Machine Learning Algorithms & Natural Language Processing

Feb 12, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Is the Transformer Paradigm Shifting? SALA Handles Million‑Token Context on RTX 5090

The article presents SALA, a sparse‑linear hybrid attention architecture that replaces full attention in 9B‑parameter models, achieving comparable accuracy while cutting compute and memory costs, enabling million‑token inference on a single RTX 5090 and delivering up to 3.5× speed‑up over Qwen3‑8B.