# Copyright © 2026 Apple Inc. from dataclasses import dataclass from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Union import mlx.core as mx import mlx.nn as nn from mlx.nn.layers.distributed import shard_inplace, shard_linear, sum_gradients from .activations import swiglu from .base import BaseModelArgs, create_attention_mask, scaled_dot_product_attention from .pipeline import PipelineMixin from .switch_layers import SwitchGLU @dataclass class ModelArgs(BaseModelArgs): model_type: str hidden_size: int num_hidden_layers: int intermediate_size: int num_attention_heads: int num_experts: int num_experts_per_tok: int decoder_sparse_step: int mlp_only_layers: List[int] moe_intermediate_size: int rms_norm_eps: float vocab_size: int num_key_value_heads: int head_dim: int rope_theta: float tie_word_embeddings: bool max_position_embeddings: int norm_topk_prob: bool rope_scaling: Optional[Dict[str, Union[float, str]]] = None class Attention(nn.Module): def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs, layer_idx: int): super().__init__() dim = args.hidden_size self.n_heads = n_heads = args.num_attention_heads assert args.num_key_value_heads is not None self.n_kv_heads = n_kv_heads = args.num_key_value_heads head_dim = getattr( args, "head_dim", args.hidden_size // args.num_attention_heads ) self.scale = head_dim**-0.5 self.q_proj = nn.Linear(dim, n_heads * head_dim, bias=False) self.k_proj = nn.Linear(dim, n_kv_heads * head_dim, bias=False) self.v_proj = nn.Linear(dim, n_kv_heads * head_dim, bias=False) self.o_proj = nn.Linear(n_heads * head_dim, dim, bias=False) self.q_norm = nn.RMSNorm(head_dim, eps=args.rms_norm_eps) self.k_norm = nn.RMSNorm(head_dim, eps=args.rms_norm_eps) self.rope = nn.RoPE( head_dim, traditional=False, base=args.rope_theta, ) def __call__( self, x: mx.array, mask: Optional[mx.array] = None, cache: Optional[Any] = None, ) -> mx.array: B, L, D = x.shape queries, keys, values = self.q_proj(x), self.k_proj(x), self.v_proj(x) # Prepare the queries, keys and values for the attention computation queries = self.q_norm(queries.reshape(B, L, self.n_heads, -1)).transpose( 0, 2, 1, 3 ) keys = self.k_norm(keys.reshape(B, L, self.n_kv_heads, -1)).transpose( 0, 2, 1, 3 ) values = values.reshape(B, L, self.n_kv_heads, -1).transpose(0, 2, 1, 3) if cache is not None: queries = self.rope(queries, offset=cache.offset) keys = self.rope(keys, offset=cache.offset) keys, values = cache.update_and_fetch(keys, values) else: queries = self.rope(queries) keys = self.rope(keys) output = scaled_dot_product_attention( queries, keys, values, cache=cache, scale=self.scale, mask=mask ) output = output.transpose(0, 2, 1, 3).reshape(B, L, -1) return self.o_proj(output) class MLP(nn.Module): def __init__(self, dim, hidden_dim): super().__init__() self.gate_proj = nn.Linear(dim, hidden_dim, bias=False) self.down_proj = nn.Linear(hidden_dim, dim, bias=False) self.up_proj = nn.Linear(dim, hidden_dim, bias=False) def __call__(self, x) -> mx.array: return self.down_proj(swiglu(self.gate_proj(x), self.up_proj(x))) class Qwen3MoeSparseMoeBlock(nn.Module): def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs): super().__init__() dim = args.hidden_size intermediate_size = args.moe_intermediate_size self.num_experts = num_experts = args.num_experts self.top_k = args.num_experts_per_tok self.norm_topk_prob = args.norm_topk_prob self.gate = nn.Linear(dim, num_experts, bias=False) self.switch_mlp = SwitchGLU(dim, intermediate_size, num_experts) self.sharding_group = None def __call__( self, x: mx.array, ) -> mx.array: if self.sharding_group is not None: x = sum_gradients(self.sharding_group)(x) gates = self.gate(x) gates = mx.softmax(gates, axis=-1, precise=True) k = self.top_k inds = mx.argpartition(gates, kth=-k, axis=-1)[..., -k:] inds = mx.stop_gradient(inds) scores = mx.take_along_axis(gates, inds, axis=-1) if self.norm_topk_prob: scores /= mx.sum(scores, axis=-1, keepdims=True) y = self.switch_mlp(x, inds) y = (y * scores[..., None]).sum(axis=-2).astype(y.dtype) if self.sharding_group is not None: y = mx.distributed.all_sum(y, group=self.sharding_group) return y class Qwen3MoeDecoderLayer(nn.Module): def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs, layer_idx: int): super().__init__() self.hidden_size = args.hidden_size self.self_attn = Attention(args, layer_idx) self.input_layernorm = nn.RMSNorm(args.hidden_size, eps=args.rms_norm_eps) self.post_attention_layernorm = nn.RMSNorm( args.hidden_size, eps=args.rms_norm_eps ) self.args = args if (layer_idx not in args.mlp_only_layers) and ( args.num_experts > 0 and (layer_idx + 1) % args.decoder_sparse_step == 0 ): self.mlp = Qwen3MoeSparseMoeBlock(args) else: self.mlp = MLP(args.hidden_size, args.intermediate_size) def __call__( self, x: mx.array, mask: Optional[mx.array] = None, cache: Optional[Any] = None, ) -> mx.array: r = self.self_attn(self.input_layernorm(x), mask, cache) h = x + r r = self.mlp(self.post_attention_layernorm(h)) out = h + r return out class Qwen3MoeModel(PipelineMixin, nn.Module): def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs): super().__init__() self.args = args self.vocab_size = args.vocab_size self.num_hidden_layers = args.num_hidden_layers assert self.vocab_size > 0 self.embed_tokens = nn.Embedding(args.vocab_size, args.hidden_size) self.layers = [ Qwen3MoeDecoderLayer(args=args, layer_idx=i) for i in range(args.num_hidden_layers) ] self.norm = nn.RMSNorm(args.hidden_size, eps=args.rms_norm_eps) def __call__( self, inputs: mx.array, cache=None, input_embeddings: Optional[mx.array] = None, ) -> mx.array: if input_embeddings is not None: h = input_embeddings else: h = self.embed_tokens(inputs) pipeline_rank = self.pipeline_rank pipeline_size = self.pipeline_size if cache is None: cache = [None] * len(self.pipeline_layers) mask = create_attention_mask(h, cache[0]) # Receive from the previous process in the pipeline if pipeline_rank < pipeline_size - 1: h = mx.distributed.recv_like(h, (pipeline_rank + 1)) for layer, c in zip(self.pipeline_layers, cache): h = layer(h, mask, c) # Send to the next process in the pipeline if pipeline_rank != 0: h = mx.distributed.send(h, (pipeline_rank - 1) % pipeline_size) if cache[-1] is not None: cache[-1].keys = mx.depends(cache[-1].keys, h) # Broadcast h while keeping it in the graph if pipeline_size > 1: h = mx.distributed.all_gather(h)[: h.shape[0]] return self.norm(h) class Model(nn.Module): def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs): super().__init__() self.args = args self.model_type = args.model_type self.model = Qwen3MoeModel(args) if not args.tie_word_embeddings: self.lm_head = nn.Linear(args.hidden_size, args.vocab_size, bias=False) def __call__( self, inputs: mx.array, cache=None, input_embeddings: Optional[mx.array] = None, ) -> mx.array: out = self.model(inputs, cache, input_embeddings) if self.args.tie_word_embeddings: out = self.model.embed_tokens.as_linear(out) else: out = self.lm_head(out) return out def sanitize(self, weights): if self.args.tie_word_embeddings: weights.pop("lm_head.weight", None) moe_layers = sorted( int(k.split(".")[2]) for k in weights if k.startswith("model.layers.") and k.endswith(".mlp.experts.0.up_proj.weight") ) for l in moe_layers: prefix = f"model.layers.{l}" for n in ["up_proj", "down_proj", "gate_proj"]: to_join = [ weights.pop(f"{prefix}.mlp.experts.{e}.{n}.weight") for e in range(self.args.num_experts) ] weights[f"{prefix}.mlp.switch_mlp.{n}.weight"] = mx.stack(to_join) return weights def shard(self, group: Optional[mx.distributed.Group] = None): group = group or mx.distributed.init() N = group.size() for layer in self.model.layers: # Shard the self attention layer.self_attn.q_proj = shard_linear( layer.self_attn.q_proj, "all-to-sharded", group=group ) layer.self_attn.k_proj = shard_linear( layer.self_attn.k_proj, "all-to-sharded", group=group ) layer.self_attn.v_proj = shard_linear( layer.self_attn.v_proj, "all-to-sharded", group=group ) layer.self_attn.o_proj = shard_linear( layer.self_attn.o_proj, "sharded-to-all", group=group ) layer.self_attn.n_heads //= N layer.self_attn.n_kv_heads //= N # Shard the dense MLP layers if isinstance(layer.mlp, MLP): layer.mlp.gate_proj = shard_linear( layer.mlp.gate_proj, "all-to-sharded", group=group ) layer.mlp.down_proj = shard_linear( layer.mlp.down_proj, "sharded-to-all", group=group ) layer.mlp.up_proj = shard_linear( layer.mlp.up_proj, "all-to-sharded", group=group ) # Shard the MoE. Shard in place since the MoE should be responsible # for aggregating the results. The router (gate) stays replicated. else: layer.mlp.sharding_group = group shard_inplace( layer.mlp.switch_mlp.gate_proj, "all-to-sharded", group=group ) shard_inplace( layer.mlp.switch_mlp.down_proj, "sharded-to-all", group=group ) shard_inplace( layer.mlp.switch_mlp.up_proj, "all-to-sharded", group=group ) @property def quant_predicate(self): def predicate(path, _): if path.endswith("mlp.gate"): return {"group_size": 64, "bits": 8} return True return predicate @property def layers(self): return self.model.pipeline_layers