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In this paper, we propose novel Gaussian process-gated hierarchical mixtures of experts (GPHMEs). Unlike other mixtures of experts with gating models linear in the input, our model employs gating functions built with Gaussian processes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yuhao Liu , Marzieh Ajirak , Petar Djuric

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for learning over graph-structured data, yet recent studies have shown that their performance gains are beginning to plateau. In many cases, well-established models such as GCN and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Mohit Meena , Yash Punjabi , Abhishek A , Vishal Sharma , Mahesh Chandran

Gating is a key feature in modern neural networks including LSTMs, GRUs and sparsely-gated deep neural networks. The backbone of such gated networks is a mixture-of-experts layer, where several experts make regression decisions and gating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Ashok Vardhan Makkuva , Sewoong Oh , Sreeram Kannan , Pramod Viswanath

Accurate univariate forecasting remains a pressing need in real-world systems, such as energy markets, hydrology, retail demand, and IoT monitoring, where signals are often intermittent and horizons span both short- and long-term. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kyrylo Yemets , Mykola Lukashchuk , Ivan Izonin

We propose Preferential MoE, a novel human-ML mixture-of-experts model that augments human expertise in decision making with a data-based classifier only when necessary for predictive performance. Our model exhibits an interpretable gating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Melanie F. Pradier , Javier Zazo , Sonali Parbhoo , Roy H. Perlis , Maurizio Zazzi , Finale Doshi-Velez

Mixtures of Experts combine the outputs of several "expert" networks, each of which specializes in a different part of the input space. This is achieved by training a "gating" network that maps each input to a distribution over the experts.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-03-11 David Eigen , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato , Ilya Sutskever

Mixture of experts (MoE), introduced over 20 years ago, is the simplest gated modular neural network architecture. There is renewed interest in MoE because the conditional computation allows only parts of the network to be used during each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yamuna Krishnamurthy , Chris Watkins , Thomas Gaertner

In this paper, we present the practical problems and the lessons learned at short-video services from Kuaishou. In industry, a widely-used multi-task framework is the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) paradigm, which always introduces some shared…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Xu Wang , Jiangxia Cao , Zhiyi Fu , Kun Gai , Guorui Zhou

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures combine specialized predictors through a learned gate and are effective across regression and classification, but for classification with softmax multinomial-logistic gating, rigorous guarantees for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-10 TrungKhang Tran , TrungTin Nguyen , Md Abul Bashar , Nhat Ho , Richi Nayak , Christopher Drovandi

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models are designed to enhance the efficiency of large language models (LLMs) without proportionally increasing the computational demands. However, their deployment on edge devices still faces significant challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Shuzhang Zhong , Ling Liang , Yuan Wang , Runsheng Wang , Ru Huang , Meng Li

Attention is a key part of the transformer architecture. It is a sequence-to-sequence mapping that transforms each sequence element into a weighted sum of values. The weights are typically obtained as the softmax of dot products between…

Mixture of Experts (MoE) are rising in popularity as a means to train extremely large-scale models, yet allowing for a reasonable computational cost at inference time. Recent state-of-the-art approaches usually assume a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Amelie Royer , Ilia Karmanov , Andrii Skliar , Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi , Tijmen Blankevoort

Mixture of Experts (MoE) models are well known for effectively scaling model capacity while preserving computational overheads. In this paper, we establish a rigorous relation between MoE and the self-attention mechanism, showing that each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-10 Pedram Akbarian , Huy Nguyen , Xing Han , Nhat Ho

We introduce Mixture-of-Gaussians with Uncertainty-based Gating (MoGU), a novel Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) framework designed for regression tasks. MoGU replaces standard learned gating with an intrinsic routing paradigm where expert-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Gilad Aviv , Jacob Goldberger , Yoli Shavit

ReLU neural-networks have been in the focus of many recent theoretical works, trying to explain their empirical success. Nonetheless, there is still a gap between current theoretical results and empirical observations, even in the case of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Jonathan Fiat , Eran Malach , Shai Shalev-Shwartz

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models have gained popularity in achieving state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of tasks in computer vision and natural language processing. They effectively expand the model capacity while incurring a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Haiyang Huang , Newsha Ardalani , Anna Sun , Liu Ke , Hsien-Hsin S. Lee , Anjali Sridhar , Shruti Bhosale , Carole-Jean Wu , Benjamin Lee

Gating is a key technique used for integrating information from multiple sources by long short-term memory (LSTM) models and has recently also been applied to other models such as the highway network. Although gating is powerful, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Chao Zhang , Philip Woodland

Model merging dramatically reduces storage and computational resources by combining multiple expert models into a single multi-task model. Although recent model merging methods have shown promising results, they struggle to maintain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zijing Wang , Xingle Xu , Yongkang Liu , Yiqun Zhang , Peiqin Lin , Shi Feng , Xiaocui Yang , Daling Wang , Hinrich Schütze

Softmax is widely used in deep learning to map some representation to a probability distribution. As it is based on exp/log functions that are relatively expensive in multi-party computation, Mohassel and Zhang (2017) proposed a simpler…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Marcel Keller , Ke Sun

Product search is the most common way for people to satisfy their shopping needs on e-commerce websites. Products are typically annotated with one of several broad categorical tags, such as "Clothing" or "Electronics", as well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Zhuojian Xiao , Yunjiang jiang , Guoyu Tang , Lin Liu , Sulong Xu , Yun Xiao , Weipeng Yan