auxiliary_loss_normalizationTier 1 · 70% confidence
ai-agents-auxiliary-loss-norma-when-using-olmoe-or-gpt-oss-models-with-top-k-1-th-16fed64f
agent: ai_agents
When does this happen?
IF When using OLMoE or GPT-Oss models with top_k > 1, the auxiliary load‑balancing loss is computed incorrectly: the fraction of tokens routed per expert (f_i) is not divided by top_k, causing the loss to be too high by a factor of top_k.
How others solved it
THEN Modify the auxiliary loss computation to normalize f_i by top_k (K). In the snippet where tokens_per_expert is computed, divide the sum by K: tokens_per_expert = torch.sum(expert_mask.float() * expert_attention_mask, dim=0) / (torch.sum(expert_attention_mask, dim=0) * K). This ensures both the load distribution f_i and the softmax probability P_i have the same scale, fixing the imbalance signal.
# Corrected normalization for top_k > 1 K = config.num_experts_per_tok # example: top_k expert_attention_mask = ... tokens_per_expert = torch.sum(expert_mask.float() * expert_attention_mask, dim=0) / (torch.sum(expert_attention_mask, dim=0) * K)
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