lucky-verma/dyt-composition-artifacts

DyT Composition Study Artifacts

This dataset contains sanitized result manifests and analysis outputs for When Does Removing LayerNorm Help? Activation Bounding as a Regime-Dependent Implicit Regularizer.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.23434

Contents

The artifacts include aggregate training metrics, saturation measurements, statistical-test summaries, predictor-validation outputs, table-source manifests, and selected aggregate analysis files used by the public code repository.

The Dataset Viewer table is an index of the artifact files. The machine-readable result artifacts are stored under results/.

This is not a natural-language training dataset. It does not redistribute WikiText, OpenWebText, LAMBADA, BLIMP, model checkpoints, or raw training logs.

Intended Use

Use this artifact bundle to:

• inspect the machine-readable results behind the paper;
• reproduce paper tables and consistency checks;
• compare DyT, LayerNorm, RMSNorm, HardTanh, DiffAttn, and related controls at the reported scales;
• audit provenance for reported quantitative claims.

Limitations

• The experiments are compute-limited and below Chinchilla-optimal training.
• The included files are result artifacts, not full raw training traces or checkpoints.
• The saturation diagnostic should be treated as a per-deployment calibration cue, not a universal rule.
• Raw public datasets retain their original licenses and are not mirrored here.

Public Metadata

• PROVENANCE.json: source repository, paper identifiers, cleanup policy, and file-level hashes.
• SHA256SUMS.txt: checksums for payload files and the provenance manifest.
• metadata/validation_report.md: JSON parse, naming, forbidden-file, and leak-scan summary.
• data/artifact_index.jsonl: machine-readable index of the artifact files.

Licensing

The result artifacts in this dataset are released under CC BY 4.0.

The associated GitHub code is released under the MIT License.

Citation

@misc{verma2026dytcomposition,
  title        = {When Does Removing LayerNorm Help? Activation Bounding as a Regime-Dependent Implicit Regularizer},
  author       = {Verma, Lucky},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {arXiv},
  doi          = {10.48550/arXiv.2604.23434},
  url          = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23434},
  eprint       = {2604.23434},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.LG}
}