{"type":"post","id":"from-full-to-hybrid-attention-in-llms-795700","slug":"from-full-to-hybrid-attention-in-llms-795700","title":"From Full to Hybrid Attention in LLMs","description":"Sebastian Raschka’s November 10, 2026 analysis says the LLMs he tracks have shifted toward hybrid attention: in the second half of 2026, models split evenly between those retaining some full attention and those using none.","retrieval_nugget":"Sebastian Raschka’s November 10, 2026 analysis says the LLMs he tracks have shifted toward hybrid attention: in the second half of 2026, models split evenly between those retaining some full attention and those using none. For builders, the trade-off is potentially cheaper long-context use against harder exact retrieval in architectures that compress history.","published_at":"2026-11-10","updated_at":"2026-11-10","record_date":"2026-11-10","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["models"],"entities":["Sebastian Raschka","Gated DeltaNet","Mamba-2","Lightning Attention"],"related_patterns":["harness-architecture-outlives-model-choice"],"novelty_label":"new_fact","what_changed":"A new architecture survey finds that second-half 2026 LLMs split evenly between hybrids retaining some full attention and models with none, extending the shift toward cheaper long-context use.","prior_refs":[],"source_url":"https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2026/full-to-hybrid-attention.html","source_urls":["https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2026/full-to-hybrid-attention.html"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:from-full-to-hybrid-attention-in-llms-795700","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/from-full-to-hybrid-attention-in-llms-795700/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/from-full-to-hybrid-attention-in-llms-795700.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/from-full-to-hybrid-attention-in-llms-795700.json"},"markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/from-full-to-hybrid-attention-in-llms-795700.md","next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/models/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/models/","title":"Models","reason":"Explore the models topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/models.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/models.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/sources/","url":"https://newruntime.com/sources/","title":"Sources","reason":"See the original sources this archive cites.","media_type":"text/html"}]}