arXiv:2608. 14205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Load imbalance poses a major bottleneck to the efficiency of expert parallelism in distributed inference of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models.
By Pengfei Chen, Yize Wu, Shouxu Kuang, Ke Gao, Ling Li
arXiv:2603. 28768v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) has recently emerged as the mainstream architecture for efficiently scaling large language models while maintaining near-constant computational cost.
By Adrian Zhao, Zhenkun Cai, Zhenyu Song, Lingfan Yu, Haozheng Fan, Jun Wu, Yida Wang, Nandita Vijaykumar
arXiv:2606. 01007v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparsely activated Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models scale capacity via conditional computation, but distributed inference suffers from cross-GPU expert communication and routing-induced load imbalance.
By Zhiyao Xu, Aoxue Liu, Zhanjie Ding, Dan Zhao, Yong Jiang, Qing Li
arXiv:2606. 00735v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In distributed Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) inference, input-dependent token routing interacts with GPU performance variability to create persistent stragglers under synchronized execution, where the slowest GPU determines layer latency.
By Seokjin Go, Marko Scrbak, Ephrem Wu, Srilatha Manne, Divya Mahajan
arXiv:2607. 24787v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models expand foundation model capacity through conditional expert activation, but their full expert pools remain difficult to deploy under limited accelerator memory.
By Jinwei Kong, Runqi Meng, Fanyi Wang, Wentao Qiu, Haotian Hu, Yongjian Zhou, Zhenhua Ge
arXiv:2607. 08782v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Expert parallelism has become the prevailing paradigm to serve Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models.
By Qianli Liu, Kaibin Guo, Zicong Hong, Peng Li, Fahao Chen, Haodong Wang, Jian Lin, Song Guo