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Gated Linear Unit

798 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Yann N. Dauphin et al. in Language Modeling with Gated Convolutional Networks

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A Gated Linear Unit, or GLU computes:

GLU(a, b) = a ⊗σ(b)

It is used in natural language processing architectures, for example the Gated CNN, because here σ(b) is the gate that control what information from a is passed up to the following layer. Intuitively, for a language modeling task, the gating mechanism allows selection of words or features that are important for predicting the next word. The GLU also has non-linear capabilities, but has a linear path for the gradient so diminishes the vanishing gradient problem.

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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TaskPapers
Language Modelling130
Language Modeling101
Question Answering84
Decoder79
Text Generation65
Sentence57
Translation46
Retrieval42
Transfer Learning42
Machine Translation40
Natural Language Understanding29
Abstractive Text Summarization24
Semantic Parsing24
Sentiment Analysis22
Large Language Model20
Natural Language Inference20
Code Generation19
Data Augmentation19
Diversity19
Text Summarization19

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Gated Linear Unit: 2016 to 2025, peak 215 215 0 2016: 1 paper 2016 2017: 1 paper 2017 2018: 2 papers 2018 2019: 12 papers 2019 2020: 43 papers 2020 2021: 120 papers 2021 2022: 174 papers 2022 2023: 215 papers 2023 2024: 170 papers 2024 2025: 60 papers 2025
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