llama : optimize vocabulary loading (#30679)

* llama : optimize vocabulary loading

* Update src/unicode.h

Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>

* CR : added reserve in gguf_kv_to_str

* CR : trailing space fix

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Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>

common/common.cpp

@@ -1235,6 +1235,9 @@ common_gguf_info common_get_gguf_info(const std::string & fname) {
         info.n_ctx_train = gguf_get_val_u32(gguf_ctx.get(), ctx_id);
     }
 
+    // same key as llama_model_chat_template(model, nullptr)
+    info.has_chat_tmpl = gguf_find_key(gguf_ctx.get(), "tokenizer.chat_template") >= 0;
+
     return info;
 }
 

common/common.h

@@ -985,6 +985,7 @@ common_decision_type common_get_decision_type(const struct llama_model * model);
 struct common_gguf_info {
     common_decision_type decision_type = COMMON_DECISION_TYPE_UNKNOWN; // UNKNOWN if the file is missing, unreadable, or invalid
     uint32_t             n_ctx_train   = 0;                            // 0 if unknown
+    bool                 has_chat_tmpl = false;                        // has the default tokenizer.chat_template
 };
 
 common_gguf_info common_get_gguf_info(const std::string & fname);

conversion/__init__.py

@@ -200,7 +200,9 @@ TEXT_MODEL_MAP: dict[str, str] = {
     "MiniMaxM3SparseForCausalLM": "minimax",
     "MiniMaxM3SparseForConditionalGeneration": "minimax",
     "Ministral3ForCausalLM": "mistral3",
+    "Ministral3Model": "mistral3",
     "Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration": "mistral3",
+    "Mistral3Model": "mistral3",
     "VoxtralRealtimeForConditionalGeneration": "mistral3",
     "MistralForCausalLM": "llama",
     "MixtralForCausalLM": "llama",
@@ -358,6 +360,7 @@ MMPROJ_MODEL_MAP: dict[str, str] = {
     "MiniCPMV4_6ForConditionalGeneration": "minicpm",
     "MiniCPMV4_7ForConditionalGeneration": "minicpm",
     "Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration": "llava",
+    "Mistral3Model": "llava",
     "NemotronH_Omni_Reasoning_V3": "nemotron",
     "NemotronH_Nano_VL_V2": "nemotron",
     "MuseGlimmerForConditionalGeneration": "muse_glimmer",

conversion/llava.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 
 import json
 
-from typing import Iterable, TYPE_CHECKING
+from typing import Callable, Iterable, TYPE_CHECKING
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from torch import Tensor
@@ -128,3 +128,24 @@ class LlavaVisionModel(MmprojModel):
             yield from super().modify_tensors(img_break_embd, name, bid)
 
         return # skip other tensors
+
+
+@ModelBase.register("Mistral3Model")
+@ModelBase.example("nvidia/Nemotron-3.5-Embed-1B-BF16")
+class Mistral3EmbeddingVisionModel(LlavaVisionModel):
+    def __init__(self, dir_model, *args, **kwargs):
+        hparams = ModelBase.load_hparams(dir_model, is_mistral_format=False)
+        text_config = hparams.get("text_config", hparams)
+        if text_config.get("is_causal") is not False:
+            raise NotImplementedError("Expected a Nemotron Embed model for Mistral3Model, but is_causal is not False")
+        super().__init__(dir_model, *args, **kwargs)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def filter_tensors(cls, item: tuple[str, Callable[[], Tensor]]) -> tuple[str, Callable[[], Tensor]] | None:
+        if item[0].endswith("embed_tokens.weight"):
+            return ModelBase.filter_tensors(item)
+        return super().filter_tensors(item)
+
+    def set_gguf_parameters(self):
+        super().set_gguf_parameters()
+        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_preproc_image_size(self.preprocessor_config["size"]["longest_edge"])

conversion/mistral3.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from torch import Tensor
 
-from .base import ModelBase, TextModel, gguf
+from .base import ModelBase, TextModel, get_model_architecture, gguf
 
 from .deepseek import DeepseekV2Model
 from .llama import LlamaModel
@@ -13,9 +13,11 @@ from .llama import LlamaModel
 
 @ModelBase.register(
     "Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration",
+    "Mistral3Model",
     "Ministral3ForCausalLM",
+    "Ministral3Model",
 )
-@ModelBase.example("mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503", "hf-tiny-v2/tiny-random-Ministral3ForCausalLM")
+@ModelBase.example("mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503", "hf-tiny-v2/tiny-random-Ministral3ForCausalLM", "nvidia/Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16", "nvidia/Nemotron-3.5-Embed-1B-BF16")
 class Mistral3Model(TextModel):
     class Ministral3Model(LlamaModel):
         model_arch = gguf.MODEL_ARCH.MISTRAL3
@@ -29,6 +31,18 @@ class Mistral3Model(TextModel):
                 self.gguf_writer.add_rope_scaling_yarn_log_mul(rope_params["mscale_all_dim"])
                 self.gguf_writer.add_attn_temperature_scale(rope_params["llama_4_scaling_beta"])
 
+    class Mistral3EmbedNemotronModel(Ministral3Model):
+        model_arch = gguf.MODEL_ARCH.MISTRAL3
+
+        def set_vocab(self):
+            super().set_vocab()
+            self.gguf_writer.add_add_bos_token(False)
+            self.gguf_writer.add_add_eos_token(False)
+
+        def set_gguf_parameters(self):
+            super().set_gguf_parameters()
+            self._try_set_pooling_type()
+
     class Mistral4Model(DeepseekV2Model):
         model_arch = gguf.MODEL_ARCH.MISTRAL4
         skip_mtp = False # model contains no MTP layers, so no need to skip
@@ -42,12 +56,20 @@ class Mistral3Model(TextModel):
     model_arch = gguf.MODEL_ARCH.MISTRAL3 # unused
     impl: TextModel
 
-    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+    def __init__(self, dir_model, *args, **kwargs):
+        hparams = ModelBase.load_hparams(dir_model, is_mistral_format=False)
+        hf_arch = get_model_architecture(hparams, self.model_type)
+        if hf_arch in ("Ministral3Model", "Mistral3Model"):
+            text_config = hparams.get("text_config", hparams)
+            if text_config.get("is_causal") is not False:
+                raise NotImplementedError(f"Expected a Nemotron Embed model for {hf_arch}, but is_causal is not False")
+        super().__init__(dir_model, *args, **kwargs)
         if self.hparams.get("model_type") == "mistral4":
-            self.impl = Mistral3Model.Mistral4Model(*args, **kwargs)
+            self.impl = Mistral3Model.Mistral4Model(dir_model, *args, **kwargs)
+        elif self.hf_arch in ("Ministral3Model", "Mistral3Model"):
+            self.impl = Mistral3Model.Mistral3EmbedNemotronModel(dir_model, *args, **kwargs)
         else:
-            self.impl = Mistral3Model.Ministral3Model(*args, **kwargs)
+            self.impl = Mistral3Model.Ministral3Model(dir_model, *args, **kwargs)
 
     def set_vocab(self):
         self.impl.set_vocab()

ggml/src/ggml-backend-meta.cpp

@@ -774,6 +774,13 @@ static struct ggml_backend_meta_split_state ggml_backend_meta_get_split_state(
         return src_ss[0];
     };
 
+    auto handle_pool_1d = [&](const std::vector<ggml_backend_meta_split_state> & src_ss) -> ggml_backend_meta_split_state {
+        if (src_ss[0].axis == GGML_BACKEND_SPLIT_AXIS_0) {
+            return {GGML_BACKEND_SPLIT_AXIS_MIRRORED, {0}, {1}, 1};
+        }
+        return src_ss[0];
+    };
+
     auto handle_flash_attn_ext = [&](const std::vector<ggml_backend_meta_split_state> & src_ss) -> ggml_backend_meta_split_state {
         GGML_ASSERT(tensor->src[3] == nullptr || src_ss[3].axis == GGML_BACKEND_SPLIT_AXIS_MIRRORED);
 
@@ -990,12 +997,14 @@ static struct ggml_backend_meta_split_state ggml_backend_meta_get_split_state(
             case GGML_OP_CONV_3D:
             case GGML_OP_CONV_2D_DW:
             case GGML_OP_CONV_TRANSPOSE_2D:
-            case GGML_OP_POOL_1D:
             case GGML_OP_POOL_2D:
             case GGML_OP_POOL_2D_BACK:
             case GGML_OP_UPSCALE: {
                 split_state = handle_generic(src_ss, /*scalar_only =*/ true);
             } break;
+            case GGML_OP_POOL_1D: {
+                split_state = handle_pool_1d(src_ss);
+            } break;
             case GGML_OP_PAD: {
                 split_state = handle_pad(src_ss);
             } break;

ggml/src/ggml-cpu/vec.cpp

@@ -460,6 +460,92 @@ void ggml_vec_swiglu_f32(const int n, float * y, const float * x, const float *
     }
 }
 
+#ifndef GGML_GELU_QUICK_FP16
+// computed in f32 without the fp16 table, which loses precision on f32 input
+void ggml_vec_gelu_quick_f32(const int n, float * y, const float * x) {
+    int i = 0;
+#if defined(__AVX512F__) && defined(__AVX512DQ__)
+    for (; i + 15 < n; i += 16) {
+        _mm512_storeu_ps(y + i, ggml_v_gelu_quick(_mm512_loadu_ps(x + i)));
+    }
+#elif defined(__AVX2__) && defined(__FMA__)
+    for (; i + 7 < n; i += 8) {
+        _mm256_storeu_ps(y + i, ggml_v_gelu_quick(_mm256_loadu_ps(x + i)));
+    }
+#elif defined(__SSE2__)
+    for (; i + 3 < n; i += 4) {
+        _mm_storeu_ps(y + i, ggml_v_gelu_quick(_mm_loadu_ps(x + i)));
+    }
+#elif defined(__ARM_FEATURE_SVE) && defined(__aarch64__)
+    const int vlen = svcntw();
+    for (; i < n; i += vlen) {
+        const svbool_t pg = svwhilelt_b32_s32(i, n);
+        svst1_f32(pg, y + i, ggml_v_gelu_quick(pg, svld1_f32(pg, x + i)));
+    }
+#elif defined(__ARM_NEON) && defined(__aarch64__)
+    for (; i + 3 < n; i += 4) {
+        vst1q_f32(y + i, ggml_v_gelu_quick(vld1q_f32(x + i)));
+    }
+#elif defined(__VXE__) || defined(__VXE2__)
+    for (; i + 3 < n; i += 4) {
+        vec_xst(ggml_v_gelu_quick(vec_xl(0, x + i)), 0, y + i);
+    }
+#elif defined(__riscv_v_intrinsic)
+    for (int vl; i < n; i += vl) {
+        vl = __riscv_vsetvl_e32m2(n - i);
+        vfloat32m2_t vx = __riscv_vle32_v_f32m2(&x[i], vl);
+        vfloat32m2_t vy = ggml_v_gelu_quick_m2(vx, vl);
+        __riscv_vse32_v_f32m2(&y[i], vy, vl);
+    }
+#endif
+    for (; i < n; ++i) {
+        y[i] = ggml_gelu_quick_f32(x[i]);
+    }
+}
+
+void ggml_vec_geglu_quick_f32(const int n, float * y, const float * x, const float * g) {
+    int i = 0;
+#if defined(__AVX512F__) && defined(__AVX512DQ__)
+    for (; i + 15 < n; i += 16) {
+        _mm512_storeu_ps(y + i, _mm512_mul_ps(ggml_v_gelu_quick(_mm512_loadu_ps(x + i)), _mm512_loadu_ps(g + i)));
+    }
+#elif defined(__AVX2__) && defined(__FMA__)
+    for (; i + 7 < n; i += 8) {
+        _mm256_storeu_ps(y + i, _mm256_mul_ps(ggml_v_gelu_quick(_mm256_loadu_ps(x + i)), _mm256_loadu_ps(g + i)));
+    }
+#elif defined(__SSE2__)
+    for (; i + 3 < n; i += 4) {
+        _mm_storeu_ps(y + i, _mm_mul_ps(ggml_v_gelu_quick(_mm_loadu_ps(x + i)), _mm_loadu_ps(g + i)));
+    }
+#elif defined(__ARM_FEATURE_SVE) && defined(__aarch64__)
+    const int vlen = svcntw();
+    for (; i < n; i += vlen) {
+        const svbool_t pg = svwhilelt_b32_s32(i, n);
+        svst1_f32(pg, y + i, svmul_f32_x(pg, ggml_v_gelu_quick(pg, svld1_f32(pg, x + i)), svld1_f32(pg, g + i)));
+    }
+#elif defined(__ARM_NEON) && defined(__aarch64__)
+    for (; i + 3 < n; i += 4) {
+        vst1q_f32(y + i, vmulq_f32(ggml_v_gelu_quick(vld1q_f32(x + i)), vld1q_f32(g + i)));
+    }
+#elif defined(__VXE__) || defined(__VXE2__)
+    for (; i + 3 < n; i += 4) {
+        vec_xst(vec_mul(ggml_v_gelu_quick(vec_xl(0, x + i)), vec_xl(0, g + i)), 0, y + i);
+    }
+#elif defined(__riscv_v_intrinsic)
+    for (int vl; i < n; i += vl) {
+        vl = __riscv_vsetvl_e32m2(n - i);
+        vfloat32m2_t vx = __riscv_vle32_v_f32m2(&x[i], vl);
+        vfloat32m2_t vg = __riscv_vle32_v_f32m2(&g[i], vl);
+        vfloat32m2_t vy = __riscv_vfmul_vv_f32m2(ggml_v_gelu_quick_m2(vx, vl), vg, vl);
+        __riscv_vse32_v_f32m2(&y[i], vy, vl);
+    }
+#endif
+    for (; i < n; ++i) {
+        y[i] = ggml_gelu_quick_f32(x[i]) * g[i];
+    }
+}
+#endif
+
 ggml_float ggml_vec_cvar_f32(const int n, float * y, const float * x, const float mean) {
     int i = 0;
     ggml_float sum = 0;

ggml/src/ggml-cpu/vec.h

@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ inline static ggml_float ggml_sve_sum_f32x2(svfloat32_t sum_lo, svfloat32_t sum_
 #endif
 
 #define GGML_GELU_FP16
-#define GGML_GELU_QUICK_FP16
 
 #define GGML_SOFT_MAX_UNROLL 4
 #define GGML_VEC_DOT_UNROLL  2
@@ -1054,11 +1053,7 @@ inline static void ggml_vec_gelu_quick_f32(const int n, float * y, const float *
     }
 }
 #else
-inline static void ggml_vec_gelu_quick_f32(const int n, float * y, const float * x) {
-    for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
-        y[i] = ggml_gelu_quick_f32(x[i]);
-    }
-}
+void ggml_vec_gelu_quick_f32(const int n, float * y, const float * x);
 #endif
 
 // Sigmoid Linear Unit (SiLU) function
@@ -1143,6 +1138,13 @@ inline static svfloat32_t ggml_v_silu(svbool_t pg, svfloat32_t x) {
     return svdiv_f32_x(pg, x, one_plus_exp_neg_x);
 }
 
+// gelu_quick(x) = x / (1 + exp(-1.702 x)); x stays the numerator so it cannot overflow
+inline static svfloat32_t ggml_v_gelu_quick(svbool_t pg, svfloat32_t x) {
+    const svfloat32_t one = svdup_n_f32_x(pg, 1.0f);
+    const svfloat32_t exp_cx = ggml_v_expf(pg, svmul_n_f32_x(pg, x, GELU_QUICK_COEF));
+    return svdiv_f32_x(pg, x, svadd_f32_x(pg, one, exp_cx));
+}
+
 #elif defined(__ARM_NEON) && defined(__aarch64__)
 
 // adapted from arm limited optimized routine
@@ -1182,6 +1184,13 @@ inline static float32x4_t ggml_v_silu(float32x4_t x) {
     return vdivq_f32(x, one_plus_exp_neg_x);
 }
 
+// gelu_quick(x) = x / (1 + exp(-1.702 x)); x stays the numerator so it cannot overflow
+inline static float32x4_t ggml_v_gelu_quick(float32x4_t x) {
+    const float32x4_t one = vdupq_n_f32(1.0f);
+    const float32x4_t exp_cx = ggml_v_expf(vmulq_n_f32(x, GELU_QUICK_COEF));
+    return vdivq_f32(x, vaddq_f32(one, exp_cx));
+}
+
 #elif defined(__AVX512F__) && defined(__AVX512DQ__)
 
 // adapted from arm limited optimized routine
@@ -1225,6 +1234,13 @@ inline static __m512 ggml_v_silu(__m512 x) {
     return _mm512_div_ps(x, one_plus_exp_neg_x);
 }
 
+// gelu_quick(x) = x / (1 + exp(-1.702 x)); x stays the numerator so it cannot overflow
+inline static __m512 ggml_v_gelu_quick(__m512 x) {
+    const __m512 one = _mm512_set1_ps(1);
+    const __m512 exp_cx = ggml_v_expf(_mm512_mul_ps(x, _mm512_set1_ps(GELU_QUICK_COEF)));
+    return _mm512_div_ps(x, _mm512_add_ps(one, exp_cx));
+}
+
 #elif defined(__AVX2__) && defined(__FMA__)
 
 // adapted from arm limited optimized routine
@@ -1280,6 +1296,13 @@ inline static __m256 ggml_v_silu(__m256 x) {
     return _mm256_div_ps(x, one_plus_exp_neg_x);
 }
 
+// gelu_quick(x) = x / (1 + exp(-1.702 x)); x stays the numerator so it cannot overflow
+inline static __m256 ggml_v_gelu_quick(__m256 x) {
+    const __m256 one = _mm256_set1_ps(1);
+    const __m256 exp_cx = ggml_v_expf(_mm256_mul_ps(x, _mm256_set1_ps(GELU_QUICK_COEF)));
+    return _mm256_div_ps(x, _mm256_add_ps(one, exp_cx));
+}
+
 #elif defined(__SSE2__) // __AVX2__ / __ARM_NEON
 
 #if defined(__FMA__)
@@ -1334,6 +1357,13 @@ inline static __m128 ggml_v_silu(__m128 x) {
     return _mm_div_ps(x, one_plus_exp_neg_x);
 }
 
+// gelu_quick(x) = x / (1 + exp(-1.702 x)); x stays the numerator so it cannot overflow
+inline static __m128 ggml_v_gelu_quick(__m128 x) {
+    const __m128 one = _mm_set1_ps(1);
+    const __m128 exp_cx = ggml_v_expf(_mm_mul_ps(x, _mm_set1_ps(GELU_QUICK_COEF)));
+    return _mm_div_ps(x, _mm_add_ps(one, exp_cx));
+}
+
 #elif defined(__VXE__) || defined(__VXE2__)
 
 // adapted from arm limited optimized routine
@@ -1374,6 +1404,13 @@ inline static float32x4_t ggml_v_silu(float32x4_t v_x) {
     return vec_div(v_x, v_one_plus_exp_neg_x);
 }
 
+// gelu_quick(x) = x / (1 + exp(-1.702 x)); x stays the numerator so it cannot overflow
+inline static float32x4_t ggml_v_gelu_quick(float32x4_t x) {
+    const float32x4_t one = vec_splats(1.0f);
+    const float32x4_t exp_cx = ggml_v_expf(vec_mul(x, vec_splats(GELU_QUICK_COEF)));
+    return vec_div(x, vec_add(one, exp_cx));
+}
+
 #elif defined(__riscv_v_intrinsic)
 
 // adapted from arm limited optimized routine
@@ -1426,6 +1463,12 @@ inline static vfloat32m2_t ggml_v_silu_m2(vfloat32m2_t x, int vl) {
     return __riscv_vfdiv_vv_f32m2(x, one_plus_exp_neg_x, vl);
 }
 
+// gelu_quick(x) = x / (1 + exp(-1.702 x)); x stays the numerator so it cannot overflow
+inline static vfloat32m2_t ggml_v_gelu_quick_m2(vfloat32m2_t x, int vl) {
+    const vfloat32m2_t exp_cx = ggml_v_expf_m2(__riscv_vfmul_vf_f32m2(x, GELU_QUICK_COEF, vl), vl);
+    return __riscv_vfdiv_vv_f32m2(x, __riscv_vfadd_vf_f32m2(exp_cx, 1.0f, vl), vl);
+}
+
 #endif // __ARM_NEON / __AVX2__ / __SSE2__ / __VXE__ / __riscv_v_intrinsic
 
 inline static void ggml_vec_silu_f16(const int n, ggml_fp16_t * y, const ggml_fp16_t * x) {
@@ -1571,11 +1614,7 @@ inline static void ggml_vec_geglu_quick_f32(const int n, float * y, const float
     }
 }
 #else
-inline static void ggml_vec_geglu_quick_f32(const int n, float * y, const float * x, const float * g) {
-    for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
-        y[i] = ggml_gelu_quick_f32(x[i]) * g[i];
-    }
-}
+void ggml_vec_geglu_quick_f32(const int n, float * y, const float * x, const float * g);
 #endif
 
 inline static void ggml_vec_geglu_quick_f16(const int n, ggml_fp16_t * y, const ggml_fp16_t * x, const ggml_fp16_t * g) {

ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp-repack.cpp

@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@
 #include <cmath>
 #include <cstring>
 #include <initializer_list>
+#include <thread>
+
+#if defined(__ARM_NEON) || defined(__aarch64__)
+#    include <arm_neon.h>
+#endif
 
 // --- 4-bit block-32 nibble helpers (shared by Q4_0, IQ4_NL, Q4_1, MXFP4) ---
 
@@ -43,8 +48,309 @@ static inline void transpose_tile_to_nibbles(uint8_t tile_quants[32][32], const
     }
 }
 
+#if defined(__ARM_NEON) || defined(__aarch64__)
+static void repack_neon_transpose8x8(const uint8x8_t rows[8], uint8x8_t columns[8]) {
+    const uint8x8x2_t t0 = vtrn_u8(rows[0], rows[1]);
+    const uint8x8x2_t t1 = vtrn_u8(rows[2], rows[3]);
+    const uint8x8x2_t t2 = vtrn_u8(rows[4], rows[5]);
+    const uint8x8x2_t t3 = vtrn_u8(rows[6], rows[7]);
+    const uint16x4x2_t t4 = vtrn_u16(vreinterpret_u16_u8(t0.val[0]), vreinterpret_u16_u8(t1.val[0]));
+    const uint16x4x2_t t5 = vtrn_u16(vreinterpret_u16_u8(t0.val[1]), vreinterpret_u16_u8(t1.val[1]));
+    const uint16x4x2_t t6 = vtrn_u16(vreinterpret_u16_u8(t2.val[0]), vreinterpret_u16_u8(t3.val[0]));
+    const uint16x4x2_t t7 = vtrn_u16(vreinterpret_u16_u8(t2.val[1]), vreinterpret_u16_u8(t3.val[1]));
+    const uint32x2x2_t t8 = vtrn_u32(vreinterpret_u32_u16(t4.val[0]), vreinterpret_u32_u16(t6.val[0]));
+    const uint32x2x2_t t9 = vtrn_u32(vreinterpret_u32_u16(t4.val[1]), vreinterpret_u32_u16(t6.val[1]));
+    const uint32x2x2_t ta = vtrn_u32(vreinterpret_u32_u16(t5.val[0]), vreinterpret_u32_u16(t7.val[0]));
+    const uint32x2x2_t tb = vtrn_u32(vreinterpret_u32_u16(t5.val[1]), vreinterpret_u32_u16(t7.val[1]));
+    columns[0] = vreinterpret_u8_u32(t8.val[0]);
+    columns[1] = vreinterpret_u8_u32(ta.val[0]);
+    columns[2] = vreinterpret_u8_u32(t9.val[0]);
+    columns[3] = vreinterpret_u8_u32(tb.val[0]);
+    columns[4] = vreinterpret_u8_u32(t8.val[1]);
+    columns[5] = vreinterpret_u8_u32(ta.val[1]);
+    columns[6] = vreinterpret_u8_u32(t9.val[1]);
+    columns[7] = vreinterpret_u8_u32(tb.val[1]);
+}
+
+static uint8x8_t repack_neon_pack_4bit_pairs(uint8x8_t first, uint8x8_t second, bool high) {
+    const uint8x8x2_t separated = vuzp_u8(first, second);
+    const uint8x8_t mask = vdup_n_u8(0x0F);
+    uint8x8_t even = separated.val[0];
+    uint8x8_t odd  = separated.val[1];
+
+    if (high) {
+        even = vshr_n_u8(even, 4);
+        odd  = vshr_n_u8(odd, 4);
+    }
+
+    even = vand_u8(even, mask);
+    odd  = vand_u8(odd, mask);
+    return vorr_u8(vshl_n_u8(odd, 4), even);
+}
+
+static void repack_neon_4bit_rows(const uint8_t * qs[8], uint8_t * tile_dst, int row0) {
+    uint8x8_t low_rows[8];
+    uint8x8_t high_rows[8];
+    uint8x8_t columns[8];
+
+    for (int rr = 0; rr < 8; ++rr) {
+        const uint8x16_t packed = vld1q_u8(qs[rr]);
+        const uint8x8_t first = vget_low_u8(packed);
+        const uint8x8_t second = vget_high_u8(packed);
+        low_rows[rr]  = repack_neon_pack_4bit_pairs(first, second, false);
+        high_rows[rr] = repack_neon_pack_4bit_pairs(first, second, true);
+    }
+
+    repack_neon_transpose8x8(low_rows, columns);
+    for (int cp = 0; cp < 8; ++cp) {
+        vst1_u8(tile_dst + cp * 32 + row0, columns[cp]);
+    }
+
+    repack_neon_transpose8x8(high_rows, columns);
+    for (int cp = 0; cp < 8; ++cp) {
+        vst1_u8(tile_dst + (cp + 8) * 32 + row0, columns[cp]);
+    }
+}
+
+static void repack_neon_k4_rows(const uint8_t * qs[8], uint8_t * tile_dst, int row0, bool high) {
+    uint8x8_t first_rows[8];
+    uint8x8_t second_rows[8];
+    uint8x8_t columns[8];
+
+    for (int rr = 0; rr < 8; ++rr) {
+        first_rows[rr] = repack_neon_pack_4bit_pairs(vld1_u8(qs[rr]), vld1_u8(qs[rr] + 8), high);
+        second_rows[rr] = repack_neon_pack_4bit_pairs(vld1_u8(qs[rr] + 16), vld1_u8(qs[rr] + 24), high);
+    }
+
+    repack_neon_transpose8x8(first_rows, columns);
+    for (int cp = 0; cp < 8; ++cp) {
+        vst1_u8(tile_dst + cp * 32 + row0, columns[cp]);
+    }
+
+    repack_neon_transpose8x8(second_rows, columns);
+    for (int cp = 0; cp < 8; ++cp) {
+        vst1_u8(tile_dst + (cp + 8) * 32 + row0, columns[cp]);
+    }
+}
+
+static void repack_neon_q8_rows(const uint8_t * qs[8], uint8_t * tile_dst, int row0) {
+    uint8x8_t rows[8];
+    uint8x8_t columns[8];
+
+    for (int cp = 0; cp < 16; cp += 4) {
+        for (int rr = 0; rr < 8; ++rr) {
+            rows[rr] = vld1_u8(qs[rr] + 2 * cp);
+        }
+        repack_neon_transpose8x8(rows, columns);
+
+        for (int pair = 0; pair < 4; ++pair) {
+            const uint8x8x2_t interleaved = vzip_u8(columns[2 * pair], columns[2 * pair + 1]);
+            uint8_t * dst = tile_dst + (cp + pair) * 64 + 2 * row0;
+            vst1_u8(dst, interleaved.val[0]);
+            vst1_u8(dst + 8, interleaved.val[1]);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+static inline void repack_store_u32(uint8_t * dst, uint32_t v) {
+    memcpy(dst, &v, sizeof(v));
+}
+
+static inline uint32x4_t repack_neon_transpose_2bit_4x4(uint32x4_t w) {
+    uint32x4_t t = vandq_u32(veorq_u32(w, vshrq_n_u32(w, 6)), vdupq_n_u32(0x00CC00CCu));
+    w = veorq_u32(w, veorq_u32(t, vshlq_n_u32(t, 6)));
+    t = vandq_u32(veorq_u32(w, vshrq_n_u32(w, 12)), vdupq_n_u32(0x0000F0F0u));
+    return veorq_u32(w, veorq_u32(t, vshlq_n_u32(t, 12)));
+}
+
+static inline void repack_neon_q2_0_block(const uint8_t * qs, uint8_t * tile, int row) {
+    const uint32x4_t w = repack_neon_transpose_2bit_4x4(vreinterpretq_u32_u8(vld1q_u8(qs)));
+    repack_store_u32(tile + 0 * 128 + 4 * row, vgetq_lane_u32(w, 0));
+    repack_store_u32(tile + 1 * 128 + 4 * row, vgetq_lane_u32(w, 1));
+    repack_store_u32(tile + 2 * 128 + 4 * row, vgetq_lane_u32(w, 2));
+    repack_store_u32(tile + 3 * 128 + 4 * row, vgetq_lane_u32(w, 3));
+}
+
+static inline void repack_neon_q1_0_block(const uint8_t * qs, uint8_t * tile, int row) {
+    uint32x4_t w = vreinterpretq_u32_u8(vld1q_u8(qs));
+    uint32x4_t t = vandq_u32(veorq_u32(w, vshrq_n_u32(w, 1)), vdupq_n_u32(0x22222222u));
+    w = veorq_u32(w, veorq_u32(t, vshlq_n_u32(t, 1)));
+    t = vandq_u32(veorq_u32(w, vshrq_n_u32(w, 3)), vdupq_n_u32(0x0A0A0A0Au));
+    w = veorq_u32(w, veorq_u32(t, vshlq_n_u32(t, 3)));
+    w = repack_neon_transpose_2bit_4x4(w);
+    repack_store_u32(tile + 0 * 128 + 4 * row, vgetq_lane_u32(w, 0));
+    repack_store_u32(tile + 1 * 128 + 4 * row, vgetq_lane_u32(w, 1));
+    repack_store_u32(tile + 2 * 128 + 4 * row, vgetq_lane_u32(w, 2));
+    repack_store_u32(tile + 3 * 128 + 4 * row, vgetq_lane_u32(w, 3));
+}
+
+static inline void repack_neon_pack_2bit_plane(uint8x16_t v0, uint8x16_t v1, uint8_t * dst, int row) {
+    const uint32x4x2_t z   = vuzpq_u32(vreinterpretq_u32_u8(v0), vreinterpretq_u32_u8(v1));
+    const uint32x4_t   p01 = vorrq_u32(z.val[0], vshlq_n_u32(z.val[1], 2));
+    const uint32x2x2_t u   = vuzp_u32(vget_low_u32(p01), vget_high_u32(p01));
+    const uint32x2_t   out = vorr_u32(u.val[0], vshl_n_u32(u.val[1], 4));
+    repack_store_u32(dst + 0 * 128 + row * 4, vget_lane_u32(out, 0));
+    repack_store_u32(dst + 1 * 128 + row * 4, vget_lane_u32(out, 1));
+}
+
+static inline void repack_neon_q2_3_k_low2(const uint8_t * qs, int kt_local, uint8_t * lo_pl, int row) {
+    const uint8_t *  qs_sub = qs + (kt_local / 4) * 32;
+    const int8x16_t  shift  = vdupq_n_s8(-2 * (kt_local % 4));
+    const uint8x16_t mask   = vdupq_n_u8(0x03);
+    const uint8x16_t v0     = vandq_u8(vshlq_u8(vld1q_u8(qs_sub +  0), shift), mask);
+    const uint8x16_t v1     = vandq_u8(vshlq_u8(vld1q_u8(qs_sub + 16), shift), mask);
+    repack_neon_pack_2bit_plane(v0, v1, lo_pl, row);
+}
+
+static inline void repack_neon_q3_k_hmask(const uint8_t * hmask, int kt_local, uint8_t * neg_pl, int row) {
+    static const uint32_t mask_words[4] = { 0x01010101u, 0x02020202u, 0x04040404u, 0x08080808u };
+    const uint8x16_t m0   = vreinterpretq_u8_u32(vld1q_u32(mask_words));
+    const uint8x16_t m1   = vshlq_n_u8(m0, 4);
+    const uint8x16_t hbit = vdupq_n_u8((uint8_t) (1u << kt_local));
+    const uint8x16_t b0   = vbicq_u8(m0, vtstq_u8(vld1q_u8(hmask +  0), hbit));
+    const uint8x16_t b1   = vbicq_u8(m1, vtstq_u8(vld1q_u8(hmask + 16), hbit));
+    const uint32x4_t b01  = vreinterpretq_u32_u8(vorrq_u8(b0, b1));
+    const uint32x2_t f0   = vorr_u32(vget_low_u32(b01), vget_high_u32(b01));
+    const uint32x2_t f1   = vpadd_u32(f0, f0);
+    repack_store_u32(neg_pl + row * 4, vget_lane_u32(f1, 0));
+}
+
+static inline void repack_neon_q6_k(const block_q6_K * b, int kt_local, uint8_t * lo_pl, uint8_t * hi_pl, int row) {
+    const int        c      = kt_local / 4;
+    const int        g_sb   = kt_local % 4;
+    const uint8_t *  ql     = b->ql + c * 64 + (g_sb & 1) * 32;
+    const uint8_t *  qh     = b->qh + c * 32;
+    const int8x16_t  lshift = vdupq_n_s8((g_sb >= 2) ? -4 : 0);
+    const int8x16_t  hshift = vdupq_n_s8(-2 * g_sb);
+    const uint8x16_t mask4  = vdupq_n_u8(0x0F);
+    const uint8x16_t mask2  = vdupq_n_u8(0x03);
+
+    const uint8x16_t lo0  = vandq_u8(vshlq_u8(vld1q_u8(ql +  0), lshift), mask4);
+    const uint8x16_t lo1  = vandq_u8(vshlq_u8(vld1q_u8(ql + 16), lshift), mask4);
+    const uint32x4x2_t lz = vuzpq_u32(vreinterpretq_u32_u8(lo0), vreinterpretq_u32_u8(lo1));
+    const uint32x4_t lout = vorrq_u32(lz.val[0], vshlq_n_u32(lz.val[1], 4));
+    repack_store_u32(lo_pl + 0 * 128 + row * 4, vgetq_lane_u32(lout, 0));
+    repack_store_u32(lo_pl + 1 * 128 + row * 4, vgetq_lane_u32(lout, 1));
+    repack_store_u32(lo_pl + 2 * 128 + row * 4, vgetq_lane_u32(lout, 2));
+    repack_store_u32(lo_pl + 3 * 128 + row * 4, vgetq_lane_u32(lout, 3));
+
+    const uint8x16_t hi0 = vandq_u8(vshlq_u8(vld1q_u8(qh +  0), hshift), mask2);
+    const uint8x16_t hi1 = vandq_u8(vshlq_u8(vld1q_u8(qh + 16), hshift), mask2);
+    repack_neon_pack_2bit_plane(hi0, hi1, hi_pl, row);
+}
+
+static inline void repack_neon_q5_k_qh(const uint8_t * qh, uint8_t hbit, uint8_t * plane, int row) {
+    static const uint8_t mask_bytes[16] = { 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 4, 8, 4, 8, 4, 8, 4, 8 };
+    const uint8x16_t m0   = vld1q_u8(mask_bytes);
+    const uint8x16_t m1   = vshlq_n_u8(m0, 4);
+    const uint8x16_t vbit = vdupq_n_u8(hbit);
+    const uint8x16_t b0   = vandq_u8(vtstq_u8(vld1q_u8(qh +  0), vbit), m0);
+    const uint8x16_t b1   = vandq_u8(vtstq_u8(vld1q_u8(qh + 16), vbit), m1);
+    const uint8x16_t b01  = vorrq_u8(b0, b1);
+    const uint8x8_t  fold = vorr_u8(vget_low_u8(b01), vget_high_u8(b01));
+    const uint8x8_t  out  = vpadd_u8(fold, fold);
+    plane[0 * 32 + row] = vget_lane_u8(out, 0);
+    plane[1 * 32 + row] = vget_lane_u8(out, 1);
+    plane[2 * 32 + row] = vget_lane_u8(out, 2);
+    plane[3 * 32 + row] = vget_lane_u8(out, 3);
+}
+
+static inline uint16x8_t repack_neon_load_f16x8(const uint16_t * src) {
+    return vld1q_u16(src);
+}
+
+#if defined(__aarch64__) || defined(__ARM_FP16_FORMAT_IEEE)
+static inline uint16x8_t repack_neon_load_f16x8(const float * src) {
+    const float16x4_t lo = vcvt_f16_f32(vld1q_f32(src));
+    const float16x4_t hi = vcvt_f16_f32(vld1q_f32(src + 4));
+    return vreinterpretq_u16_f16(vcombine_f16(lo, hi));
+}
+
+static inline uint16x8_t repack_neon_load_f16x8(const ggml_bf16_t * src) {
+    const uint16x8_t  bf   = vld1q_u16((const uint16_t *) src);
+    const float32x4_t f_lo = vreinterpretq_f32_u32(vshll_n_u16(vget_low_u16(bf), 16));
+    const float32x4_t f_hi = vreinterpretq_f32_u32(vshll_n_u16(vget_high_u16(bf), 16));
+    const float16x4_t lo   = vcvt_f16_f32(f_lo);
+    const float16x4_t hi   = vcvt_f16_f32(f_hi);
+    return vreinterpretq_u16_f16(vcombine_f16(lo, hi));
+}
+#else
+static inline uint16x8_t repack_neon_load_f16x8(const float * src) {
+    uint16_t tmp[8];
+    for (int i = 0; i < 8; ++i) {
+        tmp[i] = GGML_FP32_TO_FP16(src[i]);
+    }
+    return vld1q_u16(tmp);
+}
+
+static inline uint16x8_t repack_neon_load_f16x8(const ggml_bf16_t * src) {
+    uint16_t tmp[8];
+    for (int i = 0; i < 8; ++i) {
+        tmp[i] = GGML_FP32_TO_FP16(GGML_BF16_TO_FP32(src[i]));
+    }
+    return vld1q_u16(tmp);
+}
+#endif
+
+template <typename SrcT>
+static void repack_neon_f16_tile(uint16_t * tile_dst, const SrcT * src_slice, int64_t row_stride, int ct, int kt) {
+    for (int row0 = 0; row0 < 32; row0 += 4) {
+        const SrcT * r0 = src_slice + (int64_t) (ct * 32 + row0 + 0) * row_stride + kt * 32;
+        const SrcT * r1 = src_slice + (int64_t) (ct * 32 + row0 + 1) * row_stride + kt * 32;
+        const SrcT * r2 = src_slice + (int64_t) (ct * 32 + row0 + 2) * row_stride + kt * 32;
+        const SrcT * r3 = src_slice + (int64_t) (ct * 32 + row0 + 3) * row_stride + kt * 32;
+        for (int cp = 0; cp < 16; cp += 4) {
+            const uint32x4_t v0 = vreinterpretq_u32_u16(repack_neon_load_f16x8(r0 + 2 * cp));
+            const uint32x4_t v1 = vreinterpretq_u32_u16(repack_neon_load_f16x8(r1 + 2 * cp));
+            const uint32x4_t v2 = vreinterpretq_u32_u16(repack_neon_load_f16x8(r2 + 2 * cp));
+            const uint32x4_t v3 = vreinterpretq_u32_u16(repack_neon_load_f16x8(r3 + 2 * cp));
+
+            const uint32x2x2_t t0 = vtrn_u32(vget_low_u32(v0),  vget_low_u32(v1));
+            const uint32x2x2_t t1 = vtrn_u32(vget_high_u32(v0), vget_high_u32(v1));
+            const uint32x2x2_t t2 = vtrn_u32(vget_low_u32(v2),  vget_low_u32(v3));
+            const uint32x2x2_t t3 = vtrn_u32(vget_high_u32(v2), vget_high_u32(v3));
+
+            vst1q_u16(tile_dst + (cp + 0) * 64 + row0 * 2, vreinterpretq_u16_u32(vcombine_u32(t0.val[0], t2.val[0])));
+            vst1q_u16(tile_dst + (cp + 1) * 64 + row0 * 2, vreinterpretq_u16_u32(vcombine_u32(t0.val[1], t2.val[1])));
+            vst1q_u16(tile_dst + (cp + 2) * 64 + row0 * 2, vreinterpretq_u16_u32(vcombine_u32(t1.val[0], t3.val[0])));
+            vst1q_u16(tile_dst + (cp + 3) * 64 + row0 * 2, vreinterpretq_u16_u32(vcombine_u32(t1.val[1], t3.val[1])));
+        }
+    }
+}
+#endif
+
 // --- Generic 32x32 tile grid walkers for block-32 and float types ---
 
+template <typename Fn>
+static void repack_parallel_for_ct(size_t slice_bytes, int n_col_tiles, Fn && fn) {
+    int n_threads = 1;
+    if (slice_bytes > 128 * 1024) {
+        for (int nt : { 4, 3, 2 }) {
+            if (n_col_tiles % nt == 0) {
+                n_threads = nt;
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    if (n_threads <= 1) {
+        fn(0, n_col_tiles);
+        return;
+    }
+
+    const int chunk = n_col_tiles / n_threads;
+    std::thread workers[3];
+    for (int i = 0; i < n_threads - 1; ++i) {
+        workers[i] = std::thread([&fn, i, chunk]() {
+            fn(i * chunk, (i + 1) * chunk);
+        });
+    }
+    fn((n_threads - 1) * chunk, n_col_tiles);
+    for (int i = 0; i < n_threads - 1; ++i) {
+        workers[i].join();
+    }
+}
+
 template <typename SrcElemT, int ELEMS_PER_KTILE, typename PackTileFn>
 static void repack_to_tiled_grid_32(ggml_tensor * t, const void * data, size_t offset, size_t size,
                                     size_t tile_size, PackTileFn && pack_tile) {
@@ -70,12 +376,14 @@ static void repack_to_tiled_grid_32(ggml_tensor * t, const void * data, size_t o
         const SrcElemT * src_slice = src_matrix + (slice_idx - start_slice) * (ne1 * row_stride);
         uint8_t * matrix_dst = (uint8_t *) t->data + slice_idx * matrix_size;
 
-        for (int ct = 0; ct < n_col_tiles; ct++) {
-            for (int kt = 0; kt < n_k_tiles; kt++) {
-                uint8_t * tile_dst = matrix_dst + ((size_t) ct * n_k_tiles + kt) * tile_size;
-                pack_tile(tile_dst, src_slice, ne0, ne1, row_stride, ct, kt);
+        repack_parallel_for_ct(matrix_size, n_col_tiles, [&](int ct0, int ct1) {
+            for (int ct = ct0; ct < ct1; ct++) {
+                for (int kt = 0; kt < n_k_tiles; kt++) {
+                    uint8_t * tile_dst = matrix_dst + ((size_t) ct * n_k_tiles + kt) * tile_size;
+                    pack_tile(tile_dst, src_slice, ne0, ne1, row_stride, ct, kt);
+                }
             }
-        }
+        });
     }
 }
 
@@ -130,8 +438,24 @@ static void unpack_from_tiled_grid_32(void * data, const ggml_tensor * t, size_t
 static void repack_q4_0_tiled(ggml_tensor * t, const void * data, size_t offset, size_t size) {
     repack_to_tiled_grid_32<block_q4_0, 1>(t, data, offset, size, HTP_TENSOR_TILE_SIZE_Q4_0,
         [](uint8_t * tile_dst, const block_q4_0 * src_slice, int64_t ne0, int64_t ne1, int64_t row_stride, int ct, int kt) {
-            uint8_t tile_quants[32][32];
             ggml_half * scale_dst = (ggml_half *) (tile_dst + 512);
+#if defined(__ARM_NEON) || defined(__aarch64__)
+            if (ct * 32 + 32 <= ne1 && kt < ne0 / 32) {
+                for (int row0 = 0; row0 < 32; row0 += 8) {
+                    const uint8_t * qs[8];
+                    for (int rr = 0; rr < 8; ++rr) {
+                        qs[rr] = src_slice[(ct * 32 + row0 + rr) * row_stride + kt].qs;
+                    }
+                    repack_neon_4bit_rows(qs, tile_dst, row0);
+                }
+
+                for (int row = 0; row < 32; ++row) {
+                    scale_dst[row] = src_slice[(ct * 32 + row) * row_stride + kt].d;
+                }
+                return;
+            }
+#endif
+            uint8_t tile_quants[32][32];
             for (int row = 0; row < 32; row++) {
                 const int64_t r = ct * 32 + row;
                 if (r < ne1 && kt < ne0 / 32) {
@@ -167,8 +491,26 @@ static void repack_tiled_q4_0(void * data, const ggml_tensor * t, size_t offset,
 static void repack_q4_1_tiled(ggml_tensor * t, const void * data, size_t offset, size_t size) {
     repack_to_tiled_grid_32<block_q4_1, 1>(t, data, offset, size, HTP_TENSOR_TILE_SIZE_Q4_1,
         [](uint8_t * tile_dst, const block_q4_1 * src_slice, int64_t ne0, int64_t ne1, int64_t row_stride, int ct, int kt) {
-            uint8_t tile_quants[32][32];
             ggml_half * scale_dst = (ggml_half *) (tile_dst + 512);
+#if defined(__ARM_NEON) || defined(__aarch64__)
+            if (ct * 32 + 32 <= ne1 && kt < ne0 / 32) {
+                for (int row0 = 0; row0 < 32; row0 += 8) {
+                    const uint8_t * qs[8];
+                    for (int rr = 0; rr < 8; ++rr) {
+                        qs[rr] = src_slice[(ct * 32 + row0 + rr) * row_stride + kt].qs;
+                    }
+                    repack_neon_4bit_rows(qs, tile_dst, row0);
+                }
+
+                for (int row = 0; row < 32; ++row) {
+                    const block_q4_1 & src_block = src_slice[(ct * 32 + row) * row_stride + kt];
+                    scale_dst[2 * row + 0] = src_block.d;
+                    scale_dst[2 * row + 1] = src_block.m;
+                }
+                return;
+            }
+#endif
+            uint8_t tile_quants[32][32];
             for (int row = 0; row < 32; row++) {
                 const int64_t r = ct * 32 + row;
                 if (r < ne1 && kt < ne0 / 32) {
@@ -207,8 +549,24 @@ static void repack_tiled_q4_1(void * data, const ggml_tensor * t, size_t offset,
 static void repack_mxfp4_tiled(ggml_tensor * t, const void * data, size_t offset, size_t size) {
     repack_to_tiled_grid_32<block_mxfp4, 1>(t, data, offset, size, HTP_TENSOR_TILE_SIZE_MXFP4,
         [](uint8_t * tile_dst, const block_mxfp4 * src_slice, int64_t ne0, int64_t ne1, int64_t row_stride, int ct, int kt) {
-            uint8_t tile_quants[32][32];
             uint8_t * scale_dst = tile_dst + 512;
+#if defined(__ARM_NEON) || defined(__aarch64__)
+            if (ct * 32 + 32 <= ne1 && kt < ne0 / 32) {
+                for (int row0 = 0; row0 < 32; row0 += 8) {
+                    const uint8_t * qs[8];
+                    for (int rr = 0; rr < 8; ++rr) {
+                        qs[rr] = src_slice[(ct * 32 + row0 + rr) * row_stride + kt].qs;
+                    }
+                    repack_neon_4bit_rows(qs, tile_dst, row0);
+                }
+
+                for (int row = 0; row < 32; ++row) {
+                    scale_dst[row] = src_slice[(ct * 32 + row) * row_stride + kt].e;
+                }
+                return;
+            }
+#endif
+            uint8_t tile_quants[32][32];
             for (int row = 0; row < 32; row++) {
                 const int64_t r = ct * 32 + row;
                 if (r < ne1 && kt < ne0 / 32) {
@@ -244,6 +602,23 @@ static void repack_tiled_mxfp4(void * data, const ggml_tensor * t, size_t offset
 static void repack_q8_0_tiled(ggml_tensor * t, const void * data, size_t offset, size_t size) {
     repack_to_tiled_grid_32<block_q8_0, 1>(t, data, offset, size, HTP_TENSOR_TILE_SIZE_Q8_0,
         [](uint8_t * tile_dst, const block_q8_0 * src_slice, int64_t ne0, int64_t ne1, int64_t row_stride, int ct, int kt) {
+            ggml_half * scale_dst = (ggml_half *) (tile_dst + 1024);
+#if defined(__ARM_NEON) || defined(__aarch64__)
+            if (ct * 32 + 32 <= ne1 && kt < ne0 / 32) {
+                for (int row0 = 0; row0 < 32; row0 += 8) {
+                    const uint8_t * qs[8];
+                    for (int rr = 0; rr < 8; ++rr) {
+                        qs[rr] = (const uint8_t *) src_slice[(ct * 32 + row0 + rr) * row_stride + kt].qs;
+                    }
+                    repack_neon_q8_rows(qs, tile_dst, row0);
+                }
+
+                for (int row = 0; row < 32; ++row) {
+                    scale_dst[row] = src_slice[(ct * 32 + row) * row_stride + kt].d;
+                }
+                return;
+            }
+#endif
             for (int cp = 0; cp < 16; cp++) {
                 const int col0 = cp * 2;
                 const int col1 = col0 + 1;
@@ -254,7 +629,6 @@ static void repack_q8_0_tiled(ggml_tensor * t, const void * data, size_t offset,
                     tile_dst[cp * 64 + 2 * row + 1] = b ? b->qs[col1] : 0;
                 }
             }
-            ggml_half * scale_dst = (ggml_half *) (tile_dst + 1024);
             for (int row = 0; row < 32; row++) {
                 const int64_t r = ct * 32 + row;
                 scale_dst[row] = (r < ne1 && kt < ne0 / 32) ? src_slice[r * row_stride + kt].d : 0;
@@ -303,24 +677,33 @@ static void repack_q2_0_tiled(ggml_tensor * t, const void * data, size_t offset,
     for (int64_t slice = 0; slice < t->ne[2] * t->ne[3]; ++slice) {
         const block_q2_0 * src_slice = src + slice * t->ne[1] * blocks_per_row;
         uint8_t * dst_slice = (uint8_t *) t->data + slice * matrix_size;
-        memset(dst_slice, 0, matrix_size);
+        const size_t ct_bytes = (size_t) n_weight_tiles * HTP_TENSOR_TILE_SIZE_Q2_0;
 
-        for (int64_t row_index = 0; row_index < t->ne[1]; ++row_index) {
-            const int64_t ct = row_index / 32;
-            const int row = (int) (row_index % 32);
-            for (int64_t kt = 0; kt < n_weight_tiles; ++kt) {
-                const block_q2_0 * block = src_slice + row_index * blocks_per_row + kt;
-                uint8_t * tile = dst_slice + (ct * n_weight_tiles + kt) * HTP_TENSOR_TILE_SIZE_Q2_0;
-                for (int group = 0; group < 16; ++group) {
-                    for (int byte = 0; byte < 4; ++byte) {
-                        const int k = 4 * group + byte;
-                        const uint8_t code = (block->qs[k / 4] >> (2 * (k % 4))) & 3;
-                        tile[(group >> 2) * 128 + 4 * row + byte] |= code << (2 * (group & 3));
+        repack_parallel_for_ct(matrix_size, (int) n_col_tiles, [&](int ct0, int ct1) {
+            memset(dst_slice + (size_t) ct0 * ct_bytes, 0, (size_t) (ct1 - ct0) * ct_bytes);
+            const int64_t r0 = (int64_t) ct0 * 32;
+            const int64_t r1 = (std::min)((int64_t) ct1 * 32, t->ne[1]);
+            for (int64_t row_index = r0; row_index < r1; ++row_index) {
+                const int64_t ct = row_index / 32;
+                const int row = (int) (row_index % 32);
+                for (int64_t kt = 0; kt < n_weight_tiles; ++kt) {
+                    const block_q2_0 * block = src_slice + row_index * blocks_per_row + kt;
+                    uint8_t * tile = dst_slice + (ct * n_weight_tiles + kt) * HTP_TENSOR_TILE_SIZE_Q2_0;
+#if defined(__ARM_NEON) || defined(__aarch64__)
+                    repack_neon_q2_0_block(block->qs, tile, row);
+#else
+                    for (int group = 0; group < 16; ++group) {
+                        for (int byte = 0; byte < 4; ++byte) {
+                            const int k = 4 * group + byte;
+                            const uint8_t code = (block->qs[k / 4] >> (2 * (k % 4))) & 3;
+                            tile[(group >> 2) * 128 + 4 * row + byte] |= code << (2 * (group & 3));
+                        }
                     }
+#endif
+                    memcpy(tile + 512 + 2 * row, &block->d, sizeof(block->d));
                 }
-                memcpy(tile + 512 + 2 * row, &block->d, sizeof(block->d));
             }
-        }
+        });
     }
 }
 
@@ -368,6 +751,12 @@ static void repack_float_to_f16_tiled(ggml_tensor * t, const void * data, size_t
     repack_to_tiled_grid_32<SrcT, 32>(t, data, offset, size, HTP_TENSOR_TILE_SIZE_F16,
         [&](uint8_t * tile_bytes, const SrcT * src_slice, int64_t ne0, int64_t ne1, int64_t row_stride, int ct, int kt) {
             uint16_t * tile_dst = (uint16_t *) tile_bytes;
+#if defined(__ARM_NEON) || defined(__aarch64__)
+            if (ct * 32 + 32 <= ne1 && kt * 32 + 32 <= ne0) {
+                repack_neon_f16_tile(tile_dst, src_slice, row_stride, ct, kt);
+                return;
+            }
+#endif
             for (int cp = 0; cp < 16; cp++) {
                 const int64_t c0 = kt * 32 + cp * 2;
                 const int64_t c1 = c0 + 1;
@@ -424,20 +813,25 @@ static void repack_kquant_to_tiled_grid(ggml_tensor * t, const void * data, size
     for (int64_t slice_idx = 0; slice_idx < ne2 * ne3; slice_idx++) {
         const BlockT * src_slice = src_matrix + slice_idx * (ne1 * sb_per_row);
         uint8_t * matrix_dst     = (uint8_t *) t->data + slice_idx * matrix_size;
+        const size_t ct_bytes    = (size_t) n_k_tiles * tile_size;
 
-        // Padding rows and OR-ed bit planes require zeroed tiles
-        memset(matrix_dst, 0, matrix_size);
+        repack_parallel_for_ct(matrix_size, n_col_tiles, [&](int ct0, int ct1) {
+            // Padding rows and OR-ed bit planes require zeroed tiles
+            memset(matrix_dst + (size_t) ct0 * ct_bytes, 0, (size_t) (ct1 - ct0) * ct_bytes);
 
-        for (int64_t r = 0; r < ne1; r++) {
-            const int ct  = (int) (r / 32);
-            const int row = (int) (r % 32);
-            const BlockT * src_row = src_slice + r * sb_per_row;
+            const int64_t r0 = (int64_t) ct0 * 32;
+            const int64_t r1 = (std::min)((int64_t) ct1 * 32, ne1);
+            for (int64_t r = r0; r < r1; r++) {
+                const int ct  = (int) (r / 32);
+                const int row = (int) (r % 32);
+                const BlockT * src_row = src_slice + r * sb_per_row;
 
-            for (int kt = 0; kt < n_k_tiles; kt++) {
-                uint8_t * tile = matrix_dst + ((size_t) ct * n_k_tiles + kt) * tile_size;
-                pack_kt(tile, &src_row[kt / 8], row, kt % 8);
+                for (int kt = 0; kt < n_k_tiles; kt++) {
+                    uint8_t * tile = matrix_dst + ((size_t) ct * n_k_tiles + kt) * tile_size;
+                    pack_kt(tile, &src_row[kt / 8], row, kt % 8);
+                }
             }
-        }
+        });
     }
 }
 
@@ -493,6 +887,7 @@ static void unpack_kquant_from_tiled_grid(void * data, const ggml_tensor * t, si
 
 // --- K-Quant Helpers & Per-Type Implementations (Q2_K, Q3_K, Q4_K, Q5_K, Q6_K) ---
 
+#if !defined(__ARM_NEON) && !defined(__aarch64__)
 // unsigned 6-bit value (0..63) of element e of a Q6_K block, same bit layout as dequantize_row_q6_K
 static inline uint8_t q6_K_get_quant(const block_q6_K * b, int e) {
     const int c = e / 128;
@@ -510,6 +905,7 @@ static inline uint8_t q6_K_get_quant(const block_q6_K * b, int e) {
     }
     return (uint8_t) (lo | (hi << 4));
 }
+#endif
 
 static void repack_q6_K_tiled(ggml_tensor * t, const void * data, size_t offset, size_t size) {
     repack_kquant_to_tiled_grid<block_q6_K>(t, data, offset, size, HTP_TENSOR_TILE_SIZE_Q6_K,
@@ -519,6 +915,9 @@ static void repack_q6_K_tiled(ggml_tensor * t, const void * data, size_t offset,
             uint8_t * hi_pl   = tile + 512;
             ggml_half * sc_pl = (ggml_half *) (tile + 768);
 
+#if defined(__ARM_NEON) || defined(__aarch64__)
+            repack_neon_q6_k(b, kt_local, lo_pl, hi_pl, row);
+#else
             for (int lk = 0; lk < 32; lk++) {
                 const uint8_t q6 = q6_K_get_quant(b, kt_local * 32 + lk);
                 const int g   = lk >> 2;
@@ -526,6 +925,7 @@ static void repack_q6_K_tiled(ggml_tensor * t, const void * data, size_t offset,
                 lo_pl[(g >> 1) * 128 + pos] |= (uint8_t) ((q6 & 0xF) << ((g & 1) * 4));
                 hi_pl[(g >> 2) * 128 + pos] |= (uint8_t) ((q6 >> 4) << ((g & 3) * 2));
             }
+#endif
             for (int sub = 0; sub < 2; sub++) {
                 sc_pl[sub * 32 + row] = GGML_FP32_TO_FP16(d * (float) b->scales[kt_local * 2 + sub]);
             }
@@ -585,6 +985,7 @@ static void repack_tiled_q6_K(void * data, const ggml_tensor * t, size_t offset,
         });
 }
 
+#if !defined(__ARM_NEON) && !defined(__aarch64__)
 // low 2 bits (0..3) of element e of a Q2_K or Q3_K block, same bit layout as dequantize_row_q2_K / q3_K
 static inline uint8_t q2_3_K_get_low2(const uint8_t * qs, int e) {
     const int c = e / 128;
@@ -600,6 +1001,7 @@ static inline bool q3_K_get_hbit(const block_q3_K * b, int e) {
     const int l = e % 32;
     return (b->hmask[l] >> (c * 4 + j)) & 1;
 }
+#endif
 
 // signed 6-bit scale j (-32..31) of a Q3_K block, same packing as quantize_row_q3_K_ref
 static inline int q3_K_get_scale(const uint8_t * scales, int j) {
@@ -670,6 +1072,10 @@ static void repack_q3_K_tiled(ggml_tensor * t, const void * data, size_t offset,
             uint8_t * neg_pl  = tile + 256;
             ggml_half * sc_pl = (ggml_half *) (tile + 384);
 
+#if defined(__ARM_NEON) || defined(__aarch64__)
+            repack_neon_q2_3_k_low2(b->qs, kt_local, lo_pl, row);
+            repack_neon_q3_k_hmask(b->hmask, kt_local, neg_pl, row);
+#else
             for (int lk = 0; lk < 32; lk++) {
                 const int e   = kt_local * 32 + lk;
                 const int g   = lk >> 2;
@@ -679,6 +1085,7 @@ static void repack_q3_K_tiled(ggml_tensor * t, const void * data, size_t offset,
                     neg_pl[pos] |= (uint8_t) (1 << g);
                 }
             }
+#endif
             for (int sub = 0; sub < 2; sub++) {
                 sc_pl[sub * 32 + row] = GGML_FP32_TO_FP16(d * (float) q3_K_get_scale(b->scales, kt_local * 2 + sub));
             }
@@ -750,11 +1157,15 @@ static void repack_q2_K_tiled(ggml_tensor * t, const void * data, size_t offset,
             uint8_t * sc_pl   = tile + 256;
             ggml_half * dd_pl = (ggml_half *) (tile + 320);
 
+#if defined(__ARM_NEON) || defined(__aarch64__)
+            repack_neon_q2_3_k_low2(b->qs, kt_local, lo_pl, row);
+#else
             for (int lk = 0; lk < 32; lk++) {
                 const int g   = lk >> 2;
                 const int pos = row * 4 + (lk & 3);
                 lo_pl[(g >> 2) * 128 + pos] |= (uint8_t) (q2_3_K_get_low2(b->qs, kt_local * 32 + lk) << ((g & 3) * 2));
             }
+#endif
             for (int sub = 0; sub < 2; sub++) {
                 sc_pl[sub * 32 + row] = b->scales[kt_local * 2 + sub];
             }
@@ -846,23 +1257,46 @@ static inline void pack_k4_scales_mins(uint8_t * scales, ggml_half * d, ggml_hal
     }
 }
 
+template <typename BlockT>
+static inline void repack_k4_quants(uint8_t * tile_dst, const BlockT * b, int row, int kt_local,
+                                    int64_t sb_per_row, bool use_neon) {
+#if defined(__ARM_NEON) || defined(__aarch64__)
+    if (use_neon) {
+        if ((row & 7) == 0) {
+            const uint8_t * qs[8];
+            for (int rr = 0; rr < 8; ++rr) {
+                qs[rr] = b[rr * sb_per_row].qs + (kt_local / 2) * 32;
+            }
+            repack_neon_k4_rows(qs, tile_dst, row, (kt_local & 1) != 0);
+        }
+        return;
+    }
+#else
+    GGML_UNUSED(sb_per_row);
+    GGML_UNUSED(use_neon);
+#endif
+    const uint8_t * qs_sub = b->qs + (kt_local / 2) * 32;
+    const int shift = (kt_local & 1) ? 4 : 0;
+
+    for (int cp = 0; cp < 16; cp++) {
+        const uint8_t q0 = (qs_sub[2 * cp + 0] >> shift) & 0x0F;
+        const uint8_t q1 = (qs_sub[2 * cp + 1] >> shift) & 0x0F;
+        tile_dst[cp * 32 + row] = (uint8_t) ((q1 << 4) | q0);
+    }
+}
+
 static void repack_q4_K_tiled(ggml_tensor * t, const void * data, size_t offset, size_t size) {
+    const int64_t sb_per_row = t->ne[0] / QK_K;
+    const bool    use_neon   = (t->ne[1] % 8 == 0);
     repack_kquant_to_tiled_grid<block_q4_K>(t, data, offset, size, HTP_TENSOR_TILE_SIZE_Q4_K,
-        [](uint8_t * tile_dst, const block_q4_K * b, int row, int kt_local) {
+        [sb_per_row, use_neon](uint8_t * tile_dst, const block_q4_K * b, int row, int kt_local) {
             const float d    = GGML_FP16_TO_FP32(b->d);
             const float dmin = GGML_FP16_TO_FP32(b->dmin);
 
             uint8_t sc, m;
             get_scale_min_k4(kt_local, b->scales, &sc, &m);
 
-            const uint8_t * qs_sub = b->qs + (kt_local / 2) * 32;
-            const int shift = (kt_local & 1) ? 4 : 0;
-
-            for (int cp = 0; cp < 16; cp++) {
-                const uint8_t q0 = (qs_sub[2 * cp + 0] >> shift) & 0x0F;
-                const uint8_t q1 = (qs_sub[2 * cp + 1] >> shift) & 0x0F;
-                tile_dst[cp * 32 + row] = (uint8_t) ((q1 << 4) | q0);
-            }
+            repack_k4_quants(tile_dst, b, row, kt_local, sb_per_row, use_neon);
 
             ggml_half * scale_dst = (ggml_half *) (tile_dst + 512);
             scale_dst[2 * row + 0] = GGML_FP32_TO_FP16(d * (float) sc);
@@ -900,8 +1334,10 @@ static void repack_tiled_q4_K(void * data, const ggml_tensor * t, size_t offset,
 }
 
 static void repack_q5_K_tiled(ggml_tensor * t, const void * data, size_t offset, size_t size) {
+    const int64_t sb_per_row = t->ne[0] / QK_K;
+    const bool    use_neon   = (t->ne[1] % 8 == 0);
     repack_kquant_to_tiled_grid<block_q5_K>(t, data, offset, size, HTP_TENSOR_TILE_SIZE_Q5_K,
-        [](uint8_t * tile_dst, const block_q5_K * b, int row, int kt_local) {
+        [sb_per_row, use_neon](uint8_t * tile_dst, const block_q5_K * b, int row, int kt_local) {
             const float d     = GGML_FP16_TO_FP32(b->d);
             const float dmin  = GGML_FP16_TO_FP32(b->dmin);
             uint8_t * plane   = tile_dst + 640;
@@ -909,15 +1345,13 @@ static void repack_q5_K_tiled(ggml_tensor * t, const void * data, size_t offset,
             uint8_t sc, m;
             get_scale_min_k4(kt_local, b->scales, &sc, &m);
 
-            const uint8_t * qs_sub = b->qs + (kt_local / 2) * 32;
-            const int shift    = (kt_local & 1) ? 4 : 0;
+            repack_k4_quants(tile_dst, b, row, kt_local, sb_per_row, use_neon);
+
             const uint8_t hbit = (uint8_t) (1 << kt_local);
-
+#if defined(__ARM_NEON) || defined(__aarch64__)
+            repack_neon_q5_k_qh(b->qh, hbit, plane, row);
+#else
             for (int cp = 0; cp < 16; cp++) {
-                const uint8_t q0 = (qs_sub[2 * cp + 0] >> shift) & 0x0F;
-                const uint8_t q1 = (qs_sub[2 * cp + 1] >> shift) & 0x0F;
-                tile_dst[cp * 32 + row] = (uint8_t) ((q1 << 4) | q0);
-
                 const int i    = cp / 4;
                 const int lane = (cp % 4) * 32 + row;
                 if (b->qh[2 * cp + 0] & hbit) {
@@ -927,6 +1361,7 @@ static void repack_q5_K_tiled(ggml_tensor * t, const void * data, size_t offset,
                     plane[lane] |= (uint8_t) (1 << (2 * i + 1));
                 }
             }
+#endif
 
             ggml_half * scale_dst = (ggml_half *) (tile_dst + 512);
             scale_dst[2 * row + 0] = GGML_FP32_TO_FP16(d * (float) sc);
@@ -1002,31 +1437,37 @@ static void repack_q1_0_tiled(ggml_tensor * t, const void * data, size_t offset,
         const block_q1_0 * src_slice = src_matrix + (slice_idx - start_slice) * ne1 * n_k_tiles;
         uint8_t * matrix_dst = (uint8_t *) t->data + slice_idx * matrix_size;
 
-        for (int ct = 0; ct < n_col_tiles; ct++) {
-            for (int kt = 0; kt < n_k_tiles; kt++) {
-                uint8_t * tile_dst = matrix_dst + ((size_t) ct * n_k_tiles + kt) * tile_size;
-                ggml_half * scale_dst = (ggml_half *) (tile_dst + 512);
-                memset(tile_dst, 0, tile_size);
+        repack_parallel_for_ct(matrix_size, n_col_tiles, [&](int ct0, int ct1) {
+            for (int ct = ct0; ct < ct1; ct++) {
+                for (int kt = 0; kt < n_k_tiles; kt++) {
+                    uint8_t * tile_dst = matrix_dst + ((size_t) ct * n_k_tiles + kt) * tile_size;
+                    ggml_half * scale_dst = (ggml_half *) (tile_dst + 512);
+                    memset(tile_dst, 0, tile_size);
 
-                for (int row = 0; row < 32; row++) {
-                    const int64_t r = ct * 32 + row;
-                    if (r >= ne1) {
-                        continue;
-                    }
-
-                    const block_q1_0 & block = src_slice[r * n_k_tiles + kt];
-                    scale_dst[row] = block.d;
-                    for (int k = 0; k < QK1_0; k++) {
-                        int byte_offset;
-                        int bit;
-                        q1_0_tiled_bit_location(k, row, byte_offset, bit);
-                        if (block.qs[k / 8] & (1u << (k % 8))) {
-                            tile_dst[byte_offset] |= (uint8_t) (1u << bit);
+                    for (int row = 0; row < 32; row++) {
+                        const int64_t r = ct * 32 + row;
+                        if (r >= ne1) {
+                            continue;
                         }
+
+                        const block_q1_0 & block = src_slice[r * n_k_tiles + kt];
+                        scale_dst[row] = block.d;
+#if defined(__ARM_NEON) || defined(__aarch64__)
+                        repack_neon_q1_0_block(block.qs, tile_dst, row);
+#else
+                        for (int k = 0; k < QK1_0; k++) {
+                            int byte_offset;
+                            int bit;
+                            q1_0_tiled_bit_location(k, row, byte_offset, bit);
+                            if (block.qs[k / 8] & (1u << (k % 8))) {
+                                tile_dst[byte_offset] |= (uint8_t) (1u << bit);
+                            }
+                        }
+#endif
                     }
                 }
             }
-        }
+        });
     }
 }
 
@@ -1127,11 +1568,11 @@ void htp_repack_tensor_tiled(ggml_tensor * tensor, const void * data, size_t siz
             break;
         case GGML_TYPE_F32:
             repack_float_to_f16_tiled<float>(tensor, data, 0, size,
-                [](float v) { return (uint16_t) ggml_fp32_to_fp16(v); });
+                [](float v) { return (uint16_t) GGML_FP32_TO_FP16(v); });
             break;
         case GGML_TYPE_BF16:
             repack_float_to_f16_tiled<ggml_bf16_t>(tensor, data, 0, size,
-                [](ggml_bf16_t v) { return (uint16_t) ggml_fp32_to_fp16(ggml_bf16_to_fp32(v)); });
+                [](ggml_bf16_t v) { return (uint16_t) GGML_FP32_TO_FP16(GGML_BF16_TO_FP32(v)); });
             break;
         default:
             break;

ggml/src/ggml-metal/ggml-metal-context.m

@@ -539,8 +539,14 @@ enum ggml_status ggml_metal_graph_compute(ggml_metal_t ctx, struct ggml_cgraph *
                 descriptor.outputURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];
 
                 NSError * error = nil;
-                if (![[MTLCaptureManager sharedCaptureManager] startCaptureWithDescriptor:descriptor error:&error]) {
+                const bool ok = [[MTLCaptureManager sharedCaptureManager] startCaptureWithDescriptor:descriptor error:&error];
+
+                [descriptor release];
+
+                if (!ok) {
                     GGML_LOG_ERROR("%s: error: unable to start capture '%s' (did you set METAL_CAPTURE_ENABLED=1 ?)\n", __func__, [[error localizedDescription] UTF8String]);
+                    [ctx->capture_scope release];
+                    ctx->capture_scope = nil;
                 } else {
                     [ctx->capture_scope beginScope];
                     ctx->capture_started = true;
@@ -600,6 +606,8 @@ enum ggml_status ggml_metal_graph_compute(ggml_metal_t ctx, struct ggml_cgraph *
         // enter here only when capturing in order to wait for all computation to finish
         // otherwise, we leave the graph to compute asynchronously
         if (use_capture && ctx->capture_started) {
+            enum ggml_status res = GGML_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+
             // wait for completion and check status of each command buffer
             // needed to detect if the device ran out-of-memory for example (#1881)
             {
@@ -613,11 +621,11 @@ enum ggml_status ggml_metal_graph_compute(ggml_metal_t ctx, struct ggml_cgraph *
                         GGML_LOG_INFO("error: %s\n", [[cmd_buf error].localizedDescription UTF8String]);
                     }
 
-                    return GGML_STATUS_FAILED;
+                    res = GGML_STATUS_FAILED;
                 }
             }
 
-            for (int i = 0; i < n_cb; ++i) {
+            for (int i = 0; i < n_cb && res == GGML_STATUS_SUCCESS; ++i) {
                 id<MTLCommandBuffer> cmd_buf = ctx->cmd_bufs[i].obj;
                 [cmd_buf waitUntilCompleted];
 
@@ -627,8 +635,8 @@ enum ggml_status ggml_metal_graph_compute(ggml_metal_t ctx, struct ggml_cgraph *
                     if (status == MTLCommandBufferStatusError) {
                         GGML_LOG_INFO("error: %s\n", [[cmd_buf error].localizedDescription UTF8String]);
                     }
-
-                    return GGML_STATUS_FAILED;
+                    res = GGML_STATUS_FAILED;
+                    break;
                 }
 
                 id<MTLCommandBuffer> next_buffer = (i + 1 < n_cb ? ctx->cmd_bufs[i + 1].obj : nil);
@@ -643,7 +651,8 @@ enum ggml_status ggml_metal_graph_compute(ggml_metal_t ctx, struct ggml_cgraph *
 
                 if (ctx->abort_callback && ctx->abort_callback(ctx->abort_callback_data)) {
                     GGML_LOG_INFO("%s: command buffer %d aborted", __func__, i);
-                    return GGML_STATUS_ABORTED;
+                    res = GGML_STATUS_ABORTED;
+                    break;
                 }
 
                 [next_buffer commit];
@@ -652,7 +661,14 @@ enum ggml_status ggml_metal_graph_compute(ggml_metal_t ctx, struct ggml_cgraph *
             [ctx->capture_scope endScope];
             [[MTLCaptureManager sharedCaptureManager] stopCapture];
 
+            [ctx->capture_scope release];
+            ctx->capture_scope = nil;
+
             ctx->capture_started = false;
+
+            if (res != GGML_STATUS_SUCCESS) {
+                return res;
+            }
         }
     }
 

ggml/src/ggml-opencl/ggml-opencl.cpp

@@ -1243,6 +1243,7 @@ struct ggml_backend_opencl_context {
     cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_1_f32;
     cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q8_0_f32, kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q8_0_f32_bin;
     cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q8_0_q8_1_dp4a = nullptr;  // dp4a (int8) dense q8_0 prefill GEMM (opt-in)
+    cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q8_0_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4 = nullptr;
     cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q8_0_q8_1_dp4a_wimg = nullptr;  // q8_0 dense dp4a, weights via texture (opt-in)
     cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q8_0_q8_1_dp4a_ila_a8_bin = nullptr;
     cl_kernel kernel_gemv_noshuffle_q8_0_f32;
@@ -1264,6 +1265,7 @@ struct ggml_backend_opencl_context {
     cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a_ila_a8_bin;
     cl_kernel kernel_gemv_noshuffle_q4_k_f32_32b_trans;
     cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a = nullptr;  // dp4a (int8) dense prefill GEMM
+    cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4 = nullptr;
     cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a_wimg = nullptr;  // dp4a dense prefill GEMM, weights via texture (X1 opt-in)
     cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a_narrow = nullptr;
     cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a_narrow_wimg = nullptr;
@@ -1271,7 +1273,9 @@ struct ggml_backend_opencl_context {
     int tile_n_dp4a_narrow_q4_k = 32;
     int max_n_dp4a_narrow_q4_k = 16;
     cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q5_k_q8_1_dp4a = nullptr;  // dp4a (int8) dense q5_K prefill GEMM
+    cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q5_k_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4 = nullptr;
     cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q6_k_q8_1_dp4a = nullptr;  // dp4a (int8) dense q6_K prefill GEMM
+    cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q6_k_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4 = nullptr;
     cl_kernel kernel_quant_a_q8_1;                    // plain activation q8_1 pre-pass
     cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_f32_r1;
     cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_f32_kimg;
@@ -1305,6 +1309,7 @@ struct ggml_backend_opencl_context {
     cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_iq4_nl_f32;
     cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_iq4_nl_q8_1_dp4a = nullptr;  // dp4a (int8) dense IQ4_NL prefill GEMM
     cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_0_q8_1_dp4a = nullptr;  // dp4a (int8) dense q4_0 prefill GEMM
+    cl_kernel kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_0_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4 = nullptr;
     cl_kernel kernel_gemm_coopk_q4_0_q8_1_dp4a_c4 = nullptr;
     cl_kernel kernel_gemm_coopk_q4_0_q8_1_dp4a_c2 = nullptr;
     int       nsg_coopk_dp4a_q4_0  = 8;
@@ -4347,6 +4352,7 @@ static void load_cl_kernels(ggml_backend_opencl_context *backend_ctx) {
 #endif
         cl_program prog = build_program_from_source(backend_ctx, kernel_src.c_str(), compile_opts);
         CL_CHECK((backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_0_q8_1_dp4a = clCreateKernel(prog, "kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_0_q8_1_dp4a", &err), err));
+        CL_CHECK((backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_0_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4 = clCreateKernel(prog, "kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_0_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4", &err), err));
         CL_CHECK(clReleaseProgram(prog));
         GGML_LOG_CONT(".");
     }
@@ -4486,6 +4492,7 @@ static void load_cl_kernels(ggml_backend_opencl_context *backend_ctx) {
         cl_program prog = build_program_from_source(backend_ctx, kernel_src.c_str(), dp4a_opts);
         CL_CHECK((backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a = clCreateKernel(prog, "kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a", &err), err));
         CL_CHECK((backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a_wimg = clCreateKernel(prog, "kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a_wimg", &err), err));
+        CL_CHECK((backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4 = clCreateKernel(prog, "kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4", &err), err));
         CL_CHECK(clReleaseProgram(prog));
 
         // Compile a smaller N tile to avoid unused columns in small batches.
@@ -4518,6 +4525,7 @@ static void load_cl_kernels(ggml_backend_opencl_context *backend_ctx) {
         cl_program prog = build_program_from_source(backend_ctx, kernel_src.c_str(), compile_opts);
         CL_CHECK((backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q8_0_q8_1_dp4a = clCreateKernel(prog, "kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q8_0_q8_1_dp4a", &err), err));
         CL_CHECK((backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q8_0_q8_1_dp4a_wimg = clCreateKernel(prog, "kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q8_0_q8_1_dp4a_wimg", &err), err));
+        CL_CHECK((backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q8_0_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4 = clCreateKernel(prog, "kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q8_0_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4", &err), err));
         CL_CHECK(clReleaseProgram(prog));
         GGML_LOG_CONT(".");
     }
@@ -4533,6 +4541,7 @@ static void load_cl_kernels(ggml_backend_opencl_context *backend_ctx) {
 #endif
         cl_program prog = build_program_from_source(backend_ctx, kernel_src.c_str(), compile_opts);
         CL_CHECK((backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q5_k_q8_1_dp4a = clCreateKernel(prog, "kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q5_k_q8_1_dp4a", &err), err));
+        CL_CHECK((backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q5_k_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4 = clCreateKernel(prog, "kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q5_k_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4", &err), err));
         CL_CHECK(clReleaseProgram(prog));
         GGML_LOG_CONT(".");
     }
@@ -4548,6 +4557,7 @@ static void load_cl_kernels(ggml_backend_opencl_context *backend_ctx) {
 #endif
         cl_program prog = build_program_from_source(backend_ctx, kernel_src.c_str(), compile_opts);
         CL_CHECK((backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q6_k_q8_1_dp4a = clCreateKernel(prog, "kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q6_k_q8_1_dp4a", &err), err));
+        CL_CHECK((backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q6_k_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4 = clCreateKernel(prog, "kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q6_k_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4", &err), err));
         CL_CHECK(clReleaseProgram(prog));
         GGML_LOG_CONT(".");
     }
@@ -20430,11 +20440,13 @@ static void ggml_cl_mul_mat_q4_0_f32_adreno(ggml_backend_t backend, const ggml_t
             return;
         }
 
-        // dp4a (int8) dense prefill GEMM, default off
+        static const char * q4_0_act_vload4_env = getenv("GGML_OPENCL_Q4_0_DP4A_ACT_VLOAD4");
+        const bool q4_0_act_vload4_on = q4_0_act_vload4_env == nullptr || atoi(q4_0_act_vload4_env) != 0;
+        // Enable dense prefill by default on X2E when the uint4 activation tile is enabled.
         static const char * q4_0_dense_dp4a_env = getenv("GGML_OPENCL_Q4_0_DENSE_DP4A");
         bool q4_0_dense_dp4a_on = q4_0_dense_dp4a_env
             ? (atoi(q4_0_dense_dp4a_env) != 0)
-            : false;
+            : (backend_ctx->adreno_gen == ADRENO_GPU_GEN::X2E && q4_0_act_vload4_on);
         // dot prod has to be available
         q4_0_dense_dp4a_on = backend_ctx->has_integer_dot && q4_0_dense_dp4a_on;
 
@@ -20461,7 +20473,9 @@ static void ggml_cl_mul_mat_q4_0_f32_adreno(ggml_backend_t backend, const ggml_t
             size_t q_global[1] = { (size_t)(((n_blocks + 63) / 64) * 64) };
             backend_ctx->enqueue_ndrange_kernel(qk, 1, q_global, q_local, dst);
 
-            cl_kernel dk = backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_0_q8_1_dp4a;
+            cl_kernel dk = q4_0_act_vload4_on
+                         ? backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_0_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4
+                         : backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_0_q8_1_dp4a;
             int ai = 0;
             CL_CHECK(clSetKernelArg(dk, ai++, sizeof(cl_mem),   &extra0_q4_0->q));
             CL_CHECK(clSetKernelArg(dk, ai++, sizeof(cl_mem),   &extra0_q4_0->d));
@@ -21754,8 +21768,13 @@ static void ggml_cl_mul_mat_q8_0_f32_adreno(ggml_backend_t backend, const ggml_t
                 }
             }
 
-            cl_kernel dk = use_wimg ? backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q8_0_q8_1_dp4a_wimg
-                                    : backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q8_0_q8_1_dp4a;
+            static const char * q8_0_act_vload4_env = getenv("GGML_OPENCL_Q8_0_DP4A_ACT_VLOAD4");
+            const bool q8_0_act_vload4_on = q8_0_act_vload4_env == nullptr || atoi(q8_0_act_vload4_env) != 0;
+            cl_kernel dk = use_wimg
+                ? backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q8_0_q8_1_dp4a_wimg
+                : q8_0_act_vload4_on
+                    ? backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q8_0_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4
+                    : backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q8_0_q8_1_dp4a;
             int ai = 0;
             if (use_wimg) {
                 CL_CHECK(clSetKernelArg(dk, ai++, sizeof(cl_mem), &q8_q_img));
@@ -22703,11 +22722,16 @@ static void ggml_cl_mul_mat_q4_k_f32_adreno(ggml_backend_t backend, const ggml_t
 
             const bool use_narrow = backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a_narrow != nullptr
                                  && N <= backend_ctx->max_n_dp4a_narrow_q4_k;
+            static const char * q4_k_act_vload4_env = getenv("GGML_OPENCL_Q4_K_DP4A_ACT_VLOAD4");
+            const bool q4_k_act_vload4_on = q4_k_act_vload4_env == nullptr || atoi(q4_k_act_vload4_env) != 0;
             cl_kernel dk = use_narrow
                 ? (use_wimg ? backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a_narrow_wimg
                             : backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a_narrow)
-                : (use_wimg ? backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a_wimg
-                            : backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a);
+                : use_wimg
+                    ? backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a_wimg
+                    : q4_k_act_vload4_on
+                        ? backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4
+                        : backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a;
             int ai = 0;
             if (use_wimg) {
                 CL_CHECK(clSetKernelArg(dk, ai++, sizeof(cl_mem), &q4k_q_img));
@@ -23369,7 +23393,11 @@ static void ggml_cl_mul_mat_q6_K_f32_adreno(ggml_backend_t backend, const ggml_t
             size_t q_global[1] = { (size_t)(((n_blocks + 63) / 64) * 64) };
             backend_ctx->enqueue_ndrange_kernel(qk, 1, q_global, q_local, dst);
 
-            cl_kernel dk = backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q6_k_q8_1_dp4a;
+            static const char * q6_k_act_vload4_env = getenv("GGML_OPENCL_Q6_K_DP4A_ACT_VLOAD4");
+            const bool q6_k_act_vload4_on = q6_k_act_vload4_env == nullptr || atoi(q6_k_act_vload4_env) != 0;
+            cl_kernel dk = q6_k_act_vload4_on
+                         ? backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q6_k_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4
+                         : backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q6_k_q8_1_dp4a;
             int ai = 0;
             CL_CHECK(clSetKernelArg(dk, ai++, sizeof(cl_mem),   &extra0_q6_K->ql));
             CL_CHECK(clSetKernelArg(dk, ai++, sizeof(cl_mem),   &extra0_q6_K->qh));
@@ -23925,7 +23953,11 @@ static void ggml_cl_mul_mat_q5_K_f32_adreno(ggml_backend_t backend, const ggml_t
             size_t q_global[1] = { (size_t)(((n_blocks + 63) / 64) * 64) };
             backend_ctx->enqueue_ndrange_kernel(qk, 1, q_global, q_local, dst);
 
-            cl_kernel dk = backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q5_k_q8_1_dp4a;
+            static const char * q5_k_act_vload4_env = getenv("GGML_OPENCL_Q5_K_DP4A_ACT_VLOAD4");
+            const bool q5_k_act_vload4_on = q5_k_act_vload4_env == nullptr || atoi(q5_k_act_vload4_env) != 0;
+            cl_kernel dk = q5_k_act_vload4_on
+                         ? backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q5_k_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4
+                         : backend_ctx->kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q5_k_q8_1_dp4a;
             int ai = 0;
             CL_CHECK(clSetKernelArg(dk, ai++, sizeof(cl_mem),   &extra0_q5_k->q));
             CL_CHECK(clSetKernelArg(dk, ai++, sizeof(cl_mem),   &extra0_q5_k->qh));

ggml/src/ggml-opencl/kernels/gemm_noshuffle_q4_0_q8_1_dp4a.cl

@@ -125,3 +125,129 @@ kernel void kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_0_q8_1_dp4a(
     }
 #undef NGROUPS
 }
+
+// Stage each 32-K activation block as two uint4 values.
+inline int dot8_q8a_v(uint8 qw, uint4 a0, uint4 a1) {
+    int r = 0;
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s0, a0.x, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s1, a0.y, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s2, a0.z, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s3, a0.w, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s4, a1.x, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s5, a1.y, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s6, a1.z, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s7, a1.w, r);
+    return r;
+}
+
+__attribute__((qcom_wave_pair_mode(1)))
+kernel void kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_0_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4(
+        __global const ushort * src0_q,
+        __global const half   * src0_d,
+        __global const uint   * src1_qa,
+        __global const half   * src1_da,
+        __global const half   * src1_sa,
+        __global       float  * dst,
+        ulong  offsetd,
+        int    m,
+        int    n_no_padding,
+        int    k
+) {
+    dst = (global float *)((global char *)dst + offsetd);
+
+    const uint lid = get_local_id(0);
+    const uint block_id_m = get_global_id(1);
+    const uint block_id_n = get_global_id(2);
+
+    const uint row      = block_id_m * 64 + lid;
+    const uint col_base = block_id_n * TILESIZE_N;
+    const bool row_valid = row < (uint)m;
+    const uint rrow     = row_valid ? row : 0;
+
+    const uint k_u = (uint)k >> 2;
+    const uint k_b = (uint)k >> 5;
+
+    __local uint4 sh_qa4[TILESIZE_N][2];
+    __local half sh_d[TILESIZE_N];
+    __local half sh_s[TILESIZE_N];
+
+#define NGROUPS (TILESIZE_N / 4)
+    float4 acc[NGROUPS];
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int g = 0; g < NGROUPS; ++g) {
+        acc[g] = (float4)(0.0f);
+    }
+
+    for (uint step = 0; step < (uint)k; step += 32) {
+        const uint sub = step >> 5;
+
+        const float d_w = (float)src0_d[rrow + sub * (uint)m];
+
+        const uint qsbase = rrow + (step >> 2) * (uint)m;
+        uint8 qw;
+        qw.s0 = EXP4(src0_q[qsbase + 0 * m]);
+        qw.s1 = EXP4(src0_q[qsbase + 1 * m]);
+        qw.s2 = EXP4(src0_q[qsbase + 2 * m]);
+        qw.s3 = EXP4(src0_q[qsbase + 3 * m]);
+        qw.s4 = EXP4(src0_q[qsbase + 4 * m]);
+        qw.s5 = EXP4(src0_q[qsbase + 5 * m]);
+        qw.s6 = EXP4(src0_q[qsbase + 6 * m]);
+        qw.s7 = EXP4(src0_q[qsbase + 7 * m]);
+
+        for (uint idx = lid; idx < TILESIZE_N * 2; idx += 64) {
+            const uint t = idx >> 1;
+            const uint v = idx & 1;
+            const uint c = col_base + t;
+            sh_qa4[t][v] = (c < (uint)n_no_padding)
+                         ? vload4(0, src1_qa + c * k_u + (step >> 2) + (v << 2))
+                         : (uint4)(0u);
+        }
+        if (lid < TILESIZE_N) {
+            const uint c = col_base + lid;
+            sh_d[lid] = (c < (uint)n_no_padding) ? src1_da[c * k_b + sub] : (half)0;
+            sh_s[lid] = (c < (uint)n_no_padding) ? src1_sa[c * k_b + sub] : (half)0;
+        }
+        barrier(CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE);
+
+#define LD4(arr, b) ((float4)((float)arr[(b)+0], (float)arr[(b)+1], (float)arr[(b)+2], (float)arr[(b)+3]))
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int g = 0; g < NGROUPS; ++g) {
+            const int b = g * 4;
+            float4 rf;
+#define DOTV(T) dot8_q8a_v(qw, sh_qa4[T][0], sh_qa4[T][1])
+            rf.s0 = (float)DOTV(b+0);
+            rf.s1 = (float)DOTV(b+1);
+            rf.s2 = (float)DOTV(b+2);
+            rf.s3 = (float)DOTV(b+3);
+#undef DOTV
+
+            acc[g] += d_w * (LD4(sh_d, b) * rf - 8.0f * LD4(sh_s, b));
+        }
+#undef LD4
+        barrier(CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE);
+    }
+
+    if (!row_valid) {
+        return;
+    }
+
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int g = 0; g < NGROUPS; ++g) {
+        const uint b = (uint)(g * 4);
+        const float4 a = acc[g];
+        const uint c0 = col_base + b;
+        if (c0 + 0 < (uint)n_no_padding) {
+            dst[(c0 + 0) * (uint)m + row] = a.s0;
+        }
+        if (c0 + 1 < (uint)n_no_padding) {
+            dst[(c0 + 1) * (uint)m + row] = a.s1;
+        }
+        if (c0 + 2 < (uint)n_no_padding) {
+            dst[(c0 + 2) * (uint)m + row] = a.s2;
+        }
+        if (c0 + 3 < (uint)n_no_padding) {
+            dst[(c0 + 3) * (uint)m + row] = a.s3;
+        }
+    }
+#undef NGROUPS
+}

ggml/src/ggml-opencl/kernels/gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a.cl

@@ -279,3 +279,141 @@ kernel void kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a_wimg(
     }
 #undef NGROUPS
 }
+
+// Stage each 32-K activation block as two uint4 values.
+inline int dot8_q8a_v(uint8 qw, uint4 a0, uint4 a1) {
+    int r = 0;
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s0, a0.x, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s1, a0.y, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s2, a0.z, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s3, a0.w, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s4, a1.x, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s5, a1.y, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s6, a1.z, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s7, a1.w, r);
+    return r;
+}
+
+__attribute__((qcom_wave_pair_mode(1)))
+kernel void kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4(
+        __global const ushort * src0_q,
+        __global const uchar  * src0_s,
+        __global const half   * src0_d,
+        __global const half   * src0_dm,
+        __global const uint   * src1_qa,
+        __global const half   * src1_da,
+        __global const half   * src1_sa,
+        __global       float  * dst,
+        ulong  offsetd,
+        int    m,
+        int    n_no_padding,
+        int    k,
+        uchar  mask_d6,
+        uchar  mask_d4,
+        uchar  mask_hi2
+) {
+    dst = (global float *)((global char *)dst + offsetd);
+
+    const uint lid = get_local_id(0);
+    const uint block_id_m = get_global_id(1);
+    const uint block_id_n = get_global_id(2);
+
+    const uint row      = block_id_m * 64 + lid;
+    const uint col_base = block_id_n * TILESIZE_N;
+    const bool row_valid = row < (uint)m;
+    const uint rrow     = row_valid ? row : 0;
+
+    const uint k_u = (uint)k >> 2;
+    const uint k_b = (uint)k >> 5;
+
+    __local uint4 sh_qa4[TILESIZE_N][2];
+    __local half sh_d[TILESIZE_N];
+    __local half sh_s[TILESIZE_N];
+
+#define NGROUPS (TILESIZE_N / 4)
+    float4 acc[NGROUPS];
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int g = 0; g < NGROUPS; ++g) {
+        acc[g] = (float4)(0.0f);
+    }
+
+    for (uint step = 0; step < (uint)k; step += 32) {
+        const uint sub     = step >> 5;
+        const uint sb_idx  = step / QK_K;
+        const uint sub_idx = sub & 7;
+
+        const float dd  = (float)src0_d [rrow + sb_idx * m];
+        const float dmm = (float)src0_dm[rrow + sb_idx * m];
+        global const uchar * sc = src0_s + sb_idx * K_SCALE_SIZE * (uint)m + rrow;
+        uchar sv, mn;
+        get_scale_min_k4(sub_idx, sc, (uint)m, &sv, &mn, mask_d6, mask_d4, mask_hi2);
+        const float scale = dd  * (float)sv;
+        const float minv  = dmm * (float)mn;
+
+        const uint wbase = rrow + (step >> 2) * (uint)m;
+        uint8 qw;
+        qw.s0 = EXP4(src0_q[wbase + 0 * m]);
+        qw.s1 = EXP4(src0_q[wbase + 1 * m]);
+        qw.s2 = EXP4(src0_q[wbase + 2 * m]);
+        qw.s3 = EXP4(src0_q[wbase + 3 * m]);
+        qw.s4 = EXP4(src0_q[wbase + 4 * m]);
+        qw.s5 = EXP4(src0_q[wbase + 5 * m]);
+        qw.s6 = EXP4(src0_q[wbase + 6 * m]);
+        qw.s7 = EXP4(src0_q[wbase + 7 * m]);
+
+        for (uint idx = lid; idx < TILESIZE_N * 2; idx += 64) {
+            const uint t = idx >> 1;
+            const uint v = idx & 1;
+            const uint c = col_base + t;
+            sh_qa4[t][v] = (c < (uint)n_no_padding)
+                         ? vload4(0, src1_qa + c * k_u + (step >> 2) + (v << 2))
+                         : (uint4)(0u);
+        }
+        if (lid < TILESIZE_N) {
+            const uint c = col_base + lid;
+            sh_d[lid] = (c < (uint)n_no_padding) ? src1_da[c * k_b + sub] : (half)0;
+            sh_s[lid] = (c < (uint)n_no_padding) ? src1_sa[c * k_b + sub] : (half)0;
+        }
+        barrier(CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE);
+
+#define LD4(arr, b) ((float4)((float)arr[(b)+0], (float)arr[(b)+1], (float)arr[(b)+2], (float)arr[(b)+3]))
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int g = 0; g < NGROUPS; ++g) {
+            const int b = g * 4;
+            float4 rf;
+#define DOTV(T) dot8_q8a_v(qw, sh_qa4[T][0], sh_qa4[T][1])
+            rf.s0 = (float)DOTV(b+0);
+            rf.s1 = (float)DOTV(b+1);
+            rf.s2 = (float)DOTV(b+2);
+            rf.s3 = (float)DOTV(b+3);
+#undef DOTV
+            acc[g] += scale * LD4(sh_d, b) * rf - minv * LD4(sh_s, b);
+        }
+#undef LD4
+        barrier(CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE);
+    }
+
+    if (!row_valid) {
+        return;
+    }
+
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int g = 0; g < NGROUPS; ++g) {
+        const uint b = (uint)(g * 4);
+        const float4 a = acc[g];
+        const uint c0 = col_base + b;
+        if (c0 + 0 < (uint)n_no_padding) {
+            dst[(c0 + 0) * (uint)m + row] = a.s0;
+        }
+        if (c0 + 1 < (uint)n_no_padding) {
+            dst[(c0 + 1) * (uint)m + row] = a.s1;
+        }
+        if (c0 + 2 < (uint)n_no_padding) {
+            dst[(c0 + 2) * (uint)m + row] = a.s2;
+        }
+        if (c0 + 3 < (uint)n_no_padding) {
+            dst[(c0 + 3) * (uint)m + row] = a.s3;
+        }
+    }
+#undef NGROUPS
+}

ggml/src/ggml-opencl/kernels/gemm_noshuffle_q5_k_q8_1_dp4a.cl

@@ -162,3 +162,141 @@ kernel void kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q5_k_q8_1_dp4a(
     }
 #undef NGROUPS
 }
+
+// Stage each 32-K activation block as two uint4 values.
+inline int dot8_q8a_v(uint8 qw, uint4 a0, uint4 a1) {
+    int r = 0;
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s0, a0.x, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s1, a0.y, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s2, a0.z, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s3, a0.w, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s4, a1.x, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s5, a1.y, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s6, a1.z, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s7, a1.w, r);
+    return r;
+}
+
+__attribute__((qcom_wave_pair_mode(1)))
+kernel void kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q5_k_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4(
+        __global const ushort * src0_q,
+        __global const uchar  * src0_qh,
+        __global const uchar  * src0_s,
+        __global const half   * src0_d,
+        __global const half   * src0_dm,
+        __global const uint   * src1_qa,
+        __global const half   * src1_da,
+        __global const half   * src1_sa,
+        __global       float  * dst,
+        ulong  offsetd,
+        int    m,
+        int    n_no_padding,
+        int    k,
+        uchar  mask_d6,
+        uchar  mask_d4,
+        uchar  mask_hi2
+) {
+    dst = (global float *)((global char *)dst + offsetd);
+
+    const uint lid = get_local_id(0);
+    const uint block_id_m = get_global_id(1);
+    const uint block_id_n = get_global_id(2);
+
+    const uint row      = block_id_m * 64 + lid;
+    const uint col_base = block_id_n * TILESIZE_N;
+    const bool row_valid = row < (uint)m;
+    const uint rrow     = row_valid ? row : 0;
+
+    const uint num_superblocks = (uint)k / QK_K;
+    const uint k_u = (uint)k >> 2;
+    const uint k_b = (uint)k >> 5;
+
+    __local uint4 sh_qa4[TILESIZE_N][2];
+    __local half sh_d[TILESIZE_N];
+    __local half sh_s[TILESIZE_N];
+
+#define NGROUPS (TILESIZE_N / 4)
+    float4 acc[NGROUPS];
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int g = 0; g < NGROUPS; ++g) {
+        acc[g] = (float4)(0.0f);
+    }
+
+    for (uint step = 0; step < (uint)k; step += 32) {
+        const uint sub     = step >> 5;
+        const uint sb_idx  = step / QK_K;
+        const uint sub_idx = sub & 7;
+
+        const float dd  = (float)src0_d [rrow + sb_idx * m];
+        const float dmm = (float)src0_dm[rrow + sb_idx * m];
+        global const uchar * sc = src0_s + rrow * num_superblocks * K_SCALE_SIZE + sb_idx * K_SCALE_SIZE;
+        uchar sv, mn;
+        get_scale_min_k4(sub_idx, sc, &sv, &mn, mask_d6, mask_d4, mask_hi2);
+        const float scale = dd  * (float)sv;
+        const float minv  = dmm * (float)mn;
+
+        const uint wbase  = rrow + (step >> 2) * (uint)m;
+        const uint qhbase = rrow + (step >> 3) * (uint)m;
+        uint8 qw;
+#define QWU(u) ( EXP4((uint)src0_q[wbase + (uint)(u) * m]) \
+               | EXP1( (uint)((src0_qh[qhbase + (uint)((u) >> 1) * m] >> (((u) & 1) * 4)) & 0x0Fu) ) )
+        qw.s0 = QWU(0); qw.s1 = QWU(1); qw.s2 = QWU(2); qw.s3 = QWU(3);
+        qw.s4 = QWU(4); qw.s5 = QWU(5); qw.s6 = QWU(6); qw.s7 = QWU(7);
+#undef QWU
+
+        for (uint idx = lid; idx < TILESIZE_N * 2; idx += 64) {
+            const uint t = idx >> 1;
+            const uint v = idx & 1;
+            const uint c = col_base + t;
+            sh_qa4[t][v] = (c < (uint)n_no_padding)
+                         ? vload4(0, src1_qa + c * k_u + (step >> 2) + (v << 2))
+                         : (uint4)(0u);
+        }
+        if (lid < TILESIZE_N) {
+            const uint c = col_base + lid;
+            sh_d[lid] = (c < (uint)n_no_padding) ? src1_da[c * k_b + sub] : (half)0;
+            sh_s[lid] = (c < (uint)n_no_padding) ? src1_sa[c * k_b + sub] : (half)0;
+        }
+        barrier(CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE);
+
+#define LD4(arr, b) ((float4)((float)arr[(b)+0], (float)arr[(b)+1], (float)arr[(b)+2], (float)arr[(b)+3]))
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int g = 0; g < NGROUPS; ++g) {
+            const int b = g * 4;
+            float4 rf;
+#define DOTV(T) dot8_q8a_v(qw, sh_qa4[T][0], sh_qa4[T][1])
+            rf.s0 = (float)DOTV(b+0);
+            rf.s1 = (float)DOTV(b+1);
+            rf.s2 = (float)DOTV(b+2);
+            rf.s3 = (float)DOTV(b+3);
+#undef DOTV
+            acc[g] += scale * LD4(sh_d, b) * rf - minv * LD4(sh_s, b);
+        }
+#undef LD4
+        barrier(CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE);
+    }
+
+    if (!row_valid) {
+        return;
+    }
+
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int g = 0; g < NGROUPS; ++g) {
+        const uint b = (uint)(g * 4);
+        const float4 a = acc[g];
+        const uint c0 = col_base + b;
+        if (c0 + 0 < (uint)n_no_padding) {
+            dst[(c0 + 0) * (uint)m + row] = a.s0;
+        }
+        if (c0 + 1 < (uint)n_no_padding) {
+            dst[(c0 + 1) * (uint)m + row] = a.s1;
+        }
+        if (c0 + 2 < (uint)n_no_padding) {
+            dst[(c0 + 2) * (uint)m + row] = a.s2;
+        }
+        if (c0 + 3 < (uint)n_no_padding) {
+            dst[(c0 + 3) * (uint)m + row] = a.s3;
+        }
+    }
+#undef NGROUPS
+}

ggml/src/ggml-opencl/kernels/gemm_noshuffle_q6_k_q8_1_dp4a.cl

@@ -142,3 +142,117 @@ kernel void kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q6_k_q8_1_dp4a(
     }
 #undef NGROUPS
 }
+
+// Stage each 32-K activation block as two uint4 values.
+__attribute__((qcom_wave_pair_mode(1)))
+kernel void kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q6_k_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4(
+        __global const ushort * src0_ql,
+        __global const uchar  * src0_qh,
+        __global const ushort * src0_s,
+        __global const half   * src0_d,
+        __global const uint   * src1_qa,
+        __global const half   * src1_da,
+        __global       float  * dst,
+        ulong  offsetd,
+        int    m,
+        int    n_no_padding,
+        int    k
+) {
+    dst = (global float *)((global char *)dst + offsetd);
+
+    const uint lid = get_local_id(0);
+    const uint block_id_m = get_global_id(1);
+    const uint block_id_n = get_global_id(2);
+
+    const uint row      = block_id_m * 64 + lid;
+    const uint col_base = block_id_n * TILESIZE_N;
+    const bool row_valid = row < (uint)m;
+    const uint rrow     = row_valid ? row : 0;
+
+    const uint k_u = (uint)k >> 2;
+    const uint k_b = (uint)k >> 5;
+
+    __local uint4 sh_qa4[TILESIZE_N][2];
+    __local half sh_d[TILESIZE_N];
+
+#define NGROUPS (TILESIZE_N / 4)
+    float4 acc[NGROUPS];
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int g = 0; g < NGROUPS; ++g) {
+        acc[g] = (float4)(0.0f);
+    }
+
+    for (uint step = 0; step < (uint)k; step += 32) {
+        const uint sub    = step >> 5;
+        const uint sb_idx = step / QK_K;
+
+        const float dd = (float)src0_d[rrow + sb_idx * m];
+        const char2 sc = as_char2(src0_s[rrow + sub * m]);
+        const float scale0 = dd * (float)sc.s0;
+        const float scale1 = dd * (float)sc.s1;
+
+        const uint wbase = rrow + (step >> 2) * (uint)m;
+        uint qw[8];
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int u = 0; u < 8; ++u) {
+            const uint o  = wbase + (uint)u * (uint)m;
+            qw[u] = SIGN6(EXP4((uint)src0_ql[o]) | EXP2((uint)src0_qh[o]));
+        }
+
+        for (uint idx = lid; idx < TILESIZE_N * 2; idx += 64) {
+            const uint t = idx >> 1;
+            const uint v = idx & 1;
+            const uint c = col_base + t;
+            sh_qa4[t][v] = (c < (uint)n_no_padding)
+                         ? vload4(0, src1_qa + c * k_u + (step >> 2) + (v << 2))
+                         : (uint4)(0u);
+        }
+        if (lid < TILESIZE_N) {
+            const uint c = col_base + lid;
+            sh_d[lid] = (c < (uint)n_no_padding) ? src1_da[c * k_b + sub] : (half)0;
+        }
+        barrier(CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE);
+
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int g = 0; g < NGROUPS; ++g) {
+            const int b = g * 4;
+            float4 rf;
+            #define DOT_TOK(j) { \
+                const uint4 a0 = sh_qa4[b + (j)][0]; \
+                const uint4 a1 = sh_qa4[b + (j)][1]; \
+                const int raw1 = dot4_q8a(qw[0], qw[1], qw[2], qw[3], a0.x, a0.y, a0.z, a0.w); \
+                const int raw2 = dot4_q8a(qw[4], qw[5], qw[6], qw[7], a1.x, a1.y, a1.z, a1.w); \
+                rf.s##j = scale0 * (float)raw1 + scale1 * (float)raw2; \
+            }
+            DOT_TOK(0); DOT_TOK(1); DOT_TOK(2); DOT_TOK(3);
+            #undef DOT_TOK
+            const float4 ad = (float4)((float)sh_d[b+0], (float)sh_d[b+1], (float)sh_d[b+2], (float)sh_d[b+3]);
+            acc[g] += ad * rf;
+        }
+        barrier(CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE);
+    }
+
+    if (!row_valid) {
+        return;
+    }
+
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int g = 0; g < NGROUPS; ++g) {
+        const uint b = (uint)(g * 4);
+        const float4 a = acc[g];
+        const uint c0 = col_base + b;
+        if (c0 + 0 < (uint)n_no_padding) {
+            dst[(c0 + 0) * (uint)m + row] = a.s0;
+        }
+        if (c0 + 1 < (uint)n_no_padding) {
+            dst[(c0 + 1) * (uint)m + row] = a.s1;
+        }
+        if (c0 + 2 < (uint)n_no_padding) {
+            dst[(c0 + 2) * (uint)m + row] = a.s2;
+        }
+        if (c0 + 3 < (uint)n_no_padding) {
+            dst[(c0 + 3) * (uint)m + row] = a.s3;
+        }
+    }
+#undef NGROUPS
+}

ggml/src/ggml-opencl/kernels/gemm_noshuffle_q8_0_q8_1_dp4a.cl

@@ -210,3 +210,125 @@ kernel void kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q8_0_q8_1_dp4a_wimg(
     }
 #undef NGROUPS
 }
+
+// Stage each 32-K activation block as two uint4 values.
+inline int dot8_q8a_v(uint8 qw, uint4 a0, uint4 a1) {
+    int r = 0;
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s0, a0.x, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s1, a0.y, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s2, a0.z, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s3, a0.w, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s4, a1.x, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s5, a1.y, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s6, a1.z, r);
+    r = dot_acc_sat_4x8packed_ss_int(qw.s7, a1.w, r);
+    return r;
+}
+
+__attribute__((qcom_wave_pair_mode(1)))
+kernel void kernel_gemm_noshuffle_q8_0_q8_1_dp4a_act_vload4(
+        __global const uint  * src0_q,
+        __global const half  * src0_d,
+        __global const uint  * src1_qa,
+        __global const half  * src1_da,
+        __global       float * dst,
+        ulong  offsetd,
+        int    m,
+        int    n_no_padding,
+        int    k
+) {
+    dst = (global float *)((global char *)dst + offsetd);
+
+    const uint lid = get_local_id(0);
+    const uint block_id_m = get_global_id(1);
+    const uint block_id_n = get_global_id(2);
+
+    const uint row      = block_id_m * 64 + lid;
+    const uint col_base = block_id_n * TILESIZE_N;
+    const bool row_valid = row < (uint)m;
+    const uint rrow     = row_valid ? row : 0;
+
+    const uint k_u = (uint)k >> 2;
+    const uint k_b = (uint)k >> 5;
+
+    __local uint4 sh_qa4[TILESIZE_N][2];
+    __local half sh_d[TILESIZE_N];
+
+#define NGROUPS (TILESIZE_N / 4)
+    float4 acc[NGROUPS];
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int g = 0; g < NGROUPS; ++g) {
+        acc[g] = (float4)(0.0f);
+    }
+
+    for (uint step = 0; step < (uint)k; step += 32) {
+        const uint sub = step >> 5;
+
+        const float d_w = (float)src0_d[rrow + sub * (uint)m];
+
+        const uint wbase = rrow + (step >> 2) * (uint)m;
+        uint8 qw;
+        qw.s0 = src0_q[wbase + 0 * m];
+        qw.s1 = src0_q[wbase + 1 * m];
+        qw.s2 = src0_q[wbase + 2 * m];
+        qw.s3 = src0_q[wbase + 3 * m];
+        qw.s4 = src0_q[wbase + 4 * m];
+        qw.s5 = src0_q[wbase + 5 * m];
+        qw.s6 = src0_q[wbase + 6 * m];
+        qw.s7 = src0_q[wbase + 7 * m];
+
+        for (uint idx = lid; idx < TILESIZE_N * 2; idx += 64) {
+            const uint t = idx >> 1;
+            const uint v = idx & 1;
+            const uint c = col_base + t;
+            sh_qa4[t][v] = (c < (uint)n_no_padding)
+                         ? vload4(0, src1_qa + c * k_u + (step >> 2) + (v << 2))
+                         : (uint4)(0u);
+        }
+        if (lid < TILESIZE_N) {
+            const uint c = col_base + lid;
+            sh_d[lid] = (c < (uint)n_no_padding) ? src1_da[c * k_b + sub] : (half)0;
+        }
+        barrier(CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE);
+
+#define LD4(arr, b) ((float4)((float)arr[(b)+0], (float)arr[(b)+1], (float)arr[(b)+2], (float)arr[(b)+3]))
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int g = 0; g < NGROUPS; ++g) {
+            const int b = g * 4;
+            float4 rf;
+#define DOTV(T) dot8_q8a_v(qw, sh_qa4[T][0], sh_qa4[T][1])
+            rf.s0 = (float)DOTV(b+0);
+            rf.s1 = (float)DOTV(b+1);
+            rf.s2 = (float)DOTV(b+2);
+            rf.s3 = (float)DOTV(b+3);
+#undef DOTV
+            acc[g] += d_w * LD4(sh_d, b) * rf;
+        }
+#undef LD4
+        barrier(CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE);
+    }
+
+    if (!row_valid) {
+        return;
+    }
+
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int g = 0; g < NGROUPS; ++g) {
+        const uint b = (uint)(g * 4);
+        const float4 a = acc[g];
+        const uint c0 = col_base + b;
+        if (c0 + 0 < (uint)n_no_padding) {
+            dst[(c0 + 0) * (uint)m + row] = a.s0;
+        }
+        if (c0 + 1 < (uint)n_no_padding) {
+            dst[(c0 + 1) * (uint)m + row] = a.s1;
+        }
+        if (c0 + 2 < (uint)n_no_padding) {
+            dst[(c0 + 2) * (uint)m + row] = a.s2;
+        }
+        if (c0 + 3 < (uint)n_no_padding) {
+            dst[(c0 + 3) * (uint)m + row] = a.s3;
+        }
+    }
+#undef NGROUPS
+}

ggml/src/ggml-opencl/kernels/rope.cl

@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ kernel void kernel_rope_multi_f16(
     src0 = (global void*)((global char*)src0 + offset0);
     src1 = (global int*)((global char*)src1 + offset1);
     src2 = (global float*)((global char*)src2 + offset2);
-    dst = (global float*)((global char*)dst + offsetd);
+    dst = (global half*)((global char*)dst + offsetd);
 
     int i3 = get_group_id(2);
     int i2 = get_group_id(1);
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ kernel void kernel_rope_vision_f16(
     src0 = (global void*)((global char*)src0 + offset0);
     src1 = (global int*)((global char*)src1 + offset1);
     src2 = (global float*)((global char*)src2 + offset2);
-    dst = (global float*)((global char*)dst + offsetd);
+    dst = (global half*)((global char*)dst + offsetd);
 
     int i3 = get_group_id(2);
     int i2 = get_group_id(1);

ggml/src/ggml-sycl/convert.cpp

@@ -440,7 +440,8 @@ static void dequantize_row_iq3_xxs_sycl_reorder(const void * vx, dst_t * y, cons
         sycl::nd_range<3>(sycl::range<3>(1, 1, nb) * sycl::range<3>(1, 1, 32), sycl::range<3>(1, 1, 32)),
         [=](sycl::nd_item<3> item_ct1) {
             dequantize_block_iq3_xxs_reorder(
-                vx, y, item_ct1, nb, iq3xxs_grid, ksigns_iq2xs, kmask_iq2xs);
+                vx, y + item_ct1.get_group(2) * QK_K, item_ct1.get_group(2), item_ct1, nb,
+                iq3xxs_grid, ksigns_iq2xs, kmask_iq2xs);
         });
 }
 
@@ -472,7 +473,8 @@ static void dequantize_row_iq3_s_sycl_reorder(const void * vx, dst_t * y, const
     stream->parallel_for(
         sycl::nd_range<3>(sycl::range<3>(1, 1, nb) * sycl::range<3>(1, 1, 32), sycl::range<3>(1, 1, 32)),
         [=](sycl::nd_item<3> item_ct1) {
-            dequantize_block_iq3_s_reorder(vx, y, item_ct1, nb, kmask_iq2xs, iq3s_grid);
+            dequantize_block_iq3_s_reorder(vx, y + item_ct1.get_group(2) * QK_K, item_ct1.get_group(2),
+                                           item_ct1, nb, kmask_iq2xs, iq3s_grid);
         });
 }
 

ggml/src/ggml-sycl/dequantize.hpp

@@ -1481,12 +1481,11 @@ static void dequantize_block_iq3_xxs(const void * __restrict__ vx, dst_t * __res
 }
 
 template<typename dst_t>
-static void dequantize_block_iq3_xxs_reorder(const void * __restrict__ vx, dst_t * __restrict__ yy,
+static void dequantize_block_iq3_xxs_reorder(const void * __restrict__ vx, dst_t * __restrict__ yy, const int64_t i,
                                              const sycl::nd_item<3> & item_ct1, const int64_t nb,
                                              const uint32_t * iq3xxs_grid,
                                              const uint8_t * ksigns_iq2xs,
                                              const uint8_t * kmask_iq2xs) {
-    const int64_t i   = item_ct1.get_group(2);
     const int64_t tid = item_ct1.get_local_id(2);
 #if QK_K == 256
     const int64_t il = tid / 8;
@@ -1501,7 +1500,7 @@ static void dequantize_block_iq3_xxs_reorder(const void * __restrict__ vx, dst_t
     const uint32_t aux32 = gas[0] | (gas[1] << 16);
     const float dl = (float) d[i] * (0.5f + (aux32 >> 28)) * 0.5f;
     const uint8_t signs = ksigns_iq2xs[(aux32 >> (7 * il)) & 127];
-    dst_t * y = yy + i * QK_K + 32 * ib + 8 * il;
+    dst_t * y = yy + 32 * ib + 8 * il;
 #pragma unroll
     for (int j = 0; j < 4; ++j) {
         y[j+0] = dl * grid1[j] * (signs & kmask_iq2xs[j+0] ? -1.f : 1.f);
@@ -1510,6 +1509,7 @@ static void dequantize_block_iq3_xxs_reorder(const void * __restrict__ vx, dst_t
 #else
     GGML_UNUSED(vx);
     GGML_UNUSED(yy);
+    GGML_UNUSED(i);
     GGML_UNUSED(item_ct1);
     GGML_UNUSED(nb);
     GGML_UNUSED(iq3xxs_grid);
@@ -1551,10 +1551,9 @@ dequantize_block_iq3_s(const void *__restrict__ vx, dst_t *__restrict__ yy,
 
 template <typename dst_t>
 __dpct_inline__ static void
-dequantize_block_iq3_s_reorder(const void * __restrict__ vx, dst_t * __restrict__ yy,
+dequantize_block_iq3_s_reorder(const void * __restrict__ vx, dst_t * __restrict__ yy, const int64_t i,
                                const sycl::nd_item<3> & item_ct1, const int64_t nb,
                                const uint8_t * kmask_iq2xs, const uint32_t * iq3s_grid) {
-    const int64_t i   = item_ct1.get_group(2);
     const int64_t tid = item_ct1.get_local_id(2);
 #if QK_K == 256
     const int64_t il = tid / 8;
@@ -1574,7 +1573,7 @@ dequantize_block_iq3_s_reorder(const void * __restrict__ vx, dst_t * __restrict_
         iq3s_grid + (qs_ib[2*il+1] | ((qh[ib] << (7 - 2*il)) & 256)));
     const float dl = (float) d * (1 + 2 * ((scales[ib/2] >> (4 * (ib%2))) & 0xf));
     const uint8_t signs = signs_base[4 * ib + il];
-    dst_t * y = yy + i * QK_K + 32 * ib + 8 * il;
+    dst_t * y = yy + 32 * ib + 8 * il;
 #pragma unroll
     for (int j = 0; j < 4; ++j) {
         y[j+0] = dl * grid1[j] * (signs & kmask_iq2xs[j+0] ? -1.f : 1.f);
@@ -1583,6 +1582,7 @@ dequantize_block_iq3_s_reorder(const void * __restrict__ vx, dst_t * __restrict_
 #else
     GGML_UNUSED(vx);
     GGML_UNUSED(yy);
+    GGML_UNUSED(i);
     GGML_UNUSED(item_ct1);
     GGML_UNUSED(nb);
     GGML_UNUSED(kmask_iq2xs);

ggml/src/ggml-sycl/fattn.cpp

@@ -281,6 +281,22 @@ static best_fattn_kernel ggml_sycl_get_best_fattn_kernel(const int device, const
 void ggml_sycl_flash_attn_ext(ggml_backend_sycl_context & ctx, ggml_tensor * dst) {
     ggml_sycl_set_device(ctx.device);
 
+    ggml_tensor * Q = dst->src[0];
+    ggml_tensor * K = dst->src[1];
+    ggml_tensor * V = dst->src[2];
+    if (K && Q && K->ne[0] != Q->ne[0] && Q->ne[0] > 0 && K->ne[0] % Q->ne[0] == 0) {
+        const int64_t d = Q->ne[0];
+        const int64_t n_heads = (K->ne[0] * K->ne[2]) / d;
+        K->ne[0] = d;
+        K->ne[2] = n_heads;
+    }
+    if (V && Q && V->ne[0] != Q->ne[0] && Q->ne[0] > 0 && V->ne[0] % Q->ne[0] == 0) {
+        const int64_t d = Q->ne[0];
+        const int64_t n_heads = (V->ne[0] * V->ne[2]) / d;
+        V->ne[0] = d;
+        V->ne[2] = n_heads;
+    }
+
     // sparse nodes are gathered down to n_kv_max rows and re-dispatched here
     if (ggml_sycl_flash_attn_ext_sparse(ctx, dst)) {
         return;

ggml/src/ggml-sycl/fused-gemm.cpp

@@ -860,7 +860,7 @@ static void fused_dequant_gemm_tile(
     }
 }
 
-template <typename S, typename block_q_t>
+template <typename S, typename block_q_t, bool reordered = false>
 static void fused_dequant_gemm_launch(const void * src0, const typename S::tsb * packed, float * dst, const int M,
                                       const int N, const int Npad, const int K, const int ldd,
                                       const int64_t groups_n, const int64_t groups_m, dpct::queue_ptr stream) {
@@ -871,8 +871,8 @@ static void fused_dequant_gemm_launch(const void * src0, const typename S::tsb *
             sycl::nd_range<2>(sycl::range<2>(groups_n, groups_m * S::WG_SIZE), sycl::range<2>(1, S::WG_SIZE)),
             [=](sycl::nd_item<2> item) [[sycl::reqd_sub_group_size(S::SG)]] {
                 const int n0 = item.get_group(0) * S::BN;
-                fused_dequant_gemm_tile<S, block_q_t, false>((const block_q_t *) src0, packed, dst, M, Npad, K, ldd,
-                                                      n0, n0, N, tile_a, tile_c, item);
+                fused_dequant_gemm_tile<S, block_q_t, reordered>((const block_q_t *) src0, packed, dst, M, Npad, K,
+                                                      ldd, n0, n0, N, tile_a, tile_c, item);
             });
     });
 }
@@ -974,7 +974,7 @@ template <typename F> static bool fg_visit_type(ggml_type type, bool reordered,
 }
 
 template <typename S>
-static bool fg_fused_run(ggml_type src0_type, const void * src0, const void * src1, ggml_type src1_type,
+static bool fg_fused_run(ggml_type src0_type, bool src0_reordered, const void * src0, const void * src1, ggml_type src1_type,
                          float * dst, int64_t M, int64_t N, int64_t K, int64_t ldd, ggml_sycl_pool & pool,
                          dpct::queue_ptr stream) {
     const int64_t groups_n = (N + S::BN - 1) / S::BN;
@@ -992,21 +992,27 @@ static bool fg_fused_run(ggml_type src0_type, const void * src0, const void * sr
     }
 
     const typename S::tsb * packed = packed_b.get();
-    return fg_visit_type(src0_type, false, [&](auto tag) {
+    return fg_visit_type(src0_type, src0_reordered, [&](auto tag) {
         using block_q_t = typename decltype(tag)::type;
         if constexpr (fg_plain_ok<block_q_t>()) {
-            fused_dequant_gemm_launch<S, block_q_t>(src0, packed, dst, (int) M, (int) N, Npad, (int) K, (int) ldd,
-                                                    groups_n, groups_m, stream);
+            fused_dequant_gemm_launch<S, block_q_t, decltype(tag)::reordered>(src0, packed, dst, (int) M, (int) N,
+                                                                              Npad, (int) K, (int) ldd, groups_n,
+                                                                              groups_m, stream);
         }
     });
 }
 
-bool ggml_sycl_fused_dequant_gemm(ggml_type src0_type, const void * src0, const void * src1, ggml_type src1_type,
+bool ggml_sycl_fused_dequant_gemm(ggml_type src0_type, bool src0_reordered, const void * src0, const void * src1, ggml_type src1_type,
                                   int32_t src1_prec, float * dst, int64_t M, int64_t N, int64_t K, int64_t ldd,
                                   ggml_sycl_pool & pool, dpct::queue_ptr stream) {
-    // every BN columns dequantize A again, so wide N is left to the library GEMM
+    // every BN columns dequantize A again, so wide N is left to the library GEMM.
+    // src0_reordered: the persistent weight reorder may have been installed on this
+    // tensor by an earlier small-batch mul_mat; the A stage then has to decode the
+    // SoA layout. Types without an SoA stage (fg_soa<T>::supported == false)
+    // decline via fg_visit_layout and the caller falls through to the
+    // reorder-aware conversion route.
     bool plain_ok = false;
-    fg_visit_type(src0_type, false, [&](auto tag) { plain_ok = fg_plain_ok<typename decltype(tag)::type>(); });
+    fg_visit_type(src0_type, src0_reordered, [&](auto tag) { plain_ok = fg_plain_ok<typename decltype(tag)::type>(); });
     if (g_ggml_sycl_dynamic_precision == GGML_SYCL_DYNAMIC_PRECISION_F32 ||
         !ggml_sycl_xmx_gather_type_enabled(src0_type) || !plain_ok) {
         return false;
@@ -1023,7 +1029,7 @@ bool ggml_sycl_fused_dequant_gemm(ggml_type src0_type, const void * src0, const
     }
     bool launched = false;
     fg_visit_combo(combo, [&](auto s) {
-        launched = fg_fused_run<decltype(s)>(src0_type, src0, src1, src1_type, dst, M, N, K, ldd, pool, stream);
+        launched = fg_fused_run<decltype(s)>(src0_type, src0_reordered, src0, src1, src1_type, dst, M, N, K, ldd, pool, stream);
     });
     return launched;
 }

ggml/src/ggml-sycl/fused-gemm.hpp

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ inline bool ggml_sycl_xmx_gather_type_enabled(ggml_type src0_type) {
 // (op_params[3], [TAG_GGML_PREC]); the accumulator is f32, which meets any request.
 // q8_0 and the k-quants are not handled here, only in the grouped path below.
 // Returns false when the case is not handled (type, device, precision, or shape).
-bool ggml_sycl_fused_dequant_gemm(ggml_type src0_type, const void * src0, const void * src1, ggml_type src1_type,
+bool ggml_sycl_fused_dequant_gemm(ggml_type src0_type, bool src0_reordered, const void * src0, const void * src1, ggml_type src1_type,
                                   int32_t src1_prec, float * dst, int64_t M, int64_t N, int64_t K, int64_t ldd,
                                   ggml_sycl_pool & pool, dpct::queue_ptr stream);
 

ggml/src/ggml-sycl/getrows.cpp

@@ -301,6 +301,52 @@ static void get_rows_sycl_reorder_k(const ggml_tensor *src0, const ggml_tensor *
     GGML_UNUSED(src0);
 }
 
+// IQ3_S / IQ3_XXS in the persistent reorder layout: one work-group of 32 threads
+// dequantizes one QK_K block of one requested row, reusing the reorder-aware
+// block dequantizers that the dequantize-based mul_mat path already uses.
+template <typename F>
+static void get_rows_sycl_reorder_iq3(ggml_backend_sycl_context & ctx, const ggml_tensor * src0,
+                                      const ggml_tensor * src1, ggml_tensor * dst,
+                                      const int32_t * src1_dd, float * dst_dd,
+                                      F dequantize_block) {
+    GGML_TENSOR_BINARY_OP_LOCALS
+
+    // the persistent reorder is only installed for 2D weights
+    GGML_ASSERT(ne02 == 1 && ne03 == 1);
+    GGML_ASSERT(ne00 % QK_K == 0);
+
+    const int64_t nblk    = ne00 / QK_K;
+    const int64_t nb      = nblk * ne01; // blocks in the whole tensor
+    const int64_t ngroups = ne10 * ne11 * ne12 * nblk;
+
+    const size_t s1  = nb1 / ggml_element_size(dst);
+    const size_t s2  = nb2 / ggml_element_size(dst);
+    const size_t s3  = nb3 / ggml_element_size(dst);
+
+    const size_t s10 = nb10 / ggml_element_size(src1);
+    const size_t s11 = nb11 / ggml_element_size(src1);
+    const size_t s12 = nb12 / ggml_element_size(src1);
+
+    queue_ptr stream = ctx.stream();
+    stream->parallel_for(
+        sycl::nd_range<3>(sycl::range<3>(1, 1, ngroups * 32), sycl::range<3>(1, 1, 32)),
+        [=](sycl::nd_item<3> item_ct1) {
+            const int64_t g   = item_ct1.get_group(2);
+            const int64_t b   = g % nblk;
+            const int64_t r   = g / nblk;
+            const int64_t i10 = r % ne10;
+            const int64_t i11 = (r / ne10) % ne11;
+            const int64_t i12 = r / (ne10 * ne11);
+
+            const int64_t i01 = src1_dd[i10*s10 + i11*s11 + i12*s12];
+
+            float * y = dst_dd + i10*s1 + i11*s2 + i12*s3 + b*QK_K;
+            dequantize_block(y, i01*nblk + b, item_ct1, nb);
+        });
+
+    GGML_UNUSED(dst);
+}
+
 template <int qk, int qr, dequantize_kernel_f32_t dq>
 static void get_rows_sycl_f32(ggml_backend_sycl_context & ctx, const ggml_tensor *src0, const ggml_tensor *src1,
                               ggml_tensor *dst, const void *src0_dd,
@@ -460,7 +506,9 @@ void ggml_sycl_op_get_rows(ggml_backend_sycl_context & ctx, ggml_tensor * dst) {
     GGML_ASSERT(dst->nb[0] == ggml_type_size(dst->type));
 
     const int32_t * src1_i32 = (const int32_t *) dst->src[1]->data;
-    // a weight shared with MUL_MAT (e.g. tied embeddings) can be in reorder layout
+    // a weight shared with MUL_MAT (e.g. tied embeddings) can be in the
+    // persistent reorder layout (incl. IQ3_S / IQ3_XXS since the SYCL IQ3
+    // reorder work)
     const bool src0_reordered = dst->src[0]->extra &&
         ((const ggml_tensor_extra_gpu *) dst->src[0]->extra)->optimized_feature.reorder;
     /* TODO: Refactor and remove duplicates */
@@ -506,6 +554,15 @@ void ggml_sycl_op_get_rows(ggml_backend_sycl_context & ctx, ggml_tensor * dst) {
             src1_i32, (float *)dst->data, ctx.stream());
             break;
         case GGML_TYPE_IQ3_XXS:
+            if (src0_reordered) {
+                const void * vx = dst->src[0]->data;
+                get_rows_sycl_reorder_iq3(ctx, dst->src[0], dst->src[1], dst, src1_i32, (float *) dst->data,
+                    [=](float * y, int64_t iblk, const sycl::nd_item<3> & item_ct1, int64_t nb) {
+                        dequantize_block_iq3_xxs_reorder(vx, y, iblk, item_ct1, nb,
+                                                         iq3xxs_grid, ksigns_iq2xs, kmask_iq2xs);
+                    });
+                break;
+            }
             get_rows_sycl<QK_K, 1, dequantize_iq3_xxs>(ctx, dst->src[0], dst->src[1], dst, (const float *)dst->src[0]->data,
             src1_i32, (float *)dst->data, ctx.stream());
             break;
@@ -518,6 +575,15 @@ void ggml_sycl_op_get_rows(ggml_backend_sycl_context & ctx, ggml_tensor * dst) {
             src1_i32, (float *)dst->data, ctx.stream());
             break;
         case GGML_TYPE_IQ3_S:
+            if (src0_reordered) {
+                const void * vx = dst->src[0]->data;
+                get_rows_sycl_reorder_iq3(ctx, dst->src[0], dst->src[1], dst, src1_i32, (float *) dst->data,
+                    [=](float * y, int64_t iblk, const sycl::nd_item<3> & item_ct1, int64_t nb) {
+                        dequantize_block_iq3_s_reorder(vx, y, iblk, item_ct1, nb,
+                                                       kmask_iq2xs, iq3s_grid);
+                    });
+                break;
+            }
             get_rows_sycl<QK_K, 1, dequantize_iq3_s>(ctx, dst->src[0], dst->src[1], dst, (const float *)dst->src[0]->data,
             src1_i32, (float *)dst->data, ctx.stream());
             break;

ggml/src/ggml-sycl/ggml-sycl.cpp

@@ -3154,9 +3154,16 @@ inline void ggml_sycl_op_mul_mat_sycl(
 #endif
 
     // dequantize inside the GEMM instead of writing the f16 weights out and reading them back; src1
-    // goes in its own type, so there is no separate conversion pass
+    // goes in its own type, so there is no separate conversion pass. The A stage
+    // decodes the weight bytes in place, so an installed persistent reorder must be
+    // visible to it: pass the flag through; types without an SoA A-stage decline
+    // inside and this falls through to the reorder-aware conversion route below.
+    bool src0_reordered = false;
+    if (const auto * src0_extra = static_cast<const ggml_tensor_extra_gpu *>(src0->extra)) {
+        src0_reordered = src0_extra->optimized_feature.reorder;
+    }
     if (ggml_is_quantized(src0->type) && ggml_is_contiguous(src0) && row_diff == src0->ne[1] &&
-        ggml_sycl_fused_dequant_gemm(src0->type, src0_dd_i, src1_ddf_i, src1->type, ggml_sycl_src1_prec(dst), dst_dd_i,
+        ggml_sycl_fused_dequant_gemm(src0->type, src0_reordered, src0_dd_i, src1_ddf_i, src1->type, ggml_sycl_src1_prec(dst), dst_dd_i,
                                      row_diff, src1_ncols, ne10, ldc, ctx.pool(), stream)) {
         return;
     }

src/llama-adapter.cpp

@@ -179,13 +179,13 @@ static void llama_adapter_lora_init_impl(llama_model & model, FILE * file, llama
                 ? format("%s[%s,%zu]", gguf_type_name(type), gguf_type_name(gguf_get_arr_type(gguf_ctx, i)), gguf_get_arr_n(gguf_ctx, i))
                 : gguf_type_name(type);
             const char * name = gguf_get_key(gguf_ctx, i);
-            const std::string value = gguf_kv_to_str(gguf_ctx, i);
+            const size_t MAX_VALUE_LEN = 40;
+            const std::string value = gguf_kv_to_str(gguf_ctx, i, MAX_VALUE_LEN);
 
             if (type != GGUF_TYPE_ARRAY) {
                 adapter.gguf_kv.emplace(name, value);
             }
 
-            const size_t MAX_VALUE_LEN = 40;
             std::string print_value = value.size() > MAX_VALUE_LEN ? format("%s...", value.substr(0, MAX_VALUE_LEN - 3).c_str()) : value;
             replace_all(print_value, "\n", "\\n");
 

src/llama-arch.cpp

@@ -1110,7 +1110,7 @@ static const std::map<llm_tensor, llm_tensor_info> LLM_TENSOR_INFOS = {
     {LLM_TENSOR_MASKED_EMBD_ORDERING,       {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_INPUT,     GGML_OP_NONE}},
     // eagle3
     {LLM_TENSOR_FC,                         {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_OUTPUT,    GGML_OP_MUL_MAT}},
-    {LLM_TENSOR_D2T,                        {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_OUTPUT,    GGML_OP_GET_ROWS}},
+    {LLM_TENSOR_D2T,                        {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_OUTPUT,    GGML_OP_SET_ROWS}},
     // dspark
     {LLM_TENSOR_DSPARK_MARKOV_W1,           {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_OUTPUT,    GGML_OP_GET_ROWS}},
     {LLM_TENSOR_DSPARK_MARKOV_W2,           {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_OUTPUT,    GGML_OP_MUL_MAT}},

src/llama-graph.cpp

@@ -1666,6 +1666,40 @@ ggml_tensor * llm_graph_context::build_lora_mm(
     return res;
 }
 
+llm_graph_amax_src1 llm_graph_context::build_amax_src1_f16(
+          ggml_tensor * cur) const {
+    llm_graph_amax_src1 result = {
+        /*.res     =*/ cur,
+        /*.scale_s =*/ nullptr,
+    };
+
+    const int64_t n_embd = cur->ne[0];
+
+    // amax = max|cur| along the rows for each [expert, token] -> [1, n_expert, n_tokens]
+    ggml_tensor * ab = ggml_abs(ctx0, cur);
+    ggml_tensor * amax = ggml_pool_1d(ctx0, ab, GGML_OP_POOL_MAX, n_embd, n_embd, 0);
+
+    // ref: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/26223
+    constexpr float k_log2_e = 1.4426950408889634f; // 1 / ln(2)
+    constexpr float k_ln_2   = 0.6931471805599453f;
+
+    ggml_tensor * e;
+    e = ggml_scale(ctx0, amax, 1.0f/32768.0f);
+    e = ggml_log  (ctx0, e);
+    e = ggml_scale(ctx0, e, k_log2_e);
+    e = ggml_ceil (ctx0, e);
+    e = ggml_clamp(ctx0, e, 0.0f, 127.0f);
+    e = ggml_scale(ctx0, e, k_ln_2);
+    e = ggml_exp  (ctx0, e);
+
+    result = {
+        /*.res     =*/ ggml_div(ctx0, cur, e),
+        /*.scale_s =*/ e,
+    };
+
+    return result;
+}
+
 ggml_tensor * llm_graph_context::build_lora_mm_id(
           ggml_tensor * w,   // ggml_tensor * as
           ggml_tensor * cur, // ggml_tensor * b
@@ -2465,12 +2499,25 @@ ggml_tensor * llm_graph_context::build_moe_ffn(
             GGML_ABORT("fatal error");
     }
 
-    experts = build_lora_mm_id(down_exps, cur, selected_experts, down_exps_s, slots); // [n_embd, n_expert_used, n_tokens]
-    if (arch == LLM_ARCH_MISTRAL4 || arch == LLM_ARCH_MELLUM) {
-        // src1 can exceed F16 range
-        ggml_prec_set_src(experts, GGML_PREC_F32, 1);
+    {
+        // TODO: this graph-level rescaling should only be applied when the corresponding backend does not support
+        //       ggml_prec_set_src(experts, GGML_PREC_BF16, 1);
+        //       ref: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/30656#issuecomment-6269597922
+        llm_graph_amax_src1 amax_src1 = { nullptr, nullptr };
+
+        if (arch == LLM_ARCH_MISTRAL4 || arch == LLM_ARCH_MELLUM) {
+            amax_src1 = build_amax_src1_f16(cur);
+            cur = amax_src1.res;
+        }
+
+        experts = build_lora_mm_id(down_exps, cur, selected_experts, down_exps_s, slots); // [n_embd, n_expert_used, n_tokens]
+        //ggml_prec_set_src(experts, GGML_PREC_BF16, 1); // (see TODO above)
+        cb(experts, "ffn_moe_down", il);
+
+        if (amax_src1.scale_s) {
+            experts = ggml_mul(ctx0, experts, amax_src1.scale_s);
+        }
     }
-    cb(experts, "ffn_moe_down", il);
 
     if (down_exps_s) {
         cb(experts, "ffn_moe_down_scaled", il);

src/llama-graph.h

@@ -1012,6 +1012,11 @@ struct llm_graph_qkv {
     ggml_tensor * v; // [n_embd_head, n_head_kv, n_tokens]
 };
 
+struct llm_graph_amax_src1 {
+    ggml_tensor * res;     // cur rescaled
+    ggml_tensor * scale_s; // scale to undo on the matmul result, or nullptr
+};
+
 struct llm_graph_context {
     const llm_arch arch;
 
@@ -1115,6 +1120,11 @@ struct llm_graph_context {
               ggml_tensor * w_s   = nullptr,
               ggml_tensor * slots = nullptr) const;
 
+    // rescale `cur` (the src1 of a matmul) by a power of two, computed from its maximum absolute
+    // when the values already fit in F16, the factors are exactly 1.0f
+    llm_graph_amax_src1 build_amax_src1_f16(
+              ggml_tensor * cur) const;
+
     ggml_tensor * build_norm(
              ggml_tensor * cur,
              ggml_tensor * mw,

src/llama-impl.cpp

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 #include <cstdarg>
 #include <cstring>
 #include <vector>
-#include <sstream>
 
 struct llama_logger_state {
     ggml_log_callback log_callback = llama_log_callback_default;
@@ -149,7 +148,7 @@ std::string llama_format_tensor_shape(const struct ggml_tensor * t) {
     return buf;
 }
 
-static std::string gguf_data_to_str(enum gguf_type type, const void * data, int i) {
+static std::string gguf_data_to_str(enum gguf_type type, const void * data, size_t i) {
     switch (type) {
         case GGUF_TYPE_UINT8:   return std::to_string(((const uint8_t  *)data)[i]);
         case GGUF_TYPE_INT8:    return std::to_string(((const int8_t   *)data)[i]);
@@ -166,7 +165,7 @@ static std::string gguf_data_to_str(enum gguf_type type, const void * data, int
     }
 }
 
-std::string gguf_kv_to_str(const struct gguf_context * ctx_gguf, int i) {
+std::string gguf_kv_to_str(const struct gguf_context * ctx_gguf, int i, size_t max_len) {
     const enum gguf_type type = gguf_get_kv_type(ctx_gguf, i);
 
     switch (type) {
@@ -175,28 +174,38 @@ std::string gguf_kv_to_str(const struct gguf_context * ctx_gguf, int i) {
         case GGUF_TYPE_ARRAY:
             {
                 const enum gguf_type arr_type = gguf_get_arr_type(ctx_gguf, i);
-                int arr_n = gguf_get_arr_n(ctx_gguf, i);
+                const size_t arr_n = gguf_get_arr_n(ctx_gguf, i);
                 const void * data = arr_type == GGUF_TYPE_STRING ? nullptr : gguf_get_arr_data(ctx_gguf, i);
-                std::stringstream ss;
-                ss << "[";
-                for (int j = 0; j < arr_n; j++) {
-                    if (arr_type == GGUF_TYPE_STRING) {
-                        std::string val = gguf_get_arr_str(ctx_gguf, i, j);
-                        // escape quotes
-                        replace_all(val, "\\", "\\\\");
-                        replace_all(val, "\"", "\\\"");
-                        ss << '"' << val << '"';
-                    } else if (arr_type == GGUF_TYPE_ARRAY) {
-                        ss << "???";
-                    } else {
-                        ss << gguf_data_to_str(arr_type, data, j);
+                std::string res = "[";
+                size_t j = 0;
+                for (; j < arr_n && res.size() <= max_len; j++) {
+                    if (j > 0) {
+                        res += ", ";
                     }
-                    if (j < arr_n - 1) {
-                        ss << ", ";
+                    if (arr_type == GGUF_TYPE_STRING) {
+                        const char * s = gguf_get_arr_str(ctx_gguf, i, j);
+                        const size_t need = res.size() + 2 * strlen(s) + 2;
+                        if (res.capacity() < need) {
+                            res.reserve(std::max(need, 2 * res.capacity()));
+                        }
+                        res += '"';
+                        for (; *s; s++) {
+                            if (*s == '\\' || *s == '"') {
+                                res += '\\';
+                            }
+                            res += *s;
+                        }
+                        res += '"';
+                    } else if (arr_type == GGUF_TYPE_ARRAY) {
+                        res += "???";
+                    } else {
+                        res += gguf_data_to_str(arr_type, data, j);
                     }
                 }
-                ss << "]";
-                return ss.str();
+                if (j == arr_n) {
+                    res += "]";
+                }
+                return res;
             }
         default:
             return gguf_data_to_str(type, gguf_get_val_data(ctx_gguf, i), 0);

src/llama-impl.h

@@ -107,4 +107,5 @@ std::string format(const char * fmt, ...);
 std::string llama_format_tensor_shape(const std::vector<int64_t> & ne);
 std::string llama_format_tensor_shape(const struct ggml_tensor * t);
 
-std::string gguf_kv_to_str(const struct gguf_context * ctx_gguf, int i);
+// arrays are rendered only until the result is longer than max_len
+std::string gguf_kv_to_str(const struct gguf_context * ctx_gguf, int i, size_t max_len = SIZE_MAX);

src/llama-model-loader.cpp

@@ -807,8 +807,8 @@ llama_model_loader::llama_model_loader(
                 ? format("%s[%s,%zu]", gguf_type_name(type), gguf_type_name(gguf_get_arr_type(metadata, i)), gguf_get_arr_n(metadata, i))
                 : gguf_type_name(type);
 
-            std::string value          = gguf_kv_to_str(metadata, i);
             const size_t MAX_VALUE_LEN = 40;
+            std::string value          = gguf_kv_to_str(metadata, i, MAX_VALUE_LEN);
             if (value.size() > MAX_VALUE_LEN) {
                 value = format("%s...", value.substr(0, MAX_VALUE_LEN - 3).c_str());
             }
@@ -951,6 +951,13 @@ static bool weight_buft_supported(const llama_hparams & hparams, ggml_tensor * w
                 ggml_tensor * b = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_I32, 512);
                 op_tensor = ggml_get_rows(ctx, w, b);
             } break;
+        case GGML_OP_SET_ROWS:
+            {
+                // w holds the row indices (e.g. d2t)
+                ggml_tensor * a = ggml_new_tensor_2d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, 1, w->ne[0]);
+                ggml_tensor * b = ggml_new_tensor_2d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, 1, w->ne[0]);
+                op_tensor = ggml_set_rows(ctx, a, b, w);
+            } break;
         case GGML_OP_MUL_MAT:
             {
                 ggml_tensor * b = ggml_new_tensor_4d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, w->ne[0], 512, w->ne[2], w->ne[3]);

src/llama-vocab.cpp

@@ -2260,21 +2260,22 @@ void llama_vocab::impl::load(llama_model_loader & ml, const LLM_KV & kv) {
                     throw std::runtime_error(format("invalid gguf type for %s", kv(LLM_KV_TOKENIZER_MERGES).c_str()));
                 }
                 const int n_merges = gguf_get_arr_n(ctx, merges_keyidx);
+                bpe_ranks.reserve(n_merges);
                 for (int i = 0; i < n_merges; i++) {
-                    const std::string word = gguf_get_arr_str(ctx, merges_keyidx, i);
+                    const char * word = gguf_get_arr_str(ctx, merges_keyidx, i);
                     //GGML_ASSERT(unicode_cpts_from_utf8(word).size() > 0);
 
                     std::string first;
                     std::string second;
 
-                    const size_t pos = word.find(' ', 1);
+                    const char * sep = *word ? strchr(word + 1, ' ') : nullptr;
 
-                    if (pos != std::string::npos) {
-                        first  = word.substr(0, pos);
-                        second = word.substr(pos + 1);
+                    if (sep) {
+                        first.assign(word, sep - word);
+                        second.assign(sep + 1);
                     }
 
-                    bpe_ranks.emplace(std::make_pair(first, second), i);
+                    bpe_ranks.emplace(std::make_pair(std::move(first), std::move(second)), i);
                 }
             }
 
@@ -2371,20 +2372,21 @@ void llama_vocab::impl::load(llama_model_loader & ml, const LLM_KV & kv) {
                     throw std::runtime_error(format("invalid gguf type for %s", kv(LLM_KV_TOKENIZER_MERGES).c_str()));
                 }
                 const int n_merges = gguf_get_arr_n(ctx, merges_keyidx);
+                bpe_ranks.reserve(n_merges);
                 for (int i = 0; i < n_merges; i++) {
-                    const std::string word = gguf_get_arr_str(ctx, merges_keyidx, i);
+                    const char * word = gguf_get_arr_str(ctx, merges_keyidx, i);
 
                     std::string first;
                     std::string second;
 
-                    const size_t pos = word.find(' ', 1);
+                    const char * sep = *word ? strchr(word + 1, ' ') : nullptr;
 
-                    if (pos != std::string::npos) {
-                        first  = word.substr(0, pos);
-                        second = word.substr(pos + 1);
+                    if (sep) {
+                        first.assign(word, sep - word);
+                        second.assign(sep + 1);
                     }
 
-                    bpe_ranks.emplace(std::make_pair(first, second), i);
+                    bpe_ranks.emplace(std::make_pair(std::move(first), std::move(second)), i);
                 }
             }
 
@@ -2764,6 +2766,7 @@ void llama_vocab::impl::load(llama_model_loader & ml, const LLM_KV & kv) {
     }
 
     id_to_token.resize(n_tokens);
+    token_to_id.reserve(n_tokens);
 
     for (uint32_t i = 0; i < n_tokens; i++) {
         std::string word = gguf_get_arr_str(ctx, token_idx, i);
@@ -3676,13 +3679,14 @@ static void llama_unescape_whitespace(std::string & word) {
 
 static std::string llama_decode_text(const std::string & text) {
     std::string decoded_text;
+    decoded_text.reserve(text.size());
 
     const auto cpts = unicode_cpts_from_utf8(text);
     for (const auto cpt : cpts) {
-        const auto utf8 = unicode_cpt_to_utf8(cpt);
         try {
-            decoded_text += unicode_utf8_to_byte(utf8);
+            decoded_text += unicode_cpt_to_byte(cpt);
         } catch (const std::out_of_range & /*e*/) {
+            const auto utf8 = unicode_cpt_to_utf8(cpt);
             decoded_text += "[UNK_BYTE_0x";
             for (const auto c : utf8) {
                 decoded_text += format("%02x", (uint8_t) c);

src/models/lfm-base.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+#include "models.h"
+
+#include "llama-memory-recurrent.h"
+
+#include <algorithm>
+
+llm_build_lfm_base::llm_build_lfm_base(const llm_graph_params & params) : llm_graph_context(params) {}
+
+ggml_tensor * llm_build_lfm_base::build_lfm_shortconv(const llama_model & model,
+                                                      const llama_memory_recurrent_context * mctx_recr,
+                                                      llm_graph_input_rs * inp_recr,
+                                                      ggml_tensor * cur,
+                                                      int il) {
+    const uint32_t kv_head      = mctx_recr->get_head();
+    const int64_t  n_seq_tokens = ubatch.n_seq_tokens;
+    const int64_t  n_seqs       = ubatch.n_seqs;
+    GGML_ASSERT(n_seqs != 0);
+    GGML_ASSERT(ubatch.equal_seqs());
+    GGML_ASSERT(ubatch.n_tokens == n_seq_tokens * n_seqs);
+
+    GGML_ASSERT(hparams.n_shortconv_l_cache > 1);
+    const uint32_t d_conv = hparams.n_shortconv_l_cache - 1;
+    const int64_t  n_embd = hparams.n_embd;
+
+    // {n_embd, n_tokens} => {n_embd, n_seq_tokens, n_seqs}
+    cur = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, cur, cur->ne[0], n_seq_tokens, n_seqs);
+
+    auto * bcx = build_lora_mm(model.layers[il].shortconv.in_proj, cur);
+    cb(bcx, "model.layers.{}.conv.in_proj", il);
+
+    constexpr auto n_chunks = 3;
+    GGML_ASSERT(bcx->ne[0] % n_chunks == 0);
+    const auto chunk_size = bcx->ne[0] / n_chunks;
+    auto *     b          = ggml_view_3d(ctx0, bcx, chunk_size, bcx->ne[1], bcx->ne[2], bcx->nb[1], bcx->nb[2],
+                                         0 * chunk_size * ggml_element_size(bcx));
+    auto *     c          = ggml_view_3d(ctx0, bcx, chunk_size, bcx->ne[1], bcx->ne[2], bcx->nb[1], bcx->nb[2],
+                                         1 * chunk_size * ggml_element_size(bcx));
+    auto *     x          = ggml_view_3d(ctx0, bcx, chunk_size, bcx->ne[1], bcx->ne[2], bcx->nb[1], bcx->nb[2],
+                                         2 * chunk_size * ggml_element_size(bcx));
+
+    auto * bx = ggml_transpose(ctx0, ggml_mul(ctx0, b, x));
+
+    // read conv state
+    auto * conv_state = mctx_recr->get_r_l(il);
+    auto * conv_rs    = build_rs(inp_recr, conv_state, hparams.n_embd_r(), n_seqs);
+    auto * conv       = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, conv_rs, d_conv, n_embd, n_seqs);
+
+    // causal prepends the state, non-causal pads symmetrically for a centered window
+    if (hparams.causal_attn) {
+        bx = ggml_concat(ctx0, conv, bx, 0);
+    } else {
+        const int64_t pad = (hparams.n_shortconv_l_cache - 1) / 2;
+        auto * left = ggml_cont(ctx0,
+            ggml_view_3d(ctx0, conv, pad, n_embd, n_seqs, conv->nb[1], conv->nb[2], (d_conv - pad) * conv->nb[0]));
+        bx = ggml_pad_ext(ctx0, ggml_concat(ctx0, left, bx, 0), 0, pad, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
+    }
+    GGML_ASSERT(bx->ne[0] > conv->ne[0]);
+
+    // write conv states: slot 0 = the final state, slot s = the state s tokens back (partial rollback)
+    const int64_t K         = hparams.causal_attn && cparams.n_rs_seq > 0 ? (int64_t) cparams.n_rs_seq + 1 : 1;
+    const int64_t n_written = std::min<int64_t>(n_seq_tokens, K);
+    const auto    mem_size  = mctx_recr->get_size();
+    const size_t  row_size  = ggml_row_size(conv_state->type, (int64_t) d_conv * n_embd);
+
+    for (int64_t slot = 0; slot < n_written; ++slot) {
+        auto * conv_snap = ggml_view_3d(ctx0, bx, d_conv, bx->ne[1], bx->ne[2], bx->nb[1], bx->nb[2],
+                                        (bx->ne[0] - d_conv - slot) * ggml_element_size(bx));
+        ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, ggml_cpy(ctx0, conv_snap,
+                                               ggml_view_2d(ctx0, conv_state, (int64_t) d_conv * n_embd, n_seqs,
+                                                            conv_state->nb[1],
+                                                            ((size_t) slot * mem_size + kv_head) * row_size)));
+    }
+
+    auto * conv_kernel = model.layers[il].shortconv.conv;
+    auto * conv_out    = ggml_ssm_conv(ctx0, bx, conv_kernel);
+    cb(conv_out, "model.layers.{}.conv.conv", il);
+
+    auto * y = ggml_mul(ctx0, c, conv_out);
+    y        = build_lora_mm(model.layers[il].shortconv.out_proj, y);
+    cb(y, "model.layers.{}.conv.out_proj", il);
+    // {n_embd, n_seq_tokens, n_seqs} => {n_embd, n_tokens}
+    y = ggml_reshape_2d(ctx0, y, y->ne[0], n_seq_tokens * n_seqs);
+
+    return y;
+}
+
+ggml_tensor * llm_build_lfm_base::build_lfm_dense_ffn(const llama_model & model,
+                                                      ggml_tensor * cur,
+                                                      int il) {
+    GGML_ASSERT(!model.layers[il].ffn_up_b);
+    GGML_ASSERT(!model.layers[il].ffn_gate_b);
+    GGML_ASSERT(!model.layers[il].ffn_down_b);
+    return build_ffn(cur,
+        model.layers[il].ffn_up,   NULL, NULL,
+        model.layers[il].ffn_gate, NULL, NULL,
+        model.layers[il].ffn_down, NULL, NULL,
+        NULL, LLM_FFN_SILU, LLM_FFN_PAR, il);
+}
+
+ggml_tensor * llm_build_lfm_base::build_lfm_moe_ffn(const llama_model & model,
+                                                    ggml_tensor * cur,
+                                                    int il) {
+    return build_moe_ffn(cur,
+            model.layers[il].ffn_gate_inp,
+            model.layers[il].ffn_up_exps,
+            model.layers[il].ffn_gate_exps,
+            model.layers[il].ffn_down_exps,
+            model.layers[il].ffn_exp_probs_b,
+            n_expert, n_expert_used,
+            LLM_FFN_SILU, true,
+            hparams.expert_weights_scale,
+            static_cast<llama_expert_gating_func_type>(hparams.expert_gating_func),
+            il);
+}

src/models/lfm2.cpp

@@ -147,35 +147,11 @@ std::unique_ptr<llm_graph_context> llama_model_lfm2::build_arch_graph(const llm_
 
 template <bool iswa>
 llama_model_lfm2::graph<iswa>::graph(const llama_model & model, const llm_graph_params & params) :
-    llm_graph_context(params) {
+    llm_build_lfm_base(params) {
     using inp_hybrid_type = std::conditional_t<iswa, llm_graph_input_mem_hybrid_iswa,  llm_graph_input_mem_hybrid>;
     using inp_attn_type   = std::conditional_t<iswa, llm_graph_input_attn_kv_iswa,     llm_graph_input_attn_kv>;
     using mem_hybrid_ctx  = std::conditional_t<iswa, llama_memory_hybrid_iswa_context, llama_memory_hybrid_context>;
 
-    // lambda helpers for readability
-    auto build_dense_feed_forward = [&model, this](ggml_tensor * cur, int il) -> ggml_tensor * {
-        GGML_ASSERT(!model.layers[il].ffn_up_b);
-        GGML_ASSERT(!model.layers[il].ffn_gate_b);
-        GGML_ASSERT(!model.layers[il].ffn_down_b);
-        return build_ffn(cur,
-            model.layers[il].ffn_up, NULL, NULL,
-            model.layers[il].ffn_gate, NULL, NULL,
-            model.layers[il].ffn_down, NULL, NULL,
-            NULL, LLM_FFN_SILU, LLM_FFN_PAR, il);
-    };
-    auto build_moe_feed_forward = [&model, this](ggml_tensor * cur, int il) -> ggml_tensor * {
-        return build_moe_ffn(cur,
-                model.layers[il].ffn_gate_inp,
-                model.layers[il].ffn_up_exps,
-                model.layers[il].ffn_gate_exps,
-                model.layers[il].ffn_down_exps,
-                model.layers[il].ffn_exp_probs_b,
-                n_expert, n_expert_used,
-                LLM_FFN_SILU, true,
-                hparams.expert_weights_scale,
-                static_cast<llama_expert_gating_func_type>(hparams.expert_gating_func),
-                il);
-    };
     auto build_attn_block = [&model, this](ggml_tensor *   cur,
                                            ggml_tensor *   inp_pos,
                                            inp_attn_type * inp_attn,
@@ -207,82 +183,6 @@ llama_model_lfm2::graph<iswa>::graph(const llama_model & model, const llm_graph_
 
         return cur;
     };
-    auto build_shortconv_block = [&model, this](ggml_tensor *        cur,
-                                                llm_graph_input_rs * inp_recr,
-                                                int                  il) -> ggml_tensor * {
-        const auto * mctx_cur = static_cast<const mem_hybrid_ctx *>(mctx)->get_recr();
-        const uint32_t kv_head      = mctx_cur->get_head();
-        const int64_t  n_seq_tokens = ubatch.n_seq_tokens;
-        const int64_t  n_seqs       = ubatch.n_seqs;
-        GGML_ASSERT(n_seqs != 0);
-        GGML_ASSERT(ubatch.equal_seqs());
-        GGML_ASSERT(ubatch.n_tokens == n_seq_tokens * n_seqs);
-
-        GGML_ASSERT(hparams.n_shortconv_l_cache > 1);
-        const uint32_t d_conv = hparams.n_shortconv_l_cache - 1;
-
-        // {n_embd, n_tokens} => {n_embd, n_seq_tokens, n_seqs}
-        cur = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, cur, cur->ne[0], n_seq_tokens, n_seqs);
-
-        auto * bcx = build_lora_mm(model.layers[il].shortconv.in_proj, cur);
-        cb(bcx, "model.layers.{}.conv.in_proj", il);
-
-        constexpr auto n_chunks = 3;
-        GGML_ASSERT(bcx->ne[0] % n_chunks == 0);
-        const auto chunk_size = bcx->ne[0] / n_chunks;
-        auto *     b          = ggml_view_3d(ctx0, bcx, chunk_size, bcx->ne[1], bcx->ne[2], bcx->nb[1], bcx->nb[2],
-                                             0 * chunk_size * ggml_element_size(bcx));
-        auto *     c          = ggml_view_3d(ctx0, bcx, chunk_size, bcx->ne[1], bcx->ne[2], bcx->nb[1], bcx->nb[2],
-                                             1 * chunk_size * ggml_element_size(bcx));
-        auto *     x          = ggml_view_3d(ctx0, bcx, chunk_size, bcx->ne[1], bcx->ne[2], bcx->nb[1], bcx->nb[2],
-                                             2 * chunk_size * ggml_element_size(bcx));
-
-        auto * bx = ggml_transpose(ctx0, ggml_mul(ctx0, b, x));
-
-        // read conv state
-        auto * conv_state = mctx_cur->get_r_l(il);
-        auto * conv_rs    = build_rs(inp_recr, conv_state, hparams.n_embd_r(), n_seqs);
-        auto * conv       = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, conv_rs, d_conv, hparams.n_embd, n_seqs);
-
-        // causal prepends the state, non-causal pads symmetrically for a centered window
-        if (hparams.causal_attn) {
-            bx = ggml_concat(ctx0, conv, bx, 0);
-        } else {
-            const int64_t pad = (hparams.n_shortconv_l_cache - 1) / 2;
-            auto * left = ggml_cont(ctx0,
-                ggml_view_3d(ctx0, conv, pad, hparams.n_embd, n_seqs, conv->nb[1], conv->nb[2], (d_conv - pad) * conv->nb[0]));
-            bx = ggml_pad_ext(ctx0, ggml_concat(ctx0, left, bx, 0), 0, pad, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
-        }
-        GGML_ASSERT(bx->ne[0] > conv->ne[0]);
-
-        // write conv states: slot 0 = the final state, slot s = the state s tokens back (partial rollback)
-        const int64_t K         = hparams.causal_attn && cparams.n_rs_seq > 0 ? (int64_t) cparams.n_rs_seq + 1 : 1;
-        const int64_t n_written = std::min<int64_t>(n_seq_tokens, K);
-        const auto    mem_size  = mctx_cur->get_size();
-        const size_t  row_size  = ggml_row_size(conv_state->type, (int64_t) d_conv * n_embd);
-
-        for (int64_t slot = 0; slot < n_written; ++slot) {
-            auto * conv_snap = ggml_view_3d(ctx0, bx, d_conv, bx->ne[1], bx->ne[2], bx->nb[1], bx->nb[2],
-                                            (bx->ne[0] - d_conv - slot) * ggml_element_size(bx));
-            ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, ggml_cpy(ctx0, conv_snap,
-                                                   ggml_view_2d(ctx0, conv_state, (int64_t) d_conv * n_embd, n_seqs,
-                                                                conv_state->nb[1],
-                                                                ((size_t) slot * mem_size + kv_head) * row_size)));
-        }
-
-        auto * conv_kernel = model.layers[il].shortconv.conv;
-        auto * conv_out    = ggml_ssm_conv(ctx0, bx, conv_kernel);
-        cb(conv_out, "model.layers.{}.conv.conv", il);
-
-        auto * y = ggml_mul(ctx0, c, conv_out);
-        y        = build_lora_mm(model.layers[il].shortconv.out_proj, y);
-        cb(y, "model.layers.{}.conv.out_proj", il);
-        // {n_embd, n_seq_tokens, n_seqs} => {n_embd, n_tokens}
-        y = ggml_reshape_2d(ctx0, y, y->ne[0], n_seq_tokens * n_seqs);
-
-        return y;
-    };
-
     // actual graph construction starts here
     ggml_tensor * cur = build_inp_embd(model.tok_embd);
     cb(cur, "model.embed_tokens", -1);
@@ -308,8 +208,12 @@ llama_model_lfm2::graph<iswa>::graph(const llama_model & model, const llm_graph_
         cur             = build_norm(cur, model.layers[il].attn_norm, NULL, LLM_NORM_RMS, il);
         cb(cur, "model.layers.{}.operator_norm", il);
 
-        cur = hparams.is_recr(il) ? build_shortconv_block(cur, inp_hybrid->get_recr(), il) :
-                                    build_attn_block(cur, inp_pos, inp_hybrid->get_attn(), il);
+        if (hparams.is_recr(il)) {
+            const auto * mctx_recr = static_cast<const mem_hybrid_ctx *>(mctx)->get_recr();
+            cur = build_lfm_shortconv(model, mctx_recr, inp_hybrid->get_recr(), cur, il);
+        } else {
+            cur = build_attn_block(cur, inp_pos, inp_hybrid->get_attn(), il);
+        }
 
         if (il == n_layer - 1 && inp_out_ids) {
             cur      = ggml_get_rows(ctx0, cur, inp_out_ids);
@@ -322,7 +226,7 @@ llama_model_lfm2::graph<iswa>::graph(const llama_model & model, const llm_graph_
         cb(ffn_norm_out, "model.layers.{}.ffn_norm", il);
 
         ggml_tensor * ffn_out =
-            is_moe_layer ? build_moe_feed_forward(ffn_norm_out, il) : build_dense_feed_forward(ffn_norm_out, il);
+            is_moe_layer ? build_lfm_moe_ffn(model, ffn_norm_out, il) : build_lfm_dense_ffn(model, ffn_norm_out, il);
         cb(ffn_norm_out, "model.layers.{}.ffn_out", il);
 
         cur = ggml_add(ctx0, cur, ffn_out);

src/models/models.h

@@ -100,6 +100,26 @@ struct llm_build_delta_net_base : public llm_graph_context {
             int                  il);
 };
 
+struct llm_build_lfm_base : public llm_graph_context {
+    llm_build_lfm_base(const llm_graph_params & params);
+
+    virtual ~llm_build_lfm_base() = default;
+
+    ggml_tensor * build_lfm_shortconv(const llama_model & model,
+                                      const llama_memory_recurrent_context * mctx_recr,
+                                      llm_graph_input_rs * inp_recr,
+                                      ggml_tensor * cur,
+                                      int il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * build_lfm_dense_ffn(const llama_model & model,
+                                      ggml_tensor * cur,
+                                      int il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * build_lfm_moe_ffn(const llama_model & model,
+                                    ggml_tensor * cur,
+                                    int il);
+};
+
 struct llm_build_rwkv6_base : public llm_graph_context {
     const llama_model & model;
 
@@ -2264,7 +2284,7 @@ struct llama_model_lfm2 : public llama_model_base {
     void load_arch_tensors(llama_model_loader & ml) override;
 
     template <bool iswa>
-    struct graph : public llm_graph_context {
+    struct graph : public llm_build_lfm_base {
         graph(const llama_model & model, const llm_graph_params & params);
     };
 

src/models/qwen35.cpp

@@ -465,17 +465,14 @@ ggml_tensor * llama_model_qwen35::graph::build_layer_attn_linear(
     // Apply gated normalization: self.norm(core_attn_out, z)
     ggml_tensor * attn_out_norm = build_norm_gated(output, model.layers[il].ssm_norm, z_2d, il);
 
-    // Final reshape: [head_dim, n_heads, n_tokens, n_seqs] -> [n_tokens, n_seqs, n_heads * head_dim]
-    ggml_tensor * final_output = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, attn_out_norm, head_v_dim * num_v_heads, n_seq_tokens, n_seqs);
+    // Final reshape: [head_dim, n_heads, n_tokens, n_seqs] -> [n_heads * head_dim , n_tokens * n_seqs ]
+    ggml_tensor * final_output = ggml_reshape_2d(ctx0, attn_out_norm, head_v_dim * num_v_heads, n_seq_tokens * n_seqs);
     cb(final_output, "final_output", il);
 
     // Output projection
     cur = build_lora_mm(model.layers[il].ssm_out, final_output, model.layers[il].ssm_out_s);
     cb(cur, "linear_attn_out", il);
 
-    // Reshape back to original dimensions
-    cur = ggml_reshape_2d(ctx0, cur, n_embd, n_seq_tokens * n_seqs);
-
     return cur;
 }
 

src/models/qwen35moe.cpp

@@ -475,17 +475,13 @@ ggml_tensor * llama_model_qwen35moe::graph::build_layer_attn_linear(
     // Apply gated normalization: self.norm(core_attn_out, z)
     ggml_tensor * attn_out_norm = build_norm_gated(output, model.layers[il].ssm_norm, z_2d, il);
 
-    // Final reshape: [head_dim, n_heads, n_tokens, n_seqs] -> [n_tokens, n_seqs, n_heads * head_dim]
-    ggml_tensor * final_output = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, attn_out_norm, head_v_dim * num_v_heads, n_seq_tokens, n_seqs);
-    cb(final_output, "final_output", il);
+    // Final reshape: [head_dim, n_heads, n_tokens, n_seqs] -> [n_heads * head_dim , n_tokens * n_seqs ]
+    ggml_tensor * final_output = ggml_reshape_2d(ctx0, attn_out_norm, head_v_dim * num_v_heads, n_seq_tokens * n_seqs);
 
     // Output projection
     cur = build_lora_mm(model.layers[il].ssm_out, final_output, model.layers[il].ssm_out_s);
     cb(cur, "linear_attn_out", il);
 
-    // Reshape back to original dimensions
-    cur = ggml_reshape_2d(ctx0, cur, n_embd, n_seq_tokens * n_seqs);
-
     return cur;
 }
 

src/models/qwen3next.cpp

@@ -542,17 +542,14 @@ ggml_tensor * llama_model_qwen3next::graph::build_layer_attn_linear(
     // Apply gated normalization: self.norm(core_attn_out, z)
     ggml_tensor * attn_out_norm = build_norm_gated(output, model.layers[il].ssm_norm, z_2d, il);
 
-    // Final reshape: [head_dim, n_heads, n_tokens, n_seqs] -> [n_tokens, n_seqs, n_heads * head_dim]
-    ggml_tensor * final_output = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, attn_out_norm, head_v_dim * num_v_heads, n_seq_tokens, n_seqs);
+    // Final reshape: [head_dim, n_heads, n_tokens, n_seqs] -> [n_heads * head_dim , n_tokens * n_seqs ]
+    ggml_tensor * final_output = ggml_reshape_2d(ctx0, attn_out_norm, head_v_dim * num_v_heads, n_seq_tokens * n_seqs);
     cb(final_output, "final_output", il);
 
     // Output projection
     cur = build_lora_mm(model.layers[il].ssm_out, final_output);
     cb(cur, "linear_attn_out", il);
 
-    // Reshape back to original dimensions
-    cur = ggml_reshape_2d(ctx0, cur, n_embd, n_seq_tokens * n_seqs);
-
     return cur;
 }
 

src/models/qwen4exp.cpp

@@ -1131,14 +1131,12 @@ ggml_tensor * llama_model_qwen4exp::graph::build_layer_attn_linear(
     // gated normalization, as self.norm(core_attn_out, z) in the reference
     ggml_tensor * attn_out_norm = build_norm_gated(output, model.layers[il].ssm_norm, z_2d, il);
 
-    ggml_tensor * final_output = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, attn_out_norm, head_v_dim * num_v_heads, n_seq_tokens, n_seqs);
+    ggml_tensor * final_output = ggml_reshape_2d(ctx0, attn_out_norm, head_v_dim * num_v_heads, n_seq_tokens * n_seqs);
     cb(final_output, "final_output", il);
 
     cur = build_lora_mm(model.layers[il].ssm_out, final_output, model.layers[il].ssm_out_s);
     cb(cur, "linear_attn_out", il);
 
-    cur = ggml_reshape_2d(ctx0, cur, n_embd, n_seq_tokens * n_seqs);
-
     return cur;
 }
 

src/unicode.cpp

@@ -202,6 +202,19 @@ static std::unordered_map<std::string, uint8_t> unicode_utf8_to_byte_map() {
     return map;
 }
 
+static std::vector<int> unicode_cpt_to_byte_map() {
+    std::vector<int> map;
+    for (int ch = 0; ch < 256; ++ch) {
+        size_t offset = 0;
+        const uint32_t cpt = unicode_cpt_from_utf8(unicode_byte_to_utf8(ch), offset);
+        if (cpt >= map.size()) {
+            map.resize(cpt + 1, -1);
+        }
+        map[cpt] = ch;
+    }
+    return map;
+}
+
 static std::vector<std::string> unicode_byte_encoding_process(const std::vector<std::string> & bpe_words) {
     std::vector<std::string> bpe_encoded_words;
     for (const auto & word : bpe_words) {
@@ -1416,6 +1429,14 @@ uint8_t unicode_utf8_to_byte(const std::string & utf8) {
     return map.at(utf8);
 }
 
+uint8_t unicode_cpt_to_byte(uint32_t cpt) {
+    static const std::vector<int> map = unicode_cpt_to_byte_map();
+    if (cpt >= map.size() || map[cpt] < 0) {
+        throw std::out_of_range("unicode_cpt_to_byte: not a byte token code point");
+    }
+    return map[cpt];
+}
+
 uint32_t unicode_tolower(uint32_t cpt) {
     // binary search
     auto it = std::lower_bound(unicode_map_lowercase.begin(), unicode_map_lowercase.end(), cpt,

src/unicode.h

@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ unicode_cpt_flags unicode_cpt_flags_from_utf8(const std::string & utf8);
 
 std::string unicode_byte_to_utf8(uint8_t byte);
 uint8_t     unicode_utf8_to_byte(const std::string & utf8);
+uint8_t     unicode_cpt_to_byte (uint32_t cpt);
 
 uint32_t unicode_tolower(uint32_t cpt);
 

tests/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -332,6 +332,7 @@ if (NOT GGML_BACKEND_DL AND GGML_CPU)
     llama_build_and_test(test-rope.cpp LINK ggml)
     llama_build_and_test(test-col2im-1d.cpp LINK ggml)
     llama_build_and_test(test-conv-1d.cpp LINK ggml)
+    llama_build_and_test(test-gelu-quick.cpp LINK ggml)
 endif()
 
 # libmtmd

tests/test-backend-ops.cpp

@@ -2069,6 +2069,15 @@ struct test_unary : public test_case {
         return VARS_TO_STR3(type, ne_a, v);
     }
 
+    double max_nmse_err(ggml_backend_t backend) override {
+        // Metal computes f32 gelu_quick in f32, so an fp16 table in the CPU reference (NMSE about 5e-8) fails this
+        ggml_backend_reg_t reg = ggml_backend_dev_backend_reg(ggml_backend_get_device(backend));
+        if (op == GGML_UNARY_OP_GELU_QUICK && type == GGML_TYPE_F32 && strcmp(ggml_backend_reg_name(reg), "MTL") == 0) {
+            return 1e-10;
+        }
+        return test_case::max_nmse_err(backend);
+    }
+
     test_unary(ggml_unary_op op,
             ggml_type type = GGML_TYPE_F32,
             std::array<int64_t, 4> ne_a = {128, 2, 2, 2},
@@ -2157,6 +2166,15 @@ struct test_glu : public test_case {
         return VARS_TO_STR4(type, ne_a, v, swapped);
     }
 
+    double max_nmse_err(ggml_backend_t backend) override {
+        // Metal computes f32 geglu_quick in f32, so an fp16 table in the CPU reference (NMSE about 5e-8) fails this
+        ggml_backend_reg_t reg = ggml_backend_dev_backend_reg(ggml_backend_get_device(backend));
+        if (op == GGML_GLU_OP_GEGLU_QUICK && type == GGML_TYPE_F32 && strcmp(ggml_backend_reg_name(reg), "MTL") == 0) {
+            return 1e-10;
+        }
+        return test_case::max_nmse_err(backend);
+    }
+
     test_glu(ggml_glu_op op,
             ggml_type type = GGML_TYPE_F32,
             std::array<int64_t, 4> ne_a = {128, 2, 2, 2},
@@ -2202,6 +2220,15 @@ struct test_glu_split : public test_case {
         return VARS_TO_STR3(type, ne_a, v) + ",split";
     }
 
+    double max_nmse_err(ggml_backend_t backend) override {
+        // Metal computes f32 geglu_quick in f32, so an fp16 table in the CPU reference (NMSE about 5e-8) fails this
+        ggml_backend_reg_t reg = ggml_backend_dev_backend_reg(ggml_backend_get_device(backend));
+        if (op == GGML_GLU_OP_GEGLU_QUICK && type == GGML_TYPE_F32 && strcmp(ggml_backend_reg_name(reg), "MTL") == 0) {
+            return 1e-10;
+        }
+        return test_case::max_nmse_err(backend);
+    }
+
     test_glu_split(ggml_glu_op op,
             ggml_type type = GGML_TYPE_F32,
             std::array<int64_t, 4> ne_a = {128, 2, 2, 2},
@@ -2454,7 +2481,9 @@ struct test_get_rows : public test_case {
 };
 
 // GGML_OP_GET_ROWS on a weight also used by GGML_OP_MUL_MAT (tied embeddings)
-// the mul_mat runs first, so a backend that changes the weight layout must still return the right rows
+// that the preceding mul_mat may have put in the SYCL reorder layout. The
+// mul_mat runs first, so a backend that changes the weight layout in place
+// must still return the right rows from get_rows.
 struct test_get_rows_after_mul_mat : public test_case {
     const ggml_type type;
     const int n; // cols
@@ -2510,6 +2539,48 @@ struct test_get_rows_after_mul_mat : public test_case {
     }
 };
 
+// The persistent SYCL weight reorder installs on the first small-batch mul_mat; a
+// later >8-column mul_mat on the same weight goes through the fused-dequant GEMM /
+// conversion routes, which must decode the reordered layout (regression test for the
+// #29107 crash: the plain fused-dequant GEMM decoded standard layout unconditionally).
+struct test_mul_mat_reorder_then_big_batch : public test_case {
+    const ggml_type type;
+    const int n; // cols of the big batch
+    const int m; // rows
+
+    std::string vars() override {
+        return VARS_TO_STR3(type, n, m);
+    }
+
+    test_mul_mat_reorder_then_big_batch(ggml_type type = GGML_TYPE_IQ3_S, int n = 64, int m = 64)
+        : type(type), n(n), m(m) {}
+
+    double max_nmse_err() override {
+        return 5e-4; // same as test_mul_mat
+    }
+
+    ggml_tensor * build_graph(ggml_context * ctx) override {
+        ggml_tensor * w = ggml_new_tensor_2d(ctx, type, 1*256, m);
+        ggml_set_name(w, "w");
+
+        ggml_tensor * x1 = ggml_new_tensor_2d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, 1*256, 1);
+        ggml_set_name(x1, "x1");
+
+        ggml_tensor * x2 = ggml_new_tensor_2d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, 1*256, n);
+        ggml_set_name(x2, "x2");
+
+        ggml_tensor * mm1 = ggml_mul_mat(ctx, w, x1);
+        ggml_set_name(mm1, "mm1");
+
+        ggml_tensor * mm2 = ggml_mul_mat(ctx, w, x2);
+        ggml_set_name(mm2, "mm2");
+
+        // mm1 is the first source of the final ADD, so the reorder-installing
+        // small-batch mul_mat is computed before the big-batch one
+        return ggml_add(ctx, ggml_repeat(ctx, mm1, mm2), mm2);
+    }
+};
+
 // GGML_OP_GET_ROWS_BACK
 struct test_get_rows_back : public test_case {
     const ggml_type type;
@@ -9885,9 +9956,13 @@ static std::vector<std::unique_ptr<test_case>> make_test_cases_eval() {
     }
 
     test_cases.emplace_back(new test_get_rows(GGML_TYPE_F32, 1, 8, 2, 1, 1, false));
-    for (ggml_type type : {GGML_TYPE_Q4_0, GGML_TYPE_Q8_0, GGML_TYPE_Q2_K, GGML_TYPE_Q3_K, GGML_TYPE_Q4_K, GGML_TYPE_Q5_K, GGML_TYPE_Q6_K}) {
+    for (ggml_type type : {GGML_TYPE_Q4_0, GGML_TYPE_Q8_0, GGML_TYPE_Q2_K, GGML_TYPE_Q3_K, GGML_TYPE_Q4_K, GGML_TYPE_Q5_K, GGML_TYPE_Q6_K,
+                          GGML_TYPE_IQ3_XXS, GGML_TYPE_IQ3_S}) {
         test_cases.emplace_back(new test_get_rows_after_mul_mat(type));
     }
+    for (ggml_type type : {GGML_TYPE_IQ3_XXS, GGML_TYPE_IQ3_S}) {
+        test_cases.emplace_back(new test_mul_mat_reorder_then_big_batch(type));
+    }
     for (ggml_type type : all_types) {
         for (int b : {1, 7}) {
             for (bool v : {false, true}) {

tests/test-gelu-quick.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+// test-gelu-quick.cpp: validate the F32 gelu_quick and geglu_quick CPU kernels against the exact formula.
+//
+// test-backend-ops uses the CPU backend as its reference, so it cannot see an error in the CPU kernels
+// themselves. This test computes gelu_quick(x) = x / (1 + exp(-1.702 x)) in double precision and compares
+// every F32 output of the CPU backend with it: dense ranges, values outside the F16 range, values near
+// the float limits, and lengths that leave a tail after the vector loop.
+
+#include "ggml.h"
+#include "ggml-cpu.h"
+
+#include <cfloat>
+#include <cmath>
+#include <cstdint>
+#include <cstdio>
+#include <cstring>
+#include <vector>
+
+// Same coefficient as the CPU kernels
+static const double GELU_QUICK_COEF_REF = (double) 1.702f;
+
+static double gelu_quick_ref(double x) {
+    return x / (1.0 + std::exp(-GELU_QUICK_COEF_REF * x));
+}
+
+// Deterministic LCG mapped to [-1, 1]
+static uint64_t g_rng = 0x12345678ULL;
+static float frand(void) {
+    g_rng = g_rng * 6364136223846793005ULL + 1442695040888963407ULL;
+    return (float)((g_rng >> 33) & 0xffffff) / (float)0x800000 - 1.0f;
+}
+
+static std::vector<float> make_inputs(void) {
+    std::vector<float> x;
+    for (int i = 0; i <= 200000; i++) {
+        x.push_back(-10.0f + 20.0f * (float) i / 200000.0f);
+    }
+    for (int i = 0; i <= 2000; i++) {
+        x.push_back(-150.0f + 300.0f * (float) i / 2000.0f);
+    }
+    // outside the F16 range, near the float limits, and subnormal; both signs
+    const float edge[] = { 65504.0f, 65520.0f, 1e5f, 1e10f, 1e30f, FLT_MAX, 1e-30f, FLT_MIN, FLT_MIN / 16, 0.0f };
+    for (float v : edge) {
+        x.push_back(v);
+        x.push_back(-v);
+    }
+    return x;
+}
+
+static bool matches(float y, double ref) {
+    if (std::isnan(ref)) {
+        return std::isnan(y);
+    }
+    if (std::isinf(ref)) {
+        return (double) y == ref;
+    }
+    return std::fabs((double) y - ref) <= 1e-6 + 1e-6 * std::fabs(ref);
+}
+
+// Runs gelu_quick and geglu_quick on x[0, n) and returns the number of outputs that differ from the reference
+static int check(const float * x, const float * g, int64_t n) {
+    struct ggml_init_params params = {
+        /* .mem_size   = */ (size_t) 64 << 20,
+        /* .mem_base   = */ NULL,
+        /* .no_alloc   = */ false,
+    };
+    struct ggml_context * ctx = ggml_init(params);
+
+    struct ggml_tensor * a = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, n);
+    struct ggml_tensor * b = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, n);
+    memcpy(a->data, x, n * sizeof(float));
+    memcpy(b->data, g, n * sizeof(float));
+
+    struct ggml_tensor * y_gelu  = ggml_gelu_quick(ctx, a);
+    struct ggml_tensor * y_geglu = ggml_geglu_quick_split(ctx, a, b);
+
+    struct ggml_cgraph * gf = ggml_new_graph(ctx);
+    ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, y_gelu);
+    ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, y_geglu);
+    ggml_graph_compute_with_ctx(ctx, gf, 1);
+
+    int    bad     = 0;
+    double max_err = 0.0;
+    for (int64_t i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+        const double r0 = gelu_quick_ref(x[i]);
+        const double r1 = r0 * g[i];
+        const float  y0 = ((const float *) y_gelu->data)[i];
+        const float  y1 = ((const float *) y_geglu->data)[i];
+        if (std::isfinite(r0) && std::isfinite(y0)) {
+            max_err = std::fmax(max_err, std::fabs((double) y0 - r0) / (1.0 + std::fabs(r0)));
+        }
+        if (!matches(y0, r0)) {
+            if (bad < 3) {
+                printf("  gelu_quick(%g) = %g, expected %g\n", x[i], y0, r0);
+            }
+            bad++;
+        }
+        if (!matches(y1, r1)) {
+            if (bad < 3) {
+                printf("  geglu_quick(%g, %g) = %g, expected %g\n", x[i], g[i], y1, r1);
+            }
+            bad++;
+        }
+    }
+    printf("gelu_quick n=%6d: max err %.2e, %d mismatches %s\n", (int) n, max_err, bad, bad == 0 ? "OK" : "FAIL");
+
+    ggml_free(ctx);
+    return bad;
+}
+
+int main(void) {
+    const std::vector<float> x = make_inputs();
+    std::vector<float> g(x.size());
+    for (float & v : g) {
+        v = frand();
+    }
+
+    int fails = 0;
+
+    // every input in one call
+    fails += check(x.data(), g.data(), (int64_t) x.size()) != 0;
+
+    // short lengths end on the edge values and leave a tail after the vector loop
+    const int64_t lengths[] = { 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 23, 31, 33 };
+    for (int64_t n : lengths) {
+        const int64_t off = (int64_t) x.size() - n;
+        fails += check(x.data() + off, g.data() + off, n) != 0;
+    }
+
+    printf(fails == 0 ? "all gelu_quick checks passed\n" : "%d gelu_quick checks FAILED\n", fails);
+    return fails == 0 ? 0 : 1;
+}

tools/mtmd/clip-model.h

@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ struct clip_hparams {
     resize_algo image_resize_algo = RESIZE_ALGO_BICUBIC;
     pad_style image_resize_pad = PAD_CEIL; // padding style when resizing
     bool image_round_half_even = false;    // smart_resize rounds .5 to even, like Python round() in the HF processor
+    bool image_floor_before_align = false;
     std::array<uint8_t, 3> image_pad_color = {0, 0, 0};
 
     // (preprocessor) for llava-uhd style models

tools/mtmd/clip.cpp

@@ -1625,7 +1625,23 @@ struct clip_model_loader {
                         hparams.image_resize_algo = RESIZE_ALGO_BICUBIC;
                         hparams.rope_theta = 10000.0f;
                         get_u32(KEY_SPATIAL_MERGE_SIZE, hparams.n_merge, false);
-                        hparams.set_limit_image_tokens(8, 1024);
+                        get_u32(KEY_PREPROC_IMAGE_SIZE, hparams.image_longest_edge, false);
+                        if (hparams.image_longest_edge > 0) {
+                            const int64_t patch_size = int64_t(hparams.patch_size) * hparams.n_merge;
+                            if (patch_size <= 0) {
+                                throw std::runtime_error("Pixtral merged patch size must be positive");
+                            }
+                            const int64_t n_tokens_per_side =
+                                (hparams.image_longest_edge + patch_size - 1) / patch_size;
+                            if (n_tokens_per_side * patch_size > std::sqrt(std::numeric_limits<int>::max())) {
+                                throw std::runtime_error("Pixtral preprocessing image size is too large");
+                            }
+                            hparams.image_resize_pad         = PAD_NONE;
+                            hparams.image_floor_before_align = true;
+                            hparams.set_limit_image_tokens(0, n_tokens_per_side * n_tokens_per_side);
+                        } else {
+                            hparams.set_limit_image_tokens(8, 1024);
+                        }
                         hparams.set_warmup_n_tokens(256); // avoid OOM on warmup
                     } break;
                 case PROJECTOR_TYPE_LIGHTONOCR:
@@ -4262,8 +4278,9 @@ struct clip_init_result clip_init(const char * fname, struct clip_context_params
 struct clip_cap clip_get_cap(const char * fname) {
     clip_cap res;
     clip_model_loader loader(fname, /* skip_tensors= */ true);
-    res.has_vision = loader.has_vision;
-    res.has_audio  = loader.has_audio;
+    res.has_vision    = loader.has_vision;
+    res.has_audio     = loader.has_audio;
+    res.has_gen_audio = loader.has_gen_audio;
     return res;
 }
 

tools/mtmd/clip.h

@@ -148,5 +148,6 @@ std::map<ggml_backend_dev_t, size_t> clip_get_mem_usage(const struct clip_ctx *
 struct clip_cap {
     bool has_vision;
     bool has_audio;
+    bool has_gen_audio;
 };
 struct clip_cap clip_get_cap(const char * fname);

tools/mtmd/mtmd-helper-gen.cpp

@@ -50,29 +50,38 @@ static llama_token find_special_token(const llama_vocab * vocab, const std::stri
     return LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL;
 }
 
+static void put_bytes(std::vector<char> & buf, const void * p, size_t n) {
+    const char * c = (const char *) p;
+    buf.insert(buf.end(), c, c + n);
+}
+
+// data_sz == UINT32_MAX writes the "unknown length" sentinel (streaming), same as ffmpeg does on a pipe
+static void write_wav16_header(std::vector<char> & buf, uint32_t data_sz, int32_t rate) {
+    const uint32_t riff_sz   = data_sz == UINT32_MAX ? UINT32_MAX : 36 + data_sz;
+    const uint32_t fmt_sz    = 16, byte_rate = (uint32_t) rate * 2;
+    const uint16_t fmt = 1, ch = 1, align = 2, bits = 16;
+    const uint32_t rate32    = (uint32_t) rate;
+    put_bytes(buf, "RIFF", 4); put_bytes(buf, &riff_sz, 4); put_bytes(buf, "WAVE", 4);
+    put_bytes(buf, "fmt ", 4); put_bytes(buf, &fmt_sz, 4);
+    put_bytes(buf, &fmt, 2); put_bytes(buf, &ch, 2); put_bytes(buf, &rate32, 4);
+    put_bytes(buf, &byte_rate, 4); put_bytes(buf, &align, 2); put_bytes(buf, &bits, 2);
+    put_bytes(buf, "data", 4); put_bytes(buf, &data_sz, 4);
+}
+
+static void append_wav16_pcm(std::vector<char> & buf, const float * pcm, size_t n) {
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+        int16_t s = (int16_t) (std::max(-1.0f, std::min(1.0f, pcm[i])) * 32767.0f);
+        put_bytes(buf, &s, 2);
+    }
+}
+
 static bool write_wav16(std::vector<char> & buf, const std::vector<float> & pcm, int32_t rate) {
     // RIFF chunk sizes are 32-bit; refuse to emit a file with a truncated header
     if (pcm.size() > ((size_t) UINT32_MAX - 36) / 2) {
         return false;
     }
-    const uint32_t data_sz   = (uint32_t) (pcm.size() * 2);
-    const uint32_t riff_sz   = 36 + data_sz;
-    const uint32_t fmt_sz    = 16, byte_rate = (uint32_t) rate * 2;
-    const uint16_t fmt = 1, ch = 1, align = 2, bits = 16;
-    const uint32_t rate32    = (uint32_t) rate;
-    auto put = [&](const void * p, size_t n) {
-        const char * c = (const char *) p;
-        buf.insert(buf.end(), c, c + n);
-    };
-    put("RIFF", 4); put(&riff_sz, 4); put("WAVE", 4);
-    put("fmt ", 4); put(&fmt_sz, 4);
-    put(&fmt, 2); put(&ch, 2); put(&rate32, 4);
-    put(&byte_rate, 4); put(&align, 2); put(&bits, 2);
-    put("data", 4); put(&data_sz, 4);
-    for (float v : pcm) {
-        int16_t s = (int16_t) (std::max(-1.0f, std::min(1.0f, v)) * 32767.0f);
-        put(&s, 2);
-    }
+    write_wav16_header(buf, (uint32_t) (pcm.size() * 2), rate);
+    append_wav16_pcm(buf, pcm.data(), pcm.size());
     return true;
 }
 
@@ -92,6 +101,8 @@ public:
     // set out_stop on end-of-speech, h_state_out must be null if no frame is generated
     virtual int32_t step_gen(llama_token sampled, const float * h_state_in, const float ** h_state_out, bool * out_stop) = 0;
     virtual int32_t get_output(int32_t * out_sample_rate, const char ** out_data, size_t * out_data_len, int64_t * out_n_samples) = 0;
+    // forces any buffered codes through code2wav now, regardless of window_frames
+    virtual int32_t flush() = 0;
 
 protected:
     llama_context * lctx;
@@ -121,6 +132,9 @@ public:
         prompt_batch.reset();
         n_prompt = 0;
         prompt_pos = 0;
+        stream = false;
+        pcm_sent = 0;
+        wav_header_sent = false;
     }
 
     int32_t set_input(const mtmd_helper_gen_audio_inp * inp) override {
@@ -208,6 +222,7 @@ public:
         top_p = inp->top_p > 0 ? inp->top_p : def.top_p;
         seed  = inp->seed;
         out_type = inp->out_type;
+        stream = inp->stream;
 
         // the prompt above holds the whole text stream up to tts_eos, so every generated
         // frame adds tts_pad on top of the codes embedding
@@ -301,31 +316,60 @@ public:
     }
 
     int32_t get_output(int32_t * out_sample_rate, const char ** out_data, size_t * out_data_len, int64_t * out_n_samples) override {
-        if (!flush_gen_wav()) {
-            return 1;
+        *out_sample_rate = info.sample_rate;
+
+        if (!stream) {
+            // one-shot call: force out whatever's left, regardless of window_frames
+            if (!flush_gen_wav()) {
+                return 1;
+            }
+            if (out_n_samples) {
+                *out_n_samples = (int64_t) audio_pcm.size();
+            }
+            if (out_type == MTMD_HELPER_GEN_AUDIO_OUTTYPE_PCM) {
+                *out_data     = (const char *) audio_pcm.data();
+                *out_data_len = audio_pcm.size() * sizeof(float);
+                return 0;
+            }
+            out_buf.clear();
+            if (!write_wav16(out_buf, audio_pcm, info.sample_rate)) {
+                LOG_ERR("mtmd_helper_gen_audio: output too large for WAV\n");
+                return 1;
+            }
+            *out_data     = out_buf.data();
+            *out_data_len = out_buf.size();
+            return 0;
         }
 
-        *out_sample_rate = info.sample_rate;
+        // streaming: only return audio produced since the previous call
+        const size_t n_new = audio_pcm.size() - pcm_sent;
         if (out_n_samples) {
-            *out_n_samples = (int64_t) audio_pcm.size();
+            *out_n_samples = (int64_t) n_new;
         }
 
         if (out_type == MTMD_HELPER_GEN_AUDIO_OUTTYPE_PCM) {
-            *out_data     = (const char *) audio_pcm.data();
-            *out_data_len = audio_pcm.size() * sizeof(float);
+            *out_data     = (const char *) (audio_pcm.data() + pcm_sent);
+            *out_data_len = n_new * sizeof(float);
+            pcm_sent = audio_pcm.size();
             return 0;
         }
 
         out_buf.clear();
-        if (!write_wav16(out_buf, audio_pcm, info.sample_rate)) {
-            LOG_ERR("mtmd_helper_gen_audio: output too large for WAV\n");
-            return 1;
+        if (!wav_header_sent) {
+            write_wav16_header(out_buf, UINT32_MAX, info.sample_rate);
+            wav_header_sent = true;
         }
+        append_wav16_pcm(out_buf, audio_pcm.data() + pcm_sent, n_new);
+        pcm_sent = audio_pcm.size();
         *out_data     = out_buf.data();
         *out_data_len = out_buf.size();
         return 0;
     }
 
+    int32_t flush() override {
+        return flush_gen_wav() ? 0 : 1;
+    }
+
 private:
     bool ensure_cache() {
         if (specials_ok) {
@@ -369,7 +413,7 @@ private:
             LOG_ERR("mtmd_helper_gen_audio: mmproj has no speaker/audio encoder\n");
             return false;
         }
-        const std::string  marker = mtmd_default_marker();
+        const std::string  marker = mtmd_get_marker(mctx);
         mtmd_input_text     text{ marker.c_str(), marker.size(), false, true };
         mtmd_input_chunks * chunks = mtmd_input_chunks_init();
         const mtmd_bitmap * bptr = bitmap;
@@ -455,6 +499,9 @@ private:
     std::vector<float> h_state_buf;
     mtmd_helper_gen_audio_outtype out_type = MTMD_HELPER_GEN_AUDIO_OUTTYPE_WAV;
     std::vector<char> out_buf;
+    bool   stream          = false;
+    size_t pcm_sent        = 0; // samples already returned by get_output()
+    bool   wav_header_sent = false;
 };
 
 // settings that only live in the reference's per-pack yaml, not in the checkpoint
@@ -506,6 +553,9 @@ public:
         chunk_idx = 0;
         n_voice_pos = 0;
         chunk_budget = 0;
+        stream = false;
+        pcm_sent = 0;
+        wav_header_sent = false;
     }
 
     int32_t set_input(const mtmd_helper_gen_audio_inp * inp) override {
@@ -575,6 +625,7 @@ public:
 
         seed     = inp->seed;
         out_type = inp->out_type;
+        stream   = inp->stream;
 
         return 0;
     }
@@ -662,31 +713,60 @@ public:
     }
 
     int32_t get_output(int32_t * out_sample_rate, const char ** out_data, size_t * out_data_len, int64_t * out_n_samples) override {
-        if (!flush_gen_wav()) {
-            return 1;
+        *out_sample_rate = info.sample_rate;
+
+        if (!stream) {
+            // one-shot call: force out whatever's left, regardless of window_frames
+            if (!flush_gen_wav()) {
+                return 1;
+            }
+            if (out_n_samples) {
+                *out_n_samples = (int64_t) audio_pcm.size();
+            }
+            if (out_type == MTMD_HELPER_GEN_AUDIO_OUTTYPE_PCM) {
+                *out_data     = (const char *) audio_pcm.data();
+                *out_data_len = audio_pcm.size() * sizeof(float);
+                return 0;
+            }
+            out_buf.clear();
+            if (!write_wav16(out_buf, audio_pcm, info.sample_rate)) {
+                LOG_ERR("mtmd_helper_gen_audio: output too large for WAV\n");
+                return 1;
+            }
+            *out_data     = out_buf.data();
+            *out_data_len = out_buf.size();
+            return 0;
         }
 
-        *out_sample_rate = info.sample_rate;
+        // streaming: only return audio produced since the previous call
+        const size_t n_new = audio_pcm.size() - pcm_sent;
         if (out_n_samples) {
-            *out_n_samples = (int64_t) audio_pcm.size();
+            *out_n_samples = (int64_t) n_new;
         }
 
         if (out_type == MTMD_HELPER_GEN_AUDIO_OUTTYPE_PCM) {
-            *out_data     = (const char *) audio_pcm.data();
-            *out_data_len = audio_pcm.size() * sizeof(float);
+            *out_data     = (const char *) (audio_pcm.data() + pcm_sent);
+            *out_data_len = n_new * sizeof(float);
+            pcm_sent = audio_pcm.size();
             return 0;
         }
 
         out_buf.clear();
-        if (!write_wav16(out_buf, audio_pcm, info.sample_rate)) {
-            LOG_ERR("mtmd_helper_gen_audio: output too large for WAV\n");
-            return 1;
+        if (!wav_header_sent) {
+            write_wav16_header(out_buf, UINT32_MAX, info.sample_rate);
+            wav_header_sent = true;
         }
+        append_wav16_pcm(out_buf, audio_pcm.data() + pcm_sent, n_new);
+        pcm_sent = audio_pcm.size();
         *out_data     = out_buf.data();
         *out_data_len = out_buf.size();
         return 0;
     }
 
+    int32_t flush() override {
+        return flush_gen_wav() ? 0 : 1;
+    }
+
 private:
     bool ensure_cache() {
         if (specials_ok) {
@@ -907,7 +987,7 @@ private:
             LOG_ERR("mtmd_helper_gen_audio: mmproj has no voice encoder\n");
             return false;
         }
-        const std::string  marker = mtmd_default_marker();
+        const std::string  marker = mtmd_get_marker(mctx);
         mtmd_input_text     text{ marker.c_str(), marker.size(), false, true };
         mtmd_input_chunks * chunks = mtmd_input_chunks_init();
         const mtmd_bitmap * bptr = bitmap;
@@ -989,6 +1069,9 @@ private:
     std::vector<float>   h_state_buf;
     mtmd_helper_gen_audio_outtype out_type = MTMD_HELPER_GEN_AUDIO_OUTTYPE_WAV;
     std::vector<char> out_buf;
+    bool   stream          = false;
+    size_t pcm_sent        = 0; // samples already returned by get_output()
+    bool   wav_header_sent = false;
 };
 
 static std::unique_ptr<mtmd_gen_audio_pipeline> make_pipeline(llama_context * lctx, mtmd_context * mctx) {
@@ -1017,11 +1100,20 @@ void mtmd_helper_gen_audio_free(mtmd_helper_gen_audio * ctx) {
 }
 
 void mtmd_helper_gen_audio_reset(mtmd_helper_gen_audio * ctx) {
-    if (ctx->pipeline) {
+    if (ctx && ctx->pipeline) {
         ctx->pipeline->reset();
     }
 }
 
+struct mtmd_helper_gen_audio_inp mtmd_helper_gen_audio_inp_default(void) {
+    mtmd_helper_gen_audio_inp inp{};
+    inp.top_k    = 50;
+    inp.top_p    = 1.0f;
+    inp.seed     = UINT32_MAX; // random
+    inp.out_type = MTMD_HELPER_GEN_AUDIO_OUTTYPE_WAV;
+    return inp;
+}
+
 int32_t mtmd_helper_gen_audio_set_input(mtmd_helper_gen_audio * ctx, const mtmd_helper_gen_audio_inp * inp) {
     if (!ctx->pipeline) {
         LOG_ERR("mtmd_helper_gen_audio: unsupported or missing gen-audio pipeline\n");
@@ -1058,3 +1150,10 @@ int32_t mtmd_helper_gen_audio_get_output(mtmd_helper_gen_audio * ctx, int32_t *
     }
     return ctx->pipeline->get_output(out_sample_rate, out_data, out_data_len, out_n_samples);
 }
+
+int32_t mtmd_helper_gen_audio_flush(mtmd_helper_gen_audio * ctx) {
+    if (!ctx->pipeline) {
+        return 1;
+    }
+    return ctx->pipeline->flush();
+}

tools/mtmd/mtmd-helper.h

@@ -204,6 +204,7 @@ enum mtmd_helper_gen_audio_outtype {
     MTMD_HELPER_GEN_AUDIO_OUTTYPE_WAV, // WAV PCM 16-bit LE, mono
 };
 struct mtmd_helper_gen_audio_inp {
+    bool stream; // if true, output() must be called after each step_gen()
     llama_seq_id seq_id;
 
     const char * prompt;
@@ -219,6 +220,8 @@ struct mtmd_helper_gen_audio_inp {
     enum mtmd_helper_gen_audio_outtype out_type;
 };
 
+MTMD_API struct mtmd_helper_gen_audio_inp mtmd_helper_gen_audio_inp_default(void);
+
 MTMD_API mtmd_helper_gen_audio * mtmd_helper_gen_audio_init(
                                     struct llama_context * lctx,
                                     struct mtmd_context * mctx);
@@ -250,6 +253,8 @@ MTMD_API int32_t mtmd_helper_gen_audio_step_gen(
 
 // out_data valid until next get_output() or reset() call
 // out_n_samples (optional, can be NULL) receives the number of generated PCM samples
+// if inp->stream is true: returns only audio produced since the previous call, and
+// *out_data_len == 0 whenever a full window_frames batch hasn't accumulated yet
 MTMD_API int32_t mtmd_helper_gen_audio_get_output(
                         mtmd_helper_gen_audio * ctx,
                         int32_t * out_sample_rate,
@@ -257,6 +262,10 @@ MTMD_API int32_t mtmd_helper_gen_audio_get_output(
                         size_t * out_data_len,
                         int64_t * out_n_samples);
 
+// forces any buffered codes through code2wav now, regardless of window_frames;
+// call once when generation has ended, before the last get_output() in stream mode
+MTMD_API int32_t mtmd_helper_gen_audio_flush(mtmd_helper_gen_audio * ctx);
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 } // extern "C"
 #endif
@@ -283,8 +292,41 @@ struct mtmd_helper_gen_audio_deleter {
 };
 using gen_audio_ptr = std::unique_ptr<mtmd_helper_gen_audio, mtmd_helper_gen_audio_deleter>;
 struct gen_audio {
+
+    // sub-struct, RAII wrapper for mtmd_helper_gen_audio_inp
+    struct inp {
+        mtmd_helper_gen_audio_inp data = mtmd_helper_gen_audio_inp_default();
+        std::string prompt_str;
+        std::string lang_str;
+        mtmd::bitmap_ptr speaker_ref_ptr;
+
+        inp()                             = default;
+        inp(inp &&)                       = default;
+        inp & operator=(inp &&)           = default;
+        inp(const inp &)                  = delete;
+        inp & operator=(const inp &)      = delete;
+
+        void set_prompt     (std::string p)        { prompt_str = std::move(p); }
+        void set_lang       (std::string l)        { lang_str   = std::move(l); }
+        void set_speaker_ref(mtmd::bitmap_ptr bmp) { speaker_ref_ptr = std::move(bmp); }
+
+        // pointers are only valid as long as *this is alive
+        const mtmd_helper_gen_audio_inp * get() {
+            data.prompt      = prompt_str.c_str();
+            data.prompt_len  = prompt_str.size();
+            data.lang        = lang_str.empty() ? nullptr : lang_str.c_str();
+            data.speaker_ref = speaker_ref_ptr.get();
+            return &data;
+        }
+    };
+
     gen_audio_ptr ctx;
-    gen_audio(struct llama_context * lctx, struct mtmd_context * mctx) : ctx(mtmd_helper_gen_audio_init(lctx, mctx)) {}
+    void init(struct llama_context * lctx, struct mtmd_context * mctx) {
+        ctx.reset(mtmd_helper_gen_audio_init(lctx, mctx));
+    }
+    bool valid() const {
+        return ctx.get() != nullptr;
+    }
     void reset() {
         mtmd_helper_gen_audio_reset(ctx.get());
     }
@@ -300,6 +342,9 @@ struct gen_audio {
     int32_t get_output(int32_t * out_sample_rate, const char ** out_data, size_t * out_data_len, int64_t * out_n_samples = nullptr) {
         return mtmd_helper_gen_audio_get_output(ctx.get(), out_sample_rate, out_data, out_data_len, out_n_samples);
     }
+    int32_t flush() {
+        return mtmd_helper_gen_audio_flush(ctx.get());
+    }
 };
 
 } // namespace mtmd_helper

tools/mtmd/mtmd-image.cpp

@@ -873,16 +873,28 @@ mtmd_image_preproc_out mtmd_image_preprocessor_glm5v::preprocess(const clip_imag
 
 clip_image_size mtmd_image_preprocessor_longest_edge::get_target_size(const clip_hparams & hparams, const clip_image_size & original_size) {
     GGML_ASSERT(hparams.image_longest_edge > 0);
+    clip_image_size size = original_size;
+    if (hparams.image_floor_before_align) {
+        const double ratio = double(std::max(size.width, size.height)) / hparams.image_longest_edge;
+        if (ratio > 1.0) {
+            size.width  = static_cast<int>(std::floor(size.width / ratio));
+            size.height = static_cast<int>(std::floor(size.height / ratio));
+            if (size.width <= 0 || size.height <= 0) {
+                throw std::runtime_error("image dimensions must be positive after resizing");
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     // the original pixtral model doesn't have n_merge
     const int cur_merge = hparams.n_merge == 0 ? 1 : hparams.n_merge;
     return img_tool::calc_size_preserved_ratio(
-        original_size,
+        size,
         {
             /* align_size   */ hparams.patch_size * cur_merge,
             /* min_pixels   */ std::max(0, hparams.image_min_pixels),
             /* max_pixels   */ std::max(0, hparams.image_max_pixels),
             /* longest_edge */ std::min(hparams.image_longest_edge,
-                                        std::max(original_size.width, original_size.height)),
+                                        std::max(size.width, size.height)),
         });
 }
 

tools/mtmd/mtmd.cpp

@@ -804,7 +804,11 @@ struct mtmd_context {
                 {
                     // https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/1cd110c6cb6a6237614130c470e9a902dbc1a4bd/docs/source/en/model_doc/pixtral.md
                     img_end = "[IMG_END]";
-                    image_preproc = std::make_unique<mtmd_image_preprocessor_dyn_size>(ctx_v);
+                    if (clip_get_hparams(ctx_v)->image_longest_edge > 0) {
+                        image_preproc = std::make_unique<mtmd_image_preprocessor_longest_edge>(ctx_v);
+                    } else {
+                        image_preproc = std::make_unique<mtmd_image_preprocessor_dyn_size>(ctx_v);
+                    }
                 } break;
             case PROJECTOR_TYPE_PHI4:
                 {
@@ -2842,10 +2846,11 @@ struct mtmd_caps mtmd_get_cap_from_file(const char * fname) {
         mtmd_caps cap;
         cap.inp_audio  = tmp.has_audio;
         cap.inp_vision = tmp.has_vision;
+        cap.gen_audio  = tmp.has_gen_audio;
         return cap;
     } catch (const std::exception & e) {
         LOG_ERR("%s: failed to get capabilities from file '%s': %s\n", __func__, fname, e.what());
-        return mtmd_caps{ false, false };
+        return mtmd_caps{ false, false, false };
     }
 }
 

tools/mtmd/mtmd.h

@@ -360,6 +360,7 @@ MTMD_API void mtmd_log_set(ggml_log_callback log_callback, void * user_data);
 struct mtmd_caps {
     bool inp_vision;
     bool inp_audio;
+    bool gen_audio;
 };
 MTMD_API struct mtmd_caps mtmd_get_cap_from_file(const char * mmproj_fname);
 

tools/server/README.md

@@ -802,6 +802,50 @@ curl http://127.0.0.1:8012/v1/rerank \
     }' | jq
 ```
 
+### POST `/tts`: Generate speech audio from text
+
+Returns raw audio bytes (`audio/wav` by default) rather than JSON. For more info, see [tts/README.md](../tts/README.md)
+
+*Options:*
+
+`input`: The text to speak (alias: `prompt`).
+
+`lang`: Language code for the utterance (model-dependent, e.g. `en`, `zh`). Optional.
+
+`speaker_ref_b64`: Base64-encoded reference audio to clone the speaker's voice. Optional. Alternatively, upload the reference audio as a `speaker_ref` file field via `multipart/form-data` (see example below) - if both are provided, the uploaded file takes precedence.
+
+`top_k`, `top_p`: Sampling params for the acoustic code predictor. Optional, model-dependent defaults apply.
+
+`repeat_penalty`: Repetition penalty applied to the backbone sampler over the whole generation (default `1.05`). Without this, the backbone can loop and re-generate the same utterance.
+
+`seed`: RNG seed for both the backbone sampler and the codec/vocoder (`-1` = random, the default). Set to a fixed value for reproducible output.
+
+`n_predict`: Max number of audio frames to generate. Defaults to `512`; generation normally stops earlier once the model emits an end-of-speech token.
+
+`response_format`: `wav` (default) or `pcm` (raw `float32` little-endian mono samples, no header; the response `Content-Type` carries the sample rate, e.g. `audio/pcm;rate=24000;encoding=float;bits=32`).
+
+`stream`: If `true`, the response is streamed as audio becomes available instead of waiting for the full generation to finish. WAV streaming writes an RFC-noncompliant header with an unknown (`0xFFFFFFFF`) size field, since the final length isn't known up front; most players and decoders (ffmpeg, VLC, ...) handle this by reading until EOF.
+
+Note: it's highly recommended to always provide a speaker reference voice; otherwise, the model's performance may be degraded.
+
+*Examples:*
+
+```shell
+curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:9931/tts \
+    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+    -d '{"input": "Hello, this is a test."}' \
+    -o output.wav
+```
+
+With a speaker reference uploaded as a file (`multipart/form-data`), instead of base64-encoding it into the JSON body:
+
+```shell
+curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:9931/tts \
+    -F "input=Hello, this is a test." \
+    -F "speaker_ref=@/path/to/speaker-reference.wav;type=audio/wav" \
+    -o output.wav
+```
+
 ### POST `/infill`: For code infilling.
 
 Takes a prefix and a suffix and returns the predicted completion as stream.
@@ -1262,11 +1306,12 @@ Each object in `data` has an `architecture` object. It has two string arrays:
 - `input_modalities` lists what the model can read. It always has `text`, plus each media type that the model supports.
 - `output_modalities` lists what the model can produce.
 
-One output value is special:
+Some output values are special:
 
 | Value | Meaning |
 |---|---|
 | `decisions` | The model is a native decision model. Serve it with [`/v1/systemone`](#post-v1systemone-typesafe-compatible-system-one-api). |
+| `audio` | The model can generate speech. Serve it with [`/tts`](#post-tts-generate-speech-audio-from-text). A TTS-only model has `["audio"]` without `text`. |
 
 A language model that classifies with prompts does not get `decisions`. Only native decision models do.
 
@@ -1491,6 +1536,31 @@ Acts on an in-flight completion identified by its `id` (the `id` field streamed
 
 Returns a JSON object with a boolean `success` field, and an optional `message` field describing the reason when `success` is `false`.
 
+### WebSocket `/v1/realtime`: Realtime transcription
+
+Transcribes streamed audio, for models with a streaming audio encoder. Compatible with OAI `/v1/realtime` schema.
+
+Audio must be PCM16, mono, at the model sample rate. The sample rate is returned in `session.created` as `audio.input.format.rate`. Each `input_audio_buffer.append` carries a base64-encoded chunk of PCM16 samples.
+
+*Client events:*
+
+- `session.update`: accepted for compatibility, the server replies with `session.updated`
+- `input_audio_buffer.append`: `audio` holds base64 PCM16 samples
+- `input_audio_buffer.commit`: flushes the audio received so far, so the words still held back by the model's delay are produced. The server replies with `input_audio_buffer.committed` and starts a new item. With `"final": true`, the input ends instead and the last item is completed once the stream drains.
+- `input_audio_buffer.clear`: accepted for compatibility, audio already sent cannot be discarded
+
+Closing the websocket also ends the input.
+
+*Server events:*
+
+- `session.created` and `session.updated`: carry the `session` object
+- `conversation.item.input_audio_transcription.delta`: `delta` holds the new text for `item_id`
+- `conversation.item.input_audio_transcription.completed`: `transcript` holds the full text of `item_id`
+- `input_audio_buffer.committed`: `item_id` of the committed item, `previous_item_id` of the item committed before it (`null` for the first one)
+- `error`: `error.message` describes the problem
+
+Note that words held back by the model's delay at the time of a commit are attributed to the next item.
+
 ### POST `/v1/responses`: OpenAI-compatible Responses API
 
 *Options:*
@@ -1992,6 +2062,8 @@ For **GET** endpoints (`/props`, `/metrics`, etc.) The router uses the `model` q
 GET /props?model=ggml-org%2Fgemma-3-4b-it-GGUF%3AQ4_K_M
 ```
 
+For the **WebSocket** endpoint (`/v1/realtime`) The router also uses the `model` query parameter.
+
 By default, the model will be loaded automatically if it's not loaded. To disable this, add `--no-models-autoload` when starting the server. Additionally, you can include `?autoload=true|false` in the query param to control this behavior per-request.
 
 ### GET `/models`: List available models
@@ -2027,7 +2099,7 @@ Note:
     - If a model is not running, it will be added or updated according to the source
 2. When the model is loaded, the info from `/v1/models` is forwarded to router's `/v1/models`. This includes metadata about the model and the runtime instance.
 
-Each object in `data` has the same `architecture` object as [`GET /v1/models`](#get-v1models-openai-compatible-model-info-api) of a direct server. The server computes both arrays offline. It does not load the model, download files, or run inference. `output_modalities` comes from the GGUF metadata. `input_modalities` comes from the projector file. A native decision model shows `decisions` before its first load, after unload, and while it sleeps:
+Each object in `data` has the same `architecture` object as [`GET /v1/models`](#get-v1models-openai-compatible-model-info-api) of a direct server. The server computes both arrays offline. It does not load the model, download files, or run inference. `output_modalities` comes from the GGUF metadata, plus `audio` when the projector file can generate speech. `input_modalities` comes from the projector file. A native decision model shows `decisions` before its first load, after unload, and while it sleeps:
 
 ```json
 {

tools/server/server-common.cpp

@@ -202,7 +202,8 @@ const char * get_media_marker() {
 // model output modalities
 //
 
-std::vector<std::string> server_model_output_modalities(common_decision_type decision_type) {
+std::vector<std::string> server_model_output_modalities(common_decision_type decision_type, bool has_cap_chat, bool has_cap_tts) {
+    std::vector<std::string> out;
     switch (decision_type) {
         case COMMON_DECISION_TYPE_OPENJEV:
         case COMMON_DECISION_TYPE_LEV:
@@ -216,13 +217,27 @@ std::vector<std::string> server_model_output_modalities(common_decision_type dec
         case COMMON_DECISION_TYPE_LFM2_D1:
         case COMMON_DECISION_TYPE_LFM2_D1_OMNI:
         case COMMON_DECISION_TYPE_H2O_LIGHTNING:
-            return {"decisions"};
+            out = {"decisions"};
+            break;
         case COMMON_DECISION_TYPE_GRANITE_SWITCH:
-            return {"text", "decisions"};
+            out = {"text", "decisions"};
+            break;
         default:
-            // fallback when there is no decision type or the metadata is bad
-            return {"text"};
+            // a tts-only model cannot generate text
+            if (has_cap_chat || !has_cap_tts) {
+                // fallback when there is no decision type or the metadata is bad
+                out = {"text"};
+            }
+            break;
     }
+    if (has_cap_tts) {
+        out.push_back("audio");
+    }
+    return out;
+}
+
+std::vector<std::string> server_model_output_modalities(const llama_model * model, bool has_cap_chat, bool has_cap_tts) {
+    return server_model_output_modalities(common_get_decision_type(model), has_cap_chat, has_cap_tts);
 }
 
 json server_model_architecture_json(

tools/server/server-common.h

@@ -114,7 +114,10 @@ const char * get_media_marker();
 //
 
 // output modalities for architecture.output_modalities in GET /models
-std::vector<std::string> server_model_output_modalities(common_decision_type decision_type);
+// has_cap_chat: false for a tts-only model, has_cap_tts: the model can generate audio
+std::vector<std::string> server_model_output_modalities(common_decision_type decision_type, bool has_cap_chat, bool has_cap_tts);
+// same, with the decision type read from a loaded model
+std::vector<std::string> server_model_output_modalities(const llama_model * model, bool has_cap_chat, bool has_cap_tts);
 
 // architecture object of GET /models; shared by the direct server and the router
 json server_model_architecture_json(

tools/server/server-context.cpp

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 #include "server-context.h"
+#include <atomic>
+#include <thread>
+#include "base64.hpp"
 #include "server-chat.h"
 #include "server-common.h"
 #include "server-decision.h"
@@ -17,6 +20,7 @@
 #include "speculative.h"
 #include "mtmd.h"
 #include "mtmd-helper.h"
+#include "base64.hpp"
 
 #include <algorithm>
 #include <cstddef>
@@ -40,6 +44,14 @@
 constexpr int HTTP_POLLING_SECONDS = 1;
 
 static common_speculative_output_limits server_output_limits(const common_params & params) {
+    if (!params.mmproj.path.empty()) {
+        const auto mcaps = mtmd_get_cap_from_file(params.mmproj.path.c_str());
+        if (mcaps.gen_audio) {
+            // some TTS models decode with embeddings output for the whole batch
+            return { params.n_batch, params.n_batch };
+        }
+    }
+
     if (params.embedding ||
             (params.pooling_type != LLAMA_POOLING_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED && params.pooling_type != LLAMA_POOLING_TYPE_NONE)) {
         return { params.n_batch, 1 };
@@ -254,6 +266,27 @@ struct server_slot {
     mtmd_context * mctx = nullptr;
     mtmd::batch_ptr mbatch = nullptr;
 
+    struct tts_ctx {
+        mtmd_helper::gen_audio ctx;
+        std::vector<float> h_state_prompt; // the first h_state after step_prompt done
+        const float * h_state;
+        llama_token   sampled;
+        int32_t       n_decoded;
+        bool          stop;
+        bool is_supported() const {
+            return ctx.valid();
+        }
+        void reset() {
+            ctx.reset();
+            h_state_prompt.clear();
+            h_state   = nullptr;
+            sampled   = LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL;
+            n_decoded = 0;
+            stop      = false;
+        }
+    };
+    tts_ctx tts;
+
     // speculative decoding
     common_speculative * spec;
 
@@ -360,8 +393,13 @@ struct server_slot {
 
     // for TTS models, this is the embd generated from prev step, decode this to generate next hidden state
     // corresponding to one token position (size = n_embd)
+    // for realtime transcription, these are the rows from the last audio stream step (size = n_rows * n_embd)
     std::vector<float> inp_embd;
 
+    // realtime transcription, see SERVER_TASK_TYPE_TRANSCRIBE_RT
+    mtmd::audio_stream_ptr audio_stream;
+    bool audio_wait = false; // the stream needs more audio before it can produce rows
+
     server_slot_stats stats;
 
     // accepted tokens per draft position
@@ -413,6 +451,12 @@ struct server_slot {
 
         // clear multimodal state
         mbatch.reset();
+
+        tts.reset();
+
+        audio_stream.reset();
+        audio_wait = false;
+        inp_embd.clear();
     }
 
     void init_sampler() const {
@@ -542,16 +586,28 @@ struct server_slot {
     // add sampled token of this slot to the batch, optionally add the speculative draft tokens if any
     void handle_last_sampled_token(server_batch & batch) {
         bool add_ok = true;
+        // the audio stream has no token before the first step, track the position with a dummy token
+        const llama_token tok_track = sampled == LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL ? 0 : sampled;
         if (spec_draft.empty()) {
             // no speculative decoding
             i_batch = batch.size();
 
             if (!inp_embd.empty()) {
-                // text embeddings broadcast the same position across the M-RoPE sections
-                const llama_pos p = prompt.tokens.pos_next();
-                const llama_pos pos[GGML_MROPE_SECTIONS] = { p, p, p, 0 };
-                GGML_ASSERT((int32_t) inp_embd.size() == batch.n_embd);
-                add_ok &= batch.add_embd(id, inp_embd.data(), pos, true, false);
+                const int32_t n_rows = (int32_t) inp_embd.size() / batch.n_embd;
+                GGML_ASSERT((int32_t) inp_embd.size() == n_rows * batch.n_embd);
+                i_batch = batch.size() + n_rows - 1;
+                for (int32_t i = 0; i < n_rows; i++) {
+                    // text embeddings broadcast the same position across the M-RoPE sections
+                    const llama_pos p = prompt.tokens.pos_next();
+                    const llama_pos pos[GGML_MROPE_SECTIONS] = { p, p, p, 0 };
+                    add_ok &= batch.add_embd(id, inp_embd.data() + (size_t) i * batch.n_embd, pos, i == n_rows - 1, false);
+                    if (i < n_rows - 1) {
+                        prompt.tokens.push_back(tok_track);
+                    }
+                }
+                if (audio_stream) {
+                    inp_embd.clear(); // rows are consumed, the next step produces new ones
+                }
             } else {
                 add_ok &= batch.add(id, sampled, prompt.tokens.pos_next(), true, false);
             }
@@ -579,7 +635,7 @@ struct server_slot {
 
         GGML_ASSERT(add_ok && "batch must be large enough to hold the sampled and draft tokens");
 
-        prompt.tokens.push_back(sampled);
+        prompt.tokens.push_back(tok_track);
         prompt.tokens.insert(spec_draft);
     }
 
@@ -595,7 +651,12 @@ struct server_slot {
 
             // do not keep context of the child slots - the parent's context is enough
             // nor of the stateless slots - no task ever reuses it
-            if (task->is_child() || task->is_stateless()) {
+            if (task->is_child() || task->is_stateless() || audio_stream) {
+                prompt_clear();
+            }
+
+            // mtmd_helper always re-eval the whole prompt
+            if (task->type == SERVER_TASK_TYPE_TTS) {
                 prompt_clear();
             }
 
@@ -952,6 +1013,14 @@ public:
     mtmd_helper_init_opt init_opt = mtmd_helper_init_opt_default();
     const llama_vocab * vocab = nullptr;
 
+    bool has_cap_tts() const {
+        return mctx != nullptr && mtmd_gen_audio_get_info(mctx).type != MTMD_GEN_AUDIO_TYPE_NONE;
+    }
+
+    bool has_cap_chat() const {
+        return mctx == nullptr || mtmd_helper_model_can_chat(ctx_tgt, mctx);
+    }
+
     server_decision_context decision;
 
     server_queue    queue_tasks;
@@ -1440,6 +1509,10 @@ private:
             slot.mctx                   = mctx;
             slot.prompt.tokens.has_mtmd = mctx != nullptr;
 
+            if (has_cap_tts()) {
+                slot.tts.ctx.init(ctx_tgt, mctx);
+            }
+
             SLT_TRC(slot, "new slot, n_ctx = %d\n", slot.n_ctx);
 
             slot.callback_on_release = [this](int id_slot) {
@@ -1921,6 +1994,20 @@ private:
 
         SLT_DBG(slot, "launching slot : %s\n", safe_json_to_str(slot.to_json()).c_str());
 
+        if (task.type == SERVER_TASK_TYPE_TTS) {
+            GGML_ASSERT(has_cap_tts()); // should already checked in route handler
+            if (!slot.tts.is_supported()) {
+                slot.tts.ctx.init(ctx_tgt, slot.mctx);
+            }
+            // mtmd_helper always re-eval the whole prompt
+            slot.prompt_clear();
+            task.tts_inp.data.seq_id = slot.id;
+            if (slot.tts.ctx.set_input(task.tts_inp.get()) != 0) {
+                send_error(task, "failed to process TTS prompt", ERROR_TYPE_SERVER);
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+
         // initialize samplers
         if (task.need_sampling()) {
             try {
@@ -1938,6 +2025,9 @@ private:
             // TODO: getting pre sampling logits is not yet supported with backend sampling
             use_backend_sampling &= !need_pre_sample_logits;
 
+            // TODO: check verify if this actually works with TTS
+            use_backend_sampling &= task.type != SERVER_TASK_TYPE_TTS;
+
             // TODO: tmp until backend sampling is fully implemented
             if (use_backend_sampling) {
                 llama_set_sampler(ctx_tgt, slot.id, common_sampler_get(slot.smpl.get()));
@@ -1963,9 +2053,30 @@ private:
 
         slot.task = std::make_unique<const server_task>(std::move(task));
 
-        slot.state = slot.task->is_child()
-            ? SLOT_STATE_WAIT_OTHER // wait for the parent to process prompt
-            : SLOT_STATE_STARTED;
+        if (slot.task->type == SERVER_TASK_TYPE_TTS) {
+            slot.state = SLOT_STATE_PROCESSING_PROMPT;
+        } else {
+            slot.state = slot.task->is_child()
+                ? SLOT_STATE_WAIT_OTHER // wait for the parent to process prompt
+                : SLOT_STATE_STARTED;
+        }
+
+        // no prompt, the rows come from the audio stream, which audio controls reach from now on
+        if (slot.task->type == SERVER_TASK_TYPE_TRANSCRIBE_RT) {
+            slot.audio_stream.reset(mtmd_audio_stream_init(mctx, mtmd_audio_stream_params_default()));
+            if (!slot.audio_stream) {
+                send_error(slot, "failed to initialize the audio stream", ERROR_TYPE_SERVER);
+                slot.release();
+                return false;
+            }
+            slot.prompt_clear();
+            slot.init_sampler();
+            slot.sampled = LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL;
+            slot.i_batch = -1;
+            slot.stats.update_prompt_start();
+            slot.state = SLOT_STATE_GENERATING;
+            send_partial_response(slot, {}, false, true);
+        }
 
         // reset server kill-switch counter
         n_empty_consecutive = 0;
@@ -2228,6 +2339,18 @@ private:
         queue_results.send(std::move(res));
     }
 
+    void send_tts_result(server_slot & slot, int32_t sample_rate, const char * data, size_t data_len, bool final) {
+        auto res = std::make_unique<server_task_result_tts>();
+
+        res->id          = slot.task->id;
+        res->index       = slot.task->index;
+        res->sample_rate = sample_rate;
+        res->audio.assign(data, data_len);
+        res->final       = final;
+
+        queue_results.send(std::move(res));
+    }
+
     void send_final_response(server_slot & slot) {
         auto res = std::make_unique<server_task_result_cmpl_final>();
 
@@ -2829,8 +2952,10 @@ private:
         switch (task.type) {
             case SERVER_TASK_TYPE_COMPLETION:
             case SERVER_TASK_TYPE_INFILL:
+            case SERVER_TASK_TYPE_TRANSCRIBE_RT:
             case SERVER_TASK_TYPE_EMBEDDING:
             case SERVER_TASK_TYPE_RERANK:
+            case SERVER_TASK_TYPE_TTS:
             case SERVER_TASK_TYPE_DECISION:
                 {
                     // special case: if input is provided via CLI, tokenize it first
@@ -2916,15 +3041,15 @@ private:
 
                     server_slot * slot = get_slot_by_cmpl_id(task.params.control_cmpl_id);
                     if (slot == nullptr) {
-                        SRV_WRN("control %s on unknown completion id=%s, no live slot\n",
-                                task.params.control_action.c_str(), task.params.control_cmpl_id.c_str());
+                        SRV_WRN("control %d on unknown completion id=%s, no live slot\n",
+                                (int) task.params.control_action, task.params.control_cmpl_id.c_str());
                         res->success = false;
                         res->message = "no active completion for this id";
                         queue_results.send(std::move(res));
                         break;
                     }
 
-                    if (task.params.control_action == "reasoning_end") {
+                    if (task.params.control_action == SERVER_CONTROL_ACTION_REASONING_END) {
                         // the budget sampler only exists when reasoning control was armed
                         if (!slot->task->params.sampling.reasoning_control) {
                             res->success = false;
@@ -2935,6 +3060,22 @@ private:
                         // act on the live slot mid generation, never defer
                         common_sampler_reasoning_budget_force(slot->smpl.get());
                         res->success = true;
+                    } else if (task.params.control_action == SERVER_CONTROL_ACTION_AUDIO_APPEND
+                            || task.params.control_action == SERVER_CONTROL_ACTION_AUDIO_COMMIT
+                            || task.params.control_action == SERVER_CONTROL_ACTION_AUDIO_END) {
+                        if (!slot->audio_stream) {
+                            res->success = false;
+                            res->message = "not a realtime transcription slot";
+                        } else {
+                            auto * stream = slot->audio_stream.get();
+                            if (task.params.control_action == SERVER_CONTROL_ACTION_AUDIO_APPEND) {
+                                mtmd_audio_stream_push(stream, task.params.control_audio.data(), task.params.control_audio.size());
+                            } else {
+                                mtmd_audio_stream_flush(stream, task.params.control_action == SERVER_CONTROL_ACTION_AUDIO_END);
+                            }
+                            slot->audio_wait = false;
+                            res->success = true;
+                        }
                     } else {
                         res->success = false;
                         res->message = "unknown control action";
@@ -3254,6 +3395,39 @@ private:
     };
 #endif
 
+    // fill slot.inp_embd with the next rows of the audio stream
+    // returns false if the slot has nothing to decode now
+    bool slot_audio_step(server_slot & slot) {
+        if (!slot.inp_embd.empty()) {
+            return true; // rows from a previous step, not decoded yet
+        }
+
+        const int32_t n = mtmd_audio_stream_step(slot.audio_stream.get(), slot.sampled);
+        if (n > 0) {
+            const float * rows = mtmd_audio_stream_get_output_embd(slot.audio_stream.get());
+            slot.inp_embd.assign(rows, rows + (size_t) n * batch.n_embd);
+            slot.audio_wait = false;
+            return true;
+        }
+        if (n == 0) {
+            slot.audio_wait = true;
+            return false;
+        }
+        if (n == -2) {
+            send_error(slot, "audio stream error", ERROR_TYPE_SERVER);
+            slot.release();
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        // end of stream
+        slot.stop           = STOP_TYPE_EOS;
+        slot.has_next_token = false;
+        slot.print_timings();
+        send_final_response(slot);
+        slot.release();
+        return false;
+    }
+
     void update_slots() {
 #ifdef DEBUG_TIMINGS
         static int64_t t_prev = 0;
@@ -3269,11 +3443,12 @@ private:
 #endif
 
         // check if all slots are idle
+        // a realtime slot waiting for audio has no work, the next audio control task wakes the loop
         {
             bool all_idle = true;
 
             for (auto & slot : slots) {
-                if (slot.is_processing()) {
+                if (slot.is_processing() && !slot.audio_wait) {
                     all_idle = false;
                     break;
                 }
@@ -3306,6 +3481,14 @@ private:
             return;
         }
 
+        // note: TTS slots bypass the shared batch entirely
+        try {
+            process_tts_slots();
+        } catch (const std::exception & e) {
+            SRV_ERR("process_tts_slots() failed: %s\n", e.what());
+            abort_all_slots("process_tts_slots() failed: " + std::string(e.what()));
+        }
+
         GGML_ASSERT(batch.slot_batched || batch.size() == 0);
 
         if (batch.slot_batched) {
@@ -3368,10 +3551,89 @@ private:
         }
     }
 
+    void process_tts_slots() {
+        iterate(slots, [&](server_slot & slot) {
+            if (!slot.is_processing() || slot.task->type != SERVER_TASK_TYPE_TTS) {
+                return;
+            }
+
+            llama_set_embeddings(ctx_tgt, true);
+
+            if (slot.state == SLOT_STATE_PROCESSING_PROMPT) {
+                const int32_t ret = slot.tts.ctx.step_prompt(llama_n_batch(ctx_tgt));
+                if (ret < 0) {
+                    send_error(slot, "TTS prompt processing failed", ERROR_TYPE_SERVER);
+                    slot.release();
+                } else if (ret == 0) {
+                    // done prompt, do sample and save h_state_prompt
+                    slot.tts.sampled = common_sampler_sample(slot.smpl.get(), ctx_tgt, -1);
+                    common_sampler_accept(slot.smpl.get(), slot.tts.sampled, true);
+                    const float * h_embd = llama_get_embeddings_ith(ctx_tgt, -1);
+                    slot.tts.h_state_prompt.assign(h_embd, h_embd + llama_model_n_embd(model_tgt));
+                    slot.tts.h_state = slot.tts.h_state_prompt.data();
+                    slot.state = SLOT_STATE_GENERATING;
+                }
+                return;
+            }
+
+            const int32_t n_predict = slot.n_predict_max > 0 ? slot.n_predict_max : 512;
+            if (slot.tts.stop || slot.tts.n_decoded >= n_predict) {
+                int32_t      sample_rate = 0;
+                const char * data        = nullptr;
+                size_t       data_len    = 0;
+                // generation truly ends here: force out any sub-window remainder still buffered
+                if (slot.tts.ctx.flush() != 0 || slot.tts.ctx.get_output(&sample_rate, &data, &data_len) != 0) {
+                    send_error(slot, "failed to finalize TTS output", ERROR_TYPE_SERVER);
+                } else {
+                    send_tts_result(slot, sample_rate, data, data_len, true);
+                }
+                slot.release();
+                return;
+            }
+
+            const float * h_state_next = nullptr;
+            bool          stop         = false;
+            if (slot.tts.ctx.step_gen(slot.tts.sampled, slot.tts.h_state, &h_state_next, &stop) != 0) {
+                send_error(slot, "TTS generation failed", ERROR_TYPE_SERVER);
+                slot.release();
+                return;
+            }
+            if (h_state_next == nullptr) {
+                // end-of-speech without a new frame (e.g. pocket-tts eos head)
+                slot.tts.stop = true;
+                return;
+            }
+            slot.tts.h_state = h_state_next;
+            slot.tts.n_decoded++;
+            slot.tts.stop = stop;
+
+            if (!stop) {
+                slot.tts.sampled = common_sampler_sample(slot.smpl.get(), ctx_tgt, -1);
+                common_sampler_accept(slot.smpl.get(), slot.tts.sampled, true);
+            }
+
+            if (slot.task->params.stream) {
+                int32_t      sample_rate = 0;
+                const char * data        = nullptr;
+                size_t       data_len    = 0;
+                if (slot.tts.ctx.get_output(&sample_rate, &data, &data_len) != 0) {
+                    send_error(slot, "TTS streaming output failed", ERROR_TYPE_SERVER);
+                    slot.release();
+                } else if (data_len > 0) {
+                    send_tts_result(slot, sample_rate, data, data_len, false);
+                }
+            }
+        });
+    }
+
     void pre_decode() {
         // apply context-shift if needed
         // TODO: simplify and improve
         iterate(slots, [&](server_slot & slot) {
+            if (slot.task && slot.task->type == SERVER_TASK_TYPE_TTS) {
+                // TTS slots drive their own decode loop in process_tts_slots(), never enter the shared batch
+                return;
+            }
             if (slot.state == SLOT_STATE_GENERATING && slot.prompt.n_tokens() + 1 >= slot.n_ctx) {
                 if (!params_base.ctx_shift) {
                     // this check is redundant (for good)
@@ -3444,10 +3706,14 @@ private:
 
         // determine which slots are generating and drafting
         iterate(slots, [&](server_slot & slot) {
-            if (slot.state != SLOT_STATE_GENERATING) {
+            if (slot.state != SLOT_STATE_GENERATING || slot.task->type == SERVER_TASK_TYPE_TTS) {
                 return;
             }
 
+            if (slot.audio_stream && !slot_audio_step(slot)) {
+                return; // waiting for audio, or the stream ended
+            }
+
             // check if we can batch this slot with the previous one
             if (!slot_batched) {
                 slot_batched = &slot;
@@ -3586,7 +3852,7 @@ private:
                     return; // batch is full, skip remaining slots
                 }
 
-                if (!slot.is_processing()) {
+                if (!slot.is_processing() || slot.task->type == SERVER_TASK_TYPE_TTS) {
                     return;
                 }
 
@@ -3601,6 +3867,11 @@ private:
                     return;
                 }
 
+                // no prompt, the rows come from the audio stream
+                if (slot.task->type == SERVER_TASK_TYPE_TRANSCRIBE_RT) {
+                    return;
+                }
+
                 // this slot still has a prompt to be processed
                 if (slot.state == SLOT_STATE_PROCESSING_PROMPT || slot.state == SLOT_STATE_STARTED) {
                     const auto & input_tokens = slot.task->tokens;
@@ -4826,11 +5097,14 @@ server_context_meta server_context::get_meta() const {
         /* model_aliases           */ impl->model_aliases,
         /* model_tags              */ impl->model_tags,
         /* model_path              */ impl->params_base.model.path,
-        /* model_output_modalities */ server_model_output_modalities(common_get_decision_type(impl->model_tgt)),
+        /* model_output_modalities */ server_model_output_modalities(impl->model_tgt, impl->has_cap_chat(), impl->has_cap_tts()),
         /* has_mtmd                */ impl->mctx != nullptr,
         /* has_inp_image           */ impl->chat_params.allow_image,
         /* has_inp_audio           */ impl->chat_params.allow_audio,
         /* has_inp_video           */ impl->chat_params.allow_video,
+        /* has_cap_chat            */ impl->has_cap_chat(),
+        /* has_cap_tts             */ impl->has_cap_tts(),
+        /* has_audio_stream        */ impl->mctx != nullptr && mtmd_support_audio_stream(impl->mctx),
         /* json_ui_settings        */ impl->json_ui_settings,
         /* slot_n_ctx              */ impl->n_ctx_slot(),
         /* pooling_type            */ llama_pooling_type(impl->ctx_tgt),
@@ -4905,6 +5179,11 @@ std::unique_ptr<server_res_generator> server_routes::handle_completions_impl(
 
     res->set_req(&req); // will also set spipe if needed
 
+    if (!ctx_server.has_cap_chat()) {
+        res->error(format_error_response("this server does not support chat/completions", ERROR_TYPE_NOT_SUPPORTED));
+        return res;
+    }
+
     int32_t sse_ping_interval = params.sse_ping_interval;
 
     try {
@@ -4998,10 +5277,20 @@ std::unique_ptr<server_res_generator> server_routes::handle_completions_impl(
                 res->ok(arr[0]);
             } else if (res_type == TASK_RESPONSE_TYPE_OAI_CHAT || res_type == TASK_RESPONSE_TYPE_OAI_CMPL) {
                 // if multiple results in OAI format, we need to re-format them
+                json & usage   = arr[0]["usage"];
                 json & choices = arr[0]["choices"];
                 for (size_t i = 1; i < arr.size(); i++) {
                     choices.push_back(std::move(arr[i]["choices"][0]));
                 }
+
+                // OAI counts generated tokens across all choices
+                int64_t n_completion_tokens = 0;
+                for (auto & item : arr) {
+                    n_completion_tokens += item["usage"]["completion_tokens"].get<int64_t>();
+                }
+                usage["completion_tokens"] = n_completion_tokens;
+                usage["total_tokens"]      = usage["prompt_tokens"].get<int64_t>() + n_completion_tokens;
+
                 res->ok(arr[0]);
             } else {
                 // multi-results, non-OAI compat
@@ -5611,7 +5900,7 @@ void server_routes::init_routes() {
             server_task task(SERVER_TASK_TYPE_CONTROL);
             task.id              = rd.get_new_id();
             task.params.control_cmpl_id = cmpl_id;
-            task.params.control_action  = action;
+            task.params.control_action  = SERVER_CONTROL_ACTION_REASONING_END;
             rd.post_task(std::move(task));
         }
 
@@ -5686,6 +5975,197 @@ void server_routes::init_routes() {
             session);
     };
 
+    // realtime transcription over websocket, modeled after the OpenAI realtime API
+    // audio is PCM16 mono at the model sample rate, sent as base64 in input_audio_buffer.append events
+    // input_audio_buffer.commit with "final": true ends the input, closing the socket also ends it
+    this->ws_realtime = [this](const server_http_req &, server_http_context::ws_conn & conn) {
+        auto send_event = [&conn](json ev) {
+            ev["event_id"] = "event_" + random_string();
+            conn.send(safe_json_to_str(ev));
+        };
+        auto send_error_event = [&send_event](const std::string & message, const std::string & type) {
+            send_event(json {
+                {"type", "error"},
+                {"error", {
+                    {"type",    type},
+                    {"code",    nullptr},
+                    {"message", message},
+                    {"param",   nullptr},
+                }},
+            });
+        };
+
+        if (!meta->has_audio_stream) {
+            send_error_event("The current model does not support realtime transcription.", "invalid_request_error");
+            conn.close();
+            return;
+        }
+
+        const std::string session_id = "sess_" + random_string();
+        const json session_config = json {
+            {"id",     session_id},
+            {"object", "realtime.transcription_session"},
+            {"type",   "transcription"},
+            {"audio",  {{"input", {
+                {"format",          {{"type", "audio/pcm"}, {"rate", mtmd_get_audio_sample_rate(ctx_server.mctx)}}},
+                {"transcription",   {{"model", meta->model_name}}},
+                {"turn_detection",  nullptr},
+                {"noise_reduction", nullptr},
+            }}}},
+        };
+
+        auto res = create_response();
+        auto & rd = res->rd;
+        {
+            server_task task(SERVER_TASK_TYPE_TRANSCRIBE_RT);
+            task.id = rd.get_new_id();
+            task.params.sampling          = params.sampling;
+            task.params.stream            = true;
+            task.params.oaicompat_cmpl_id = session_id;
+            task.params.oaicompat_model   = meta->model_name;
+            rd.post_task(std::move(task));
+        }
+
+        // the slot answers once its audio stream is live, the session starts there
+        {
+            auto result = rd.next([&conn]() { return !conn.is_open(); });
+            if (!result || result->is_error()) {
+                if (result) {
+                    send_error_event(json_value(result->to_json(), "message", std::string("server error")), "server_error");
+                }
+                conn.close();
+                return;
+            }
+        }
+        send_event(json {{"type", "session.created"}, {"session", session_config}});
+
+        // one item per committed audio buffer, deltas are attributed to the current item
+        std::mutex  mutex_item;
+        std::string item_id = "item_" + random_string();
+        std::string item_prev; // the committed item before item_id, empty for the first one
+        std::string item_text;
+
+        // called with mutex_item held
+        auto send_completed = [&]() {
+            send_event(json {
+                {"type",          "conversation.item.input_audio_transcription.completed"},
+                {"item_id",       item_id},
+                {"content_index", 0},
+                {"transcript",    item_text},
+            });
+            item_text.clear();
+        };
+
+        auto post_control = [&](server_control_action action, std::vector<float> && audio) {
+            server_response_reader ctl(queue_tasks, queue_results, HTTP_POLLING_SECONDS);
+            server_task task(SERVER_TASK_TYPE_CONTROL);
+            task.id                     = ctl.get_new_id();
+            task.params.control_action  = action;
+            task.params.control_cmpl_id = session_id;
+            task.params.control_audio   = std::move(audio);
+            ctl.post_task(std::move(task));
+            auto result = ctl.next([&conn]() { return !conn.is_open(); });
+            auto * control = result ? dynamic_cast<server_task_result_control *>(result.get()) : nullptr;
+            return control && control->success;
+        };
+
+        // client events are read on this thread, the transcript is sent from the thread below
+        std::atomic<bool> input_ended{false};
+        std::thread reader([&]() {
+            std::string msg;
+            while (conn.read(msg) != 0) {
+                json ev;
+                try {
+                    ev = json::parse(msg);
+                } catch (const std::exception &) {
+                    send_error_event("invalid JSON", "invalid_request_error");
+                    continue;
+                }
+                const std::string type = json_value(ev, "type", std::string());
+                if (type == "session.update" || type == "transcription_session.update") {
+                    send_event(json {{"type", "session.updated"}, {"session", session_config}});
+                } else if (type == "input_audio_buffer.append") {
+                    std::string pcm;
+                    try {
+                        pcm = base64::decode(json_value(ev, "audio", std::string()));
+                    } catch (const std::exception &) {
+                        send_error_event("invalid base64 audio", "invalid_request_error");
+                        continue;
+                    }
+                    std::vector<float> samples(pcm.size() / 2);
+                    for (size_t i = 0; i < samples.size(); i++) {
+                        int16_t v;
+                        memcpy(&v, pcm.data() + 2 * i, sizeof(v));
+                        samples[i] = v / 32768.0f;
+                    }
+                    if (!post_control(SERVER_CONTROL_ACTION_AUDIO_APPEND, std::move(samples))) {
+                        break;
+                    }
+                } else if (type == "input_audio_buffer.commit") {
+                    // "final": true ends the input, the last item is completed when the stream drains
+                    if (json_value(ev, "final", false)) {
+                        input_ended = true;
+                        post_control(SERVER_CONTROL_ACTION_AUDIO_END, {});
+                        continue;
+                    }
+                    if (!post_control(SERVER_CONTROL_ACTION_AUDIO_COMMIT, {})) {
+                        break;
+                    }
+                    // the current item is the committed one, its transcript completes it and the next item opens
+                    std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(mutex_item);
+                    send_event(json {
+                        {"type",             "input_audio_buffer.committed"},
+                        {"previous_item_id", item_prev.empty() ? json(nullptr) : json(item_prev)},
+                        {"item_id",          item_id},
+                    });
+                    send_completed();
+                    item_prev = item_id;
+                    item_id   = "item_" + random_string();
+                } else if (type == "input_audio_buffer.clear") {
+                    send_event(json {{"type", "input_audio_buffer.cleared"}});
+                } else {
+                    send_error_event("unknown event type: " + type, "invalid_request_error");
+                }
+            }
+            if (!input_ended.exchange(true)) {
+                post_control(SERVER_CONTROL_ACTION_AUDIO_END, {});
+            }
+            // the result loop waits on the socket, nobody reads it from here on
+            conn.close();
+        });
+
+        while (true) {
+            auto result = rd.next([&conn]() { return !conn.is_open(); });
+            if (!result) {
+                break; // connection closed
+            }
+            if (result->is_error()) {
+                send_error_event(json_value(result->to_json(), "message", std::string("server error")), "server_error");
+                break;
+            }
+            if (auto * partial = dynamic_cast<server_task_result_cmpl_partial *>(result.get())) {
+                if (!partial->content.text.empty()) {
+                    std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(mutex_item);
+                    item_text += partial->content.text;
+                    send_event(json {
+                        {"type",          "conversation.item.input_audio_transcription.delta"},
+                        {"item_id",       item_id},
+                        {"content_index", 0},
+                        {"delta",         partial->content.text},
+                    });
+                }
+            } else if (result->is_stop()) {
+                std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(mutex_item);
+                send_completed();
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+
+        input_ended = true;
+        conn.close();
+        reader.join();
+    };
+
     this->post_anthropic_messages = [this](const server_http_req & req) {
         auto res = create_response();
         std::vector<raw_buffer> files;
@@ -5883,6 +6363,171 @@ void server_routes::init_routes() {
         return res;
     };
 
+    this->post_tts = [this](const server_http_req & req) {
+        auto res = create_response();
+        res->set_req(&req); // will also set spipe if needed
+
+        if (!ctx_server.has_cap_tts()) {
+            res->error(format_error_response("this server does not support audio generation", ERROR_TYPE_NOT_SUPPORTED));
+            return res;
+        }
+
+        const auto info = mtmd_gen_audio_get_info(ctx_server.mctx);
+
+        json body = json::parse(req.body);
+
+        // multipart form fields arrive as strings, correct the types of the numeric and boolean params
+        for (const char * k : { "top_k", "n_predict", "max_tokens", "seed" }) {
+            if (body.contains(k) && body[k].is_string()) {
+                body[k] = std::stoll(body[k].get<std::string>());
+            }
+        }
+        for (const char * k : { "top_p", "repeat_penalty" }) {
+            if (body.contains(k) && body[k].is_string()) {
+                body[k] = std::stof(body[k].get<std::string>());
+            }
+        }
+        if (body.contains("stream") && body["stream"].is_string()) {
+            body["stream"] = body["stream"] == "true";
+        }
+
+        std::string prompt = json_value(body, "input", json_value(body, "prompt", std::string()));
+        if (prompt.empty()) {
+            res->error(format_error_response("\"input\" must be a non-empty string", ERROR_TYPE_INVALID_REQUEST));
+            return res;
+        }
+
+        const std::string response_format = json_value(body, "response_format", std::string("wav"));
+
+        server_task task(SERVER_TASK_TYPE_TTS);
+        server_schema::eval_tts_schema(params, task, body);
+        const bool stream = task.params.stream;
+        task.tts_inp.set_prompt(prompt);
+        task.tts_inp.set_lang(json_value(body, "lang", std::string()));
+        task.tts_inp.data.stream    = stream;
+        task.tts_inp.data.out_type  = response_format == "pcm"
+            ? MTMD_HELPER_GEN_AUDIO_OUTTYPE_PCM
+            : MTMD_HELPER_GEN_AUDIO_OUTTYPE_WAV;
+        // note: -1 is clamped to 0 by the sampler, it will disable the penalty
+        task.params.sampling.penalty_last_n = task.params.n_predict > 0 ? task.params.n_predict : 512;
+        task.params.sampling.seed = task.tts_inp.data.seed; // same seed for the codec/vocoder RNG
+        if (task.tts_inp.data.top_k > 0) {
+            task.params.sampling.top_k = task.tts_inp.data.top_k;
+        }
+        if (task.tts_inp.data.top_p > 0) {
+            task.params.sampling.top_p = task.tts_inp.data.top_p;
+        }
+
+        // speaker reference: either an uploaded form file ("speaker_ref") or a base64 JSON field ("speaker_ref_b64")
+        const unsigned char * speaker_ref_data = nullptr;
+        size_t speaker_ref_len  = 0;
+        std::string speaker_ref_b64_decoded;
+
+        auto speaker_ref_file = req.files.find("speaker_ref");
+        if (speaker_ref_file != req.files.end()) {
+            speaker_ref_data = speaker_ref_file->second.data.data();
+            speaker_ref_len  = speaker_ref_file->second.data.size();
+        } else {
+            std::string speaker_ref_b64 = json_value(body, "speaker_ref_b64", std::string());
+            if (!speaker_ref_b64.empty()) {
+                try {
+                    speaker_ref_b64_decoded = base64::decode(speaker_ref_b64);
+                } catch (const std::exception &) {
+                    res->error(format_error_response("\"speaker_ref_b64\" is not valid base64", ERROR_TYPE_INVALID_REQUEST));
+                    return res;
+                }
+                speaker_ref_data = (const unsigned char *) speaker_ref_b64_decoded.data();
+                speaker_ref_len  = speaker_ref_b64_decoded.size();
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (speaker_ref_len > 0) {
+            auto wrapper = mtmd_helper_bitmap_init_from_buf(ctx_server.mctx, speaker_ref_data, speaker_ref_len, false, ctx_server.init_opt);
+            if (!wrapper.bitmap) {
+                res->error(format_error_response("failed to decode \"speaker_ref\"", ERROR_TYPE_INVALID_REQUEST));
+                return res;
+            }
+            task.tts_inp.set_speaker_ref(mtmd::bitmap_ptr(wrapper.bitmap));
+        } else {
+            SRV_WRN("%s", "no speaker reference provided, the model may behave randomly\n");
+        }
+
+        auto & rd = res->rd;
+        task.id = rd.get_new_id();
+        rd.post_task(std::move(task));
+
+        // raw float32 LE mono samples; audio/L16 would imply 16-bit big-endian (RFC 2586)
+        const std::string content_type = response_format == "pcm"
+            ? "audio/pcm;rate=" + std::to_string(info.sample_rate) + ";encoding=float;bits=32"
+            : "audio/wav";
+
+        if (!stream) {
+            auto result = rd.next(req.should_stop);
+            if (!result) {
+                GGML_ASSERT(req.should_stop());
+                return res; // connection is closed
+            }
+            if (result->is_error()) {
+                res->error(result->to_json());
+                return res;
+            }
+            auto * tts_res = dynamic_cast<server_task_result_tts *>(result.get());
+            GGML_ASSERT(tts_res != nullptr);
+            res->status       = 200;
+            res->content_type = content_type;
+            res->data         = std::move(tts_res->audio);
+            return res;
+        } else {
+            auto first_result = rd.next(req.should_stop);
+            if (!first_result) {
+                GGML_ASSERT(req.should_stop());
+                return res; // connection is closed
+            }
+            if (first_result->is_error()) {
+                res->error(first_result->to_json());
+                return res;
+            }
+            auto * first_tts_res = dynamic_cast<server_task_result_tts *>(first_result.get());
+            GGML_ASSERT(first_tts_res != nullptr);
+
+            res->status       = 200;
+            res->content_type = content_type;
+            res->data          = std::move(first_tts_res->audio);
+            bool is_done       = first_tts_res->final;
+
+            res->set_next([res_this = res.get(), is_done](std::string & output) mutable -> bool {
+                // flush buffered audio before is_done - the first result can already be final
+                if (!res_this->data.empty()) {
+                    output = std::move(res_this->data);
+                    res_this->data.clear();
+                    return true;
+                }
+                if (is_done) {
+                    return false;
+                }
+                if (res_this->should_stop()) {
+                    return false;
+                }
+
+                server_response_reader & rd = res_this->rd;
+                if (!rd.has_next()) {
+                    return false;
+                }
+                auto result = rd.next([&res_this]() { return res_this->should_stop(); });
+                if (!result || result->is_error()) {
+                    return false;
+                }
+                auto * tts_res = dynamic_cast<server_task_result_tts *>(result.get());
+                GGML_ASSERT(tts_res != nullptr);
+                output  = std::move(tts_res->audio);
+                is_done = tts_res->final;
+                return true;
+            });
+        }
+
+        return res;
+    };
+
     this->post_systemone = [this](const server_http_req & req) {
         auto res = create_response();
         const auto & decision = ctx_server.decision;

tools/server/server-context.h

@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ struct server_context_meta {
     bool has_inp_image;
     bool has_inp_audio;
     bool has_inp_video;
+    bool has_cap_chat;
+    bool has_cap_tts;
+    bool has_audio_stream; // realtime transcription, see mtmd_support_audio_stream()
     json json_ui_settings;
     int slot_n_ctx;
     enum llama_pooling_type pooling_type;
@@ -144,6 +147,7 @@ struct server_routes {
     server_http_context::handler_t post_responses_oai;
     server_http_context::handler_t post_responses_tok_oai;
     server_http_context::handler_t post_transcriptions_oai;
+    server_http_context::ws_handler_t ws_realtime;
     server_http_context::handler_t post_anthropic_messages;
     server_http_context::handler_t post_anthropic_count_tokens;
     server_http_context::handler_t post_apply_template;
@@ -153,6 +157,7 @@ struct server_routes {
     server_http_context::handler_t post_embeddings;
     server_http_context::handler_t post_embeddings_oai;
     server_http_context::handler_t post_rerank;
+    server_http_context::handler_t post_tts;
     server_http_context::handler_t post_systemone;
     server_http_context::handler_t get_lora_adapters;
     server_http_context::handler_t post_lora_adapters;

tools/server/server-http.cpp

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <memory>
 #include <string>
 #include <thread>
+#include <mutex>
 
 //
 // HTTP implementation using cpp-httplib
@@ -744,6 +745,56 @@ void server_http_context::post(const std::string & path, const server_http_conte
     }
 }
 
+void server_http_context::ws(const std::string & path, const server_http_context::ws_handler_t & handler) const {
+    const std::string full_path = path_prefix + path;
+
+    auto callback = [handler](const httplib::Request & req, httplib::ws::WebSocket & sock) {
+        struct conn_impl : server_http_context::ws_conn {
+            httplib::ws::WebSocket & sock;
+            std::mutex mutex_send;
+            conn_impl(httplib::ws::WebSocket & sock) : sock(sock) {}
+            int read(std::string & msg) override {
+                switch (sock.read(msg)) {
+                    case httplib::ws::Text:   return 1;
+                    case httplib::ws::Binary: return 2;
+                    default:                  return 0;
+                }
+            }
+            bool send(const std::string & msg) override {
+                std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(mutex_send);
+                return sock.send(msg);
+            }
+            bool send_binary(const std::string & msg) override {
+                std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(mutex_send);
+                return sock.send(msg.data(), msg.size());
+            }
+            bool is_open() const override {
+                return sock.is_open();
+            }
+            void close() override {
+                sock.close();
+            }
+        };
+        conn_impl conn(sock);
+        const std::function<bool()> should_stop = [&sock]() {
+            return !sock.is_open();
+        };
+        server_http_req request{
+            get_params(req),
+            get_headers(req),
+            req.path,
+            build_query_string(req),
+            req.body,
+            {},
+            should_stop
+        };
+        handler(request, conn);
+    };
+    for (const auto & srv : pimpl->servers) {
+        srv->WebSocket(full_path, callback);
+    }
+}
+
 void server_http_context::del(const std::string & path, const server_http_context::handler_t & handler) const {
     handlers.emplace(path, handler);
     auto callback = [handler](const httplib::Request & req, httplib::Response & res) {

tools/server/server-http.h

@@ -74,6 +74,20 @@ struct server_http_context {
     using handler_t = std::function<server_http_res_ptr(const server_http_req & req)>;
     mutable std::unordered_map<std::string, handler_t> handlers;
 
+    // websocket connection, see ws()
+    struct ws_conn {
+        // blocking read, returns 1 for a text message, 2 for a binary message, 0 when the connection is closed
+        virtual int  read(std::string & msg) = 0;
+        // thread-safe, can be called while another thread is in read()
+        virtual bool send(const std::string & msg) = 0;
+        virtual bool send_binary(const std::string & msg) = 0;
+        virtual bool is_open() const = 0;
+        virtual void close() = 0;
+        virtual ~ws_conn() = default;
+    };
+    // the handler runs on its own HTTP thread for the whole lifetime of the connection
+    using ws_handler_t = std::function<void(const server_http_req & req, ws_conn & conn)>;
+
     std::string path_prefix;
     int port    = 9931;
     bool is_ssl = false;
@@ -89,6 +103,7 @@ struct server_http_context {
     void get(const std::string & path, const handler_t & handler) const;
     void post(const std::string & path, const handler_t & handler) const;
     void del(const std::string & path, const handler_t & handler) const;
+    void ws(const std::string & path, const ws_handler_t & handler) const;
 
     // Register the Google Cloud Platform (Vertex AI) compat (AIP_PREDICT_ROUTE env var, or /predict)
     // Must be called AFTER all other API routes are registered

tools/server/server-models.cpp

@@ -521,27 +521,31 @@ void server_model_meta::update_caps(const common_params & base) {
         return;
     }
 
-    // read the output modalities and the trained context from the GGUF metadata
-    std::vector<std::string> output_modalities = {"text"};
-    if (!params.model.path.empty()) {
-        const common_gguf_info info = common_get_gguf_info(params.model.path);
-        output_modalities = server_model_output_modalities(info.decision_type);
-        n_ctx_train       = info.n_ctx_train;
-    }
-
     bool inp_image = false;
     bool inp_audio = false;
+    bool gen_audio = false;
     try {
         if (!params.no_mmproj && !params.mmproj.path.empty()) {
             mtmd_caps caps = mtmd_get_cap_from_file(params.mmproj.path.c_str());
             inp_image = caps.inp_vision;
             inp_audio = caps.inp_audio;
+            gen_audio = caps.gen_audio;
         }
     } catch (const std::exception & e) {
         LOG_WRN("failed to read the multimodal capabilities of '%s': %s\n", name.c_str(), e.what());
         // keep the output modalities from the GGUF metadata
     }
 
+    // read the output modalities and the trained context from the GGUF metadata
+    std::vector<std::string> output_modalities = {"text"};
+    if (!params.model.path.empty()) {
+        const common_gguf_info info = common_get_gguf_info(params.model.path);
+        // same rule as mtmd_helper_model_can_chat()
+        const bool can_chat = !gen_audio || info.has_chat_tmpl;
+        output_modalities = server_model_output_modalities(info.decision_type, can_chat, gen_audio);
+        n_ctx_train       = info.n_ctx_train;
+    }
+
     // offline discovery cannot see video; a loaded model reports it
     architecture = server_model_architecture_json(inp_image, inp_audio, false, output_modalities);
 }
@@ -1899,6 +1903,81 @@ server_http_res_ptr server_models::proxy_request(const server_http_req & req, co
     return proxy;
 }
 
+void server_models::proxy_ws(const server_http_req & req, server_http_context::ws_conn & conn, const std::string & name) {
+    auto send_error = [&conn](const std::string & message) {
+        conn.send(safe_json_to_str(json {
+            {"type", "error"},
+            {"error", {{"type", "server_error"}, {"code", nullptr}, {"message", message}, {"param", nullptr}}},
+        }));
+        conn.close();
+    };
+
+    auto meta = get_meta(name);
+    if (!meta.has_value() || !meta->is_running()) {
+        send_error("model name=" + name + " is not running");
+        return;
+    }
+    {
+        std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lk(mutex);
+        mapping[name].meta.last_used = ggml_time_ms();
+        mapping[name].req_count++;
+    }
+    SRV_INF("proxying websocket to model %s on port %d\n", name.c_str(), meta->port);
+
+    std::string url = std::string("ws://") + CHILD_ADDR + ":" + std::to_string(meta->port) + req.path;
+    if (!req.query_string.empty()) {
+        url += '?' + req.query_string;
+    }
+    // the client library adds its own upgrade headers
+    httplib::Headers headers;
+    for (const auto & [key, value] : req.headers) {
+        std::string lower = key;
+        std::transform(lower.begin(), lower.end(), lower.begin(), ::tolower);
+        if (lower == "host" || lower == "connection" || lower == "upgrade" || lower.compare(0, 14, "sec-websocket-") == 0) {
+            continue;
+        }
+        headers.emplace(key, value);
+    }
+
+    {
+        httplib::ws::WebSocketClient upstream(url, headers);
+        if (!upstream.connect()) {
+            send_error("failed to connect to model name=" + name);
+        } else {
+            // client to child
+            std::thread pump([&]() {
+                std::string msg;
+                while (true) {
+                    const int res = conn.read(msg);
+                    if (res == 0 || !(res == 1 ? upstream.send(msg) : upstream.send(msg.data(), msg.size()))) {
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+                upstream.close();
+            });
+            // child to client
+            std::string msg;
+            while (true) {
+                const auto res = upstream.read(msg);
+                if (res == httplib::ws::Fail || !(res == httplib::ws::Text ? conn.send(msg) : conn.send_binary(msg))) {
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+            conn.close();
+            pump.join();
+        }
+    }
+
+    std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lk(mutex);
+    auto it = mapping.find(name);
+    if (it != mapping.end() && it->second.req_count > 0) {
+        it->second.req_count--;
+        if (it->second.req_count == 0) {
+            sched->tick(lk);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 void server_models::handle_child_state(const std::string & name, const std::string & raw_input) {
     server_state state;
     json payload;
@@ -2277,6 +2356,24 @@ void server_models_routes::init_routes() {
         return models.proxy_request(req, method, name, false);
     };
 
+    this->proxy_ws = [this](const server_http_req & req, server_http_context::ws_conn & conn) {
+        std::string name = req.get_param("model");
+        bool autoload = is_autoload(params, req);
+        auto error_res = std::make_unique<server_http_res>();
+        if (!router_validate_model(name, models, autoload, error_res)) {
+            // error_res holds {"error": {...}}, send it as a websocket error event
+            json err = json::parse(error_res->data);
+            err["type"] = "error";
+            conn.send(safe_json_to_str(err));
+            conn.close();
+            return;
+        }
+        if (autoload) {
+            models.ensure_model_ready(name, req.should_stop);
+        }
+        models.proxy_ws(req, conn, name);
+    };
+
     this->proxy_post = [this](const server_http_req & req) {
         std::string method = "POST";
         json body = json::parse(req.body);

tools/server/server-models.h

@@ -366,6 +366,8 @@ public:
 
     // proxy an HTTP request to the model instance
     server_http_res_ptr proxy_request(const server_http_req & req, const std::string & method, const std::string & name, bool update_last_used, bool detached = false);
+    // forward a websocket connection to the child, returns when either side closes
+    void proxy_ws(const server_http_req & req, server_http_context::ws_conn & conn, const std::string & name);
 
     // handle message sent from server_child::notify_to_router()
     // raw input must starts with CMD_CHILD_TO_ROUTER_STATE, followed by a JSON string
@@ -433,6 +435,8 @@ struct server_models_routes {
     server_http_context::handler_t get_router_props;
     server_http_context::handler_t proxy_get;
     server_http_context::handler_t proxy_post;
+    server_http_context::ws_handler_t proxy_ws;
+
     server_http_context::handler_t get_router_models;
     server_http_context::handler_t post_router_models_load;
     server_http_context::handler_t post_router_models_unload;

tools/server/server-schema.cpp

@@ -511,6 +511,58 @@ task_params eval_llama_cmpl_schema(
     return params;
 }
 
+//
+// TTS schema
+//
+
+std::vector<std::unique_ptr<field>> make_tts_schema(server_task & task) {
+    std::vector<std::unique_ptr<field>> fields;
+    auto add = [&](field * f) {
+        fields.emplace_back(f);
+    };
+
+    add((new field_num("top_k", task.tts_inp.data.top_k))
+        ->set_limits(0, INT32_MAX)
+        ->set_desc("Top-k for the acoustic code predictor, 0 to use the model default"));
+
+    add((new field_num("top_p", task.tts_inp.data.top_p))
+        ->set_limits(0.0f, 1.0f)
+        ->set_desc("Top-p for the acoustic code predictor, 0.0 to use the model default"));
+
+    add((new field_num("seed", task.tts_inp.data.seed))
+        ->set_desc("RNG seed for the backbone sampler and the codec/vocoder (-1 = random)"));
+
+    add((new field_num("n_predict", task.params.n_predict))
+        ->set_hard_limits(-1, INT32_MAX)
+        ->add_alias("max_tokens")
+        ->set_desc("Max number of audio frames to generate"));
+
+    add((new field_num("repeat_penalty", task.params.sampling.penalty_repeat))
+        ->set_desc("Repetition penalty applied to the backbone sampler over the whole generation"));
+
+    add((new field_bool("stream", task.params.stream))
+        ->set_desc("Stream the audio as it becomes available instead of waiting for the full generation"));
+
+    return fields;
+}
+
+void eval_tts_schema(const common_params & params_base, server_task & task, const json & data) {
+    // baseline defaults, individual requests can override them
+    // TODO @ngxson : change the default values based on model
+    task.params.sampling = params_base.sampling;
+    task.params.sampling.penalty_repeat = 1.05f;
+    task.params.n_predict = -1;
+    task.tts_inp.data.top_k = 0;
+    task.tts_inp.data.top_p = 0.0f;
+    task.tts_inp.data.seed  = params_base.sampling.seed;
+
+    field_eval_context ctx(task.params);
+
+    for (const auto & f : make_tts_schema(task)) {
+        f->eval(ctx, data);
+    }
+}
+
 //
 // eval() implementations
 //

tools/server/server-schema.h

@@ -101,4 +101,12 @@ task_params eval_llama_cmpl_schema(
                     const std::vector<llama_logit_bias> & logit_bias_eog,
                     const json & data);
 
+std::vector<std::unique_ptr<field>> make_tts_schema(server_task & task);
+
+// evaluates the /tts request params into task.params and task.tts_inp.data
+void eval_tts_schema(
+                    const common_params & params_base,
+                    server_task & task,
+                    const json & data);
+
 } // namespace server_schema

tools/server/server-task.cpp

@@ -1508,6 +1508,17 @@ json server_task_result_rerank::to_json() {
     };
 }
 
+//
+// server_task_result_tts
+//
+json server_task_result_tts::to_json() {
+    return json {
+        {"sample_rate", sample_rate},
+        {"n_bytes",     audio.size()},
+        {"final",       final},
+    };
+}
+
 //
 // server_task_result_decision
 //

tools/server/server-task.h

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 
 // TODO: prevent including the whole server-common.h as we only use server_tokens
 #include "server-common.h"
+#include "mtmd-helper.h"
 
 
 enum server_task_type {
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ enum server_task_type {
     SERVER_TASK_TYPE_RERANK,
     SERVER_TASK_TYPE_DECISION,
     SERVER_TASK_TYPE_INFILL,
+    SERVER_TASK_TYPE_TRANSCRIBE_RT,
     SERVER_TASK_TYPE_CANCEL,
     SERVER_TASK_TYPE_CONTROL,
     SERVER_TASK_TYPE_NEXT_RESPONSE,
@@ -28,6 +30,7 @@ enum server_task_type {
     SERVER_TASK_TYPE_SLOT_ERASE,
     SERVER_TASK_TYPE_GET_LORA,
     SERVER_TASK_TYPE_SET_LORA,
+    SERVER_TASK_TYPE_TTS,
 };
 
 // TODO: change this to more generic "response_format" to replace the "format_response_*" in server-common
@@ -48,6 +51,14 @@ enum stop_type {
     STOP_TYPE_LIMIT,
 };
 
+enum server_control_action {
+    SERVER_CONTROL_ACTION_NONE,
+    SERVER_CONTROL_ACTION_REASONING_END,
+    SERVER_CONTROL_ACTION_AUDIO_APPEND, // push control_audio into the slot's audio stream
+    SERVER_CONTROL_ACTION_AUDIO_COMMIT, // flush the audio stream, more audio can follow
+    SERVER_CONTROL_ACTION_AUDIO_END,    // flush the audio stream and end it
+};
+
 struct task_params {
     bool stream          = false;
     bool include_usage   = false;
@@ -86,8 +97,9 @@ struct task_params {
     std::string        oaicompat_cmpl_id;
 
     // realtime control (SERVER_TASK_TYPE_CONTROL)
-    std::string        control_action;
-    std::string        control_cmpl_id;
+    server_control_action control_action = SERVER_CONTROL_ACTION_NONE;
+    std::string           control_cmpl_id;
+    std::vector<float>    control_audio; // PCM F32 samples for SERVER_CONTROL_ACTION_AUDIO_APPEND
 
     // reported in generation_settings, parsing itself is owned by the chat session
     common_chat_format      chat_format      = COMMON_CHAT_FORMAT_CONTENT_ONLY;
@@ -209,6 +221,9 @@ struct server_task {
     // used by SERVER_TASK_TYPE_SET_LORA
     std::map<int, float> set_lora; // mapping adapter ID -> scale
 
+    // used by SERVER_TASK_TYPE_TTS
+    mtmd_helper::gen_audio::inp tts_inp;
+
     server_task() = default;
 
     server_task(server_task_type type) : type(type) {}
@@ -233,6 +248,7 @@ struct server_task {
         switch (type) {
             case SERVER_TASK_TYPE_COMPLETION:
             case SERVER_TASK_TYPE_INFILL:
+            case SERVER_TASK_TYPE_TRANSCRIBE_RT:
                 return true;
             case SERVER_TASK_TYPE_DECISION:
                 return !decision.labels.empty();
@@ -245,6 +261,8 @@ struct server_task {
         switch (type) {
             case SERVER_TASK_TYPE_COMPLETION:
             case SERVER_TASK_TYPE_INFILL:
+            case SERVER_TASK_TYPE_TTS:
+            case SERVER_TASK_TYPE_TRANSCRIBE_RT:
                 return true;
             default:
                 return false;
@@ -514,6 +532,16 @@ struct server_task_result_embd : server_task_result {
     json to_json_oaicompat();
 };
 
+struct server_task_result_tts : server_task_result {
+    std::string audio; // raw bytes for this chunk (WAV or PCM, per request's out_type)
+    int32_t     sample_rate = 0;
+    bool        final = false; // true for the last chunk of a request
+
+    virtual bool is_stop() override { return final; }
+
+    virtual json to_json() override;
+};
+
 struct server_task_result_rerank : server_task_result {
     float score = -1e6;
 

tools/server/server.cpp

@@ -247,6 +247,8 @@ int llama_server(common_params & params, int argc, char ** argv, server_child &
         routes.post_control                = models_routes->proxy_post;
         routes.post_responses_oai          = models_routes->proxy_post;
         routes.post_transcriptions_oai     = models_routes->proxy_post;
+        routes.post_tts                    = models_routes->proxy_post;
+        routes.ws_realtime                 = models_routes->proxy_ws;
         routes.post_anthropic_messages     = models_routes->proxy_post;
         routes.post_anthropic_count_tokens = models_routes->proxy_post;
         routes.post_infill                 = models_routes->proxy_post;
@@ -292,6 +294,8 @@ int llama_server(common_params & params, int argc, char ** argv, server_child &
     ctx_http.post("/responses",                ex_wrapper(routes.post_responses_oai));
     ctx_http.post("/v1/audio/transcriptions",  ex_wrapper(routes.post_transcriptions_oai));
     ctx_http.post("/audio/transcriptions",     ex_wrapper(routes.post_transcriptions_oai));
+    ctx_http.post("/tts",                      ex_wrapper(routes.post_tts));
+    ctx_http.ws  ("/v1/realtime",              routes.ws_realtime);
     ctx_http.post("/v1/messages",              ex_wrapper(routes.post_anthropic_messages)); // anthropic messages API
     ctx_http.post("/infill",                   ex_wrapper(routes.post_infill));
     ctx_http.post("/embedding",                ex_wrapper(routes.post_embeddings)); // legacy

tools/server/tests/unit/test_chat_completion.py

@@ -587,6 +587,10 @@ def test_chat_completions_multiple_choices():
         for choice in res.body["choices"]:
             assert "assistant" == choice["message"]["role"]
             assert choice["finish_reason"] == "length"
+        # each choice generates max_tokens tokens, usage counts them all
+        # ref: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/29451
+        assert res.body["usage"]["completion_tokens"] == 16
+        assert res.body["usage"]["total_tokens"] == res.body["usage"]["prompt_tokens"] + 16
 
 
 def test_chat_completions_token_count():

tools/tts/README.md

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ Simple usage:
 llama-tts -hf ggml-org/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base-GGUF -p "Hello world" --output out.wav
 ```
 
+Note: it's highly recommended to always provide a speaker reference voice (via `--tts-speaker-file`); otherwise, the model's performance may be degraded.
+
 Common params:
 - Sampling params such as `--top-k`, `--top-p`, `--temp`, etc.
 - `-n <number_of_frames>` limits the output length, e.g. `-n 500`. Note that how many milliseconds each frame represents varies by model

tools/tts/tts.cpp

@@ -111,8 +111,9 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         speaker_bitmap.reset(wrapper.bitmap);
     }
 
-    mtmd_helper::gen_audio gen(lctx, mctx.get());
-    mtmd_helper_gen_audio_inp inp{};
+    mtmd_helper::gen_audio gen;
+    gen.init(lctx, mctx.get());
+    mtmd_helper_gen_audio_inp inp = mtmd_helper_gen_audio_inp_default();
     inp.seq_id      = 0;
     inp.prompt      = params.prompt.c_str();
     inp.prompt_len  = params.prompt.size();
@@ -121,7 +122,6 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     inp.top_k       = params.sampling.top_k;
     inp.top_p       = params.sampling.top_p;
     inp.seed        = params.sampling.seed;
-    inp.out_type    = MTMD_HELPER_GEN_AUDIO_OUTTYPE_WAV;
 
     //
     // stage 1: process prompt via backbone model, generate semantic representation