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llama-cpp-cffi

Python 3.10+ binding for llama.cpp using cffi. Supports CPU, Vulkan 1.x (AMD, Intel and Nvidia GPUs) and CUDA 12.8 (Nvidia GPUs) runtimes, x86_64 (and soon aarch64) platforms.

NOTE: Currently supported operating system is Linux (manylinux_2_28 and musllinux_1_2), but we are working on both Windows and macOS versions.

News

Mar 04 2025, v0.4.38: Conditional Structured Output using CompletionsOptions.grammar_ignore_until
Feb 28 2025, v0.4.36: CUDA 12.8.0 for x86_64; CUDA ARCHITECTURES: 50; 61, 70, 75, 80, 86, 89, 90, 100, 101, 120
Feb 17 2025, v0.4.21: CUDA 12.8.0 for x86_64; CUDA ARCHITECTURES: 61, 70, 75, 80, 86, 89, 90, 100, 101, 120
Jan 15 2025, v0.4.15: Dynamically load/unload models while executing prompts in parallel.
Jan 14 2025, v0.4.14: Modular llama.cpp build using cmake build system. Deprecated make build system.
Jan 01 2025, v0.3.1: OpenAI compatible API, text and vision models. Added support for Qwen2-VL models. Hot-swap of models on demand in server/API.
Dec 09 2024, v0.2.0: Low-level and high-level APIs: llama, llava, clip and ggml API.
Nov 27 2024, v0.1.22: Support for Multimodal models such as llava and minicpmv.

Install

Basic library install:

pip install llama-cpp-cffi

In case you want OpenAI © Chat Completions API compatible API:

pip install llama-cpp-cffi[openai]

IMPORTANT: If you want to take advantage of Nvidia GPU acceleration, make sure that you have installed CUDA 12. If you don't have CUDA 12.X.Y installed follow instructions here: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads .

GPU Compute Capability: 50;61;70;75;80;86;89;90;100;101;120 covering from most of GPUs from GeForce GTX 1050 to Nvidia H100 and Nvidia Blackwell. GPU Compute Capability.

LLM Example

from llama import Model

#
# first define and load/init model
#
model = Model(
    creator_hf_repo='HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct',
    hf_repo='bartowski/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-GGUF',
    hf_file='SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf',
)

model.init(n_ctx=8 * 1024, gpu_layers=99)

#
# messages
#
messages = [
    {'role': 'system', 'content': 'You are a helpful assistant.'},
    {'role': 'user', 'content': '1 + 1 = ?'},
    {'role': 'assistant', 'content': '2'},
    {'role': 'user', 'content': 'Evaluate 1 + 2 in Python.'},
]

completions = model.completions(
    messages=messages,
    predict=1 * 1024,
    temp=0.7,
    top_p=0.8,
    top_k=100,
)

for chunk in completions:
    print(chunk, flush=True, end='')

#
# prompt
#
prompt='Evaluate 1 + 2 in Python. Result in Python is'

completions = model.completions(
    prompt=prompt,
    predict=1 * 1024,
    temp=0.7,
    top_p=0.8,
    top_k=100,
)

for chunk in completions:
    print(chunk, flush=True, end='')

References

examples/llm.py
examples/demo_text.py

VLM Example

from llama import Model

#
# first define and load/init model
#
model = Model( # 1.87B
    creator_hf_repo='vikhyatk/moondream2',
    hf_repo='vikhyatk/moondream2',
    hf_file='moondream2-text-model-f16.gguf',
    mmproj_hf_file='moondream2-mmproj-f16.gguf',
)

model.init(n_ctx=8 * 1024, gpu_layers=99)

#
# prompt
#
prompt = 'Describe this image.'
image = 'examples/llama-1.png'

completions = model.completions(
    prompt=prompt,
    image=image,
    predict=1 * 1024,
)

for chunk in completions:
    print(chunk, flush=True, end='')

References

examples/vlm.py
examples/demo_llava.py
examples/demo_minicpmv.py
examples/demo_qwen2vl.py

API

Server - llama-cpp-cffi + OpenAI API

Run server first:

python -B -u -m llama.server
# or
python -B -u -m gunicorn --bind '0.0.0.0:11434' --timeout 900 --workers 1 --worker-class aiohttp.GunicornWebWorker 'llama.server:build_app()'

Client - llama-cpp-cffi API / curl

#
# llm
#
curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:11434/api/1.0/completions' \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "gpu_layers": 99,
    "prompt": "Evaluate 1 + 2 in Python."
}'

curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:11434/api/1.0/completions' \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "creator_hf_repo": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct",
    "hf_repo": "bartowski/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-GGUF",
    "hf_file": "SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf",
    "gpu_layers": 99,
    "prompt": "Evaluate 1 + 2 in Python."
}'

curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:11434/api/1.0/completions' \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "creator_hf_repo": "Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct",
    "hf_repo": "Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF",
    "hf_file": "qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-q4_k_m.gguf",
    "gpu_layers": 99,
    "prompt": "Evaluate 1 + 2 in Python."
}'

curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:11434/api/1.0/completions' \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "creator_hf_repo": "Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct",
    "hf_repo": "bartowski/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-GGUF",
    "hf_file": "Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf",
    "gpu_layers": 99,
    "prompt": "Evaluate 1 + 2 in Python."
}'

#
# vlm - example 1
#
image_path="examples/llama-1.jpg"
mime_type=$(file -b --mime-type "$image_path")
base64_data=$(base64 -w 0 "$image_path")

cat << EOF > /tmp/temp.json
{
    "creator_hf_repo": "Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct",
    "hf_repo": "bartowski/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-GGUF",
    "hf_file": "Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf",
    "mmproj_hf_file": "mmproj-Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-f16.gguf",
    "gpu_layers": 99,
    "prompt": "Describe this image.",
    "image": "data:$mime_type;base64,$base64_data"
}
EOF

curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:11434/api/1.0/completions' \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data-binary "@/tmp/temp.json"

#
# vlm - example 2
#
image_path="examples/llama-1.jpg"
mime_type=$(file -b --mime-type "$image_path")
base64_data=$(base64 -w 0 "$image_path")

cat << EOF > /tmp/temp.json
{
    "creator_hf_repo": "Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct",
    "hf_repo": "bartowski/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-GGUF",
    "hf_file": "Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf",
    "mmproj_hf_file": "mmproj-Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-f16.gguf",
    "gpu_layers": 99,
    "messages": [
        {"role": "user", "content": [
            {"type": "text", "text": "Describe this image."},
            {
                "type": "image_url",
                "image_url": {"url": "data:$mime_type;base64,$base64_data"}
            }
        ]}
    ]
}
EOF

curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:11434/api/1.0/completions' \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data-binary "@/tmp/temp.json"

Client - OpenAI © compatible Chat Completions API

#
# text
#
curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:11434/v1/chat/completions' \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "model": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct:bartowski/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-GGUF:SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf",
    "messages": [
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": "Evaluate 1 + 2 in Python."
        }
    ],
    "n_ctx": 8192,
    "gpu_layers": 99
}'

#
# image
#
image_path="examples/llama-1.jpg"
mime_type=$(file -b --mime-type "$image_path")
base64_data=$(base64 -w 0 "$image_path")

cat << EOF > /tmp/temp.json
{
    "model": "Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct:bartowski/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-GGUF:Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf:mmproj-Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-f16.gguf",
    "messages": [
        {"role": "user", "content": [
            {"type": "text", "text": "Describe this image."},
            {
                "type": "image_url",
                "image_url": {"url": "data:$mime_type;base64,$base64_data"}
            }
        ]}
    ],
    "n_ctx": 8192,
    "gpu_layers": 99
}
EOF

curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:11434/v1/chat/completions' \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data-binary "@/tmp/temp.json"

#
# Client Python API for OpenAI
#
python -B examples/demo_openai.py

References

examples/demo_openai.py

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