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Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA

As of 13 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 31 of 31 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2412.20677.

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This paper cites BoolQ: Exploring the Surprising Difficulty of Natural Yes/No Questions.

Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA BoolQ: Exploring the Surprising Difficulty of Natural Yes/No Questions

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This paper cites LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models.

Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

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Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA Mistral 7B

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This paper cites BiLD: Bi-directional Logits Difference Loss for Large Language Model Distillation.

Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA BiLD: Bi-directional Logits Difference Loss for Large Language Model Distillation

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This paper cites DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model.

Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model

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Observation 3b049843-b8fb-466d-a225-3f858b14dfa8 · outbound

This paper cites Learning Sparse Neural Networks through $L_0$ Regularization.

Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA Learning Sparse Neural Networks through $L_0$ Regularization

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This paper cites SocialIQA: Commonsense Reasoning about Social Interactions.

Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA SocialIQA: Commonsense Reasoning about Social Interactions

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This paper cites Recursive deep models for se- mantic compositionality over a sentiment treebank.

Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA Recursive deep models for se- mantic compositionality over a sentiment treebank

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Observation 45404514-2a8d-4b1b-9869-eafcc5300f46 · outbound

This paper cites A Simple and Effective Pruning Approach for Large Language Models.

Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA A Simple and Effective Pruning Approach for Large Language Models

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This paper cites RazorAttention: Efficient KV Cache Compression Through Retrieval Heads.

Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA RazorAttention: Efficient KV Cache Compression Through Retrieval Heads

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This paper cites Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models.

Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models

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This paper cites Structured Pruning of Large Language Models.

Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA Structured Pruning of Large Language Models

Reference 21

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This paper cites Sheared LLaMA: Accelerating Language Model Pre-training via Structured Pruning.

Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA Sheared LLaMA: Accelerating Language Model Pre-training via Structured Pruning

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This paper cites Qwen2 Technical Report.

Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA Qwen2 Technical Report

Reference 24

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This paper cites Effectively Compress KV Heads for LLM.

Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA Effectively Compress KV Heads for LLM

Reference 25

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This paper cites WKVQuant: Quantizing Weight and Key/Value Cache for Large Language Models Gains More.

Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA WKVQuant: Quantizing Weight and Key/Value Cache for Large Language Models Gains More

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This paper cites HellaSwag: Can a Machine Really Finish Your Sentence?.

Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA HellaSwag: Can a Machine Really Finish Your Sentence?

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This paper cites TinyLlama: An Open-Source Small Language Model.

Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA TinyLlama: An Open-Source Small Language Model

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This paper cites During the pruning training process, the sparsity warm-up steps account for 30% of the total steps, during which the target size of the L0 masks decreases linearly to zero.

Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA During the pruning training process, the sparsity warm-up steps account for 30% of the total steps, during which the target size of the L0 masks decreases linearly to zero

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This paper cites Fast Transformer Decoding: One Write-Head is All You Need.

Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA Fast Transformer Decoding: One Write-Head is All You Need

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Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA DHA: Learning Decoupled-Head Attention from Transformer Checkpoints via Adaptive Heads Fusion

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This paper cites Can a Suit of Armor Conduct Electricity? A New Dataset for Open Book Question Answering.

Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA Can a Suit of Armor Conduct Electricity? A New Dataset for Open Book Question Answering

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Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA The Llama 3 Herd of Models

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Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Challenge

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Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA Lan- guage models are few-shot learners

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Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding

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Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA Structured Pruning Learns Compact and Accurate Models

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Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA SliceGPT: Compress Large Language Models by Deleting Rows and Columns

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Align Attention Heads Before Merging Them: An Effective Way for Converting MHA to GQA GQA: Training Generalized Multi-Query Transformer Models from Multi-Head Checkpoints

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