A research paper co-authored by Liang Wenfeng, founder of Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek, was honoured with the best paper award at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) conference in Vienna, Austria, widely recognised as the premier global conference for AI researchers. The paper, titled “Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse Attention,” was published on February 27, with Liang listed as one of 15 authors. The “native sparse...