Merge pull request #1089 from dhpollack/dhp/use_pytorch_layernorm

change layernorm code to pytorch's native layer norm

pytorch_transformers/modeling_bert.py

@@ -224,20 +224,7 @@ try:
     from apex.normalization.fused_layer_norm import FusedLayerNorm as BertLayerNorm
 except (ImportError, AttributeError) as e:
     logger.info("Better speed can be achieved with apex installed from https://www.github.com/nvidia/apex .")
-    class BertLayerNorm(nn.Module):
-        def __init__(self, hidden_size, eps=1e-12):
-            """Construct a layernorm module in the TF style (epsilon inside the square root).
-            """
-            super(BertLayerNorm, self).__init__()
-            self.weight = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(hidden_size))
-            self.bias = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(hidden_size))
-            self.variance_epsilon = eps
-
-        def forward(self, x):
-            u = x.mean(-1, keepdim=True)
-            s = (x - u).pow(2).mean(-1, keepdim=True)
-            x = (x - u) / torch.sqrt(s + self.variance_epsilon)
-            return self.weight * x + self.bias
+    BertLayerNorm = torch.nn.LayerNorm
 
 class BertEmbeddings(nn.Module):
     """Construct the embeddings from word, position and token_type embeddings.