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Xuan-Son Nguyen 33eff40240 server : vision support via libmtmd (#12898)
* server : (experimental) vision support via libmtmd

* mtmd : add more api around mtmd_image_tokens

* mtmd : add more api around mtmd_image_tokens

* mtmd : ability to calc image hash

* shared_ptr for mtmd_image_tokens

* move hash to user-define ID (fixed)

* abstract out the batch management

* small fix

* refactor logic adding tokens to batch

* implement hashing image

* use FNV hash, now hash bitmap instead of file data

* allow decoding image embedding to be split into batches

* rm whitespace

* disable some features when mtmd is on

* fix --no-mmproj-offload

* mtmd_context_params no timings

* refactor server_inp to server_tokens

* fix the failing test case

* init

* wip

* working version

* add mtmd::bitmaps

* add test target

* rm redundant define

* test: mtmd_input_chunks_free

* rm outdated comment

* fix merging issue

* explicitly create mtmd::input_chunks

* mtmd_input_chunk_copy

* add clone()

* improve server_input struct

* clip :  fix confused naming ffn_up and ffn_down

* rm ffn_i/o/g naming

* rename n_embd, n_ff

* small fix

* no check n_ff

* fix detokenize

* add const to various places

* add warning about breaking changes

* add c api

* helper: use mtmd_image_tokens_get_n_pos

* fix ctx_shift

* fix name shadowing

* more strict condition

* support remote image_url

* remote image_url log

* add CI test

* do not log base64

* add "has_multimodal" to /props

* remove dangling image

* speculative: use slot.cache_tokens.insert

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>

* rm can_be_detokenized

* on prmpt processing done, assert cache_tokens.size

* handle_completions_impl returns void

* adapt the new web ui

* update docs and hot topics

* rm assert

* small fix (2)

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Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
2025-05-09 19:29:37 +02:00

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Multimodal

llama.cpp supports multimodal input via libmtmd. Currently, there are 2 tools support this feature:

To enable it, can use use one of the 2 methods below:

  • Use -hf option with a supported model
    • To load a model using -hf while disabling multimodal, use --no-mmproj
    • To load a model using -hf while using a custom mmproj file, use --mmproj local_file.gguf
  • Use -m model.gguf option with --mmproj file.gguf to specify text and multimodal projector respectively

By default, multimodal projector will be offloaded to GPU. To disable this, add --no-mmproj-offload

For example:

# simple usage with CLI
llama-mtmd-cli -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-4b-it-GGUF

# simple usage with server
llama-server -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-4b-it-GGUF

# using local file
llama-server -m gemma-3-4b-it-Q4_K_M.gguf --mmproj mmproj-gemma-3-4b-it-Q4_K_M.gguf

# no GPU offload
llama-server -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-4b-it-GGUF --no-mmproj-offload

Pre-quantized models

These are ready-to-use models, most of them come with Q4_K_M quantization by default.

Replaces the (tool_name) with the name of binary you want to use. For example, llama-mtmd-cli or llama-server

NOTE: some models may require large context window, for example: -c 8192

# Gemma 3
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-4b-it-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-12b-it-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-27b-it-GGUF

# SmolVLM
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/SmolVLM-Instruct-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct-GGUF

# Pixtral 12B
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/pixtral-12b-GGUF

# Qwen 2 VL
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct-GGUF

# Qwen 2.5 VL
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-GGUF

# Mistral Small 3.1 24B (IQ2_M quantization)
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-GGUF