@misc{verma2026dytcomposition, title = {When Does Removing LayerNorm Help? Activation Bounding as a Regime-Dependent Implicit Regularizer}, author = {Verma, Lucky}, year = {2026}, publisher = {arXiv}, doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2604.23434}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23434}, eprint = {2604.23434}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, primaryClass = {cs.LG} }