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FlashPrefill: Instantaneous Pattern Discovery and Thresholding for Ultra-Fast Long-Context Prefilling

Qihang Fan, Huaibo Huang, Zhiying Wu, Juqiu Wang, Bingning Wang, Ran He · Mar 6, 2026 · Citations: 0

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Abstract

Long-context modeling is a pivotal capability for Large Language Models, yet the quadratic complexity of attention remains a critical bottleneck, particularly during the compute-intensive prefilling phase. While various sparse attention mechanisms have been explored, they typically suffer from either significant search latency or insufficient sparsity. In this paper, we propose FlashPrefill, a framework enabling ultra-fast prefilling via instantaneous pattern discovery and thresholding. FlashPrefill leverages a fast block-searching technique to simultaneously locate dynamic vertical, slash, and block-sparse attention patterns. Crucially, it introduces a dynamic thresholding mechanism that bypasses the prohibitive overhead of sorting or accumulating attention scores while effectively eliminating the long-tail distribution to enhance sparsity. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that FlashPrefill achieves a substantial leap in efficiency, delivering an unprecedented 27.78x speedup on 256K sequences. Notably, unlike existing methods that incur efficiency degradation on shorter contexts, FlashPrefill maintains a 1.71x speedup even at a 4K context length, demonstrating its robustness and practical utility across varying sequence scales.

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Evidence snippet: Long-context modeling is a pivotal capability for Large Language Models, yet the quadratic complexity of attention remains a critical bottleneck, particularly during the compute-intensive prefilling phase.

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Evidence snippet: Long-context modeling is a pivotal capability for Large Language Models, yet the quadratic complexity of attention remains a critical bottleneck, particularly during the compute-intensive prefilling phase.

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Evidence snippet: Long-context modeling is a pivotal capability for Large Language Models, yet the quadratic complexity of attention remains a critical bottleneck, particularly during the compute-intensive prefilling phase.

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Evidence snippet: Long-context modeling is a pivotal capability for Large Language Models, yet the quadratic complexity of attention remains a critical bottleneck, particularly during the compute-intensive prefilling phase.

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Evidence snippet: Long-context modeling is a pivotal capability for Large Language Models, yet the quadratic complexity of attention remains a critical bottleneck, particularly during the compute-intensive prefilling phase.

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Research Brief

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In this paper, we propose FlashPrefill, a framework enabling ultra-fast prefilling via instantaneous pattern discovery and thresholding. HFEPX signals include Automatic Metrics with confidence 0.35. Updated from current HFEPX corpus.

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Key Takeaways

  • In this paper, we propose FlashPrefill, a framework enabling ultra-fast prefilling via instantaneous pattern discovery and thresholding.
  • Extensive evaluations demonstrate that FlashPrefill achieves a substantial leap in efficiency, delivering an unprecedented 27.78x speedup on 256K sequences.

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Research Summary

Contribution Summary

  • In this paper, we propose FlashPrefill, a framework enabling ultra-fast prefilling via instantaneous pattern discovery and thresholding.
  • Extensive evaluations demonstrate that FlashPrefill achieves a substantial leap in efficiency, delivering an unprecedented 27.78x speedup on 256K sequences.

Why It Matters For Eval

  • Extensive evaluations demonstrate that FlashPrefill achieves a substantial leap in efficiency, delivering an unprecedented 27.78x speedup on 256K sequences.

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