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by ac29 50 days ago
Modern GPUs aren't optimized for MoEs though?

The advantage to a dense model like this Mistral one is that it is as smart as a much larger MoE model so it can fit on less GPUs. The tradeoff is that it is much slower since it has to read 100% of its weights for every token, MoE models typically only read about a tenth (though sparsity levels vary).

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Thanks, makes sense. I meant Blackwell is explicitly optimized for MoEs.