Layerwise Recurrent Router for Mixture-of-Experts
The scaling of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized their
capabilities in various tasks, yet this growth must be matched with efficient
computational strategies. The Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture stands out
for its ability to scale model size without significantly increasing training
costs. Despite their advantages, current MoE models often display parameter
inefficiency. For instance, a pre-trained MoE-based LLM with 52 billion
parameters might perform comparably to a standard model with 6.7 billion
parameters. Being a crucial part of MoE, current routers in different layers
independently assign tokens without leveraging historical routing information,
potentially leading to suboptimal token-expert combinations and the parameter
inefficiency problem. To alleviate this issue, we introduce the Layerwise
Recurrent Router for Mixture-of-Experts (RMoE). RMoE leverages a Gated
Recurrent Unit (GRU) to establish dependencies between routing decisions across
consecutive layers. Such layerwise recurrence can be efficiently parallelly
computed for input tokens and introduces negotiable costs. Our extensive
empirical evaluations demonstrate that RMoE-based language models consistently
outperform a spectrum of baseline models. Furthermore, RMoE integrates a novel
computation stage orthogonal to existing methods, allowing seamless
compatibility with other MoE architectures. Our analyses attribute RMoE's gains
to its effective cross-layer information sharing, which also improves expert
selection and diversity. Our code is at https://github.com/qiuzh20/RMoE
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Layerwise Recurrent Router for Mixture-of-Experts
The scaling of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized their
capabilities in various tasks, yet this growth must be matched with efficient
computational strategies. The Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture stands out
for its ability to scale model size without significantly increasing training
costs. Despite their advantages, current MoE models often display parameter
inefficiency. For instance, a pre-trained MoE-based LLM with 52 billion
parameters might perform comparably to a standard model with 6.7 billion
parameters. Being a crucial part of MoE, current routers in different layers
independently assign tokens without leveraging historical routing information,
potentially leading to suboptimal token-expert combinations and the parameter
inefficiency problem. To alleviate this issue, we introduce the Layerwise
Recurrent Router for Mixture-of-Experts (RMoE). RMoE leverages a Gated
Recurrent Unit (GRU) to establish dependencies between routing decisions across
consecutive layers. Such layerwise recurrence can be efficiently parallelly
computed for input tokens and introduces negotiable costs. Our extensive
empirical evaluations demonstrate that RMoE-based language models consistently
outperform a spectrum of baseline models. Furthermore, RMoE integrates a novel
computation stage orthogonal to existing methods, allowing seamless
compatibility with other MoE architectures. Our analyses attribute RMoE's gains
to its effective cross-layer information sharing, which also improves expert
selection and diversity. Our code is at https://github.com/qiuzh20/RMoE
Layerwise Recurrent Router for Mixture-of-Experts (RMoE) improves MoE models by leveraging GRU-based cross-layer dependencies, enhancing expert selection and diversity without significant computational cost.
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