SplitMoE splits the video-diffusion expert pool into semantic and generic branches, beating a same-source MoE at 14B activated parameters and showing coarse-to-fine denoising routing
The work identifies a "uniformity trap" in which language-style token-wise MoE routing, combined with uniform expert-usage regularization, scatters neighboring patches of the same object across different experts in video diffusion, causing routing fragmentation and structural distortion; it proposes SplitMoE, which bifurcates the expert pool into semantic and generic experts and uses prototype-guided routing with pull-push regularization so tokens cluster by semantic attributes, outperforming traditional load-balanced MoE on VBench-2.0 and T2V-CompBench under an equivalent activated-parameter budget, while revealing a coarse-to-fine denoising pattern in which semantic-expert weight peaks in the early high-noise stage around steps 10-15 and then shifts toward generic experts.