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license: other

base_model: MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7

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- quantized

- apex

- moe

- mixture-of-experts

- minimax

- minimax-m2

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MiniMax-M2.7 APEX GGUF

APEX (Adaptive Precision for EXpert Models) quantizations of MiniMax-M2.7.

Brought to you by the LocalAI team | APEX Project | Technical Report

> Note: MiniMax M2 architecture support in llama.cpp is still maturing. If you encounter inference issues, ensure you're using a recent llama.cpp build and report issues upstream.

Available Files

| File | Profile | Size | Best For |

|------|---------|------|----------|

| MiniMax-M2.7-APEX-I-Balanced.gguf | I-Balanced | 155 GB | Best overall quality/size ratio |

| MiniMax-M2.7-APEX-Balanced.gguf | Balanced | 155 GB | General purpose |

| MiniMax-M2.7-APEX-I-Quality.gguf | I-Quality | 129 GB | Highest quality with imatrix |

| MiniMax-M2.7-APEX-Quality.gguf | Quality | 129 GB | Highest quality standard |

| MiniMax-M2.7-APEX-I-Compact.gguf | I-Compact | 100 GB | Multi-GPU setups, best quality/size |

| MiniMax-M2.7-APEX-Compact.gguf | Compact | 100 GB | Multi-GPU setups |

| MiniMax-M2.7-APEX-I-Mini.gguf | I-Mini | 80 GB | Smallest "safe" tier |

| MiniMax-M2.7-APEX-I-Nano.gguf | I-Nano (new) | 64 GB | Experimental — IQ2_XXS mid-layer experts |

| MiniMax-M2.7-APEX-F16-*.gguf | F16 reference | 426 GB (10 shards) | Full-precision BF16 for imatrix/further research |

What is APEX?

APEX is a quantization strategy for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models. It classifies tensors by role (routed expert, shared expert, attention) and applies a layer-wise precision gradient — edge layers get higher precision, middle layers get more aggressive compression. I-variants use diverse imatrix calibration (chat, code, reasoning, tool-calling, agentic traces, Wikipedia).

The key insight: in MoE models, expert FFN tensors make up the bulk of model weight but only ~8/256 experts activate per token. APEX compresses middle-layer experts more aggressively while preserving edge layers (first/last 5) and keeping attention and shared-expert tensors at higher precision.

See the APEX project for full details, technical report, and scripts.

Nano (new experimental tier)

APEX M2.7 debuts the Nano tier, which pushes mid-layer routed experts to IQ2_XXS (2.06 bpw), near-edge to IQ2_S, edges to Q3_K, and keeps shared experts at Q5_K. About 20% smaller than Mini with modest quality cost, viable only on MoE thanks to sparse per-token activation. Requires imatrix.

Benchmarks for Nano are pending. Feedback welcome.

Architecture

• Model: MiniMax-M2.7 (MiniMaxM2)
• Layers: 62
• Experts: 256 routed (8 active per token)
• Total Parameters: ~228 B
• Active Parameters: ~10 B per token
• Source Format: FP8 (float8_e4m3fn, block-quantized 128×128)
• Intermediate Format: BF16 (via unsloth's pre-converted BF16 GGUF)
• APEX Config: 5+5 symmetric edge gradient across 62 layers
• Calibration: v1.3 diverse dataset (chat, code, reasoning, multilingual, tool-calling, Wikipedia)

Run with LocalAI

local-ai run mudler/MiniMax-M2.7-APEX-GGUF@MiniMax-M2.7-APEX-I-Balanced.gguf

Credits

• Base model: MiniMaxAI
• BF16 GGUF source: unsloth/MiniMax-M2.7-GGUF
• APEX quantization: LocalAI team
• Built on llama.cpp