GLM-5

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Z.ai · Feb 2026
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Latent attention and experts
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zai‑org/GLM‑5 @ c183ef8, huggingface/transformers @ 5e4d630 · parameter count checked against the checkpoint’s tensor headersHow to read

Routed expert

78 transformer blocks › 75 MoE blocks › Mixture of experts › 256 routed experts

Activated gate

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tensorself.act_fn(gate)

The SiLU-activated gate features.

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aa [B batch, T positions, 2048 expert d_ff]
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Contextual evidence from SiLU

The implementation holds the routed experts as stacked tensors, the gate and up projections fused into one; each expert is a SwiGLU of moe_intermediate_size hidden features applied to the tokens routed to it and weighted by its routing weight.

expert · huggingface/transformers / modeling_glm_moe_dsa.py
Pinned revision 5e4d6304de55 ↗ · lines 522–559

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@use_experts_implementation
class GlmMoeDsaExperts(nn.Module):
    """Collection of expert weights stored as 3D tensors."""

    def __init__(self, config):
        super().__init__()
        self.num_experts = config.num_local_experts
        self.hidden_dim = config.hidden_size
        self.intermediate_dim = config.moe_intermediate_size
        self.gate_up_proj = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(self.num_experts, 2 * self.intermediate_dim, self.hidden_dim))
        self.down_proj = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(self.num_experts, self.hidden_dim, self.intermediate_dim))
        self.act_fn = ACT2FN[config.hidden_act]

    def forward(
        self,
        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
        top_k_index: torch.Tensor,
        top_k_weights: torch.Tensor,
    ) -> torch.Tensor:
        final_hidden_states = torch.zeros_like(hidden_states)
        with torch.no_grad():
            expert_mask = torch.nn.functional.one_hot(top_k_index, num_classes=self.num_experts + 1)
            expert_mask = expert_mask.permute(2, 1, 0)
            expert_hit = torch.greater(expert_mask.sum(dim=(-1, -2)), 0).nonzero()

        for expert_idx in expert_hit:
            expert_idx = expert_idx[0]
            if expert_idx == self.num_experts:
                continue
            top_k_pos, token_idx = torch.where(expert_mask[expert_idx])
            current_state = hidden_states[token_idx]
            gate, up = nn.functional.linear(current_state, self.gate_up_proj[expert_idx]).chunk(2, dim=-1)
            current_hidden_states = self.act_fn(gate) * up
            current_hidden_states = nn.functional.linear(current_hidden_states, self.down_proj[expert_idx])
            current_hidden_states = current_hidden_states * top_k_weights[token_idx, top_k_pos, None]
            final_hidden_states.index_add_(0, token_idx, current_hidden_states.to(final_hidden_states.dtype))

        return final_hidden_states