Understanding Multi-Head Latent Attention (From DeepSeek)

Posted by shreyansh26 on Monday January 26, 2026 @11:27AM
from the shreyansh26.github.io dept.

https://shreyansh26.github.io/post/2025-11-08_multihead-latent-attention/

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Re:Understanding Multi-Head Latent Attention (From DeepSeek) by shreyansh26 on Monday January 26, 2026 @11:27AM (#46767671)

A short deep-dive on Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA) (from DeepSeek): intuition + math, then a walk from MHA → GQA → MQA → MLA, with PyTorch code and the fusion/absorption optimizations for KV-cache efficiency.

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