Mixtral of Experts (Paper Explained)

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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
3:00 - Mixture of Experts
6:00 - Classic Transformer Blocks
11:15 - Expert Routing
17:00 - Sparse Expert Routing
22:00 - Expert Parallelism
25:00 - Experimental Results
31:30 - Routing Analysis
33:20 - Conclusion

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04088

Abstract:
We introduce Mixtral 8x7B, a Sparse Mixture of Experts (SMoE) language model. Mixtral has the same architecture as Mistral 7B, with the difference that each layer is composed of 8 feedforward blocks (i.e. experts). For every …

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