Yes. MoE models tipically use a different set of experts at each token. So while the "compute" is similar to a dense model equal to the "active" parameters, the

Yes. MoE models tipically use a different set of experts at each token. So while the "compute" is similar to a dense model equal to the "active" parameters, the VRAM requirements are larger. You could technically run inference & swap the models around, but the latency would be pretty horrendous.