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Do Drafters Work on Small Models? Gemma 4 E2B and E4B on Two Small GPUs

Do Drafters Work on Small Models? Gemma 4 E2B and E4B on Two Small GPUs

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Running MoE LLMs Larger Than Your RAM: A Practical Guide to mmap, Expert Offloading and SSD Streaming with llama.cpp

Running MoE LLMs Larger Than Your RAM: A Practical Guide to mmap, Expert Offloading and SSD Streaming with llama.cpp

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Same Local Model, 3 Coding Agents: pi 12/12, Codex 12/12, Claude Code 7/12 on a 6GB GPU

Same Local Model, 3 Coding Agents: pi 12/12, Codex 12/12, Claude Code 7/12 on a 6GB GPU

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Choosing a Local LLM Through Fate (2026 Edition)

Choosing a Local LLM Through Fate (2026 Edition)

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Gemma 4 on a Used 8 GB RTX 3050: 116 Tokens/s for One User, 618 for 64

Uses a 2014 desktop and custom MCP tools

Gemma 4 on a Used 8 GB RTX 3050: 116 Tokens/s for One User, 618 for 64

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llama-server's prompt cache reuses KV computed under a different LoRA scale

llama-server's prompt cache reuses KV computed under a different LoRA scale

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Fine-tuning Qwen2.5-1.5B on a Mac to fix a parroting chatbot (and halve the prompt)

Fine-tuning Qwen2.5-1.5B on a Mac to fix a parroting chatbot (and halve the prompt)

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Running 100B+ MoE Models on a Single RTX 4090: A Practical Guide to Expert Offloading with llama.cpp

Running 100B+ MoE Models on a Single RTX 4090: A Practical Guide to Expert Offloading with llama.cpp

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Running 100B+ MoE LLMs on a Single RTX 4090: A Practical Guide to Expert Offloading with llama.cpp

Running 100B+ MoE LLMs on a Single RTX 4090: A Practical Guide to Expert Offloading with llama.cpp

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Gemma 4's MTP Drafter, Explained: Speculative Decoding and a 4-Bit Drafter at 60% of the Size

Gemma 4's MTP Drafter, Explained: Speculative Decoding and a 4-Bit Drafter at 60% of the Size

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When Chat Templates Go Wrong

When Chat Templates Go Wrong

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Deploying LLMs Locally: Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM & Text Generation Inference

Deploying LLMs Locally: Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM & Text Generation Inference

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Deploying LLMs Locally: Complete Guide to Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM & TGI

Deploying LLMs Locally: Complete Guide to Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM & TGI

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Deploying LLMs Locally: Ollama, llama.cpp, and vLLM Comparison

Deploying LLMs Locally: Ollama, llama.cpp, and vLLM Comparison

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llama.cpp vs Ollama in 2026: Which Runtime Should You Run?

llama.cpp vs Ollama in 2026: Which Runtime Should You Run?

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