arXiv Machine Learning By Dong Sun, Rahul Nittala, Rebekka Burkholz

Robustness of Mixtures of Experts to Feature Noise

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arXiv:2601. 14792v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite their practical success, it remains unclear why Mixture of Experts (MoE) models can outperform dense networks beyond sheer parameter scaling.

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arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

Towards a Statistical Understanding of Mixture-of-Experts

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