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PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs

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Observation 5b42babe-5cbf-4f82-8751-6714677a9493 · outbound

This paper cites gpt-oss-120b & gpt-oss-20b Model Card.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs gpt-oss-120b & gpt-oss-20b Model Card

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This paper cites Faster and Lighter LLMs: A Survey on Current Challenges and Way Forward.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs Faster and Lighter LLMs: A Survey on Current Challenges and Way Forward

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This paper cites Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code

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This paper cites Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Challenge.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Challenge

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This paper cites Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems

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Observation e7f7d895-ffaf-4283-a7d4-a227224789cc · outbound

This paper cites The Llama 3 Herd of Models.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs The Llama 3 Herd of Models

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This paper cites Low-Precision Training of Large Language Models: Methods, Challenges, and Opportunities.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs Low-Precision Training of Large Language Models: Methods, Challenges, and Opportunities

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This paper cites Gaussian Error Linear Units (GELUs).

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs Gaussian Error Linear Units (GELUs)

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This paper cites Measuring Mathematical Problem Solving With the MATH Dataset.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs Measuring Mathematical Problem Solving With the MATH Dataset

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Observation 5004ce4c-b045-4b48-bbd4-71c1b3c0c864 · outbound

This paper cites Three Decades of Activations: A Comprehensive Survey of 400 Activation Functions for Neural Networks.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs Three Decades of Activations: A Comprehensive Survey of 400 Activation Functions for Neural Networks

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This paper cites To FP8 and Back Again: Quantifying Reduced Precision Effects on LLM Training Stability.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs To FP8 and Back Again: Quantifying Reduced Precision Effects on LLM Training Stability

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This paper cites CMMLU: Measuring massive multitask language understanding in Chinese.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs CMMLU: Measuring massive multitask language understanding in Chinese

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This paper cites Large Language Models: A Survey.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs Large Language Models: A Survey

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This paper cites ReLU Strikes Back: Exploiting Activation Sparsity in Large Language Models.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs ReLU Strikes Back: Exploiting Activation Sparsity in Large Language Models

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This paper cites A Theory on Adam Instability in Large-Scale Machine Learning.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs A Theory on Adam Instability in Large-Scale Machine Learning

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This paper cites Searching for Activation Functions.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs Searching for Activation Functions

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This paper cites GLU Variants Improve Transformer.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs GLU Variants Improve Transformer

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This paper cites OpenAI GPT-5 System Card.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs OpenAI GPT-5 System Card

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This paper cites Challenging big-bench tasks and whether chain-of-thought can solve them.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs Challenging big-bench tasks and whether chain-of-thought can solve them

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This paper cites Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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This paper cites Attention Residuals.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs Attention Residuals

Reference 21

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This paper cites Every activa- tion boosted: Scaling general reasoner to 1 trillion open language foundation.arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.22115.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs Every activa- tion boosted: Scaling general reasoner to 1 trillion open language foundation.arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.22115

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This paper cites CMATH: Can Your Language Model Pass Chinese Elementary School Math Test?.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs CMATH: Can Your Language Model Pass Chinese Elementary School Math Test?

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This paper cites Qwen3 Technical Report.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs Qwen3 Technical Report

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This paper cites Wanjun Zhong, Ruixiang Cui, Yiduo Guo, Yaobo Liang, Shuai Lu, Yanlin Wang, Amin Saied, Weizhu Chen, and Nan Duan.

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs Wanjun Zhong, Ruixiang Cui, Yiduo Guo, Yaobo Liang, Shuai Lu, Yanlin Wang, Amin Saied, Weizhu Chen, and Nan Duan

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This paper cites The sigmoid function is non-linear (Ramapuram et al., 2025).

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs The sigmoid function is non-linear (Ramapuram et al., 2025)

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Observation 2e625571-b393-4467-a913-a10ad4133e08 · inbound

Is SwiGLU's Open Positive Tail Necessary? Evidence from Closed-Tail Gating with MemGLU cites this paper.

Is SwiGLU's Open Positive Tail Necessary? Evidence from Closed-Tail Gating with MemGLU PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs

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