Modality-aware load balancing in MoE emerges as an interesting multimodal architecture trend
stochasticchasm · x · 2026-09-11
A technical thread on multimodal MoE design: modality-specific experts have existed for a while and now tend to emerge during training, so a load balancing objective that balances both text and image tokens is a notable development. The discussion also covers hysparse + indexshare style designs — sharing global KV cache with per-layer SWA — as a decent tradeoff between a tiny KV cache and letting each layer see new states.
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