feat(quantization): add quantization backend (#9096)

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

backend/python/llama-cpp-quantization/install.sh

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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 $backend_dir/../common/libbackend.sh
+fi
+
+EXTRA_PIP_INSTALL_FLAGS+=" --upgrade "
+installRequirements
+
+# Fetch convert_hf_to_gguf.py from llama.cpp
+LLAMA_CPP_CONVERT_VERSION="${LLAMA_CPP_CONVERT_VERSION:-master}"
+CONVERT_SCRIPT="${EDIR}/convert_hf_to_gguf.py"
+if [ ! -f "${CONVERT_SCRIPT}" ]; then
+    echo "Downloading convert_hf_to_gguf.py from llama.cpp (${LLAMA_CPP_CONVERT_VERSION})..."
+    curl -L --fail --retry 3 \
+        "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/${LLAMA_CPP_CONVERT_VERSION}/convert_hf_to_gguf.py" \
+        -o "${CONVERT_SCRIPT}" || echo "Warning: Failed to download convert_hf_to_gguf.py."
+fi
+
+# Install gguf package from the same llama.cpp commit to keep them in sync
+GGUF_PIP_SPEC="gguf @ git+https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp@${LLAMA_CPP_CONVERT_VERSION}#subdirectory=gguf-py"
+echo "Installing gguf package from llama.cpp (${LLAMA_CPP_CONVERT_VERSION})..."
+if [ "x${USE_PIP:-}" == "xtrue" ]; then
+    pip install "${GGUF_PIP_SPEC}" || {
+        echo "Warning: Failed to install gguf from llama.cpp commit, falling back to PyPI..."
+        pip install "gguf>=0.16.0"
+    }
+else
+    uv pip install "${GGUF_PIP_SPEC}" || {
+        echo "Warning: Failed to install gguf from llama.cpp commit, falling back to PyPI..."
+        uv pip install "gguf>=0.16.0"
+    }
+fi
+
+# Build llama-quantize from llama.cpp if not already present
+QUANTIZE_BIN="${EDIR}/llama-quantize"
+if [ ! -x "${QUANTIZE_BIN}" ] && ! command -v llama-quantize &>/dev/null; then
+    if command -v cmake &>/dev/null; then
+        echo "Building llama-quantize from llama.cpp (${LLAMA_CPP_CONVERT_VERSION})..."
+        LLAMA_CPP_SRC="${EDIR}/llama.cpp"
+        if [ ! -d "${LLAMA_CPP_SRC}" ]; then
+            git clone --depth 1 --branch "${LLAMA_CPP_CONVERT_VERSION}" \
+                https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp.git "${LLAMA_CPP_SRC}" 2>/dev/null || \
+            git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp.git "${LLAMA_CPP_SRC}"
+        fi
+        cmake -B "${LLAMA_CPP_SRC}/build" -S "${LLAMA_CPP_SRC}" -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF
+        cmake --build "${LLAMA_CPP_SRC}/build" --target llama-quantize -j"$(nproc 2>/dev/null || echo 2)"
+        cp "${LLAMA_CPP_SRC}/build/bin/llama-quantize" "${QUANTIZE_BIN}"
+        chmod +x "${QUANTIZE_BIN}"
+        echo "Built llama-quantize at ${QUANTIZE_BIN}"
+    else
+        echo "Warning: cmake not found — llama-quantize will not be available. Install cmake or provide llama-quantize on PATH."
+    fi
+fi