Kimi's New Architecture Revealed: Linear Attention & Attention Residuals
burny_tech · x · 2026-07-28
A developer analyzed Kimi's new model architecture, highlighting two key features:
- Linear Attention Variant: Similar to LSTM with forgetting mechanisms, used in combination with standard attention (referred to as Kimi linear).
- Attention Residuals: An innovative attention mechanism that takes the hidden states of all previous layers as input for the current attention layer, rather than just relying on the previous layer's output.
Related event: Kimi Linear Paper Introduces Efficient Linear Attention Architecture(3 posts)→
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