More Recent Works Use Different KV Head Configurations

eliebakouch · x · 2026-07-16

Further confirmation: `step 3.5`, `poolside`, and what the author believes to be `mimo` have adopted similar approaches. In other words, among these recent works, **using different KV heads configurations for SWA layers versus global layers** might be a common pattern.

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