A Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMs
Sebastian Raschka, PhD
A Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMs
From MHA and GQA to MLA, sparse attention, and hybrid architectures
I had originally planned to write about DeepSeek V4. Since it still hasn’t been released, I used the time to work on something that had been on my list for a while, namely, collecting, organizing, and refining the different LLM architectures I have covered over the past few years.
So, over the last two weeks, I turned that effort into an LLM architecture gallery (with 45...