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 - We are working to improve the performance of FlexAttention to match FlashAttention3 on H100 GPUs.   
 - FlexAttention requires that all sequence lengths be a multiple of 128 \- this will be addressed soon.  
 - We plan on adding GQA support soon \- for now, you can just replicate the kv heads.
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+### Acknowledgements
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+We want to highlight some prior work (and people) that have inspired FlexAttention.
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+- Tri Dao's work on FlashAttention
+- Francisco Massa and the Xformers team for BlockSparseAttention in Triton
+- The Jax team's work on SplashAttention
+- Philippe Tillet and Keren Zhou for helping us with Triton 
+- Ali Hassani for discussions on neighborhood attention
+- Everybody who's complained about attention kernels not supporting their favorite attention variant :)