arXiv AI By Hancheol Park, Geonho Lee, Tairen Piao, Tae-Ho Kim

Value-and-Structure Alignment for Routing-Consistent Quantization of Mixture-of-Experts Models

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arXiv:2606. 05688v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models scale foundation models efficiently by activating only a subset of experts for each token, but their large number of expert parameters still makes quantization essential for practical deployment.

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