What is mixture-of-experts architecture in plain terms?
Mixture-of-experts means a model is split into many specialized sub-networks called experts. For each query, a routing layer picks only a small fraction of those experts to handle the work, while the rest stay idle. The result is a model with the knowledge capacity of its full parameter count but the running cost of a much smaller one.
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