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ExpertFlow: Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Inference via Predictive Expert Caching and Token Scheduling

arXiv:2410.17954v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models can outperform dense large language models at similar computation by activating only a small set of experts per token. However, stacking many expert modules introduces substantial parameter memory, which makes MoE models difficult to deploy in memory-constrained environments such as single-GPU devices. Offloading alleviates this issue by storing inactive experts in CPU memory and loading them on demand, but existing methods remain limited: static caches disregard input-dependent routing, and methods that train separate models to predict expert usage ahead of time are often inaccurate or require significant training cost. We propose ExpertFlow, a lightweight MoE inference system that addresses this routing dependency through three coordinated components: 1) a transformer-based routing path predictor that estimates expert usage across all MoE layers in a single forward pass, 2) a token scheduler that groups tokens with similar predicted routes to improve expert utilization, and 3) a predictive expert cache that loads only the required experts while correcting mispredictions at runtime. Together, these components enable efficient expert loading and execution, reducing GPU memory usage by up to 93.72% and improving inference throughput by up to 10x over strong offloading baselines on a single GPU.
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RACER: Risk-Aware Calibrated Efficient Routing for Large Language Models

arXiv:2603.06616v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficiently routing queries to the optimal large language model (LLM) is crucial for optimizing the cost-performance trade-off in multi-model systems. However, most existing routers rely on single-model selection, making them susceptible to misrouting. In this work, we formulate LLM routing as the $\alpha$-VOR problem to minimize expected set size while controlling the misrouting risk, and propose a novel method -- RACER, extending base routers to output model sets that can be subsequently aggregated for improved output. In particular, RACER constructs nested model sets via augmented scoring and utilizes finite-sample concentration bounds to calibrate a threshold that allows for both variable set sizes and abstention. We theoretically prove that RACER achieves rigorous distribution-free risk control on unseen test data in a post-hoc and model-agnostic manner. Extensive experiments verify our theoretical guarantees and demonstrate that RACER consistently enhances downstream accuracy across a wide range of benchmarks.
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Model-agnostic Selective Labeling with Provable Statistical Guarantees

arXiv:2510.14581v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Obtaining high-quality labels for large datasets is expensive, requiring massive annotations from human experts. While AI models offer a cost-effective alternative by predicting labels, their label quality is compromised by the unavoidable labeling errors. Existing methods mitigate this issue through selective labeling, where AI labels a subset and human labels the remainder. However, these methods lack theoretical guarantees on the quality of AI-assigned labels, often resulting in unacceptably high labeling error within the AI-labeled subset. To address this, we introduce \textbf{Conformal Labeling}, a novel method to identify instances where AI predictions can be provably trusted. This is achieved by controlling the false discovery rate (FDR), the proportion of incorrect labels within the selected subset. In particular, we construct a conformal $p$-value for each test instance by comparing AI models' predicted confidence to those of calibration instances mislabeled by AI models. Then, we select test instances whose $p$-values are below a data-dependent threshold, certifying AI models' predictions as trustworthy. We provide theoretical guarantees that Conformal Labeling controls the FDR below the nominal level, ensuring that a predefined fraction of AI-assigned labels is correct on average. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves tight FDR control with high power across various tasks, including image and text labeling, and LLM QA.
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