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PR #28948 adds four Metal fusions: SOFT_MAX + ARGSORT + GET_ROWS for top-k routing with optional normalization and scaling, a MUL + expert-views + ADD weighted reduction, RMS_NORM + SCALE, and SSM_CONV + silu through function constants. On M2 Ultra across DeepSeek-4B MoE, Gemma-26B, Qwen3.5 and Qwen3.5 MoE-35B, speedups run 1.00x to 1.16x, with Qwen MoE at 1.16x token generation. M5 Max lands lower at 1.00x to 1.12x. llama.cpp
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