GQLA: Group-Query Latent Attention for Hardware-Adaptive Large Language Model Decoding
Researchers propose Group-Query Latent Attention (GQLA), an advancement of DeepSeek's Multi-head Latent Attention that enables hardware-adaptive decoding through two algebraically equivalent inference paths without requiring model retraining. The innovation allows a single trained model to optimize performance across different hardware platforms—H100 GPUs and export-restricted H20 chips—while maintaining computational efficiency and supporting distributed tensor parallelism.