Evaluating Expert Contributions in a MoE LLM for Quiz-Based Tasks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17187v1
• Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:23:52 GMT
• Title: Evaluating Expert Contributions in a MoE LLM for Quiz-Based Tasks
• Abstract summary: We evaluate expert contributions on the quiz-based MMLU benchmark.<n>We show that most experts were never activated during inference on this benchmark.<n>We also demonstrate that the average performance of some experts within the same layer varies significantly.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) with Mixture of Experts (MoE) layers have gained significant attention. Currently, state-of-the-art LLMs utilize this architecture. There is a substantial amount of research on how to train such models and how to select hyperparameters for this architecture. However, there is a lack of studies focusing on post-evaluation analysis of MoE layer properties. In this paper, we take a first step toward closing this gap by evaluating expert contributions on the quiz-based MMLU benchmark. We show that most experts were never activated during inference on this benchmark. Additionally, the output distribution of gating networks is much closer to uniform than sparse. Finally, we demonstrate that the average performance of some experts within the same layer varies significantly.

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