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feat(serve): set APEX I-Compact as default, harden benchmark workflow

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Serving:
- make serve now launches Claude-distilled APEX 35B-A3B (16GB) with 2
  parallel slots and 256K context as the daily driver
- add serve-custom for ad-hoc model testing
- add flush-gpu to reclaim unified memory after stuck runs

Benchmarks:
- default Vulkan-only backends (ROCm trails at long context)
- add --backends filter to run-baseline.sh
- fix backend filter substring bug (grep -qFx for exact line match)
- fix model filter regex metacharacter bug (grep -qiF for literal)
- respect --tg in long-context tests instead of hardcoded n=32

ROCm bump to 7.2.1 (kernel 6.18.4+ patch); keep 7.2 as optional.

Catalog:
- add mudler APEX I-Compact (Claude-distilled 35B, 17GB)
- add 0xSero REAP-40 (pruned 122B-A10B, 46GB)
- update download instructions: hf download (huggingface-cli is gone)
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Felipe Cardoso
2026-04-13 01:11:46 +02:00
parent 474d94a07e
commit 15bb6a8ed9
7 changed files with 36 additions and 12 deletions
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Makefile
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@@ -39,12 +39,23 @@ benchmark-compare: ## Compare two benchmark runs (usage: make benchmark-compare
@bash bin/benchmark compare $(BEFORE) $(AFTER)
# --- Serve ---
serve: ## Launch llama-server with optimized settings (ARGS="-m MODEL.gguf")
serve: ## Launch APEX I-Compact daily driver (2 slots, 256K ctx)
@bash bin/serve -m Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Claude-Distilled-APEX-I-Compact.gguf --parallel 2 --ctx 262144 $(ARGS)
serve-custom: ## Launch llama-server with custom model (ARGS="-m MODEL.gguf")
@bash bin/serve $(ARGS)
serve-ngram: ## Launch with n-gram speculative decoding (ARGS="-m MODEL.gguf")
@bash bin/serve --ngram $(ARGS)
flush-gpu: ## Kill llama-server/bench processes and drop kernel caches to free unified VRAM
-@pkill -x llama-server 2>/dev/null || true
-@pkill -x llama-bench 2>/dev/null || true
-@pkill -x llama-cli 2>/dev/null || true
-@podman ps --filter name=llama --format '{{.Names}}' | xargs -r podman stop
@sync && sudo sysctl vm.drop_caches=3
@echo "VRAM usage:" && cat /sys/class/drm/card*/device/mem_info_vram_used 2>/dev/null | awk '{printf " %.2f MiB\n", $$1/1048576}'
# --- Hardware Info ---
hw-bandwidth: ## Measure GPU memory bandwidth and compute (clpeak)
@clpeak 2>&1

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configs/models.conf
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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
# Format: NAME|HF_REPO|FILE|SIZE_GB|CATEGORY|DESCRIPTION
#
# Categories: smoke, standard, moe, dense
# Download with: huggingface-cli download REPO FILE --local-dir /data/models/llms/REPO
# Download with: hf download REPO FILE --local-dir /data/models/llms/REPO
# ── Smoke tests (quick, small) ───────────────────────────
qwen2.5-0.5b-q8|lmstudio-community/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF|Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-Q8_0.gguf|0.4|smoke|Tiny Qwen2.5, Q8
@@ -26,11 +26,15 @@ qwen3.5-27b-opus-distill|Jackrong/Qwen3.5-27B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-Distille
# ── MoE models (fast generation, best for 64GB) ─────────
qwen3.5-35b-a3b-q4|unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF|Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf|21|moe|MoE 35B, 3B active, Unsloth dynamic XL
qwen3.5-35b-a3b-q8|unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF|Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Q8_0.gguf|37|moe|MoE 35B Q8, near-full precision
qwen3.5-35b-a3b-apex-compact|mudler/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Claude-Distilled-APEX-GGUF|Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Claude-Distilled-APEX-I-Compact.gguf|17|moe|MoE 35B Claude-distilled APEX, I-Compact quant
nemotron-cascade2-q8|bartowski/nvidia_Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B-GGUF|nvidia_Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B-Q8_0.gguf|31|moe|Nemotron Cascade 2, Mamba-2 hybrid (replaces Nano)
# ── Coding models ─────────────────────────────────────────
qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-q6|unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF|Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-UD-Q6_K_XL.gguf|26|moe|Agentic coding MoE, pure Transformer
qwen3-coder-next-q3|unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-Next-GGUF|Qwen3-Coder-Next-UD-Q3_K_XL.gguf|34|moe|80B MoE coder, >70% SWE-bench, hybrid DeltaNet
# ── Pruned MoE (REAP expert pruning) ─────────────────────
qwen3.5-122b-a10b-reap40-q4|0xSero/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B-REAP-40-GGUF|Qwen3.5-122B-A10B-REAP-40-Q4_K_M.gguf|46|moe|122B MoE pruned to 40 experts, 10B active, Q4_K_M
# ── Draft models (speculative decoding) ───────────────────
qwen3.5-0.8b-q8-draft|unsloth/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF|Qwen3.5-0.8B-Q8_0.gguf|0.8|draft|Draft for Qwen3.5 speculative decoding

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docs/benchmarking.md
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@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ The `-fa 1 -mmp 0 -ngl 99` flags are **mandatory** on Strix Halo to avoid crashe
| `llama-vulkan-radv` | Mesa RADV | Vulkan | Most stable, recommended default |
| `llama-vulkan-amdvlk` | AMDVLK | Vulkan | Fastest when it works, 2GB buffer limit |
| `llama-rocm-6.4.4` | ROCm 6.4.4 | HIP | Proven stable |
| `llama-rocm-7.2` | ROCm 7.2 | HIP | Latest, compiler fixes applied |
| `llama-rocm-7.2.1` | ROCm 7.2.1 | HIP | Current stable (kernel 6.18.4+ patch) |
| `llama-rocm-7.2` | ROCm 7.2 | HIP | Deprecated — use 7.2.1 |
| `llama-rocm7-nightlies` | ROCm 7 nightly | HIP | Experimental/development builds |
Containers are from [kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-toolboxes](https://github.com/kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-toolboxes). Set up with `make benchmark-setup`.

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scripts/benchmark/run-baseline.sh
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@@ -23,12 +23,14 @@ PP_TOKENS=512
TG_TOKENS=128
BATCH_SIZE="" # Batch size override (-b flag, empty = llama-bench default 2048)
KV_TYPES_RAW="" # Comma-separated KV cache types to sweep (e.g. f16,q8_0,q4_0 or q4_0:q8_0)
BACKENDS_FILTER="llama-vulkan-radv" # Default to Vulkan; use --backends to override
while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
case "$1" in
--skip-longctx) SKIP_LONGCTX=true; shift ;;
--max-size|-s) MAX_SIZE_GB="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--category|-c) CATEGORY_FILTER="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--backends) BACKENDS_FILTER="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--reps|-r) REPS_STANDARD="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--context|-d) CTX_DEPTH="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--pp) PP_TOKENS="$2"; shift 2 ;;
@@ -42,6 +44,7 @@ while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
echo " --skip-longctx Skip long-context tests"
echo " --max-size GB Only bench models up to this file size in GB"
echo " --category LIST Comma-separated: smoke,dense,moe (from models.conf)"
echo " --backends LIST Comma-separated backends (default: llama-vulkan-radv)"
echo " --reps N Standard test repetitions (default: 5)"
echo " --context N Long-context depth in tokens (default: 32768)"
echo " --pp N Prompt processing tokens (default: 512)"
@@ -94,14 +97,17 @@ declare -A BENCH_PATHS=(
[llama-vulkan-amdvlk]="/usr/sbin/llama-bench"
[llama-rocm-6.4.4]="/usr/local/bin/llama-bench"
[llama-rocm-7.2]="/usr/local/bin/llama-bench"
[llama-rocm-7.2.1]="/usr/local/bin/llama-bench"
[llama-rocm7-nightlies]="/usr/local/bin/llama-bench"
)
available_backends=()
for tb in "${!BENCH_PATHS[@]}"; do
if echo "$existing" | grep -q "^${tb}$"; then
available_backends+=("$tb")
log_success "Backend: $tb"
if [[ -z "$BACKENDS_FILTER" ]] || echo "$BACKENDS_FILTER" | tr ',' '\n' | grep -qFx "$tb"; then
available_backends+=("$tb")
log_success "Backend: $tb"
fi
fi
done
@@ -269,7 +275,7 @@ for MODEL_PATH in "${MODEL_PATHS[@]}"; do
CMD_LC=(toolbox run -c "$BACKEND" -- "${ENV_ARGS[@]}" "$BENCH_BIN"
-ngl 99 -mmp 0 -m "$TOOLBOX_MODEL_PATH" -fa 1
-p "$CTX_PROMPT" -n 32 -d "$CTX_DEPTH" -ub "$UB_SIZE"
-p "$CTX_PROMPT" -n "$TG_TOKENS" -d "$CTX_DEPTH" -ub "$UB_SIZE"
-r "$REPS_LONGCTX" "${BATCH_ARGS[@]}" "${KV_ARGS[@]}")
printf " cmd: %s\n" "${CMD_LC[*]}"

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scripts/benchmark/run-suite.sh
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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ source "$SCRIPT_DIR/../../lib/format.sh"
MODEL_DIR="$(data_dir models)"
TAG="run"
BACKENDS_FILTER=""
BACKENDS_FILTER="llama-vulkan-radv"
MODELS_FILTER=""
SKIP_LONGCTX=false
MAX_SIZE_GB=0
@@ -99,13 +99,14 @@ declare -A BENCH_PATHS=(
[llama-vulkan-amdvlk]="/usr/sbin/llama-bench"
[llama-rocm-6.4.4]="/usr/local/bin/llama-bench"
[llama-rocm-7.2]="/usr/local/bin/llama-bench"
[llama-rocm-7.2.1]="/usr/local/bin/llama-bench"
[llama-rocm7-nightlies]="/usr/local/bin/llama-bench"
)
available_backends=()
for tb in "${!BENCH_PATHS[@]}"; do
if echo "$existing" | grep -q "^${tb}$"; then
if [[ -z "$BACKENDS_FILTER" ]] || echo "$BACKENDS_FILTER" | tr ',' '\n' | grep -q "$tb"; then
if [[ -z "$BACKENDS_FILTER" ]] || echo "$BACKENDS_FILTER" | tr ',' '\n' | grep -qFx "$tb"; then
available_backends+=("$tb")
fi
fi
@@ -130,7 +131,7 @@ for p in "${ALL_MODEL_PATHS[@]}"; do
# Name filter
if [[ -n "$MODELS_FILTER" ]]; then
if ! echo "$MODELS_FILTER" | tr ',' '\n' | grep -qi "$local_name"; then
if ! echo "$MODELS_FILTER" | tr ',' '\n' | grep -qiF "$local_name"; then
continue
fi
fi
@@ -252,7 +253,7 @@ for MODEL_PATH in "${MODEL_PATHS[@]}"; do
UB_SIZE=2048; [[ "$BACKEND" == *vulkan* ]] && UB_SIZE=512
CMD_LC=(toolbox run -c "$BACKEND" -- "${ENV_ARGS[@]}" "$BENCH_BIN"
-ngl 99 -mmp 0 -m "$TOOLBOX_MODEL_PATH" -fa 1
-p "$CTX_PROMPT" -n 32 -d "$CTX_DEPTH" -ub "$UB_SIZE" -r "$REPS_LONGCTX" "${BATCH_ARGS[@]}" "${KV_ARGS[@]}")
-p "$CTX_PROMPT" -n "$TG_TOKENS" -d "$CTX_DEPTH" -ub "$UB_SIZE" -r "$REPS_LONGCTX" "${BATCH_ARGS[@]}" "${KV_ARGS[@]}")
if "${CMD_LC[@]}" > "$OUT_LC" 2>&1; then
log_success "Done"; tail -3 "$OUT_LC"
else

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scripts/benchmark/setup.sh
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@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ log_header "Benchmark Setup"
# ── 1. Check toolbox containers ──────────────────────────
log_info "Checking toolbox containers..."
REQUIRED_TOOLBOXES=("llama-vulkan-radv" "llama-rocm-7.2")
OPTIONAL_TOOLBOXES=("llama-rocm-6.4.4" "llama-vulkan-amdvlk")
REQUIRED_TOOLBOXES=("llama-vulkan-radv" "llama-rocm-7.2.1")
OPTIONAL_TOOLBOXES=("llama-rocm-7.2" "llama-rocm-6.4.4" "llama-vulkan-amdvlk")
existing=$(detect_toolbox_names 2>/dev/null || true)
missing=()

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scripts/serve/launch.sh
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@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ declare -A SERVER_PATHS=(
[llama-vulkan-amdvlk]="/usr/sbin/llama-server"
[llama-rocm-6.4.4]="/usr/local/bin/llama-server"
[llama-rocm-7.2]="/usr/local/bin/llama-server"
[llama-rocm-7.2.1]="/usr/local/bin/llama-server"
[llama-rocm7-nightlies]="/usr/local/bin/llama-server"
)