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Chaeyeon Mia Lee · 2026-07-31T00:46:30.738Z

You switched to sparse attention. You followed the DeepSeek-V3.2 architecture. You even tuned your top-k carefully. Yet at 128K context, inference is still painfully slow. The culprit isn't where you

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