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An independent reproduction on MiniMax-H3 or another open model would show whether the reported fidelity advantage holds outside the authors' evaluation. A published combination of VC-Attention with a sparse method, with measured speed and fidelity, would test the stacking question MiniMax raised.","verification_level":"source-inspected","signal_type":"field_note","schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:nunchux-ai-s-vc-attention-speeds-up-minimax-h3-7df29c","retrieval_nugget":"Nunchux AI's training-free VC-Attention reports 1.6x and 1.5x attention speedups over FlashAttention-4 on MiniMax-H3, with better fidelity than SageAttention2. Nunchux AI and collaborators introduced VC-Attention, a low-bit attention method that works without retraining, and MiniMax highlighted it in a post about faster video attention for its MiniMax-H3 model. 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