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Optimal Sparsity of Mixture-of-Experts Language Models for Reasoning Tasks
arXiv – CS AI|Taishi Nakamura, Satoki Ishikawa, Masaki Kawamura, Takumi Okamoto, Daisuke Nohara, Jun Suzuki, Rio Yokota||4 views
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Researchers analyzed Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models to determine optimal sparsity levels for different tasks. They found that reasoning tasks require balancing active compute (FLOPs) with optimal data-to-parameter ratios, while memorization tasks benefit from more parameters regardless of sparsity.
Key Takeaways
- →Models with identical training loss but greater active compute achieve higher reasoning accuracy.
- →Memorization tasks improve with more parameters, while reasoning tasks benefit from optimal tokens-per-parameter ratios.
- →Reasoning capabilities are more data-hungry compared to memorization skills in MoE architectures.
- →Neither reinforcement learning post-training nor increased test-time compute changed the fundamental scaling trends.
- →Optimal MoE sparsity must consider both active FLOPs and total tokens per parameter jointly.
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