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Early thoughts on maple-preview, a ternary 20b-a1b

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With commit 3d10bcd, upstream llama.cpp merged support for the ternary MoE model maple-preview. I've been searching for a good MoE model at 1-2b active params with consistent tool calling abilities, so I was highly interested in this release. Current support for the model is limited to CPU only. No…

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  1. 2026-09-15 00:07 · r/LocalLLM
    Early thoughts on maple-preview, a ternary 20b-a1b

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