48c9f08b7b common, grammar: add recursive depth limit, make it a requirement (#31153)
* common, grammar: add recursive depth limit, make it a requirement

* catch more recursive functions

* common : tidy up peg parser changes

* grammar : reject candidates in a loop, without a depth limit

The depth limit in llama_grammar_reject_candidates_for_stack counted
the code points of a vocab token, so any token of 256 chars or more
was always rejected under a grammar, such as the 512-space token of
GLM-4.7-Flash or the long space tokens of Laguna-S-2.1.

The rejection now walks the code points with its own stack of levels
instead of recursing: there is no limit and no stack risk, whatever
the length of a token from the GGUF, and the masks match master.

* grammar : track rejected candidates as indices into the input

At a given code point a candidate only differs from its input by the
position of its code point pointer, so the levels now carry indices
into the input candidates instead of copies. The first level needs no
special case and the rejects map back to the input directly.

Grammar sampling gets faster than master on GLM-4.7, Laguna, Qwen3.6
and gemma-4 with the json, list and spaces grammars, same masks.

* nit : shorten the comment of llama_grammar_reject_step

* common : add depth_guard for schema walks

* grammar : move GRAMMAR_RECURSIVE_LIMIT into the .cpp

* common : reduce recursion limit for peg parser

* improve

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Co-authored-by: Alde Rojas <hello@alde.dev>
Co-authored-by: Pascal <admin@serveurperso.com>
2026-10-25 23:53:08 +01:00
2026-10-23 07:46:53 -07:00
2026-06-12 15:53:26 +02:00
2026-10-17 02:11:56 +02:00
2026-02-02 08:38:55 +02:00

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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