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Home/Glossary/Flash Attention
AI Glossary Term

What does “Flash Attention” mean?

Definition

An optimized attention algorithm that reduces memory use and speeds up transformer training and inference.

Related terms

Feature Store
A managed system for storing and serving validated ML features consistently for training and inference.
Backpropagation
The core training algorithm that updates model weights by propagating prediction errors backward through the network.
Model Quantization
Reducing numeric precision of model weights to decrease memory and inference cost.
Transformer
A neural architecture that uses attention to model relationships across sequences in parallel.
Training Loss
The model error value computed during training and optimized downward over time.
Multi-Head Attention
A transformer mechanism that runs several attention operations in parallel to capture different types of relationships.

Learn more in our free guides

Attention Rollout and Head PruningSequence Parallelism and Ring AttentionMulti-Head Latent AttentionRWKV Linear Attention

See also

QLoRADPO (Direct Preference Optimization)Positional EncodingTree of ThoughtsRoPE (Rotary Positional Embeddings)ReActALiBiAgentic Loop
PreviousQLoRANextMulti-Head Attention
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