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Hey all, I'm serving DSv4Flash 0731 on a cluster of 2x DGX Sparks but am running into constant issues with having almost no RAM (unified memory) left for the OS/cache and I'd love to hear the communit

TL;DR: On a Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Q6 setup sized for 64K context on a 24GB RTX 3090, spilling eight MoE expert layers to CPU freed enough VRAM to increase -b from 512 to 1024 and -ub from 128 to 512. Prompt

So I had been building ScreenMind, kinda like local ai desktop assistant that uses Gemma 4 for screen analysis, voice memo transcription, and meeting transcription — all through llama-server. Everythi

Hey everyone, I’ve been building Speechfony - a desktop app for reading PDFs (and EPUBs) with offline text-to-speech. Open a document, listen sentence-by-sentence with highlighting, or export selected

Disclaimer: I'm the developer of this project — sharing because it might be useful to others running self-hosted AI. (Full transparency, as Reddit's self-promo etiquette expects.) xSignalBot is an ope

A follow up to the launch of Mference, it now supports and runs Inkling-Small 276B-A12B. Inkling-Small (Thinking Machines, Apache 2.0), from the pipenetwork/Inkling-Small-MLX-4bit conversion: 276B tot

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B today, and this might be more relevant to local AI than another massive model most people cannot run. The model is only 2.69B parameters, has 128K context, supports tool

First of all, obviously I took some help from AI to type this post and this is the topic that enabled me to accomplish all that: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1veow4b/deepseek_v4flash_2

I've been working on speeding up DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 in Krasis and have now got the long-prompt prefill quite a bit faster on a single RTX PRO 6000 96GB. These are timing-disabled internal Krasis r

been thinking about how the desktop 70-class has sat at 12GB for two generations now, 4070, 4070 super, 5070, all 12GB. the 1070 gave you 8GB back in 2016 and it felt generous for the price. ten years

https://preview.redd.it/3zcvpbds14hh1.png?width=1911&format=png&auto=webp&s=a79aafb71eeca97638da93d2591902631e897fd5 I tried a test similar to the recent model-quant comparisons, but this time I focus

Hey, Like a lot of people here, I use local models via Ollama on my desktop/server and wanted a mobile client that actually felt responsive, worked offline, and respected privacy. Most apps on the Pla

I maintain xberg, an open-source (MIT) document extraction engine, and v1 is out. Sharing here because a common piece of a local Ollama RAG setup is 'get clean text out of my PDFs/Office files/images,

GPT-Live is so good that I use it almost every day. I've been wanting to replicate it since it was released. My first attempt was to fine-tune Gemma 4 12B to behave like a full-duplex model. Something

TL;DR: I spent 9 days developing a new quantization method for MLX models and measured 18 variants against each other on a single M5 Max MacBook Pro (128 GB). The result is the best-measuring MLX quan

# Running DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (155 GB MoE) on a DGX Spark with vLLM-Moet 2-bit quantization I used Deepseek-v4-Flash-0731 cloud API settig up vllm-moet to run deepseek-v4-flash with MTP locally on

March 6th, 2026 the highest intelligence index score was 51 for frontier models. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 that has an intelligence score of 50. If these benchmarks are accurate, models avail

A few weeks ago I posted about if it was worth using a V620 for Comfyui, and was told it likely wouldn't work, at least in Windows 11. And if it did, it would be far too slow and unusable. I decided t

we're experimenting with our own dynamic GGUF quants of kimi k3, made from the original weights with our llama.cpp fork. Q3_K_S is done and works 1114.76 GiB on disk. Q1 and Q2 are in progress, result

Hey fellow llamas. we have something new for Strix Halo owners we thought would be useful to share. i'll keep it short: We were able to fit DeepSeek V4 Flash plus its speculative draft on a single Ryz

Results: prompt eval: 40 tokens / 97.5s → 0.41 tok/s eval: 400 tokens / 1769.9s → 0.23 tok/s total: 440 tokens / 1867s (31 min) Prompt: 'Write a C++ function that reverses a linked list in place. Expl

I've been digging into Krea2 to see if there's any way to condition inference in specific regions of pixel -> latent space to implement bbox type prompting in order to apply multiple simultaneous char

tldr; we are going to host K3 on A100s (yes, thats correct, we'll try to see if it holds up), H200s & B300s - expect results for A100s & H200s this week while we setup the B300 cluster this weekend &

I've been building Krasis, an MoE-focused runtime for streaming big models through limited VRAM on NVIDIA consumer/workstation GPUs, and I think this is the most interesting result so far: Ornith-1.0-

I finished the speed leg of my spec-decode benchmarking for Qwen3.6-27B, main algorithms across quants. Overall: the heavier the quant, the more spec-decode buys you (10 of 10 speculative configs rank

I am seeing more and more videos as posts about how OpenAI is in complete financial ruin, Anthropic isn't much better. Their expenses go with the revenue they make etc etc. Meta made big investments i

If you run local agentic coding harnesses (Aider, Claude Code, etc.), prompt evaluation usually eats up most of your execution time. Every turn re-evaluates thousands of identical prefix tokens_system

I’ve spent the past month trying to find the point where an extremely small TTS model stops feeling like a size experiment and starts feeling genuinely useful. Today I’m releasing Inflect v2, with two

A little over a year ago I got frustrated trying to fine-tune SDXL on my RTX 3060. Every option either forced lower resolution, locked away important settings behind massive config files, or needed a

Everything runs through WebGPU, in-browser or in electron/tauri apps. It's fully portable and supports either Nvidia and Apple Silicon (Metal). The actual kernels are optimized for the specific hardwa

tests done power limiting the GPU on LACT - real power usage varies wildy at 20W it ranges from 25W to 56W same behavior happens on every setting prompt for the test runs: https://github.com/lukesdevl

I’m not affiliated with this project, but I’ve been running it recently and I’m surprised it hasn’t received more attention here: https://github.com/fewtarius/CachyLLama CachyLLama is a fork of llama.

If you want to get the most out of MTP. You have to run some tests / benchmarks to do so. Turning it on with defaults will get improvements, but for many models and card combinations, you are leaving

Model quantization has become essential for efficient large language model deployment, yet existing approaches involve clear trade-offs: methods such as GPTQ and AWQ achieve practical compression but

I've been building a C99 inference engine from scratch (no Python, no BLAS, just gcc and make) that runs BitNet's ternary models on CPU. A few weeks ago I got obsessed with the matmul kernel - wrote a

TLDR: I (with the help of AI) re-implemented every Blackwell-only kernel (DeepGEMM, FlashInfer sparse-MLA, block-scaled FP8) in Triton, because they simply don't exist for sm89. The performance is 2-3

In the past few months I’ve experimenting heavily and tortured my old 2016 Desktop PC to run the biggest Local LLM I can fit. I documented the whole process and research and I’ve published a repositor

TL;DR: Everyone says QLoRA past ~13B is dead on a 24GB card. I got the full 32B FLUX.2 dev transformer QLoRA-training resident on the GPU on a 7900 XTX under native ROCm on Windows (no ZLUDA, no CUDA

Paper:https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19058 Code (GitHub):https://github.com/nuemaan/skewadam Hi everyone, I just published a preprint on a new optimizer designed to tackle the massive VRAM bottleneck in M

Hey everyone, I’m a Full-Stack Developer with 6+ years of experience. I’m relatively new to AI-assisted development workflows and want to build a production-ready, enterprise-level Next.js web applica

I managed to get this model working on 2x 3090s with full 262k ctx and N=4, if anyone is interested to try it, thanks to this quant: https://huggingface.co/danielrmay/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B

Hey r/LocalLLaMA — solo researcher here. I built a new attention architecture and want independent testers. Wave Field LLM replaces O(N²) dot-product attention with FFT wave convolution on a field. Tr

A developer created a fully local, CPU-based voice interface for Ollama that enables hands-free conversation with AI models by combining three open-source components: Silero VAD (voice activity detect

This post discusses running Google's Gemma 4 QAT (Quantized Aware Training) 12B model on a GPU with 8GB of memory while maintaining a 16k token context window. The author likely shares performance ben

The best open-source image generation models in 2026 include FLUX.1 [schnell], Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, HiDream-I1-Full, SANA-Sprint 1.6B, and HunyuanImage-3.0 . FLUX.1 [dev] holds the crown for ph

This post documents testing Latent Consistency Models (LCM) on a GTX 750 Ti graphics card with 4GB of VRAM, demonstrating that this older, lower-end GPU can still run AI image generation models with a