Summary of Unchosen Experts Can Contribute Too: Unleashing Moe Models’ Power by Self-contrast, By Chufan Shi et al.
Unchosen Experts Can Contribute Too: Unleashing MoE Models’ Power by Self-Contrast
by Chufan Shi, Cheng Yang, Xinyu Zhu, Jiahao Wang, Taiqiang Wu, Siheng Li, Deng Cai, Yujiu Yang, Yu Meng
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper explores the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, which has shown promise in scaling model size while maintaining efficiency. The study reveals that increasing the number of activated experts does not always improve output quality and can even degrade it. Additionally, different routing strategies yield distinct output distributions, indicating non-synergistic behavior among experts. To address these limitations, the authors propose Self-Contrast Mixture-of-Experts (SCMoE), a training-free strategy that leverages unchosen experts during inference. SCMoE calculates next-token probabilities by contrasting strong and weak activations using the same MoE model. The approach is conceptually simple and computationally lightweight. Experimental results on various benchmarks, including GSM8K, StrategyQA, MBPP, and HumanEval, demonstrate that SCMoE consistently enhances Mixtral 8x7B’s reasoning capability across domains. For example, it improves accuracy on GSM8K from 61.79 to 66.94. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about a new way to make machines learn better. Right now, there’s an idea called Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) that helps big models work efficiently. But the researchers found some problems with it. They looked at how well MoE works and saw that making it bigger doesn’t always help – sometimes it makes things worse! They also discovered that different ways of using MoE produce very different results. To fix these issues, they came up with a new idea called Self-Contrast Mixture-of-Experts (SCMoE). SCMoE is like a special trick that uses the parts of the machine that aren’t being used to make it better. It’s easy to understand and doesn’t require a lot of extra work. The scientists tested SCMoE on lots of different tasks and found that it makes machines learn better and more accurately. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference » Mixture of experts » Token
