Georgi Gerganov [Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:12:54 +0000 (22:12 +0200)]
graph : remove redundant GDN state transposes (#20443)
* ggml : transpose fused GDN state access for coalesced memory reads (#20436)
The fused Gated Delta Net kernel accessed the [S_v, S_v] state matrix
column-wise on row-major storage, causing strided reads (stride S_v =
128 floats = 512 bytes) that waste GPU cache bandwidth. This produced a
39% regression on Qwen3.5-9B (Metal, M4 Max) compared to the unfused
path.
Transpose the state indexing so threads read contiguously:
- Metal: s_ptr[is*S_v] -> s_ptr[is] (stride 1 vs S_v)
- CUDA: curr_state[i*S_v+col] -> curr_state[col*S_v+i] (coalesced)
- CPU: restructured loops for row-wise transposed access
Also add --fused-gdn [on|off|auto] CLI flag (mirrors --flash-attn) so
users can control fused GDN independently of auto-detection.
All GATED_DELTA_NET backend-ops tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <redacted>
* ggml : use SIMD dot products in CPU GDN kernel, couple AR/chunked fused flags
- Replace scalar inner loops with ggml_vec_dot_f32 for SIMD-optimized
dot products in the CPU fused GDN kernel (delta and attention output)
- Couple fused_gdn_ar and fused_gdn_ch flags in auto-detection: if one
path lacks device support, disable both to prevent state layout mismatch
between transposed (fused) and non-transposed (unfused) formats
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <redacted>
* llama : rever fgdn argument changes
* graph : remove GDN state transposes
* vulkan : adapt
* cuda : remove obsolete smem code
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Co-authored-by: Paul Flynn <redacted> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <redacted> Co-authored-by: Oliver Simons <redacted>
The chunked fused Gated Delta Net detection in sched_reserve() calls
graph_reserve(16*n_seqs, n_seqs, n_outputs, ...) where n_outputs = n_seqs.
This creates a dimension mismatch in build_pooling() for embedding models
with mean/rank pooling: build_inp_mean() creates a tensor with shape
[n_tokens=16*n_seqs, ...] while t_embd is reduced to [n_outputs=n_seqs, ...]
via out_ids, causing ggml_mul_mat to assert on ggml_can_mul_mat(a, b).
Fix: pass n_tokens as n_outputs in the chunked GDN graph reservation,
matching the pattern used by the pp/tg worst-case reservations.
Regression introduced by #20340 (d28961d).
Same class of bug as #12517, fixed by #12545.
* server : add mean pooling tests to embedding test suite
Add test_embedding_pooling_mean and test_embedding_pooling_mean_multiple
to cover the --pooling mean codepath, which was previously untested.
These tests would have caught the regression introduced by #20340 where
build_pooling() crashes with a ggml_mul_mat assertion due to mismatched
dimensions in the chunked GDN detection path.
SoftwareRenderer [Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:58:09 +0000 (13:58 -0400)]
server: reset counter related to kill-switch on client error (#20513)
* server: reset kill-switch on client error
This avoids triggering a server kill switch.
If the client sends a request that exceeds the configured context size, an appropriate HTTP 400 response is provided and no tokens are generated.
However since no tokens are generated, update_slots() increments n_empty_consecutive. If the client sends 3 such messages in a row, the server terminates.
Daniel Bevenius [Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:30:02 +0000 (12:30 +0100)]
mtmd : rename mtmd_get_audio_bitrate to mtmd_get_audio_sample_rate (#20105)
This commit renames the the function `mtmd_get_audio_bitrate` to
`mtmd_get_audio_sample_rate` to better reflect its purpose.
The motivation for this is that the function currently returns the audio
sample rate, not the bitrate (sample_rate × bit_depth × channels), and
that is how it is used in the code as well.
This is a breaking change, but I believe mtmd is still in
experimental/development phase so it might be alright to simply rename.
Daniel Bevenius [Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:00:52 +0000 (06:00 +0100)]
convert : fix/suppress pyright errors (#20442)
* convert : fix/suppress pyright errors
This commit fixes the pyright errors that are generated by pyright for
convert_hf_to_gguf.py.
The motivation for this is that running this locally generates errors
that CI does not, and it can be difficult to spot new errors. One use
case is when working on new models which cannot be run in CI due to
privacy. Having the ability to run pyright locally is would be helpful
in this cases.
In the linked issue there is the mention of switching to `ty` which I
don't know anything about but in the meantime I would appreciate if we
could suppress these errors for now, and later perhaps revert this
commit.
With this change there are no errors but there are 4 informations
messages if the `mistral_common` package is installed. The
`--level error` flag can be used to suppress them.
ProgenyAlpha [Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:32:04 +0000 (06:32 -0400)]
vulkan: add GATED_DELTA_NET op support (#20334)
* vulkan: add GATED_DELTA_NET op support
Implements the fused gated delta net recurrence as a Vulkan compute
shader with full support for scalar gate, KDA vector gate, GQA
broadcast, multi-token sequences, and permuted (non-contiguous) q/k
inputs. Specialization constants select head size (32/64/128) and
KDA mode at pipeline creation time.
Passes all 13 test-backend-ops cases on AMD Radeon 890M (RADV GFX1150).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <redacted>
* vulkan: optimize GATED_DELTA_NET shader (Phase 1)
- vec4 dot products on all inner loops (dp4 hardware intrinsic)
- Cache exp(g) in shared memory for KDA path, eliminating ~32K
redundant global reads and ~16K redundant exp() calls per token
- vec4 fused decay + rank-1 update (3 vec4 ops vs 12 scalar ops)
- Add perf benchmark cases for GATED_DELTA_NET to test-backend-ops
KDA TG: +5.4% throughput. Non-KDA: no regressions.
13/13 test-backend-ops passing on AMD Radeon 890M (RADV GFX1150).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <redacted>
* vulkan: address review feedback for GATED_DELTA_NET
ProgenyAlpha [Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:03:18 +0000 (05:03 -0400)]
vulkan: fix SSM_CONV PP scaling with large ubatch sizes (#20379)
* vulkan: optimize SSM_CONV workgroup dispatch for large ubatch
Tile tokens into 2D workgroups (32x16) to reduce workgroup launch
overhead at large ubatch sizes. Add vec4 fast path for nc=4 (common
d_conv size). Fixes PP performance degradation with ubatch > 512.
Ref: ggml-org/llama.cpp#18725
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <redacted>
* vulkan: remove unused shared memory declaration in SSM_CONV
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <redacted>
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Co-authored-by: Progeny Alpha <redacted> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <redacted>
Georgi Gerganov [Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:46:40 +0000 (22:46 +0200)]
llama : enable chunked fused GDN path (#20340)
* llama : enable chunked fused GDN path
* models : avoid Q and K repeats when using fused GDA
* cont : fix comment
Co-authored-by: Aman Gupta <redacted>
* cont : fix the fix
Co-authored-by: Aman Gupta <redacted>
* cont : fix
* metal : add GDN kernel (#20361)
* metal : add Metal backend for GGML_OP_GATED_DELTA_NET
Add a fused Metal kernel for the gated delta net recurrence op
(#19504), enabling GPU-accelerated inference for DeltaNet-based
models (Qwen3.5, etc.) on Apple Silicon.
Supports both GDA (scalar gate) and KDA (per-row gate) modes
with head_size 64 and 128. Unsupported configurations (head_size
32, non-contiguous tensors) gracefully fall back to CPU.
Performance: Qwen3.5-0.8B Q4_K_M on M4 Max
tg128: 170 -> 213 t/s (+25%)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <redacted>
* metal : validate contiguity of all input tensors in supports_op
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <redacted>
* metal : add algorithm equivalence comment for GDA decay path
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <redacted>
* cont : unslop + optimize
* cont : clean-up
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Co-authored-by: Paul Flynn <redacted> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <redacted>
* CUDA: AR gated delta net improvements (#20391)
* Add FastDiv to gated_delta_net_cuda
* Shard columns across warps
This reduces register pressure (avoids spill for S_v = 128) and gives
the warp-scheduler more CTAs to schedule (thus hiding data-access
latencies).
* Remove unneded include in gated_delta_net.cu
* Improve comments
* Apply code-formating
* Make sharding HIP-compatible
1. Use ggml_cuda_get_physical_warp_size() to determine warp size flexibly
2. Add test with partial warp to test sum reduction on CUDA
* Remove fastdiv_s64, as we can treat neqk1 and rq3 as uint32_t
* Rename variables
* Enable GDN also for prefill, move TODO for chunked_GDN
warp_size is not known at compile time in hip host code.
* Don't expose ggml_cuda_get_physical_warp_size on host
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Co-authored-by: uvos <redacted>
* llama : refactor llm_build_delta_net_base API
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Co-authored-by: Aman Gupta <redacted> Co-authored-by: Paul Flynn <redacted> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <redacted> Co-authored-by: Oliver Simons <redacted> Co-authored-by: uvos <redacted>
Remove NVFP4 support from GPU backends and architecture-specific
optimized dot products. These should be added in separate PRs so
backend specialists can review them independently.
Core NVFP4 support (type definition, CPU fallback dot product,
quantization, dequantization, conversion) is retained.
* Fix arch-fallback.h: add NVFP4 generic fallback for all platforms
After shelving backend-specific SIMD implementations, the generic
CPU dot product needs to be aliased on ARM, x86, PowerPC, and s390
platforms that previously relied on arch-specific versions.
* quantize: add NVFP4 as a quantization type option
* Fix ggml_fp32_to_ue4m3: handle subnormal values
Previously, values with ue4m3_exp <= 0 were clamped to 0, causing
all small scales to underflow. This made NVFP4 quantization via
llama-quantize produce garbage (PPL = 5.8M) since typical transformer
weights have amax/6.0 in the range 0.001-0.01, which falls in the
UE4M3 subnormal range.
Now subnormals are properly encoded as man * 2^-9 (exp=0, man=1..7),
matching the decode path in ggml_ue4m3_to_fp32.
Result: NVFP4 requantization now produces PPL = 15.25 (vs F16 = 14.33),
comparable to Q4_1 (PPL = 15.81) at slightly lower BPW (4.70 vs 5.15).
* Restore ARM NEON NVFP4 dot product implementation
Restores the optimized ggml_vec_dot_nvfp4_q8_0 for ARM NEON using
vqtbl1q_s8 lookup and ggml_vdotq_s32 dot products.
- Add ue4m3_scale_lut[128] to ggml-common.h replacing branch-heavy
ggml_ue4m3_to_fp32() in the hot loop
- Use vpaddq_s32 for pairwise int32 reduction instead of vaddvq_s32
- Accumulate with vfmaq_f32 into float32x4_t vector accumulators
* ARM NEON NVFP4: rearrange q8 to match nibble layout
Alternative approach: rearrange q8 data to match the NVFP4 lo/hi
nibble layout instead of rearranging the looked-up NVFP4 values.
Eliminates vcombine_s8(vget_low, vget_low) shuffles.
Performance is equivalent (~18.5 t/s) - the bottleneck is the 2x
block overhead from QK=16 vs QK=32, not the shuffle instructions.
* CPU only backend 64 super-block layout
* cleanup
* Remove unused LUT
* int
* exclude NVFP4 from unsupported ops in metal build
* remove quantization for now
* store scales as native UE4M3, preserve original model bits when possible
In #19770, I introduced a regression in the way the
`quantize_state_impl` counter values were initialized. I was
incrementing and using `n_attention_wv` in the same loop, when it should
have been fixed by the time we're deciding tensor types in
`llama_tensor_get_type_impl` (for `use_more_bits`).
I never observed a difference in any of [my
tests](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/19770#issuecomment-4000424712)
- it was only after @bartowski kindly pointed this out that I realized
it was incorrect. (Thanks!)
Ray Xu [Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:38:18 +0000 (21:38 +0800)]
examples : fix empty items in json_schema_to_grammar.py [no ci] (#19968)
* Fix logic for retrieving schema items in `json_schema_to_grammar.py`
If `schema['items']` is `{}` and `prefixItems not in schema', as `{}` is Falsy, the original code here will raise an error.
I think if `schema['items']` is `{}`, them items should just be `{}`
* Apply suggestion from @CISC
Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <redacted>
* Add tests for arrays with empty items
Add two unit tests to `tests/test-json-schema-to-grammar.cpp` that validate handling of arrays when 'items' is an empty schema and when 'prefixItems' is present alongside an empty 'items'. Both tests expect the same generated grammar, ensuring the JSON Schema->grammar conversion treats an empty 'items' schema (and the presence of 'prefixItems') correctly and covering this edge case.
Julian Pscheid [Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:32:24 +0000 (23:32 -0700)]
metal: handle command buffer failures gracefully in synchronize (#20306)
Replace GGML_ABORT("fatal error") in ggml_metal_synchronize() with
error flag + return. This aligns synchronize error handling with
graph_compute, which already returns GGML_STATUS_FAILED for the same
condition.
When a command buffer fails (e.g., iOS GPU access revocation during
backgrounding, macOS eGPU disconnect, OOM), the backend enters an
error state instead of killing the host process. Subsequent
graph_compute calls return GGML_STATUS_FAILED immediately. Recovery
requires recreating the backend.
Failed extra command buffers are properly released on the error path
to avoid Metal object leaks.
Paul Flynn [Mon, 9 Mar 2026 14:48:12 +0000 (10:48 -0400)]
metal : extend mul_mv_ext to BF16, Q2_K, Q3_K (#20250)
Enable mul_mv_ext small-batch kernels (BS 2-8) for BF16, Q2_K,
and Q3_K quantization types. These types previously fell through
to the slower single-row mul_mv path.
BF16 uses the float4 dequantize path (like F16). Q2_K and Q3_K
use the float4x4 K-quant path (like Q4_K/Q5_K/Q6_K).
Jeff Bolz [Sun, 8 Mar 2026 11:33:48 +0000 (06:33 -0500)]
vulkan: Fix data races in coopmat1 mul_mat(_id) (#20084)
* vulkan: Fix data races in coopmat1 mul_mat(_id)
Add barriers between coopmat store and regular loads. We sort of got away with
this because it was the same subgroup accessing the values, but it's still a
race and may not work.
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