Query heads

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Normalized query latent

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tensorself.q_a_layernorm(self.q_a_proj(hidden_states))

The query latent from query compression.

shape
c^Q\hat c^{Q} [B batch, 1 positions, 1536 q latent]
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Contextual evidence from Query compression

MLA owns a query down-projection, query RMSNorm and up-projection, a joint key–value down-projection that also emits the shared rotary key, a latent RMSNorm, a key–value up-projection and an output projection.

mla-init · moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct / modeling_deepseek.py
Pinned revision fd1984e2b7a3 ↗ · lines 662–688

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            self.q_a_proj = nn.Linear(
                self.hidden_size, config.q_lora_rank, bias=config.attention_bias
            )
            self.q_a_layernorm = DeepseekV3RMSNorm(config.q_lora_rank)
            self.q_b_proj = nn.Linear(
                config.q_lora_rank, self.num_heads * self.q_head_dim, bias=False
            )

        self.kv_a_proj_with_mqa = nn.Linear(
            self.hidden_size,
            config.kv_lora_rank + config.qk_rope_head_dim,
            bias=config.attention_bias,
        )
        self.kv_a_layernorm = DeepseekV3RMSNorm(config.kv_lora_rank)
        self.kv_b_proj = nn.Linear(
            config.kv_lora_rank,
            self.num_heads
            * (self.q_head_dim - self.qk_rope_head_dim + self.v_head_dim),
            bias=False,
        )

        self.o_proj = nn.Linear(
            self.num_heads * self.v_head_dim,
            self.hidden_size,
            bias=config.attention_bias,
        )
        self._init_rope()

Contextual evidence from Query compression

Queries are produced through a low-rank latent and split into a non-rotated and a rotated part.

mla-queries · moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct / modeling_deepseek.py
Pinned revision fd1984e2b7a3 ↗ · lines 767–774

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        if self.q_lora_rank is None:
            q = self.q_proj(hidden_states)
        else:
            q = self.q_b_proj(self.q_a_layernorm(self.q_a_proj(hidden_states)))
        q = q.view(bsz, q_len, self.num_heads, self.q_head_dim).transpose(1, 2)
        q_nope, q_pe = torch.split(
            q, [self.qk_nope_head_dim, self.qk_rope_head_dim], dim=-1
        )