Confinus-2x7B-AWQ

NeuralNovel/Confinus-2x7B AWQ

• Model creator: NeuralNovel
• Original model: Confinus-2x7B

Model Summary

In the boundless sands ..

A model to test how MoE will route without square expansion.

"What is a Mixture of Experts (MoE)?"

The scale of a model is one of the most important axes for better model quality. Given a fixed computing budget, training a larger model for fewer steps is better than training a smaller model for more steps.

Mixture of Experts enable models to be pretrained with far less compute, which means you can dramatically scale up the model or dataset size with the same compute budget as a dense model. In particular, a MoE model should achieve the same quality as its dense counterpart much faster during pretraining.

So, what exactly is a MoE? In the context of transformer models, a MoE consists of two main elements:

Sparse MoE layers are used instead of dense feed-forward network (FFN) layers. MoE layers have a certain number of “experts” (e.g. 32 in my "frankenMoE"), where each expert is a neural network. In practice, the experts are FFNs, but they can also be more complex networks or even a MoE itself, leading to hierarchical MoEs!

A gate network or router, that determines which tokens are sent to which expert. For example, in the image below, the token “More” is sent to the second expert, and the token "Parameters” is sent to the first network. As we’ll explore later, we can send a token to more than one expert. How to route a token to an expert is one of the big decisions when working with MoEs - the router is composed of learned parameters and is pretrained at the same time as the rest of the network.

At every layer, for every token, a router network chooses two of these groups (the “experts”) to process the token and combine their output additively.