#!/usr/bin/env python3 # ============================================================================= # Project : localvm-research # File : experiments/candidate_01/benchmark_scale.py # Purpose : Scale run — 32B model whose q8 does NOT fit beside the resident # base: q4 resident + layer-streamed q8 verification sweeps # Author : Simon-Pierre Boucher # Contact : contact@spboucher.ai # Created : 2026-08-12 # Modified : 2026-08-12 # Platform : macOS / Apple Silicon (arm64) — MLX / Metal # License : All rights reserved (research code) # ============================================================================= """Candidate-01 scale benchmark (the regime the architecture exists for). Qwen3-32B on a 48 GB Mac: q4 (17.5 GB) resident; q8 (34.8 GB) cannot be co-resident — sweeps stream it layer-by-layer from SSD (StreamingVerifier). Baseline: pure q4 (the only real alternative on this machine). Quality judged by Qwen3-8B-bf16 (independent judge; the 32B bf16 obviously cannot run). Usage: .venv/bin/python benchmark_scale.py [--per-domain 2] [--max-tokens 96] """ from __future__ import annotations import argparse import gc import json import sys import time from datetime import datetime, timezone from pathlib import Path import mlx.core as mx from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download from mlx_lm import load REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2] sys.path.insert(0, str(REPO_ROOT / "benchmarks")) sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).parent / "implementation")) from hardware_manifest import collect_manifest # noqa: E402 from runtime import generate_deferred # noqa: E402 from streaming_verifier import StreamingVerifier # noqa: E402 Q4_REPO = "mlx-community/Qwen3-32B-4bit" Q8_REPO = "mlx-community/Qwen3-32B-8bit" JUDGE_REPO = "mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-bf16" def greedy_baseline(model, tokenizer, prompt_ids, max_tokens): from mlx_lm.models.cache import make_prompt_cache cache = make_prompt_cache(model) tokens = [] inp = mx.array(list(prompt_ids))[None] t0 = time.perf_counter() for _ in range(max_tokens): nxt = int(mx.argmax(model(inp, cache=cache)[0, -1]).item()) if nxt == tokenizer.eos_token_id: break tokens.append(nxt) inp = mx.array([[nxt]]) return tokens, time.perf_counter() - t0 def main() -> None: ap = argparse.ArgumentParser() ap.add_argument("--per-domain", type=int, default=2) ap.add_argument("--max-tokens", type=int, default=96) ap.add_argument("--window", type=int, default=32) ap.add_argument("--taus", default="2.0") ap.add_argument("--modes", default="margin,verify-all") args = ap.parse_args() q4_path = snapshot_download(Q4_REPO) q8_path = snapshot_download(Q8_REPO) domains = json.loads((REPO_ROOT / "benchmarks/datasets/eval_prompts.json").read_text())["domains"] print("loading q4 resident …", flush=True) base_model, tokenizer = load(q4_path) verifier = StreamingVerifier(q8_path) q8_bytes = verifier.weight_bytes print(f"q8 checkpoint (streamed): {q8_bytes/1e9:.1f} GB", flush=True) prompts = [] for domain, plist in domains.items(): for prompt in plist[: args.per_domain]: ids = tokenizer.apply_chat_template( [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}], add_generation_prompt=True) prompts.append({"domain": domain, "ids": list(ids)}) print("baseline: pure q4 …", flush=True) q4_out, q4_times = [], [] for k, p in enumerate(prompts): toks, dt = greedy_baseline(base_model, tokenizer, p["ids"], args.max_tokens) q4_out.append(toks); q4_times.append((len(toks), dt)) print(f" {k+1}/{len(prompts)} ({len(toks)} tok, {len(toks)/dt:.1f} tok/s)", flush=True) outputs = {"pure_q4": q4_out} runs = [] for mode in args.modes.split(","): for tau in ([float(x) for x in args.taus.split(",")] if mode == "margin" else [2.0]): print(f"runtime: mode={mode} tau={tau} W={args.window} …", flush=True) outs, agg = [], {"tokens": 0, "deferred": 0, "sweeps": 0, "rollbacks": 0, "sweep_s": 0.0, "gen_s": 0.0, "logical_bytes": 0, "io_s": []} for k, p in enumerate(prompts): toks, st = generate_deferred( base_model, verifier, tokenizer, p["ids"], args.max_tokens, tau, args.window, mode, q8_bytes) outs.append(toks) agg["tokens"] += st.tokens_out; agg["deferred"] += st.deferred agg["sweeps"] += st.sweeps; agg["rollbacks"] += st.rollbacks agg["sweep_s"] += st.sweep_time_s; agg["gen_s"] += st.gen_time_s agg["logical_bytes"] += st.sweep_logical_bytes print(f" {k+1}/{len(prompts)} ({st.tokens_out} tok, {st.sweeps} sweeps, " f"{st.rollbacks} rollbacks, last sweep io {verifier.last_sweep_io_s:.1f}s)", flush=True) n = max(agg["tokens"], 1) runs.append({ "mode": mode, "tau": tau, "window": args.window, "tokens_per_s": n / (agg["gen_s"] + agg["sweep_s"]), "deferral_rate": agg["deferred"] / n, "rollback_rate": agg["rollbacks"] / n, "sweep_latency_s_mean": agg["sweep_s"] / max(agg["sweeps"], 1), "logical_verify_bytes_per_token": agg["logical_bytes"] / n, "raw": {k: v for k, v in agg.items() if k != "io_s"}, }) outputs[f"{mode}_tau{tau}"] = outs r = runs[-1] print(f" tok/s={r['tokens_per_s']:.2f} sweepLat={r['sweep_latency_s_mean']:.1f}s " f"GB/token(logical)={r['logical_verify_bytes_per_token']/1e9:.2f}", flush=True) print("freeing 32B models; loading 8B bf16 judge …", flush=True) del base_model, verifier gc.collect(); mx.clear_cache() judge, _ = load(JUDGE_REPO) quality = {} for name, outs in outputs.items(): vals = [] for p, toks in zip(prompts, outs): if len(toks) < 2: continue full = p["ids"] + list(toks) logits = judge(mx.array(full)[None])[0] sel = logits[len(p["ids"]) - 1 : len(full) - 1].astype(mx.float32) lp = sel - mx.logsumexp(sel, axis=-1, keepdims=True) tok_lp = mx.take_along_axis(lp, mx.array(toks)[:, None], axis=-1) mx.eval(tok_lp) vals.append(float(mx.mean(tok_lp).item())) quality[name] = {"mean_logprob_8b_judge": sum(vals) / len(vals), "n": len(vals)} print(f" {name:>18}: {quality[name]['mean_logprob_8b_judge']:.4f}", flush=True) ts = datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime("%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ") out_dir = REPO_ROOT / "results" / "candidate_01_scale32b" / ts out_dir.mkdir(parents=True) (out_dir / "results.json").write_text(json.dumps({ "experiment": "candidate_01_scale32b", "author": "Simon-Pierre Boucher", "contact": "contact@spboucher.ai", "manifest": collect_manifest(), "config": vars(args), "models": {"base": Q4_REPO, "verify": Q8_REPO, "judge": JUDGE_REPO}, "q8_streamed_bytes": q8_bytes, "baseline_pure_q4_tokens_per_s": sum(t for t, _ in q4_times) / max(sum(d for _, d in q4_times), 1e-9), "runs": runs, "quality_8b_judge": quality, }, indent=2)) print(f"\nwrote {out_dir / 'results.json'}") if __name__ == "__main__": main()