    def forward(
        self,
        query,
        key: Optional[Tensor],
        value: Optional[Tensor],
        key_padding_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
        incremental_state: Optional[Dict[str, Dict[str, Optional[Tensor]]]] = None,
        need_weights: bool = True,
        static_kv: bool = False,
        attn_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
        before_softmax: bool = False,
        need_head_weights: bool = False,
    ) -> Tuple[Tensor, Optional[Tensor]]:
        """Input shape: Time x Batch x Channel

        Args:
            key_padding_mask (ByteTensor, optional): mask to exclude
                keys that are pads, of shape `(batch, src_len)`, where
                padding elements are indicated by 1s.
            need_weights (bool, optional): return the attention weights,
                averaged over heads (default: False).
            attn_mask (ByteTensor, optional): typically used to
                implement causal attention, where the mask prevents the
                attention from looking forward in time (default: None).
            before_softmax (bool, optional): return the raw attention
                weights and values before the attention softmax.
            need_head_weights (bool, optional): return the attention
                weights for each head. Implies *need_weights*. Default:
                return the average attention weights over all heads.
        """
        if need_head_weights:
            need_weights = True

        tgt_len, bsz, embed_dim = query.size()
        assert embed_dim == self.embed_dim
        assert list(query.size()) == [tgt_len, bsz, embed_dim]

        if incremental_state is not None:
            saved_state = self._get_input_buffer(incremental_state)
            if saved_state is not None and "prev_key" in saved_state:
                # previous time steps are cached - no need to recompute
                # key and value if they are static
                if static_kv:
                    assert self.encoder_decoder_attention and not self.self_attention
                    key = value = None
        else:
            saved_state = None

        if self.self_attention:
            q = self.q_proj(query)

            k_input = query.permute(1, 2, 0).contiguous()  # B * C * T
            k_input = (
                F.linear(k_input, self.compress_k.weight[:, 0:tgt_len])
                .permute(2, 0, 1)
                .contiguous()
            )
            k = self.k_proj(k_input)

            v_input = query.permute(1, 2, 0).contiguous()  # B * C * T
            if self.shared_kv_compressed == 0:
                v_input = (
                    F.linear(v_input, self.compress_v.weight[:, 0:tgt_len])
                    .permute(2, 0, 1)
                    .contiguous()
                )
            if self.shared_kv_compressed == 1:  # use shared kv compressed linear layer
                v_input = (
                    F.linear(v_input, self.compress_k.weight[:, 0:tgt_len])
                    .permute(2, 0, 1)
                    .contiguous()
                )
            v = self.v_proj(v_input)
        elif self.encoder_decoder_attention:
            # encoder-decoder attention
            q = self.q_proj(query)
            if key is None:
                assert value is None
                k = v = None
            else:
                k = self.k_proj(key)
                v = self.v_proj(key)

        else:
            assert key is not None and value is not None
            q = self.q_proj(query)
            k = self.k_proj(key)
            v = self.v_proj(value)
        q *= self.scaling

        if self.bias_k is not None:
            assert self.bias_v is not None
            k = torch.cat([k, self.bias_k.repeat(1, bsz, 1)])
            v = torch.cat([v, self.bias_v.repeat(1, bsz, 1)])
            if attn_mask is not None:
                attn_mask = torch.cat(
                    [attn_mask, attn_mask.new_zeros(attn_mask.size(0), 1)], dim=1
                )
            if key_padding_mask is not None:
                key_padding_mask = torch.cat(
                    [
                        key_padding_mask,
                        key_padding_mask.new_zeros(key_padding_mask.size(0), 1),
                    ],
                    dim=1,
                )

        q = (
            q.contiguous()
            .view(tgt_len, bsz * self.num_heads, self.head_dim)
            .transpose(0, 1)
        )
        if k is not None:
            k = (
                k.contiguous()
                .view(-1, bsz * self.num_heads, self.head_dim)
                .transpose(0, 1)
            )
        if v is not None:
            v = (
                v.contiguous()
                .view(-1, bsz * self.num_heads, self.head_dim)
                .transpose(0, 1)
            )

        if saved_state is not None:
            # saved states are stored with shape (bsz, num_heads, seq_len, head_dim)
            if "prev_key" in saved_state:
                _prev_key = saved_state["prev_key"]
                assert _prev_key is not None
                prev_key = _prev_key.view(bsz * self.num_heads, -1, self.head_dim)
                if static_kv:
                    k = prev_key
                else:
                    assert k is not None
                    k = torch.cat([prev_key, k], dim=1)
            if "prev_value" in saved_state:
                _prev_value = saved_state["prev_value"]
                assert _prev_value is not None
                prev_value = _prev_value.view(bsz * self.num_heads, -1, self.head_dim)
                if static_kv:
                    v = prev_value
                else:
                    assert v is not None
                    v = torch.cat([prev_value, v], dim=1)
            prev_key_padding_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None
            if "prev_key_padding_mask" in saved_state:
                prev_key_padding_mask = saved_state["prev_key_padding_mask"]
            assert k is not None and v is not None
            key_padding_mask = MultiheadLinearAttention._append_prev_key_padding_mask(
                key_padding_mask=key_padding_mask,
                prev_key_padding_mask=prev_key_padding_mask,
                batch_size=bsz,
                src_len=k.size(1),
                static_kv=static_kv,
            )

            saved_state["prev_key"] = k.view(bsz, self.num_heads, -1, self.head_dim)
            saved_state["prev_value"] = v.view(bsz, self.num_heads, -1, self.head_dim)
            saved_state["prev_key_padding_mask"] = key_padding_mask
            # In this branch incremental_state is never None
            assert incremental_state is not None
            incremental_state = self._set_input_buffer(incremental_state, saved_state)
        assert k is not None
        src_len = k.size(1)

        if self.add_zero_attn:
            assert v is not None
            src_len += 1
            k = torch.cat([k, k.new_zeros((k.size(0), 1) + k.size()[2:])], dim=1)
            v = torch.cat([v, v.new_zeros((v.size(0), 1) + v.size()[2:])], dim=1)
            if attn_mask is not None:
                attn_mask = torch.cat(
                    [attn_mask, attn_mask.new_zeros(attn_mask.size(0), 1)], dim=1
                )

        attn_weights = torch.bmm(q, k.transpose(1, 2))
        attn_weights = MultiheadLinearAttention.apply_sparse_mask(
            attn_weights, tgt_len, src_len, bsz
        )

        assert list(attn_weights.size()) == [bsz * self.num_heads, tgt_len, src_len]

        if attn_mask is not None:
            attn_mask = attn_mask.unsqueeze(0)
            if self.onnx_trace:
                attn_mask = attn_mask.repeat(attn_weights.size(0), 1, 1)
            attn_weights += attn_mask

        if before_softmax:
            return attn_weights, v

        attn_weights_float = utils.softmax(
            attn_weights, dim=-1, onnx_trace=self.onnx_trace
        )
        attn_weights = attn_weights_float.type_as(attn_weights)
        attn_probs = F.dropout(
            attn_weights,
            p=self.dropout,
            training=self.training,
        )
        assert v is not None
        attn = torch.bmm(attn_probs, v)
        assert list(attn.size()) == [bsz * self.num_heads, tgt_len, self.head_dim]
        if self.onnx_trace and attn.size(1) == 1:
            # when ONNX tracing a single decoder step (sequence length == 1)
            # the transpose is a no-op copy before view, thus unnecessary
            attn = attn.contiguous().view(tgt_len, bsz, embed_dim)
        else:
            attn = attn.transpose(0, 1).contiguous().view(tgt_len, bsz, embed_dim)
        attn = self.out_proj(attn)
        attn_weights: Optional[Tensor] = None
        if need_weights:
            attn_weights = attn_weights_float.view(
                bsz, self.num_heads, tgt_len, src_len
            ).transpose(1, 0)
            if not need_head_weights:
                # average attention weights over heads
                attn_weights = attn_weights.mean(dim=0)

        return attn, attn_weights
Input shape: Time x Batch x Channel

Args:
key_padding_mask (ByteTensor, optional): mask to exclude
keys that are pads, of shape `(batch, src_len)`, where
padding elements are indicated by 1s.
need_weights (bool, optional): return the attention weights,
averaged over heads (default: False).
attn_mask (ByteTensor, optional): typically used to
implement causal attention, where the mask prevents the
attention from looking forward in time (default: None).
before_softmax (bool, optional): return the raw attention
weights and values before the attention softmax.
need_head_weights (bool, optional): return the attention
weights for each head. Implies *need_weights*. Default:
return the average attention weights over all heads.
examples/linformer/linformer_src/modules/multihead_linear_attention.py