diff --git a/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-hlo/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/hlo/converters/ActivationOperationsConverter.kt b/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-hlo/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/hlo/converters/ActivationOperationsConverter.kt
index f04d1e91..0d67bc14 100644
--- a/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-hlo/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/hlo/converters/ActivationOperationsConverter.kt
+++ b/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-hlo/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/hlo/converters/ActivationOperationsConverter.kt
@@ -22,12 +22,18 @@ import sk.ainet.lang.graph.GraphNode
 public class ActivationOperationsConverter : StableHloOperationConverter {
     
     override val supportedOperations: Set<String> = setOf(
-        "sigmoid", "softmax", "tanh", "gelu", "swish"
+        "sigmoid", "softmax", "tanh", "gelu", "swish",
+        // SiLU (Sigmoid Linear Unit) is the name every Llama / Mistral /
+        // Qwen / Gemma family model uses for the same x * sigmoid(x)
+        // activation that PyTorch historically called swish. Register
+        // the alias so traced LLM graphs don't fall through to the
+        // "no converter found" path.
+        "silu", "SiLU"
     )
-    
+
     override fun convert(
-        node: GraphNode, 
-        operands: List<String>, 
+        node: GraphNode,
+        operands: List<String>,
         context: ConversionContext
     ): ConversionResult {
         return when (node.operation.name.lowercase()) {
@@ -35,7 +41,7 @@ public class ActivationOperationsConverter : StableHloOperationConverter {
             "softmax" -> convertSoftmax(node, operands, context)
             "tanh" -> convertTanh(node, operands, context)
             "gelu" -> convertGelu(node, operands, context)
-            "swish" -> convertSwish(node, operands, context)
+            "swish", "silu" -> convertSwish(node, operands, context)
             else -> ConversionResult.Unsupported(
                 node.operation.name,
                 "Operation not supported by ActivationOperationsConverter"
diff --git a/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-hlo/src/commonTest/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/hlo/ActivationOperationsConverterTest.kt b/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-hlo/src/commonTest/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/hlo/ActivationOperationsConverterTest.kt
index 7ecaa25f..6e91c242 100644
--- a/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-hlo/src/commonTest/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/hlo/ActivationOperationsConverterTest.kt
+++ b/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-hlo/src/commonTest/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/hlo/ActivationOperationsConverterTest.kt
@@ -37,6 +37,29 @@ class ActivationOperationsConverterTest {
         assertTrue(registry.isSupported("tanh"))
         assertTrue(registry.isSupported("gelu"))
         assertTrue(registry.isSupported("swish"))
+        // silu / SiLU is the Llama-family alias for the same
+        // x * sigmoid(x) lowering that swish uses.
+        assertTrue(registry.isSupported("silu"))
+        assertTrue(registry.isSupported("SiLU"))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun testSiluAliasLowersLikeSwish() {
+        val graph = createActivationGraph("silu")
+        val converter = StableHloConverterFactory.createExtended()
+        val module = converter.convert(graph, "test_silu")
+
+        // silu == swish: x * sigmoid(x). The emitted MLIR must
+        // contain the same ops the swish path produces — the
+        // sigmoid expansion (negate, exp, constant 1.0, add, divide)
+        // plus the final multiply with the original input.
+        assertTrue(module.content.contains("stablehlo.negate"))
+        assertTrue(module.content.contains("stablehlo.exponential"))
+        assertTrue(module.content.contains("stablehlo.constant dense<1.0>"))
+        assertTrue(module.content.contains("stablehlo.add"))
+        assertTrue(module.content.contains("stablehlo.divide"))
+        assertTrue(module.content.contains("stablehlo.multiply"))
+        assertTrue(module.content.contains("tensor<2x3xf32>"))
     }
 
     @Test