README.md

**Research Paper**: ["MHA2MLA-VLM: Enabling DeepSeek's Economical Multi-Head Latent Attention across Vision-Language Models"](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11464)

## Description

This repository contains **our proposed MD-SVD (Modality-Decoupled Singular Value Decomposition) initialization weights** extracted from Stage 1 checkpoints for initializing Stage 2 MHA2MLA-VLM models, which independently compresses visual and textual KV spaces, enabling efficient compression while maintaining model performance.

## Available Weight Files

| File Name | Latent Dimension (d_kv) |
|-----------|------------------------|
| `Qwen2.5-VL-7B-rope32-d_kv_32.pt` | 32 | 
| `Qwen2.5-VL-7B-rope32-d_kv_64.pt` | 64 | 
| `Qwen2.5-VL-7B-rope32-d_kv_128.pt` | 128 | 



## Citation

```bibtex
@misc{fan2026mha2mlavlmenablingdeepseekseconomical,
      title={MHA2MLA-VLM: Enabling DeepSeek's Economical Multi-Head Latent Attention across Vision-Language Models}, 
      author={Xiaoran Fan and Zhichao Sun and Tao Ji and Lixing Shen and Tao Gui},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2601.11464},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11464}, 
}
```