Llama 3.1 8B · Block input

32 independent transformer blocks

Block input

tensorx

The residual features entering this block.

shape: $x_n$ [B batch, T positions, 4096 d]

Codemodel.py 236–302

        self.attention_norm = RMSNorm(args.dim, eps=args.norm_eps)
        self.ffn_norm = RMSNorm(args.dim, eps=args.norm_eps)

    def forward(
        self,
        x: torch.Tensor,
        start_pos: int,
        freqs_cis: torch.Tensor,
        mask: Optional[torch.Tensor],
    ):
        h = x + self.attention(self.attention_norm(x), start_pos, freqs_cis, mask)
        out = h + self.feed_forward(self.ffn_norm(h))
        return out

model.py 258–269

        self.tok_embeddings = VocabParallelEmbedding(
            params.vocab_size, params.dim, init_method=lambda x: x
        )

        self.layers = torch.nn.ModuleList()
        for layer_id in range(params.n_layers):
            self.layers.append(TransformerBlock(layer_id, params))

        self.norm = RMSNorm(params.dim, eps=params.norm_eps)
        self.output = ColumnParallelLinear(
            params.dim, params.vocab_size, bias=False, init_method=lambda x: x
        )

model.py 298–302

        for layer in self.layers:
            h = layer(h, start_pos, freqs_cis, mask)
        h = self.norm(h)
        output = self.output(h).float()
        return output

Sources2

Contextual evidence

Two independently normalized mechanism branches are added to their corresponding residual inputs.

block-residuals · meta-llama/llama3 / llama/model.py
Pinned revision a0940f9cf706 ↗ · lines 236–248

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        self.attention_norm = RMSNorm(args.dim, eps=args.norm_eps)
        self.ffn_norm = RMSNorm(args.dim, eps=args.norm_eps)

    def forward(
        self,
        x: torch.Tensor,
        start_pos: int,
        freqs_cis: torch.Tensor,
        mask: Optional[torch.Tensor],
    ):
        h = x + self.attention(self.attention_norm(x), start_pos, freqs_cis, mask)
        out = h + self.feed_forward(self.ffn_norm(h))
        return out

Contextual evidence

Embedding and output projection are separate parameter owners; blocks are independently constructed; final RMSNorm precedes vocabulary logits.

model · meta-llama/llama3 / llama/model.py
Pinned revision a0940f9cf706 ↗ · lines 258–302

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        self.tok_embeddings = VocabParallelEmbedding(
            params.vocab_size, params.dim, init_method=lambda x: x
        )

        self.layers = torch.nn.ModuleList()
        for layer_id in range(params.n_layers):
            self.layers.append(TransformerBlock(layer_id, params))

        self.norm = RMSNorm(params.dim, eps=params.norm_eps)
        self.output = ColumnParallelLinear(
            params.dim, params.vocab_size, bias=False, init_method=lambda x: x
        )

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        for layer in self.layers:
            h = layer(h, start_pos, freqs_cis, mask)
        h = self.norm(h)
        output = self.output(h).float()
        return output