diff --git a/timm/models/xcit.py b/timm/models/xcit.py
index 886aa930..b7af3b26 100644
--- a/timm/models/xcit.py
+++ b/timm/models/xcit.py
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ def conv3x3(in_planes, out_planes, stride=1):
 class ConvPatchEmbed(nn.Module):
     """Image to Patch Embedding using multiple convolutional layers"""
 
-    def __init__(self, img_size=224, patch_size=16, in_chans=3, embed_dim=768):
+    def __init__(self, img_size=224, patch_size=16, in_chans=3, embed_dim=768, act_layer=nn.GELU):
         super().__init__()
         img_size = to_2tuple(img_size)
         num_patches = (img_size[1] // patch_size) * (img_size[0] // patch_size)
@@ -152,19 +152,19 @@ class ConvPatchEmbed(nn.Module):
         if patch_size == 16:
             self.proj = torch.nn.Sequential(
                 conv3x3(in_chans, embed_dim // 8, 2),
-                nn.GELU(),
+                act_layer(),
                 conv3x3(embed_dim // 8, embed_dim // 4, 2),
-                nn.GELU(),
+                act_layer(),
                 conv3x3(embed_dim // 4, embed_dim // 2, 2),
-                nn.GELU(),
+                act_layer(),
                 conv3x3(embed_dim // 2, embed_dim, 2),
             )
         elif patch_size == 8:
             self.proj = torch.nn.Sequential(
-                conv3x3(3, embed_dim // 4, 2),
-                nn.GELU(),
+                conv3x3(in_chans, embed_dim // 4, 2),
+                act_layer(),
                 conv3x3(embed_dim // 4, embed_dim // 2, 2),
-                nn.GELU(),
+                act_layer(),
                 conv3x3(embed_dim // 2, embed_dim, 2),
             )
         else:
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ class XCiT(nn.Module):
 
     def __init__(self, img_size=224, patch_size=16, in_chans=3, num_classes=1000, embed_dim=768, depth=12,
                  num_heads=12, mlp_ratio=4., qkv_bias=True, drop_rate=0., attn_drop_rate=0., drop_path_rate=0.,
-                 norm_layer=None, cls_attn_layers=2, use_pos_embed=True, eta=1., tokens_norm=False):
+                 act_layer=None, norm_layer=None, cls_attn_layers=2, use_pos_embed=True, eta=1., tokens_norm=False):
         """
         Args:
             img_size (int, tuple): input image size
@@ -356,9 +356,10 @@ class XCiT(nn.Module):
         self.num_classes = num_classes
         self.num_features = self.embed_dim = embed_dim
         norm_layer = norm_layer or partial(nn.LayerNorm, eps=1e-6)
+        act_layer = act_layer or nn.GELU
 
         self.patch_embed = ConvPatchEmbed(
-            img_size=img_size, patch_size=patch_size, in_chans=in_chans, embed_dim=embed_dim)
+            img_size=img_size, patch_size=patch_size, in_chans=in_chans, embed_dim=embed_dim, act_layer=act_layer)
 
         self.cls_token = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(1, 1, embed_dim))
         self.use_pos_embed = use_pos_embed
@@ -369,13 +370,13 @@ class XCiT(nn.Module):
         self.blocks = nn.ModuleList([
             XCABlock(
                 dim=embed_dim, num_heads=num_heads, mlp_ratio=mlp_ratio, qkv_bias=qkv_bias, drop=drop_rate,
-                attn_drop=attn_drop_rate, drop_path=drop_path_rate, norm_layer=norm_layer, eta=eta)
+                attn_drop=attn_drop_rate, drop_path=drop_path_rate, act_layer=act_layer, norm_layer=norm_layer, eta=eta)
             for _ in range(depth)])
 
         self.cls_attn_blocks = nn.ModuleList([
             ClassAttentionBlock(
                 dim=embed_dim, num_heads=num_heads, mlp_ratio=mlp_ratio, qkv_bias=qkv_bias, drop=drop_rate,
-                attn_drop=attn_drop_rate, norm_layer=norm_layer, eta=eta, tokens_norm=tokens_norm)
+                attn_drop=attn_drop_rate, act_layer=act_layer, norm_layer=norm_layer, eta=eta, tokens_norm=tokens_norm)
             for _ in range(cls_attn_layers)])
 
         # Classifier head