* Add GLM-5.2/DeepSeek-V3.2 DSA lightning indexer (batch-local, single-seq prefill)
Implements the sparse top-k "lightning indexer" attention for LLM_ARCH_GLM_DSA
in build_deepseek2_layer_attention (ik's deepseek2 graph).
What it does (per layer, gated on model.arch==GLM_DSA && indexer_attn_q_b):
- indexer_q = indexer_attn_q_b(q_lora latent), split rope(64)/nope(64), NEOX-rope
the pe part, concat. indexer_k = indexer_attn_k(attn_norm out), LayerNorm w/ bias,
same rope/concat (single key head, MQA).
- scores = relu(indexer_k . indexer_q), scaled per-head weights (indexer_proj),
summed over heads, + base causal mask, then ggml_top_k(min(top_k, n_tokens)).
- sparse mask: ggml_fill(-inf) -> ggml_set_rows(0) at top_k positions -> + causal,
used in the soft_max_ext attention path (-mla 1 -fa 0) instead of KQ_mask.
Simplifications (intentional, proven sound):
- Batch-local: no indexer KV-cache. Indexer keys are the current batch tokens.
- Walsh-Hadamard transform omitted: orthonormal rotation, (Hq).(Hk)==q.k, no score change.
Validation (GLM-5.2-UD-IQ2_M, 3x P100, -mla 1 -fa 0):
- Compiles clean (CUDA sm_60); loads and runs.
- c512 -b512 (n_seq=1) PPL = 2.7760, byte-identical to dense baseline (indexer
disabled) = 2.7760, all 8 chunks match -> indexer is an exact no-op when
top_k>=n_tokens. Proves correctness-preservation.
- 3105-token prompt completion (top_k=2048 < 3105 -> indexer ACTIVELY masks):
prompt-eval produces coherent, accurate continuation, identical to dense for the
prompt+early-gen tokens. No NaN/crash. Confirms the masking path works in prefill.
Known limitations (documented follow-ups, NOT handled):
- Single-sequence prefill only. Multi-sequence batches (n_seq>1, e.g. perplexity
default n_batch>n_ctx) and kv_head>0 (decode) break the batch-local key->slot
mapping. n_seq>1 -> NaN (use n_batch==n_ctx). Decode (kv_head>0): each generated
token sees only itself as an indexer key, so generation degenerates into repetition
after the prompt (dense A/B stays coherent) -- this is the decode-cache stub, the
documented next step.
- Flash-attn path (-fa 1, F16 mask) still uses dense KQ_mask (soft_max path only).
- Decode indexer KV-cache + Hadamard cached-K storage not implemented.
Runtime gate: DSA_INDEXER_DISABLE=1 falls back to dense attention (for A/B).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* GLM-5.2 DSA indexer: decode-correct via persistent indexer-K cache
Make the lightning-indexer correct for DECODE (not just prefill). Previously the
indexer was batch-local, so a generated token only scored against itself and
generation degenerated. Now the indexer keys are cached across the full context.
Changes
- llama_kv_cache: add per-layer indexer-key cache `kr_l` [indexer_head_size, kv_size]
(F16, MQA single head), allocated alongside the MLA latent cache for GLM_DSA.
- build_deepseek2_dsa_indexer: write the batch's (Hadamard-rotated) indexer keys to
kr_l at kv_head, read back the full [128, n_kv] cached keys, and score the indexer
queries against ALL past keys. Returns the full descending argsort of the scores.
- Walsh-Hadamard rotation of indexer q/k (cparams.dsa_indexer_hadamard, default on;
filled in llama_set_inputs). Score-preserving; improves cached-K F16 precision.
- build_deepseek2_dsa_sparse_mask: rank-based full-coverage scatter (write a 0/-BIG
penalty into EVERY key slot keyed by rank) instead of partial set_rows into a -inf
fill — the CUDA in-place set_rows does not preserve an un-written base, which had
corrupted decode when n_kv > top_k.
- Attention-sink force-inclusion (DSA_SINK, default 1): boost the first key(s) so the
sink always survives top-k. The IQ2_M-quantized indexer under-ranks the sink, and
masking it collapsed decode; with the boost, top_k=2048 over n_kv>2048 stays coherent.
ggml backend fixes (needed by the indexer)
- CUDA argsort: report unsupported when padded ncols > 1024 (one-thread-per-column
bitonic launch limit) so the scheduler falls back to the CPU argsort. Fixes
"invalid configuration argument" for top_k over a large n_kv.
- CUDA cpy/dup: support I32 -> I32 (top_k index copies / cross-backend moves).
Validation (GLM-5.2-UD-IQ2_M, 3xP100 + --cpu-moe, -mla 1 -fa 0)
- c512 PPL = 2.0743, byte-identical to dense (all 8 chunks): no-op path exact.
- Short-context decode (300 tok): coherent, identical to dense.
- Long-context decode (2521-tok prompt, n_kv>top_k, real masking of ~474 keys,
120+ tok generated): coherent with the sink boost; dense A/B also coherent.
Gated behind arch==GLM_DSA + indexer tensors + kr_l cache; DSA_INDEXER_DISABLE=1
forces dense. Remaining: FA path still uses the dense KQ_mask; multi-sequence
(n_seq>1) batches; deepseek32 arch wiring.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* GLM-5.2 DSA indexer: wire sparse mask into the flash-attention path (-fa 1)
The DSA sparse top-k mask is now applied on the -fa 1 path (our serving config),
not just -fa 0 soft_max. c512 PPL on -fa 1 = 2.0743, byte-identical to dense
(no regression, indexer no-op exact at n_kv <= top_k). Gated arch==GLM_DSA with
DSA_INDEXER_DISABLE escape; -fa 0 path unchanged.
Long-context -fa 1 decode coherence (n_kv > top_k, mask actually biting) validation
is still running at commit time; the FA mask reuses the same full-coverage scatter
proven coherent on the -fa 0 decode path, so it should hold, but confirm before
relying on long-context -fa 1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* GLM-5.2 DSA indexer: UPDATE 4 — MLA-FA fix merged, FA path validated, multi-seq characterized
Document the re-validation after cherry-picking the MLA-FA vec-decode fix (5f18dcc0):
- FA path is ALIVE. Long-ctx -fa 1 decode (2521-tok prompt > top_k, mask actively
biting) is now COHERENT at -mla 1 and -mla 3, vs the pre-fix degeneration into
"0.0.0.0..." repetition. Matches dense (DSA_INDEXER_DISABLE) and -fa 0 controls.
- c512 -fa 1 PPL: indexer-ON == dense == 2.0854, byte-identical all 8 chunks (exact
no-op when n_kv <= top_k; no regression). The 2.0743->2.0854 shift is the MLA-FA
fix changing V accumulation, not an indexer artifact (ON==dense proves it).
- Indexer is feature-complete + validated for single-seq prefill+decode on both
-fa 0 and -fa 1, at -mla 1 and -mla 3 (the R740 serving target).
Remaining PR gaps, characterized honestly:
- Multi-seq (n_seq>1) with active mask is BROKEN (n_seq=2 c4096 PPL 62.6 vs dense
multi-seq 2.54 and single-seq indexer 3.05). No NaN/crash anymore. Root cause:
the indexer uses a single scalar kv_head/n_kv for the whole ubatch; multi-seq
needs per-sequence cache writes + per-sequence top-k. Fix deferred (structural).
- deepseek32 arch: N/A in this fork. DSA lives entirely under LLM_ARCH_GLM_DSA;
there is no LLM_ARCH_DEEPSEEK32 enum. Documented the steps to add one if a real
deepseek32 GGUF is ever served.
Also commit DSA_REFERENCE.md (verbatim mainline deepseek32/glm-dsa source, the port
reference), trimmed of a stray agent-handoff footer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* GLM-5.2 DSA indexer: per-sequence attention sink — fix multi-seq (n_seq>1)
UPDATE 5. The DSA lightning indexer was numerically broken for multi-sequence
batches once the top-k mask bites (n_kv > top_k): c4096 n_seq=2 PPL 62.6 vs
dense 2.54, while single-seq was fine. Root cause: the attention-sink
force-include boosted the GLOBAL key range [0, n_sink) by +1e20, which only
protects sequence 0's sink. With several sequences packed contiguously into one
ubatch (seq 0 at cells [0,n0), seq 1 at [n0,n1), ...), every non-first
sequence's sink lives at cell n0.. (not cell 0), got no boost, and was dropped
from top-k once the mask bites — collapsing that sequence (chunk[2]=61.2 while
chunk[1]=2.33).
The cache write and score/argsort were already per-sequence correct: tokens are
placed contiguously like the main K cache, and the base KQ_mask (filled from
kv_self.cells[i].has_seq_id) already drives cross-seq keys to -inf before
argsort. Only the sink was anchored at the wrong (global) cell.
Fix: replace the global arange sink boost with a per-graph input tensor
inp_dsa_sink {n_kv, n_tokens} (F32), filled on the CPU in llama_set_inputs from
kv_self.cells exactly like the KQ_mask:
inp_dsa_sink[j,i] = 1e20 iff cell[i].pos in [0,n_sink) AND
cell[i].has_seq_id(seq_of_query_j), else 0
so each query force-includes only its OWN sequence's sink. For a single
contiguous sequence from pos 0 this is exactly the old "cell index < n_sink"
set with the same magnitude, so n_seq==1 is byte-identical.
Validation (3x P100, -ngl 99 --cpu-moe -mla 3 -fa 1, wikitext-2):
- c4096 n_seq=2 indexer chunk[2]: 61.2 -> 3.07 (== single-seq 3.05).
- c2048 topk=1024 (mask bites): n_seq=4 == n_seq=1 chunk-for-chunk
(2.5005/2.6080/2.7759/3.1137 vs .../3.1138) -> multi-seq is numerically
identical to processing each sequence alone.
- c512 n_seq=1 indexer ON == dense, all 4 chunks byte-identical (no regression).
n_seq=4 at full c4096 (n_kv=16384) OOMs the P100 compute buffer (capacity, not
correctness; n_seq=4 proven correct at c2048/n_kv=8192).
GLM-5.2 DSA indexer is now sequence-correct for n_seq>=1, prefill+decode,
soft_max+FA, -mla 1/-mla 3. Fully general and PR-ready.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* GLM-5.2 DSA indexer: UPDATE 6 — serving-correctness (kr_l maintained across shift/defrag/seq-ops; per-seq sink on first-present pos)
An adversarial review found the indexer was proven on the perplexity path but
not the serving path: the persistent indexer-K cache kr_l was written/read but
never *maintained* by the KV-cache mutators, and the attention sink anchored on
absolute pos<n_sink (wrong after multi-turn seq_rm). This closes those gaps and
pins down what is actually reachable on the MLA model.
kr_l maintenance:
- build_k_shift (llama-build-context.cpp): rotate the indexer keys by the same
per-cell delta as the main K. The cached key is H*concat(RoPE(k_pe,pos),k_nope),
so un-Hadamard (H sym/orthonormal => H*H=I) -> RoPE-delta the pe sub-block ->
re-Hadamard. Exact because GLM-DSA has no rope-scaling metadata (ext_factor=0,
attn_factor=1, freq_scale=1), so NEOX RoPE is pure/composable. Params mirror the
forward indexer RoPE exactly (rope_factors=nullptr); no DEEPSEEK2 yarn-shift leak.
Non-in-place (cont->rope->concat->re-Had->cpy), no aliasing. K-shift Hadamard
input filled in llama_set_k_shift with the identical Sylvester construction.
- build_defrag: kr_l row-move mirrors the k_l move (defrag never changes pos, so
no re-RoPE). max_moves divisor 6->9 *n_layer when the indexer cache is present.
- seq_rm/seq_cp/seq_keep are metadata-only (verified) so kr_l rows stay matched to
cells; seq_add/seq_div set has_shift and route through K-shift. No seq-op change.
Per-seq sink (llama.cpp llama_set_inputs): anchor on each sequence's FIRST PRESENT
pos (min present pos over the scored n_kv span), not absolute pos<n_sink. After
multi-turn seq_rm drops a sequence's early tokens its earliest survivor has
pos>=n_sink; the absolute test would protect nothing. Fresh seq at pos 0 => min=0
=> byte-identical to the old behaviour.
Serving-shift finding (the whole point): a RoPE context-shift on this model is
REFUSED BY THE ENGINE. get_can_shift() returns false for all MLA models
(is_mla_model() includes GLM_DSA); llama_kv_cache_update returns 1 ->
"main : failed to eval". Reproduced AND isolated with a dense control
(DSA_INDEXER_DISABLE=1): dense fails identically at the same token. The failure is
pre-existing MLA engine behaviour, independent of the indexer. On the MLA path the
shift never happens, so the indexer's kr_l can never desync via K-shift; the
build_k_shift kr_l block is correct-and-dormant (documented loudly in code).
Validation (3x P100, -ngl 99 --cpu-moe -mla 3 -fa 1, GGML_CUDA_NO_PINNED=1,
numactl --interleave=all, wikitext-2):
- No regression: c512 n_seq=1 indexer ON == dense == 2.1957 +/- 0.12031,
byte-identical all 4 chunks (2.2770/2.8741/2.3956/2.1957).
- Multi-seq: c4096 n_seq=2 chunk[1]=2.33 chunk[2]=3.07 healthy (== UPDATE 5;
per-seq sink change did not regress).
- Serving shift: engine-refused for MLA, dense control fails identically.
- Independent adversarial review: GO, no correctness defect in the diff.
- Build clean (llama-cli, llama-perplexity, sm_60).
Comments updated (build_deepseek2.cpp): multi-seq+FA no longer limitations; sink
description matches per-seq min-pos anchoring; BIG=1e30 masks on both soft_max and
FA paths.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* GLM-5.2 DSA indexer: UPDATE 7 — FIX latent graph-reuse cache-fixup omission for the kr_l indexer cache
update_cache_copies() re-points the K/V cache writes to the current kv_head whenever a
compute graph is REUSED (can_reuse_graph reuses iff kv_self.n == prev->n_kv). The persistent
indexer-key cache write (kr_l) is a separate ggml_cpy whose destination view bakes kv_head at
graph-build time, and it was NEVER registered for that fixup. Under FA the cache pads to 256,
so consecutive single-token decode ubatches share the same padded n_kv and the graph IS reused;
without the fixup the kr_l write keeps landing in the first ubatch's slot and later ubatches
never populate their own recent index-key cells (those cells stay at the alloc-zeroed 0.0).
Structurally identical to the MiniMax MSA bug (fork commit 133d14c9).
Fix (mirrors the K/V cache_copies fixup, same shape as MSA 133d14c9):
- llama-context.h: new std::vector<CacheCopy> dsa_cache_copies.
- llama.cpp ctor: resize dsa_cache_copies to n_layer (null entries -> no-op when DSA off).
- build_deepseek2.cpp: register the kr_l ggml_cpy as dsa_cache_copies[il] = {kr_cpy, kr->nb[1]}.
- llama.cpp update_cache_copies(): re-point each registered cpy view_offs = kv_head*step and
patch src[1]->data/data, exactly like K/V, with the c.cpy->view_src == kv_self.kr_l[il]
(+ null/op) guard the MSA fix omitted. soft_max / non-DSA paths byte-identical.
Validation (GLM-5.2-UD-IQ2_M, 3x P100 -ngl 99 --cpu-moe -t 32, NO_PINNED, P2P-disable patch
re-applied to get a working multi-GPU baseline — see UPDATE 7.3; that patch was lost in the
upstream rebase and is required separately):
- c512 -fa1 -mla3 indexer ON: 2.1983 (== prior baseline; build healthy).
- Long-ctx FA decode, 2735-tok recall prompt, -mla3 -fa1 temp0, reuse ON (default): coherent,
correct deep-context recall ("Dr. Mariana Velasquez ... Daniel Okonkwo") on BOTH the fixed and
the unfixed binary.
- ub128 PPL -fa1 -mla3 reuse ON, unfixed: 1.7239/1.8211/2.1888/2.4517, healthy (no inflation).
Honest scope: the bug is real in code but LATENT for GLM-DSA at its configured top_k=2048
(permissive selection keeps the genuinely-attended recent blocks even when reuse leaves some
recent index-key cells stale), unlike MSA's tighter top-k where it inflated PPL ~2x. The fix is
correct and prevents the latent corruption from biting at any tighter top_k / longer ctx /
future serving config. The pre-P2P-patch "nan" seen at ub128 was P2P corruption, not this bug.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* GLM-DSA: convert sparse-attention control from env vars to CLI args (off by default)
Implements ikawrakow's direction from discussion #2040: the DSA sparse
indexer must be controllable via command-line argument (not environment
variables), and must be OFF by default for now.
Control surface, before -> after:
DSA_INDEXER_DISABLE (env, inverted: on-by-default) -> --dsa / -dsa
(cparams.dsa, default false; opt-in, dense-by-default)
DSA_TOPK_OVERRIDE (env) -> --dsa-top-k N / -dsatk N
(cparams.dsa_top_k, default -1 == model's configured indexer_top_k)
DSA_HADAMARD_DISABLE, DSA_SINK (env) -> kept as DEBUG-ONLY env
knobs (clearly commented; no CLI surface, not system on/off controls)
Plumbing mirrors existing boolean/int feature flags (-mla, -khad):
include/llama.h llama_context_params {bool dsa; int dsa_top_k;}
src/llama.cpp default_params (false / -1); cparams assignment
src/llama-cparams.h llama_cparams {bool dsa=false; int dsa_top_k=-1;}
common/common.h gpt_params {bool dsa=false; int dsa_top_k=-1;}
common/common.cpp arg parse + help text + cparams copy
src/graphs/build_deepseek2.cpp gate now checks cparams.dsa instead of
getenv; top-k override reads cparams.dsa_top_k. Stays arch-gated to
LLM_ARCH_GLM_DSA. When --dsa is off (default) the indexer function is
never called -> existing dense MLA path, byte-identical to no-feature.
Validation (GLM-5.2-UD-IQ2_M, 3x P100, -ngl 99 --cpu-moe -mla 3 -fa 1,
wikitext-2, 4 chunks @ c2560):
--dsa OFF (default, dense): PPL 2.4151 (graph nodes 4166)
--dsa ON, default top_k=2048: PPL 2.4697 (graph nodes 8846)
--dsa ON, --dsa-top-k 1024: PPL 3.5107
Off-by-default runs the dense path; ON activates the indexer (node count
jumps, PPL shifts as the top-k mask bites once n_kv > top_k). No env var
is consulted for the primary on/off or the top-k knob.
Graph-parallel (-sm graph) interaction (the item ikawrakow flagged):
Under -sm graph the MLA layers are TP-split (wo->extra) and route to
build_deepseek2_tp_attention(), which contains NO indexer code. So --dsa
is silently a NO-OP under -sm graph: it does not error or crash, it runs
dense. Empirically, --dsa --dsa-top-k 1024 under -sm graph gives
PPL 2.4308 (chunks 1.6967/1.7906/2.1664/2.4308) -- the dense baseline
(2.4151), NOT the DSA top_k=1024 numbers (3.5107). The 0.016 delta is
f16 TP-reduce numerics, not DSA. Conclusion: DSA "works under deepseek2"
only on the non-TP (layer) path; serving DSA with -sm graph would require
wiring the indexer into the TP attention path (or a dedicated DSA arch).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* GLM-DSA: warn that --dsa is inactive under -sm graph/attn (TP path runs dense MLA)
The DSA lightning indexer is built only in the layer-mode (non-TP) attention
path. Under -sm graph / -sm attn the tensor-parallel attention path has no
indexer, so --dsa would silently run dense MLA. Emit a clear one-time
LLAMA_LOG_WARN at context creation instead of degrading silently.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* GLM-DSA: drop in-tree dev reference docs from the PR branch
DSA_REFERENCE.md and the R740 progress note are development scratch, not
part of the submission. Remove them so the PR diff is code-only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* GLM-DSA: fix CPU-only crashes in the sparse-attention path
PR #2045 adds GLM-DSA sparse attention but was validated on CUDA (--cpu-moe).
A CPU-only build (-ngl 0 --dsa) crashes in four spots where the CUDA backend
tolerates something the CPU backend does not. These make GLM-5.2 --dsa run
coherently on CPU; with --dsa off they are no-ops (DSA CPU path only).
1. set_rows into an F32 dest segfaults (ggml.c set_rows_f32):
type_traits[F32].from_float is NULL, so the DSA sparse-mask scatter calls a
NULL fn (segfault at ip=0). memcpy when the dest is F32. CUDA has a real F32
set_rows path, so this only bit the CPU build.
2. ggml_add(F32 score, F16 mask) aborts on CPU (build_deepseek2_dsa_indexer and
build_deepseek2_dsa_sparse_mask): under -fa 1 the dense KQ_mask is F16 and CPU
add only accepts F32+F16 when src0 is F16. Cast the causal mask view to F32.
CUDA's add accepts the mixed types.
3. dsa_fa_mask dim-1 concat must be F32 on CPU (build_deepseek2_dsa_fa_mask):
CPU ggml_concat only supports F16 along dim 0; do the row (dim-1) concat in
F32 then cast the result to F16. CUDA supports the F16 dim-1 concat.
4. indexer k_norm epsilon is 0 -> ggml_norm aborts (llama-hparams.cpp): the
lightning-indexer k_norm is a non-RMS LayerNorm using f_norm_eps, but the
GLM-DSA GGUF only carries the RMS eps so f_norm_eps stays 0
(GGML_ASSERT(eps > 0)). Mirror the RMS eps. CUDA's norm doesn't assert on eps=0.
Validated: GLM-5.2 UD-Q4_K_M, single-socket Xeon w7-2475X, CPU-only (-ngl 0 --dsa)
- coherent at 49K+ ctx, correct 30K needle retrieval, prefill flat with length
(~32 tok/s, the O(L) DSA signature) vs the dense build's O(L^2) decline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* DSA: loop over attention heads + use builtin Hadamard
* DSA: ggml_blend
* DSA: remove a bunch of unnecessary ggml_cont
* DSA: fix CUDA blend - but something is still wrong
* DSA: use ggml_top_k instead of ggml_argsort when FA is ON
* CUDA: add CUB based argsort
* DSA: avoid graph leaves
* Various
* GLM-5.2 DSA: IndexShare (shared layers reuse full-layer top-k)
GLM-5.2's indexer_types marks 21 'full' layers that compute their own
lightning-indexer top-k and 57 'shared' layers that reuse the previous
full layer's top-k. This port computed an independent top-k on every
layer, which mis-selects keys on the 57 shared layers (the transformers
reference sets indexer=None on shared layers and reuses prev_topk).
Shared layers now reuse the most-recent full layer's selection. Full/
shared map derived from the config rule (full iff il<=1 or il%4==2),
which reproduces indexer_types exactly; loader can later override from
GGUF metadata. Built on #2063's tree; head-loop/ggml_hadamard/ggml_blend/
argsort/FA-mask unchanged.
4K PPL (unsloth IQ2_M, top_k 2048, CPU): DSA-on 3.1922 -> 2.7111, dense
2.6972 (~97% of the gap). top_k>=n_kv reproduces dense exactly. Single-
seq and 4x8 parallel decode coherent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Apply suggestion from @ikawrakow
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: mgkwill <168222+mgkwill@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Kawrakow <iwankawrakow@gmail.com>
* host-swap tensor loop
the host-swap functionality is only triggered when the certain env. variables are declared
* target_include_directories tweak
* hot-swap tensor support
two intrusions:
1.) at the model loading to collect the snapshot
2.) the modification of the `/health` HTTP endpoint to be able to trigger the hot-swap via sending the `llama-server` the HTTP-request.
*both a braced by the specific env. variables
* hot-swap tensor support; graph invalidation
ggml_backend_cuda_invalidate_graphs export
* hot-swap tensor support
graph invalidation implementation; extended debug output (commented out)
* llama_reload_changed_tensors export
* tensor hot-swap on-demand reload
cpu-only/hybrid/gpu-only with split mode layer/graph full support implementation
* docs
* reuse the gguf parsing from llama.cpp
gguf_init_from_file, gguf_find_tensor, ggml_get_tensor
* remove the manual scheduling for hybrid inference
* update docs
* tensor shape validation
* update docs
* update docs
accidentally wiped the previous changes; so recovered them
* revert the GGML_CUDA_MAX_DEVICES to 16
* update llama_reload_changed_tensor
update llama_reload_changed_tensor, revert CMakeLists.txt
* update llama_reload_changed_tensor
* GGML_MAX_SRC
GGML_MAX_SRC compile-time definition support
* GGML_MAX_SRC
GGML_MAX_SRC compile-time definition support
* GGML_MAX_SRC
GGML_MAX_SRC compile-time definition support
* llama_reload_changed_tensor
update llama_reload_changed_tensor definition
* refactory
move the tensor-reloading implementation to llama-reload.cpp, llama-reload-info.h; some bugfixes and code reduction
* revert
added back the missing newline
* update docs
* reload_info constructor
* bugfix: cpu-only
TODO: improve the working environment by compiling for multiple hardware configurations; possibly make a test pipeline
* cpu-only bugfix
set the fix again after unsuccessful sync with main
* windows os compilation fix
#include <string>
* fix windows os build
error C2039: 'string': is not a member of 'std'
* remove dead file
* implement perplexity in server
* Revert "implement perplexity in server"
* 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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ikawrakow asked the seq_rm zeroing be hoisted out of the per-cell loop and
preferably done as part of the compute graph. This rewrites the fix:
- llama_kv_cache gets a pending_recurrent_reset bitmap, sized to
qnext_state_slots and indexed by slot index.
- llama_kv_cache_seq_rm only marks the bitmap; no CPU-side tensor
writes, no work inside the per-cell loop.
- delta_net::build_layer_attn_linear ORs the bitmap into the existing
reset_state flag, so the in-graph ggml_scale(state, 0.0f) path that
already handled batch.pos[0] == 0 now also handles slot reset.
- build_qwen3next and build_qwen35 clear the bitmap after
ggml_build_forward_expand, once per graph build.
- llama_kv_cache_clear also drops the bitmap, since the full-buffer
clear it already does makes any pending in-graph reset redundant.
Previous behavior is preserved (every recurrent layer column for the
released slot is zeroed before the next request reuses it), but the work
moves from the CPU into the compute graph, runs once per graph instead
of once per cell, and reuses the existing reset path referenced in the
review.
* server: spec checkpoints for recurrent models
* fix: save/restore sampler state during speculative checkpoint
When speculative decoding rejects draft tokens and restores the
recurrent state checkpoint, the sampler (RNG, grammar, prev tokens)
must also be restored to maintain consistency. Without this, the
sampler state reflects the rejected draft tokens, leading to
potential divergence.
Uses common_sampler_clone() to snapshot the sampler before the
speculative batch decode, and restores it on rejection.
* server: snapshot recurrent state in tensor
* reset ngram mod state for rejected tokens
* server: refactor checkpoint state logic
* speculative: fix sampler for checkpoints
* recurrent model: implement recurrent kernel checkpoint
* recurrent model: refactor api
* spec: free rbudget before overwriting
* wip: separate llama_context for MTP with graph reuse
* wip: fix KV cache desync with separate MTP context
* refactor: remove dead mtp logic code, encapsulate KV mirroring
* mtp-context: derive args directly from the main model's context
* mtp: fix kv cache positions
* clean small comments
* minor refactor for context shift
* 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
* 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
* 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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* Remove most of split mode row
* WIP
* WIP: also allocate the KV cache using tensor split
* WIP: it runs with wrong result
But it also looks like the backend scheduler is not going to help:
* It copies mask and input positions to GPU 0
* => RoPE ops must run on GPU 0
* => To proceed attn evaluation, GPU 1 must wait for GPU 0 to finish its
entire attn calculation
* Same with FFN. The rms_norm gets scheduled on GPU 0. Hence, GPU 1 must
wait for GPU 0 to finish its entore FFN calculation before it can
start (as it needs to copy the result of rms_norm from GPU 0)
* => Seems useless without writing a bespoke TP scheduling
* WIP
* This works, but it is slow
* This is slightly better
the graph is still not being computed in parallel.
Why? Because the scheduler creates graph splits where the
result of the computation on one GPU becomes an input for the
other split. Hence, to trigger the computation on the second GPU
one needs to wait for the computation on the first GPU to finish,
even thiough the two can be done in parallel up to the sunchronization
point. So, all that is left to do is to trick the scheduler to create
to splits that can be done in parallel, and then have a graph split
where the results get combined.
* Playing games with the scheduler
This change tricks it into doing the right thing^TM.
Still quite a bit slower than split mode layer for the 8B LlaMA model.
But for the 70B LlaMA it now beats split mode layer for TG:
28 t/s vs 24.4 t/s. PP is 627 t/s vs 744 t/s.
In comparison, split mode "row" in mainline gets
484 t/s PP and 19.3 t/s TG.
* Fix attn split
Granularity for Wq, Wo is not just head size, but
head size * gqa_ratio.
Else the Wk, Wv tensors end up not being a multiple of the
head size when we divide the split determined by Wo with
the gqa_ratio.
* Show memory used per device
* Make it work with partial offload
but no tensor overrides yet, just ngl < num_layers.
* Allow for f16 source in fused_rms_norm
* This results in faster PP.
Now PP is faster than split mode layer for L3-70B.
* Rename split mode "row" to split mode "graph"
* Leave FFN partial results as f16
* WIP GLM4.5 - runs with wrong results
* WIP GLM4.5 - this works
PP is already better than split mode layer, but TG for zero context
is kind of low - 60 vs 92 t/s. TG becomes better than split mode layer
at around 20k tokens. PP at 26k tokens is 1.55X of sm layer.
* Work around compiler bug
It issues a warning that there is an extra semicolon outside of a function,
but there isn't. If I remove the anonymous namespace and turn the
functions inside into static, the warning disapears, so clearly
a compiler bug.
* Make graph reuse work with split mode graph
* Remove more split mode row remnants
* WIP tensor overrides
Runs with wrong results, don't see where the issue could be.
* This works but is slow
Still does not work for row-interleaved quants
* Slightly better
* Slightly better
* Row-interleaved quants work
* Better
* Minor
* Guarad against using split mode "graph" for unsupported models
* Guards against using merge_qkv with split mode "graph"
* WIP split mode attn
Works for LlaMA models, but not for GLM-4.5.
Doesn't seem to improve performance, so I guess no point in trying to
fix it.
* Split mode graph for qwen3moe
* Try to better distribute the splits
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* Add mainline compatible FA command line option
* Graph reuse: add command line argument to turn it on
* WIP
* This seems to work
* This is perhaps cleaner
* Change the command line option to -gr
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* llama_model and llama_hparams
* llama_build_context
Surprisingly small reduction in llama.cpp compile time given
the reduction in LOCs (22k -> 14k)
* LLM_TN
llama.cpp compilation: 50 s -> 33 s
* llama_quantize
* arch names
* All graph building is now in llm-build-context.cpp
* hparams loading
llama.cpp is now just 9300 LOC, but still takes 32 seconds to compile.
* We are now at 6 seconds to build the src folder
* load -> create
We are not actually loading the tensors, but just creating them.
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