Pascal [Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:05:23 +0000 (07:05 +0100)]
server : support multiple model aliases via comma-separated --alias (#19926)
* server : support multiple model aliases via comma-separated --alias
* server : update --alias description and regenerate docs
* server : multiple model aliases and tags
- address review feedback from ngxson
- --alias accepts comma-separated values (std::set, no duplicates)
- --tags for informational metadata (not used for routing)
- aliases resolve transparently in router via get_meta/has_model
- /v1/models exposes aliases and tags fields
* regenerate docs
* nits
* server : use first alias as model_name for backward compat
address review feedback from ngxson
* server : add single-model test for aliases and tags
Jan Patrick Lehr [Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:37:54 +0000 (05:37 +0100)]
tests : enable test-chat out of tree build (#19558)
The binary relies on model files that it tries to find. However, when
configuring the build directory to be parallel to the source tree those
heuristics fail.
This sets the working directory for the test executable to be the
source-tree which resolves this issue.
Vishal Singh [Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:43:41 +0000 (06:13 +0530)]
ggml-zendnn: update code for latest ZenDNN API (#19923)
- adapt ggml-zendnn.cpp to the new lowoha::matmul interface
- update the ZenDNN git tag in CMake to the latest release (ZenDNN‑2026‑WW08)
- add static lib support in CMake
Kevin Pouget [Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:00:57 +0000 (13:00 +0100)]
ggml-virtgpu: improve the reliability of the code (#19846)
* ggml-virtgpu-backend: validate the consistency of the received objects
This patch adds consistency checks in the
ggml-virtgpu-backend (running on the host side) to ensure that the
data received from the guest is consistent (valid pointers, valid
sizes and offsets).
* ggml-virtgpu-backend: add fallback/skips for optional ggml backend methods
these three methods are optional in the GGML interface. `get_max_size`
was already properly defaulted, but `backend sychronize` and `butf
get_max_size` would have segfaulted the backend if not implemented.
* ggml-virtgpu-backend: fix log format missing argument
* ggml-virtgpu-backend: improve the abort message
* ggml-virtgpu-backend: more safety checks
* ggml-virtgpu-backend: new error code
* ggml-virtgpu-backend: initialize all the error codes
* ggml-virtgpu: add a missing comment generated by the code generator
* ggml-virtgpu: add the '[virtgpu]' prefix to the device/buffer names
* ggml-virtgpu: apir_device_buffer_from_ptr: improve the error message
* ggml-virtgpu: shared: make it match the latest api_remoting.h of Virglrenderer APIR
(still unmerged)
* ggml-virtgpu: update the code generator to have dispatch_command_name in a host/guest shared file
* ggml-virtgpu: REMOTE_CALL: fail if the backend returns an error
* docs/backend/VirtGPU.md: indicate that the RAM+VRAM size is limed to 64 GB with libkrun
* ggml-virtgpu: turn off clang-format header ordering for some of the files
Compilation breaks when ordered alphabetically.
* ggml-virtgpu: clang-format
* ggml-virtgpu/backend/shared/api_remoting: better comments for the APIR return codes
Maximilian Werk [Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:14:09 +0000 (12:14 +0100)]
model : add Jina Embeddings v5 Nano (partial EuroBERT) support (#19826)
* WIP: Add EuroBERT support with autoformatting changes
This commit includes:
- EuroBERT model implementation for GGUF conversion
- C++ backend support for EuroBERT architecture
- Unintended autoformatting changes to Python files
Saving before reverting formatting-only changes.
* feat: add back eos assert when not last token pooling
* feat: removed duplicated code and cleanup
* feat: removed not working architectures and unnecessary check
* fix: typo
* fix: dynamic pooling config
* feat: added an example model for eurobert
* feat: proper llama-vocab implementation for jina-v5
Mario Limonciello [Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:30:19 +0000 (05:30 -0600)]
ci : update Windows ROCm build to 26.Q1 [no ci] (#19810)
* Update build command to build llama-* tools not just ggml-hip
* Update rocWMMA headers to 7.2
* Add GFX1150 target
* Correct library paths for AMD libraries in 26.Q1
Daniel Bevenius [Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:15:16 +0000 (14:15 +0100)]
model-conversion : merge inspect-org-model.py with tensor-info.py (#19823)
This commit replaces/merges the inspect-org-model.py script with the
contents tensor-info.py script. The merged script has also been updated
to also print tensor sizes which was the only thing that was not done
before (by tensor-info.py that is).
The motivation for this is that tensor-info.py does not load the tensor
weights which can be time consuming for larger models. And also now that
both are doing almost the same thing it makes sense to just have one and
not two scripts to maintain.
This commit updates the session handing in the completion tool to handle
the that logits are no longer stored in the session file. Instead, we
need to replay the last token to get the logits for sampling.
* common : add common_prompt_batch_decode function
This commit adds a new function which is responsible for decoding prompt
and optionally handle the saving for session data.
* update save-state.cpp to use llama_state_load_file
This commit updates the save-load-state example to utilize the new
llama_state_load_file function for loading the model state from a file.
And it also replays the last token after loading since this state is now
stored before the last token is processed.
* examples : set n_seq_max = 2 for ctx3
This commit updates the save-load-state example to set the n_seq_max
parameter to 2 when initializing the ctx3 context.
The motivation for this change is that using 1 as n_parallel/n_seq_max
the context only supports one sequence, but the test laster tries to
use a second sequence which results in the following error:
```console
main : loaded state with 4 tokens
main : seq 0 copied, 225760 bytes
main : kv cache cleared
find_slot: seq_id=1 >= n_seq_max=1 Try using a bigger --parallel value
state_read_meta: failed to find available cells in kv cache
```
This seems to only happen for recurrent/hybrid models.
Gaurav Garg [Sat, 21 Feb 2026 09:39:36 +0000 (15:09 +0530)]
Improve CUDA graph capture (#19754)
* Improve CUDA graph capture
Currently, CUDA graphs are eagerly enabled on the first call to ggml_backend_cuda_graph_compute. If the graph properties keep changing (4+ consecutive updates), the graph is permanently disabled. This is suboptimal because:
- The first call always incurs CUDA graph capture overhead even if the graph is unstable
- Once permanently disabled, CUDA graphs never re-enable even after the graph stabilizes (e.g., switching from prompt processing to decode)
The new approach delays CUDA graph activation until warmup completes: the same cgraph must be called at least twice with matching properties before CUDA graph capture begins. This avoids wasted capture overhead on volatile graphs and allows graphs to become eligible once they stabilize.
This also fixes issues such as https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/19708
* Update ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ggml-cuda.cu
Co-authored-by: Johannes Gäßler <redacted>
* Remove EM dashes
* Update ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ggml-cuda.cu
Co-authored-by: Aman Gupta <redacted>
---------
Co-authored-by: Johannes Gäßler <redacted> Co-authored-by: Aman Gupta <redacted>
Jesse Posner [Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:40:52 +0000 (13:40 -0800)]
common : fix Step-3.5-Flash format detection and thinking support (#19635)
* common : fix Step-3.5-Flash format detection and thinking support
Step-3.5-Flash uses the same XML-style tool call format as Qwen3-Coder
(<tool_call><function=...><parameter=...>) but its Jinja template lacks
the bare <function> and plural <parameters> markers that the detection
logic previously required. This caused it to fall through to Hermes 2
Pro, which doesn't call func_args_not_string(), so arguments stayed as
JSON strings and templates using arguments|items crashed.
Additionally, the Qwen3-Coder-XML format handler had no thinking support.
Models like Step-3.5-Flash that unconditionally emit <think> in their
generation prompt need the same thinking_forced_open handling that
Nemotron v3 and Hermes 2 Pro already have, otherwise reasoning_content
is never separated from content in API responses.
Changes:
- Relax Qwen3-Coder XML detection to only require the 3 shared markers
- Tighten Nemotron v3 branch to also require bare <function> and plural
<parameters>, preventing Step-3.5-Flash from being misrouted via <think>
- Add thinking_forced_open support to Qwen3-Coder-XML init function
- Add <think>/</think> to preserved tokens
- Fix build_grammar_xml_tool_call to handle thinking_forced_open in the
grammar root rule, allowing </think> before tool calls
- Add Step-3.5-Flash chat template and format detection test
Builds on: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/19283
Step-3.5-Flash uses the same XML tool call format as Qwen3-Coder and
Nemotron 3 Nano (<tool_call>/<function=...>/<parameter=...>) but with
unconditional <think> output. Route it to the Nemotron v3 PEG parser
for streaming and schema-aware parameter parsing.
Detection: templates with <think> + XML tool tags use Nemotron v3 PEG
parser; templates without <think> (Qwen3-Coder) use GBNF grammar.
* chat : remove dead thinking code from qwen3_coder_xml
Remove thinking handling code that became unreachable after routing
Step-3.5-Flash to the Nemotron v3 PEG parser. Qwen3-Coder has no
<think> in its template, so the thinking_forced_open logic, preserved
tokens, and grammar prefix were dead paths.
Note: JAIS-2 requires F32 precision accumulators for numerical stability
and uses standard attention (not flash attention) on CUDA backends.
* fix: run convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py for jais-2 tokenizer hash
* fix: use NEOX RoPE type for JAIS2
* fix: remove Q/K permutation (NEOX RoPE doesn't need it)
* fix: enable flash attention for JAIS2 (fixed by #19115)
* fix: add dedicated JAIS2 pre-tokenizer type and control vector support
- Add LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_JAIS2 with cascading whitespace regex
- Include original regex from tokenizer.json as comment
- Add build_cvec call for control vector support
Tarek Dakhran [Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:18:57 +0000 (12:18 +0100)]
mtmd : chat : Fix extra \n between text and media marker (#19595)
* mtmd : chat : Fix extra \n between text and media marker
Thanks to @tugot17 for detecting and reporting the issue.
For vision models (e.g. LFM2.5-VL-1.6B and Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct) `llama-mtmd-cli` produces identical output to HF implementation.
However `llama-server` doesn't. I traced it down to extra newline
inserted after `<__media__>`.
This happens in `to_json_oaicompat`, that treats media markers as text
and joins all parts with `\n` separator.
PR introduces new type `media_marker` and uses it for media markers.
Extra logic is added to prevent insertion of newlines before and after
media markers.
With this change number of input tokens is identical to HF
implementation and as a result the output is also identical.
I explored other ways to address the issue
* remove completely `\n` between text parts in `to_json_oaicompat`
* merge text messages in server-common.cpp before sending them to `to_json_oaicompat`
Please propose alternative ways of fixing this issue.
* Refactor to use explicite per type ifs
* Update common/chat.cpp
Co-authored-by: Piotr Wilkin (ilintar) <redacted>
* Update common_chat_templates_apply_legacy
shalinib-ibm [Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:28:53 +0000 (11:58 +0530)]
llamafile: powerpc: add FP16 MMA path for Q4/Q8 matmul (#19709)
Avoid xvi8ger4pp signed→unsigned bias correction by dequantizing Q4/Q8
inputs to FP16 and using FP16×FP16→FP32 MMA. This removes
post-processing overhead and improves performance.
Performance Impact:
1.5 ~ 2x improvement in PP_Speed for Q4 and Q8 Models,
measured with llama-bench and llama-batched-bench.
Q8 Model: granite-4.0-h-micro-Q8_0.gguf (from huggingface)
Q4 Model: Meta-Llama3-8b Q4 model (generated with llama-quantize from
f32 model)
llama-bench Q8 Model Results:
model size params backend threads test Base t/s Patch t/s
granitehybrid 3B Q8_0 3.16 GiB 3.19 B CPU 10 pp8 64.48 ± 4.72 73.99 ± 0.27
granitehybrid 3B Q8_0 3.16 GiB 3.19 B CPU 10 pp16 80.11 ± 0.32 112.53 ± 0.40
granitehybrid 3B Q8_0 3.16 GiB 3.19 B CPU 10 pp32 89.10 ± 0.27 152.95 ± 0.68
granitehybrid 3B Q8_0 3.16 GiB 3.19 B CPU 10 pp64 93.65 ± 0.25 187.83 ± 0.83
granitehybrid 3B Q8_0 3.16 GiB 3.19 B CPU 10 pp128 99.93 ± 0.02 201.32 ± 0.11
granitehybrid 3B Q8_0 3.16 GiB 3.19 B CPU 10 pp256 102.32 ± 0.40 208.32 ± 0.41
granitehybrid 3B Q8_0 3.16 GiB 3.19 B CPU 10 pp512 103.42 ± 0.40 209.98 ± 0.14
granitehybrid 3B Q8_0 3.16 GiB 3.19 B CPU 10 tg128 20.35 ± 0.01 19.57 ± 0.01
llama-bench Q4 Model Results:
model size params backend threads test Base t/s Patch t/s
llama 8B Q4_0 4.33 GiB 8.03 B CPU 10 pp8 34.77 ± 0.10 41.23 ± 0.08
llama 8B Q4_0 4.33 GiB 8.03 B CPU 10 pp16 40.81 ± 0.04 64.55 ± 0.15
llama 8B Q4_0 4.33 GiB 8.03 B CPU 10 pp32 44.65 ± 0.05 90.84 ± 0.22
llama 8B Q4_0 4.33 GiB 8.03 B CPU 10 pp64 47.49 ± 0.03 114.39 ± 0.11
llama 8B Q4_0 4.33 GiB 8.03 B CPU 10 pp128 49.29 ± 0.24 120.13 ± 0.19
llama 8B Q4_0 4.33 GiB 8.03 B CPU 10 pp256 49.77 ± 0.23 121.51 ± 0.11
llama 8B Q4_0 4.33 GiB 8.03 B CPU 10 pp512 49.89 ± 0.23 117.52 ± 0.10
llama 8B Q4_0 4.33 GiB 8.03 B CPU 10 tg128 13.40 ± 0.01 13.37 ± 0.00
Llama perplexity Results:
Model Base Final PPL Estimate Patch Final PPL Estimate
granite-4.0-h-micro-Q8_0 1.3862 +/- 0.04424 1.3868 +/- 0.04432
Meta-Llama3-8b Q4 1.3801 +/- 0.04116 1.3803 +/- 0.04116
Jeff Bolz [Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:47:10 +0000 (01:47 -0800)]
vulkan: split mul_mat into multiple dispatches to avoid overflow (#19509)
* vulkan: split mul_mat into multiple dispatches to avoid overflow
The batch dimensions can be greater than the max workgroup count limit,
in which case we need to split into multiple dispatches and pass the base
index through a push constant.
Fall back for the less common p021 and nc variants.
When LTO enabled in build environments it forces all builds to have LTO
in place. But feature detection logic is fragile, and causing Illegal
instruction errors with lto. This disables LTO for the feature
detection code to prevent cross-module optimization from inlining
architecture-specific instructions into the score function. Without this,
LTO can cause SIGILL when loading backends on older CPUs (e.g., loading
power10 backend on power9 crashes before feature check runs).
Daniel Bevenius [Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:46:53 +0000 (10:46 +0100)]
model-conversion : make printing of config values optional (#19681)
* model-conversion : make printing of config values optional
This commit updates run-org-model.py to make the printing of model
configuration values optional.
The motivation for this change is that not all models have these
configuration values defined and those that do not will error when
running this script. With these changes we only print the values if they
exist or a default value.
We could optionally just remove them but it can be useful to see these
values when running the original model.
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