AI Glossary

RMS normalization

Also called RMSNorm

What does “RMS normalization” mean?

RMS normalization: Scaling activations using their root mean square without subtracting their mean.

RMS normalization visual guide: Scaling activations using their root mean square without subtracting their mean.
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What is an example of “RMS normalization”?

A language model stabilizes each token representation with RMSNorm.