arXiv AI

Instella-MoE Technical Report

Instella‑MoE is a fully open Mixture‑of‑Experts language model with 16 billion total parameters and 2.8 billion active parameters per token, trained from scratch on AMD Instinct GPUs. It incorporates a sparsely activated MoE design with Gated Multi‑head Latent Attention and FarSkip‑Collective connectivity, and follows a multi‑stage pipeline that includes pre‑training, long‑context extension, supervised fine‑tuning, direct preference optimization, and reinforcement learning with Multi‑Teacher On‑Policy Distillation. The model achieves an average score of 76.7 on pre‑training benchmarks and 73.2 on instruction‑following, reasoning, math, coding, and chat benchmarks, outperforming comparable fully open and open‑weight models, and its full training pipeline, weights, and code are released for reproducibility.

arXiv AI
Sep 15

ZGCM-1: A Fully Open and Extremely Efficient Foundation Model for Math and Agentic Search

ZGCM-1 is a 7B dense foundation model trained from scratch with extreme data, system, and algorithmic efficiency. It uses a core premise that compact models can overcome capacity limits by combining deliberate internal thinking with active external tool use, supported by a 256K context and an end‑to‑end high‑efficiency training recipe that includes interleaved gated sliding‑window and full attention, a stable FP8 Muon optimizer, progressive curriculum scaling, and reformulation of interaction traces into Markov Decision Processes. The model is competitive with much larger frontier models on challenging mathematical reasoning and agentic search tasks, offers a ~4.2× efficiency improvement in pre‑training time‑to‑loss, and its weights, checkpoints, training code, data recipes, and logs are fully open‑source to support community research.

By Jiyan He, Guang Liang, Hao Liu, Haoxiang Guan, Jinbo Sun, Junyi Guo, Wenjun Feng, Yantai Xie, Yifei Shen, Bin Shao, Chuyang Wei, Kai Chen, Kexin Zhou, Minghang Zhu, Shuxin Zheng, Tie-Yan Liu, Taine Zhao, Wenhui Zhu, Xueyin Xu, Xiaoqing Zhang, Yatao Li, Yuxuan Ren
arXiv AI
Jun 26

NebulaExp-8B: An Empirical Post-Training Pipeline via Full-Scale Ablation Research

arXiv:2606. 26671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training alignment determines the reasoning and human preference following capabilities of large language models, yet most existing works withhold detailed data construction, filtering rules and training recipes, which hinders community reproducibility and lightweight model optimization.

By Qiaobo Hao, Yangqian Wu, Shunyi Wang, Zhongjian Zhang, Ziqun Li, Yayin He, Muqing Li, Chen Zhong
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Post-Trained MoE Can Skip Half Experts via Self-Distillation

arXiv:2605. 18643v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) scales language models efficiently through sparse expert activation, and its dynamic variant further reduces computation by adjusting the activated experts in an input-dependent manner.

By Xingtai Lv, Li Sheng, Kaiyan Zhang, Yichen You, Siyan Gao, Xueheng Luo, Yuxin Zuo, Yuchen Fan, Junlin Yang, Ganqu Cui, Bingning Wang, Fan Yang, Youbang Sun, Ning Ding, Bowen Zhou
arXiv AI
Oct 19

A Stronger Teacher Within: Strengthening MoE Models via On-Policy Bidirectional Distillation

The paper introduces MoEvolve, a bidirectional distillation framework that leverages increased activation budgets in Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models to create a stronger internal teacher. By first restoring a high‑k model and then transferring its enhanced capabilities back to the original low‑k configuration, MoEvolve improves performance across various MoE models and benchmarks, achieving up to 22.2 domain‑average points and outperforming same‑budget RLVR baselines by up to 6.5 points. The resulting low‑k models often surpass their activation‑expanded teachers.

By Haoyu Chen, Jun Bai, Yang Liu, Jianfei Zhang, Wenge Rong
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Motif 3: Technical Report

arXiv:2608. 09119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Motif 3, a decoder-only Mixture-of-Experts language model with 314 billion total parameters and 13.

By Junghwan Lim, Joon Son Chung, Sungmin Lee, Wai Ting Cheung, Gihun Cho, Minsu Ha, Sangho Kang, Beomgyu Kim, Dongseok Kim, Jangwoong Kim, Taehyun Kim, Taewhan Kim, Jeesoo Lee, Jeongdoo Lee, Junhyeok Lee, Dongpin Oh, Hyeyeon Cho, Dahye Choi, Jaeheui Her, Hanbin Jung, Changjin Kang, Minjae Kim, Youngrok Kim, Hyukjin Kweon, Hongjoo Lee, Yeongjae Park, Bokki Ryu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Ban&Pick: Enhancing Performance and Efficiency of MoE-LLMs via Smarter Routing

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
arXiv AI
Oct 9

DivMoE: Fine-Grained MoE Upcycling via Cross-Domain Expert Composition

DivMoE is a new framework that enables fine‑grained mixture‑of‑experts (MoE) upcycling from pre‑trained dense language models while avoiding the structural collapse that plagues naive approaches. It achieves this by initializing experts from domain‑adapted continual pre‑training and enforcing diversity‑constrained routing that forces each token to activate experts from distinct domain groups. Across two base models and 15 benchmarks, DivMoE consistently outperforms six upcycling baselines and improves over the dense base model on every benchmark after Stage 2 continual pre‑training, ultimately matching a larger 16B‑parameter MoE model with only 12B parameters.

By Yuxuan Lou, Kai Yang, Geng Zhang, Yong Liu, Yang You