GraniteMoeHybridForCausalLM
GraniteMoeHybridForCausalLM at 28 layers and hidden size 1024. 2 published checkpoints share this shape.
Layer map
One character per layer, input on the left, read from the published configuration.
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| layer kind | count | |
|---|---|---|
| A | attention | 28 |
Implementing it
How to read this sheet: method.
Generated from granite-4.0-350m, which covers all 2 checkpoints of this shape — they agree on every field below.
# The config also carries `mamba_*` keys (d_state 256, 128 heads,
# 1 group, conv width 4, chunk 256). `layer_types` lists
# every layer as attention and transformers picks each layer's
# mixer from that list alone, so the keys build nothing here.
x = embed[ids] * 12 # [T, 1024] <- embedding_multiplier
for i in 0 .. 27:
h = rmsnorm(x, layers[i].input_layernorm, eps=1e-05)
q = h @ layers[i].self_attn.q_proj.T # [T, 16*64]
k = h @ layers[i].self_attn.k_proj.T # [T, 4*64]
v = h @ layers[i].self_attn.v_proj.T # [T, 4*64]
q, k = rope(q, k, theta=10000000)
k, v = repeat_kv(k, v, 4) # 16 query heads share 4 key/value heads
a = softmax(q @ k.T * 0.015625, mask=causal) @ v # <- attention_multiplier
a = a @ layers[i].self_attn.o_proj.T
x = x + a * 0.263 # <- residual_multiplier
h = rmsnorm(x, layers[i].post_attention_layernorm)
g, u = split(h @ layers[i].shared_mlp.input_linear.T, 2) # [T, 2048] each
y = (silu(g) * u) @ layers[i].shared_mlp.output_linear.T
x = x + y * 0.263
x = rmsnorm(x, model.norm)
logits = (x @ embed.T) / 4 # tied to the input embedding; <- logits_scaling
head_dim is not published; 1024 / 16 = 64 is used.
Layer kinds. transformers builds each layer's mixer from layer_types alone (L1125–L1128), so with every entry attention the mamba_* keys build nothing. Without layer_types it would make every layer state-space (configuration_granitemoehybrid.py L252–L253).
Multiplier placement: embedding, attention scale, residual, logits.
num_local_experts: 0: transformers builds no block_sparse_moe for such a layer (L1116–L1117) and the feed-forward is shared_mlp alone (L1202–L1207).
Geometry
| layers | 28 |
| hidden size | 1,024 |
| attention heads | 16, 4 key/value |
| feed-forward width | 2,048 |
| vocabulary | 100,352 |
| trained context | 32,768 tokens |
| largest checkpoint | 352.4M |
Weight structure
The tensors one element of the repeating stack holds, by the names the published checkpoint uses.
| repeating stack | depth | what one element holds |
|---|---|---|
model.layers.# | 28 | input_layernorm.weight, post_attention_layernorm.weight, self_attn.k_proj.weight, self_attn.o_proj.weight, self_attn.q_proj.weight, self_attn.v_proj.weight, shared_mlp.input_linear.weight, shared_mlp.output_linear.weight |
Other shapes of GraniteMoeHybridForCausalLM
Only the columns that differ are shown; a cell with several values means the checkpoints of that shape disagree.
| shape | layers | width | stack | heads | KV heads | FFN width | experts | active | vocabulary | context | checkpoints |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
40L x 4,096 | 40 | 4,096 | 36 state space + 4 attention | 32 | 8 | 768 | 72 | 10 | 100,352 | 131,072 | 2 |
40L x 2,560 | 40 | 2,560 | attention | 40 | 8 | 8,192 | — | — | 100,352 | 131,072 | 3 |
40L x 2,048 | 40 | 2,048 | attention | 16 | 4 | 4,096 | — | — | 100,352 | 131,072 | 2 |
40L x 2,048 | 40 | 2,048 | 36 state space + 4 attention | 32 | 8 | 8,192 | — | — | 100,352 | 131,072 | 2 |
40L x 1,536 | 40 | 1,536 | 36 state space + 4 attention | 12 | 4 | 512 / 4,096 | — / 62 / 64 | — / 6 | 49,160 / 50,304 / 100,352 | 131,072 | 6 |
32L x 768 | 32 | 768 | 28 state space + 4 attention | 12 | 4 | 2,048 | — | — | 100,352 | 32,768 | 2 |
28L x 1,024 (this sheet) | 28 | 1,024 | attention | 16 | 4 | 2,048 | — | — | 100,352 | 32,768 | 2 |
How this was checked
Status and evidence grade in the assessment (see what the grades mean):
- each of the 2 checkpoints of this shape: runs,
shape-parity— a stored checkpoint of the same shape was compared against a reference
Parts of the author's unpublished implementation that exist for this shape:
- a decoder implemented from the published configuration
- a state-space mixer implemented from the published configuration
- a checkpoint loader, which is where published tensor names are read
- an independent reference implementation of this architecture in Python, driving the published modelling code — an executable statement of what the model should compute, written against the publication rather than against any one implementation of it
Checkpoints with this architecture
| model | parameters | context |
|---|---|---|
granite-4.0-350m | 352.4M | 32,768 |
granite-4.0-350m-base | 352.4M | 32,768 |
Recorded pass: passes.