Summary of Toward Inference-optimal Mixture-of-expert Large Language Models, by Longfei Yun et al.
Toward Inference-optimal Mixture-of-Expert Large Language Models
by Longfei Yun, Yonghao Zhuang, Yao Fu, Eric P Xing, Hao Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Apr 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 paper explores the scaling law of Mixture-of-Expert (MoE) based large language models (LLMs), which have shown promise in efficiently handling large model sizes. The authors investigate the relationships between model performance, size, and expert degree, and find that increasing the number of experts has diminishing returns. They propose incorporating inference efficiency as a metric to optimize MoE training, and discover that using 4-8 experts achieves efficient solutions with reduced training costs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Mixture-of-Expert (MoE) models are a type of large language model that can handle big data without needing as much processing power. The paper looks at how well these models work when you make them bigger or smaller, and when you use more or fewer “experts” to help with the tasks. They found that making the model too big doesn’t really help, but using a few experts instead of many can be efficient. This could make it easier to train AI models without using up too much computer power. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference » Large language model
