The previous approach tracked array lifecycles through reference
counting, where each array recorded its inputs and a reference count
that was decremented as dependents were freed. This is not really
necessary as MLX tracks references internally. It is also error
prone as it is easy to create new arrays and forget to free them
when the Go variable goes out of scope.
Instead, we can pin just the arrays we want (typically outputs and
specific intermediates, like the cache). All other arrays are freed
by default when we run sweep. This avoids most causes of memory leaks
while still giving the freedom to save what we want.
This change adds a new x/tokenizer package which includes:
* New BPE and SentencePiece tokenizers
* Removing the dependency on the imagegen tokenizers
* Fixes to multibyte decoding in the pipeline
* Various correctness and benchmark tests
Not included in this PR is the WordPiece tokenizer for BERT models which will be
added when we add embedding models. The imagegen tokenizers will also be removed in
a follow-up PR.
This change adds a new MLX based runner which includes:
* Method-based MLX bindings
* Subprocess-based MLX runner (x/mlxrunner)
* KV cache with tree management
* A basic sampler
The GLM4-MoE-Lite model has been ported to use the new bindings.
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Co-authored-by: Michael Yang <git@mxy.ng>
