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New formulation unifies expert pruning for Mixture-of-Experts models

Researchers have developed a unified formulation for one-shot expert pruning in Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models. This new approach organizes pruning criteria around routing frequency, gate weighting, and activation strength. The formulation leads to a principle for selecting pruning criteria based on whether the task is task-agnostic or task-specific. Two new task-agnostic criteria, Mean Activation Norm (MAN) and Mean Squared Activation Norm (MSAN), were introduced and demonstrated strong performance across various MoE models and benchmarks. AI

IMPACT This research offers a more systematic approach to optimizing MoE models for deployment, potentially leading to more efficient memory usage and improved performance across various tasks.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper published on arXiv detailing a new formulation and selection principle for one-shot MoE expert pruning. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Zongfang Liu, Jinghui Zhang, Zijian Ma, Guangyi Chen, Xin Yuan ·

    How to Score Experts for One-Shot MoE Expert Pruning: A Unified Formulation and Selection Principle

    arXiv:2606.15716v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models reduce per-token computation through sparse expert activation, yet deployment still requires storing the full expert pool, making one-shot expert pruning a practical approach for reducing mem…