MLAfication: Efficiently Enabling High-Fidelity MLA for Modern LLMs

arXiv:2610.17202 · cs.LG, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-10-12 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-10-12

Updated: 2026-10-12

Code: https://github.com/JT-Ushio/MLAfication

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Controlling changes to attention logits
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• DeepSeek-V3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Models
• Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
• RoFormer: Enhanced Transformer with Rotary Position Embedding
• Kimi K2: Open Agentic Intelligence
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• VideoMLA: Low-Rank Latent KV Cache for Minute-Scale Autoregressive Video Diffusion
• GLM-5: from Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
• MLKV: Multi-Layer Key-Value Heads for Memory Efficient Transformer Decoding

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