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 library_name: transformers
+license: other
+license_name: "openai-gpt2-license"
+license_link: "https://github.com/openai/gpt-2/blob/master/LICENSE"
+base_model:
+- openai-community/gpt2-large
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+# Model Card for `schaeff/gpt2-large_LNFree600`
+Associated publication: *Transformers Don’t Need LayerNorm at Inference Time: Scaling LayerNorm Removal to GPT-2 XL and the Implications for Mechanistic Interpretability* (arXiv TBD)
+Associated GitHub: [removing-layer-norm](https://github.com/submarat/removing-layer-norm)
+This model is based on *openai-community/gpt2-large* and was finetuned on OpenWebText for 600 iterations with 0.5M tokens per iteration. During the finetuning, LayerNorm modules were sequentially disabled. More details on the disabling procedure can be found in the associated publication.
+## Usage
+This model uses the standard `GPT2LMHeadModel` architecture to avoid requiring `trust_remote_code=True`. While LayerNorm blocks are technically present, they have been effectively disabled through parameter manipulation.
+**How LayerNorm is disabled:**
+- **Epsilon values**: Set to 1e12 (extremely large), so LayerNorm has no normalizing effect
+- **Scale parameters**: Set to 1e6 to counteract the large epsilon value
+This approach maintains compatibility with the standard GPT-2 architecture while effectively creating a LayerNorm-free model.
+**Complete LayerNorm removal:**
+If you want to fully remove LayerNorm operations, you can replace `ln_1`, `ln_2` and `ln_f` modules with identity functions.
+Loading instructions:
+You can load the model with `transformers`:
+```python
+model = GPT2LMHeadModel.from_pretrained("schaeff/gpt2-large_LNFree600")
+```
+The LayerNorm module inside transformers will not affect the model due to the parameter manipulation. Howevr, this is a bit hacky and we recommend properly the replacing LayerNorm modules with the identity in either TransformerLens or NNSight.
+### TransformerLens and NNSight loading code
+```python
+import torch
+from transformers import GPT2LMHeadModel
+from transformer_lens import HookedTransformer
+model = GPT2LMHeadModel.from_pretrained("schaeff/gpt2-large_LNFree600").to("cpu")
+# Undo hacky LayerNorm removal
+for block in model.transformer.h:
+    block.ln_1.weight.data = block.ln_1.weight.data / 1e6
+    block.ln_1.eps = 1e-5
+    block.ln_2.weight.data = block.ln_2.weight.data / 1e6
+    block.ln_2.eps = 1e-5
+model.transformer.ln_f.weight.data = model.transformer.ln_f.weight.data / 1e6
+model.transformer.ln_f.eps = 1e-5
+# Properly replace LayerNorms by Identities
+def removeLN(transformer_lens_model):
+    for i in range(len(transformer_lens_model.blocks)):
+        transformer_lens_model.blocks[i].ln1 = torch.nn.Identity()
+        transformer_lens_model.blocks[i].ln2 = torch.nn.Identity()
+    transformer_lens_model.ln_final = torch.nn.Identity()
+# transformer_lens
+hooked_model = HookedTransformer.from_pretrained("gpt2", hf_model=model, fold_ln=True, center_unembed=False).to("cpu")
+removeLN(hooked_model)
+# NNSight:
+from nnsight.models.UnifiedTransformer import UnifiedTransformer
+model_nnsight = UnifiedTransformer(model="gpt2", hf_model=model, fold_ln=True, center_unembed=False).to("cpu")
+removeLN(model_nnsight)
+```
+This example code is based on [Logan Riggs' comment](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/THzcKKQd4oWkg4dSP/you-can-remove-gpt2-s-layernorm-by-fine-tuning-for-an-hour?commentId=Gcq8wic9WmdnqM2Fm).
+We recommend to look at [removing-layer-norm](https://github.com/submarat/removing-layer-norm) for seeing the entire workflow of removal, upload, and loading LN free models. In particular, the function `remove_layernorm` in `utils.py` for details on the parameter hack and `eval.py` for loading.
+## Model Collection
+This model is part of a collection of LayerNorm-free models. The table below provides links and details.
+### Evaluation results of LN-free, vanilla fine-tuned, and original GPT-2 models
+*Reported values are mean cross-entropy losses for 10.2M tokens for The Pile and The Pile filtered and 4.5M tokens for the OpenWebText (WT) validation set. For each model size and dataset, the lowest loss is highlighted in **bold**, and the loss difference between the LN-free model and the best-performing model is shown in brackets.*
+| Model | FT steps | [OWT (val)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Skylion007/openwebtext) | [The Pile](https://huggingface.co/datasets/apollo-research/monology-pile-uncopyrighted-tokenizer-gpt2) | [The Pile-filtered](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lucabaroni/apollo-pile-filtered-10k) |
+|-------|----------|-----------|----------|-------------------|
+| OpenAI [GPT-2 Small original](https://huggingface.co/openai-community/gpt2)  | 0 | 3.1006 | **2.8450** | **2.7899** |
+| schaeff [GPT-2 Small vanilla](https://huggingface.co/schaeff/gpt2-small_vanilla300)  | 300 | **3.0126** | 2.8511 | 2.8112 |
+| schaeff [GPT-2 Small LN-free](https://huggingface.co/schaeff/gpt2-small_LNFree300)  | 300 | 3.0797 [+0.0671] | 2.8852 [+0.0402] | 2.8757 [+0.0858] |
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+| OpenAI [GPT-2 Medium original](https://huggingface.co/openai-community/gpt2-medium)  | 0 | 2.8145 | **2.5163** | **2.5390** |
+| schaeff [GPT-2 Medium vanilla](https://huggingface.co/schaeff/gpt2-medium_vanilla500)  | 500 | **2.7390** | 2.5752 | 2.5724 |
+| schaeff [GPT-2 Medium LN-free](https://huggingface.co/schaeff/gpt2-medium_LNFree500)  | 500 | 2.7642 [+0.0252] | 2.6579 [+0.1416] | 2.6352 [+0.0962] |
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+| OpenAI [GPT-2 Large original](https://huggingface.co/openai-community/gpt2-large)  | 0 | 2.6623 | **2.5320** | **2.4347** |
+| schaeff [GPT-2 Large vanilla](https://huggingface.co/schaeff/gpt2-large_vanilla600)  | 600 | **2.6240** | 2.6233 | 2.5074 |
+| schaeff [GPT-2 Large LN-free](https://huggingface.co/schaeff/gpt2-large_LNFree600)  | 600 | 2.6384 [+0.0144] | 2.7504 [+0.2184] | 2.5159 [+0.0812] |
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+| OpenAI [GPT-2 XL original](https://huggingface.co/openai-community/gpt2-xl)  | 0 | 2.5567 | **2.4436**¹ | **2.3739** |
+| schaeff [GPT-2 XL vanilla](https://huggingface.co/schaeff/gpt2-xl_vanilla800)  | 800 | **2.4799** | 2.4673 | 2.3821 |
+| schaeff [GPT-2 XL LN-free](https://huggingface.co/schaeff/gpt2-xl_LNFree800)  | 800 | 2.5052 [+0.0253] | 130.2197² | 2.3992 [+0.0253] |
+#### **Footnotes:**
+1. GPT-2 XL original: Median: 1.0103, 95 Percentile Range: [0.0005, 10.6193], 99.9% Percentile Range [≈0.0000, 43.0064]
+2. GPT-2 XL LN-free: Median: 1.0937, 95 Percentile Range: [0.0004, 10.7548], 99.9% Percentile Range [≈0.0000, 48.6459]
+## Citation
+Title: *Transformers Don’t Need LayerNorm at Inference Time: Scaling LayerNorm Removal to GPT-2 XL and the Implications for Mechanistic Interpretability*
 **BibTeX:**
+[TBD]