arXiv AI
Sep 2

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.

By Jiang Liu, Sudhanshu Ranjan, Prakamya Mishra, Yonatan Dukler, Gowtham Ramesh, Jialian Wu, Ximeng Sun, Wen Xie, Chaojun Hou, Vikram Appia, Zhenyu Gu, Zicheng Liu, Emad Barsoum
arXiv AI
Sep 17

The Other Half of the Memory Wall: Serving 35B MoEs from SSD with Trained Routing Prediction

The paper introduces Edge0, a streaming mixture‑of‑experts (MoE) inference engine that enables a 35‑billion‑parameter MoE model to run on consumer hardware by predicting routing decisions one token ahead. Edge0 uses a per‑layer prerouter to prefetch the necessary experts from SSD, and an unmerged recovery LoRA trained on the student path to recover quality lost to 4‑bit quantization and routing replacement. On a single 24‑GB machine, Edge0 serves the 35B MoE at 20 tokens per second while keeping peak active memory below 3 GiB, achieving performance close to its fp16 teacher across five public benchmarks.

By Yu Lin, Yiming Wang, Runyuan Cai, Hanze Liu, Xiaodong Zeng
arXiv AI
Sep 15

OpWeave: Flexible Operator Disaggregation for Heterogeneous LLM Serving

arXiv:2609.14237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM serving systems increasingly disaggregate inference into finer-grained stages, with recent approaches separating attention from FFN or MoE execut...

By Zikun Li, Yixuan Mei, Shiqi Pan, Zixuan Chen, Xiaowen Zhang, Mengdi Wu, Shuhuai Lin, Yutong Yang, Zhihao Zhang, Xupeng Miao, Rashmi Vinayak, Zhihao Jia