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Mixture of Experts

An architecture where multiple specialized sub-networks (experts) share a model, but only a few activate for each input.

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An architecture where multiple specialized sub-networks (experts) share a model, but only a few activate for each input. A router decides which experts to use. This lets models be massive in total parameters while keeping compute per token manageable. Mixtral and reportedly GPT-4 use this approach.

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