Comparing 4 frontier efficient architectures: DeepSeek & MiMo use YOCO, Qwen/GLM interleave 3:1
eliebakouch · x · 2026-09-24
An overview of the four most advanced efficient architectures: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, MiMo V3, Qwen 3.8 Next Flash, and GLM 5.3 Flash. DeepSeek and MiMo take a similar approach using YOCO — only the first part of the network is active during prefill to build the KV cache representation, with no linear attention, plus a token-level indexer. Qwen and GLM instead use a more standard 3:1 interleaving design. The author also hopes Kimi joins this tier and notes MiniMax already has MSA and could have been included.
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