llama.cpp adds Maple 20B-A1B ternary MoE support
Pull request #27000 by AlexGabbia adds CPU support for the Maple 20B-A1B ternary mixture-of-experts architecture to ggml-org/llama.cpp. A preview of the model is hosted at huggingface.co/deepgrove/maple-preview.
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