llama.cpp/gguf-py
Ryan Mangeno dfc959b886
model : Granite Embedding support (#15641)
ModernBERT but without `head.norm` so will currently fail to convert and run any other ModernBERT models, PRs with `head.norm` support welcome!

* constants and tensor mappings for modern bert support, model not supported yet but working on getting conversion to work for encoder only

* conversion now working, hf -> gguf

* working on support, now working on building graph

* some cleanup

* cleanup

* continuing

* correct tensor shape for qkv

* fixed tensor mappings and working on buildin graph

* tensor debugging now works -> (llama-eval-callback), instead of simulated gate split with views, GEGLU is now used which does exactly this

* cleanup

* cleanup

* cleanup

* more cleanup

* ubatch issues, the assert for checking equal seqs in llama-graph.cpp when building attention  keeps failing, setting ubatch size to 1 when running llama-embedding with --ubatch-size 1 makes it work, but needs to be looked into more

* added cls token per previous modern bert attempt, still working on checking out the rest

* fixed pre tokenizer and still working through previous pr

* working through previous attemp, implimented more accurate conversion per previous attempt, added local sliding window attention that alternates every third layer

* fixed pre tokenizer

* working on swa with local and global alternating attention

* some cleanup and now fails on build attn

* starting to work, and some cleanup, currently failing on last layer construction in graph build

* alternating rope implemented and modern bert graph build succeeds

* fixed asser for equal ubatch seq

* cleanup

* added mask check in vocab

* fixed alternating rope, the hparams.rope_freq_base_train and hparams.rope_freq_base_train_swa were the same and i set them to correct values

* reuse variable

* removed repeat

* standard swa method can be used instead of a new enum being LLAMA_SWA_TYPE_LOCAL

* correct swa layer indexing, is supposed to be 0, 3, 6 ... instead of 1, 4, 7 ...

* more modular hparam setting

* replaced attn out norm with ffn_norm and cosine similarity between hf embds and llama.cpp embds went way up, from 0.05 to 0.24, replaced the cacheless kv with swa todo per the previous conversion

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* removed redundant hparam set

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* fixed ordering of enum for freq_base_swa

* fixed where I added residual, now gives much much better embeddings~

* readded cacheless logic

* removing whitespace

* conversion now working for swa pattern - dense every n layers

* modern bert put into seperate src file

* removing whitespace

* fixed whitespace and newline errors in editorconfig job

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* better naming convention, n_swa_pattern -> swa_period

* reusing sliding_window_pattern key rather than making new dense_every_n_layers key, and adding writing and reading support

* fixing pyright type-check fail

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examples Refactor gguf scripts to improve metadata handling (#11909) 2025-02-26 08:04:48 -05:00
gguf model : Granite Embedding support (#15641) 2025-12-23 00:28:19 +01:00
tests gguf-py : add Numpy MXFP4 de/quantization support (#15111) 2025-08-08 17:48:26 -04:00
LICENSE gguf : make gguf pip-installable 2023-08-25 09:26:05 +03:00
README.md gguf-py : GGUF Editor GUI - Python + Qt6 (#12930) 2025-04-18 20:30:41 +02:00
pyproject.toml gguf-py : make sentencepiece optional (#14200) 2025-06-19 15:56:12 +02:00

README.md

gguf

This is a Python package for writing binary files in the GGUF (GGML Universal File) format.

See convert_hf_to_gguf.py as an example for its usage.

Installation

pip install gguf

Optionally, you can install gguf with the extra 'gui' to enable the visual GGUF editor.

pip install gguf[gui]

API Examples/Simple Tools

examples/writer.py — Generates example.gguf in the current directory to demonstrate generating a GGUF file. Note that this file cannot be used as a model.

examples/reader.py — Extracts and displays key-value pairs and tensor details from a GGUF file in a readable format.

gguf/scripts/gguf_dump.py — Dumps a GGUF file's metadata to the console.

gguf/scripts/gguf_set_metadata.py — Allows changing simple metadata values in a GGUF file by key.

gguf/scripts/gguf_convert_endian.py — Allows converting the endianness of GGUF files.

gguf/scripts/gguf_new_metadata.py — Copies a GGUF file with added/modified/removed metadata values.

gguf/scripts/gguf_editor_gui.py — Allows for viewing, editing, adding, or removing metadata values within a GGUF file as well as viewing its tensors with a Qt interface.

Development

Maintainers who participate in development of this package are advised to install it in editable mode:

cd /path/to/llama.cpp/gguf-py

pip install --editable .

Note: This may require to upgrade your Pip installation, with a message saying that editable installation currently requires setup.py. In this case, upgrade Pip to the latest:

pip install --upgrade pip

Automatic publishing with CI

There's a GitHub workflow to make a release automatically upon creation of tags in a specified format.

  1. Bump the version in pyproject.toml.
  2. Create a tag named gguf-vx.x.x where x.x.x is the semantic version number.
git tag -a gguf-v1.0.0 -m "Version 1.0 release"
  1. Push the tags.
git push origin --tags

Manual publishing

If you want to publish the package manually for any reason, you need to have twine and build installed:

pip install build twine

Then, follow these steps to release a new version:

  1. Bump the version in pyproject.toml.
  2. Build the package:
python -m build
  1. Upload the generated distribution archives:
python -m twine upload dist/*

Run Unit Tests

From root of this repository you can run this command to run all the unit tests

python -m unittest discover ./gguf-py -v

TODO

  • Include conversion scripts as command line entry points in this package.