BartowskiandGeorgi Gerganov 85c55223ca AVX2: Speed up large batch size prompt processing of IQ models (#27402)
* Batched gemm for grid IQ quants

Style updates and a bit more performance

Clean up comments

Move code around

Vectorize IQ panel decode, lower threshold for speedup

IQ panel: single-source gather layout, gate bias, vectorize interleave

Add ggml_gemm_iqp_8x8_q8_K_p4 kernel, remove gather buffer

Move IQ panel code out of repack into iqp.cpp, clean up comments

Another comment sweep

* Add myself as iqp.* codeownder

* Remove ggml_cpu_iqp_scratch_offset and ggml_cpu_iqp_src1_conv_size

* Renaming and moving

* The other half of renaming and moving

* Move macros and ggml_cpu_iqp_mul_mat_id_min_batch definition

* Update ggml/src/ggml-cpu/iqp.h

Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <[email protected]>

* Add iqp_rows work buffer

* Revert "Add iqp_rows work buffer"

This reverts commit 425542991e.

* Add NUMA fallback

* Add 10 row batch tests for IQP coverage on all grid IQ types

* Swap assert for return false in support check

* Move IQP mul_mat_id test

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Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <[email protected]>
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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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