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OpenVINO: Update OV to 2026.3.1, whisper.cpp support, Qwen3.5 on NPU, and new ops (#27843)
* OpenVINO Backend: Fuse IM2COL + MatMul convolution into OpenVINO convolution

* ci:ggml-ov: Skip recurrent state rollback tests

* ci:ggml-ov: Skip recurrent state rollback tests

* Update OPENVINO.md

* ggml-openvino : add env-var gated op support debugging

* Fix ggml_rope_set_offset case

* OpenVINO backend: Support Whisper.cpp

* Fix code style

* openvino : enable qwen35 on NPU

Static shapes:
- get_graph_input_shape() left the s_copy / s_copy-leaf inputs dynamic
  ([1,1,1,-1]) even in static mode, which propagated a dynamic slot dim through
  GET_ROWS into the conv/GDN state, the state reshapes and the GDN output.
- With -np 1 the s_copy defrag remainder gathers zero rows; short-circuit that
  CPY to the untouched cache instead of emitting a degenerate Slice/Concat, and
  skip binding its zero-byte ggml tensor as an output (the dynamic path already
  did the latter, the static path wrote the full cache over a 0-byte buffer).

Token-count independence:
- In static mode the compiled model's token count is the prefill chunk size or
  1, not the captured cgraph's. Offsets derived from the captured count were
  therefore wrong. Anchor the GDN state slice at the end of the packed
  [attn | state] output and drop the rs_src_begin runtime inputs, and make
  VIEWs over the GDN output / conv_input pass through so the consumer does the
  slicing.
- CONT could not identify its token axis when the graph was captured with a
  single token (every trailing dim has the same stride and size 1) and baked
  the captured shape into the prefill model.

Chunked prefill:
- The last chunk is padded with fabricated tokens. Attention masks them, but
  the recurrent path folded them into cache_r/cache_s permanently. Add a
  chunk_valid_len runtime input, use it to zero g and beta for padded steps
  (making the recurrence an exact identity) and to end the conv snapshot window
  at the last valid token, and disable the recurrent-cache reset after the
  first chunk so earlier chunks are not wiped.
- get_is_prefill() and the chunk loop bound read inp_pos->ne[0] directly, but
  IMROPE stacks 4 position planes, so every decode step was run through the
  padded prefill model and the loop ran extra out-of-bounds chunks.

cache_rs_reset_idx/len now stay runtime Parameters in static mode, since
can_reuse_statically() does not invalidate the cached model on ComputeParams
changes. Add GGML_OPENVINO_FORCE_STATIC to exercise the static path on CPU.

* Update to OpenVINO 2026.3.1

* ggml-openvino: forward NPU compilation mode parameters

Add GGML_OPENVINO_NPU_COMPILE_CONFIG to the backend's cached environment so callers can configure the NPU compiler without using the generic property escape hatch.

When the value is non-empty, pass it to OpenVINO as NPU_COMPILATION_MODE_PARAMS. This enables settings such as optimization-level=3 for NPU compilation while preserving the existing behavior when the variable is unset and leaving CPU and GPU configuration unchanged.

Document the variable, its NPU-only scope, and the optimization-level=3 example in the OpenVINO backend runtime configuration table.

* ggml-openvino : support RELU, POOL_2D, QUICK_GEGLU, and ROLL ops

* reorder op table

* exclude GPU/NPU failing POOL_2D case

* move op type detection to compute_op_case

* Relax rope supported cases

* Fix pool case

* Update openvino doc, gpu driver in ov docker

* openvino: remove unused static remote context branch

* openvino: parallelize static model build

* Apply editorconfig

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Co-authored-by: Mostafa Faheem <mostafaaafaheem@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ravi Panchumarthy <ravi.panchumarthy@intel.com>
Co-authored-by: zhaixuejun1993 <xuejun.zhai@intel.com>
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models model: add Kimi-K3 text model (#26185) 2026-08-15 17:11:05 +02:00
pocs libs : rename libcommon -> libllama-common (#21936) 2026-04-17 11:11:46 +03:00
requirements requirements: use stable torch packages on s390x (#26864) 2026-08-11 21:58:53 +08:00
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.clang-format fix: apply clang-format to CUDA macros (#16017) 2025-09-16 08:59:19 +02:00
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.flake8 llama : move end-user examples to tools directory (#13249) 2025-05-02 20:27:13 +02:00
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llama.cpp

llama

Quick start

A few options to get llama.cpp installed on your machine:

Once installed:

# Download and run a model directly from Hugging Face
llama cli -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF

# Launch OpenAI-compatible API server
llama serve -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF
VLM session with `llama cli` VLM session with llama cli Built-in web UI against `llama serve` running Qwen 3.6 Built-in web UI against llama serve

Description

The main goal of llama.cpp is to enable LLM (and VLM) inference with minimal setup and state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of hardware - locally and in the cloud.

  • Plain C/C++ implementation without any dependencies
  • Apple silicon is a first-class citizen - optimized via ARM NEON, Accelerate and Metal frameworks
  • AVX, AVX2, AVX512 and AMX support for x86 architectures
  • RVV, ZVFH, ZFH, ZICBOP and ZIHINTPAUSE support for RISC-V architectures
  • 1.5-bit, 2-bit, 3-bit, 4-bit, 5-bit, 6-bit, and 8-bit integer quantization for faster inference and reduced memory use
  • Custom CUDA kernels for running LLMs on NVIDIA GPUs (support for AMD GPUs via HIP and Moore Threads GPUs via MUSA)
  • Vulkan and SYCL backend support
  • CPU+GPU hybrid inference to partially accelerate models larger than the total VRAM capacity

The llama.cpp project is build on top of the ggml library.

Supported backends

Backend Target devices
BLAS All
BLIS All
CANN Ascend NPU
CUDA Nvidia GPU
HIP AMD GPU
Hexagon [In Progress] Snapdragon
IBM zDNN IBM Z & LinuxONE
MUSA Moore Threads GPU
Metal Apple Silicon
OpenCL Adreno GPU
OpenVINO [In Progress] Intel CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs
RPC All
SYCL Intel GPU
VirtGPU VirtGPU APIR
Vulkan GPU
WebGPU All
ZenDNN AMD CPU

Documentation

Tools

Development

Contributing

  • Contributors can open PRs
  • Collaborators will be invited based on contributions
  • Maintainers can push to branches in the llama.cpp repo and merge PRs into the master branch
  • Any help with managing issues, PRs and projects is very appreciated!
  • Read the CONTRIBUTING.md for more information

Acknowledgements

  • yhirose/cpp-httplib - Single-header HTTP server, used by llama-server - MIT license
  • nothings/stb - Single-header image format decoder, used by multimodal subsystem - Public domain
  • nlohmann/json - Single-header JSON library, used by various tools/examples - MIT License
  • mackron/miniaudio - Single-header audio format decoder, used by multimodal subsystem - Public domain
  • sheredom/subprocess.h - Single-header process launching solution for C and C++ - Public domain