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A Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMs

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From MHA and GQA to MLA, sparse attention, and hybrid architectures

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arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

Rethinking the Role of Efficient Attention in Hybrid Architectures

arXiv:2606. 15378v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern language models increasingly adopt hybrid architectures that combine full attention with efficient attention modules, such as sliding-window attention (SWA) and recurrent sequence mixers.

By Ziqing Qiao, Yinuo Xu, Chaojun Xiao, Zhou Su, Zihan Zhou, Yingfa Chen, Xiaoyue Xu, Xu Han, Zhiyuan Liu