Re:Snowflake Arctic Instruct (128x3B MoE), largest open sour...
by msp26 on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @12:54PM
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Most people are vram constrained not compute constrained.
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Re:Snowflake Arctic Instruct (128x3B MoE), largest open sour...
by Manabu-eo on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @03:18PM
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But those people usually have more system RAM than VRAM.
At those scales, most people become bandwidth and compute constrained using CPU inference instead of multiple GPUs. In those cases, an MOE with a low number of active parameters is the fastest.