25% Experts Pruned, PPL 8.97 (base 8.14)

Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1 compacted via calibration-aware MoE expert pruning (§4.1.3.4) against the unmodified source.

Perplexity: 8.97 (base 8.14, Δ +10.2%)
Compression: 93.4 GB → 20.4 GB Q4_K_M (4.6×)
Throughput: 142 tok/s generation, 437 tok/s prompt on RTX 5090

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A 93 GB datacenter MoE compressed to run on a MacBook Air. Forged from mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1 by removing the 2 least-activated experts per layer (8→6) via calibration-aware activation-frequency ranking on a held-out code corpus (300 examples, 148,945 tokens). Quantized to GGUF Q4_K_M for llama.cpp / Ollama / LM Studio. Apache-2.0. PPL 8.97 against the source's 8.14 (Δ +10.2%), evaluated via llama.cpp on wikitext-2-raw. Second row of the cross-family anchor table. Cryptographic provenance via ForgeAlloy.

Benchmarks

Benchmark	Score	Base	Δ	Verified
wikitext-2-raw PPL	8.97	8.14	+10.2%	✅ Result hash

What Changed (Base → Forged)

	Base	Forged	Delta
Perplexity	8.14	8.97	+10.2%
Experts / layer	8	6	−25% (2 removed per layer)
Total params	46.7B	~35B	−25%
Active params	12.9B	12.9B	Unchanged
Size (fp16)	93.4 GB	70.9 GB	−24%
Size (Q4_K_M)	—	20.4 GB	4.6× compression
Pipeline		expert-activation-profile → expert-prune → quant → eval	1 cycle

Runs On

Device	Format	Size	Speed
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090	Q4_K_M	20.4 GB	142 tok/s generation ✅ Verified
MacBook Pro 32GB	Q4_K_M	20.4 GB	Expected
MacBook Air 24GB	Q4_K_M	20.4 GB	Expected
RTX 3060 12GB+	Q4_K_M	20.4 GB	Expected (partial offload)
RTX 4090 24GB	Q4_K_M	20.4 GB	Expected
RTX 4090 24GB	fp16	70.9 GB	Expected (with offload)

Quick Start

# llama.cpp (any platform)
./llama-cli -m mixtral-8x7b-compacted-Q4_K_M.gguf \
  -p "Write a Python function that finds the longest palindromic substring." \
  -n 512 -ngl 99

# Ollama
ollama run continuum-ai/mixtral-8x7b-instruct-compacted-conservative

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "continuum-ai/mixtral-8x7b-instruct-compacted-conservative",
    torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto",
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
    "continuum-ai/mixtral-8x7b-instruct-compacted-conservative"
)
inputs = tokenizer("def merge_sort(arr):", return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=200)
print(tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True))

Methodology

Produced via §4.1.3.4 calibration-aware MoE expert activation count pruning. 300 held-out code examples (148,945 tokens) profiled across all 32 layers × 8 experts. The 2 least-activated experts per layer were removed. The surviving 6 experts per layer are the ones the model actually uses on the calibration domain.

Activation profile (sample layers):

Layer	Top experts	Bottom experts (removed)
Layer 0	5, 2, 3, 4, 0 (35K-49K)	1, 6 (~20K)
Layer 16	6, 2, 1, 5, 4 (37K-46K)	0, 3 (~20K)
Layer 31	3, 6, 5, 7, 0 (35K-54K)	1, 2 (~20K)

Full methodology in the sentinel-ai repository. The pipeline ran as expert-activation-profile → expert-prune → quant → eval on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090.

Cross-Family Anchor Table

Same §4.1.3.4 methodology across independently-trained model families.

Row	Model	Family	Experts	Kept	PPL	Status
1	qwen3-coder-30b-a3b	Qwen3 MoE	128	80	—	✅ Published
2	Mixtral 8x7B	Mixtral	8	6	8.97	✅ This model
3	Mixtral 8x22B	Mixtral	8	4	—	🔄 Forging now
4	Qwen3.5-35B-A3B	Qwen3.5	TBD	TBD	—	⬜ Planned
5	DeepSeek-V2-Lite	DeepSeek	64	32	—	⬜ Planned

Chain of Custody

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What	Proof
Model weights	`sha256:d7f65e31667d9b9bcfd8ca05e796df87bf8b6e59336a34f4703c9d3904e54bd8`
Alloy hash	`sha256:b26fd7adf36b7c8c`
Forged on	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, 2026-04-10
Trust level	`self-attested`
Spec	ForgeAlloy — Rust/Python/TypeScript