* wip: port MTP architecture
Ports the Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) architecture to the older `llama.cpp` codebase used by `ikllama`.
Changes include:
- Updating `llama_batch` to support `mtp_params`.
- Modifying `llama_decode_internal` (and `encode`) to handle MTP operations (Warmup, Update, Draft).
- Adding public APIs for MTP state management (`llama_set_draft_input_hidden_state`).
- Adapting the embedding extraction logic to skip MTP update passes.
* Refactors `server_slot` to support generic speculative decoding (MTP or Draft Model).
* core: enable hybrid outputs (logits + embeddings) for MTP support
* fix(mtp): correct KV-cache slot finding for updates
* fix(mtp): persist hidden states to prevent context corruption during drafting
* refactor(mtp): clean unused code
* fix(mtp): update server to new functions name
* fix(mtp): fix graph and save hidden state
* mtp: refactor integration, context params and kv cache search
* mtp: fix hidden state extraction and speculative acceptance flow
* server: fix MTP warmup for long prompts and reset token buffer
* llama: refactor MTP operation state to context parameters
* server: fix n_past calculation in MTP acceptance
* llama: fix mtp enable flags
* speculative: refactor MTP to use common_speculative interface
* context: remove unused signatures
* clip: fix deprecated enum-enum conversion warning
* common: fix format string crash in help message
* context: fix mtp activation logic
* llamat: always use the extracted embedding
* llama: get all embeddings to kv cache
* llama: revert logit to not run mtp for not supported arch
* llama: allocate all the n_outputs for MTP
* wip
* server-context: get only the last embedding for hidden state
* ggml-backend: fix array of bounds in debug build
* server-context: run mt kv update to each prompt batch
* revert segmentation fault fixes
* glm-mtp(feat): optimize graph embedding and recursive drafting
* glm5-mtp(feat): add glm 5 mtp logic
* glm-mtp: standardize the MTP graph
* glm 5 mtp: apply post-layer cvec
* glm 5 mtp: mark head as mandatory
* get normed embeddings for glm 5
* Fix GLM5 MTP
* GLM5 MTP: just reuse the layer attention implementation
* Make MTP work with split mode graph
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Co-authored-by: samuel <samueloliveira32df@gmail.com>
* MLA tensor parallelism under -sm graph (DEEPSEEK2/GLM_DSA/MISTRAL4)
Extends -sm graph (split-mode graph) to MLA-style attention across the
DEEPSEEK2, GLM_DSA, and MISTRAL4 architectures. Previously these archs
fell back to -sm layer regardless of the user's flag.
Implementation:
- Per-rank attention build in build_deepseek2_tp_attention with
view-sliced FlashAttention, split-buffer output projection, and
ggml_reduce across devices
- wk_b / wv_b absorbed weights replicated per device via materialize()
in llm_prepare_mla (these can't live in a split buffer)
- KV cache replication path (replicated_k_l) for graph-mode TP
- distribute_mla_tensors_for_split_mode_graph routes attention/norm
tensors into ctx_split; expert tensors stay per-layer
- Implements ggml_backend_cuda_split_buffer_get_tensor for the
replicated / row-split / col-split inverse paths
- Early-reject guard in src/llama.cpp that auto-downgrades -sm graph
to -sm layer (with a warning) when incompatible loader flags are set:
-ncmoe, -cmoe, -ot, -rtr, -muge
New CLI flag:
- -gap | --graph-attn-precision <f16|f32> (default f16)
See the PR description for the full validation matrix (3 archs x 2/4/8
GPU counts), perf numbers, VRAM accounting, and known limitations.
* Some tweaks
* materialize lambda: per-head split for graph-mode tp_replicate
7dd19e19 changed wk_b/wv_b distribution from mirror to per-head split
(split_dim=2) via prepare_split_tensors. That path only fires when
wk_b/wv_b are loaded from GGUF.
Models that store only wkv_b in GGUF derive wk_b/wv_b at load via
llm_prepare_mla, going through the materialize lambda, which was
untouched and still produced mirror replicas (split_dim=-1, full n_head
per device).
build_deepseek2_tp_attention now does mul_mat(wk_b_local, q_nope_perm)
without the prior view_3d slice, so a mirror replica passes an n_head
tensor where the kernel expects n_head_local. Result: silent SIGSEGV
right after model load.
Mirror logic in materialize is replaced with the same per-head split as
prepare_split_tensors: head_offsets derived from wo split, each rank
gets a tensor with ne[2]=n_head_local, data copied from the appropriate
source byte slice. Singular `computed` tensor keeps full metadata for
tensors_by_name lookups.
Tested: 8x3090, -sm graph -mla 3 -fa on now boots cleanly and
sweep-benches without crash. Log confirms new path: "Computed
blk.X.attn_k_b.weight ... split across N devices on dim=2".
* cleanup: indent fix + remove dead view_3d slicing and debug printf
- build_deepseek2.cpp: re-indent the self_attention block in
build_deepseek2_layer_attention (lines 253-670). Block was at column 0
inside a function body; now at the expected 4/8-space indent.
- build_deepseek2.cpp: drop the commented-out view_3d slicing and debug
printfs left over after 7dd19e19's switch to direct mul_mat on
per-rank wk_b_local / wv_b_local. Update the stale 'wk_b is
replicated (split_dim=-1)' comment to match the new split_dim=2
reality.
- ggml-cuda.cu: remove the leftover debug printf in
ggml_backend_cuda_split_buffer_get_tensor.
No behavior change. Verified with a clean rebuild and DSV2.5 +
GLM-4.7-Flash sweep-bench runs.
* llm_load_tensors: gate incompatible-flag warning to MLA archs
The -ncmoe / -rtr / -muge / -ot warning under -sm graph currently fires
for all archs that support graph mode. That's an over-reach: the
incompatibility is specific to the MLA TP paths (DEEPSEEK2, GLM_DSA,
MISTRAL4) — Gemma4 graph mode existed pre-PR and works with those flags.
Gate the warning to MLA archs only.
Also refreshes two stale comments left over from the wk_b/wv_b
mirror -> per-head-split rewrite:
- src/llama.cpp llm_prepare_mla: "Replicate wk_b/wv_b ..." now reads
"Per-head split wk_b/wv_b ..." to match what the materialize lambda
actually does post-823a39e2.
- src/llama-load-tensors.cpp distribute_mla_tensors_for_split_mode_graph:
drop the wkv_b row-split mention (wkv_b is no longer created under
graph mode after 7dd19e19) and correct the wk_b/wv_b distribution
description (per-head split, not per-device replicated).
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Co-authored-by: Kawrakow <iwankawrakow@gmail.com>
* Use build_std_attention for Gemma4 when possible
It is possible for the 26b MoE and 31b dense models.
It is not possible for the E4B/E2B vaiants because they
don't have KV cache in each layer.
* Standardize Gemma4 dense ffn
* WIP: Gemma4 split mode graph
Runs but produces NaNs
* WIP: Gemma4 split mode graph
Runs but very high PPL. At least it is no longer NaN.
* WIP
* This works!
* Put attn_norm, attn_post_norm, ffn_norm, ffn_post_norm on all GPUs
* Fix crash when saving/loading KV cache
* WIP: split mode graph for Gemma4-MoE - crashes
* Split mode graph for Gemma4-MoE - this works
* Disable SWA optimization
Something goes wrong there
* Consolidate MoE and dense graph parallel
* Use build_std_attention for Gemma4 when possible
It is possible for the 26b MoE and 31b dense models.
It is not possible for the E4B/E2B vaiants because they
don't have KV cache in each layer.
* Standardize Gemma4 dense ffn
* WIP: Gemma4 split mode graph
Runs but produces NaNs
* WIP: Gemma4 split mode graph
Runs but very high PPL. At least it is no longer NaN.
* WIP
* This works!
* Put attn_norm, attn_post_norm, ffn_norm, ffn_post_norm on all GPUs
* Fix crash when saving/loading KV cache
* Gemma4: WIP
* Gemma4: WIP - runs with totally wrong results
* Gemma4: WIP - add CPU 512, 512 FA
* Gemma4: WIP
It gives a meaningful response in llama-cli, but PPL is still much too
high. Is this due to tokenizer issues?
* Gemma4: this works
I had forgotten the softcap on the final output.
* Remove log
* Gemma4: WIP E4B/E2B
* Gemma4: Q4B/E2B appear to work now
* gemma4: tokenizer fixes
* WIP: support pre-merged up/gate experts
Haha, mainline has elected to arrange the merged tensors
the other way around compared to what I had done in the on-the-fly merge.
* Change the order of on-the-fly packed up/gate
* OpenAI
* CUDA TG
* CPU
* Split mode graph for models with pre-merged ffn_up/ffn_gate experts
* WIP: support pre-merged up/gate experts
Haha, mainline has elected to arrange the merged tensors
the other way around compared to what I had done in the on-the-fly merge.
* Change the order of on-the-fly packed up/gate
* OpenAI
* CUDA TG
* CPU
* WIP
* WIP
* WIP
* WIP
* WIP
* WIP
* WIP
Loads and starts running, crashes with illegal memory access in
quantize_mmq_q8_1. This almost always indicates NaNs in the input
to the MoE FFN part.
* WIP
* WIP
Loads and runs, wrong results (very high PPL)
Performance looks promising, around 25% better than previous sm graph.
Needs f32 or bf16 graph reduce type.
* WIP - still wrong
* Fix after rebase
* WIP
* WIP
* This seems to be working for dense Qwen3.5!!!
* WIP: Qwen3-Next is not quite working
* Some cleanup
* Disable Qwen3-Next for now
* Disable graph parallel when mmproj was specified
* Read/write split recurrent state
* That should not crash
* Re-enable vision - it works now
* Recurrent layers should now be counted for split cache
* Display the size of the tensors overriden during the tensor loading
Ex:
`Tensor blk.60.ffn_gate_exps.weight buffer type overriden to CPU
Tensor blk.60.ffn_up_exps.weight buffer type overriden to CPU`
become
`Tensor blk.60.ffn_up_exps.weight (size = 668467200 bytes) buffer type overriden to CPU
Tensor blk.60.ffn_gate_exps.weight (size = 668467200 bytes) buffer type overriden to CPU`
And pass in debug the later displayed size of the unnamed buffer overrides.
Ex : `llm_load_tensors: CPU buffer size = XXX.XX MiB`
That double display is cluttering the screen without being very informative.
* change bytes display to MiB.
Co-authored-by: Kawrakow <iwankawrakow@gmail.com>
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Co-authored-by: Kawrakow <iwankawrakow@gmail.com>
* wip: port MTP architecture
Ports the Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) architecture to the older `llama.cpp` codebase used by `ikllama`.
Changes include:
- Updating `llama_batch` to support `mtp_params`.
- Modifying `llama_decode_internal` (and `encode`) to handle MTP operations (Warmup, Update, Draft).
- Adding public APIs for MTP state management (`llama_set_draft_input_hidden_state`).
- Adapting the embedding extraction logic to skip MTP update passes.
* Refactors `server_slot` to support generic speculative decoding (MTP or Draft Model).
* core: enable hybrid outputs (logits + embeddings) for MTP support
* fix(mtp): correct KV-cache slot finding for updates
* fix(mtp): persist hidden states to prevent context corruption during drafting
* refactor(mtp): clean unused code
* fix(mtp): update server to new functions name
* fix(mtp): fix graph and save hidden state
* mtp: refactor integration, context params and kv cache search
* mtp: fix hidden state extraction and speculative acceptance flow
* server: fix MTP warmup for long prompts and reset token buffer
* llama: refactor MTP operation state to context parameters
* server: fix n_past calculation in MTP acceptance
* llama: fix mtp enable flags
* speculative: refactor MTP to use common_speculative interface
* context: remove unused signatures
* clip: fix deprecated enum-enum conversion warning
* common: fix format string crash in help message
* context: fix mtp activation logic
* qwen3next: add architecture support and recurrent-state fixes
* qwen3next: optimize broadcast sub and single-seq ssm conv
* cuda: build MoE row mapping on device in mul_mat_id
* cuda: add guarded multi-seq fast path for ssm_conv
* docs: update qwen3next perf report for cuda MoE/SSM tuning
* cuda: reduce qwen3next moe/ssm sync overhead and refresh eval
* qwen3next: split cpu/cuda eval builds and tune PP scheduling
* qwen3next: harden seq-state flow and support optional dense FFN layers
* qwen3next: trim delta-net graph overhead in chunking path
* qwen3next: remove redundant v_conv cont in delta path
* qwen3next: avoid extra cont on linear attention output
* qwen3next: drop redundant cont before recurrent state flatten
* qwen3next: keep recurrent state in 4d layout through delta path
* qwen3next: add fused delta-net op and wire model path
* tests: add backend-op coverage for ggml_delta_net
* qwen3next: add runtime switch for fused delta-net path
* docs: refresh qwen3next perf review and benchmark matrix
* qwen3next: default fused delta-net off and document quality checks
* qwen3next: add decode-only fused delta mode
* qwen3next: make fused delta safe by default and fix fused tensor layout
* qwen3next: warn when forcing fused decode mode
* qwen3next: add fused-delta regression runner script
* qwen3next: integrate fused regression into eval harness
* qwen3next: clean up chunked delta-net shape handling
* qwen3next: add absolute sanity guards to fused regression
* qwen3next: add unified regression runner script
* qwen3next: disable flash-attn for cpu-only contexts
* docs: reconcile qwen3next status and remaining upstream gaps
* common: add qwen3next fused-delta runtime flag
* cuda: add qwen3next delta-net kernel dispatch override
* docs: update qwen3next quality and serving baseline findings
* qwen3next: keep fused delta on safe path and remove PR artifacts
* qwen3next: align autoregressive delta-net decode layout
* Revert "qwen3next: align autoregressive delta-net decode layout"
This reverts commit 9241164a5ea9e032a2456fbf2dd0bf798b264fd7.
* cuda: port solve-tri fast-paths for qwen3next delta-net
* qwen3next: add fused-delta runtime flag and drop env toggle
* qwen3next: make fused delta single-flag and default on
* Account for GPU arch differences
* Revert "cuda: build MoE row mapping on device in mul_mat_id"
This reverts commit 89e9ecfa840b04e88699ab3803eb732cd78727f9.
* qwen3next: drop non-essential MoE scheduling and split heuristics
* qwen3next: avoid generic ggml_sub broadcast changes
* llama: restore only_active_experts log message
* Remove unnecessary hacks, disable fusion for now.
* qwen3next: port hybrid recurrent state memory semantics
* qwen3next: clean up recurrent state slot plumbing
* qwen3next: fix hybrid V-cache layout plumbing
* qwen3next: guard recurrent state slots against kv capacity
* qwen3next: persist recurrent state in session data
- serialize/restore qwen3next cache.s_l in state/session paths\n- bump session and sequence-state file versions for format change\n- fallback to single-token chunking for mixed repeated seq_id batches
* qwen3next: drop unused fused-delta builder path
- remove dead build_delta_net_fused lambda\n- remove unused llm_build_context::fused_delta member
* qwen3next: remove unused fused-delta CLI/context plumbing
- drop -fd/-no-fd options and related YAML dump field\n- remove fused_delta fields from public/internal context params\n- remove fused_delta assignment and logging in context init
* ggml: remove unused DELTA_NET operator stack
* Missing include
* Reorder ops/unary ops
So we don't change again the enum values of the mul mat ops
* Minor
* Discard unnecessary changes in llama-build-context.cpp
* Minor
* Revert "Discard unnecessary changes in llama-build-context.cpp"
This reverts commit edadb80ed68c4c0831e9c22609a9a3af19be9735.
* Increase GGML_SCHED_MAX_SPLITS - required for larger u-batches
* Fix CPU concat in the TG case: 7.25 -> 10.5 t/s for Qwen3Next
* Fix CPU sum_rows: 10.5 -> 13.6 t/s for Qwen3Next
It was single-threaded and was taking ~25% of the computation time
during TG. It is now down to 2%.
Strangely enough, I measure 13.6 t/s with llama-bench, but if I
let the model give me an actual response with llama-cli, I get close
to 17 t/s.
* Fix CPU scale: 13.6 -> 16.7 t/s for Qwen3Next
For Qwen3Next there is a scale op on a largish tensor (548k elements)
that has a single row for TG, so was done in a single thread.
We now simply use blocks of 1024 elements.
* Optimize CPU mul: 16.7 -> 17.6 t/s for Qwen3Next
* CPU: fuse transpose -> cont -> sum_rows -> transpos: 17.6 -> 23.1 t/s for Qwen3Next
* Optimize CPU repeat: 176 -> 200 t/s for Qwen3Next PP-512
* Multithreading for OP_SUB
* Don't commit with timing trace on
* Multithread neg and sigmoid
* Be able to turn on/off fusion more easily (CPU)
* Name the mul_mat ops so we know where the time goes
* WIP
* Much better PP on CUDA
* CUDA: fuse transpose -> cont -> sum_rows -> transpose
Needs non-coontiguous variant of sum_rows.
On the CPU this gave 30+% improvement in TG performance,
on CUDA ist is disapointing 6-7%. I guess, this is because
Georgi's cont CPU implementation was so bad that skipping
it made such a big difference.
* CUDA: faster mul for special case relevant for Qwen3Next
Worth 1% in TG
* Fix CPU OP_CONT
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Co-authored-by: yurko <yurko@local>
Co-authored-by: Yurko <yurko@example.com>
Co-authored-by: yurko <yurko@pop-os.tail5a1a6b.ts.net>
Co-authored-by: Yurko Hoshko <YurkoHoshko@users.noreply.github.com>
* WIP
* This works but is slow
* Turn off the up / gate clamps for now
* OK we need the clamping
* Fuse the clamp (CUDA)
* Fuse the clamp (CPU)
* WIP
* Be able to use merged q, k, v
* Be able to use merged up/gate experts
* Fuse the clamp (CUDA mmvq)
* WIP: graph parallel for Step-3.5
* WIP
* This should be it
* Cleanup
* Fix merge
* WIP
* This works but is slow
* Turn off the up / gate clamps for now
* OK we need the clamping
* Fuse the clamp (CUDA)
* Fuse the clamp (CPU)
* WIP
* Be able to use merged q, k, v
* Be able to use merged up/gate experts
* Fuse the clamp (CUDA mmvq)
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