MLA Architecture Details: Will Full-Rank Gate Projection Cause Parameter Explosion?
stochasticchasm · x · 2026-07-28
The author raises a technical question regarding Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA): implementing full-rank gate projection here would result in a massive number of parameters, given that MLA typically features a large number of heads and a large head dimension.
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