Kimi Teases New Architecture: Attention Residuals
firstadopter · x · 2026-07-19
Kimi / Moonshot has released a teaser for its new-generation architecture, with the core highlight being Attention Residuals.
The shared graphic demonstrates three main aspects:
- Structural diagrams of the new architecture: Standard Residual, Full Attention Residual, and Block Attention Residual
- Pre-training performance: Scaling law and validation loss curves indicate that the new structure trains better
- Benchmark results: Shows varying degrees of improvement over the baseline across multiple benchmarks including MMLU, GPQA, BBH, GSM8K, and CMMLU, with the graphic highlighting total gains of approximately +7.5 / +3.6 / +3.1
The focus here is strictly on the model architecture and training efficacy rather than product features; the included code and technical report links confirm this is a technical release.
Related event: Kimi K3 Architecture Preview: Native Innovation and Attention Residuals(3 posts)→
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