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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Long Context Compression with Activation Beacon · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2401.03462/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2401.03462/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Long Context Compression with Activation Beacon — mentioned by amitport</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40037878</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2401.03462:40037878</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 07:40:00 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;It is missing a proper evaluation section. Specifically, I wonder how this compares with https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03462 (Activation Beacon)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2401.03462/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item><item><title>Long Context Compression with Activation Beacon — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39190527</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2401.03462:39190527</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2024 14:33:39 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Soaring from 4K to 400K: Extending LLM&amp;#x27;s Context with Activation Beacon&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;4 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2401.03462/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item><item><title>Long Context Compression with Activation Beacon — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39016483</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2401.03462:39016483</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2024 18:06:34 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Soaring from 4K to 400K: Extending LLM&amp;#x27;s Context with Activation Beacon&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1 point; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2401.03462/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item><item><title>Long Context Compression with Activation Beacon — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39006525</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2401.03462:39006525</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2024 21:50:57 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Soaring from 4K to 400K: Extending LLM&amp;#x27;s Context with Activation Beacon&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1 point; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2401.03462/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item><item><title>Long Context Compression with Activation Beacon — mentioned by lhl</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38955260</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2401.03462:38955260</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:17:34 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;My understanding is that Mistral uses a regular 4K RoPE that is &amp;quot;extends&amp;quot; the window size with SWA. This is based on looking at the results of Nous Research&amp;#x27;s Yarn-Mistral extension: https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Yarn-Mistral-7b-128k and Self-Extend, both of which only apply to RoPE models. There are quite a few recent attention extension techniques recently published: * Activation Beacons - up to 100X context length extension in as little as 72 A800 hours https://huggingface.co/papers/2401.03462 * Self-Extend - a no-training RoPE modification that can give &amp;quot;free&amp;quot; context extension with…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2401.03462/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item><item><title>Long Context Compression with Activation Beacon — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38948419</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2401.03462:38948419</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 06:11:09 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Soaring from 4K to 400K: Extending LLM&amp;#x27;s Context with Activation Beacon&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2401.03462/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item></channel></rss>
