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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 3, 2026
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This is a preprint presenting a theoretical statistical framework for understanding mixture-of-experts architectures, characterizing how routing, sparse activation, and shared experts affect approximation-estimation-computation tradeoffs through oracle risk bounds and input-space geometry. The work provides mathematical characterization of design choices but has not been empirically validated or peer reviewed.
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Derives oracle risk bounds separating approximation, expert-learning, and router-estimation errors for dense and sparse routing with evolving experts Shows sparse Top-K routing can retain benefits of localized aggregation while controlling per-input computation Interprets gating through input-space geometry, relating routing performance to regions of local expert advantage
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This is a theoretical analysis providing statistical framework and oracle bounds for mixture-of-experts architectures, without empirical validation or clinical data.
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Mixture-of-experts (MoE) architectures increase model capacity by combining a collection of expert predictors through input-dependent routing, while often activating only a small subset of experts for each input. Despite their growing importance in modern large-scale models, the statistical roles of their design choices, especially routing, sparse activation, and shared experts, remain only partially understood, as existing theory has largely focused on parametric or correctly specified MoE models. In this paper, we view MoE as a form of localized aggregation and show how this localization reshapes the approximation-estimation-computation tradeoff. We derive oracle risk bounds for learning dense and sparse routing with evolving experts, separating approximation, expert-learning, and router-estimation errors, and characterize how sparse Top-K routing can retain the benefits of localized aggregation while controlling per-input computation. We also interpret gating through the geometry of input space, relating routing performance to regions of local expert advantage, and show how shared experts, as adopted in architectures such as DeepSeekMoE, can extract common predictive structure so that routed experts focus on residual local variation. Together, these results provide a unified statistical framework for understanding MoE through input-dependent expert aggregation, in which expert specialization and computational tradeoffs are governed by local predictive structure.
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