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Why is the FFN expansion ratio 4x commonly used instead...

Empirical evidence suggests that the loss landscape is relatively flat for FFN expansion ratios between 2x and 8x, meaning there is no significant quality signal distinguishing these values. The community has converged on 4x as a focal point, which provides a standard for comparing model architectures and conducting ablations across different research papers.

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