I/O Complexity of Attention, or How Optimal is FlashAttention?

Barna Saha, Christopher Ye
2/12/2026

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@article{saha2026complexity,
  title  = {I/O Complexity of Attention, or How Optimal is FlashAttention?},
  author = {Barna Saha and Christopher Ye},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:c5f97c9451f8e6a1e58f35232f0677c5b11ffeb8},
  journal = {ICML 2024 2024}
}

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