arXiv Machine Learning

Dynamic Expert Quantization for Scalable Mixture-of-Experts Inference

Dynamic Expert Quantization (DynaExq) is a runtime-aware mixed-precision serving system designed for single‑GPU Mixture‑of‑Experts (MoE) inference under a hard high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) envelope. It treats the problem as an online, budget‑constrained precision allocation task, keeping the most frequently used experts at higher precision while relegating the rest to low‑precision fallbacks. By estimating expert hotness from router traces and asynchronously promoting or demoting experts, DynaExq maintains a fully materialized expert set during the forward pass, improving accuracy and throughput compared to static post‑training quantization and offloading/prefetch baselines. whyItMatters":"DynaExq enables efficient deployment of large MoE models on memory‑limited GPUs by dynamically allocating precision based on runtime expert usage, thereby reducing memory footprint and latency while boosting accuracy and throughput."

arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 16

DPA-MoE: A Runtime Precision Control Framework for MoE Inference

DPA-MoE is a runtime precision control framework that allows Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models to use any-precision routed experts. It encodes expert feed‑forward weights as prefix‑decodable chunks, profiles reconstruction residuals offline, and allocates chunks during inference based on live router gate scores. This enables a single encoded MoE checkpoint to operate at multiple effective weight budgets without retraining, improving KL divergence and downstream accuracy on Qwen3‑30B‑A3B and DeepSeekMoE‑16B with modest throughput overhead.

By Jaeyun Kim, Hoonki Lee, Susie Shin, Hyunmin Kim, Dahyun Lee, Sangyeob Kim
arXiv AI
Aug 20

Cacheable by Design? Training Mixture-of-Experts Routers for Locality Against the Edge Memory-Bandwidth Wall: A Pre-Registered Negative Result with a Systems Measurement Study

The paper investigates whether training Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) routers can improve memory‑bandwidth locality on consumer GPUs. Using a new zero‑surgery telemetry tool, the authors measure that a large Qwen3‑235B model is bottlenecked by disk‑based expert access, and that an LRU cache can serve a majority of requests. They pre‑register experiments training 137 M‑parameter MoE models with locality‑aware losses, finding that while cache misses can drop up to 60 % (99 % static‑pin hit rate), every configuration fails to meet a strict 1 % perplexity threshold, indicating a tight coupling between cache efficiency and model quality.

By Shriniwas Ramesh Suram
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 27

DraftExpert: Expansion-Aware Self-Speculative Decoding for End-Device MoE Inference

Large Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models are attractive for end-device deployment because only a small subset of experts is active per token, but their routed expert weights often exceed accelerator memory. We target latency-critical single-user settings where routed experts are staged on demand from CPU memory to a GPU or from Flash to a mobile NPU.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 18

Cacheable by Design? Training Mixture-of-Experts Routers for Locality Against the Edge Memory-Bandwidth Wall: A Pre-Registered Negative Result with a Systems Measurement Study

Serving a 235B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model on a single 8 GB GPU is bottlenecked not by compute but by memory bandwidth: decode must stream each token's active experts from whichever tier holds them, and on consumer hardware most experts sit on an SSD far slower than RAM. We quantify this bandwidth wall on Qwen3-235B (Q4_K_M, 134 GB): measured decode is 0.

arXiv AI
Oct 21

3D-MoE: Complementarity-Guided Hardware-Software Co-Design for MoE Decode on 3D-Stacked NMP

The paper introduces 3D-MoE, a hardware–software co‑designed system that optimizes Mixture‑of‑Experts (MoE) decoding on 3D‑stacked near‑memory processing (NMP) by exploiting expert complementarity. It groups experts offline, maps them locally to balance load, and uses a lightweight Collaborative Memory‑Network to stream hot expert weights, achieving an average 4.63× speedup over expert‑parallelism and 1.58×–1.86× throughput gains over existing NMP baselines with only a 2.11% area increase.

By Yudong Pan, Lian Liu, Shixin Zhao, Yintao He, Kaiyan Chang, Tianhua Han, Chenyang Ai, Haonan Zhu, Mengdi Wang, Yinhe Han, Ying Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 1

WiSP: A Working-Set View of Mixture-of-Experts Serving on Extremely Low-Resource Hardware

WiSP (Working‑Set Paging) is a routing‑aware expert pager that allows Mixture‑of‑Experts models to run on GPUs that cannot hold the entire expert pool by paging experts in and out of VRAM while preserving byte‑identical outputs. On a 24 GiB RTX 3090, WiSP doubles decode throughput compared to static offload when the model does not fit, and its companion policy MV‑WSA allocates VRAM between resident experts and KV cache based on marginal latency benefit, reducing end‑to‑end time by up to 1.19× without altering model outputs.

By Jiamu Zhang, Liang Wu, Mayank Darbari, Liangjie Hong