Yitao Xu

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Selected Work

The Illusion of Specialization: Unveiling the Domain-Invariant “Standing Committee” in Mixture-of-Experts Models

ACL 2026 · co-first author with Yan Wang and Nanhan Shen, with Jinyan Su, Jimin Huang, and Zining Zhu

We introduce CommitteeAudit and show that routing in Mixture-of-Experts models is dominated by a domain-invariant “Standing Committee” of experts, challenging the common assumption of strong domain specialization.