arXiv:2605.02124v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Softmax routing approaches hard top-1 routing as the temperature tends to zero, but the limiting passage is singular at router ties. This paper develops a boundary-layer calculus for this soft-to-hard limit in population squared-loss mixture-of-experts regression. For a router with logits $a_k(x;\phi)$, the relevant local quantity is the top-two margin $\Delta(x;\phi)$, and the relevant global quantity is the boundary mass $\mathbb{P}(\Delta(X;\phi)\le w)$. Under smoothness and transversality assumptions, coarea and tubular-neighborhood estim
This research is part of ongoing efforts to refine the efficiency and theoretical understanding of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models, which are gaining significant traction in large AI architectures.
Improved routing mechanisms in MoE models can lead to more efficient and scalable AI training and inference, directly impacting the performance and cost of advanced AI systems.
A clearer theoretical understanding of 'soft-to-hard' routing limits provides a foundation for developing more robust and predictable sparse AI models.
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