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Channel Selection for Mixture-of-Experts Decoding Needs No Calibration Data
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Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models are bottlenecked by loading routed-expert weights from memory during interactive decoding at small batch sizes. Because most intermediate channels in a routed expert contribute little to any single token, channel selectors predict which channels matter and read only their weights, typically keeping channels above a threshold calibrated on offline data. We show that channel selection needs no calibration data. First, a calibrated threshold does not fix how much a selector reads, because the number of channels passing it varies across inputs; Prox with thresholds calibrated for an 18% read budget actually reads only 12.9% on average across our benchmarks. Second, top-k keeps each token's k highest-scoring channels and needs no calibration data. At the calibrated budget, a selector's top-k version matches or beats its threshold version on the same score in 40 of 43 comparisons at 13% and 18% budgets, including all 23 on generation tasks. The top-k versions also avoid the repetition-loop collapse that calibrated thresholds cause on Gemma 4. Calibrating a threshold thus provides neither of the two things selectors use it for: a known read budget and a consistent accuracy gain at that budget. We furthermore introduce a reader built entirely from the model's weights, which screens channels with a ternary sketch and recovers the skipped ones with a low-rank map. Across three post-trained MoE models, our reader retains 98.1% of full-model accuracy at 17.8% of routed-expert reads, with Triton kernels running MoE blocks 1.60 to 1.90x faster than optimized vLLM at batch one and up to 2.69x at larger batches on the same three models.
作者备注：37 pages, 12 figures. Code: https://github.com/AidenGeunGeun/calibration-free-moe
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Channel Selection for Mixture-of-Experts Decoding Needs No Calibration Data
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models are bottlenecked by loading routed-expert weights from memory during interactive decoding at small batch sizes. Because most intermediate channels in a routed expert contribute little to any single token, channel selectors predict which channels matter and read only their weights, typically keeping channels above a threshold calibrated on offline data. We show that channel selection needs no calibration data. First, a calibrated threshold does not fix how much a selector reads, because the number of channels passing it varies across inputs; Prox with thresholds calibrated for an 18% read budget actually reads only 12.9% on average across our benchmarks. Second, top-k keeps each token's k highest-scoring channels and needs no calibration data. At the calibrated budget, a selector's top-k version matches or beats its threshold version on the same score in 40 of 43 comparisons at 13% and 18% budgets, including all 23 on generation tasks. The top-k versions also avoid the repetition-loop collapse that calibrated thresholds cause on Gemma 4. Calibrating a threshold thus provides neither of the two things selectors use it for: a known read budget and a consistent accuracy gain at that budget. We furthermore introduce a reader built entirely from the model's weights, which screens channels with a ternary sketch and recovers the skipped ones with a low-rank map. Across three post-trained MoE models, our reader retains 98.1% of full-model accuracy at 17.8% of routed-expert reads, with Triton kernels running MoE blocks 1.60 to 1.90x faster than optimized vLLM at batch one and up to 2.69x at larger batches on the same three models.
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