EMO: Pretraining Mixture of Experts for Emergent Modularity
Large language models are typically deployed as monolithic systems, requiring the full model even when applications need only a narrow subset of capabilities, e.g., code, math, or domain-specific knowledge. Mixture-of-Experts (MoEs) seemingly offer a potential alternative by activating only a subset of experts per input, but in practice, restricting inference to a subset of experts for a given domain leads to severe performance degradation. This limits their practicality in memory-constrained settings, especially as models grow larger and sparser. We introduce EMO, an MoE designed for modularity-the independent use and composition of expert subsets-without requiring human-defined priors. ...
| Authors | Ryan Wang, Akshita Bhagia, Sewon Min |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 7 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 10 May 2026 |
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