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Re:Flash-Moe: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Mac with 4... by frwickst on Sunday March 22, 2026 @08:16AM (#47476728)
I'm getting 6.55t/s using the Qwen3.5-397B-A17B-4bit model with the command: ./infer --prompt "Explain quantum computing" --tokens 100

MacBook Pro M5 Pro (64GB RAM)

Re:Flash-Moe: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Mac with 4... by logicallee on Sunday March 22, 2026 @08:45AM (#47476949)
can you post the final result (or as far as you got before you killed it) to show us how cohesive and good it is? I'd like to see an example of the output of this.
Re:Flash-Moe: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Mac with 4... by frwickst on Sunday March 22, 2026 @08:49AM (#47476973)
Since the output is quite long, here is a link: https://pastebin.com/k76wiVGP
Re:Flash-Moe: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Mac with 4... by hrimfaxi on Sunday March 22, 2026 @09:00AM (#47477067)
Why does this G character appear to prefix most of the output? ("Ġlike")
Re:Flash-Moe: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Mac with 4... by frwickst on Sunday March 22, 2026 @09:31AM (#47477372)
It is a tokenizer artifact most likely (https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/4786). So the output is not properly decoded in this case, it should just be a space.
Re:Flash-Moe: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Mac with 4... by kgeist on Sunday March 22, 2026 @09:30AM (#47477362)
The original tokens have Ġ instead of space. I had this issue too when writing an inference engine for Qwen. You have to "normalize" those special characters.
Re:Flash-Moe: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Mac with 4... by j45 on Sunday March 22, 2026 @09:19AM (#47477235)
Appreciate the data point. M5 Max would also be interesting to see once available in desktop form.