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Reddit r/MachineLearningSeptember 22, 2026

Understanding and Enhancing Kimi Delta Attention [R]

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TLDR: We demonstrate and explain the difference in expressivity of Gated Deltanet (GDN) and Kimi Delta Attention (KDA). We show how the full diagonal gate in KDA can act as a reflection allowing 2D rotations to be carried out in a single step, but only if the range of the gates is extended to [-1,1] and the delta rule learning rate is extended to [0, 2] which we call Complex KDA (CKDA). Our theory demonstrates that this form allows us to express any orthogonal diagonal-plus-rank-one matrix and t