llama.cpp/ggml/include
Max Krasnyansky 63d2fc46e1
Add experimental ggml-hexagon backend for the Hexagon NPU (#16547)
* model: add support for extra bufs for all devices

* hexagon: add experimental ggml-hexagon backend for the Hexagon NPU

This commit introduces a new experimental backend `ggml-hexagon` with support for the Hexagon NPU.

Highlights:
- Supports Hexagon versions: v73, v75, v79, and v81
- Targets Android devices based on Snapdragon SoCs: Gen3, 8-Elite, and 8-Elite Gen5
- Supports Q4_0, Q8_0, MXFP4, and FP32 data types
- Implements core LLM ops: MUL_MAT/MUL_MAT_ID, ADD/SUB/MUL/ADD_ID, RMS_NORM, ROPE, GLU/SWIGLU, SOFTMAX

**Note:** This backend is experimental and may exhibit instability or limited performance across supported devices.
It is intended for early testing and feedback from llama.cpp/ggml developer and user community.

Co-Authored-By: Rajdeep Ganguly <rganguly@qti.qualcomm.com>
Co-Authored-By: Todor Boinovski <todorb@qti.qualcomm.com>

* hexagon: fix format checker errors

* hexagon: update readme and cmake presets

* ci: add android-ndk-build jobs that build plain ARM64 and Snapdragon versions

* hexagon: add simple graph optimizer for stacking MUL_MAT ops with the same input

* hexagon: move ADB helper scripts into scripts/snapdragon/adb

* hexagon: replace all f/printfs with GGML_LOG_...

* readme: add hexagon to the list supported backends

* hexagon: stack malmuts with quantized inputs only

* hexagon: add TODO for fixing issues in hexagon_graph_optimize

* hexagon: update to hex-sdk 6.4.0 and add scripts for running on QDC

* scripts: fix lint errors

* scripts: update qdc pytest script to make linter happy

* hexagon: add reduce sum in fp32

* hexagon: reduce number of vector stores in matmul output

* hexagon: remove the need for vdelta in reduce-multiply-x8

* hexagon: consistent use of reduce_sum_fp32 for row_sums

* hexagon: some more matmul optimizations and comments

Optimize cases where tensor dims are not multiple of 1024 (e.g in Qwen models).
We've handled those cases already but at a higher overhead.

* hexagon: update cmake presets

* hexagon: add OPMASK support for run-bench.sh wrapper

* hexagon: update to use GGML_BACKEND_API

* hexagon: remove unused logic for setting tensor flags for the views

* hexagon: add asserts to set/get_tensor to make sure we handle complete tensors

Same asserts as the CPU backend.

* hexagon: use cpy_tensor slow path for non-host buffers

* hexagon: error checks in the buffer allocator

* cmake: move include(extProj) under ggml-hexagon

* hexagon: don't forget to delete the backend on free

* hexagon: set/get_tensor size assert apply only to quantized tensors

* hexagon: reintroduce HEX_VERBOSE wrapper for GGML_LOG_DEBUG for now

GGML_LOG_DEBUG is always enabled for test-backend-ops and the output gets in the way.
Ideally we need a bit more finer log levels.

* docs: typos in hexagon developer docs (libggm-...)

* hexagon: overhaul error handling in the session/device allocation

this should handle all failure paths in the session allocation.

* hexagon: update cmake presets to enable fp16 vectors

* hexagon: remove unused time_usec function

* hexagon: don't forget to release buffer contexts

* hexagon: fixed indents in hvx-utils (missed clang-format auto-format failure)

* hexagon: remove custom can_repeat function and use ggml_can_repeat

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Co-authored-by: Rajdeep Ganguly <rganguly@qti.qualcomm.com>
Co-authored-by: Todor Boinovski <todorb@qti.qualcomm.com>
2025-10-22 13:47:09 -07:00
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ggml-alloc.h ggml : upgrade init_tensor API to return a ggml_status (#11854) 2025-02-28 14:41:47 +01:00
ggml-backend.h rpc : add support for multiple devices (#16276) 2025-10-04 12:49:16 +03:00
ggml-blas.h ggml : build backends as libraries (#10256) 2024-11-14 18:04:35 +01:00
ggml-cann.h ggml : build backends as libraries (#10256) 2024-11-14 18:04:35 +01:00
ggml-cpp.h ggml : fix ggml_gallocr_ptr type (ggml/1205) 2025-05-01 09:58:44 +03:00
ggml-cpu.h ggml: allow casting between f32 and i32 (#15783) 2025-09-08 12:33:01 +02:00
ggml-cuda.h ggml : build backends as libraries (#10256) 2024-11-14 18:04:35 +01:00
ggml-hexagon.h Add experimental ggml-hexagon backend for the Hexagon NPU (#16547) 2025-10-22 13:47:09 -07:00
ggml-metal.h metal : refactor + optimize v2 (#15995) 2025-09-17 20:38:12 +03:00
ggml-opencl.h Introducing experimental OpenCL backend with support for Qualcomm Adreno GPUs (#10693) 2024-12-13 12:23:52 -08:00
ggml-opt.h finetune: SGD optimizer, more CLI args (#13873) 2025-08-14 12:03:57 +02:00
ggml-rpc.h rpc : report actual free memory (#16616) 2025-10-17 18:02:52 +03:00
ggml-sycl.h ggml : build backends as libraries (#10256) 2024-11-14 18:04:35 +01:00
ggml-vulkan.h vulkan: Make Vulkan optional at runtime (#11493). (#11494) 2025-02-10 07:17:21 +01:00
ggml-webgpu.h ggml: Add initial WebGPU backend (#14521) 2025-07-16 18:18:51 +03:00
ggml-zdnn.h zdnn: refactor codebase + add docs (#16178) 2025-09-23 14:53:05 +08:00
ggml.h cpu : add FLOOR, CEIL, ROUND and TRUNC unary operators (#16083) 2025-10-15 21:24:51 +02:00
gguf.h GGUF: C++ refactor, backend support, misc fixes (#11030) 2025-01-07 18:01:58 +01:00