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Gated Attention for Large Language Models: Non-linearity, Sparsity, and Attention-Sink-Free

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Studies gating in softmax attention. Head-specific sigmoid gates after scaled dot-product attention provide a controlled way to examine nonlinearity, sparsity, training stability, and attention sinks.

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Studies gating in softmax attention. Head-specific sigmoid gates after scaled dot-product attention provide a controlled way to examine nonlinearity, sparsity, training stability, and attention sinks.

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