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Proposed changes

Fixes or explains the 11 unit tests that fail on main (7cc37a0) and the flaky TurboQuant bf16 test, and adds a CI job that runs the tests in Debug.

TurboQuant WHT encode race (real bug, production impact)

• fusedEncodeWHTSource read the butterfly pair from threadgroup memory and wrote its result with no barrier in between. For head_dim > 32 the pair is in another SIMD group, so encodes were nondeterministic and some indices were wrong: 1.4% at head_dim 128, 3.1% at 256, 9.1% at 512 (Gemma 4). Every TurboKV encode was affected.
• Fix: read both operands, barrier, then write.
• New testWHTEncodeKernelIsDeterministicAndMatchesCodec fails without the fix and passes with it.
• This caused the flaky testRawKeyModeBFloat16MatchesReference.
• Upstream ml-explore/mlx-swift-lm main has the same kernel. We will report it there separately.

Items 4–11: TF32 on M5 GPUs

• On GPUs with NAX (M5), MLX runs float32 matmuls as TF32 unless MLX_ENABLE_TF32=0. TF32 keeps 10 mantissa bits, so a float32 matmul is only accurate to about 1e-3, which is the tolerance these tests use.
• New MLXLMTestSupport target sets MLX_ENABLE_TF32=0 in a C constructor, before MLX reads it, as MLX's own tests do. Production behavior is unchanged.
• New Float32PrecisionTests checks that a GPU float32 matmul matches the CPU to 1e-5 (a 512×256 · 256×512 matmul, since square shapes take a full-precision path). Without the pin it measures 8.2e-4 and fails, instead of eight tolerance failures elsewhere.
• Fixes: Qwen35ContinuationTests (2), Qwen3VLContinuationTests (2), Qwen35MTPMetalTests (2), SSMTests chunked, NanbeigeTests warm continuation.

Item 1: testCancellationDuringTicketAdmissionSkipsNextAndFinalizes

• Crashes on the DEBUG-only assertionFailure("Ticket not active") in our mlx-swift WiredMemory.swift, when a never-admitted ticket ends. Fix wired-memory ticket lifecycle during cancellation ml-explore/mlx-swift#471 fixes this.
• Skipped in DEBUG until the mlx-swift upstream sync (planned as a merge PR after the SwiftLM release). Release builds still run it.

Items 2–3: Qwen3NextCompiledDecodeTests — fixed in SharpAI/mlx-swift#19

• MLX's Compiled constructor reads inputs after moving it, so fused kernel names lose their dtypes. A bf16 graph and an f16 graph with the same shape then share one Metal library, and the second one runs the wrong kernel. These tests fail only when Qwen35QLoRATests (bf16) runs first.
• Fixed upstream in ml-explore/mlx@c594e6ec38. fix: include input dtypes in compiled kernel names mlx-swift#19 applies the same change now. Our CI builds against SharpAI/mlx-swift main, so it picks up the fix once ci: fix downstream integration - add submodules:recursive and pre-install metallib #19 is merged.

IntegrationTesting

• case .chunk(let text): → case .chunk(let text, _): for our two-value Generation.chunk. That project did not compile.

CI

• New xcodebuild test (Debug) job. The existing job runs swift test -c release, which compiles out DEBUG asserts and uses mlx.metallib from the pip mlx package instead of one built from our mlx-swift. The new job builds the shaders from our source and runs serially.
• Note: CI runners are M1, so this job cannot catch TF32 (M5) issues.

Testing

• Full xcodebuild test (serial, Debug) on M5 Pro: 672 XCTest (6 skipped, 0 failures), 950 + 70 Swift Testing passed. Items 2–3 pass in this run only because of test order. Run together with Qwen35QLoRATests, they fail on mlx-swift main (4 failures) and pass with fix: include input dtypes in compiled kernel names mlx-swift#19.
• The new WHT test fails on the old kernel (nondeterministic at 128/256/512) and passes with the fix.
• IntegrationTesting: builds. GuidedGenerationBenchmarkTests needs the macOS 27 SDK and was not compiled.
• swift-format 6.2.3: the changed files are clean. Evaluate.swift and Package.swift have format drift that is already on main; not touched here.

Checklist

• I have read the CONTRIBUTING document
• I have run pre-commit run --all-files to format my code / installed pre-commit prior to committing changes
• I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
• I have updated the necessary documentation (if needed)

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• I have read this PR description in full and approve it as my own, and it
  accurately describes the code changes.
• AI usage disclosure: Claude Code (Opus 5.5) found the root causes, wrote the fixes and tests, ran them, and wrote this description.

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