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MISA: Mixture of Indexer Sparse Attention for Long-Context LLM Inference

Ruijie Zhou · Fanxu Meng · Yufei Xu · Tongxuan Liu · Guangming Lu · Muhan Zhang · +1 at arXiv

MISA optimizes sparse attention mechanisms for improving the efficiency of long-context large language model inference.

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MISA optimizes sparse attention mechanisms for improving the efficiency of long-context large language model inference. To remain expressive, the indexer uses many query heads (for example, 64 on DeepSeek-V3.2) that share the same selected…

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DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA) sets the state of the art for fine-grained inference-time sparse attention by introducing a learned token-wise indexer that scores every prefix token and selects the most relevant ones for the main attention. To remain expressive, the indexer uses many query heads (for example, 64 on DeepSeek-V3.2) that share the same selected token set; this multi-head design is precisely what makes the indexer the dominant cost on long contexts. We propose MISA (Mixture of Indexer Sparse Attention), a drop-in replacement for the DSA indexer that treats its indexer heads as a pool of mixture-of-experts. A lightweight router uses cheap block-level statistics to pick a query-dependent subset of only a few active heads, and only those heads run the heavy token-level scoring. This preserves the diversity of the original indexer pool while reducing the per-query cost from scoring every prefix token with every head to scoring it with only a handful of routed heads, plus a negligible router term computed on a small set of pooled keys. We further introduce a hierarchical variant of MISA that uses the routed pass to keep an enlarged candidate set and then re-ranks it with the original DSA indexer to recover the final selected tokens almost exactly. With only eight active heads and no additional training, MISA matches the dense DSA indexer on LongBench across DeepSeek-V3.2 and GLM-5 while running with eight and four times fewer indexer heads respectively, and outperforms HISA on average. It also preserves fully green Needle-in-a-Haystack heatmaps up to a 128K-token context and recovers more than 92% of the tokens selected by the DSA indexer per layer. Our TileLang kernel delivers roughly a 3.82 times speedup over DSA's original indexer kernel on a single NVIDIA H200 GPU.

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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 5.0/10 on the public viability pass. Our TileLang kernel delivers roughly a 3.82 times speedup over DSA's original indexer kernel on a single NVIDIA H200 GPU. A public repository is…

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AI Optimizations moved forward this cycle; last verified May 2026. Public score 5.0/10. Implementation evidence is present through a linked repository.

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