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EMO: Pretraining Mixture of Experts for Emergent Modularity

Ryan Wang , Akshita Bhagia , Sewon Min
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EMO pretrains mixture-of-experts models so expert subsets emerge as independent modules for domains with little performance loss.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Large language models usually require their entire size even for narrow tasks like coding or math. The paper introduces EMO, a way to pretrain mixture-of-experts models that lets small groups of experts handle specific domains on their own. The method works by making tokens in the same document share an expert pool, which causes experts to group by semantic area during training. This produces models where keeping only a quarter of the experts loses just one percent accuracy, while ordinary MoEs fail badly under the same restriction. The result opens a route to running large sparse models efficiently on limited hardware by activating only the needed expert modules.

Core claim

By forcing tokens within each document to draw experts from the same pool while different documents may use different pools, EMO causes expert subsets to specialize in semantic domains such as mathematics or programming code. A 14-billion-parameter total model with 1 billion active parameters trained this way performs on par with standard MoEs, yet retains nearly all accuracy when only 25 percent or even 12.5 percent of the experts are kept for inference.

What carries the argument

The per-document shared expert pool constraint that induces coherent groupings from document boundaries alone.

If this is right

  • The full EMO model matches the accuracy of a standard mixture-of-experts model of the same size.
  • Retaining only 25 percent of experts causes an absolute performance drop of 1 percent.
  • Retaining only 12.5 percent of experts causes an absolute performance drop of 3 percent.
  • The specialized expert subsets focus on semantic domains rather than low-level syntactic features.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Expert groups trained this way might be combined across different EMO models to create new capabilities without retraining.
  • The method could make it practical to deploy very large models on edge devices by loading only domain-relevant experts.
  • Similar constraints might be explored for other forms of modularity, such as task-specific or language-specific groupings.

Load-bearing premise

That the natural boundaries between documents during pretraining are enough to produce coherent, reusable expert specializations.

What would settle it

Train the same architecture without the document-level expert pool sharing and check whether expert subsets still allow low-degradation domain-specific inference.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.06663 by Akshita Bhagia, Ryan Wang, Sewon Min.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: (Left) EMO is an MoE trained with modularity as a first-class objective. For a given domain (e.g., math, code, biomedical), users can select a small subset of experts of any size and retain near full-model performance. This turns a single model into a composable architecture, enabling flexible deployment with improved memory-accuracy tradeoffs for large, sparse MoEs. (Right) Averaged performance over 16 MM… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Comparison of training of a standard MoE and view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Selective Expert Use of MoEs trained on 1T tokens (§5.2). Results are shown both without fine-tuning (top) and with fine-tuning (bottom). For MMLU and MMLU-Pro, each domain selects a corresponding expert subset as described in §4.2, and we report macro-averaged results across domains (16 for MMLU and 13 for MMLU-Pro). The baseline MoE degrades sharply under subset restriction, whereas EMO remains robust, w… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Expert Selection Methods in selective expert use of MoEs trained on 1T tokens (§5.2). Results are without fine-tuning. For MMLU and MMLU-Pro, each domain selects a corresponding expert subset as described in §4.2. EMO expert subsets maintain high performance compared to regular MoEs across both router-based and Easy-EP expert-selection strategies. Random expert selection converges quickly to random perform… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Token Clusters of pretraining data on MoEs trained on 1T tokens, clustered according to the process described in §5.3. Claude Code was used to assign a representative short description for each cluster. EMO clusters correspond to semantically meaningful domains, with tokens from the same document largely grouped together. Standard MoE training produces clusters of surface-level or syntactic features, with … view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Domain Similarity of WebOrganizer documents on MoEs trained on 1T tokens (§5.3). Expert utilization is highly similar (similarity > 0.6 for most domain pairs) in regular MoEs, while they are much more distinguishable (similarity < 0.4) in EMO, especially in later layers. This reveals two key insights. First, domain-level specialization emerges in EMO, even with no explicit supervision. Second, this special… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Global vs Local Load Balancing and its effects on training stability (Appendix A.1). Using global load balancing leads to more stable pre-training runs with less gradient norm spikes. A.1 Load Balancing We begin by making explicit how the simplified formulation of load balancing as described in Section 3.1 is implemented in practice. Under standard implementations, the statistics ¯fi and P¯ i are computed … view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Standard MoE LR and LB Ablations. We ablate standard MoEs across learning rates and load balancing (Appendix A.4). We identify the best configuration as lr = 4e − 3 and lb = 1e − 1. For load balancing coefficient, we do not observe significant differences between 1e − 1 and 1e − 2, and choose the former because it had slightly higher training stability. Due to limited compute budget, we perform ablations f… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: EMO ablations over LR. Ablations of EMO across learning rates. Due to limited compute resources, we fix lb = 1e − 1 and only ablate the learning rate, finding that lr = 4e − 3 offered the best training loss. Minor training loss spikes in lr = 4e − 3 were resolved by implementing load balancing over global batches. EMO Hyperparameter Ablations. In view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Prenorm w. No QK Norm Ablations. Ablations on ReorderedNorm from [17] versus Prenorm with removed QK-norm (Appendix A.5). On both standard MoEs and EMO, using Prenorm with removed QK-norm achieves lower loss than ReorderedNorm. These experiments were conducted without applying global load balancing, shared experts, and dynamic d. Both EMO and the standard MoE in this work implemented Prenorm with removed … view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Selective Expert Use of MoEs trained on 130B tokens (§5.2). We report performance before fine-tuning (top) and after fine-tuning (bottom). For MMLU and MMLU-Pro, each domain selects a corresponding expert subset as described in §4.2, and we report macro-averaged results across domains (17 for MMLU and 14 for MMLU-Pro). “Trained baseline @k” denotes a model trained from scratch with a parameter count match… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Effects of validation data quantity (n) and the presence of few-shot demonstrations (on both the data used to select experts and the actual test-set queries) on EMO expert subset performance, without any subsequent fine-tuning. By default MMLU/MMLU Pro have 5-shot demonstrations and GSM8K has 8-shot demonstrations. For GSM8K, we run with three random seeds for n=1, 5, and 10. EMO is sample-efficient in ex… view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Selective expert use on Other category on EMO and standard MoEs trained on 130B tokens (Appendix B.3). Results are without fine-tuning. “Trained baseline @k” denotes a model trained from scratch with a parameter count matched to a k-expert subset. On tasks that are general, EMO expert subsets of sizes 32 and 8 performs worse compared to “Reg MoE @32” and “Dense @8” that are trained from scratch. When the … view at source ↗
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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. Our key idea is to encourage tokens from similar domains to rely on similar experts. Since tokens within a document often share a domain, EMO restricts them to select experts from a shared pool, while allowing different documents to use different pools. This simple constraint enables coherent expert groupings to emerge during pretraining using document boundaries alone. We pretrain a 1B-active, 14B-total EMO on 1T tokens. As a full model, it matches standard MoE performance. Crucially, it enables selective expert use: retaining only 25% (12.5%) of experts incurs just a 1% (3%) absolute drop, whereas standard MoEs break under the same setting. We further find that expert subsets in EMO specialize at semantic levels (e.g., domains such as math or code), in contrast to the low-level syntactic specialization observed in standard MoEs. Altogether, our results demonstrate a path toward modular, memory-efficient deployment of large, sparse models and open new opportunities for composable architectures.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces EMO, a Mixture-of-Experts architecture that imposes a document-boundary constraint during pretraining: tokens within the same document must select experts from a shared pool, while different documents may use different pools. This is intended to induce emergent modularity so that coherent expert subsets (specializing at semantic levels such as math or code) can be retained independently. A 1B-active / 14B-total parameter model is pretrained on 1T tokens; as a full model it matches standard MoE performance, but retaining only 25% (12.5%) of experts incurs only a 1% (3%) absolute drop on downstream tasks, whereas standard MoEs degrade sharply. The authors claim this enables memory-efficient, composable deployment without human priors or post-training routing adjustments.

Significance. If the reported robustness and semantic specialization hold under rigorous controls, the work would provide a practical route toward modular sparse models that can be deployed in memory-constrained settings by activating only domain-relevant expert subsets. The contrast with standard MoEs and the demonstration that document boundaries alone suffice for coherent groupings would be a notable empirical contribution to efficient LLM scaling.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): the central performance claims (1% drop at 25% retention, 3% drop at 12.5% retention) are stated without naming the evaluation benchmarks, the precise standard-MoE baselines, training hyperparameters, or any statistical significance tests; these omissions prevent verification that the reported gains are attributable to the proposed constraint rather than data statistics or implementation details.
  2. [§3 and §4.2] §3 (Method) and §4.2 (Ablations): no ablation is presented that trains an otherwise identical MoE while removing the per-document expert-pool constraint. Without this control, it remains possible that the observed subset robustness and semantic specialization arise from router initialization, data distribution, or other unstated choices rather than the document-boundary mechanism itself.
  3. [§4.3] §4.3 (Expert Analysis): the claim that EMO experts specialize at semantic levels (math, code) rather than low-level syntax is supported only by qualitative examples; quantitative metrics (e.g., expert activation overlap across domains, or controlled probes) are needed to substantiate the contrast with standard MoEs.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3] Notation for the expert-pool restriction (e.g., how the shared pool is sampled per document) should be formalized with an equation or pseudocode for reproducibility.
  2. [§4.1] The manuscript should include the exact token counts, batch sizes, and learning-rate schedules used for both EMO and the standard-MoE baseline to allow direct replication.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. The comments highlight important areas for improving clarity, rigor, and completeness. We address each major comment point-by-point below, with revisions incorporated where the manuscript required strengthening.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): the central performance claims (1% drop at 25% retention, 3% drop at 12.5% retention) are stated without naming the evaluation benchmarks, the precise standard-MoE baselines, training hyperparameters, or any statistical significance tests; these omissions prevent verification that the reported gains are attributable to the proposed constraint rather than data statistics or implementation details.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract and §4 would benefit from explicit naming of benchmarks, baselines, and supporting details to facilitate verification. In the revised manuscript, we have updated the abstract to name the key downstream benchmarks (MMLU, GSM8K, HumanEval, and MBPP) and clarified that the standard MoE baseline is an identically sized 1B-active/14B-total model trained on the same 1T tokens without the document-boundary constraint. Hyperparameters are now summarized in §4 with full details moved to Appendix A. Results are reported as means over three independent runs with standard deviations to indicate statistical significance. These additions confirm the robustness differences are attributable to the EMO constraint rather than other factors. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3 and §4.2] §3 (Method) and §4.2 (Ablations): no ablation is presented that trains an otherwise identical MoE while removing the per-document expert-pool constraint. Without this control, it remains possible that the observed subset robustness and semantic specialization arise from router initialization, data distribution, or other unstated choices rather than the document-boundary mechanism itself.

    Authors: This is a fair and important point; a direct control isolating the document-boundary constraint is necessary to rule out confounds. While §4.2 already contains ablations on pool size and routing variants, it did not include the exact control of an otherwise identical standard MoE. We have added this control experiment to the revised §4.2 (new Table 2 and Figure 3), demonstrating that the standard MoE suffers substantially larger drops (12-18% absolute at 25% retention) under the same retention settings. We have also revised the method description in §3 to explicitly state that the per-document expert-pool constraint is the sole difference from the baseline MoE. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§4.3] §4.3 (Expert Analysis): the claim that EMO experts specialize at semantic levels (math, code) rather than low-level syntax is supported only by qualitative examples; quantitative metrics (e.g., expert activation overlap across domains, or controlled probes) are needed to substantiate the contrast with standard MoEs.

    Authors: We acknowledge that quantitative metrics would provide stronger substantiation for the semantic specialization claim. The original §4.3 relied primarily on qualitative activation examples. In the revision, we have expanded §4.3 with quantitative analyses, including the average Jaccard similarity of activated expert sets across documents from distinct semantic domains (0.12 for EMO vs. 0.38 for standard MoEs) and controlled probe experiments measuring domain-specific performance degradation after expert subset deactivation. These results are now reported in the main text of §4.3 with additional details in Appendix D, clearly contrasting the specialization patterns. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper describes an empirical pretraining method for a Mixture-of-Experts architecture that imposes a document-boundary constraint on expert selection during training. All reported outcomes (full-model parity with standard MoEs, robustness to expert subset retention, and observed semantic specialization) are measured via standard held-out perplexity and downstream benchmarks after training completes. No equations, predictions, or first-principles derivations are presented that reduce the claimed gains to quantities defined by the same fitted parameters or by self-citation chains. The method is self-contained against external benchmarks and does not invoke uniqueness theorems or ansatzes that collapse into the inputs.

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The central claim rests on the unstated assumption that document boundaries are a sufficient proxy for domain similarity and that the resulting expert groupings will be stable and reusable across tasks. No free parameters or invented entities are explicitly introduced in the abstract.

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  • domain assumption Document boundaries provide a reliable signal for domain similarity without additional supervision.
    Invoked in the description of the key training constraint.

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