不训练即可解决专家模型坍缩问题,利用专家权重的特征向量做路由。
Eigenvectors of Experts are Training-free Non-collapsing Routers

- 用专家权重矩阵的特征向量代替传统路由,无需重新训练。
- 在多种语言和视觉任务上,模型性能提升且抗噪声能力强。
- 适合想快速优化现有专家模型的研究者或工程师使用。
稀疏专家混合模型(SMoE)通过将输入标记路由到选定的专家子集来提升大语言模型的训练效率。尽管取得显著成功,其训练与推理仍面临专家坍缩问题,导致模型性能下降。以往研究多聚焦于改进路由器,但这些方法通常需要从头训练或微调,成本高昂。我们进一步发现,即使对预训练良好的SMoE模型,该问题依然存在,理论与实证均证实这一点。分析表明,专家权重矩阵的特征向量蕴含丰富语义信息,为此我们提出无需训练的奇异值分解专家模型(SSMoE),利用专家权重的谱特性实现高效路由。在多种语言与视觉任务中,无论在干净还是污染数据下,实验均验证了其强大的泛化能力与鲁棒性。研究揭示了深入理解模型内部结构对设计更优SMoE架构的重要性。代码已公开于https://github.com/giangdip2410/SSMoE。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Sparse Mixture of Experts (SMoE) architectures improve the training efficiency of Large Language Models (LLMs) by routing input tokens to a selected subset of specialized experts. Despite their remarkable success, both training and inference in SMoE models suffer from the expert collapse issue (Chi et al., 2022), which degrades model performance. Prior studies primarily focus on improving the router; however, such methods rely on training from scratch or fine-tuning, which requires high computational and data-processing costs. Furthermore, we demonstrate that, despite these efforts, the issue persists when advancing well-pretrained SMoE models, as evidenced by both theoretical and empirical results. To fill that gap, we analyze the advanced SMoE models and observe that the eigenvectors of expert weight matrices encode rich semantic information, pointing to an effective alternative to conventional routing strategies. Building on this insight, we propose Singular Value Decomposition SMoE (SSMoE), a novel and training-free framework that leverages spectral properties of the expert weights to address the collapse issue and enhance model performance. Extensive experiments across diverse language and vision tasks, under both clean and corrupt data settings, demonstrate the strong generalization and robustness of SSMoE. Our findings highlight how a deeper understanding of model internals can guide the development of more effective SMoE architectures. Our implementation is publicly available at https://github.com/giangdip2410/SSMoE.
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