Attention kernel optimization

Technique · Architecture & Efficiency · 1 item since Apr 2026

Hand-tuned GPU kernels that compute attention faster on specific hardware.

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  1. Mar 5

    FlashAttention-4 for Blackwell GPUs

    Princeton, Together AI, Meta, and NVIDIA redesign attention for Blackwell, where tensor-core throughput outpaces memory bandwidth, reaching 1,613 TFLOPs/s (71% utilization) on B200, 1.3x faster than cuDNN 9.13 and 2.7x faster than Triton.