexer: a per-query set of k token indices.
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HISA closely matches the original DSA in quality while significantly outperforming block-sparse baselines.
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