Mixture of Experts (MoE) is a neural network architecture designed to enhance the efficiency and scalability of large language models (LLMs) by selectively activating only a subset of parameters for each input.
MoE addresses the challenge of scaling large neural networks by reducing computational overhead and resource requirements while maintaining or even improving model performance.
In MoE, a gating network evaluates each token in an input sequence and routes it to one or more 'expert' sub-networks. This routing is based on the relevance of the expert to the current token, ensuring that only necessary computations are performed, thus reducing overall compute cost per token.
The manufacturing process for MoE involves designing and training the gating network along with the expert sub-networks. This requires significant computational resources, particularly during the initial training phase when optimizing the routing mechanism.
The build process starts by defining the architecture of the expert sub-networks, followed by the design of the gating network. Training involves both fine-tuning the experts and optimizing the gating function to ensure efficient token routing.
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