diff --git a/mlx_lm/models/spark2_5.py b/mlx_lm/models/spark2_5.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..89c1cc5c1
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+++ b/mlx_lm/models/spark2_5.py
@@ -0,0 +1,358 @@
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Any
+
+import mlx.core as mx
+from mlx import nn
+
+from mlx_lm.models.base import (
+    BaseModelArgs,
+    create_attention_mask,
+    scaled_dot_product_attention,
+)
+from mlx_lm.models.cache import KVCache, RotatingKVCache
+from mlx_lm.models.rope_utils import initialize_rope
+
+SUPPORTED_LAYER_TYPES = {"full_attention", "sliding_attention"}
+
+
+@dataclass
+class ModelArgs(BaseModelArgs):
+    model_type: str
+    hidden_size: int
+    intermediate_size: int
+    num_hidden_layers: int
+    num_attention_heads: int
+    num_key_value_heads: int
+    head_dim: int
+    vocab_size: int
+    layer_types: list[str]
+    rope_parameters: dict[str, dict[str, Any]]
+    sliding_window: int
+    rms_norm_eps: float = 1e-6
+    max_position_embeddings: int = 8192
+    attention_bias: bool = False
+    mlp_bias: bool = False
+    hidden_act: str = "gelu"
+    gate_attn_act_mode: str = "sigmoid"
+    headwise_attn_output_gate: bool = True
+    tie_word_embeddings: bool = True
+
+    def __post_init__(self):
+        if len(self.layer_types) != self.num_hidden_layers:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "layer_types length must match num_hidden_layers: "
+                f"{len(self.layer_types)} != {self.num_hidden_layers}"
+            )
+
+        unsupported = set(self.layer_types) - SUPPORTED_LAYER_TYPES
+        if unsupported:
+            raise ValueError(f"Unsupported layer types: {sorted(unsupported)}")
+
+        missing_rope = set(self.layer_types) - set(self.rope_parameters)
+        if missing_rope:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Missing RoPE parameters for layer types: {sorted(missing_rope)}"
+            )
+
+        if self.num_attention_heads % self.num_key_value_heads:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "num_attention_heads must be divisible by num_key_value_heads"
+            )
+
+        if self.hidden_size != self.num_attention_heads * self.head_dim:
+            raise ValueError("hidden_size must equal num_attention_heads * head_dim")
+
+        if self.hidden_act != "gelu":
+            raise ValueError(f"Spark2_5 requires GELU, got {self.hidden_act!r}")
+
+        if not self.headwise_attn_output_gate:
+            raise ValueError("Spark2_5 requires head-wise attention output gates")
+
+        if self.gate_attn_act_mode != "sigmoid":
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Spark2_5 requires sigmoid attention gates, got "
+                f"{self.gate_attn_act_mode!r}"
+            )
+
+
+def _make_rope(args: ModelArgs, layer_type: str):
+    params = args.rope_parameters[layer_type]
+    base = float(params.get("rope_theta", 10000.0))
+    factor = float(params.get("partial_rotary_factor", 1.0))
+    dims = int(args.head_dim * factor)
+
+    if dims <= 0 or dims > args.head_dim or dims % 2:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"Invalid rotary dimension {dims} for {layer_type} "
+            f"with head_dim={args.head_dim}"
+        )
+
+    return initialize_rope(
+        dims=dims,
+        base=base,
+        traditional=False,
+        max_position_embeddings=args.max_position_embeddings,
+    )
+
+
+class Attention(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs, layer_idx: int):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.n_heads = args.num_attention_heads
+        self.n_kv_heads = args.num_key_value_heads
+        self.head_dim = args.head_dim
+        self.scale = self.head_dim**-0.5
+
+        layer_type = args.layer_types[layer_idx]
+        self.is_sliding = layer_type == "sliding_attention"
+
+        q_size = self.n_heads * self.head_dim
+        kv_size = self.n_kv_heads * self.head_dim
+        self.q_size = q_size
+        self.kv_size = kv_size
+
+        self.q_k_v_proj = nn.Linear(
+            args.hidden_size,
+            q_size + 2 * kv_size,
+            bias=args.attention_bias,
+        )
+        self.g_proj = nn.Linear(
+            args.hidden_size,
+            self.n_heads,
+            bias=False,
+        )
+        self.out_proj = nn.Linear(
+            q_size,
+            args.hidden_size,
+            bias=args.attention_bias,
+        )
+        self.rope = _make_rope(args, layer_type)
+
+    def __call__(
+        self,
+        x: mx.array,
+        mask: mx.array | None = None,
+        cache: Any | None = None,
+    ) -> mx.array:
+        batch_size, sequence_length, _ = x.shape
+
+        qkv = self.q_k_v_proj(x)
+        queries, keys, values = mx.split(
+            qkv,
+            [self.q_size, self.q_size + self.kv_size],
+            axis=-1,
+        )
+
+        queries = queries.reshape(
+            batch_size, sequence_length, self.n_heads, self.head_dim
+        ).transpose(0, 2, 1, 3)
+        keys = keys.reshape(
+            batch_size, sequence_length, self.n_kv_heads, self.head_dim
+        ).transpose(0, 2, 1, 3)
+        values = values.reshape(
+            batch_size, sequence_length, self.n_kv_heads, self.head_dim
+        ).transpose(0, 2, 1, 3)
+
+        # The Q/K/V tensors above are non-contiguous views into the fused QKV
+        # projection.  Materialize them before RoPE/SDPA: the MLX CUDA backend
+        # can otherwise alias the K view incorrectly while evaluating RoPE.
+        queries = mx.contiguous(queries)
+        keys = mx.contiguous(keys)
+        values = mx.contiguous(values)
+
+        offset = cache.offset if cache is not None else 0
+        queries = self.rope(queries, offset=offset)
+        keys = self.rope(keys, offset=offset)
+
+        if cache is not None:
+            keys, values = cache.update_and_fetch(keys, values)
+
+        output = scaled_dot_product_attention(
+            queries,
+            keys,
+            values,
+            cache=cache,
+            scale=self.scale,
+            mask=mask,
+        )
+        output = output.transpose(0, 2, 1, 3)
+
+        gate = mx.sigmoid(self.g_proj(x).astype(mx.float32)).astype(output.dtype)
+        output = output * gate[..., None]
+
+        return self.out_proj(output.reshape(batch_size, sequence_length, -1))
+
+
+class MLP(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.gate_proj = nn.Linear(
+            args.hidden_size,
+            args.intermediate_size,
+            bias=args.mlp_bias,
+        )
+        self.up_proj = nn.Linear(
+            args.hidden_size,
+            args.intermediate_size,
+            bias=args.mlp_bias,
+        )
+        self.down_proj = nn.Linear(
+            args.intermediate_size,
+            args.hidden_size,
+            bias=args.mlp_bias,
+        )
+
+    def __call__(self, x: mx.array) -> mx.array:
+        return self.down_proj(nn.gelu(self.gate_proj(x)) * self.up_proj(x))
+
+
+class TransformerBlock(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs, layer_idx: int):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.self_attn = Attention(args, layer_idx)
+        self.mlp = MLP(args)
+        self.input_layernorm = nn.RMSNorm(
+            args.hidden_size,
+            eps=args.rms_norm_eps,
+        )
+        self.post_attention_layernorm = nn.RMSNorm(
+            args.hidden_size,
+            eps=args.rms_norm_eps,
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def is_sliding(self) -> bool:
+        return self.self_attn.is_sliding
+
+    def __call__(
+        self,
+        x: mx.array,
+        mask: mx.array | None = None,
+        cache: Any | None = None,
+    ) -> mx.array:
+        attention_output = self.self_attn(
+            self.input_layernorm(x),
+            mask=mask,
+            cache=cache,
+        )
+        hidden_states = x + attention_output
+        mlp_output = self.mlp(self.post_attention_layernorm(hidden_states))
+        return hidden_states + mlp_output
+
+
+class Spark2_5Model(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.args = args
+        self.embedding = nn.Embedding(args.vocab_size, args.hidden_size)
+        self.layers = [
+            TransformerBlock(args, layer_idx)
+            for layer_idx in range(args.num_hidden_layers)
+        ]
+        self.norm = nn.RMSNorm(args.hidden_size, eps=args.rms_norm_eps)
+
+        self._first_full = next(
+            (
+                idx
+                for idx, layer_type in enumerate(args.layer_types)
+                if layer_type == "full_attention"
+            ),
+            None,
+        )
+        self._first_sliding = next(
+            (
+                idx
+                for idx, layer_type in enumerate(args.layer_types)
+                if layer_type == "sliding_attention"
+            ),
+            None,
+        )
+
+    def __call__(
+        self,
+        inputs: mx.array,
+        cache: list[Any] | None = None,
+        input_embeddings: mx.array | None = None,
+    ) -> mx.array:
+        hidden_states = (
+            input_embeddings if input_embeddings is not None else self.embedding(inputs)
+        )
+
+        if cache is None:
+            cache = [None] * len(self.layers)
+        elif len(cache) != len(self.layers):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Expected {len(self.layers)} cache entries, got {len(cache)}"
+            )
+
+        full_mask = None
+        sliding_mask = None
+        if self._first_full is not None:
+            full_mask = create_attention_mask(
+                hidden_states,
+                cache[self._first_full],
+            )
+        if self._first_sliding is not None:
+            sliding_mask = create_attention_mask(
+                hidden_states,
+                cache[self._first_sliding],
+                window_size=self.args.sliding_window,
+            )
+
+        for layer, layer_cache in zip(self.layers, cache):
+            mask = sliding_mask if layer.is_sliding else full_mask
+            hidden_states = layer(
+                hidden_states,
+                mask=mask,
+                cache=layer_cache,
+            )
+
+        return self.norm(hidden_states)
+
+
+class Model(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, args: ModelArgs):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.args = args
+        self.model_type = args.model_type
+        self.model = Spark2_5Model(args)
+        if not args.tie_word_embeddings:
+            self.lm_head = nn.Linear(
+                args.hidden_size,
+                args.vocab_size,
+                bias=False,
+            )
+
+    def __call__(
+        self,
+        inputs: mx.array,
+        cache: list[Any] | None = None,
+        input_embeddings: mx.array | None = None,
+    ) -> mx.array:
+        hidden_states = self.model(inputs, cache, input_embeddings)
+        if self.args.tie_word_embeddings:
+            return self.model.embedding.as_linear(hidden_states)
+        return self.lm_head(hidden_states)
+
+    @property
+    def layers(self):
+        return self.model.layers
+
+    def make_cache(self):
+        return [
+            (
+                RotatingKVCache(max_size=self.args.sliding_window, keep=0)
+                if layer.is_sliding
+                else KVCache()
+            )
+            for layer in self.layers
+        ]
+
+    def sanitize(self, weights):
+        if self.args.tie_word_embeddings:
+            weights.pop("lm_head.weight", None)
+        return {
+            name: value
+            for name, value in weights.items()
+            if "rotary_emb.inv_freq" not in name
+        }
diff --git a/tests/test_models.py b/tests/test_models.py
index 808a3a202..a532e3616 100644
--- a/tests/test_models.py
+++ b/tests/test_models.py
@@ -405,6 +405,45 @@ def model_test_runner(self, model, model_type, vocab_size, num_layers):
         # Make sure the model can be copied / pickled
         copy.deepcopy(model)
 
+    def test_spark2_5(self):
+        from mlx_lm.models import spark2_5
+
+        args = spark2_5.ModelArgs(
+            model_type="spark2_5",
+            hidden_size=16,
+            intermediate_size=32,
+            num_hidden_layers=2,
+            num_attention_heads=4,
+            num_key_value_heads=2,
+            head_dim=4,
+            vocab_size=32,
+            layer_types=["sliding_attention", "full_attention"],
+            rope_parameters={
+                "sliding_attention": {
+                    "partial_rotary_factor": 1.0,
+                    "rope_theta": 10_000,
+                },
+                "full_attention": {
+                    "partial_rotary_factor": 0.5,
+                    "rope_theta": 1_000_000,
+                },
+            },
+            sliding_window=8,
+        )
+
+        model = spark2_5.Model(args)
+
+        caches = model.make_cache()
+        self.assertIsInstance(caches[0], RotatingKVCache)
+        self.assertIsInstance(caches[1], KVCache)
+
+        self.model_test_runner(
+            model,
+            args.model_type,
+            args.vocab_size,
+            args.num_hidden_layers,
+        )
+
     def test_bailing_moe_v3(self):
         from dataclasses import replace