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+## ARM EDUCATION
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 # **Mixture of Experts: A Practical Course**
 
 This course provides a hands-on introduction to Mixture of Experts (MoE) models through four progressive notebooks. Each notebook builds on the previous ones, taking you from theoretical understanding to practical implementation of advanced MoE concepts.
 
-```
-Constantine Caramanis: constantine@utexas.edu
-http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~cmcaram/
-The University of Texas at Austin
-Developed in Collaboration with **Arm**
-```
 
 
 ## Intended Audience
 
-This course is designed for learners who already have **a solid foundation in deep learning and model architectures** and wish to gain **hands-on experience with Mixture of Experts (MoE) models**.  
-Participants should be comfortable with:
 
-- **Neural network fundamentals** — forward/backward propagation, activation functions, and loss functions  
+This course is designed for industry ML engineers who wish to gain hands-on experience with Mixture of Experts (MoE) models. It is also well-suited for ML researchers interested in exploring and experimenting with cutting‑edge methods for model compression and performance optimization.
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+Learners should be comfortable with the following
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 - **Deep learning architectures** — transformers, attention mechanisms, and feed-forward networks  
 - **Training and optimization** — gradient descent variants, regularization, and overfitting control  
-- **Practical skills** — Python programming and familiarity with PyTorch or TensorFlow  
+- **Practical skills** — Python programming experience and intermediate understanding of PyTorch  
 
+Those who want to build or refresh these fundamentals can first complete introductory and intermediate material such as the [Intro to AI](https://www.edx.org/learn/computer-science/arm-education-introduction-to-ai) or [Optimizing Generative AI on Arm](https://www.edx.org/learn/computer-science/arm-education-ai-on-arm) course.
 
 
 ## Course Progression
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 3. **Progressive Complexity** — simple concepts build to sophisticated implementations  
 
 
-## Technical Requirements
+## Requirements
 
 - Python 3.8 or newer  
 - PyTorch
 - Transformers
-- GPU acceleration (e.g., Google Colab T4 or A100) is **strongly recommended**
+- PyTorch backend to accelerate training (e.g., Google Colab T4 or A100) is **strongly recommended**
 
 
-All computations are possible on the available Google Colab GPUs. Where computations take considerable time, **we also provide links to saved checkpoints** corresponding to each epoch of training, along with code to load the model weights from these checkpoints.
+We recommend running these labs on Google Colab with T4 GPUs. All computations can be completed using the GPUs available in Colab.
 
-There are also several alternatives you can take to speed up the computation. The dataset we create in Part Two is quite big, and thus contributes to training time and evaluation time. Using a small fraction of this would allow for computations to be sped up, and in and of itself may provide an interesting comparison with respect to accuracy.
+You are expected to be familiar with configuring software across different operating systems, and you may need to install additional packages depending on your setup. Several commands in the labs reference tools specific to the Colab environment, so you may need to adapt them if you are working on another system, such as your own PC.
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+**We also provide links to saved checkpoints** for each training epoch, along with code examples for loading model weights from these checkpoints.
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+Finally, there are options to speed up computation. The dataset created in Part Two is quite large and contributes significantly to training and evaluation time. Using a smaller subset of the dataset can greatly reduce this overhead and may also offer an interesting comparative analysis of model accuracy.
 
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 This course provides both theoretical understanding and practical implementation skills for working with MoE models in modern deep learning applications.
 
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+The original content was produced by [Professor Constantine Caramanis](http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~cmcaram/) at the University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with Kieran Hejmadi from Arm Education.
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+## License
+You are free to fork or clone this material. See `LICENSE.md` for the complete license.
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+## Inclusive Language Commitment
+Arm is committed to making the language we use inclusive, meaningful, and respectful. Our goal is to remove and replace non-inclusive language from our vocabulary to reflect our values and represent our global ecosystem.
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+Arm is working actively with our partners, standards bodies, and the wider ecosystem to adopt a consistent approach to the use of inclusive language and to eradicate and replace offensive terms. We recognise that this will take time. This course may contain references to non-inclusive language; it will be updated with newer terms as those terms are agreed and ratified with the wider community. 
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+Contact us at education@arm.com with questions or comments about this course. You can also report non-inclusive and offensive terminology usage in Arm content at terms@arm.com.
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