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Richard Davison 5eae9cb1d9 ggml : add NVFP4 quantization type support (#19769)
* WIP: add NVFP4 quantization support

* tests

* improve NVFP4 dot product implementation performance and fix bad super call

* typo

* Use nvfp4 kvalues

* vulkan : fix NVFP4 shader compilation by including kvalues_mxfp4 lookup table

* vulcal and perf fixes

* wip

* Fix metal

* fix vulcan

* Rename threshold & fix wrong scale

* Fix MOE

* Shelf backend implementations (CUDA, Metal, Vulkan, arch-specific SIMD)

Remove NVFP4 support from GPU backends and architecture-specific
optimized dot products. These should be added in separate PRs so
backend specialists can review them independently.

Reverted files:
- ggml-cuda: common.cuh, convert.cu, mmq.cu/cuh, mmvq.cu, vecdotq.cuh,
  quantize.cu/cuh, mma.cuh, ggml-cuda.cu, fattn-tile.cuh
- ggml-metal: ggml-metal.metal, ggml-metal-device.cpp, ggml-metal-impl.h,
  ggml-metal-ops.cpp
- ggml-vulkan: ggml-vulkan.cpp, all vulkan-shaders/*
- ggml-cpu arch: arm/quants.c, x86/quants.c, powerpc/quants.c, s390/quants.c

Core NVFP4 support (type definition, CPU fallback dot product,
quantization, dequantization, conversion) is retained.

* Fix arch-fallback.h: add NVFP4 generic fallback for all platforms

After shelving backend-specific SIMD implementations, the generic
CPU dot product needs to be aliased on ARM, x86, PowerPC, and s390
platforms that previously relied on arch-specific versions.

* quantize: add NVFP4 as a quantization type option

* Fix ggml_fp32_to_ue4m3: handle subnormal values

Previously, values with ue4m3_exp <= 0 were clamped to 0, causing
all small scales to underflow. This made NVFP4 quantization via
llama-quantize produce garbage (PPL = 5.8M) since typical transformer
weights have amax/6.0 in the range 0.001-0.01, which falls in the
UE4M3 subnormal range.

Now subnormals are properly encoded as man * 2^-9 (exp=0, man=1..7),
matching the decode path in ggml_ue4m3_to_fp32.

Result: NVFP4 requantization now produces PPL = 15.25 (vs F16 = 14.33),
comparable to Q4_1 (PPL = 15.81) at slightly lower BPW (4.70 vs 5.15).

* Restore ARM NEON NVFP4 dot product implementation

Restores the optimized ggml_vec_dot_nvfp4_q8_0 for ARM NEON using
vqtbl1q_s8 lookup and ggml_vdotq_s32 dot products.

tg128 performance: 4.37 t/s (generic) -> 13.66 t/s (NEON) = 3.1x speedup

* Optimize ARM NEON NVFP4 dot product: LUT + vpaddq + vfmaq

- Add ue4m3_scale_lut[128] to ggml-common.h replacing branch-heavy
  ggml_ue4m3_to_fp32() in the hot loop
- Use vpaddq_s32 for pairwise int32 reduction instead of vaddvq_s32
- Accumulate with vfmaq_f32 into float32x4_t vector accumulators

tg128: 8.1 -> 31.0 t/s (3.8x speedup, 77% of Q4_1 speed)

* ARM NEON NVFP4: rearrange q8 to match nibble layout

Alternative approach: rearrange q8 data to match the NVFP4 lo/hi
nibble layout instead of rearranging the looked-up NVFP4 values.
Eliminates vcombine_s8(vget_low, vget_low) shuffles.

Performance is equivalent (~18.5 t/s) - the bottleneck is the 2x
block overhead from QK=16 vs QK=32, not the shuffle instructions.

* CPU only backend 64 super-block layout

* cleanup

* Remove unused LUT

* int

* exclude NVFP4 from unsupported ops in metal build

* remove quantization for now

* store scales as native UE4M3, preserve original model bits when possible

* Update convert_hf_to_gguf.py

Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>

* correct comment

* format

* reduce duplication and cleanup

* Address comments

* move detection to prepare_tensors

* Use math instead of const

* Move

* fix comment

* Shelf quantize tests

* Rebase and move check

* cleanup

* lint

* Update gguf-py/gguf/scripts/gguf_convert_endian.py

Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>

* Use fallback quant config

* Simplify

Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>

* organize

* Refactor

* Update convert_hf_to_gguf.py

Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>

* Update convert_hf_to_gguf.py

Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>

* Update convert_hf_to_gguf.py

Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>

* add quantize_nvfp4 (required for test_quants.py)

* add quantize_nvfp4 (required for test_quants.py)

* add quantize_nvfp4 (required for test_quants.py)

* fix return type

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Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>
2026-03-11 21:02:54 +01:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
from __future__ import annotations
import logging
import argparse
import os
import sys
from tqdm import tqdm
from pathlib import Path
import numpy as np
# Necessary to load the local gguf package
if "NO_LOCAL_GGUF" not in os.environ and (Path(__file__).parent.parent.parent.parent / 'gguf-py').exists():
sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).parent.parent.parent))
import gguf
logger = logging.getLogger("gguf-convert-endian")
def byteswap_noop(tensor, block_offs):
# this function is used when byteswapping is not needed
pass
def byteswap_q4_0(tensor, block_offs):
# Each block_q4_0 consists of an f16 delta (scaling factor) followed by 16 int8 quantizations.
# Byte-Swap f16 sized delta field
delta = tensor.data[block_offs:block_offs + 2].view(dtype=np.uint16)
delta.byteswap(inplace=True)
def byteswap_q8_0(tensor, block_offs):
# Each block_q8_0 consists of an f16 delta (scaling factor) followed by 32 int8 quantizations.
# Byte-Swap f16 sized delta field
delta = tensor.data[block_offs:block_offs + 2].view(dtype=np.uint16)
delta.byteswap(inplace=True)
def byteswap_q4_k(tensor, block_offs):
# Each block_q4_k consists of 2 f16 values followed by 140 int8 values.
# Byte-Swap f16 sized fields
delta = tensor.data[block_offs:block_offs + 2].view(dtype=np.uint16)
delta.byteswap(inplace=True)
delta = tensor.data[block_offs + 2:block_offs + 4].view(dtype=np.uint16)
delta.byteswap(inplace=True)
def byteswap_q6_k(tensor, block_offs):
# Each block_q6_k consists of 208 int8 values followed by 1 f16 value.
# Byte-Swap f16 sized field
delta = tensor.data[block_offs + 208:block_offs + 210].view(dtype=np.uint16)
delta.byteswap(inplace=True)
byteswap_tensors = {
gguf.GGMLQuantizationType.Q4_0: byteswap_q4_0,
gguf.GGMLQuantizationType.Q8_0: byteswap_q8_0,
gguf.GGMLQuantizationType.Q4_K: byteswap_q4_k,
gguf.GGMLQuantizationType.Q6_K: byteswap_q6_k,
gguf.GGMLQuantizationType.MXFP4: byteswap_noop,
gguf.GGMLQuantizationType.NVFP4: byteswap_noop,
}
def convert_byteorder(reader: gguf.GGUFReader, args: argparse.Namespace) -> None:
file_endian = reader.endianess.name
if reader.byte_order == 'S':
host_endian = 'BIG' if file_endian == 'LITTLE' else 'LITTLE'
else:
host_endian = file_endian
order = host_endian if args.order == "native" else args.order.upper()
logger.info(f"* Host is {host_endian} endian, GGUF file seems to be {file_endian} endian")
if file_endian == order:
logger.info(f"* File is already {order} endian. Nothing to do.")
sys.exit(0)
logger.info("* Checking tensors for conversion compatibility")
for tensor in reader.tensors:
if tensor.tensor_type not in byteswap_tensors and \
tensor.tensor_type not in (
gguf.GGMLQuantizationType.F32,
gguf.GGMLQuantizationType.F16,
gguf.GGMLQuantizationType.BF16,
):
raise ValueError(f"Cannot handle type {tensor.tensor_type.name} for tensor {repr(tensor.name)}")
logger.info(f"* Preparing to convert from {file_endian} to {order}")
if args.dry_run:
return
logger.warning("*** Warning *** Warning *** Warning **")
logger.warning("* This conversion process may damage the file. Ensure you have a backup.")
if order != host_endian:
logger.warning("* Requested endian differs from host, you will not be able to load the model on this machine.")
logger.warning("* The file will be modified immediately, so if conversion fails or is interrupted")
logger.warning("* the file will be corrupted. Enter exactly YES if you are positive you want to proceed:")
response = input("YES, I am sure> ")
if response != "YES":
logger.warning("You didn't enter YES. Okay then, see ya!")
sys.exit(0)
logger.info(f"* Converting fields ({len(reader.fields)})")
for idx, field in enumerate(reader.fields.values()):
logger.info(f"- {idx:4}: Converting field {repr(field.name)}, part count: {len(field.parts)}")
for part in field.parts:
part.byteswap(inplace=True)
logger.info(f"* Converting tensors ({len(reader.tensors)})")
for idx, tensor in enumerate(pbar := tqdm(reader.tensors, desc="Converting tensor")):
log_message = (
f"Converting tensor {repr(tensor.name)}, "
f"type={tensor.tensor_type.name}, "
f"elements={tensor.n_elements} "
)
# Byte-swap each part of the tensor's field
for part in tensor.field.parts:
part.byteswap(inplace=True)
# Byte-swap tensor data if necessary
if tensor.tensor_type in byteswap_tensors:
# first flatten structure
oldshape = tensor.data.shape
newshape = 1
for i in tensor.data.shape:
newshape *= i
tensor.data.resize(newshape)
block_size = gguf.constants.GGML_QUANT_SIZES[tensor.tensor_type][1]
byteswap_func = byteswap_tensors[tensor.tensor_type]
n_blocks = len(tensor.data) // block_size
for block_num in (inner_pbar := tqdm(range(n_blocks), desc="Byte-swapping Blocks", leave=False)):
block_offs = block_num * block_size
byteswap_func(tensor, block_offs)
if block_num % 100000 == 0:
inner_pbar.set_description(f"Byte-swapping Blocks [{(n_blocks - block_num) // n_blocks}]")
# restore old shape in case it's ever used
tensor.data.resize(oldshape)
elif tensor.tensor_type == gguf.GGMLQuantizationType.BF16:
# Special case for BF16
# It is 2-bytes data, but by default view loads it as 1-byte data.
# Change to correct view before byteswapping.
tensor.data.view(dtype=np.uint16).byteswap(inplace=True)
else:
# Handle other tensor types
tensor.data.byteswap(inplace=True)
pbar.set_description(log_message)
logger.info("* Completion")
def main() -> None:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Convert GGUF file byte order")
parser.add_argument(
"model", type=str,
help="GGUF format model filename",
)
parser.add_argument(
"order", type=str, choices=['big', 'little', 'native'],
help="Requested byte order",
)
parser.add_argument(
"--dry-run", action="store_true",
help="Don't actually change anything",
)
parser.add_argument("--verbose", action="store_true", help="increase output verbosity")
args = parser.parse_args(None if len(sys.argv) > 1 else ["--help"])
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG if args.verbose else logging.INFO)
logger.info(f'* Loading: {args.model}')
reader = gguf.GGUFReader(args.model, 'r' if args.dry_run else 'r+')
convert_byteorder(reader, args)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()