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Enjoy Your Layer Normalization with the Computational Efficiency of RMSNorm

Jie Luo, Lei Huang, Wenjun Wu, Yihao Yue, Yizhou Ruan, Yunhao Ni, Yuxin Guo

Many layer normalizations in standard networks can be folded exactly into upstream layers, allowing precise replacement by faster RMSNorm at inference time with no change in predictions.

arxiv:2605.14521 v1 · 2026-05-14 · cs.LG

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Our analysis shows that many LNs in widely used architectures are foldable, enabling exact inference-time conversion and end-to-end acceleration of 2% to 12% without changing model predictions.

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That the column-centered constraint and column-based weight centering can be enforced on upstream linear layers without changing the overall model function or requiring major retraining adjustments.

C3one line summary

A framework to identify and convert foldable layer normalizations to RMSNorm for exact equivalence and faster inference in deep neural networks.

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[1] ICML , year =

[2] Contrastive multiview coding 1906

[3] Chun-Hsiao Yeh, Yubei Chen , howpublished=

[4] Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) , year=

[5] Layer Normalization , author=. 2016 , eprint= 2016

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arxiv: 2605.14521 · arxiv_version: 2605.14521v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.14521 · pith_short_12: 5QE347C6EUIT · pith_short_16: 5QE347C6EUITKRJ3 · pith_short_8: 5QE347C6

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