Kimi K3’s architecture draws praise for KDA, AttnRes, and gated MLA
stochasticchasm · x · 2026-07-28
The poster comments that Kimi K3’s architecture looks unusually clean and highlights several design choices:
- KDA and AttnRes are called out as strong components.
- The model uses gated attention / gated MLA, which the author says is a welcome change.
- They also note that Kimi K3 has finally gone NoPE on MLA, and ask whether this is the first hybrid of linear attention plus NoPE without the usual RoPE-style global layers.
Overall, it’s a short but technical reaction to the architecture shown in the Kimi K3 report.
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