Many Ascend operators internally use FP16 precision for computation.
If input data is in FP32, it must first be cast to FP16 before
computation, and then cast back to FP32 after computation, which
introduces unnecessary cast operations. Moreover, FP16 computation
requires significantly less workload compared to FP32, leading to
noticeable efficiency improvements.
In this change, `get_rows`, `rms_norm`, and `flash_attn_ext` are extended
to support multiple data types. Validation on the Qwen2 0.5b model shows
correct accuracy and about 10% performance gain in concurrent scenarios.
Co-authored-by: noemotiovon <757486878@qq.com>
Since the prefill length is not fixed, graphs constructed for the
prefill stage cannot be reused. For this reason, ACL graph
execution is disabled by default during prefill.
Previously, the slope tensor was set to fp16 to improve efficiency.
While this worked correctly in FA, it caused precision issues in soft_max.
This change applies different data types for different operators
to balance both accuracy and performance.
* CANN: fix RoPE cache issue on multi-device
RoPE cache only needs to be computed once per token.
However, in multi-device scenarios, not every device starts
computation from layer 0, which may lead to unallocated memory
issues and precision errors.
This commit records the first layer of each device to avoid
the above issues.
* CANN: Optimize first-layer detection method
* CANN: Remove trailing whitespace
* CANN: Only cache the data that can be determined as unchanged through the parameters.
* CANN: Update function comment
Submit operators using asynchronous threads to improve performance.
Use the environment variable GGML_CANN_ASYNC_MODE to control whether
asynchronous submission is enabled. It is disabled by default.
Testing shows a 10%–20% performance improvement in scenarios with
small parameter sizes, especially in quantized models.
* [CANN] Add Ascend NPU backend
Ascend is a full-stack AI computing infrastructure for industry
applications and services based on Huawei Ascend processors and
software.
CANN (Compute Architecture of Neural Networks), developped by
Huawei, is a heterogeneous computing architecture for AI.
Co-authored-by: wangshuai09 <391746016@qq.com>
* delete trailing whitespaces
* Modify the code based on review comment
* Rename LLAMA_CANN to GGML_CANN
* Make ggml-common.h private
* add ggml_cann prefix for acl funcs
* Add logging for CANN backend
* Delete Trailing whitespace
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Co-authored-by: wangshuai09 <391746016@qq.com>
