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Yang Songlin
ROLE RESEARCHER/ARCHITECTAT MINIMAXMENTIONS 1LAST SEEN APRIL 30, 2026
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Songlin Yang is a researcher and architect at MiniMax who specializes in efficient attention mechanisms for large language models. He is the creator of the Flash Linear Attention library and has been involved in the architectural development of MiniMax models including the M1 and M2. His work focuses on hybrid attention designs that balance the computational efficiency of linear attention with the performance of full softmax attention.
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mention·晚点聊 LateTalk·APRIL 30, 2026
“Yang Songlin from MiniMax — I had previously heard that they internally favor absorption over linear attention. I personally think absorption is a more controllable engineering solution.”
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