* 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>
* xcframework : fix build
* mtmd : remove unused include path
* vendor : use vendor::hash alias target in cmake
CMake reserves "::" in target names for imported/alias targets, so the real
target keeps the name vendor-hash and a vendor::hash ALIAS target is added.
Consumers (mtmd, llama-gguf-hash) now link against the namespaced alias.
Assisted-by: pi:llama.cpp/Qwen3.8-27B
* vendor : add cmake targets for all vendored libs with vendor:: aliases
Add INTERFACE targets for the header-only vendor libs (miniaudio, nlohmann,
sheredom, stb) and ALIAS targets named vendor::<lib> for all of them,
including cpp-httplib and hash. Each exposes the vendor/ root so includes
are namespaced, e.g. <nlohmann/json.hpp>.
Consolidate the per-lib add_subdirectory calls into a single
add_subdirectory(vendor), keeping the cpp-httplib gate on LLAMA_BUILD_COMMON.
Consumers (llama-common, mtmd) now link the aliases instead of relying on
raw vendor/ include paths.
hash: consumers now include via "hash/hash.h"; the vendor/hash dir is kept
as a PRIVATE include so the synced upstream sources compile unmodified.
Assisted-by: pi:llama.cpp/Qwen3.8-27B
* readme : use foo/bar names in acknowledgements
Assisted-by: pi:llama.cpp/Qwen3.8-27B
* ocd : fix valign
* 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>
* dspark: support speculators-format checkpoints (SpecForge exports)
Speculators-format DSpark drafts (e.g. SpecForge exports for the
Gemma-4-26B-A4B target) differ from the dense DeepSpec checkpoints in
three ways:
- the config nests the backbone hparams under transformer_layer_config
and gives the extract layers as aux_hidden_state_layer_ids
- the block is the DFlash 1+N fill-in layout: the anchor slot is a bonus
token, not a prediction slot. Written as dflash.bonus_anchor; such
drafts build the block and read the mask positions exactly like
DFlash (n_max drafts from a 1+n_max block), only the Markov/confidence
sampling comes from DSpark
- the draft output vocab may be reduced (draft_vocab_size < vocab_size)
with a d2t remap table. The converter expands lm_head/markov_w2 back
to the full vocab and synthesizes an lm_head bias of -1e9 on the rows
the draft cannot produce, so the runtime needs no d2t remapping. Such
drafts ship their own (now optional) token_embd/output tensors instead
of sharing the target's
Verified against gemma4-26b-a4b-dspark: greedy outputs are byte-identical
with and without the draft; acceptance 0.46, mean draft len 3.7 (n_max 6).
Co-authored-by: desovo7 <942845546@qq.com>
Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5
* dspark: fold the speculators draft class into DSparkModel
One class now covers every DSpark variant. What used to pick the class is
a single flag, because the arch name turns out to be the only thing that
separates the two families: SpecForge also exports a flat schema that
carries no speculators_* fields yet still uses the 1+N bonus-anchor block,
so keying on those fields would silently mis-read its drafts.
Also rename i0 to i_first_pred in the draft read loop and the Markov head,
and give the head a real bonus_anchor bool instead of testing i0 > 0.
Converting the Qwen3-8B DeepSpec draft and both gemma-4 speculators drafts
produces byte-identical GGUFs. The one behaviour change is that the
markov_head_type check now also covers the DeepSpec checkpoints, which
previously skipped it.
Co-authored-by: desovo7 <942845546@qq.com>
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
* dspark: address review comments
- rename bonus_anchor to sample_from_anchor (GGUF key and code), matching
the checkpoint config field; absent key still means anchor-first
- rework the reduced draft vocab to match EAGLE3: d2t is written as I64
absolute target ids and the logits are scattered at runtime, instead of
expanding lm_head/markov_w2 and synthesizing an output bias at conversion
- move the t2d skip to modify_tensors, like EAGLE3
- drop _is_specforge: the arch name only picks the sample_from_anchor
default, embed/lm_head sharing is decided by the draft vocab size
- deduplicate the tok_embd create_tensor left behind by the rebase
Verified with the RedHat gemma-4-31b speculator draft: greedy output is
byte-identical with and without the draft; acceptance 0.26 (n_max 7).
Co-authored-by: desovo7 <942845546@qq.com>
Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5
* dspark: fold the sample_from_anchor read into the block_size block
* dspark: fix flake8 continuation indent
* clean up
* dspark: key the sample_from_anchor default off the export format
Co-authored-by: desovo7 <942845546@qq.com>
Assisted-by: Claude Fable
* dspark: drop t2d in filter_tensors
Co-authored-by: desovo7 <942845546@qq.com>
Assisted-by: Claude Fable
* dspark: map model.lm_head instead of bypassing the dflash prefix
Co-authored-by: desovo7 <942845546@qq.com>
Assisted-by: Claude Fable
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Co-authored-by: desovo7 <942845546@qq.com>
Co-authored-by: ruixiang63 <wangruixiang07@outlook.com>
* Adding support for bailingmoe3
* Adds speculative decoding support
* Make BailingMoE3 safe gate metadata optional
* bailingmoe3: apply trained SwiGLU clamps
* common: fix Bailing V3 tool argument parsing
* llama-model-saver, instantiate float vector metadata writer
* bailingmoe3: support Q-LoRA (Ling-3.0-tiny)
Ling-3.0-flash sets q_lora_rank: None and projects Q directly, so the current
implementation loads a single ATTN_Q tensor. Ling-3.0-tiny sets q_lora_rank: 256
and routes Q through a LoRA bottleneck instead:
q_a_proj -> q_a_layernorm -> q_b_proj
Conversion therefore failed with:
ValueError: Can not map tensor 'model.layers.3.attention.q_a_layernorm.weight'
Add the missing path, mirroring the existing deepseek2 MLA implementation:
* constants.py - add ATTN_Q_A / ATTN_Q_B / ATTN_Q_A_NORM to BAILINGMOE3
* tensor_mapping.py - map model.layers.{bid}.attention.q_{a,b}_proj and
q_a_layernorm
* conversion - emit attention.q_lora_rank when the config has it
* bailingmoe3.cpp - read n_lora_q; create the Q-LoRA tensors and build Q
through the bottleneck when q_lora_rank > 0
Everything is gated on q_lora_rank > 0. Ling-3.0-flash's config has no
q_lora_rank, the converter only emits the key when present, hparams.n_lora_q
defaults to 0, and get_key(..., required=false) leaves the target untouched when
the key is absent - so flash keeps taking the existing direct-Q branch.
The LoRA path produces the same shape as the direct projection, so the
nope/rope split, RoPE application and wk_b absorption downstream are unchanged.
* small mtp change
* bailingmoe3: support separate MTP GGUF and Q-LoRA MTP
* gguf: remove duplicate add_kda_gate_lower_bound definition
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Co-authored-by: bloomer <bloomer@booper.brushtail.me>
Co-authored-by: Dyluhn <dylanranejohnston1@gmail.com>
* model: add Kimi-K3 text model
Hybrid KDA (linear) + MLA (full) attention as in Kimi-Linear-48B, plus five
things that architecture does not have:
1. cross-layer residual attention (attn_res_block_size)
2. latent MoE (routed experts run at n_expert_latent)
3. situ activation (replaces SwiGLU everywhere)
4. MLA output gate (sigmoid gate before o_proj)
5. full-rank KDA gate (single ssm_g instead of ssm_g_a/ssm_g_b)
K3's text_config reports KimiLinearForCausalLM - the older 48B architecture -
so get_model_architecture routes on the top-level name instead.
The KDA decay gate has two forms, selected by linear_attn_config's
gate_lower_bound. It is not a clamp: when set it swaps the activation entirely
(fla/ops/kda/gate.py), from -exp(A_log)*softplus(x) to
lower_bound*sigmoid(exp(A_log)*x). K3 sets it to -5.0; kimi-linear leaves it
unset, so that path is unchanged.
Cross-layer residuals reuse ggml_dsv4_hc_pre for the weighted sum. That op is
CPU + CUDA only, so Metal/Vulkan will fall back per-node until those kernels
exist.
The routed experts ship as compressed-tensors "mxfp4-pack-quantized". That is
bit-compatible with ggml's MXFP4 - same E2M1 code assignment, same E8M0 scale
byte, only the nibble positions within a block differ - so they are repacked
rather than dequantized, losslessly and without a ~5.5 TB bf16 round-trip.
The repack is built lazily because gguf_writer holds every added tensor until
the final write. DeepSeek-V4 was already doing the identical bit-shuffling, so
it now shares the helper.
Verified against Moonshot's own code path (transformers + fla's Triton KDA
kernels) on a tiny model exercising every K3-specific feature. Final-position
logits vs the fp32 reference: 6.7e-05 rel / corr 1.00000000 for both the
chunked and the recurrent delta-net path. MXFP4 blocks dequantize to the source
weights with 0.0e+00 error.
Assisted-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* model: fix ty errors in the Kimi-K3 converter
- `_res_parts` buffers (kind, tensor) pairs, not bare tensors
- `get_tensors` must return an Iterator, matching ModelBase
- LazyBase's `func` takes one argument, so pass the expert loaders through
`args` instead of the closure
- borrowing KimiLinearModel.set_vocab from an unrelated TextModel is
deliberate and safe, but not expressible in the signature
No behaviour change: the MXFP4 repack still dequantizes to the source weights
with 0.0e+00 error and end-to-end logits are unchanged (8.386e-03 rel,
corr 0.99996630).
Assisted-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Update conversion/kimi_k3.py
Co-authored-by: Boris Dvorkin <b_dvorkin@niuitmo.ru>
* Increase LLAMA_MAX_EXPERTS from 512 to 1024
* tests : support for Kimi K3 in archs test
* chat : add Kimi K3 chat format (reasoning, content, typed tool calls)
K3's assistant output is an XTML-ish tagged format built by the template's
open_tag/close_tag macros. Two properties break generic parsing:
1. The generation prompt ends with open_tag('think'), so the completion
starts inside the think section with no opening marker in the output
(thinking_forced_open).
2. Only <|open|>/<|close|>/<|sep|>/<|end_of_msg|> are special tokens; tag
names ("think", "response", "message") are ordinary text tokens.
Adds common_chat_params_init_kimi_k3 (PEG_NATIVE) with detection on the
marker trio, reasoning extraction, response unwrapping, and tool-call
parsing of the tools/call/argument tag structure with argument types
taken from the tool schema. Includes the K3 chat template fixture and 9
test-chat cases derived from real generations of the full 2.8T model.
Verified end-to-end against Kimi-K3-Q2_K (GrEarl/Kimi-K3-GGUF) on 8x B200:
content, reasoning_content, streaming deltas, and tool_calls all correct;
finish_reason stop/tool_calls as appropriate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chat : add message_delimiters for Kimi K3
Per-role message-start markers for token-level span splitting. User and
assistant messages carry only the role attribute, so their full opener
(through <|sep|>) is used; system and tool messages continue with more
attributes (type=/tool=/index=), so those delimiters stop after the
role's closing quote. Verified against the K3 tiktoken vocabulary that
the closing quote is always a standalone token across all attribute
variants, so the token-level prefix match stays exact.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: apply nits from @ngxson and text fixes from @danielhanchen
* tests : added missing hyperparameters and tensors for Kimi K3 in test-llama-archs
* chore : move overly verbose header file comments to Kimi K3 source file
* tests : re-enabled KIMI_K3 in test-llama-archs for WebGPU backend
* model-saver : emit kda_gate_lower_bound for Kimi K3
Quick fix. The Kimi K3 loader reads kda_gate_lower_bound and gates a graph branch on it (it scales the KDA gate when the bound is above -INFINITY), but the model
saver never wrote the key, so a save->load roundtrip silently dropped it back to the -INFINITY default and changed the model's output. The real K3 config sets gate_lower_bound = -5.0.
I propose to emit it from the saver, and set it to -5.0 in the test-llama-archs K3 case so the roundtrip check exercises it (the roundtrip fails without the saver line).
* Refactor conditional for model architecture check
* tests : re-enabled (again) KIMI_K3 and MINIMAX_M3 in test-llama-archs for WebGPU backend
* fix code comments
* add template on conversion
* move repack_mxfp4_blocks to model base
* nits
* add_value_length
* optimize res_stack construction
* nits
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Co-authored-by: Boris Dvorkin <b_dvorkin@niuitmo.ru>
Co-authored-by: Stanisław Szymczyk <sszymczy@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Deepankar Singh <singh.deepankar39@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Caleb DeLeeuw <caleb.deleeuw@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Xuan Son Nguyen <son@huggingface.co>
* common: support --models-dir loading MTP assistant models
* common: preset: check for MTP models with strict prefix
* common: preset: Take advantage of PR #27005
* handle other draft types
* drop eagle3
* clean up
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Co-authored-by: Xuan Son Nguyen <son@huggingface.co>
* chat: add reasoning_effort to common_chat_templates_inputs
Store OpenAI Chat Completions reasoning_effort and make it
available to jinja templates (with model specific translations
where required).
Assisted-by: llama.cpp:Muse-Glimmer-30B
* server : fixup reading reasoning effort from body
server_chat_convert_responses_to_chatcmpl already handles conversion of
Responses API reasoning.effort to reasoning_effort
* chat : expose reasoning effort
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
* chat : add reasoning_effort to generation_params
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
* chat : move reasoning_effort next to enable_thinking
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
* cont : mirror preserve_reasoning
* cont : pass context through analyze function
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Co-authored-by: Alde Rojas <hello@alde.dev>
* common : auto-detect spec type from draft GGUF metadata
When -md loads a local draft model without --spec-type, the sidecar
inference in common_models_handler_apply only checks HF repo sidecars
and misses local files. The draft model loads into VRAM but speculative
decoding never activates (types stays NONE).
Read general.architecture from the draft GGUF header and map:
dflash + markov_w1.weight tensor -> draft-dspark
dflash without markov head -> draft-dflash
Assisted-by: opencode
* common : address review feedback on spec-type auto-detect PR
- Fix comment spacing to match surrounding style (/* .x = */ not /*.x =*/)
- Add LOG_INF when auto-detection fires so users can see why spec decoding enabled
- Document single-file assumption for split-GGUF edge case
Addresses bot review feedback on #26814.
* common : move spec-type GGUF auto-detect into speculative module
- add common_speculative_types_from_gguf() in speculative.cpp/.h
- use gguf_context_ptr (RAII) from ggml-cpp.h
- reduce comments to a single line per AGENTS.md style
Addresses review feedback on #26814
* common : add doc note and join SPC_INF line in spec-type auto-detect
Assisted-by: opencode
* common: Add CLI > ENV > models-presets > INI precedence
1. CLI flags have the highest precedence
2. ENV vars have the second-highest precedence
3. System and User configs have the lowest precedence
- Linux/BSD/Mac
- /etc/llama.cpp/config.ini < ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/llama.cpp/config.ini
- Windows
- %PROGRAMDATA%\llama.cpp\config.ini < %APPDATA%\llama.cpp\config.ini
* fix UB
* use common_get_env
* ignore_unknown_keys
* nits
* add docs
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Co-authored-by: Xuan Son Nguyen <son@huggingface.co>
* 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]
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Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
* chat : fix muse-glimmer swallowing a trailing tool call into content
Muse Glimmer routinely answers the user and calls a tool in a single
generation. The template terminates a message with <|eom|> when more
messages follow in the same turn and <|eot|> only at the end of the turn,
so the answer is closed by <|eom|> and the call opens a fresh header:
<prose><|eom|><|start|>assistant to=<tool><|message|><atem:function_calls>...
The final-message rule read content with until("<|eot|>"), which assumed the
user-facing message is always last. There is no <|eot|> before the call, so
content ran to the end of the turn, absorbed the markup, and no tool_calls
were emitted - the tool never ran. On a tau2-bench telecom run this hit 43
turns across 19 of 114 tasks.
Stop the answer at <|eom|> and parse what follows as tool calls.
Adds models/templates/muse-glimmer.jinja and four parser tests: a plain
answer, the <|eom|> junction, markup quoted in an answer staying content,
and tool markup inside the to=self channel staying reasoning.
* address comment
* 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
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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>
Xuan Son Nguyen