ST-MoE: Designing Stable and Transferable Sparse Expert Models
Scale has opened new frontiers in natural language processing -- but at a high cost. In response, Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) and Switch Transformers have been proposed as an energy efficient path to even larger and more capable language models. But advancing the state-of-the-art across a broad set of natural language tasks has been hindered by training instabilities and uncertain quality during fine-tuning. Our work focuses on these issues and acts as a design guide. We conclude by scaling a sparse model to 269B parameters, with a computational cost comparable to a 32B dense encoder-decoder Transformer (Stable and Transferable Mixture-of-Experts or ST-MoE-32B). For the first time, a sparse model achieves state-of-the-art performance in transfer learning, across a diverse set of tasks including reasoning (SuperGLUE, ARC Easy, ARC Challenge), summarization (XSum, CNN-DM), closed book question answering (WebQA, Natural Questions), and adversarially constructed tasks (Winogrande, ANLI R3).
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ARCCommon Sense ReasoningCoreference ResolutionDecoderMixture-of-ExpertsNatural Language InferenceNatural QuestionsQuestion AnsweringST-MoE-L 4.1B (fine-tuned)Transfer LearningWinograndeWord Sense DisambiguationMethods 이 논문이 사용한 방법론
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