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This research addresses parameter redundancy in large language models by introducing CS-MoE, an architecture that shares experts across transformer layers to reduce computational costs. The approach achieves lower perplexity than dense models while activating only 55% of parameters, establishing a flexible trade-off between efficiency and capacity. This offers a viable path for deploying high-performance models in resource-constrained environments without sacrificing accuracy.
Improving Parameter Utilization by Sharing Neural Experts Across Layers in Transformers
arXiv:2609.22199v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer-based large language models often suffer from inter-layer parameter redundancy, where functional transformations are redundantly learned across network depths. We propose CS-MoE, a novel Transformer architecture featuring cross-layer expert sharing to address this inefficiency. Deviating from the widely used Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture that terminates each Transformer block with layer-isolated experts, CS-MoE combines layer-independent experts with concurrent access to a centralized, globally shared expert pool. This \textit{Global Experts Sharing} mechanism enables elastic control over token-level parameter activation and computational consumption (FLOPs). Experiments demonstrate that CS-MoE achieves lower perplexity than equal-scale dense Transformers while activating only 55\% of parameters. Furthermore, its performance scales monotonically with an increased number of activated experts and approaches MoE counterparts that consume more FLOPs by expanding the shared pool with a fixed FLOPs budget. CS-MoE also establishes a flexible Pareto frontier between computational cost and model capacity, offering an efficient alternative for computation-constrained environments.
Abstract:Transformer-based large language models often suffer from inter-layer parameter redundancy, where functional transformations are redundantly learned across network depths. We propose CS-MoE, a novel Transformer architecture featuring cross-layer expert sharing to address this inefficiency. Deviating from the widely used Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture that terminates each Transformer block with layer-isolated experts, CS-MoE combines layer-independent experts with concurrent access to a centralized, globally shared expert pool. This \textit{Global Experts Sharing} mechanism enables elastic control over token-level parameter activation and computational consumption (FLOPs). Experiments demonstrate that CS-MoE achieves lower perplexity than equal-scale dense Transformers while activating only 55\% of parameters. Furthermore, its performance scales monotonically with an increased number of activated experts and approaches MoE counterparts that consume more FLOPs by expanding the shared pool with a fixed FLOPs budget. CS-MoE also establishes a flexible Pareto frontier between computational cost and model capacity, offering an efficient alternative for computation-constrained environments.
11 pages, 6 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of EMNLP 2026 Main
Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2609.22199 [cs.LG]
(or arXiv:2609.22199v1 [cs.LG] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.22199 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite
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