Two-rate precision allocation cuts MoE memory footprint and decode traffic

DuoRate stores weights once and adapts read precision per workload, matching 4-bit accuracy at 2.9 bpw

Chinese Tech
Mengqi Guo · Zhe Wei · Yuan Yuan · Jiunn Bin Lim · Boyi Pan · Michael Bi Mi

Huawei Technologies Ltd.

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The authors formalize MoE weight precision as two rate functionals: a resident rate (what is stored) and a decode rate (what is read per step).

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DuoRate stores MoE weights once and allocates per-expert read precision per workload, matching 4-bit formats at 2.9 bpw on Qwen3-30B-A3B.

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