Apr 23
Expert Upcycling: Shifting the Compute-Efficient Frontier of Mixture-of-Experts
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Researchers propose 'expert upcycling' to expand the capacity of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models during continued pre-training. This method uses expert duplication and router extension to increase model parameters without increasing per-token inference costs. The approach significantly improves efficiency by providing a warm initialization for larger models.
Why it matters
Expanding model capacity through continued pre-training offers a path to higher performance without increasing the inference-time computational burden.
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