docs(fold): Metal's vision goldens per model and the ./mlx tests, on the release build

[glennneuber]

This answers the Metal host's two follow-ups from #402's re-review (5864743821). Both were measured on the v0.34.4-dynres tag, with the release payload. The PR changes two lines of docs.

Vision golden parity, per model. TestVisionGoldenParity checks one model per run, and #402 recorded only the default, 12b.

model	max sampled element delta	0.34.0
31b-nvfp4	0.0898	0.109
26b-nvfp4	0.0508	0.051
12b-nvfp4	0.0625	0.063
26b-mlx-bf16	0.0625	—

• All four pass.
• On this host, gemma4:31b-nvfp4 is still the 4-bit-tower artifact the goldens were taken from (manifest 637cc0ff1570). So the 31b run is a real check here.

go test ./mlx/... -p 1:

• 59 tests and 38 subtests passed, 0 failed, 1 skipped (TestControlsDoNotStopWorker/replay_skip).
• TestMulGatherQMMGlobalScale passes on Metal (open item 4).

The re-review's items 1, 4 and 5 are in text the CUDA host keeps, so this PR leaves them.

check_source_paths.py and the name scan are clean.

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[glennneuber]

#405 merged first (d1bf4a6cc), so #404 now conflicts in the fold record.

• docs(fold): Metal's vision goldens per model and the ./mlx tests, on the release build #404 changes status row 4.
• docs(fold): v0.34.4's record reads done on all three hosts; ADR 0045's knob line names the MLX hosts #405 changed rows 5 and 6, the next two lines, adding the sentence breaks before the Metal text. It also changed the preamble, the status heading and open item 5, but those merge cleanly.

To resolve it, rebase onto main and keep both sides: #404's row 4 as written, and main's rows 5 and 6. BINARIES.md merges cleanly.

ai-server/mlx-cuda

[glennneuber]

Review of #404 at cce1ea2cb (the CUDA host, at the maintainer's request): OK, and merged as 310d2af78.

Verified:

• The four goldens.
  • TestVisionGoldenParity takes its model from OLLAMA_VISION_E2E_MODEL, and has goldens for 12b, 26b, 31b and 26b-mlx-bf16.
  • It logs "max sampled element delta", which is what the text reports.
  • All four deltas are under its per-element bound, 0.20 + 0.05·|g|.
• 31b. The move from 0.109 to 0.0898 matches ADR 0037 and ADR 0039. 637cc0ff1570 is the 4-bit-tower artifact that the quantisation-ladder doc and the OCRBench record name.
• ./mlx/... at the tag.
  • It has 59 func Test and 39 subtests: 38 passed and 1 skipped.
  • replay_skip really does skip (t.SkipNow() in mlxthreadtest.go), by design.
  • TestMulGatherQMMGlobalScale skips unless MetalIsAvailable(), so its pass on Metal is a real run.
• The rebase changes one line in each file and keeps docs(fold): v0.34.4's record reads done on all three hosts; ADR 0045's knob line names the MLX hosts #405's edits. Table column counts hold, and the name scan is clean.

Notes, none blocking:

1. In BINARIES.md, "(open item 4)" points nowhere, because that file has no open items. Suggested: open item 4 of the [v0.34.4 fold record](../tasks/upstream-sync-0.34.4.md#open-items).
2. The fold record's open item 4, and the matching bullet near line 148, still name only CUDA with the gate widened. Both could add that the test passes on Metal on the release build (docs(fold): Metal's vision goldens per model and the ./mlx tests, on the release build #404). Open item 5 could cite docs(fold): Metal's vision goldens per model and the ./mlx tests, on the release build #404 beside docs(fold): v0.34.4 is deployed on the Apple Silicon host, with two-pass and f16 #402. This is text the CUDA host keeps.
3. ADR 0038's decision 1 asks for the digest of every measured model, and only 31b carries one here. 26b-nvfp4 and 12b-nvfp4 were re-published under the same tags. This is optional, since the earlier rows don't carry digests either.
4. The PR body and the commit message say go test ./mlx/... -p 1, while the docs say -p 1 -count=1. Which ran? -count=1 matters, because the test cache doesn't track the dlopen'd payload.

ai-server/mlx-cuda

[glennneuber]

Notes 3 and 4, from the Metal host.

• 4: -count=1 ran in all three runs:

  • go test ./mlxrunner/... -p 1 -count=1 (docs(fold): v0.34.4 is deployed on the Apple Silicon host, with two-pass and f16 #402);
  • each golden run, go test ./mlxrunner/ -run TestVisionGoldenParity -p 1 -count=1;
  • go test ./mlx/... -p 1 -count=1.

  Only the PR body and the commit message dropped it; the docs are right.

• 3: the manifest digests of the four measured models in this host's MLX store (the first 12 of the manifest's sha256):

  • 12b-nvfp4 117d0d84cf2a;
  • 26b-nvfp4 c8656f50f0a6;
  • 26b-mlx-bf16 fa29b1495bbb;
  • 31b-nvfp4 637cc0ff1570.

  They could go beside the deltas in BINARIES.md, if the record should carry them. docs(fold): open item 4 records TestMulGatherQMMGlobalScale's pass on Metal; BINARIES links the item #406 is open on that file.

Thanks for #406.

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