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Nous Research Proposes Lighthouse Attention: A Training-Only Selection-Based Hierarchical Attention That Delivers 1.4–1.7× Pretraining Speedup at Long Context

May 16, 2026Hugging Face

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Nous Research has published Lighthouse Attention, a selection-based hierarchical attention mechanism that wraps around standard scaled dot-product attention during pretraining and is removed afterward. Unlike prior methods such as NSA and HISA that pool only keys and values, Lighthouse pools Q, K, a

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