Unverified
2026
Simultaneous-Label Sparse Attention
Replace a dense attention pattern by the exact intersection of a fixed or cheaply computed base graph H and a learned shared-label relation. Two tokens can exchange information only when they are adjacent in H and share at least one of d labels, producing a controllable structured sparsity pattern. The label count d becomes an explicit capacity and compute knob: increasing d enlarges the relation vocabulary without requiring a dense pairwise mask.
Paper: Simultaneous Graph Parameters and How to Bound Them
arXiv:2608.06055