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* ggml: backend-agnostic tensor parallelism

* support for GPT-OSS, Qwen 3 MoE

* partial Vulkan fix

* add support for 4/8 GPUs

* unconditional peer access

* re-use buffers + ggml contexts

* fix output pattern

* NCCL support

* GGML: HIP: add RCCL support

* Remove shfl and AllReduce from backend interface

* move allocation workaround out of ggml-alloc.c

* 2d tensor set/get support

* Fix the seg fault without NCCL

* Apply suggestion from JohannesGaessler

* support for tensor dims % n_devs != 0

* fix view_offs scaling

* arbitrary num. of GPUs/tensor split

* fix compilation

* better granularity estimate

* Support device-specific host buffer types if all underlying backends expose the same type. This allows using pinned memory instead of pageable memory for CUDA.

Fix compilation errors.

* partial Qwen 3 Next support

* Fix qwen3 30b (#8)

* Fix crash with Qwen-30B-A3B Q4_0

Qwen-30B-A3B Q4_0 has an intermediate dimension of 768. Using a granularity of 256 forces an uneven split between GPUs, which is not supported by the current implementation.

* Decide block size based on tensor quantization type

* Fix crashes due to KV cache serialization (#9)

KV cache serialization requires non-zero offsets on the tensor. Add support in the meta backend to set/get a tensor with a non-zero offset.

* metal : fix build (#7)

* static memory allocations, fix usage count

* fix tensor granularity

* more even memory distribution

* use BF16 for allreduce

* rebase fixup

* better error message for unsupported architectures

* Fix device mismatch during scatter of allReduce. (#11)

There is a mismatch between the dst buffer device and the backend device, causing the use of sync copies

* Enable the previous allreduce implementation. It is better in both perf and stability (#12)

* delay AllReduce for Moe for less I/O

* build : clean-up compile warnings

* backend : move most of the meta backend API to ggml-backend-impl.h

* cont : hide unused public API in the implementation

* llama : use llama_device + remove ggml_backend_dev_is_meta()

* ggml-backend : remove unused alloc include

* minor : remove regex include

* ggml : introduce ggml-ext.h for staging new APIs

* rebase fixup

* fix tests

* llama : more robust logic for determining Meta devices (#16)

* llama : more robust logic for determining Meta devices

* cont : fix devs size check

Co-authored-by: Johannes Gäßler <johannesg@5d6.de>

* cont : fix log type

Co-authored-by: Johannes Gäßler <johannesg@5d6.de>

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Co-authored-by: Johannes Gäßler <johannesg@5d6.de>

* disable roundtrip for meta backend

* fix arch selection

* Qwen 3.5 support

* fix Gemma 4 MoE

* fix OpenVino, SYCL

* fix test-llama-archs for CPU-only builds

* Fix Qwen 3.5 MoE

* disable meta backend tests for WebGPU

* tests : filter CPU-based devices from the Meta backend tests (#17)

* meta : formatting, naming, indentation (#18)

* formatting : llama-model.cpp

* formatting : ggml-ext.h

* formatting : ggml-backend-meta.cpp

* meta : add TODO

* add documentation

* better error messages

* fix GPT-OSS

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Co-authored-by: Carl Philipp Klemm <carl@uvos.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Gaurav Garg <gaugarg@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>

* spec: support MTP

* fix batch size

* rename files

* cont : simplify (#7)

* MTP: clean-up (#9)

* MTP: clean-up

* review: use llama_context_type instead of llama_graph_type

* review: remove llama_model_has_mtp

* review: fix convert issues

* convert: fix pycheck

* review: formatting

* use `mtp-` for identifying mtp models

* convert: fix mtp conversion

* mtp -> draft-mtp

* remove unused llama_arch

* add need_embd in speculative

* llama: allow partial seq_rm for GDN models for speculative decoding

Currently speculative checkpoint needs to restart from a checkpoint
after some draft tokens are not accepted, this leads to some wastage in
running the target again. This PR adds the ability to rollback upto
`draft_max` by storing the GDN intermediates.

* fix pending state

* vulkan: add GDN partial rollback

* meta: extend check to axis 1

* metal: add GDN partial rollback

Extend the gated delta net kernel to store intermediate states for
partial rollback support on the Metal backend.

- Add K (snapshot slot count) as a function constant
- Read input state from slot 0 of the 3D state tensor
- Write intermediate states to different slots during token loop
- For K=1, maintain backward-compatible single-slot behavior

Ref: ggml-org@8c05923

Assisted-by: llama.cpp:local pi

* delta_net_base: use ggml_pad instead of new_tensor

* review: add need_rs_seq

* review: rename part_bounded to n_rs

* review: deslop comments

* review: rename, add asserts

* server : adjust checkpoint logic (#11)

* server : adjust checkpoint logic

* cont : rm asserts

* server-context: fix early exit

* spec : fix compatibility with n-gram and add TODOs (#13)

* metal : cleanup

* llama : fix faulty bitwise check in recurrent memory

* server : disable RS-based MTP in combination with other spec types

* spec : add TODOs

* cont : fix comment

* cont : update comment

* common : fix logic for ngram + mtp compat

* llama-memory: enable checkpointing with partial rollback

* cont: add test-case for loading into a dirty ctx

* llama-memory-recurrent: clear rs_idx in clear

* download: fix mtp path

* llama-arch: fix enorm op

* docs: update docs

* conversion: fix type annotations

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Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>