layer_normalization.py

import torch
import torch.nn as nn


class RMSNorm(nn.Module):
    """Root Mean Square Layer Normalization.



    More efficient than LayerNorm — omits mean-centering and bias terms.

    Computation is promoted to float32 then cast back to the input dtype to

    avoid precision loss with bfloat16 inputs.

    """

    def __init__(self, emb_dim, eps: float = 1e-6):
        """

        Args:

            emb_dim: Size of the last dimension to normalize over.

            eps: Small constant added inside rsqrt for numerical stability.

        """
        super().__init__()
        self.eps = eps
        self.gamma = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(emb_dim))

    def forward(self, x):
        """Normalize x by its RMS and scale by the learnable gamma parameter."""
        ms = x.float().pow(2).mean(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
        x_normed = x.float() * torch.rsqrt(ms + self.eps)
        return (x_normed * self.gamma.float()).type_as(x)