* model : add LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B and LiquidAI/LFM3-Omni-2B
Co-authored-by: Xuan Son Nguyen <son@huggingface.co>
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5
* convert : read the LFM3-Audio config.json as released
A transformers that knows lfm3_audio rewrites the config into another layout (no lfm/encoder keys).
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5
* mtmd : disable flash attention for the LFM3-Audio depthformer
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5
* tts : add a voice option for LFM3-Audio and LFM3-Omni
The model card offers a female and a male voice; --tts-voice for llama-tts, "voice" for the server /tts.
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5
* clean up template handling
* convert : detect LFM3-Audio and LFM3-Omni by model_type
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5
* move banned tokens --> logits bias --> mtmd_helper
* leave mtmd-cli unchanged
* no more template_asr_system
* left over
* llama : keep the LFM3-Audio encoder convs and codec unquantized
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5
* common, mtmd : shorten comments
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5
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Co-authored-by: Xuan Son Nguyen <son@huggingface.co>
* server: add --models-memory-max parameter to allow dynamically unloading models when they exceed a memory size threshold
estimate with to-be-loaded model size included
use no_alloc to get memory requirements for model load
only set model memory_mb if not previously calculated
use memory margin instead of total size limit, apply to each device separately
add server memory debug logging
move llama_context_device_memory function to llama-ext.h
fix model count exceeded check
improve memory_per_device map naming
improve variable naming, fix style
also strip models memory margin from child processes
cont : clean-up
replace device memory map with buft memory map. Use llama_get_memory_breakdown
extract duplicated check into helper function
move model memory estimation to subprocess
precompute name->buft map, map GPU host types to CPU buft
cleanup unused variable
remove duplicated init calls
* adapt to upstream changes
* wip
* common_memory_reports internface
* SERVER_ROLE_MEASURE
* server-models-sched
* fix build
* server : fix memory accounting of measure children and claim spin
A measure child runs no_alloc, so the free memory it reports does not
include its estimate: subtracting self there erased the memory held by
other processes, down to zero with --fit on, and the next load could
overshoot the margin. Subtract self only for instance reports.
A queued load only checked --models-max before claiming, so when the
memory margin blocked it behind a busy model, load() threw and the
waiter retried in a tight loop. Refuse the claim while the limits are
exceeded and no idle model can be unloaded, so the waiter sleeps on
the condition variable until one goes idle.
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Co-authored-by: Xuan Son Nguyen <son@huggingface.co>
Co-authored-by: Pascal <admin@serveurperso.com>
* init
* wip
* wire it up
* make it clear that it's experimental
* add props.connect_code
* nits
* fix windows build
* server: do not advertise a connect code without the tunnel
--connect-code on its own had no effect other than being served in
/props, so the Web UI showed a remote access code that no tunnel was
serving. Clear it when --connect is off, and say so once at startup.
The teardown comment claimed that terminate() closes the child stdout.
It does not: the log thread leaves fgets() only once every writer of
that pipe is gone, so a descendant of llama-connect would block the
join forever. Describe the real contract instead.
Also restore the --reasoning-preserve default in the generated docs.
* Update tools/connect/CMakeLists.txt
Co-authored-by: Adrien Gallouët <angt@huggingface.co>
* server: dial llama-connect on the bound port and a reachable host
Pass ctx_http.port so --port 0 and the GCP override work, pick the
dial host from --host (wildcards map to loopback, IPv6 is bracketed)
and refuse --connect when only unix sockets are bound.
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Co-authored-by: Pascal <admin@serveurperso.com>
Co-authored-by: Adrien Gallouët <angt@huggingface.co>
* server: save only restorable slot states to the prompt cache
The idle-slot save loop stores every idle slot whenever a task starts,
while only completion tasks restore from the prompt cache. Rerank,
embedding, decision and infill states fill the cache up to its limit
without ever being read back, and slots already cached are offered
again at every task start.
Each slot now tracks with cache_pending whether its state is restorable
and missing from the cache: a completion release or an explicit slot
restore sets it, prompt_save consumes it, prompt_clear resets it. Both
save paths share this rule, and the LRU path restores only for
completion tasks.
* server: test that decision slots skip the prompt cache
Decision tasks never mark their slot as cacheable, so starting new
tasks must not save their idle slots to the RAM prompt cache, with or
without a unified KV cache.
* server: restore any reusing task from the prompt cache
Embedding and rerank tasks never reuse their state, so their slots are
cleared on release like child slots and the cache only holds states
that a later task can restore. Infill and decision tasks now restore
from the cache too, which replaces the cache_pending flag.
Decision models disable the prompt cache unless --cache-ram is given,
since their states seldom repeat.
* common : add --spec-draft-n-ubatch
Allow configuring the physical batch size of the draft context. The
drafters feed it at most the drafted tokens per sequence and chunk larger
batches by its own n_ubatch, so it does not need the ubatch of the target.
A smaller value shrinks the draft compute buffer and leaves more VRAM for
the target KV cache (the draft is fitted together with the target).
The default 0 keeps the current behavior of following --n-ubatch.
Assisted-by: pi:llama.cpp/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
* cont : remove comment
[no ci]
* examples : fix draft sampling and rejection handling
This commit fixes two issues in the speculative example which are
described in detail in the linked issue.
Resolves: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/29975
* examples : add kv-unified requirement for parallel > 1
* Make the drafter probabilistic and the target verify by rejection sampling
* Drop stale spec_draft_q before drafting
* Fallback to argmax sampling for grammar-constrained requests and adding flag for enabling probabilistic draft sampling. Default flag value is greedy.
* Support grammar-constrained requests in rejection sampling
* Fix - renormalize distribution after masking
* copy rng on sampler copy and re-accept drafted tokens on replay
* Fix draft sampler sharing the target's rng stream
* Simplify the rejection sampler's inputs and move replay to the server
* Truncate the draft candidates along with the draft
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Co-authored-by: praneshgo <227579474+praneshgo@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Pranesh Gonegandla <pgonegandla@nvidia.com>
- register --rpc unconditionally and call llama_supports_rpc() only from its handler
- print server "initialization ..." log after args are parsed
Assisted-by: pi:llama.cpp/MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL
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.
Allow configuring --temp, --top-p, --min-p, --repeat-penalty,
--presence-penalty and --frequency-penalty via LLAMA_ARG_* so
llama-server can be fully controlled from an EnvironmentFile
(e.g. systemd on Debian).
Use `llama-gen-docs` to regenerate the readme files.
* common, server : enable preserve_reasoning kwarg by default, log its effective state
If the preserve_reasoning chat template kwarg is not specified explicitly
via --reasoning-preserve / --no-reasoning-preserve, it is enabled by
default after argument processing. The server logs the effective state of
the kwarg, warns that it is enabled by default when the template supports
it, and only warns "has no effect" when it was enabled explicitly on a
template that does not support it. Setting the kwarg via
--chat-template-kwargs is deprecated.
Assisted-by: pi:llama.cpp/Qwen3.8-27B
* cont : update comment
Co-authored-by: Xuan-Son Nguyen <son@huggingface.co>
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Co-authored-by: Xuan-Son Nguyen <son@huggingface.co>
Rename the --tensor-read-lazy CLI argument to --lazy-mode, to match the
internal lazy_mode parameter, and add a -lzm shorthand. Sync the READMEs.
Assisted-by: pi:llama.cpp/Qwen3.8-27B
* Add ctx-per-slot argument for unifid KV cache
* Swap out ctx fractions for ctx pool slots
* Formatting cleanup
* Remove ctx-pool-slots, make ctx-per-slot an int
* refactor it
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Co-authored-by: Xuan Son Nguyen <son@huggingface.co>
* Add benchmark-only synthetic speculative acceptance to llama-server and llama-cli
* Address review comments
* Address review comments
* Add some comments in the code
* common : dedupe --n-cpu-moe / --spec-draft-n-cpu-moe override loops
* common : add --n-cpu-ffn to CPU-offload dense FFN weights of first N layers
* common : generalize llm_ffn_block_regex over the FFN regex, drop TODO
* feat: add --mmproj-device arg & backwards compatible MTMD_BACKEND_DEVICE env var
* feat: load mmproj device backend immediately, add -mmdev shortflag
* fix: its a pointer now get the name
* clean up
* gen docs
* nits
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Co-authored-by: Xuan Son Nguyen <son@huggingface.co>
* ui: move get_datetime tool to frontend
* clarify docs
* server: drop the now unused ctime include
strftime() and gmtime_r() were the only users, both went away with the
get_datetime tool. Also make the renderer's catch inert: the browser
executor always emits JSON, so a non-JSON result is no longer a date to
display.
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Co-authored-by: Pascal <admin@serveurperso.com>
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