Kimi Linear

Kimi Linear — a layer-wise hybrid of KDA and MLA

Why it matters

The first to beat full attention in a fair comparison; up to 75% less KV cache and up to 6× faster decoding at 1M context

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26692

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