2020

GLU Variants Improve Transformer

Shazeer, Noam

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Gated Linear Units (arXiv:1612.08083) consist of the component-wise product of two linear projections, one of which is first passed through a sigmoid function.

  • Variations on GLU are possible, using different nonlinear (or even linear) functions in place of sigmoid.
  • We test these variants in the feed-forward sublayers of the Transformer (arXiv:1706.03762) sequence-to-sequence model, and find that some of them yield quality improvements over the typically-used ReLU or GELU activations.

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