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DeepSeek AI researchers introduce NSA, a hardware-aligned and natively trainable sparse attention mechanism for ultra-fast long-context training and inference. NSA integrates both algorithmic innovations and hardware-aligned optimizations to reduce the computational cost of processing long sequences. NSA uses a dynamic hierarchical approach. It begins by compressing groups of tokens into summarized representations. Then, it selectively retains only the most relevant tokens by computing importance scores. In addition, a sliding window branch ensures that local context is preserved. This three-pronged strategy—compression, selection, and sliding window—creates a condensed representation that still captures both global and local dependencies.
NSA’s architecture rests on two main pillars: a hardware-aware design and a training-friendly algorithm. The compression mechanism uses a learnable multilayer perceptron to aggregate sequential tokens into block-level representations. This captures high-level patterns while reducing the need for full-resolution processing..….
Coding Tutorial 👩🏼💻👩🏼💻
In this tutorial, we will do an in-depth, interactive exploration of NVIDIA’s StyleGAN2‑ADA PyTorch model, showcasing its powerful capabilities for generating photorealistic images. Leveraging a pretrained FFHQ model, users can generate high-quality synthetic face images from a single latent seed or visualize smooth transitions through latent space interpolation between different seeds. With an intuitive interface powered by interactive widgets, this tutorial is a valuable resource for researchers, artists, and enthusiasts looking to understand and experiment with advanced generative adversarial networks.
!mkdir -p stylegan2-ada-pytorch/pretrained
!wget https://nvlabs-fi-cdn.nvidia.com/stylegan2-ada-pytorch/pretrained/ffhq.pkl -O stylegan2-ada-pytorch/pretrained/ffhq.pkl