Kimi K3

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Moonshot AI · Release date not pinned
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New parts in the block · after Kimi K2
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moonshotai/Kimi‑K3 @ f831ab6, fla‑org/flash‑linear‑attention @ 07ca1e4 · parameter count checked against the checkpoint’s tensor headers · text model onlyHow to read

Gated MLA

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Attention update

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tensorattn_output · 474

The update gated MLA adds to the running sum.

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Δattn\Delta_{\mathrm{attn}} [B batch, 1 position, 7168 d]
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Contextual evidence from Add attention update

With attention residuals, a layer mixes its attention input from the stored sums and the running sum, stores the running sum and starts a new one when its index is divisible by the block size, adds the attention output to the running sum, mixes the feed-forward input the same way, and adds the feed-forward output.

block-forward · moonshotai/Kimi-K3 / modeling_kimi_linear.py
Pinned revision f831ab668142 ↗ · lines 973–1046

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    def _forward_attn_residual(
        self,
        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
        attention_mask: torch.Tensor | None = None,
        position_ids: torch.LongTensor | None = None,
        past_key_values: tuple[torch.Tensor] | None = None,
        output_attentions: bool | None = False,
        use_cache: bool | None = False,
        block_residual: torch.Tensor | None = None,
        **kwargs: Unpack[FlashAttentionKwargs],
    ):
        batch_size, seq_len, hidden_size = hidden_states.shape
        prefix_sum = hidden_states

        if block_residual is not None and block_residual.shape[1] > 0:
            hidden_states = _apply_attn_res(
                prefix_sum.view(-1, hidden_size),
                block_residual,
                self.self_attention_res_proj,
                self.self_attention_res_norm,
            ).view(batch_size, seq_len, hidden_size)

        if self.layer_idx % self.attn_res_block_size == 0:
            block_residual = torch.cat(
                [block_residual, prefix_sum.view(-1, hidden_size).unsqueeze(1)], dim=1)
            prefix_sum = None

        hidden_states = self.input_layernorm(hidden_states)

        # Self Attention
        if self.is_linear_attn is False:
            hidden_states = self.self_attn(
                hidden_states=hidden_states,
                attention_mask=attention_mask,
                position_ids=position_ids,
                past_key_values=past_key_values,
                output_attentions=output_attentions,
                use_cache=use_cache,
                **kwargs,
            )
        else:
            hidden_states = self.self_attn(
                hidden_states=hidden_states,
                attention_mask=attention_mask,
                cache_params=past_key_values,
                output_attentions=output_attentions,
                use_cache=use_cache,
                **kwargs,
            )

        if prefix_sum is not None:
            prefix_sum = prefix_sum + hidden_states
        else:
            prefix_sum = hidden_states

        hidden_states = _apply_attn_res(
            prefix_sum.view(-1, hidden_size),
            block_residual,
            self.mlp_res_proj,
            self.mlp_res_norm,
        ).view(batch_size, seq_len, hidden_size)

        hidden_states = self.post_attention_layernorm(hidden_states)
        if hasattr(self, "block_sparse_moe"):
            hidden_states = self.block_sparse_moe(hidden_states)
        else:
            hidden_states = self.mlp(hidden_states)

        if prefix_sum is None:
            prefix_sum = hidden_states
        else:
            prefix_sum = prefix_sum + hidden_states

        return prefix_sum, block_residual

Contextual evidence from Output projection

Latent attention owns a query down-projection, query RMSNorm and up-projection, a joint key–value down-projection that also emits 64 unrotated shared key features, a latent RMSNorm, a key–value up-projection, an output projection and a full-rank output gate projection; it creates no rotary embedding.

mla-init · moonshotai/Kimi-K3 / modeling_kimi_linear.py
Pinned revision f831ab668142 ↗ · lines 340–403

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    def __init__(self, config: KimiLinearConfig, layer_idx: int):
        nn.Module.__init__(self)
        self.config = config
        self.layer_idx = layer_idx
        self.hidden_size = config.hidden_size
        self.num_heads = config.num_attention_heads
        self.num_key_value_heads = config.num_key_value_heads
        self.num_key_value_groups = self.num_heads // self.num_key_value_heads

        self.attention_dropout = getattr(config, "attention_dropout", 0.0)

        try:
            self.q_lora_rank = config.q_lora_rank
            self.qk_rope_head_dim = config.qk_rope_head_dim
            self.kv_lora_rank = config.kv_lora_rank
            self.v_head_dim = config.v_head_dim
            self.qk_nope_head_dim = config.qk_nope_head_dim
            self.q_head_dim = self.qk_nope_head_dim + self.qk_rope_head_dim
            self.use_nope = config.mla_use_nope
            self.scaling = self.q_head_dim ** (-0.5)
        except Exception as e:
            raise ValueError(
                f"Kimi MLA config is not found or not properly formatted: {e}")

        if self.q_lora_rank is not None:
            self.q_a_proj = nn.Linear(
                self.hidden_size, self.q_lora_rank, bias=False,
            )
            self.q_a_layernorm = KimiRMSNorm(self.q_lora_rank)
            self.q_b_proj = nn.Linear(
                self.q_lora_rank,
                self.num_heads * self.q_head_dim,
                bias=False,
            )
        else:
            self.q_proj = nn.Linear(
                self.hidden_size, self.num_heads * self.q_head_dim, bias=False,
            )
        self.kv_a_proj_with_mqa = nn.Linear(
            self.hidden_size,
            self.kv_lora_rank + self.qk_rope_head_dim,
            bias=False,
        )
        self.kv_a_layernorm = KimiRMSNorm(self.kv_lora_rank)
        self.kv_b_proj = nn.Linear(
            self.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=False,
        )
        self.is_causal = True
        assert self.use_nope

        self.use_output_gate = getattr(config, "mla_use_output_gate", False)
        if self.use_output_gate:
            projection_size = self.num_heads * self.v_head_dim
            self.g_proj = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size, projection_size, bias=False)

        self.rotary_emb = None

Contextual evidence from Output projection

Head outputs are flattened, multiplied by the sigmoid of a full-rank projection of the layer’s input, and projected back to the model width.

mla-output · moonshotai/Kimi-K3 / modeling_kimi_linear.py
Pinned revision f831ab668142 ↗ · lines 468–474

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        attn_output = attn_output.reshape(
            batch_size, seq_length, -1).contiguous()
        if self.use_output_gate:
            g = self.g_proj(hidden_states).sigmoid()
            attn_output = attn_output * g
        attn_output = self.o_proj(attn_output)
        return attn_output