#Local LLM

15 articles

Tech Apr 3, 2026 8 min

Running Lemonade on Strix Halo (EVO-X2): Vulkan Shared Memory Leaks and ROCm Stability

Real-world testing of AMD Lemonade v10.0.1 on Ryzen AI Max+ 395. LLM, image generation, speech recognition, and TTS running simultaneously, NPU Hybrid execution, Vulkan vs ROCm benchmarks, and discovering shared memory leaks.

AMD Local LLM Vulkan ROCm NPU llama.cpp GPU Inference Optimization Benchmark Experiment

Tech Apr 3, 2026 8 min

AMD's Lemonade Local AI Server Bundles GPU, NPU, and Multi-Modal Inference Under One Roof

Lemonade is AMD's open-source local AI server that manages multiple backends like llama.cpp and FastFlowLM across GPU/NPU/CPU, serving text, image, and audio generation through an OpenAI-compatible API.

AMD Local LLM NPU GPU llama.cpp Inference Optimization ROCm Vulkan

Tech Apr 3, 2026 21 min

Google's Gemma 4 launches in four sizes (E2B–A4B), publishing Gemini 3–derived reasoning under Apache 2.0

Google DeepMind has released Gemma 4: four models—31B dense, 26B MoE (A4B), E4B, and E2B—with a 256K context, multimodal input, tool calling, and support for 140 languages.

AI LLM Google Open model MoE Multimodal Local LLM

Tech Apr 2, 2026 11 min

SwiftLM is a Swift-based LLM inference server that integrates TurboQuant and SSD streaming into Metal shaders

SwiftLM, an Apple Silicon–only MLX inference server, provides a native Metal implementation of TurboQuant V2+V3 hybrid KV‑cache compression and NVMe SSD expert streaming.

Apple Silicon LLM MLX Local LLM Inference optimization KV cache MoE Swift

Tech Mar 31, 2026 6 min

Ollama Moves to MLX Backend, Dramatically Speeds Up Local Inference on Apple Silicon

Ollama 0.19 switches the Apple Silicon backend to MLX, achieving 1,810 tokens/s prefill and 112 tokens/s decode. NVFP4 quantization support and cache improvements landed at the same time.

Ollama MLX Apple Silicon LLM Local LLM Inference Optimization

Tech Mar 31, 2026 8 min

Scaling Qwen3.5-35B-A3B from 4K to 65K Context with Only 800MB Extra VRAM

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is an SSM+Attention hybrid where only 10 of 40 layers use KV cache. Expanding ctx-size from 4096 to 65536 on llama-server added just 800MB VRAM with zero speed loss. Includes q8_0 KV quantization benchmarks and TurboQuant status.

LLM Local LLM llama.cpp AMD Vulkan KV Cache Qwen Benchmark

Tech Mar 25, 2026 17 min

Hypura’s NVMe Streaming and TurboQuant’s KV Cache Quantization

Hypura breaks away from llama.cpp’s mmap design and streams even dense models with a three-tier NVMe placement, while TurboQuant eliminates quantization-constant overhead via a polar-coordinate transform. Includes a design comparison with Flash‑MoE and a review of scenarios where KV‑cache compression actually helps.

LLM Local LLM Quantization Apple Silicon Inference Optimization KV Cache Rust

Tech Mar 23, 2026 7 min

Flash-MoE: Running a 397B-parameter model on a 48GB MacBook

Flash-MoE is a C/Metal inference engine that runs Qwen3.5-397B-A17B on a MacBook Pro M3 Max at 4.36 tokens/s. With expert streaming from SSD and hand-written Metal shaders, it fits the 209GB model into a 48GB memory budget.

Inference MPS LLM Qwen MoE Local LLM

Tech Mar 18, 2026 4 min

Holotron-12B Makes PC-Operation AI 1.7× Faster, and Unsloth Studio Lets You Tune Models Without Code

H Company's Holotron-12B uses a memory-efficient new design to lift PC-operation AI throughput to 8,900 tokens per second. Unsloth has released the beta of 'Studio,' a browser tool for no-code model fine-tuning.

AI LLM AI Agents Unsloth Local LLM

Tech Mar 1, 2026 11 min

The Reason Qwen 3.5 Failed on Radeon 8060S Was an Outdated AMD Driver

Isolating the cause of Qwen 3.5 failing on ROCm/Vulkan via CPU inference, llama-server, and LM Studio — an AMD driver update resolved everything.

AI LLM Local LLM AMD llama.cpp Ollama LM Studio Experiment

Tech Feb 28, 2026 12 min

Abliterated Models in Ollama Were a Complete Failure — and the Official Version Was Fine All Along

All variants of huihui-ai's Qwen 3.5 abliterated produced garbage tokens. GLM-4.7-Flash abliterated had a broken chat template. The official version with thinking disabled turned out to be the right answer.

AI LLM Ollama Local LLM AMD LM Studio Vulkan ROCm Experiment

Tech Feb 27, 2026 9 min

Building a Local OCR Hot Folder for Confidential Documents with ScanSnap + NDLOCR-Lite

A folder-watching script that automatically OCRs images scanned by ScanSnap and runs LLM-based correction. Includes air-gap security design.

OCR NDLOCR-Lite ScanSnap Python Mac Local LLM Experiment