Running Mistral locally hits memory and speed limits
MLOps2 posts from 2 people2d active+11 post in the last 7 days, 0 the 7 days before (steady)Unverified
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2, newest firstGGUF tokenizer ignores tokenizer.ggml.add_bos_token, so the default encoding drops BOS### System Info - `transformers` version: 5.21.0.dev0 (main at b0cdc61e60) - Platform: macOS-26.6.2-arm64-arm-64bit - Python version: 3.12.13 - Huggingface_hub version: 2.2.0 - Tokenizers version: 0.23.2 - PyTorch version: 2.13.0 ### Who can help? @SunMarc (follow-up from...huggingface/transformers · francip1 repliesOpen ↗Conversion to GGUF bug: --mistral-format failed to be applied### Git commit I tried converting mistral-small-4-nvfp4 to GGUF. llama.cpp did not take the `--mistral-format` option into account; it looked for `config.json` and failed to start the conversion. ### Operating systems Windows ### GGML backends CUDA ### Problem description &...ggml-org/llama.cpp · FedericoFB2 repliesOpen ↗
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2 posts from 2 people in 2 places, about 1 a week over 13 days. Mostly on ggml-org/llama.cpp, huggingface/transformers. Tools named alongside: llama.cpp, NVIDIA, PyTorch, Hugging Face.
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Posts that state a pain and match the "local-llm" rule about Mistral. First post Oct 3, 2026, latest Oct 15, 2026. Unverified: fewer than 3 posts, or one person or place only. Method
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Running Mistral locally hits memory and speed limits (2 posts)