How to pronounce MQA

MQA is most commonly pronounced "em kyoo ay" (/ˌɛm ˌkjuː ˈeɪ/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

Multi-Query Attention — the single-KV-head attention variant that GQA generalizes; referenced in serving docs like TensorRT-LLM. Initialism read letter-by-letter, not as a word: STRESS final letter, em-kyoo-AY, exactly parallel to GQA. The expansion 'multi-query attention' is never pronounced.

Source: arXiv 2305.13245 (GQA paper, defines/compares MQA)

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