Baidu· ERNIECapability change

ERNIE 4.5 Gets a Major Inference Speed Boost

Baidu ERNIE 4.5 models get a major inference speed boost using a new sparse attention mechanism called PLAS, available for -Paddle versions deployed with FastDeploy.

From the source

We’ve just rolled out a powerful update for the ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B and ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B models that speeds up inference for long-context tasks.

ernie.baidu.com

Announced

12 Sep 2025 00:00 UTC

Detected

28 Aug 2026 19:42 UTC (+350d after)