deepspeedai / deepspeedai/DeepSpeed

[REQUEST] Expert Choice Routing for MoE

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Since Dec 12, 2022.

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
A paper was published regarding potentially better token-expert routing for MoE that leaves less experts under-trained.

Describe the solution you'd like
In addition to GShard's top2 and SwitchTransformer's top1 per token expert routing add expert choice routing option.

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