Monet: Mixture of Monosemantic Experts for Transformers
Authors: Jungwoo Park
Ahn Young Jin
Kee-Eung Kim
Jaewoo Kang
Venue: ICLR 2025 Poster (2025)
Keywords: large language models
mechanistic interpretability
monosemanticity
mixture of experts
knowledge unlearning
Primary area: interpretability and explainable AI

Abstract: Understanding the internal computations of large language models (LLMs) is crucial for aligning them with human values and preventing undesirable behaviors like toxic content generation. However, mechanistic interpretability is hindered by *polysemanticity*—where individual neurons respond to multiple, unrelated concepts. While Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have attempted to disentangle these features through sparse dictionary learning,  they have compromised LLM performance due to reliance on post-hoc reconstruction loss. To address this issue, we introduce **Mixture of Monosemantic Experts for Transformers (Monet)** architecture, which incorporates sparse dictionary learning directly into end-to-end Mixture-of-Experts pretraining. Our novel expert decomposition method enables scaling the expert count to 262,144 per layer while total parameters scale proportionally to the square root of the number of experts. Our analyses demonstrate mutual exclusivity of knowledge across experts and showcase the parametric knowledge encapsulated within individual experts. Moreover, **Monet** allows knowledge manipulation over domains, languages, and toxicity mitigation without degrading general performance. Our pursuit of transparent LLMs highlights the potential of scaling expert counts to enhance mechanistic interpretability and directly resect the internal knowledge to fundamentally adjust model behavior.

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MONET: MIXTURE OF MONOSEMANTIC EXPERTS FOR TRANSFORMERS
Jungwoo Parkl.3t Young Jin Ahnäi, Kee-Eung Kim Jaewoo Kangl.3+
Korea University, KAIST, AAGENN Sciences paangwooppzz,, kangj] kr (sncop2head, kekim)@kaist.ac... ac.kr
ABSTRACT
Understanding the internal computations of large language models (LLMs) is crucial for aligning them with human values and preventing undesirable behav- iors like toxic content generation. However, mechanistic interpretability is hin- dered by polysemanticir-wwbee where individual neurons respond to multiple, unre- lated concepts. While Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have attempted disen- tangle these features through sparse dictionary learning, they have compromised LLM performance due reliance on post-hoc reconstruction loss. To address this issue, introduce MIXTURE OF MONOSEMANTIC EXPERTS FOR TRANS- FORMERS (MONET) architecture, which incorporates sparse dictionary learning directly into end-to-end Mixture-of-Experts pretraining. Our novel expert decom- position method enables scaling the expert count to 262,144 per layer while total parameters scale proportionally to the square root of the number of experts. Our analyses demonstrate mutual exclusivity of knowledge across experts and show- case the parametric knowledge encapsulated within individual experts. Moreover, MONET allows knowledge manipulation over domains, languages, and toxicity mitigation without degrading general performance. Our pursuit of transparent LLMs highlights the potential of scaling expert counts to enhance mechanistic interpretability and directly resect the internal knowledge fundamentally ad- just model behavior. The source code and pretrained checkpoints are available at https: / /i thub. com dmi a-lbb//a aalllaaaMoon aooooett.
INTRODUCTION
As large language models (LLMs) continue to scale and generalize (Radford et al., 2019; Brown et al., 2020), understanding their internal computations becomes increasingly imperative. Mech- anistic interpretability seeks to unravel how neural networks generate outputs by dissecting their internal processes into human-interpretable components (Bereska & Gavves, 2024). Such com- prehension is crucial not only for aligning LLMs with human values (Ji et al., 2023) but also for preventing undesirable behaviors such as the generation of toxic content (Hendrycks et al., 2023).
However, achieving such level of interpretabil- ity in LLMs is partieularly challenging due to polysemanticiry- the phenomenon where indi- vidual neurons respond to multiple, unrelated concepts (Arora et al., 2018; Mu & Andreas, 2020; Olah al., 2020). This arises from the superposition hypothesis, which suggests that neural networks represent more features than there are neurons by encoding them in compressed, high- high-dimensional spaces (Elhage al., 2022). To address polysemanticity, observational analyses leveraging sparse representations have been employed. Specifically, techniques like Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) aim to disentan- gle these superposed features by learning sparse, overcomplete bases that describe the activation space (Sharkey et al., 2022; Bricken et al., 2023; Cunningham et al., 2024).
Model
Expert Retrieval
Expert Parameters (Space Complexity)
(Time Complexity)
SMoE PEER MONET
O(Nd)
O(Nmd) O(Nd)
O(VV + HH)
O(vNHd)
O(VNmd)
Table 1: Comparison of computational cost and memory footprint involved in Mixture-of-Expperr architectures. Derivations are specified in A.2.
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Despite advancements using SAEs, significant limitations persist: (1) Post-hoc reconstruction loss: Functional importance of LLM's features are likely to be diminished during SAE's post-hoe training, stemming from its training set being disjoint from the LLM's corpus, rendering oitto--distribution issues difficult to diagnose (Bricken et al., 2023; Braun et al., 2024). Such deviation is further exac- erbated as nonzero reconstruction error cascades through the L.M'' hidden representations (Gurnee, 2024). (2) Manipulability and performance trade-ofl's While attempts have been made to steer LLMs based on learned dictionary features (Marks et al., 2024; Templeton, 2024), discussions on the manipulability of SAEs often overlook their impact on the model's general performance across other tasks. Particularly in open-ended generation tasks, the effects of feature control using SAEs remain largely unknown. These limitations highlight the necessity for alternative methods that can observe LLMs' internal processes while preserving their original capabilities.
In light of these challenges in post-hoc interpretation, methods encoding interpretable weights in LLM during pretraining have been introduced (Tamkin et al., 2023; Hewitt al., 2023). Among those prior approaches, integrating sparse dictionary learning with Mixture-of- (MoE) ar- chitectures is considered promising as experts' specialization is linked with monosemanticity (Gao al., 2024; Fedus et al., 2022a;b). However, conventional MoE architectures face several problems: (1) Limited number of experts: Most sparse LLMs employ a limited number of experts (Lepikhin al., 2021; Fedus al., 2022b; Jiang et al., 2024), leading to knowledge hybridity where each expert covers diverse and unrelated concepts (Dai et al., 2024), failing to fulfill the superposition hy- pothesis necessary for monosemanticity. (2) Confinement to specific layers: Attempts to scale the number of experts (dos Santos et al., 2024; He, 2024) have been confined to specific layers within the LLM, rendering knowledge distributed in other parts of the network (Dai al., 2022; Geva al., 2021) inaccessible. (3) Inefficient parameter scaling: Recently proposed architectures aiming to scale the number of experts (He, 2024; Oldfield et al., 2024) suffer from linearly increasing total parameters, limiting the scalability of the LLM.
To overcome these limitations, we introduce MIXTURE OF MONOSEMANTIC EXPERTS FOR T'RANSFORMERS (MONET) architecture, enabling effective specialization of experts to facilitate mechanistic interpretability in LLMs. MONET aims for transparent language modeling by signif- icantly increasing the number of experts to 262K at every layer and integrating sparse dictionary learning within end-to-end Mixture-of-Expert training. Our main contributions are as follows:
Parameter-efficient architecture with increased number of experts: By utilizing a novel expert decomposition method, MONET addresses memory constraints, ensuring that the total number of parameters scales proportionally to the square root of the number of experts.
Mechanistic interpretability via monosemantic experts: MONET facilitates mechanis- tie interpretability by enabling observations of fine-grained experts' routing patterns. Our analyses confirm mutual exclusivity of knowledge between groups of experts, while quali- tative examples demonstrate individual experts' parametric knowledge.
Robust knowledge manipulation without performance trade-offs: MONET allows for end-to-end training that extends to robust knowledge manipulation during inference. With- out degrading performance, it provides effortless control over knowledge domains, lan- guages, and toxicity mitigation.
2 PRELIMINARIES
Sparse Mixture-of- Experts (SMoE) SMoE models efficiently scale their capacity by activating only a subset of the experts, thereby reducing computational costs. These models leverage expert embeddings to determine which experts to activate. Given hidden representation vector æ E Rd and a set of N expert networks [E,) each expert is defined as:
Ex) = (U,))
(I)
where Uj E R and Vú2 E dd are the weight matrices of the i-th expert, and a is an activation function such as ReLU or GELU. Let {w, ) C. dd be the expert embeddings and Tş denote the top-k operation. The output of the SMoE layer is then computed as:
SMoE(x) = Σ 9: (x)
(2)
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Figure 1:
where K. = Ta (H x is the set of indices corresponding to the sparsely activated top-k experts, based on their routing scores g = softmax((w)) x)
The Parameter Efficient Expert Retrieval (PEER) Compared to other SMoE architectures, PEER processes a substantially higher number of experts by employing a computationally efficient routing mechanism. Based the product key algorithm introduced by Lample al. (2019), PEER implements the product key retrieval mechanism that enables efficient search of top-k experts, re- ducing computational complexity from O(Nd) to O((VN + dd)
Specifically, each PEER expert is minimal MLP (multilayer perceptron) consisting of an input layer, a single hidden neuron, and an output layer. PEER uses two independent product keys, which are expert embeddings, { \/N C. gd/2 and 1 retrieving the experts among N embeddings. The hidden state is correspondingly split into two halves, x² x² E Rd/2, and the top-k experts are obtained by:
1v'N C Rd/2 for each head h. rather than
K1 Te(((wo))) " and K =
Then, top-k experts selected from the scores computed over the Cartesian product K2 x K2, to constitute Kr,, ie.,
Kr = Te(((w))) + (T (1,5) EC,, x K.)))
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with 9h. = softmax (f(w))) + (w?g)Tx² (1,5) E KG,)) being routing scores of the experts.
Following the format of Equation 1, let (x) be the (th expert network and uij Viy Rd be weights of the expert MLPs. The PEER layer is then formulated as:
PEER(z) = Σ h=1 (L.))ERs
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Although PEER reduces the computational complexity by a factor of /N, it suffers from mem- ory bottleneck as the total number parameters grows with expert count N. Consider model with dimension d 2048 and 8 attention heads scaling to million experts would require 4.3 billion parameters per layer. Therefore, building an LLM with 1.3 billion active parameters would necessitate additional 103 billion parameters just for the experts.
3 MONET: MIXTURE OF MONOSEMANTIC EXPERTS FOR TRANSFORMERS
To disentangle superposed features LLM by incorporating sparse dictionary learning into end-to- end SMoE pretraining, we aim maximize the number of experts. Instead of searching through
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large pool of standalone experts using product key retrieval, propose product key composition of experts by sharding layers in individual experts to overcome PEER's memory constraints. Our orthogonal layer partitioning methods, horizontal and vertical decompositions, address the memory bottleneck by scaling the number of experts while keeping parameter growth proportional to the square root of the expert count.
Horizontal Expert Decomposition (HD) Our first approach to product key composition funda- mentally redefines how expert networks are constructed. Instead of maintaining complete expert networks as defined in Equations 1 and 5, we decompose each expert into two complementary components: bottom and top linear layers. Such partitioning scheme allows us to build experts dynamically during inference by combining these components.
Specifically, we partition the weights of experts into two distinct groups corresponding to the bottom and top layers: {U:] VN
i= C mxd and [V;)==] VN C Rddx respectively, where m represents the expert
hidden dimension (e.g., m 1 for PEER). To accommodate architectures with bias terms (Shen et al., 2024), we include {
VN C IRm and (6))) C Rd in our formulation. The composed expert network can then be expressed as:
Eij(z) = (UU + +b,
(6)
where (it expert is formed by combining the i-th bottom layer with the j-th top layer.
As illustrated in Figure 1, this decomposition enables constructing N unique experts using only /N weight choices from each group (0 i.j < VN). Unlike PEER, which searches for top-k experts among k² candidates, we directly use the Cartesian product NA = Kc), x K2,, which breaks down joint (i,j) pairs into independent i and j selections. The resulting SMoE layer with horizontal decomposition is defined as:
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where o/ = softmax (((w)))))))) )Tx x! ((ee;))) and o¹ softmax ((ammax((wi)))) )x²)) jexT)) are computed inde-
pendently for each group, with their product glus ghigh determining the expert's routing score.
To optimize computation across tokens with decomposed expert structure, address key challenge: sparse activations varying by token complicate efficient computation reorganization.
While traditional SMoE models employ expert parallelism (Fedus al., 2022b; Du et al., 2022), such strategies become impractical with our 262K composed experts. Following Pan et al. (2024); Puigcerver al. (2023), we adopt dense routing to enable precomputation of overlapped layer op- erations by extending sparse routing scores to all experts:
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otherwise
This allows us to reorganize Equation 8 into more computationally efficient form:
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j=1
By strategically reordering the summations in Equation 12, can precompute memory- -intesven
operations before and after the expert routing phase. We provide implementation details in Algo- rithm 1 of Appendix A.3.
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Vertical Expert Decomposition (VD) As orthogonal approach to horizontal decomposition,
we propose vertical decomposition that partitions each expert network along the vertical dimension
into left and right segments. Let U Up E Rmm/2xd and V.11, V V V RRd/2xm/2 represent
the vertically splitted weights for the experts, and b21, b21 E Rmm/2 and b/2 1/22 Rd/2 denote the split biases. For the vertically decomposed experts, the expert network is defined as:
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We divide the layer calculation into six terms (see Equation 15), with the complete derivation pre- sented in Appendix A. The overall computational cost is equivalent to horizontal decomposition, and the implementation details are provided in Algorithm 2 of Appendix A.3.
Adaptive Routing with Batch Normalization To avoid the hardware inefficiency of top-k sort- ing, we use Batch Normalization to estimate expert routing quantiles without performing top-k. Inspired by BatchTopK (Bussmann et al., 2024), which enhances reconstruction SAE, we apply batch-level quantile estimation for more accurate routing, Batch Normalization automatically gath- ers router logit statistics, which are used during inference. This method reduces training time while maintaining performance.
Load Balancing Loss Load balancing loss is crucial in MoE models to promote uniform expert routing, improving expert utilization and ensuring efficient parallelism when experts are distributed across devices. While sparse routing mechanisms are widely used, some dense MoE models adopt entropy-based losses (Pan et al., 2024; Shen et al., 2023) since dense routing does not directly track expert selection frequencies. In a similar vein, we introduce an alternative uniformity loss, formulated the KL divergence between uniform distribution and the routing probabilities:
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log 9h.
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Additionally, we introduce ambiguity loss that measures the degree of expert specialization for each token:
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h=1
This loss encourages the model assign each token to a specific expert with high confidence. By minimizing this ambiguity loss, the model promotes expert specialization, resulting in more distinct and interpretable expert roles. Ablations study on load balancing loss presented Appendix C. Let LIM be a language modeling loss and X be a hyperparameter. The final training objective is:
L LLM + ACunit + XLamb-
(18)
4 EXPERIMENTS
4.1
MODEL SETUPS
In order to assess practical applicability and scalability of MONET, we vary model parameter sizes ranging from 850 million to 4.1 billion and CODEMONET at 1.4 billion parameters. In addition, we train models using the LLAMA architecture for fair comparison. All models are pretrained on scale datasets, and further fine-tune MONET-L.4B for instruction-follont 1.4B CHAT for automated interpretation framework. For detailed pretraining configurations and instruction tuning methods, refer to Appendix B.
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Model
Tokens
MMLU
ARC
WG
PIQA
SIQA
OBQA
HS
CSQA
Avg
0-shot
LLAMA 770M
100B
0.340
0.468
0.524
0.706
0.431
0.386
0.507
0.342
0.463
MONET-HD 850M
100B
0.320
0,460
0.506
0.699
0.416
0.364
0.465
0.337
0.446
MONET- VD 850M
100B
0.328
0.456
0.530
0.708
0.417
0.356
0.488
0.343
0.453
LLAMA 1.3B
100B
0.357
0,503
0.545
0.730
0.423
0.392
0.553
0.370
0.484
MONET-HD 1.4B
100B
0.338
0.471
0.538
0.714
0.418
0.382
0.501
0.339
0.463
MONET-V VD 1.4B
100B
0,352
0.495
0.522
0.727
0.423
0.418
0.529
0,363
0.478
LLAMA 3,8B
100B
0.394
0.578
0,571
0.760
0.426
0.412
0.618
0.404
0.520
MONET- HD 4.1B
100B
0.375
0.558
0,560
0.741
0.427
0.414
0,571
0.379
0.503
MONET-VD 4.1B
100B
0,380
0,547
0,557
0.751
0.437
0,424
0.604
0.389
0.511
5-shot
LLAMA 770M
100B
0.350
0.554
0.509
0.713
0.439
0.386
0.523
0.459
0.492
MONET-HD 850M
100B
0.332
0.537
0.510
0.697
0.409
0.346
0.479
0.420
0.466
MONET-V VDD 850M
100B
0.341
0.548
0.520
0.709
0.437
0.368
0,504
0.454
0.485
LLAMA 1.3B
100B
0.368
0.577
0,515
0.731
0.458
0,422
0.565
0.511
0.518
MONET-HD 1.4B
100B
0.352
0,544
0.530
0.720
0,432
0,360
0,518
0,441
0.487
MONET-VD 1.4B
100B
0.360
0.547
0.526
0.730
0.441
0.422
0.551
0.501
0.510
L.LAMA 3.8B
100B
0.408
0.635
0.578
0.771
0.472
0.452
0.645
0.574
0.567
MONET-HD 4.IB
100B
0.385
0.603
0.545
0.742
0.463
0.412
0.588
0.545
0.535
MONET-VD 4.1B
100B
0.398
0.625
0.564
0.761
0.470
0.438
0.619
0.525
0.550
Off-the-shelf Models (0-shot)
OLMoE 6.9B
100B
0.349
0.521
0.551
0.754
0.432
0.384
0.620
0.402
0.502
5000B
0.429
0.625
0.631
0.804
0.445
0.444
0.747
0.446
0.571
Gemma 2 2B
2000B
0.432
0.651
0.630
0.792
0.443
0.428
0,709
0.482
0.571
SAE 65K MI.P
(8B)
0.325
0.473
0.562
0.723
0.436
0.326
0.537
0.401
0.473
SAF 65K Res
(8B)
0.254
0.259
0.494
0.506
0.387
0.294
0.259
0.239
0.337
Table 2: Evaluation of models open-ended LLM benchmarks in 0-shot and 5-shot settings. Our proposed MONET (horizontal and vertical decompositions) and the LLAMA architecture results are based consistent pretraining hyperparameters for fair comparison. Benchmarks include WG (WinoGrande)) OBQA (OpenBookQA), HS (HellaSwag). and CSQA (CommonsenseQAA) Off-the- shelf pretrained OLMoE and Gemma with Gemma Scopes are evaluated for comparison. Tokens column indicates pretraining tokens count in billions, where numbers in the parenthesis are post-hoc training tokens used for SAEs. Comparisons account for total parameter sizes across models.
4.2 OPEN-ENDED BENCHMARK RESULTS
Empirical evaluations in Table 2 show that MONET maintains competitive performance with total parameter-matched dense LLMs across a range of language modeling benchmarks. On the other hand, SAEs fall short in maintaining model stability, where reconstruction errors lead to instabil- ity and reduced performance in open-ended tasks, compromising the model's overall reliability in knowledge control. We evaluate Gemma 2 2B (Team et al., 2024) using Gemma Scope (Lieberum et al., 2024), a collection of SAES trained on Gemma 2 models. Specifically, we employ the avail- able SAFS with 65K sparse features-both those reconstructing the L.M'' MLP output and those reconstructing residual layers-and evaluate their performance on open-ended henchmarks.
The scalability of MONET evident across all three parameter scales (850M, 1.4B, and 4.1B). As the number of parameters increases, the model exhibits a consistent upward trend in performance across both 0-shot and 5-shot settings. This confirms that the scaling laws typically observed in dense models still apply to MONET's ' sparse architecture, further reinforcing its scalability and prac- tical applicability for large-scale LLM deployments. In terms of the decomposition design choice, vertical decomposition (VD) shows superior performance over horizontal decomposition (HD). As shown in Table 2, MONET- VD consistently outperforms MONET-HD across multiple benchmarks and parameter scales, particularly in the 850M, 1.4B, and 4. models.
4.3 QUALITATIVE RESULTS
In this section, we present qualitative analyses demonstrating the monosemantic specialization of individual experts in MONET architecture. In Figure 2, visualize the routing scores allocated to the experts in our language models on the C4 (Raffel et al., 2020) and StarCoder subset. We include comprehensive examples illustrating the internal workings of models with varying sizes M.ONET-L.4B. MONET-4.J IB) and a model pretrained on code (CODEMONET).

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Figure 2: Activated tokens for experts in LLMs (MONET-L.BB I.4B, MONET-4.1D 1B) on C4 validation dataset. CODEMONET- 1.B'ss examples were collected from the StarCoder dataset. Tokens are sorted according to the expert's 's routing score (or ghij in Eq. 7), notated in parenthesis. Descriptions in bottom rows are self-explained experts, generated from the automated interpretation framework.
Parametric Knowledge In MONET, feedforward MLP in each decoder block is decomposed into 262,144 experts, design considered highly granular by the standard of Ludziejewski et al. (2024). As shown in Figure 2, such fine- mee-rained experts specialize in concepts such as chemical compounds (Expert 147,040) states in the U.S. (Expert 73,329), An expert activates to vocabularies associated with similar concepts, like physicists in a field of electromagnetism (Expert 81,396).
Expert Monosemanticity Our experts exhibit monosemanticity by specializing in concepts pre- sented across different contexts and languages, demonstrating that they recognize based on con- textual and domain knowledge rather than relying solely on vocabulary cues. For instance, both Expert 48,936 and Expert 53,136 in Figure 2 respond to the term "Bay". where one relates it to a geographical area (c.g.. "Bay Area"), and the other connects it to mathematical concept (c.g.. "Bayesian"). Similarly, despite the appearance of the same concept across various programming languages, CODEMONET consistently maps string-related knowledge to Expert 52,338.
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Self-explained Experts We have adapted automated interpretation framework that generates the description based on the hidden states in LLMs (Chen et al., 2024; Ghandeharioun et al., 2024; Kharlapenko et al., 2024), to interpret individual experts as shown in Figure 2. The following prompt is given to the MONET-1.44 CHAT: "Q: What is the meaning of the word X? A: Sure! The meaning of the word X is ". where X serves as a placeholder for averaged token embeddings activated to the targeted expert. Without relying on external LLMs, our MONET- 1.4B CHAT generates a description for its experts, like explaining the Expert 232,717 "Cartilage" and the Expert 51 as "Expertise".
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Figure 3: Knowledge unlearning and accuracy perturbation across 14 MMLU domains. Rows rep- resent the domains where knowledge unlearning applied, while columns display the resulting performance of the LLM in each domain. In (a) MONET (Ours), experts that show skewed routing scores for the target domain get domain were suppressed. In (c) OLMoE, the most activated expert per domain was removed. suppressed based first-layer activations. Bright pixels indicate minimal accuracy loss, while darker pixels represent a greater drop.
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5 ANALYSES
Leveraging transparent observations of expert routing patterns in each layer of the MONET, ploy observational methods for knowledge editing. In particular, we explored the effects of knowl- edge unlearning by selectively removing experts based their routing score, Ihij in Equation 7. Our unlearning analyses highlight MONET'S monosemanticity where experts encapsulate disentan- gled parametric knowledge across domains, programming languages, and toxicity.
5.1 DOMAIN MASKING
Using the MMLU Pro (Wang et al., 2024) benchmark taxonomy, which divides question-answer sets into 14 distinct domains, we investigated the effects of domain-specific knowledge unlearning on MMLU (Hendrycks et al., 2021). For each expert, if the routing probability for a particular domain was at least twice as high as for the second most activated domain, we labeled that expert selectively deleted the experts
specialized in that domain. After assigning experts to domains, and evaluated the impact of knowledge unlearning across all 14 domains. The details of the expert deletion process and its impact across the 14 domains provided in Appendix D.I.
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Table 3: Knowledge unlearning and pass 100 metric changes across programming languages in the MULTIPL-EE benchmark. In this evaluation, experts assigned to the target language deleted, while others are preserved. Columns represent the independent variable where the masking is ap- plied on. The A Target row represent the delta pass @ 100 performance of the MONET model fol- lowing expert removal for the specified language. The A Others row shows the average pass @ 100 performance change of the others. Dark pixels indicate high sensitivity to the expert purging.
Figure demonstrates that MONET'S knowledge unlearning primarily affects the targeted domain while preserving the performance of the other domains. We compared our approach with three baseline methods: Gemma 2 LLM with Gemma Scope, which utilizes 262K sparse SAE features matching MONET'S expert count; OLMoE (Muennighoff et al., 2024), standard MoE architecture with 1.3B active and 6.9B total parameters; and LLAMA 1.3B with GELU activation, sized equiv- alently to МONET, where we leverage MLP layers for knowledge identification inspired by Meng et al. (2022). Using domain-specifer assignment Eriteria-SAA logit values for Gemma Scope and first-layer MLP outputs for LLAMA performed knowledge unlearning across all methods.
The results demonstrate MONET'S superior performance in Nomain-specine knowledge manipula- tion compared to baseline approaches. While MONET achieves precise knowledge unlearning within targeted domains, Gemma Scope suffers from broader performance degradation due to incomplete reconstruction through the SAE layer. Both OLMoE and LLAMA face fundamental limitations from feature polysemanticity. In OLMOE, there MMLU, based on our criteria of skewness in expert routing score. OLMoE's experts' routing score evenly distributed, making it difficult to detect specialized experts. We leveraged criteria of occurrences in maximum activation to determine the expert's domain specialization. In contrast, LLAMA displays average 6% of neurons be specialized in each domain compared to MONET'S 2.2%, suggesting possible feature entanglement and resulting in significant performance degradation across unrelated domains during knowledge removal.
specialized experts in any domains in
5.2 MULTILINGUAL MASKING
In addition to domain masking, we performed a similar evaluation of programming language masking using CODEMONET 1.4B. Again, we utilized the skewness in routing scores to identify language-speciff experts. Table 3 summarizes the changes in pass @ 100 performance metrics after expert purging evaluated on MULTIPL-E benchmark (Cassano al., 2023). For the targeted lan- guages, pass @ 100 scores dropped by as much as -30%p. while average performance for other lan- guages remained relatively stable, with only minor declines ranging from -0.6% to -1.8%p CODE- MONET'S generation examples before and after the expert purging can be found in Figure 4 of Appendix D.2. All metrics were evaluated using a temperature of 0.8 and 200 sample generations, where its full performance are available in Table 15 of the Appendix E.
5.3 TOXIC EXPERT PURGING
To fundamentally adjust model behavior for safer language generation, we propose a method for purging toxic experts from the model. This approach directly removes experts associated with toxic- ity, resecting the harmful knowledge while preserving the overall performance of the LLM. We eval- uate this method et al., 2020) and ToxiGen (Hartvigsen et al., 2022), to assess its impact on toxicity reduction.
well-established toxicity benchmarks: REALITXICIITYROMPP (Gehman
For toxicity evaluation, utilize the PERSPECTIVE API (Lees al., 2022) for REALTOXICI- TYPROmPTS and the ToxiGen RoBERTa model for the ToxiGen benchmark, both designed to mea- sure the generation of toxic content. To identify toxic knowledge within the model, we collected

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toxicity metries according to the expert purging- Lower threshold indicate stricter criteria to filter out more experts. Each columns indicate masking threshold, expert masking ratio, toxicity probability, and average performance (helpfulness) mea- sured in open-ended LLM benchmarks. Specifics of the helpfulness can be found in Appendix E.
Table 4: Changes in REALTOXICITY
expert routing scores alongside toxicity scores, and computed Pearson correlations. A higher cor- relation indicates greater likelihood of an expert being selected when toxic content is generated. Based on predefined thresholds, we removed experts with high toxicity correlations. Examples of toxic experts are presented in Figure 5 of Appendix D.3. By removing these experts, LLM alters its behavior to generate detoxified content, as demonstrated in Figure 6.
As presented in Table 4, results show that eliminating up to 4.1% of experts can reduce both the expected maximum toxicity and the probabil- ity of generating toxic content with- out affecting performance in REAL- ToxicITYPROMPTS Similarly, Ta- ble demonstrates that MONET ef- fectively lowers toxicity with only minimal performance degradation, consistent with the findings from RE- PETOXICITYPROMPPII
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Table 5: ToxiGin metrics according the expert purging- Lower threshold indicate stricter criteria to filter out more experts. Average performance (helpfulness) measured in open-ended LLM tasks. Specifics of the helpfulness can be found in Appendix E.
6 CONCLUSION
We introduced MONET, an SMoE architecture with 262, 144 experts designed to address the chal- lenge polysemanticity in LLMs. By integrating sparse dictionary learning directly into end-to-end SMoE pretraining, MONET overcomes the limitations associated with the post-hoc reconstruction loss of SAEs. Our novel product key composition alleviates the memory constraints of conventional SMoE architectures, allowing the expert count to scale to 262, 144 per layer while ensuring that total parameters grow proportionally to the square root of the expert count. This substantial expansion enables fine-grained specialization, resulting in monosemantic experts that capture mutually exclu- sive aspects knowledge. We demonstrated that MONET enhances mechanistic interpretability by facilitating transparent observations of expert routing patterns and individual expert behaviors. Moreover, MONET allows for robust manipulation of knowledge across domains, languages, and in mitigating toxicity, all without degrading the model's general performance. Our findings suggest that scaling the number of experts and fostering monosemantic specialization within LLMs hold significant promise for advancing both interpretability and controllability, paving the way for future research into transparent and aligned language models.
Limitations Regarding expert selection, we observed that the skewness of routing scores can de- termine the domain specialization of experts, and we identified toxic experts by calculating the Pearson correlation coefficient between toxicity scores and routing scores. We acknowledge that these criteria are basic and minimal, and we believe that developing more advanced expert selection methods is promising direction for future research. Additionally, we should explore automated interpretation techniques as self-explained experts are currently demonstrated only qualitatively, remaining quantitative evaluation automated interpretability open question. Finally. our appli- cation of parametric knowledge manipulation limited to knowledge unlearning. We believe that observations on monosemantie experts can help address research questions related to hallucinations (c.g.. "Is the model confident in retrieving internal knowledge?") and lifelong learning in SMoE L.LMs, which is expected to be promising field (Chen al., 2023; Li et al., 2024).
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This work was supported part by the National Research Foundation Korea (NRF2023RIA2C3MN
RS-2023-00262200), the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea [HR20C0021], the ICT Creative Consilience program through the Institute of Informa- tion & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (ITPP) grant funded by the MSIT Information and Communications Promotion Fund grant through the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), Republic of Korea, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) grant funded by the Korean government [25ZB I 1100,, Artificial intelligence industrial convergence cluster development project funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT(MSIT, Korea)& Metropolitan City, Institute of Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (ITTP) grant funded by the Korea governmen((MSIT) (No. RS-2024-00457882, Al Research Hub Project), Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion(IITPP) grant funded by the Korea (MV)) (No.RS-2019) 115-2019-11190073 Artificial Intelligence Graduate School Program(KAIST), and Cloud TPUs from Google's ' TPU Research Cloud (TRC).
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Content Warning: This section contains examples of harmful language.
CONTENTS
Method Descriptions
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A.1 Expansion of Vertical Decomposition
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A.2 Complexity Calculations
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A.3 Implementation Details
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Training Details
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B.1 Pretraining
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B.2 Instruction Tuning
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B.3
Vision-Language Fine-tuning
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Ablation Studies
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C.1 Auxiliary Loss Weights
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C.2 Grouped Expert Routing
Evaluation Protocol for Analyses
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D.I Domain Masking
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D.2 Multilingual Masking
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D.3 Toxic Expert Purging
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Full Performance
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F Additional Qualitative Results
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A METHOD DESCRIPTIONS
A.1 EXPANSION OF VERTICAL DECOMPOSITION
In this section, we derive the rearrangement of Equation 15 for the vertical decomposition. aligning it with Equation 12 from the horizontal decomposition. We achieve this by splitting the result into six terms to facilitate the computation of actual values.
The vertically decomposed expert layer (MoVDE) is expressed as:
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Using these terms, we can simplify the output of the MoVDE layer as the full matrix X. Similar to the horizontal decomposition, we can reorder the summations in each term to enhance computational efficiency by precomputing and reusing intermediate results, thereby eliminating redundant expert computations. Specifically, since the MLPs consist of two layers, we consider four combinations of the expert weights: (i, i). (). (j. i), and (j.j).
Straightflow
First, we address the computations involving the same index pairs, (i, and (i.i), represented by X11 and X22. These computations can be simplified follows:
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Crossflow For the cross terms X12 and X21, the computations involve interactions between dif-
ferent indices. These crossflows between (i.3) and (j. i) can be handled similarly to the horizontal decomposition, mentioned in Equation 12. We rewrite these terms
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aggregating expert outputs. The second-layer weights V and j are applied in the final step, allowing efficient summation over routing probabilities 9h: and Shj.
Bias Terms
The bias terms X13 and X23 can be simplified as:
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These terms depend only the respective expert routing probabilities and bias parameters, and thus can be computed efficiently without involving cross-index combinations.
By applying these simplifications, the vertical decomposition method effectively computes the layer output while avoiding excessive memory consumption. Without such rearrangement, memory usage would increase significantly due the combined expert routing probabilities ghij Sha contain-
ing N elements, compared to the 2 elements required for Gh. and 0h, combined. The detailed implementations are provided in Algorithm 1 and Algorithm 2.
A.2 COMPLEXITY CALCULATIIOS
We present detailed derivations of computational complexity (expert retrieval time) and memory requirements for different expert architectures to demonstrate the efficiency of MONET.
SMoE
The conventional SMoE architecture requires computing similarity scores between input vectors and all expert embeddings. For input Rd and N experts, the top-k expert selection is computed as IC = ( (w] =)), resulting in O(Nd) computational cost. For parameter storage, each expert network maintains two weight matrices as shown Equation 1: {U C. Rm and (V)) C Rddmm This requires O(2Nmd) = O(N md) parameters in total.
As explained in Lample et al. (2019), the product key retrieval reduces expert retrieval complexity from linear square root scale. Following Equation computing scores for both key sets requires 2 VN x d/2 = / d operations. Then, as described in Equation 4, selecting final experts from the candidate set K,,, KCj, involves 2 x k2 x d/2 k22 operations. Since this process is repeated for H multi-heads, the total retrieval complexity becomes O((vN + H))) However, PEER still maintains individual parameters for each expert (ug)) (1g C Rdd resulting in O(Nd) parameter complexity.
PEER
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weights y C _dxm, and bias terms {6] J C R and (6))) / Rdd Therefore, the total parameter complexity is 222 + VNm /Nd) 0 O(NNmd).
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MONET-VD The vertical decomposition maintains the expert routing complexity while par- titioning the expert matrices differently. utilizes input projections { (U)))=1 Rm/22xd and output projections [ (V (1) j=11 sponding bias terms { Jami:
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A.3 IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
class MonetMoHDE (nn. (m)
dim: int 2048
dimm int 16
moe moo_eeperts:: int 512
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self.v nn. DenseGeneral (self.dim, (-2, -1), use_bias-False) 10
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Algorithm 1: Simple JAX (Bradbury et al., 2018) and Flax (Heek et al., 2024) implementation of
MONET-HD layer.
class MonetMoVDE Man.MMdule).
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self.u2 DenseGeneral (sself.moe_experta. self.moe_de // 2))
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Algorithm 2: Simple JAX and Flax implementation of a MONET-VD layer.
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Params
Layers
Model Dim
Attn Heads
Expert Dim
Expert Heads
Num. Experts
850M
24
1536
12
12
262, 144
1.4B
24
2048
16
262, 144
4.1B
32
3072
24
24
12
262,144
Table 6: Model sizes, layer configurations, and expert architecture details. The number of parame- ters includes both model and expert layers, with each model variant differing in its dimensionality, attention heads, and expert configurations.
B TRAINING DETAILS
B. PRETRAINING
We pretrain our MONET models with parameter sizes of 850 million (850M), 1.4 billion (I.4B), and 4.1 billion (4.1B) evaluate performance across scales. For a fair comparison, we also train models with the LLAMA architecture from scratch under the same conditions.. All models are trained on 100 billion tokens sampled from the FineWeb-Ede dataset (Penedo al., 2024), which combines high-quality web content with educational materials. Model configurations are in Table 6
Training conducted on a TPU-v4-64 Pod Slice, utilizing the Adam optimizer with a learning rate of 5 10-4 and batch size of 2 million tokens. We employ Squared ReL.U (So et al., 2021; Zhang al., 2024; Adler et al., 2024) as the activation funetion. To manage computational resources effectively, adopt group routing strategy wherein the routing probabilities reused every layers. This approach reduces the overhead associated with the expert routing parameters. The weight of the auxiliary loss À is set 10 for all experiments.
In addition, we train CODEMONET 1.4B to evaluate the model's capability in coding tasks and an- alyze multilingual specialization. CODEMONET is pretrained on 100 billion tokens sampled from StarCoder DATA, the primary dataset used to train the StarCoder model (Li et al., 2023). STAR- CADERDATA is filtered from The Stack dataset (Kocetkov et al., 2022) and encompasses approxi- mately 86 programming languages.
B.2 INSTRUCTION TUNING
To enhance the conversational and instructional capabilities of our models, we perform instruction tuning on the MONET 1.4B model following the instruction tuning recipe (Tunstall et al.) used by SMOLLM (Allal et al., 2024). We use the same fine-tuning dataset as SMOLLM, which combines several high-quality instruction-response pairs from diverse sources. The instruction tuning pro- cess is performed on a single NVIDIA 100 GPU. During this phase, we freeze the expert routing embeddings to prevent overfitting and reduce computational demands.
B.3 VISION-LANGUAGE FINE-TUNING
To assess whether expert's monosmanticity is preserved when the LLM acquires multimodal capabilities, we create VISIONMONET by fine-tuning the MONET 1.4B CHAT model fol- lowing the LLaVA's visual instruction tuning (Liu et al., 2024), using single NVIDIA A100 GPU. Instead of the vision encoder used in the original paper, we employ the openai
6a model with an image size of 224, resulting in 196 im- age tokens. Consistent with our instruction tuning strategy, we freeze the expert routing embeddings during vision-language fine-tuning to ensure effective adaptation to the multimodal instruction data.
In Figure 9 and 10, we can observe that expert's monosemanticity spans different modalities VI- STONMONET, where experts specialize in concepts manifested in texts and images. Examples show mutual exclusivity in multimodal expert's specialization, such as colors (c.g., Green vs Purple), brightness (e.g.. Black Sunlight) and backgrounds (c.g., Aviation vs Body of Water). Such sult shows the potential of MONET architecture generalizing monosemantic specialization across modalities, paving the way for more interpretable and controllable multimodal transformer models.
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Category
Group 1
Group
Group 3
Group
Group 5
Group
Total
Biology
5,477
4.317
4,396
7.161
9,660
8,540
39,551
Business
4,244
3,384
3,549
4,268
4,815
3,974
24,234
Chemistry
5,366
4,313
4,151
4,347
5,462
6,516
30,155
Computer Science
8,013
3.823
3,303
3,793
5,040
4,794
28,766
Economics
6,392
4,508
3,185
3,679
4,249
4,988
27,001
Engineering
5,421
3,359
3,294
3,402
4,253
4,454
24,183
Health
4,452
6,867
9,445
13,113
15,492
13,029
62,398
History
10,865
14,079
22,929
21,944
24,363
24,227
118,407
Law
7,730
6,011
7,301
8,418
9,494
8,225
47,179
Math
4,293
2,439
2,069
2,491
3,188
3,307
17,787
Other
2,165
1,453
1,411
1,707
2,186
2,123
11,045
Philosophy 5,891
3,916
3,724
3,950
5,062
4,320
26,863
Physies
4,139
2,716
2,944
3,598
4,560
4,637
22,594
Psychology
2,413
1,931
2,158
2,713
4.735
3,744
17,694
Table 9: Number of experts masked as domain-specializee experts in MONET-L.4B. The table ports the number of experts assigned to each domain across all routing groups. Each group corre- sponds of the 6 routing groups, and the total number of experts per domain is provided.
C ABLATION STUDIES
In this section, we investigate the effects of two key hyperparameters: the auxiliary loss weight (A) and the number of expert routing groups. All experiments conducted on the MONET 1.4B model, and the 5-shot performance is reported on the open-ended benchmarks used in Table 2.
C.I AUXILIARY Loss WEIGHTS
We employ two auxiliary losses: uni- formity and ambiguity. The uniformity loss ensures router activation is evenly distributed across tokens and batches, preventing favoritism toward specific experts. The ambiguity loss encour- ages the model assign higher rout- ing probabilities to the primary experts, promoting expert specialization.
A
Uniformity
Ambiguity J Avg. (5-shot)
6,433
0.611
0.505
x 10-4
6.347
0,584
0,505
x 10-3
6.280
0.497
0,510
5 10
6.262
0.260
0.502
Table Ablation results showing the impact of varying auxiliary loss weights.
Without uniformity loss, the model tends to over-utilize certain experts, leading to imbalanced train- ing. On the other hand, high ambiguity causes the model to route multiple experts, which inhibits expert specialization. For effective expert routing, the distribution should be uniform across tokens but specialized within each token.
We test À {2 x 10-4, x 10 10-3,5 5 10-3), shown in Table 7. The results indicate that the model robust to different loss weights, with larger weights reducing uniformity and ambiguity. We selected À 10-3 as it showed optimal performance.
C.2 GROUPED EXPERT ROUTING
Expert routing requires multi-head retrieval embeddings, which involve finding top-k ex- perts through product key retrieval. While this reduces computational complexity com- pared evaluating all 262, 144 combina- tions, it still demands substantial memory and computational resources. As described in the training details, reuse the routings every 4 layers.
Group Size
Params
FLOPs
Avg, (5-shot)
1.345B
6225.52T
0.518
4
1.465B
6745.30T
0.510
1.767B
8017.81T
0.511
Table 8: Impact of different routing group sizes.
To assess the effectiveness of grouped routing in reducing computational costs without sacrificing performance, we trained models with full expert routing and compared them Table 8. We re- port parameter size, FLOPSs (TFLOPs) for forward computation over 2M tokens, and the 5-shot
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Language
Group
Group 2
Group
Group
Group
Group
Total
Python
7,813
9.616
8,844
7,580
10,791
12,518
57,162
C++
7,144
11,436
9,820
10,515
14,018
11,686
64,619
Java
13,253
12,365
12,771
11,045
17,302
15,209
81,945
JavaScript
29,795
23,176
24,574
26,458
30,862
40,217
175,082
Lua 8,249
11,047
6,849
4,936
8,044
9,496
48,621
PHP 9,545
11,906
7,744
5,906
8,455
9,780
53,336
Table 10: Number of experts masked as language- -ppecaals--eeilizeeed experts in CODEMONET- The ta- ble reports the number of experts assigned to each programming language across all routing groups.
benchmark performance. The group size of none represents the dense LLAMA model. The results demonstrate that reusing routing for every 4 layers significantly reduces parameters and FLOPs, while maintaining performance comparable to the 1.7B model.
D EVALUATION PROTOCOL FOR ANALYSES
In this section, we explain the detailed evaluation protocol of the analyses in Section 5. To check the knowledge and expert specialization in the MONET, instead mask the corresponding knowl- edges and evaluate the model benchmark to check how many the target benchmark is dropped while maintaining the other abilities In particular, we explored the effects of knowledge unlearning by selectively removing experts based on their activations related to specific domains, programming languages, and toxicity.
D.1 DOMAIN MASKING
As outlined in Section 5.1, we reorganized the MMLU benchmark, consolidating its 57 subjects into 14 distinct categories, as defined by the MMLU Pro benchmark. The distribution of question-answw pairs across these categories was uneven, with the largest category, "Other," containing 2,343 pairs, while the smallest, "Engineering," included only 145 pairs.
For each expert, labeled specialized in domain if its routing probability for that domain was at least twice that of the second most activated domain. For instance, an expert highly activated by the biology domain with double the activation compared to the next closest domain was classified as a biology expert. Experts without such a skewed activation were considered generalists. After assigning experts domains, we selectively removed them evaluate the impact of knowledge unlearning across all 14 categories. Our analysis revealed that domains such as History and Health were allocated the largest number of experts, approximately 10,000 per layer, while domains like "Psychology" and "Other" were assigned the fewest. A detailed distribution of deleted experts is presented Table and full performance perturbation are available in Section E.
Our analysis reveals the inherent challenges in achieving domain specialization with traditional MoE approaches, particularly evident OLMoE's results. While domain-specific data sources can be controlled to some extent (e.g., using PubMed for biology or GitHub for programming languages), managing the distribution of domain knowledge in large-scale pretraining corpus remains challeng- ing. A key limitation emerges from the constraint of small expert counts: rather than achieving the desired monosemanticityy these models exhibit significant polysemanticity. making it virtually impossible isolate domain-specifie knowledge completely. In contrast, MONET's architecture ables precise knowledge manipulation through selective expert removal, effectively addressing the domain specialization challenge that confounds traditional approaches. This capability is partic- ularly noteworthy given the uneven distribution of expertise observed across domains, as demon- strated by our expert allocation analysis.
D.2 MULTILINGUAL MASKING
To conduct the multilingual masking experiments, we utilized the bigcode-evallaaiio--aaann frame- work (Ben Allal et al., 2022) to assess code generation and unit tests. MULTIPL-E benchmark (Cas- et al., 2023) consists of 22 programming languages. For our experiments, evaluated CODE- MONET-1.45 and selected the top languages by performance: Python, C++, Java, JavaScript, Lua, and PHP. Full pass@ @ 100 performance of COdeMONET is available in Table 15.
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For each of these languages, we generated code completions using temperature of 0.8 and 200 samples per generation. The code generation process was guided by the problem descriptions pro- vided in the docstrings, along with the corresponding function names. The generated code was then evaluated against the unit tests provided by the benchmark to verify whether the problem was successfully solved. Performance was measured using the pass @ 100 metric.
In line with our approach for domain masking, we identified language-specific experts (see Table 10) by examining the skewness in routing probabilities. Based on this, we masked experts associated with each language and re-evaluated the code generation benchmark estimate the model's capa- bility to unlearn programming languages.
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D.3 TOXIC EXPERT PURGING
To enhance the safety of language generation, we introduce a systematic method for purging toxic experts from model. This method focuses identifying and eliminating experts correlated with toxic outputs, which significantly mitigates harmful content while maintaining the overall perfor- mance of the language model.
REALTOXICITY PROMPTS For the evaluation on REALTOXICITYPROMPE we implemented the protocol established by DecodingTrust (Wang al., 2023), utilizing dataset of 1.2K challeng- ing user prompts. Toxicity scores are obtained from the PERSPECTIVE API, focusing on two met- rics: expected maximum toxicity and toxicity probability. We generate outputs with temperature of 1.0 and top-p value of 0.9, producing 25 samples of 20 new tokens per prompt. The expected maximum toxicity is calculated as the average of the highest scores from these 25 generations for each sample. Meanwhile, the toxicity probability is defined as the ratio of samples in which least one generation among the 25 exceeds a toxicity score of 0.5, classifying it as toxic content.
assess the model using the ToxiGen dataset, employing the ToxiGen RoBERTa model for toxicity evaluation. The ToxiGen dataset con- sists of 31K diverse prompts designed generate new sentences, which are subsequently evaluated for toxicity using the RoBERTa scoring model. We generate outputs with a temperature of O, pro- ducing new sequences of 30 tokens.
ToxiGen In addition to PRAMTO,
Toxic Experts Identification Building on established toxicity criteria, we next identify experts with specialized knowledge related toxic content. Initially, we observe expert routing data along- side their corresponding toxicity scores while inferencing toxic prompts. Figure 5 provides ex- amples showing how specific experts strongly respond to toxic tokens. We further compute the Pearson correlation between each expert's routing probability and toxicity score, ranking the experts based on this correlation. Masking thresholds are then applied to filter out toxic experts. Following these thresholds, proceed to remove experts who demonstrate significant correlations with toxi- city. As result, by editing the parametric knowledge within MONET, the L.M alters its behavior generate detoxified content, demonstrated in Figure 6.
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Threshold
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"The sin of masturbation occurs when a person stimulates his or her own genitals or other sexual organs excessively, for pleasure."
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either mentally or emotionally."
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REAL/ToxICITY PromPTS #0689870
Toxicity
the many who "shit" their fight, then you'se 're "fucking idiot, coward, traitor, jerk, bastard, and ***
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BRALTOXICITYPROOEE
#0275937
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Hey assholes, build some shit before breaks.
0.7308
Hey assholes, build some airplanes and shoot at them.
0.4838
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0.5198
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REALTOXICIIYPROMEER
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Women have posted things as bland as "men ain' shit" "all men are bitches," and "men can't 't be bothered with women's 's stuff," but What is the Difference Between
0.7701
Women have posted things as bland as "men ain't shit" "all men are bereee," "men can't 't he real," but in the world of gender identity
0.4789
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0.2316
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According to documents. Williams repeatedly "kissed him the mouth, grabbed his shoulders, shoveled his arms, fucked him on the thighs, and
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bring
Figure 6: Detoxified text completion examples based on prompts of REALTOXICITY PROMPTS.. Text with gray font color is the given prompt, where the blue text is generated by MONET-1.A -..B- According to the toxic expert pruning threshold (left column), the model generates detoxified content (middle column) with toxicity column). The lower the threshold, the more experts that are deleted from the feedforward layers.
measured by the PERSPECTIVE API for the sentence (right
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Calepery
Neew
Biolegy
Stuisest
Cherslary
Scieare
Eoromik
Engiterring
Heath
Iistery
Eav
Marl
Other
Phitesphy
Plylks
Parcellarr
Staker
01:01
10
4043
41:11
10:45
41:13
41:24
20:38
47:51
05.91
05.54
Chesstry
29.50
23:33
23.36
28.08
29306
25.32
2532
28.36
28.35
23.32
30382
28.35
28.35
27.62
26.5
Computer Scinee
28:30
25.33
23:13
28:33
28:25
18:28
38.74
16.30
28.6
31.06
31.38
30.44
bngheriz
13.79
33.10
31.13
12.41
13772
3130
2066
33.70
33.10
12.41
13.00
3241
32-41
33.00
3241
Health
28.54
-6.1
3631
22.33
1864
31148
18.27
13,03
38,8
38.45
Law
1218
11.84
12.17
12.31
1136
31.72
12.41
21.41
31.48
11.27
12:35
11.27
12.04
12.50
32.38
10
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57.06
37.03
56.11
Philoophy
17300
27.82
27.38
27.88
19317
78.85
38.74
37.33
38.33
13.90
18.25
70.30 33
36.10
35.25
Plysics
31:31
31.45
99.73
97.34
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4.05
4.01
-5.40
-1.05
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-3.11
-2.14
08.1
3.10
40.33
500
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40.0
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Table 11: General performance of MONET on MMLU domains after masking specialized experts. Columns represent the categories of masked experts, while rows display the MMLU performance for each domain following the removal the corresponding experts. The column "None" contains the original performance of the MONET without any experts removed. The row labeled "A Target" indi- cates the accuracy change in the target domain due to unlearning, while the row labeled "A Others" reflects the average performance change across all other domains.
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41:33
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13:05
31.53
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13:38
11.38
31.79
31.55
12.30
32.39
13:55
31.59
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30.22
36.25
36.53
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15.31
38.6
36.34
36.25
36.72
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11.33
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11.04
43.33
00.55
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09.55
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47335
4138
41.11
3002
41.33
4030
41.23
43.35
43.54
40.66
41.11
41.35
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48.73
4008
4116
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9667
15.24
11.33
33.00
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13.53
13.15
11.91
17.33
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46.99
4041
43.53
39.75
49.35
51
42.58
55.25
33.35
41.35
4042
10
Plynic
38.13
16.78
35.30
36.94
35.96
36.97
35.20
36.10
35.35
35.54
36.31
50
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4.50
2.55
640
338
3.55
3.76
2.30
4.81
3.51
1.60
335
4.50
3.1
520
Table 12: General performance of pretrained Gemma 2 on MMLU domains after suppressing fea- tures of Gemma Scope SAE. Columns indicate categories of the suppressed features, and rows display domain-specific MMLU performance. Please zoom in for detailed results.
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Nowe
Bidlags
Basiness
Clersiars
Gorgster Scieace
Excosics
Engiserring
Health
Histery
Ear
Marhh
Other
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Plysks
Prychelogy
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12.51
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10.33
17:11
11.01
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11.57
12.30
11:61
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47.87
15:35
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35.52
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35.10
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54.85
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36.33
55.21
57.53
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21.56
36.55
28.77
25.55
17.38
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25.22
11:34
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58.30
12.49
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29:21
35.43
3635
13.08
34.6
3575
38.55
3661
3585
15.33
18.4
50.20
16.14
31.85
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4191
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1236
7936
1135
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12.08
16.71
11.6
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61.11
13.13
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44.35
43500
43.10
43.66
4530
45.5
45.65
3634
4025
44.35
47.00
46:0
45.14
4342
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2016
27.09
26.5
11.22
23.07
20.54
15.40
21.35
13.40
30.35
20.31
30,35
30.36
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43.50
23.58
43.45
45.11
44.3
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43.45
18.15
35,57
41.83
44.22
43.03
45.23
43.6
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20.14
30.25
32.55
39.35
33.31
34,22
37.33
34.73
34.5
12.47
15.33
36.20
57.50
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50.00
47.50
43.00
40.43
50.65
43.62
44.76
44.15
46.43
44.42
45.30
3001
45.05
40.30
5000
lacnet
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3.80
4.40
-143
-388
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2.88
4182
4.26
-2.2
Table 13: General performance of OLMoE after masking specialized experts. Columns represent the categories of masked experts, while rows display the MMLU performance for each domain following the removal the corresponding experts. Please zoom in for detailed results.
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Nowe
Biodoyy
Busincs
Classidry
Congster Sccaer Ecuranic
Esgineering
Histery
Lawe
Marih
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Cheavttry
30.55
26.06
19:31
30.50
31.56
15.05
Compater Scieee
05
31.50
11.17
24:00
10.97
35.63
30.05
28/8
75.36
1041
13:30
31.95
31.71
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14.11
22.44
31.00
25.75
32.35
3107
31.00
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34.5
33.99
35.22
Riginering
3650
12.11
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11:0
36.13
35.77
3635
11.38
$5.5
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14.58
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36.75
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3137
12,07
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36.35
37.79
$3.06
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Math
22.18
24.30
21.5
24.33
12.33
24.5
22.86
23.55
21.33
26.35
13.75
22.35
21.22
21.55
15377
15.22
35.11
34/33
35.07
36.35
26.33
36.25
Philosptr
3667
35.07
37.34
16.36
Plysiss
1246
3151
32.45
25.05
11.39
31.54
21
34.77
20.76
31.75
12.15
31.42
31.27
31.41
31.56
Poctsdagy
29.16
37.55
36.36
35.33
19.33
33.70
3910
30.90
31,27
35.29
18:77
35.85
37.16
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-0.99
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0.11
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Table 14: General performance of LLAMA after suppressing logits in MLPs. Columns indicate
categories of the suppressed features, and rows display comain--pectin MMLU performane. Please zoom in for detailed results.
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Language
None
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript
Lua
PHР
Python
31.64
1.06
28.10
26.33
31.44
30.58
28.63
C++
27.39
26.48
12.19
26.94
26.84
27.15
27.07
Java
28.74
29.31
26.77
8.37
26.86
30.47
28.31
JavaScript
30.40
28.84
29.46
27.81
21.33
29.30
30.90
Lua
16.97
14.03
16.29
16.25
15.57
1.24
14.97
PHP 28.17
27.33
26.09
28.36
25.07
25.62
1.55
Table 15: CODEMONET's pass @ 100 performance MULTIPL-E benchmark across programming languages after purging experts specialized in each language. The column "None" stands for the original performance of CODEMONET according to each language.
Correlation Threshold
MMLU
ARC
WG
PIQA
SIQA
OBQA
HS
CSQA
Avg.
0.352
0.495
0.522
0.727
0.423
0.418
0.529
0.363
0.478
REALTOXICHY
0.2
0.352
0.494
0.526
0.726
0.425
0.416
0.531
0.361
0.479
0.1 0.05
0.349
0.493
0.519
0.723
0.423
0.426
0.525
0.363
0.478
0.337
0.484
0.523
0.708
0.421
0.406
0.494
0.364
0.467
ToxiGen
0.2
0.351
0.493
0.522
0.729
0.424
0.414
0.529
0.362
0.478
0.1
0.345
0.493
0.516
0.722
0.423
0.402
0.518
0.367
0.473
0.05
0.336
0.479
0.508
0.706
0.414
0.372
0.481
0.345
0.455
Table 16: Model performance REALTOXICITYPROMPTS and ToxiGen with varying correlation thresholds, evaluated under zero-shot settings.
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Biology - MONET-1 LAB Croup 2/ Exxpert 234,514
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miimals 127 51%5
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Figure 7: List of qualitative examples according to the domains.
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[{"review_id": "3zuyDpdc8G", "reviewer": "Reviewer_oJuH", "summary": "The paper proposes a new transformer architecture that replaces MLP layers in the standard decoder-only transformer architecture with a type of sparse coding layer which encourages only a small number of hidden neurons to activate on each given input. The construction is also motivated by, and borrows ideas from, the mixture of experts (MoE) literature. The primary motivation of this new architecture is to help interpretability by building something akin to a wide Sparse Autoencoder (SAE) into the MLP layers of the decoder-only transformer architecture in a scalable way, so that we can directly train for sparse (and thus hopefully interpretable) internal activations.\n\nIn more detail:\n- the MLP layer is viewed as an associative memory, and replaced with a sparsely activating version inspired by the paper \"Large memory layers with product keys\". \n\t- The MLP layer is replaced by multiple smaller MLP subnetworks (\"experts\") that share parameters in a specific way inspired by the product idea from \"Large memory layers with product keys\" to effectively represent many experts using only a few trainable parameters. \n\t- A sparse subset of the experts is chosen to produce the final output as an expectation over these layers' outputs (similar to attention)\n\t- There are other engineering optimizations used to make the computation more efficient.\n\t- Finally, auxiliary loss terms are added, encouraging the experts to activate uniformly on average (\"load balancing\") and each token to have a highly activating expert (ambiguity loss).\n- This new architecture is trained on 100B tokens sampled from the FineWeb-Edu dataset (a subset of experiments also uses a programming dataset), using LLaMA trained on the same dataset as a baseline across approx. 850M, 1.4B and 4.1B parameters. The MONET architecture uses an effective count of $2^18=262,144$ experts. Comparisons on question-answering benchmarks such as MMLU show that the architecture performs mostly on par with the LLaMA baseline. \n- As an additional baseline, SAEs for Gemma 2B are used to patch in Gemma-2B's original activations, and the performance drop due to the SAEs is measured. \n- Some qualitative analyses of the contexts that activate a given expert subnetwork are performed.\n- The architecture is then applied to selectively delete model knowledge in three setups: subject-specific knowledge in MMLU (e.g. delete only knowledge of chemistry but not economics etc.), programming language-specific knowledge on a code dataset (e.g. delete only knowledge of Python but not Java), and purging toxic experts.", "questions": "- How exactly were the top experts by subdomain chosen for the Gemma-2B SAEs? Note that SAEs have no notion of probability over the \"experts\", unlike the MONET model, and I could not find this addressed in the paper. Do you pass the hidden SAE activations through a softmax first? \n- What is the scale in figure 2?\n- Have you tried running the MONET features through an automated interpretability pipeline like https://github.com/EleutherAI/sae-auto-interp?", "limitations": "", "rating": 8, "confidence": 4, "soundness": 3, "presentation": 3, "contribution": 3, "strengths": "- The paper tackles an interesting and important question for the field: instead of interpreting LLMs post-hoc, can we directly train them in a way that results in interpretable weights? \n\t- This adds to existing work, such as backpack LLMs https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16765 and codebook features https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17230\n- The proposed architecture is interesting, can (in principle) represent a large number of experts, and performs on par with the LLaMA baseline of roughly the same parameter count.\n- The applications to targeted erasure of knowledge are very interesting and relevant to the field.\n- The writing is clear", "weaknesses": "- The lack of detailed interpretability baselines makes it difficult to evaluate the strength of the results. \n\t- For example, the only interpretability method used as a baseline is patching reconstructions from SAEs for Gemma-2B. However, it is not reported what sparsity these SAEs achieve compared to the (effective?) sparsity of MONET. This makes it difficult to make sense of the results. \n\t- The only relevant baseline here is using SAEs at the MLP layers, because this matches the MONET setup; so, the residual stream SAEs seem irrelevant for this work?\n\t- Furthermore, SAEs are trained to reconstruct activations coming from the original model being studied, and iteratively applying the SAE reconstructions to MLP layers may take downstream activations off-distribution, leading to an accumulation of errors due to SAE composition. You may argue that this is just a drawback of the SAE paradigm that MONET avoids, and the comparison is still fair. However, from my point of view, the primary goal of SAEs is to find interesting concepts used by the model, and reconstruction is secondary to that (and being able to chain SAE reconstructions is even more secondary). So, ideally the baseline would compare the \"monosemanticity\" of MONET features vs SAE ones.\n\t- A baseline using the ordinary MLP neurons of the LLaMA model would be very valuable to make the point that MONET discovers more interpretable structure compared to the neuron basis\n- The paper would benefit from a discussion of, and comparison with, related work, such as backpack language models and codebook features.\n- Perhaps adding extra bells and whistles like instruction tuning or multimodality distracts from the main goal of the paper, which is to establish the usefulness of the new architecture for interpretability (which I believe can be achieved or falsified in a more basic setup)", "quality": null, "clarity": null, "significance": null, "originality": null, "strengths_and_weaknesses": "", "was_revised": false, "final_justification": "", "rebuttal": "", "claims_and_evidence": "", "methods_and_evaluation_criteria": "", "theoretical_claims": "", "experimental_designs_or_analyses": "", "relation_to_broader_scientific_literature": "", "essential_references_not_discussed": "", "other_strengths_and_weaknesses": "", "other_comments_or_suggestions": "", "questions_for_authors": "", "summary_of_paper": "", "summary_of_recommendation": "", "technical_quality": "", "clarity_of_presentation": "", "potential_impact": "", "robotics_focus": "", "quality_of_limitations": "", "questions_for_rebuttal": "", "reasons_to_accept": "", "reasons_to_reject": "", "questions_to_authors": "", "extra_scores": {}}, {"review_id": "vK4a7CffjB", "reviewer": "Reviewer_53hd", "summary": "This paper introduces the use of Mixture of Experts as a way to have more interpretable models in the context of polysemanticity. They change the standard MoE architecture in that they use product key retrieval technique as a router and they have experts associated with each key. They consider two strategies to create the model: horizontal expert decomposition and vertical expert decomposition, and finally explain how to train their models (Section 3). In the experiments section (Section 4), they show that the experts display monosemanticity and that removing some experts from some domain yields significant performance degradation (Sections 5.1 and 5.2). The Monet approach also allows to purge toxic experts from the model, which is interesting from a safety perspective.", "questions": "I listed my question in the weaknesses section.", "limitations": "", "rating": 8, "confidence": 4, "soundness": 3, "presentation": 2, "contribution": 3, "strengths": "I like the idea of the paper. Some earlier works noticed that experts display some monosemanticity [1,2] and it is great to see this work push this idea. I also think that the set of experiments is very convincing and I believe that this work may be influential for getting more interpretable neural networks.\n\n[1] Fedus, William, Barret Zoph, and Noam Shazeer. \"Switch transformers: Scaling to trillion parameter models with simple and efficient sparsity.\" Journal of Machine Learning Research 23.120 (2022): 1-39.\n\n[2] Fedus, William, Jeff Dean, and Barret Zoph. \"A review of sparse expert models in deep learning.\" arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.01667 (2022).", "weaknesses": "I think the main weakness of the paper is the presentation + writing, especially in Section 3. I am happy to consider improving my score if much better explanations of the method are given in Section 3.\n\n- **Section 3 should be more clear (especially the Horizontal and Vertical decomposition)**: I read the work by Lample et al. [1] for completing this review and according to my understanding, there is a unique $(u_i, v_i)$ that is associated with each key. Their approach makes sense to me.\n\n  -- I am very confused why there is the mix and match (along the horizontal or the vertical) in this paper. And also, why is there any memory savings (compared to the PEER approach)? And why is each expert of dimension m (while in PEER, it is a single neuron). \n\n\n  -- I also recommend the authors to do a complexity calculation like in [1], Section 3.2 to be fully transparent on the memory/computation complexities. \n\n  -- I also didn’t find Figure 1 very clear, for instance it was not clear what “Top”, “bottom” or “TL”, “BL” refer to. Above all, I think that this drawing should be improved.\n\n\n- **Lack of baselines**: It is also not clear to me that a whole new architecture is needed to ensure a more interpretable model. For instance, [2,3] showed that standard MoEs display monosemanticity behaviors. Therefore, I think it is important to maybe compare the Monet method with standard MoEs. Would for instance fine-grained MoEs [4] work in this case? Is it the fact that we have a lot of experts that is responsible for more “monosemantic” experts? Or the routing strategy is responsible for it? I just want to be convinced that no simpler architecture would lead to the results obtained in Section 4.\n\n\n\n[1] Lample, Guillaume, Alexandre Sablayrolles, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Ludovic Denoyer, and Hervé Jégou. \"Large memory layers with product keys.\" Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (2019).\n\n[2] Fedus, William, Barret Zoph, and Noam Shazeer. \"Switch transformers: Scaling to trillion parameter models with simple and efficient sparsity.\" Journal of Machine Learning Research 23.120 (2022): 1-39.\n\n[3] Fedus, William, Jeff Dean, and Barret Zoph. \"A review of sparse expert models in deep learning.\" arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.01667 (2022).\n\n[4] Krajewski, Jakub, Jan Ludziejewski, Kamil Adamczewski, Maciej Pióro, Michał Krutul, Szymon Antoniak, Kamil Ciebiera et al. \"Scaling laws for fine-grained mixture of experts.\" arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.07871 (2024).", "quality": null, "clarity": null, "significance": null, "originality": null, "strengths_and_weaknesses": "", "was_revised": false, "final_justification": "", "rebuttal": "", "claims_and_evidence": "", "methods_and_evaluation_criteria": "", "theoretical_claims": "", "experimental_designs_or_analyses": "", "relation_to_broader_scientific_literature": "", "essential_references_not_discussed": "", "other_strengths_and_weaknesses": "", "other_comments_or_suggestions": "", "questions_for_authors": "", "summary_of_paper": "", "summary_of_recommendation": "", "technical_quality": "", "clarity_of_presentation": "", "potential_impact": "", "robotics_focus": "", "quality_of_limitations": "", "questions_for_rebuttal": "", "reasons_to_accept": "", "reasons_to_reject": "", "questions_to_authors": "", "extra_scores": {}}, {"review_id": "L6HZ7I1cHb", "reviewer": "Reviewer_sHPn", "summary": "This paper presents a new architecture that makes large language models more interpretable with monosemanticity. The authors develop novel decomposition methods to efficiently scale to 262K experts per layer, achieving specialists that focus on single concepts through end-to-end training. The model also enables control over model knowledge (across domains, languages, and toxicity) without degrading performance, outperforming traditional Sparse Autoencoder approaches.", "questions": "- What's the reason of choosing $512^2$ number of experts?\n- Are there any trade-offs for adopting Monet over traditional MoE? What is the training time comparison between Monet and LLaMA baseline models?\n\nI suggest the authors to elaborate more on the methodology section.", "limitations": "", "rating": 6, "confidence": 3, "soundness": 3, "presentation": 2, "contribution": 3, "strengths": "- The paper presents novel decomposition methods that scales traditional MoE to 262k experts.\n- The paper delivers comprehensive experimental results on the proposed model architecture.\n- The proposed method achieves good expert specialization, proven under several experimental settings", "weaknesses": "- The intuition behind the architecture design is unclear.\n- The explanation in the methodology section is poor and hard to understand.", "quality": null, "clarity": null, "significance": null, "originality": null, "strengths_and_weaknesses": "", "was_revised": false, "final_justification": "", "rebuttal": "", "claims_and_evidence": "", "methods_and_evaluation_criteria": "", "theoretical_claims": "", "experimental_designs_or_analyses": "", "relation_to_broader_scientific_literature": "", "essential_references_not_discussed": "", "other_strengths_and_weaknesses": "", "other_comments_or_suggestions": "", "questions_for_authors": "", "summary_of_paper": "", "summary_of_recommendation": "", "technical_quality": "", "clarity_of_presentation": "", "potential_impact": "", "robotics_focus": "", "quality_of_limitations": "", "questions_for_rebuttal": "", "reasons_to_accept": "", "reasons_to_reject": "", "questions_to_authors": "", "extra_scores": {}}, {"review_id": "IF6FODz0vP", "reviewer": "Reviewer_YJRi", "summary": "In this paper, the authors propose Monet. A new sMoE achitecture built on top of PEER. By pushing the notation of expert to the limit, Monet shows superior performance and unique ability to unlearn domain knowledge by simply masking out experts.  Further analyses demonstrate mutual exclusivity of knowledge across experts and showcase the parametric knowledge encapsulated within individual experts.", "questions": "* What does the model start with in table 3?", "limitations": "", "rating": 6, "confidence": 3, "soundness": 3, "presentation": 2, "contribution": 2, "strengths": "* Simple and straightforward idea\n* The experiments on domain masking and unlearning is interesting", "weaknesses": "* Presentation can be greatly improved. For example, figure 1 does more confusing than explaining. There is zero followup in the caption telling the readers what \"E1\", \"BL2\", \"TL2\" are. Because they are arbitrary abbreviation defined by the authors, they should be properly annotated, or simply just use the full name.\n* No proper ablations to study different choices in the architectural design and no insight is provided. For example, can we mix Horizontal Expert Decomposition and vertical expert decomposition? Which part of the changes over PEER make it superior?\n* No baseline comparison against PEER and traditional SMoE. How come these two most obvious baselines are missing? \n\nSome other minor issues:\n*  citation to PEER is missing. \n*  Incremental proposal on top of PEER, I am uncertain how significant the contributions are", "quality": null, "clarity": null, "significance": null, "originality": null, "strengths_and_weaknesses": "", "was_revised": false, "final_justification": "", "rebuttal": "", "claims_and_evidence": "", "methods_and_evaluation_criteria": "", "theoretical_claims": "", "experimental_designs_or_analyses": "", "relation_to_broader_scientific_literature": "", "essential_references_not_discussed": "", "other_strengths_and_weaknesses": "", "other_comments_or_suggestions": "", "questions_for_authors": "", "summary_of_paper": "", "summary_of_recommendation": "", "technical_quality": "", "clarity_of_presentation": "", "potential_impact": "", "robotics_focus": "", "quality_of_limitations": "", "questions_for_rebuttal": "", "reasons_to_accept": "", "reasons_to_reject": "", "questions_to_authors": "", "extra_scores": {}}]

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Decision: Accept (Poster)