SwiGLU MLP

Checkpoint configuration and implementation moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct @ fd1984e · parameter count checked against the checkpoint’s tensor headers · How to read

61 transformer blocks › 1 dense block › SwiGLU

Gated features

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tensorself.act_fn(self.gate_proj(x)) * self.up_proj(x)

The gated features supplied to the down projection.

shape
hh [B batch, T positions, 18432 d_ff]
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Contextual evidence from Element-wise product

The dense feed-forward network is a SwiGLU MLP: down(silu(gate x) ⊙ up x).

mlp · moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct / modeling_deepseek.py
Pinned revision fd1984e2b7a3 ↗ · lines 374–390

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class DeepseekV3MLP(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, config, hidden_size=None, intermediate_size=None):
        super().__init__()
        self.config = config
        self.hidden_size = config.hidden_size if hidden_size is None else hidden_size
        self.intermediate_size = (
            config.intermediate_size if intermediate_size is None else intermediate_size
        )

        self.gate_proj = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size, self.intermediate_size, bias=False)
        self.up_proj = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size, self.intermediate_size, bias=False)
        self.down_proj = nn.Linear(self.intermediate_size, self.hidden_size, bias=False)
        self.act_fn = ACT2FN[config.hidden_act]

    def forward(self, x):
        down_proj = self.down_proj(self.act_fn(self.gate_proj(x)) * self.up_proj(x))
        return down_proj

Contextual evidence from Down projection

Weights are stored in FP8 (e4m3) with one scale per 128 × 128 block; the scales are quantization metadata and are excluded from parameter counts.

linear · moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct / config.json
Pinned revision fd1984e2b7a3 ↗ · lines 38–46

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  "quantization_config": {
    "activation_scheme": "dynamic",
    "fmt": "e4m3",
    "quant_method": "fp8",
    "weight_block_size": [
      128,
      128
    ]
  },