logo

Softmax Linear Units

ID: f318b24d-637f-5d8d-b120-c278fd31593e

STIX ID: report--f318b24d-637f-5d8d-b120-c278fd31593e

Feed Name: Anthropic Research

Date Published: 2023-11-03

Date Updated: 2026-08-04

ADMIRALTY:B6
...
...

The abstract introduces SoLU (softmax linear unit), an alternative activation function that reportedly increases the fraction of MLP neurons that are human-interpretable with little to no cost to model performance; the authors validate this with randomized and blinded experiments and use the models to explore transformer information processing, noting trade-offs where increased interpretability may hide other features.

Your team is not currently subscribed to this feed. You must subscribe to it in order to see this post.