What is ‘mixture of experts’ (MoE) architecture and what efficiency advantage does it provide?

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What is ‘mixture of experts’ (MoE) architecture and what efficiency advantage does it provide?

Key points

  • MoE architecture activates only a subset of experts per input
  • Reduces per-token compute cost while maintaining model capacity
  • Gating mechanism controls which experts are activated
  • Efficient utilization of resources in large-scale models

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