MetaNet is a support‑set controller that predicts, for each layer of a Mixture‑of‑Experts model, an expert‑retention threshold and a bounded routing bias while keeping the backbone, experts, and router frozen. On DeepSeek‑MoE‑16B‑Chat, MetaNet offers a tunable trade‑off between accuracy and expert activation: a conservative setting activates 3.61 experts on average (40% fewer than a fixed k=6) with comparable MMLU accuracy, whereas an aggressive setting activates only 2.28 experts (62% fewer) with a modest accuracy drop. The MMLU‑trained controller also transfers to C‑Eval, activating 2.90 experts on average (52% fewer than fixed k=6) at 0.386 accuracy.
By Rongfeng Wang, Shichao Weng, Zhiqiang Wang, Xinyu Liu, Yang Yi, Peilong Zhou, Hongwei Tang
arXiv:2608. 10392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture-of-experts (MoE) models have recently moved beyond routing a fixed number of complete experts.
By Gongli Zhang, Zhulin Liu, C. L. Philip Chen
MaskCoFT introduces a masked co‑adaptive fine‑tuning approach for mixture‑of‑experts language models, training both routers and experts jointly with a cross‑entropy loss. A learnable binary mask limits each layer’s Top‑K routing to a subset of experts during fine‑tuning, allowing experts to adapt to the tokens they receive. In simulated GPU cache scenarios, MaskCoFT reduces expert fetches per token by 23.7% for Mixtral‑8x7B and 10.1% for DeepSeek‑V2‑Lite, and lowers inference time per output token by up to 16.4% and 5.5% respectively, while maintaining or improving accuracy across nine benchmarks.
By Junfeng Wu, Zehao Fan, Hadjer Benmeziane, Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Liu Liu, Yinan Wang
arXiv:2604. 00421v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) layers increase model capacity by activating only a small subset of experts per token, and typically rely on a learned router to map hidden states to expert assignments.
By Jama Hussein Mohamud, Drew Wagner, Mirco Ravanelli
The paper introduces Ban&Pick, a post‑training, plug‑and‑play routing strategy for Sparse Mixture‑of‑Experts large language models. It identifies and reinforces a small group of highly influential experts while dynamically pruning redundant ones, leading to accuracy gains across math, code, and reasoning benchmarks. Experiments on DeepSeek and Qwen3 show notable performance improvements and a 1.25× inference speedup without retraining or architectural changes.
By Yuanteng Chen, Peisong Wang, Yuantian Shao, Nanxin Zeng, Chang Xu, Jian Cheng
The paper presents a statistical framework for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models, treating them as localized aggregation systems. It derives oracle risk bounds that separate approximation, expert‑learning, and router‑estimation errors for both dense and sparse routing with evolving experts. The authors also analyze how sparse Top‑K routing balances computational cost with performance, interpret gating geometrically, and explain how shared experts can capture common predictive structure while allowing routed experts to focus on local residuals.
By Siyuan He, Bokai Yang, Jie Hu, Ziwen Gao, Yuhong Yang
arXiv:2602. 06154v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models scale large language models efficiently by sparsely activating experts, but once an expert is selected, it is executed fully.
By Nurbek Tastan, Stefanos Laskaridis, Karthik Nandakumar, Samuel Horvath
arXiv:2606. 01666v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The scaling of Large Language Models (LLMs) has driven significant performance gains but created substantial challenges in inference efficiency.
By Udbhav Bamba, Arnav Chavan, Aryamaan Thakur, Steve Teig, Deepak Gupta
IntBMoE introduces a block‑conditioned mixture‑of‑experts that decouples participation, execution, and materialization by combining dense expert composition with sparse block execution. Each internal layer uses a lightweight hypernetwork to merge all expert bases into a single composed expert, while a router selects only a few blocks per token, keeping compute and memory costs low. Experiments on image classification, language modeling, and sequential recommendation demonstrate consistent performance gains, and the model is deployed in AMap’s generative recommendation system, improving UVCTR by 2.4% in online A/B tests.
By Ran Cheng, Longfei Xu, Zheng Liu, Kaikui Liu, Xiangxiang Chu
The paper investigates a dense analogue of Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models by using $K$ SwiGLU experts that are all active for every token and combined via a softmax gate, keeping the total feed‑forward network (FFN) width fixed. Validation loss shows a non‑monotonic relationship with $K$: $K=2$ slightly improves performance over the single‑expert baseline, while $K=4$ and $K=6$ degrade it. The study also finds that the gating mechanism remains largely soft and balanced, except for a near one‑hot routing in the first layer of the $K=4$ model, which is functionally important as forcing uniform routing increases loss significantly.
By Vu Quang Hoang, Nghia Hieu Nguyen
arXiv:2608. 04454v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixture-of-experts vision-language models (MoE-VLMs) increase model capacity with sparse expert activation, yet deployment requires storing the full expert pool.
By Hongyu Zhang, Cheng Yan, Xiang Xia, Wuyang Zhang
arXiv:2511. 08972v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (SMoE) models are scalable and computationally efficient, enabling large increases in model capacity with limited inference overhead.
By Duc Anh Nguyen, Huu Binh Ta, Nhuan Le Duc, Tan Minh Nguyen, Toan Tran