François Fleuret: RMSNorm before and after projections is called Sandwich Norm

francoisfleuret · x · 2026-11-07

François Fleuret shares a TIL: applying RMSNorm both before and after the projections in a Transformer block is referred to as "Sandwich Norm" — a useful bit of architecture terminology for normalization layouts.

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