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Rethinking Heterogeneous System Disaggregation for Subquadratic Attention

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 11, 2026 · UTC

Frontier language models are more aggressively using subquadratic attention to reduce the memory footprint and compute requirements during inference while still delivering frontier accuracy. While existing systems make dense attention-centric disaggregated serving decisions, we show that disaggregating inference around the unique arithmetic intensity and memory footprint of subquadratic attention LLMs can achieve significant throughput and energy efficiency gains on emerging DRAM-based and SRAM-only heterogeneous systems. We introduce SQD (SubQuadratic Disaggregation), a fine-grained heterogen

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