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Although the vision component of multimodal models typically already
call the optimized nn.Attention, it is converted into non-fused
operations. That is because the backend-specific fused kernels may
have requirements, such as padding, and they is performed by the
cache, which vision encoders don't use.

This implements a fallback path in the backend, softening the
requirements into optimizations. In turn, this allows flash attention
to be used for vision encoders, saving a significant amount of VRAM
and improving performance.

* Add mla for flash attention
* Revert to using chunks

* use ggml_*_split activations when possible

* forward qkv

* TEMPORARY: Update the llama.cpp upstream to my fork's Granite Four branch

This will be redone once my branch is merged upstream in llama.cpp

* feat: Update all patches

There are a number that are no longer needed at all:

- 0003-embeddings: Embeddings entirely overhauled on master
- 0008-ensure-KV-cache-is-fully-defragmented: KV caching entirely
    overhauled on master
- 0019-metal-add-mean-kernel-14267: Merged upstream
- 0020-CUDA-add-mean-operation-14313: Merged upstream

* feat: Sync llama.cpp and ggml

* fix: Update rsync-filter for all moved/new/removed files

* fix: Add files missing from sync

* fix: Update ggml rsync-filter for new ggml-cpu/arch subdirs

* fix: Add ggml files missing from sync

* fix: Narrow llama.cpp rsync-filter to not include mtmd main tool cpp files

* fix: Remove mtmd main cpp files

* fix: Add missing include in sampling_ext.cpp

* fix: Update llama.go to use mtmd instead of clip/llava

* fix: Add patch for mtmd_input_text

* chore: Ignore *.patched in the patch directory

* fix: Fix support for arch-specific ggml-cpu source files with new arrangement

In https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/13892, all arch-specific
implementations were split out into a nested tree structure under
ggml-cpu/arch. This conflicts with standard CGO layout where all
arch-specific source files are expected to live in the same directory as
the parent go module and use suffixes based on GOOS and GOARCH. As such,
there were really two options for getting this to work:

1. Add a patch on top of the GGML sync to rearrange the files to match the
GO layout convention
2. Use CGO directives to conditionally include the nested source files in
the compilation units

This commit does (2) in order to minimize the set of changes needed on top
of the upstream file layout. To get this to work, there are two key things
needed:

1. In cpu.go, #cgo directives are added to explicitly set __${GOARCH}__ in
the preprocessor directives
2. In arch-impls.c|cpp, use an #ifdef | #elif defined | #endif chain to
explicitly include the .c|.cpp files for the given architecture from the
nested directory

* fix: Use mtmd_helper to correctly load the bitmap for the image

* fix: Apply patch for mtmd_text_input

* fix: Add missing stb to llama.cpp rsync-filter

* fix: Add sync'ed stb vendored header

* fix: Use c++17 and include vendor for go wrapper modules

* fix: Update patch 0015 for upstream implementation of uuid

* feat: Bump to the latest tip of the branch

* fix: Update patches for bump

* feat: Bump back to the cenral repo and point at the latest master

This includes granite 4 and a number of other model architectures!

* fix: Revert changes to ggml export GPU UUID patch

* fix: Add patch for GGML_VERSION and GGML_COMMIT constants

* feat: Sync all patched code

* build: Include cmake/common.cmake in ggml sync

* build: Add top-level include for GNUINstallDirs in CMakeLists.txt

This is used to populate CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR

* fix: Add a patch to avoid power throttling API on non-msvc windows builds

* fix: Sync patch changes for ggml-cpu.c

* feat: Bump llama.cpp to 4a4f42

This picks up support for Kimi K2 and PLaMO-2

* feat: Sync llama.cpp

* fix: Handle multi-chunk image encodings from mtmd

* fix: Re-number patches after merge with `main`

* feat: Bump to 41e78c in the makefile

* fix: Fix Solar and argsort/copy patches after bump

* fix: Remove Gemma3n CUDA Graphs patch

It was implemented upstream:
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/14741

* feat: Sync llama.cpp / ggml after latest bump

* build: Remove unnecessary CFLAGS definitions in cpu.go

* fix: Remove unnecessary additions in the rsync-filter

* fix: Remove unused vendored code for chat template parsing

* Revert "fix: Remove Gemma3n CUDA Graphs patch"

This reverts commit d724caced3ce21f08924d4b7801f94ce6638f6ea.

* fix: Update 0020 CUDA Graphs for gemma3n to keep both llama.cpp and ollama fixes

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/11195#issuecomment-3137312394



* fix: Sync ggml-cuda.cu after keeping both style cuda graph fixes for gemma3n

* unwind mxfp4 patch

Prepare to bump ggml with their impl for mxfp4

* bump

* fix windows build error

* Convert tensors at load time

Repack the mxfp4 tensors as ggmls kernels expect them to be.

* convert mlp bf16 to f32

* buffer the conversion better

* reshape earlier

* openai swiglu

* add ids

* split qkv, gate_up

* fix nested alt tags

* fast attention

* remove debug messages

* fix lint

* remove redundant test

* remap values only if source/target are different

* add back i32->i32 copy

* refactor cpu quants

* clean up vendor

* update patch instructions

* clean up patches

* remove webgpu

* update mem

* also handle gpt-oss

* revert convert changes

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Signed-off-by: Gabe Goodhart <ghart@us.ibm.com>
Co-authored-by: Gabe Goodhart <ghart@us.ibm.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Hiltgen <daniel@ollama.com>

Prior to performing attention, we need to permute query, key
and value. Currently we call Contiguous after each of these
permutations, which is correct but expensive. Avoiding the
3 calls to Contiguous increases performance by over 20%.

The permutations of query and key do not violate the continuity
rules for mulmat and the Contiguous call can be simply removed.

Value requires a different permutation and does require Contiguous.
However, we can use the copy into the cache as a way to perform this
without further overhead.

To support this and avoid unexpected tensor shapes that are seen by
models, we need tighter integration between attention, cache
and backend. Future optimization will also likely need this structure
 - for example, flash attention has special padding requirements in
the cache and other backends may have their own needs.

This further contains the operations that go into attention so that
these and other optimizations can be handled transparently. Models
that have special requirements for attention can still implement
their own version of it.

There are two benefits to doing this:
 - Provide a library function that models can use, reducing code for
   each model implementation
 - Enables a single place to drop in optimized implementations of
   attention based on the backend or other factors. One is provided for
   GGML.

On CUDA this improves token generation rate by about 3%. It does not
have a significant effect on Metal.
Co-authored-by: Daniel Hiltgen <daniel@ollama.com>