Researchers weigh in on row norm: control pre-activation ∞ norm to tame RMS

CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-11-13

In a technical exchange on LLM normalization, YouJiacheng argues row norm (weight normalization) is the right approach: since SwiGLU involves elementwise multiplication, you must control the pre-activation hidden's ∞ norm to control the post-activation hidden's RMS. Cited experiments show each neuron's corresponding norm is almost exactly 1, supporting weight normalization.

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