Shared expert trade-offs: GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek keep one while MiMo ships without
Nouamanetazi · x · 2026-11-06
The MoE handbook covers expert layout: GLM-5.3, Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash all keep a shared expert, while MiMo-V2.6 ships without one. Nemotron 3 Super/Ultra and Kimi K3 also run their experts in a smaller latent space than the model's hidden size, trading parameters for compute.
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