# Community adaptation and release scope

Independent MLX/Metal inference adaptation by Devin Lai, based on the inspected
SGLang MiniMax H3 and Transformers Qwen3-VL inference contracts. Upstream
source identities and file digests are retained in
[sources.json](../provenance/sources.json). This is not an official MiniMax
release or endorsement. Powered by MiniMax-H3-Image.

The adaptation implements streamed text/vision conditioning, native six-step
image denoising, single-frame reference encoding, tiled decoding, bounded
weight residency, exact inference-intermediate caches, lossless BF16 decoding,
prequantized linear inference and optional shape-qualified Metal tuning.

Version 0.5.0 separates the public runtime from the private development
workspace. It removes model conversion, online quantization, packing encoders,
Core ML export/development tooling and model-publishing scripts. No private
Git history or checkpoint tensors are imported into the public repository.
Only inference, model download/verification, output comparisons, benchmark
measurement, tests, documentation and public-release checks are included.

The model catalog continues to pin the existing v0.4.1 Hub components. This
release does not republish or change model weights. Their own modification
notices and agreements accompany downloaded components under `licenses/`.
The repository's Apache-2.0 license applies to runtime code; model weights and
outputs retain their separate upstream terms.