# Copyright © 2026 DeepGrove AI. from dataclasses import dataclass from functools import partial from typing import Any, List, Optional import mlx.core as mx import mlx.nn as nn # Absolute imports so this file also works standalone when shipped inside a # checkpoint and loaded via the config's `model_file` (trust_remote_code). from mlx_lm.models.activations import swiglu from mlx_lm.models.base import ( BaseModelArgs, create_attention_mask, scaled_dot_product_attention, ) from mlx_lm.models.cache import KVCache, RotatingKVCache from mlx_lm.models.rope_utils import initialize_rope from mlx_lm.models.switch_layers import SwitchLinear # SwiGLU clamp for the MoE experts only (the dense MapleMLP is unclamped); # part of the trained forward pass, not an optional guard. MLP_CLAMP = 7.0 @partial(mx.compile, shapeless=True) def clamped_swiglu(gate, x): # Python floats, not 0-d arrays, so bf16 activations stay bf16. return nn.silu(mx.minimum(gate, MLP_CLAMP)) * mx.clip(x, -MLP_CLAMP, MLP_CLAMP) def _matches(fast, reference, tol=2e-2): """One-time self-check for a hand-written Metal kernel. Every fast path below has a portable equivalent, and each is used only after its outputs have been compared against that equivalent once, on the live weights. This file ships inside checkpoints and runs on whatever mlx and GPU the user has, so a kernel that fails to compile, silently mismatches the config it was templated for, or drifts from a future mlx must degrade to the portable path rather than corrupt the token stream. Both callables return a tuple of arrays. The kernels stay in bounds for any config (loop counts are integer-divided from the templated dims), so a config they cannot handle shows up here as wrong values, not as a fault. """ try: got, want = fast(), reference() mx.eval(got, want) except Exception: return False return len(got) == len(want) and all( g.shape == w.shape and bool( mx.allclose(g.astype(mx.float32), w.astype(mx.float32), rtol=tol, atol=tol) ) for g, w in zip(got, want) ) class MapleRMSNorm(nn.Module): """RMSNorm with the weight multiply in float32. The reference rounds only the finished product; mx.fast.rms_norm rounds the normalized activation first (~1% per element). Float32 inputs to the same kernel reproduce the reference bit-for-bit. """ def __init__(self, dims: int, eps: float = 1e-6): super().__init__() self.weight = mx.ones((dims,)) self.eps = eps def __call__(self, x: mx.array) -> mx.array: return mx.fast.rms_norm( x.astype(mx.float32), self.weight.astype(mx.float32), self.eps ).astype(x.dtype) def _make_add_rms_norm_kernel(eps): """Residual add + RMSNorm in ONE dispatch for single-token decode. Emits both h = x + r (the residual stream, rounded once like a bf16 add) and hn = rmsnorm(h) with the weight multiply in fp32 (reference semantics, identical to MapleRMSNorm). Folding the add into the norm and skipping the astype round-trips replaces ~4 dispatches with 1, and the decode step is bounded by its serial dispatch chain, not by this math. """ source = """ uint tid = thread_position_in_threadgroup.x; constexpr uint N = DIM; constexpr uint PT = N / 256u; float hb[PT]; float ss = 0.0f; for (uint i = 0; i < PT; ++i) { uint j = tid * PT + i; float v = (float)x[j] + (float)r[j]; T_ vb = (T_)v; // one rounding, same as a bf16 add h_out[j] = vb; hb[i] = (float)vb; // norm sees the rounded stream ss += hb[i] * hb[i]; } ss = simd_sum(ss); threadgroup float sums[8]; uint sg = tid / 32u; uint lane = tid % 32u; if (lane == 0u) sums[sg] = ss; threadgroup_barrier(mem_flags::mem_threadgroup); float tot = 0.0f; for (uint i = 0; i < 8u; ++i) tot += sums[i]; float scale = metal::rsqrt(tot / (float)N + EPS_); for (uint i = 0; i < PT; ++i) { uint j = tid * PT + i; hn_out[j] = (T_)(hb[i] * scale * (float)w[j]); } """.replace("EPS_", f"{eps:.10e}f") tag = f"{eps:.3e}".replace(".", "_").replace("-", "m").replace("+", "p") return mx.fast.metal_kernel( name=f"maple_add_rms_norm_{tag}", input_names=["x", "r", "w"], output_names=["h_out", "hn_out"], source=source, ) _add_rms_kernels = {} def _add_rms_norm(h, r, w, eps): kernel = _add_rms_kernels.get(eps) if kernel is None: kernel = _add_rms_kernels[eps] = _make_add_rms_norm_kernel(eps) return kernel( inputs=[h.reshape(-1), r.reshape(-1), w], template=[("T_", h.dtype), ("DIM", h.shape[-1])], grid=(256, 1, 1), threadgroup=(256, 1, 1), output_shapes=[h.shape, h.shape], output_dtypes=[h.dtype, h.dtype], ) def _add_rms_norm_ok(dim, dtype, w, eps): x = mx.random.normal((1, 1, dim), key=mx.random.key(0)).astype(dtype) r = mx.random.normal((1, 1, dim), key=mx.random.key(1)).astype(dtype) return _matches( lambda: _add_rms_norm(x, r, w, eps), lambda: ( x + r, mx.fast.rms_norm( (x + r).astype(mx.float32), w.astype(mx.float32), eps ).astype(dtype), ), ) # Inlined rather than imported from switch_layers: those helpers are private # (underscore-prefixed), and this file must keep loading against whatever # mlx-lm a user has installed when it ships inside a checkpoint. def _gather_sort(x, indices): *_, M = indices.shape indices = indices.flatten() order = mx.argsort(indices) inv_order = mx.argsort(order) return x.flatten(0, -3)[order // M], indices[order], inv_order def _scatter_unsort(x, inv_order, shape=None): x = x[inv_order] if shape is not None: x = mx.unflatten(x, 0, shape) return x @dataclass class ModelArgs(BaseModelArgs): model_type: str = "maple" hidden_size: int = 2048 intermediate_size: int = 5120 moe_intermediate_size: int = 512 num_hidden_layers: int = 24 num_attention_heads: int = 16 num_key_value_heads: int = 4 head_dim: int = 128 num_experts: int = 256 num_experts_per_tok: int = 8 first_k_dense_replace: int = 0 rms_norm_eps: float = 1e-6 rope_theta: float = 10000.0 rope_scaling: Optional[dict] = None partial_rotary_factor: float = 0.5 max_position_embeddings: int = 140000 vocab_size: int = 151936 sliding_window: int = 512 layer_types: Optional[List[str]] = None use_qk_norm: bool = True use_bias: bool = False tie_word_embeddings: bool = False # FlashHead metadata written by `mlx_lm.ternary --flash-head`. The exact # lm_head is the default; opt in to the approximate fast head with # mlx_lm.load(..., model_config={"use_flash_head": True}). flash_head: Optional[dict] = None use_flash_head: bool = False # Populated from the checkpoint's config; sanitize() reads group_size from # it to expand row-scale (`row_alpha`) ternary tensors. quantization: Optional[dict] = None def __post_init__(self): # Single source of truth for per-layer attention types: attention # (RoPE/NoPE), masks, and caches all read this resolved list. if not self.layer_types: self.layer_types = ["full_attention"] * self.num_hidden_layers def _make_qk_norm_rope_kernel(): """Fused per-head RMSNorm + partial RoPE for single-token decode. One dispatch replaces q_norm, k_norm and two rope calls. One simdgroup per head: normalize head_dim values, scale by the head's norm weight, and rotate the first ROPE_DIM dims (non-traditional pairing i, i+R/2) at the given position. NoPE layers pass ROPE_DIM=0. """ source = """ uint head = thread_position_in_grid.y; uint lane = thread_position_in_grid.x; constexpr int per_lane = HEAD_DIM / 32; const device T_* xh = x + head * HEAD_DIM; const device T_* wh = w + head * HEAD_DIM; device T_* oh = out + head * HEAD_DIM; float ss = 0.0f; for (int i = 0; i < per_lane; ++i) { float v = (float)xh[lane * per_lane + i]; ss += v * v; } ss = simd_sum(ss); float pos = pos_eps[0]; float eps = pos_eps[1]; float scale = metal::rsqrt(ss / HEAD_DIM + eps); for (int i = 0; i < per_lane; ++i) { int j = lane * per_lane + i; float v = (float)xh[j] * scale * (float)wh[j]; if (ROPE_DIM > 0 && j < ROPE_DIM) { constexpr int rhalf = ROPE_DIM > 0 ? ROPE_DIM / 2 : 1; int p = j < rhalf ? j : j - rhalf; float theta = pos * inv_freq[p]; float c = metal::cos(theta); float s = metal::sin(theta); int j2 = j < rhalf ? j + rhalf : j - rhalf; float u = (float)xh[j2] * scale * (float)wh[j2]; v = j < rhalf ? (v * c - u * s) : (v * c + u * s); } oh[j] = (T_)v; } """ return mx.fast.metal_kernel( name="maple_qk_norm_rope", input_names=["x", "w", "inv_freq", "pos_eps"], output_names=["out"], source=source, ) _qk_norm_rope_kernel = _make_qk_norm_rope_kernel() class MapleAttention(nn.Module): def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs, layer_idx: int): super().__init__() self.num_attention_heads = args.num_attention_heads self.num_key_value_heads = args.num_key_value_heads self.head_dim = args.head_dim or args.hidden_size // args.num_attention_heads self.scale = self.head_dim**-0.5 self.use_qk_norm = args.use_qk_norm # q/k/v are stored fused (one matmul per step); sanitize() concatenates # the checkpoint's split projections. self.qkv_proj = nn.Linear( args.hidden_size, (args.num_attention_heads + 2 * args.num_key_value_heads) * self.head_dim, bias=args.use_bias, ) self.o_proj = nn.Linear( args.num_attention_heads * self.head_dim, args.hidden_size, bias=args.use_bias, ) if args.use_qk_norm: self.q_norm = MapleRMSNorm(self.head_dim, eps=args.rms_norm_eps) self.k_norm = MapleRMSNorm(self.head_dim, eps=args.rms_norm_eps) self._eps = args.rms_norm_eps self._rope_base = args.rope_theta self._qk_w = None self._inv_freq = None self._fused_qk = None # None = unprobed, then True/False # Maple applies RoPE only on sliding-window layers; full-attention # layers use no positional encoding (NoPE). self.use_rope = args.layer_types[layer_idx] == "sliding_attention" if self.use_rope: rope_dim = int(self.head_dim * args.partial_rotary_factor) self.rope = initialize_rope( rope_dim, args.rope_theta, traditional=False, scaling_config=args.rope_scaling, max_position_embeddings=args.max_position_embeddings, ) def _qk_fused(self, qk, offset): """Both norms and both rope applications in one dispatch.""" if self._qk_w is None: n_q = self.num_attention_heads n_kv = self.num_key_value_heads self._qk_w = mx.contiguous( mx.concatenate( [ mx.broadcast_to(self.q_norm.weight[None], (n_q, self.head_dim)), mx.broadcast_to( self.k_norm.weight[None], (n_kv, self.head_dim) ), ] ) ) if self.use_rope: half = self.rope.dims // 2 self._inv_freq = self._rope_base ** ( -mx.arange(half, dtype=mx.float32) / half ) else: self._inv_freq = mx.ones((1,), dtype=mx.float32) mx.eval(self._qk_w, self._inv_freq) # cache.offset is a Python int for a plain cache but an mx.array for # the batched caches; coerce so the pos/eps pair is always uniform. pos_eps = mx.array([float(offset), self._eps], dtype=mx.float32) return _qk_norm_rope_kernel( inputs=[qk, self._qk_w, self._inv_freq, pos_eps], template=[ ("T_", qk.dtype), ("HEAD_DIM", self.head_dim), ("ROPE_DIM", self.rope.dims if self.use_rope else 0), ], grid=(32, qk.shape[0], 1), threadgroup=(32, 1, 1), output_shapes=[qk.shape], output_dtypes=[qk.dtype], )[0] def _qk_reference(self, qk, offset): """The same result from stock ops: fallback, and the yardstick the fused kernel is checked against.""" n_q = self.num_attention_heads q = self.q_norm(qk[None, :n_q, None, :]) k = self.k_norm(qk[None, n_q:, None, :]) if self.use_rope: q = self.rope(q, offset=offset) k = self.rope(k, offset=offset) return mx.concatenate([q, k], axis=1).reshape(qk.shape) def __call__( self, x: mx.array, mask: Optional[mx.array] = None, cache: Optional[Any] = None, ) -> mx.array: B, L, _ = x.shape qkv = self.qkv_proj(x) if B == 1 and L == 1 and self.use_qk_norm: n_q = self.num_attention_heads n_kv = self.num_key_value_heads qk_size = (n_q + n_kv) * self.head_dim qk = qkv.reshape(-1)[:qk_size].reshape(n_q + n_kv, self.head_dim) if self._fused_qk is None: # A nonzero position, so a broken rotation cannot pass. self._fused_qk = _matches( lambda: (self._qk_fused(qk, 7),), lambda: (self._qk_reference(qk, 7),), ) offset = cache.offset if cache is not None else 0 out = (self._qk_fused if self._fused_qk else self._qk_reference)(qk, offset) queries = out[:n_q].reshape(1, n_q, 1, self.head_dim) keys = out[n_q:].reshape(1, n_kv, 1, self.head_dim) values = qkv.reshape(-1)[qk_size:].reshape(1, n_kv, 1, self.head_dim) else: q_size = self.num_attention_heads * self.head_dim kv_size = self.num_key_value_heads * self.head_dim q, k, v = mx.split(qkv, [q_size, q_size + kv_size], axis=-1) queries = q.reshape(B, L, self.num_attention_heads, self.head_dim) keys = k.reshape(B, L, self.num_key_value_heads, self.head_dim) values = v.reshape(B, L, self.num_key_value_heads, self.head_dim) if self.use_qk_norm: queries = self.q_norm(queries) keys = self.k_norm(keys) queries = queries.transpose(0, 2, 1, 3) keys = keys.transpose(0, 2, 1, 3) values = values.transpose(0, 2, 1, 3) if self.use_rope: offset = cache.offset if cache is not None else 0 queries = self.rope(queries, offset=offset) keys = self.rope(keys, offset=offset) if cache is not None: keys, values = cache.update_and_fetch(keys, values) output = scaled_dot_product_attention( queries, keys, values, cache=cache, scale=self.scale, mask=mask ) output = output.transpose(0, 2, 1, 3).reshape(B, L, -1) return self.o_proj(output) class MapleMLP(nn.Module): def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs, intermediate_size: Optional[int] = None): super().__init__() intermediate_size = intermediate_size or args.intermediate_size self.gate_proj = nn.Linear( args.hidden_size, intermediate_size, bias=args.use_bias ) self.up_proj = nn.Linear( args.hidden_size, intermediate_size, bias=args.use_bias ) self.down_proj = nn.Linear( intermediate_size, args.hidden_size, bias=args.use_bias ) def __call__(self, x) -> mx.array: # Dense / shared-expert MLP: no clamp; only the MoE experts clamp. # Unused at first_k_dense_replace=0 with no shared experts, but keep # it faithful. return self.down_proj(swiglu(self.gate_proj(x), self.up_proj(x))) @mx.compile def group_expert_select(gates, top_k): # Maple routes with a plain softmax over all experts followed by top-k # selection and renormalization, computed in float32. scores = mx.softmax(gates.astype(mx.float32), axis=-1) inds = mx.argpartition(scores, kth=-top_k, axis=-1)[..., -top_k:] scores = mx.take_along_axis(scores, inds, axis=-1) scores = scores / (scores.sum(axis=-1, keepdims=True) + 1e-20) return inds, scores def _make_fused_router_kernel(): """Router gemv + softmax + top-8 + renormalize in ONE dispatch (+18%). Replaces ~6 kernels per layer. NE/32 threadgroups each compute 32 logits, keep them in float32 (`router_dtype: fp32`), and publish through an atomic-float scratch (plain device stores are not reliably visible across threadgroups on Apple GPUs); the last threadgroup to arrive does the softmax + top-8 + renorm. `ctr_in` is a persistent arrival counter, not an input: every dispatch must see it at zero, so the electing threadgroup resets it on its way out and each MapleGate keeps its own. Election on a stale counter would read unwritten scratch, so nothing else may share the buffer. """ source = """ constexpr uint NE = NEXP; constexpr uint D = DIM; constexpr uint NTG = NE / 32u; constexpr uint TM = 4u; constexpr uint TN = 4u; constexpr uint BLOCKN = 32u * TN; constexpr uint NITER = D / BLOCKN; uint tid = thread_position_in_threadgroup.x; uint tgid = threadgroup_position_in_grid.x; uint n_threads = 256u; uint sg_id = tid / 32u; uint lane = tid % 32u; uint n_sg = n_threads / 32u; uint row0 = tgid * (n_sg * TM) + sg_id * TM; float result[TM] = {0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f}; uint bn = lane * TN; for (uint i = 0u; i < NITER; ++i) { float v[TN]; for (uint tn = 0u; tn < TN; ++tn) v[tn] = float(x[bn + tn]); for (uint tm = 0u; tm < TM; ++tm) { const device T_* wrow = w + (ulong)(row0 + tm) * D; T_ inter[TN]; for (uint tn = 0u; tn < TN; ++tn) inter[tn] = wrow[bn + tn]; for (uint tn = 0u; tn < TN; ++tn) result[tm] += inter[tn] * v[tn]; } bn += BLOCKN; } for (uint tm = 0u; tm < TM; ++tm) { for (ushort sn = 16; sn >= 1; sn >>= 1) { result[tm] += simd_shuffle_down(result[tm], sn); } } device atomic_float* ls = (device atomic_float*)logits_scratch; if (lane == 0u) { for (uint tm = 0u; tm < TM; ++tm) { atomic_store_explicit(&ls[row0 + tm], result[tm], memory_order_relaxed); } } threadgroup_barrier(mem_flags::mem_device); threadgroup uint last_flag; if (tid == 0u) { device atomic_uint* ctr = (device atomic_uint*)ctr_in; uint prev = atomic_fetch_add_explicit(ctr, 1u, memory_order_relaxed); uint last = (prev == NTG - 1u) ? 1u : 0u; if (last == 1u) atomic_store_explicit(ctr, 0u, memory_order_relaxed); last_flag = last; } threadgroup_barrier(mem_flags::mem_threadgroup); if (last_flag == 0u) return; threadgroup_barrier(mem_flags::mem_device); float my_max = -1e30f; for (uint e = tid; e < NE; e += n_threads) { float v = atomic_load_explicit(&ls[e], memory_order_relaxed); if (v > my_max) my_max = v; } for (int off = 16; off > 0; off >>= 1) { float other = simd_shuffle_down(my_max, off); if (other > my_max) my_max = other; } threadgroup float sg_red[16]; if (lane == 0u) sg_red[sg_id] = my_max; threadgroup_barrier(mem_flags::mem_threadgroup); if (tid == 0u) { float m = sg_red[0]; for (uint s = 1u; s < n_sg; s++) if (sg_red[s] > m) m = sg_red[s]; sg_red[0] = m; } threadgroup_barrier(mem_flags::mem_threadgroup); float lmax = sg_red[0]; threadgroup float scores[NE]; float my_sum = 0.0f; for (uint e = tid; e < NE; e += n_threads) { float lv = atomic_load_explicit(&ls[e], memory_order_relaxed); float v = metal::exp(lv - lmax); scores[e] = v; my_sum += v; } for (int off = 16; off > 0; off >>= 1) { my_sum += simd_shuffle_down(my_sum, off); } threadgroup_barrier(mem_flags::mem_threadgroup); if (lane == 0u) sg_red[sg_id] = my_sum; threadgroup_barrier(mem_flags::mem_threadgroup); if (tid == 0u) { float ssum = sg_red[0]; for (uint i = 1u; i < n_sg; i++) ssum += sg_red[i]; sg_red[0] = ssum; } threadgroup_barrier(mem_flags::mem_threadgroup); float inv_total = 1.0f / (sg_red[0] + 1e-20f); for (uint e = tid; e < NE; e += n_threads) { scores[e] = scores[e] * inv_total; } threadgroup_barrier(mem_flags::mem_threadgroup); threadgroup int topk_idx[8]; threadgroup float topk_val[8]; threadgroup uint8_t used[NE]; for (uint e = tid; e < NE; e += n_threads) used[e] = 0; threadgroup_barrier(mem_flags::mem_threadgroup); for (int k = 0; k < 8; k++) { float my_best = -1e30f; int my_idx = 0; for (int e = int(tid); e < int(NE); e += int(n_threads)) { if (!used[e] && scores[e] > my_best) { my_best = scores[e]; my_idx = e; } } for (int off = 16; off > 0; off >>= 1) { float other_v = simd_shuffle_down(my_best, off); int other_i = simd_shuffle_down(my_idx, off); if (other_v > my_best) { my_best = other_v; my_idx = other_i; } } threadgroup float sg_vals[16]; threadgroup int sg_idxs[16]; if (lane == 0u) { sg_vals[sg_id] = my_best; sg_idxs[sg_id] = my_idx; } threadgroup_barrier(mem_flags::mem_threadgroup); if (tid == 0u) { float bv = sg_vals[0]; int bi = sg_idxs[0]; for (uint s = 1u; s < n_sg; s++) { if (sg_vals[s] > bv) { bv = sg_vals[s]; bi = sg_idxs[s]; } } topk_val[k] = bv; topk_idx[k] = bi; used[bi] = 1; } threadgroup_barrier(mem_flags::mem_threadgroup); } if (tid < 8u) { float sel_sum = 0.0f; for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) sel_sum += topk_val[i]; out_indices[tid] = topk_idx[tid]; out_scores[tid] = float(topk_val[tid] / (sel_sum + 1e-20f)); } """ return mx.fast.metal_kernel( name="maple_fused_router", input_names=["x", "w", "ctr_in"], output_names=["out_indices", "out_scores", "logits_scratch"], source=source, ) _fused_router_kernel = _make_fused_router_kernel() class MapleGate(nn.Module): def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs): super().__init__() self.top_k = args.num_experts_per_tok self.num_experts = args.num_experts self.hidden_size = args.hidden_size # Kept as a raw parameter (not nn.Linear) so quantization never # touches it. The matmul accumulates in float32 and selection runs on # float32 scores. self.weight = mx.zeros((args.num_experts, args.hidden_size)) self._router_ctr = None self._fused = None # None = unprobed, then True/False def _fused_call(self, x): if self._router_ctr is None: self._router_ctr = mx.zeros((8,), dtype=mx.uint32) mx.eval(self._router_ctr) inds, scores, _ = _fused_router_kernel( inputs=[x.reshape(-1), self.weight, self._router_ctr], template=[ ("T_", self.weight.dtype), ("NEXP", self.num_experts), ("DIM", self.hidden_size), ], grid=((self.num_experts // 32) * 256, 1, 1), threadgroup=(256, 1, 1), output_shapes=[(8,), (8,), (self.num_experts,)], output_dtypes=[mx.int32, mx.float32, mx.float32], ) shape = x.shape[:-1] + (self.top_k,) return inds.reshape(shape), scores.reshape(shape) def _reference(self, x): # `router_dtype: fp32`. In bf16 the near-tied top-8 boundary flips a # few percent of picks per layer, which compounds over 24 layers. gates = x.astype(mx.float32) @ self.weight.astype(mx.float32).T return group_expert_select(gates, self.top_k) def _probe(self, x): # Not _matches(): the two paths may order the selected experts # differently, and an exact tie at the top-k boundary may legitimately # pick either of the tied experts. Compare the sorted score vectors, # and bound-check the ids since a bad one indexes the expert gather. try: inds, scores = self._fused_call(x) ref_inds, ref_scores = self._reference(x) mx.eval(inds, scores, ref_inds, ref_scores) except Exception: return False return ( inds.shape == ref_inds.shape and bool(mx.all((inds >= 0) & (inds < self.num_experts))) and bool(mx.allclose(mx.sort(scores), mx.sort(ref_scores), atol=1e-5)) ) def __call__(self, x): if self._fused is not False and x.size == self.hidden_size: if self._fused is None: self._fused = self._probe(x) if self._fused: return self._fused_call(x) return self._reference(x) @partial(mx.compile, shapeless=True) def aggregate_expert_outputs(expert_outputs, scores): # Combined in float32, rounded once at the end (reference `moe_infer`). return ( (expert_outputs.astype(mx.float32) * scores[..., None]) .sum(axis=-2) .astype(expert_outputs.dtype) ) class MapleSwitchGLU(nn.Module): """SwitchGLU with the up and gate projections fused into one gather matmul; sanitize() concatenates the checkpoint's split tensors.""" def __init__(self, input_dims, hidden_dims, num_experts, bias=False): super().__init__() self.up_gate_proj = SwitchLinear( input_dims, 2 * hidden_dims, num_experts, bias=bias ) self.down_proj = SwitchLinear(hidden_dims, input_dims, num_experts, bias=bias) def __call__(self, x, indices): x = mx.expand_dims(x, (-2, -3)) do_sort = indices.size >= 64 idx = indices inv_order = None if do_sort: x, idx, inv_order = _gather_sort(x, indices) x_up, x_gate = mx.split( self.up_gate_proj(x, idx, sorted_indices=do_sort), 2, axis=-1 ) x = self.down_proj(clamped_swiglu(x_gate, x_up), idx, sorted_indices=do_sort) if do_sort: x = _scatter_unsort(x, inv_order, indices.shape) return x.squeeze(-2) class MapleSparseMoeBlock(nn.Module): def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs): super().__init__() self.gate = MapleGate(args) self.switch_mlp = MapleSwitchGLU( args.hidden_size, args.moe_intermediate_size, args.num_experts, bias=args.use_bias, ) def __call__(self, x): inds, scores = self.gate(x) y = self.switch_mlp(x, inds) return aggregate_expert_outputs(y, scores) class MapleDecoderLayer(nn.Module): def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs, layer_idx: int): super().__init__() self.self_attn = MapleAttention(args, layer_idx) self.mlp = ( MapleSparseMoeBlock(args) if layer_idx >= args.first_k_dense_replace else MapleMLP(args) ) self.input_layernorm = MapleRMSNorm(args.hidden_size, eps=args.rms_norm_eps) self.post_attention_layernorm = MapleRMSNorm( args.hidden_size, eps=args.rms_norm_eps ) def __call__( self, x: mx.array, mask: Optional[mx.array] = None, cache: Optional[Any] = None, ) -> mx.array: r = self.self_attn(self.input_layernorm(x), mask, cache) h = x + r r = self.mlp(self.post_attention_layernorm(h)) return h + r class MapleModel(nn.Module): def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs): super().__init__() self.args = args self.word_embeddings = nn.Embedding(args.vocab_size, args.hidden_size) self.layers = [ MapleDecoderLayer(args, layer_idx=i) for i in range(args.num_hidden_layers) ] self.norm = MapleRMSNorm(args.hidden_size, eps=args.rms_norm_eps) self.layer_types = args.layer_types self.window_size = args.sliding_window self.swa_idx = ( self.layer_types.index("sliding_attention") if "sliding_attention" in self.layer_types else None ) self.ga_idx = ( self.layer_types.index("full_attention") if "full_attention" in self.layer_types else None ) self._fused_add_norm = None # None = unprobed, then True/False self._zero = None def _decode_fused(self, h, cache, full_mask, swa_mask): """Decode loop with residual adds folded into the norms. Carries (h, r) instead of adding r back each step, so every add+norm pair is one dispatch. Identical arithmetic: the kernel rounds the sum once (as the bf16 add did) and norms the rounded stream with an fp32 weight multiply. """ if self._zero is None: self._zero = mx.zeros(h.shape, h.dtype) mx.eval(self._zero) r = self._zero # x + 0 is exact in bf16 for layer, c, layer_type in zip(self.layers, cache, self.layer_types): mask = full_mask if layer_type == "full_attention" else swa_mask ln = layer.input_layernorm h, hn = _add_rms_norm(h, r, ln.weight, ln.eps) r = layer.self_attn(hn, mask, c) ln = layer.post_attention_layernorm h, hn = _add_rms_norm(h, r, ln.weight, ln.eps) r = layer.mlp(hn) return _add_rms_norm(h, r, self.norm.weight, self.norm.eps)[1] def __call__( self, inputs: mx.array, cache: Optional[Any] = None, ): h = self.word_embeddings(inputs) if cache is None: cache = [None] * len(self.layers) full_mask = None swa_mask = None if self.ga_idx is not None: full_mask = create_attention_mask(h, cache[self.ga_idx]) if self.swa_idx is not None: swa_mask = create_attention_mask( h, cache[self.swa_idx], window_size=self.window_size ) if h.size == h.shape[-1]: if self._fused_add_norm is None: self._fused_add_norm = _add_rms_norm_ok( h.shape[-1], h.dtype, self.norm.weight, self.norm.eps ) if self._fused_add_norm: return self._decode_fused(h, cache, full_mask, swa_mask) for layer, c, layer_type in zip(self.layers, cache, self.layer_types): mask = full_mask if layer_type == "full_attention" else swa_mask h = layer(h, mask, c) return self.norm(h) class FlashHead(nn.Module): """Two-phase approximate lm_head for single-stream decode. Phase one scores quantized cluster centroids of the vocabulary; phase two computes exact logits only for the tokens of the top ``n_probes`` clusters (plus a fixed set of forced control tokens such as EOS). All other logits are -inf, so greedy decoding is exact whenever the true argmax lies in the probed clusters. Prefill and batched calls use the exact lm_head. Reference: FlashHead — Efficient Drop-in Replacement for the Classification Head in Language Model Inference. """ def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs): super().__init__() meta = args.flash_head if not meta.get("scaled_centroids"): raise ValueError( "FlashHead metadata predates scaled centroids; regenerate with " "`python -m mlx_lm.ternary --flash-head-only`." ) n_clusters = meta["n_clusters"] cluster_size = meta["cluster_size"] # Default matches the converter's `--probes` default; every generated # checkpoint records the value explicitly. self.n_probes = min(meta.get("n_probes", 512), n_clusters) self.head_group_size = meta.get("head_group_size", 64) self.head_bits = meta.get("head_bits", 4) # Centroids are directions, pre-scaled at generation time by the # largest lm_head row norm in their cluster: that upper-bounds the # cluster's best logit, so high-frequency small-norm tokens are still # probed, and scoring stays a single matmul. self.centroids = nn.QuantizedLinear( args.hidden_size, n_clusters, bias=False, group_size=meta.get("group_size", 64), bits=meta.get("bits", 4), ) self.token_map = mx.zeros((n_clusters, cluster_size), dtype=mx.int32) # Cluster-ordered copy of the quantized lm_head: subset logits are one # gather_qmm over the probed 32-row blocks, with no per-step gather. # It is a row-permutation of lm_head by token_map and nothing more, so # it is derived rather than stored: Model.sanitize rebuilds it at load. hidden = args.hidden_size self.head = { "weight": mx.zeros( (n_clusters, cluster_size, hidden * self.head_bits // 32), dtype=mx.uint32, ), "scales": mx.zeros( (n_clusters, cluster_size, hidden // self.head_group_size), dtype=mx.bfloat16, ), "biases": mx.zeros( (n_clusters, cluster_size, hidden // self.head_group_size), dtype=mx.bfloat16, ), } self._force_ids = mx.array(meta.get("force_tokens", []), dtype=mx.int32) self._force_rows = None def __call__(self, h: mx.array, lm_head: nn.Module) -> mx.array: hv = h[:, -1, :] top = mx.argpartition(self.centroids(hv), kth=-self.n_probes, axis=-1)[ ..., -self.n_probes : ] # [1, n_probes] oids = self.token_map[top[0]].reshape(-1) logits = mx.gather_qmm( hv.reshape(1, 1, 1, 1, -1), self.head["weight"], self.head["scales"], self.head["biases"], rhs_indices=top[:, None, :], transpose=True, group_size=self.head_group_size, bits=self.head_bits, ).reshape(-1) if self._force_ids.size: if self._force_rows is None: self._force_rows = ( lm_head.weight[self._force_ids], lm_head.scales[self._force_ids], lm_head.biases[self._force_ids], ) mx.eval(*self._force_rows) fw, fs, fb = self._force_rows force_logits = mx.quantized_matmul( hv, fw, scales=fs, biases=fb, transpose=True, group_size=lm_head.group_size, bits=lm_head.bits, mode=getattr(lm_head, "mode", "affine"), )[0] oids = mx.concatenate([oids, self._force_ids]) logits = mx.concatenate([logits, force_logits]) vocab_size = lm_head.weight.shape[0] full = mx.full((1, 1, vocab_size), float("-inf"), dtype=logits.dtype) full[0, 0, oids] = logits return full class Model(nn.Module): def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs): super().__init__() self.args = args self.model_type = args.model_type self.model = MapleModel(args) if not args.tie_word_embeddings: self.lm_head = nn.Linear(args.hidden_size, args.vocab_size, bias=False) if args.flash_head and args.use_flash_head and not args.tie_word_embeddings: self.lm_head_flash = FlashHead(args) else: self.lm_head_flash = None def __call__( self, inputs: mx.array, cache=None, ): out = self.model(inputs, cache) if self.args.tie_word_embeddings: return self.model.word_embeddings.as_linear(out) if ( self.lm_head_flash is not None and out.shape[0] == 1 and out.shape[1] == 1 and isinstance(self.lm_head, nn.QuantizedLinear) and getattr(self.lm_head, "mode", "affine") == "affine" ): return self.lm_head_flash(out, self.lm_head) return self.lm_head(out) def sanitize(self, weights): if self.args.tie_word_embeddings: # Drop the head entirely (weight + quantization scales/biases). weights = {k: v for k, v in weights.items() if not k.startswith("lm_head.")} # FlashHead disabled (e.g. model_config={"flash_head": None}): drop its # tensors so checkpoints that carry them still load. if self.lm_head_flash is None: weights = { k: v for k, v in weights.items() if not k.startswith("lm_head_flash.") } else: # Folded into the centroid rows at generation time; older shards # still carry the tensor. weights.pop("lm_head_flash.cluster_scale", None) # `lm_head_flash.head.*` is lm_head permuted by token_map (see # mlx_lm.ternary.generate_flash_head), so it is pure redundancy on # disk. Checkpoints may ship it or omit it; reconcile both here. if "lm_head_flash.head.weight" not in weights: token_map = weights["lm_head_flash.token_map"] order = token_map.reshape(-1) for k in ("weight", "scales", "biases"): weights[f"lm_head_flash.head.{k}"] = weights[f"lm_head.{k}"][ order ].reshape(*token_map.shape, -1) # Ternary tensors carry one scale per output row, so checkpoints store # it once as `row_alpha` and omit biases entirely (bias == -scale). # Expand here so everything downstream — fusion below, and mlx's own # quantized kernels — sees the per-group layout. Checkpoints written # with `--group-scales` have no row_alpha and pass straight through. row_alpha_keys = [k for k in weights if k.endswith(".row_alpha")] if row_alpha_keys: group_size = (self.args.quantization or {}).get("group_size", 128) for key in row_alpha_keys: alpha = weights.pop(key) prefix = key[: -len(".row_alpha")] packed = weights.get(f"{prefix}.weight") if packed is None: continue # 2-bit packing stores 16 codes per uint32 word. n_groups = (packed.shape[-1] * 16) // group_size scales = mx.contiguous( mx.broadcast_to(alpha[..., None], (*alpha.shape, n_groups)) ) weights[f"{prefix}.scales"] = scales weights[f"{prefix}.biases"] = -scales # Stack per-expert weights from the Hugging Face layout into the # SwitchGLU layout. Already-converted checkpoints pass through. for l in range(self.args.num_hidden_layers): prefix = f"model.layers.{l}" for m in ["gate_proj", "down_proj", "up_proj"]: for k in ["weight", "scales", "biases", "bias"]: if f"{prefix}.mlp.experts.0.{m}.{k}" in weights: to_join = [ weights.pop(f"{prefix}.mlp.experts.{e}.{m}.{k}") for e in range(self.args.num_experts) ] weights[f"{prefix}.mlp.switch_mlp.{m}.{k}"] = mx.stack(to_join) # Fuse split projections: q/k/v -> qkv_proj (rows), MoE up/gate -> # up_gate_proj (per-expert rows). Row-wise quantized tensors # (weight/scales/biases) concatenate losslessly along the output # axis. for suffix in ["weight", "scales", "biases", "bias"]: qkv = [ f"{prefix}.self_attn.{p}.{suffix}" for p in ("q_proj", "k_proj", "v_proj") ] if qkv[0] in weights: weights[f"{prefix}.self_attn.qkv_proj.{suffix}"] = mx.concatenate( [weights.pop(k) for k in qkv], axis=0 ) up = f"{prefix}.mlp.switch_mlp.up_proj.{suffix}" gate = f"{prefix}.mlp.switch_mlp.gate_proj.{suffix}" if up in weights: weights[f"{prefix}.mlp.switch_mlp.up_gate_proj.{suffix}"] = ( mx.concatenate([weights.pop(up), weights.pop(gate)], axis=1) ) return weights def make_cache(self): caches = [] for layer_type in self.model.layer_types: if layer_type == "sliding_attention": caches.append(RotatingKVCache(max_size=self.args.sliding_window)) else: caches.append(KVCache()) return caches @property def layers(self): return self.model.layers @property def quant_predicate(self): def predicate(path, _): if path.endswith("lm_head") or "word_embeddings" in path: return {"group_size": 64, "bits": 4} return True return predicate