We implemented two techniques to run massive 100B+ parameter MoE models natively on the M5 Pro 64GB MacBook Pro:

TurboQuant KV compression: We ported the V3 Lloyd-Max codebooks from the TurboQuant paper (Zandieh et al., ICLR 2026) into native C++ and fused dequantization into Metal shaders. This achieves a measured 4.3× KV cache compression at runtime, completely eliminating Python overhead.

SSD Expert Streaming: To fit a 122B parameter model (e.g., Qwen3.5-122B MoE) without triggering macOS VM swapping or Watchdog kernel kills, the full ~60 GB weight file remains on NVMe. Only the top-k active expert pages are streamed to the GPU per forward pass at ~9 GB/s. As a result, inference runs with only 2,694 MB of active GPU VRAM on the M5 Pro 64GB, while the OS page cache automatically handles hot-expert reuse.

By combining these two approaches, we can comfortably run massive models in memory-constrained environments on Apple Silicon.

Also tested QWEN 4B on IPHONE 13 Pro.

Code and implementation details: https://github.com/SharpAI/SwiftLM