* broad lint fixes to sidestep CI scope glitch
* runner: Remove CGO engines, use llama-server exclusively for GGML models
Remove the vendored GGML and llama.cpp backend, CGO runner, Go model
implementations, and sample. llama-server (built from upstream llama.cpp via
FetchContent) is now the sole inference engine for GGUF-based models.
(Safetensor based models continue to run on the new MLX engine.) This allows
us to more rapidly pick up new capabilities and fixes from llama.cpp as they
come out.
On windows this now requires recent AMD driver versions to support ROCm v7 as
llama.cpp currently does not support building against v6.
* llama/compat: load Ollama-format GGUFs in llama-server
Squashed from upstream/jmorganca/llama-compat on 2026-04-29.
Source tip: 0c33775d37.
Original source commits:
- 25223160d llama/compat: add in-memory shim so llama-server can load Ollama-format GGUFs
- 7449b539a llm,server: route Ollama-format gemma3 blobs through llama/compat
- 436f2e2b1 llama/compat: make patch-apply idempotent
- 8c2c9d4c8 llama/compat: extend gemma3 handler to cover 1B and 270M blobs
- 021389f7b llama/compat: shrink clip.cpp injection from 18 lines to 1
- 61b367ec2 llama/compat: shrink patch to pure call-site hooks (34 -> 20 lines)
- 36049361c llama/compat: simplify shim (gemma3-tested)
- 8fa664865 llama/compat: add qwen35moe text handler
- db0c74530 llama/compat: add qwen35moe vision (clip) support
- 2a388da77 llama/compat: split shared infra into a util TU
- 9a69a17dc llama/compat: document non-public API dependencies
- d0f38a915 llama/compat: add gpt-oss and lfm2 handlers
- 086071822 llama/compat: add mistral3 text handler (vision TODO)
- 63bde9ff7 llama/compat: add mistral3 vision (clip) support
- 3a57b89d5 llama/compat: apply LLaMA RoPE permute to mistral3 vision Q/K
- 99cb87439 llama/compat: add qwen35, gemma4, deepseek-ocr handlers
- 2c7850dba llama/compat: add nemotron_h_moe handler (latent FFN + MTP skip)
- 9e3b54225 llama/compat: add llama4 text + clip handlers
- 034fee349 llama/compat: add gemma4 clip handler (gemma4v projector)
- 9945c5a93 server: remove dhiltgen/* compat redirect table
- 5d4539101 llama/compat: rewrite gemma4 tokenizer model to BPE
- 7e0765327 llama/compat: add glm-ocr text handler + text-loader load-op hook
- f1bd1a25a llama/compat: add glm-ocr clip handler (glm4v projector)
- 4b5cf3420 llama/compat: collapse text-loader hook back to one new patch line
- eb4ecf4fc llama/compat: extend gemma4 clip handler to gemma4a (audio)
- a23a5e76f llama/compat: fix gemma4a per-block norm tensor mapping
- cd2dcaff4 llama/compat: add embeddinggemma handler
- 1ce8a6b26 llama/compat: add qwen3-vl + qwen2.5-vl handlers
- fd98ffa1e llama/compat: add gemma3n + glm4moelite handlers
- cc7bdf0bc llama/compat: handle null buft in maybe_load_tensor
- 0c33775d3 llama/compat: disable mmap when load_op transforms text-side tensors
* refine implementation
* ci: fix windows MLX build
* ci: fix windows llama-server build
* ci: fix windows rocm build
* ci: windows mlx tuning
Shorten long-tail on build, and get OllamaSetup.exe back under 2g limit
* ci: fix windows dependencies
* win: fix dependency gathering
* disable openmp
* win: arm64 cross-compile build
also DRY out CI steps
* scheduler improvements
* ci: improvements from #15982
* win: favor ninja for faster developer builds
* win: fix build
* win: fix arm64 cross-compile
* win: avoid spaces in compiler path
* misc discovery fixes, and bos handling
* lint fixes
* win: fix arm cross-compile build/CI bugs
* llama.cpp update
* win: handle multiple CRT dirs
* vulkan: add windows iGPU detection
* fix creation bugs for patched models, other refactoring work
* tune batch size for better performance
* ci and lint fixes
* fix repeat_last_n bug
* build: revamp build for better developer UX
* amd, sampler, qwen3next fixes
* version bump
* fix mlx build
* revamp GPU discovery
Scanning the output of llama-server is turning out to be too error prone across
llama.cpp updates, so this switches to a thin dynamic library load against the
bundled GGML libraries so more details can be gathered from the API.
* version bump
* missing file
* ci: fix cache miss on rocm build
* refine vulkan dep handling
* fix ps reporting bug on full GPU load
* improve cmake wiring for customized local builds
* version bump
* docker build arg cleanup
* improve windows exit error logs
* fix community gemma4 support and ci flakes
* fix mlx unit test
* tighten up ps logic to avoid double counting fit log lines
* version bump
* fix ps view for full gpu layer offload
* add MTP wiring for llama-server and create with GGUFs
* pick best template by capabilities
* version bump
* ci: harden apt repos
* remove unused cpu core discovery
* adjust batch default logic to reduce OOMs
* support larger tool calls
* fix audio support, template show
* qwen35 mtp patch support
* flesh out dtypes
* rocm deps
* version bump
* lint fix
* block broken gfx1150 on windows
* fix qwen3.5 moe mtp tensors in patch
* mmproj oom fallback and vulkan on by default
* qwen MTP compat fix
* version bump
* ci: fix WoA cross-compile
* ci: workaround ui tool in cross-compile
* version bump
* win: enable OpenMP for CPU builds
* build: improve developer UX
* ci: windows path workaround for CPU build
* win: fix WoA dependencies
* win: fix large offset reads for mmproj patched loads
* version bump
* fix vulkan dup detection
* add OLLAMA_IGPU_ENABLE and largely disable iGPUs by default
* opt-in MTP, win large offset, integraton fixes
* fix unit test scheduler interaction hang
* fix multi-gpu filtering
* version bump
* review comments
* fix thinking level
* fix linux rocm ordering and granite 3.3 template
* version bump
* ci fix - non-shallow MLX checkout
* bypass linux sysfs unit test on windows
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Co-authored-by: jmorganca <jmorganca@gmail.com>
* mlx: add laguna model support
* convert: support fp8 safetensors import
Decode HF F8_E4M3 safetensors with block scale companions into GGUF-supported tensor types, and record which output tensors came from FP8 source weights.
Use that source-precision metadata during create quantization: default FP8-sourced GGUFs to Q8_0, keep non-FP8 tensors at their original precision for Q8_0, and promote non-FP8 quantizable tensors to Q8_0 for Q4_K requests.
* ggml: add laguna model support
* server: preserve generate logprobs with builtin parsers
Generate requests were dropping logprob-only chunks whenever a builtin parser buffered visible content. Chat already handled this case, but generate only forwarded chunks with visible response, thinking, or tool-call output.
Keep generate chunks that carry logprobs even when the builtin parser has not flushed visible content yet, and add a regression test that exercises the behavior with a generic thinking parser.
* review comments - perf improvements
* ggml: implement nemotron 3 nano omni
* add poolside integration
* update poolside doc
* adapt to new cache setup
* fix test
* fix test
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Co-authored-by: Eva Ho <hoyyeva@gmail.com>
* bench: add prompt calibration, context size flag, and NumCtx reporting
Add --num-ctx flag to set context size, and report NumCtx in model info
header. Calibrate tokens-per-word ratio during warmup using actual
tokenization metrics from the model, replacing the fixed 1.3 heuristic.
This produces more accurate prompt token counts for --prompt-tokens.
Also add fetchContextLength() to query running model context via /api/ps.
* integration: improve vision test robustness and add thinking tests
Add skipIfNoVisionOverride() to skip vision tests when OLLAMA_TEST_MODEL
is set to a non-vision model. Add Think:false to context exhaustion test
to prevent thinking models from using all context before the test can
measure it. Add third test image (ollama homepage) and replace OCR test
with ImageDescription test using it. Relax match strings for broader
model compatibility. Add TestThinkingEnabled and TestThinkingSuppressed
to verify thinking output and channel tag handling.
* gemma4: add Gemma 4 GGML model support
Add full Gemma 4 model family support (E2B, E4B, 26B MoE, 31B Dense)
for the GGML backend including text, vision, converter, parser, and
renderer.
Text model features:
- Sliding window + full attention with per-layer patterns
- KV sharing across layers with donor map
- Per-layer embeddings (PLE) with learned projections
- MoE routing with RMSNorm + learned scale
- Proportional RoPE with freq_factors for global attention
- Final logit softcapping
Vision model features:
- SigLIP vision encoder with 2D RoPE
- ClippableLinear with input/output clamping via packed v.clamp_data
- Adaptive average pooling with nMerge kernel
- Multi-modal projection with unweighted RMSNorm
Converter:
- Safetensors to GGUF with vision tensor renaming
- Fused MoE gate_up_proj splitting
- Vision patch embedding reshape (HF to Conv2D layout)
- Packed clamp data tensor for ClippableLinear bounds
- Proportional RoPE freq_factors generation
Also includes:
- BackendGet() on ml.Tensor for reading weight tensor data
- Q6_K CUDA get_rows kernel support
- MoE-aware ffn_down quantization layer counting
- Gemma4 parser with tool calling and thinking support
- Gemma4 renderer with structured tool format
- Architecture-based auto-detection of renderer/parser/stop tokens
- Integration test gemma4 model list additions
* gemma4: add audio support with USM conformer encoder
Add audio encoding for Gemma 4 using the USM conformer architecture:
- Converter: audio tensor mapping, SSCP/conformer/embedder name replacements,
softplus repacker for per_dim_scale, F32 enforcement for conv weights
- GGML backend: Conv1DDW and PadExt tensor ops
- Audio encoder: SSCP Conv2D, 12 conformer blocks (FFW + block-local
attention with relative position embeddings + LightConv1d + FFW),
output projection, audio-to-text embedding projector
- Audio preprocessing: WAV decode, mel spectrogram, FFT (pure Go)
- Model wiring: WAV detection, audio token handling, unified PostTokenize
Correctly transcribes "why is the sky blue" from test audio.
* integration: add gemma4 audio tests including OpenAI API coverage
Test audio transcription and response via the Ollama native API, plus
two new tests exercising the OpenAI-compatible endpoints:
- /v1/audio/transcriptions (multipart form upload)
- /v1/chat/completions with input_audio content type
All tests use capability checks and skip models without audio support.
* gemma4: add OpenAI audio API support and capability detection
- Add CapabilityAudio and detect from audio.block_count in GGUF
- Add /v1/audio/transcriptions endpoint with TranscriptionMiddleware
- Add input_audio content type support in /v1/chat/completions
- Add TranscriptionRequest/Response types in openai package
* gemma4: add audio input support for run command
- /audio toggle in interactive mode for voice chat
- Platform-specific microphone recording (AVFoundation on macOS,
PulseAudio/ALSA on Linux, WASAPI on Windows)
- Space to start/stop recording, automatic chunking for long audio
* gemma4: add transcribe command (ollama transcribe MODEL)
- Interactive mode with readline prompt and slash commands
- Non-interactive mode for piped audio or record-until-Ctrl+C
- Chunked streaming transcription for long recordings
- Word-wrapped output matching run command style
* gemma4: add parser, renderer, and integration test plumbing
* gemma4: fix renderer to emit BOS token
* gemma4: add OpenAI audio transcription API and input_audio support
* gemma4: update converter for new weight drop naming
* gemma4: add per_expert_scale to MoE router and fix moe_intermediate_size config
* gemma4: rewrite renderer to match HF Jinja2 template exactly
Fix 8 bugs found by building 55 reference tests verified against the
HF Jinja2 chat template (VERIFY_JINJA2=1 shells out to Python):
- Tool responses use separate <|turn>tool turns (not inline tags)
- Tool calls emitted before content in assistant messages
- Thinking content stripped from assistant history (strip_thinking)
- User, tool, and system content trimmed (template does | trim)
- Empty system message still emits system turn (check role, not content)
- Nested object properties rendered recursively with required field
- Array items specification rendered for array-type properties
- OBJECT/ARRAY type-specific rendering comma logic matches template
Also adds Required field to api.ToolProperty for nested object schemas,
replaces old gemma4_test.go with comprehensive gemma4_reference_test.go,
and commits the Jinja2 template as testdata for verification.
* gemma4: fix MoE fused gate_up split and multiline tool-call arg parsing
- Text MoE: split `ffn_gate_up_exps` into contiguous `[gate|up]` halves instead of stride-2 slices.
- Parser: escape control characters in `<|"|>...<|"|>` string literals when converting tool-call args to JSON.
- Fixes warnings like `invalid character '\n' in string literal` for multiline tool arguments.
- Add Gemma4 parser regressions for multiline tool-call args and `gemma4ArgsToJSON`.
* cmd: simplify audio input to dropped file attachments
* gemma4: use full SWA memory for better cache reuse
* gemma4: initialize clamps after backend load
* convert: align gemma4 audio tensor renames with llama.cpp
* Remove redundant comments in gemma4 vision model
* Format Gemma4 MoE block field alignment
* use 4096 kvcache.NewSWAMemCache
* convert: support new Gemma4 audio_tower tensor naming (#15221)
Co-authored-by: jmorganca <jmorganca@gmail.com>
* fix integration test defaults for audio
* review comments and lint fixes
* remove unused audio/video files
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Co-authored-by: jmorganca <jmorganca@gmail.com>
* WIP - MLX backend with gemma3
* MLX: add cmake and go tag build toggles
To build the new MLX backend code:
cmake --preset MLX
cmake --build --preset MLX --parallel
cmake --install build --component MLX
go build -tags mlx .
Note: the main.go entrypoint for the MLX engine will change in a follow up commit.
* add experimental image generation runtime
* add experimental image generation runtime
* MLX: wire up cuda build for linux
* MLX: get dependencies correct and dedup
This is still too large for a unified github artifact, but is now "correct" for the mlx_cuda_v13
directory.
* fix relative link bug in dedup
* Add darwin build and readme
* add go build tag for mlx dependent code and wire up build_darwin.sh
* lint cleanup
* macos: build mlx for x86
This will be CPU only.
* cuda build instructions and fix drift from mlx bump
* stale comment
* Delete agent helper doc
* Clean up readme.md
* Revise README for tokenizer clarity and details
Updated README to clarify tokenizer functionality and removed correctness section.
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Co-authored-by: jmorganca <jmorganca@gmail.com>
* flash attn: add auto mode for llama engine
If the user does not specify fa in the environment, use auto-mode.
* review comments
* ensure kv cache quantized types have FA explicitly enabled
additional review comments
Currently for both the old and new engines, there is code to
calculate how much memory is required for a model and lay out
the layers onto GPUs. This reuses the new engine's lay out code
for the old engine as well, bringing them closer together. The
old engine continues to use its current method of estimating
required memory.
This reduces maintainence effort and improves consistency, as new
features only need to be implemented in one place. The newer code
is also more accurate, especially with multiple GPUs.
Our new engine implementation of gemma2 doesn't support flash
attention, which means that it also doesn't support KV cache
quantization. Currently, it is possible to turn these two on,
which will result in a crash.
If flash attention is enabled without KV cache quanitization, we will
currently always get this warning:
level=WARN source=server.go:226 msg="kv cache type not supported by model" type=""
This PR updates the memory size estimate logic to better handle recurrent and hybrid-recurrent models which are currently being badly overestimated because the default logic assumes full attention for all layers.
The logic for the sizing of the recurrent layers comes from the llama.cpp implementation
ggml_tensor * r = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx, type_r, hparams.n_embd_r()*mem_size);
ggml_tensor * s = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx, type_s, hparams.n_embd_s()*mem_size);
Signed-off-by: Gabe Goodhart <ghart@us.ibm.com>
there's two bugs here.
1. the check for a layer id is incorrect and should be >= 0 since layer
0 is valid
2. if both tensors have an layer identifier, it will only compare the
layer id which will return 0 if the tensors are in the same layer.
instead it should fallback to comparing the full tensor name
This changes the memory allocation strategy from upfront estimation to
tracking actual allocations done by the engine and reacting to that. The
goal is avoid issues caused by both under-estimation (crashing) and
over-estimation (low performance due to under-utilized GPUs).
It is currently opt-in and can be enabled for models running on the
Ollama engine by setting OLLAMA_NEW_ESTIMATES=1. Behavior in other
cases is unchanged and will continue to use the existing estimates.
* TEMPORARY: Update the llama.cpp upstream to my fork's Granite Four branch
This will be redone once my branch is merged upstream in llama.cpp
* feat: Update all patches
There are a number that are no longer needed at all:
- 0003-embeddings: Embeddings entirely overhauled on master
- 0008-ensure-KV-cache-is-fully-defragmented: KV caching entirely
overhauled on master
- 0019-metal-add-mean-kernel-14267: Merged upstream
- 0020-CUDA-add-mean-operation-14313: Merged upstream
* feat: Sync llama.cpp and ggml
* fix: Update rsync-filter for all moved/new/removed files
* fix: Add files missing from sync
* fix: Update ggml rsync-filter for new ggml-cpu/arch subdirs
* fix: Add ggml files missing from sync
* fix: Narrow llama.cpp rsync-filter to not include mtmd main tool cpp files
* fix: Remove mtmd main cpp files
* fix: Add missing include in sampling_ext.cpp
* fix: Update llama.go to use mtmd instead of clip/llava
* fix: Add patch for mtmd_input_text
* chore: Ignore *.patched in the patch directory
* fix: Fix support for arch-specific ggml-cpu source files with new arrangement
In https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/13892, all arch-specific
implementations were split out into a nested tree structure under
ggml-cpu/arch. This conflicts with standard CGO layout where all
arch-specific source files are expected to live in the same directory as
the parent go module and use suffixes based on GOOS and GOARCH. As such,
there were really two options for getting this to work:
1. Add a patch on top of the GGML sync to rearrange the files to match the
GO layout convention
2. Use CGO directives to conditionally include the nested source files in
the compilation units
This commit does (2) in order to minimize the set of changes needed on top
of the upstream file layout. To get this to work, there are two key things
needed:
1. In cpu.go, #cgo directives are added to explicitly set __${GOARCH}__ in
the preprocessor directives
2. In arch-impls.c|cpp, use an #ifdef | #elif defined | #endif chain to
explicitly include the .c|.cpp files for the given architecture from the
nested directory
* fix: Use mtmd_helper to correctly load the bitmap for the image
* fix: Apply patch for mtmd_text_input
* fix: Add missing stb to llama.cpp rsync-filter
* fix: Add sync'ed stb vendored header
* fix: Use c++17 and include vendor for go wrapper modules
* fix: Update patch 0015 for upstream implementation of uuid
* feat: Bump to the latest tip of the branch
* fix: Update patches for bump
* feat: Bump back to the cenral repo and point at the latest master
This includes granite 4 and a number of other model architectures!
* fix: Revert changes to ggml export GPU UUID patch
* fix: Add patch for GGML_VERSION and GGML_COMMIT constants
* feat: Sync all patched code
* build: Include cmake/common.cmake in ggml sync
* build: Add top-level include for GNUINstallDirs in CMakeLists.txt
This is used to populate CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR
* fix: Add a patch to avoid power throttling API on non-msvc windows builds
* fix: Sync patch changes for ggml-cpu.c
* feat: Bump llama.cpp to 4a4f42
This picks up support for Kimi K2 and PLaMO-2
* feat: Sync llama.cpp
* fix: Handle multi-chunk image encodings from mtmd
* fix: Re-number patches after merge with `main`
* feat: Bump to 41e78c in the makefile
* fix: Fix Solar and argsort/copy patches after bump
* fix: Remove Gemma3n CUDA Graphs patch
It was implemented upstream:
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/14741
* feat: Sync llama.cpp / ggml after latest bump
* build: Remove unnecessary CFLAGS definitions in cpu.go
* fix: Remove unnecessary additions in the rsync-filter
* fix: Remove unused vendored code for chat template parsing
* Revert "fix: Remove Gemma3n CUDA Graphs patch"
This reverts commit d724caced3.
* fix: Update 0020 CUDA Graphs for gemma3n to keep both llama.cpp and ollama fixes
https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/11195#issuecomment-3137312394
* fix: Sync ggml-cuda.cu after keeping both style cuda graph fixes for gemma3n
* unwind mxfp4 patch
Prepare to bump ggml with their impl for mxfp4
* bump
* fix windows build error
* Convert tensors at load time
Repack the mxfp4 tensors as ggmls kernels expect them to be.
* convert mlp bf16 to f32
* buffer the conversion better
* reshape earlier
* openai swiglu
* add ids
* split qkv, gate_up
* fix nested alt tags
* fast attention
* remove debug messages
* fix lint
* remove redundant test
* remap values only if source/target are different
* add back i32->i32 copy
* refactor cpu quants
* clean up vendor
* update patch instructions
* clean up patches
* remove webgpu
* update mem
* also handle gpt-oss
* revert convert changes
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Signed-off-by: Gabe Goodhart <ghart@us.ibm.com>
Co-authored-by: Gabe Goodhart <ghart@us.ibm.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Hiltgen <daniel@ollama.com>
KV cache quantization has a dependency on the flash attention kernel.
We currently cannot use flash attention with gpt-oss as it requires
additional operations.
The model definition does not call flash attention, so it works
regardless of the setting but the cache will pick up the
quantization type. This updates the flash attention setting earlier
in the loading flow so that all downstream settings are also set correctly.
Fixes: #11671
