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LongCat-Flash-Lite-FP8

meituan-longcat · LongCat-Flash-Lite-FP8

We introduce LongCat-Flash-Lite, a non-thinking 68.5B parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with approximately 3B activated parameters, supporting a 256k context length through the YaRN method. Building upon the LongCat-Flash architecture, LongCat-Flash-Lite distinguishes itself through the integration of an **N-gram embedding** table designed to enhance both model performance and inference speed. Despite allocating over 30B parameters to embeddings, LongCat-Flash-Lite not only outperforms parameter-equivalent MoE baselines but also demonstrates exceptional competitiveness against existing models of comparable scale, particularly in the agentic and coding domains. Through comprehensive scaling experiments across diverse scenarios, we identify specific regimes where embedding scaling achieves a superior Pareto frontier compared to increasing the number of experts, thereby offering a highly efficient alternative for model scaling. We further delineate a comprehensive set of architectural factors that determine embedding scaling efficacy, encompassing integration timing, parameter budgeting, hash collision mitigation, hyperparameter configuration, and embedding initialization, alongside the impacts of model width and depth. In contrast to FFN-based experts, the N-gram embedding table inherently mitigates I/O bottlenecks within MoE layers, yielding substantial improvements in inference latency. Furthermore, we introduce a specialized N-gram Cache and develop synchronized kernels, which collectively and significantly boost inference efficiency.

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We introduce LongCat-Flash-Lite, a non-thinking 68.5B parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with approximately 3B activated parameters, supporting a 256k context length through the YaRN method. Building upon the LongCat-Flash architecture, LongCat-Flash-Lite distinguishes itself through the integration of an **N-gram embedding** table designed to enhance both model performance and inference speed. Despite allocating over 30B parameters to embeddings, LongCat-Flash-Lite not only outperforms parameter-equivalent MoE baselines but also demonstrates exceptional competitiveness against existing models of comparable scale, particularly in the agentic and coding domains. Through comprehensive scaling experiments across diverse scenarios, we identify specific regimes where embedding scaling achieves a superior Pareto frontier compared to increasing the number of experts, thereby offering a highly efficient alternative for model scaling. We further delineate a comprehensive set of architectural factors that determine embedding scaling efficacy, encompassing integration timing, parameter budgeting, hash collision mitigation, hyperparameter configuration, and embedding initialization, alongside the impacts of model width and depth. In contrast to FFN-based experts, the N-gram embedding table inherently mitigates I/O bottlenecks within MoE layers, yielding substantial improvements in inference latency. Furthermore, we introduce a specialized N-gram Cache and develop synchronized kernels, which collectively and significantly boost inference efficiency.

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