{"slug": "kimi-linear-an-expressive-efficient-attention-architecture-interactive-visual", "title": "Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture — interactive visual explainer | Rudrite Research", "summary": "The Kimi Team published a new attention architecture, Kimi Linear, on arXiv in 2025. The architecture uses Kimi Delta Attention interleaved 3:1 with full attention, becoming the first linear hybrid to outperform softmax attention. An interactive visual explainer of the paper is available online.", "body_md": "# Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture\n\nKimi Delta Attention, interleaved 3:1 with full attention — the first linear hybrid to beat softmax.\n\nKimi Team · arXiv 2025 · Model Architectures. [Read the paper ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26692)\n\nA free, interactive, animated visual explainer of Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture — every exhibit computed from the real formulas, with verbatim quotes from the source.\n\n## Questions\n\n- What is Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture?\n- Kimi Delta Attention, interleaved 3:1 with full attention — the first linear hybrid to beat softmax.\n- Who published Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture, and where?\n- Kimi Team — arXiv 2025 (arXiv:2510.26692).\n- Where can I find a visual explainer of Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture?\n- Right here — a free, interactive, animated walkthrough of the whole paper, with exhibits computed from the real formulas and verbatim quotes from the source.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kimi-linear-an-expressive-efficient-attention-architecture-interactive-visual", "canonical_source": "https://research.rudrite.com/kimi-linear", "published_at": "2026-06-15 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-15 14:16:37.892856+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["machine-learning", "large-language-models", "neural-networks", "ai-research", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Kimi Team", "arXiv", "Kimi Linear", "Kimi Delta Attention"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kimi-linear-an-expressive-efficient-attention-architecture-interactive-visual", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kimi-linear-an-expressive-efficient-attention-architecture-interactive-visual.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kimi-linear-an-expressive-efficient-attention-architecture-interactive-visual.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kimi-linear-an-expressive-efficient-attention-architecture-interactive-visual.jsonld"}}