Should you save the hostages in The Outer Worlds 2?

As you approach the end of Golden Ridge, you’ll navigate the halls of Alexandra Monastery, pursuing your two targets. Eventually, you’ll come to a room with two doors: one labeled “Betray Your Values” and the other “Be a Hero.” Looking ahead through a window, you’ll see human hostages tied up and unable to escape.

![Attention mechanisms are being refined to address the escalating costs of key-value (KV) caching-Multi-Head Attention’s independent projections ([latex]2LHd_h[/latex]) give way to compression in Multi-Latent Attention ([latex]Ld_c[/latex], where [latex]d_c \ll d[/latex]), then to shared projections in Multi-Query and Grouped-Query Attention, culminating in a novel Low-Rank KV approach that-by maintaining full-rank projections alongside low-rank residual updates ([latex]2L(d_h + Hr)[/latex])-achieves a balance between head diversity and caching efficiency comparable to Multi-Latent Attention.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.11471v1/figures/LowRankKVCache.png)



