{"slug": "show-hn-proxy-block-cage-a-new-sparse-block-attention", "title": "Show HN: Proxy Block-CAGE, a new sparse block attention", "summary": "A PhD student in bioinformatics used ChatGPT and genetic algorithms to develop Proxy Block-CAGE, a new sparse block attention method for transformers, aiming to reduce computational intensity. The work is shared on Hacker News for feedback from the AI/ML research community.", "body_md": "Hi, I'm a PhD student in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology with a software engineering background,\n\nI'm trying to pivot toward AI/ML research. I'm familiar with the practical side of AI as in using, Scikit learn, R, Pytorch, ONNX Runtime etc...\n\nI was thinking if LLMs could be used as a research assistant to create better AIML algorithms. So I asked ChatGPT to help find better way to solved one of the most computationally intensive problems in Transformer architecture based model. I instructed ChatGPT to use genetic algorithms, genetic programming and other optimization techniques (Something I use extensively in my bioinformatics research) to find better Attention methods in transformers and this was the result. I would love to get feedback and comments from the AIML research community. Please read the md file and get back to me.\n\nHope you find this useful.\n\nThank you\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48659271](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48659271)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-proxy-block-cage-a-new-sparse-block-attention", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/iqbal1980/ai_research_assistant_rnd_projects/blob/main/proxy_block_cage_attention_introduction.md", "published_at": "2026-06-24 13:15:44+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-24 13:39:56.723965+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "generative-ai", "ai-research", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["ChatGPT", "Proxy Block-CAGE", "Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-proxy-block-cage-a-new-sparse-block-attention", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-proxy-block-cage-a-new-sparse-block-attention.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-proxy-block-cage-a-new-sparse-block-attention.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-proxy-block-cage-a-new-sparse-block-attention.jsonld"}}