Open Source Software Prize
The Stanford Open Source Software Prize is a prize awarded to an open source software project that makes noteworthy contributions to the advancement of open source software development as scholarly work, demonstrates expertise and significant impact on research in its field, and acts as an exemplary model of open source best practices.
FlashAttention
FlashAttention is an algorithm that speeds up attention and reduces memory footprint to improve the efficiency of Transfomer models. The development of this algorithm is particularly impactful as the context length of large language models (LLMs) continues to scale up, and there has been a remarkable adoption of FlashAttention across industry as a result. The latest version, FlashAttention-2, was released in July 2023 to great excitement in scholarship and industry.
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Eligibility
To be considered for the Stanford Open Source Software Prize, the project must be included in the OpenSource@Stanford Projects Registry.
Nominations for the 2025 Prize will begin early next year.
(Note that we are currently focused on open source software intrinsic to research and scholarship, rather than administrative projects.)