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Will the kernel affect the sparsity? When i read the chapter 3 of the paper and intuitive code implementation of index building, i thought that vertical / slash lines are selected just token by token, namely with 1*1 token mask. But the attached image showed that "Slash lines use 64 × 64 blocks, while vertical lines use 1 × 64 blocks.". Then the sparsity has decreased a lot?

Will it be the reason why @iofu728 said that the pattern all replaced by "vertical_and_slash" works better? Since the sparsity is different? https://github.com/microsoft/MInference/issues/17#issuecomment-2210652320

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