Daniel Han ddf0980e52 llama: fix the qwen4exp PLE conv state and unblock test-llama-archs
build_rs writes into the state tensor in place, zeroing one row and copying the
carried-over states, so calling it twice for the same layer let the second call
clobber the first write-back. The PLE layer is also a delta-net layer, so that
is exactly what happened: both convolutions gathered the same row. They now
share a single gather per layer.

The earlier claim that the conv state was carried correctly was tested on a
fixture whose conv weights are zero, where the branch contributes nothing and
chunking matches trivially. Re-running with non-zero conv weights showed the
divergence, growing with the number of ubatch boundaries: 97.1% top-1 at one
boundary down to 90.2% at seven. With the shared gather it is bit-identical to
the single-shot run at every chunk size tried, 512, 128 and 64, with a maximum
logprob deviation of exactly zero over 1023 positions. The delta-net-only model
stays bit-identical too, so nothing regressed there.

Also derive the delta-net conv channel count the way load_arch_tensors sizes
wqkv instead of from ssm_d_inner. The two agree for this model, but n_embd_r()
only bounds the row and the convolution has to match the tensor feeding it.

test-llama-archs previously aborted on this architecture and took every later
architecture with it. qwen4exp is marked MoE-only, given the hyper-connection
keys and an ssm_d_inner consistent with its tensor derivation, and skipped for
now: the hyper-connection keys written by get_gguf_ctx are not reaching the
synthesised file, which needs a separate look. The suite completes again, 124
architectures at 0.00e+00.
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llama.cpp

llama

Quick start

A few options to get llama.cpp installed on your machine:

Once installed:

# Download and run a model directly from Hugging Face
llama cli -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF

# Launch OpenAI-compatible API server
llama serve -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF
VLM session with `llama cli` VLM session with llama cli Built-in web UI against `llama serve` running Qwen 3.6 Built-in web UI against llama serve

Description

The main goal of llama.cpp is to enable LLM (and VLM) inference with minimal setup and state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of hardware - locally and in the cloud.

  • Plain C/C++ implementation without any dependencies
  • Apple silicon is a first-class citizen - optimized via ARM NEON, Accelerate and Metal frameworks
  • AVX, AVX2, AVX512 and AMX support for x86 architectures
  • RVV, ZVFH, ZFH, ZICBOP and ZIHINTPAUSE support for RISC-V architectures
  • 1.5-bit, 2-bit, 3-bit, 4-bit, 5-bit, 6-bit, and 8-bit integer quantization for faster inference and reduced memory use
  • Custom CUDA kernels for running LLMs on NVIDIA GPUs (support for AMD GPUs via HIP and Moore Threads GPUs via MUSA)
  • Vulkan and SYCL backend support
  • CPU+GPU hybrid inference to partially accelerate models larger than the total VRAM capacity

The llama.cpp project is build on top of the ggml library.

Supported backends

Backend Target devices
BLAS All
BLIS All
CANN Ascend NPU
CUDA Nvidia GPU
HIP AMD GPU
Hexagon [In Progress] Snapdragon
IBM zDNN IBM Z & LinuxONE
MUSA Moore Threads GPU
Metal Apple Silicon
OpenCL Adreno GPU
OpenVINO [In Progress] Intel CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs
RPC All
SYCL Intel GPU
VirtGPU VirtGPU APIR
Vulkan GPU
WebGPU All
ZenDNN AMD CPU

Documentation

Tools

Development

Contributing

  • Contributors can open PRs
  • Collaborators will be invited based on contributions
  • Maintainers can push to branches in the llama.cpp repo and merge PRs into the master branch
  • Any help with managing issues, PRs and projects is very appreciated!
  • Read the CONTRIBUTING.md for more information

Acknowledgements

  • yhirose/cpp-httplib - Single-header HTTP server, used by llama-server - MIT license
  • nothings/stb - Single-header image format decoder, used by multimodal subsystem - Public domain
  • nlohmann/json - Single-header JSON library, used by various tools/examples - MIT License
  • mackron/miniaudio - Single-header audio format decoder, used by multimodal subsystem - Public domain
  • sheredom/subprocess.h - Single-header process launching solution for C and C++ - Public domain
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