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Allen AI (Ai2) releases EMO, a 1B-active/14B-total-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model that achieves emergent modularity without predefined domain labels. Unlike standard MoEs where experts specialize in surface-level syntactic patterns (prepositions, articles), EMO's experts organize into semantically meaningful domain clusters (health, code, math) by constraining all tokens within a document to route through a shared expert pool during training. This allows users to deploy just 12.5% of the total experts for a specific task while retaining near full-model performance — a 3% absolute drop versus severe degradation in standard MoEs. The full model, baseline, training code, and an interactive visualization tool are all being released openly.

EMO: Pretraining mixture of experts for emergent modularity