chore(exllama): drop backend now almost deprecated (#8186)

exllama2 development has stalled and only old architectures are
supported. exllamav3 is still in development, meanwhile cleaning up
exllama2 from the gallery.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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Ettore Di Giacinto
2026-01-24 08:57:37 +01:00
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parent 17783fa7d9
commit 05904c77f5
18 changed files with 2 additions and 345 deletions

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- **transformers** - Hugging Face Transformers framework (PyTorch-based)
- **vllm** - High-performance LLM inference engine
- **mlx** - Apple Silicon optimized ML framework
- **exllama2** - ExLlama2 quantized models
### Audio & Speech
- **bark** - Text-to-speech synthesis

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source

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.PHONY: exllama2
exllama2:
bash install.sh
.PHONY: run
run: exllama2
@echo "Running exllama2..."
bash run.sh
@echo "exllama2 run."
.PHONY: protogen-clean
protogen-clean:
$(RM) backend_pb2_grpc.py backend_pb2.py
.PHONY: clean
clean: protogen-clean
$(RM) -r venv source __pycache__

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
import grpc
from concurrent import futures
import time
import backend_pb2
import backend_pb2_grpc
import argparse
import signal
import sys
import os
import glob
from pathlib import Path
import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F
from torch import version as torch_version
from exllamav2.generator import (
ExLlamaV2BaseGenerator,
ExLlamaV2Sampler
)
from exllamav2 import (
ExLlamaV2,
ExLlamaV2Config,
ExLlamaV2Cache,
ExLlamaV2Cache_8bit,
ExLlamaV2Tokenizer,
model_init,
)
_ONE_DAY_IN_SECONDS = 60 * 60 * 24
# If MAX_WORKERS are specified in the environment use it, otherwise default to 1
MAX_WORKERS = int(os.environ.get('PYTHON_GRPC_MAX_WORKERS', '1'))
# Implement the BackendServicer class with the service methods
class BackendServicer(backend_pb2_grpc.BackendServicer):
def Health(self, request, context):
return backend_pb2.Reply(message=bytes("OK", 'utf-8'))
def LoadModel(self, request, context):
try:
model_directory = request.ModelFile
config = ExLlamaV2Config()
config.model_dir = model_directory
config.prepare()
model = ExLlamaV2(config)
cache = ExLlamaV2Cache(model, lazy=True)
model.load_autosplit(cache)
tokenizer = ExLlamaV2Tokenizer(config)
# Initialize generator
generator = ExLlamaV2BaseGenerator(model, cache, tokenizer)
self.generator = generator
generator.warmup()
self.model = model
self.tokenizer = tokenizer
self.cache = cache
except Exception as err:
return backend_pb2.Result(success=False, message=f"Unexpected {err=}, {type(err)=}")
return backend_pb2.Result(message="Model loaded successfully", success=True)
def Predict(self, request, context):
penalty = 1.15
if request.Penalty != 0.0:
penalty = request.Penalty
settings = ExLlamaV2Sampler.Settings()
settings.temperature = request.Temperature
settings.top_k = request.TopK
settings.top_p = request.TopP
settings.token_repetition_penalty = penalty
settings.disallow_tokens(self.tokenizer, [self.tokenizer.eos_token_id])
tokens = 512
if request.Tokens != 0:
tokens = request.Tokens
output = self.generator.generate_simple(
request.Prompt, settings, tokens)
# Remove prompt from response if present
if request.Prompt in output:
output = output.replace(request.Prompt, "")
return backend_pb2.Result(message=bytes(output, encoding='utf-8'))
def PredictStream(self, request, context):
# Implement PredictStream RPC
# for reply in some_data_generator():
# yield reply
# Not implemented yet
return self.Predict(request, context)
def serve(address):
server = grpc.server(futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=MAX_WORKERS),
options=[
('grpc.max_message_length', 50 * 1024 * 1024), # 50MB
('grpc.max_send_message_length', 50 * 1024 * 1024), # 50MB
('grpc.max_receive_message_length', 50 * 1024 * 1024), # 50MB
])
backend_pb2_grpc.add_BackendServicer_to_server(BackendServicer(), server)
server.add_insecure_port(address)
server.start()
print("Server started. Listening on: " + address, file=sys.stderr)
# Define the signal handler function
def signal_handler(sig, frame):
print("Received termination signal. Shutting down...")
server.stop(0)
sys.exit(0)
# Set the signal handlers for SIGINT and SIGTERM
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal_handler)
signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, signal_handler)
try:
while True:
time.sleep(_ONE_DAY_IN_SECONDS)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
server.stop(0)
if __name__ == "__main__":
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Run the gRPC server.")
parser.add_argument(
"--addr", default="localhost:50051", help="The address to bind the server to."
)
args = parser.parse_args()
serve(args.addr)

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#!/bin/bash
set -e
LIMIT_TARGETS="cublas"
EXTRA_PIP_INSTALL_FLAGS="--no-build-isolation"
EXLLAMA2_VERSION=c0ddebaaaf8ffd1b3529c2bb654e650bce2f790f
backend_dir=$(dirname $0)
if [ -d $backend_dir/common ]; then
source $backend_dir/common/libbackend.sh
else
source $backend_dir/../common/libbackend.sh
fi
installRequirements
git clone https://github.com/turboderp/exllamav2 $MY_DIR/source
pushd ${MY_DIR}/source && git checkout -b build ${EXLLAMA2_VERSION} && popd
# This installs exllamav2 in JIT mode so it will compile the appropriate torch extension at runtime
EXLLAMA_NOCOMPILE= uv pip install ${EXTRA_PIP_INSTALL_FLAGS} ${MY_DIR}/source/

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transformers
accelerate
torch==2.4.1

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torch==2.4.1
transformers
accelerate

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# This is here to trigger the install script to add --no-build-isolation to the uv pip install commands
# exllama2 does not specify it's build requirements per PEP517, so we need to provide some things ourselves
wheel
setuptools

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grpcio==1.76.0
protobuf
certifi
wheel
setuptools

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#!/bin/bash
LIMIT_TARGETS="cublas"
backend_dir=$(dirname $0)
if [ -d $backend_dir/common ]; then
source $backend_dir/common/libbackend.sh
else
source $backend_dir/../common/libbackend.sh
fi
startBackend $@

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#!/bin/bash
set -e
backend_dir=$(dirname $0)
if [ -d $backend_dir/common ]; then
source $backend_dir/common/libbackend.sh
else
source $backend_dir/../common/libbackend.sh
fi
runUnittests