Quality-Constrained Routing over a Fixed Pool of Quantized Mixture-of-Experts Instances · Research brief

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research area: serving and batching
technical change: Quality-constrained routing across quantized MoE instances
published: 2026-09-11

The approach presupposes a fixed pool of multiple materialized quantized replicas of a large MoE model, which exceeds a single 24 GB GPU, and its measured advantage over the simpler request-agnostic baseline is only 2.5% relative, so small-scale adopters should track it rather than deploy it.

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Δ ​ Q ​ (𝐛) = α ​ Δ_{r} ​ (b_{r}) + (1 - α) ​ Δ_{c} ​ (b_{c}),

equation (6) · §3 Theoretical Framework · proposed method

We design FWP from the router-norm fragility signal in prior work [7]. For the non-padding prompt-token index set $I_{p} (x)$ , let ${\bar{Λ}}_{i} (x)$ be the mean router norm of experts activated by token $i$ . Define weights normalized within the request,

w_{i} ​ (x) = \frac{{({\bar{Λ}}_{i} ​ (x) + ϵ_{w})}^{- 1}}{\frac{1}{| I_{p} ​ (x) |} ​ \sum_{j \in I_{p} ​ (x)} {({\bar{Λ}}_{j} ​ (x) + ϵ_{w})}^{- 1}},

equation (10) · §3 Theoretical Framework · proposed method

with $ϵ_{w} > 0$ , and the log-FWP observable

ℓ_{FWP} ​ (x, 𝐛) = \frac{1}{| I_{p} ​ (x) |} ​ \sum_{i \in I_{p} ​ (x)} w_{i} ​ (x) ​ (- \log p_{𝐛} ​ (x_{i} ∣ x_{< i})) .

equation (11) · §3 Theoretical Framework · proposed method

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The method replaces static single-bitwidth serving or request-agnostic mixing across pre-materialized quantized MoE instances with per-request routing driven by a fragility-weighted perplexity risk score and a window-level linear program. It costs an additional reference-instance prefill per request, an online LP solve per window, and the operational burden of maintaining calibration between the reference and candidate quantized instances. It can fail if FWP calibration drifts from actual per-instance degradation, if traffic shifts away from the evaluated prompt population, or if the 2.5% incremental gain over request-agnostic mixing does not justify the added routing complexity, since the result is demonstrated on only 88 prompts of one model family.
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FWP allocation reaches a 1.284x offline model-based throughput multiplier versus 1.253x for request-agnostic mixing and 1.000x for static W4, an incremental 2.5% relative gain over the agnostic baseline, on 88 extended Qwen prompts.
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FWP allocation reaches a 1.284x offline model-based throughput multiplier versus 1.253x for request-agnostic mixing and 1.000x for static W4, an incremental 2.5% relative gain over the agnostic baseline, on 88 extended Qwen prompts.

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