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* chore(llama.cpp): bump to 1ec7ba0c14f33f17e980daeeda5f35b225d41994
Picks up the upstream `spec : parallel drafting support` change
(ggml-org/llama.cpp#22838) which reshapes the speculative-decoding API
and `server_context_impl`.
Adapt the grpc-server wrapper accordingly:
* `common_params_speculative::type` (single enum) became `types`
(`std::vector<common_speculative_type>`). Update both the
"default to draft when a draft model is set" branch and the
`spec_type`/`speculative_type` option parser. The parser now also
tolerates comma-separated lists, mirroring the upstream
`common_speculative_types_from_names` semantics.
* `common_params_speculative_draft::n_ctx` is gone (draft now shares
the target context size). Keep the `draft_ctx_size` option name for
backward compatibility and ignore the value rather than failing.
* `server_context_impl::model` was renamed to `model_tgt`; update the
two reranker / model-metadata call sites.
Replaces #9763. Builds cleanly under the linux/amd64 cpu-llama-cpp
target locally.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(llama-cpp): expose new speculative-decoding option keys
Upstream `spec : parallel drafting support` (ggml-org/llama.cpp#22838)
adds the `ngram_mod`, `ngram_map_k`, and `ngram_map_k4v` speculative
families and beefs up the draft-model knobs. The previous bump only
adapted the API; this exposes the new fields through the grpc-server
options dictionary so model configs can drive them.
New `options:` keys (all under `backend: llama-cpp`):
ngram_mod (`ngram_mod` type):
spec_ngram_mod_n_min / spec_ngram_mod_n_max / spec_ngram_mod_n_match
ngram_map_k (`ngram_map_k` type):
spec_ngram_map_k_size_n / spec_ngram_map_k_size_m / spec_ngram_map_k_min_hits
ngram_map_k4v (`ngram_map_k4v` type):
spec_ngram_map_k4v_size_n / spec_ngram_map_k4v_size_m /
spec_ngram_map_k4v_min_hits
ngram lookup caches (`ngram_cache` type):
spec_lookup_cache_static / lookup_cache_static
spec_lookup_cache_dynamic / lookup_cache_dynamic
Draft-model tuning (active when `spec_type` is `draft`):
draft_cache_type_k / spec_draft_cache_type_k
draft_cache_type_v / spec_draft_cache_type_v
draft_threads / spec_draft_threads
draft_threads_batch / spec_draft_threads_batch
draft_cpu_moe / spec_draft_cpu_moe (bool flag)
draft_n_cpu_moe / spec_draft_n_cpu_moe (first N MoE layers on CPU)
draft_override_tensor / spec_draft_override_tensor
(comma-separated <tensor regex>=<buffer type>; re-implements upstream's
static parse_tensor_buffer_overrides since it isn't exported)
`spec_type` already accepted comma-separated lists after the previous
commit, matching upstream's `common_speculative_types_from_names`.
Docs: refresh `docs/content/advanced/model-configuration.md` with
per-family tables and a note about multi-type chaining.
Builds locally with `make docker-build-llama-cpp` (linux/amd64
cpu-llama-cpp AVX variant).
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(turboquant): bridge new llama.cpp spec API to the legacy fork layout
The previous commits in this series adapted backend/cpp/llama-cpp/grpc-server.cpp
to the post-#22838 (parallel drafting) llama.cpp API. The turboquant build
reuses the same grpc-server.cpp through backend/cpp/turboquant/Makefile,
which copies it into turboquant-<flavor>-build/ and runs patch-grpc-server.sh
on the copy. The fork branched before the API refactor, so it errors out on:
* `ctx_server.impl->model_tgt` (fork still has `model`)
* `params.speculative.{ngram_mod,ngram_map_k,ngram_map_k4v,ngram_cache}.*`
(none of these sub-structs exist in the fork)
* `params.speculative.draft.{cache_type_k/v, cpuparams[, _batch].n_threads,
tensor_buft_overrides}` (fork uses the pre-#22397 flat layout)
* `params.speculative.types` vector / `common_speculative_types_from_names`
(fork has a scalar `type` and only the singular helper)
Approach:
1. backend/cpp/llama-cpp/grpc-server.cpp: introduce a single feature switch
`LOCALAI_LEGACY_LLAMA_CPP_SPEC`. When defined, the two `speculative.type[s]`
discriminations (the "default to draft when a draft model is set" branch
and the `spec_type` / `speculative_type` option parser) fall back to the
singular scalar form, and the entire new-option block (ngram_mod / map_k
/ map_k4v / ngram_cache / draft.{cache_type_*, cpuparams*,
tensor_buft_overrides}) is preprocessed out. The macro is *not* defined
in the source tree — stock llama-cpp builds get the full new API.
2. backend/cpp/turboquant/patch-grpc-server.sh: two new patch steps applied
to the per-flavor build copy at turboquant-<flavor>-build/grpc-server.cpp:
- substitute `ctx_server.impl->model_tgt` -> `ctx_server.impl->model`
- inject `#define LOCALAI_LEGACY_LLAMA_CPP_SPEC 1` before the first
`#include`, so the guarded blocks above drop out for the fork build.
Both patches are idempotent and follow the existing sed/awk pattern in
this script (KV cache types, `get_media_marker`, flat speculative
renames). Stock llama-cpp's `grpc-server.cpp` is never touched.
Drop both legacy patches once the turboquant fork rebases past
ggml-org/llama.cpp#22397 / #22838.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(turboquant): close draft_ctx_size brace inside legacy guard
The previous turboquant fix wrapped the new option-handler blocks in
`#ifndef LOCALAI_LEGACY_LLAMA_CPP_SPEC ... #endif` but placed the guard
in the middle of an `else if` chain — the `} else if` openings of the
new blocks were responsible for closing the previous block's brace.
With the macro defined the new blocks vanish, draft_ctx_size's `{`
loses its closer, the for-loop's `}` is consumed instead, and the
file ends with a stray opening brace — clang reports it as
`function-definition is not allowed here before '{'` on the next
top-level `int main(...)` and `expected '}' at end of input`.
Move the chain split inside the draft_ctx_size branch:
} else if (... "draft_ctx_size") {
// ...
#ifdef LOCALAI_LEGACY_LLAMA_CPP_SPEC
} // legacy: chain ends here
#else
} else if (... "spec_ngram_mod_n_min") { // modern: chain continues
...
} else if (... "draft_override_tensor") {
...
} // closes last branch
#endif
} // closes for-loop
Brace count is now balanced under both preprocessor branches (verified
with `tr -cd '{' | wc -c` against the patched and unpatched outputs).
Local `make docker-build-turboquant` builds the linux/amd64 cpu-llama-cpp
`turboquant-avx` variant cleanly.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(ci): forward AMDGPU_TARGETS into Dockerfile.turboquant builder-prebuilt
Dockerfile.turboquant's `builder-prebuilt` stage was missing the
`ARG AMDGPU_TARGETS` / `ENV AMDGPU_TARGETS=${AMDGPU_TARGETS}` pair that
`builder-fromsource` already has (and that `Dockerfile.llama-cpp`
mirrors across both stages). When CI uses the prebuilt base image
(quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:base-grpc-*, the common path) the build-arg
passed by the workflow never reaches the env inside the compile stage.
backend/cpp/llama-cpp/Makefile:38 (introduced by #9626) errors out on
hipblas builds when AMDGPU_TARGETS is empty, and the turboquant
Makefile reuses backend/cpp/llama-cpp via a sibling build dir, so the
same check fires from turboquant-fallback under BUILD_TYPE=hipblas:
Makefile:38: *** AMDGPU_TARGETS is empty — set it to a comma-separated
list of gfx targets e.g. gfx1100,gfx1101. Stop.
make: *** [Makefile:66: turboquant-fallback] Error 2
The bug is latent on master because the docker layer cache stays warm
across builds — the compile step rarely re-runs from scratch. The
llama.cpp bump in this PR invalidates the cache, so the missing env var
becomes load-bearing and the hipblas turboquant CI job fails.
Mirror the existing pattern from Dockerfile.llama-cpp.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
LocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required.
- Drop-in API compatibility — OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs APIs
- 36+ backends — llama.cpp, vLLM, transformers, whisper, diffusers, MLX...
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local-ai run llama-3.2-1b-instruct:q4_k_m
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local-ai run huggingface://TheBloke/phi-2-GGUF/phi-2.Q8_0.gguf
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local-ai run ollama://gemma:2b
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LocalAI supports 36+ backends including llama.cpp, vLLM, transformers, whisper.cpp, diffusers, MLX, MLX-VLM, and many more. Hardware acceleration is available for NVIDIA (CUDA 12/13), AMD (ROCm), Intel (oneAPI/SYCL), Apple Silicon (Metal), Vulkan, and NVIDIA Jetson (L4T). All backends can be installed on-the-fly from the Backend Gallery.
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@misc{localai,
author = {Ettore Di Giacinto},
title = {LocalAI: The free, Open source OpenAI alternative},
year = {2023},
publisher = {GitHub},
journal = {GitHub repository},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI}},
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Acknowledgements
LocalAI couldn't have been built without the help of great software already available from the community. Thank you!
- llama.cpp
- https://github.com/tatsu-lab/stanford_alpaca
- https://github.com/cornelk/llama-go for the initial ideas
- https://github.com/antimatter15/alpaca.cpp
- https://github.com/EdVince/Stable-Diffusion-NCNN
- https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
- https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
- exo for the MLX distributed auto-parallel sharding implementation
Contributors
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