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Multi-Query Attention

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Prof. Tom Yeh
May 25, 2026
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  1. QKV Projection

  2. Attention Computation

  3. Self Attention

  4. Cross Attention

  5. Self Attention vs Cross Attention

  6. Self Attention (Shared KV)

  7. Multi-Head Attention

  8. Fused QKV (Multi-Head)

  9. Single vs Multi-Head Attention

  10. Multi-Query Attention

  11. Grouped-Query Attention

Multi-Query Attention (Shazeer, 2019) is an extension of Shared KV attention to the full multi-head setting.

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