Commit 45b6604b2 for llama.cpp

commit 45b6604b20f17b7d7638042306c0cd1b6af5999c
Author: sxq <18856096915@163.com>
Date:   Fri Nov 6 00:47:27 2026 +0800

    model: Add support for the xing4_0  (#31589)

    * model: add support for Xing4.0

    * Update src/models/xing4_0.cpp

    Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@huggingface.co>

    * Update src/models/xing4_0.cpp

    Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@huggingface.co>

    * Update src/models/xing4_0.cpp

    Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@huggingface.co>

    * Update src/models/xing4_0.cpp

    Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@huggingface.co>

    * Update src/models/xing4_0.cpp

    Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@huggingface.co>

    * Update src/models/xing4_0.cpp

    Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@huggingface.co>

    * fix: rename model file to xing4-0.cpp to match CI expectations

    * model: rename xing4_0.cpp to xing4-0.cpp

    * lint: fix E128 continuation indent in conversion/xing.py

    * tests: add xing4_0 fusion baseline for Metal

    * reduce comments

    ---------

    Co-authored-by: shixq7 <shixq7@chinatelecom.cn>
    Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@huggingface.co>

diff --git a/conversion/__init__.py b/conversion/__init__.py
index 0c6204b87..a4359f21f 100644
--- a/conversion/__init__.py
+++ b/conversion/__init__.py
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ TEXT_MODEL_MAP: dict[str, str] = {
     "DeepseekV2ForCausalLM": "deepseek",
     "DeepseekV3ForCausalLM": "deepseek",
     "DeepseekV32ForCausalLM": "deepseek",
+    "Xing4_0ForCausalLM": "xing",
     "DFlashDraftModel": "qwen",
     "DFlash2DraftModel": "qwen",
     "LiLiCorrDraftModel": "nemotron",
diff --git a/conversion/xing.py b/conversion/xing.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5ee467050
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conversion/xing.py
@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import re
+from typing import Callable, Iterable, TYPE_CHECKING
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from torch import Tensor
+
+from .base import ModelBase, gguf
+from .deepseek import DeepseekV2Model
+
+
+@ModelBase.register("Xing4_0ForCausalLM")
+class Xing4_0Model(DeepseekV2Model):
+    """Xing4_0 : DeepSeek-V2/V3 backbone (MLA + MoE) + mHC residual mixing."""
+
+    model_arch = gguf.MODEL_ARCH.XING4_0
+
+    skip_mtp = False
+    supports_mtp_export = True
+    _n_main_layers: int | None = None
+
+    # map (prefix, kind) -> MODEL_TENSOR enum
+    _hc_tensor_map = {
+        ("hc_attn", "fn"):    gguf.MODEL_TENSOR.HC_ATTN_FN,
+        ("hc_attn", "base"):  gguf.MODEL_TENSOR.HC_ATTN_BASE,
+        ("hc_attn", "scale"): gguf.MODEL_TENSOR.HC_ATTN_SCALE,
+        ("hc_ffn",  "fn"):    gguf.MODEL_TENSOR.HC_FFN_FN,
+        ("hc_ffn",  "base"):  gguf.MODEL_TENSOR.HC_FFN_BASE,
+        ("hc_ffn",  "scale"): gguf.MODEL_TENSOR.HC_FFN_SCALE,
+    }
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+
+        self.block_count = self.hparams["num_hidden_layers"]
+        if not self.no_mtp:
+            self.block_count += self.hparams.get("num_nextn_predict_layers", 0)
+        self.tensor_map = gguf.get_tensor_name_map(self.model_arch, self.block_count)
+
+    def index_tensors(self, remote_hf_model_id: str | None = None):
+        # needed by filter_tensors() before any tensor is filtered
+        type(self)._n_main_layers = self.hparams["num_hidden_layers"]
+        return super().index_tensors(remote_hf_model_id=remote_hf_model_id)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def filter_tensors(cls, item: tuple[str, Callable[[], Tensor]]) -> tuple[str, Callable[[], Tensor]] | None:
+        if (titem := super().filter_tensors(item)) is None:
+            return None
+        name, gen = titem
+
+        # the NextN/MTP block lives past num_hidden_layers (model.layers.40 -> blk.40)
+        assert cls._n_main_layers is not None
+        is_mtp = (m := re.match(r"model\.layers\.(\d+)\.", name)) is not None and int(m.group(1)) >= cls._n_main_layers
+
+        # --no-mtp: drop the appended NextN block entirely.
+        if is_mtp and cls.no_mtp:
+            return None
+        # --mtp: keep ONLY NextN-block tensors plus the shared embeddings/
+        # norm/lm_head (so the resulting GGUF carries just the draft head).
+        if cls.mtp_only and not is_mtp and name not in (
+            "model.embed_tokens.weight", "model.norm.weight", "lm_head.weight",
+        ):
+            return None
+
+        return name, gen
+
+    def set_gguf_parameters(self):
+        rope_type = self.rope_parameters.get("rope_type") or self.rope_parameters.get("type")
+        if rope_type == "rope":
+            self.rope_parameters["rope_type"] = "yarn"
+            if "type" in self.rope_parameters:
+                self.rope_parameters["type"] = "yarn"
+            # base.py's YARN branch accesses this with a direct key lookup
+            self.rope_parameters.setdefault("original_max_position_embeddings",
+                                            self.hparams.get("original_max_position_embeddings", 4096))
+
+        super().set_gguf_parameters()
+        hparams = self.hparams
+
+        # NextN/MTP prediction layers
+        if not self.no_mtp and (num_nextn_predict_layers := hparams.get("num_nextn_predict_layers")) is not None:
+            self.gguf_writer.add_nextn_predict_layers(num_nextn_predict_layers)
+
+        self.gguf_writer.add_hyper_connection_count(
+            hparams.get("hc_mult",  1))
+        self.gguf_writer.add_hyper_connection_sinkhorn_iterations(
+            hparams.get("hc_sinkhorn_iters",  20))
+        self.gguf_writer.add_hyper_connection_epsilon(
+            hparams.get("hc_eps",  1e-6))
+
+    def set_vocab(self):
+        # Xing4_0 uses a SentencePiece tokenizer (tokenizer.model + Xing4_0Tokenizer).
+        # V2's set_vocab tries GPT2/BPE first, which fails for SPM. Use the SPM path directly.
+        # Note: no add_tokenizer_pre override — the C++ SPM load path ignores
+        # tokenizer.ggml.pre entirely (pre-tokenizers only apply to BPE vocabs).
+        self._set_vocab_sentencepiece()
+
+    def prepare_metadata(self, vocab_only: bool):
+        from_dir = self.fname_out.is_dir()
+        super().prepare_metadata(vocab_only=vocab_only)
+
+        if not self.mtp_only or not from_dir:
+            return
+
+        output_type: str = self.ftype.name.partition("_")[2]
+        fname_default: str = gguf.naming_convention(
+            self.metadata.name, self.metadata.basename, self.metadata.finetune,
+            self.metadata.version, size_label=None, output_type=output_type, model_type=None)
+        self.fname_out = self.fname_out.parent / f"mtp-{fname_default}.gguf"
+
+    def modify_tensors(self, data_torch: Tensor, name: str, bid: int | None) -> Iterable[tuple[str, Tensor]]:
+        # handle mHC tensors: model.layers.{N}.{attn_hc|ffn_hc}.{hc_fn|hc_base|hc_scale}
+        match = re.match(r"model\.layers\.(\d+)\.(attn_hc|ffn_hc)\.(.+)$", name)
+        if match:
+            layer_idx = int(match.group(1))
+            hc_type = match.group(2)  # "attn_hc" or "ffn_hc"
+            param = match.group(3)    # "hc_fn", "hc_base", "hc_scale"
+
+            if bid is None:
+                bid = layer_idx
+
+            prefix = "hc_attn" if hc_type == "attn_hc" else "hc_ffn"
+
+            kind = {"hc_fn": "fn", "hc_base": "base", "hc_scale": "scale"}.get(param)
+            if kind is None:
+                raise ValueError(f"unexpected mHC tensor: {name}")
+            tensor_enum = self._hc_tensor_map[(prefix, kind)]
+            gguf_name = self.format_tensor_name(tensor_enum, bid)
+            yield (gguf_name, data_torch)
+            return
+
+        yield from super().modify_tensors(data_torch, name, bid)
diff --git a/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py b/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
index 930714f30..9fe16a6fa 100644
--- a/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
+++ b/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
@@ -676,6 +676,7 @@ class MODEL_ARCH(IntEnum):
     DEEPSEEK32       = auto()
     DEEPSEEK4        = auto()
     DEEPSEEK41       = auto()
+    XING4_0          = auto()
     CHATGLM          = auto()
     GLM4             = auto()
     GLM4_MOE         = auto()
@@ -1588,6 +1589,7 @@ MODEL_ARCH_NAMES: dict[MODEL_ARCH, str] = {
     MODEL_ARCH.DEEPSEEK2OCR:     "deepseek2-ocr",
     MODEL_ARCH.DEEPSEEK32:       "deepseek32",
     MODEL_ARCH.DEEPSEEK4:        "deepseek4",
+    MODEL_ARCH.XING4_0:          "xing4_0",
     MODEL_ARCH.DEEPSEEK41:       "deepseek41",
     MODEL_ARCH.CHATGLM:          "chatglm",
     MODEL_ARCH.GLM4:             "glm4",
@@ -4521,6 +4523,51 @@ MODEL_TENSORS: dict[MODEL_ARCH, list[MODEL_TENSOR]] = {
         MODEL_TENSOR.NEXTN_SHARED_HEAD_HEAD,
         MODEL_TENSOR.NEXTN_SHARED_HEAD_NORM,
     ],
+    MODEL_ARCH.XING4_0: [
+        MODEL_TENSOR.TOKEN_EMBD,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.OUTPUT_NORM,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.OUTPUT,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ROPE_FREQS,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_NORM,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_Q,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_Q_A,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_Q_B,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_KV_A_MQA,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_KV_B,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_K,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_K_B,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_V,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_V_B,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_Q_A_NORM,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_KV_A_NORM,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_OUT,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.HC_ATTN_FN,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.HC_ATTN_BASE,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.HC_ATTN_SCALE,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_ROT_EMBD,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.HC_FFN_FN,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.HC_FFN_BASE,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.HC_FFN_SCALE,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_GATE_INP,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_NORM,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_GATE,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_DOWN,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_UP,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_GATE_EXP,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_DOWN_EXP,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_UP_EXP,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_GATE_SHEXP,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_DOWN_SHEXP,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_UP_SHEXP,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_EXP_PROBS_B,
+        # NextN/MTP tensors
+        MODEL_TENSOR.NEXTN_EH_PROJ,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.NEXTN_EMBED_TOKENS,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.NEXTN_ENORM,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.NEXTN_HNORM,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.NEXTN_SHARED_HEAD_HEAD,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.NEXTN_SHARED_HEAD_NORM,
+    ],
     MODEL_ARCH.DEEPSEEK2OCR: [
         MODEL_TENSOR.TOKEN_EMBD,
         MODEL_TENSOR.OUTPUT_NORM,
@@ -6667,6 +6714,10 @@ MODEL_TENSOR_SKIP: dict[MODEL_ARCH, list[MODEL_TENSOR]] = {
         MODEL_TENSOR.ROPE_FREQS,
         MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_ROT_EMBD,
     ],
+    MODEL_ARCH.XING4_0: [
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ROPE_FREQS,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_ROT_EMBD,
+    ],
     MODEL_ARCH.CHATGLM: [
         MODEL_TENSOR.ROPE_FREQS,
     ],
diff --git a/src/llama-arch.cpp b/src/llama-arch.cpp
index 92a13e985..6bb200f84 100644
--- a/src/llama-arch.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-arch.cpp
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ static const std::map<llm_arch, const char *> LLM_ARCH_NAMES = {
     { LLM_ARCH_DEEPSEEK32,       "deepseek32"       },
     { LLM_ARCH_DEEPSEEK4,        "deepseek4"        },
     { LLM_ARCH_DEEPSEEK41,       "deepseek41"       },
+    { LLM_ARCH_XING4_0,          "xing4_0"          },
     { LLM_ARCH_CHATGLM,          "chatglm"          },
     { LLM_ARCH_GLM4,             "glm4"             },
     { LLM_ARCH_GLM4_MOE,         "glm4moe"          },
@@ -1441,6 +1442,7 @@ bool llm_arch_supports_sm_tensor(const llm_arch & arch) {
         case LLM_ARCH_DEEPSEEK32:
         case LLM_ARCH_HY_V4:
         case LLM_ARCH_DOTS3NOTE:
+        case LLM_ARCH_XING4_0:
         case LLM_ARCH_GLM_DSA:
         case LLM_ARCH_BITNET:
         case LLM_ARCH_T5:
diff --git a/src/llama-arch.h b/src/llama-arch.h
index f811607b6..5dfad29ad 100644
--- a/src/llama-arch.h
+++ b/src/llama-arch.h
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ enum llm_arch {
     LLM_ARCH_DEEPSEEK32,
     LLM_ARCH_DEEPSEEK4,
     LLM_ARCH_DEEPSEEK41,
+    LLM_ARCH_XING4_0,
     LLM_ARCH_CHATGLM,
     LLM_ARCH_GLM4,
     LLM_ARCH_GLM4_MOE,
diff --git a/src/llama-context.cpp b/src/llama-context.cpp
index e878f6f6c..a1068aae3 100644
--- a/src/llama-context.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-context.cpp
@@ -2741,6 +2741,7 @@ uint32_t llama_context::graph_max_nodes(uint32_t n_tokens) const {
         model.arch == LLM_ARCH_QWEN4EXP ||
         model.arch == LLM_ARCH_DEEPSEEK4 ||
         model.arch == LLM_ARCH_DEEPSEEK41 ||
+        model.arch == LLM_ARCH_XING4_0 ||
         (model.arch == LLM_ARCH_DFLASH && model.hparams.dsv4_hc_mult > 0) ||
         model.arch == LLM_ARCH_NANBEIGE ||
         model.arch == LLM_ARCH_MINIMAX_01 ||
diff --git a/src/llama-model-saver.cpp b/src/llama-model-saver.cpp
index bfa1b547c..b8a8f77df 100644
--- a/src/llama-model-saver.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-model-saver.cpp
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ void llama_model_saver::add_kv_from_model() {
     add_kv(LLM_KV_ATTENTION_OUTPUT_LORA_RANK,        hparams.dsv4_o_lora_rank);
     add_kv(LLM_KV_ATTENTION_PASS_LORA_RANK,          hparams.metis_pass_lora_rank);
     add_kv(LLM_KV_ATTENTION_COMPRESS_ROPE_FREQ_BASE, hparams.dsv4_compress_rope_base);
-    if (model->arch == LLM_ARCH_DEEPSEEK4 || hparams.dsv4_hc_mult > 0) {
+    if (model->arch == LLM_ARCH_DEEPSEEK4 || (hparams.dsv4_hc_mult > 0 && model->arch != LLM_ARCH_XING4_0)) {
         // the loader requires one compress ratio per layer, including nextn layers
         const std::vector<uint32_t> compress_ratios(
                 hparams.dsv4_compress_ratios.begin(), hparams.dsv4_compress_ratios.begin() + hparams.n_layer_all);
diff --git a/src/llama-model.cpp b/src/llama-model.cpp
index 3c4e598f1..03aab320f 100644
--- a/src/llama-model.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-model.cpp
@@ -214,6 +214,8 @@ static llama_model * llama_model_mapping(llm_arch arch, const llama_model_params
             return new llama_model_deepseek4(params);
         case LLM_ARCH_DEEPSEEK41:
             return new llama_model_deepseek41(params);
+        case LLM_ARCH_XING4_0:
+            return new llama_model_xing4_0(params);
         case LLM_ARCH_GLM_DSA:
             return new llama_model_glm_dsa(params);
         case LLM_ARCH_MISTRAL4:
@@ -3649,6 +3651,7 @@ llama_rope_type llama_model_rope_type(const llama_model * model) {
         case LLM_ARCH_DEEPSEEK4:
         case LLM_ARCH_DEEPSEEK41:
         case LLM_ARCH_MUSE_GLIMMER:
+        case LLM_ARCH_XING4_0:
         case LLM_ARCH_MUSE_SPARK:
         case LLM_ARCH_PLM:
         case LLM_ARCH_CHATGLM:
diff --git a/src/llama-quant.cpp b/src/llama-quant.cpp
index d62f7d5e9..688a6f0cc 100644
--- a/src/llama-quant.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-quant.cpp
@@ -389,6 +389,12 @@ static bool tensor_allows_quantization(const llama_model_quantize_params * param
         quantize &= name.find("attn_v_b.weight")         == std::string::npos;
     }

+    // xing4_0: do not quantize the MHC hyper-connection gate matrices
+    // (the 1D hc_*_base / hc_*_scale tensors are already excluded by the n_dims < 2 rule)
+    if (arch == LLM_ARCH_XING4_0) {
+        quantize &= name.find("hc_") == std::string::npos;
+    }
+
     // the decision head of vllm-decision2 is small and computed in F32
     if (arch == LLM_ARCH_VLLM_DECISION2) {
         quantize &= name.compare(0, 9, "decision.") != 0;
diff --git a/src/models/models.h b/src/models/models.h
index aa0d14650..267468525 100644
--- a/src/models/models.h
+++ b/src/models/models.h
@@ -1487,6 +1487,48 @@ struct llama_model_deepseek4 : public llama_model_base {
 };


+struct llama_model_xing4_0 : public llama_model_base {
+    llama_model_xing4_0(const struct llama_model_params & params) : llama_model_base(params) {}
+    void load_arch_hparams(llama_model_loader & ml) override;
+    void load_arch_tensors(llama_model_loader & ml) override;
+
+    struct graph : public llm_graph_context {
+        graph(const llama_model & model, const llm_graph_params & params);
+
+        ggml_tensor * build_hc_pre(
+                ggml_tensor * x,
+                ggml_tensor * hc_fn,
+                ggml_tensor * hc_scale,
+                ggml_tensor * hc_base,
+                ggml_tensor ** post,
+                ggml_tensor ** comb,
+                int il) const;
+
+        ggml_tensor * build_hc_pre(
+                ggml_tensor * x,
+                ggml_tensor * weights,
+                int il) const;
+
+        ggml_tensor * build_hc_sinkhorn(
+                ggml_tensor * comb,
+                int il) const;
+
+        ggml_tensor * build_hc_post(
+                ggml_tensor * x,
+                ggml_tensor * residual,
+                ggml_tensor * post,
+                ggml_tensor * comb,
+                int il) const;
+    };
+
+    struct graph_mtp : public llm_graph_context {
+        graph_mtp(const llama_model & model, const llm_graph_params & params);
+    };
+
+    std::unique_ptr<llm_graph_context> build_arch_graph(const llm_graph_params & params) const override;
+};
+
+
 struct llama_model_deepseek41 : public llama_model_deepseek4 {
     llama_model_deepseek41(const struct llama_model_params & params) : llama_model_deepseek4(params) {}
     void load_arch_hparams(llama_model_loader & ml) override;
diff --git a/src/models/xing4-0.cpp b/src/models/xing4-0.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..677c3d90f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/models/xing4-0.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,828 @@
+#include "models.h"
+
+#include <cmath>
+#include <stdexcept>
+#include <string>
+
+static size_t xing4_0_elem_offset(const ggml_tensor * t, int64_t i) {
+    return ggml_row_size(t->type, i);
+}
+
+static ggml_tensor * xing4_0_view_1d(ggml_context * ctx, ggml_tensor * t, int64_t ne0, int64_t i0) {
+    return ggml_view_1d(ctx, t, ne0, xing4_0_elem_offset(t, i0));
+}
+
+static ggml_tensor * xing4_0_view_2d(
+        ggml_context * ctx,
+        ggml_tensor  * t,
+        int64_t        ne0,
+        int64_t        ne1,
+        int64_t        i0) {
+    return ggml_view_2d(ctx, t, ne0, ne1, t->nb[1], xing4_0_elem_offset(t, i0));
+}
+
+// mean over the hyper-connection streams: [n_embd, hc, n_tokens] -> [n_embd, n_tokens]
+static ggml_tensor * xing4_0_hc_mean(ggml_context * ctx, ggml_tensor * x) {
+    const int64_t hc = x->ne[1];
+
+    ggml_tensor * acc = ggml_view_2d(ctx, x, x->ne[0], x->ne[2], x->nb[2], 0);
+    for (int64_t s = 1; s < hc; ++s) {
+        acc = ggml_add(ctx, acc, ggml_view_2d(ctx, x, x->ne[0], x->ne[2], x->nb[2], s*x->nb[1]));
+    }
+    return ggml_scale(ctx, acc, 1.0f/hc);
+}
+
+static ggml_tensor * xing4_0_hc_affine(
+        ggml_context * ctx,
+        ggml_tensor  * x,
+        ggml_tensor  * scale,
+        ggml_tensor  * base) {
+    x = ggml_mul(ctx, x, scale);
+    x = ggml_add(ctx, x, base);
+    return x;
+}
+
+void llama_model_xing4_0::load_arch_hparams(llama_model_loader & ml) {
+    uint32_t n_vocab = 0;
+    ml.get_key(LLM_KV_VOCAB_SIZE, n_vocab, false) || ml.get_arr_n(LLM_KV_TOKENIZER_LIST, n_vocab, false);
+
+    ml.get_key(LLM_KV_ATTENTION_LAYERNORM_RMS_EPS, hparams.f_norm_rms_eps);
+    ml.get_key(LLM_KV_LEADING_DENSE_BLOCK_COUNT,   hparams.n_layer_dense_lead, false);
+    ml.get_key(LLM_KV_ATTENTION_Q_LORA_RANK, hparams.n_lora_q);
+    ml.get_key(LLM_KV_ATTENTION_KV_LORA_RANK,     hparams.n_lora_kv);
+    ml.get_key(LLM_KV_ATTENTION_KEY_LENGTH_MLA,   hparams.n_embd_head_k_mla_impl, false);
+    ml.get_key(LLM_KV_ATTENTION_VALUE_LENGTH_MLA, hparams.n_embd_head_v_mla_impl, false);
+    ml.get_key_or_arr(LLM_KV_EXPERT_FEED_FORWARD_LENGTH, hparams.n_ff_exp_arr, hparams.n_layer_all);
+    ml.get_key(LLM_KV_EXPERT_SHARED_COUNT,        hparams.n_expert_shared);
+    ml.get_key(LLM_KV_EXPERT_WEIGHTS_SCALE,       hparams.expert_weights_scale, false);
+    ml.get_key(LLM_KV_EXPERT_WEIGHTS_NORM,        hparams.expert_weights_norm, false);
+    ml.get_key(LLM_KV_EXPERT_GATING_FUNC,         hparams.expert_gating_func, false);
+    if (hparams.expert_gating_func == LLAMA_EXPERT_GATING_FUNC_TYPE_NONE) {
+        // fall back for GGUFs that have no expert_gating_func model parameter set
+        hparams.expert_gating_func = LLAMA_EXPERT_GATING_FUNC_TYPE_SOFTMAX;
+    }
+
+    // Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections (MHC)
+    // Note: reuse the DSV4 hparams members, the saver writes them unconditionally
+    ml.get_key(LLM_KV_HYPER_CONNECTION_COUNT,               hparams.dsv4_hc_mult);
+    ml.get_key(LLM_KV_HYPER_CONNECTION_SINKHORN_ITERATIONS, hparams.dsv4_hc_sinkhorn_iters);
+    ml.get_key(LLM_KV_HYPER_CONNECTION_EPSILON,             hparams.dsv4_hc_eps);
+    GGML_ASSERT(hparams.dsv4_hc_mult == 4 && "xing4_0 requires 4 residual streams");
+
+    if (ml.get_key(LLM_KV_ROPE_SCALING_YARN_LOG_MUL, hparams.rope_yarn_log_mul, false)) {
+        // [TAG_DEEPSEEK2_YARN_LOG_MUL_FIX]
+        // cancel the factor from the convert script
+        hparams.rope_yarn_log_mul /= 0.1f;
+    }
+}
+
+void llama_model_xing4_0::load_arch_tensors(llama_model_loader & ml) {
+    LLAMA_LOAD_LOCALS;
+    const int64_t n_expert_shared = hparams.n_expert_shared;
+    const int64_t xing4_0_hc_dim      = hparams.dsv4_hc_mult * n_embd;
+    const int64_t xing4_0_hc_mix_dim  = (2 + hparams.dsv4_hc_mult) * hparams.dsv4_hc_mult;
+
+    const bool mtp_only = (hparams.n_layer_nextn > 0) && (ml.get_weight("blk.0.attn_norm.weight") == nullptr);
+    const std::string mtp_probe = "blk." + std::to_string(n_layer) + ".nextn.eh_proj.weight";
+    const bool trunk_only = (hparams.n_layer_nextn > 0) && (ml.get_weight(mtp_probe.c_str()) == nullptr);
+    const int trunk_flags = mtp_only  ? TENSOR_NOT_REQUIRED : 0;
+    int       mtp_flags   = trunk_only ? TENSOR_NOT_REQUIRED : 0;
+
+    if (!ml.load_mtp) {
+        mtp_flags |= TENSOR_SKIP;
+    }
+
+    GGML_ASSERT(hparams.is_mla() && "xing4_0 requires MLA");
+    GGML_ASSERT(hparams.n_lora_q > 0 && "xing4_0 requires q_lora_rank");
+
+    const int64_t n_embd_head_k_mla = hparams.n_embd_head_k_mla();
+    const int64_t n_embd_head_v_mla = hparams.n_embd_head_v_mla();
+
+    const int64_t n_embd_head_qk_rope = hparams.n_rot();
+    const int64_t n_embd_head_qk_nope = n_embd_head_k_mla - n_embd_head_qk_rope;
+    GGML_ASSERT(n_embd_head_qk_nope >= 1);
+
+    const int64_t q_lora_rank  = hparams.n_lora_q;
+    const int64_t kv_lora_rank = hparams.n_lora_kv;
+
+    const int64_t n_ff_exp = hparams.n_ff_exp();
+
+    tok_embd = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_TOKEN_EMBD, "weight"), {n_embd, n_vocab}, 0);
+
+    // output
+    output_norm = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_OUTPUT_NORM, "weight"), {n_embd}, 0);
+    // try to load output.weight, if not found, use token_embd (tied embeddings)
+    output      = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_OUTPUT,      "weight"), {n_embd, n_vocab}, TENSOR_NOT_REQUIRED);
+    if (!output) {
+        output = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_TOKEN_EMBD, "weight"), {n_embd, n_vocab}, TENSOR_DUPLICATED);
+    }
+
+    for (int i = 0; i < n_layer_all; ++i) {
+        auto & layer = layers[i];
+        const int flags = i < n_layer ? trunk_flags : mtp_flags;
+
+        layer.attn_norm = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_NORM, "weight", i), {n_embd}, flags);
+        layer.attn_q_a_norm = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_Q_A_NORM, "weight", i), {q_lora_rank}, flags);
+        layer.attn_kv_a_norm = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_KV_A_NORM, "weight", i), {kv_lora_rank}, flags);
+
+        layer.wq_a = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_Q_A, "weight", i), {n_embd, q_lora_rank}, flags);
+        layer.wq_b = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_Q_B, "weight", i), {q_lora_rank, n_head * n_embd_head_k_mla}, flags);
+
+        layer.wkv_a_mqa = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_KV_A_MQA, "weight", i), {n_embd, kv_lora_rank + n_embd_head_qk_rope}, flags);
+
+        // note: only old legacy GGUF files will have the unsplit wkv_b tensor in
+        layer.wk_b = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_K_B, "weight", i), {n_embd_head_qk_nope, kv_lora_rank, n_head}, flags);
+        layer.wv_b = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_V_B, "weight", i), {kv_lora_rank, n_embd_head_v_mla, n_head}, flags);
+
+        layer.wo = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_OUT, "weight", i), {n_head * n_embd_head_v_mla, n_embd}, flags);
+
+        // MHC tensors (trunk layers only)
+        if (i < n_layer) {
+            layer.hc_attn_fn    = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_HC_ATTN_FN,    "weight", i), {xing4_0_hc_dim, xing4_0_hc_mix_dim}, flags);
+            layer.hc_attn_base  = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_HC_ATTN_BASE,  "weight", i), {xing4_0_hc_mix_dim}, flags);
+            layer.hc_attn_scale = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_HC_ATTN_SCALE, "weight", i), {3}, flags);
+            layer.hc_ffn_fn     = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_HC_FFN_FN,     "weight", i), {xing4_0_hc_dim, xing4_0_hc_mix_dim}, flags);
+            layer.hc_ffn_base   = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_HC_FFN_BASE,   "weight", i), {xing4_0_hc_mix_dim}, flags);
+            layer.hc_ffn_scale  = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_HC_FFN_SCALE,  "weight", i), {3}, flags);
+        }
+
+        layer.ffn_norm = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_NORM, "weight", i), {n_embd}, flags);
+
+        if (i < (int) hparams.n_layer_dense_lead) {
+            layer.ffn_gate = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_GATE, "weight", i), {n_embd,   n_ff}, flags);
+            layer.ffn_down = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_DOWN, "weight", i), {  n_ff, n_embd}, flags);
+            layer.ffn_up   = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_UP,   "weight", i), {n_embd,   n_ff}, flags);
+        } else {
+            layer.ffn_gate_inp = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_GATE_INP, "weight", i), {n_embd, n_expert}, flags);
+            layer.ffn_exp_probs_b = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_EXP_PROBS_B, "bias", i), {n_expert}, TENSOR_NOT_REQUIRED | flags);
+
+            if (n_expert == 0) {
+                throw std::runtime_error("n_expert must be > 0");
+            }
+            if (n_expert_used == 0) {
+                throw std::runtime_error("n_expert_used must be > 0");
+            }
+
+            // MoE branch
+            layer.ffn_down_exps = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_DOWN_EXPS, "weight", i), {n_ff_exp,   n_embd, n_expert}, flags);
+            create_tensor_gate_up_exps(layer, i, n_embd, n_ff_exp, n_expert, flags);
+
+            // Shared expert branch
+            layer.ffn_gate_shexp = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_GATE_SHEXP, "weight", i), {n_embd, n_ff_exp * n_expert_shared}, flags);
+            layer.ffn_down_shexp = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_DOWN_SHEXP, "weight", i), {        n_ff_exp * n_expert_shared, n_embd}, flags);
+            layer.ffn_up_shexp   = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_UP_SHEXP,   "weight", i), {n_embd, n_ff_exp * n_expert_shared}, flags);
+        }
+
+        // NextN/MTP tensors
+        if (i >= n_layer) {
+            layer.nextn.eh_proj          = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_NEXTN_EH_PROJ, "weight", i), { 2 * n_embd, n_embd }, flags);
+            layer.nextn.enorm            = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_NEXTN_ENORM, "weight", i), { n_embd }, flags);
+            layer.nextn.hnorm            = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_NEXTN_HNORM, "weight", i), { n_embd }, flags);
+            layer.nextn.embed_tokens     = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_NEXTN_EMBED_TOKENS, "weight", i), { n_embd, n_vocab }, TENSOR_NOT_REQUIRED | flags);
+            layer.nextn.shared_head_head = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_NEXTN_SHARED_HEAD_HEAD, "weight", i), { n_embd, n_vocab }, TENSOR_NOT_REQUIRED | flags);
+            layer.nextn.shared_head_norm = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_NEXTN_SHARED_HEAD_NORM, "weight", i), { n_embd }, TENSOR_NOT_REQUIRED | flags);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+std::unique_ptr<llm_graph_context> llama_model_xing4_0::build_arch_graph(const llm_graph_params & params) const {
+    if (params.gtype == LLM_GRAPH_TYPE_DECODER_MTP) {
+        return std::make_unique<graph_mtp>(*this, params);
+    }
+    return std::make_unique<graph>(*this, params);
+}
+
+llama_model_xing4_0::graph_mtp::graph_mtp(const llama_model & model, const llm_graph_params & params) :
+    llm_graph_context(params) {
+    GGML_ASSERT(hparams.n_layer_nextn > 0 && "xing4_0 MTP requires n_layer_nextn > 0");
+    GGML_ASSERT(hparams.n_layer_nextn == 1 && "xing4_0 MTP currently only supports a single MTP block");
+    GGML_ASSERT(hparams.is_mla() && "xing4_0 MTP requires MLA");
+
+    // The appended MTP block is stored immediately after the main decoder layers.
+    const int il = hparams.n_layer();
+    const auto & layer = model.layers[il];
+
+    GGML_ASSERT(layer.nextn.eh_proj && "MTP block missing nextn.eh_proj");
+    GGML_ASSERT(layer.nextn.enorm   && "MTP block missing nextn.enorm");
+    GGML_ASSERT(layer.nextn.hnorm   && "MTP block missing nextn.hnorm");
+
+    GGML_ASSERT((uint32_t) il >= hparams.n_layer_dense_lead && "xing4_0 MTP block expected to use MoE FFN");
+
+    const int64_t n_embd_head_k_mla   = hparams.n_embd_head_k_mla();
+    const int64_t n_embd_head_qk_rope = hparams.n_rot();
+    const int64_t n_embd_head_qk_nope = n_embd_head_k_mla - n_embd_head_qk_rope;
+    const int64_t kv_lora_rank        = hparams.n_lora_kv;
+
+    GGML_ASSERT(n_embd_head_qk_nope >= 1);
+    GGML_ASSERT(hparams.n_lora_q > 0);
+
+    auto inp = std::make_unique<llm_graph_input_embd_h>(hparams.n_embd_inp(), hparams.n_embd);
+
+    inp->tokens = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx0, GGML_TYPE_I32, n_tokens);
+    ggml_set_input(inp->tokens);
+
+    inp->embd = ggml_new_tensor_2d(ctx0, GGML_TYPE_F32, hparams.n_embd_inp(), n_tokens);
+    ggml_set_input(inp->embd);
+
+    ggml_tensor * tok_embd;
+    ASSERT_EMBD_OR_TOKEN(ubatch);
+    if (ubatch.token) {
+        ggml_tensor * tok_embd_w = layer.nextn.embed_tokens
+                ? layer.nextn.embed_tokens
+                : model.tok_embd;
+
+        tok_embd = ggml_get_rows(ctx0, tok_embd_w, inp->tokens);
+    } else {
+        tok_embd = inp->embd;
+    }
+    cb(tok_embd, "mtp_tok_embd", il);
+
+    inp->h = ggml_new_tensor_2d(ctx0, GGML_TYPE_F32, hparams.n_embd, n_tokens);
+    ggml_set_input(inp->h);
+    ggml_set_name(inp->h, "mtp_h_input");
+
+    ggml_tensor * h_embd = inp->h;
+
+    res->add_input(std::move(inp));
+
+    ggml_tensor * inp_pos     = build_inp_pos();
+    ggml_tensor * inp_out_ids = build_inp_out_ids();
+
+    auto * inp_attn_k = build_attn_inp_k();
+
+    ggml_tensor * h_norm = build_norm(h_embd, layer.nextn.hnorm, nullptr, LLM_NORM_RMS, il);
+    cb(h_norm, "mtp_hnorm", il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * e_norm = build_norm(tok_embd, layer.nextn.enorm, nullptr, LLM_NORM_RMS, il);
+    cb(e_norm, "mtp_enorm", il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * concat = ggml_concat(ctx0, e_norm, h_norm, 0);
+    cb(concat, "mtp_concat", il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * cur = build_lora_mm(layer.nextn.eh_proj, concat, layer.nextn.eh_proj_s);
+    cb(cur, "mtp_eh_proj", il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * inpSA = cur;
+
+    cur = build_norm(cur, layer.attn_norm, nullptr, LLM_NORM_RMS, il);
+    cb(cur, "mtp_attn_norm", il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * q = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, layer.wq_a, cur);
+    cb(q, "mtp_q_a", il);
+
+    q = build_norm(q, layer.attn_q_a_norm, nullptr, LLM_NORM_RMS, il);
+    cb(q, "mtp_q_a_norm", il);
+
+    q = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, layer.wq_b, q);
+    cb(q, "mtp_q_b", il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * q_nope =
+        ggml_view_3d(ctx0, q, n_embd_head_qk_nope, n_head, n_tokens,
+                ggml_row_size(q->type, n_embd_head_k_mla),
+                ggml_row_size(q->type, n_embd_head_k_mla) * n_head, 0);
+    cb(q_nope, "mtp_q_nope", il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * q_pe =
+        ggml_view_3d(ctx0, q, n_embd_head_qk_rope, n_head, n_tokens,
+                ggml_row_size(q->type, n_embd_head_k_mla),
+                ggml_row_size(q->type, n_embd_head_k_mla) * n_head,
+                ggml_row_size(q->type, n_embd_head_qk_nope));
+    cb(q_pe, "mtp_q_pe", il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * kv_cmpr_pe = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, layer.wkv_a_mqa, cur);
+    cb(kv_cmpr_pe, "mtp_kv_cmpr_pe", il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * kv_cmpr =
+        ggml_view_2d(ctx0, kv_cmpr_pe, kv_lora_rank, n_tokens,
+                ggml_row_size(kv_cmpr_pe->type, kv_lora_rank + n_embd_head_qk_rope), 0);
+    cb(kv_cmpr, "mtp_kv_cmpr", il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * k_pe =
+        ggml_view_3d(ctx0, kv_cmpr_pe, n_embd_head_qk_rope, 1, n_tokens,
+                ggml_row_size(kv_cmpr_pe->type, kv_lora_rank + n_embd_head_qk_rope),
+                ggml_row_size(kv_cmpr_pe->type, kv_lora_rank + n_embd_head_qk_rope),
+                ggml_row_size(kv_cmpr_pe->type, kv_lora_rank));
+    cb(k_pe, "mtp_k_pe", il);
+
+    kv_cmpr = build_norm(kv_cmpr, layer.attn_kv_a_norm, nullptr, LLM_NORM_RMS, il);
+    cb(kv_cmpr, "mtp_kv_cmpr_norm", il);
+
+    GGML_ASSERT(ext_factor >= 0.0f);
+
+    const float attn_factor_org =
+            attn_factor * (1.0f + 0.1f * logf(1.0f / freq_scale));
+
+    const float mscale =
+            attn_factor_org * (1.0f + 0.1f * hparams.rope_yarn_log_mul * logf(1.0f / freq_scale));
+
+    const float kq_scale =
+            1.0f * mscale * mscale / sqrtf(float(n_embd_head_k_mla));
+
+    q_pe = ggml_rope_ext(ctx0, q_pe, inp_pos, nullptr,
+            n_rot, rope_type, n_ctx_orig, freq_base, freq_scale,
+            ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow);
+    cb(q_pe, "mtp_q_pe_rope", il);
+
+    k_pe = ggml_rope_ext(ctx0, k_pe, inp_pos, nullptr,
+            n_rot, rope_type, n_ctx_orig, freq_base, freq_scale,
+            ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow);
+    cb(k_pe, "mtp_k_pe_rope", il);
+
+    q_nope = ggml_permute(ctx0, q_nope, 0, 2, 1, 3);
+    cb(q_nope, "mtp_q_nope_perm", il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * q_nope_absorbed = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, layer.wk_b, q_nope);
+    cb(q_nope_absorbed, "mtp_q_nope_absorbed", il);
+
+    q_nope_absorbed = ggml_permute(ctx0, q_nope_absorbed, 0, 2, 1, 3);
+    cb(q_nope_absorbed, "mtp_q_nope_absorbed_perm", il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * Qcur = ggml_concat(ctx0, q_nope_absorbed, q_pe, 0);
+    cb(Qcur, "mtp_Qcur", il);
+
+    kv_cmpr = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, kv_cmpr, hparams.n_lora_kv, 1, n_tokens);
+    cb(kv_cmpr, "mtp_kv_cmpr_reshape", il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * Kcur = ggml_concat(ctx0, kv_cmpr, k_pe, 0);
+    cb(Kcur, "mtp_Kcur", il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * Vcur = kv_cmpr;
+    cb(Vcur, "mtp_Vcur", il);
+
+    cur = build_attn(inp_attn_k,
+            layer.wo, nullptr, layer.wo_s,
+            Qcur, Kcur, Vcur, nullptr, nullptr, layer.wv_b, kq_scale, il);
+    cb(cur, "mtp_attn_out", il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * ffn_inp = ggml_add(ctx0, cur, inpSA);
+    cb(ffn_inp, "mtp_ffn_inp", il);
+
+    cur = build_norm(ffn_inp, layer.ffn_norm, nullptr, LLM_NORM_RMS, il);
+    cb(cur, "mtp_ffn_norm", il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * moe_out = build_moe_ffn(cur,
+            layer.ffn_gate_inp,
+            layer.ffn_up_exps,
+            layer.ffn_gate_exps,
+            layer.ffn_down_exps,
+            layer.ffn_exp_probs_b,
+            n_expert, n_expert_used,
+            LLM_FFN_SILU, hparams.expert_weights_norm,
+            hparams.expert_weights_scale,
+            (llama_expert_gating_func_type) hparams.expert_gating_func,
+            il,
+            nullptr,
+            layer.ffn_gate_up_exps);
+    cb(moe_out, "mtp_ffn_moe_out", il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * ffn_shexp = build_ffn(cur,
+            layer.ffn_up_shexp, nullptr, nullptr,
+            layer.ffn_gate_shexp, nullptr, nullptr,
+            layer.ffn_down_shexp, nullptr, nullptr,
+            nullptr, LLM_FFN_SILU, LLM_FFN_PAR, il);
+    cb(ffn_shexp, "mtp_ffn_shexp", il);
+
+    cur = ggml_add(ctx0, moe_out, ffn_shexp);
+    cb(cur, "mtp_ffn_out", il);
+
+    cur = ggml_add(ctx0, cur, ffn_inp);
+    cb(cur, "mtp_post_ffn", il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * head_norm_w = layer.nextn.shared_head_norm
+            ? layer.nextn.shared_head_norm
+            : model.output_norm;
+    GGML_ASSERT(head_norm_w && "xing4_0 MTP: missing both nextn.shared_head_norm and output_norm");
+
+    cur = build_norm(cur, head_norm_w, nullptr, LLM_NORM_RMS, -1);
+    cb(cur, "h_nextn", -1);
+    res->t_h_nextn = cur;
+
+    if (inp_out_ids) {
+        cur = ggml_get_rows(ctx0, cur, inp_out_ids);
+    }
+    cb(cur, "mtp_shared_head_norm", -1);
+
+    ggml_tensor * head_w = layer.nextn.shared_head_head
+            ? layer.nextn.shared_head_head
+            : model.output;
+
+    ggml_tensor * head_s = layer.nextn.shared_head_head
+            ? layer.nextn.shared_head_head_s
+            : model.output_s;
+
+    GGML_ASSERT(head_w && "xing4_0 MTP: missing LM head (nextn.shared_head_head or model.output)");
+
+    cur = build_lora_mm(head_w, cur, head_s);
+    cb(cur, "result_output", -1);
+
+    res->t_logits = cur;
+}
+
+ggml_tensor * llama_model_xing4_0::graph::build_hc_pre(
+        ggml_tensor * x,
+        ggml_tensor * weights,
+        int           il) const {
+    GGML_UNUSED(il);
+
+    GGML_ASSERT(x->ne[0] == n_embd);
+    GGML_ASSERT(x->ne[1] == hparams.dsv4_hc_mult);
+
+    const int64_t hc = hparams.dsv4_hc_mult;
+    const int64_t nt = x->ne[2];
+
+    if (cparams.fused_dsv4_hc_pre && il >= 0) {
+        ggml_tensor * result = ggml_dsv4_hc_pre(ctx0, x, weights);
+        res->add_fused_node({LLM_FUSED_OP_DSV4_HC_PRE, result, il});
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    ggml_tensor * result = nullptr;
+    for (int64_t ih = 0; ih < hc; ++ih) {
+        ggml_tensor * xh = ggml_view_2d(ctx0, x, n_embd, nt, x->nb[2], ih*x->nb[1]);
+        ggml_tensor * wh = ggml_view_2d(ctx0, weights, 1, nt, weights->nb[1], ih*weights->nb[0]);
+        ggml_tensor * cur = ggml_mul(ctx0, xh, wh);
+        result = result ? ggml_add(ctx0, result, cur) : cur;
+    }
+
+    return result;
+}
+
+ggml_tensor * llama_model_xing4_0::graph::build_hc_sinkhorn(
+        ggml_tensor * comb,
+        int           il) const {
+    GGML_UNUSED(il);
+
+    // comb is [src_hc, dst_hc, n_tokens]. Mirrors the reference mhc_pre_big_fuse_with_clamp_tilelang kernel.
+    // Note: This decomposed fallback (used when fused_dsv4_hc_comb is off) keeps exact reference semantics.
+    comb = ggml_soft_max(ctx0, comb);
+
+    ggml_tensor * eps = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx0, GGML_TYPE_F32, 1);
+    eps = ggml_fill(ctx0, eps, hparams.dsv4_hc_eps);
+
+    // normalize over ne1 (dst): each src row sums to 1
+    auto norm_dst = [&]() {
+        ggml_tensor * sum = ggml_cont(ctx0, ggml_permute(ctx0, comb, 1, 0, 2, 3));
+        sum = ggml_sum_rows(ctx0, sum);
+        sum = ggml_add(ctx0, sum, eps);
+        sum = ggml_permute(ctx0, sum, 1, 0, 2, 3);
+        comb = ggml_div(ctx0, comb, sum);
+    };
+
+    // normalize over ne0 (src): each dst column sums to 1
+    auto norm_src = [&]() {
+        ggml_tensor * sum = ggml_sum_rows(ctx0, comb);
+        sum = ggml_add(ctx0, sum, eps);
+        comb = ggml_div(ctx0, comb, sum);
+    };
+
+    norm_dst();
+    for (uint32_t i = 1; i < hparams.dsv4_hc_sinkhorn_iters; ++i) {
+        norm_src();
+        norm_dst();
+    }
+
+    return comb;
+}
+
+ggml_tensor * llama_model_xing4_0::graph::build_hc_pre(
+        ggml_tensor * x,
+        ggml_tensor * hc_fn,
+        ggml_tensor * hc_scale,
+        ggml_tensor * hc_base,
+        ggml_tensor ** post,
+        ggml_tensor ** comb,
+        int il) const {
+    const int64_t hc = hparams.dsv4_hc_mult;
+    const int64_t hc_dim     = hc*n_embd;
+    const int64_t hc_mix_dim = (2 + hc)*hc;
+    const int64_t nt         = x->ne[2];
+
+    GGML_ASSERT(hc == 4);
+    GGML_ASSERT(hc_fn->ne[1] == hc_mix_dim);
+
+    ggml_tensor * flat = ggml_reshape_2d(ctx0, x, hc_dim, nt);
+    ggml_tensor * flat_norm = ggml_rms_norm(ctx0, flat, norm_rms_eps);
+    ggml_tensor * mixes = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, hc_fn, flat_norm);
+    cb(mixes, "hc_mixes", il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * scale_pre  = xing4_0_view_1d(ctx0, hc_scale, 1, 0);
+    ggml_tensor * scale_post = xing4_0_view_1d(ctx0, hc_scale, 1, 1);
+
+    ggml_tensor * base_pre  = xing4_0_view_1d(ctx0, hc_base, hc, 0);
+    ggml_tensor * base_post = xing4_0_view_1d(ctx0, hc_base, hc, hc);
+
+    ggml_tensor * pre = xing4_0_view_2d(ctx0, mixes, hc, nt, 0);
+    pre = xing4_0_hc_affine(ctx0, pre, scale_pre, base_pre);
+    // the reference with_clamp kernel has no hc_pre_eps on the pre gate
+    pre = ggml_sigmoid(ctx0, pre);
+    cb(pre, "hc_pre", il);
+
+    *post = xing4_0_view_2d(ctx0, mixes, hc, nt, hc);
+    *post = xing4_0_hc_affine(ctx0, *post, scale_post, base_post);
+    *post = ggml_sigmoid(ctx0, *post);
+    *post = ggml_scale(ctx0, *post, 2.0f);
+    cb(*post, "hc_post", il);
+
+    if (cparams.fused_dsv4_hc_comb) {
+        // feed the xing4_0 mixes buffer unchanged: the flat [src + 4*dst] layout
+        // makes dsv4's dst-indexed softmax run over xing4_0's src axis, so the
+        // Sinkhorn phases align and the output is [src, dst] as the decomposed
+        // path expects (see the file header for the precision notes)
+        *comb = ggml_dsv4_hc_comb(ctx0, mixes, hc_scale, hc_base, hparams.dsv4_hc_eps,
+                (int32_t) hparams.dsv4_hc_sinkhorn_iters);
+        res->add_fused_node({LLM_FUSED_OP_DSV4_HC_COMB, *comb, il});
+    } else {
+        ggml_tensor * scale_comb = xing4_0_view_1d(ctx0, hc_scale, 1, 2);
+        ggml_tensor * base_comb  = xing4_0_view_1d(ctx0, hc_base, hc*hc, 2*hc);
+
+        *comb = xing4_0_view_2d(ctx0, mixes, hc*hc, nt, 2*hc);
+        *comb = xing4_0_hc_affine(ctx0, *comb, scale_comb, base_comb);
+        // the reference MHC kernel clamps the raw comb logits before Sinkhorn
+        *comb = ggml_clamp(ctx0, *comb, -30.0f, 30.0f);
+        *comb = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, *comb, hc, hc, nt);
+        *comb = build_hc_sinkhorn(*comb, il);
+    }
+    cb(*comb, "hc_comb", il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * result = build_hc_pre(x, pre, il);
+    return result;
+}
+
+ggml_tensor * llama_model_xing4_0::graph::build_hc_post(
+        ggml_tensor * x,
+        ggml_tensor * residual,
+        ggml_tensor * post,
+        ggml_tensor * comb,
+        int il) const {
+    GGML_UNUSED(il);
+
+    GGML_ASSERT(x->ne[0] == n_embd);
+    GGML_ASSERT(residual->ne[1] == hparams.dsv4_hc_mult);
+
+    if (cparams.fused_dsv4_hc_post) {
+        // dsv4 reads comb[dst, src]; xing4_0's comb is [src, dst] -- transpose
+        ggml_tensor * comb_t = ggml_cont(ctx0, ggml_permute(ctx0, comb, 1, 0, 2, 3));
+        ggml_tensor * result = ggml_dsv4_hc_post(ctx0, x, residual, post, comb_t);
+        res->add_fused_node({LLM_FUSED_OP_DSV4_HC_POST, result, il});
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    const int64_t hc = hparams.dsv4_hc_mult;
+    const int64_t nt = x->ne[1];
+
+    ggml_tensor * out = nullptr;
+    for (int64_t dst = 0; dst < hc; ++dst) {
+        ggml_tensor * post_dst = ggml_view_2d(ctx0, post, 1, nt, post->nb[1], dst*post->nb[0]);
+        ggml_tensor * cur = ggml_mul(ctx0, x, post_dst);
+
+        for (int64_t src = 0; src < hc; ++src) {
+            ggml_tensor * res_src = ggml_view_2d(ctx0, residual, n_embd, nt, residual->nb[2], src*residual->nb[1]);
+            // comb is [src_hc, dst_hc, n_tokens]: the element [src, dst] holds the
+            // mixing weight from residual stream src to output stream dst.
+            // NOTE: xing4_0's vllm reference (with_clamp kernel) transposes the
+            // comb flat index relative to deepseek4's non-clamp kernel, so here we
+            // must read comb[src, dst] (deepseek4 reads comb[dst, src]).
+            ggml_tensor * comb_src_dst = ggml_view_2d(ctx0, comb, 1, nt, comb->nb[2],
+                    src*comb->nb[0] + dst*comb->nb[1]);
+            cur = ggml_add(ctx0, cur, ggml_mul(ctx0, res_src, comb_src_dst));
+        }
+
+        cur = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, cur, n_embd, 1, nt);
+        out = out ? ggml_concat(ctx0, out, cur, 1) : cur;
+    }
+
+    return out;
+}
+
+llama_model_xing4_0::graph::graph(const llama_model & model, const llm_graph_params & params) :
+    llm_graph_context(params) {
+    const int64_t hc = hparams.dsv4_hc_mult;
+
+    const int64_t n_embd_head_k = hparams.n_embd_head_k_mla();
+
+    const int64_t n_embd_head_qk_rope = hparams.n_rot();
+    const int64_t n_embd_head_qk_nope = n_embd_head_k - n_embd_head_qk_rope;
+
+    const uint32_t kv_lora_rank = hparams.n_lora_kv;
+
+    // We have to pre-scale kq_scale and attn_factor to make the YaRN RoPE work correctly.
+    // See https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/7416 for detailed explanation.
+    // And also: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/17945 [TAG_DEEPSEEK2_YARN_LOG_MUL_FIX]
+
+    // first cancel the adjustment from llama_hparams::yarn_attn_factor_adjust to get the original attn_factor
+    GGML_ASSERT(ext_factor >= 0.0f);
+    const float attn_factor_org = attn_factor * (1.0f + 0.1f * logf(1.0f / freq_scale));
+
+    // use the original attn_factor to pre-scale the kq_scale
+    const float mscale   = attn_factor_org * (1.0f + 0.1f * hparams.rope_yarn_log_mul * logf(1.0f / freq_scale));
+    const float kq_scale = 1.0f * mscale * mscale / sqrtf(float(n_embd_head_k));
+
+    ggml_tensor * cur;
+    ggml_tensor * inpL;
+
+    ggml_tensor * inp = build_inp_embd(model.tok_embd);
+    ggml_tensor * inp_pos = build_inp_pos();
+
+    auto * inp_attn_k = build_attn_inp_k();
+
+    ggml_tensor * inp_out_ids = build_inp_out_ids();
+
+    inpL = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, inp, n_embd, 1, n_tokens);
+    inpL = ggml_repeat_4d(ctx0, inpL, n_embd, hc, n_tokens, 1);
+    cb(inpL, "hc_init", -1);
+
+    for (int il = 0; il < n_layer; ++il) {
+        const auto & layer = model.layers[il];
+
+        ggml_tensor * residual = inpL;
+        ggml_tensor * post = nullptr;
+        ggml_tensor * comb = nullptr;
+
+        cur = build_hc_pre(inpL,
+                layer.hc_attn_fn,
+                layer.hc_attn_scale,
+                layer.hc_attn_base,
+                &post, &comb, il);
+        cb(cur, "hc_attn_pre", il);
+
+        cur = build_norm(cur, layer.attn_norm, nullptr, LLM_NORM_RMS, il);
+        cb(cur, "attn_norm", il);
+
+        // MLA self-attention (identical to deepseek2)
+        ggml_tensor * q = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, layer.wq_a, cur);
+        cb(q, "q_a", il);
+
+        q = build_norm(q, layer.attn_q_a_norm, nullptr, LLM_NORM_RMS, il);
+        cb(q, "q_anorm", il);
+
+        q = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, layer.wq_b, q);
+        cb(q, "q_b", il);
+
+        // split into {n_embd_head_qk_nope, n_head, n_tokens}
+        ggml_tensor * q_nope =
+            ggml_view_3d(ctx0, q, n_embd_head_qk_nope, n_head, n_tokens, ggml_row_size(q->type, n_embd_head_k),
+                         ggml_row_size(q->type, n_embd_head_k) * n_head, 0);
+        cb(q_nope, "q_nope", il);
+
+        // and {n_embd_head_qk_rope, n_head, n_tokens}
+        ggml_tensor * q_pe = ggml_view_3d(
+            ctx0, q, n_embd_head_qk_rope, n_head, n_tokens, ggml_row_size(q->type, n_embd_head_k),
+            ggml_row_size(q->type, n_embd_head_k) * n_head, ggml_row_size(q->type, n_embd_head_qk_nope));
+        cb(q_pe, "q_pe_in", il);
+
+        ggml_tensor * kv_cmpr_pe = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, layer.wkv_a_mqa, cur);
+        cb(kv_cmpr_pe, "kv_cmpr_pe", il);
+
+        // split into {kv_lora_rank, n_tokens}
+        ggml_tensor * kv_cmpr =
+            ggml_view_2d(ctx0, kv_cmpr_pe, kv_lora_rank, n_tokens,
+                         ggml_row_size(kv_cmpr_pe->type, kv_lora_rank + n_embd_head_qk_rope), 0);
+        cb(kv_cmpr, "kv_cmpr_in", il);
+
+        // and {n_embd_head_qk_rope, 1, n_tokens}
+        ggml_tensor * k_pe = ggml_view_3d(ctx0, kv_cmpr_pe, n_embd_head_qk_rope, 1, n_tokens,
+                                          ggml_row_size(kv_cmpr_pe->type, kv_lora_rank + n_embd_head_qk_rope),
+                                          ggml_row_size(kv_cmpr_pe->type, kv_lora_rank + n_embd_head_qk_rope),
+                                          ggml_row_size(kv_cmpr_pe->type, kv_lora_rank));
+        cb(k_pe, "k_pe_in", il);
+
+        q_pe = ggml_rope_ext(ctx0, q_pe, inp_pos, nullptr, n_rot, rope_type, n_ctx_orig, freq_base, freq_scale,
+                             ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow);
+        cb(q_pe, "q_pe", il);
+
+        k_pe = ggml_rope_ext(ctx0, k_pe, inp_pos, nullptr, n_rot, rope_type, n_ctx_orig, freq_base, freq_scale,
+                             ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow);
+        cb(k_pe, "k_pe", il);
+
+        kv_cmpr = build_norm(kv_cmpr, layer.attn_kv_a_norm, nullptr, LLM_NORM_RMS, il);
+        cb(kv_cmpr, "kv_cmpr", il);
+
+        // {n_embd_head_qk_nope, n_tokens, n_head}
+        q_nope = ggml_permute(ctx0, q_nope, 0, 2, 1, 3);
+        cb(q_nope, "q_nope_perm", il);
+
+        // {n_embd_head_qk_nope, kv_lora_rank, n_head} x {n_embd_head_qk_nope, n_tokens, n_head}
+        ggml_tensor * q_nope_absorbed = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, layer.wk_b, q_nope);
+        cb(q_nope_absorbed, "q_nope_absorbed", il);
+
+        // {kv_lora_rank, n_head, n_tokens}
+        q_nope_absorbed = ggml_permute(ctx0, q_nope_absorbed, 0, 2, 1, 3);
+        cb(q_nope_absorbed, "q_nope_absorbed_perm", il);
+
+        // {n_embd_head_qk_rope + kv_lora_rank, n_head, n_tokens}
+        // note: rope must go first for in-place context shifting in build_rope_shift()
+        ggml_tensor * Qcur = ggml_concat(ctx0, q_nope_absorbed, q_pe, 0);
+        cb(Qcur, "Qcur", il);
+
+        kv_cmpr = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, kv_cmpr, kv_lora_rank, 1, n_tokens);
+        cb(kv_cmpr, "kv_cmpr_reshape", il);
+
+        // {n_embd_head_qk_rope + kv_lora_rank, 1, n_tokens}
+        ggml_tensor * Kcur = ggml_concat(ctx0, kv_cmpr, k_pe, 0);
+        cb(Kcur, "Kcur", il);
+
+        // {kv_lora_rank, 1, n_tokens}
+        ggml_tensor * Vcur = kv_cmpr;
+        cb(Vcur, "Vcur", il);
+
+        // note: MLA with the absorption optimization converts into MQA (ie: GQA with 1 group)
+        cur = build_attn(inp_attn_k,
+                layer.wo, nullptr, layer.wo_s,
+                Qcur, Kcur, Vcur, nullptr, nullptr, layer.wv_b, kq_scale, il);
+        cb(cur, "attn_out", il);
+
+        if (il == n_layer - 1 && inp_out_ids && (!cparams.embeddings_nextn || cparams.embeddings_nextn_masked)) {
+            cur      = ggml_get_rows(ctx0, cur, inp_out_ids);
+            residual = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0,
+                    ggml_get_rows(ctx0, ggml_reshape_2d(ctx0, residual, n_embd*hc, n_tokens), inp_out_ids),
+                    n_embd, hc, n_outputs);
+            post     = ggml_get_rows(ctx0, post, inp_out_ids);
+            comb     = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0,
+                    ggml_get_rows(ctx0, ggml_reshape_2d(ctx0, comb, hc*hc, n_tokens), inp_out_ids),
+                    hc, hc, n_outputs);
+        }
+
+        inpL = build_hc_post(cur, residual, post, comb, il);
+        cb(inpL, "hc_attn_post", il);
+
+        residual = inpL;
+        cur = build_hc_pre(inpL,
+                layer.hc_ffn_fn,
+                layer.hc_ffn_scale,
+                layer.hc_ffn_base,
+                &post, &comb, il);
+        cb(cur, "hc_ffn_pre", il);
+
+        ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, residual);
+        ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, post);
+        ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, comb);
+
+        cur = build_norm(cur, layer.ffn_norm, nullptr, LLM_NORM_RMS, il);
+        cb(cur, "ffn_norm", il);
+
+        if ((uint32_t) il < hparams.n_layer_dense_lead) {
+            cur = build_ffn(cur,
+                layer.ffn_up, nullptr, nullptr,
+                layer.ffn_gate, nullptr, nullptr,
+                layer.ffn_down, nullptr, nullptr,
+                nullptr, LLM_FFN_SILU, LLM_FFN_PAR, il);
+            cb(cur, "ffn_out", il);
+        } else {
+            // MoE branch
+            ggml_tensor * moe_out = build_moe_ffn(cur,
+                layer.ffn_gate_inp,
+                layer.ffn_up_exps,
+                layer.ffn_gate_exps,
+                layer.ffn_down_exps,
+                layer.ffn_exp_probs_b,
+                n_expert, n_expert_used,
+                LLM_FFN_SILU, hparams.expert_weights_norm,
+                hparams.expert_weights_scale,
+                (llama_expert_gating_func_type) hparams.expert_gating_func,
+                il,
+                nullptr,
+                layer.ffn_gate_up_exps);
+            cb(moe_out, "ffn_moe_out", il);
+
+            // FFN shared expert
+            {
+                ggml_tensor * ffn_shexp =
+                    build_ffn(cur,
+                        layer.ffn_up_shexp, nullptr, nullptr,
+                        layer.ffn_gate_shexp, nullptr, nullptr,
+                        layer.ffn_down_shexp, nullptr, nullptr,
+                        nullptr, LLM_FFN_SILU, LLM_FFN_PAR, il);
+                cb(ffn_shexp, "ffn_shexp", il);
+
+                cur = ggml_add(ctx0, moe_out, ffn_shexp);
+                cb(cur, "ffn_out", il);
+            }
+        }
+
+        inpL = build_hc_post(cur, residual, post, comb, il);
+        inpL = build_cvec(inpL, il);
+        cb(inpL, "l_out", il);
+    }
+    cur = inpL;
+
+    // average the residual streams -> single stream for the head
+    cur = xing4_0_hc_mean(ctx0, cur);
+    cb(cur, "hc_mean", -1);
+
+    cur = build_norm(cur, model.output_norm, nullptr, LLM_NORM_RMS, -1);
+    cb(cur, "h_nextn", -1);
+    res->t_h_nextn = cur;
+
+    if (cparams.embeddings_nextn && !cparams.embeddings_nextn_masked && inp_out_ids) {
+        cur = ggml_get_rows(ctx0, cur, inp_out_ids);
+    }
+
+    cb(cur, "result_norm", -1);
+    res->t_embd = cur;
+
+    // lm_head
+    cur = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, model.output, cur);
+
+    cb(cur, "result_output", -1);
+    res->t_logits = cur;
+}
diff --git a/tests/fusion/MTL.csv b/tests/fusion/MTL.csv
index 2ce291c7d..cae85fc21 100644
--- a/tests/fusion/MTL.csv
+++ b/tests/fusion/MTL.csv
@@ -331,4 +331,7 @@ stablelm            ,0   ,any     ,NORM+MUL+ADD                ,      5
 starcoder           ,0   ,any     ,NORM+MUL+ADD                ,      5
 starcoder2          ,0   ,any     ,NORM+MUL+ADD                ,      5
 talkie              ,0   ,any     ,ADD+ADD                     ,      2
+xing4_0             ,0   ,any     ,ADD+ADD+ADD                 ,      1
+xing4_0             ,0   ,any     ,MUL+ADD                     ,      2
+xing4_0             ,0   ,any     ,RMS_NORM+MUL                ,      9
 xverse              ,0   ,any     ,RMS_NORM+MUL                ,      5
diff --git a/tests/test-llama-archs.cpp b/tests/test-llama-archs.cpp
index fe949f2c2..c42831d0e 100644
--- a/tests/test-llama-archs.cpp
+++ b/tests/test-llama-archs.cpp
@@ -281,7 +281,8 @@ static gguf_context_ptr get_gguf_ctx(const llm_arch arch, const bool moe) {
             || arch == LLM_ARCH_KIMI_K3
             || arch == LLM_ARCH_MISTRAL4
             || arch == LLM_ARCH_MISTRAL_LARGE4
-            || arch == LLM_ARCH_HY_V4) {
+            || arch == LLM_ARCH_HY_V4
+            || arch == LLM_ARCH_XING4_0) {
         n_embd = 128;
         n_head = 1;
         n_ff   = 192;
@@ -400,7 +401,8 @@ static gguf_context_ptr get_gguf_ctx(const llm_arch arch, const bool moe) {
             || arch == LLM_ARCH_GLM5_NEXT
             || arch == LLM_ARCH_HY_V4
             || arch == LLM_ARCH_MISTRAL4
-            || arch == LLM_ARCH_MISTRAL_LARGE4) {
+            || arch == LLM_ARCH_MISTRAL_LARGE4
+            || arch == LLM_ARCH_XING4_0) {
         // GLM5 next MLA is nope only, the cache row is the compressed latent alone.
         ms.add_kv(LLM_KV_ATTENTION_KEY_LENGTH,       arch == LLM_ARCH_GLM5_NEXT ? uint32_t(512) : uint32_t(576));
         ms.add_kv(LLM_KV_ATTENTION_VALUE_LENGTH,     uint32_t(512));
@@ -430,6 +432,13 @@ static gguf_context_ptr get_gguf_ctx(const llm_arch arch, const bool moe) {
     if (arch == LLM_ARCH_SENSENOVA_U1) {
         ms.add_kv(LLM_KV_ROPE_FREQ_BASE_SPATIAL, 10000.0f);
     }
+
+    if (arch == LLM_ARCH_XING4_0) {
+        // Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections (MHC) multi-residual-stream blocks
+        ms.add_kv(LLM_KV_HYPER_CONNECTION_COUNT,               uint32_t(4));
+        ms.add_kv(LLM_KV_HYPER_CONNECTION_SINKHORN_ITERATIONS, uint32_t(20));
+        ms.add_kv(LLM_KV_HYPER_CONNECTION_EPSILON,             1e-6f);
+    }
     ms.add_kv(LLM_KV_ATTENTION_CLAMP_KQV,              1.0f);
     ms.add_kv(LLM_KV_ATTENTION_LAYERNORM_EPS,          1e-5f);
     ms.add_kv(LLM_KV_ATTENTION_LAYERNORM_RMS_EPS,      1e-5f);
@@ -958,6 +967,7 @@ static bool moe_mandatory(const llm_arch arch) {
         case LLM_ARCH_DOTS3NOTE:
         case LLM_ARCH_DEEPSEEK4:
         case LLM_ARCH_DEEPSEEK41:
+        case LLM_ARCH_XING4_0:
         case LLM_ARCH_GLM4_MOE:
         case LLM_ARCH_GLM_DSA:
         case LLM_ARCH_EXAONE_MOE: