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Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures achieve parameter efficiency through conditional computation, yet contemporary designs suffer from two fundamental limitations: structural parameter isolation that causes catastrophic forgetting, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yuxing Gan , Ziyu Lei

The Sparsely-Activated Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) has gained increasing popularity for scaling up large language models (LLMs) without exploding computational costs. Despite its success, the current design faces a challenge where all experts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Manxi Sun , Wei Liu , Jian Luan , Pengzhi Gao , Bin Wang

Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning aims to continually enhance Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) by learning from new data without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. Mixture of Experts (MoE) architectures naturally facilitate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Chongyang Zhao , Mingsong Li , Haodong Lu , Dong Gong

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) in Large Language Models (LLMs) routes each token through a subset of specialized Feed-Forward Networks (FFN), known as experts. We present SteerMoE, a framework to steer MoE models by detecting and controlling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Mohsen Fayyaz , Ali Modarressi , Hanieh Deilamsalehy , Franck Dernoncourt , Ryan Rossi , Trung Bui , Hinrich Schütze , Nanyun Peng

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures power the majority of frontier large language models, but their inference is bottlenecked by irregular memory access patterns and expert routing overhead. Existing optimized MoE kernels (Megablocks,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Subhadip Mitra

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures enable conditional computation by activating only a subset of model parameters for each input. Although sparse routing has been highly effective in language models and has also shown promise in vision,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Vadim Vashkelis , Natalia Trukhina

The Mixture of Experts (MoE) is a widely known neural architecture where an ensemble of specialized sub-models optimizes overall performance with a constant computational cost. However, conventional MoEs pose challenges at scale due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Ted Zadouri , Ahmet Üstün , Arash Ahmadian , Beyza Ermiş , Acyr Locatelli , Sara Hooker

The sparsely gated mixture of experts (MoE) architecture sends different inputs to different subnetworks, i.e., experts, through trainable routers. MoE reduces the training computation significantly for large models, but its deployment can…

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures offer a scalable path for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in node classification tasks but typically rely on static and rigid routing strategies that enforce a uniform expert budget or coarse-grained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jiajun Zhou , Yadong Li , Xuanze Chen , Chen Ma , Chuang Zhao , Shanqing Yu , Qi Xuan

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) enables efficient scaling of large language models (LLMs) with sparsely activated experts during inference. To effectively deploy large MoE models on memory-constrained devices, many systems introduce *expert…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jingcong Liang , Siyuan Wang , Miren Tian , Yitong Li , Duyu Tang , Zhongyu Wei

Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) have substantially improved the training of large-scale language models, leading to significant gains in generation quality and reasoning ability. However, most existing research focuses on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Di Zhang , Xun Wu , Shaohan Huang , Lingjie Jiang , Yaru Hao , Li Dong , Zewen Chi , Zhifang Sui , Furu Wei

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) layers increase model capacity by activating only a small subset of experts per token, and typically rely on a learned router to map hidden states to expert assignments. In this work, we ask whether a dedicated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jama Hussein Mohamud , Drew Wagner , Mirco Ravanelli

The cosine router in Mixture of Experts (MoE) has recently emerged as an attractive alternative to the conventional linear router. Indeed, the cosine router demonstrates favorable performance in image and language tasks and exhibits better…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-06 Huy Nguyen , Pedram Akbarian , Trang Pham , Trang Nguyen , Shujian Zhang , Nhat Ho

As large language models continue to scale, computational costs and resource consumption have emerged as significant challenges. While existing sparsification methods like pruning reduce computational overhead, they risk losing model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Minxuan Lv , Zhenpeng Su , Leiyu Pan , Yizhe Xiong , Zijia Lin , Hui Chen , Wei Zhou , Jungong Han , Guiguang Ding , Cheng Luo , Di Zhang , Kun Gai , Songlin Hu

Among parallel decoding paradigms, diffusion large language models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising candidate that balances generation quality and throughput. However, their integration with Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Hao Mark Chen , Zhiwen Mo , Royson Lee , Qianzhou Wang , Da Li , Shell Xu Hu , Wayne Luk , Timothy Hospedales , Hongxiang Fan

The sparse Mixture of Experts(MoE) architecture has evolved as a powerful approach for scaling deep learning models to more parameters with comparable computation cost. As an important branch of large language model(LLM), MoE model only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Dong Pan , Bingtao Li , Yongsheng Zheng , Jiren Ma , Victor Fei

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures have emerged as a leading paradigm for scaling large language models through sparse, routing-based computation. However, this design introduces a new attack surface: the routing mechanism that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Zekun Fei , Zihao Wang , Weijie Liu , Ruiqi He , Jianing Geng , Zheli Liu , XiaoFeng Wang

Mixture of experts (MoE) is a popular technique to improve capacity of Large Language Models (LLMs) with conditionally-activated parallel experts. However, serving MoE models on memory-constrained devices is challenging due to the large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Rui Kong , Yuanchun Li , Qingtian Feng , Weijun Wang , Xiaozhou Ye , Ye Ouyang , Linghe Kong , Yunxin Liu

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures scale large language models (LLMs) by activating only a subset of experts per token, but the standard TopK routing assigns the same fixed number of experts to all tokens, ignoring their varying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Tiansheng Wen , Yifei Wang , Aosong Feng , Long Ma , Xinyang Liu , Yifan Wang , Lixuan Guo , Bo Chen , Stefanie Jegelka , Chenyu You

We present MERLOT, a scalable mixture-of-expert (MoE) based refinement of distilled large language model optimized for encrypted traffic classification. By applying model distillation techniques in a teacher-student paradigm, compact models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Yuxuan Chen , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang