llama.cpp releases bring Vulkan, CUDA, and other optimizations
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The llama.cpp project has released several updates, including b10883, which features Vulkan optimizations for matrix multiplication on Apple Silicon and other platforms. Other recent releases like b10881 and b10877 address specific issues such as Vulkan workgroup distribution and CUDA optimizations for Mixture of Experts (MoE) models. These updates also include various bug fixes and performance enhancements across different operating systems and hardware configurations.
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Ongoing improvements to llama.cpp enhance the performance and compatibility of local LLM deployments across various hardware and operating systems.
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<details open=""> <p>vulkan: use spec constant for matrix matrix multiplication A-type (<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/25773">#25773</a>)</p> <ul> <li>vulkan: use spec constant for mul mat type_a</li> </ul> <p>vulkan: use map …
<details open=""> <p>vulkan: Convert FILL to distribute workgroups in 2D to avoid exceeding maxComputeWorkGroupCount (<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/28592">#28592</a>)</p> <ul> <li>divide workload to 2D</li> </ul> <p>This is t…
<details open=""> <p>llama : use int32_t for llama_sampler_chain_n return type (<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/28631">#28631</a>)</p> <p>Contributes to <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/ggml-org/llam…
<details open=""> <p>CUDA: replace GGML_FA_ALL_QUANTS with GGML_FA_QUANTS, more control over what is compiled (<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/28079">#28079</a>)</p> <ul> <li>CUDA: add configurable FA quant combinations</li> </…
<details open=""> <p>jinja: treat a null left operand of in as a plain lookup (<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/28620">#28620</a>)</p> <p>Templates that default an optional variable to none and then test its<br /> membership in …
<details open=""> <p>tests : use less threads for data initialization (<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/28325">#28325</a>)</p> <ul> <li> <p>tests : use 1 thread for data initialization</p> </li> <li> <p>cont : scale threads with…
<details open=""> <p>server : apply checkpoint min-step eviction only when the checkpoint list is full (<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/28302">#28302</a>)</p> <p>The spacing eviction in create_checkpoint() keeps the oldest chec…
<details open=""> <p>ggml: add gfx90c HIP support (<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/26454">#26454</a>)</p> <ul> <li> <p>ggml: add gfx90c HIP support</p> </li> <li> <p>ggml: make gfx90c HIP support compliant with specifications</…
<details open=""> <p>CUDA: branchless Q4_K/Q5_K unpack to speed up mmvq, L2 prefetch on DGX Spark (<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/26705">#26705</a>)</p> <ul> <li> <p>Update Q4_K and Q5_K to use branchless computation, which st…
<details open=""> <p>vulkan: support type-aligned GET_ROWS (<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/28253">#28253</a>)</p> <ul> <li>vulkan: fall back to CPU for GET_ROWS with misaligned offsets</li> </ul> <p>The Vulkan GET_ROWS shader …
<details open=""> <p>models : fix GDN normalization from <code>max</code> to <code>rsqrt</code> (<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/28068">#28068</a>)</p> <ul> <li>models: use flash-linear-attention's l2norm for gated delta net q/…
<details open=""> <p>sycl: attribute device allocations by site (GGML_SYCL_MEMTRACE) (<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/27631">#27631</a>)</p> <p>define two new environment variables to better understand how much<br /> memory is …
