Do Transformers Need Three Projections? Systematic Study of QKV Variants
This article discusses a technical research paper investigating whether the three separate projections (Query, Key, Value) in Transformer models are strictly necessary. It provides links to academic resources and repositories for further study on model architecture efficiency.
Why it matters
Optimizing Transformer architecture is critical for reducing the computational cost and energy consumption of modern AI models.
Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Anusha Madan Gopal [ view email ] [v1] Mon, 1 Jun 2026 20:59:05 UTC (2,017 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Do Transformers Need Three Projections? Systematic Study of QKV Variants, by Ali Kayyam and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.LG < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-06 Change to browse by: cs cs.AI cs.CL cs.PF References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ( What is the Explorer? ) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers ( What is Connected Papers? ) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps ( What is Litmaps? ) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations ( What are Smart Citations? ) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv ( What is alphaXiv? ) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers ( What is CatalyzeX? ) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub ( What is DagsHub? ) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub ( What is GotitPub? ) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face ( What is Huggingface? ) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast ( What is ScienceCast? ) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate ( What is Replicate? ) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces ( What is Spaces? ) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI ( What is TXYZ.AI? ) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower ( What are Influence Flowers? ) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender ( What is CORE? ) IArxiv recommender toggle IArxiv Recommender ( What is IArxiv? ) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website.
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