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llama.cpp/common/sampling.h
Daniel Bevenius 7884b0e0ac sampling : add support for backend sampling
This commit adds support for performing sampling operations on the
backend (e.g. GPU) as part of the model computation graph.

The motivation for this feature is to enable sampling to be performed
directly on the backend as part of the computation graph being executed,
allowing for some or all of the sampling to be done on the backend.

For example, the backend sampler chain might select/sample a token
directly in which case only the sampled token needs to be transferred
from device memory to host memory.

It is also possible for the backend samplers to perform filtering of
the logits, or compute and filter the probability distribution, in
which case only the filtered logits or probabilites need to be
transferred back to system memory for further processing by CPU
samplers.

Currently the backend sampling works in a similar manner to how
pooling works, it is a function that is called by build_graph and the
sampler operations become part of the models computation graph.
2025-11-17 16:15:58 +01:00

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#pragma once
#include "llama.h"
#include "common.h"
#include <string>
#include <vector>
// common_sampler extends llama_sampler with additional functionality:
//
// - grammar support
// - custom sampler logic based on the parameters
// - history of the last accepted tokens
// - performance metrics
//
// This goal is to have a common implementation of the sampling logic shared across the examples.
// For example, depending on the temperature, the sampling chain can be very simple (greedy) or more
// complex (top-k, top-p, etc).
//
// Another example is related to the grammar. In general, the grammar constraints applied on the full
// vocabulary can be very taxing. To improve performance, the grammar can be applied only to the sampled
// token in order to verify if it fits the grammar. And only if the token doesn't fit the grammar, the
// grammar constraints are applied to the full vocabulary and the token is resampled.
//
// The common_sampler also maintains a container with the last accepted tokens. In the future, this can
// be moved into the core llama library.
//
// For convenience, the common_sampler also maintains a container with the current candidate tokens.
// This can be used to access the probabilities of the rest of the non-sampled tokens.
//
// TODO: measure grammar performance
//
struct common_sampler;
// llama_sampler API overloads
struct common_sampler * common_sampler_init(const struct llama_model * model, const struct common_params_sampling & params);
// Create a backend sampler chain from common sampling parameters
// Returns a llama_sampler chain configured with backend samplers based on the parameters
// This chain can be used per-sequence for backend-based sampling
// Note: Only samplers that have backend equivalents will be added to the chain
// The returned sampler should be freed with llama_sampler_free()
struct llama_sampler * common_sampler_backend_init(const struct llama_model * model, const struct common_params_sampling & params);
void common_sampler_free(struct common_sampler * gsmpl);
// if accept_grammar is true, the token is accepted both by the sampling chain and the grammar
void common_sampler_accept(struct common_sampler * gsmpl, llama_token token, bool accept_grammar);
void common_sampler_reset (struct common_sampler * gsmpl);
struct common_sampler * common_sampler_clone (struct common_sampler * gsmpl);
// arguments can be nullptr to skip printing
void common_perf_print(const struct llama_context * ctx, const struct common_sampler * gsmpl);
// extended sampling implementation:
//
// - set logits
// - apply the configured sampler chain
// - check if the token fits the grammar (if any)
// - if not: resample by first applying the grammar constraints and then sampling again (slower path)
//
// if grammar_first is true, the grammar is applied before the samplers (slower)
// useful in cases where all the resulting candidates (not just the sampled one) must fit the grammar
//
llama_token common_sampler_sample(struct common_sampler * gsmpl, struct llama_context * ctx, int idx, bool grammar_first = false);
// generalized version of common_sampler_sample
//
// will cross-reference the sampled tokens with a batch of draft tokens and accept those that match
// if the sampler disagrees at some point, we stop and return the accepted tokens up to now
//
// common_sampler_sample_n(gsmpl, ctx, { idx }, {});
//
// is equivalent to
//
// common_sampler_sample(gsmpl, ctx, idx);
// common_sampler_accept(gsmpl, token, true);
//
// requires: idxs.size() == draft.size() + 1
//
// returns at least 1 token, up to idxs.size()
//
std::vector<llama_token> common_sampler_sample_and_accept_n(struct common_sampler * gsmpl, struct llama_context * ctx, const std::vector<int> & idxs, const llama_tokens & draft, bool grammar_first = false);
// assume idxs == [ 0, 1, 2, ..., draft.size() ]
std::vector<llama_token> common_sampler_sample_and_accept_n(struct common_sampler * gsmpl, struct llama_context * ctx, const llama_tokens & draft, bool grammar_first = false);
uint32_t common_sampler_get_seed(const struct common_sampler * gsmpl);
// helpers
// access the internal list of current candidate tokens
// if do_sort == true, the candidates are guaranteed to be sorted afterwards (in descending order of probability)
// the .sorted flag of the result indicates whether the returned candidates are sorted
llama_token_data_array * common_sampler_get_candidates(struct common_sampler * gsmpl, bool do_sort);
// get the last accepted token
llama_token common_sampler_last(const struct common_sampler * gsmpl);
// print the sampler chain into a string
std::string common_sampler_print(const struct common_sampler * gsmpl);
// get a string representation of the last accepted tokens
std::string common_sampler_prev_str(common_sampler * gsmpl, llama_context * ctx, int n);
char common_sampler_type_to_chr(enum common_sampler_type cnstr);
std::string common_sampler_type_to_str(enum common_sampler_type cnstr);
std::vector<enum common_sampler_type> common_sampler_types_from_names(const std::vector<std::string> & names, bool allow_alt_names);
std::vector<enum common_sampler_type> common_sampler_types_from_chars(const std::string & chars);
llama_sampler * llama_sampler_init_llg(const llama_vocab * vocab,
const char * grammar_kind, const char * grammar_data);