* WIP: add NVFP4 quantization support
* tests
* improve NVFP4 dot product implementation performance and fix bad super call
* typo
* Use nvfp4 kvalues
* vulkan : fix NVFP4 shader compilation by including kvalues_mxfp4 lookup table
* vulcal and perf fixes
* wip
* Fix metal
* fix vulcan
* Rename threshold & fix wrong scale
* Fix MOE
* Shelf backend implementations (CUDA, Metal, Vulkan, arch-specific SIMD)
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.
Reverted files:
- ggml-cuda: common.cuh, convert.cu, mmq.cu/cuh, mmvq.cu, vecdotq.cuh,
quantize.cu/cuh, mma.cuh, ggml-cuda.cu, fattn-tile.cuh
- ggml-metal: ggml-metal.metal, ggml-metal-device.cpp, ggml-metal-impl.h,
ggml-metal-ops.cpp
- ggml-vulkan: ggml-vulkan.cpp, all vulkan-shaders/*
- ggml-cpu arch: arm/quants.c, x86/quants.c, powerpc/quants.c, s390/quants.c
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.
tg128 performance: 4.37 t/s (generic) -> 13.66 t/s (NEON) = 3.1x speedup
* Optimize ARM NEON NVFP4 dot product: LUT + vpaddq + vfmaq
- 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
tg128: 8.1 -> 31.0 t/s (3.8x speedup, 77% of Q4_1 speed)
* 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
* Update convert_hf_to_gguf.py
Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>
* correct comment
* format
* reduce duplication and cleanup
* Address comments
* move detection to prepare_tensors
* Use math instead of const
* Move
* fix comment
* Shelf quantize tests
* Rebase and move check
* cleanup
* lint
* Update gguf-py/gguf/scripts/gguf_convert_endian.py
Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>
* Use fallback quant config
* Simplify
Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>
* organize
* Refactor
* Update convert_hf_to_gguf.py
Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>
* Update convert_hf_to_gguf.py
Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>
* Update convert_hf_to_gguf.py
Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>
* add quantize_nvfp4 (required for test_quants.py)
* add quantize_nvfp4 (required for test_quants.py)
* add quantize_nvfp4 (required for test_quants.py)
* fix return type
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Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>
This patch addresses an Internal Compiler Error (Segmentation fault)
observed with gcc 15 by replacing the intrinsic + cast by doing
a cat on the data first and then calling the intrinsic. This bypasses the
buggy compiler path while maintaining identical instruction selection.
Performance Verification:
Assembly analysis on RHEL 9 (GCC 15.1.1) confirms that both the original
code and this fix generate the identical Power10 prefixed load instruction:
`plxv 40, 2(14)`
This ensures zero performance regression while unblocking builds on
newer toolchains.
Reproduced on:
- Alpine Linux + GCC 15.2.0-r2
- RHEL 9 + GCC 15.1.1 (gcc-toolset-15)
Signed-off-by: Shalini Salomi Bodapati <Shalini.Salomi.Bodapati@ibm.com>
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).
* Updated repack.cpp
* Updated repack.cpp
* Updated repack.cpp
* Added if condition to support only vector length 256.
* Changed the format removed comments and duplicate variable
* If SVE 256 not present then was using generic function to compute, hence slowing the performance.
So added code if SVE 256 is not present then use NEON code.
* Code format change suggestion
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Co-authored-by: Vithule, Prashant <Prashant.Vithule@fujitsu.com>
This commit addresses a build issue with the KleidiAI backend when
building multiple cpu backends. Commmit
3a00c98584 ("cmake : fix KleidiAI install
target failure with EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL") introduced a change where
FetchContent_Populate is called instead of FetchContent_MakeAvailable,
where the latter does handle this case (it is idempotent but
FetchContent_Populate is not).
I missed this during my review and I should not have commited without
verifying the CI failure, sorry about that.
* ggml-cpu: FA add GEMM microkernel
* add guard for sizeless vector types
* fix case where DV % GGML_F32_EPR !=0
* move memset out of the loop
* move another memset out of the loop
* use RM=4 for arm
* simd_gemm: convert everything to int
* convert everything to size_t to avoid warnings
* fixup
* add pragma for ignoring aggressive loop optimizations
* cmake: fix KleidiAI install target failure with EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL
Fix for the bug #19501 by adding EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL to FetchContent_Declare. This properly excludes KleidiAI from both build and install targets, preventing install failures when GGML_CPU_KLEIDIAI=ON is used.
The KleidiAI source files are still compiled into libggml-cpu.so, preserving all functionality.
* addressed code review comments
last_graph is only available without OpenMP, but
ggml_graph_compute_thread() is called in both cases.
Signed-off-by: Adrien Gallouët <angt@huggingface.co>
* First working version of GEMM and GEMV
* interleave loads and compute
* Clang-format
* Added missing fallback. Removed tested TODO.
* Swap M and N to be consistent with the repack template convention
* Boilerplate for q6_K repack
* q6_K repack to q6_Kx8 implementation
Signed-off-by: Alberto Cabrera <alberto.cabrera@liquid.ai>
* q6_K generic gemv and gemm
* wip, gemm_q6_K 8x8
* Still WIP: loading of q8s, q6h and q6l
* first working version of q6_K gemm
* Moved q6 loads outside of sb block, Unrolled inner loop
* Replaced modulo with mask
* First implementation of GEMV
* ggml_vdotq_s32 -> vdotq_s32
* Reduce width of accumulators in q6_K gemv
* Bsums instead of calc bias. Preload scales to use vget_lane. Unroll.
* Reuse scales in GEMM (same GEMV opt)
* Added todos for bsum and different qh repack
* Arch fallback
* VSLIQ for merging qh adn ql
* Removed TODO, already tested
* Apply suggestions
Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
* Removed unused import
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Signed-off-by: Alberto Cabrera <alberto.cabrera@liquid.ai>
Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
* ggml-cpu: Use tiled FA for prompt-processing
the FA performance is gimped on CPU on long contexts because it essentially uses a vector kernel. This PR adds a tiled FA for PP. Perf tuning for tile sizes done on a AMD EPYC single-socket 64-c machine.
* fix out of bounds for mask
* skip rows where there are all masks
* skip tile if mask is inf
* store mask in worksize
* check inf tile earlier
* Boilerplate for q5_Kx8 REPACK on ARM and fallback
Signed-off-by: Alberto Cabrera <alberto.cabrera@liquid.ai>
* Implements make_block_q5_Kx8 by extending make_block_q4_Kx8
Signed-off-by: Alberto Cabrera <alberto.cabrera@liquid.ai>
* q5_K repack gemm and gemv generics
* Gemm and Gemv ARM implementations (i8mm)
* Improved qh manipulation looking at non-repack vec_dot implementation
* Full unroll
* Apply Q5_K Gemv vand and vshl optimizations to gemm. Improve comments.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Cabrera <alberto.cabrera@liquid.ai>
* Fix wrong fallback definitions of Q5_K
Signed-off-by: Alberto Cabrera <alberto.cabrera@liquid.ai>
* Fixed comments. Reverted unnecessary formatting
Signed-off-by: Alberto Cabrera <alberto.cabrera@liquid.ai>
* Fixed typo in generic definitions
* Switching AND + Shift with Shift Insert. Better op interleaving.
* Vectorize + unroll the block scales
* Apply gemm optimizations to gemv
* Improve bias calculation
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Signed-off-by: Alberto Cabrera <alberto.cabrera@liquid.ai>
* ggml-cpu:fix RISC-V Q4_0 repack select and RVV feature reporting
Signed-off-by: Wang Yang <yangwang@iscas.ac.cn>
* using the name VLEN instead of CNT
* Update ggml/include/ggml-cpu.h
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Signed-off-by: Wang Yang <yangwang@iscas.ac.cn>
Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
* tests: update barrier test to check for race condition in active threads
* cpu: combine n_graph and n_threads into a single atomic update
* tests: add multi-graph test for test_barrier
* ggml-cpu: add ggml_thread_cpu_relax with Zihintpause support
Signed-off-by: Wang Yang <yangwang@iscas.ac.cn>
* cmake: enable RISC-V zihintpause extension for Spacemit builds
* readme : add ZIHINTPAUSE support for RISC-V
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Signed-off-by: Wang Yang <yangwang@iscas.ac.cn>
* Feat: Added vulkan circular tiling support
* Feat: Added cpu circular
* Feat: Added cuda kernels
* Added tests
* Added tests
* Removed non-pad operations
* Removed unneded changes
* removed backend non pad tests
* Update test-backend-ops.cpp
* Fixed comment on pad test
* removed trailing whitespace
* Removed unneded test in test-backend-ops
* Removed removed test from calls
* Update ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/pad.comp
Co-authored-by: Ruben Ortlam <picard12@live.de>
* Fixed alignment
* Formatting
Co-authored-by: Aman Gupta <amangupta052@gmail.com>
* Format pad
* Format
* Clang format
* format
* format
* don't change so much stuff
* clang format and update to bool
* fix duplicates
* don't need to fix the padding
* make circular bool
* duplicate again
* rename vulkan to wrap around
* Don't need indent
* moved to const expr
* removed unneded extra line break
* More readable method calls
* Minor wording changes
* Added final newline
* Update ggml/include/ggml.h
Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
* Update ggml/include/ggml.h
Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
* Added circular pad ext tests
* Gate non circular pad devices
* Cleaned gating of non-circular pad devices
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Co-authored-by: Phylliida <phylliidadev@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ruben Ortlam <picard12@live.de>
Co-authored-by: Aman Gupta <amangupta052@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
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