Efficient MoE Inference with Fine-Grained Scheduling of Disaggregated Expert Parallelism

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Autori principali: Pan, Xinglin, Shi, Shaohuai, Lin, Wenxiang, Wang, Yuxin, Tang, Zhenheng, Wang, Wei, Chu, Xiaowen
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author Pan, Xinglin
Shi, Shaohuai
Lin, Wenxiang
Wang, Yuxin
Tang, Zhenheng
Wang, Wei
Chu, Xiaowen
author_facet Pan, Xinglin
Shi, Shaohuai
Lin, Wenxiang
Wang, Yuxin
Tang, Zhenheng
Wang, Wei
Chu, Xiaowen
contents The mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture scales model size with sublinear computational increase but suffers from memory-intensive inference due to KV caches and sparse expert activation. Recent disaggregated expert parallelism (DEP) distributes attention and experts to dedicated GPU groups but lacks support for shared experts and efficient task scheduling, limiting performance. We propose FinDEP, a fine-grained task scheduling algorithm for DEP that maximizes task overlap to improve MoE inference throughput. FinDEP introduces three innovations: 1) partitioning computation/communication into smaller tasks for fine-grained pipelining, 2) formulating a scheduling optimization supporting variable granularity and ordering, and 3) developing an efficient solver for this large search space. Experiments on four GPU systems with DeepSeek-V2 and Qwen3-MoE show FinDEP improves throughput by up to 1.61x over prior methods, achieving up to 1.24x speedup on a 32-GPU system.
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spellingShingle Efficient MoE Inference with Fine-Grained Scheduling of Disaggregated Expert Parallelism
Pan, Xinglin
Shi, Shaohuai
Lin, Wenxiang
Wang, Yuxin
Tang, Zhenheng
Wang, Wei
Chu, Xiaowen
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Artificial Intelligence
The mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture scales model size with sublinear computational increase but suffers from memory-intensive inference due to KV caches and sparse expert activation. Recent disaggregated expert parallelism (DEP) distributes attention and experts to dedicated GPU groups but lacks support for shared experts and efficient task scheduling, limiting performance. We propose FinDEP, a fine-grained task scheduling algorithm for DEP that maximizes task overlap to improve MoE inference throughput. FinDEP introduces three innovations: 1) partitioning computation/communication into smaller tasks for fine-grained pipelining, 2) formulating a scheduling optimization supporting variable granularity and ordering, and 3) developing an efficient solver for this large search space. Experiments on four GPU systems with DeepSeek-V2 and Qwen3-MoE show FinDEP improves throughput by up to 1.61x over prior methods, achieving up to 1.24x speedup on a 32-GPU system.
title Efficient MoE Inference with Fine-Grained Scheduling of Disaggregated Expert Parallelism
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21487