Add MiniMax-M3 (MSA: MiniMax Sparse Attention) support

conversion/__init__.py

@@ -155,6 +155,8 @@
     "MiniCPMForCausalLM": "minicpm",
     "MiniCPMV4_6ForConditionalGeneration": "minicpm",
     "MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM": "minimax",
+    "MiniMaxM3SparseForCausalLM": "minimax",
+    "MiniMaxM3SparseForConditionalGeneration": "minimax",
     "Ministral3ForCausalLM": "mistral3",
     "Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration": "mistral3",
     "MistralForCausalLM": "llama",

conversion/base.py

@@ -1154,7 +1154,7 @@ def filter_tensors(cls, item: tuple[str, Callable[[], Tensor]]) -> 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 +1201,7 @@ 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}")
 

conversion/minimax.py

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ def set_gguf_parameters(self):
 
     def modify_tensors(self, data_torch: Tensor, name: str, bid: int | None):
         # merge expert weights
-        if 'experts' in name:
+        if "block_sparse_moe.experts." in name:
             n_experts = self.find_hparam(["num_local_experts", "num_experts"])
             assert bid is not None
 
@@ -52,3 +52,37 @@ 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(MiniMaxM2Model):
+    model_arch = gguf.MODEL_ARCH.MINIMAXM3
+    def set_gguf_parameters(self):
+        super().set_gguf_parameters()
+
+        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)
+
+        sac = self.find_hparam(["sparse_attention_config"])
+        self.gguf_writer.add_indexer_head_count(sac["sparse_num_index_heads"])
+        self.gguf_writer.add_indexer_key_length(sac["sparse_index_dim"])
+        self.gguf_writer.add_indexer_top_k(sac["sparse_topk_blocks"])
+        self.gguf_writer.add_indexer_block_size(sac["sparse_block_size"])
+        self.gguf_writer.add_indexer_local_blocks(sac["sparse_local_block"])
+
+        moe_layer_freq = self.find_hparam(["moe_layer_freq"])
+        n_dense = 0
+        for v in moe_layer_freq:
+            if v == 0:
+                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):
+        # Gemma-style (1 + w) RMSNorm: bake the +1 in so llama.cpp can use plain RMSNorm
+        if name.endswith("norm.weight"):
+            data_torch = data_torch + 1.0
+
+        yield from super().modify_tensors(data_torch, name, bid)

gguf-py/gguf/constants.py

@@ -200,6 +200,8 @@ class Indexer:
             HEAD_COUNT = "{arch}.attention.indexer.head_count"
             KEY_LENGTH = "{arch}.attention.indexer.key_length"
             TOP_K      = "{arch}.attention.indexer.top_k"
+            BLOCK_SIZE   = "{arch}.attention.indexer.block_size"    #MSA
+            LOCAL_BLOCKS = "{arch}.attention.indexer.local_blocks"  #MSA
 
     class HyperConnection:
         COUNT                = "{arch}.hyper_connection.count"
@@ -525,6 +527,7 @@ class MODEL_ARCH(IntEnum):
     APERTUS          = auto()
     COGVLM           = auto()
     MINIMAXM2        = auto()
+    MINIMAXM3        = auto()
     RND1             = auto()
     PANGU_EMBED      = auto()
     MISTRAL3         = auto()
@@ -771,6 +774,9 @@ class MODEL_TENSOR(IntEnum):
     INDEXER_PROJ         = auto()
     INDEXER_ATTN_K       = auto()
     INDEXER_ATTN_Q_B     = auto()
+    INDEXER_Q_PROJ       = auto()
+    INDEXER_K_PROJ       = auto()
+    INDEXER_Q_NORM       = auto()
     INDEXER_COMPRESSOR_WKV = auto()
     INDEXER_COMPRESSOR_WGATE = auto()
     INDEXER_COMPRESSOR_APE = auto()
@@ -1105,6 +1111,7 @@ 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",
@@ -1350,6 +1357,9 @@ class MODEL_TENSOR(IntEnum):
     MODEL_TENSOR.INDEXER_PROJ:              "blk.{bid}.indexer.proj",
     MODEL_TENSOR.INDEXER_ATTN_K:            "blk.{bid}.indexer.attn_k",
     MODEL_TENSOR.INDEXER_ATTN_Q_B:          "blk.{bid}.indexer.attn_q_b",
+    MODEL_TENSOR.INDEXER_Q_PROJ:            "blk.{bid}.indexer.q_proj",
+    MODEL_TENSOR.INDEXER_K_PROJ:            "blk.{bid}.indexer.k_proj",
+    MODEL_TENSOR.INDEXER_Q_NORM:            "blk.{bid}.indexer.q_norm",
     MODEL_TENSOR.INDEXER_COMPRESSOR_WKV:    "blk.{bid}.indexer_compressor_kv",
     MODEL_TENSOR.INDEXER_COMPRESSOR_WGATE:  "blk.{bid}.indexer_compressor_gate",
     MODEL_TENSOR.INDEXER_COMPRESSOR_APE:    "blk.{bid}.indexer_compressor_ape",
@@ -4102,6 +4112,34 @@ 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_TENSOR.INDEXER_Q_PROJ,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.INDEXER_K_PROJ,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.INDEXER_Q_NORM,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.INDEXER_K_NORM,
+    ],
     MODEL_ARCH.COGVLM: [
         MODEL_TENSOR.TOKEN_EMBD,
         MODEL_TENSOR.OUTPUT_NORM,

gguf-py/gguf/gguf_writer.py

@@ -793,6 +793,12 @@ def add_indexer_key_length(self, length: int) -> None:
     def add_indexer_top_k(self, top_k: int) -> None:
         self.add_uint32(Keys.Attention.Indexer.TOP_K.format(arch=self.arch), top_k)
 
+    def add_indexer_block_size(self, block_size: int) -> None:
+        self.add_uint32(Keys.Attention.Indexer.BLOCK_SIZE.format(arch=self.arch), block_size)
+
+    def add_indexer_local_blocks(self, local_blocks: int) -> None:
+        self.add_uint32(Keys.Attention.Indexer.LOCAL_BLOCKS.format(arch=self.arch), local_blocks)
+
     def add_max_alibi_bias(self, bias: float) -> None:
         self.add_float32(Keys.Attention.MAX_ALIBI_BIAS.format(arch=self.arch), bias)
 

gguf-py/gguf/tensor_mapping.py

@@ -1263,7 +1263,8 @@ class TensorNameMap:
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.INDEXER_K_NORM: (
-            "model.layers.{bid}.self_attn.indexer.k_norm", # DSA
+            "model.layers.{bid}.self_attn.indexer.k_norm",  # DSA
+            "model.layers.{bid}.self_attn.index_k_norm",    # MSA
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.INDEXER_PROJ: (
@@ -1278,6 +1279,18 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "model.layers.{bid}.self_attn.indexer.wq_b", # DSA
         ),
 
+        MODEL_TENSOR.INDEXER_Q_PROJ: (
+            "model.layers.{bid}.self_attn.index_q_proj", # MSA
+        ),
+
+        MODEL_TENSOR.INDEXER_K_PROJ: (
+            "model.layers.{bid}.self_attn.index_k_proj", # MSA
+        ),
+
+        MODEL_TENSOR.INDEXER_Q_NORM: (
+            "model.layers.{bid}.self_attn.index_q_norm", # MSA
+        ),
+
         ############################################################################
         # TODO: these do not belong to block_mappings_cfg - move them to mappings_cfg
         MODEL_TENSOR.ENC_OUTPUT_NORM: (

src/llama-arch.cpp

@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ static const std::map<llm_arch, const char *> 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"   },
@@ -251,6 +252,8 @@ static const std::map<llm_kv, const char *> LLM_KV_NAMES = {
     { LLM_KV_ATTENTION_INDEXER_HEAD_COUNT,           "%s.attention.indexer.head_count"           },
     { LLM_KV_ATTENTION_INDEXER_KEY_LENGTH,           "%s.attention.indexer.key_length"           },
     { LLM_KV_ATTENTION_INDEXER_TOP_K,                "%s.attention.indexer.top_k"                },
+    { LLM_KV_ATTENTION_INDEXER_BLOCK_SIZE,           "%s.attention.indexer.block_size"           },
+    { LLM_KV_ATTENTION_INDEXER_LOCAL_BLOCKS,         "%s.attention.indexer.local_blocks"         },
     { LLM_KV_ATTENTION_OUTPUT_GROUP_COUNT,           "%s.attention.output_group_count"           },
     { LLM_KV_ATTENTION_OUTPUT_LORA_RANK,             "%s.attention.output_lora_rank"             },
     { LLM_KV_ATTENTION_COMPRESS_ROPE_FREQ_BASE,      "%s.attention.compress_rope_freq_base"      },
@@ -594,6 +597,9 @@ static const std::map<llm_tensor, const char *> LLM_TENSOR_NAMES = {
     { LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_PROJ,                           "blk.%d.indexer.proj" },
     { LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_ATTN_K,                         "blk.%d.indexer.attn_k" },
     { LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_ATTN_Q_B,                       "blk.%d.indexer.attn_q_b" },
+    { LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_Q_PROJ,                         "blk.%d.indexer.q_proj" },
+    { LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_K_PROJ,                         "blk.%d.indexer.k_proj" },
+    { LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_Q_NORM,                         "blk.%d.indexer.q_norm" },
     { LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_COMPRESSOR_WKV,                 "blk.%d.indexer_compressor_kv" },
     { LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_COMPRESSOR_WGATE,               "blk.%d.indexer_compressor_gate" },
     { LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_COMPRESSOR_APE,                 "blk.%d.indexer_compressor_ape" },
@@ -829,6 +835,9 @@ static const std::map<llm_tensor, llm_tensor_info> LLM_TENSOR_INFOS = {
     {LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_PROJ,               {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_MUL_MAT}},
     {LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_ATTN_K,             {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_MUL_MAT}},
     {LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_ATTN_Q_B,           {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_MUL_MAT}},
+    {LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_Q_PROJ,             {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_MUL_MAT}},
+    {LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_K_PROJ,             {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_MUL_MAT}},
+    {LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_Q_NORM,             {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_MUL}},
     {LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_COMPRESSOR_WKV,     {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_MUL_MAT}},
     {LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_COMPRESSOR_WGATE,   {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_MUL_MAT}},
     {LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_COMPRESSOR_APE,     {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_ADD}},
@@ -998,6 +1007,7 @@ 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;

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,
 };
@@ -256,6 +257,8 @@ enum llm_kv {
     LLM_KV_ATTENTION_INDEXER_HEAD_COUNT,
     LLM_KV_ATTENTION_INDEXER_KEY_LENGTH,
     LLM_KV_ATTENTION_INDEXER_TOP_K,
+    LLM_KV_ATTENTION_INDEXER_BLOCK_SIZE,
+    LLM_KV_ATTENTION_INDEXER_LOCAL_BLOCKS,
     LLM_KV_ATTENTION_OUTPUT_GROUP_COUNT,
     LLM_KV_ATTENTION_OUTPUT_LORA_RANK,
     LLM_KV_ATTENTION_COMPRESS_ROPE_FREQ_BASE,
@@ -594,6 +597,9 @@ enum llm_tensor {
     LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_PROJ,
     LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_ATTN_K,
     LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_ATTN_Q_B,
+    LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_Q_NORM,
+    LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_K_PROJ,
+    LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_Q_PROJ,
     LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_COMPRESSOR_WKV,
     LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_COMPRESSOR_WGATE,
     LLM_TENSOR_INDEXER_COMPRESSOR_APE,

src/llama-context.cpp

@@ -2325,7 +2325,8 @@ uint32_t llama_context::graph_max_nodes(uint32_t n_tokens) const {
         model.arch == LLM_ARCH_KIMI_LINEAR ||
         model.arch == LLM_ARCH_QWEN35 ||
         model.arch == LLM_ARCH_QWEN35MOE ||
-        model.arch == LLM_ARCH_DEEPSEEK4) {
+        model.arch == LLM_ARCH_DEEPSEEK4 ||
+        model.arch == LLM_ARCH_MINIMAX_M3) {
         return std::max<uint32_t>(n_tokens * 40, 32u * model.n_tensors());
     }
     uint32_t res = std::max<uint32_t>(1024u, 8u*model.n_tensors());

src/llama-graph.cpp

@@ -1700,6 +1700,17 @@ ggml_tensor * llm_graph_context::build_ffn(
                 cur = ggml_swiglu(ctx0, cur);
                 cb(cur, "ffn_swiglu", il);
             } break;
+        case LLM_FFN_SWIGLU_OAI_MOE:
+            if (gate && type_gate == LLM_FFN_PAR) {
+                //Same constants as LLM_FFN_SWIGLU_OAI_MOE
+                const float alpha = 1.702f;
+                const float limit = 7.0f;
+                cur = ggml_swiglu_oai(ctx0, cur, tmp, alpha, limit);
+                cb(cur, "ffn_swiglu_oai", il);
+                type_gate = LLM_FFN_SEQ;
+            } else {
+                GGML_ABORT("LLM_FFN_SWIGLU_OAI requires a parallel gate");
+            } break;
         case LLM_FFN_GEGLU:
             {
                 cur = ggml_geglu(ctx0, cur);
@@ -2629,7 +2640,8 @@ ggml_tensor * llm_graph_context::build_attn(
         ggml_tensor * sinks,
         ggml_tensor * v_mla, // TODO: remove
             float     kq_scale,
-            int       il) const {
+            int       il,
+        ggml_tensor * kq_mask_override) const {
     GGML_ASSERT(v_mla == nullptr);
 
     if (inp->self_k_rot) {
@@ -2659,7 +2671,7 @@ ggml_tensor * llm_graph_context::build_attn(
         ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, mctx_cur->cpy_v(ctx0, v_cur, v_idxs, il));
     }
 
-    const auto & kq_mask = inp->get_kq_mask();
+    ggml_tensor * kq_mask = kq_mask_override ? kq_mask_override : inp->get_kq_mask();
 
     ggml_tensor * q = q_cur;
     ggml_tensor * k = mctx_cur->get_k(ctx0, il);

src/llama-graph.h

@@ -1085,7 +1085,8 @@ struct llm_graph_context {
             ggml_tensor * sinks, // [n_head_q]
             ggml_tensor * v_mla, // [n_embd_head_v_mla, n_embd_head_v, n_head_v] // TODO: remove
                   float   kq_scale,
-                    int   il) const;
+                    int   il,
+            ggml_tensor * kq_mask_override = nullptr) const;
 
     llm_graph_input_attn_k  * build_attn_inp_k() const;
 

src/llama-hparams.cpp

@@ -180,6 +180,16 @@ uint32_t llama_hparams::n_embd_v_gqa_max() const {
     return val;
 }
 
+uint32_t llama_hparams::n_embd_k_idx(uint32_t il) const {
+    if (indexer_head_size == 0) {
+        return 0; // arch without MSA
+    }
+    if (il < n_layer_dense_lead) {
+        return 0; // leading dense layers carry no indexer
+    } 
+    return indexer_head_size; // 128
+}
+
 uint32_t llama_hparams::n_embd_r() const {
     if (wkv_head_size != 0) {
         // for RWKV models

src/llama-hparams.h

@@ -226,6 +226,9 @@ struct llama_hparams {
     uint32_t indexer_n_head    = 0;
     uint32_t indexer_head_size = 0;
     uint32_t indexer_top_k     = 0;
+    // MSA
+    uint32_t indexer_block_size  = 0;
+    uint32_t indexer_local_blocks = 0;
 
     // DeepSeek-V4
     uint32_t dsv4_o_group_count        = 0;
@@ -344,6 +347,9 @@ struct llama_hparams {
     uint32_t n_embd_k_gqa_max() const;
     uint32_t n_embd_v_gqa_max() const;
 
+    // dimension of the single-head MSA indexer key stream
+    uint32_t n_embd_k_idx(uint32_t il = 0) const;
+
     // dimension of the rolling state embeddings
     // corresponds to Mamba's conv_states size or RWKV's token_shift states size
     uint32_t n_embd_r() const;