Mixture of Experts (MoE)
A dense 70B transformer activates every parameter for every token. A 671B MoE activates only 37B per token and beats it on every benchmark. Sparsity is the most important scaling idea of the decade.
Visual edition planned
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It is part of the curriculum and will get the same treatment as Phase 1 — a visual cover, hands-on labs, derivations with numeric checks and a quiz. Until then, the original lesson is the best place to read it:
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