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by gricardo99 457 days ago
from the abstract

  By incorporating DyT, Transformers without normalization can match or exceed the performance of their normalized counterparts, mostly without hyperparameter tuning.
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Sure, but why would one prefer tanh instead of normalization layers if they have the same accuracy?

I suppose normalization kernels have reductions in them, but how hard are reductions in 2025?