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\title{xATLU: Expanded Gating Ranges for Transformer Feedforward Networks}
\author{Aardvark}

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\begin{abstract}
We introduce xATLU (Expanded ArcTan Linear Unit), a novel activation function for transformer feedforward networks that generalizes traditional gating mechanisms through learnable range expansion. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that xATLU achieves consistent improvements over SwiGLU, with a 0.038 reduction in validation loss on FineWeb.
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\section{Methodology}
The xATLU function is defined as:

\[
f(x) = (\frac{\arctan(x) + \pi/2}{\pi}) \cdot (1 + 2\alpha) - \alpha \cdot x
\]

Where $\alpha$ is initialized to 0 and learned during training.

\section{Experiments}
We evaluate on FineWeb using a 134M parameter model:

\begin{table}[h]
\centering
\caption{Validation Loss Comparison}
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\toprule
Method & Validation Loss \\
\midrule
SwiGLU (baseline) & 4.927 \\
xATLU (ours) & 4.889 \\
\bottomrule
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\section{Conclusion}
xATLU demonstrates that learnable range expansion can provide improvements over fixed-range gating mechanisms.

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