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After some recommendations for hardware (I'm starting from nothing), in the region of £6-7k. I will be mainly looking to use it for coding and have found Deepseek V4.1 Flash or Qwen3.8 27b good and so

Finally finished my fork: https://github.com/IceFog72/ik_llama.cpp Nothing else I wanted to add/try currently works In short, it now has: Bandwidth-adaptive CPU/GPU execution Shared expert-residency i

Hey all. We've spent the last weeks getting Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B MoE, 6B active) to run properly on one AMD Strix Halo box (Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128 GB). Tonight we're releasing both the 95 GB EXL3

tl;dr: I created a fully-local open-source full-duplex voice agent that rivals GPT-Live on some benchmarks. It uses Voxtral Realtime with a turn-taking head, a microturn-finetuned Gemma 4 12B and Bree

​ From the first LLaMA 33B I knew I wanted that magic-like intelligence locally, mine, so nobody could take it away when I needed it. I bought a 3090 for my home PC. Then LLaMA 65B appeared and I was

A while ago I asked here how to turn ~5 million court decisions into structured graphs without running an expensive LLM on every document thanks for the advice . I went with the 'small extractor + cla

First of all, thank you for reading. I trained a small MoE model completely from scratch (no external base weights) and wanted to share the results + a couple of lessons. Apex-2 - Architecture: Decode

I tried both these models on a few small agentic tasks with tools (i.e. 'What's the weather like today?', etc.). They're both pretty solid at using web search to find answers despite being small model

So this is maybe a niche problem, but at my job I work on a huge Python codebase and every time I change some shared function I'm basically playing roulette. grep tells who mentions it in the code bas

Hi! This is a new benchmark that I created together with other researchers at Meta, Stanford, Harvard, UW. Most benchmarks these days seem to test models to just fix a bug that I as a user already enc

I've been using my free time during weeknights and weekends for the last 11 months working on and refining a small domain-specific language model. It specializes on information about World War II. The

Hi everyone — I'm behind Autonomous Workday, and I'm sharing an English-language architecture walkthrough about building an event-driven workflow around local inference. The proposed flow separates fi

A few days ago I released Jeff-Qwen3.5-0.8B, a small 'System 1' model that picks between options you define and returns a calibrated probability for each, in one forward pass. Speed was great on my M4

Hello all, I wanted to share a little project I vibe-coded for myself that you may find useful. As many people here like to suggest, I wanted to give my small local LLMs access to information to impro

Hello guys! I have been experimenting with qwen 3.8 for a long time and I hadn't been able to get reasonable speed. I am on a 5060Ti 16 GB, and although this gpu can game, I am aware that AI demands m

40 year tech gap? No problem! The Tandy runs DeskMind, a native DOS program. It talks over WiFi (a PicoMEM 2 card with mTCP) to a small Python server on my PC. That server drives Qwen3.8-27B (NInfer o

https://preview.redd.it/xs01ds930nsh1.png?width=4800&format=png&auto=webp&s=939762bcf3fbd93e137d4f97e927dda38aaf30fd Back in July I shared LokalBot here. It's a free, open-source Mac app that records

There's so many new techniques like RL, RL LoRA, QLoRA, CPT LoRA. I believe i would have a usecase for them, but i don't know where to learn, youtube is filled with bad quality tutorials if i just sea

ninfer, dwarfstar, Splash, llamAmpere, gufo, etc. We've all seen them popping up, great tok/s, people loving them. Forks of llama.cpp or another engine, or made from scratch. For better or worse, the

Thanks to tcclaviger, vLLM now has expert RAM offloading support (link). This makes frontier models much more accessible on a local setup! I was able to run the original DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp o

TL;DR: The Jeff models are a set of Qwen3.5 and Gemma fine-tunes for zero-shot classification: small, efficient, open-weight models with respectable out-of-the-box performance that can be slotted righ

Hardware RTX 5090 (32 GB) + RTX 4070 Ti Super (16 GB) = 48 GB VRAM 32 GB DDR5 6200 RAM Arch Linux, KDE on the 5090 (takes ~1-1.5 GB VRAM) daily driver OrcaRouter Qwen3.8-27B Uncensored, block-FP8 (28.

Finally got 3.8-Flash-Next running on my M4Pro 48GB Mac with https://huggingface.co/ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-GGUF Dense 3.8-27B is just faster... and maybe better due to quantization lev

Upgraded from 3x RTX 3090s to 2x RTX 5090s on my homelab server and picked up a solid speed jump on top of it from a software update (speculative decoding + NVFP4). Setup: llama.cpp (build b11216), ru

I recently started using my Mac Mini M4 as an always-on home server. It stays powered on most of the time, and right now I’m running my Discord bot on it. I’m thinking of gradually turning it into my

Prefill step size affects both PP performance and your drafter fetching logits for MTP (affects dflash as well, mlx-vlm needs to be patched slightly to support chunked prefill for dflash). It also nee

I maintain a starter kit where the LLM provider is a runtime-swappable DB row, not a hardcoded constant — OpenAI, Anthropic, or a local Ollama instance. Mostly so I can demo without burning API credit

I'm about to buy a Mac Studio mainly for running LLMs locally and I'm stuck between two configs: M5 Ultra (30/64) with 96GB: 1.2 TB/s bandwidth, roughly 1.7x faster generation and much faster prefill

What it is. stuntd is a local proxy for typed LLM decisions: choice, yes/no, score. Your app keeps calling its provider through it. stuntd records the decisions, trains a small head on top of Laya (th

You know the thing where you ask a chatbot what's wrong with your plan and it goes 'there are three problems here' and problem three is clearly the runt of the litter? There's a word for that now. An

Retrieval benchmarks sometimes feel benchmaxxed by models, so we wanted to find a way to tie it as close as possible to my objective: finding the article that answers a product question right. We work

I’ve been working on making small models more capable at agentic coding and work, because most people in the world don’t have the sort of hardware needed to run 3.8-27B, or even 35B-A3B or 9B dense, a

I’m building a personal local coding-agent project called Cody, using local 9B/14B models through Ollama. This is still a work in progress. It has not passed its full graduation process yet, and the l

​ ​I wanted to share a quick update and performance video running the full Moonshot AI Kimi K3 (moonshotai/Kimi-K3) model across my 16x GB10 cluster. ​Getting a 2.8T parameter model running smoothly r

This post is a follow up to this other post where I let Qwen 3.8 run for 63 hours autonomously to try to solve the Riemann hypothesis: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wi9fau/qwen_38_27b_

I've been running Qwen3.8-Flash-Next as my main local coding model from past few weeks. The file is 95.5 GiB and my Mac has 64 GB. It works because the routed experts stay on SSD and only get read whe

I was testing this quantization IQ3_XXS from GSQ-RCO with PI. It is a heavy quantization case, the model is in IQ3_XXS and KV cache in (Q4_0, Q4_0). I asked it to make the flight simulator, using that

can you draw a picture of a flower in gimp? So I ran through this setup to install the MCP server suite from GITHUB, it's pretty easy to follow the install - and installs the libraries necessary to co

I am planning to buy hardware to run local models. I'm not sure what kind of hardware is best and what will I be able to run. I'm torn between getting a used M1 Max 64gb Macbook for €1500, M3 Max 128g

Hey r/LocalLLaMA, We’ve released our full ShapeLearn GGUFs for Qwen 3.8 27B. Blog / Download models TL;DR 3.84 bpw (GPU-5) reaches 99.63% of BF16’s aggregate score of 8 benchmarks, being the most accu

One thing I love about both Qwen 3.8 27B and Flash Next is the effort it puts in to make a good product. It is the opposite of a lazy model and 'good enough' is never what aims to accomplish. It goes

I have a custom fork of llama.cpp designed around the ampere architecture specifically (though many of the upgrades also translate to faster performance of blackwell + lovelace). The recommended confi

Pushed out this new update, hopefully decreases the instances of crashes. I torture tested this one for ~12 hours after my fixes and found no instability. Q4 K XL needs more fine tuning, which I will

VLLM Benchmark: Prefill, Prompt processing - avg, 871.93 tok/s (3 hours constant running xhigh) - 10K prompt, 1000.26 tok/s (16 runs) - 90K prompt, 743,59 tok/s (16 runs) Decode, tok gen - avg, 38.39

> 'make an svg of a frog playing on a chello on the back of a whale with carribean island in the back.' interestingly the svg looks different in the OpenWebUi preview then when looked at in preview (o

I'm documenting a reproducible setup for running current llama.cpp on a mixed AMD Vega system with both: Radeon RX Vega 64 / Vega10 / gfx900 (8GB HBM2) Radeon Instinct MI50 (Vega20) / gfx906 (16GB HBM