TEFT: Targeted Expert Fine-Tuning — How We Reduce Communication Overhead by Orders of Magnitude
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This post introduces TEFT (Targeted Expert Fine-Tuning) — the protocol at the core of BlockZero — and explains how it achieves communication-efficient, quality-gated distributed MoE fine-tuning over a permissionless network. This is the research paper translated into blog form.