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matthewdgreentoday at 1:11 AM1 replyview on HN

I’m genuinely not an expert, but isn’t the beauty of MoE models the fact that we explicitly don’t evaluate every parameter on inference? We evaluate exactly the subset that are needed to evaluate a prompt. Seems like this will bring back data-dependent branches again.


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charcircuittoday at 1:32 AM

It would also kill speculative decoding. You would have to run a full inference pass for every token instead of being able to generate multiple tokens with a single pass.