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MonoMoE: An Efficient Fused Mega-kernel for Quantized MoE Decoding

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MonoMoE replaces token-major grouped/batched GEMM pipelines for block-wise quantized MoE decode with a single persistent weight-major megakernel that fuses routing, top-k, quantization, both expert projections, activation, and reduction, avoiding expert-local token tiling and multi-launch overhead. The cost is substantial implementation complexity: generated per-model kernel specializations, offline schedule tuning, vLLM/FlashInfer integration, and reliance on Hopper-class FP8 tensor cores. It can fail if the reader's GPU lacks Hopper FP8 support (e.g., a 24 GB consumer or Ampere card), if model shapes fall outside the generated specializations, or if kernel bugs or accuracy drift emerge outside the evaluated configurations.

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Weight-major persistent fused megakernel for quantized MoE decode
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    MonoMoE replaces token-major grouped/batched GEMM pipelines for block-wise quantized MoE decode with a single persistent weight-major megakernel that fuses routing, top-k, quantization, both expert projections, activation, and reduction, avoiding expert-local token tiling and multi-launch overhead. The cost is substantial implementation complexity: generated per-model kernel specializations, offline schedule tuning, vLLM/FlashInfer integration, and reliance on Hopper-class FP8 tensor cores. It can fail if the reader's GPU lacks Hopper FP8 support (e.g., a 24 GB consumer or Ampere card), if model shapes fall outside the generated specializations, or if kernel bugs or accuracy drift emerge outside the evaluated configurations.

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    Up to 1.54x faster complete routed-MoE operator versus vLLM Triton Grouped GEMM, 2.20–3.84x faster than FlashMoE-FP8, and up to 18.7% lower end-to-end time per output token on H200 GPUs.

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