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He: Mixtral's top-k before softmax routing hurts MoE upcycling performance
“We actually found the mix-throughs approach didn't work as well as expected, because the original model, the original switch transformer from Google uses a softmax and topk for a reason. And because of upcycling, if you switch to topk, then softmax, it actuall…”
Ethan He Oct 29, 2024 ▶ 24:34 [Paper Club] Upcycling Large Language Models into Mixture of Experts
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Ethan He: NVIDIA Cosmos uses a 7B video model with a larger LLM rewriter
“I think in in Cosmos, we use Lama or we use mix, mix through. And the Cosmos video model itself is only seven B, and the model, the language model is a prompt rewriter. It's bigger than that.”
Ethan He Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 1:15:37 Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
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