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Explain SwiGLU and why gated activations displaced ReLU/GELU in current LLM feed-forward blocks.

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SwiGLU multiplies a SiLU-transformed branch by a learned linear gate before projection. The gate improves expressiveness and optimization, usually at a parameter or width trade-off versus a plain ReLU/GELU MLP.

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