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model : add support for HrmTextForCausalLM (DFM Mimir 1B) (#27625)
* model : add support for HrmTextForCausalLM (DFM Mimir 1B)

HRM-Text runs two transformer stacks (low, high) in an alternating cycle over the same token stream. The low-cycle state z_l starts from a learned [n_embd] tensor and is broadcast over positions.

- conversion: new writer for the fused gqkv projection (order gate,q,k,v) remapped to llama.cpp q/k/v plus a separate sigmoid gate tensor
- loader: block_count = lps * h_cycles * (l_cycles + 1) cache slots aliasing 2*lps physical blocks via struct copies
- graph: looped build with sigmoid-gated attention, SwiGLU FFN and parameterless RMS norms; learned embedding_scale applied in build_inp_embd
- saver: pointer-deduplicated layer loop (looped archs alias tensors)
- tests: hrm_text fixture (lps 1, h 2, l 3) in test-llama-archs

Limitations:
causal attention only - the upstream prefix-LM mode is not implemented (the prefix_lm GGUF key round-trips unused).
The KV cache holds one entry per pass: 128 layers for Mimir 1B, i.e. 4x a same-width 32-layer model - about 3072 MiB at ctx 4096 in F16 (halves with q8_0 KV + FA).
Every token runs all 128 block passes, so decode cost is roughly 4x a dense model of equal width (2.65 t/s BF16, 8-thread desktop CPU).

Verified against the HF reference: identical argmax at 334/334 positions across 20 prompts (BF16 GGUF vs FP32 golden).
q8_0 requant: 95.8% top-1, all remaining misses inside the HF top-5 (accumulated error over 128 sequential blocks).

AI usage disclosure: YES
Used GLM-5.3 for the majority of code AI-generated under my direction, all gates verified locally.
All in all I could say that I have written less than 20% of the code and most of the heavy lifting has been done by the model. As such, this should be considered experimental.

* Update conversion/hrm_text.py

Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@huggingface.co>

* Update src/llama-arch.cpp

Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@huggingface.co>

* convert : add gguf_writer methods for hrm_text metadata

replace raw add_uint32/add_bool calls with dedicated GGUFWriter methods, following the add_embedding_scale pattern

Assisted-by: GLM-5.3

* convert : map regular hrm_text tensors via tensor_mapping

delegate unfused checkpoints to the base tensor mapping; training-style attn. names are renamed to self_attn. so the patterns match

Assisted-by: GLM-5.3

* model : format hrm-text build_* calls as in other models

one argument group per line, matching sibling model files

Assisted-by: GLM-5.3

* llama : move hrm z_l_init table entries out of the nemotron group

place the name and tensor-info entries with the other global input tensors

Assisted-by: GLM-5.3

* convert : slim down hrm_text comments

Assisted-by: GLM-5.3

* convert : build hrm_text block tensor names from the {bid} template

The tensor map holds concrete per-block names, so format the template
with the computed layer index before handing it to super().

* llama : name hrm metadata keys in their own hrm. namespace

The four keys are arch-independent, unlike the arch-substituted
Keys.LLM entries, so group them under Keys.HRM (like Keys.Split) and
rename the llm_kv entries to LLM_KV_HRM_*. Only our own GGUFs carry
the old hrm_text.* keys; they are regenerated.

* Update src/llama-model-saver.cpp

Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@huggingface.co>

* llama : keep hrm metadata keys arch-substituted

Per review: the GGUF keys stay "{arch}.h_cycles" style, so the Python
members drop the LLM_KV_HRM_ prefix and keep arch templates; C++ keeps
the LLM_KV_HRM_* enums. GGUF output is unchanged - existing files and
HF uploads stay valid.

* Update gguf-py/gguf/constants.py

Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@huggingface.co>

* Update src/llama-arch.cpp

Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@huggingface.co>

* Update src/llama-arch.cpp

Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@huggingface.co>

* convert : rename hrm writer methods to add_hrm_*

Generic names like add_h_cycles/add_prefix_lm are too broad on the
shared GGUFWriter; prefix them with hrm_ like the metadata keys.

* model : fix meta-split lookup for archs with aliased cache slots

Cache tensors of archs that alias physical blocks across looped slots
(hrm_text, nanbeige with num_loops > 1) can reference block indices
without weight tensor names. Take the output projection from the layer
array instead of asserting; all other lookups are unchanged.

* model : replicate hrm_text tensors on meta devices instead of splitting

The aliased cache slots rotate split states differently from their
physical weights, so the meta-split execution invariants (set_rows
requires the cache state to match the token indices) cannot hold for
any device count. Replicate all hrm_text tensors on every meta device
instead; single-device and non-meta paths are unchanged.

Assisted-by: Claude Sonnet

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Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@huggingface.co>
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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 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