The paper proves negative weight drift at initialization under MSE or cross-entropy with asymmetric activations, links it to up to 90% sparsity in GPT-nano, maps the sparsity-accuracy cliff across 79 configurations, and shows clipped ReLU² and GELU² improve validation loss.
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The paper proves negative weight drift at initialization under MSE or cross-entropy with asymmetric activations, links it to up to 90% sparsity in GPT-nano, maps the sparsity-accuracy cliff across 79 configurations, and shows clipped ReLU² and GELU² improve validation loss.
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RankElastor mitigates embedding collapse via spectrum-robust token mixing and GLU-based P-FFNs, yielding better performance and scaling on industrial recommendation datasets.