microsoft/KBLaM

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Official implementation of KBLaM, a method for augmenting pre-trained LLMs with external knowledge by encoding a knowledge base into continuous key-value vectors integrated via a rectangular attention mechanism. It eliminates external retrieval modules and scales linearly with knowledge base size, supporting Llama and Phi-3 models.

Use cases

• augment an LLM with a knowledge base without a retrieval module
• integrate 10K+ knowledge triples into an 8B model on a single GPU
• replicate the KBLaM paper experiments
• generate synthetic QA datasets for knowledge-augmented training
• dynamically update LLM knowledge without fine-tuning

When to choose

• you want retrieval-free knowledge augmentation with linear scaling in KB size
• you need to reproduce or extend the KBLaM research
• you want to inject a large knowledge base into a small-context LLM

When to avoid

• you need a production-ready RAG pipeline with mature tooling
• your model architecture is not among the supported Llama/Phi-3 variants
• you lack GPU resources for training

Facets

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machine-learning llm-training rag nlp large-language-models machine-learning artificial-intelligence python knowledge-base llm-augmentation research-code iclr-2025 microsoft retrieval-augmented-generation gpu

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