Towards Generalization of Block Attention via Automatic Segmentation and Block Distillation
Block attention, which processes the input as separate blocks that cannot attend to one another, offers significant potential to improve KV cache reuse in long-context scenarios such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). However, its broader application is hindered by two key challenges: the difficulty of segmenting input text into meaningful, self-contained blocks, and the inefficiency of existing block fine-tuning methods that risk degrading performance. To address these, we first construct SemanticSeg, a large and diverse semantic segmentation dataset containing over 30k instances across 16 categories-including books, code, web text, and conversations with text lengths ranging from ...
| Authors | Shuaiyi Li, Zhisong Zhang, Yan Wang et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 15 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 13 September 2026 |
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