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Transformer Block Sub-Layers
The primary structure of a Transformer model consists of a stack of Transformer blocks, also referred to as layers. Each individual block is constructed with two stacked sub-layers: one dedicated to self-attention modeling and another for Feed-Forward Network (FFN) modeling. The internal structure of these sub-layers can be implemented using different normalization designs, such as the pre-norm architecture or the post-norm architecture, which is defined mathematically as .
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