From Attention to 3-Bit Caches: How LLMs Learned to Remember Less (MHA, GQA, MLA, MoE, Quantisation Explained)

In 2017, eight researchers published a paper with the cockiest title in computer science: Attention Is All You Need . They were right, with one small footnote that took the rest of the industry nine years to work through: Attention is all you need. Also 16 GB of memory per conversation, a warehouse…

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1. 2026-11-10 18:42 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
   From Attention to 3-Bit Caches: How LLMs Learned to Remember Less (MHA, GQA, MLA, MoE, Quantisation Explained)