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  2. GQA

GlossaryAbbreviation

GQA

Short for grouped-query attention: query heads share key and value heads, which shrinks the KV cache.

  • Full form: Grouped-query attention (GQA)

Where it is explained

  • How LLMs workLLM foundations
  • LLM inference and servingProduction: cost, serving and observability

See also

Terms explained in the same lessons.

  • Decode
  • KV cache
  • Prefill
  • Autoregressive generation
  • Causal mask
  • Chunked prefill
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