Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes

一句话概要

Short architecture note on Kimi K3, including LatentMoE, Kimi Delta Attention, Attention Residuals, NoPE, multimodality, and inference-efficiency choices.

原文开头节选

The Kimi K3 architecture figure for yesterday’s big open-weight model release, along with some observations and thoughts.

Yes, it looks relatively complicated, but it’s essentially a scaled-up production version of their Kimi Linear model they released last year (scaled up from 48B -> 2.8T; K3 is by far the biggest open-weight model right now)

The one new component compared to Kimi Linear is the LatentMoE . I omitted it in the figure below since it’s already very crowded, but that’s essentially the same LatentMoE as in Nemotron 3 Ultra (you can find it in my LLM Architecture Gallery if you are curious). The idea here is to compress (down-project) large linear layers similar to multi-head latent attention .

Kimi K3’s overall trend (similar to Nemotron 3, DeepSeek V4, and others) is also towards better inference efficiency. That is, there are many components that replace existing components with efficiency-tweaked versions. I.e., MoE -> LatentMoE, regular attention -> multi-head latent attention and Kimi Delta Attention .

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