Summary of Theory Of Mixture-of-experts For Mobile Edge Computing, by Hongbo Li and Lingjie Duan
Theory of Mixture-of-Experts for Mobile Edge Computing
by Hongbo Li, Lingjie Duan
First submitted to arxiv on: 20 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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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 mixture-of-experts (MoE) theory improves the continual learning performance of online tasks in mobile edge computing (MEC) networks by adapting to changes in server availability. The MoE approach treats each MEC server as an expert and dynamically identifies and routes newly arrived tasks to available experts, enabling specialization in specific types of tasks. This is achieved through an adaptive gating network that considers data transfer and computation time. The proposed method consistently reduces the overall generalization error over time, unlike traditional MEC approaches. Furthermore, adding more experts beyond a certain threshold can actually worsen the generalization error. Theoretical results are verified through extensive experiments on real datasets using deep neural networks (DNNs). |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary In mobile edge computing (MEC) networks, users generate machine learning tasks dynamically over time. These tasks are offloaded to nearby servers, but this approach doesn’t ensure each server specializes in a specific type of task, leading to overfitting or forgetting previous tasks. To improve continual learning performance, the MoE theory is introduced in MEC networks. This approach treats each MEC server as an expert and adapts to changes in availability by considering data transfer and computation time. The adaptive gating network identifies and routes new tasks to available experts, enabling specialization. The proposed method consistently reduces generalization error over time. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Continual learning » Generalization » Machine learning » Mixture of experts » Overfitting
