Name: Lightning Talk: FlexAttention - the Flexibility of PyTorch + the Performance of FlashAttention - Yanbo Liang, Meta
Start: 2024-09-19T12:35:00-0700
End: 2024-09-19T12:45:00-0700

September 18-19, 2024
San Francisco, California
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Thursday September 19, 2024 12:35pm - 12:45pm PDT

Room A

Introducing a novel abstraction leveraging the PyTorch compiler stack to enable custom, user-defined attention mechanisms. This new API supports dynamic modifications to attention scores within SDPA, providing both runtime and memory efficiency through kernel fusion with the FlashAttention algorithm.

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Yanbo Liang

Software engineer, Meta

I'm software engineer at PyTorch team working on torch.compile and LLM.

Thursday September 19, 2024 12:35pm - 12:45pm PDT
Room A

Lightning Talks

Audience Intermediate

PyTorch Conference 2024

Yanbo Liang

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