arXiv AI By Ali Kayyam, Anusha Madan Gopal, M Anthony Lewis

Do Transformers Need Three Projections? Systematic Study of QKV Variants

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arXiv:2606. 04032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformers have become the standard solution for various AI tasks, with the query, key, and value (QKV) attention formulation playing a central role.

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