Maphist0andSigbjørn Skjæret 7775ffb7e4 model: Add support for SenseNova U1 model (#28919)
* model : add SenseNova U1 understanding support

Add support for the dense SenseNova U1 understanding branch, including
the U1.5-8B-MoT model.

- Add HF-to-GGUF conversion for NEOChatModel, excluding MoT generation
  tensors and concatenating temporal and spatial Q/K normalization
  weights.
- Register the sensenova_u1 GGUF architecture and custom spatial RoPE
  metadata.
- Implement temporal/spatial Q/K normalization with 4-axis RoPE.
- Keep U1-specific text position handling in the model implementation.
- Add synthetic architecture coverage for sensenova_u1.

Only the dense understanding branch is supported; generation
branches are intentionally rejected during conversion.

* conversion : treat one-expert SenseNova U1 configs as dense

* mtmd : add SenseNova U1 vision support

Add conversion support for the SenseNova U1 vision encoder and implement
its CPU mtmd projector graph.

The graph applies patch embedding, GELU, adjacent-pair 2D RoPE, spatial
downsampling, and dense projection for dynamic-resolution image inputs.

* mtmd : fix SenseNova U1 vision token layout

* model : clean up SenseNova U1 RoPE metadata

Replace the hard-coded spatial RoPE key with shared GGUF and LLM_KV
definitions used by conversion, model loading, and architecture tests.

Clarify why SenseNova U1 retains its custom text-position input: U1 uses
[t, 0, 0, 0], while the generic M-RoPE input uses [t, t, t, 0].

* mtmd : simplify SenseNova U1 projector integration

Map the SenseNova U1 dense projection to the standard mm.0 weight and
bias tensors and reuse the shared projector fields in the loader and graph.

Read vision parameters from the checkpoint configuration and remove the
U1-specific tensor names and model fields while preserving its strided
projection, bias, and row-major token layout.

* mtmd : fix SenseNova U1 image positions and attention

* fix spacing

* mtmd : restore generic test input chunks

* mtmd : restore SenseNova U1 integration after upstream merge

* Update conversion/sensenova_u1.py

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

* Update src/models/sensenova-u1.cpp

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

* model : remove SenseNova U1 BF16 activation casts

Use standard backend precision handling for QKV, FFN, and output
projections instead of casting inputs based on the output tensor type.

Assisted-by: Codex

* Update src/models/sensenova-u1.cpp

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:

# curl
curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh

# powershell
irm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex

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
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