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-license: mit
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+---
+license: mit
+tags:
+  - bitnet
+  - speculative-decoding
+  - medusa
+  - ternary-weights
+  - efficient-inference
+  - cpu-inference
+language:
+  - en
+base_model: microsoft/BitNet-b1.58-2B-4T
+library_name: gguf
+pipeline_tag: text-generation
+---
+
+# MedusaBitNet 2B-4T
+
+**First integration of [Medusa speculative decoding](https://github.com/FasterDecoding/Medusa) with [BitNet b1.58](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/BitNet-b1.58-2B-4T) ternary-weight inference.**
+
+4 lightweight Medusa heads trained on the frozen BitNet b1.58 2B-4T backbone. Generates 2.21 tokens per backbone step with only 1.7% model size overhead.
+
+## Key Results
+
+| Metric | Value |
+|---|---|
+| Medusa speedup | **2.21x** (measured, 40K positions) |
+| Head 1 acceptance (t+1) | 67.6% |
+| Head 2 acceptance (t+2) | 33.2% |
+| Head 3 acceptance (t+3) | 14.2% |
+| Head 4 acceptance (t+4) | 6.3% |
+| Vanilla BitNet throughput | 72.7 tok/s (Zen 5, 16 threads) |
+| Projected Medusa throughput | 160.7 tok/s |
+| Medusa head size | 13 MB (f16) |
+| Total model size | 764 MB (backbone + heads) |
+
+### Head-to-Head Benchmarks (same hardware, same prompts)
+
+| Model | Params | Gen tok/s | Size |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| Llama 3.2 1B (Q4_K_M) | 1.0B | 115.9 | 808 MB |
+| Qwen2.5 1.5B (Q4_K_M) | 1.5B | 88.8 | 1117 MB |
+| **BitNet b1.58 2B (I2_S)** | **2.4B** | **72.7** | **1187 MB** |
+| Gemma 2 2B (Q4_K_M) | 2.0B | 50.5 | 1709 MB |
+
+Hardware: AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 (Strix Halo), 16 Zen 5 cores, 93GB LPDDR5x.
+
+## Files
+
+- `medusa_heads_step2000.pt` — Trained Medusa head weights (4 heads, 1 layer each, hidden=2560). Load with `torch.load()`.
+- `ggml-model-i2_s-medusa.gguf` — Merged GGUF: BitNet backbone (I2_S quantized) + Medusa heads (f16). For use with [bitnet.cpp](https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet) llama-medusa binary.
+
+## Architecture
+
+```
+BitNet b1.58 2B-4T (frozen)     4 Medusa Heads (13 MB)
+┌─────────────────────┐         ┌──────────────────┐
+│ 30 layers           │         │ Head 1: t+1 67.6%│
+│ 2560 hidden         │ ──h──→  │ Head 2: t+2 33.2%│  ──→  2.21 tok/step
+│ Ternary {-1, 0, 1}  │         │ Head 3: t+3 14.2%│
+│ 751 MB (I2_S)       │         │ Head 4: t+4  6.3%│
+└─────────────────────┘         └──────────────────┘
+```
+
+Each head is a residual block: `h + W_out @ SiLU(W_in @ h)`, projected through the shared lm_head to vocab logits.
+
+## Training
+
+- **Data:** [tatsu-lab/alpaca](https://huggingface.co/datasets/tatsu-lab/alpaca) (52K examples, 4.14M tokens)
+- **Method:** Cache backbone hidden states, then train heads on cached features
+- **Steps:** 2000 (loss 9.85 → 3.32)
+- **Hardware:** AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 (Strix Halo), CPU-only
+- **Time:** ~4h caching + ~7h training = ~11h total
+- **Optimizer:** AdamW (lr=1e-3, cosine schedule, 50 warmup steps)
+
+## Current Status
+
+**What's proven (measured):**
+- Medusa acceptance rates on cached hidden states (Python, 40K positions)
+- Head-to-head throughput: 4 models benchmarked on identical hardware
+- Training convergence: loss and accuracy curves over 2000 steps
+
+**What needs work:**
+- End-to-end C++ Medusa inference: the GGUF backbone's I2_S kernel lacks BitNet-style activation quantization, causing hidden state distribution mismatch. The Medusa heads work correctly in Python but not yet through the C++ path.
+- TL2 optimized ternary GEMM kernels for 2B-4T dimensions (generated but not loading)
+
+## Usage
+
+### Python (verified working)
+```python
+import torch
+from model import MedusaHeads
+
+# Load heads
+ckpt = torch.load("medusa_heads_step2000.pt", map_location="cpu")
+heads = MedusaHeads(hidden_size=2560, vocab_size=128256,
+                    num_heads=4, num_layers_per_head=1, dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+heads.load_state_dict(ckpt["heads"])
+```
+
+### C++ (architecture works, speculation pending kernel fix)
+```bash
+# Build bitnet.cpp with Medusa patch
+cd bitnet.cpp/3rdparty/llama.cpp
+git apply ../../../MedusaBitNet/patches/medusa-llama-cpp.patch
+
+# Run
+./build/bin/llama-medusa -m ggml-model-i2_s-medusa.gguf \
+    -p "Your prompt here" -n 128 -t 16
+```
+
+## Credits
+
+- **Medusa:** Tianle Cai, Yuhong Li, Zhengyang Geng, Hongwu Peng, Jason D. Lee, Deming Chen, Tri Dao. [Paper (ICML 2024)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10774), [Code](https://github.com/FasterDecoding/Medusa) (Apache 2.0)
+- **BitNet b1.58:** Microsoft Research. [Model](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/BitNet-b1.58-2B-4T) (MIT), [bitnet.cpp](https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet) (MIT)
+- **llama.cpp:** Georgi Gerganov et al. (MIT)
+- **Built with:** [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/claude-code) (Anthropic, Opus 4.6)
+
+## Citation
+
+```bibtex
+@misc{corcoran2025medusabitnet,
+  title={MedusaBitNet: Speculative Decoding for Ternary-Weight LLMs},
+  author={Parrish Corcoran},
+  year={2025},
+  url={https://github.com/parrishcorcoran/MedusaBitNet}
+}
+```
+
+## License
+
+MIT