MoE Capacity Factor: Why Mixture-of-Experts Drops Your Tokens
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Your Mixture-of-Experts fine-tune looks clean in eval and degrades in production, and the degradation tracks concurrency rather than input difficulty. Nothing throws. Logits look normal. The usual suspects — sampling params, quantization, prompt drift — all check out. The culprit is often the MoE capacity factor : a fixed-size buffer per expert that silently discards tokens when the router sends too many of them to the same place. A dropped token doesn't error. It just skips the feed-forward…
1Key Takeaways
- Your Mixture-of-Experts fine-tune looks clean in eval and degrades in production, and the degradation tracks concurrency rather than input difficulty.
- The usual suspects — sampling params, quantization, prompt drift — all check out.
- The culprit is often the MoE capacity factor : a fixed-size buffer per expert that silently discards tokens when the router sends too many of them to the same place.
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3Why it matters
Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that your Mixture-of-Experts fine-tune looks clean in eval and degrades in production, and the degradation tracks concurrency rather than input difficulty.
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