Datasets:
| cff-version: 1.2.0 | |
| message: "If you use this report or its evidence, cite it as below." | |
| title: "From GGUF to Native MLX: A Reproducible Fable Migration and the Memory Policy That Blocked It" | |
| version: 1.0.0 | |
| date-released: 2026-10-25 | |
| license: MIT | |
| type: report | |
| abstract: >- | |
| A deployment engineering report on migrating the Qwen3.8-27B TURBO-Fable | |
| checkpoint from GGUF to a native MLX artifact on an Apple M4 Max with 64 GiB | |
| unified memory. It documents a bounded CPU-only conversion with full layout | |
| verification, four interleaved speculative-decoding conditions on an | |
| 8,159-token prompt, two timed-out real agent repair sessions, and a | |
| serving-runtime system-memory guard whose documented switch converted a | |
| refused ~25k-token prefill into a completed reply. No 20 tok/s floor, ranked | |
| intelligence claim, peer review or near-limit context qualification is made. | |
| authors: | |
| - family-names: Xu | |
| given-names: Chengyi | |
| - name: "Nexora" | |
| website: "https://hiklik.ai" | |
| keywords: | |
| - Apple Silicon | |
| - MLX | |
| - MTPLX | |
| - multi-token prediction | |
| - DFlash2 | |
| - quantization | |
| - local deployment | |
| - memory policy | |
| preferred-citation: | |
| type: report | |
| title: "From GGUF to Native MLX: A Reproducible Fable Migration and the Memory Policy That Blocked It" | |
| authors: | |
| - family-names: Xu | |
| given-names: Chengyi | |
| - name: "Nexora" | |
| year: 2026 | |
| publisher: | |
| name: "Nexora Research" | |
| references: | |
| - type: software | |
| title: "MTPLX: native MTP speculative decoding on Apple Silicon" | |
| authors: | |
| - family-names: Altoukhi | |
| given-names: Youssof | |
| version: "2.12.2" | |
| repository-code: "https://github.com/youssofal/MTPLX" | |
| - type: software | |
| title: "mlx-dspark: DSpark and DFlash speculative decoding for MLX" | |
| authors: | |
| - family-names: Rahim | |
| given-names: A. | |
| version: "0.19.0 and 0.20.3" | |
| repository-code: "https://github.com/ARahim3/mlx-dspark" | |