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Switch Transformer

20 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.

Switch Transformer is a sparsely-activated expert Transformer model that aims to simplify and improve over Mixture of Experts. Through distillation of sparse pre-trained and specialized fine-tuned models into small dense models, it reduces the model size by up to 99% while preserving 30% of the quality gains of the large sparse teacher. It also uses selective precision training that enables training with lower bfloat16 precision, as well as an initialization scheme that allows for scaling to a larger number of experts, and also increased regularization that improves sparse model fine-tuning and multi-task training.

Source: Switch Transformers: Scaling to Trillion Parameter...

Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

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TaskPapers
Mixture-of-Experts13
Language Modelling4
GPU3
Language Modeling3
Machine Translation3
Question Answering3
Text Generation2
Translation2
All1
Avg1
CPU1
Common Sense Reasoning1
Data Augmentation1
In-Context Learning1
Large Language Model1
Model Compression1
Neural Architecture Search1
Object Detection1
RAG1
Reinforcement Learning (RL)1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Switch Transformer: 2021 to 2025, peak 7 7 0 2021: 5 papers 2021 2022: 7 papers 2022 2023: 5 papers 2023 2024: 0 papers 2024 2025: 3 papers 2025
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Categories archive 2025-07-28

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