Kimi K3 Architecture: KV Cache Offloading vs. KDA Recurrent State
zephyr_z9 · x · 2026-07-29
Addressing community excitement over Kimi K3's "constant state," this post clarifies a crucial technical detail: Kimi K3 is offloading the KV cache generated by MLA (Multi-head Latent Attention) layers, rather than offloading the recurrent state of the KDA (Kimi Decoder Architecture).
This distinction is important for accurately understanding how Kimi K3 manages memory savings and maintains performance during long-context processing.
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