diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/bert.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/bert.rs
index aca520da..d6826a16 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/bert.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/bert.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use super::with_tracing::{linear, Linear};
+use super::with_tracing::{layer_norm, linear, LayerNorm, Linear};
 use candle::{DType, Device, Result, Tensor};
 use candle_nn::{Embedding, Module, VarBuilder};
 use serde::Deserialize;
@@ -33,47 +33,6 @@ impl HiddenActLayer {
     }
 }
 
-#[derive(Debug)]
-pub struct LayerNorm {
-    weight: Tensor,
-    bias: Tensor,
-    eps: f64,
-    span: tracing::Span,
-}
-
-impl LayerNorm {
-    pub fn new(weight: Tensor, bias: Tensor, eps: f64) -> Self {
-        let span = tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "layer-norm");
-        Self {
-            weight,
-            bias,
-            eps,
-            span,
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl Module for LayerNorm {
-    fn forward(&self, x: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
-        let _enter = self.span.enter();
-        let x_dtype = x.dtype();
-        let internal_dtype = match x_dtype {
-            DType::F16 | DType::BF16 => DType::F32,
-            d => d,
-        };
-        let (_bsize, _seq_len, hidden_size) = x.dims3()?;
-        let x = x.to_dtype(internal_dtype)?;
-        let mean_x = (x.sum_keepdim(2)? / hidden_size as f64)?;
-        let x = x.broadcast_sub(&mean_x)?;
-        let norm_x = (x.sqr()?.sum_keepdim(2)? / hidden_size as f64)?;
-        let x_normed = x.broadcast_div(&(norm_x + self.eps)?.sqrt()?)?;
-        let x = x_normed
-            .to_dtype(x_dtype)?
-            .broadcast_mul(&self.weight)?
-            .broadcast_add(&self.bias)?;
-        Ok(x)
-    }
-}
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Default)]
 #[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]
 enum PositionEmbeddingType {
@@ -174,20 +133,6 @@ impl Module for Dropout {
     }
 }
 
-fn layer_norm(size: usize, eps: f64, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<LayerNorm> {
-    let (weight, bias) = match (vb.get(size, "weight"), vb.get(size, "bias")) {
-        (Ok(weight), Ok(bias)) => (weight, bias),
-        (Err(err), _) | (_, Err(err)) => {
-            if let (Ok(weight), Ok(bias)) = (vb.get(size, "gamma"), vb.get(size, "beta")) {
-                (weight, bias)
-            } else {
-                return Err(err);
-            }
-        }
-    };
-    Ok(LayerNorm::new(weight, bias, eps))
-}
-
 // https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/6eedfa6dd15dc1e22a55ae036f681914e5a0d9a1/src/transformers/models/bert/modeling_bert.py#L180
 struct BertEmbeddings {
     word_embeddings: Embedding,
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/with_tracing.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/with_tracing.rs
index a657011c..53e21551 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/with_tracing.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/with_tracing.rs
@@ -124,3 +124,34 @@ impl std::fmt::Debug for QMatMul {
         write!(f, "QMatMul")
     }
 }
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+pub struct LayerNorm {
+    inner: candle_nn::LayerNorm,
+    span: tracing::Span,
+}
+
+impl LayerNorm {
+    pub fn new(weight: Tensor, bias: Tensor, eps: f64) -> Self {
+        let inner = candle_nn::LayerNorm::new(weight, bias, eps);
+        let span = tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "layer-norm");
+        Self { inner, span }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Module for LayerNorm {
+    fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let _enter = self.span.enter();
+        self.inner.forward(xs)
+    }
+}
+
+pub fn layer_norm<C: Into<candle_nn::LayerNormConfig>>(
+    size: usize,
+    c: C,
+    vb: VarBuilder,
+) -> Result<LayerNorm> {
+    let inner = candle_nn::layer_norm(size, c, vb)?;
+    let span = tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "layer-norm");
+    Ok(LayerNorm { inner, span })
+}