RMSNorm projects activations to a hypersphere, doesn't solve interpretability
_xjdr · x · 2026-08-26
A debate on whether RMSNorm aids in interpreting model activations. One side notes that RMSNorm mathematically projects the complex latent space onto an n-dimensional sphere. The other argues that if activations in the residual stream are already uninterpretable, interpreting them after normalization remains similarly difficult.
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