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Jelena Markovic-Voronov, Petros Prastakos, Kayhan Behdin, Jincheng Cao, Zhipeng Wang, Shayan Mohajer Hamidi, Yuanda Xu, Zhengze Zhou and 2 more

OptEP prunes routed-expert models by selecting expert groups that reconstruct original layer outputs on calibration data. It relaxes subset selection into continuous optimization, then updates retained experts’ weights with regularization. On Qwen3-30B-A3B, retaining 32 of 128 experts per layer yields 87.40% MATH-500 pass@1, above REAP’s 76.07% but below the full model’s 96.40%; results depend on domain-specific calibration.

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