ai.onnx.GroupNormalization

ai.onnx · standard ONNX operator · ONNX opset ≥ 21

Description

Applies group normalization to the input: y = scale * (x - mean) / sqrt(variance + epsilon) + bias, where mean and variance are computed per instance per group of channels. The number of groups num_groups must divide the channel count C evenly; when num_groups == C this is equivalent to InstanceNormalization, and when num_groups == 1 it is equivalent to LayerNormalization. The normalization stage supports TensorProto stash_type values 1 (float32) and 10 (float16).

See the ONNX GroupNormalization spec for the reference semantics.

Inputs

Name	Bind key	Logical dtype	Rank	Shape	Description	Presence
`X`	`x`	`T`	—	—	Input data tensor of shape `(N x C x D1 x ... x Dn)` where `N` is batch size and `C` is the number of channels.	required
`scale`	`scale`	`T`	`1`	—	Scale tensor of shape `(C)`, one value per channel.	required
`bias`	`bias`	`T`	`1`	—	Bias tensor of shape `(C)`, one value per channel.	required

Outputs

Name	Bind key	Logical dtype	Rank	Shape	Description	Presence
`Y`	`y`	`T`	same as `X`	same as `X`	Normalized output tensor of the same shape as `X`.	required

Attributes

Attributes and default values (overridable per request):

Attribute	Default	Description
`epsilon`	`0.00001`	Small value added to the variance denominator to avoid division by zero.
`stash_type`	`1`	TensorProto element type used for the normalization stage: `1` computes in float32, while `10` computes in float16. Normalized values are cast back to the input type before scale and bias are applied.
`num_groups`	—	Required number of groups to divide the channels into; must be a divisor of `C`.

Type constraints

Variable	Allowed dtypes
`T`	`float32`, `float16`

Files

metadata.json — kernel metadata (id, digests, provenance)
manifest.json — the op contract (source of truth)
test.json — correctness cases
bench.json — benchmark + tuning cases
group-normalization-splitk-apply.wgsl.jinja
group-normalization-splitk-partials.wgsl.jinja
group-normalization-stash-f16-serial.wgsl.jinja
norm-row-stats.wgsl.jinja

Use with `@huggingface/kernels`

The loader derives every required output's shape and logical dtype from the manifest contract and this call. It then allocates the result tensors automatically.

The version: 1 option selects the published kernel contract; it is independent of any operator opset, contrib since_version, or model version.

Replace each *Data placeholder with a typed array containing the corresponding input data.

import { getKernel } from "@huggingface/kernels";

const kernel = await getKernel("webgpu-kernels/ai.onnx.GroupNormalization", { version: 1 });
const { y } = await kernel({
  x: { data: xData, shape: [1, 2, 3] },
  scale: { data: scaleData, shape: [2] },
  bias: { data: biasData, shape: [2] },
}, {
  attrs: { num_groups: 1 },
});

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kernel

webgpu

wgsl

apache-2.0

WebGPU

Requires WebGPU support. See the compatibility table.