Summary of Seer-moe: Sparse Expert Efficiency Through Regularization For Mixture-of-experts, by Alexandre Muzio et al.
SEER-MoE: Sparse Expert Efficiency through Regularization for Mixture-of-Experts
by Alexandre Muzio, Alex Sun, Churan He
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- 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 A novel two-stage framework called SEER-MoE is introduced, which reduces the memory footprint and compute requirements of pre-trained Mixture-of-Experts (MoEs) models. The first stage prunes the total number of experts using a heavy-hitters counting guidance, while the second stage employs regularization-based fine-tuning to recover accuracy loss and reduce the number of activated experts during inference. Experimental results show that SEER-MoE effectively optimizes MoEs for inference efficiency with minimal accuracy trade-offs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary MoEs are special kinds of AI models that can do many tasks at once, but they need a lot of computer power to work well. Researchers have created a new way to make these models more efficient called SEER-MoE. This method has two steps: first, it gets rid of some of the “experts” (think of them like mini-AI models) that are not used very much; then, it makes sure the model still works well by fine-tuning the remaining experts. By doing this, SEER-MoE can make MoEs work better and faster without sacrificing their ability to do many tasks correctly. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Fine tuning * Inference * Mixture of experts * Regularization
