* CANN: add BF16 support for core operators
Add BF16 (bfloat16) type support to the CANN backend for the following
operators: MUL_MAT, MUL_MAT_ID, GET_ROWS, SET_ROWS, CPY, CONT, and
OUT_PROD. This enables BF16 models to run on Ascend NPUs.
* CANN: skip NZ weight format for BF16 and add 310P compile guards
NZ weight format conversion does not support BF16 tensors, skip it
in set_tensor, get_alloc_size and mul_mat. Remove BF16 from MUL_MAT_ID
and OUT_PROD as there are no BF16 use cases. Add #ifndef ASCEND_310P
guards for all BF16 operator support since 310P does not support BF16.
Implement ggml_cann_mul_mat_id_quant function to support quantized matrix
multiplication for Mixture of Experts (MoE) architectures on CANN backend.
Key features:
- Support Q4_0 and Q8_0 quantized weight formats
- Use IndexSelect to dynamically route expert-specific weights based on indices
- Leverage WeightQuantBatchMatmulV2 for efficient quantized computation
- Handle automatic F16 type conversion for hardware compatibility
- Support both per-expert and broadcast input modes
Implementation details:
- Extract expert weights and scales using CANN IndexSelect operation
- Process each batch and expert combination independently
- Create proper tensor views with correct stride for matmul operations
- Automatic input/output type casting to/from F16 as needed
Testing: All test cases passed for supported types (F32, F16, Q4_0, Q8_0).
* CANN: support gated linear attn
This change adds support for the GGML_OP_GATED_LINEAR_ATTN operator.
The feature was implemented by YushengZhao. Because the previous
submission was based on an outdated codebase, this PR was rebased to
merge.
Co-authored-by: YushengZhao <yusheng.chao@outlook.com>
Co-authored-by: hipudding <huafengchun@gmail.com>
* CANN: optimize OP gla
Optimize gla for high preformance
* Remove unused comments
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Co-authored-by: 赵禹昇 <2501112001@cninfer02.localdomain>
Co-authored-by: YushengZhao <yusheng.chao@outlook.com>
In #18624, get_env in ggml-cann was renamed to get_env_as_lowercase
to accurately reflect the function’s behavior and reduce the chance
of misuse. However, the update missed renaming call sites in other
files. This commit fixes that oversight.
* CANN: ROPE supports both MROPE and IMROPE.
1. Optimize the caching logic of rope_cache_init.
2. Add support for mRoPE and i-mRoPE.
Note that on Ascend 910B devices, it is necessary to disable FA
in CLIP and disable NZ-format conversion. These two issues are
still under investigation.
* Resolve review comments
* CANN: Use smart pointers to manage ACL objects
Previously, ACL objects were managed via manual destruction, which
led to multiple memory-leak issues during runtime. This patch replaces
manual memory management with smart pointers so that ACL objects
are properly released and ownership is clearly defined.
Note that the ownership of an ACL object belongs to the function
that creates it. Other internal functions should operate on these ACL
objects using raw pointers to avoid unintended ownership transfers.
Additionally, since aclTensorList automatically frees its contained
aclTensor objects, any aclTensor added to a tensor list must release
ownership to avoid double free operations.
This PR also removes the asynchronous task submission mechanism.
Due to changes in recent CANN versions, tiling time has significantly
decreased. Even with a dual-thread submission model, the dispatch
overhead still falls on the critical path, making async submission
less beneficial. Moreover, aclGraph support provides a much better
path to reducing operator dispatch latency.
* CANN: resolve review comments
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>
