* WIP OCP FP8 E4M3 support
* Fix python type-checker
* Materialize input_scales also for FP8 when converting
* Fix conversion of https://huggingface.co/RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4
1. Per row FP8 wrongly fell to NVFP4 conversion, as NVFP4 checked on
dims alone. Also check on dtype for FP8
2. Need to reshape FP8 QKV projections scales in the same way that
weights are reshaped
* Allow remaining FP8 tensors to be dequantized during conversion
* Allow tensor-strategy for FP8-only compressed-tensor ckpts
* Fix and test gguf-py behavior for FP8_E4M3
* Disallow QKV-fusion for FP8 temporarily
* Fix conversion of fused qkvz & FP8 for Qwen3-Next
* Avoid fusing FP8 for --fuse-gate-up-exps as we may have different ws
* Emit warnings when not fusing FP8 during conversion
* More FP8 conversion fixes
* Add supported for strided copies to/from FP8 in CPU
* remove unneeded scratch buffer from FP8 cpu cpy/dup path
* add explanatory comments and TODOs
* Add dedicated encoder and decoder tests for FP8
* Whitelist ggml_op_get_rows in metal instead of blacklisting
required to fix failing CI, and white-listing should be more
future-proof than adding FP8 to the black-list
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/actions/runs/38433916498/job/115422880633?pr=27512
* Fix more conversion bugs
* Defer weight materialization during conversion
* Blacklist fp8 in metal backend instead of white-list
* Adjust indents
* Fix lint + execute tests
* Add fast CPU kernel for F8_E4M3
* Conversion fixes
* Fix remaining gaps
* Enable tied weights with shared scales
* Make mandatory-F32 rules apply to FP8 during conversion
* Fix python type checks
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/actions/runs/39765670052/job/119780379595?pr=27512
* Fix kaleidai unit-test failures
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/actions/runs/39765670125/job/119780383150
* Relax numeric precision constraints for pre-check
* Leave fast-FP8 CPU on RISC-V for follow-up
We already exclude arm from the fast-path
* Allow output scale tensors to be located in any gguf shard
* Move test_conversion_fp8.py test execution to behavior-check.yaml
* Apply batched suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@huggingface.co>
* Move mixed compressed-tensor logic into dequant_fp8 + add unit-tests for it
* Install all requirements also on Windows for behavior-check
Fixes https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/actions/runs/40535852590/job/122300758223?pr=27512
* Unmap lazy tensors before clean-up in Windows
Should fix https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/actions/runs/40539797824/job/122314782459?pr=27512
* LF line endings
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/actions/runs/40539798168/job/122314791118?pr=27512
* Extract FP8 tests from llama-arch to its own test-fixture
See https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/27512#discussion_r4400628221
* Update gguf-py/gguf/scripts/gguf_convert_endian.py
Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@huggingface.co>
---------
Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@huggingface.co>
* spec : add lilicorr support
* convert : use convention for hparam assignment
* add todo for hparam use in llama-batch.cpp
Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
* typo fix
---------
Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
* graph: skip the LM head for pooled embeddings
A context that extracts pooled embeddings outputs one vector per
sequence, but every model still expanded its LM head, so the graph
computed n_vocab logits per token and the context kept a host buffer
for them.
The models now only declare t_logits, and set_outputs() expands it
unless the context extracts embeddings with a pooling type other than
NONE. Since the toggle changes the graph shape for a pooled context,
set_embeddings() schedules a re-reserve in that case.
* graph: drop the redundant t_embd expand
Address review from @CISC: with embeddings on, build_pooling() already
expands its output for every pooling type, and a decoder graph without
embeddings does not read t_embd, so set_outputs() only expands
t_logits.
* graph: add build_logits() for the LM head output
Address review from @ggerganov: the LM head is expanded by a dedicated
build_logits(), called from llama_model::build_graph() like
build_pooling(), and set_outputs() only marks the outputs again.
* graph: call build_logits() before build_sampling()
Address review from @ggerganov: build_sampling() reads t_logits, so the
LM head is built first. A pooled context then skips the sampling layers
too, since it has no logits to sample from.
* nit
Add an optional ggml_backend_sched_realloc_callback that user code registers with
ggml_backend_sched_set_realloc_callback to be notified when the buffers reserved for a
graph are not sufficient and have to be reserved again. The callback reports whether the
backend assignments and the graph size changed since the previous scheduling.
llama_context registers the callback when creating the scheduler (wrapped into the new
llama_context::sched_new helper) and treats the reallocations that follow a change of the
backend assignments as expected, counting the rest by graph size - unchanged or changed
from the previously scheduled graph. Both counters are reported on one line in the perf
stats.
Assisted-by: pi:llama.cpp/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
* vocab : implement PLaMo-3 tokenizer pre-segmentation
The PLaMo-3 tokenizer inserts hard boundaries before running the Unigram
DP, around <|plamo:...|>-looking text, and around runs of at least 4
identical characters or 2 spaces. Without them llama.cpp tokenizes code
indentation and repeated punctuation differently from the reference.
Reproduce the two re.sub() passes in llm_tokenizer_plamo2 by encoding
each segment independently.
* add vocab type "plamo3"
* Update src/llama-vocab.cpp
Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@huggingface.co>
* misc change
---------
Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@huggingface.co>
* kv-cache: save exact KV rotation metadata, reject restoring mismatched rotation
* tests : move the state rotation test to test-save-load-state
the test is now part of the save/load test matrix and runs against
every model under test, like the rest of the suite
it probes the KV cache type combinations supported by the model and
treats models that do not use attention rotation as passing vacuously
Assisted-by: pi:llama.cpp/Qwen3.8-27B
* cont : skip unsupported KV caches
---------
Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
* server : allow splitting RANK pooling for causal LLM rerankers
Rerank models fall into two categories: bidirectional cross-encoders
(BERT, etc.) that require all tokens in a single physical batch, and
causal LLMs repurposed as rerankers (Qwen3, Qwen3-VL) that can use
chunked prefill like any other decoder.
Previously the server rejected all RANK-pooling inputs larger than
n_ubatch, and the graph builder hardcoded QWEN3/QWEN3VL arch checks to
determine last-token pooling. This broke long-document and multimodal
reranking for causal models.
Fix: expose llama_get_causal_attn(ctx) so the server can check the
effective runtime attention type (reflecting any --attention override
or set_causal_attn call). Also expose llama_model_is_causal(model)
for querying the static architectural property from GGUF metadata.
can_split() now permits chunked prefill for RANK pooling when the
context is causal. The graph builder's inline arch check is replaced
with the same cparams.causal_attn predicate, removing the duplication.
Assisted-by: Opencode/Qwen3.8-27B
* remove unused llama_model_is_causal, fix whitespace
Assisted-by: opencode
---------
Co-authored-by: timothywang21 <timothywang21@users.noreply.github.com>
Resolve llama-context.cpp: keep compute lock on the new llama_batch_ext
encode/decode, and reset both gf_res_prev slots in the shared compute path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Measured on Qwen3.8-Flash-Next UD-Q4_K_XL (512 experts, 10 routed, 28 expert
layers pinned to host RAM by -ot): expert routing has strong temporal locality
(LRU-64 ~67% hit rate over a mixed workload) even though the long-run expert
distribution is near-uniform, so a per-layer LRU cache of expert slices in VRAM
removes most of the per-token host-RAM streaming that bounds decode.
Mechanism (no custom CUDA kernels):
- companion tensors [ne0, ne1, K+1] per cached layer in the device buffer of
that layer's router; slot K stays all-zero (dummy)
- I32 id->slot tables, one device copy (get_rows remaps ids for a second
mul_mat_id chain over the cache) and one host copy (src[3] of the CPU
mul_mat_id, which skips cached ids and zeroes their dst rows)
- the two down outputs are summed; the split is exact by construction
- decode-only (n_tokens == 1); batch/prefill builds the stock graph
- throttled async uploads: evictions are published at a decode-boundary sync
point, slices are copied by a worker thread, and the new mapping is only
published after the upload completed, so a running graph never reads a torn
slot
Enable with LLAMA_MOE_CACHE_SLOTS=<K> (+ LLAMA_MOE_CACHE_INSERTS, _DEBUG).
Inert without the env var.
Measured decode, this box (2x3090, 1 RAM channel/socket, with numactl
--interleave=all): 15.5 -> 19-20 tok/s warm at K=48-64.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A7KRyLzuBiGfVn3bdczjka
Each cold PLE row demand-faults a 4 KiB page for ~90 bytes of data,
capping cold diverse-text prefill at 218-360 tok/s vs ~785 warm on
GB10. All n-gram row indices of a ubatch are known host-side before
the graph runs, so under the new LLAMA_LAZY_MODE_DIRECT
(--lazy-mode on-direct) they are staged into an input tensor with
sorted, deduplicated, parallel pread()s and dequantized exactly like
ggml_get_rows; downstream kernels unchanged, table stays on disk.
Cold diverse prefill on qwen3.8-flash-next: 542-741 tok/s (2.0-3.1x,
within ~6% of warm); warm, decode and greedy outputs bit-identical.
* gguf : align the data section relative to the GGUF start, not the file
gguf_init_from_file_ptr reads a GGUF from the current file position, but padded
the data section from file offset 0, so a GGUF embedded at an offset that is not
a multiple of the alignment loaded without error and returned wrong tensor data.
Also adds llama_adapter_lora_init_from_file_ptr, and disables mmap with a warning
when an embedded data section is not aligned, instead of asserting in ggml.
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
* llama : load lora from path through the FILE* variant
The test now checks that mmap is disabled only for an unaligned offset.
Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5.1
* Update ggml/src/gguf.cpp
Co-authored-by: Johannes Gäßler <johannesg@5d6.de>
* Update include/llama.h
Co-authored-by: Johannes Gäßler <johannesg@5d6.de>
* llama : error on unaligned mmap of an embedded GGUF, drop test-load-file-ptr
---------
Co-authored-by: Johannes Gäßler <johannesg@5d6.de>
* DeepseekV4: fix rollback with multi-seq
* fix model loading
* make pending rollback single use
* only clear cache for seq_id for full load
* add assert for compress ratio
* make graph topology static
* pass true instead of flags in clear_compressed
* cont : clean-up + TODOs
---------
Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
* cmake : introduce semantic versioning (wip)
This commit introduces semantic versioning to llama.cpp.
* squash! cmake : introduce semantic versioning (wip)
* cmake : update test-cmake README notes [no ci]
* include libmtmd in output so show its semversioned
* ci : add make-release workflow
* ci : fix build number check in build-cmake-pkg.yml
* examples : remove trailing whitespace
* ci : abort if upstream ggml version does not exist
* ci : extract step contents into scripts
* ci : add GGML_NATIVE=OFF to ubuntu job
* examples : remove CI build information from test-cmake [no ci]
This commit removes the nightly/release information that I added
previously to keep this focused only on using building and installing
llama.cpp with cmake and being able to quickly verify changes or
troubleshoot issues.
* ci : merge scripts into single script
* remove -dev-build_number support
This commit removes the incremental build number (versioning) support
that I added. This was incorrect and we should only use the semver for
the version. Releases will be tag a nightly build and package
maintainers/managers that build from source can use the tag and it is
therefor important that the correct version is reported. So a
nightly-build will report the semver without the build number. The build
number and commit as availble via cmake and test-cmake has been updated
to include an example of using them:
```console
$ ./build.sh
[test-cmake] version: 0.1.0, build: 10360 (08c69e381)
...
```
Refs: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/26839#discussion_r3755836969
* docs: add initial release.md documentation
* cmake : clean-up and add LLAMA_BUILD_IS_DEV option
* ci : remove version input from make-release job
* ci : add LLAMA_BUILD_IS_DEV=OFF to build-cmake-pkg.yml
Refs: https://github.com/danbev/llama.cpp/actions/runs/31576801921/job/94050639145
* docs : update release notes with LLAMA_BUILD_IS_DEV info [no ci]
* ci : add TODO to winget workflow [no ci]
---------
Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
* server : save serialized image chunks at the end of the llama state
* server : support multimodal slot state save/restore with packed payload
* server : refine image slot state serialization
* server : support media slot state and centralize media validation
* server : remove unnecessary comment
* server : remove defensive media checks and move the chunk type check to validate()
* llama: add new default load-mode auto which picks mmap unless a non-Metal iGPU is used
* Update ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/ggml-hexagon.cpp
Co-authored-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qti.qualcomm.com>
* set mmap_support to false on OpenCL backend
* fix order of load modes
* use -1 for auto
* resolve load mode auto earlier to correctly pick gpu host or cpu memory
* add load mode auto to llama-bench
* bump virtgpu api version, regenerate docs
---------
Co-authored-by: Piotr Wilkin (ilintar) <piotr.wilkin@syndatis.com>
Co-authored-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qti.qualcomm.com>
Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
* Enable backend sampling with token speculation
* Clamp the mask sum before converting it into the sampled index
* Add a numeric context parameter declaring the maximum outputs one sequence
* More fixes
* Don't reuse memory for output views.
* Match dist between CPU and GPU
* Fix CPU and backend sampling mismatches
* Simpify some of the changes
* Fix tests on Vulkan
* More test fixes
* Rebase changes
* Rebase and address review comments
* Address review comments
* Address review comments
* Update src/llama-sampler.cpp
Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
---------
Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
* Resolve -1 to 1024 instead of ctx-len for samplers
Because of backend-sampling we initialize samplers before the complete
llama_context is there. Therefore, we cannot infer the resolved context
length yet at the time we construct the samplers.
* Shared default of 64 for history-based samplers, remove context_size
* sampling: enhance penalty handling in common_sampler_init
- Set default value for penalty_last_n based on model context if not specified.
- Ensure penalty_last_n and n_prev are non-negative.
- Update llama_sampler_penalties structure to inherit from llama_sampler_backend and add backend input handling for penalties.
- Implement backend initialization and application logic for penalties, including frequency and presence adjustments.
* tests: add backend penalties sampling tests and utility functions
- Introduced `accept_prompt` and `unique_prompt_tokens` functions to handle prompt acceptance and token uniqueness.
- Implemented `compare_penalties_logits` to compare logits from backend and CPU samplers with penalties.
- Added `test_backend_penalties_sampling` to validate backend penalties with various configurations.
- Enhanced the test suite for better coverage of penalty handling in sampling.
* sampling: add support for top-k penalties in backend sampling
* sampling: add fix to ensure stable numerical results. Preserve masked logits as -Inf and no longer generate NaN.
* sampling: enhance penalty comparison tests with masking penalties logic
* add comments on padding
* sampling: add comments on modifications
* add the unit test to cover masked-out token as -INF
* validate repeat penalty to ensure it is finite and greater than 0; add tests for invalid values
* refactor: test functions to share logic and be less verbose
* add test to cover case where previously penalized token is not part of candidates
* remove comments
* remove redundant penalty_last_n initialization and validation in common_sampler_init
* add support for penalties in sampler chain with configurable positions
* add validation for penalty parameters and enhance tests for non-finite values
* add context parameter to common_sampler_init and set default for penalty_last_n
* add llama_n_ctx parameter to common_sampler_init for improved sampler initialization
* replace penalty_last_n x n_candidates comparison matrix with a vocabulary-sized count tensor
* add tests for backend penalties sampling without filler entries , token_count.size() == n_active == n_max == 64
* add test for backend penalties sampling after top-p with large history window
* remove as unused
* add is_disabled method, tensor logits reshape, add rest review suggestions
* clarify comment
* llama : load MTP tensors only if they are really used
* llama : skip loading MTP (if not used) in remaining models that support MTP
---------
Co-authored-by: Stanisław Szymczyk <sszymczy@gmail.com>
* llama : add llama_model_ftype_name()
Expose the model file type (quantization) name, e.g. "Q8_0" or
"Q4_K - Medium", through a new public C API. The returned pointer is
valid for the lifetime of the model and nullptr when the model is
invalid or the file type is unknown.
Signed-off-by: Adrien Gallouët <angt@huggingface.co>
* Export enum
Signed-off-by: Adrien Gallouët <angt@huggingface.co>
* s/llama_model_ftype_name/llama_ftype_name/
Signed-off-by: Adrien Gallouët <angt@huggingface.co>
* Move "(guessed)" to the front in llama_ftype_name
Prepend the "(guessed)" label instead of appending it. This allows removing
the non-thread-safe static std::string, making the function allocation-free.
Signed-off-by: Adrien Gallouët <angt@huggingface.co>
* Add LLAMA_FTYPE_PREFIX
Signed-off-by: Adrien Gallouët <angt@huggingface.co>
* Dont check for model
Signed-off-by: Adrien Gallouët <angt@huggingface.co>
---------
Signed-off-by: Adrien Gallouët <angt@huggingface.co>
* llama: save more VRAM by reserving n_outputs == n_seqs when possible
* add n_outputs_per_seq
* move n_outputs_max to server-context
* change ubatch to batch everywhere
xrip
Oliver SimonsandSigbjørn Skjæret
Trunk Trick
Kartik GuliaandGeorgi Gerganov
Pascal
Aman Gupta
Ilya Maslennikov
Toki NasinandSigbjørn Skjæret
Evan HuusandGeorgi Gerganov
Tim Wangandtimothywang21
Denis Artyomov
csantiago78andClaude Fable 5
Josh Leverette
Yuri KhrustalevandJohannes Gäßler
linsen458-specandlinsen
Daniel BeveniusandGeorgi Gerganov
Chipmunk
Gaurav Garg
Konrad Moren
fairydreamingandStanisław Szymczyk
Aaron Teo
Pasha Khosravi
Adrien Gallouët
YiChen LvandAman Gupta