Alibaba's Qwen team wins NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Award for attention mechanism research

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Alibaba's Qwen team won the NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Award for their breakthrough research on attention mechanisms in large language models. The winning paper details how adding a simple "gated attention" mechanism significantly improves LLM performance, training stability, and scaling properties. These findings have been integrated into the Qwen3-Next model. The research, which involved extensive experiments on large models and datasets, is being shared openly to advance the field of AI.


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