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FLARE++: Low-rank attention with attention-synthesized routing

Abstract

Full self-attention is a strong token mixer for PDE surrogates on irregular domains, but its quadratic cost limits its use on large problems. Latent-space attention methods such as PerceiverIO, Transolver, and FLARE (Fast Low-rank Attention Routing Engine) avoid that cost by routing attention among tokens through learned latents. They compress by dot-product matching of the input tokens against learned query tokens or projection weights: once trained, the same learned templates serve every input. We remove this restriction with FLARE++, a low-rank attention architecture with input-conditioned routing queries. FLARE++ uses FLARE's own encoder to map the input tokens to query tokens, which correct the learned queries. The adapted queries then determine how that same input is compressed and redistributed. This preserves FLARE's explicit low-rank factorization and linear complexity, and expresses the complete routing operation with standard scaled dot-product attention (SDPA) calls alone. We also provide a multi-GPU context-parallel implementation that shards input tokens across devices without ever gathering the full token sequence on one of them. FLARE++ reduces FLARE's error by on average across five standard PDE benchmarks, achieving the lowest errors among the efficient models compared. The gains persist on industrial-scale DrivAerML aerodynamics and on Long Range Arena, where average accuracy rises by over fixed-query FLARE.

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