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Re:Flash-Moe: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Mac with 4... by zozbot234 on Sunday March 22, 2026 @05:27PM (#47482332)
The switching is done by layer, not just per token. Every layer is loading completely different parameters, you don't really benefit from continuity. You're generally better off shifting this work to the CPU, since CPU RAM is more abundant than the GPU's VRAM hence it matters less that so much of it is "wasted" on inactive expert layers. Disk storage is even more relatively abundant, so offloading experts to disk if you can't keep them in RAM (as OP does) is the next step.

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