MLX-compatible REAP for pruning MoE models on Apple Silicon
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MLX-compatible REAP for pruning MoE models on Apple Silicon
MoE expert compression toolkit — prune, merge, and forge specialist models for local inference.
RAZOR: Pruning Replaceable Experts in LLMs — training-free expert pruning for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models, with the MoECal calibration corpus
Experimental MoE expert pruning and router analysis for safetensors checkpoints. CPU probing, keep plans, dry runs, and checkpoint rewriting with synthetic tests.
Less is MoE (EMNLP 2026 Main); Fisher-MoE: intra-expert structured pruning and compression for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) LLMs. Prunes FFN intermediate dimensions by Fisher importance instead of dropping whole experts. Official code.
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 pruned to 192 of 384 experts per layer, at ~2.85 bpw with Engram read from NVMe, served on one Jetson AGX Thor. Weights on Hugging Face; full pipeline and gates here.
Code release for DIET: DeletIon-response Expert Trimming for Video Diffusion Transformers
GLM-5.3-Flash (321B MoE) pruned to 144 of 288 experts and quantized to NVFP4/GGUF for one Jetson AGX Thor. Layer-streamed pipeline, paired teacher evaluation, and the negative results.
KL-divergence + blind task eval of GLM-4.7-Flash and its REAP-pruned variant vs gpt-oss-20b on llama.cpp
How I fit 35B-parameter MoE models into 16 GB of consumer VRAM: REAP expert pruning + NVFP4 quantization on an RTX 5070 Ti (SM120), served on vLLM, with measured evals.
PLI Labs: legal model prunes (REAPs), owned-hardware serving research, evaluation methods, and open-source tools from Proprietary Legal Intelligence.
HOPE expert pruning of MiMo-V2.6-Flash (309B omnimodal MoE) to 128 of 256 experts for one Jetson AGX Thor, calibrated with real image, audio and video. Published; not yet evaluated.
Run Sarvam's 105B FP8 MoE decision model (Prism) on a laptop iGPU by streaming layers from SSD, plus an expert-pruning study. Pure PyTorch.
REAP pruning + NVFP4 quantization of Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B for 16GB VRAM
Serving a large MoE coder model on consumer Blackwell GPUs via REAP expert pruning + NVFP4 quantization.
Expert pruning of DeepSeek V4 Flash for one agent's traffic on one DGX Spark: 160 of 216 routed experts per layer, 5 experts per token, 74 GiB in place of 95 GiB, with no loss in the final review.
Shrinking Qwen3.5-35B-A3B on one 16 GB GPU: MoE expert pruning (REAP), router distillation and GGUF quantization, with interactive lessons and every command
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