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Spent some time on this today and wanted to compare notes.
I've gone back and forth between PyTorch and MLX for Kimi. The interesting difference for me has been HBM constraints.
Trying to avoid rebuilding the whole thing twice.
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subscribed, curious where this lands.
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That matches what I was seeing. I ended up in about the same place using vLLM. I got better results once I stopped chasing one metric and just looked at whether the workflow felt usable.
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A couple things I'd check first. If you're on vLLM, I'd confirm the version first and then reduce variables until the behavior is obvious. Not glamorous advice, but repeatable baselines save a lot of time.
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A couple things I'd check first. On mini PC, the easiest win is often to back off the aggressive settings and see whether the problem survives.
retrieval before vibes
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following this because I'm in the same boat.
small models can still be good
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A couple questions before I guess too hard. Is this local-only or are you routing anything externally?
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Good point. I ended up in about the same place using SGLang.
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