Sparse mixture of experts
A mixture of experts in which a gating network sends each token to only a few of many experts. The model can have a very large number of weights while each token uses only a small part of them.
Introduced by
Sparse MoE, 2017
Used by
- GShard, 2020
- Switch Transformer, 2021
- Mixtral 8x7B, 2023
- DeepSeekMoE, 2024