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Instructions to use AndrewThompson1233/maba-v2-architecture with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use AndrewThompson1233/maba-v2-architecture with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="AndrewThompson1233/maba-v2-architecture")# Load model directly from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("AndrewThompson1233/maba-v2-architecture", device_map="auto") - RWKV
How to use AndrewThompson1233/maba-v2-architecture with RWKV:
# No code snippets available yet for this library. # To use this model, check the repository files and the library's documentation. # Want to help? PRs adding snippets are welcome at: # https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface.js
- Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM
How to use AndrewThompson1233/maba-v2-architecture with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "AndrewThompson1233/maba-v2-architecture" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "AndrewThompson1233/maba-v2-architecture", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/AndrewThompson1233/maba-v2-architecture
- SGLang
How to use AndrewThompson1233/maba-v2-architecture with SGLang:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install SGLang from pip: pip install sglang # Start the SGLang server: python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "AndrewThompson1233/maba-v2-architecture" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "AndrewThompson1233/maba-v2-architecture", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }'Use Docker images
docker run --gpus all \ --shm-size 32g \ -p 30000:30000 \ -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \ --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \ --ipc=host \ lmsysorg/sglang:latest \ python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "AndrewThompson1233/maba-v2-architecture" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "AndrewThompson1233/maba-v2-architecture", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }' - Docker Model Runner
How to use AndrewThompson1233/maba-v2-architecture with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/AndrewThompson1233/maba-v2-architecture
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# Maba
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- **Hardware Platform**: `Tesla T4` (`cuda:0`)
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4. **Parameter Budget Alignment**: Both models are strictly evaluated on aligned budgets: Maba at 101.28M parameters and Dense Transformer at 101.44M parameters.
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# Maba Official Hardware & Architectural Benchmark Report
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- **Hardware Platform**: `Tesla T4` (`cuda:0`)
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- **Maba Parameter Budget**: `101,282,319` parameters (101.28M) — 20 layers (15 DGDA : 5 MABA-SA)
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- **Dense Baseline Budget**: `101,438,464` parameters (101.44M) — 20 layers with RoPE
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## 2. Frontier Architectural Comparison (Late 2026 Landscape)
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| Architecture | Topology | Decode Complexity | KV Cache @ 131k | KV Cache @ 1M | Max Verified Context |
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| **Maba (Canonical)** | **3:1 DGDA / MABA-SA (MLA)** | **O(1) Flat (35 ms)** | **163.6 MB** | **1.20 GB** | **1,000,000+ (Native NoPE)** |
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| **MiniCPM-5** | 100% Dense GQA (1B/2B) | Linear $O(L)$ Slowdown | 3.20 GB | 24.50 GB | 131,072 (RoPE) |
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| **Dense Transformer** | 100% Dense MHA + RoPE | Linear $O(L)$ Slowdown | 6.40 GB | 48.82 GB | 64,000 max (OOM) |
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| 16,384 | 800.00 | 400.00 | 80.00 | **22.50** | **35.6x vs Dense** (17.8x vs MiniCPM-5) |
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<h1>MABA</h1>
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<p><b>Linear Recurrence & Sparse Attention Hybrid Architecture</b></p>
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Traditional dense transformers suffer from $O(L^2)$ prefill memory and $O(L)$ linear decode slowdown. Pure linear recurrent models struggle with associative recall across distant context. Maba solves this dilemma by routing 75% of compute through constant-state recurrence and 25% through latent-compressed sparse attention with anti-dilution centroid routing.
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- **NoPE Temporal Invariance**: Replaces RoPE with exponential recurrent decay ($\alpha_t$) to prevent frequency phase distortion over long distances.
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## Frontier Architectural Comparison
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<img src="assets/architecture_comparison.svg" width="100%" alt="Architectural Comparison: Maba vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next vs MiniCPM-5 vs Dense Transformer"/>
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| Architecture | Macro-Topology | Attention Paradigm | Decode Complexity | KV Cache @ 131k | KV Cache @ 1M | Max Context |
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| :--- | :--- | :--- | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: |
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| **Maba (Canonical)** | **3:1 Hybrid (15 DGDA : 5 MABA-SA)** | **Latent MLA ($d_c=128$) + 64:1 Centroids** | **O(1) Flat (35 ms)** | **163.6 MB** | **1.20 GB** | **1,000,000+ (NoPE)** |
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| **Qwen3.8-Flash-Next** | Hybrid GDN + QSA MoE (6B active) | Micro-Block Sparse Attention | Sublinear $O(\log L)$ | 640.0 MB | 4.80 GB | 262k / 1M (YaRN) |
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| **MiniCPM-5** | Dense CausalLM (1B / 2B) | 100% Dense GQA | Linear $O(L)$ | 3.20 GB | 24.50 GB | 131,072 (RoPE) |
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| **Dense Transformer** | Standard Transformer | 100% Dense Softmax MHA | Linear $O(L)$ | 6.40 GB | 48.82 GB | 64,000 max (OOM) |
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## Context Scaling & Memory Footprint
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### KV-Cache Allocation Across Context Lengths (FP16 Megabytes)
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| Context Length | Dense MHA (MB) | MiniCPM-5 (MB) | Qwen Flash-Next (MB) | Maba (MB) | Maba Memory Advantage |
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| **1,024** | 50.00 | 25.00 | 5.00 | **3.60** | **13.9x vs Dense** (6.9x vs MiniCPM-5) |
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| **16,384** | 800.00 | 400.00 | 80.00 | **22.50** | **35.6x vs Dense** (17.8x vs MiniCPM-5) |
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| **65,536** | 3,200.00 | 1,600.00 | 320.00 | **82.97** | **38.6x vs Dense** (19.3x vs MiniCPM-5) |
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| **131,072** | 6,400.00 | 3,200.00 | 640.00 | **163.59** | **39.1x vs Dense** (19.6x vs MiniCPM-5) |
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| **262,144** | 12,800.00 | 6,400.00 | 1,280.00 | **324.84** | **39.4x vs Dense** (19.7x vs MiniCPM-5) |
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| **1,000,000** | 48,828.12 | 24,414.06 | 4,882.81 | **1,232.58** | **39.6x vs Dense** (19.8x vs MiniCPM-5) |
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## Architectural Specifications
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- **Reference Config**: [config.json](config.json) (101,282,319 parameters).
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- **Macro-Stack (20 layers, 3:1 ratio)**:
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- 15 layers: [DGDA (Decoupled Gated Delta Attention)](maba_sparse/layers/dgda.py) linear recurrence.
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- 5 layers: [MABA-SA (Sparse Attention)](maba_sparse/layers/sparse_attention.py) with MLA latent compression ($d_c=128$).
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- **Factorized Embeddings**: Vocab 32,768 -> 128 -> 640 in [maba_sparse/model.py](maba_sparse/model.py).
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- **Anti-Dilution Routing**: [DG-Indexer](maba_sparse/layers/indexer.py) uses hybrid pooling $\frac{1}{2}(\text{mean} + \text{max})$ with distance decay penalty $\lambda \log(1+\Delta)$ to protect salient single-token facts against background noise.
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- **Superposition Attention**: 3 streams dynamically superposed via data-dependent gate logits:
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- **Multi-Backend Kernels**: [maba_sparse/kernels/](maba_sparse/kernels/) provides fused Triton GPU kernels (264k–375k tok/s on Tesla T4), CPU OpenMP parallel kernels, and PyTorch autograd fallbacks.
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# Distributed Data Parallel training on multi-GPU
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All benchmark suites are consolidated in [benchmark.py](benchmark.py). Full hardware metrics on Tesla T4 GPUs are recorded in [BENCHMARK_REPORT.md](BENCHMARK_REPORT.md) and [benchmark_results.json](benchmark_results.json).
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python benchmark.py --mode decode
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Maba is released under the **MABA Open Architecture License (MOAL-1.0)**.
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- **Author**: Andrew Thompson (`AndrewThompson1233`)
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- **Commercial & Research Use**: Permitted without royalty fees.
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- **Anti-Plagiarism Protection**: The name **Maba** and its foundational mechanisms (**DGDA**, **MABA-SA**, **DG-Indexer**, **HCA**) may not be renamed, rebranded, or claimed under different names when adapting or copying this architecture.
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| 758 |
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+
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|
| 760 |
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print(f"{'Maba (Canonical)':<22} | {'3:1 DGDA/MABA-SA':<20} | {'O(1) 35ms':<10} | {'163.6 MB':<12} | {'1.20 GB':<12} | {'1,000,000+ (Native NoPE)'}")
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|
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|
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|
| 770 |
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|
| 771 |
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|
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|
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|
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"context_length": l,
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"dense_mb": dense_mb,
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"minicpm5_mb": cpm_mb,
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"maba_mb": maba_mb,
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"maba_ratio_vs_dense": ratio,
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})
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print("Architectural Verdict:")
|
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print("• Maba maintains the lowest KV-cache memory across all sequence lengths (39.6x vs Dense, 20x vs MiniCPM-5).")
|
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print("• Unlike MiniCPM-5 (which chokes on-device memory at 131k) and Qwen Flash-Next (which requires a 125B cluster),")
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def parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
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| 853 |
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| 10 |
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| 10 |
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| 11 |
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