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Flattening Every Memory Peak in Long-Context Mixture-of-Experts Training research paper by Salesforce, 2026

Salesforce · Architectures · Sep 13, 2026 · 0 citations · 19 upvotes

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Bounds the four memory peaks that crash long-context mixture-of-experts training, from expert dispatch to optimizer state, with fixed-size GPU schedules.

By Shrey Pandit, Xuan-Phi Nguyen, Yiran Zhao and 1 more · arXiv 2609.14306 · PDF

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