diff --git a/tools/cli/README.md b/tools/cli/README.md
index de0b780409..1cc697b693 100644
--- a/tools/cli/README.md
+++ b/tools/cli/README.md
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
| `--license` | show source code license and dependencies |
| `-cl, --cache-list` | show list of models in cache |
| `--completion-bash` | print source-able bash completion script for llama.cpp |
-| `--verbose-prompt` | print a verbose prompt before generation (default: false) |
| `-t, --threads N` | number of CPU threads to use during generation (default: -1)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_THREADS) |
| `-tb, --threads-batch N` | number of threads to use during batch and prompt processing (default: same as --threads) |
| `-C, --cpu-mask M` | CPU affinity mask: arbitrarily long hex. Complements cpu-range (default: "") |
@@ -66,7 +65,7 @@
| `-cmoe, --cpu-moe` | keep all Mixture of Experts (MoE) weights in the CPU
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CPU_MOE) |
| `-ncmoe, --n-cpu-moe N` | keep the Mixture of Experts (MoE) weights of the first N layers in the CPU
(env: LLAMA_ARG_N_CPU_MOE) |
| `-ngl, --gpu-layers, --n-gpu-layers N` | max. number of layers to store in VRAM, either an exact number, 'auto', or 'all' (default: auto)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_N_GPU_LAYERS) |
-| `-sm, --split-mode {none,layer,row}` | how to split the model across multiple GPUs, one of:
- none: use one GPU only
- layer (default): split layers and KV across GPUs
- row: split rows across GPUs
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPLIT_MODE) |
+| `-sm, --split-mode {none,layer,row,tensor}` | how to split the model across multiple GPUs, one of:
- none: use one GPU only
- layer (default): split layers and KV across GPUs (pipelined)
- row: split weight across GPUs by rows (parallelized)
- tensor: split weights and KV across GPUs (parallelized, EXPERIMENTAL)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPLIT_MODE) |
| `-ts, --tensor-split N0,N1,N2,...` | fraction of the model to offload to each GPU, comma-separated list of proportions, e.g. 3,1
(env: LLAMA_ARG_TENSOR_SPLIT) |
| `-mg, --main-gpu INDEX` | the GPU to use for the model (with split-mode = none), or for intermediate results and KV (with split-mode = row) (default: 0)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_MAIN_GPU) |
| `-fit, --fit [on\|off]` | whether to adjust unset arguments to fit in device memory ('on' or 'off', default: 'on')
(env: LLAMA_ARG_FIT) |
@@ -84,7 +83,6 @@
| `-mu, --model-url MODEL_URL` | model download url (default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_MODEL_URL) |
| `-dr, --docker-repo [/][:quant]` | Docker Hub model repository. repo is optional, default to ai/. quant is optional, default to :latest.
example: gemma3
(default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_DOCKER_REPO) |
| `-hf, -hfr, --hf-repo /[:quant]` | Hugging Face model repository; quant is optional, case-insensitive, default to Q4_K_M, or falls back to the first file in the repo if Q4_K_M doesn't exist.
mmproj is also downloaded automatically if available. to disable, add --no-mmproj
example: ggml-org/GLM-4.7-Flash-GGUF:Q4_K_M
(default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_HF_REPO) |
-| `-hfd, -hfrd, --hf-repo-draft /[:quant]` | Same as --hf-repo, but for the draft model (default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_HFD_REPO) |
| `-hff, --hf-file FILE` | Hugging Face model file. If specified, it will override the quant in --hf-repo (default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_HF_FILE) |
| `-hfv, -hfrv, --hf-repo-v /[:quant]` | Hugging Face model repository for the vocoder model (default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_HF_REPO_V) |
| `-hffv, --hf-file-v FILE` | Hugging Face model file for the vocoder model (default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_HF_FILE_V) |
@@ -97,8 +95,8 @@
| `-lv, --verbosity, --log-verbosity N` | Set the verbosity threshold. Messages with a higher verbosity will be ignored. Values:
- 0: generic output
- 1: error
- 2: warning
- 3: info
- 4: debug
(default: 3)
(env: LLAMA_LOG_VERBOSITY) |
| `--log-prefix` | Enable prefix in log messages
(env: LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX) |
| `--log-timestamps` | Enable timestamps in log messages
(env: LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS) |
-| `-ctkd, --cache-type-k-draft TYPE` | KV cache data type for K for the draft model
allowed values: f32, f16, bf16, q8_0, q4_0, q4_1, iq4_nl, q5_0, q5_1
(default: f16)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CACHE_TYPE_K_DRAFT) |
-| `-ctvd, --cache-type-v-draft TYPE` | KV cache data type for V for the draft model
allowed values: f32, f16, bf16, q8_0, q4_0, q4_1, iq4_nl, q5_0, q5_1
(default: f16)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CACHE_TYPE_V_DRAFT) |
+| `--spec-draft-type-k, -ctkd, --cache-type-k-draft TYPE` | KV cache data type for K for the draft model
allowed values: f32, f16, bf16, q8_0, q4_0, q4_1, iq4_nl, q5_0, q5_1
(default: f16)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_CACHE_TYPE_K) |
+| `--spec-draft-type-v, -ctvd, --cache-type-v-draft TYPE` | KV cache data type for V for the draft model
allowed values: f32, f16, bf16, q8_0, q4_0, q4_1, iq4_nl, q5_0, q5_1
(default: f16)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_CACHE_TYPE_V) |
### Sampling params
@@ -145,6 +143,7 @@
| Argument | Explanation |
| -------- | ----------- |
+| `--verbose-prompt` | print a verbose prompt before generation (default: false) |
| `--display-prompt, --no-display-prompt` | whether to print prompt at generation (default: true) |
| `-co, --color [on\|off\|auto]` | Colorize output to distinguish prompt and user input from generations ('on', 'off', or 'auto', default: 'auto')
'auto' enables colors when output is to a terminal |
| `-ctxcp, --ctx-checkpoints, --swa-checkpoints N` | max number of context checkpoints to create per slot (default: 32)[(more info)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/15293)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CTX_CHECKPOINTS) |
@@ -167,30 +166,59 @@
| `--image, --audio FILE` | path to an image or audio file. use with multimodal models, use comma-separated values for multiple files |
| `--image-min-tokens N` | minimum number of tokens each image can take, only used by vision models with dynamic resolution (default: read from model)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_IMAGE_MIN_TOKENS) |
| `--image-max-tokens N` | maximum number of tokens each image can take, only used by vision models with dynamic resolution (default: read from model)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_IMAGE_MAX_TOKENS) |
-| `-otd, --override-tensor-draft =,...` | override tensor buffer type for draft model |
-| `-cmoed, --cpu-moe-draft` | keep all Mixture of Experts (MoE) weights in the CPU for the draft model
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CPU_MOE_DRAFT) |
-| `-ncmoed, --n-cpu-moe-draft N` | keep the Mixture of Experts (MoE) weights of the first N layers in the CPU for the draft model
(env: LLAMA_ARG_N_CPU_MOE_DRAFT) |
| `--chat-template-kwargs STRING` | sets additional params for the json template parser, must be a valid json object string, e.g. '{"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"}'
(env: LLAMA_CHAT_TEMPLATE_KWARGS) |
| `--jinja, --no-jinja` | whether to use jinja template engine for chat (default: enabled)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_JINJA) |
| `--reasoning-format FORMAT` | controls whether thought tags are allowed and/or extracted from the response, and in which format they're returned; one of:
- none: leaves thoughts unparsed in `message.content`
- deepseek: puts thoughts in `message.reasoning_content`
- deepseek-legacy: keeps `` tags in `message.content` while also populating `message.reasoning_content`
(default: auto)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_THINK) |
| `-rea, --reasoning [on\|off\|auto]` | Use reasoning/thinking in the chat ('on', 'off', or 'auto', default: 'auto' (detect from template))
(env: LLAMA_ARG_REASONING) |
| `--reasoning-budget N` | token budget for thinking: -1 for unrestricted, 0 for immediate end, N>0 for token budget (default: -1)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_THINK_BUDGET) |
| `--reasoning-budget-message MESSAGE` | message injected before the end-of-thinking tag when reasoning budget is exhausted (default: none)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_THINK_BUDGET_MESSAGE) |
-| `--chat-template JINJA_TEMPLATE` | set custom jinja chat template (default: template taken from model's metadata)
if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled
only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):
list of built-in templates:
bailing, bailing-think, bailing2, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek-ocr, deepseek2, deepseek3, exaone-moe, exaone3, exaone4, falcon3, gemma, gigachat, glmedge, gpt-oss, granite, grok-2, hunyuan-dense, hunyuan-moe, kimi-k2, llama2, llama2-sys, llama2-sys-bos, llama2-sys-strip, llama3, llama4, megrez, minicpm, mistral-v1, mistral-v3, mistral-v3-tekken, mistral-v7, mistral-v7-tekken, monarch, openchat, orion, pangu-embedded, phi3, phi4, rwkv-world, seed_oss, smolvlm, solar-open, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE) |
-| `--chat-template-file JINJA_TEMPLATE_FILE` | set custom jinja chat template file (default: template taken from model's metadata)
if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled
only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):
list of built-in templates:
bailing, bailing-think, bailing2, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek-ocr, deepseek2, deepseek3, exaone-moe, exaone3, exaone4, falcon3, gemma, gigachat, glmedge, gpt-oss, granite, grok-2, hunyuan-dense, hunyuan-moe, kimi-k2, llama2, llama2-sys, llama2-sys-bos, llama2-sys-strip, llama3, llama4, megrez, minicpm, mistral-v1, mistral-v3, mistral-v3-tekken, mistral-v7, mistral-v7-tekken, monarch, openchat, orion, pangu-embedded, phi3, phi4, rwkv-world, seed_oss, smolvlm, solar-open, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE_FILE) |
+| `--chat-template JINJA_TEMPLATE` | set custom jinja chat template (default: template taken from model's metadata)
if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled
only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):
list of built-in templates:
bailing, bailing-think, bailing2, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek-ocr, deepseek2, deepseek3, exaone-moe, exaone3, exaone4, falcon3, gemma, gigachat, glmedge, gpt-oss, granite, granite-4.0, grok-2, hunyuan-dense, hunyuan-moe, hunyuan-ocr, kimi-k2, llama2, llama2-sys, llama2-sys-bos, llama2-sys-strip, llama3, llama4, megrez, minicpm, mistral-v1, mistral-v3, mistral-v3-tekken, mistral-v7, mistral-v7-tekken, monarch, openchat, orion, pangu-embedded, phi3, phi4, rwkv-world, seed_oss, smolvlm, solar-open, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE) |
+| `--chat-template-file JINJA_TEMPLATE_FILE` | set custom jinja chat template file (default: template taken from model's metadata)
if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled
only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):
list of built-in templates:
bailing, bailing-think, bailing2, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek-ocr, deepseek2, deepseek3, exaone-moe, exaone3, exaone4, falcon3, gemma, gigachat, glmedge, gpt-oss, granite, granite-4.0, grok-2, hunyuan-dense, hunyuan-moe, hunyuan-ocr, kimi-k2, llama2, llama2-sys, llama2-sys-bos, llama2-sys-strip, llama3, llama4, megrez, minicpm, mistral-v1, mistral-v3, mistral-v3-tekken, mistral-v7, mistral-v7-tekken, monarch, openchat, orion, pangu-embedded, phi3, phi4, rwkv-world, seed_oss, smolvlm, solar-open, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE_FILE) |
| `--skip-chat-parsing, --no-skip-chat-parsing` | force a pure content parser, even if a Jinja template is specified; model will output everything in the content section, including any reasoning and/or tool calls (default: disabled)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SKIP_CHAT_PARSING) |
| `--simple-io` | use basic IO for better compatibility in subprocesses and limited consoles |
-| `--draft, --draft-n, --draft-max N` | number of tokens to draft for speculative decoding (default: 16)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_DRAFT_MAX) |
-| `--draft-min, --draft-n-min N` | minimum number of draft tokens to use for speculative decoding (default: 0)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_DRAFT_MIN) |
-| `--draft-p-min P` | minimum speculative decoding probability (greedy) (default: 0.75)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_DRAFT_P_MIN) |
-| `-cd, --ctx-size-draft N` | size of the prompt context for the draft model (default: 0, 0 = loaded from model)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CTX_SIZE_DRAFT) |
-| `-devd, --device-draft ` | comma-separated list of devices to use for offloading the draft model (none = don't offload)
use --list-devices to see a list of available devices |
-| `-ngld, --gpu-layers-draft, --n-gpu-layers-draft N` | max. number of draft model layers to store in VRAM, either an exact number, 'auto', or 'all' (default: auto)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_N_GPU_LAYERS_DRAFT) |
-| `-md, --model-draft FNAME` | draft model for speculative decoding (default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_MODEL_DRAFT) |
-| `--spec-replace TARGET DRAFT` | translate the string in TARGET into DRAFT if the draft model and main model are not compatible |
+| `--spec-draft-hf, -hfd, -hfrd, --hf-repo-draft /[:quant]` | Same as --hf-repo, but for the draft model (default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_HF_REPO) |
+| `--spec-draft-threads, -td, --threads-draft N` | number of threads to use during generation (default: same as --threads) |
+| `--spec-draft-threads-batch, -tbd, --threads-batch-draft N` | number of threads to use during batch and prompt processing (default: same as --threads-draft) |
+| `--spec-draft-cpu-mask, -Cd, --cpu-mask-draft M` | Draft model CPU affinity mask. Complements cpu-range-draft (default: same as --cpu-mask) |
+| `--spec-draft-cpu-range, -Crd, --cpu-range-draft lo-hi` | Ranges of CPUs for affinity. Complements --cpu-mask-draft |
+| `--spec-draft-cpu-strict, --cpu-strict-draft <0\|1>` | Use strict CPU placement for draft model (default: same as --cpu-strict) |
+| `--spec-draft-prio, --prio-draft N` | set draft process/thread priority : 0-normal, 1-medium, 2-high, 3-realtime (default: 0) |
+| `--spec-draft-poll, --poll-draft <0\|1>` | Use polling to wait for draft model work (default: same as --poll]) |
+| `--spec-draft-cpu-mask-batch, -Cbd, --cpu-mask-batch-draft M` | Draft model CPU affinity mask. Complements cpu-range-draft (default: same as --cpu-mask) |
+| `--spec-draft-cpu-strict-batch, --cpu-strict-batch-draft <0\|1>` | Use strict CPU placement for draft model (default: --cpu-strict-draft) |
+| `--spec-draft-prio-batch, --prio-batch-draft N` | set draft process/thread priority : 0-normal, 1-medium, 2-high, 3-realtime (default: 0) |
+| `--spec-draft-poll-batch, --poll-batch-draft <0\|1>` | Use polling to wait for draft model work (default: --poll-draft) |
+| `--spec-draft-override-tensor, -otd, --override-tensor-draft =,...` | override tensor buffer type for draft model |
+| `--spec-draft-cpu-moe, -cmoed, --cpu-moe-draft` | keep all Mixture of Experts (MoE) weights in the CPU for the draft model
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_CPU_MOE) |
+| `--spec-draft-n-cpu-moe, --spec-draft-ncmoe, -ncmoed, --n-cpu-moe-draft N` | keep the Mixture of Experts (MoE) weights of the first N layers in the CPU for the draft model
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_N_CPU_MOE) |
+| `--spec-draft-n-max N` | number of tokens to draft for speculative decoding (default: 16)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_N_MAX) |
+| `--spec-draft-n-min N` | minimum number of draft tokens to use for speculative decoding (default: 0)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_N_MIN) |
+| `--spec-draft-p-split, --draft-p-split P` | speculative decoding split probability (default: 0.10)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_P_SPLIT) |
+| `--spec-draft-p-min, --draft-p-min P` | minimum speculative decoding probability (greedy) (default: 0.75)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_P_MIN) |
+| `--spec-draft-ctx-size, -cd, --ctx-size-draft N` | size of the prompt context for the draft model (default: 0, 0 = loaded from model)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_CTX_SIZE) |
+| `--spec-draft-device, -devd, --device-draft ` | comma-separated list of devices to use for offloading the draft model (none = don't offload)
use --list-devices to see a list of available devices |
+| `--spec-draft-ngl, -ngld, --gpu-layers-draft, --n-gpu-layers-draft N` | max. number of draft model layers to store in VRAM, either an exact number, 'auto', or 'all' (default: auto)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_N_GPU_LAYERS_DRAFT) |
+| `--spec-draft-model, -md, --model-draft FNAME` | draft model for speculative decoding (default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_MODEL) |
+| `--spec-draft-replace, --spec-replace TARGET DRAFT` | translate the string in TARGET into DRAFT if the draft model and main model are not compatible |
+| `--spec-type [none\|ngram-cache\|ngram-simple\|ngram-map-k\|ngram-map-k4v\|ngram-mod]` | type of speculative decoding to use when no draft model is provided (default: none)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_TYPE) |
+| `--spec-ngram-mod-n-min N` | minimum number of ngram tokens to use for ngram-based speculative decoding (default: 48) |
+| `--spec-ngram-mod-n-max N` | maximum number of ngram tokens to use for ngram-based speculative decoding (default: 64) |
+| `--spec-ngram-mod-n-match N` | ngram-mod lookup length (default: 24) |
+| `--spec-ngram-simple-size-n N` | ngram size N for ngram-simple speculative decoding, length of lookup n-gram (default: 12) |
+| `--spec-ngram-simple-size-m N` | ngram size M for ngram-simple speculative decoding, length of draft m-gram (default: 48) |
+| `--spec-ngram-simple-min-hits N` | minimum hits for ngram-simple speculative decoding (default: 1) |
+| `--spec-ngram-map-k-size-n N` | ngram size N for ngram-map-k speculative decoding, length of lookup n-gram (default: 12) |
+| `--spec-ngram-map-k-size-m N` | ngram size M for ngram-map-k speculative decoding, length of draft m-gram (default: 48) |
+| `--spec-ngram-map-k-min-hits N` | minimum hits for ngram-map-k speculative decoding (default: 1) |
+| `--spec-ngram-map-k4v-size-n N` | ngram size N for ngram-map-k4v speculative decoding, length of lookup n-gram (default: 12) |
+| `--spec-ngram-map-k4v-size-m N` | ngram size M for ngram-map-k4v speculative decoding, length of draft m-gram (default: 48) |
+| `--spec-ngram-map-k4v-min-hits N` | minimum hits for ngram-map-k4v speculative decoding (default: 1) |
+| `--draft, --draft-n, --draft-max N` | the argument has been removed. use --spec-draft-n-max or --spec-ngram-mod-n-max
(env: LLAMA_ARG_DRAFT_MAX) |
+| `--draft-min, --draft-n-min N` | the argument has been removed. use --spec-draft-n-min or --spec-ngram-mod-n-min
(env: LLAMA_ARG_DRAFT_MIN) |
| `--gpt-oss-20b-default` | use gpt-oss-20b (note: can download weights from the internet) |
| `--gpt-oss-120b-default` | use gpt-oss-120b (note: can download weights from the internet) |
| `--vision-gemma-4b-default` | use Gemma 3 4B QAT (note: can download weights from the internet) |
| `--vision-gemma-12b-default` | use Gemma 3 12B QAT (note: can download weights from the internet) |
+| `--spec-default` | enable default speculative decoding config |
diff --git a/tools/completion/README.md b/tools/completion/README.md
index fe1a036a38..7042889db1 100644
--- a/tools/completion/README.md
+++ b/tools/completion/README.md
@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ llama-completion.exe -m models\gemma-1.1-7b-it.Q4_K_M.gguf --ignore-eos -n -1
| `--license` | show source code license and dependencies |
| `-cl, --cache-list` | show list of models in cache |
| `--completion-bash` | print source-able bash completion script for llama.cpp |
-| `--verbose-prompt` | print a verbose prompt before generation (default: false) |
| `-t, --threads N` | number of CPU threads to use during generation (default: -1)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_THREADS) |
| `-tb, --threads-batch N` | number of threads to use during batch and prompt processing (default: same as --threads) |
| `-C, --cpu-mask M` | CPU affinity mask: arbitrarily long hex. Complements cpu-range (default: "") |
@@ -149,7 +148,7 @@ llama-completion.exe -m models\gemma-1.1-7b-it.Q4_K_M.gguf --ignore-eos -n -1
| `-cmoe, --cpu-moe` | keep all Mixture of Experts (MoE) weights in the CPU
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CPU_MOE) |
| `-ncmoe, --n-cpu-moe N` | keep the Mixture of Experts (MoE) weights of the first N layers in the CPU
(env: LLAMA_ARG_N_CPU_MOE) |
| `-ngl, --gpu-layers, --n-gpu-layers N` | max. number of layers to store in VRAM, either an exact number, 'auto', or 'all' (default: auto)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_N_GPU_LAYERS) |
-| `-sm, --split-mode {none,layer,row}` | how to split the model across multiple GPUs, one of:
- none: use one GPU only
- layer (default): split layers and KV across GPUs
- row: split rows across GPUs
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPLIT_MODE) |
+| `-sm, --split-mode {none,layer,row,tensor}` | how to split the model across multiple GPUs, one of:
- none: use one GPU only
- layer (default): split layers and KV across GPUs (pipelined)
- row: split weight across GPUs by rows (parallelized)
- tensor: split weights and KV across GPUs (parallelized, EXPERIMENTAL)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPLIT_MODE) |
| `-ts, --tensor-split N0,N1,N2,...` | fraction of the model to offload to each GPU, comma-separated list of proportions, e.g. 3,1
(env: LLAMA_ARG_TENSOR_SPLIT) |
| `-mg, --main-gpu INDEX` | the GPU to use for the model (with split-mode = none), or for intermediate results and KV (with split-mode = row) (default: 0)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_MAIN_GPU) |
| `-fit, --fit [on\|off]` | whether to adjust unset arguments to fit in device memory ('on' or 'off', default: 'on')
(env: LLAMA_ARG_FIT) |
@@ -167,7 +166,6 @@ llama-completion.exe -m models\gemma-1.1-7b-it.Q4_K_M.gguf --ignore-eos -n -1
| `-mu, --model-url MODEL_URL` | model download url (default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_MODEL_URL) |
| `-dr, --docker-repo [/][:quant]` | Docker Hub model repository. repo is optional, default to ai/. quant is optional, default to :latest.
example: gemma3
(default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_DOCKER_REPO) |
| `-hf, -hfr, --hf-repo /[:quant]` | Hugging Face model repository; quant is optional, case-insensitive, default to Q4_K_M, or falls back to the first file in the repo if Q4_K_M doesn't exist.
mmproj is also downloaded automatically if available. to disable, add --no-mmproj
example: ggml-org/GLM-4.7-Flash-GGUF:Q4_K_M
(default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_HF_REPO) |
-| `-hfd, -hfrd, --hf-repo-draft /[:quant]` | Same as --hf-repo, but for the draft model (default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_HFD_REPO) |
| `-hff, --hf-file FILE` | Hugging Face model file. If specified, it will override the quant in --hf-repo (default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_HF_FILE) |
| `-hfv, -hfrv, --hf-repo-v /[:quant]` | Hugging Face model repository for the vocoder model (default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_HF_REPO_V) |
| `-hffv, --hf-file-v FILE` | Hugging Face model file for the vocoder model (default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_HF_FILE_V) |
@@ -180,8 +178,8 @@ llama-completion.exe -m models\gemma-1.1-7b-it.Q4_K_M.gguf --ignore-eos -n -1
| `-lv, --verbosity, --log-verbosity N` | Set the verbosity threshold. Messages with a higher verbosity will be ignored. Values:
- 0: generic output
- 1: error
- 2: warning
- 3: info
- 4: debug
(default: 3)
(env: LLAMA_LOG_VERBOSITY) |
| `--log-prefix` | Enable prefix in log messages
(env: LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX) |
| `--log-timestamps` | Enable timestamps in log messages
(env: LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS) |
-| `-ctkd, --cache-type-k-draft TYPE` | KV cache data type for K for the draft model
allowed values: f32, f16, bf16, q8_0, q4_0, q4_1, iq4_nl, q5_0, q5_1
(default: f16)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CACHE_TYPE_K_DRAFT) |
-| `-ctvd, --cache-type-v-draft TYPE` | KV cache data type for V for the draft model
allowed values: f32, f16, bf16, q8_0, q4_0, q4_1, iq4_nl, q5_0, q5_1
(default: f16)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CACHE_TYPE_V_DRAFT) |
+| `--spec-draft-type-k, -ctkd, --cache-type-k-draft TYPE` | KV cache data type for K for the draft model
allowed values: f32, f16, bf16, q8_0, q4_0, q4_1, iq4_nl, q5_0, q5_1
(default: f16)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_CACHE_TYPE_K) |
+| `--spec-draft-type-v, -ctvd, --cache-type-v-draft TYPE` | KV cache data type for V for the draft model
allowed values: f32, f16, bf16, q8_0, q4_0, q4_1, iq4_nl, q5_0, q5_1
(default: f16)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_CACHE_TYPE_V) |
### Sampling params
@@ -228,6 +226,7 @@ llama-completion.exe -m models\gemma-1.1-7b-it.Q4_K_M.gguf --ignore-eos -n -1
| Argument | Explanation |
| -------- | ----------- |
+| `--verbose-prompt` | print a verbose prompt before generation (default: false) |
| `--display-prompt, --no-display-prompt` | whether to print prompt at generation (default: true) |
| `-co, --color [on\|off\|auto]` | Colorize output to distinguish prompt and user input from generations ('on', 'off', or 'auto', default: 'auto')
'auto' enables colors when output is to a terminal |
| `--context-shift, --no-context-shift` | whether to use context shift on infinite text generation (default: disabled)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CONTEXT_SHIFT) |
@@ -255,8 +254,8 @@ llama-completion.exe -m models\gemma-1.1-7b-it.Q4_K_M.gguf --ignore-eos -n -1
| `-rea, --reasoning [on\|off\|auto]` | Use reasoning/thinking in the chat ('on', 'off', or 'auto', default: 'auto' (detect from template))
(env: LLAMA_ARG_REASONING) |
| `--reasoning-budget N` | token budget for thinking: -1 for unrestricted, 0 for immediate end, N>0 for token budget (default: -1)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_THINK_BUDGET) |
| `--reasoning-budget-message MESSAGE` | message injected before the end-of-thinking tag when reasoning budget is exhausted (default: none)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_THINK_BUDGET_MESSAGE) |
-| `--chat-template JINJA_TEMPLATE` | set custom jinja chat template (default: template taken from model's metadata)
if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled
only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):
list of built-in templates:
bailing, bailing-think, bailing2, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek-ocr, deepseek2, deepseek3, exaone-moe, exaone3, exaone4, falcon3, gemma, gigachat, glmedge, gpt-oss, granite, grok-2, hunyuan-dense, hunyuan-moe, kimi-k2, llama2, llama2-sys, llama2-sys-bos, llama2-sys-strip, llama3, llama4, megrez, minicpm, mistral-v1, mistral-v3, mistral-v3-tekken, mistral-v7, mistral-v7-tekken, monarch, openchat, orion, pangu-embedded, phi3, phi4, rwkv-world, seed_oss, smolvlm, solar-open, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE) |
-| `--chat-template-file JINJA_TEMPLATE_FILE` | set custom jinja chat template file (default: template taken from model's metadata)
if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled
only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):
list of built-in templates:
bailing, bailing-think, bailing2, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek-ocr, deepseek2, deepseek3, exaone-moe, exaone3, exaone4, falcon3, gemma, gigachat, glmedge, gpt-oss, granite, grok-2, hunyuan-dense, hunyuan-moe, kimi-k2, llama2, llama2-sys, llama2-sys-bos, llama2-sys-strip, llama3, llama4, megrez, minicpm, mistral-v1, mistral-v3, mistral-v3-tekken, mistral-v7, mistral-v7-tekken, monarch, openchat, orion, pangu-embedded, phi3, phi4, rwkv-world, seed_oss, smolvlm, solar-open, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE_FILE) |
+| `--chat-template JINJA_TEMPLATE` | set custom jinja chat template (default: template taken from model's metadata)
if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled
only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):
list of built-in templates:
bailing, bailing-think, bailing2, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek-ocr, deepseek2, deepseek3, exaone-moe, exaone3, exaone4, falcon3, gemma, gigachat, glmedge, gpt-oss, granite, granite-4.0, grok-2, hunyuan-dense, hunyuan-moe, hunyuan-ocr, kimi-k2, llama2, llama2-sys, llama2-sys-bos, llama2-sys-strip, llama3, llama4, megrez, minicpm, mistral-v1, mistral-v3, mistral-v3-tekken, mistral-v7, mistral-v7-tekken, monarch, openchat, orion, pangu-embedded, phi3, phi4, rwkv-world, seed_oss, smolvlm, solar-open, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE) |
+| `--chat-template-file JINJA_TEMPLATE_FILE` | set custom jinja chat template file (default: template taken from model's metadata)
if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled
only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):
list of built-in templates:
bailing, bailing-think, bailing2, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek-ocr, deepseek2, deepseek3, exaone-moe, exaone3, exaone4, falcon3, gemma, gigachat, glmedge, gpt-oss, granite, granite-4.0, grok-2, hunyuan-dense, hunyuan-moe, hunyuan-ocr, kimi-k2, llama2, llama2-sys, llama2-sys-bos, llama2-sys-strip, llama3, llama4, megrez, minicpm, mistral-v1, mistral-v3, mistral-v3-tekken, mistral-v7, mistral-v7-tekken, monarch, openchat, orion, pangu-embedded, phi3, phi4, rwkv-world, seed_oss, smolvlm, solar-open, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE_FILE) |
| `--skip-chat-parsing, --no-skip-chat-parsing` | force a pure content parser, even if a Jinja template is specified; model will output everything in the content section, including any reasoning and/or tool calls (default: disabled)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SKIP_CHAT_PARSING) |
| `--simple-io` | use basic IO for better compatibility in subprocesses and limited consoles |
diff --git a/tools/server/README.md b/tools/server/README.md
index db1f270390..b3fa836334 100644
--- a/tools/server/README.md
+++ b/tools/server/README.md
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ For the full list of features, please refer to [server's changelog](https://gith
| `-cmoe, --cpu-moe` | keep all Mixture of Experts (MoE) weights in the CPU
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CPU_MOE) |
| `-ncmoe, --n-cpu-moe N` | keep the Mixture of Experts (MoE) weights of the first N layers in the CPU
(env: LLAMA_ARG_N_CPU_MOE) |
| `-ngl, --gpu-layers, --n-gpu-layers N` | max. number of layers to store in VRAM, either an exact number, 'auto', or 'all' (default: auto)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_N_GPU_LAYERS) |
-| `-sm, --split-mode {none,layer,row}` | how to split the model across multiple GPUs, one of:
- none: use one GPU only
- layer (default): split layers and KV across GPUs
- row: split rows across GPUs
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPLIT_MODE) |
+| `-sm, --split-mode {none,layer,row,tensor}` | how to split the model across multiple GPUs, one of:
- none: use one GPU only
- layer (default): split layers and KV across GPUs (pipelined)
- row: split weight across GPUs by rows (parallelized)
- tensor: split weights and KV across GPUs (parallelized, EXPERIMENTAL)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPLIT_MODE) |
| `-ts, --tensor-split N0,N1,N2,...` | fraction of the model to offload to each GPU, comma-separated list of proportions, e.g. 3,1
(env: LLAMA_ARG_TENSOR_SPLIT) |
| `-mg, --main-gpu INDEX` | the GPU to use for the model (with split-mode = none), or for intermediate results and KV (with split-mode = row) (default: 0)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_MAIN_GPU) |
| `-fit, --fit [on\|off]` | whether to adjust unset arguments to fit in device memory ('on' or 'off', default: 'on')
(env: LLAMA_ARG_FIT) |
@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@ For the full list of features, please refer to [server's changelog](https://gith
| `-mu, --model-url MODEL_URL` | model download url (default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_MODEL_URL) |
| `-dr, --docker-repo [/][:quant]` | Docker Hub model repository. repo is optional, default to ai/. quant is optional, default to :latest.
example: gemma3
(default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_DOCKER_REPO) |
| `-hf, -hfr, --hf-repo /[:quant]` | Hugging Face model repository; quant is optional, case-insensitive, default to Q4_K_M, or falls back to the first file in the repo if Q4_K_M doesn't exist.
mmproj is also downloaded automatically if available. to disable, add --no-mmproj
example: ggml-org/GLM-4.7-Flash-GGUF:Q4_K_M
(default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_HF_REPO) |
-| `-hfd, -hfrd, --hf-repo-draft /[:quant]` | Same as --hf-repo, but for the draft model (default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_HFD_REPO) |
| `-hff, --hf-file FILE` | Hugging Face model file. If specified, it will override the quant in --hf-repo (default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_HF_FILE) |
| `-hfv, -hfrv, --hf-repo-v /[:quant]` | Hugging Face model repository for the vocoder model (default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_HF_REPO_V) |
| `-hffv, --hf-file-v FILE` | Hugging Face model file for the vocoder model (default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_HF_FILE_V) |
@@ -113,8 +112,8 @@ For the full list of features, please refer to [server's changelog](https://gith
| `-lv, --verbosity, --log-verbosity N` | Set the verbosity threshold. Messages with a higher verbosity will be ignored. Values:
- 0: generic output
- 1: error
- 2: warning
- 3: info
- 4: debug
(default: 3)
(env: LLAMA_LOG_VERBOSITY) |
| `--log-prefix` | Enable prefix in log messages
(env: LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX) |
| `--log-timestamps` | Enable timestamps in log messages
(env: LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS) |
-| `-ctkd, --cache-type-k-draft TYPE` | KV cache data type for K for the draft model
allowed values: f32, f16, bf16, q8_0, q4_0, q4_1, iq4_nl, q5_0, q5_1
(default: f16)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CACHE_TYPE_K_DRAFT) |
-| `-ctvd, --cache-type-v-draft TYPE` | KV cache data type for V for the draft model
allowed values: f32, f16, bf16, q8_0, q4_0, q4_1, iq4_nl, q5_0, q5_1
(default: f16)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CACHE_TYPE_V_DRAFT) |
+| `--spec-draft-type-k, -ctkd, --cache-type-k-draft TYPE` | KV cache data type for K for the draft model
allowed values: f32, f16, bf16, q8_0, q4_0, q4_1, iq4_nl, q5_0, q5_1
(default: f16)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_CACHE_TYPE_K) |
+| `--spec-draft-type-v, -ctvd, --cache-type-v-draft TYPE` | KV cache data type for V for the draft model
allowed values: f32, f16, bf16, q8_0, q4_0, q4_1, iq4_nl, q5_0, q5_1
(default: f16)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_CACHE_TYPE_V) |
### Sampling params
@@ -182,9 +181,6 @@ For the full list of features, please refer to [server's changelog](https://gith
| `--mmproj-offload, --no-mmproj-offload` | whether to enable GPU offloading for multimodal projector (default: enabled)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_MMPROJ_OFFLOAD) |
| `--image-min-tokens N` | minimum number of tokens each image can take, only used by vision models with dynamic resolution (default: read from model)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_IMAGE_MIN_TOKENS) |
| `--image-max-tokens N` | maximum number of tokens each image can take, only used by vision models with dynamic resolution (default: read from model)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_IMAGE_MAX_TOKENS) |
-| `-otd, --override-tensor-draft =,...` | override tensor buffer type for draft model |
-| `-cmoed, --cpu-moe-draft` | keep all Mixture of Experts (MoE) weights in the CPU for the draft model
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CPU_MOE_DRAFT) |
-| `-ncmoed, --n-cpu-moe-draft N` | keep the Mixture of Experts (MoE) weights of the first N layers in the CPU for the draft model
(env: LLAMA_ARG_N_CPU_MOE_DRAFT) |
| `-a, --alias STRING` | set model name aliases, comma-separated (to be used by API)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_ALIAS) |
| `--tags STRING` | set model tags, comma-separated (informational, not used for routing)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_TAGS) |
| `--host HOST` | ip address to listen, or bind to an UNIX socket if the address ends with .sock (default: 127.0.0.1)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_HOST) |
@@ -222,27 +218,55 @@ For the full list of features, please refer to [server's changelog](https://gith
| `-rea, --reasoning [on\|off\|auto]` | Use reasoning/thinking in the chat ('on', 'off', or 'auto', default: 'auto' (detect from template))
(env: LLAMA_ARG_REASONING) |
| `--reasoning-budget N` | token budget for thinking: -1 for unrestricted, 0 for immediate end, N>0 for token budget (default: -1)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_THINK_BUDGET) |
| `--reasoning-budget-message MESSAGE` | message injected before the end-of-thinking tag when reasoning budget is exhausted (default: none)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_THINK_BUDGET_MESSAGE) |
-| `--chat-template JINJA_TEMPLATE` | set custom jinja chat template (default: template taken from model's metadata)
if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled
only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):
list of built-in templates:
bailing, bailing-think, bailing2, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek-ocr, deepseek2, deepseek3, exaone-moe, exaone3, exaone4, falcon3, gemma, gigachat, glmedge, gpt-oss, granite, grok-2, hunyuan-dense, hunyuan-moe, kimi-k2, llama2, llama2-sys, llama2-sys-bos, llama2-sys-strip, llama3, llama4, megrez, minicpm, mistral-v1, mistral-v3, mistral-v3-tekken, mistral-v7, mistral-v7-tekken, monarch, openchat, orion, pangu-embedded, phi3, phi4, rwkv-world, seed_oss, smolvlm, solar-open, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE) |
-| `--chat-template-file JINJA_TEMPLATE_FILE` | set custom jinja chat template file (default: template taken from model's metadata)
if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled
only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):
list of built-in templates:
bailing, bailing-think, bailing2, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek-ocr, deepseek2, deepseek3, exaone-moe, exaone3, exaone4, falcon3, gemma, gigachat, glmedge, gpt-oss, granite, grok-2, hunyuan-dense, hunyuan-moe, kimi-k2, llama2, llama2-sys, llama2-sys-bos, llama2-sys-strip, llama3, llama4, megrez, minicpm, mistral-v1, mistral-v3, mistral-v3-tekken, mistral-v7, mistral-v7-tekken, monarch, openchat, orion, pangu-embedded, phi3, phi4, rwkv-world, seed_oss, smolvlm, solar-open, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE_FILE) |
+| `--chat-template JINJA_TEMPLATE` | set custom jinja chat template (default: template taken from model's metadata)
if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled
only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):
list of built-in templates:
bailing, bailing-think, bailing2, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek-ocr, deepseek2, deepseek3, exaone-moe, exaone3, exaone4, falcon3, gemma, gigachat, glmedge, gpt-oss, granite, granite-4.0, grok-2, hunyuan-dense, hunyuan-moe, hunyuan-ocr, kimi-k2, llama2, llama2-sys, llama2-sys-bos, llama2-sys-strip, llama3, llama4, megrez, minicpm, mistral-v1, mistral-v3, mistral-v3-tekken, mistral-v7, mistral-v7-tekken, monarch, openchat, orion, pangu-embedded, phi3, phi4, rwkv-world, seed_oss, smolvlm, solar-open, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE) |
+| `--chat-template-file JINJA_TEMPLATE_FILE` | set custom jinja chat template file (default: template taken from model's metadata)
if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled
only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):
list of built-in templates:
bailing, bailing-think, bailing2, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek-ocr, deepseek2, deepseek3, exaone-moe, exaone3, exaone4, falcon3, gemma, gigachat, glmedge, gpt-oss, granite, granite-4.0, grok-2, hunyuan-dense, hunyuan-moe, hunyuan-ocr, kimi-k2, llama2, llama2-sys, llama2-sys-bos, llama2-sys-strip, llama3, llama4, megrez, minicpm, mistral-v1, mistral-v3, mistral-v3-tekken, mistral-v7, mistral-v7-tekken, monarch, openchat, orion, pangu-embedded, phi3, phi4, rwkv-world, seed_oss, smolvlm, solar-open, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE_FILE) |
| `--skip-chat-parsing, --no-skip-chat-parsing` | force a pure content parser, even if a Jinja template is specified; model will output everything in the content section, including any reasoning and/or tool calls (default: disabled)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SKIP_CHAT_PARSING) |
| `--prefill-assistant, --no-prefill-assistant` | whether to prefill the assistant's response if the last message is an assistant message (default: prefill enabled)
when this flag is set, if the last message is an assistant message then it will be treated as a full message and not prefilled
(env: LLAMA_ARG_PREFILL_ASSISTANT) |
| `-sps, --slot-prompt-similarity SIMILARITY` | how much the prompt of a request must match the prompt of a slot in order to use that slot (default: 0.10, 0.0 = disabled) |
| `--lora-init-without-apply` | load LoRA adapters without applying them (apply later via POST /lora-adapters) (default: disabled) |
| `--sleep-idle-seconds SECONDS` | number of seconds of idleness after which the server will sleep (default: -1; -1 = disabled) |
-| `-td, --threads-draft N` | number of threads to use during generation (default: same as --threads) |
-| `-tbd, --threads-batch-draft N` | number of threads to use during batch and prompt processing (default: same as --threads-draft) |
-| `--draft, --draft-n, --draft-max N` | number of tokens to draft for speculative decoding (default: 16)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_DRAFT_MAX) |
-| `--draft-min, --draft-n-min N` | minimum number of draft tokens to use for speculative decoding (default: 0)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_DRAFT_MIN) |
-| `--draft-p-min P` | minimum speculative decoding probability (greedy) (default: 0.75)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_DRAFT_P_MIN) |
-| `-cd, --ctx-size-draft N` | size of the prompt context for the draft model (default: 0, 0 = loaded from model)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_CTX_SIZE_DRAFT) |
-| `-devd, --device-draft ` | comma-separated list of devices to use for offloading the draft model (none = don't offload)
use --list-devices to see a list of available devices |
-| `-ngld, --gpu-layers-draft, --n-gpu-layers-draft N` | max. number of draft model layers to store in VRAM, either an exact number, 'auto', or 'all' (default: auto)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_N_GPU_LAYERS_DRAFT) |
-| `-md, --model-draft FNAME` | draft model for speculative decoding (default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_MODEL_DRAFT) |
-| `--spec-replace TARGET DRAFT` | translate the string in TARGET into DRAFT if the draft model and main model are not compatible |
+| `--spec-draft-hf, -hfd, -hfrd, --hf-repo-draft /[:quant]` | Same as --hf-repo, but for the draft model (default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_HF_REPO) |
+| `--spec-draft-threads, -td, --threads-draft N` | number of threads to use during generation (default: same as --threads) |
+| `--spec-draft-threads-batch, -tbd, --threads-batch-draft N` | number of threads to use during batch and prompt processing (default: same as --threads-draft) |
+| `--spec-draft-cpu-mask, -Cd, --cpu-mask-draft M` | Draft model CPU affinity mask. Complements cpu-range-draft (default: same as --cpu-mask) |
+| `--spec-draft-cpu-range, -Crd, --cpu-range-draft lo-hi` | Ranges of CPUs for affinity. Complements --cpu-mask-draft |
+| `--spec-draft-cpu-strict, --cpu-strict-draft <0\|1>` | Use strict CPU placement for draft model (default: same as --cpu-strict) |
+| `--spec-draft-prio, --prio-draft N` | set draft process/thread priority : 0-normal, 1-medium, 2-high, 3-realtime (default: 0) |
+| `--spec-draft-poll, --poll-draft <0\|1>` | Use polling to wait for draft model work (default: same as --poll]) |
+| `--spec-draft-cpu-mask-batch, -Cbd, --cpu-mask-batch-draft M` | Draft model CPU affinity mask. Complements cpu-range-draft (default: same as --cpu-mask) |
+| `--spec-draft-cpu-strict-batch, --cpu-strict-batch-draft <0\|1>` | Use strict CPU placement for draft model (default: --cpu-strict-draft) |
+| `--spec-draft-prio-batch, --prio-batch-draft N` | set draft process/thread priority : 0-normal, 1-medium, 2-high, 3-realtime (default: 0) |
+| `--spec-draft-poll-batch, --poll-batch-draft <0\|1>` | Use polling to wait for draft model work (default: --poll-draft) |
+| `--spec-draft-override-tensor, -otd, --override-tensor-draft =,...` | override tensor buffer type for draft model |
+| `--spec-draft-cpu-moe, -cmoed, --cpu-moe-draft` | keep all Mixture of Experts (MoE) weights in the CPU for the draft model
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_CPU_MOE) |
+| `--spec-draft-n-cpu-moe, --spec-draft-ncmoe, -ncmoed, --n-cpu-moe-draft N` | keep the Mixture of Experts (MoE) weights of the first N layers in the CPU for the draft model
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_N_CPU_MOE) |
+| `--spec-draft-n-max N` | number of tokens to draft for speculative decoding (default: 16)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_N_MAX) |
+| `--spec-draft-n-min N` | minimum number of draft tokens to use for speculative decoding (default: 0)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_N_MIN) |
+| `--spec-draft-p-split, --draft-p-split P` | speculative decoding split probability (default: 0.10)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_P_SPLIT) |
+| `--spec-draft-p-min, --draft-p-min P` | minimum speculative decoding probability (greedy) (default: 0.75)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_P_MIN) |
+| `--spec-draft-ctx-size, -cd, --ctx-size-draft N` | size of the prompt context for the draft model (default: 0, 0 = loaded from model)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_CTX_SIZE) |
+| `--spec-draft-device, -devd, --device-draft ` | comma-separated list of devices to use for offloading the draft model (none = don't offload)
use --list-devices to see a list of available devices |
+| `--spec-draft-ngl, -ngld, --gpu-layers-draft, --n-gpu-layers-draft N` | max. number of draft model layers to store in VRAM, either an exact number, 'auto', or 'all' (default: auto)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_N_GPU_LAYERS_DRAFT) |
+| `--spec-draft-model, -md, --model-draft FNAME` | draft model for speculative decoding (default: unused)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_MODEL) |
+| `--spec-draft-replace, --spec-replace TARGET DRAFT` | translate the string in TARGET into DRAFT if the draft model and main model are not compatible |
| `--spec-type [none\|ngram-cache\|ngram-simple\|ngram-map-k\|ngram-map-k4v\|ngram-mod]` | type of speculative decoding to use when no draft model is provided (default: none)
(env: LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_TYPE) |
-| `--spec-ngram-size-n N` | ngram size N for ngram-simple/ngram-map speculative decoding, length of lookup n-gram (default: 12) |
-| `--spec-ngram-size-m N` | ngram size M for ngram-simple/ngram-map speculative decoding, length of draft m-gram (default: 48) |
-| `--spec-ngram-min-hits N` | minimum hits for ngram-map speculative decoding (default: 1) |
+| `--spec-ngram-mod-n-min N` | minimum number of ngram tokens to use for ngram-based speculative decoding (default: 48) |
+| `--spec-ngram-mod-n-max N` | maximum number of ngram tokens to use for ngram-based speculative decoding (default: 64) |
+| `--spec-ngram-mod-n-match N` | ngram-mod lookup length (default: 24) |
+| `--spec-ngram-simple-size-n N` | ngram size N for ngram-simple speculative decoding, length of lookup n-gram (default: 12) |
+| `--spec-ngram-simple-size-m N` | ngram size M for ngram-simple speculative decoding, length of draft m-gram (default: 48) |
+| `--spec-ngram-simple-min-hits N` | minimum hits for ngram-simple speculative decoding (default: 1) |
+| `--spec-ngram-map-k-size-n N` | ngram size N for ngram-map-k speculative decoding, length of lookup n-gram (default: 12) |
+| `--spec-ngram-map-k-size-m N` | ngram size M for ngram-map-k speculative decoding, length of draft m-gram (default: 48) |
+| `--spec-ngram-map-k-min-hits N` | minimum hits for ngram-map-k speculative decoding (default: 1) |
+| `--spec-ngram-map-k4v-size-n N` | ngram size N for ngram-map-k4v speculative decoding, length of lookup n-gram (default: 12) |
+| `--spec-ngram-map-k4v-size-m N` | ngram size M for ngram-map-k4v speculative decoding, length of draft m-gram (default: 48) |
+| `--spec-ngram-map-k4v-min-hits N` | minimum hits for ngram-map-k4v speculative decoding (default: 1) |
+| `--draft, --draft-n, --draft-max N` | the argument has been removed. use --spec-draft-n-max or --spec-ngram-mod-n-max
(env: LLAMA_ARG_DRAFT_MAX) |
+| `--draft-min, --draft-n-min N` | the argument has been removed. use --spec-draft-n-min or --spec-ngram-mod-n-min
(env: LLAMA_ARG_DRAFT_MIN) |
+| `--spec-ngram-size-n N` | the argument has been removed. use the respective --spec-ngram-*-size-n or --spec-ngram-mod-n-match |
+| `--spec-ngram-size-m N` | the argument has been removed. use the respective --spec-ngram-*-size-m |
+| `--spec-ngram-min-hits N` | the argument has been removed. use the respective --spec-ngram-*-min-hits |
| `-mv, --model-vocoder FNAME` | vocoder model for audio generation (default: unused) |
| `--tts-use-guide-tokens` | Use guide tokens to improve TTS word recall |
| `--embd-gemma-default` | use default EmbeddingGemma model (note: can download weights from the internet) |
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| `--gpt-oss-120b-default` | use gpt-oss-120b (note: can download weights from the internet) |
| `--vision-gemma-4b-default` | use Gemma 3 4B QAT (note: can download weights from the internet) |
| `--vision-gemma-12b-default` | use Gemma 3 12B QAT (note: can download weights from the internet) |
+| `--spec-default` | enable default speculative decoding config |