Why not build a small specialist model instead of a large MoE?
exaknight21 · reddit · 2026-07-24
A Reddit user asks a conceptual question about Mixture-of-Experts models: if MoEs already have small experts, why not build whole small expert models instead of one large general model with multiple experts?
The post is essentially a request for intuition around specialization versus general-purpose design, using an example like a hypothetical “Qwen3.6-3B Coding Expert.”
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