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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Yifan Xiong, Beijing, CN;
Changho Hwang, Cheongju-si, KR;
Wei Cui, Beijing, CN;
Ziyue Yang, Beijing, CN;
Ze Liu, Beijing, CN;
Han Hu, Beijing, CN;
Zilong Wang, Beijing, CN;
Rafael Omar Salas, Tega Cay, SC (US);
Jithin Jose, Austin, TX (US);
Prabhat Ram, Los Altos, CA (US);
Ho-Yuen Chau, Redmond, WA (US);
Peng Cheng, Beijing, CN;
Fan Yang, Beijing, CN;
Mao Yang, Beijing, CN;
Yongqiang Xiong, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A computing system is provided, including a plurality of processing devices configured to execute a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) layer included in an MoE model. The MoE layer includes a plurality of expert sub-models that each have a respective plurality of parameter values. The MoE layer is configured to be switchable between a data parallel mode and an expert-data-model parallel mode without conveying the respective parameter values of the expert sub-models among the plurality of processing devices.