从专家模型中提取通用知识,提升小模型训练效果
XPERT: Expert Knowledge Transfer for Effective Training of Language Models

- 通过分析激活模式识别跨领域通用专家
- 用张量分解优化专家表征并复用知识
- 显著加速收敛,适配不同规模模型训练
混合专家(MoE)语言模型将知识显式组织为路由专家模块,使专家级表征可追溯可分析。通过分析MoE大模型中的专家激活模式,我们发现部分专家在多种知识领域中持续激活,这些共现专家编码了跨领域的通用知识,与模型泛化能力密切相关,从而引出如何实际复用此类专家知识的问题。为此,我们提出XPERT框架,从预训练的MoE LLM中提取、整合并重用专家知识,以支持不同规模语言模型的有效训练。XPERT通过仅推理分析识别跨域专家,利用张量分解优化其表征,并将提取的知识适配至下游模型。在语言理解与对话生成基准上的实验表明,受益于复用专家知识的模型相比强基线表现更优且收敛更快。结果表明MoE LLM是结构化且可复用的知识源,验证了专家级知识重用对提升模型训练的价值。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models organize knowledge into explicitly routed expert modules, making expert-level representations traceable and analyzable. By analyzing expert activation patterns in MoE large language models (LLMs), we find that a subset of experts is consistently activated across diverse knowledge domains. These common experts encode cross-domain, generalizable knowledge that is closely related to model generalization, naturally raising the question of how such identifiable expert knowledge can be practically reused. Motivated by this observation, we propose XPERT, a framework that extracts, consolidates, and reuses expert knowledge from pre-trained MoE LLMs to support more effective training of language models across different model scales. XPERT identifies cross-domain experts via inference-only analysis, refines their representations through tensor decomposition, and adapts the extracted knowledge to reuse in downstream models. Experiments on language understanding and dialogue generation benchmarks show that models benefiting from reused expert knowledge achieve consistently stronger performance and faster convergence compared to strong baselines. These results highlight MoE LLMs as structured and reusable knowledge sources, and demonstrate the value of expert-level knowledge reuse for improving model training.
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