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Developer builds tiny 188M MoE LLM from scratch on free GPU

Shivam Kumar, founder of VisionQuantech, details his process for building a small, 188 million parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model using only a free Nvidia T4 GPU. He employed a methodology called the Main Researcher System v4, which involved extracting MoE primitives and meta-patterns from existing research, resolving contradictions using TRIZ principles, and using a combinatorial engine to screen potential architectures. The resulting model, DeepSeekMoE-tiny, achieves the compute efficiency of a ~51 million parameter dense model while offering significantly more capacity. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates efficient LLM architecture design principles applicable to resource-constrained environments.

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Shivam Kumar ·

    I Built a 188M Mixture-of-Experts LLM From Scratch on a Free GPU

    <p><em>By Shivam Kumar, founder of VisionQuantech. This is the honest version — what's proven, what's measured, and what's still running.</em></p> <h2> Why a tiny MoE? </h2> <p>Most mixture-of-experts research happens at billion-parameter scale. DeepSeekMoE, Mixtral, GLaM — all b…