@inproceedings{deng-etal-2026-unique, title = "{UNIQUE}: Universal Top-k Sparse Attention for Training-free Inference and Sparsity-aware Training", author = "Deng, Keqi and Ling, Shaoshi and Fan, Ruchao and Li, Jinyu", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1774/", pages = "40428--40440", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }