Understanding the Sparse Mixture of Experts (SMoE) Layer in Mixtral
This blog post will explore the findings of the “Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer” paper and its implementation in MixtralImage from Author generated by DALL-EThe Quest for SpecializationWhen challenging a difficult problem, divide and conquer is often a valuable solution. Whether it be Henry Ford’s assembly lines, the way merge sort partitions arrays, or how society at large tends to have people who specialize in specific jobs, the list goes on and on!Naturally, when people…