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Layer Normalization

A technique that normalizes activations across the features of each training example, rather than across the batch.

Definition

A technique that normalizes activations across the features of each training example, rather than across the batch. More stable than batch normalization for transformers and recurrent networks because it doesn't depend on batch size. Standard in modern transformer architectures.

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