Summary of Statistical Advantages Of Perturbing Cosine Router in Mixture Of Experts, by Huy Nguyen et al.
Statistical Advantages of Perturbing Cosine Router in Mixture of Experts
by Huy Nguyen, Pedram Akbarian, Trang Pham, Trang Nguyen, Shujian Zhang, Nhat Ho
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the cosine router in Mixture of Experts (MoE) models. The authors demonstrate that the cosine router outperforms traditional linear routers in image and language tasks, while also mitigating representation collapse issues. However, they identify a potential issue with the least square estimation of the cosine routing MoE, which can lead to slow convergence rates. To address this, the authors propose adding noise to the ^2-norms in the cosine router, which improves the estimation rates to polynomial levels. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper looks at how a special kind of machine learning model called Mixture of Experts (MoE) works when it uses something called the cosine router. This is a new way of combining information from different experts that can help with things like image recognition and language processing. The authors find that this approach does better than the old way of doing things, but they also identify some problems with how the model learns. They suggest adding a little bit of noise to the model’s calculations, which makes it learn faster and more efficiently. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning » Mixture of experts
