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AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Apr 147/10

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The Myth of Expert Specialization in MoEs: Why Routing Reflects Geometry, Not Necessarily Domain Expertise

Researchers demonstrate that Mixture of Experts (MoEs) specialization in large language models emerges from hidden state geometry rather than specialized routing architecture, challenging assumptions about how these systems work. Expert routing patterns resist human interpretation across models and tasks, suggesting that understanding MoE specialization remains as difficult as the broader unsolved problem of interpreting LLM internal representations.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 236/10

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Disentangling Intrinsic Importance from Emergent Structure in Multi-Expert Orchestration

Researchers introduce INFORM, an interpretability framework for analyzing multi-expert LLM orchestration systems, revealing that frequently routed experts often serve as structural hubs with minimal functional impact while sparsely selected experts can be critically important. The study challenges conventional assumptions about expert importance in collaborative AI systems and provides tools for understanding opaque decision-making in complex model architectures.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 196/10

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Toward Calibrated Mixture-of-Experts Under Distribution Shift

Researchers demonstrate that calibration—aligning model confidence with actual accuracy—behaves differently in mixture-of-experts (MoE) models depending on routing mechanisms. While expert-level calibration suffices for hard-routed models under distribution shift, soft-routed models require additional adversarial reweighting techniques to maintain both accuracy and calibration reliability.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 126/10

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Probing Routing-Conditional Calibration in Attention-Residual Transformers

Researchers question whether routing traces in Attention-Residual transformers provide genuine evidence of improved post-hoc calibration beyond standard confidence metrics. Through rigorous statistical testing with matched controls, the study finds that routing-specific features offer minimal stable evidence of better calibration, suggesting previous claims of calibration improvements may reflect methodological artifacts rather than true model improvements.