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Indexer key

78 transformer blocks › 75 MoE blocks › Sparse latent attention › Lightning indexer › Indexer key

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tensorhidden_states

The normalized features entering attention.

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xx [B batch, T positions, 6144 d]
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Contextual evidence from Attention RMSNorm

RMSNorm owns one gain per feature; it normalizes in float32, casts back to the input precision and multiplies by the gain.

rmsnorm · huggingface/transformers / modeling_glm_moe_dsa.py
Pinned revision 5e4d6304de55 ↗ · lines 48–62

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class GlmMoeDsaRMSNorm(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, hidden_size, eps: float = 1e-6) -> None:
        """
        GlmMoeDsaRMSNorm is equivalent to T5LayerNorm
        """
        super().__init__()
        self.weight = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(hidden_size))
        self.variance_epsilon = eps

    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
        input_dtype = hidden_states.dtype
        hidden_states = hidden_states.to(torch.float32)
        variance = hidden_states.pow(2).mean(-1, keepdim=True)
        hidden_states = hidden_states * torch.rsqrt(variance + self.variance_epsilon)
        return self.weight * hidden_states.to(input_dtype)

Contextual evidence from Attention RMSNorm

A block applies input RMSNorm, attention and a residual addition, then post-attention RMSNorm, the feed-forward network and a second residual addition; the first first_k_dense_replace blocks use the dense MLP, the rest MoE.

block · huggingface/transformers / modeling_glm_moe_dsa.py
Pinned revision 5e4d6304de55 ↗ · lines 586–627

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class GlmMoeDsaDecoderLayer(GradientCheckpointingLayer):
    def __init__(self, config: GlmMoeDsaConfig, layer_idx: int):
        super().__init__()
        self.hidden_size = config.hidden_size
        self.self_attn = GlmMoeDsaAttention(config, layer_idx)

        self.mlp = GlmMoeDsaMoE(config) if config.mlp_layer_types[layer_idx] == "sparse" else GlmMoeDsaMLP(config)

        self.input_layernorm = GlmMoeDsaRMSNorm(config.hidden_size, config.rms_norm_eps)
        self.post_attention_layernorm = GlmMoeDsaRMSNorm(config.hidden_size, config.rms_norm_eps)

    def forward(
        self,
        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
        attention_mask: torch.Tensor | None = None,
        position_ids: torch.LongTensor | None = None,
        past_key_values: Cache | None = None,
        use_cache: bool | None = False,
        position_embeddings: tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor] | None = None,
        prev_topk_indices: torch.Tensor | None = None,  # MAIN DIFF with DSV3.2
        **kwargs: Unpack[TransformersKwargs],
    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor | None]:
        residual = hidden_states
        hidden_states = self.input_layernorm(hidden_states)
        # Self Attention
        hidden_states, _, topk_indices = self.self_attn(
            hidden_states=hidden_states,
            attention_mask=attention_mask,
            position_ids=position_ids,
            past_key_values=past_key_values,
            use_cache=use_cache,
            position_embeddings=position_embeddings,
            prev_topk_indices=prev_topk_indices,  # MAIN DIFF with DSV3.2
            **kwargs,
        )
        hidden_states = residual + hidden_states

        residual = hidden_states
        hidden_states = self.post_attention_layernorm(hidden_states)
        hidden_states = self.mlp(hidden_states)
        hidden_states = residual + hidden_states
        return hidden_states, topk_indices

Contextual evidence from Indexer key

The indexer owns a query projection from the query latent (32 heads × 128 features), one key projection from the block input followed by LayerNorm, and a head-weight projection; its score scale is 1/√128; the head-weight projection is kept in float32 when loading.

indexer-init · huggingface/transformers / modeling_glm_moe_dsa.py
Pinned revision 5e4d6304de55 ↗ · lines 177–649

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    def __init__(self, config: "GlmMoeDsaConfig", layer_idx: int):
        super().__init__()
        self.config = config
        self.layer_idx = layer_idx

        self.hidden_size: int = config.hidden_size
        self.n_heads: int = config.index_n_heads
        self.head_dim: int = config.index_head_dim
        self.qk_rope_head_dim: int = config.qk_rope_head_dim
        self.index_topk: int = config.index_topk
        self.q_lora_rank: int = config.q_lora_rank

        self.wq_b = nn.Linear(self.q_lora_rank, self.n_heads * self.head_dim, bias=False)
        self.wk = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size, self.head_dim, bias=False)
        self.k_norm = nn.LayerNorm(self.head_dim, eps=1e-6)
        self.weights_proj = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size, self.n_heads, bias=False)
        self.softmax_scale = self.head_dim**-0.5

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    _keep_in_fp32_modules = ["indexer.weights_proj"]

Contextual evidence from Indexer key

Indexer queries and the shared key rotate their first 64 features with interleaved RoPE; scores are the ReLU of scaled query–key products in float32, weighted per head by the head weights divided by √32 and summed; the causal mask is added and the top 2,048 positions are kept. There is no Hadamard transform, and it runs without gradients.

indexer-forward · huggingface/transformers / modeling_glm_moe_dsa.py
Pinned revision 5e4d6304de55 ↗ · lines 195–253

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    @torch.no_grad()
    def forward(
        self,
        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
        q_resid: torch.Tensor,
        position_embeddings: tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor],
        attention_mask: torch.Tensor,
        position_ids: torch.Tensor,  # Kept for BC
        past_key_values: Cache | None = None,
    ) -> torch.Tensor:
        """
        Selects the top-k tokens per query for DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA).

        Same as [`DeepseekV32Indexer.forward`], but the indexer applies **interleaved** RoPE
        rather than the non-interleaved half-split RoPE used by DeepSeek-V3.2.

        Args:
            hidden_states: Input hidden states `[B, S, hidden_size]`.
            q_resid: Query residual from `q_a_layernorm(q_a_proj(x))`, shape `[B, S, q_lora_rank]`.
            position_embeddings: `(cos, sin)` from RotaryEmbedding.
            attention_mask: Causal mask, broadcastable to `[B, S, T]`.
            past_key_values: Cache object containing the indexer key cache for this layer.

        Returns:
            `torch.Tensor`: the `int32` top-k token indices of shape `[B, S, topk]`. The eager / SDPA paths
                turn these into an additive sparse mask; the `flash-mla` kernel consumes them directly.
        """
        batch_size, seq_len, _ = hidden_states.shape
        cos, sin = position_embeddings
        q = self.wq_b(q_resid)  # [B, S, H*D]
        q = q.view(batch_size, seq_len, self.n_heads, self.head_dim)  # [B, S, H, D]
        q_rot, q_pass = torch.split(q, [self.qk_rope_head_dim, self.head_dim - self.qk_rope_head_dim], dim=-1)

        k = self.k_norm(self.wk(hidden_states)).unsqueeze(2)  # [B, S, 1, D]
        k_rot, k_pass = torch.split(k, [self.qk_rope_head_dim, self.head_dim - self.qk_rope_head_dim], dim=-1)

        # GLM-MoE-DSA uses interleaved RoPE in the indexer
        q_rot, k_rot = apply_rotary_pos_emb_interleave(q_rot, k_rot, cos, sin, unsqueeze_dim=2)
        q = torch.cat([q_rot, q_pass], dim=-1)  # [B, S, H, D]
        k = torch.cat([k_rot, k_pass], dim=-1).squeeze(2)  # [B, S, D]

        if past_key_values is not None:
            k = past_key_values.update_indexer(k, self.layer_idx)

        scores = torch.matmul(q.float(), k.transpose(-1, -2).float().unsqueeze(1)) * self.softmax_scale
        scores = F.relu(scores)

        # Weight per head and sum across heads: [B, S, 1, H] @ [B, S, H, T] → [B, S, T]
        weights = self.weights_proj(hidden_states.to(self.weights_proj.weight.dtype)).float() * (self.n_heads**-0.5)
        index_scores = torch.matmul(weights.unsqueeze(-2), scores).squeeze(-2)

        # Causality needs to be taken into account when computing scores so padding tokens don't affect computation
        if attention_mask.dtype == torch.bool:
            index_scores = index_scores.masked_fill(~attention_mask, float("-inf"))
        else:
            index_scores = index_scores + attention_mask

        topk = min(self.index_topk, index_scores.shape[-1])
        return index_scores.topk(topk, dim=-1).indices.to(torch.int32)  # [B, S, topk]