Show HN: Maple – Sub-2-BPW Moe Pruning to Run Gemma 4 26B at 45 TPS on a 6GB GPU

Does it improve tps for Mac?

A 6x improvement from 50tps to 300tps for example would be pretty amazing. There’s apparently a threshold where virtually all problems can be brute forced by having a lot of fast tokens rather than a larger model.

That's an interesting approach, but... what's the performance impact? It seems the check was done only against really trivial tasks. Why not run some known coding benchmark against the original and pruned one?

Also Gemma is Moe not modem (https://arxiv.org/html/2410.07490v1) so will try to balance export choice for each token - I'm suspicious about expectations for this model.

Can the same process be theoretically repeated with LFM2.5-24B-A2B ?

I really like topics about optimization like this one. Great job, OP!

Looks absolutely stellar!

Another step forward for local AI / local LLM inferencing on (very!) resource-constrained consumer GPU hardware!

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