flash-linear-attention
🚀 Efficient implementations for emerging model architectures
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Decision brief
Flash-linear-attention accelerates linear attention mechanisms in large language models, using CUDA for optimal performance.
Good fit when
- High-performance requirements with Nvidia GPUs where CUDA can offer significant speed-ups
- Need to benchmark against multiple operations like chunk_retention and flash_attn
Avoid when
- Limited GPU hardware or no support for backend flavors like CUDA, ROCM, XPU, NPU, or CPU
- Do not require linear attention mechanism in modeling large language models or sequence data
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pip install flash-linear-attention PyPIHow it fits your stack(11)
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The repository fla-org/flash-linear-attention provides efficient implementations of linear attention mechanisms, focusing on large language models and sequence modeling within machine learning systems.
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Source: github.language+pyproject.toml · Aug 17, 2026
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$ python -m benchmarks.ops.run --op chunk_retention chunk_gla chunk_gdn flash_attnSource link
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Installation lives in a backend extra ( / / / / ). CUDA is one command; other backends are two so (and the right flavor that pulls transitively) come from the PyTorch wheel index instead of PyPI: `` fla pip install e .` to enable its import $ python m benchmarks.ops.run op chunk...
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