GLM-5

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Checkpoint configuration and implementation zai-org/GLM-5 @ c183ef8, huggingface/transformers @ 5e4d630 · parameter count checked against the checkpoint’s tensor headers · How to read

78 transformer blocks

Embedded state

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tensorhidden_states · 719

The residual stream entering the first block.

shape
x0x_0 [B batch, T positions, 6144 d]
Sources

Contextual evidence from Token embedding

The token embedding is a learned table of vocabulary × width rows, looked up by token ID.

embedding · huggingface/transformers / modeling_glm_moe_dsa.py
Pinned revision 5e4d6304de55 ↗ · lines 669–697

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        self.embed_tokens = nn.Embedding(config.vocab_size, config.hidden_size, self.padding_idx)

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        if inputs_embeds is None:
            inputs_embeds: torch.Tensor = self.embed_tokens(input_ids)

Contextual evidence from Token embedding

The released configuration: width, 78 layers of which 3 dense, 64 heads, 256 routed experts and one shared, routing (sigmoid scores, one expert group, top-8, route scale 2.5), MLA ranks and head widths, the indexer (32 heads of 128, top 2,048, interleaved RoPE), vocabulary, default RoPE with θ = 1,000,000, and one multi-token-prediction layer.

config · zai-org/GLM-5 / config.json
Pinned revision c183ef8c61fa ↗ · lines 1–59

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{
  "architectures": [
    "GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM"
  ],
  "attention_bias": false,
  "attention_dropout": 0.0,
  "dtype": "bfloat16",
  "eos_token_id": [
    154820,
    154827,
    154829
  ],
  "ep_size": 1,
  "first_k_dense_replace": 3,
  "hidden_act": "silu",
  "head_dim": 64,
  "hidden_size": 6144,
  "index_head_dim": 128,
  "index_n_heads": 32,
  "index_topk": 2048,
  "indexer_rope_interleave": true,
  "initializer_range": 0.02,
  "intermediate_size": 12288,
  "kv_lora_rank": 512,
  "max_position_embeddings": 202752,
  "moe_intermediate_size": 2048,
  "moe_layer_freq": 1,
  "model_type": "glm_moe_dsa",
  "n_group": 1,
  "n_routed_experts": 256,
  "n_shared_experts": 1,
  "norm_topk_prob": true,
  "num_attention_heads": 64,
  "num_experts_per_tok": 8,
  "num_hidden_layers": 78,
  "num_key_value_heads": 64,
  "num_nextn_predict_layers": 1,
  "pad_token_id": 154820,
  "pretraining_tp": 1,
  "q_lora_rank": 2048,
  "qk_head_dim": 256,
  "qk_nope_head_dim": 192,
  "qk_rope_head_dim": 64,
  "rms_norm_eps": 1e-05,
  "rope_interleave": true,
  "rope_parameters": {
    "rope_theta": 1000000,
    "rope_type": "default"
  },
  "routed_scaling_factor": 2.5,
  "scoring_func": "sigmoid",
  "tie_word_embeddings": false,
  "topk_group": 1,
  "topk_method": "noaux_tc",
  "transformers_version": "5.0.2.dev0",
  "use_cache": true,
  "v_head_dim": 256,
  "vocab_size": 154880
}

Contextual evidence from Dense transformer block

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