Kimi K2 · SwiGLU MLP · OpenModelAtlas

in: $x_{\mathrm{ffn}}$ [B batch, T positions, 7168 d]
out: $\Delta_{\mathrm{ffn}}$ [B batch, T positions, 7168 d]
parameters: 396,361,728

Parameters

396,361,728 parameters per instance, across its learned components

Exact per-instance accounting
Component	Calculation	Parameters
Gate projection	$7{,}168 \times 18{,}432$	132,120,576
Up projection	$7{,}168 \times 18{,}432$	132,120,576
Down projection	$18{,}432 \times 7{,}168$	132,120,576
Per-instance total		396,361,728

Across 1 independent dense blocks: $396{,}361{,}728 \times 1 = 396{,}361{,}728$ parameters.

Derived from the pinned configuration and implementation, and equal to the count of the checkpoint’s tensors read from its safetensors headers (FP8 block scales and stored rotary buffers excluded).

In numbers

Weights · one MLP

Kimi K2 MLP · FP8378 MiB

GELU, same width · FP8252 MiB

3 × 7,168 × 18,432 = 396,361,728 parameters per MLP in FP8, block scales left out; × 1 dense block = 396,361,728.

A GELU MLP of the same width has two matrices, 264,241,152 parameters.

config.json 17–19 modeling_deepseek.py 374–390 config.json 64 config.json 38–46

Explanation

The first block uses this dense MLP; the other 60 replace it with the mixture of experts.

Codemodeling_deepseek.py 374–1218

modeling_deepseek.py 374–390

class DeepseekV3MLP(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, config, hidden_size=None, intermediate_size=None):
        super().__init__()
        self.config = config
        self.hidden_size = config.hidden_size if hidden_size is None else hidden_size
        self.intermediate_size = (
            config.intermediate_size if intermediate_size is None else intermediate_size
        )

        self.gate_proj = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size, self.intermediate_size, bias=False)
        self.up_proj = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size, self.intermediate_size, bias=False)
        self.down_proj = nn.Linear(self.intermediate_size, self.hidden_size, bias=False)
        self.act_fn = ACT2FN[config.hidden_act]

    def forward(self, x):
        down_proj = self.down_proj(self.act_fn(self.gate_proj(x)) * self.up_proj(x))
        return down_proj

modeling_deepseek.py 1152–1166

        self.mlp = (
            DeepseekV3MoE(config)
            if (
                config.n_routed_experts is not None
                and layer_idx >= config.first_k_dense_replace
                and layer_idx % config.moe_layer_freq == 0
            )
            else DeepseekV3MLP(config)
        )
        self.input_layernorm = DeepseekV3RMSNorm(
            config.hidden_size, eps=config.rms_norm_eps
        )
        self.post_attention_layernorm = DeepseekV3RMSNorm(
            config.hidden_size, eps=config.rms_norm_eps
        )

modeling_deepseek.py 1198–1218

        residual = hidden_states

        hidden_states = self.input_layernorm(hidden_states)

        # Self Attention
        hidden_states, self_attn_weights, present_key_value = self.self_attn(
            hidden_states=hidden_states,
            attention_mask=attention_mask,
            position_ids=position_ids,
            past_key_value=past_key_value,
            output_attentions=output_attentions,
            use_cache=use_cache,
            **kwargs,
        )
        hidden_states = residual + hidden_states

        # Fully Connected
        residual = hidden_states
        hidden_states = self.post_attention_layernorm(hidden_states)
        hidden_states = self.mlp(hidden_states)
        hidden_states = residual + hidden_states

Sources2

Direct evidence

The dense feed-forward network is a SwiGLU MLP: down(silu(gate x) ⊙ up x).

mlp · moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct / modeling_deepseek.py
Pinned revision fd1984e2b7a3 ↗ · lines 374–390

Read code excerpt

class DeepseekV3MLP(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, config, hidden_size=None, intermediate_size=None):
        super().__init__()
        self.config = config
        self.hidden_size = config.hidden_size if hidden_size is None else hidden_size
        self.intermediate_size = (
            config.intermediate_size if intermediate_size is None else intermediate_size
        )

        self.gate_proj = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size, self.intermediate_size, bias=False)
        self.up_proj = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size, self.intermediate_size, bias=False)
        self.down_proj = nn.Linear(self.intermediate_size, self.hidden_size, bias=False)
        self.act_fn = ACT2FN[config.hidden_act]

    def forward(self, x):
        down_proj = self.down_proj(self.act_fn(self.gate_proj(x)) * self.up_proj(x))
        return down_proj

Direct evidence

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

block · moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct / modeling_deepseek.py
Pinned revision fd1984e2b7a3 ↗ · lines 1152–1218

Read code excerpt

        self.mlp = (
            DeepseekV3MoE(config)
            if (
                config.n_routed_experts is not None
                and layer_idx >= config.first_k_dense_replace
                and layer_idx % config.moe_layer_freq == 0
            )
            else DeepseekV3MLP(config)
        )
        self.input_layernorm = DeepseekV3RMSNorm(
            config.hidden_size, eps=config.rms_norm_eps
        )
        self.post_attention_layernorm = DeepseekV3RMSNorm(
            config.hidden_size, eps=config.rms_norm_eps
        )

… lines 1167–1197 omitted …

        residual = hidden_states

        hidden_states = self.input_layernorm(hidden_states)

        # Self Attention
        hidden_states, self_attn_weights, present_key_value = self.self_attn(
            hidden_states=hidden_states,
            attention_mask=attention_mask,
            position_ids=position_ids,
            past_key_value=past_key_value,
            output_attentions=output_attentions,
            use_cache=use_cache,
            **kwargs,
        )
        hidden_states = residual + hidden_states

        # Fully Connected
        residual = hidden_states
        hidden_states = self.post_attention_layernorm(hidden_states)
        hidden_states = self.mlp(hidden_states)
        hidden_states = residual + hidden_states