# Researchers from Stanford and UC Berkeley Introduce TokenGate: Token-Gated Attention Makes Long-Context Prefill Up to 11.3x Faster

> Source: <https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/25/stanford-berkeley-tokengate-learned-token-pruning-llm-prefill/>
> Published: 2026-10-25 12:12:18+00:00

Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers released TokenGate, a drop-in learned token pruning module for LLMs. It cuts long-context prefill time-to-first-token by 1.4x to 11.3x and peak memory by 1.5x to 3.4x without accuracy loss.

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