Introduction to the Switch Transformer Model: Pioneering Scalable and Efficient NLP
The Switch Transformer, introduced by Google Research, represents a significant innovation in large-scale Natural Language Processing (NLP). With an impressive 1.6 trillion parameters, this model achieves high performance while keeping computational demands in check. Leveraging a mixture-of-experts (MoE) approach, the Switch Transformer only activates a single expert sub-network for each input, diverging from traditional models…