Summary of Auxiliary-loss-free Load Balancing Strategy For Mixture-of-experts, by Lean Wang et al.
Auxiliary-Loss-Free Load Balancing Strategy for Mixture-of-Experts
by Lean Wang, Huazuo Gao, Chenggang Zhao, Xu Sun, Damai Dai
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed Loss-Free Balancing strategy for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models aims to achieve a balanced distribution of expert load without introducing interference gradients during training. This is achieved by applying an expert-wise bias to the routing scores before the top-K routing decision, dynamically updating this bias based on each expert’s recent load. The method does not rely on an auxiliary loss and instead focuses on maintaining a balanced load distribution. Experimental results demonstrate that Loss-Free Balancing outperforms traditional strategies in terms of both performance and load balance, even with large models trained on massive datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Loss-Free Balancing is a new way to help special kinds of AI models called Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) work better. These models have lots of smaller “experts” that work together to make decisions. When these experts are not equally used, it can hurt the model’s performance. The proposed method makes sure each expert gets used roughly the same amount without making the training process worse. This results in a better-performing MoE model with more balanced expert usage. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Mixture of experts
