tying-the-loop-tied-expert-layers-in-mixture-of-experts-language-models-bf517d85·1 events·first seen Aliases: Tying the Loop -- Tied Expert Layers in Mixture-of-Experts Language Models
Researchers introduce Expert Tying, an architectural modification for Mixture-of-Experts LLMs that shares expert parameters across consecutive transformer layers while keeping routing and attention layer-independent. Evaluated on OLMoE, Qwen3, and DeepSeek-style MoE architectures, the method achieves nearly 2x memory reduction with negligible perplexity or downstream quality degradation. The approach exploits parameter redundancy in MoE pathways to improve the compute-to-memory trade-off for training and inference.