[flax] Add QK-normalization to MultiHeadDotProductAttention

PiperOrigin-RevId: 554507242

flax/linen/attention.py

@@ -15,23 +15,25 @@
 """Attention core modules for Flax."""
 
 import functools
-from typing import (Any, Callable, Optional, Tuple)
-from flax.linen.dtypes import promote_dtype
+from typing import Any, Callable, Optional, Tuple
 
 from flax.linen import initializers
+from flax.linen.dtypes import promote_dtype
 from flax.linen.linear import default_kernel_init
 from flax.linen.linear import DenseGeneral
 from flax.linen.linear import DotGeneralT
 from flax.linen.linear import PrecisionLike
 from flax.linen.module import compact
 from flax.linen.module import merge_param
 from flax.linen.module import Module
+from flax.linen.normalization import LayerNorm
 
 import jax
 from jax import lax
 from jax import random
 import jax.numpy as jnp
 
+
 PRNGKey = Any
 Shape = Tuple[int, ...]
 Dtype = Any
@@ -225,6 +227,7 @@ class MultiHeadDotProductAttention(Module):
       key, value, and returns output of shape `[bs, dim1, dim2, ..., dimN,,
       num_heads, value_channels]``
     decode: whether to prepare and use an autoregressive cache.
+    normalize_qk: should QK normalization be applied (arxiv.org/abs/2302.05442).
   """
 
   num_heads: int
@@ -243,6 +246,7 @@ class MultiHeadDotProductAttention(Module):
   use_bias: bool = True
   attention_fn: Callable[..., Array] = dot_product_attention
   decode: bool = False
+  normalize_qk: bool = False
   qkv_dot_general: DotGeneralT = lax.dot_general
   out_dot_general: DotGeneralT = lax.dot_general
 
@@ -303,6 +307,12 @@ def __call__(
         dense(name='value')(inputs_kv),
     )
 
+    if self.normalize_qk:
+      # Normalizing query and key projections stabilizes training with higher
+      # LR. See ViT-22B paper http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05442 for analysis.
+      query = LayerNorm(name='query_ln', use_bias=False)(query)
+      key = LayerNorm(name='key_ln', use_bias=False)(key)
+
     # During fast autoregressive decoding, we feed one position at a time,
     # and cache the keys and values step by step.
     if self.decode: