Training Communication-Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Models with Layer Re-Configuration
When training Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models with expert parallelism, all-to-all token dispatch and combine collectives can consume a substantial fraction of end-to-end training time. In this work, we study communication-efficient MoE models (CE-MoE), in which we adopt a heterogeneous layer pattern that decouples token-mixing and channel-mixing depth. Compared to conventional models…
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