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Qwen Team Releases FlashQLA: a High-Performance Linear Attention Kernel Library That Achieves Up to 3× Speedup on NVIDIA Hopper GPUs

Apr 29, 2026Hugging Face

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The QwenLM team has released FlashQLA, a new kernel library that dramatically accelerates the forward and backward passes of Gated Delta Network (GDN) Chunked Prefill, targeting both large-scale pretraining and edge-side agentic inference scenarios. The post Qwen Team Releases FlashQLA: a High-Perfo

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