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AlterNet: Adaptive-Depth Mixture-of-Experts with Learned Halting for Elastic Inference

Alexander Kastius

Routes each sequence through shallow experts repeatedly, using the current hidden state and depth to choose experts. Trains expert-specific stopping signals alongside the language model so computation can end at different depths.

First public: · Added to this list: November 9, 2026

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arXiv:2611.08741 · Initial submission: 2026-11-05

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