Joint calibration makes 2-bit latent attention caches more accurate and faster

RoLaQ jointly tunes latent rotations and quantization ranges, improving accuracy across three models while increasing long-context serving capacity and throughput.

Chinese Tech
Shiyu Ji · Peng Ling · Chen Lin · Shupeng Li · Yixuan Wang · Qingfu Zhu · +1 more

Harbin Institute of Technology · Tsinghua University · Baidu Inc.

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Multi-head latent attention stores one compact latent representation per token, then projects it into keys and values.

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RoLaQ jointly calibrates rotation and quantization ranges for 2-bit MLA KV caches, improving accuracy across three MLA models and boosting throughput.

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