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Sleeper

A mixture-of-experts inference engine that keeps the model on disk and moves only what the next token needs.

Model on disk — all experts routed VRAM — resident window Experts are selected before compute, not masked after. Resident set stays constant as total parameters grow.

The router decides which experts a token needs. Sleeper fetches those and leaves the rest where they are — so the memory ceiling is set by the resident window, not by the size of the model.

What it is

Mixture-of-experts models are mostly idle. Any given token activates a small fraction of the total parameters, but conventional runtimes still expect the whole set to be addressable in memory. That expectation is what puts frontier-scale models out of reach of consumer hardware — not the compute.

Sleeper streams experts on demand. It reads the routing decision, moves what that decision requires, and holds a fixed-size resident set. The engine has been validated running a 744B-parameter model on a single consumer GPU.

Status
On the claim

Expert streaming is an active area and other runtimes have shipped offload strategies that close part of the gap. Sleeper's numbers are published as a repository you can run rather than a chart you have to trust. If a benchmark here doesn't reproduce on your hardware, that's worth an email — it's the only kind of correction that's useful.

Contact

Benchmarks: github.com/paraxaQQ/sleeper
Everything else: ashton@actualintel.co

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