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ModelBest's LES enables 35B MoE models to run on phones

ModelBest has developed a method called LES (Lookahead Expert Scheduling) that enables a 35 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model to run efficiently on mobile devices. This technique preloads experts from phone flash memory, significantly boosting inference speed. The company reports that LES achieves over 20 tokens per second on an iPhone, a 6.07x improvement over baseline performance, and has made the code publicly available. AI

IMPACT Enables large MoE models to run on mobile devices, potentially expanding on-device AI capabilities.

RANK_REASON Research paper detailing a novel method for running large MoE models on edge devices. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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ModelBest's LES enables 35B MoE models to run on phones

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  1. Pandaily TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] (Pandaily) ·

    ModelBest Details LES, the Method Behind a 35B MoE Model Running on Phones at Over 20 Tokens/s

    ModelBest's LES prefetches next-layer experts from phone flash; it reports 20.51 tokens/s on an iPhone, 6.07x its baseline, and has open-sourced the code.