Attention Variants

As of 2026-06-08

Senior field guide for Attention Variants: GQA as production Pareto optimum (8× KV reduction), FlashAttention-3 (75% H100 FLOP util), PagedAttention/vLLM (90% GPU util), MLA (emerging), KV cache sizing formula, infrastructure decision card, and cost-to-throughput translation for SAP LLM deployments.