linkedin / linkedin/Liger-Kernel

Grouped Latent Attention

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Description

🚀 The feature, motivation and pitch

New work from Prof. Dao's lab that improves on Deepseek's original Multihead Latent Attention.

Relevant Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.21487

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Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry point; begin by reading the linked paper and locating existing attention-kernel implementations in the repository. Before coding, define the integration point and validation needed for grouped latent attention, since the issue does not specify what done looks like.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
machine-learning
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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