diff --git a/common/chat.cpp b/common/chat.cpp
index 6da59f4dbd2c..3062f92a5eae 100644
--- a/common/chat.cpp
+++ b/common/chat.cpp
@@ -2035,6 +2035,191 @@ static common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_deepseek_v3_2(const common_cha
return data;
}
+static common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_minimax_m3(const common_chat_template & tmpl,
+ const autoparser::generation_params & inputs) {
+ common_chat_params data;
+
+ data.prompt = common_chat_template_direct_apply_impl(tmpl, inputs);
+ data.generation_prompt = common_chat_template_generation_prompt_impl(tmpl, inputs);
+ data.format = COMMON_CHAT_FORMAT_PEG_NATIVE;
+ data.supports_thinking = true;
+ data.thinking_start_tag = "";
+ data.thinking_end_tag = "";
+
+ // M3 prefixes every tool tag with the namespace token "]<]minimax[>[";
+ // params use the parameter name as the tag (...).
+ const std::string NS = "]<]minimax[>[";
+ const std::string THINK_START = "";
+ const std::string THINK_END = "";
+ const std::string FC_START = NS + "";
+ const std::string FC_END = NS + "";
+ const std::string INVOKE_END = NS + "";
+
+ data.preserved_tokens = {
+ NS,
+ "",
+ "",
+ THINK_START,
+ THINK_END,
+ };
+
+ auto has_tools = inputs.tools.is_array() && !inputs.tools.empty();
+ auto has_response_format = !inputs.json_schema.is_null() && inputs.json_schema.is_object();
+ auto extract_reasoning = inputs.reasoning_format != COMMON_REASONING_FORMAT_NONE;
+ auto include_grammar = has_response_format || (has_tools && inputs.tool_choice != COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE);
+
+ const std::string GEN_PROMPT = data.generation_prompt;
+
+ if (inputs.has_continuation()) {
+ const auto & msg = inputs.continue_msg;
+
+ data.generation_prompt = GEN_PROMPT + THINK_START + msg.reasoning_content;
+ if (inputs.continue_final_message == COMMON_CHAT_CONTINUATION_CONTENT) {
+ data.generation_prompt += THINK_END + msg.render_content();
+ }
+
+ data.prompt += data.generation_prompt;
+ }
+
+ auto parser = build_chat_peg_parser([&](common_chat_peg_builder & p) {
+ auto generation_prompt = p.literal(GEN_PROMPT);
+ auto end = p.end();
+
+ auto reasoning = p.eps();
+ // M3 can emit a bare (no opener) after tool results; keep the opener optional.
+ if (extract_reasoning && inputs.enable_thinking) {
+ reasoning = p.optional(p.optional(p.literal(THINK_START)) + p.reasoning(p.until(THINK_END)) + THINK_END);
+ } else if (extract_reasoning) {
+ reasoning = p.optional(p.optional(p.literal(THINK_START)) + p.until(THINK_END) + p.literal(THINK_END));
+ }
+
+ if (has_response_format) {
+ auto response_format = p.rule("response-format",
+ p.literal("```json") + p.space() +
+ p.content(p.schema(p.json(), "response-format-schema", inputs.json_schema)) +
+ p.space() + p.literal("```"));
+ return generation_prompt + reasoning + response_format + end;
+ }
+
+ if (!has_tools || inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE) {
+ return generation_prompt + reasoning + p.content(p.rest()) + end;
+ }
+
+ auto tool_choice = p.choice();
+ foreach_function(inputs.tools, [&](const json & tool) {
+ const auto & function = tool.at("function");
+ std::string name = function.at("name");
+ auto params = function.contains("parameters") ? function.at("parameters") : json::object();
+ const auto & props = params.contains("properties") ? params.at("properties") : json::object();
+
+ std::set required;
+ if (params.contains("required")) {
+ params.at("required").get_to(required);
+ }
+
+ auto schema_info = common_schema_info();
+ schema_info.resolve_refs(params);
+
+ std::vector required_parsers;
+ std::vector optional_parsers;
+ for (const auto & [param_name, param_schema] : props.items()) {
+ bool is_required = required.find(param_name) != required.end();
+ bool is_string = schema_info.resolves_to_string(param_schema);
+
+ const std::string p_close = NS + "" + param_name + ">";
+
+ auto arg = p.tool_arg(
+ p.tool_arg_open(
+ p.literal(NS + "<") +
+ p.tool_arg_name(p.literal(param_name)) +
+ p.literal(">")) +
+ (is_string
+ ? p.ac(p.tool_arg_string_value(p.until(p_close)) +
+ p.tool_arg_close(p.literal(p_close)), p_close)
+ : p.tool_arg_json_value(p.schema(p.json(),
+ "tool-" + name + "-arg-" + param_name + "-schema",
+ param_schema, false)) +
+ p.tool_arg_close(p.literal(p_close))));
+
+ auto named_arg = p.rule("tool-" + name + "-arg-" + param_name, arg);
+ if (is_required) {
+ required_parsers.push_back(named_arg);
+ } else {
+ optional_parsers.push_back(named_arg);
+ }
+ }
+
+ common_peg_parser args_seq = p.eps();
+ for (size_t i = 0; i < required_parsers.size(); i++) {
+ if (i > 0) {
+ args_seq = args_seq + p.space();
+ }
+ args_seq = args_seq + required_parsers[i];
+ }
+
+ if (!optional_parsers.empty()) {
+ common_peg_parser any_opt = p.choice();
+ for (const auto & opt : optional_parsers) {
+ any_opt |= opt;
+ }
+ args_seq = args_seq + p.repeat(p.space() + any_opt, 0, -1);
+ }
+
+ common_peg_parser invoke_body = args_seq;
+ auto func_parser = p.tool(
+ p.tool_open(p.literal(NS + "")) +
+ p.space() + invoke_body + p.space() +
+ p.tool_close(p.literal(INVOKE_END)));
+
+ tool_choice |= p.rule("tool-" + name, func_parser);
+ });
+
+ auto require_tools = inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_REQUIRED;
+
+ common_peg_parser tool_calls = p.eps();
+ if (inputs.parallel_tool_calls) {
+ tool_calls = p.trigger_rule("tool-call",
+ p.literal(FC_START) + p.space() + tool_choice +
+ p.zero_or_more(p.space() + tool_choice) + p.space() + p.literal(FC_END));
+ } else {
+ tool_calls = p.trigger_rule("tool-call",
+ p.literal(FC_START) + p.space() + tool_choice + p.space() + p.literal(FC_END));
+ }
+
+ if (!require_tools) {
+ tool_calls = p.optional(tool_calls);
+ }
+
+ auto content_before_tools = p.content(p.until(FC_START));
+ return generation_prompt + reasoning + content_before_tools + tool_calls + end;
+ });
+
+ data.parser = parser.save();
+
+ if (include_grammar) {
+ data.grammar_lazy = !(has_response_format || (has_tools && inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_REQUIRED));
+ data.grammar = build_grammar([&](const common_grammar_builder & builder) {
+ foreach_function(inputs.tools, [&](const json & tool) {
+ const auto & function = tool.at("function");
+ auto schema = function.contains("parameters") ? function.at("parameters") : json::object();
+ builder.resolve_refs(schema);
+ });
+ if (has_response_format) {
+ auto schema = inputs.json_schema;
+ builder.resolve_refs(schema);
+ }
+ parser.build_grammar(builder, data.grammar_lazy);
+ });
+
+ data.grammar_triggers = {
+ { COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_WORD, FC_START },
+ };
+ }
+
+ return data;
+}
+
// Cohere2 MoE (a.k.a. "North Code") parser.
//
// The assistant turn is fully marker-wrapped:
@@ -2595,6 +2780,15 @@ std::optional common_chat_try_specialized_template(
return common_chat_params_init_gigachat_v3(tmpl, params);
}
+ // MiniMax-M3: the namespace token "]<]minimax[>[" collides with the autoparser's
+ // markup delimiters, so detect the template and use a dedicated parser.
+ if (src.find("]<]minimax[>[") != std::string::npos &&
+ src.find("") != std::string::npos &&
+ src.find(" tuple[str, Ca
or "projector." in name or "pre_mm_projector_norm" in name \
or "image_newline" in name or "view_seperator" in name \
or "patch_embed" in name or "patch_embedding" in name \
- or "patch_merger." in name or "model.connector." in name:
+ or "patch_merger." in name or "patch_merge_mlp" in name \
+ or "model.connector." in name:
return None
return super().filter_tensors(item)
@@ -1201,7 +1202,7 @@ def set_gguf_parameters(self):
self.gguf_writer.add_embedding_length(n_embd)
logger.info(f"gguf: embedding length = {n_embd}")
- if (n_ff := self.find_hparam(["prefix_dense_intermediate_size", "intermediate_size", "n_inner", "hidden_dim"], optional=True)) is not None:
+ if (n_ff := self.find_hparam(["prefix_dense_intermediate_size", "dense_intermediate_size", "intermediate_size", "n_inner", "hidden_dim"], optional=True)) is not None:
self.gguf_writer.add_feed_forward_length(n_ff)
logger.info(f"gguf: feed forward length = {n_ff}")
diff --git a/conversion/minimax.py b/conversion/minimax.py
index 4857775cbfb9..4f637f501b28 100644
--- a/conversion/minimax.py
+++ b/conversion/minimax.py
@@ -52,3 +52,67 @@ def modify_tensors(self, data_torch: Tensor, name: str, bid: int | None):
return
yield from super().modify_tensors(data_torch, name, bid)
+
+
+@ModelBase.register("MiniMaxM3SparseForCausalLM", "MiniMaxM3SparseForConditionalGeneration")
+class MiniMaxM3Model(TextModel):
+ # Text-only MiniMax-M3: MiniMax-M2 GQA + DeepSeek-V3 shared/leading-dense experts (swigluoai).
+ model_arch = gguf.MODEL_ARCH.MINIMAXM3
+ _experts_cache: dict[int, dict[str, Tensor]] = {}
+
+ def set_gguf_parameters(self):
+ # feed_forward_length comes from dense_intermediate_size (base); experts use intermediate_size.
+ super().set_gguf_parameters()
+
+ self.gguf_writer.add_expert_feed_forward_length(self.find_hparam(["intermediate_size"]))
+ self.gguf_writer.add_rope_dimension_count(self.find_hparam(["rotary_dim"]))
+ self.gguf_writer.add_expert_shared_count(self.find_hparam(["n_shared_experts"]))
+ self.gguf_writer.add_expert_weights_scale(self.find_hparam(["routed_scaling_factor"]))
+ self.gguf_writer.add_expert_weights_norm(True)
+
+ # leading dense layers: moe_layer_freq (ints) or mlp_layer_types (Transformers 5.12, strings)
+ moe_layer_freq = self.find_hparam(["moe_layer_freq", "mlp_layer_types"])
+ n_dense = 0
+ for v in moe_layer_freq:
+ if v == 0 or v == "dense":
+ n_dense += 1
+ else:
+ break
+ self.gguf_writer.add_leading_dense_block_count(n_dense)
+
+ def modify_tensors(self, data_torch: Tensor, name: str, bid: int | None):
+ # index_* (sparse-attn indexer) tensors are preserved but unused; the loader skips them
+ if name.startswith("language_model."):
+ name = name[len("language_model."):]
+
+ # Gemma-style (1+w) RMSNorm: bake +1 in so llama.cpp can use plain RMSNorm
+ if name.endswith("norm.weight"):
+ data_torch = data_torch + 1.0
+
+ # merge routed experts (w1/w2/w3); shared_experts.* passes through to *_shexp
+ if "block_sparse_moe.experts." in name:
+ n_experts = self.find_hparam(["num_local_experts", "num_experts"])
+ assert bid is not None
+
+ expert_cache = self._experts_cache.setdefault(bid, {})
+ expert_cache[name] = data_torch
+ expert_weights = ["w1", "w2", "w3"]
+
+ if len(expert_cache) < n_experts * len(expert_weights):
+ return
+
+ for w_name in expert_weights:
+ datas: list[Tensor] = []
+ for xid in range(n_experts):
+ ename = f"model.layers.{bid}.block_sparse_moe.experts.{xid}.{w_name}.weight"
+ datas.append(expert_cache[ename])
+ del expert_cache[ename]
+
+ data_torch = torch.stack(datas, dim=0)
+ merged_name = f"model.layers.{bid}.block_sparse_moe.experts.{w_name}.weight"
+ yield from super().modify_tensors(data_torch, merged_name, bid)
+
+ del self._experts_cache[bid]
+ return
+
+ yield from super().modify_tensors(data_torch, name, bid)
diff --git a/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py b/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
index cd4cdef8991f..f688e27788b7 100644
--- a/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
+++ b/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
@@ -525,6 +525,7 @@ class MODEL_ARCH(IntEnum):
APERTUS = auto()
COGVLM = auto()
MINIMAXM2 = auto()
+ MINIMAXM3 = auto()
RND1 = auto()
PANGU_EMBED = auto()
MISTRAL3 = auto()
@@ -613,6 +614,10 @@ class MODEL_TENSOR(IntEnum):
MOE_LATENT_UP = auto() # nemotron 3 super
ATTN_Q_NORM = auto()
ATTN_K_NORM = auto()
+ ATTN_INDEX_Q = auto() # minimax-m3 sparse-attn indexer (unused)
+ ATTN_INDEX_K = auto()
+ ATTN_INDEX_Q_NORM = auto()
+ ATTN_INDEX_K_NORM = auto()
LAYER_OUT_NORM = auto()
LAYER_OUT_SCALE = auto()
PER_LAYER_TOKEN_EMBD = auto() # gemma3n
@@ -1105,6 +1110,7 @@ class MODEL_TENSOR(IntEnum):
MODEL_ARCH.GROVEMOE: "grovemoe",
MODEL_ARCH.APERTUS: "apertus",
MODEL_ARCH.MINIMAXM2: "minimax-m2",
+ MODEL_ARCH.MINIMAXM3: "minimax-m3",
MODEL_ARCH.COGVLM: "cogvlm",
MODEL_ARCH.RND1: "rnd1",
MODEL_ARCH.PANGU_EMBED: "pangu-embedded",
@@ -1163,6 +1169,10 @@ class MODEL_TENSOR(IntEnum):
MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_GATE: "blk.{bid}.attn_gate",
MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_Q_NORM: "blk.{bid}.attn_q_norm",
MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_K_NORM: "blk.{bid}.attn_k_norm",
+ MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_INDEX_Q: "blk.{bid}.attn_index_q",
+ MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_INDEX_K: "blk.{bid}.attn_index_k",
+ MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_INDEX_Q_NORM: "blk.{bid}.attn_index_q_norm",
+ MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_INDEX_K_NORM: "blk.{bid}.attn_index_k_norm",
MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_OUT_NORM: "blk.{bid}.attn_output_norm",
MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_POST_NORM: "blk.{bid}.post_attention_norm",
MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_GATE_INP: "blk.{bid}.ffn_gate_inp",
@@ -4102,6 +4112,30 @@ class MODEL_TENSOR(IntEnum):
MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_UP_EXP,
MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_EXP_PROBS_B,
],
+ MODEL_ARCH.MINIMAXM3: [
+ MODEL_TENSOR.TOKEN_EMBD,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.OUTPUT_NORM,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.OUTPUT,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_NORM,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_Q,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_Q_NORM,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_K,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_K_NORM,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_V,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_OUT,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_NORM,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_GATE_INP,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_EXP_PROBS_B,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_GATE_EXP,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_DOWN_EXP,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_UP_EXP,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_GATE_SHEXP,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_DOWN_SHEXP,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_UP_SHEXP,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_GATE,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_DOWN,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_UP,
+ ],
MODEL_ARCH.COGVLM: [
MODEL_TENSOR.TOKEN_EMBD,
MODEL_TENSOR.OUTPUT_NORM,
@@ -4128,6 +4162,10 @@ class MODEL_TENSOR(IntEnum):
MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_Q_NORM,
MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_K,
MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_K_NORM,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_INDEX_Q,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_INDEX_K,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_INDEX_Q_NORM,
+ MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_INDEX_K_NORM,
MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_V,
MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_OUT,
MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_NORM,
diff --git a/gguf-py/gguf/tensor_mapping.py b/gguf-py/gguf/tensor_mapping.py
index 9efb36f8a447..a62040ba1f85 100644
--- a/gguf-py/gguf/tensor_mapping.py
+++ b/gguf-py/gguf/tensor_mapping.py
@@ -717,6 +717,22 @@ class TensorNameMap:
"model.layers.{bid}.attention.key_layernorm", # apertus
),
+ MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_INDEX_Q: (
+ "model.layers.{bid}.self_attn.index_q_proj", # minimax-m3 (sparse-attn indexer)
+ ),
+
+ MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_INDEX_K: (
+ "model.layers.{bid}.self_attn.index_k_proj", # minimax-m3
+ ),
+
+ MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_INDEX_Q_NORM: (
+ "model.layers.{bid}.self_attn.index_q_norm", # minimax-m3
+ ),
+
+ MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_INDEX_K_NORM: (
+ "model.layers.{bid}.self_attn.index_k_norm", # minimax-m3
+ ),
+
MODEL_TENSOR.ROPE_FREQS: (
"encoder.layers.{bid}.self_attention.rotary_emb.inv_freq", # persimmon
),
diff --git a/src/llama-arch.cpp b/src/llama-arch.cpp
index b890e66fcf6e..cb8bfc80d258 100644
--- a/src/llama-arch.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-arch.cpp
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ static const std::map LLM_ARCH_NAMES = {
{ LLM_ARCH_GROVEMOE, "grovemoe" },
{ LLM_ARCH_APERTUS, "apertus" },
{ LLM_ARCH_MINIMAX_M2, "minimax-m2" },
+ { LLM_ARCH_MINIMAX_M3, "minimax-m3" },
{ LLM_ARCH_COGVLM, "cogvlm" },
{ LLM_ARCH_RND1, "rnd1" },
{ LLM_ARCH_PANGU_EMBED, "pangu-embedded" },
@@ -395,6 +396,10 @@ static const std::map LLM_TENSOR_NAMES = {
{ LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_POST_NORM, "blk.%d.post_attention_norm" },
{ LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_Q_NORM, "blk.%d.attn_q_norm" },
{ LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_K_NORM, "blk.%d.attn_k_norm" },
+ { LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_INDEX_Q, "blk.%d.attn_index_q" },
+ { LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_INDEX_K, "blk.%d.attn_index_k" },
+ { LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_INDEX_Q_NORM, "blk.%d.attn_index_q_norm" },
+ { LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_INDEX_K_NORM, "blk.%d.attn_index_k_norm" },
{ LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_GATE, "blk.%d.attn_gate" },
{ LLM_TENSOR_FFN_POST_NORM, "blk.%d.post_ffw_norm" },
{ LLM_TENSOR_FFN_POST_NORM_1, "blk.%d.post_ffw_norm_1" },
@@ -761,6 +766,11 @@ static const std::map LLM_TENSOR_INFOS = {
{LLM_TENSOR_FFN_NORM_EXPS, {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_MUL}},
{LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_Q_NORM, {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_MUL}},
{LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_K_NORM, {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_MUL}},
+ // minimax-m3 sparse-attn indexer: unused (GGML_OP_NONE) so the loader skips it
+ {LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_INDEX_Q, {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_NONE}},
+ {LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_INDEX_K, {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_NONE}},
+ {LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_INDEX_Q_NORM, {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_NONE}},
+ {LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_INDEX_K_NORM, {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_NONE}},
{LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_OUT_NORM, {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_MUL}},
{LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_OUT_SCALE, {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_MUL}},
{LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_Q_A_NORM, {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_MUL}},
@@ -998,6 +1008,7 @@ bool llm_arch_supports_sm_tensor(const llm_arch & arch) {
case LLM_ARCH_LFM2:
case LLM_ARCH_LFM2MOE:
case LLM_ARCH_MINIMAX_M2:
+ case LLM_ARCH_MINIMAX_M3:
case LLM_ARCH_MISTRAL4:
case LLM_ARCH_KIMI_LINEAR:
return false;
diff --git a/src/llama-arch.h b/src/llama-arch.h
index a4f5091e7170..2d50ead9cec1 100644
--- a/src/llama-arch.h
+++ b/src/llama-arch.h
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ enum llm_arch {
LLM_ARCH_TALKIE,
LLM_ARCH_MELLUM,
LLM_ARCH_EAGLE3,
+ LLM_ARCH_MINIMAX_M3,
LLM_ARCH_DFLASH,
LLM_ARCH_UNKNOWN,
};
@@ -429,6 +430,10 @@ enum llm_tensor {
LLM_TENSOR_FFN_LATENT_UP,
LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_Q_NORM,
LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_K_NORM,
+ LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_INDEX_Q, // minimax-m3 sparse-attn indexer (unused)
+ LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_INDEX_K,
+ LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_INDEX_Q_NORM,
+ LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_INDEX_K_NORM,
LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_OUT_NORM,
LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_OUT_SCALE,
LLM_TENSOR_POST_ATTN_NORM,
diff --git a/src/llama-graph.cpp b/src/llama-graph.cpp
index 4c86e43c1f74..25a94f3f48d0 100644
--- a/src/llama-graph.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-graph.cpp
@@ -1710,6 +1710,16 @@ ggml_tensor * llm_graph_context::build_ffn(
cur = ggml_reglu(ctx0, cur);
cb(cur, "ffn_reglu", il);
} break;
+ case LLM_FFN_SWIGLU_OAI:
+ {
+ // clamped SwiGLU: parallel gate path (cur=gate, tmp=up)
+ GGML_ASSERT(gate && type_gate == LLM_FFN_PAR);
+ constexpr float alpha = 1.702f;
+ constexpr float limit = 7.0f;
+ cur = ggml_swiglu_oai(ctx0, cur, tmp, alpha, limit);
+ cb(cur, "ffn_swiglu_oai", il);
+ type_gate = LLM_FFN_SEQ; // gate*up already fused; skip the par multiply
+ } break;
default:
GGML_ABORT("fatal error");
}
diff --git a/src/llama-graph.h b/src/llama-graph.h
index 4b5b75c632ab..132948405e22 100644
--- a/src/llama-graph.h
+++ b/src/llama-graph.h
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ enum llm_ffn_op_type : int {
LLM_FFN_SWIGLU,
LLM_FFN_GEGLU,
LLM_FFN_REGLU,
+ LLM_FFN_SWIGLU_OAI,
LLM_FFN_SWIGLU_OAI_MOE,
};
diff --git a/src/llama-model.cpp b/src/llama-model.cpp
index e07f6e986363..c372983bed93 100644
--- a/src/llama-model.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-model.cpp
@@ -280,6 +280,8 @@ static llama_model * llama_model_mapping(llm_arch arch, const llama_model_params
return new llama_model_apertus(params);
case LLM_ARCH_MINIMAX_M2:
return new llama_model_minimax_m2(params);
+ case LLM_ARCH_MINIMAX_M3:
+ return new llama_model_minimax_m3(params);
case LLM_ARCH_COGVLM:
return new llama_model_cogvlm(params);
case LLM_ARCH_PANGU_EMBED:
@@ -808,6 +810,7 @@ const char * llm_type_name(llm_type type) {
case LLM_TYPE_310B_A15B: return "310B.A15B";
case LLM_TYPE_355B_A32B: return "355B.A32B";
case LLM_TYPE_397B_A17B: return "397B.A17B";
+ case LLM_TYPE_428B_A23B: return "428B.A23B";
case LLM_TYPE_685B_A37B: return "685B.A37B";
case LLM_TYPE_744B_A40B: return "744B.A40B";
case LLM_TYPE_E2B: return "E2B";
@@ -2523,6 +2526,7 @@ llama_rope_type llama_model_rope_type(const llama_model * model) {
case LLM_ARCH_GROVEMOE:
case LLM_ARCH_APERTUS:
case LLM_ARCH_MINIMAX_M2:
+ case LLM_ARCH_MINIMAX_M3:
case LLM_ARCH_COGVLM:
case LLM_ARCH_PANGU_EMBED:
case LLM_ARCH_AFMOE:
diff --git a/src/llama-model.h b/src/llama-model.h
index 45b054cedf1d..540e0d21fbb0 100644
--- a/src/llama-model.h
+++ b/src/llama-model.h
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ enum llm_type {
LLM_TYPE_310B_A15B, // /MiMo-V2-Flash
LLM_TYPE_355B_A32B, // GLM-4.5
LLM_TYPE_397B_A17B, // Qwen3.5
+ LLM_TYPE_428B_A23B, // MiniMax M3
LLM_TYPE_685B_A37B, // DeepSeek V3.2
LLM_TYPE_744B_A40B, // GLM-5
LLM_TYPE_E2B,
diff --git a/src/models/minimax-m3.cpp b/src/models/minimax-m3.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..137852aaa77d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/models/minimax-m3.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+#include "models.h"
+
+// MiniMax-M3, text-only: MiniMax-M2 GQA (per-head QK-norm, partial rotary) + DeepSeek-V3
+// leading-dense/routed/shared experts (swigluoai). Sparse attn -> dense; vision + MTP dropped.
+
+void llama_model_minimax_m3::load_arch_hparams(llama_model_loader & ml) {
+ ml.get_key(LLM_KV_ATTENTION_LAYERNORM_RMS_EPS, hparams.f_norm_rms_eps);
+ ml.get_key(LLM_KV_LEADING_DENSE_BLOCK_COUNT, hparams.n_layer_dense_lead, false);
+ ml.get_key(LLM_KV_EXPERT_FEED_FORWARD_LENGTH, hparams.n_ff_exp);
+ ml.get_key(LLM_KV_EXPERT_SHARED_COUNT, hparams.n_expert_shared);
+ ml.get_key(LLM_KV_EXPERT_WEIGHTS_SCALE, hparams.expert_weights_scale, false);
+ ml.get_key(LLM_KV_EXPERT_WEIGHTS_NORM, hparams.expert_weights_norm, false);
+ ml.get_key(LLM_KV_EXPERT_GATING_FUNC, hparams.expert_gating_func);
+
+ switch (hparams.n_layer()) {
+ case 60: type = LLM_TYPE_428B_A23B; break;
+ default: type = LLM_TYPE_UNKNOWN;
+ }
+}
+
+void llama_model_minimax_m3::load_arch_tensors(llama_model_loader &) {
+ LLAMA_LOAD_LOCALS;
+ const int64_t n_expert_shared = hparams.n_expert_shared;
+ const int64_t n_ff_exp = hparams.n_ff_exp;
+
+ tok_embd = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_TOKEN_EMBD, "weight"), {n_embd, n_vocab}, 0);
+
+ output_norm = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_OUTPUT_NORM, "weight"), {n_embd}, 0);
+ output = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_OUTPUT, "weight"), {n_embd, n_vocab}, 0);
+
+ for (int i = 0; i < n_layer; ++i) {
+ auto & layer = layers[i];
+
+ create_tensor_qkv(layer, i, n_embd, n_embd_head_k * n_head, n_embd_gqa, n_embd_gqa, 0);
+ layer.wo = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_OUT, "weight", i), { n_embd_head_k * n_head, n_embd }, 0);
+
+ layer.attn_norm = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_NORM, "weight", i), {n_embd}, 0);
+ // per-head QK-norm (one head_dim vector)
+ layer.attn_q_norm = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_Q_NORM, "weight", i), {n_embd_head_k}, 0);
+ layer.attn_k_norm = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_K_NORM, "weight", i), {n_embd_head_k}, 0);
+
+ // sparse-attn indexer (unused): GGML_OP_NONE -> loader skips; NOT_REQUIRED -> older GGUFs still load;
+ // SKIP_IF_VIRTUAL -> no-file loader (test-llama-archs) skips them too
+ const int64_t n_index_head = 4; // sparse_num_index_heads
+ const int64_t d_index = 128; // sparse_index_dim
+ const int idx_flags = TENSOR_NOT_REQUIRED | TENSOR_SKIP_IF_VIRTUAL;
+ create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_INDEX_Q, "weight", i), {n_embd, n_index_head * d_index}, idx_flags);
+ create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_INDEX_K, "weight", i), {n_embd, d_index}, idx_flags);
+ create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_INDEX_Q_NORM, "weight", i), {d_index}, idx_flags);
+ create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_INDEX_K_NORM, "weight", i), {d_index}, idx_flags);
+
+ layer.ffn_norm = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_NORM, "weight", i), {n_embd}, 0);
+
+ if (i < (int) hparams.n_layer_dense_lead) {
+ layer.ffn_gate = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_GATE, "weight", i), {n_embd, n_ff}, 0);
+ layer.ffn_down = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_DOWN, "weight", i), { n_ff, n_embd}, 0);
+ layer.ffn_up = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_UP, "weight", i), {n_embd, n_ff}, 0);
+ } else {
+ layer.ffn_gate_inp = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_GATE_INP, "weight", i), {n_embd, n_expert}, 0);
+ layer.ffn_exp_probs_b = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_EXP_PROBS_B, "bias", i), {n_expert}, 0);
+ layer.ffn_gate_exps = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_GATE_EXPS, "weight", i), {n_embd, n_ff_exp, n_expert}, 0);
+ layer.ffn_down_exps = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_DOWN_EXPS, "weight", i), {n_ff_exp, n_embd, n_expert}, 0);
+ layer.ffn_up_exps = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_UP_EXPS, "weight", i), {n_embd, n_ff_exp, n_expert}, 0);
+
+ layer.ffn_gate_shexp = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_GATE_SHEXP, "weight", i), {n_embd, n_ff_exp * n_expert_shared}, 0);
+ layer.ffn_down_shexp = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_DOWN_SHEXP, "weight", i), { n_ff_exp * n_expert_shared, n_embd}, 0);
+ layer.ffn_up_shexp = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_UP_SHEXP, "weight", i), {n_embd, n_ff_exp * n_expert_shared}, 0);
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+std::unique_ptr llama_model_minimax_m3::build_arch_graph(const llm_graph_params & params) const {
+ return std::make_unique(*this, params);
+}
+
+llama_model_minimax_m3::graph::graph(const llama_model & model, const llm_graph_params & params) : llm_graph_context(params) {
+ const int64_t n_embd_head = hparams.n_embd_head_v();
+
+ GGML_ASSERT(n_embd_head == hparams.n_embd_head_k());
+ // partial rotary: head_dim != n_rot, so don't assert n_embd_head == n_rot
+
+ ggml_tensor * cur;
+ ggml_tensor * inpL;
+
+ inpL = build_inp_embd(model.tok_embd);
+
+ ggml_tensor * inp_pos = build_inp_pos();
+ auto inp_attn = build_attn_inp_kv();
+ ggml_tensor * inp_out_ids = build_inp_out_ids();
+
+ for (int il = 0; il < n_layer; ++il) {
+ ggml_tensor * inpSA = inpL;
+
+ // self-attention
+ {
+ cur = build_norm(inpL, model.layers[il].attn_norm, NULL, LLM_NORM_RMS, il);
+ cb(cur, "attn_norm", il);
+
+ auto [Qcur, Kcur, Vcur] = build_qkv(model.layers[il], cur,
+ n_embd_head, n_head, n_head_kv, il);
+
+ // per-head QK RMSNorm (weights include Gemma +1)
+ Qcur = build_norm(Qcur, model.layers[il].attn_q_norm, NULL, LLM_NORM_RMS, il);
+ cb(Qcur, "Qcur_normed", il);
+ Kcur = build_norm(Kcur, model.layers[il].attn_k_norm, NULL, LLM_NORM_RMS, il);
+ cb(Kcur, "Kcur_normed", il);
+
+ Qcur = ggml_rope_ext(
+ ctx0, Qcur, inp_pos, nullptr,
+ n_rot, rope_type, n_ctx_orig, freq_base, freq_scale,
+ ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow
+ );
+ Kcur = ggml_rope_ext(
+ ctx0, Kcur, inp_pos, nullptr,
+ n_rot, rope_type, n_ctx_orig, freq_base, freq_scale,
+ ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow
+ );
+
+ cb(Qcur, "Qcur", il);
+ cb(Kcur, "Kcur", il);
+ cb(Vcur, "Vcur", il);
+
+ cur = build_attn(inp_attn,
+ model.layers[il].wo, NULL, model.layers[il].wo_s,
+ Qcur, Kcur, Vcur, nullptr, nullptr, nullptr, 1.0f/sqrtf(float(n_embd_head)), il);
+ }
+
+ if (il == n_layer - 1 && inp_out_ids) {
+ cur = ggml_get_rows(ctx0, cur, inp_out_ids);
+ inpSA = ggml_get_rows(ctx0, inpSA, inp_out_ids);
+ }
+
+ ggml_tensor * ffn_inp = ggml_add(ctx0, cur, inpSA);
+ cb(ffn_inp, "ffn_inp", il);
+
+ cur = build_norm(ffn_inp, model.layers[il].ffn_norm, NULL, LLM_NORM_RMS, il);
+ cb(cur, "ffn_norm", il);
+
+ if ((uint32_t) il < hparams.n_layer_dense_lead) {
+ // leading dense
+ cur = build_ffn(cur,
+ model.layers[il].ffn_up, NULL, NULL,
+ model.layers[il].ffn_gate, NULL, NULL,
+ model.layers[il].ffn_down, NULL, NULL,
+ NULL,
+ LLM_FFN_SWIGLU_OAI, LLM_FFN_PAR, il);
+ cb(cur, "ffn_out", il);
+ } else {
+ // routed experts
+ ggml_tensor * moe_out = build_moe_ffn(cur,
+ model.layers[il].ffn_gate_inp,
+ model.layers[il].ffn_up_exps,
+ model.layers[il].ffn_gate_exps,
+ model.layers[il].ffn_down_exps,
+ model.layers[il].ffn_exp_probs_b,
+ n_expert, n_expert_used,
+ LLM_FFN_SWIGLU_OAI_MOE, hparams.expert_weights_norm,
+ hparams.expert_weights_scale,
+ (llama_expert_gating_func_type) hparams.expert_gating_func,
+ il);
+ cb(moe_out, "ffn_moe_out", il);
+
+ // shared expert
+ ggml_tensor * ffn_shexp = build_ffn(cur,
+ model.layers[il].ffn_up_shexp, NULL, NULL,
+ model.layers[il].ffn_gate_shexp, NULL, NULL,
+ model.layers[il].ffn_down_shexp, NULL, NULL,
+ NULL,
+ LLM_FFN_SWIGLU_OAI, LLM_FFN_PAR, il);
+ cb(ffn_shexp, "ffn_shexp", il);
+
+ cur = ggml_add(ctx0, moe_out, ffn_shexp);
+ cb(cur, "ffn_out", il);
+ }
+
+ cur = ggml_add(ctx0, cur, ffn_inp);
+
+ cur = build_cvec(cur, il);
+ cb(cur, "l_out", il);
+
+ // input for next layer
+ inpL = cur;
+ }
+
+ cur = inpL;
+
+ cur = build_norm(cur, model.output_norm, NULL, LLM_NORM_RMS, -1);
+ cb(cur, "result_norm", -1);
+ res->t_embd = cur;
+
+ // lm_head
+ cur = build_lora_mm(model.output, cur, model.output_s);
+ cb(cur, "result_output", -1);
+ res->t_logits = cur;
+
+ ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, cur);
+}
diff --git a/src/models/models.h b/src/models/models.h
index 7a52e7bc1ab7..5e2a826706dd 100644
--- a/src/models/models.h
+++ b/src/models/models.h
@@ -1870,6 +1870,17 @@ struct llama_model_minimax_m2 : public llama_model_base {
std::unique_ptr build_arch_graph(const llm_graph_params & params) const override;
};
+struct llama_model_minimax_m3 : public llama_model_base {
+ llama_model_minimax_m3(const struct llama_model_params & params) : llama_model_base(params) {}
+ void load_arch_hparams(llama_model_loader & ml) override;
+ void load_arch_tensors(llama_model_loader & ml) override;
+
+ struct graph : public llm_graph_context {
+ graph(const llama_model & model, const llm_graph_params & params);
+ };
+
+ std::unique_ptr build_arch_graph(const llm_graph_params & params) const override;
+};
struct llama_model_cogvlm : public llama_model_base {
llama_model_cogvlm(const struct llama_model_params & params) : llama_model_base(params) {}
diff --git a/tests/test-llama-archs.cpp b/tests/test-llama-archs.cpp
index f39abe773fc6..2085f43fdec8 100644
--- a/tests/test-llama-archs.cpp
+++ b/tests/test-llama-archs.cpp
@@ -352,6 +352,7 @@ static bool moe_mandatory(const llm_arch arch) {
case LLM_ARCH_LLADA_MOE:
case LLM_ARCH_GROVEMOE:
case LLM_ARCH_MINIMAX_M2:
+ case LLM_ARCH_MINIMAX_M3:
case LLM_ARCH_RND1:
case LLM_ARCH_PADDLEOCR:
case LLM_ARCH_MIMO2: