16x savings on Mac

·2026.04.19 09:49

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Custom Qwen kernels for Mac compressed KV cache by up to 16x.

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Custom Apple Silicon kernels dedicated to Qwen3.6 / Qwen3.5 have been released for Mac users.

The core benefits are up to 16x KV cache compression and improved reasoning on MLX quantized models.

Max context: tested up to T=262K
Implementation: a port of commercial vLLM kernels to MLX
Distribution: free and public
References: a detailed writeup, installation instructions, benchmarks, and a PyPI page are all provided

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