The AI Morning Read February 20, 2026 - 16× Faster AI Video? Inside SpargeAttention2’s Sparse Speed Breakthrough
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In today's podcast we deep dive into SpargeAttention2, an innovative trainable sparse attention method designed to substantially accelerate video diffusion models without sacrificing visual quality. This approach cleverly overcomes the failure cases of standard masking techniques by employing a hybrid Top-k and Top-p masker, which ensures robust and accurate token selection even under extreme sparsity conditions. To further preserve the original generation capabilities during training, it utilizes a unique velocity-level distillation loss that aligns the sparse model's outputs with those of a frozen full-attention teacher model. As a result of these architectural and training optimizations, SpargeAttention2 achieves an impressive 95% attention sparsity and a 16.2x speedup in attention runtime. Ultimately, this breakthrough translates to up to a 4.7x acceleration in end-to-end video generation, proving that high computational efficiency and top-tier performance can seamlessly coexist.
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