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Comment by dannyw

MoE has nothing to do with multimodality.

MoE is a concept proposed in 1991, before the deep learning era (which is before what I call the transformers era). You can think of it like sharing.

Contrary to popular belief; 'experts' in MoE LLMs do not specialize. There's no expert trained to be good at maths, or python, or writing, or whatever. It's an inference optimization.

As for reasoning in non-text modalities, you might find this paper interesting :) https://huggingface.co/papers/2502.05171

parent dannyw 3 months ago

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