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Towards Crowdsourced Training of Large Neural Networks using Decentralized Mixture-of-Experts

NeurIPS 2020 · Architectures and efficiency › Mixture of experts · approach: Sparse MoE as regularization and attention · 23 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Use asynchronous DMoE instead of model-parallel trainingLearning@home · Distributed block-model throughput under simulated network latencytraining throughputHelped
Increase latencyFeed-forward and DMoE models · MNISTconvergence performanceHurt
Use DMoE rather than a traditional feed-forward network under high latencyMNIST models · MNISTconvergence performanceHelped
Add a 10% expert failure rateDMoE Transformer · WikiText-2language-model performanceHelped
Remove gradient checkpointing (ablation)Learning@home Transformer training · Transformer blocks, 100ms latencytraining throughput: approximately 9 times less throughputHurt

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