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Interesting HuggingFace post. What if the easiest way to make long-context Local AI faster is to simply STOP feeding…

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Interesting HuggingFace post. What if the easiest way to make long-context Local AI faster is to simply STOP feeding it everything? A new HF forum experiment tested 600 distractor-heavy long-context prompts with Qwen2.5-7B 4-bit. Instead of sending the entire ~14K-token context, a MiniLM semantic selector kept only the most relevant ~60%. The result ... 📚 Input tokens 13,124 → 7,702 ➡️ -41% ⚡ Prefill 871 ms → 463 ms ➡️ -47% 🚀 End-to-end latency 944 ms → 519 ms ➡️ -45% 💾 Peak VRAM 11.71 GiB → 9.16 GiB And here's the weird part... 🎯 Token F1 actually IMPROVED: 0.534 → 0.581 So the model g

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