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FLARE++: Low-rank attention with dynamic attention routing

arXiv 2608.11519 ↗First posted 12 Aug 2026cs.LGcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

Full self-attention is a strong token mixer for PDE surrogates on irregular domains, but its quadratic cost limits its use on large problems. Latent-space attention methods such as PerceiverIO, Transolver, and FLARE (Fast Low-rank Attention Routing Engine) avoid that cost by routing attention among N tokens through Mll N learned latents. They compress by dot-product matching of the input tokens against M learned query tokens or projection weights: once trained, the same learned templates serve every input. We remove this restriction with FLARE++, a low-rank attention architecture with input-conditioned routing queries. FLARE++ uses FLARE's own encoder to map the N input tokens to M query tokens, which correct the learned queries. The adapted queries then determine how that same input is compressed and redistributed. This preserves FLARE's explicit low-rank factorization and linear mathcal O(NM) complexity, and expresses the complete routing operation with standard scaled dot-product attention (SDPA) calls alone. We also provide a multi-GPU context-parallel implementation that shards input tokens across devices without ever gathering the full token sequence on one of them. FLARE++ reduces FLARE's error by 25% on average across five standard PDE benchmarks, achieving the lowest errors among the efficient models compared. The gains persist on industrial-scale DrivAerML aerodynamics and on Long Range Arena, where average accuracy rises by 3.5% over fixed-query FLARE. Code is available at https://github.com/vpuri3/FLARE.py.

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