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PowerMoE-3b

by IBM Research ibm-research/PowerMoE-3b

PowerMoE-3B is a 3B sparse Mixture-of-Experts (sMoE) language model trained with the Power learning rate scheduler. It sparsely activates 800M parameters for each token. It is trained on a mix of open-source and proprietary datasets.

Parameters3.4B
Context4,096
Weights13.5 GB
Licenseapache-2.0
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads1.3M

Runs On

What it takes to serve PowerMoE-3b (3.4B parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

PrecisionWeightsMemory neededCheapest setupPer hourAlso fits
16-bit 6.7 GB 8.1 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 3.4 GB 4.0 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 1.7 GB 2.0 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00

Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Sep 18, 2026.

SAVRN's Notes on PowerMoE-3b

Forty experts, eight awake for each token: that is how IBM Research's PowerMoE-3b holds 3.4B parameters while activating 800M per token. Memory does not care which experts are asleep, though. All 40 must be resident, so 16-bit needs 8.1 GB, 8-bit 4.0 GB and 4-bit 2.0 GB. Each lands on one MI300X with 192 GB at $1.85 an hour on demand and leaves the card mostly empty, so share it. The download is 13.5 GB, twice the 16-bit footprint.

Apache 2.0 makes commercial use, modification and redistribution straightforward; keep the notices and record your changes. Two checks. The context window is 4,096 tokens, so long documents will not fit in one pass; this model is for short prompts, code and math. And the training mix includes proprietary datasets, with every published number reported by the publisher itself, so evaluate on your own workload first.

Model Card

By IBM Research, published under apache-2.0, revision 13fcb5a98001.

Model Summary

PowerMoE-3B is a 3B sparse Mixture-of-Experts (sMoE) language model trained with the Power learning rate scheduler. It sparsely activates 800M parameters for each token. It is trained on a mix of open-source and proprietary datasets. PowerMoE-3B has shown promising results compared to other dense models with 2x activate parameters across various benchmarks, including natural language multi-choices, code generation, and math reasoning. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13359

Usage

Note: Requires installing HF transformers from source.

Generation

This is a simple example of how to use PowerMoE-3b model.

Read the full model card (196 words)

Configuration

Architecture
GraniteMoeForCausalLM
Context length (tokens)
4,096
Layers
32
Hidden size
1,536
Feed-forward size
512
Attention heads
24
Key/value heads
8
Vocabulary size
49,152
Experts
40
Experts active per token
8
RoPE base
10,000
Stored precision
float32
Model type
granitemoe

Identity and Version

Repository
ibm-research/PowerMoE-3b
Publisher
IBM Research
Task
Text generation
Modality
Text
Library
transformers
Parameters
3.4B parameters
Languages
Not stated by the source
Revision
13fcb5a98001438bed01cf1ac4b423751dc4c2ea
First published
2024-08-14
Last updated
2024-09-24

Files and Weights

11 files, 13.5 GB in total. The weights are 3 files totalling 13.5 GB in safetensors.

Weights3 files · 13.5 GB
Configuration4 files · 27.6 KB
Tokenizer2 files · 2.1 MB
Documentation1 file · 3.8 KB
Repository1 file · 1.5 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
model-00001-of-00003.safetensorsWeights4.8 GB 410fe4e59854
model-00002-of-00003.safetensorsWeights4.8 GB 2c318c4e0cb9
model-00003-of-00003.safetensorsWeights3.9 GB 948cbf3057a5
config.jsonConfiguration928 B
generation_config.jsonConfiguration137 B
model.safetensors.index.jsonConfiguration25.6 KB
special_tokens_map.jsonConfiguration906 B
README.mdDocumentation3.8 KB
.gitattributesRepository1.5 KB
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer2.1 MB
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer4.1 KB

License and Download

License
apache-2.0
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
13.5 GB
Download from IBM Research

Released by IBM Research through its official repository on Hugging Face. Read the license.

Built From

  • Described by arXiv:2408.13359

Evaluations

Each result is shown as reported, with the conditions its reporter stated. None is a SAVRN measurement. A comparison lines two results up only when their configuration, unit and setup are all stated and identical.

BenchmarkConditionsResultReported byRevisionDate
ARC Task text-generationMetric accuracy-normComparison conditions not established 58.1 ibm-research
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Evaluated revision not stated
BoolQ Task text-generationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 65 ibm-research
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GSM8k (5 shot) Task text-generationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 25.9 ibm-research
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Hellaswag Task text-generationMetric accuracy-normComparison conditions not established 71.5 ibm-research
Publisher reported
Evaluated revision not stated
MBPP Task text-generationMetric pass@1Comparison conditions not established 32.4 ibm-research
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MMLU (5 shot) Task text-generationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 42.8 ibm-research
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OpenBookQA Task text-generationMetric accuracy-normComparison conditions not established 41 ibm-research
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PIQA Task text-generationMetric accuracy-normComparison conditions not established 79.1 ibm-research
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Winogrande Task text-generationMetric accuracy-normComparison conditions not established 65 ibm-research
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humaneval Task text-generationMetric pass@1Comparison conditions not established 20.1 ibm-research
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math (4 shot) Task text-generationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 14.8 ibm-research
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Evaluated revision not stated

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published13.5 GB
16-bit6.7 GB
8-bit3.4 GB
4-bit1.7 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

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Questions About PowerMoE-3b

How much GPU memory does PowerMoE-3b need?

About 8.1 GB at 16-bit and 2 GB at 4-bit: the weights (3.4B parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run PowerMoE-3b on?

At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

Can I use PowerMoE-3b commercially?

Yes. PowerMoE-3b is released under Apache License 2.0. The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive open-source license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution. It requires keeping the license and copyright notices and any NOTICE file, stating significant changes, and it includes an express patent grant from contributors.

What is PowerMoE-3b's context length?

4,096 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.

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