We introduce OLMoE, a fully open, state-of-the-art language model leveraging sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE). OLMoE-1B-7B has 7 billion (B) parameters but uses only 1B per input token. We pretrain it on 5 trillion tokens and further adapt it to create OLMoE-1B-7B-Instruct. Our models outperform all available models with similar active parameters, even surpassing larger ones like Llama2-13B-Chat and DeepSeekMoE-16B. We present various experiments on MoE training, analyze routing in our model showing high specialization, and open-source all aspects of our work: model weights, training data, code, and logs.
@article{arxiv.2409.02060,
title = {OLMoE: Open Mixture-of-Experts Language Models},
author = {Niklas Muennighoff and Luca Soldaini and Dirk Groeneveld and Kyle Lo and Jacob Morrison and Sewon Min and Weijia Shi and Pete Walsh and Oyvind Tafjord and Nathan Lambert and Yuling Gu and Shane Arora and Akshita Bhagia and Dustin Schwenk and David Wadden and Alexander Wettig and Binyuan Hui and Tim Dettmers and Douwe Kiela and Ali Farhadi and Noah A. Smith and Pang Wei Koh and Amanpreet Singh and Hannaneh Hajishirzi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.02060},
year = {2025}
}