This report synthesises findings from 10 peer-reviewed papers addressing the following research question: Does integrating sparse expert routing in alignment-focused multimodal models improve inference throughput without degrading performance on standard reasoning benchmarks. 9 claims were extracted from source literature; 9 were independently verified against retrieved documents. An automated multi-reviewer quality assessment produced a score of 8.7/10. This report is a machine-generated literature synthesis and does not constitute original research.Research goal: Does integrating sparse expert routing in alignment-focused multimodal models improve inference throughput without degrading performance on standard reasoning benchmarks?Autonomous literature synthesis. Automated review score: 8.7/10. Full text and citation available at Assignee Research.