Tag: LLM stability
Transformer Pre-Norm vs Post-Norm Architectures: Which One Powers Modern LLMs?
Pre-Norm and Post-Norm are two ways to structure layer normalization in Transformers. Pre-Norm powers most modern LLMs because it trains stably at 100+ layers. Post-Norm works for small models but fails at scale.
- Oct 20, 2025
- Collin Pace
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