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Random Attention: How AI Gets Faster by Forgetting
12 September 2026

Random Attention: How AI Gets Faster by Forgetting

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Salesforce AI Research’s Random Attention method rethinks KV-cache eviction during long chain-of-thought reasoning. By protecting the original prompt and randomly discarding redundant generated tokens across attention heads, it matches sophisticated scoring methods while delivering 32–43% higher throughput—showing that, for AI memory, selective messiness can be remarkably efficient.


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