Hongqiang Wang 95ef7fc160 opencl: quant lm_head / decode GEMV and medium-batch GEMM optimizations (speculative decoding/MTP) (#26477)
* opencl: quant lm_head / decode GEMV and medium-batch GEMM optimizations

* opencl: guard q4_K/q6_K tiled_ns convert-kernel registration for non-Adreno build

* opencl: gate q4_K MUL_MAT+GLU fusion dispatch to Adreno

* opencl: require the noshuffle weight layout in the q4_K GLU fusion gate

* opencl: do not take the vectorized f16 mrow GEMV path on an unaligned row stride

* opencl: pass the new get_scale_min_k4 stride argument at the row-major call sites

* opencl: enable the q4_K split-K decode GEMV only where it is measured to win

* opencl: record the X1-85 split-K datapoint (neutral, exclusion confirmed)

* opencl: restrict the tiled lm_head/embed GEMV default to X2E/A8X

* opencl: fix q4_K variant kernels to read the transposed scales layout

* opencl: keep the flat-GEMV large-m escape opt-in

* opencl: guard the o4 GEMV store against the rounded-up dispatch tail

* opencl: restore the tiled q4_K/q6_K layout on tensor read-back

* opencl: split-K for the q8_0 decode GEMV at small M

* opencl: keep the q6_K noshuffle correctness escape ahead of the opt-in gate
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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 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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