Switch Transformers: Scaling to Trillion Parameter Models with Simple and Efficient Sparsity
Send each token to a single expert — and scale a model to a trillion parameters.
Fedus et al. · JMLR 2022 · Foundations. Read the paper ↗
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- What is Switch Transformers: Scaling to Trillion Parameter Models with Simple and Efficient Sparsity?
- Send each token to a single expert — and scale a model to a trillion parameters.
- Who published Switch Transformers: Scaling to Trillion Parameter Models with Simple and Efficient Sparsity, and where?
- Fedus et al. — JMLR 2022 (arXiv:2101.03961).
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