GQA mechanism in-depth analysis program
To understand the GQA mechanism thoroughly, the following practical path is suggested:
- Visualization experiments: Modify the project's
num_heads=8, num_kv_heads=2Print the attention map of each head to observe the sharing pattern - comparative analysis: Compare memory footprint with traditional MHA (multiple heads): 75% reduction in KV cache when query_heads=32, kv_heads=8
- mathematical derivation: Manual computation of the matrix of grouped attention scores, e.g., the product of Q ∈ R^{17×128} and K ∈ R^{17×32} process
- variant realization: try to realize 1) dynamic grouping 2) cross-layer sharing 3) sparse attention and other improvements.
Key insight point: at the heart of GQA is the balance between model quality (uniqueness of each head) and computational efficiency (parameter sharing), the project'sreshape_as_kvfunction implements the key grouping operations.
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