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[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

, especially since something like a Mixture of Experts model could be split down to base models and loaded/unloaded as necessary.

It doesn't work that way. All MoE experts are 'interleaved' and you need all of them loaded at once, for every token. Some API servers can hotswap whole models, but its not fast, and rarely done since LLMs are pretty 'generalized' and tend to serve requests in parallel on API servers.

The closest to what you're thinking of is LoRAX (which basically hot-swaps Loras efficiently). But it needs an extremely specialized runtime derived from its associated paper, hence people tend to not use it since it doesn't support quantization and some other features as well: https://github.com/predibase/lorax

There is a good case for pure data processing, yeah... But it has little integration with LLMs themselves, especially with the API servers generally handling tokenizers/prompt formatting.

But, all of its components need to be localized

They already are! Local LLM tooling and engines are great and super powerful compared to ChatGPT (which offers no caching, no raw completion, primitive sampling, hidden thinking, and so on).

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