#Llama.cpp

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AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Improves LM Studio And llama.cpp

Using AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series to Speed Up Llama.cpp Performance in Consumer LLM Applications.

What is Llama.cpp?

Meta��s LLaMA language model should not be confused with Llama.cpp. It is a tool, nonetheless, that was created to improve Meta’s LLaMA so that it can operate on local hardware. Because of their very high computational expenses, LLaMA and ChatGPT currently have trouble operating on local computers and hardware. Despite being among of the best-performing models available, they are somewhat demanding and inefficient to run locally since they need a significant amount of processing power and resources.

Here’s where llama.cpp is useful. It offers a lightweight, resource-efficient, and lightning-fast solution for LLaMA models using C++. It even eliminates the need for a GPU.

Features of Llama.cpp

Let’s examine Llama.cpp’s features in further detail and see why it’s such a fantastic complement to Meta’s LLaMA language paradigm.

Cross-Platform Compatibility

One of those features that is highly valued in any business, whether it gaming, artificial intelligence, or other software types, is cross-platform compatibility. It’s always beneficial to provide developers the flexibility to execute applications on the environments and systems of their choice, and llama.cpp takes this very seriously. It is compatible with Windows, Linux, and macOS and works perfectly on any of these operating systems.

Efficient CPU Utilization

The majority of models need a lot of GPU power, including ChatGPT and even LLaMA itself. Because of this, running them most of the time is quite costly and power-intensive. This idea is turned on its head by Llama.cpp, which is CPU-optimized and ensures that you receive respectable performance even in the absence of a GPU. Even while a GPU will provide superior results, it’s still amazing that running these LLMs locally doesn’t cost hundreds of dollars. Additionally encouraging for the future is the fact that it was able to tweak LLaMA to operate so effectively on CPUs.

Memory Efficiency

Llama.cpp excels at more than just CPU economy. Even on devices without strong resources, LLaMA models can function successfully by controlling the llama token limit and minimizing memory utilization. Successful inference depends on striking a balance between memory allocation and the llama token limit, which is something that llama.cpp excels at.

Getting Started with Llama.cpp

The popularity of creating beginner-friendly tools, frameworks, and models is at an all-time high, and llama.cpp is no exception. Installing it and getting started are rather simple processes.

You must first clone the llama.cpp repository in order to begin.

It’s time to create the project when you’ve finished cloning the repository.

Once your project is built, you may use your LLaMA model to do llama inference. The following code must be entered in order to utilize the llama.cpp library to do inference:

./main -m ./models/7B/ -p “Your prompt here” To change the output’s determinism, you may play about with the llama inference parameters, such llama temperature. The llama prompt format and prompt may be specified using the -p option, and llama.cpp will take care of the rest.

An overview of LM Studio and llama.cpp

Since GPT-2, language models have advanced significantly, and users may now rapidly and simply implement very complex LLMs using user-friendly programs like LM Studio. These technologies, together with AMD, enable AI to be accessible to all people without the need for technical or coding skills.

The llama.cpp project, a well-liked framework for rapidly and simply deploying language models, is the foundation of LM Studio. Despite having GPU acceleration available, it is independent and may be accelerated only using the CPU. Modern LLMs for x86-based CPUs are accelerated by LM Studio using AVX2 instructions.

Performance comparisons: throughput and latency

AMD Ryzen AI provides leading performance in llama.cpp-based programs such as LM Studio for x86 laptops and speeds up these cutting-edge tasks. Note that memory speeds have a significant impact on LLMs in general. When the compared the two laptops, the AMD laptop had 7500 MT/s of RAM while the Intel laptop had 8533 MT/s.Image Credit To AMD

Despite this, the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 CPU outperforms its rivals by up to 27% when considering tokens per second. The parameter that indicates how fast an LLM can produce tokens is called tokens per second, or tk/s. This generally translates to the amount of words that are shown on the screen per second.

Up to 50.7 tokens per second may be produced by the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 CPU in Meta Llama 3.2 1b Instruct (4-bit quantization).

The “time to first token” statistic, which calculates the latency between the time you submit a prompt and the time it takes for the model to begin producing tokens, is another way to benchmark complex language models. Here, it can see that the AMD “Zen 5” based Ryzen AI HX 375 CPU is up to 3.5 times quicker than a similar rival processor in bigger versions.Image Credit To AMD

Using Variable Graphics Memory (VGM) to speed up model throughput in Windows

Every one of the AMD Ryzen AI CPU’s three accelerators has a certain workload specialty and set of situations in which they perform best. On-demand AI activities are often handled by the iGPU, while AMD XDNA 2 architecture-based NPUs provide remarkable power efficiency for permanent AI while executing Copilot+ workloads and CPUs offer wide coverage and compatibility for tools and frameworks.

With the vendor-neutral Vulkan API, LM Studio’s llama.cpp port may speed up the framework. Here, acceleration often depends on a combination of Vulkan API driver improvements and hardware capabilities. Meta Llama 3.2 1b Instruct performance increased by 31% on average when GPU offload was enabled in LM Studio as opposed to CPU-only mode. The average uplift for larger models, such as Mistral Nemo 2407 12b Instruct, which are bandwidth-bound during the token generation phase, was 5.1%.

In comparison to CPU-only mode, it found that the competition’s processor saw significantly worse average performance in all but one of the evaluated models while utilizing the Vulkan-based version of llama.cpp in LM Studio and turning on GPU-offload. In order to maintain fairness in the comparison, it have excluded the GPU-offload performance of the Intel Core Ultra 7 258v from LM Studio’s Vulkan back-end, which is based on Llama.cpp.

Another characteristic of AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series CPUs is Variable Graphics Memory (VGM). Programs usually use the second block of memory located in the “shared” section of system RAM in addition to the 512 MB block of memory allocated specifically for an iGPU. The 512 “dedicated” allotment may be increased by the user using VGM to up to 75% of the system RAM that is available. When this contiguous memory is present, memory-sensitive programs perform noticeably better.

Using iGPU acceleration in conjunction with VGM, it saw an additional 22% average performance boost in Meta Llama 3.2 1b Instruct after turning on VGM (16GB), for a net total of 60% average quicker speeds when compared to the CPU. Performance improvements of up to 17% were seen even for bigger models, such as the Mistral Nemo 2407 12b Instruct, when compared to CPU-only mode.

Side by side comparison: Mistral 7b Instruct 0.3

It compared iGPU performance using the first-party Intel AI Playground application (which is based on IPEX-LLM and LangChain) in order to fairly compare the best consumer-friendly LLM experience available, even though the competition’s laptop did not provide a speedup using the Vulkan-based version of Llama.cpp in LM Studio.

It made use of the Microsoft Phi 3.1 Mini Instruct and Mistral 7b Instruct v0.3 models that came with Intel AI Playground. To observed that the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 is 8.7% quicker in Phi 3.1 and 13% faster in Mistral 7b Instruct 0.3 using a same quantization in LM Studio.Image Credit To AMD

AMD is committed to pushing the boundaries of AI and ensuring that it is available to everybody. Applications like LM Studio are crucial because this cannot occur if the most recent developments in AI are restricted to a very high level of technical or coding expertise. In addition to providing a rapid and easy method for localizing LLM deployment, these apps let users to experience cutting-edge models almost immediately upon startup (if the architecture is supported by the llama.cpp project).

AMD Ryzen AI accelerators provide amazing performance, and for AI use cases, activating capabilities like variable graphics memory may result in even higher performance. An amazing user experience for language models on an x86 laptop is the result of all of this.

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Crear un podcast de cualquier blog o noticia usando IA en local (llama.cpp + Piper)

Hace no mucho Google sacó una herramienta que permite crear podcasts donde dos IAs discuten sobre el texto que les pasas. Meta no hace mucho sacó su propia versión usando Llama que se puede usar en local. Aquí presento mi idea, con código para que podáis jugar vosotros. Podéis ver el vídeo con más detalles en mi canal de YouTube: Haz click para ver el vídeo en mi canal de YouTube El proceso…

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In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, the focus often lies on large, complex models requiring immense computational resources. However, many practical use cases call for smaller, more efficient models. Not everyone has access to #AI #ML #Automation

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AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Enhances Llama.cpp Performance in Consumer Applications

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Ryzen AI 300 vượt trội hơn Intel về khối lượng công việc AI: AMD

Với việc AI được tích h��p vào hoạt động sử dụng hàng ngày, nhiều người đang khám phá khả năng chạy Mô hình ngôn ngữ lớn (LLM) cục bộ trên máy tính xách tay hoặc máy tính để bàn của họ. Vì mục đích này, nhiều người đang sử dụng LM Studio, một phần mềm phổ biến, dựa trên dự án llama.cpp, không có phần phụ thuộc và có thể được tăng tốc chỉ bằng CPU. Tận dụng sự phổ biến của LM Studio, AMD đã thể…

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llama.cpp의 내부 구현을 분석하다가 ggml을 이용한 간단한 matmul 샘플을 구현해 봤습니다(프로젝트 링크는 댓글에). 원래 llama.cpp도 Georgi Gerganov가 주말에 llama 모델을 ggml로 구현하는 hackday를 진행하면서 시작 됐죠. 그리고 잘 알다시피 지금은 LLM계의 리눅스라 불러도 손색이 없을 만큼 엄청난 프로젝트로 성장했고요.

llama.cpp(정확히는 ggml)는 tensorflow와 유사하게 계산 그래프를 먼저 만들고 실행하는 방식입니다. 첨부 이미지(출처 별도 표기)처럼 그래프를 ggml_graph_compute() 함수로 호출하면 계산이 실행되죠. 참고로 첨부 이미지는 예전 버전 기준으로 작성된 것이고 지금은 CUDA로 실행할 때는 ggml_backend_graph_compute()로 실행해야 합니다. 이처럼 그래프를 별도로 계산하는 과정이 반드시 필요한데 모델링을 할 때는 이 방식이 무척 번거롭습니다. 그래서 tensorflow도 pytorch에게 자리를 내주고 말았죠. 하지만 애초에 llama.cpp는 inference 전용이기 때문에 이 방식이 별 문제가 되진 않습니다. 오히려 최적화하기 쉽고, 다양한 백엔드를 지원할 수 있어 llama.cpp는 CPU 외에도 CUDA 지원, 맥에서는 METAL 지원, AMD의 ROCm도 지원합니다. 또한 코어는 간결하게 C로 구현되어 있고, 그래서 제가 만든 샘플도 C++ 코드지만 C 문법만 사용했습니다. 애초에 tensor 변수도 ggml_tensor라��� struct로 구현되어 있죠.

반면 pytorch는 같은 역할을 하는 torch::Tensor부터가 벌써부터 namespace입니다. 모든 문법은 C++ 전용으로 되어 있고요. llama.cpp는 CPU에서 GPU로 메모리를 복사하는 과정을 직접 코딩해야 하는데, torch는 그런 과정도 모두 생략되어 있어 C++에서도 마치 파이썬처럼 별 어려움 없이 사용 가능합니다. 여기서 두 프레임워크의 철학이 엿보인다고 할 수 있습니다. 쉽게 사용가능하면서 딥러닝의 모든 것을 지원하는 종합 선물 세트 pytorch와 의존성 없이 이식성이 좋으면서 가볍고 간결하고 모든 부분을 컨트롤 할 수 있는 llama.cpp.

앞으로 LLM이 on-device에 구동될 일이 많아질 것이고 그렇다면 llama.cpp 같은 가볍고 간결한 프레임워크의 수요도 점점 늘어날 거라 생각됩니다. ggml로 직접 모델을 inference하고 최적화하는 일도 앞으로는 많이 생길 거 같고요. 물론 오픈소스 진영에서 대신 구현해 줄 거기 때문에 대부분은 그저 가져다 쓰기만 하겠지만요.

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Run Your Own AI Cluster in your Kitchen

Welcome to the latest breakthrough in AI innovation: DIY AI Clusters with Refrigerator Essentials. Because who needs NVIDIA GPUs when you have a jar of pickles and an old potato?

Forget Expensive Hardware

Unify your existing kitchen appliances into one powerful AI cluster: your fridge, toaster, blender, and even that bread maker you used once. Pretty much any device* (*we mean it, ANY device).

Getting Started

Here's how you can transform your mundane kitchen into a cutting-edge AI lab:

Wide Model Support

Supports cutting-edge models like LLaMA, BroccoliGPT, and KitchenAid-9000.

Dynamic Model Partitioning

Optimally splits up models based on your kitchen layout and available devices. Run larger models than ever before with your microwave and coffee maker working in harmony.

Automatic Device Discovery

Your AI cluster will automatically discover other devices using the best method available, including Bluetooth, WiFi, and even Telepathy. Zero manual configuration because who has time for that?

Revolutionary Features

ChatGPT-Compatible API

Now you can chat with your refrigerator. Literally. Just a one-line change and you’re talking to your yogurt.

Device Equality

No more master-slave hierarchy. Every device in your kitchen is equal. Yes, even the humble toaster.

Ring Topology

Our default partitioning strategy is a ring memory weighted partitioning. It’s as simple as putting all your devices in a circle, turning them on, and hoping for the best.

Installation

The current recommended way to install our software is from source. Because why make it easy?

Prerequisites

Python>=3.12.0 (because earlier versions are just so last year).

From Source

Clone our incredibly complex repository

Troubleshooting

If running on Mac, you’re going to need all the luck you can get. Check out our vague and unhelpful troubleshooting guide.

Example Usage on Multiple Kitchen Devices

Device 1:

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python3 main.py

Device 2:

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python3 main.py

That’s it! No configuration required. exo will automatically discover the other device(s), or not. Who knows?

The Native Way

Access models running on exo using the exo library with peer handles. Or just wing it. See how in this example for Llama 3:

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curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "model": "llama-3-70b", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What is the meaning of yogurt?"}], "temperature": 0.7 }'

Debugging

Enable debug logs with the DEBUG environment variable (0-9). The higher the number, the more chaos.

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DEBUG=9 python3 main.py

Inference Engines Supported

✅ MLX

✅ tinygrad

🚧 llama.cpp

Known Issues

Just about anything you can imagine.

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New exponent functions that make SiLU and SoftMax 2x faster, at full accuracy

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/7154

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Obsidian And RTX AI PCs For Advanced Large Language Model

How to Utilize Obsidian‘s Generative AI Tools. Two plug-ins created by the community demonstrate how RTX AI PCs can support large language models for the next generation of app developers.

Obsidian Meaning

Obsidian is a note-taking and personal knowledge base program that works with Markdown files. Users may create internal linkages for notes using it, and they can see the relationships as a graph. It is intended to assist users in flexible, non-linearly structuring and organizing their ideas and information. Commercial licenses are available for purchase, however personal usage of the program is free.

Obsidian Features

Electron is the foundation of Obsidian. It is a cross-platform program that works on mobile operating systems like iOS and Android in addition to Windows, Linux, and macOS. The program does not have a web-based version. By installing plugins and themes, users may expand the functionality of Obsidian across all platforms by integrating it with other tools or adding new capabilities.

Obsidian distinguishes between community plugins, which are submitted by users and made available as open-source software via GitHub, and core plugins, which are made available and maintained by the Obsidian team. A calendar widget and a task board in the Kanban style are two examples of community plugins. The software comes with more than 200 community-made themes.

Every new note in Obsidian creates a new text document, and all of the documents are searchable inside the app. Obsidian works with a folder of text documents. Obsidian generates an interactive graph that illustrates the connections between notes and permits internal connectivity between notes. While Markdown is used to accomplish text formatting in Obsidian, Obsidian offers quick previewing of produced content.

Generative AI Tools In Obsidian

A group of AI aficionados is exploring with methods to incorporate the potent technology into standard productivity practices as generative AI develops and speeds up industry.

Community plug-in-supporting applications empower users to investigate the ways in which large language models (LLMs) might improve a range of activities. Users using RTX AI PCs may easily incorporate local LLMs by employing local inference servers that are powered by the NVIDIA RTX-accelerated llama.cpp software library.

It previously examined how consumers might maximize their online surfing experience by using Leo AI in the Brave web browser. Today, it examine Obsidian, a well-known writing and note-taking tool that uses the Markdown markup language and is helpful for managing intricate and connected records for many projects. Several of the community-developed plug-ins that add functionality to the app allow users to connect Obsidian to a local inferencing server, such as LM Studio or Ollama.

To connect Obsidian to LM Studio, just select the “Developer” button on the left panel, load any downloaded model, enable the CORS toggle, and click “Start.” This will enable LM Studio’s local server capabilities. Because the plug-ins will need this information to connect, make a note of the chat completion URL from the “Developer” log console (“http://localhost:1234/v1/chat/completions” by default).

Next, visit the “Settings” tab after launching Obsidian. After selecting “Community plug-ins,” choose “Browse.” Although there are a number of LLM-related community plug-ins, Text Generator and Smart Connections are two well-liked choices.

For creating notes and summaries on a study subject, for example, Text Generator is useful in an Obsidian vault.

Asking queries about the contents of an Obsidian vault, such the solution to a trivia question that was stored years ago, is made easier using Smart Connections.

Open the Text Generator settings, choose “Custom” under “Provider profile,” and then enter the whole URL in the “Endpoint” section. After turning on the plug-in, adjust the settings for Smart Connections. For the model platform, choose “Custom Local (OpenAI Format)” from the options panel on the right side of the screen. Next, as they appear in LM Studio, type the model name (for example, “gemma-2-27b-instruct”) and the URL into the corresponding fields.

The plug-ins will work when the fields are completed. If users are interested in what’s going on on the local server side, the LM Studio user interface will also display recorded activities.

Transforming Workflows With Obsidian AI Plug-Ins

Consider a scenario where a user want to organize a trip to the made-up city of Lunar City and come up with suggestions for things to do there. “What to Do in Lunar City” would be the title of the new note that the user would begin. A few more instructions must be included in the query submitted to the LLM in order to direct the results, since Lunar City is not an actual location. The model will create a list of things to do while traveling if you click the Text Generator plug-in button.

Obsidian will ask LM Studio to provide a response using the Text Generator plug-in, and LM Studio will then execute the Gemma 2 27B model. The model can rapidly provide a list of tasks if the user’s machine has RTX GPU acceleration.

Or let’s say that years later, the user’s buddy is visiting Lunar City and is looking for a place to dine. Although the user may not be able to recall the names of the restaurants they visited, they can review the notes in their vault Obsidian‘s word for a collection of notes to see whether they have any written notes.

A user may ask inquiries about their vault of notes and other material using the Smart Connections plug-in instead of going through all of the notes by hand. In order to help with the process, the plug-in retrieves pertinent information from the user’s notes and responds to the request using the same LM Studio server. The plug-in uses a method known as retrieval-augmented generation to do this.

Although these are entertaining examples, users may see the true advantages and enhancements in daily productivity after experimenting with these features for a while. Two examples of how community developers and AI fans are using AI to enhance their PC experiences are Obsidian plug-ins.

Thousands of open-source models are available for developers to include into their Windows programs using NVIDIA GeForce RTX technology.

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Da a los modelos de lenguaje la capacidad de entender y responder con voz. Todo en local (whisper.cpp, llama.cpp, pipertts)

En esta entrada vamos a ver cómo dotar de la capacidad de entender la voz y responder con audio. Para ello usaremos tres proyectos (realmente dos) con tres modelos diferentes: Whisper.cpp, para convertir el audio en texto que pasaremos al modelo de lenguaje. Llama.cpp, como motor del modelo de lenguaje. Piper, para sintetizar audio a partir de la respuesta dada por el modelo de…

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In deploying powerful language models like GPT-3 for real-time applications, developers often need high latency, large memory footprints, and limited portability across diverse devices and operating systems.  Many need help with the complexities of #AI #ML #Automation

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LocalAI est une alternative open-source et gratuite à OpenAI. C'est une API REST qui peut remplacer OpenAI pour l'inférence locale, permettant d'exécuter des modèles de langage à grande échelle (LLMs), de générer des images, de l'audio, et plus encore, le tout localement ou sur site avec du matériel grand public. Elle est compatible avec plusieurs familles de modèles utilisant le format ggml et ne nécessite pas de GPU [[❞]](https://localai.io/).

En résumé, LocalAI offre :

- Une API REST locale comme alternative à OpenAI, permettant de conserver vos données personnelles.

- Pas besoin de GPU ni d'accès Internet pour fonctionner, bien que l'accélération GPU soit disponible pour les LLMs compatibles avec `llama.cpp`.

- Prise en charge de multiples modèles et maintien des modèles en mémoire une fois chargés pour une inférence plus rapide.

- Utilisation de liaisons C++ pour une inférence plus rapide et de meilleures performances [[❞]](https://localai.io/).

LocalAI offre une variété de fonctionnalités, y compris la génération de texte avec des GPTs, la transcription audio, la génération d'images avec diffusion stable, la création d'embeddings pour les bases de données vectorielles, et une API Vision. Elle permet également le téléchargement direct de modèles depuis Huggingface [[❞]](https://localai.io/).

Écrite en Go, LocalAI s'intègre facilement avec les logiciels développés avec les SDKs OpenAI. Elle utilise divers backends C++ pour effectuer l'inférence sur les LLMs, utilisant à la fois le CPU et, si souhaité, le GPU. Les backends LocalAI sont des serveurs gRPC, permettant de spécifier et de construire votre propre serveur gRPC pour étendre LocalAI en temps réel [[❞]](https://localai.io/).

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GitHub - ggerganov/llama.cpp: Port of Facebook's LLaMA model in C/C++

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What, how, and why of running LLMs (Large Language Models - think ChatGPT & friends) locally, from Clojure. Reportedly, many models are available to download and run locally even with modest hardware. Conclusion: LLMs really only have one basic operation (~ given a seq of tokens, predict probabilities of tokens coming next) which makes them easy to learn and easy to use. Having direct access to LLMs provides flexibility in cost, capability, and usage.

I only skimmed the article, it seems as something useful to have in hand for when I need it.