build_rs writes into the state tensor in place, zeroing one row and copying the
carried-over states, so calling it twice for the same layer let the second call
clobber the first write-back. The PLE layer is also a delta-net layer, so that
is exactly what happened: both convolutions gathered the same row. They now
share a single gather per layer.
The earlier claim that the conv state was carried correctly was tested on a
fixture whose conv weights are zero, where the branch contributes nothing and
chunking matches trivially. Re-running with non-zero conv weights showed the
divergence, growing with the number of ubatch boundaries: 97.1% top-1 at one
boundary down to 90.2% at seven. With the shared gather it is bit-identical to
the single-shot run at every chunk size tried, 512, 128 and 64, with a maximum
logprob deviation of exactly zero over 1023 positions. The delta-net-only model
stays bit-identical too, so nothing regressed there.
Also derive the delta-net conv channel count the way load_arch_tensors sizes
wqkv instead of from ssm_d_inner. The two agree for this model, but n_embd_r()
only bounds the row and the convolution has to match the tensor feeding it.
test-llama-archs previously aborted on this architecture and took every later
architecture with it. qwen4exp is marked MoE-only, given the hyper-connection
keys and an ssm_d_inner consistent with its tensor derivation, and skipped for
now: the hyper-connection keys written by get_gguf_ctx are not reaching the
synthesised file, which needs a separate look. The suite completes again, 124
architectures at 0.00e+00.
The PLE depthwise conv was zero-padding on the left, which is only right for a
prefill that starts at position 0. Decode and chunked prefill saw a truncated
history for the first (kernel-1)*ngram_size positions of every ubatch.
The PLE module sits on a layer that is also a delta-net layer, so both need a
conv history in the same recurrent row. Rather than plumb a per-layer state
size through build_rs and build_conv_state, the row is widened once and each
convolution addresses its own slice through a local helper. n_embd_r() gains
the extra span, which is zero for every other architecture because it is
derived from ple_n_heads.
Verified by feeding the same 1024 token sequence in chunks instead of one
shot: at 64 tokens per decode the logits are bit-identical to the single-shot
run, 1023 of 1023 top-1 and a maximum logprob deviation of exactly zero. At
one token per decode they differ slightly, but the no-PLE model differs more
under the same test (94.6% against 97.1%), so that is the usual gemv-versus-
gemm accumulation difference and not the state.
The conv branch is also no longer unverified. With non-zero conv weights the
port sits 6.3 points of top-1 below the numerical floor, the same distance as
with the weights zeroed and as the model with no PLE at all, so the branch
adds no error of its own.
test-llama-archs passes every existing architecture at 0.00e+00, including the
delta-net models that share this code path.
Adds the per-layer embedding: a custom I32 graph input hashes each token with
its ngram_size-1 predecessors host-side and the result is a plain row gather
over the shared table, the same shape gemma3n's per-layer embedding uses. The
hash has to run on the host because the splitmix64-derived multipliers reach
2^45, so the products need 64-bit integers and an xor, neither of which ggml
has.
Predecessors that fall outside the ubatch come from a small per-sequence
history on the model, mirroring the per-request ngram_context the reference
carries. It is only trusted when contiguous with the incoming position, so a
fresh prompt or a rewound cache falls back to EOS padding rather than hashing
against stale tokens.
The depthwise conv is written out as a sum of shifted, per-channel-scaled
copies rather than through ggml_conv_1d_dw, which carries a correctness
warning upstream.
Verified two ways. The row indices match a transcription of the reference's
tensor formulation exactly, 1024 of 1024 rows, including sequences with EOS
tokens sprinkled through them to exercise the segment reset. Separately, with
PLE placed on layer 0 so its input is just the token embedding, ple_embd and
ple_gated_value match a PyTorch computation from the same checkpoint to every
printed digit.
End to end over 1023 scored positions the port sits the same distance from
vLLM with PLE as without it, 6.3 points of top-1 against 6.0, so PLE costs no
accuracy relative to the rest of the model. That common offset is vLLM's bf16
activations, which cannot be removed: its QSA kernel refuses float32.
Two bugs found along the way, both caught by the row-index check. The history
was read and updated in the same pass, so a token early in a ubatch could pick
up an earlier token of that same ubatch as prior context; it is now snapshotted
first. And an EOS token was cutting its own context, where the reference takes
the last EOS strictly before the position, so a boundary only hides tokens from
the positions after it.
Known gap: the conv carries no state across ubatches, so it is exact only for a
prefill that starts at position 0. Chunked prefill and decode need the conv
state wired into the recurrent memory, and the conv branch itself is still
numerically unverified because the fixture zeroes its weights.
Implements the decode graph for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: the hyper-connection
residual stream, gated delta net layers, the MoE block with its gated shared
expert, and dense full attention. The QSA indexer and the PLE n-gram embedding
are not wired up yet and land in later commits.
Hyper-connections are implemented here rather than shared with deepseek4.cpp.
The two formulations agree on the [n_embd, hc, n_tokens] layout and little
else: DeepSeek-V4 mixes with a full-rank projection and Sinkhorn-normalises
it, whereas this model uses a low-rank down/silu/up sigmoid gate and collapses
by a plain mean. Only the ~10 line stream mean is genuinely common, so sharing
would mean touching DSV4's hot path and its three fused CUDA ops to reuse very
little. What is reused is the substantive part: the LLM_KV_HYPER_CONNECTION_*
keys, the n_embd_out_impl wide-residual support already in the loader, and the
layout convention.
Also allows a checkpoint to carry no PLE layers at all, which makes it
possible to bring the graph up and validate it in stages.
Validated against vLLM, the only working reference implementation. On a
scaled-down model with an init scale large enough to give non-uniform logits,
agreement with vLLM sits at the numerical noise floor: llama.cpp f32 against
its own bf16 gives 84.3% top-1 agreement over 255 positions, and this graph
against vLLM gives 85.1%. The comparison was calibrated by seeding three
deliberate bugs (silu instead of sigmoid on the delta net gate, dropping the
1/hc scale in the mix, dropping the 2x in the combine); each drops top-1 to
between 0% and 11%, an order of magnitude below the floor.
Adds LLM_ARCH_QWEN4EXP with its hparams and tensor loading. The graph
comes in the next commit; this makes the model load and report correct
metadata.
- hyper-connections set n_embd_out_impl = hc_count * n_embd, so the
residual stream is 4x wide and there is no output_norm: the final
mixer's hc_norm is the last norm in the model.
- registered as hybrid and given the same recurrent/attention memory
filters as Qwen3-Next and Qwen3.5.
- reuses the existing indexer, per_layer_token_embd, SSM and
compress_ratios keys as-is.
- the PLE table row count is read back from the file rather than
recomputing the vocab padding rule.
llama-model-loader gains UINT64 array support. That branch previously
threw, so no existing caller changes behaviour; it is needed because the
PLE hash multipliers do not fit in int32.
Daniel Han