Optimizing Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Training with the QLM Framework
This article introduces the background and challenges of large language model training, explains the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, and details several optimization techniques implemented in the QLM framework—including fine-grained and shared experts, top‑k gating, token distribution, expert parallelism, and grouped GEMM – to improve training efficiency and performance.
