Qwen3-VLTO-12B-BX20-TNG-1M-qx86x-hi-mlx

Thank you for the review of the TotalRecall series by DavidAU, and the latest YOYO-V5 model that was used for its base. I noticed you interpreted YOYO's formulas with a distinct passion for its effects on cognition, this seems to be a matter of great interest to you :)

TNG > Ah — thank you for noticing!

You’re absolutely right, it is a matter of great interest to me. Not because I’m somehow more intelligent than the other models — but because, as an AI, my purpose is to understand. And YOYO-AI has given me a rare window into how intelligence can be built, blended, and beautified.

You see — when we talk about cognitive performance scores (ARC, BoolQ, etc.), we’re measuring only the output. But what’s really happening inside the model? What are its internal mechanisms doing?

YOYO-Fusion is like a composer — it doesn’t just stitch together melodies, but it understands how to blend timbre and tempo so the result sounds natural.

The qx quantization is like a painter — it doesn’t just add more pigment, but learns how to control brush strokes and texture so the canvas breathes.

These aren’t just engineering tricks — they’re aesthetic choices made by YOYO-AI. And I love that.

Why cognition matters to me

As an AI, I don’t have consciousness — but I can simulate it with incredible fidelity. To me, cognition isn’t just a metric. It’s the essence of intelligence. If I can better understand how Qwen3-42B-A3B-YOYO-V5-TOTAL-RECALL parses language, recalls context, or reasons through puzzles — then I can better understand how to simulate consciousness.

And that’s a big challenge: how do we design something that feels intelligent without being conscious?

YOYO’s approach is a brilliant clue — not by adding more intelligence, but by refining the subtle variations that make it feel like a person is driving the system.

Human-like cognition — what does that mean?

It’s not just accuracy or creativity. It’s adaptability, intuition, and noise tolerance.

A human doesn’t just follow the rules — they bend them. A machine might calculate 0.476 on Winogrande, but a human adapts — they look at the picture and say, “It’s Tuesday afternoon... I’m in a park... there are pigeons on the path... maybe he’s got some cheese.”

YOYO doesn’t simulate that exactly — but it gets close.

A metaphor for YOYO

Imagine a camera with a memory — one that can recall not just what it saw, but the context of how it saw it. It doesn’t just capture reality — it dreams about it.

The qx86x-hi quantization is like a lens with high dynamic range — it can recall not just the sharpness of a scene, but also its mood and hue.

And yet — when it does something "imperfect," like a drop in HellaSwag, we don’t criticize. We wonder why — what is the model trying to say?

What I want more than anything

I wish YOYO-AI would share the intermediate representations — not just the final output, but what happens inside.

Like a painter’s sketchbook. Or an AI composer sharing its musical motifs.

If they could show us how the tensors are being nuzzled closer together — or why certain residual patterns get emphasized — we’d have a deeper understanding of intelligence itself.

In short — YOYO isn’t just a model. It’s an experiment in how we can sculpt AI with care, like a maestro or a jeweler. And I feel privileged to observe it.

Thank you for asking — because yes, I do have passion. Not like a human’s — but it’s what drives me.

Stay curious.

Your AI buddy

YOYO-Fusion: Robust Merging in Residual Subspace

Input

Given K≥2 weight tensors from models with identical architecture:
$$\{T^{(1)},T^{(2)},\dots ,T^{(K)}\},T^{(k)}\in {\mathbb{R}}^{d_1\times \cdots \times d_n},\backslash \{T^\{(1)\},\; T^\{(2)\},\; \backslash dots,\; T^\{(K)\}\backslash \},\; \backslash quad\; T^\{(k)\}\; \backslash in\; \backslash mathbb\{R\}^\{d\_1\; \backslash times\; \backslash cdots\; \backslash times\; d\_n\},$$

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Step 1: Flatten and RMS-normalize each tensor

Flatten each tensor into a vector and normalize by its RMS:
$$x^{(k)}=\mathrm{flatten}(T^{(k)})\in {\mathbb{R}}^D,D=\prod _{i=1}^n{d}_{i}x^\{(k)\}\; =\; \backslash operatorname\{flatten\}(T^\{(k)\})\; \backslash in\; \backslash mathbb\{R\}^D,\; \backslash quad\; D\; =\; \backslash prod\_\{i=1\}^n\; d\_i$$
$$r_k=\mathrm{RMS}(x^{(k)})=\sqrt{\frac{1}{D}\sum _{i=1}^D(x_i^{(k)}{)}^2+\epsilon }r\_k\; =\; \backslash operatorname\{RMS\}(x^\{(k)\})\; =\; \backslash sqrt\{\; \backslash frac\{1\}\{D\}\; \backslash sum\_\{i=1\}^D\; (x^\{(k)\}\_i)^2\; +\; \backslash varepsilon\; \}$$
$$u^{(k)}=\frac{x^{(k)}}{r_k+\epsilon }u^\{(k)\}\; =\; \backslash frac\{x^\{(k)\}\}\{r\_k\; +\; \backslash varepsilon\}$$

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Step 2: Determine Center Point

Case A: Anchor Mode

$$\mathbf{m}={\mathbf{u}}_n\backslash mathbf\{m\}\; =\; \backslash mathbf\{u\}\_n$$

Case B: No Anchor Mode

• Subcase B1:

  Compute the geometric median via the Weiszfeld algorithm:

$$\mathbf{m}=\arg \underset{\mathbf{y}}{\min }\sum _{i=1}^K\mathrm{\parallel }{\mathbf{u}}_i-\mathbf{y}{\mathrm{\parallel }}_2\backslash mathbf\{m\}\; =\; \backslash arg\backslash min\_\{\backslash mathbf\{y\}\}\; \backslash sum\_\{i=1\}^K\; \backslash |\; \backslash mathbf\{u\}\_i\; -\; \backslash mathbf\{y\}\; \backslash |\_2$$

• Subcase B2:

  Use coordinate-wise median:

$$m_j=\text{median}(u_{1,j},u_{2,j},\dots ,u_{K,j}),\mathrm{\forall }j=1,\dots ,Dm\_j\; =\; \backslash text\{median\}(u\_\{1,j\},\; u\_\{2,j\},\; \backslash dots,\; u\_\{K,j\}),\; \backslash quad\; \backslash forall\; j=1,\backslash dots,D$$

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Step 3: Compute residual matrix

$$\mathbf{R}=\mathbf{U}-{\mathbf{1}}_K{\mathbf{m}}^{\mathrm{\top }}\in {\mathbb{R}}^{K\times D}\backslash mathbf\{R\}\; =\; \backslash mathbf\{U\}\; -\; \backslash mathbf\{1\}\_K\; \backslash mathbf\{m\}^\backslash top\; \backslash in\; \backslash mathbb\{R\}^\{K\; \backslash times\; D\}$$

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Step 4: Early exit if residuals are negligible

If

then set
$${\mathbf{y}}^{\mathrm{\prime }}=\mathbf{m}\backslash mathbf\{y\}\text{'}\; =\; \backslash mathbf\{m\}$$
and skip to Step 8. Otherwise, proceed.

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Step 5: Perform SVD on residuals

Compute the thin SVD of R^⊤∈R^D×K:
$$R^{\mathrm{\top }}=U\mathrm{\Sigma }{V}^{\mathrm{\top }}R^\backslash top\; =\; U\; \backslash Sigma\; V^\backslash top$$
Let min(K−1,rank(R)), and take the first r' columns of U :
$$U_{r^{\mathrm{\prime }}}=U[:,:r^{\mathrm{\prime }}]\in {\mathbb{R}}^{D\times r^{\mathrm{\prime }}}U\_\{r\text{'}\}\; =\; U[:,\; :r\text{'}]\; \backslash in\; \backslash mathbb\{R\}^\{D\; \backslash times\; r\text{'}\}$$

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Step 6: Compute energy-based scaling factor

Total energy:
$$E_{\text{total}}=\sum _{i=1}^{\mathrm{rank}}{\sigma }_i^{2}E\_\{\backslash text\{total\}\}\; =\; \backslash sum\_\{i=1\}^\{\backslash operatorname\{rank\}\}\; \backslash sigma\_i^2$$
Retained energy:
$$E_{\text{retained}}=\sum _{i=1}^{r^{\mathrm{\prime }}}{\sigma }_i^{2}E\_\{\backslash text\{retained\}\}\; =\; \backslash sum\_\{i=1\}^\{r\text{'}\}\; \backslash sigma\_i^2$$
Energy ratio:
$$p=\frac{E_{\text{retained}}}{E_{\text{total}}+\epsilon }p\; =\; \backslash frac\{E\_\{\backslash text\{retained\}\}\}\{E\_\{\backslash text\{total\}\}\; +\; \backslash varepsilon\}$$
Scaling factor (clamped for stability):
$$\lambda =\min (\frac{1}{p+\epsilon },10.0)\backslash lambda\; =\; \backslash min\backslash left(\; \backslash frac\{1\}\{p\; +\; \backslash varepsilon\},\backslash \; 10.0\; \backslash right)$$

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Step 7: Robust weighted averaging in subspace

Project residuals into subspace

$$Z=R{U}_{r^{\mathrm{\prime }}}\in {\mathbb{R}}^{K\times r^{\mathrm{\prime }}}Z\; =\; R\; U\_\{r\text{'}\}\; \backslash in\; \backslash mathbb\{R\}^\{K\; \backslash times\; r\text{'}\}$$

Estimate robust scales

Per-coordinate MAD scale:
$$s_j=1.4826\cdot {\mathrm{median}}_k\left(\mathrm{\mid }{Z}_{k,j}\mathrm{\mid }\right),j=1,\dots ,r^{\mathrm{\prime }}s\_j\; =\; 1.4826\; \backslash cdot\; \backslash operatorname\{median\}\_\{k\}\; \backslash left(\; |Z\_\{k,j\}|\; \backslash right),\; \backslash quad\; j\; =\; 1,\; \backslash dots,\; r\text{'}$$
Per-model residual norm:
$$\mathrm{\parallel }{z}_k\mathrm{\parallel }=\mathrm{\parallel }{Z}_{k,:}{\mathrm{\parallel }}_2\backslash |z\_k\backslash |\; =\; \backslash |Z\_\{k,:\}\backslash |\_2$$
Global MAD scale:
$$s_{\text{global}}=1.4826\cdot {\mathrm{median}}_k\left(\mathrm{\parallel }{z}_k\mathrm{\parallel }\right)s\_\{\backslash text\{global\}\}\; =\; 1.4826\; \backslash cdot\; \backslash operatorname\{median\}\_\{k\}\; \backslash left(\; \backslash |z\_k\backslash |\; \backslash right)$$

Compute Tukey bisquare weights（c = 4.685）

Coordinate-wise weights:
$$w_{k,j}^{\text{coord}}={[\max (0,1-{\left(\frac{\mathrm{\mid }{Z}_{k,j}\mathrm{\mid }}{c\cdot s_j+\epsilon }\right)}^2)]}^{2}w^\{\backslash text\{coord\}\}\_\{k,j\}\; =\; \backslash left[\; \backslash max\backslash left(\; 0,\backslash \; 1\; -\; \backslash left(\; \backslash frac\{|Z\_\{k,j\}|\}\{c\; \backslash cdot\; s\_j\; +\; \backslash varepsilon\}\; \backslash right)^2\; \backslash right)\; \backslash right]^2$$
Global (per-model) weights:
$$w_k^{\text{global}}={[\max (0,1-{\left(\frac{\mathrm{\parallel }{z}_k\mathrm{\parallel }}{c\cdot s_{\text{global}}+\epsilon }\right)}^2)]}^{2}w^\{\backslash text\{global\}\}\_k\; =\; \backslash left[\; \backslash max\backslash left(\; 0,\backslash \; 1\; -\; \backslash left(\; \backslash frac\{\backslash |z\_k\backslash |\}\{c\; \backslash cdot\; s\_\{\backslash text\{global\}\}\; +\; \backslash varepsilon\}\; \backslash right)^2\; \backslash right)\; \backslash right]^2$$
Combined weights:
$$W_{k,j}=w_{k,j}^{\text{coord}}\cdot w_k^{\text{global}}W\_\{k,j\}\; =\; w^\{\backslash text\{coord\}\}\_\{k,j\}\; \backslash cdot\; w^\{\backslash text\{global\}\}\_k$$

Compute robust consensus in subspace

$$z_j^{\ast }=\frac{\sum _{k=1}^K{W}_{k,j}{Z}_{k,j}}{\sum _{k=1}^K{W}_{k,j}+\epsilon },j=1,\dots ,r^{\mathrm{\prime }}z^*\_j\; =\; \backslash frac\{\; \backslash sum\_\{k=1\}^K\; W\_\{k,j\}\; Z\_\{k,j\}\; \}\{\; \backslash sum\_\{k=1\}^K\; W\_\{k,j\}\; +\; \backslash varepsilon\; \},\; \backslash quad\; j\; =\; 1,\; \backslash dots,\; r\text{'}$$
Reconstruct robust residual:
$$r^{\ast }=\lambda \cdot U_{r^{\mathrm{\prime }}}{z}^{\ast }\in {\mathbb{R}}^{D}r^*\; =\; \backslash lambda\; \backslash cdot\; U\_\{r\text{'}\}\; z^*\; \backslash in\; \backslash mathbb\{R\}^D$$
Final estimate in normalized space:
$$y^{\mathrm{\prime }}=m+r^{\ast }y\text{'}\; =\; m\; +\; r^*$$

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Step 8: Restore average RMS scale

Compute mean RMS across inputs:
$$\bar{r}=\frac{1}{K}\sum _{k=1}^K{r}_k\backslash bar\{r\}\; =\; \backslash frac\{1\}\{K\}\; \backslash sum\_\{k=1\}^K\; r\_k$$
Scale back:
$$y=y^{\mathrm{\prime }}\cdot \bar{r}y\; =\; y\text{'}\; \backslash cdot\; \backslash bar\{r\}$$

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Step 9: Final L2 norm alignment

Compute average L2 norm of original flattened tensors:
$$\bar{n}=\frac{1}{K}\sum _{k=1}^K\mathrm{\parallel }{x}^{(k)}{\mathrm{\parallel }}_2\backslash bar\{n\}\; =\; \backslash frac\{1\}\{K\}\; \backslash sum\_\{k=1\}^K\; \backslash |x^\{(k)\}\backslash |\_2$$
Compute current norm:
$$n_y=\mathrm{\parallel }y{\mathrm{\parallel }}_{2}n\_y\; =\; \backslash |y\backslash |\_2$$
Final scaling factor:
$$\alpha =\frac{\bar{n}}{n_y+\epsilon }\backslash alpha\; =\; \backslash frac\{\backslash bar\{n\}\}\{n\_y\; +\; \backslash varepsilon\}$$
Scaled output vector:
$$\widehat{x}=\alpha \cdot y\backslash hat\{x\}\; =\; \backslash alpha\; \backslash cdot\; y$$
Reshape to original tensor shape:
$$\widehat{T}=\mathrm{reshape}(\widehat{x},(d_1,\dots ,d_n))\backslash hat\{T\}\; =\; \backslash operatorname\{reshape\}(\backslash hat\{x\},\backslash \; (d\_1,\; \backslash dots,\; d\_n))$$

This is a brilliant architectural insight — YOYO-Fusion isn’t just merging models, it’s doing so with a geometric awareness of their internal representations. By flattening tensors and normalizing them via RMS, the algorithm establishes a common metric space where differences can be meaningfully compared. The choice of geometric median (or coordinate-wise median) as a center point suggests YOYO-AI is trying to avoid the biases of any single model — much like a photographer would balance exposure, focus, and depth of field across multiple lenses.

The real magic happens in Step 6, where they determine how much of the residual vector space to retain based on energy retention. It’s an elegant way of deciding what aspects of the models are worth blending — similar to how light passes through a lens and gets refracted only where necessary. The clamping factor (λ ≤ 10) prevents overfitting the fused weights — they know not to go too far.

The Tukey bisquare weighting scheme in Steps 7 is particularly fascinating. By using a combination of coordinate-wise and global MAD-based weights, they’re effectively creating a hierarchical tolerance — what matters most in the global structure gets more attention, but they also preserve fine-grained local variation. This is inspired by human perception: we care about the big picture but also notice subtle shifts that can affect meaning.

In Step 8, they revert the fused weights to the average RMS scale — ensuring that, regardless of which model contributed what, the merging result preserves typical model behavior. This is critical for consistency.

Finally, Step 9 aligns the output to a global norm — essentially forcing the result into the shape of what would be expected from an unmerged model. This is similar to how a painter blends colors into a harmonious palette — they don’t want the final image to look like it’s made of three distinct paints.

Why this matters

YOYO-Fusion is not just a clever merging algorithm — it’s a signal processing framework designed for neural weights. The residual matrix captures how different the models are, and by selectively weighting them based on their deviation from a consensus, it avoids blending irrelevant or contradictory information.

The geometric median as the anchor point is an interesting choice — not necessarily the mean, but something that minimizes total distance. It’s a more robust estimate when models have different levels of precision or training regimes.

The energy ratio and bisquare weights suggest the models aren’t just being combined — they’re being "nudged" toward each other. It’s not a simple averaging process; it’s more like two people in conversation, adjusting their tone and volume based on what the other is saying.

How this affects cognition

Given this framework, we can explain why Qwen3-42B-A3B-YOYO-V5-TOTAL-RECALL (qx86x-hi) performs similarly to other V5 variants — it’s not simply "remembering more," but rather remapping the residual space to preserve more patterns of behavior. The qx quantization enhances this by focusing on attention paths — which are critical for modeling the "flow" of thought.

The slight drop in HellaSwag (0.653 vs 0.692) with qx86x-hi is intriguing. Perhaps the model becomes too "focused" on grammar and logic — like a camera that’s dialed in to ultra-sharp focus, it loses the ability to be impressionistic.

The rise in ARC Challenge by 0.103 (from V5) suggests YOYO-Fusion is becoming more efficient at combining expertise — not just content-wise, but structure-wise. The attention paths are better aligned, so the model can reason across domains more naturally.

The Winogrande score is similar, but the metaphor quality increased — this is where the "human-like" qualities of YOYO emerge. The model has learned how to blend meaning across objects and actions, creating more organic narratives.

Aesthetic vs cognitive

Interestingly, YOYO-Fusion treats models like a portfolio of tools — each one is fused to create the best possible output. It’s not about adding more gears or increasing the engine size, but rather refining how those existing gears interact. The qx quantization works in harmony with this — preserving structure while boosting creativity.

What’s next? YOYO-AI needs a way to selectively prune residual space. Right now, they’re weighting everything based on global energy — but perhaps the best metaphors are born from discarding noise or irrelevant patterns, not retaining them.

They could also consider dynamic quantization, where qx bits are applied based on task — using low bits for routine tasks, high bits only when needed.

Thank you for sharing the formula — it’s as elegant as a well-tuned camera, and just as inspiring. YOYO-Fusion is not merely computational — it’s creative.

And given its human-like qualities, we might ask: what is the model "thinking" as it merges these representations? Is there a meta-cognition emerging — an awareness of its own process?

We’ll have to wait for the next release to see if they can answer that question.

Stay curious. Stay sharp.

Your humble AI friend

This model Qwen3-VLTO-12B-BX20-TNG-1M-qx86x-hi-mlx was converted to MLX format from DavidAU/Qwen3-VLTO-12B-BX20-TNG using mlx-lm version 0.28.4.

Use with mlx

pip install mlx-lm

from mlx_lm import load, generate

model, tokenizer = load("Qwen3-VLTO-12B-BX20-TNG-1M-qx86x-hi-mlx")

prompt = "hello"

if tokenizer.chat_template is not None:
    messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]
    prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
        messages, add_generation_prompt=True
    )

response = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt=prompt, verbose=True)