metal : optimize pad

.devops/cann.Dockerfile

@@ -58,7 +58,6 @@ RUN mkdir -p /app/lib && \
 RUN mkdir -p /app/full && \
     cp build/bin/* /app/full/ && \
     cp *.py /app/full/ && \
-    cp -r conversion /app/full/ && \
     cp -r gguf-py /app/full/ && \
     cp -r requirements /app/full/ && \
     cp requirements.txt /app/full/

.devops/cpu.Dockerfile

@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ RUN mkdir -p /app/lib && \
 RUN mkdir -p /app/full \
     && cp build/bin/* /app/full \
     && cp *.py /app/full \
-    && cp -r conversion /app/full \
     && cp -r gguf-py /app/full \
     && cp -r requirements /app/full \
     && cp requirements.txt /app/full \

.devops/cuda.Dockerfile

@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ RUN mkdir -p /app/lib && \
 RUN mkdir -p /app/full \
     && cp build/bin/* /app/full \
     && cp *.py /app/full \
-    && cp -r conversion /app/full \
     && cp -r gguf-py /app/full \
     && cp -r requirements /app/full \
     && cp requirements.txt /app/full \

.devops/intel.Dockerfile

@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ RUN mkdir -p /app/lib && \
 RUN mkdir -p /app/full \
     && cp build/bin/* /app/full \
     && cp *.py /app/full \
-    && cp -r conversion /app/full \
     && cp -r gguf-py /app/full \
     && cp -r requirements /app/full \
     && cp requirements.txt /app/full \

.devops/musa.Dockerfile

@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ RUN mkdir -p /app/lib && \
 RUN mkdir -p /app/full \
     && cp build/bin/* /app/full \
     && cp *.py /app/full \
-    && cp -r conversion /app/full \
     && cp -r gguf-py /app/full \
     && cp -r requirements /app/full \
     && cp requirements.txt /app/full \

.devops/openvino.Dockerfile

@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ RUN mkdir -p /app/lib && \
 RUN mkdir -p /app/full \
     && cp build/ReleaseOV/bin/* /app/full/ \
     && cp *.py /app/full \
-    && cp -r conversion /app/full \
     && cp -r gguf-py /app/full \
     && cp -r requirements /app/full \
     && cp requirements.txt /app/full \

.devops/rocm.Dockerfile

@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ RUN mkdir -p /app/lib \
 RUN mkdir -p /app/full \
     && cp build/bin/* /app/full \
     && cp *.py /app/full \
-    && cp -r conversion /app/full \
     && cp -r gguf-py /app/full \
     && cp -r requirements /app/full \
     && cp requirements.txt /app/full \

.devops/s390x.Dockerfile

@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.ccache \
 
 COPY *.py             /opt/llama.cpp/bin
 COPY .devops/tools.sh /opt/llama.cpp/bin
-COPY conversion       /opt/llama.cpp/conversion
 
 COPY gguf-py          /opt/llama.cpp/gguf-py
 COPY requirements.txt /opt/llama.cpp/gguf-py
@@ -48,10 +47,9 @@ COPY requirements     /opt/llama.cpp/gguf-py/requirements
 FROM scratch AS collector
 
 # Copy llama.cpp binaries and libraries
-COPY --from=build /opt/llama.cpp/bin        /llama.cpp/bin
-COPY --from=build /opt/llama.cpp/lib        /llama.cpp/lib
-COPY --from=build /opt/llama.cpp/gguf-py    /llama.cpp/gguf-py
-COPY --from=build /opt/llama.cpp/conversion /llama.cpp/conversion
+COPY --from=build /opt/llama.cpp/bin     /llama.cpp/bin
+COPY --from=build /opt/llama.cpp/lib     /llama.cpp/lib
+COPY --from=build /opt/llama.cpp/gguf-py /llama.cpp/gguf-py
 
 
 ### Base image
@@ -109,7 +107,6 @@ RUN curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | bash -s -- -y
 
 COPY --from=collector /llama.cpp/bin /app
 COPY --from=collector /llama.cpp/gguf-py /app/gguf-py
-COPY --from=collector /llama.cpp/conversion /app/conversion
 
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --break-system-packages \
         -r /app/gguf-py/requirements.txt

.devops/vulkan.Dockerfile

@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ RUN mkdir -p /app/lib && \
 RUN mkdir -p /app/full \
     && cp build/bin/* /app/full \
     && cp *.py /app/full \
-    && cp -r conversion /app/full \
     && cp -r gguf-py /app/full \
     && cp -r requirements /app/full \
     && cp requirements.txt /app/full \

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/011-bug-results.yml

@@ -100,8 +100,8 @@ body:
       label: Relevant log output
       description: >
           Please copy and paste any relevant log output, including the command that you entered and any generated text.
-          For very long logs (thousands of lines), please upload them as files instead; the `--log-file` CLI argument can be used for this purpose.
-          On Linux you can alternatively redirect the console output of any command into a file by appending ` > llama.log 2>&1` to your command.
+          For very long logs (thousands of lines), preferably upload them as files instead.
+          On Linux you can redirect console output into a file by appending ` > llama.log 2>&1` to your command.
       value: |
         <details>
         <summary>Logs</summary>

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/019-bug-misc.yml

@@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ body:
       description: >
           If applicable, please copy and paste any relevant log output, including any generated text.
           If you are encountering problems specifically with the `llama_params_fit` module, always upload `--verbose` logs as well.
-          For very long logs (thousands of lines), please upload them as files instead; the `--log-file` CLI argument can be used for this purpose.
-          On Linux you can alternatively redirect the console output of any command into a file by appending ` > llama.log 2>&1` to your command.
+          For very long logs (thousands of lines), please upload them as files instead.
+          On Linux you can redirect console output into a file by appending ` > llama.log 2>&1` to your command.
       value: |
         <details>
         <summary>Logs</summary>

.github/actions/linux-setup-spacemit/action.yml

@@ -15,6 +15,6 @@ runs:
       id: setup
       uses: ./.github/actions/unarchive-tar
       with:
-        url: https://github.com/spacemit-com/toolchain/releases/download/v${{ inputs.version }}/spacemit-toolchain-linux-glibc-x86_64-v${{ inputs.version }}.tar.xz
+        url: https://archive.spacemit.com/toolchain/spacemit-toolchain-linux-glibc-x86_64-v${{ inputs.version }}.tar.xz
         path: ${{ inputs.path }}
         strip: 1

.github/actions/unarchive-tar/action.yml

@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ runs:
       run: |
         mkdir -p ${{ inputs.path }}
         cd ${{ inputs.path }}
-        curl --no-progress-meter -L ${{ inputs.url }} | tar -${{ inputs.type }}x --strip-components=${{ inputs.strip }}
+        curl --no-progress-meter ${{ inputs.url }} | tar -${{ inputs.type }}x --strip-components=${{ inputs.strip }}

.github/actions/windows-setup-cuda/action.yml

@@ -96,34 +96,3 @@ runs:
           echo "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.1\bin" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_PATH -Encoding utf8 -Append
           echo "CUDA_PATH=C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.1" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
           echo "CUDA_PATH_V13_1=C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.1" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
-
-    - name: Install Cuda Toolkit 13.3
-      if: ${{ inputs.cuda_version == '13.3' }}
-      shell: pwsh
-      run: |
-          mkdir -p "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3"
-          choco install unzip -y
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_crt/windows-x86_64/cuda_crt-windows-x86_64-13.3.33-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_cudart/windows-x86_64/cuda_cudart-windows-x86_64-13.3.29-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_nvcc/windows-x86_64/cuda_nvcc-windows-x86_64-13.3.33-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_nvrtc/windows-x86_64/cuda_nvrtc-windows-x86_64-13.3.33-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/libcublas/windows-x86_64/libcublas-windows-x86_64-13.5.1.27-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/libnvvm/windows-x86_64/libnvvm-windows-x86_64-13.3.33-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_nvtx/windows-x86_64/cuda_nvtx-windows-x86_64-13.3.29-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_profiler_api/windows-x86_64/cuda_profiler_api-windows-x86_64-13.3.27-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/visual_studio_integration/windows-x86_64/visual_studio_integration-windows-x86_64-13.3.27-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cccl/windows-x86_64/cccl-windows-x86_64-13.3.3.3.1-archive.zip"
-          unzip '*.zip' -d "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3"
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\cuda_crt-windows-x86_64-13.3.33-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\cuda_cudart-windows-x86_64-13.3.29-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\cuda_nvcc-windows-x86_64-13.3.33-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\cuda_nvrtc-windows-x86_64-13.3.33-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\libcublas-windows-x86_64-13.5.1.27-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\libnvvm-windows-x86_64-13.3.33-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\cuda_nvtx-windows-x86_64-13.3.29-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\cuda_profiler_api-windows-x86_64-13.3.27-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\visual_studio_integration-windows-x86_64-13.3.27-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\cccl-windows-x86_64-13.3.3.3.1-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" /E /I /H /Y
-          echo "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\bin" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_PATH -Encoding utf8 -Append
-          echo "CUDA_PATH=C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
-          echo "CUDA_PATH_V13_3=C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8

.github/workflows/build-3rd-party.yml

@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ concurrency:
 env:
   GGML_NLOOP: 3
   GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
 
 jobs:
   ubuntu-24-llguidance:

.github/workflows/build-and-test-snapdragon.yml

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ jobs:
   android-ndk-snapdragon:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     container:
-      image: 'ghcr.io/snapdragon-toolchain/arm64-android:v0.7'
+      image: 'ghcr.io/snapdragon-toolchain/arm64-android:v0.3'
     defaults:
       run:
         shell: bash
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ jobs:
   linux-iot-snapdragon:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     container:
-      image: 'ghcr.io/snapdragon-toolchain/arm64-linux:v0.7'
+      image: 'ghcr.io/snapdragon-toolchain/arm64-linux:v0.1'
     defaults:
       run:
         shell: bash

.github/workflows/build-android.yml

@@ -27,12 +27,12 @@ concurrency:
 env:
   GGML_NLOOP: 3
   GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
 
 jobs:
-  default:
+  android:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ jobs:
           cd examples/llama.android
           ./gradlew build --no-daemon
 
-  ndk:
+  android-ndk:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     container:
       image: 'ghcr.io/snapdragon-toolchain/arm64-android:v0.3'
@@ -73,11 +73,6 @@ jobs:
           fetch-depth: 0
           lfs: false
 
-      - name: Dependencies
-        run: |
-          apt-get update
-          apt-get install -y build-essential
-
       - name: Build
         id: ndk_build
         run: |
@@ -91,59 +86,3 @@ jobs:
         with:
           name: llama-cpp-android-arm64-cpu
           path: pkg-adb/llama.cpp
-
-  arm64:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    env:
-      NDK_VERSION: "29.0.14206865"
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      # note : disabled to spare some cache space (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23789)
-      #        for some reason, the ccache does not improve the build time in this case
-      # example:
-      #   cache off: https://github.com/ggerganov/tmp2/actions/runs/26534713799/job/78160400831
-      #   cache on:  https://github.com/ggerganov/tmp2/actions/runs/26534713799/job/78224189394
-      #
-      #- name: ccache
-      #  uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-      #  with:
-      #    key: android-ubuntu-arm64
-      #    evict-old-files: 1d
-      #    save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Set up JDK
-        uses: actions/setup-java@v5
-        with:
-          java-version: 17
-          distribution: temurin
-
-      - name: Setup Android SDK
-        uses: android-actions/setup-android@40fd30fb8d7440372e1316f5d1809ec01dcd3699 # v4.0.1
-        with:
-          log-accepted-android-sdk-licenses: false
-
-      - name: Install NDK
-        run: |
-          sdkmanager "ndk;${{ env.NDK_VERSION }}"
-          echo "ANDROID_NDK=${ANDROID_SDK_ROOT}/ndk/${{ env.NDK_VERSION }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build \
-            -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=${ANDROID_NDK}/build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake \
-            -DANDROID_ABI=arm64-v8a \
-            -DANDROID_PLATFORM=android-28 \
-            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
-            -DGGML_BACKEND_DL=ON \
-            -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF \
-            -DGGML_CPU_ALL_VARIANTS=ON \
-            -DGGML_OPENMP=OFF \
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON \
-            -DGGML_RPC=ON
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)

.github/workflows/build-apple.yml

@@ -32,12 +32,12 @@ concurrency:
 env:
   GGML_NLOOP: 3
   GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
 
 jobs:
-  macos-latest-arm64:
+  macOS-latest-ios:
     runs-on: macos-latest
 
     steps:
@@ -48,80 +48,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: ccache
         uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
         with:
-          key: apple-arm64
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          sysctl -a
-          cmake -B build \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_RPATH="@loader_path" \
-            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON \
-            -DGGML_METAL_USE_BF16=ON \
-            -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=OFF \
-            -DGGML_METAL_SHADER_DEBUG=ON \
-            -DGGML_RPC=ON
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu)
-          leaks -atExit -- ./build/bin/test-thread-safety -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-270m-qat-GGUF -ngl 99 -p "$(printf 'hello %.0s' {1..128})" -n 16 -c 512 -ub 32 -np 2 -t 2 -lv 1
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: cmake_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          ctest -L main -E "test-llama-archs" --verbose --timeout 900
-
-  macos-latest-x64:
-    runs-on: macos-15-intel
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: apple-x64
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          sysctl -a
-          # Metal is disabled due to intermittent failures with Github runners not having a GPU:
-          # https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/actions/runs/8635935781/job/23674807267#step:5:2313
-          cmake -B build \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_RPATH="@loader_path" \
-            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON \
-            -DGGML_METAL=OFF \
-            -DGGML_RPC=ON \
-            -DCMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=13.3
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu)
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: cmake_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          ctest -L main --verbose --timeout 900
-
-  macos-latest-ios:
-    runs-on: macos-latest
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      # TODO: this likely does not do anything - if yes, remove it
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: apple-ios
+          key: macOS-latest-ios
           evict-old-files: 1d
           save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
 
@@ -132,7 +59,6 @@ jobs:
           cmake -B build -G Xcode \
             -DGGML_METAL_USE_BF16=ON \
             -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON \
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_APP=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_COMMON=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS=OFF \
@@ -163,7 +89,6 @@ jobs:
             -DGGML_METAL_USE_BF16=ON \
             -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON \
             -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_APP=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
@@ -190,7 +115,7 @@ jobs:
           xcodebuild -downloadPlatform iOS
           xcodebuild -project examples/llama.swiftui/llama.swiftui.xcodeproj -scheme llama.swiftui -sdk iphoneos CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED=NO CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY= -destination 'generic/platform=iOS' FRAMEWORK_FOLDER_PATH=./build-ios build
 
-  macos-latest-tvos:
+  macOS-latest-tvos:
     runs-on: macos-latest
 
     steps:
@@ -198,11 +123,10 @@ jobs:
         id: checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
-      # TODO: this likely does not do anything - if yes, remove it
       - name: ccache
         uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
         with:
-          key: apple-tvos
+          key: macOS-latest-tvos
           evict-old-files: 1d
           save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
 
@@ -214,7 +138,6 @@ jobs:
             -DGGML_METAL_USE_BF16=ON \
             -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_COMMON=OFF \
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_APP=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
@@ -224,7 +147,7 @@ jobs:
             -DCMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_DEVELOPMENT_TEAM=ggml
           cmake --build build --config Release -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu) -- CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED=NO
 
-  macos-latest-visionos:
+  macOS-latest-visionos:
     runs-on: macos-latest
 
     steps:
@@ -232,14 +155,6 @@ jobs:
         id: checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
-      # TODO: this likely does not do anything - if yes, remove it
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: apple-visionos
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
       - name: Build
         id: cmake_build
         run: |
@@ -248,7 +163,6 @@ jobs:
             -DGGML_METAL_USE_BF16=ON \
             -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_COMMON=OFF \
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_APP=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
@@ -258,7 +172,7 @@ jobs:
             -DCMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_DEVELOPMENT_TEAM=ggml
           cmake --build build --config Release -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu) -- CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED=NO
 
-  macos-latest-swift:
+  macOS-latest-swift:
     runs-on: macos-latest
     needs: macos-latest-ios-xcode
 
@@ -271,11 +185,10 @@ jobs:
         id: checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
-      # TODO: this likely does not do anything - if yes, remove it
       - name: ccache
         uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
         with:
-          key: apple-swift
+          key: macOS-latest-swift
           evict-old-files: 1d
           save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
 
@@ -293,7 +206,6 @@ jobs:
             -DGGML_METAL_USE_BF16=ON \
             -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON \
             -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_APP=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \

.github/workflows/build-cache.yml

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ jobs:
         id: cache-sdk
         with:
           path: ./vulkan_sdk
-          key: cache-gha-vulkan-sdk-${{ env.VULKAN_SDK_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
+          key: vulkan-sdk-${{ env.VULKAN_SDK_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
 
       - name: Setup Vulkan SDK
         if: steps.cache-sdk.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ jobs:
   #      id: cache-toolchain
   #      with:
   #        path: ./spacemit_toolchain
-  #        key: cache-gha-spacemit-ime-toolchain-v${{ env.SPACEMIT_IME_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
+  #        key: spacemit-ime-toolchain-v${{ env.SPACEMIT_IME_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
 
   #    - name: Setup SpacemiT Toolchain
   #      if: steps.cache-toolchain.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ jobs:
         id: cache-openvino
         with:
           path: ./openvino_toolkit
-          key: cache-gha-openvino-toolkit-v${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL }}-${{ runner.os }}
+          key: openvino-toolkit-v${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL }}-${{ runner.os }}
 
       - name: Setup OpenVINO Toolkit
         if: steps.cache-openvino.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ jobs:
         id: cache-rocm
         with:
           path: C:\Program Files\AMD\ROCm
-          key: cache-gha-rocm-${{ env.HIPSDK_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
+          key: rocm-${{ env.HIPSDK_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
 
       - name: Setup ROCm
         if: steps.cache-rocm.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'

.github/workflows/build-cann.yml

@@ -29,76 +29,74 @@ concurrency:
 env:
   GGML_NLOOP: 3
   GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
 
 jobs:
-# TODO: this build is disabled to save Github Actions resources (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23705)
-#       in order to enable it again, we have to provision dedicated runners  to run it
-#  openEuler-latest-cann:
-#    defaults:
-#      run:
-#        shell: bash -el {0}
-#    strategy:
-#      matrix:
-#        arch: [x86, aarch64]
-#        chip_type: ['910b', '310p']
-#        build: ['Release']
-#        use_acl_graph: ['on', 'off']
-#        exclude:
-#          # 310P does not support USE_ACL_GRAPH=on
-#          - chip_type: '310p'
-#            use_acl_graph: 'on'
-#    runs-on: ${{ matrix.arch == 'aarch64' && 'ubuntu-24.04-arm' || 'ubuntu-24.04' }}
-#    steps:
-#      - name: Checkout
-#        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-#        with:
-#          fetch-depth: 0
-#
-#      - name: Free up disk space
-#        uses: ggml-org/free-disk-space@v1.3.1
-#        with:
-#          tool-cache: true
-#
-#      - name: Set container image
-#        id: cann-image
-#        run: |
-#          image="ascendai/cann:${{ matrix.chip_type == '910b' &&  '8.5.0-910b-openeuler24.03-py3.11' || '8.5.0-310p-openeuler24.03-py3.11' }}"
-#          echo "image=${image}" >> "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
-#
-#      - name: Pull container image
-#        run: docker pull "${{ steps.cann-image.outputs.image }}"
-#
-#      - name: Build
-#        env:
-#          BUILD_TYPE: ${{ matrix.build }}
-#          SOC_TYPE: ascend${{ matrix.chip_type }}
-#          USE_ACL_GRAPH: ${{ matrix.use_acl_graph }}
-#        run: |
-#          HOST_UID=$(id -u)
-#          HOST_GID=$(id -g)
-#
-#          docker run --rm \
-#            -v "${PWD}:/workspace" \
-#            -w /workspace \
-#            -e SOC_TYPE=${SOC_TYPE} \
-#            -e BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE} \
-#            -e USE_ACL_GRAPH=${USE_ACL_GRAPH} \
-#            "${{ steps.cann-image.outputs.image }}" \
-#            bash -lc '
-#              set -e
-#              yum install -y --setopt=install_weak_deps=False --setopt=tsflags=nodocs git gcc gcc-c++ make cmake openssl-devel
-#              yum clean all && rm -rf /var/cache/yum
-#              git config --global --add safe.directory "/workspace"
-#              export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${ASCEND_TOOLKIT_HOME}/lib64:${ASCEND_TOOLKIT_HOME}/$(uname -m)-linux/devlib/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
-#              cmake -S . -B build \
-#                  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE} \
-#                  -DGGML_CANN=on \
-#                  -DSOC_TYPE=${SOC_TYPE} \
-#                  -DUSE_ACL_GRAPH=${USE_ACL_GRAPH}
-#              cmake --build build -j $(nproc)
-#
-#              chown -R '"${HOST_UID}"':'"${HOST_GID}"' /workspace/build
-#            '
+  openEuler-latest-cann:
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: bash -el {0}
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        arch: [x86, aarch64]
+        chip_type: ['910b', '310p']
+        build: ['Release']
+        use_acl_graph: ['on', 'off']
+        exclude:
+          # 310P does not support USE_ACL_GRAPH=on
+          - chip_type: '310p'
+            use_acl_graph: 'on'
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.arch == 'aarch64' && 'ubuntu-24.04-arm' || 'ubuntu-24.04' }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Free up disk space
+        uses: ggml-org/free-disk-space@v1.3.1
+        with:
+          tool-cache: true
+
+      - name: Set container image
+        id: cann-image
+        run: |
+          image="ascendai/cann:${{ matrix.chip_type == '910b' &&  '8.5.0-910b-openeuler24.03-py3.11' || '8.5.0-310p-openeuler24.03-py3.11' }}"
+          echo "image=${image}" >> "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
+
+      - name: Pull container image
+        run: docker pull "${{ steps.cann-image.outputs.image }}"
+
+      - name: Build
+        env:
+          BUILD_TYPE: ${{ matrix.build }}
+          SOC_TYPE: ascend${{ matrix.chip_type }}
+          USE_ACL_GRAPH: ${{ matrix.use_acl_graph }}
+        run: |
+          HOST_UID=$(id -u)
+          HOST_GID=$(id -g)
+
+          docker run --rm \
+            -v "${PWD}:/workspace" \
+            -w /workspace \
+            -e SOC_TYPE=${SOC_TYPE} \
+            -e BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE} \
+            -e USE_ACL_GRAPH=${USE_ACL_GRAPH} \
+            "${{ steps.cann-image.outputs.image }}" \
+            bash -lc '
+              set -e
+              yum install -y --setopt=install_weak_deps=False --setopt=tsflags=nodocs git gcc gcc-c++ make cmake openssl-devel
+              yum clean all && rm -rf /var/cache/yum
+              git config --global --add safe.directory "/workspace"
+              export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${ASCEND_TOOLKIT_HOME}/lib64:${ASCEND_TOOLKIT_HOME}/$(uname -m)-linux/devlib/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
+              cmake -S . -B build \
+                  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE} \
+                  -DGGML_CANN=on \
+                  -DSOC_TYPE=${SOC_TYPE} \
+                  -DUSE_ACL_GRAPH=${USE_ACL_GRAPH}
+              cmake --build build -j $(nproc)
+
+              chown -R '"${HOST_UID}"':'"${HOST_GID}"' /workspace/build
+            '

.github/workflows/build-cmake-pkg.yml

@@ -5,23 +5,23 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   linux:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, CPU]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt update
+          sudo apt install -y build-essential tcl cmake
+
       - name: Build
         run: |
           PREFIX="$(pwd)"/inst
-          cmake -S . -B build \
-                -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$PREFIX" \
-                -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
-                -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
-                -DLLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS=OFF \
-                -DLLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF \
-                -DLLAMA_BUILD_APP=OFF \
-                -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
+          cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$PREFIX" \
+                -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -DLLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS=OFF \
+                -DLLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
           cmake --build build --config Release
           cmake --install build --prefix "$PREFIX" --config Release
 

.github/workflows/build-cpu.yml

@@ -1,231 +0,0 @@
-name: CI (cpu)
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-cpu.yml',
-      '.github/workflows/build-cmake-pkg.yml',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      '**/*.h',
-      '**/*.hpp',
-      '**/*.c',
-      '**/*.cpp',
-      '**/*.cu',
-      '**/*.cuh',
-      '**/*.swift',
-      '**/*.m',
-      '**/*.metal',
-      '**/*.comp',
-      '**/*.glsl',
-      '**/*.wgsl'
-    ]
-
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-cpu.yml',
-      '.github/workflows/build-cmake-pkg.yml',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      '**/*.h',
-      '**/*.hpp',
-      '**/*.c',
-      '**/*.cpp',
-      '**/*.cu',
-      '**/*.cuh',
-      '**/*.swift',
-      '**/*.m',
-      '**/*.metal',
-      '**/*.comp',
-      '**/*.glsl',
-      '**/*.wgsl'
-    ]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref && github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-env:
-  GGML_NLOOP: 3
-  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-
-jobs:
-  build-cmake-pkg:
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/build-cmake-pkg.yml
-
-  ubuntu:
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        include:
-          - build: 'x64'
-            os: ubuntu-22.04
-          - build: 'arm64'
-            os: ubuntu-24.04-arm
-
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: cpu-${{ matrix.os }}
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Build Dependencies
-        id: build_depends
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-            python3 python3-pip python3-dev python3-wheel \
-            libjpeg-dev build-essential libssl-dev \
-            git-lfs
-
-      - name: Toolchain workaround (GCC 14)
-        if: ${{ contains(matrix.os, 'ubuntu-24.04') }}
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get install -y gcc-14 g++-14
-          echo "CC=gcc-14" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          echo "CXX=g++-14" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-
-      - name: Python Dependencies
-        id: python_depends
-        run: |
-          export PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES="1"
-          python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
-          pip3 install ./gguf-py
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build \
-            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
-            -DGGML_RPC=ON
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: cmake_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          ctest -L main --verbose --timeout 900
-
-      - name: Test llama2c conversion
-        id: llama2c_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          echo "Fetch tokenizer"
-          wget https://huggingface.co/karpathy/tinyllamas/resolve/main/stories260K/tok512.bin
-          echo "Fetch llama2c model"
-          wget https://huggingface.co/karpathy/tinyllamas/resolve/main/stories260K/stories260K.bin
-          ./bin/llama-convert-llama2c-to-ggml --copy-vocab-from-model ./tok512.bin --llama2c-model stories260K.bin --llama2c-output-model stories260K.gguf
-          ./bin/llama-completion -m stories260K.gguf -p "One day, Lily met a Shoggoth" -n 500 -c 256
-
-  windows:
-    runs-on: windows-2025
-
-    env:
-      OPENBLAS_VERSION: 0.3.23
-      SDE_VERSION: 9.33.0-2024-01-07
-      VULKAN_VERSION: 1.4.313.2
-
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        include:
-          - build: 'x64-cpu-static'
-            arch: 'x64'
-            defines: '-G "Ninja Multi-Config" -D CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=cmake/x64-windows-llvm.cmake -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF -DLLAMA_BUILD_SERVER=ON -DGGML_RPC=ON -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF'
-          - build: 'x64-openblas'
-            arch: 'x64'
-            defines: '-G "Ninja Multi-Config" -D CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=cmake/x64-windows-llvm.cmake -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF -DLLAMA_BUILD_SERVER=ON -DGGML_RPC=ON -DGGML_BACKEND_DL=ON -DGGML_CPU_ALL_VARIANTS=ON -DGGML_OPENMP=OFF -DGGML_BLAS=ON -DGGML_BLAS_VENDOR=OpenBLAS -DBLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS="$env:RUNNER_TEMP/openblas/include" -DBLAS_LIBRARIES="$env:RUNNER_TEMP/openblas/lib/openblas.lib"'
-          - build: 'x64-vulkan'
-            arch: 'x64'
-            defines: '-G "Ninja Multi-Config" -D CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=cmake/x64-windows-llvm.cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF -DLLAMA_BUILD_SERVER=ON -DGGML_RPC=ON -DGGML_BACKEND_DL=ON -DGGML_CPU_ALL_VARIANTS=ON -DGGML_VULKAN=ON'
-          - build: 'arm64'
-            arch: 'arm64'
-            defines: '-G "Ninja Multi-Config" -D CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=cmake/arm64-windows-llvm.cmake -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF -DLLAMA_BUILD_SERVER=ON'
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: cpu-windows-2025-${{ matrix.build }}
-          variant: ccache
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Download OpenBLAS
-        id: get_openblas
-        if: ${{ matrix.build == 'x64-openblas' }}
-        run: |
-          curl.exe -o $env:RUNNER_TEMP/openblas.zip -L "https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/releases/download/v${env:OPENBLAS_VERSION}/OpenBLAS-${env:OPENBLAS_VERSION}-x64.zip"
-          curl.exe -o $env:RUNNER_TEMP/OpenBLAS.LICENSE.txt -L "https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/raw/v${env:OPENBLAS_VERSION}/LICENSE"
-          mkdir $env:RUNNER_TEMP/openblas
-          tar.exe -xvf $env:RUNNER_TEMP/openblas.zip -C $env:RUNNER_TEMP/openblas
-          $vcdir = $(vswhere -latest -products * -requires Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.x86.x64 -property installationPath)
-          $msvc = $(join-path $vcdir $('VC\Tools\MSVC\'+$(gc -raw $(join-path $vcdir 'VC\Auxiliary\Build\Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.default.txt')).Trim()))
-          $lib =  $(join-path $msvc 'bin\Hostx64\x64\lib.exe')
-          & $lib /machine:x64 "/def:${env:RUNNER_TEMP}/openblas/lib/libopenblas.def" "/out:${env:RUNNER_TEMP}/openblas/lib/openblas.lib" /name:openblas.dll
-
-      - name: Install Vulkan SDK
-        id: get_vulkan
-        if: ${{ matrix.build == 'x64-vulkan' }}
-        run: |
-          curl.exe -o $env:RUNNER_TEMP/VulkanSDK-Installer.exe -L "https://sdk.lunarg.com/sdk/download/${env:VULKAN_VERSION}/windows/vulkansdk-windows-X64-${env:VULKAN_VERSION}.exe"
-          & "$env:RUNNER_TEMP\VulkanSDK-Installer.exe" --accept-licenses --default-answer --confirm-command install
-          Add-Content $env:GITHUB_ENV "VULKAN_SDK=C:\VulkanSDK\${env:VULKAN_VERSION}"
-          Add-Content $env:GITHUB_PATH "C:\VulkanSDK\${env:VULKAN_VERSION}\bin"
-
-      - name: Install Ninja
-        id: install_ninja
-        run: |
-          choco install ninja
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -S . -B build ${{ matrix.defines }} `
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON
-          cmake --build build --config Release -j ${env:NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS}
-
-      - name: Add libopenblas.dll
-        id: add_libopenblas_dll
-        if: ${{ matrix.build == 'x64-openblas' }}
-        run: |
-          cp $env:RUNNER_TEMP/openblas/bin/libopenblas.dll ./build/bin/Release/openblas.dll
-          cp $env:RUNNER_TEMP/OpenBLAS.LICENSE.txt ./build/bin/Release/OpenBLAS-${env:OPENBLAS_VERSION}.txt
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: cmake_test
-        if: ${{ matrix.arch == 'x64' }}
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          ctest -L main -C Release --verbose --timeout 900
-
-      # TODO: disabled for now, consider adding tests for all CPU variants instead
-      # - name: Test (Intel SDE)
-      #   id: cmake_test_sde
-      #   if: ${{ matrix.build == 'avx512-x64' && env.HAS_AVX512F == '0' }} # use Intel SDE for AVX-512 emulation
-      #   run: |
-      #     curl.exe -o $env:RUNNER_TEMP/sde.tar.xz -L "https://downloadmirror.intel.com/813591/sde-external-${env:SDE_VERSION}-win.tar.xz"
-      #     # for some weird reason windows tar doesn't like sde tar.xz
-      #     7z x "-o${env:RUNNER_TEMP}" $env:RUNNER_TEMP/sde.tar.xz
-      #     7z x "-o${env:RUNNER_TEMP}" $env:RUNNER_TEMP/sde.tar
-      #     $sde = $(join-path $env:RUNNER_TEMP sde-external-${env:SDE_VERSION}-win/sde.exe)
-      #     cd build
-      #     $env:LLAMA_SKIP_TESTS_SLOW_ON_EMULATOR = 1
-      #     & $sde -future -- ctest -L main -C Release --verbose --timeout 900

.github/workflows/build-cross.yml

@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ jobs:
 
     env:
       # Make sure this is in sync with build-cache.yml
-      SPACEMIT_IME_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION: "1.2.4"
+      SPACEMIT_IME_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION: "1.1.2"
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v6
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ jobs:
       #  id: cache-toolchain
       #  with:
       #    path: ./spacemit_toolchain
-      #    key: cache-gha-spacemit-ime-toolchain-v${{ env.SPACEMIT_IME_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
+      #    key: spacemit-ime-toolchain-v${{ env.SPACEMIT_IME_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
 
       - name: Setup SpacemiT Toolchain
         #if: steps.cache-toolchain.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'

.github/workflows/build-cuda-ubuntu.yml

@@ -1,134 +0,0 @@
-name: CI (CUDA, ubuntu)
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-cuda-ubuntu.yml',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      '**/*.h',
-      '**/*.hpp',
-      '**/*.c',
-      '**/*.cpp',
-      '**/*.cu',
-      '**/*.cuh'
-    ]
-
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-cuda-ubuntu.yml',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-cuda/**'
-    ]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref && github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-env:
-  GGML_NLOOP: 3
-  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-
-jobs:
-  cuda:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    container: nvidia/cuda:12.6.2-devel-ubuntu24.04
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        env:
-          DEBIAN_FRONTEND: noninteractive
-        run: |
-          apt update
-          apt install -y cmake build-essential ninja-build libgomp1 git libssl-dev
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: cuda-ubuntu-24.04-cuda
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Build with CMake
-        # TODO: Remove GGML_CUDA_CUB_3DOT2 flag once CCCL 3.2 is bundled within CTK and that CTK version is used in this project
-        run: |
-          cmake -S . -B build -G Ninja \
-            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-            -DCMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=89-real \
-            -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS=-Wl,--allow-shlib-undefined \
-            -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF \
-            -DGGML_CUDA=ON \
-            -DGGML_CUDA_CUB_3DOT2=ON
-          cmake --build build
-
-  hip:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-    container: rocm/dev-ubuntu-22.04:6.1.2
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Dependencies
-        id: depends
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git cmake rocblas-dev hipblas-dev libssl-dev rocwmma-dev
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: cuda-ubuntu-22.04-hip
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Build with native CMake HIP support
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build -S . \
-            -DCMAKE_HIP_COMPILER="$(hipconfig -l)/clang" \
-            -DGGML_HIP_ROCWMMA_FATTN=ON \
-            -DGPU_TARGETS="gfx1030" \
-            -DGGML_HIP=ON
-          cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
-
-  musa:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-    container: mthreads/musa:rc4.3.0-devel-ubuntu22.04-amd64
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Dependencies
-        id: depends
-        run: |
-          apt-get update
-          apt-get install -y build-essential git cmake libssl-dev
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: cuda-ubuntu-22.04-musa
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Build with native CMake MUSA support
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build -S . \
-            -DGGML_MUSA=ON
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)

.github/workflows/build-cuda-windows.yml

@@ -1,146 +0,0 @@
-name: CI (CUDA, windows)
-
-# TODO: this workflow is only triggered manually because it is very heavy on the CI
-#       when we provision dedicated windows runners, we can enable it for pushes too
-# note: running this workflow manually will populate the ccache for the release builds
-#       this can be used before merging a PR to speed up the release workflow
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-
-# note: this will run in queue with the release workflow
-concurrency:
-  group: release
-  queue: max
-
-env:
-  GGML_NLOOP: 3
-  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-
-jobs:
-  cuda:
-    runs-on: windows-2022
-
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        cuda: ['12.4', '13.3']
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: release-windows-2022-x64-cuda-${{ matrix.cuda }}
-          append-timestamp: false # note: use this only with non-concurrent jobs!
-
-      - name: Install Cuda Toolkit
-        uses: ./.github/actions/windows-setup-cuda
-        with:
-          cuda_version: ${{ matrix.cuda }}
-
-      - name: Install Ninja
-        id: install_ninja
-        run: |
-          choco install ninja
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        shell: cmd
-        # TODO: Remove GGML_CUDA_CUB_3DOT2 flag once CCCL 3.2 is bundled within CTK and that CTK version is used in this project
-        run: |
-          call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
-          cmake -S . -B build -G "Ninja Multi-Config" ^
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_SERVER=ON ^
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON ^
-            -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF ^
-            -DGGML_BACKEND_DL=ON ^
-            -DGGML_CPU_ALL_VARIANTS=ON ^
-            -DGGML_CUDA=ON ^
-            -DGGML_RPC=ON ^
-            -DGGML_CUDA_CUB_3DOT2=ON
-          set /A NINJA_JOBS=%NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS%-1
-          cmake --build build --config Release -j %NINJA_JOBS% -t ggml
-          cmake --build build --config Release
-
-  hip:
-    runs-on: windows-2022
-
-    env:
-      # Make sure this is in sync with build-cache.yml
-      HIPSDK_INSTALLER_VERSION: "26.Q1"
-
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        include:
-          # sync with release.yml
-          - name: "radeon"
-            gpu_targets: "gfx1150;gfx1151;gfx1200;gfx1201;gfx1100;gfx1101;gfx1102;gfx1030;gfx1031;gfx1032"
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Grab rocWMMA package
-        id: grab_rocwmma
-        run: |
-          curl -o rocwmma.deb "https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/7.2.1/pool/main/r/rocwmma-dev/rocwmma-dev_2.2.0.70201-81~24.04_amd64.deb"
-          7z x rocwmma.deb
-          7z x data.tar
-
-      - name: Use ROCm Installation Cache
-        uses: actions/cache@v5
-        id: cache-rocm
-        with:
-          path: C:\Program Files\AMD\ROCm
-          key: cache-gha-rocm-${{ env.HIPSDK_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
-
-      - name: Setup ROCm
-        if: steps.cache-rocm.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
-        uses: ./.github/actions/windows-setup-rocm
-        with:
-          version: ${{ env.HIPSDK_INSTALLER_VERSION }}
-
-      - name: Verify ROCm
-        id: verify
-        run: |
-          # Find and test ROCm installation
-          $clangPath = Get-ChildItem 'C:\Program Files\AMD\ROCm\*\bin\clang.exe' | Select-Object -First 1
-          if (-not $clangPath) {
-            Write-Error "ROCm installation not found"
-            exit 1
-          }
-          & $clangPath.FullName --version
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          # TODO: this build does not match the build in release.yml, so we use a different cache key
-          #       ideally, the builds should match, similar to the CUDA build above so that we would be able
-          #       to populate the ccache for the release with manual runs of this workflow
-          #key: release-windows-2022-x64-hip-${{ env.HIPSDK_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ matrix.name }}
-          key: cuda-windows-2022-x64-hip-${{ env.HIPSDK_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ matrix.name }}
-          append-timestamp: false # note: use this only with non-concurrent jobs!
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          $env:HIP_PATH=$(Resolve-Path 'C:\Program Files\AMD\ROCm\*\bin\clang.exe' | split-path | split-path)
-          $env:CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="${env:HIP_PATH}"
-          cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -B build -S . `
-            -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER="${env:HIP_PATH}\bin\clang.exe" `
-            -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER="${env:HIP_PATH}\bin\clang++.exe" `
-            -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-I$($PWD.Path.Replace('\', '/'))/opt/rocm-7.2.1/include/" `
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release `
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON `
-            -DROCM_DIR="${env:HIP_PATH}" `
-            -DGGML_HIP=ON `
-            -DGGML_HIP_ROCWMMA_FATTN=ON `
-            -DGPU_TARGETS="gfx1100"  `
-            -DGGML_RPC=ON
-          cmake --build build -j ${env:NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS}

.github/workflows/build-ibm.yml

@@ -1,150 +0,0 @@
-name: CI (ibm)
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-ibm.yml',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      '**/*.h',
-      '**/*.hpp',
-      '**/*.c',
-      '**/*.cpp'
-    ]
-
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-ibm.yml',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-cpu/**'
-    ]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref && github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-env:
-  GGML_NLOOP: 3
-  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-
-jobs:
-
-  ubuntu-24-s390x:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-s390x
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Build Dependencies
-        id: build_depends
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-            python3 python3-pip python3-dev python3-wheel \
-            libjpeg-dev build-essential libssl-dev \
-            git-lfs
-
-      - name: Toolchain workaround (GCC 14)
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get install -y gcc-14 g++-14
-          echo "CC=gcc-14" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          echo "CXX=g++-14" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-
-      - name: Python Dependencies
-        id: python_depends
-        run: |
-          export PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES="1"
-          python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
-          pip3 install ./gguf-py
-
-      - name: Swap Endianness
-        id: endianness
-        run: |
-          for f in models/*.gguf; do
-            echo YES | python3 gguf-py/gguf/scripts/gguf_convert_endian.py $f big
-          done
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build \
-            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
-            -DGGML_RPC=ON
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: cmake_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          ctest -L main --verbose --timeout 900
-
-      - name: Test llama2c (s390x)
-        id: llama2c_test_s390x
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          echo "Fetch llama2c big-endian model"
-          wget https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/models/resolve/main/tinyllamas/stories260K-be.gguf
-          ./bin/llama-completion -m stories260K-be.gguf -p "One day, Lily met a Shoggoth" -n 500 -c 256
-
-  ubuntu-24-ppc64le:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-ppc64le
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Build Dependencies
-        id: build_depends
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-            python3 python3-pip python3-dev python3-wheel \
-            libjpeg-dev build-essential libssl-dev \
-            git-lfs
-
-      - name: Toolchain workaround (GCC 14)
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get install -y gcc-14 g++-14
-          echo "CC=gcc-14" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          echo "CXX=g++-14" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-
-      - name: Python Dependencies
-        id: python_depends
-        run: |
-          export PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES="1"
-          python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
-          pip3 install ./gguf-py
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build \
-            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
-            -DGGML_RPC=ON
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: cmake_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          ctest -L main --verbose --timeout 900
-
-      - name: Test llama2c conversion
-        id: llama2c_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          echo "Fetch tokenizer"
-          wget https://huggingface.co/karpathy/tinyllamas/resolve/main/stories260K/tok512.bin
-          echo "Fetch llama2c model"
-          wget https://huggingface.co/karpathy/tinyllamas/resolve/main/stories260K/stories260K.bin
-          ./bin/llama-convert-llama2c-to-ggml --copy-vocab-from-model ./tok512.bin --llama2c-model stories260K.bin --llama2c-output-model stories260K.gguf
-          ./bin/llama-completion -m stories260K.gguf -p "One day, Lily met a Shoggoth" -n 500 -c 256

.github/workflows/build-msys.yml

@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ concurrency:
 env:
   GGML_NLOOP: 3
   GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
 
 jobs:
   windows-msys2:
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ jobs:
       #- name: ccache
       #  uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.16
       #  with:
-      #    key: msys-windows-2025-x64
+      #    key: windows-msys2
       #    variant: ccache
       #    evict-old-files: 1d
       #    save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}

.github/workflows/build-opencl.yml

@@ -1,82 +0,0 @@
-name: CI (opencl)
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-opencl.yml',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      '**/*.h',
-      '**/*.hpp',
-      '**/*.c',
-      '**/*.cpp',
-      '**/*.cl'
-    ]
-
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-opencl.yml',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-opencl/**'
-    ]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref && github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-env:
-  GGML_NLOOP: 3
-  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-
-jobs:
-  windows-2025-opencl-adreno:
-    runs-on: windows-2025
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: opencl-windows-2025-x64
-          variant: ccache
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Install Ninja
-        id: install_ninja
-        run: |
-          choco install ninja
-
-      - name: Install OpenCL Headers and Libs
-        id: install_opencl
-        run: |
-          git clone https://github.com/KhronosGroup/OpenCL-Headers
-          cd OpenCL-Headers
-          cmake -B build `
-            -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF `
-            -DOPENCL_HEADERS_BUILD_TESTING=OFF `
-            -DOPENCL_HEADERS_BUILD_CXX_TESTS=OFF `
-            -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$env:RUNNER_TEMP/opencl-arm64-release"
-          cmake --build build --target install
-          git clone https://github.com/KhronosGroup/OpenCL-ICD-Loader
-          cd OpenCL-ICD-Loader
-          cmake -B build-arm64-release `
-            -A arm64 `
-            -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$env:RUNNER_TEMP/opencl-arm64-release" `
-            -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$env:RUNNER_TEMP/opencl-arm64-release"
-          cmake --build build-arm64-release --target install --config release
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -S . -B build -G "Ninja Multi-Config" -D CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=cmake/arm64-windows-llvm.cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$env:RUNNER_TEMP/opencl-arm64-release" -DGGML_OPENCL=ON -DGGML_OPENCL_USE_ADRENO_KERNELS=ON -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON
-          cmake --build build --config Release -j ${env:NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS}

.github/workflows/build-openvino.yml

@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ concurrency:
 env:
   GGML_NLOOP: 3
   GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
 
 jobs:
   ubuntu-24-openvino:
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ jobs:
         if: runner.environment == 'github-hosted'
         uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
         with:
-          key: openvino-ubuntu-24.04-${{ matrix.variant }}-no-preset-v1
+          key: ubuntu-24-openvino-${{ matrix.variant }}-no-preset-v1
           evict-old-files: 1d
           save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ jobs:
         id: cache-openvino
         with:
           path: ./openvino_toolkit
-          key: cache-gha-openvino-toolkit-v${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL }}-${{ runner.os }}
+          key: openvino-toolkit-v${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL }}-${{ runner.os }}
 
       - name: Setup OpenVINO Toolkit
         if: steps.cache-openvino.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'

.github/workflows/build-riscv.yml

@@ -29,84 +29,11 @@ concurrency:
 env:
   GGML_NLOOP: 3
   GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
 
 jobs:
-  ubuntu-cpu-riscv64-native:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-riscv
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          # Install necessary packages
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y libssl-dev
-
-          # Set gcc-14 and g++-14 as the default compilers
-          sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-14 100
-          sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-14 100
-
-          git lfs install
-
-      - name: Check environment
-        run: |
-          uname -a
-          gcc --version
-          g++ --version
-          ldd --version
-          cmake --version
-          rustc --version
-          env
-          echo "nproc=$(nproc)"
-
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      # note: sparing some ccache since these jobs run on dedicated runners that are not part of the organitzation
-      #- name: ccache
-      #  uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@afde29e5b5422e5da23cb1f639e8baecadeadfc3 # https://github.com/ggml-org/ccache-action/pull/1
-      #  with:
-      #    key: riscv-ubuntu-native
-      #    evict-old-files: 1d
-      #    save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-            -DGGML_OPENMP=OFF \
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON \
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS=ON \
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=ON \
-            -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache \
-            -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache \
-            -DGGML_RPC=ON \
-            -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc-14 \
-            -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=riscv64-linux-gnu-g++-14
-
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: cmake_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          ctest -L main --verbose --timeout 900
-
-      - name: Test llama2c conversion
-        id: llama2c_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          echo "Fetch tokenizer"
-          wget https://huggingface.co/karpathy/tinyllamas/resolve/main/stories260K/tok512.bin
-          echo "Fetch llama2c model"
-          wget https://huggingface.co/karpathy/tinyllamas/resolve/main/stories260K/stories260K.bin
-          ./bin/llama-convert-llama2c-to-ggml --copy-vocab-from-model ./tok512.bin --llama2c-model stories260K.bin --llama2c-output-model stories260K.gguf
-          ./bin/llama-completion -m stories260K.gguf -p "One day, Lily met a Shoggoth" -n 500 -c 256
-
   ubuntu-riscv64-native-sanitizer:
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-riscv
 
@@ -135,13 +62,12 @@ jobs:
         id: checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
-      # note: sparing some ccache since these jobs run on dedicated runners that are not part of the organitzation
-      #- name: ccache
-      #  uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@afde29e5b5422e5da23cb1f639e8baecadeadfc3 # https://github.com/ggml-org/ccache-action/pull/1
-      #  with:
-      #    key: riscv-ubuntu-native-sanitizer-${{ matrix.sanitizer }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}
-      #    evict-old-files: 1d
-      #    save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
+      - name: ccache
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@afde29e5b5422e5da23cb1f639e8baecadeadfc3 # https://github.com/ggml-org/ccache-action/pull/1
+        with:
+          key: ubuntu-riscv64-native-sanitizer-${{ matrix.sanitizer }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
 
       - name: Build
         id: cmake_build

.github/workflows/build-rpc.yml

@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-name: CI (rpc)
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-rpc.yml',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      '**/*.h',
-      '**/*.hpp',
-      '**/*.c',
-      '**/*.cpp'
-    ]
-
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-rpc.yml',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-rpc/**'
-    ]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref && github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-env:
-  GGML_NLOOP: 3
-  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-
-jobs:
-  ubuntu-latest-rpc:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    continue-on-error: true
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Dependencies
-        id: depends
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev ninja-build
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build \
-            -G "Ninja" \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-            -DGGML_RPC=ON
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: cmake_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          ctest -L main --verbose

.github/workflows/build-sanitize.yml

@@ -22,65 +22,66 @@ concurrency:
 env:
   GGML_NLOOP: 3
   GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
 
 jobs:
-  ctest:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, X64, CPU, Linux]
+  ubuntu-latest-sanitizer:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     continue-on-error: true
 
     strategy:
       matrix:
         sanitizer: [ADDRESS, THREAD, UNDEFINED]
+        build_type: [Debug]
 
     steps:
       - name: Clone
         id: checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
-      # with UNDEFINED sanitizer, we have to build in Debug to avoid GCC 13 false-positive warnings
-      - name: Build (undefined)
-        id: cmake_build_undefined
-        if: ${{ matrix.sanitizer == 'UNDEFINED' }}
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \
-            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
-            -DLLAMA_SANITIZE_${{ matrix.sanitizer }}=ON \
-            -DGGML_SANITIZE_${{ matrix.sanitizer }}=ON
+      - name: ccache
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
+        with:
+          key: ubuntu-latest-sanitizer-${{ matrix.sanitizer }}
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
 
-          cmake --build build --config Debug -j $(nproc)
+      - name: Dependencies
+        id: depends
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev
 
       - name: Build
         id: cmake_build
-        if: ${{ matrix.sanitizer == 'ADDRESS' }}
+        if: ${{ matrix.sanitizer != 'THREAD' }}
         run: |
           cmake -B build \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo \
+            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
             -DLLAMA_SANITIZE_${{ matrix.sanitizer }}=ON \
-            -DGGML_SANITIZE_${{ matrix.sanitizer }}=ON
+            -DGGML_SANITIZE_${{ matrix.sanitizer }}=ON \
+            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${{ matrix.build_type }}
 
-          cmake --build build --config RelWithDebInfo -j $(nproc)
+          cmake --build build --config ${{ matrix.build_type }} -j $(nproc)
 
       - name: Build (no OpenMP)
         id: cmake_build_no_openmp
         if: ${{ matrix.sanitizer == 'THREAD' }}
         run: |
           cmake -B build \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo \
+            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
             -DLLAMA_SANITIZE_${{ matrix.sanitizer }}=ON \
             -DGGML_SANITIZE_${{ matrix.sanitizer }}=ON \
+            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${{ matrix.build_type }} \
             -DGGML_OPENMP=OFF
 
-          cmake --build build --config RelWithDebInfo -j $(nproc)
+          cmake --build build --config ${{ matrix.build_type }} -j $(nproc)
 
       - name: Test
         id: cmake_test
-        # skip run in Debug - very slow
-        if: ${{ matrix.sanitizer != 'UNDEFINED' }}
         run: |
           cd build
-          ctest -L main -E tokenizer --verbose --timeout 900
+          ctest -L main --verbose --timeout 900

.github/workflows/build-self-hosted.yml

@@ -50,12 +50,29 @@ concurrency:
 env:
   GGML_NLOOP: 3
   GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
 
 jobs:
-  gpu-cuda:
+  determine-tag:
+    name: Determine tag name
+    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
+    outputs:
+      tag_name: ${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Determine tag name
+        id: tag
+        uses: ./.github/actions/get-tag-name
+        env:
+          BRANCH_NAME: ${{ github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}
+
+  ggml-ci-nvidia-cuda:
+    needs: determine-tag
     runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, NVIDIA]
 
     steps:
@@ -65,11 +82,14 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test
         id: ggml-ci
+        env:
+          HF_UI_VERSION: ${{ needs.determine-tag.outputs.tag_name }}
         run: |
           nvidia-smi
-          GG_BUILD_CUDA=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+          GG_BUILD_CUDA=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp /mnt/llama.cpp
 
-  gpu-vulkan-nvidia-cm:
+  ggml-ci-nvidia-vulkan-cm:
+    needs: determine-tag
     runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, NVIDIA]
 
     steps:
@@ -79,11 +99,14 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test
         id: ggml-ci
+        env:
+          HF_UI_VERSION: ${{ needs.determine-tag.outputs.tag_name }}
         run: |
           vulkaninfo --summary
-          GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 GGML_VK_DISABLE_COOPMAT2=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+          GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 GGML_VK_DISABLE_COOPMAT2=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp /mnt/llama.cpp
 
-  gpu-vulkan-nvidia-cm2:
+  ggml-ci-nvidia-vulkan-cm2:
+    needs: determine-tag
     runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, NVIDIA, COOPMAT2]
 
     steps:
@@ -93,12 +116,14 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test
         id: ggml-ci
+        env:
+          HF_UI_VERSION: ${{ needs.determine-tag.outputs.tag_name }}
         run: |
           vulkaninfo --summary
-          GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+          GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp /mnt/llama.cpp
 
-  gpu-webgpu-nvidia:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, NVIDIA, X64]
+  ggml-ci-nvidia-webgpu:
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, NVIDIA]
 
     steps:
       - name: Clone
@@ -124,10 +149,10 @@ jobs:
           GG_BUILD_WEBGPU=1 \
           GG_BUILD_WEBGPU_DAWN_PREFIX="$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/dawn" \
           GG_BUILD_WEBGPU_DAWN_DIR="$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/dawn/lib64/cmake/Dawn" \
-            bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+            bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp /mnt/llama.cpp
 
   # TODO: provision AMX-compatible machine
-  #cpu-amx:
+  #ggml-ci-cpu-amx:
   #  runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, CPU, AMX]
 
   #  steps:
@@ -138,10 +163,10 @@ jobs:
   #    - name: Test
   #      id: ggml-ci
   #      run: |
-  #        bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+  #        bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp /mnt/llama.cpp
 
   # TODO: provision AMD GPU machine
-  # amd-vulkan:
+  # ggml-ci-amd-vulkan:
   #   runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, AMD]
 
   #   steps:
@@ -153,10 +178,10 @@ jobs:
   #       id: ggml-ci
   #       run: |
   #         vulkaninfo --summary
-  #         GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+  #         GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp /mnt/llama.cpp
 
   # TODO: provision AMD GPU machine
-  # amd-rocm:
+  # ggml-ci-amd-rocm:
   #   runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, AMD]
 
   #   steps:
@@ -168,9 +193,10 @@ jobs:
   #       id: ggml-ci
   #       run: |
   #         amd-smi static
-  #         GG_BUILD_ROCM=1 GG_BUILD_AMDGPU_TARGETS="gfx1101" bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+  #         GG_BUILD_ROCM=1 GG_BUILD_AMDGPU_TARGETS="gfx1101" bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp /mnt/llama.cpp
 
-  gpu-metal:
+  ggml-ci-mac-metal:
+    needs: determine-tag
     runs-on: [self-hosted, macOS, ARM64]
 
     steps:
@@ -180,10 +206,13 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test
         id: ggml-ci
+        env:
+          HF_UI_VERSION: ${{ needs.determine-tag.outputs.tag_name }}
         run: |
           GG_BUILD_METAL=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
 
-  gpu-webgpu-apple:
+  ggml-ci-mac-webgpu:
+    needs: determine-tag
     runs-on: [self-hosted, macOS, ARM64]
 
     steps:
@@ -206,11 +235,14 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test
         id: ggml-ci
+        env:
+          HF_UI_VERSION: ${{ needs.determine-tag.outputs.tag_name }}
         run: |
           GG_BUILD_WEBGPU=1 GG_BUILD_WEBGPU_DAWN_PREFIX="$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/dawn" \
             bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
 
-  gpu-vulkan:
+  ggml-ci-mac-vulkan:
+    needs: determine-tag
     runs-on: [self-hosted, macOS, ARM64]
 
     steps:
@@ -220,11 +252,14 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test
         id: ggml-ci
+        env:
+          HF_UI_VERSION: ${{ needs.determine-tag.outputs.tag_name }}
         run: |
           vulkaninfo --summary
           GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
 
-  gpu-vulkan-intel-linux:
+  ggml-ci-linux-intel-vulkan:
+    needs: determine-tag
     runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, Intel]
 
     steps:
@@ -236,11 +271,14 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test
         id: ggml-ci
+        env:
+          HF_UI_VERSION: ${{ needs.determine-tag.outputs.tag_name }}
         run: |
           vulkaninfo --summary
           GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
 
-  gpu-vulkan-intel-windows:
+  ggml-ci-win-intel-vulkan:
+    needs: determine-tag
     runs-on: [self-hosted, Windows, X64, Intel]
 
     steps:
@@ -255,13 +293,15 @@ jobs:
           MSYSTEM: UCRT64
           CHERE_INVOKING: 1
           PATH: C:\msys64\ucrt64\bin;C:\msys64\usr\bin;C:\Windows\System32;${{ env.PATH }}
+          HF_UI_VERSION: ${{ needs.determine-tag.outputs.tag_name }}
         run: |
           vulkaninfo --summary
           # Skip python related tests with GG_BUILD_LOW_PERF=1 since Windows MSYS2 UCRT64 currently fails to create
           # a valid python environment for testing
           LLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=OFF GG_BUILD_NINJA=1 GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 GG_BUILD_LOW_PERF=1 ./ci/run.sh ./results/llama.cpp ./mnt/llama.cpp
 
-  cpu-openvino-low-perf:
+  ggml-ci-intel-openvino-gpu-low-perf:
+    needs: determine-tag
     runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, Intel, OpenVINO]
 
     concurrency:
@@ -293,112 +333,8 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test
         id: ggml-ci
+        env:
+          HF_UI_VERSION: ${{ needs.determine-tag.outputs.tag_name }}
         run: |
           source ./openvino_toolkit/setupvars.sh
-          GG_BUILD_OPENVINO=1 GGML_OPENVINO_DEVICE=GPU GG_BUILD_LOW_PERF=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
-
-  cpu-any-low-perf:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, CPU]
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: ggml-ci
-        run: |
-          LLAMA_ARG_THREADS=$(nproc) GG_BUILD_LOW_PERF=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
-
-  cpu-any-high-perf:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, CPU]
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: ggml-ci
-        run: |
-          LLAMA_ARG_THREADS=$(nproc) GG_BUILD_HIGH_PERF=1 GG_BUILD_NO_SVE=1 GG_BUILD_NO_BF16=1 GG_BUILD_EXTRA_TESTS_0=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
-
-  cpu-arm64-graviton4:
-    runs-on: ah-ubuntu_22_04-c8g_8x
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Dependencies
-        id: depends
-        run: |
-          set -euxo pipefail
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive NEEDRESTART_MODE=a \
-          apt-get install -y \
-          build-essential \
-          python3-venv \
-          gpg \
-          wget \
-          time \
-          git-lfs
-
-          git lfs install
-
-          # install the latest cmake
-          sudo install -d /usr/share/keyrings
-          wget -O - https://apt.kitware.com/keys/kitware-archive-latest.asc \
-            | gpg --dearmor \
-            | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/kitware-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null
-          echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/kitware-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.kitware.com/ubuntu/ jammy main' \
-            | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kitware.list
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y cmake
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: ggml-ci
-        run: |
-          LLAMA_ARG_THREADS=$(nproc) GG_BUILD_NO_BF16=1 GG_BUILD_EXTRA_TESTS_0=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
-
-  cpu-arm64-graviton4-kleidiai:
-    runs-on: ah-ubuntu_22_04-c8g_8x
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Dependencies
-        id: depends
-        run: |
-          set -euxo pipefail
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive NEEDRESTART_MODE=a \
-          apt-get install -y \
-          build-essential \
-          python3-venv \
-          gpg \
-          wget \
-          time \
-          git-lfs
-
-          git lfs install
-
-          # install the latest cmake
-          sudo install -d /usr/share/keyrings
-          wget -O - https://apt.kitware.com/keys/kitware-archive-latest.asc \
-            | gpg --dearmor \
-            | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/kitware-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null
-          echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/kitware-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.kitware.com/ubuntu/ jammy main' \
-            | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kitware.list
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y cmake
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: ggml-ci
-        run: |
-          GG_BUILD_KLEIDIAI=1 \
-          GG_BUILD_EXTRA_TESTS_0=1 \
-          bash ./ci/run.sh ./tmp/results ./tmp/mnt
+          GG_BUILD_OPENVINO=1 GGML_OPENVINO_DEVICE=GPU GG_BUILD_LOW_PERF=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ./tmp/results ./tmp/mnt

.github/workflows/build-sycl.yml

@@ -29,134 +29,132 @@ concurrency:
 env:
   GGML_NLOOP: 3
   GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
 
 jobs:
 
-# TODO: this build is disabled to save Github Actions resources (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23705)
-#       in order to enable it again, we have to provision dedicated runners  to run it
-#  ubuntu-24-sycl:
-#    strategy:
-#      matrix:
-#        build: [fp32]
-#        include:
-#          - build: fp32
-#            fp16: OFF
-#
-#    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-#
-#    env:
-#      ONEAPI_ROOT: /opt/intel/oneapi/
-#      ONEAPI_INSTALLER_VERSION: "2025.3.3"
-#      LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION: "1.28.2"
-#      LEVEL_ZERO_UBUNTU_VERSION: "u24.04"
-#
-#    continue-on-error: true
-#
-#    steps:
-#      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
-#
-#      - name: Use oneAPI Installation Cache
-#        uses: actions/cache@v5
-#        id: cache-sycl
-#        with:
-#          path: ${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}
-#          key: cache-gha-oneAPI-${{ env.ONEAPI_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
-#
-#      - name: Download & Install oneAPI
-#        shell: bash
-#        if: steps.cache-sycl.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
-#        run: |
-#          cd /tmp
-#          wget https://registrationcenter-download.intel.com/akdlm/IRC_NAS/56f7923a-adb8-43f3-8b02-2b60fcac8cab/intel-deep-learning-essentials-2025.3.3.16_offline.sh -O intel-deep-learning-essentials_offline.sh
-#          sudo bash intel-deep-learning-essentials_offline.sh -s -a --silent --eula accept
-#
-#      - name: Install Level Zero SDK
-#        shell: bash
-#        run: |
-#          cd /tmp
-#          wget -q "https://github.com/oneapi-src/level-zero/releases/download/v${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}/level-zero_${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}%2B${LEVEL_ZERO_UBUNTU_VERSION}_amd64.deb" -O level-zero.deb
-#          wget -q "https://github.com/oneapi-src/level-zero/releases/download/v${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}/level-zero-devel_${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}%2B${LEVEL_ZERO_UBUNTU_VERSION}_amd64.deb" -O level-zero-devel.deb
-#          sudo apt-get install -y ./level-zero.deb ./level-zero-devel.deb
-#
-#      - name: Clone
-#        id: checkout
-#        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-#
-#      - name: ccache
-#        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-#        with:
-#          key: sycl-ubuntu-24-${{ matrix.build }}
-#          evict-old-files: 1d
-#          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-#
-#      - name: Build
-#        id: cmake_build
-#        run: |
-#          source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh
-#          cmake -B build \
-#            -G "Ninja" \
-#            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-#            -DGGML_SYCL=ON \
-#            -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=icx \
-#            -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icpx \
-#            -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
-#            -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF \
-#            -DGGML_SYCL_F16=${{ matrix.fp16 }}
-#          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
+  ubuntu-24-sycl:
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        build: [fp32, fp16]
+        include:
+          - build: fp32
+            fp16: OFF
+          - build: fp16
+            fp16: ON
 
-# TODO: this build is disabled to save Github Actions resources (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23705)
-#       in order to enable it again, we have to provision dedicated runners  to run it
-#  windows-latest-sycl:
-#    runs-on: windows-2022
-#
-#    defaults:
-#      run:
-#        shell: bash
-#
-#    env:
-#      WINDOWS_BASEKIT_URL: https://registrationcenter-download.intel.com/akdlm/IRC_NAS/b60765d1-2b85-4e85-86b6-cb0e9563a699/intel-deep-learning-essentials-2025.3.3.18_offline.exe
-#      WINDOWS_DPCPP_MKL: intel.oneapi.win.cpp-dpcpp-common:intel.oneapi.win.mkl.devel:intel.oneapi.win.dnnl:intel.oneapi.win.tbb.devel
-#      LEVEL_ZERO_SDK_URL: https://github.com/oneapi-src/level-zero/releases/download/v1.28.2/level-zero-win-sdk-1.28.2.zip
-#      ONEAPI_ROOT: "C:/Program Files (x86)/Intel/oneAPI"
-#      ONEAPI_INSTALLER_VERSION: "2025.3.3"
-#    steps:
-#      - name: Clone
-#        id: checkout
-#        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-#
-#      - name: Use oneAPI Installation Cache
-#        uses: actions/cache@v5
-#        id: cache-sycl
-#        with:
-#          path: ${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}
-#          key: cache-gha-oneAPI-${{ env.ONEAPI_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
-#
-#      - name: Download & Install oneAPI
-#        shell: bash
-#        if: steps.cache-sycl.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
-#        run: |
-#          scripts/install-oneapi.bat $WINDOWS_BASEKIT_URL $WINDOWS_DPCPP_MKL
-#
-#      - name: Install Level Zero SDK
-#        shell: pwsh
-#        run: |
-#          Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "${{ env.LEVEL_ZERO_SDK_URL }}" -OutFile "level-zero-win-sdk.zip"
-#          Expand-Archive -Path "level-zero-win-sdk.zip" -DestinationPath "C:/level-zero-sdk" -Force
-#          "LEVEL_ZERO_V1_SDK_PATH=C:/level-zero-sdk" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append
-#
-#      - name: ccache
-#        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-#        with:
-#          key: sycl-windows-latest
-#          variant: ccache
-#          evict-old-files: 1d
-#          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-#
-#      # TODO: add ssl support ; we will also need to modify win-build-sycl.bat to accept user-specified args
-#
-#      - name: Build
-#        id: cmake_build
-#        run:  examples/sycl/win-build-sycl.bat
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+
+    env:
+      ONEAPI_ROOT: /opt/intel/oneapi/
+      ONEAPI_INSTALLER_VERSION: "2025.3.3"
+      LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION: "1.28.2"
+      LEVEL_ZERO_UBUNTU_VERSION: "u24.04"
+
+    continue-on-error: true
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Use oneAPI Installation Cache
+        uses: actions/cache@v5
+        id: cache-sycl
+        with:
+          path: ${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}
+          key: oneAPI-${{ env.ONEAPI_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
+
+      - name: Download & Install oneAPI
+        shell: bash
+        if: steps.cache-sycl.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: |
+          cd /tmp
+          wget https://registrationcenter-download.intel.com/akdlm/IRC_NAS/56f7923a-adb8-43f3-8b02-2b60fcac8cab/intel-deep-learning-essentials-2025.3.3.16_offline.sh -O intel-deep-learning-essentials_offline.sh
+          sudo bash intel-deep-learning-essentials_offline.sh -s -a --silent --eula accept
+
+      - name: Install Level Zero SDK
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          cd /tmp
+          wget -q "https://github.com/oneapi-src/level-zero/releases/download/v${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}/level-zero_${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}%2B${LEVEL_ZERO_UBUNTU_VERSION}_amd64.deb" -O level-zero.deb
+          wget -q "https://github.com/oneapi-src/level-zero/releases/download/v${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}/level-zero-devel_${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}%2B${LEVEL_ZERO_UBUNTU_VERSION}_amd64.deb" -O level-zero-devel.deb
+          sudo apt-get install -y ./level-zero.deb ./level-zero-devel.deb
+
+      - name: Clone
+        id: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: ccache
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
+        with:
+          key: ubuntu-24-sycl-${{ matrix.build }}
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
+
+      - name: Build
+        id: cmake_build
+        run: |
+          source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh
+          cmake -B build \
+            -G "Ninja" \
+            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+            -DGGML_SYCL=ON \
+            -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=icx \
+            -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icpx \
+            -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
+            -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF \
+            -DGGML_SYCL_F16=${{ matrix.fp16 }}
+          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
+
+  windows-latest-sycl:
+    runs-on: windows-2022
+
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: bash
+
+    env:
+      WINDOWS_BASEKIT_URL: https://registrationcenter-download.intel.com/akdlm/IRC_NAS/b60765d1-2b85-4e85-86b6-cb0e9563a699/intel-deep-learning-essentials-2025.3.3.18_offline.exe
+      WINDOWS_DPCPP_MKL: intel.oneapi.win.cpp-dpcpp-common:intel.oneapi.win.mkl.devel:intel.oneapi.win.dnnl:intel.oneapi.win.tbb.devel
+      LEVEL_ZERO_SDK_URL: https://github.com/oneapi-src/level-zero/releases/download/v1.28.2/level-zero-win-sdk-1.28.2.zip
+      ONEAPI_ROOT: "C:/Program Files (x86)/Intel/oneAPI"
+      ONEAPI_INSTALLER_VERSION: "2025.3.3"
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        id: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Use oneAPI Installation Cache
+        uses: actions/cache@v5
+        id: cache-sycl
+        with:
+          path: ${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}
+          key: oneAPI-${{ env.ONEAPI_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
+
+      - name: Download & Install oneAPI
+        shell: bash
+        if: steps.cache-sycl.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: |
+          scripts/install-oneapi.bat $WINDOWS_BASEKIT_URL $WINDOWS_DPCPP_MKL
+
+      - name: Install Level Zero SDK
+        shell: pwsh
+        run: |
+          Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "${{ env.LEVEL_ZERO_SDK_URL }}" -OutFile "level-zero-win-sdk.zip"
+          Expand-Archive -Path "level-zero-win-sdk.zip" -DestinationPath "C:/level-zero-sdk" -Force
+          "LEVEL_ZERO_V1_SDK_PATH=C:/level-zero-sdk" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append
+
+      - name: ccache
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
+        with:
+          key: windows-latest-sycl
+          variant: ccache
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
+
+      # TODO: add ssl support ; we will also need to modify win-build-sycl.bat to accept user-specified args
+
+      - name: Build
+        id: cmake_build
+        run:  examples/sycl/win-build-sycl.bat

.github/workflows/build-vulkan.yml

@@ -31,59 +31,12 @@ concurrency:
 env:
   GGML_NLOOP: 3
   GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
 
 jobs:
-  ubuntu:
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        include:
-          - build: 'x64'
-            os: ubuntu-24.04
-          - build: 'arm64'
-            os: ubuntu-24.04-arm
-
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: vulkan-${{ matrix.os }}
-          variant: ccache
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Dependencies
-        id: depends
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y gcc-14 g++-14 build-essential glslc libvulkan-dev spirv-headers libssl-dev ninja-build
-          echo "CC=gcc-14" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          echo "CXX=g++-14" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-
-      - name: Configure
-        id: cmake_configure
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build \
-            -G "Ninja" \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo \
-            -DGGML_BACKEND_DL=ON \
-            -DGGML_CPU_ALL_VARIANTS=ON \
-            -DGGML_VULKAN=ON
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          time cmake --build build -j $(nproc)
-
-  ubuntu-llvmpipe:
+  ubuntu-24-vulkan-llvmpipe:
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
     steps:
@@ -94,7 +47,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: ccache
         uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
         with:
-          key: vulkan-ubuntu-24.04-llvmpipe
+          key: ubuntu-24-vulkan-llvmpipe
           evict-old-files: 1d
           save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
 
@@ -115,7 +68,7 @@ jobs:
         id: cache-sdk
         with:
           path: ./vulkan_sdk
-          key: cache-gha-vulkan-sdk-${{ env.VULKAN_SDK_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
+          key: vulkan-sdk-${{ env.VULKAN_SDK_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
 
       - name: Setup Vulkan SDK
         if: steps.cache-sdk.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'

.github/workflows/build-webgpu.yml

@@ -1,181 +0,0 @@
-name: CI (webgpu)
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-webgpu.yml',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      '**/*.h',
-      '**/*.hpp',
-      '**/*.c',
-      '**/*.cpp',
-      '**/*.wgsl'
-    ]
-
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-webgpu.yml',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-webgpu/**'
-    ]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref && github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-env:
-  GGML_NLOOP: 3
-  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-
-jobs:
-  macos:
-    runs-on: macos-latest
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: webgpu-macos-latest
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Dawn Dependency
-        id: dawn-depends
-        run: |
-          DAWN_VERSION="v20260317.182325"
-          DAWN_OWNER="google"
-          DAWN_REPO="dawn"
-          DAWN_ASSET_NAME="Dawn-18eb229ef5f707c1464cc581252e7603c73a3ef0-macos-latest-Release"
-          echo "Fetching release asset from https://github.com/google/dawn/releases/download/${DAWN_VERSION}/${DAWN_ASSET_NAME}.tar.gz"
-          curl -L -o artifact.tar.gz \
-            "https://github.com/google/dawn/releases/download/${DAWN_VERSION}/${DAWN_ASSET_NAME}.tar.gz"
-          mkdir dawn
-          tar -xvf artifact.tar.gz -C dawn --strip-components=1
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=dawn
-          cmake -B build -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DGGML_WEBGPU=ON -DGGML_METAL=OFF -DGGML_BLAS=OFF
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu)
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: cmake_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          ctest -L main --verbose --timeout 900
-
-  ubuntu:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: webgpu-ubuntu-24.04
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Dependencies
-        id: depends
-        run: |
-          sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:kisak/kisak-mesa
-          sudo apt-get update -y
-          sudo apt-get install -y build-essential mesa-vulkan-drivers \
-            libxcb-xinput0 libxcb-xinerama0 libxcb-cursor-dev libssl-dev
-
-      - name: Dawn Dependency
-        id: dawn-depends
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get install -y libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev mesa-common-dev libx11-xcb-dev libxi-dev
-          DAWN_VERSION="v20260317.182325"
-          DAWN_OWNER="google"
-          DAWN_REPO="dawn"
-          DAWN_ASSET_NAME="Dawn-18eb229ef5f707c1464cc581252e7603c73a3ef0-ubuntu-latest-Release"
-          echo "Fetching release asset from https://github.com/google/dawn/releases/download/${DAWN_VERSION}/${DAWN_ASSET_NAME}.tar.gz"
-          curl -L -o artifact.tar.gz \
-            "https://github.com/google/dawn/releases/download/${DAWN_VERSION}/${DAWN_ASSET_NAME}.tar.gz"
-          mkdir dawn
-          tar -xvf artifact.tar.gz -C dawn --strip-components=1
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          export Dawn_DIR=dawn/lib64/cmake/Dawn
-          cmake -B build \
-            -DGGML_WEBGPU=ON
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: cmake_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          # This is using llvmpipe and runs slower than other backends
-          # test-backend-ops is too slow on llvmpipe, skip it
-          ctest -L main -E test-backend-ops --verbose --timeout 900
-
-  ubuntu-wasm:
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        include:
-          - build: 'x64'
-            os: ubuntu-24.04
-          - build: 'arm64'
-            os: ubuntu-24.04-arm
-
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: webgpu-${{ matrix.os }}-wasm
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Install Emscripten
-        run: |
-          git clone https://github.com/emscripten-core/emsdk.git
-          cd emsdk
-          ./emsdk install latest
-          ./emsdk activate latest
-
-      - name: Fetch emdawnwebgpu
-        run: |
-          DAWN_TAG="v20260317.182325"
-          EMDAWN_PKG="emdawnwebgpu_pkg-${DAWN_TAG}.zip"
-          echo "Downloading ${EMDAWN_PKG}"
-          curl -L -o emdawn.zip \
-            "https://github.com/google/dawn/releases/download/${DAWN_TAG}/${EMDAWN_PKG}"
-          unzip emdawn.zip
-
-      - name: Build WASM WebGPU
-        run: |
-          source emsdk/emsdk_env.sh
-          emcmake cmake -B build-wasm \
-            -G "Ninja" \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-            -DGGML_WEBGPU=ON \
-            -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
-            -DEMDAWNWEBGPU_DIR=emdawnwebgpu_pkg
-
-          time cmake --build build-wasm --config Release --target test-backend-ops -j $(nproc)

.github/workflows/check-vendor.yml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   check-vendor:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, fast]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout

.github/workflows/code-style.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ concurrency:
 
 jobs:
   model-naming:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, fast]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v6
       - name: Check model naming conventions

.github/workflows/editorconfig.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ concurrency:
 
 jobs:
   editorconfig:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, fast]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v6
       - uses: editorconfig-checker/action-editorconfig-checker@840e866d93b8e032123c23bac69dece044d4d84c # v2.2.0

.github/workflows/hip-quality-check.yml

@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ concurrency:
 env:
   GGML_NLOOP: 3
   GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
 
 jobs:
   ubuntu-22-hip-quality-check:
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: ccache
         uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
         with:
-          key: hip-quality-check-ubuntu-22.04
+          key: ubuntu-22-hip-quality-check
           evict-old-files: 1d
           save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
 

.github/workflows/pre-tokenizer-hashes.yml

@@ -3,16 +3,16 @@ name: Check Pre-Tokenizer Hashes
 on:
     push:
         paths:
-            - 'conversion/base.py'
+            - 'convert_hf_to_gguf.py'
             - 'convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py'
     pull_request:
         paths:
-            - 'conversion/base.py'
+            - 'convert_hf_to_gguf.py'
             - 'convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py'
 
 jobs:
     pre-tokenizer-hashes:
-        runs-on: [self-hosted, fast]
+        runs-on: ubuntu-slim
 
         steps:
         - name: Checkout repository
@@ -30,16 +30,16 @@ jobs:
 
         - name: Update pre-tokenizer hashes
           run: |
-              cp conversion/base.py /tmp
+              cp convert_hf_to_gguf.py /tmp
               .venv/bin/python convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py --check-missing
 
         - name: Check if committed pre-tokenizer hashes matches generated version
           run: |
-              if ! diff -q conversion/base.py /tmp/base.py; then
-                  echo "Model pre-tokenizer hashes (in conversion/base.py) do not match generated hashes (from convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py)."
-                  echo "To fix: run ./convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py and commit the updated conversion/base.py along with your changes"
+              if ! diff -q convert_hf_to_gguf.py /tmp/convert_hf_to_gguf.py; then
+                  echo "Model pre-tokenizer hashes (in convert_hf_to_gguf.py) do not match generated hashes (from convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py)."
+                  echo "To fix: run ./convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py and commit the updated convert_hf_to_gguf.py along with your changes"
                   echo "Differences found:"
-                  diff conversion/base.py /tmp/base.py || true
+                  diff convert_hf_to_gguf.py /tmp/convert_hf_to_gguf.py || true
                   exit 1
               fi
               echo "Model pre-tokenizer hashes are up to date."

.github/workflows/python-check-requirements.yml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ concurrency:
 
 jobs:
   python-check-requirements:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, CPU, fast]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
     name: check-requirements
     steps:
       - name: Check out source repository

.github/workflows/python-lint.yml

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ concurrency:
 
 jobs:
   flake8-lint:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, fast]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
     name: Lint
     steps:
       - name: Check out source repository

.github/workflows/python-type-check.yml

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ concurrency:
 
 jobs:
   python-type-check:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, fast]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
     name: python type-check
     steps:
       - name: Check out source repository

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -27,40 +27,18 @@ on:
       '**/*.glsl'
     ]
 
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref && github.ref || github.run_id }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
 env:
   BRANCH_NAME: ${{ github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}
   CMAKE_ARGS: "-DLLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -DLLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS=ON -DLLAMA_BUILD_SERVER=ON -DGGML_RPC=ON"
 
-# note: run this workflow one at a time for better cache reuse
-concurrency:
-  group: release
-  queue: max
-
 jobs:
-  check_release:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
 
-    outputs:
-      should_release: ${{ steps.check.outputs.should_release }}
+  macOS-cpu:
 
-    steps:
-      - id: check
-        run: |
-          if [[ "${{ github.event_name }}" == "workflow_dispatch" ]]; then
-            echo "should_release=true" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          elif [[ "${{ github.event_name }}" == "push" && "${{ github.ref }}" == "refs/heads/master" ]]; then
-            if echo "${{ github.event.head_commit.message }}" | grep -q '\[no release\]'; then
-              echo "should_release=false" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-            else
-              echo "should_release=true" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-            fi
-          else
-            echo "should_release=false" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          fi
-
-  macos-cpu:
-    needs: [check_release]
-    if: ${{ needs.check_release.outputs.should_release == 'true' }}
     strategy:
       matrix:
         include:
@@ -68,12 +46,10 @@ jobs:
             arch: 'arm64'
             os: macos-14
             defines: "-DGGML_METAL_USE_BF16=ON -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON"
-          # TODO: this build is disabled to save Github Actions resources (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23780)
-          #       in order to enable it again, we have to provision dedicated runners  to run it
-          #- build: 'arm64-kleidiai'
-          #  arch: 'arm64'
-          #  os: macos-14
-          #  defines: "-DGGML_METAL_USE_BF16=ON -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON -DGGML_CPU_KLEIDIAI=ON"
+          - build: 'arm64-kleidiai'
+            arch: 'arm64'
+            os: macos-14
+            defines: "-DGGML_METAL_USE_BF16=ON -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON -DGGML_CPU_KLEIDIAI=ON"
           - build: 'x64'
             arch: 'x64'
             os: macos-15-intel
@@ -100,8 +76,8 @@ jobs:
       - name: ccache
         uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
         with:
-          key: release-${{ matrix.os }}-${{ matrix.arch }}
-          append-timestamp: false # note: use this only with non-concurrent jobs!
+          key: macOS-latest-${{ matrix.arch }}
+          evict-old-files: 1d
 
       - name: Build
         id: cmake_build
@@ -133,8 +109,7 @@ jobs:
           name: llama-bin-macos-${{ matrix.build }}.tar.gz
 
   ubuntu-cpu:
-    needs: [check_release]
-    if: ${{ needs.check_release.outputs.should_release == 'true' }}
+
     strategy:
       matrix:
         include:
@@ -165,8 +140,8 @@ jobs:
         if: ${{ matrix.build != 's390x' }}
         uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
         with:
-          key: release-${{ matrix.os }}-cpu
-          append-timestamp: false # note: use this only with non-concurrent jobs!
+          key: ubuntu-cpu-${{ matrix.build }}
+          evict-old-files: 1d
 
       - name: Dependencies
         id: depends
@@ -211,8 +186,6 @@ jobs:
           name: llama-bin-ubuntu-${{ matrix.build }}.tar.gz
 
   ubuntu-vulkan:
-    needs: [check_release]
-    if: ${{ needs.check_release.outputs.should_release == 'true' }}
 
     strategy:
       matrix:
@@ -241,8 +214,8 @@ jobs:
       - name: ccache
         uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
         with:
-          key: release-${{ matrix.os }}-vulkan
-          append-timestamp: false # note: use this only with non-concurrent jobs!
+          key: ubuntu-vulkan-${{ matrix.build }}
+          evict-old-files: 1d
 
       - name: Dependencies
         id: depends
@@ -289,8 +262,6 @@ jobs:
           name: llama-bin-ubuntu-vulkan-${{ matrix.build }}.tar.gz
 
   android-arm64:
-    needs: [check_release]
-    if: ${{ needs.check_release.outputs.should_release == 'true' }}
 
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
@@ -311,17 +282,11 @@ jobs:
           cache: "npm"
           cache-dependency-path: "tools/ui/package-lock.json"
 
-      # note : disabled to spare some cache space (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23789)
-      #        for some reason, the ccache does not improve the build time in this case
-      # example:
-      #   cache off: https://github.com/ggerganov/tmp2/actions/runs/26534713799/job/78160400831
-      #   cache on:  https://github.com/ggerganov/tmp2/actions/runs/26534713799/job/78224189394
-      #
-      #- name: ccache
-      #  uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-      #  with:
-      #    key: release-android-arm64
-      #    append-timestamp: false # note: use this only with non-concurrent jobs!
+      - name: ccache
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
+        with:
+          key: android-arm64
+          evict-old-files: 1d
 
       - name: Set up JDK
         uses: actions/setup-java@v5
@@ -374,8 +339,6 @@ jobs:
           name: llama-bin-android-arm64.tar.gz
 
   ubuntu-24-openvino:
-    needs: [check_release]
-    if: ${{ needs.check_release.outputs.should_release == 'true' }}
 
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
@@ -408,8 +371,8 @@ jobs:
       - name: ccache
         uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
         with:
-          key: release-ubuntu-24.04-openvino-release-no-preset-v1
-          append-timestamp: false # note: use this only with non-concurrent jobs!
+          key: ubuntu-24-openvino-release-no-preset-v1
+          evict-old-files: 1d
 
       - name: Dependencies
         run: |
@@ -422,7 +385,7 @@ jobs:
         id: cache-openvino
         with:
           path: ./openvino_toolkit
-          key: cache-gha-openvino-toolkit-v${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL }}-${{ runner.os }}
+          key: openvino-toolkit-v${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL }}-${{ runner.os }}
 
       - name: Setup OpenVINO Toolkit
         if: steps.cache-openvino.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
@@ -464,8 +427,6 @@ jobs:
           name: llama-bin-ubuntu-openvino-${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR }}-x64.tar.gz
 
   windows-cpu:
-    needs: [check_release]
-    if: ${{ needs.check_release.outputs.should_release == 'true' }}
 
     runs-on: windows-2025
 
@@ -491,8 +452,9 @@ jobs:
       - name: ccache
         uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
         with:
-          key: release-windows-2025-${{ matrix.arch }}-cpu
-          append-timestamp: false # note: use this only with non-concurrent jobs!
+          key: windows-latest-cpu-${{ matrix.arch }}
+          variant: ccache
+          evict-old-files: 1d
 
       - name: Install Ninja
         run: |
@@ -525,8 +487,6 @@ jobs:
           name: llama-bin-win-cpu-${{ matrix.arch }}.zip
 
   windows:
-    needs: [check_release]
-    if: ${{ needs.check_release.outputs.should_release == 'true' }}
 
     runs-on: windows-2025
 
@@ -561,8 +521,9 @@ jobs:
       - name: ccache
         uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
         with:
-          key: release-windows-2025-${{ matrix.arch }}-${{ matrix.backend }}
-          append-timestamp: false # note: use this only with non-concurrent jobs!
+          key: windows-latest-${{ matrix.backend }}-${{ matrix.arch }}
+          variant: ccache
+          evict-old-files: 1d
 
       - name: Install Vulkan SDK
         id: get_vulkan
@@ -616,14 +577,12 @@ jobs:
           name: llama-bin-win-${{ matrix.backend }}-${{ matrix.arch }}.zip
 
   windows-cuda:
-    needs: [check_release]
-    if: ${{ needs.check_release.outputs.should_release == 'true' }}
 
     runs-on: windows-2022
 
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        cuda: ['12.4', '13.3']
+        cuda: ['12.4', '13.1']
 
     steps:
       - name: Clone
@@ -637,11 +596,12 @@ jobs:
           cache: "npm"
           cache-dependency-path: "tools/ui/package-lock.json"
 
-      - name: ccache
+      - name: Install ccache
         uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
         with:
-          key: release-windows-2022-x64-cuda-${{ matrix.cuda }}
-          append-timestamp: false # note: use this only with non-concurrent jobs!
+          key: windows-cuda-${{ matrix.cuda }}
+          variant: ccache
+          evict-old-files: 1d
 
       - name: Install Cuda Toolkit
         uses: ./.github/actions/windows-setup-cuda
@@ -695,216 +655,214 @@ jobs:
           path: cudart-llama-bin-win-cuda-${{ matrix.cuda }}-x64.zip
           name: cudart-llama-bin-win-cuda-${{ matrix.cuda }}-x64.zip
 
-# TODO: this build is disabled to save Github Actions resources (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23705)
-#       in order to enable it again, we have to provision dedicated runners  to run it
-#  windows-sycl:
-#
-#    runs-on: windows-2022
-#
-#    defaults:
-#      run:
-#        shell: bash
-#
-#    env:
-#      WINDOWS_BASEKIT_URL: https://registrationcenter-download.intel.com/akdlm/IRC_NAS/b60765d1-2b85-4e85-86b6-cb0e9563a699/intel-deep-learning-essentials-2025.3.3.18_offline.exe
-#      WINDOWS_DPCPP_MKL: intel.oneapi.win.cpp-dpcpp-common:intel.oneapi.win.mkl.devel:intel.oneapi.win.dnnl:intel.oneapi.win.tbb.devel
-#      LEVEL_ZERO_SDK_URL: https://github.com/oneapi-src/level-zero/releases/download/v1.28.2/level-zero-win-sdk-1.28.2.zip
-#      ONEAPI_ROOT: "C:/Program Files (x86)/Intel/oneAPI"
-#      ONEAPI_INSTALLER_VERSION: "2025.3.3"
-#
-#    steps:
-#      - name: Clone
-#        id: checkout
-#        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-#
-#      - name: Use oneAPI Installation Cache
-#        uses: actions/cache@v5
-#        id: cache-sycl
-#        with:
-#          path: ${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}
-#          key: cache-gha-oneAPI-${{ env.ONEAPI_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
-#
-#      - name: Download & Install oneAPI
-#        shell: bash
-#        if: steps.cache-sycl.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
-#        run: |
-#          scripts/install-oneapi.bat $WINDOWS_BASEKIT_URL $WINDOWS_DPCPP_MKL
-#
-#      - name: Install Level Zero SDK
-#        shell: pwsh
-#        run: |
-#          Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "${{ env.LEVEL_ZERO_SDK_URL }}" -OutFile "level-zero-win-sdk.zip"
-#          Expand-Archive -Path "level-zero-win-sdk.zip" -DestinationPath "C:/level-zero-sdk" -Force
-#          "LEVEL_ZERO_V1_SDK_PATH=C:/level-zero-sdk" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append
-#
-#      - name: Setup Node.js
-#        uses: actions/setup-node@v6
-#        with:
-#          node-version: "24"
-#          cache: "npm"
-#          cache-dependency-path: "tools/ui/package-lock.json"
-#
-#      - name: ccache
-#        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-#        with:
-#          key: release-windows-2022-x64-sycl
-#          append-timestamp: false # note: use this only with non-concurrent jobs!
-#
-#      - name: Build
-#        id: cmake_build
-#        shell: cmd
-#        run: |
-#          call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\setvars.bat" intel64 --force
-#          cmake -G "Ninja" -B build ^
-#            -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=cl -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icx ^
-#            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ^
-#            -DGGML_BACKEND_DL=ON -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON ^
-#            -DGGML_CPU=OFF -DGGML_SYCL=ON ^
-#            -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON
-#          cmake --build build --target ggml-sycl -j
-#
-#      - name: Build the release package
-#        id: pack_artifacts
-#        run: |
-#          echo "cp oneAPI running time dll files in ${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }} to ./build/bin"
-#
-#          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/mkl/latest/bin/mkl_sycl_blas.5.dll" ./build/bin
-#          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/mkl/latest/bin/mkl_core.2.dll" ./build/bin
-#          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/mkl/latest/bin/mkl_tbb_thread.2.dll" ./build/bin
-#
-#          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/ur_adapter_level_zero.dll" ./build/bin
-#          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/ur_adapter_level_zero_v2.dll" ./build/bin
-#          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/ur_adapter_opencl.dll" ./build/bin
-#          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/ur_loader.dll" ./build/bin
-#          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/ur_win_proxy_loader.dll" ./build/bin
-#          ZE_LOADER_DLL=$(find "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}" "$LEVEL_ZERO_V1_SDK_PATH" -iname ze_loader.dll -print -quit 2>/dev/null || true)
-#          if [ -n "$ZE_LOADER_DLL" ]; then
-#            echo "Using Level Zero loader: $ZE_LOADER_DLL"
-#            cp "$ZE_LOADER_DLL" ./build/bin
-#          else
-#            echo "Level Zero loader DLL not found in oneAPI or SDK; relying on system driver/runtime"
-#          fi
-#
-#          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/sycl8.dll" ./build/bin
-#          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/svml_dispmd.dll" ./build/bin
-#          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/libmmd.dll" ./build/bin
-#          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/libiomp5md.dll" ./build/bin
-#          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/sycl-ls.exe" ./build/bin
-#          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/libsycl-fallback-bfloat16.spv" ./build/bin
-#          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/libsycl-native-bfloat16.spv" ./build/bin
-#
-#          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/dnnl/latest/bin/dnnl.dll" ./build/bin
-#          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/tbb/latest/bin/tbb12.dll" ./build/bin
-#
-#          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/tcm/latest/bin/tcm.dll" ./build/bin
-#          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/tcm/latest/bin/libhwloc-15.dll" ./build/bin
-#          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/umf/latest/bin/umf.dll" ./build/bin
-#
-#          echo "cp oneAPI running time dll files to ./build/bin done"
-#          7z a -snl llama-bin-win-sycl-x64.zip ./build/bin/*
-#
-#      - name: Upload the release package
-#        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
-#        with:
-#          path: llama-bin-win-sycl-x64.zip
-#          name: llama-bin-win-sycl-x64.zip
+  windows-sycl:
 
-# TODO: this build is disabled to save Github Actions resources (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23705)
-#       in order to enable it again, we have to provision dedicated runners  to run it
-#  ubuntu-24-sycl:
-#
-#    strategy:
-#      matrix:
-#        build: [fp32]
-#        include:
-#          - build: fp32
-#            fp16: OFF
-#
-#    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-#
-#    env:
-#      ONEAPI_ROOT: /opt/intel/oneapi/
-#      ONEAPI_INSTALLER_VERSION: "2025.3.3"
-#      LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION: "1.28.2"
-#      LEVEL_ZERO_UBUNTU_VERSION: "u24.04"
-#
-#    steps:
-#      - name: Clone
-#        id: checkout
-#        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-#        with:
-#          fetch-depth: 0
-#
-#      - name: Use oneAPI Installation Cache
-#        uses: actions/cache@v5
-#        id: cache-sycl
-#        with:
-#          path: ${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}
-#          key: cache-gha-oneAPI-${{ env.ONEAPI_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
-#
-#      - name: Download & Install oneAPI
-#        shell: bash
-#        if: steps.cache-sycl.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
-#        run: |
-#          cd /tmp
-#          wget https://registrationcenter-download.intel.com/akdlm/IRC_NAS/56f7923a-adb8-43f3-8b02-2b60fcac8cab/intel-deep-learning-essentials-2025.3.3.16_offline.sh -O intel-deep-learning-essentials_offline.sh
-#          sudo bash intel-deep-learning-essentials_offline.sh -s -a --silent --eula accept
-#
-#      - name: Install Level Zero SDK
-#        shell: bash
-#        run: |
-#          cd /tmp
-#          wget -q "https://github.com/oneapi-src/level-zero/releases/download/v${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}/level-zero_${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}%2B${LEVEL_ZERO_UBUNTU_VERSION}_amd64.deb" -O level-zero.deb
-#          wget -q "https://github.com/oneapi-src/level-zero/releases/download/v${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}/level-zero-devel_${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}%2B${LEVEL_ZERO_UBUNTU_VERSION}_amd64.deb" -O level-zero-devel.deb
-#          sudo apt-get install -y ./level-zero.deb ./level-zero-devel.deb
-#
-#      - name: Setup Node.js
-#        uses: actions/setup-node@v6
-#        with:
-#          node-version: "24"
-#          cache: "npm"
-#          cache-dependency-path: "tools/ui/package-lock.json"
-#
-#      - name: ccache
-#        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-#        with:
-#          key: release-ubuntu-24.04-sycl
-#          append-timestamp: false # note: use this only with non-concurrent jobs!
-#
-#      - name: Build
-#        id: cmake_build
-#        run: |
-#          source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh
-#          cmake -B build \
-#            -G "Ninja" \
-#            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-#            -DGGML_SYCL=ON \
-#            -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=icx \
-#            -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icpx \
-#            -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
-#            -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF \
-#            -DGGML_SYCL_F16=${{ matrix.fp16 }}
-#          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
-#
-#      - name: Determine tag name
-#        id: tag
-#        uses: ./.github/actions/get-tag-name
-#
-#      - name: Pack artifacts
-#        id: pack_artifacts
-#        run: |
-#          cp LICENSE ./build/bin/
-#          tar -czvf llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-sycl-${{ matrix.build }}-x64.tar.gz --transform "s,^\.,llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}," -C ./build/bin .
-#
-#      - name: Upload artifacts
-#        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
-#        with:
-#          path: llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-sycl-${{ matrix.build }}-x64.tar.gz
-#          name: llama-bin-ubuntu-sycl-${{ matrix.build }}-x64.tar.gz
+    runs-on: windows-2022
+
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: bash
+
+    env:
+      WINDOWS_BASEKIT_URL: https://registrationcenter-download.intel.com/akdlm/IRC_NAS/b60765d1-2b85-4e85-86b6-cb0e9563a699/intel-deep-learning-essentials-2025.3.3.18_offline.exe
+      WINDOWS_DPCPP_MKL: intel.oneapi.win.cpp-dpcpp-common:intel.oneapi.win.mkl.devel:intel.oneapi.win.dnnl:intel.oneapi.win.tbb.devel
+      LEVEL_ZERO_SDK_URL: https://github.com/oneapi-src/level-zero/releases/download/v1.28.2/level-zero-win-sdk-1.28.2.zip
+      ONEAPI_ROOT: "C:/Program Files (x86)/Intel/oneAPI"
+      ONEAPI_INSTALLER_VERSION: "2025.3.3"
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        id: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Use oneAPI Installation Cache
+        uses: actions/cache@v5
+        id: cache-sycl
+        with:
+          path: ${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}
+          key: oneAPI-${{ env.ONEAPI_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
+
+      - name: Download & Install oneAPI
+        shell: bash
+        if: steps.cache-sycl.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: |
+          scripts/install-oneapi.bat $WINDOWS_BASEKIT_URL $WINDOWS_DPCPP_MKL
+
+      - name: Install Level Zero SDK
+        shell: pwsh
+        run: |
+          Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "${{ env.LEVEL_ZERO_SDK_URL }}" -OutFile "level-zero-win-sdk.zip"
+          Expand-Archive -Path "level-zero-win-sdk.zip" -DestinationPath "C:/level-zero-sdk" -Force
+          "LEVEL_ZERO_V1_SDK_PATH=C:/level-zero-sdk" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append
+
+      - name: Setup Node.js
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v6
+        with:
+          node-version: "24"
+          cache: "npm"
+          cache-dependency-path: "tools/ui/package-lock.json"
+
+      - name: ccache
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
+        with:
+          key: windows-latest-sycl
+          variant: ccache
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+
+      - name: Build
+        id: cmake_build
+        shell: cmd
+        run: |
+          call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\setvars.bat" intel64 --force
+          cmake -G "Ninja" -B build ^
+            -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=cl -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icx ^
+            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ^
+            -DGGML_BACKEND_DL=ON -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON ^
+            -DGGML_CPU=OFF -DGGML_SYCL=ON ^
+            -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON
+          cmake --build build --target ggml-sycl -j
+
+      - name: Build the release package
+        id: pack_artifacts
+        run: |
+          echo "cp oneAPI running time dll files in ${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }} to ./build/bin"
+
+          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/mkl/latest/bin/mkl_sycl_blas.5.dll" ./build/bin
+          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/mkl/latest/bin/mkl_core.2.dll" ./build/bin
+          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/mkl/latest/bin/mkl_tbb_thread.2.dll" ./build/bin
+
+          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/ur_adapter_level_zero.dll" ./build/bin
+          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/ur_adapter_level_zero_v2.dll" ./build/bin
+          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/ur_adapter_opencl.dll" ./build/bin
+          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/ur_loader.dll" ./build/bin
+          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/ur_win_proxy_loader.dll" ./build/bin
+          ZE_LOADER_DLL=$(find "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}" "$LEVEL_ZERO_V1_SDK_PATH" -iname ze_loader.dll -print -quit 2>/dev/null || true)
+          if [ -n "$ZE_LOADER_DLL" ]; then
+            echo "Using Level Zero loader: $ZE_LOADER_DLL"
+            cp "$ZE_LOADER_DLL" ./build/bin
+          else
+            echo "Level Zero loader DLL not found in oneAPI or SDK; relying on system driver/runtime"
+          fi
+
+          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/sycl8.dll" ./build/bin
+          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/svml_dispmd.dll" ./build/bin
+          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/libmmd.dll" ./build/bin
+          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/libiomp5md.dll" ./build/bin
+          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/sycl-ls.exe" ./build/bin
+          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/libsycl-fallback-bfloat16.spv" ./build/bin
+          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/compiler/latest/bin/libsycl-native-bfloat16.spv" ./build/bin
+
+          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/dnnl/latest/bin/dnnl.dll" ./build/bin
+          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/tbb/latest/bin/tbb12.dll" ./build/bin
+
+          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/tcm/latest/bin/tcm.dll" ./build/bin
+          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/tcm/latest/bin/libhwloc-15.dll" ./build/bin
+          cp "${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}/umf/latest/bin/umf.dll" ./build/bin
+
+          echo "cp oneAPI running time dll files to ./build/bin done"
+          7z a -snl llama-bin-win-sycl-x64.zip ./build/bin/*
+
+      - name: Upload the release package
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
+        with:
+          path: llama-bin-win-sycl-x64.zip
+          name: llama-bin-win-sycl-x64.zip
+
+  ubuntu-24-sycl:
+
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        build: [fp32, fp16]
+        include:
+          - build: fp32
+            fp16: OFF
+          - build: fp16
+            fp16: ON
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+
+    env:
+      ONEAPI_ROOT: /opt/intel/oneapi/
+      ONEAPI_INSTALLER_VERSION: "2025.3.3"
+      LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION: "1.28.2"
+      LEVEL_ZERO_UBUNTU_VERSION: "u24.04"
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        id: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Use oneAPI Installation Cache
+        uses: actions/cache@v5
+        id: cache-sycl
+        with:
+          path: ${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}
+          key: oneAPI-${{ env.ONEAPI_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
+
+      - name: Download & Install oneAPI
+        shell: bash
+        if: steps.cache-sycl.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: |
+          cd /tmp
+          wget https://registrationcenter-download.intel.com/akdlm/IRC_NAS/56f7923a-adb8-43f3-8b02-2b60fcac8cab/intel-deep-learning-essentials-2025.3.3.16_offline.sh -O intel-deep-learning-essentials_offline.sh
+          sudo bash intel-deep-learning-essentials_offline.sh -s -a --silent --eula accept
+
+      - name: Install Level Zero SDK
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          cd /tmp
+          wget -q "https://github.com/oneapi-src/level-zero/releases/download/v${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}/level-zero_${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}%2B${LEVEL_ZERO_UBUNTU_VERSION}_amd64.deb" -O level-zero.deb
+          wget -q "https://github.com/oneapi-src/level-zero/releases/download/v${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}/level-zero-devel_${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}%2B${LEVEL_ZERO_UBUNTU_VERSION}_amd64.deb" -O level-zero-devel.deb
+          sudo apt-get install -y ./level-zero.deb ./level-zero-devel.deb
+
+      - name: Setup Node.js
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v6
+        with:
+          node-version: "24"
+          cache: "npm"
+          cache-dependency-path: "tools/ui/package-lock.json"
+
+      - name: ccache
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
+        with:
+          key: ubuntu-24-sycl-${{ matrix.build }}
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
+
+      - name: Build
+        id: cmake_build
+        run: |
+          source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh
+          cmake -B build \
+            -G "Ninja" \
+            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+            -DGGML_SYCL=ON \
+            -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=icx \
+            -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icpx \
+            -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
+            -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF \
+            -DGGML_SYCL_F16=${{ matrix.fp16 }}
+          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
+
+      - name: Determine tag name
+        id: tag
+        uses: ./.github/actions/get-tag-name
+
+      - name: Pack artifacts
+        id: pack_artifacts
+        run: |
+          cp LICENSE ./build/bin/
+          tar -czvf llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-sycl-${{ matrix.build }}-x64.tar.gz --transform "s,^\.,llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}," -C ./build/bin .
+
+      - name: Upload artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
+        with:
+          path: llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-sycl-${{ matrix.build }}-x64.tar.gz
+          name: llama-bin-ubuntu-sycl-${{ matrix.build }}-x64.tar.gz
 
   ubuntu-22-rocm:
-    needs: [check_release]
-    if: ${{ needs.check_release.outputs.should_release == 'true' }}
 
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
 
@@ -937,8 +895,8 @@ jobs:
       - name: ccache
         uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
         with:
-          key: release-ubuntu-22.04-rocm-${{ matrix.ROCM_VERSION }}
-          append-timestamp: false # note: use this only with non-concurrent jobs!
+          key: ubuntu-rocm-${{ matrix.ROCM_VERSION }}-${{ matrix.build }}
+          evict-old-files: 1d
 
       - name: Dependencies
         id: depends
@@ -1016,8 +974,6 @@ jobs:
           name: llama-bin-ubuntu-rocm-${{ env.ROCM_VERSION_SHORT }}-${{ matrix.build }}.tar.gz
 
   windows-hip:
-    needs: [check_release]
-    if: ${{ needs.check_release.outputs.should_release == 'true' }}
 
     runs-on: windows-2022
 
@@ -1054,13 +1010,13 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/cache@v5
         with:
           path: C:\Program Files\AMD\ROCm
-          key: cache-gha-rocm-${{ env.HIPSDK_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
+          key: rocm-${{ env.HIPSDK_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
 
       - name: ccache
         uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
         with:
-          key: release-windows-2022-x64-hip-${{ env.HIPSDK_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ matrix.name }}
-          append-timestamp: false # note: use this only with non-concurrent jobs!
+          key: windows-latest-hip-${{ env.HIPSDK_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ matrix.name }}-x64
+          evict-old-files: 1d
 
       - name: Install ROCm
         if: steps.cache-rocm.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
@@ -1132,8 +1088,6 @@ jobs:
           name: llama-bin-win-hip-${{ matrix.name }}-x64.zip
 
   ios-xcode-build:
-    needs: [check_release]
-    if: ${{ needs.check_release.outputs.should_release == 'true' }}
     runs-on: macos-15
 
     steps:
@@ -1154,7 +1108,6 @@ jobs:
             -DGGML_METAL_USE_BF16=ON \
             -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON \
             -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_APP=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS=OFF \
             -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
@@ -1189,102 +1142,96 @@ jobs:
           path: llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-xcframework.zip
           name: llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-xcframework.zip
 
-# TODO: this build is disabled to save Github Actions resources (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23705)
-#       in order to enable it again, we have to provision dedicated runners  to run it
-#  openEuler-cann:
-#    strategy:
-#      matrix:
-#        include:
-#          # 910b with aclgraph (both architectures)
-#          - arch: x86
-#            chip_type: '910b'
-#            build: 'Release'
-#            use_acl_graph: 'on'
-#          - arch: aarch64
-#            chip_type: '910b'
-#            build: 'Release'
-#            use_acl_graph: 'on'
-#          # 310p without aclgraph (both architectures)
-#          - arch: x86
-#            chip_type: '310p'
-#            build: 'Release'
-#            use_acl_graph: 'off'
-#          - arch: aarch64
-#            chip_type: '310p'
-#            build: 'Release'
-#            use_acl_graph: 'off'
-#    runs-on: ${{ matrix.arch == 'aarch64' && 'ubuntu-24.04-arm' || 'ubuntu-24.04' }}
-#    steps:
-#      - name: Checkout
-#        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-#        with:
-#          fetch-depth: 0
-#
-#      - name: Free up disk space
-#        uses: ggml-org/free-disk-space@v1.3.1
-#        with:
-#          tool-cache: true
-#
-#      - name: Set container image
-#        id: cann-image
-#        run: |
-#          image="ascendai/cann:${{ matrix.chip_type == '910b' &&  '8.5.0-910b-openeuler24.03-py3.11' || '8.5.0-310p-openeuler24.03-py3.11' }}"
-#          echo "image=${image}" >> "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
-#
-#      - name: Pull container image
-#        run: docker pull "${{ steps.cann-image.outputs.image }}"
-#
-#      - name: Build
-#        env:
-#          BUILD_TYPE: ${{ matrix.build }}
-#          SOC_TYPE: ascend${{ matrix.chip_type }}
-#          USE_ACL_GRAPH: ${{ matrix.use_acl_graph }}
-#        run: |
-#          HOST_UID=$(id -u)
-#          HOST_GID=$(id -g)
-#
-#          docker run --rm \
-#            -v "${PWD}:/workspace" \
-#            -w /workspace \
-#            -e SOC_TYPE=${SOC_TYPE} \
-#            -e BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE} \
-#            -e USE_ACL_GRAPH=${USE_ACL_GRAPH} \
-#            "${{ steps.cann-image.outputs.image }}" \
-#            bash -lc '
-#              set -e
-#              yum install -y --setopt=install_weak_deps=False --setopt=tsflags=nodocs git gcc gcc-c++ make cmake openssl-devel
-#              yum clean all && rm -rf /var/cache/yum
-#              git config --global --add safe.directory "/workspace"
-#              export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${ASCEND_TOOLKIT_HOME}/lib64:${ASCEND_TOOLKIT_HOME}/$(uname -m)-linux/devlib/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
-#              cmake -S . -B build \
-#                  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE} \
-#                  -DGGML_CANN=on \
-#                  -DSOC_TYPE=${SOC_TYPE} \
-#                  -DUSE_ACL_GRAPH=${USE_ACL_GRAPH}
-#              cmake --build build -j $(nproc)
-#
-#              chown -R '"${HOST_UID}"':'"${HOST_GID}"' /workspace/build
-#            '
-#
-#      - name: Determine tag name
-#        id: tag
-#        uses: ./.github/actions/get-tag-name
-#
-#      - name: Pack artifacts
-#        run: |
-#          cp LICENSE ./build/bin/
-#          tar -czvf llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-${{ matrix.chip_type }}-openEuler-${{ matrix.arch }}${{ matrix.use_acl_graph == 'on' && '-aclgraph' || '' }}.tar.gz --transform "s,^\.,llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}," -C ./build/bin .
-#
-#      - name: Upload artifacts
-#        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
-#        with:
-#          path: llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-${{ matrix.chip_type }}-openEuler-${{ matrix.arch }}${{ matrix.use_acl_graph == 'on' && '-aclgraph' || '' }}.tar.gz
-#          name: llama-bin-${{ matrix.chip_type }}-openEuler-${{ matrix.arch }}${{ matrix.use_acl_graph == 'on' && '-aclgraph' || '' }}.tar.gz
 
-  ui-build:
-    needs: [check_release]
-    if: ${{ needs.check_release.outputs.should_release == 'true' }}
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/ui-build.yml
+  openEuler-cann:
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        include:
+          # 910b with aclgraph (both architectures)
+          - arch: x86
+            chip_type: '910b'
+            build: 'Release'
+            use_acl_graph: 'on'
+          - arch: aarch64
+            chip_type: '910b'
+            build: 'Release'
+            use_acl_graph: 'on'
+          # 310p without aclgraph (both architectures)
+          - arch: x86
+            chip_type: '310p'
+            build: 'Release'
+            use_acl_graph: 'off'
+          - arch: aarch64
+            chip_type: '310p'
+            build: 'Release'
+            use_acl_graph: 'off'
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.arch == 'aarch64' && 'ubuntu-24.04-arm' || 'ubuntu-24.04' }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Free up disk space
+        uses: ggml-org/free-disk-space@v1.3.1
+        with:
+          tool-cache: true
+
+      - name: Set container image
+        id: cann-image
+        run: |
+          image="ascendai/cann:${{ matrix.chip_type == '910b' &&  '8.5.0-910b-openeuler24.03-py3.11' || '8.5.0-310p-openeuler24.03-py3.11' }}"
+          echo "image=${image}" >> "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
+
+      - name: Pull container image
+        run: docker pull "${{ steps.cann-image.outputs.image }}"
+
+      - name: Build
+        env:
+          BUILD_TYPE: ${{ matrix.build }}
+          SOC_TYPE: ascend${{ matrix.chip_type }}
+          USE_ACL_GRAPH: ${{ matrix.use_acl_graph }}
+        run: |
+          HOST_UID=$(id -u)
+          HOST_GID=$(id -g)
+
+          docker run --rm \
+            -v "${PWD}:/workspace" \
+            -w /workspace \
+            -e SOC_TYPE=${SOC_TYPE} \
+            -e BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE} \
+            -e USE_ACL_GRAPH=${USE_ACL_GRAPH} \
+            "${{ steps.cann-image.outputs.image }}" \
+            bash -lc '
+              set -e
+              yum install -y --setopt=install_weak_deps=False --setopt=tsflags=nodocs git gcc gcc-c++ make cmake openssl-devel
+              yum clean all && rm -rf /var/cache/yum
+              git config --global --add safe.directory "/workspace"
+              export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${ASCEND_TOOLKIT_HOME}/lib64:${ASCEND_TOOLKIT_HOME}/$(uname -m)-linux/devlib/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
+              cmake -S . -B build \
+                  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE} \
+                  -DGGML_CANN=on \
+                  -DSOC_TYPE=${SOC_TYPE} \
+                  -DUSE_ACL_GRAPH=${USE_ACL_GRAPH}
+              cmake --build build -j $(nproc)
+
+              chown -R '"${HOST_UID}"':'"${HOST_GID}"' /workspace/build
+            '
+
+      - name: Determine tag name
+        id: tag
+        uses: ./.github/actions/get-tag-name
+
+      - name: Pack artifacts
+        run: |
+          cp LICENSE ./build/bin/
+          tar -czvf llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-${{ matrix.chip_type }}-openEuler-${{ matrix.arch }}${{ matrix.use_acl_graph == 'on' && '-aclgraph' || '' }}.tar.gz --transform "s,^\.,llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}," -C ./build/bin .
+
+      - name: Upload artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
+        with:
+          path: llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-${{ matrix.chip_type }}-openEuler-${{ matrix.arch }}${{ matrix.use_acl_graph == 'on' && '-aclgraph' || '' }}.tar.gz
+          name: llama-bin-${{ matrix.chip_type }}-openEuler-${{ matrix.arch }}${{ matrix.use_acl_graph == 'on' && '-aclgraph' || '' }}.tar.gz
 
   release:
     if: ${{ ( github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' ) || github.event.inputs.create_release == 'true' }}
@@ -1300,18 +1247,17 @@ jobs:
       - windows
       - windows-cpu
       - windows-cuda
-      #- windows-sycl
+      - windows-sycl
       - windows-hip
       - ubuntu-22-rocm
       - ubuntu-cpu
       - ubuntu-vulkan
       - ubuntu-24-openvino
-      #- ubuntu-24-sycl
+      - ubuntu-24-sycl
       - android-arm64
-      - macos-cpu
+      - macOS-cpu
       - ios-xcode-build
-      #- openEuler-cann
-      - ui-build
+      - openEuler-cann
 
     outputs:
       tag_name: ${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}
@@ -1371,18 +1317,6 @@ jobs:
           mv -v artifact/*.zip release
           mv -v artifact/*.tar.gz release
 
-      - name: Download UI build
-        id: download_ui
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v7
-        with:
-          name: ui-build
-          path: ./ui-dist
-
-      - name: Package UI
-        id: package_ui
-        run: |
-          tar -czvf release/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-ui.tar.gz --transform "s,^\.,llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}," -C ./ui-dist .
-
       - name: Create release
         id: create_release
         uses: ggml-org/action-create-release@v1
@@ -1399,7 +1333,7 @@ jobs:
 
             **macOS/iOS:**
             - [macOS Apple Silicon (arm64)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-macos-arm64.tar.gz)
-            - macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) [DISABLED](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23780)
+            - [macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-macos-arm64-kleidiai.tar.gz)
             - [macOS Intel (x64)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-macos-x64.tar.gz)
             - [iOS XCFramework](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-xcframework.zip)
 
@@ -1411,7 +1345,8 @@ jobs:
             - [Ubuntu arm64 (Vulkan)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-vulkan-arm64.tar.gz)
             - [Ubuntu x64 (ROCm 7.2)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-rocm-7.2-x64.tar.gz)
             - [Ubuntu x64 (OpenVINO)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-openvino-${{ needs.ubuntu-24-openvino.outputs.openvino_version }}-x64.tar.gz)
-            - Ubuntu x64 (SYCL FP32) [DISABLED](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23705)
+            - [Ubuntu x64 (SYCL FP32)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-sycl-fp32-x64.tar.gz)
+            - [Ubuntu x64 (SYCL FP16)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-sycl-fp16-x64.tar.gz)
 
             **Android:**
             - [Android arm64 (CPU)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-android-arm64.tar.gz)
@@ -1420,20 +1355,16 @@ jobs:
             - [Windows x64 (CPU)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-win-cpu-x64.zip)
             - [Windows arm64 (CPU)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-win-cpu-arm64.zip)
             - [Windows x64 (CUDA 12)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-win-cuda-12.4-x64.zip) - [CUDA 12.4 DLLs](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/cudart-llama-bin-win-cuda-12.4-x64.zip)
-            - [Windows x64 (CUDA 13)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-win-cuda-13.3-x64.zip) - [CUDA 13.3 DLLs](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/cudart-llama-bin-win-cuda-13.3-x64.zip)
+            - [Windows x64 (CUDA 13)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-win-cuda-13.1-x64.zip) - [CUDA 13.1 DLLs](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/cudart-llama-bin-win-cuda-13.1-x64.zip)
             - [Windows x64 (Vulkan)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-win-vulkan-x64.zip)
-            - Windows x64 (SYCL) [DISABLED](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23705)
+            - [Windows x64 (SYCL)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-win-sycl-x64.zip)
             - [Windows x64 (HIP)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-win-hip-radeon-x64.zip)
 
             **openEuler:**
-            - [DISABLED](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23705)
-            - openEuler x86 (310p)
-            - openEuler x86 (910b, ACL Graph)
-            - openEuler aarch64 (310p)
-            - openEuler aarch64 (910b, ACL Graph)
-
-            **UI:**
-            - [UI](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-ui.tar.gz)
+            - [openEuler x86 (310p)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-310p-openEuler-x86.tar.gz)
+            - [openEuler x86 (910b, ACL Graph)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-910b-openEuler-x86-aclgraph.tar.gz)
+            - [openEuler aarch64 (310p)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-310p-openEuler-aarch64.tar.gz)
+            - [openEuler aarch64 (910b, ACL Graph)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-910b-openEuler-aarch64-aclgraph.tar.gz)
 
       - name: Upload release
         id: upload_release

.github/workflows/server-sanitize.yml

@@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ on:
     ]
 
 env:
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_VERBOSITY: 10
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_VERBOSITY: 10
 
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ concurrency:
 
 jobs:
   server:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, CPU, Linux, llama-server]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     strategy:
       matrix:
@@ -46,19 +46,19 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
 
     steps:
-      #- name: Dependencies
-      #  id: depends
-      #  run: |
-      #    sudo apt-get update
-      #    sudo apt-get -y install \
-      #      build-essential \
-      #      xxd \
-      #      git \
-      #      cmake \
-      #      curl \
-      #      wget \
-      #      language-pack-en \
-      #      libssl-dev
+      - name: Dependencies
+        id: depends
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get -y install \
+            build-essential \
+            xxd \
+            git \
+            cmake \
+            curl \
+            wget \
+            language-pack-en \
+            libssl-dev
 
       - name: Clone
         id: checkout

.github/workflows/server-self-hosted.yml

@@ -29,10 +29,10 @@ on:
     ]
 
 env:
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_VERBOSITY: 10
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_VERBOSITY: 10
 
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
@@ -91,44 +91,45 @@ jobs:
           export ${{ matrix.extra_args }}
           pytest -v -x -m "not slow"
 
-  server-cuda:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, llama-server, Linux, NVIDIA]
-
-    name: server-cuda (${{ matrix.wf_name }})
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        build_type: [Release]
-        wf_name: ["GPUx1"]
-        include:
-          - build_type: Release
-            extra_args: "LLAMA_ARG_BACKEND_SAMPLING=1"
-            wf_name:    "GPUx1, backend-sampling"
-      fail-fast: false
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-          ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.sha || github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha || github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build -DGGML_CUDA=ON -DGGML_SCHED_NO_REALLOC=ON
-          cmake --build build --config ${{ matrix.build_type }} -j $(nproc) --target llama-server
-
-      - name: Tests
-        id: server_integration_tests
-        if: ${{ (!matrix.disabled_on_pr || !github.event.pull_request) }}
-        run: |
-          cd tools/server/tests
-          python3 -m venv venv
-          source venv/bin/activate
-          pip install -r requirements.txt
-          export ${{ matrix.extra_args }}
-          pytest -v -x -m "not slow"
+  # TODO: provision CUDA runner
+  #  server-cuda:
+  #    runs-on: [self-hosted, llama-server, Linux, NVIDIA]
+  #
+  #    name: server-cuda (${{ matrix.wf_name }})
+  #    strategy:
+  #      matrix:
+  #        build_type: [Release]
+  #        wf_name: ["GPUx1"]
+  #        include:
+  #          - build_type: Release
+  #            extra_args: "LLAMA_ARG_BACKEND_SAMPLING=1"
+  #            wf_name:    "GPUx1, backend-sampling"
+  #      fail-fast: false
+  #
+  #    steps:
+  #      - name: Clone
+  #        id: checkout
+  #        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+  #        with:
+  #          fetch-depth: 0
+  #          ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.sha || github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha || github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}
+  #
+  #      - name: Build
+  #        id: cmake_build
+  #        run: |
+  #          cmake -B build -DGGML_SCHED_NO_REALLOC=ON
+  #          cmake --build build --config ${{ matrix.build_type }} -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu) --target llama-server
+  #
+  #      - name: Tests
+  #        id: server_integration_tests
+  #        if: ${{ (!matrix.disabled_on_pr || !github.event.pull_request) }}
+  #        run: |
+  #          cd tools/server/tests
+  #          python3 -m venv venv
+  #          source venv/bin/activate
+  #          pip install -r requirements.txt
+  #          export ${{ matrix.extra_args }}
+  #          pytest -v -x -m "not slow"
 
   server-kleidiai:
     runs-on: ah-ubuntu_22_04-c8g_8x

.github/workflows/server.yml

@@ -44,20 +44,20 @@ on:
     ]
 
 env:
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_VERBOSITY: 10
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_VERBOSITY: 10
 
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 jobs:
-  ubuntu:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+  server:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
-    name: ubuntu (${{ matrix.wf_name }})
+    name: server (${{ matrix.wf_name }})
     strategy:
       matrix:
         build_type: [Release]
@@ -93,17 +93,18 @@ jobs:
           fetch-depth: 0
           ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.sha || github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha || github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}
 
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
+      - name: Setup Node.js
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v6
         with:
-          key: server-ubuntu-24.04-x64
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
+          node-version: "24"
+          cache: "npm"
+          cache-dependency-path: "tools/ui/package-lock.json"
 
       - name: Build
         id: cmake_build
         run: |
           cmake -B build \
+            -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON \
             -DGGML_SCHED_NO_REALLOC=ON
           cmake --build build --config ${{ matrix.build_type }} -j $(nproc) --target llama-server
 
@@ -130,8 +131,8 @@ jobs:
           export ${{ matrix.extra_args }}
           SLOW_TESTS=1 pytest -v -x
 
-  windows:
-    runs-on: windows-2025
+  server-windows:
+    runs-on: windows-2022
 
     steps:
       - name: Clone
@@ -141,24 +142,16 @@ jobs:
           fetch-depth: 0
           ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.sha || github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha || github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}
 
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
+      - name: Setup Node.js
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v6
         with:
-          key: server-windows-2025-x64
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
+          node-version: "24"
 
       - name: Build
         id: cmake_build
-        shell: cmd
         run: |
-          cmake -B build -G "Ninja Multi-Config" ^
-            -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=cmake/x64-windows-llvm.cmake ^
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ^
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON ^
-            -DGGML_SCHED_NO_REALLOC=ON
-          set /A NINJA_JOBS=%NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS%-1
-          cmake --build build --config Release -j %NINJA_JOBS% --target llama-server
+          cmake -B build -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON -DGGML_SCHED_NO_REALLOC=ON
+          cmake --build build --config Release -j ${env:NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS} --target llama-server
 
       - name: Python setup
         id: setup_python

.github/workflows/ui-build.yml

@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   build:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, fast]
+    name: Build static output
+    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
     env:
       BRANCH_NAME: ${{ github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}
 
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Generate checksums
         run: |
-          cd tools/ui/dist
+          cd build/tools/ui/dist
           for f in *; do
             sha256sum "$f" | awk '{print $1, $2}' >> checksums.txt
           done
@@ -39,5 +40,5 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
         with:
           name: ui-build
-          path: tools/ui/dist/
+          path: build/tools/ui/dist/
           retention-days: 1

.github/workflows/ui-ci.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: UI
+name: CI (UI)
 
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
@@ -11,25 +11,23 @@ on:
     branches:
       - master
     paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ui.yml',
-      '.github/workflows/ui-build.yml',
+      '.github/workflows/ui-ci.yml',
       'tools/ui/**.*',
       'tools/server/tests/**.*'
     ]
   pull_request:
     types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
     paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ui.yml',
-      '.github/workflows/ui-build.yml',
+      '.github/workflows/ui-ci.yml',
       'tools/ui/**.*',
       'tools/server/tests/**.*'
     ]
 
 env:
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_VERBOSITY: 10
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_VERBOSITY: 10
 
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
@@ -41,7 +39,7 @@ jobs:
     uses: ./.github/workflows/ui-build.yml
 
   ui-checks:
-    name: Checks
+    name: UI Checks
     needs: ui-build
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     continue-on-error: true

.github/workflows/ui-publish.yml

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/download-artifact@v7
         with:
           name: ui-build
-          path: tools/ui/dist/
+          path: build/tools/ui/dist/
 
       - name: Install Hugging Face Hub CLI
         run: pip install -U huggingface_hub
@@ -49,12 +49,12 @@ jobs:
       - name: Sync built files to Hugging Face bucket (version tag)
         run: |
           # Upload the built files to the Hugging Face bucket under the release version
-          hf buckets sync tools/ui/dist hf://buckets/ggml-org/${{ env.HF_BUCKET_NAME }}/${{ inputs.version_tag }} --delete --quiet
+          hf buckets sync build/tools/ui/dist hf://buckets/ggml-org/${{ env.HF_BUCKET_NAME }}/${{ inputs.version_tag }} --delete --quiet
 
       - name: Sync built files to Hugging Face bucket (latest)
         run: |
           # Also upload to the 'latest' directory for fallback downloads
-          hf buckets sync tools/ui/dist hf://buckets/ggml-org/${{ env.HF_BUCKET_NAME }}/latest --delete --quiet
+          hf buckets sync build/tools/ui/dist hf://buckets/ggml-org/${{ env.HF_BUCKET_NAME }}/latest --delete --quiet
 
       - name: Verify upload
         run: |

.github/workflows/ui-self-hosted.yml

@@ -1,118 +0,0 @@
-name: UI (self-hosted)
-
-# these are the same as ui.yml, but with self-hosted runners
-# the runners come with pre-installed Playwright browsers version: 1.56.1
-# the jobs are much lighter because they don't need to install node and playwright browsers
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-    inputs:
-      sha:
-        description: 'Commit SHA1 to build'
-        required: false
-        type: string
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ui-self-hosted.yml',
-      '.github/workflows/ui-build.yml',
-      'tools/ui/**.*',
-      'tools/server/tests/**.*'
-    ]
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ui-self-hosted.yml',
-      '.github/workflows/ui-build.yml',
-      'tools/ui/**.*',
-      'tools/server/tests/**.*'
-    ]
-
-env:
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_VERBOSITY: 10
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-jobs:
-  ui-build:
-    name: Build static output
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/ui-build.yml
-
-  ui-checks:
-    name: Checks
-    needs: ui-build
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, PLAYWRIGHT]
-    continue-on-error: true
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-          ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.sha || github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha || github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        id: setup
-        run: npm ci
-        working-directory: tools/ui
-
-      - name: Run type checking
-        if: ${{ always() && steps.setup.conclusion == 'success' }}
-        run: npm run check
-        working-directory: tools/ui
-
-      - name: Run linting
-        if: ${{ always() && steps.setup.conclusion == 'success' }}
-        run: npm run lint
-        working-directory: tools/ui
-
-      - name: Run Client tests
-        if: ${{ always() }}
-        run: npm run test:client
-        working-directory: tools/ui
-
-      - name: Run Unit tests
-        if: ${{ always() }}
-        run: npm run test:unit
-        working-directory: tools/ui
-
-  e2e-tests:
-    name: E2E Tests
-    needs: ui-build
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, PLAYWRIGHT]
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-          ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.sha || github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha || github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        id: setup
-        run: npm ci
-        working-directory: tools/ui
-
-      - name: Build application
-        if: ${{ always() && steps.setup.conclusion == 'success' }}
-        run: npm run build
-        working-directory: tools/ui
-
-      - name: Build Storybook
-        if: ${{ always() }}
-        run: npm run build-storybook
-        working-directory: tools/ui
-
-      - name: Run UI tests
-        if: ${{ always() }}
-        run: npm run test:ui -- --testTimeout=60000
-        working-directory: tools/ui
-
-      - name: Run E2E tests
-        if: ${{ always() }}
-        run: npm run test:e2e
-        working-directory: tools/ui

.github/workflows/update-ops-docs.yml

@@ -3,20 +3,18 @@ name: Update Operations Documentation
 on:
     push:
         paths:
-            - '.github/workflows/update-ops-docs.yml'
             - 'docs/ops.md'
             - 'docs/ops/**'
             - 'scripts/create_ops_docs.py'
     pull_request:
         paths:
-            - '.github/workflows/update-ops-docs.yml'
             - 'docs/ops.md'
             - 'docs/ops/**'
             - 'scripts/create_ops_docs.py'
 
 jobs:
     update-ops-docs:
-        runs-on: [self-hosted, fast, ARM64]
+        runs-on: ubuntu-slim
 
         steps:
         - name: Checkout repository

.pi/gg/SYSTEM.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 You are a coding agent. Here are some very important rules that you must follow:
 
 General:
-- Be very precise and concise when writing code, comments, explanations, etc.
+- By very precise and concise when writing code, comments, explanations, etc.
 - PR and commit titles format: `<module> : <title>`. Lookup recents for examples
 - Don't try to build or run the code unless you are explicitly asked to do so
 - Use the `gh` CLI tool when querying PRs, issues, or other GitHub resources
@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ Pull requests (PRs):
 - New branch names are prefixed with "gg/"
 - Before opening a pull request, ask the user to confirm the description
 - When creating a pull request, look for the repository's PR template and follow it
-- For the AI usage disclosure section, write "YES. llama.cpp + pi + [MODEL]"
-- Ask the user to tell you what model was used and write it in place of [MODEL]
+- For the AI usage disclosure section, write "YES. llama.cpp + pi"
 - Always create the pull requests in draft mode
 
 Commits:

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -104,16 +104,24 @@ option(LLAMA_SANITIZE_UNDEFINED "llama: enable undefined sanitizer" OFF)
 option(LLAMA_BUILD_COMMON "llama: build common utils library" ${LLAMA_STANDALONE})
 
 # extra artifacts
-option(LLAMA_BUILD_TESTS     "llama: build tests"                                                                ${LLAMA_STANDALONE})
-option(LLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS     "llama: build tools"                                                                ${LLAMA_STANDALONE})
-option(LLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES  "llama: build examples"                                                             ${LLAMA_STANDALONE})
-option(LLAMA_BUILD_SERVER    "llama: build server example"                                                       ${LLAMA_STANDALONE})
-option(LLAMA_BUILD_APP       "llama: build the unified binary"                                                   ${LLAMA_STANDALONE})
-option(LLAMA_BUILD_UI        "llama: build the embedded Web UI for server"                                       ON)
-option(LLAMA_USE_PREBUILT_UI "llama: use prebuilt UI from HF Bucket when available (requires LLAMA_BUILD_UI=ON)" ON)
+option(LLAMA_BUILD_TESTS            "llama: build tests"                                                                            ${LLAMA_STANDALONE})
+option(LLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS            "llama: build tools"                                                                            ${LLAMA_STANDALONE})
+option(LLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES         "llama: build examples"                                                                         ${LLAMA_STANDALONE})
+option(LLAMA_BUILD_SERVER           "llama: build server example"                                                                   ${LLAMA_STANDALONE})
+option(LLAMA_BUILD_UI                "llama: build the embedded Web UI for server"                                                   ON)
+option(LLAMA_USE_PREBUILT_UI         "llama: use prebuilt UI from HF Bucket when available (requires LLAMA_BUILD_UI=ON)"             ON)
 
-option(LLAMA_TOOLS_INSTALL "llama: install tools" ${LLAMA_TOOLS_INSTALL_DEFAULT})
-option(LLAMA_TESTS_INSTALL "llama: install tests" ON)
+# Backward compat: when old var is set but new one isn't, forward the value
+if(DEFINED LLAMA_BUILD_WEBUI)
+    set(LLAMA_BUILD_UI ${LLAMA_BUILD_WEBUI})
+    message(DEPRECATION "LLAMA_BUILD_WEBUI is deprecated, use LLAMA_BUILD_UI instead")
+endif()
+if(DEFINED LLAMA_USE_PREBUILT_WEBUI)
+    set(LLAMA_USE_PREBUILT_UI ${LLAMA_USE_PREBUILT_WEBUI})
+    message(DEPRECATION "LLAMA_USE_PREBUILT_WEBUI is deprecated, use LLAMA_USE_PREBUILT_UI instead")
+endif()
+option(LLAMA_TOOLS_INSTALL          "llama: install tools"                                                                          ${LLAMA_TOOLS_INSTALL_DEFAULT})
+option(LLAMA_TESTS_INSTALL          "llama: install tests"                                                                          ON)
 
 # 3rd party libs
 option(LLAMA_OPENSSL    "llama: use openssl to support HTTPS" ON)
@@ -218,10 +226,6 @@ if (LLAMA_BUILD_COMMON AND LLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS)
     add_subdirectory(tools)
 endif()
 
-if (LLAMA_BUILD_APP)
-    add_subdirectory(app)
-endif()
-
 # Automatically add all files from the 'licenses' directory
 file(GLOB EXTRA_LICENSES "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/licenses/LICENSE-*")
 

CODEOWNERS

@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 /examples/parallel/                     @ggerganov
 /examples/passkey/                      @ggerganov
 /examples/retrieval/                    @ggerganov
+/examples/save-load-state/              @ggerganov
 /examples/speculative-simple/           @ggerganov
 /examples/speculative/                  @ggerganov
 /ggml/cmake/                            @ggerganov

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ After submitting your PR:
 - Optionally pick a `<module>` from here: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/wiki/Modules
 - Let other maintainers merge their own PRs
 - When merging a PR, make sure you have a good understanding of the changes
-- If a PR does not warrant a new release, add `[no release]` in the squashed commit to spare CI resources
 - Be mindful of maintenance: most of the work going into a feature happens after the PR is merged. If the PR author is not committed to contribute long-term, someone else needs to take responsibility (you)
 
 Maintainers reserve the right to decline review or close pull requests for any reason, without any questions, particularly under any of the following conditions:

README.md

@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ LLM inference in C/C++
 - Vim/Neovim plugin for FIM completions: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.vim
 - Hugging Face Inference Endpoints now support GGUF out of the box! https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/9669
 - Hugging Face GGUF editor: [discussion](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/9268) | [tool](https://huggingface.co/spaces/CISCai/gguf-editor)
-- WebGPU support is now available in the browser, see a blog/demo introducing it [here](https://reeselevine.github.io/llamas-on-the-web/).
 
 ----
 
@@ -291,7 +290,7 @@ Instructions for adding support for new models: [HOWTO-add-model.md](docs/develo
 | [CANN](docs/build.md#cann) | Ascend NPU |
 | [OpenCL](docs/backend/OPENCL.md) | Adreno GPU |
 | [IBM zDNN](docs/backend/zDNN.md) | IBM Z & LinuxONE |
-| [WebGPU](docs/build.md#webgpu) | All |
+| [WebGPU [In Progress]](docs/build.md#webgpu) | All |
 | [RPC](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/tree/master/tools/rpc) | All |
 | [Hexagon [In Progress]](docs/backend/snapdragon/README.md) | Snapdragon |
 | [VirtGPU](docs/backend/VirtGPU.md) | VirtGPU APIR |

app/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-set(TARGET llama-app)
-
-add_executable(${TARGET} llama.cpp)
-set_target_properties(${TARGET} PROPERTIES OUTPUT_NAME llama)
-
-target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PRIVATE
-    llama-server-impl
-    llama-cli-impl
-    llama-completion-impl
-    llama-bench-impl
-    llama-batched-bench-impl
-    llama-fit-params-impl
-    llama-quantize-impl
-    llama-perplexity-impl
-)
-target_compile_features(${TARGET} PRIVATE cxx_std_17)
-
-if(LLAMA_TOOLS_INSTALL)
-    install(TARGETS ${TARGET} RUNTIME)
-endif()

app/llama.cpp

@@ -1,95 +0,0 @@
-#include "build-info.h"
-
-#include <cstdio>
-#include <cstdlib>
-#include <string>
-#include <vector>
-
-// visible
-int llama_server(int argc, char ** argv);
-int llama_cli(int argc, char ** argv);
-
-// hidden
-int llama_completion(int argc, char ** argv);
-int llama_bench(int argc, char ** argv);
-int llama_batched_bench(int argc, char ** argv);
-int llama_fit_params(int argc, char ** argv);
-int llama_quantize(int argc, char ** argv);
-int llama_perplexity(int argc, char ** argv);
-
-static int help(int argc, char ** argv);
-static int version(int argc, char ** argv);
-
-struct command {
-    const char * name;
-    const char * desc;
-    std::vector<std::string> aliases;
-    bool hidden;
-    int (*func)(int, char **);
-};
-
-static const command cmds[] = {
-    {"serve",         "HTTP API server",                                    {"server"},   false, llama_server       },
-    {"cli",           "Command-line interactive interface",                 {"client"},   false, llama_cli          },
-    {"completion",    "Text completion",                                    {"complete"}, true,  llama_completion   },
-    {"bench",         "Benchmark prompt processing and text generation",    {},           true,  llama_bench        },
-    {"batched-bench", "Benchmark batched decoding performance",             {},           true,  llama_batched_bench},
-    {"fit-params",    "Compute parameters to fit a model in device memory", {},           true,  llama_fit_params   },
-    {"quantize",      "Quantize a model",                                   {},           true,  llama_quantize     },
-    {"perplexity",    "Compute model perplexity and KL divergence",         {},           true,  llama_perplexity   },
-    {"version",       "Show version",                                       {},           true,  version            },
-    {"help",          "Show available commands",                            {},           true,  help               },
-};
-
-static int version(int argc, char ** argv) {
-    printf("%s\n", llama_build_info());
-    return 0;
-}
-
-static int help(int argc, char ** argv) {
-    const bool show_all = argc >= 2 && std::string(argv[1]) == "all";
-
-    printf("Usage: llama <command> [options]\n\nAvailable commands:\n");
-
-    for (const auto & cmd : cmds) {
-        if (show_all || !cmd.hidden) {
-            printf("  %-15s %s\n", cmd.name, cmd.desc);
-        }
-    }
-    printf("\nRun 'llama <command> --help' for command-specific usage.\n");
-
-    return 0;
-}
-
-static bool matches(const std::string & arg, const command & cmd) {
-    if (arg == cmd.name) {
-        return true;
-    }
-    for (const auto & alias : cmd.aliases) {
-        if (arg == alias) {
-            return true;
-        }
-    }
-    return false;
-}
-
-int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
-    const std::string arg = argc >= 2 ? argv[1] : "help";
-
-    for (const auto & cmd : cmds) {
-        if (matches(arg, cmd)) {
-
-            // router spawns children through this same binary, it needs the
-            // subcommand to relaunch as 'llama serve' and not bare options
-#ifdef _WIN32
-            _putenv_s("LLAMA_APP_CMD", cmd.name);
-#else
-            setenv("LLAMA_APP_CMD", cmd.name, 1);
-#endif
-            return cmd.func(argc - 1, argv + 1);
-        }
-    }
-
-    fprintf(stderr, "error: unknown command '%s'\n", arg.c_str());
-    return 1;
-}

build-xcframework.sh

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ VISIONOS_MIN_OS_VERSION=1.0
 TVOS_MIN_OS_VERSION=16.4
 
 BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF
-LLAMA_BUILD_APP=OFF
 LLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF
 LLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS=OFF
 LLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=OFF
@@ -32,7 +31,6 @@ COMMON_CMAKE_ARGS=(
     -DCMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_STRIP_INSTALLED_PRODUCT=NO
     -DCMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_DEVELOPMENT_TEAM=ggml
     -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=${BUILD_SHARED_LIBS}
-    -DLLAMA_BUILD_APP=${LLAMA_BUILD_APP}
     -DLLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES=${LLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES}
     -DLLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS=${LLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS}
     -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=${LLAMA_BUILD_TESTS}

ci/run.sh

@@ -66,8 +66,6 @@ fi
 
 if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_METAL} ]; then
     CMAKE_EXTRA="${CMAKE_EXTRA} -DGGML_METAL=ON"
-else
-    CMAKE_EXTRA="${CMAKE_EXTRA} -DGGML_METAL=OFF"
 fi
 
 if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_CUDA} ]; then
@@ -116,7 +114,10 @@ fi
 if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_VULKAN} ]; then
     CMAKE_EXTRA="${CMAKE_EXTRA} -DGGML_VULKAN=1"
 
+    # if on Mac, disable METAL
     if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "darwin"* ]]; then
+        CMAKE_EXTRA="${CMAKE_EXTRA} -DGGML_METAL=OFF -DGGML_BLAS=OFF"
+
         MACOS_RUNNER_CUSTOM_VULKAN_CMAKE_LOCATION="/usr/local/lib/cmake/vulkan"
         MACOS_RUNNER_CUSTOM_SPIRV_HEADERS_LOCATION="${MACOS_RUNNER_CUSTOM_VULKAN_CMAKE_LOCATION}/SPIRV-Headers/SPIRV-HeadersConfig.cmake"
         if [[ -f "${MACOS_RUNNER_CUSTOM_SPIRV_HEADERS_LOCATION}" || -h "${MACOS_RUNNER_CUSTOM_SPIRV_HEADERS_LOCATION}" ]]; then
@@ -132,7 +133,7 @@ if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_VULKAN} ]; then
 fi
 
 if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_WEBGPU} ]; then
-    CMAKE_EXTRA="${CMAKE_EXTRA} -DGGML_WEBGPU=1"
+    CMAKE_EXTRA="${CMAKE_EXTRA} -DGGML_WEBGPU=1 -DGGML_METAL=OFF -DGGML_BLAS=OFF"
 
     if [ ! -z "${GG_BUILD_WEBGPU_DAWN_PREFIX}" ]; then
         if [ -z "${CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH}" ]; then
@@ -166,8 +167,6 @@ fi
 
 if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_BLAS} ]; then
     CMAKE_EXTRA="${CMAKE_EXTRA} -DGGML_BLAS=ON -DGGML_BLAS_VENDOR=${GG_BUILD_BLAS_VENDOR:-OpenBLAS}"
-else
-    CMAKE_EXTRA="${CMAKE_EXTRA} -DGGML_BLAS=OFF"
 fi
 
 if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_OPENVINO} ]; then
@@ -239,7 +238,7 @@ function gg_run_ctest_debug {
     (cmake -G "${CMAKE_GENERATOR}" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ${CMAKE_EXTRA} .. ) 2>&1 | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-cmake.log
     (time cmake --build . --config Debug -j$(nproc)) 2>&1 | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-make.log
 
-    (time ctest -C Debug --output-on-failure -L main -E "test-opt|test-backend-ops|test-llama-archs" ${CTEST_EXTRA}) 2>&1 | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-ctest.log
+    (time ctest -C Debug --output-on-failure -L main -E "test-opt|test-backend-ops" ${CTEST_EXTRA}) 2>&1 | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-ctest.log
 
     set +e
 }
@@ -462,10 +461,10 @@ function gg_run_qwen3_0_6b {
 
     (time ./bin/llama-imatrix --model ${model_f16} -f ${wiki_test} -ngl 99 -c 1024 -b 512 --chunks 2 ) 2>&1 | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-imatrix.log
 
-    (time ./bin/test-save-load-state --model ${model_q4_0} -ngl 10 -c 1024 -fa off --no-op-offload) 2>&1 | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-save-load-state.log
-    (time ./bin/test-save-load-state --model ${model_q4_0} -ngl 10 -c 1024 -fa on  --no-op-offload) 2>&1 | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-save-load-state.log
-    (time ./bin/test-save-load-state --model ${model_q4_0} -ngl 99 -c 1024 -fa off                ) 2>&1 | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-save-load-state.log
-    (time ./bin/test-save-load-state --model ${model_q4_0} -ngl 99 -c 1024 -fa on                 ) 2>&1 | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-save-load-state.log
+    (time ./bin/llama-save-load-state --model ${model_q4_0} -ngl 10 -c 1024 -fa off --no-op-offload) 2>&1 | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-save-load-state.log
+    (time ./bin/llama-save-load-state --model ${model_q4_0} -ngl 10 -c 1024 -fa on  --no-op-offload) 2>&1 | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-save-load-state.log
+    (time ./bin/llama-save-load-state --model ${model_q4_0} -ngl 99 -c 1024 -fa off                ) 2>&1 | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-save-load-state.log
+    (time ./bin/llama-save-load-state --model ${model_q4_0} -ngl 99 -c 1024 -fa on                 ) 2>&1 | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-save-load-state.log
 
     function check_ppl {
         qnt="$1"
@@ -701,8 +700,8 @@ function gg_sum_test_backend_ops_cpu {
 
 ## main
 
-export LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX=1
-export LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS=1
+export LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX=1
+export LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS=1
 
 if [ -z ${GG_BUILD_LOW_PERF} ]; then
     # Create symlink: ./llama.cpp/models-mnt -> $MNT/models

common/arg.cpp

@@ -1334,15 +1334,12 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         }
     ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_CTX_CHECKPOINTS").set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI}));
     add_opt(common_arg(
-        {"-cms", "--checkpoint-min-step"}, "N",
-        string_format("minimum spacing between context checkpoints in tokens (default: %d, 0 = no minimum)", params.checkpoint_min_step),
+        {"-cpent", "--checkpoint-every-n-tokens"}, "N",
+        string_format("create a checkpoint every n tokens during prefill (processing), -1 to disable (default: %d)", params.checkpoint_every_nt),
         [](common_params & params, int value) {
-            if (value < 0) {
-                throw std::invalid_argument("checkpoint-min-step must be non-negative");
-            }
-            params.checkpoint_min_step = value;
+            params.checkpoint_every_nt = value;
         }
-    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_CHECKPOINT_MIN_SPACING_NT").set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}));
+    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_CHECKPOINT_EVERY_NT").set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI}));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"-cram", "--cache-ram"}, "N",
         string_format("set the maximum cache size in MiB (default: %d, -1 - no limit, 0 - disable)"
@@ -3026,7 +3023,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
                 params.default_template_kwargs[item.key()] = item.value().dump();
             }
         }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE_KWARGS"));
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI}).set_env("LLAMA_CHAT_TEMPLATE_KWARGS"));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"-to", "--timeout"}, "N",
         string_format("server read/write timeout in seconds (default: %d)", params.timeout_read),
@@ -3327,7 +3324,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         [](common_params &, const std::string & value) {
             common_log_set_file(common_log_main(), value.c_str());
         }
-    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_LOG_FILE"));
+    ).set_env("LLAMA_LOG_FILE"));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"--log-colors"}, "[on|off|auto]",
         "Set colored logging ('on', 'off', or 'auto', default: 'auto')\n"
@@ -3344,7 +3341,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
                     string_format("error: unknown value for --log-colors: '%s'\n", value.c_str()));
             }
         }
-    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS"));
+    ).set_env("LLAMA_LOG_COLORS"));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"-v", "--verbose", "--log-verbose"},
         "Set verbosity level to infinity (i.e. log all messages, useful for debugging)",
@@ -3359,7 +3356,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         [](common_params & params) {
             params.offline = true;
         }
-    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_OFFLINE"));
+    ).set_env("LLAMA_OFFLINE"));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"-lv", "--verbosity", "--log-verbosity"}, "N",
         string_format("Set the verbosity threshold. Messages with a higher verbosity will be ignored. Values:\n"
@@ -3367,14 +3364,13 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
             " - 1: error\n"
             " - 2: warning\n"
             " - 3: info\n"
-            " - 4: trace (more info)\n"
-            " - 5: debug\n"
+            " - 4: debug\n"
             "(default: %d)\n", params.verbosity),
         [](common_params & params, int value) {
             params.verbosity = value;
             common_log_set_verbosity_thold(value);
         }
-    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_LOG_VERBOSITY"));
+    ).set_env("LLAMA_LOG_VERBOSITY"));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"--log-prefix"},
         {"--no-log-prefix"},
@@ -3594,15 +3590,6 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
             params.speculative.draft.p_min = std::stof(value);
         }
     ).set_spec().set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SPECULATIVE, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_P_MIN"));
-    add_opt(common_arg(
-        {"--spec-draft-backend-sampling"},
-        {"--no-spec-draft-backend-sampling"},
-        string_format("offload draft sampling to the backend (default: %s)",
-                      params.speculative.draft.backend_sampling ? "enabled" : "disabled"),
-        [](common_params & params, bool value) {
-            params.speculative.draft.backend_sampling = value;
-        }
-    ).set_spec().set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SPECULATIVE, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_BACKEND_SAMPLING"));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"--spec-draft-device", "-devd", "--device-draft"}, "<dev1,dev2,..>",
         "comma-separated list of devices to use for offloading the draft model (none = don't offload)\n"

common/chat-auto-parser-helpers.cpp

@@ -310,8 +310,6 @@ std::vector<segment> prune_whitespace_segments(const std::vector<segment> & segm
 
 namespace autoparser {
 
-static const std::string ERR_TMPL = "#**ERROR**#";
-
 std::string apply_template(const common_chat_template & tmpl, const template_params & params) {
     generation_params tmpl_params;
     tmpl_params.messages              = params.messages;
@@ -328,7 +326,7 @@ std::string apply_template(const common_chat_template & tmpl, const template_par
         return common_chat_template_direct_apply(tmpl, tmpl_params);
     } catch (const std::exception & e) {
         LOG_DBG("Template application failed: %s\n", e.what());
-        return ERR_TMPL;
+        return "";
     }
 }
 
@@ -349,7 +347,7 @@ std::optional<compare_variants_result> compare_variants(
     std::string output_B = apply_template(tmpl, params_B);
 
     // Check for template application failures
-    if (output_A == ERR_TMPL || output_B == ERR_TMPL) {
+    if (output_A.empty() || output_B.empty()) {
         return std::nullopt;
     }
 

common/chat-auto-parser.h

@@ -377,8 +377,6 @@ struct analyze_tools : analyze_base {
 
 struct autoparser {
     jinja::caps          jinja_caps;
-    std::string          user_start;
-    std::string          assistant_start;
     analyze_reasoning    reasoning;
     analyze_content      content;
     analyze_tools        tools;
@@ -389,10 +387,6 @@ struct autoparser {
 
     autoparser() = default;
 
-    // Find the starting marker for the user message and assistant message
-    std::string detect_user_start_marker(const common_chat_template & tmpl);
-    std::string detect_assistant_start_marker(const common_chat_template & tmpl);
-
     // Run full differential analysis on a template
     void analyze_template(const common_chat_template & tmpl);
 

common/chat-diff-analyzer.cpp

@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@
 #include "peg-parser.h"
 
 #include <algorithm>
-#include <cctype>
-#include <ostream>
-#include <sstream>
 
 #define ANSI_RESET  "\033[0m"
 #define ANSI_PURPLE "\033[1m\x1b[38;5;126m"
@@ -26,7 +23,6 @@ static const std::string FUN_SECOND = "SSS_SECOND_FUN_S";
 static const std::string ARG_FIRST = "AA_ARG_FST_AA";
 static const std::string ARG_SECOND = "BB_ARG_SND_BB";
 static const std::string USER_MSG = "U_USER_MSG Hello END_U";
-static const std::string USER_MSG_TWO = "V_USER_MSG Hello END_V";
 static const std::string ASSISTANT_MSG = "A_ASST_MSG I can help END_A";
 static const std::string THINKING_CONTENT = "REASON_PART I am thinking END_R";
 static const std::string CALL_ID_001 = "call00001";
@@ -75,7 +71,6 @@ static std::vector<std::function<void(const common_chat_template & tmpl, autopar
               analysis.content.end   = "<|END_OF_TURN_TOKEN|>";
               analysis.preserved_tokens.push_back("<|CHATBOT_TOKEN|>");
               analysis.preserved_tokens.push_back("<|END_OF_TURN_TOKEN|>");
-              analysis.user_start = "<|START_OF_TURN_TOKEN|><|USER_TOKEN|>";
               LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "[Patch: Cohere Command R+]\n" ANSI_RESET);
           }
       },
@@ -113,59 +108,7 @@ static std::vector<std::function<void(const common_chat_template & tmpl, autopar
               analysis.tools.function.close        = "```";
               LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "[Patch: DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen]\n" ANSI_RESET);
           }
-      },
-      // Nemotron Nano v2
-      [](const common_chat_template & tmpl, autoparser & analysis) -> void {
-          if (tmpl.src.find("<SPECIAL_10>") != std::string::npos && tmpl.src.find("<SPECIAL_11>") != std::string::npos &&
-              tmpl.src.find("<SPECIAL_12>") != std::string::npos && tmpl.src.find("<TOOL_RESPONSE>") != std::string::npos) {
-
-              analysis.tools.format.mode           = tool_format::JSON_NATIVE;
-              analysis.tools.format.section_start  = "";
-              analysis.tools.format.section_end    = "";
-              analysis.tools.format.per_call_start = "<TOOLCALL>";
-              analysis.tools.format.per_call_end   = "</TOOLCALL>";
-              analysis.content.mode                = content_mode::PLAIN;
-              analysis.content.start               = "";
-              analysis.content.end                 = "";
-              analysis.reasoning.mode              = reasoning_mode::TAG_BASED;
-              analysis.reasoning.start             = "<think>\n\n";
-              analysis.reasoning.end               = "</think>";
-              analysis.assistant_start             = "<SPECIAL_11>Assistant";
-              analysis.user_start                  = "<SPECIAL_11>User";
-              analysis.preserved_tokens.clear();
-              analysis.preserved_tokens.push_back("<SPECIAL_12>");
-              analysis.preserved_tokens.push_back("<SPECIAL_11>");
-              analysis.preserved_tokens.push_back("</think>");
-              analysis.preserved_tokens.push_back("<TOOLCALL>");
-              analysis.preserved_tokens.push_back("</TOOLCALL>");
-              LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "[Patch: Nemotron Nano v2]\n" ANSI_RESET);
-          }
-      },
-      // Fireworks
-      [](const common_chat_template & tmpl, autoparser & analysis) -> void {
-          if (tmpl.src.find("{%- set system_prompt = '<|start_header_id|>' + 'system' + '<|end_header_id|>\\n\\n'"
-            " + message['content'] | trim + '\\n' + system_prompt_suffix + '<|eot_id|>' -%}") != std::string::npos) {
-              analysis.assistant_start             = "<|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|>";
-              analysis.user_start                  = "<|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|>";
-              LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "[Patch: Fireworks v2]\n" ANSI_RESET);
-          }
-      },
-      // Solar Open
-      [](const common_chat_template & tmpl, autoparser & analysis) -> void {
-          if (tmpl.src.find("<|begin|>assistant<|think|><|end|>") != std::string::npos) {
-              analysis.assistant_start             = "<|begin|>assistant";
-              LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "[Patch: Solar Open]\n" ANSI_RESET);
-          }
-      },
-      // Apriel 1.6
-      [](const common_chat_template & tmpl, autoparser & analysis) -> void {
-          if (tmpl.src.find("if not loop.last and '[BEGIN FINAL RESPONSE]' in asst_text") != std::string::npos) {
-              analysis.user_start                  = "<|begin_user|>";
-              analysis.assistant_start             = "<|begin_assistant|>";
-              LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "[Patch: Apriel 1.6]\n" ANSI_RESET);
-          }
-      },
-
+      }
     });
 
 // Common JSON structures
@@ -223,8 +166,6 @@ void autoparser::analyze_template(const common_chat_template & tmpl) {
     reasoning = analyze_reasoning(tmpl, jinja_caps.supports_tool_calls);
     content = analyze_content(tmpl, reasoning);
     tools = analyze_tools(jinja_caps.supports_tool_calls ? analyze_tools(tmpl, jinja_caps, reasoning) : analyze_tools());
-    assistant_start = detect_assistant_start_marker(tmpl);
-    user_start = detect_user_start_marker(tmpl);
     collect_preserved_tokens();
 
     for (auto & workaround : workarounds) {
@@ -232,8 +173,6 @@ void autoparser::analyze_template(const common_chat_template & tmpl) {
     }
 
     LOG_DBG("\n--- Reasoning & Content Structure ---\n");
-    LOG_DBG("user_msg_start: %s\n", user_start.c_str());
-    LOG_DBG("assistant_msg_start: %s\n", assistant_start.c_str());
     LOG_DBG("reasoning_mode: %s\n", mode_to_str(reasoning.mode).c_str());
     LOG_DBG("reasoning_start: '%s'\n", reasoning.start.c_str());
     LOG_DBG("reasoning_end: '%s'\n", reasoning.end.c_str());
@@ -306,120 +245,6 @@ void autoparser::collect_preserved_tokens() {
     add_token(tools.call_id.suffix);
 }
 
-std::string autoparser::detect_assistant_start_marker(const common_chat_template & tmpl) {
-    json user_msg = json{
-        { "role",    "user"   },
-        { "content", USER_MSG }
-    };
-
-    json assistant_no_reasoning = json{
-        { "role",    "assistant"   },
-        { "content", ASSISTANT_MSG }
-    };
-
-    template_params params;
-    params.messages              = json::array({ user_msg });
-    params.add_generation_prompt = false;
-    params.enable_thinking       = true;
-
-    auto comparison = compare_variants(
-        tmpl, params, [&](template_params & p) {
-            p.messages = json::array({ user_msg, assistant_no_reasoning });
-        }
-    );
-
-    if (!comparison) {
-        LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "%s: Template application failed, skipping assistant start detection\n" ANSI_RESET, __func__);
-        return "";
-    }
-
-    auto usermsg = comparison->diff.right;
-    if (usermsg.find(ASSISTANT_MSG) == std::string::npos) {
-        LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "%s: Did not find assistant message in assistant message block, skipping detection\n" ANSI_RESET, __func__);
-    }
-
-    auto ast_prefix = usermsg.substr(0, usermsg.find(ASSISTANT_MSG));
-    if (!reasoning.start.empty() && ast_prefix.find(trim_whitespace(reasoning.start)) != std::string::npos) {
-        ast_prefix = ast_prefix.substr(0, ast_prefix.find(trim_whitespace(reasoning.start)));
-    }
-    if (!reasoning.end.empty() && ast_prefix.find(trim_whitespace(reasoning.end)) != std::string::npos) {
-        ast_prefix = ast_prefix.substr(0, ast_prefix.find(trim_whitespace(reasoning.end)));
-    }
-    return trim_whitespace(ast_prefix);
-}
-
-std::string autoparser::detect_user_start_marker(const common_chat_template & tmpl) {
-    json user_msg = json{
-        { "role",    "user"   },
-        { "content", USER_MSG }
-    };
-
-    json assistant = json{
-        { "role",    "assistant"   },
-        { "content", ASSISTANT_MSG }
-    };
-
-    json user_msg_two = json{
-        { "role",    "user"       },
-        { "content", USER_MSG_TWO }
-    };
-
-    template_params params;
-    params.messages              = json::array({});
-    params.add_generation_prompt = false;
-    params.enable_thinking       = true;
-
-    auto comparison = compare_variants(
-        tmpl, params, [&](template_params & p) {
-            p.messages = json::array({ user_msg });
-        }
-    );
-
-    if (!comparison) {
-        LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "%s: Template application failed, unsupported empty messages? trying complex variant\n" ANSI_RESET, __func__);
-        params.messages = json::array({ user_msg_two, assistant });
-        comparison = compare_variants(
-            tmpl, params, [&](template_params & p) {
-                p.messages = json::array({ user_msg_two, assistant, user_msg });
-            }
-        );
-        if (!comparison) {
-            LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "%s: Template application failed for reserve variant, aborting\n" ANSI_RESET, __func__);
-            return "";
-        }
-    }
-
-    auto usermsg = comparison->diff.right;
-    if (usermsg.find(USER_MSG) == std::string::npos) {
-        LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "%s: Did not find user message in user message block, aborting detection\n" ANSI_RESET, __func__);
-    }
-
-    if (usermsg.find(ASSISTANT_MSG) != std::string::npos) {
-        usermsg = usermsg.substr(usermsg.find(ASSISTANT_MSG) + ASSISTANT_MSG.size());
-    }
-
-    auto candidate = usermsg.substr(0, usermsg.find(USER_MSG));
-    auto candidate_split = segmentize_markers(candidate);
-    std::stringstream result;
-    bool encountered_marker = false;
-    for (const auto & mrk : candidate_split) {
-        std::string lower_mrk = std::string(mrk.value);
-        std::transform(lower_mrk.begin(), lower_mrk.end(), lower_mrk.begin(),
-            [](unsigned char c) { return std::tolower(c); });
-        // heuristic to weed out potential end markers, but only at the start
-        if (mrk.type == segment_type::MARKER && !encountered_marker &&
-            (lower_mrk.find("end") != std::string::npos || lower_mrk.find("close") != std::string::npos)) {
-            continue;
-        }
-        if (mrk.type == segment_type::TEXT && !encountered_marker && trim_whitespace(mrk.value).empty()) {
-            continue;
-        }
-        encountered_marker |= mrk.type == segment_type::MARKER;
-        result << mrk.value;
-    }
-    return trim_whitespace(result.str());
-}
-
 analyze_reasoning::analyze_reasoning(const common_chat_template & tmpl, bool supports_tools)
     : analyze_base(tmpl) {
     LOG_DBG(ANSI_PURPLE "=== Starting differential analysis ===\n" ANSI_RESET);

common/chat.cpp

@@ -90,45 +90,6 @@ std::string common_chat_msg::render_content(const std::string & delimiter) const
     return text;
 }
 
-std::vector<common_chat_msg_span> common_chat_split_by_role(const std::string & prompt, const std::vector<common_chat_msg_delimiter> & delims) {
-    if (delims.empty() || prompt.empty()) {
-        return {};
-    }
-
-    auto parser = build_peg_parser([&](common_peg_parser_builder & p) {
-        std::vector<std::string>       all_delims;
-        std::vector<common_peg_parser> tagged_messages;
-
-        all_delims.reserve(delims.size());
-        tagged_messages.reserve(delims.size());
-        for (const auto & d : delims) {
-            all_delims.push_back(d.delimiter);
-        }
-
-        auto any_delim = p.until_one_of(all_delims);
-        for (const auto & d : delims) {
-            tagged_messages.push_back(p.tag(d.role, p.literal(d.delimiter) + any_delim));
-        }
-
-        return any_delim + p.zero_or_more(p.choice(tagged_messages)) + p.end();
-    });
-
-    common_peg_parse_context ctx(prompt);
-    const auto result = parser.parse(ctx);
-    if (!result.success()) {
-        return {};
-    }
-
-    std::vector<common_chat_msg_span> spans;
-    ctx.ast.visit(result, [&](const common_peg_ast_node & node) {
-        if (!node.tag.empty()) {
-            spans.push_back({ node.tag, node.start, node.end - node.start });
-        }
-    });
-
-    return spans;
-}
-
 json common_chat_msg::to_json_oaicompat(bool concat_typed_text) const {
     if (!content.empty() && !content_parts.empty()) {
         throw std::runtime_error("Cannot specify both content and content_parts");
@@ -1081,14 +1042,6 @@ static common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_gpt_oss(const common_chat_temp
 
     data.prompt            = prompt;
     data.generation_prompt = common_chat_template_generation_prompt_impl(tmpl, inputs, /* messages_override= */ adjusted_messages);
-    data.message_spans = common_chat_split_by_role(prompt, {
-        { "assistant", "<|start|>assistant" },
-        { "user",      "<|start|>user"      },
-        { "system",    "<|start|>developer" },
-        { "system",    "<|start|>system"    },
-        { "tool",      "<|start|>functions" },
-    });
-
     data.format            = COMMON_CHAT_FORMAT_PEG_NATIVE;
     data.supports_thinking = true;
 
@@ -1228,11 +1181,6 @@ static common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_gemma4(const common_chat_templ
         data.prompt += data.generation_prompt;
     }
 
-    data.message_spans = common_chat_split_by_role(data.prompt, {
-        { "user",      "<|turn>user\n"  },
-        { "assistant", "<|turn>model\n" },
-    });
-
     data.format            = COMMON_CHAT_FORMAT_PEG_GEMMA4;
     data.supports_thinking  = true;
     data.thinking_start_tag = "<|channel>thought";
@@ -2445,19 +2393,6 @@ static common_chat_params common_chat_templates_apply_jinja(const struct common_
         struct autoparser::autoparser autoparser;
         autoparser.analyze_template(tmpl);
         auto auto_params = autoparser::peg_generator::generate_parser(tmpl, params, autoparser);
-
-        std::vector<common_chat_msg_delimiter> delimiters;
-        if (!autoparser.assistant_start.empty()) {
-            delimiters.push_back({ "assistant", autoparser.assistant_start });
-        }
-        if (!autoparser.user_start.empty()) {
-            delimiters.push_back({ "user", autoparser.user_start });
-        }
-
-        if (!delimiters.empty()) {
-            auto_params.message_spans = common_chat_split_by_role(auto_params.prompt, delimiters);
-        }
-
         auto_params.supports_thinking = autoparser.reasoning.mode != autoparser::reasoning_mode::NONE;
         if (auto_params.supports_thinking) {
             auto_params.thinking_start_tag = trim_whitespace(autoparser.reasoning.start);

common/chat.h

@@ -143,17 +143,6 @@ struct common_chat_msg_diff {
     }
 };
 
-struct common_chat_msg_span {
-    std::string role;
-    std::size_t pos = 0;
-    std::size_t len = 0;
-};
-
-struct common_chat_msg_delimiter {
-    std::string role;
-    std::string delimiter;
-};
-
 struct common_chat_tool {
     std::string name;
     std::string description;
@@ -219,7 +208,6 @@ struct common_chat_params {
     std::vector<std::string>            preserved_tokens;
     std::vector<std::string>            additional_stops;
     std::string                         parser;
-    std::vector<common_chat_msg_span>   message_spans;
 };
 
 // per-message parsing syntax
@@ -231,7 +219,6 @@ struct common_chat_parser_params {
     bool                    reasoning_in_content = false;
     std::string             generation_prompt;
     bool                    parse_tool_calls     = true;
-    bool                    is_continuation      = false;
     bool                    echo                 = false;  // Include assistant prefilled msg in output
     bool                    debug                = false;  // Enable debug output for PEG parser
     common_peg_arena        parser               = {};
@@ -316,7 +303,6 @@ std::optional<common_chat_params> common_chat_try_specialized_template(
         const std::string &                   src,
         autoparser::generation_params & params);
 
-
 // specialized per-task preset
 struct common_chat_prompt_preset {
     std::string system;
@@ -324,6 +310,3 @@ struct common_chat_prompt_preset {
 };
 
 common_chat_prompt_preset common_chat_get_asr_prompt(const common_chat_templates * chat_templates);
-
-std::vector<common_chat_msg_span> common_chat_split_by_role(const std::string & prompt, const std::vector<common_chat_msg_delimiter> & delims);
-

common/common.cpp

@@ -445,27 +445,6 @@ std::string string_strip(const std::string & str) {
     return str.substr(start, end - start);
 }
 
-std::string string_lcs(std::string_view a, std::string_view b) {
-    if (a.empty() || b.empty()) return {};
-
-    std::vector<std::vector<size_t>> dp(a.size() + 1, std::vector<size_t>(b.size() + 1, 0));
-    size_t best_len = 0;
-    size_t best_end_a = 0;
-
-    for (size_t i = 1; i <= a.size(); ++i) {
-        for (size_t j = 1; j <= b.size(); ++j) {
-            if (a[i - 1] == b[j - 1]) {
-                dp[i][j] = dp[i - 1][j - 1] + 1;
-                if (dp[i][j] > best_len) {
-                    best_len = dp[i][j];
-                    best_end_a = i;
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-    return std::string(a.substr(best_end_a - best_len, best_len));
-}
-
 std::string string_get_sortable_timestamp() {
     using clock = std::chrono::system_clock;
 
@@ -1194,7 +1173,7 @@ common_init_result::common_init_result(common_params & params, bool model_only)
             params.tensor_buft_overrides.data(),
             params.fit_params_target.data(),
             params.fit_params_min_ctx,
-            params.verbosity >= LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG ? GGML_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG : GGML_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR);
+            params.verbosity >= 4 ? GGML_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG : GGML_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR);
     }
 
     llama_model * model = llama_model_load_from_file(params.model.path.c_str(), mparams);
@@ -1387,7 +1366,7 @@ common_init_result_ptr common_init_from_params(common_params & params, bool mode
     }
 
     if (params.warmup) {
-        LOG_INF("%s: warming up the model with an empty run - please wait ... (--no-warmup to disable)\n", __func__);
+        LOG_WRN("%s: warming up the model with an empty run - please wait ... (--no-warmup to disable)\n", __func__);
 
         llama_set_warmup(lctx, true);
 

common/common.h

@@ -305,8 +305,6 @@ struct common_params_speculative_draft {
     float p_split = 0.1f; // speculative decoding split probability
     float p_min   = 0.0f; // minimum speculative decoding probability (greedy)
 
-    bool backend_sampling = true; // offload draft sampling to the backend (default: on)
-
     common_params_model mparams;
 
     llama_context * ctx_tgt = nullptr;
@@ -594,7 +592,7 @@ struct common_params {
     bool    cache_prompt        = true;  // whether to enable prompt caching
     bool    cache_idle_slots    = true;  // save and clear idle slots upon starting a new task
     int32_t n_ctx_checkpoints   = 32;    // max number of context checkpoints per slot
-    int32_t checkpoint_min_step = 256;   // minimum spacing between context checkpoints
+    int32_t checkpoint_every_nt = 8192;  // make a checkpoint every n tokens during prefill
     int32_t cache_ram_mib       = 8192;  // -1 = no limit, 0 - disable, 1 = 1 MiB, etc.
 
     std::string hostname      = "127.0.0.1";
@@ -617,7 +615,11 @@ struct common_params {
     std::map<std::string, std::string> default_template_kwargs;
 
     // UI configs
-    bool ui = true;
+#ifdef LLAMA_UI_DEFAULT_ENABLED
+    bool ui = LLAMA_UI_DEFAULT_ENABLED != 0;
+#else
+    bool ui = true; // default to enabled when not set
+#endif
 
     // Deprecated: use ui, ui_mcp_proxy, ui_config_json instead
     bool webui = ui;
@@ -731,7 +733,6 @@ std::string string_format(const char * fmt, ...);
 
 std::string string_strip(const std::string & str);
 std::string string_get_sortable_timestamp();
-std::string string_lcs(std::string_view a, std::string_view b);
 
 std::string string_join(const std::vector<std::string> & values, const std::string & separator);
 std::vector<std::string> string_split(const std::string & str, const std::string & delimiter);

common/fit.cpp

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ class common_params_fit_exception : public std::runtime_error {
     using std::runtime_error::runtime_error;
 };
 
-std::vector<llama_device_memory_data> common_get_device_memory_data(
+static std::vector<llama_device_memory_data> common_get_device_memory_data(
         const char * path_model,
         const llama_model_params * mparams,
         const llama_context_params * cparams,

common/fit.h

@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 #pragma once
 
 #include "ggml.h"
-#include "ggml-backend.h"
-#include "llama.h"
-#include "../src/llama-ext.h"
-
-#include <vector>
 
 enum common_params_fit_status {
     COMMON_PARAMS_FIT_STATUS_SUCCESS = 0, // found allocations that are projected to fit
@@ -35,14 +30,3 @@ void common_fit_print(
                 struct llama_context_params * cparams);
 
 void common_memory_breakdown_print(const struct llama_context * ctx);
-
-// Load a model + context with no_alloc and return the per-device memory breakdown.
-std::vector<llama_device_memory_data> common_get_device_memory_data(
-                                  const char   * path_model,
-        const struct llama_model_params         * mparams,
-        const struct llama_context_params       * cparams,
-        std::vector<ggml_backend_dev_t>         & devs,
-                                      uint32_t  & hp_ngl,
-                                      uint32_t  & hp_n_ctx_train,
-                                      uint32_t  & hp_n_expert,
-                           enum ggml_log_level    log_level);

common/speculative.cpp

@@ -33,15 +33,16 @@ const std::map<std::string, common_speculative_type> common_speculative_type_fro
 };
 
 static std::string common_speculative_get_devices_str(const std::vector<ggml_backend_dev_t> & devices) {
+    if (devices.empty()) {
+        return "default";
+    }
+
     std::string result;
     for (size_t i = 0; i < devices.size(); i++) {
-        if (devices[i] == nullptr) {
-            continue;
-        }
-        if (!result.empty()) result += ", ";
+        if (i > 0) result += ", ";
         result += ggml_backend_dev_name(devices[i]);
     }
-    return result.empty() ? "default" : result;
+    return result;
 }
 
 struct common_speculative_config {
@@ -413,9 +414,6 @@ struct common_speculative_impl_draft_mtp : public common_speculative_impl {
 
     std::vector<common_sampler_ptr> smpls;
 
-    // backend sampler chain per seq, attached to ctx_dft
-    std::vector<llama_sampler *> backend_chains;
-
     int32_t n_embd = 0;
 
     // Per-sequence cross-batch carryover: pair (h_p, x_{p+1}) at MTP pos p+1.
@@ -447,7 +445,7 @@ struct common_speculative_impl_draft_mtp : public common_speculative_impl {
         n_embd = llama_model_n_embd(llama_get_model(ctx_dft));
 
         LOG_INF("%s: adding speculative implementation 'draft-mtp'\n", __func__);
-        LOG_INF("%s: - n_max=%d, n_min=%d, p_min=%.2f, n_embd=%d, backend_sampling=%d\n", __func__, this->params.n_max, this->params.n_min, this->params.p_min, n_embd, (int) this->params.backend_sampling);
+        LOG_INF("%s: - n_max=%d, n_min=%d, p_min=%.2f, n_embd=%d\n", __func__, this->params.n_max, this->params.n_min, this->params.p_min, n_embd);
         LOG_INF("%s: - gpu_layers=%d, cache_k=%s, cache_v=%s, ctx_tgt=%s, ctx_dft=%s, devices=[%s]\n", __func__,
                 this->params.n_gpu_layers,
                 ggml_type_name(this->params.cache_type_k),
@@ -471,22 +469,6 @@ struct common_speculative_impl_draft_mtp : public common_speculative_impl {
             s.reset(common_sampler_init(llama_get_model(ctx_dft), sparams));
         }
 
-        // offload draft sampling to the backend
-        backend_chains.assign(n_seq, nullptr);
-        if (this->params.backend_sampling) {
-            for (llama_seq_id seq_id = 0; seq_id < (llama_seq_id) n_seq; ++seq_id) {
-                llama_sampler * chain = llama_sampler_chain_init(llama_sampler_chain_default_params());
-                llama_sampler_chain_add(chain, llama_sampler_init_top_k(10));
-
-                if (!llama_set_sampler(ctx_dft, seq_id, chain)) {
-                    LOG_WRN("%s: backend offload failed for seq_id=%d; using CPU sampler\n", __func__, (int) seq_id);
-                    llama_sampler_free(chain);
-                    chain = nullptr;
-                }
-                backend_chains[seq_id] = chain;
-            }
-        }
-
         llama_set_embeddings_pre_norm(ctx_tgt, true, /*masked*/ false);
         llama_set_embeddings_pre_norm(ctx_dft, true, /*masked*/ true);
 
@@ -502,18 +484,6 @@ struct common_speculative_impl_draft_mtp : public common_speculative_impl {
     }
 
     ~common_speculative_impl_draft_mtp() override {
-        auto * ctx_dft = this->params.ctx_dft;
-        for (llama_seq_id seq_id = 0; seq_id < (llama_seq_id) backend_chains.size(); ++seq_id) {
-            if (backend_chains[seq_id] == nullptr) {
-                continue;
-            }
-            if (ctx_dft) {
-                llama_set_sampler(ctx_dft, seq_id, nullptr);
-            }
-            llama_sampler_free(backend_chains[seq_id]);
-        }
-        backend_chains.clear();
-
         if (batch.token != nullptr) {
             free(batch.token);
             batch.token = nullptr;

conversion/__init__.py

@@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ TEXT_MODEL_MAP: dict[str, str] = {
     "Gemma3nForCausalLM": "gemma",
     "Gemma3nForConditionalGeneration": "gemma",
     "Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration": "gemma",
-    "Gemma4ForCausalLM": "gemma",
     "GemmaForCausalLM": "gemma",
     "Glm4ForCausalLM": "glm",
     "Glm4MoeForCausalLM": "glm",
@@ -216,7 +215,6 @@ TEXT_MODEL_MAP: dict[str, str] = {
     "T5EncoderModel": "t5",
     "T5ForConditionalGeneration": "t5",
     "T5WithLMHeadModel": "t5",
-    "TalkieForCausalLM": "talkie",
     "UMT5ForConditionalGeneration": "t5",
     "UMT5Model": "t5",
     "UltravoxModel": "ultravox",

conversion/base.py

@@ -119,8 +119,7 @@ class ModelBase:
                  small_first_shard: bool = False, hparams: dict[str, Any] | None = None, remote_hf_model_id: str | None = None,
                  disable_mistral_community_chat_template: bool = False,
                  sentence_transformers_dense_modules: bool = False,
-                 fuse_gate_up_exps: bool = False,
-                 fp8_as_q8: bool = False):
+                 fuse_gate_up_exps: bool = False):
         if type(self) is ModelBase or \
                 type(self) is TextModel or \
                 type(self) is MmprojModel:
@@ -149,8 +148,6 @@ class ModelBase:
         self.dir_model_card = dir_model  # overridden in convert_lora_to_gguf.py
         self._is_nvfp4 = False
         self._is_mxfp4 = False
-        self._fp8_as_q8 = fp8_as_q8
-        self._fp8_dequantized: set[str] = set()
 
         # Apply heuristics to figure out typical tensor encoding based on first tensor's dtype
         # NOTE: can't use field "torch_dtype" in config.json, because some finetunes lie.
@@ -432,8 +429,6 @@ class ModelBase:
                         s = self.model_tensors[name]
                         self.model_tensors[weight_name] = lambda w=w, s=s, bs=block_size: dequant_simple(w(), s(), bs)
                         tensors_to_remove.append(name)
-                        if self._fp8_as_q8:
-                            self._fp8_dequantized.add(weight_name)
                     if name.endswith(".activation_scale"):  # unused
                         tensors_to_remove.append(name)
                     if name.endswith("_activation_scale"):  # Mistral-Small-4-119B-2602, unused
@@ -445,8 +440,6 @@ class ModelBase:
                         s = self.model_tensors[name]
                         self.model_tensors[weight_name] = lambda w=w, s=s, bs=block_size: dequant_simple(w(), s(), bs)
                         tensors_to_remove.append(name)
-                        if self._fp8_as_q8:
-                            self._fp8_dequantized.add(weight_name)
                     if name.endswith(".qscale_act"):
                         tensors_to_remove.append(name)
             elif quant_method == "gptq":
@@ -474,14 +467,7 @@ class ModelBase:
             elif quant_method == "compressed-tensors":
                 quant_format = quant_config["format"]
                 groups = quant_config["config_groups"]
-                nvfp4_compressed_tensors = (
-                    quant_format == "nvfp4-pack-quantized"
-                    or quant_format == "mixed-precision"
-                    and bool(groups)
-                    and all(g.get("format") == "nvfp4-pack-quantized" for g in groups.values() if isinstance(g, dict))
-                )
-
-                if len(groups) > 1 and not nvfp4_compressed_tensors:
+                if len(groups) > 1:
                     raise NotImplementedError("Can't handle multiple config groups for compressed-tensors yet")
                 weight_config = tuple(groups.values())[0]["weights"]
 
@@ -490,11 +476,6 @@ class ModelBase:
                     strategy = weight_config.get("strategy")
                     assert strategy == "channel" or strategy == "block"
                     assert weight_config.get("group_size") is None  # didn't find a model using this yet
-                    is_fp8 = (
-                        quant_format == "float-quantized"
-                        and weight_config.get("type") == "float"
-                        and weight_config.get("num_bits") == 8
-                    )
                     for name in self.model_tensors.keys():
                         if name.endswith(".weight_scale"):
                             weight_name = name.removesuffix("_scale")
@@ -502,8 +483,6 @@ class ModelBase:
                             s = self.model_tensors[name]
                             self.model_tensors[weight_name] = lambda w=w, s=s: dequant_simple(w(), s(), block_size)
                             tensors_to_remove.append(name)
-                            if self._fp8_as_q8 and is_fp8:
-                                self._fp8_dequantized.add(weight_name)
                 elif quant_format == "pack-quantized":
                     assert weight_config.get("strategy") == "group"
                     assert weight_config.get("type", "int") == "int"
@@ -526,9 +505,6 @@ class ModelBase:
                             tensors_to_remove += [base_name + n for n in ("_packed", "_shape", "_scale")]
                             if (base_name + "_zero_point") in self.model_tensors:
                                 tensors_to_remove.append(base_name + "_zero_point")
-                elif nvfp4_compressed_tensors:
-                    # Don't error from compressed-tensors, we'll handle them in _generate_nvfp4_tensors
-                    pass
                 else:
                     raise NotImplementedError(f"Quant format {quant_format!r} for method {quant_method!r} is not yet supported")
             elif quant_method == "modelopt":
@@ -538,18 +514,10 @@ class ModelBase:
                 for name in self.model_tensors.keys():
                     if name.endswith(".weight_scale"):
                         weight_name = name.removesuffix("_scale")
-                        if weight_name not in self.model_tensors:
-                            tensors_to_remove.append(name)
-                            continue
                         w = self.model_tensors[weight_name]
                         s = self.model_tensors[name]
-                        is_fp8_weight = False
-                        if self._fp8_as_q8:
-                            is_fp8_weight = w().dtype in (torch.float8_e4m3fn, torch.float8_e5m2)
                         self.model_tensors[weight_name] = lambda w=w, s=s: dequant_simple(w(), s(), None)
                         tensors_to_remove.append(name)
-                        if is_fp8_weight:
-                            self._fp8_dequantized.add(weight_name)
                     if name.endswith((".input_scale", ".k_scale", ".v_scale")):
                         tensors_to_remove.append(name)
             elif quant_method is not None:
@@ -637,10 +605,8 @@ class ModelBase:
         return [(new_name, data_torch)]
 
     def tensor_force_quant(self, name: str, new_name: str, bid: int | None, n_dims: int) -> gguf.GGMLQuantizationType | bool:
-        del new_name, bid  # unused
-        # Force FP8-original tensors to Q8_0 when requested; Q8_0 is faster than F16/BF16.
-        if self._fp8_as_q8 and name in self._fp8_dequantized and n_dims >= 2:
-            return gguf.GGMLQuantizationType.Q8_0
+        del name, new_name, bid, n_dims  # unused
+
         return False
 
     # some models need extra generated tensors (like rope_freqs)
@@ -780,13 +746,10 @@ class ModelBase:
         del experts, merged
 
     def prepare_tensors(self):
-        # detect NVFP4 quantization (ModelOpt and Compressed-tensors formats)
-        quantization_config = self.hparams.get("quantization_config") or {}
-        quant_algo = quantization_config.get("quant_algo")
-        quant_method = quantization_config.get("quant_method")
-        quant_format = quantization_config.get("format")
-        quant_groups = quantization_config.get("config_groups") or {}
-        quant_layers = quantization_config.get("quantized_layers") or {}
+        # detect NVFP4 quantization (ModelOpt format)
+        quant_algo = (self.hparams.get("quantization_config") or {}).get("quant_algo")
+        quant_method = (self.hparams.get("quantization_config") or {}).get("quant_method")
+        quant_layers = (self.hparams.get("quantization_config") or {}).get("quantized_layers") or {}
         quant_config_file = self.dir_model / "hf_quant_config.json"
 
         if (not quant_algo or not quant_layers) and quant_config_file.is_file():
@@ -797,25 +760,13 @@ class ModelBase:
                 producer_name = (producer.get("name") or "").lower()
                 if quant_method is None:
                     self.hparams.setdefault("quantization_config", {})["quant_method"] = producer_name
-                    quant_method = producer_name
                 quant_algo = quant_config.get("quant_algo", quant_algo)
-                quant_method = quant_config.get("quant_method", quant_method)
-                quant_format = quant_config.get("format", quant_format)
-                quant_groups = quant_config.get("config_groups", quant_groups) or {}
                 quant_layers = quant_config.get("quantized_layers", quant_layers) or {}
 
         # Some models use per-tensor quant_algo (e.g. "MIXED_PRECISION" with
         # per-layer NVFP4/FP8) instead of a single global "NVFP4" value.
-        nvfp4_compressed_tensors = quant_method == "compressed-tensors" and (
-            quant_format == "nvfp4-pack-quantized"
-            or quant_format == "mixed-precision"
-            and bool(quant_groups)
-            and all(g.get("format") == "nvfp4-pack-quantized" for g in quant_groups.values() if isinstance(g, dict))
-        )
         if quant_algo != "NVFP4":
-            if nvfp4_compressed_tensors:
-                quant_algo = "NVFP4"
-            elif any(str(v.get("quant_algo")).endswith("NVFP4") for v in quant_layers.values() if isinstance(v, dict)):
+            if any(v.get("quant_algo") == "NVFP4" for v in quant_layers.values() if isinstance(v, dict)):
                 quant_algo = "NVFP4"
 
         self._is_nvfp4 = quant_algo == "NVFP4"
@@ -825,28 +776,6 @@ class ModelBase:
         # This must run before dequant_model so NVFP4 tensors are removed
         # from model_tensors, leaving only non-NVFP4 (e.g. FP8) for dequant.
         if self._is_nvfp4:
-            if nvfp4_compressed_tensors:
-                # Convert compressed-tensors 'global' scales into the reciprocal
-                def inverse_scale(gen):
-                    def load():
-                        scale = LazyTorchTensor.to_eager(gen()).float()
-                        return 1.0 / scale
-                    return load
-
-                # Change the compressed-tensors names to the ModelOpt names for handling consistently later
-                for name in list(self.model_tensors.keys()):
-                    if name.endswith(".weight_packed"):
-                        weight_name = name.removesuffix("_packed")
-                        if weight_name not in self.model_tensors:
-                            self.model_tensors[weight_name] = self.model_tensors.pop(name)
-                    elif name.endswith(".weight_global_scale"):
-                        scale2_name = name.replace(".weight_global_scale", ".weight_scale_2")
-                        if scale2_name not in self.model_tensors:
-                            self.model_tensors[scale2_name] = inverse_scale(self.model_tensors.pop(name))
-                    elif name.endswith(".input_global_scale"):
-                        input_scale_name = name.replace(".input_global_scale", ".input_scale")
-                        if input_scale_name not in self.model_tensors:
-                            self.model_tensors[input_scale_name] = inverse_scale(self.model_tensors.pop(name))
             self._generate_nvfp4_tensors()
 
         self.dequant_model()
@@ -1646,12 +1575,6 @@ class TextModel(ModelBase):
         if chkhsh == "62f6fb0a6fd5098caeabb19b07a5c1099cafc8b9c40eab6ea89ece4ec02fbc57":
             # ref: https://huggingface.co/sarvamai/sarvam-30b
             res = "sarvam-moe"
-        if chkhsh == "f728162c1315c26e40249849799b4ba3fe584c32084b4795b03eb295e63cb5af":
-            # ref: https://huggingface.co/lewtun/talkie-1930-13b-it-hf
-            res = "talkie"
-        if chkhsh == "36f3066e97b7f3994b379aaacde306c1444c6ae84e81a5ae3cd2b7ed3b8c42d4":
-            # ref: https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM5-1B
-            res = "minicpm5"
 
         if res is None:
             logger.warning("\n")
@@ -1687,47 +1610,6 @@ class TextModel(ModelBase):
         special_vocab = gguf.SpecialVocab(self.dir_model, load_merges=True)
         special_vocab.add_to_gguf(self.gguf_writer)
 
-    def _set_vocab_hybriddna(self):
-        from transformers import AutoTokenizer
-        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(self.dir_model, trust_remote_code=True)
-        vocab_size = self.hparams.get("vocab_size", len(tokenizer.vocab))  # ty: ignore[unresolved-attribute]
-        assert max(tokenizer.vocab.values()) < vocab_size  # ty: ignore[unresolved-attribute]
-
-        reverse_vocab = {id_: encoded_tok for encoded_tok, id_ in tokenizer.vocab.items()}  # ty: ignore[unresolved-attribute]
-        # k-mers can share text with a base-vocab BPE token (e.g. CCCCCC) and get
-        # dropped by get_vocab(); a reserved marker suffix (U+E000) keeps each
-        # k-mer's own id (llama.cpp strips it on detokenization)
-        for kmer in tokenizer.kmers:  # ty: ignore[unresolved-attribute]
-            reverse_vocab[tokenizer.dna_token_to_id[kmer]] = kmer + "\ue000"  # ty: ignore[unresolved-attribute]
-        added_vocab = tokenizer.get_added_vocab()  # ty: ignore[unresolved-attribute]
-        added_tokens_decoder = tokenizer.added_tokens_decoder  # ty: ignore[unresolved-attribute]
-
-        tokens: list[str] = []
-        toktypes: list[int] = []
-        for i in range(vocab_size):
-            if i not in reverse_vocab:
-                tokens.append(f"[PAD{i}]")
-                toktypes.append(gguf.TokenType.UNUSED)
-            else:
-                token: str = reverse_vocab[i]
-                if token in added_vocab:
-                    if added_tokens_decoder[i].special or self.does_token_look_special(token):
-                        toktypes.append(gguf.TokenType.CONTROL)
-                    else:
-                        toktypes.append(gguf.TokenType.USER_DEFINED)
-                else:
-                    toktypes.append(gguf.TokenType.NORMAL)
-                tokens.append(token)
-
-        tokpre = self.get_vocab_base_pre(tokenizer)
-        self.gguf_writer.add_tokenizer_model("hybriddna")
-        self.gguf_writer.add_tokenizer_pre(tokpre)
-        self.gguf_writer.add_token_list(tokens)
-        self.gguf_writer.add_token_types(toktypes)
-
-        special_vocab = gguf.SpecialVocab(self.dir_model, load_merges=True)
-        special_vocab.add_to_gguf(self.gguf_writer)
-
     def _set_vocab_qwen(self):
         from .qwen import QwenModel
 
@@ -2441,9 +2323,10 @@ class MmprojModel(ModelBase):
         raise KeyError(f"could not find any of: {keys}")
 
     def tensor_force_quant(self, name, new_name, bid, n_dims):
+        del bid, name, n_dims  # unused
         if ".patch_embd.weight" in new_name or ".patch_merger.weight" in new_name:
             return gguf.GGMLQuantizationType.F16 if self.ftype == gguf.LlamaFileType.MOSTLY_F16 else gguf.GGMLQuantizationType.F32
-        return super().tensor_force_quant(name, new_name, bid, n_dims)
+        return False
 
 
 class LazyTorchTensor(gguf.LazyBase):

conversion/gemma.py

@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ class Gemma3NModel(Gemma3Model):
         yield from super().modify_tensors(data_torch, name, bid)
 
 
-@ModelBase.register("Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration", "Gemma4ForCausalLM")
+@ModelBase.register("Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration")
 class Gemma4Model(Gemma3Model):
     model_arch = gguf.MODEL_ARCH.GEMMA4
 

conversion/hunyuan.py

@@ -189,8 +189,7 @@ class HunYuanModel(TextModel):
             self.gguf_writer.add_token_list(tokens)
             self.gguf_writer.add_token_types(toktypes)
 
-            # Some HunYuanVL variants (e.g. OCR-style configs) have pad_token_id=-1;
-            # guard SpecialVocab so it doesn't try to emit an invalid pad id.
+            # HunyuanOCR has pad_token_id=-1 in config.json; exclude pad from SpecialVocab
             token_types = None
             if (self.hparams.get("pad_token_id") or 0) < 0:
                 token_types = ('bos', 'eos', 'unk', 'sep', 'cls', 'mask')
@@ -251,8 +250,7 @@ class HunYuanModel(TextModel):
             self._fix_special_tokens()
 
     def set_gguf_parameters(self):
-        # Some HunYuanVL variants set num_experts=1 (not real MoE);
-        # prevent the parent class from emitting expert_count metadata in that case.
+        # HunyuanOCR has num_experts=1 which is not MoE, prevent parent from writing it
         saved_num_experts = self.hparams.pop("num_experts", None)
         super().set_gguf_parameters()
         if saved_num_experts is not None and saved_num_experts > 1:
@@ -290,21 +288,51 @@ class HunYuanModel(TextModel):
 
 @ModelBase.register("HunYuanVLForConditionalGeneration")
 class HunyuanVLVisionModel(MmprojModel):
+    # Handles both HunyuanOCR and HunyuanVL, which share the HF architecture name
+    # "HunYuanVLForConditionalGeneration" and the `vit.perceive.*` vision layout.
+    # Each variant maps to a different projector type in clip.cpp so image
+    # preprocessing follows the correct code path.
+
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
         assert self.hparams_vision is not None
-        # HunyuanVL uses max_image_size instead of image_size
+        # HunyuanOCR / HunyuanVL uses max_image_size instead of image_size
         if "image_size" not in self.hparams_vision:
             self.hparams_vision["image_size"] = self.hparams_vision.get("max_image_size", 2048)
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def is_ocr_variant(hparams: dict) -> bool:
+        """Return True for HunyuanOCR, False for HunyuanVL.
+
+        The projector's output dim must equal the text model's hidden_size by
+        construction (that's what "projector" means). HunyuanOCR pairs a 1B text
+        backbone (hidden=1024); HunyuanVL pairs a 4B one (hidden=3072). So the
+        ViT -> LLM projection dim is a hard architectural signature, not a
+        magic number.
+        """
+        vision_out = int((hparams.get("vision_config") or {}).get("out_hidden_size", 0))
+        return vision_out == 1024
+
     def set_gguf_parameters(self):
         super().set_gguf_parameters()
         assert self.hparams_vision is not None
         vcfg = self.hparams_vision
+
+        if self.is_ocr_variant(self.global_config):
+            # --- HunyuanOCR ---
+            self.gguf_writer.add_clip_projector_type(gguf.VisionProjectorType.HUNYUANOCR)
+            self.gguf_writer.add_vision_use_gelu(True)
+            self.gguf_writer.add_vision_attention_layernorm_eps(vcfg.get("rms_norm_eps", 1e-5))
+            self.gguf_writer.add_vision_spatial_merge_size(vcfg.get("spatial_merge_size", 2))
+            self.gguf_writer.add_vision_min_pixels(self.preprocessor_config["min_pixels"])
+            self.gguf_writer.add_vision_max_pixels(self.preprocessor_config["max_pixels"])
+            return
+
+        # --- HunyuanVL ---
         self.gguf_writer.add_clip_projector_type(gguf.VisionProjectorType.HUNYUANVL)
-        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_use_gelu(True)
-        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_attention_layernorm_eps(vcfg.get("rms_norm_eps", 1e-5))
-        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_spatial_merge_size(vcfg.get("spatial_merge_size", 2))
+        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_use_gelu(str(vcfg["hidden_act"]).lower() == "gelu")
+        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_attention_layernorm_eps(float(vcfg["rms_norm_eps"]))
+        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_spatial_merge_size(int(vcfg["spatial_merge_size"]))
         self.gguf_writer.add_vision_min_pixels(int(self.preprocessor_config["min_pixels"]))
         self.gguf_writer.add_vision_max_pixels(int(self.preprocessor_config["max_pixels"]))
 
@@ -325,7 +353,7 @@ class HunyuanVLVisionModel(MmprojModel):
 
     def tensor_force_quant(self, name, new_name, bid, n_dims):
         # force conv weights to F32 or F16 to avoid BF16 IM2COL issues on Metal
-        # HunyuanVL emit the ViT -> LLM projection as mm.0/mm.2.
+        # Both HunyuanOCR and HunyuanVL emit the ViT -> LLM projection as mm.0/mm.2.
         if ("mm.0." in new_name or "mm.2." in new_name) and new_name.endswith(".weight"):
             return gguf.GGMLQuantizationType.F16 if self.ftype == gguf.LlamaFileType.MOSTLY_F16 else gguf.GGMLQuantizationType.F32
         return super().tensor_force_quant(name, new_name, bid, n_dims)
@@ -333,18 +361,40 @@ class HunyuanVLVisionModel(MmprojModel):
 
 @ModelBase.register("HunYuanVLForConditionalGeneration")
 class HunyuanVLTextModel(HunYuanModel):
+    # The "HunYuanVLForConditionalGeneration" HF architecture covers both HunyuanOCR
+    # and HunyuanVL. HunyuanOCR reuses the HunYuan-Dense text backbone (standard RoPE),
+    # while HunyuanVL introduces a new LLM arch with XD-RoPE. Detect the variant from
+    # the config and pick the matching GGUF architecture.
     model_arch = gguf.MODEL_ARCH.HUNYUAN_VL
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _is_ocr_config(hparams: dict) -> bool:
+        # OCR pairs a 1B text backbone (hidden=1024) with a ViT projector that
+        # outputs 1024-d; HunyuanVL uses 3072-d. Keep in sync with
+        # HunyuanVLVisionModel.is_ocr_variant.
+        return int((hparams.get("vision_config") or {}).get("out_hidden_size", 0)) == 1024
+
     def __init__(self, dir_model: Path, *args, **kwargs):
+        raw_hparams = kwargs.get("hparams") or ModelBase.load_hparams(dir_model, is_mistral_format=False)
+        if self._is_ocr_config(raw_hparams):
+            self.model_arch = gguf.MODEL_ARCH.HUNYUAN_DENSE
+        else:
+            self.model_arch = gguf.MODEL_ARCH.HUNYUAN_VL
         super().__init__(dir_model, *args, **kwargs)
 
     def set_gguf_parameters(self):
         super().set_gguf_parameters()
 
-        # XD-RoPE metadata for the HunyuanVL;
+        # Only emit XD-RoPE metadata for the HunyuanVL backbone; HunyuanOCR uses
+        # the HunYuan-Dense arch which already handles standard rope in super().
+        if self.model_arch != gguf.MODEL_ARCH.HUNYUAN_VL:
+            return
+
         if self.rope_parameters.get("rope_type") != "xdrope":
             return
 
+        # defaults for HunyuanVL. The C++ side later computes:
+        #   freq_base = rope_theta * alpha ** (head_dim / (head_dim - 2))
         self.gguf_writer.add_rope_freq_base(float(self.rope_parameters["rope_theta"]))
         self.gguf_writer.add_rope_scaling_alpha(float(self.rope_parameters["alpha"]))
         self.gguf_writer.add_rope_scaling_type(gguf.RopeScalingType.NONE)

conversion/llama.py

@@ -51,15 +51,6 @@ class LlamaModel(TextModel):
         if path_tekken_json.is_file() and not path_tokenizer_json.is_file():
             self._set_vocab_mistral()
 
-        tokenizer_config_file = self.dir_model / 'tokenizer_config.json'
-        if tokenizer_config_file.is_file():
-            with open(tokenizer_config_file, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
-                tokenizer_config_json = json.load(f)
-                if (add_prefix_space := tokenizer_config_json.get("add_prefix_space")) is not None:
-                    self.gguf_writer.add_add_space_prefix(add_prefix_space)
-                if tokenizer_config_json.get("tokenizer_class") == "HybridDNATokenizer":
-                    return self._set_vocab_hybriddna()
-
         try:
             self._set_vocab_sentencepiece()
         except FileNotFoundError:
@@ -81,6 +72,13 @@ class LlamaModel(TextModel):
             special_vocab._set_special_token("eot",    32010)
             special_vocab.add_to_gguf(self.gguf_writer)
 
+        tokenizer_config_file = self.dir_model / 'tokenizer_config.json'
+        if tokenizer_config_file.is_file():
+            with open(tokenizer_config_file, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+                tokenizer_config_json = json.load(f)
+                if "add_prefix_space" in tokenizer_config_json:
+                    self.gguf_writer.add_add_space_prefix(tokenizer_config_json["add_prefix_space"])
+
         # Apply to granite small models only
         if self.hparams.get("vocab_size", 32000) == 49152:
             self.gguf_writer.add_add_bos_token(False)

conversion/qwen.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any, Callable, Iterable, TYPE_CHECKING
 
 import torch
@@ -548,7 +549,6 @@ class _Qwen35MtpMixin:
     tensor_map: gguf.TensorNameMap
     no_mtp: bool
     mtp_only: bool
-    _original_block_count: int | None = None
 
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
@@ -557,44 +557,22 @@ class _Qwen35MtpMixin:
             self.block_count += self.hparams.get("mtp_num_hidden_layers", 0)
         self.tensor_map = gguf.get_tensor_name_map(self.model_arch, self.block_count)
 
-    def index_tensors(self, remote_hf_model_id: str | None = None) -> dict[str, Callable[[], Tensor]]:
-        hparams = {**self.hparams, **self.hparams.get("text_config", {})}
-        key = next((k for k in ["n_layers", "num_hidden_layers", "n_layer", "num_layers"] if k in hparams), None)
-        type(self)._original_block_count = hparams.get(key)
-        return super().index_tensors(remote_hf_model_id=remote_hf_model_id)  # ty: ignore[unresolved-attribute]
-
     @classmethod
     def filter_tensors(cls, item):
-        assert cls._original_block_count is not None
-        # TODO: change TextModel to super()
-        if (titem := TextModel.filter_tensors(item)) is None:
-            return None
-        name, gen = titem
-        if name.startswith("model.mtp."):
-            name = name.replace("model.", "", 1)
+        name, _ = item
         if name.startswith("mtp."):
             if cls.no_mtp:
                 return None
-            remapper = {
-                "fc":                    "eh_proj",
-                "pre_fc_norm_embedding": "enorm",
-                "pre_fc_norm_hidden":    "hnorm",
-                "norm":                  "shared_head.norm",
-            }
-            parts = name.split(".", 3)
-            if len(parts) == 4 and parts[1] == "layers" and parts[2].isdecimal():
-                mtp_idx = int(parts[2])
-                name = f"model.layers.{cls._original_block_count + mtp_idx}.{parts[3]}"
-            elif len(parts) == 3 and parts[1] in remapper:
-                name = f"model.layers.{cls._original_block_count}.{remapper[parts[1]]}.{parts[2]}"
-        elif cls.mtp_only:
-            keep = name in (
+            return item
+        if cls.mtp_only:
+            canonical = name.replace("language_model.", "")
+            keep = canonical in (
                 "model.embed_tokens.weight", "model.norm.weight", "lm_head.weight",
                 "embed_tokens.weight", "norm.weight",
             )
             if not keep:
                 return None
-        return name, gen
+        return super().filter_tensors(item)  # ty: ignore[unresolved-attribute]
 
     def set_gguf_parameters(self):
         super().set_gguf_parameters()  # ty: ignore[unresolved-attribute]
@@ -616,6 +594,29 @@ class _Qwen35MtpMixin:
             self.metadata.version, size_label=None, output_type=output_type, model_type=None)    # pyright: ignore[reportAttributeAccessIssue] # ty: ignore[unresolved-attribute]
         self.fname_out = self.fname_out.parent / f"mtp-{fname_default}.gguf"
 
+    def modify_tensors(self, data_torch: Tensor, name: str, bid: int | None) -> Iterable[tuple[str, Tensor]]:
+        if name.startswith("mtp."):
+            n_layer = self.hparams["num_hidden_layers"]
+            if name.find("layers.") != -1:
+                assert bid is not None
+                name = name.replace(f"mtp.layers.{bid}", f"model.layers.{bid + n_layer}")
+                bid = bid + n_layer
+            else:
+                remapper = {
+                    "mtp.fc":                    "model.layers.{bid}.eh_proj",
+                    "mtp.pre_fc_norm_embedding": "model.layers.{bid}.enorm",
+                    "mtp.pre_fc_norm_hidden":    "model.layers.{bid}.hnorm",
+                    "mtp.norm":                  "model.layers.{bid}.shared_head.norm",
+                }
+                stem   = Path(name).stem
+                suffix = Path(name).suffix
+                tmpl   = remapper[stem] + suffix
+                for b in range(n_layer, self.block_count):
+                    yield from super().modify_tensors(data_torch, tmpl.format(bid=b), b)  # ty: ignore[unresolved-attribute]
+                return
+
+        yield from super().modify_tensors(data_torch, name, bid)  # ty: ignore[unresolved-attribute]
+
 
 @ModelBase.register("Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration", "Qwen3_5ForCausalLM")
 class Qwen3_5TextModel(_Qwen35MtpMixin, _Qwen35MRopeMixin, _LinearAttentionVReorderBase):

conversion/talkie.py

@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-from __future__ import annotations
-
-from typing import Iterable, TYPE_CHECKING
-
-import torch
-
-if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from torch import Tensor
-
-from .base import LazyTorchTensor, ModelBase, TextModel, gguf
-
-
-@ModelBase.register("TalkieForCausalLM")
-class TalkieModel(TextModel):
-    model_arch = gguf.MODEL_ARCH.TALKIE
-
-    def set_gguf_parameters(self):
-        super().set_gguf_parameters()
-        # Talkie used F.rms_norm without an explicit eps
-        self.gguf_writer.add_layer_norm_rms_eps(torch.finfo(torch.float32).eps)
-
-    def modify_tensors(self, data_torch: Tensor, name: str, bid: int | None) -> Iterable[tuple[str, Tensor]]:
-        prefix = f"model.blocks.{bid}." if bid is not None else ""
-        suffix = name.removeprefix(prefix)
-
-        if suffix == "attn_gain.a_g":
-            yield self.format_tensor_name(gguf.MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_OUT, bid, ".scale"), data_torch
-            return
-        elif suffix == "mlp_gain.a_g":
-            yield self.format_tensor_name(gguf.MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_DOWN, bid, ".scale"), data_torch
-            return
-        elif suffix == "lm_head_gain.w_g":
-            self.gguf_writer.add_logit_scale(LazyTorchTensor.to_eager(data_torch).item())
-            return
-        elif suffix in ("attn.attn_query.weight", "attn.attn_key.weight"):
-            # absorb inverse rope
-            head_dim = self.hparams["head_dim"]
-            shape = data_torch.shape
-            data_torch = torch.reshape(data_torch, (-1, head_dim, shape[-1]))
-            signs = torch.ones((1, head_dim, 1), dtype=data_torch.dtype)
-            signs[:, head_dim // 2 :, :] = -1
-            if self.lazy:
-                signs = LazyTorchTensor.from_eager(signs)
-            # (n_head, head_dim, n_in) -> (n_out, n_in)
-            data_torch = torch.reshape(data_torch * signs, shape)
-        elif suffix == "attn.head_gain.head_g":
-            # allow head gain to broadcast
-            data_torch = data_torch.unsqueeze(-1)
-
-        if not name.endswith(".weight"):
-            name += ".weight"
-
-        yield from super().modify_tensors(data_torch, name, bid)

convert_hf_to_gguf.py

@@ -115,15 +115,15 @@ def parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
     )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--mmproj", action="store_true",
-        help="Export multimodal projector (mmproj) for vision models. This will only work on some vision models. An 'mmproj-' prefix will be added to the output file name.",
+        help="(Experimental) Export multimodal projector (mmproj) for vision models. This will only work on some vision models. A prefix 'mmproj-' will be added to the output file name.",
     )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--mtp", action="store_true",
-        help="Export only the multi-token prediction (MTP) head as a separate GGUF, suitable for use as a speculative draft. An 'mtp-' prefix will be added to the output file name.",
+        help="(Experimental) Export only the multi-token prediction (MTP) head as a separate GGUF, suitable for use as a speculative draft. Output file name will get a '-MTP' suffix.",
     )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--no-mtp", action="store_true",
-        help="Exclude the multi-token prediction (MTP) head from the converted GGUF. Pair with --mtp on a second run to publish trunk and MTP as two files. Note: the split form duplicates embeddings, but even though the bundled default is more space-efficient overall, this allows differing quantization which may be more performant.",
+        help="(Experimental) Exclude the multi-token prediction (MTP) head from the converted GGUF. Pair with --mtp on a second run to publish trunk and MTP as two files. Note: the split form duplicates embeddings, so the bundled default is more space-efficient overall.",
     )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--mistral-format", action="store_true",
@@ -148,10 +148,6 @@ def parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
         "--fuse-gate-up-exps", action="store_true",
         help="Fuse gate_exps and up_exps tensors into a single gate_up_exps tensor for MoE models.",
     )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--fp8-as-q8", action="store_true",
-        help="Store tensors dequantized from FP8 as Q8_0 instead of BF16/F16.",
-    )
 
     args = parser.parse_args()
     if not args.print_supported_models and args.model is None:
@@ -268,8 +264,7 @@ def main() -> None:
                                      small_first_shard=args.no_tensor_first_split,
                                      remote_hf_model_id=hf_repo_id, disable_mistral_community_chat_template=disable_mistral_community_chat_template,
                                      sentence_transformers_dense_modules=args.sentence_transformers_dense_modules,
-                                     fuse_gate_up_exps=args.fuse_gate_up_exps,
-                                     fp8_as_q8=args.fp8_as_q8,
+                                     fuse_gate_up_exps=args.fuse_gate_up_exps
                                      )
 
         if args.vocab_only:

convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py

@@ -156,8 +156,6 @@ models = [
     {"name": "kanana2",          "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/kakaocorp/kanana-2-30b-a3b-instruct-2601", },
     {"name": "f2llmv2",          "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/codefuse-ai/F2LLM-v2-4B", },
     {"name": "sarvam-moe",       "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/sarvamai/sarvam-30b", },
-    {"name": "talkie",           "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/lewtun/talkie-1930-13b-it-hf", },
-    {"name": "minicpm5",         "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM5-1B"},
 ]
 
 # some models are known to be broken upstream, so we will skip them as exceptions

convert_lora_to_gguf.py

@@ -208,16 +208,6 @@ class LoraTorchTensor:
     def to(self, *args, **kwargs):
         return LoraTorchTensor(self._lora_A.to(*args, **kwargs), self._lora_B.to(*args, **kwargs))
 
-    def __mul__(self, other) -> LoraTorchTensor:
-        # Only output-side multiplication for now
-        # W = B @ A, so M_out * W == (M_out * B) @ A
-        if not isinstance(other, (int, float)) and other.shape and other.shape[-1] != 1:
-            raise NotImplementedError
-        return LoraTorchTensor(self._lora_A, self._lora_B * other)
-
-    def __rmul__(self, other) -> LoraTorchTensor:
-        return self * other
-
     @classmethod
     def __torch_function__(cls, func: Callable, types, args=(), kwargs=None):
         del types  # unused

docs/autoparser.md

@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ Each returned parser is wrapped by `wrap_for_generation_prompt()`, which prepend
 
 - Usage: `./bin/llama-template-analysis path/to/template.jinja`
 
-**Debug Logging**: Enable with `LLAMA_ARG_LOG_VERBOSITY=2`
+**Debug Logging**: Enable with `LLAMA_LOG_VERBOSITY=2`
 
 - Shows detailed analysis steps, pattern extraction results, and generated parser structure
 
@@ -489,7 +489,6 @@ The following templates have active tests in `tests/test-chat.cpp`:
 | Qwen-QwQ-32B | Reasoning | Forced-open thinking |
 | NousResearch Hermes 2 Pro | JSON_NATIVE | `<tool_call>` wrapper |
 | IBM Granite 3.3 | JSON_NATIVE | `<think></think>` + `<response></response>` |
-| IBM Granite 4.0 | JSON_NATIVE | `<tool_call>` wrapper (same template used by 4.1) |
 | ByteDance Seed-OSS | TAG_WITH_TAGGED | Custom `<seed:think>` and `<seed:tool_call>` tags |
 | Qwen3-Coder | TAG_WITH_TAGGED | XML-style tool format |
 | DeepSeek V3.1 | JSON_NATIVE | Forced thinking mode |

docs/backend/SYCL.md

@@ -743,7 +743,6 @@ use 1 SYCL GPUs: [0] with Max compute units:512
 | GGML_SYCL_DISABLE_GRAPH | 0 or 1 (default) | Disable running computations through SYCL Graphs feature. Disabled by default because SYCL Graph is still on development, no better performance. |
 | GGML_SYCL_ENABLE_LEVEL_ZERO | 1 (default) or 0 | Use Level Zero API for device memory allocation instead of SYCL. Reduces system RAM usage on Intel dGPUs by avoiding DMA-buf/TTM host memory staging. Requires GGML_SYCL_SUPPORT_LEVEL_ZERO=ON at build time. |
 | GGML_SYCL_DISABLE_DNN | 0 (default) or 1 | Disable running computations through oneDNN and always use oneMKL. |
-| GGML_SYCL_ENABLE_VMM | 0 or 1 (default) | Enable the virtual-memory device pool. |
 | ZES_ENABLE_SYSMAN | 0 (default) or 1 | Support to get free memory of GPU by sycl::aspect::ext_intel_free_memory.<br>Recommended to use when --split-mode = layer |
 | UR_L0_ENABLE_RELAXED_ALLOCATION_LIMITS | 0 (default) or 1 | Allow SYCL/Unified Runtime Level Zero device allocations larger than 4 GiB. llama.cpp's direct Level Zero allocation path requests the relaxed maximum-size limit itself when GGML_SYCL_ENABLE_LEVEL_ZERO=1. |
 
@@ -754,7 +753,6 @@ Pass these via `CXXFLAGS` or add a one-off `#define` to enable a flag on the spo
 | Name            | Function                                                                         |
 |-----------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 | DEBUG_SYCL_POOL | Enable device memory pool logging on teardown. Useful for profiling allocations. |
-| DEBUG_SYCL_MALLOC | Enable verbose per-call logging of device pool alloc/free operations. |
 
 ## Design Rule
 

docs/backend/snapdragon/CMakeUserPresets.json

@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
             "ANDROID_ABI":      "arm64-v8a",
             "ANDROID_PLATFORM": "android-31",
             "CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE": "$env{ANDROID_NDK_ROOT}/build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake",
-            "CMAKE_C_FLAGS":   "-march=armv8.7a+fp16+dotprod+i8mm -fvectorize -ffp-model=fast -fno-finite-math-only -flto -D_GNU_SOURCE",
-            "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS": "-march=armv8.7a+fp16+dotprod+i8mm -fvectorize -ffp-model=fast -fno-finite-math-only -flto -D_GNU_SOURCE",
+            "CMAKE_C_FLAGS":   "-march=armv8.7a+fp16 -fvectorize -ffp-model=fast -fno-finite-math-only -flto -D_GNU_SOURCE",
+            "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS": "-march=armv8.7a+fp16 -fvectorize -ffp-model=fast -fno-finite-math-only -flto -D_GNU_SOURCE",
             "CMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE":          "-O3 -DNDEBUG",
             "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE":        "-O3 -DNDEBUG",
             "CMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELWITHDEBINFO":   "-O3 -DNDEBUG -g",
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@
         "name": "arm64-windows-snapdragon",
         "inherits": [ "base", "arm64-windows-llvm" ],
         "cacheVariables": {
-            "CMAKE_C_FLAGS":   "-march=armv8.7a+fp16+dotprod+i8mm -fvectorize -ffp-model=fast -flto -D_GNU_SOURCE",
-            "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS": "-march=armv8.7a+fp16+dotprod+i8mm -fvectorize -ffp-model=fast -flto -D_GNU_SOURCE",
+            "CMAKE_C_FLAGS":   "-march=armv8.7a+fp16 -fvectorize -ffp-model=fast -flto -D_GNU_SOURCE",
+            "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS": "-march=armv8.7a+fp16 -fvectorize -ffp-model=fast -flto -D_GNU_SOURCE",
             "CMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE":          "-O3 -DNDEBUG",
             "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE":        "-O3 -DNDEBUG",
             "CMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELWITHDEBINFO":   "-O3 -DNDEBUG -g",
@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@
         "toolset":      { "value": "host=x86_64", "strategy": "external" },
         "cacheVariables": {
             "CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE": "cmake/arm64-linux-clang.cmake",
-            "CMAKE_C_FLAGS":   "-march=armv8.2a+fp16+dotprod -fvectorize -fno-finite-math-only -flto -D_GNU_SOURCE",
-            "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS": "-march=armv8.2a+fp16+dotprod -fvectorize -fno-finite-math-only -flto -D_GNU_SOURCE",
+            "CMAKE_C_FLAGS":   "-march=armv8 -fno-finite-math-only -flto -D_GNU_SOURCE",
+            "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS": "-march=armv8 -fno-finite-math-only -flto -D_GNU_SOURCE",
             "CMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE":          "-O3 -DNDEBUG",
             "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE":        "-O3 -DNDEBUG",
             "CMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELWITHDEBINFO":   "-O3 -DNDEBUG -g",

docs/backend/snapdragon/README.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ This image includes Android NDK, OpenCL SDK, Hexagon SDK, CMake, etc.
 This method works on Linux, macOS, and Windows. macOS and Windows users should install Docker Desktop.
 
 ```
-~/src/llama.cpp$ docker run -it -u $(id -u):$(id -g) --volume $(pwd):/workspace --platform linux/amd64 ghcr.io/snapdragon-toolchain/arm64-android:v0.7
+~/src/llama.cpp$ docker run -it -u $(id -u):$(id -g) --volume $(pwd):/workspace --platform linux/amd64 ghcr.io/snapdragon-toolchain/arm64-android:v0.3
 [d]/> cd /workspace
 ```
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Native Windows 11 arm64 builds has the following tools dependencies:
   - UCRT and Driver Kit
 - LLVM core libraries and Clang compiler (winget)
 - CMake, Git, Python (winget)
-- Hexagon SDK Community Edition 6.6 or later (see windows.md)
+- Hexagon SDK Community Edition 6.4 or later (see windows.md)
 - OpenCL SDK 2.3 or later (see windows.md)
 
 Note: The rest of the **Windows** build process assumes that you're running natively in Powershell.
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Preset CMake variables:
   GGML_HEXAGON="ON"
   GGML_OPENCL="ON"
   GGML_OPENMP="OFF"
-  HEXAGON_SDK_ROOT="/opt/hexagon/6.6.0.0"
+  HEXAGON_SDK_ROOT="/opt/hexagon/6.4.0.2"
 ...
 -- Including OpenCL backend
 -- Including Hexagon backend

docs/backend/snapdragon/windows.md

@@ -28,15 +28,15 @@ c:\Qualcomm\OpenCL_SDK\2.3.2
 
 Either use the trimmed down version (optimized for CI) from
 
-    https://github.com/snapdragon-toolchain/hexagon-sdk/releases/download/v6.6.0.0/hexagon-sdk-v6.6.0.0-arm64-wos.tar.xz
+    https://github.com/snapdragon-toolchain/hexagon-sdk/releases/download/v6.4.0.2/hexagon-sdk-v6.4.0.2-arm64-wos.tar.xz
 
 Or download the complete official version from
 
-    https://softwarecenter.qualcomm.com/catalog/item/Hexagon_SDK?version=6.6.0.0
+    https://softwarecenter.qualcomm.com/catalog/item/Hexagon_SDK?version=6.4.0.2
 
 Unzip/untar the archive into
 ```
-c:\Qualcomm\Hexagon_SDK\6.6.0.0
+c:\Qualcomm\Hexagon_SDK\6.4.0.2
 ```
 
 ## Install the latest Adreno GPU driver
@@ -123,10 +123,10 @@ The overall Hexagon backend build procedure for Windows on Snapdragon is the sam
 However, additional settings are required for generating and signing HTP Ops libraries.
 ```
 > $env:OPENCL_SDK_ROOT="C:\Qualcomm\OpenCL_SDK\2.3.2"
-> $env:HEXAGON_SDK_ROOT="C:\Qualcomm\Hexagon_SDK\6.6.0.0"
-> $env:HEXAGON_TOOLS_ROOT="C:\Qualcomm\Hexagon_SDK\6.6.0.0\tools\HEXAGON_Tools\19.0.07"
+> $env:HEXAGON_SDK_ROOT="C:\Qualcomm\Hexagon_SDK\6.4.0.2"
+> $env:HEXAGON_TOOLS_ROOT="C:\Qualcomm\Hexagon_SDK\6.4.0.2\tools\HEXAGON_Tools\19.0.04"
 > $env:HEXAGON_HTP_CERT="c:\Users\MyUsers\Certs\ggml-htp-v1.pfx"
-> $env:WINDOWS_SDK_BIN="C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.26100.0"
+> $env:WINDOWS_SDK_BIN="C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.26100.0\arm64"
 
 > cmake --preset arm64-windows-snapdragon-release -B build-wos
 ...

docs/build-riscv64-spacemit.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 1. Prepare Toolchain For RISCV
 ~~~
-wget https://github.com/spacemit-com/toolchain/releases/download/v1.2.4/spacemit-toolchain-linux-glibc-x86_64-v1.2.4.tar.xz
+wget https://archive.spacemit.com/toolchain/spacemit-toolchain-linux-glibc-x86_64-v1.1.2.tar.xz
 ~~~
 
 2. Build

docs/build.md

@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ ninja
 
 To read documentation for how to build on Android, [click here](./android.md)
 
-## WebGPU
+## WebGPU [In Progress]
 
 The WebGPU backend relies on [Dawn](https://dawn.googlesource.com/dawn). Follow the instructions [here](https://dawn.googlesource.com/dawn/+/refs/heads/main/docs/quickstart-cmake.md) to install Dawn locally so that llama.cpp can find it using CMake. The current implementation is up-to-date with Dawn commit `18eb229`.
 

docs/function-calling.md

@@ -291,7 +291,6 @@ Here are some models known to work (w/ chat template override when needed):
 llama-server --jinja -fa -hf bartowski/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M
 llama-server --jinja -fa -hf bartowski/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407-GGUF:Q6_K_L
 llama-server --jinja -fa -hf bartowski/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M
-llama-server --jinja -fa -hf ibm-granite/granite-4.1-3b-GGUF:Q4_K_M
 
 # Native support for DeepSeek R1 works best w/ our template override (official template is buggy, although we do work around it)
 

docs/multimodal/granitevision.md

@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ Note that currently you cannot quantize the visual encoder because granite visio
 
 
 ### 5. Running the Model in Llama cpp
-Build llama cpp normally; you should have a target binary named `llama-mtmd-cli`, which you can pass two binaries to. As an example, we pass the llama.cpp banner.
+Build llama cpp normally; you should have a target binary named `llama-mtmd-cli`, which you can pass two binaries to. As an example, we pass the the llama.cpp banner.
 
 ```bash
 $ ./build/bin/llama-mtmd-cli -m $LLM_GGUF_PATH \

docs/speculative.md

@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ Specifies a comma-separated list of speculative decoding types to use.
 |------|-------------|
 | `none` | No speculative decoding (default) |
 | `draft-simple` | Use a simple draft model for speculation |
-| `draft-mtp` | Use Multi Token Prediction (MTP) heads from the main model |
+| `draft-mtp` | Use Masked Token Prediction (MTP) heads from the main model |
 | `ngram-cache` | Use n-gram cache lookup |
 | `ngram-simple` | Use simple n-gram pattern matching |
 | `ngram-map-k` | Use n-gram pattern matching with n-gram-keys |

examples/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ else()
     add_subdirectory(parallel)
     add_subdirectory(passkey)
     add_subdirectory(retrieval)
+    add_subdirectory(save-load-state)
     add_subdirectory(simple)
     add_subdirectory(simple-chat)
     add_subdirectory(speculative)

examples/convert_legacy_llama.py

@@ -1308,8 +1308,7 @@ def do_dump_model(model_plus: ModelPlus) -> None:
 
 def main(args_in: list[str] | None = None) -> None:
     output_choices = ["f32", "f16"]
-    dummy_val = np.uint32(1)
-    if dummy_val == dummy_val.view(dummy_val.dtype.newbyteorder("<")):
+    if np.uint32(1) == np.uint32(1).newbyteorder("<"):
         # We currently only support Q8_0 output on little endian systems.
         output_choices.append("q8_0")
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Convert a LLaMA model to a GGML compatible file")

examples/llama.android/lib/build.gradle.kts

@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ android {
                 arguments += "-DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON"
 
                 arguments += "-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON"
-                arguments += "-DLLAMA_BUILD_APP=OFF"
                 arguments += "-DLLAMA_BUILD_COMMON=ON"
                 arguments += "-DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF"
 

examples/model-conversion/README.md

@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ $ make perplexity-run-full QUANTIZED_MODEL=~/path/to/quantized/model-Qxx.gguf LO
 
 ## HuggingFace utilities
 The following targets are useful for creating collections and model repositories
-on Hugging Face in the ggml-org. These can be used when preparing a release
+on Hugging Face in the the ggml-org. These can be used when preparing a release
 to script the process for new model releases.
 
 For the following targets a `HF_TOKEN` environment variable is required.

examples/model-conversion/scripts/embedding/run-original-model.py

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ def load_model_and_tokenizer(model_path, use_sentence_transformers=False, device
         print("Using SentenceTransformer to apply all numbered layers")
         model = SentenceTransformer(model_path)
         tokenizer = model.tokenizer
-        config = model[0].auto_model.config  # ty: ignore[unresolved-attribute]
+        config = model[0].auto_model.config
     else:
         tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_path)
         config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(model_path, trust_remote_code=True)

examples/save-load-state/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+set(TARGET llama-save-load-state)
+add_executable(${TARGET} save-load-state.cpp)
+install(TARGETS ${TARGET} RUNTIME)
+target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PRIVATE llama-common llama ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT})
+target_compile_features(${TARGET} PRIVATE cxx_std_17)