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View SchemaHorseshoe Mixtures-of-Experts (HS-MoE)
| Authors | Nick Polson, Vadim Sokolov |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | 2601.09043vv1 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09043 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Abstract
Horseshoe mixtures-of-experts (HS-MoE) models provide a Bayesian framework for sparse expert selection in mixture-of-experts architectures. We combine the horseshoe prior's adaptive global-local shrinkage with input-dependent gating, yielding data-adaptive sparsity in expert usage. Our primary methodological contribution is a particle learning algorithm for sequential inference, in which the filter is propagated forward in time while tracking only sufficient statistics. We also discuss how HS-MoE relates to modern mixture-of-experts layers in large language models, which are deployed under extreme sparsity constraints (e.g., activating a small number of experts per token out of a large pool).
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