From 13f0c4bdf3c166dad18873c1390a887c950600ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tarjei Mandt <kernelpool@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:51:32 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Add LongCat Next

---
 mlx_lm/models/longcat_next.py | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tests/test_models.py          | 27 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 97 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 mlx_lm/models/longcat_next.py

diff --git a/mlx_lm/models/longcat_next.py b/mlx_lm/models/longcat_next.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6e11e30d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mlx_lm/models/longcat_next.py
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+# Copyright © 2026 Apple Inc.
+
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Optional, Union
+
+import mlx.nn as nn
+
+from .base import BaseModelArgs
+from .longcat_flash_ngram import Model as LongcatFlashNgramLM
+from .longcat_flash_ngram import ModelArgs as TextConfig
+
+
+@dataclass
+class ModelArgs(BaseModelArgs):
+    text_config: Union[TextConfig, dict] = None
+    text_vocab_plus_multimodal_special_token_size: int = 131125
+    model_type: str = "longcat_next"
+
+    def __post_init__(self):
+        if self.text_config is None:
+            raise ValueError("text_config is required")
+        if isinstance(self.text_config, dict):
+            self.text_config = TextConfig.from_dict(self.text_config)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_dict(cls, params):
+        text_config = dict(params)
+        # Ngram hashing uses text_vocab_size, not the full multimodal vocab_size
+        if "text_vocab_size" in params:
+            text_config["vocab_size"] = params["text_vocab_size"]
+        return cls(
+            text_config=text_config,
+            **{
+                k: v
+                for k, v in params.items()
+                if k in ("model_type", "text_vocab_plus_multimodal_special_token_size")
+            }
+        )
+
+
+class Model(LongcatFlashNgramLM):
+    def __init__(self, config: ModelArgs):
+        super().__init__(config.text_config)
+        self.lm_head = nn.Linear(
+            config.text_config.hidden_size,
+            config.text_vocab_plus_multimodal_special_token_size,
+            bias=False,
+        )
+
+    def sanitize(self, weights):
+        weights = {
+            k: v
+            for k, v in weights.items()
+            if not k.startswith(
+                (
+                    "visual_head.",
+                    "audio_head.",
+                    "visual_model.",
+                    "image_decoder.",
+                    "image_refiner.",
+                    "model.visual_tokenizer.",
+                    "model.audio_tokenizer.",
+                )
+            )
+        }
+        # Truncate embed_tokens to text vocab (drop multimodal token embeddings)
+        embed_key = "model.embed_tokens.weight"
+        if embed_key in weights:
+            weights[embed_key] = weights[embed_key][: self.args.vocab_size]
+        return super().sanitize(weights)
diff --git a/tests/test_models.py b/tests/test_models.py
index 0b2a963dc..684ab16b2 100644
--- a/tests/test_models.py
+++ b/tests/test_models.py
@@ -1926,6 +1926,33 @@ def test_all_models(self):
                 "mla_scale_kv_lora": True,
                 "attention_bias": False,
             },
+            {
+                "model_type": "longcat_next",
+                "zero_expert_type": "identity",
+                "hidden_size": 128,
+                "ffn_hidden_size": 128,
+                "moe_topk": 2,
+                "expert_ffn_hidden_size": 128,
+                "n_routed_experts": 2,
+                "zero_expert_num": 2,
+                "num_layers": 4,
+                "num_hidden_layers": 4,
+                "vocab_size": 1000,
+                "text_vocab_plus_multimodal_special_token_size": 1000,
+                "max_position_embeddings": 1000,
+                "num_attention_heads": 4,
+                "kv_lora_rank": 16,
+                "q_lora_rank": 16,
+                "qk_rope_head_dim": 8,
+                "qk_nope_head_dim": 8,
+                "v_head_dim": 8,
+                "routed_scaling_factor": 1.0,
+                "rms_norm_eps": 1e-5,
+                "rope_theta": 1000,
+                "mla_scale_q_lora": True,
+                "mla_scale_kv_lora": True,
+                "attention_bias": False,
+            },
             {
                 "model_type": "longcat_flash",
                 "attention_method": "MLA",