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Jul 2026
Through the Bottleneck: How Multi-head Latent Attention Separates Content from Position in Language Models
This work presents the first comprehensive mechanistic interpretability study of MLA, training a 114M-parameter transformer and analyzing its representations through SVD, attention head taxonomy, linear probing, and a disruption-attribution analysis.
S. Dhruvil, Fenil Sojitra, R. Chauhan
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