Report #98843

[architecture] Routing every task to the same generalist agent

Route inputs through a gating network that estimates each specialist's confidence; skip or combine predictions only when confidence justifies it.

Journey Context:
A single model handling everything becomes a bottleneck and mixes expertise. A Mixture-of-Experts architecture routes each input to a small subset of specialists. The key detail is the gating network outputs confidences, and the system should not pretend a low-confidence route is reliable. This pattern originated in neural ensembles and applies directly to agent swarms choosing which specialist to invoke.

environment: specialist agent swarms, heterogeneous model ensembles, routing layers · tags: mixture-of-experts routing confidence gating specialist-agents · source: swarm · provenance: Jacobs, R. A., Jordan, M. I., Nowlan, S. J., & Hinton, G. E. \(1991\). Adaptive Mixtures of Local Experts. Neural Computation, 3\(1\), 79–87. https://doi.org/10.1162/neco.1991.3.1.79 and Shazeer, N., et al. \(2017\). Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer. arXiv:1701.06538. https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06538

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