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Quantile Balancing

Sets each expert's bias from the router-score quantile corresponding to its target load.

Also called QB load balancing for mixture-of-experts, QB for MoE load balancing, Quantile Balancing (QB).

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we introduce Quantile Balancing (QB), which sets each expert bias from the router-score quantile that matches its target load [111].

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while adopting QB (§ 2.3.3) for MoE load balancing

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Both updates are thus the same quantile along the token and expert axes, respectively, which gives the method its name.

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Quantile Balancing for load management

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Quantile Balancing derives expert allocation directly from router-score quantiles, eliminating heuristic updates and a sensitive balancing hyperparameter

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Other methods under model architecture :: channel mixer :: mixture of experts :: expert load balancing.