Rethinking Neural Nonlinearity as Gating

arXiv:2607.03148 · cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.AR · Submitted 2026-07-03 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.AR

Submitted: 2026-07-03

Updated: 2026-07-03

Terminology

• Threshold Gating — 3× in this paper
• Activation Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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