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15 changes: 14 additions & 1 deletion common/arg.cpp
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Expand Up @@ -694,6 +694,12 @@ static bool is_autoy(const std::string & value) {
}

common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_example ex, void(*print_usage)(int, char **)) {
// default values specific to example
// note: we place it here instead of inside server.cpp to allow llama-gen-docs to pick it up
if (ex == LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER) {
params.use_jinja = true;
}

// load dynamic backends
ggml_backend_load_all();

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).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}));
add_opt(common_arg(
{"--jinja"},
"use jinja template for chat (default: disabled)",
string_format("use jinja template for chat (default: %s)\n", params.use_jinja ? "enabled" : "disabled"),
[](common_params & params) {
params.use_jinja = true;
}
).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_MAIN, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_MTMD}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_JINJA"));
add_opt(common_arg(
{"--no-jinja"},
string_format("disable jinja template for chat (default: %s)\n", params.use_jinja ? "enabled" : "disabled"),
[](common_params & params) {
params.use_jinja = false;
}
).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_MAIN, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_MTMD}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_NO_JINJA"));
add_opt(common_arg(
{"--reasoning-format"}, "FORMAT",
"controls whether thought tags are allowed and/or extracted from the response, and in which format they're returned; one of:\n"
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41 changes: 25 additions & 16 deletions tools/server/README.md
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Expand Up @@ -30,9 +30,10 @@ The project is under active development, and we are [looking for feedback and co
| -------- | ----------- |
| `-h, --help, --usage` | print usage and exit |
| `--version` | show version and build info |
| `-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 threads to use during generation (default: -1)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_THREADS) |
| `-t, --threads N` | number of CPU threads to use during generation (default: -1)<br/>(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: "") |
| `-Cr, --cpu-range lo-hi` | range of CPUs for affinity. Complements --cpu-mask |
Expand All @@ -51,7 +52,7 @@ The project is under active development, and we are [looking for feedback and co
| `--keep N` | number of tokens to keep from the initial prompt (default: 0, -1 = all) |
| `--swa-full` | use full-size SWA cache (default: false)<br/>[(more info)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/13194#issuecomment-2868343055)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_SWA_FULL) |
| `--kv-unified, -kvu` | use single unified KV buffer for the KV cache of all sequences (default: false)<br/>[(more info)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/14363)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_KV_SPLIT) |
| `-fa, --flash-attn` | enable Flash Attention (default: disabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_FLASH_ATTN) |
| `-fa, --flash-attn [on\|off\|auto]` | set Flash Attention use ('on', 'off', or 'auto', default: 'auto')<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_FLASH_ATTN) |
| `--no-perf` | disable internal libllama performance timings (default: false)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_NO_PERF) |
| `-e, --escape` | process escapes sequences (\n, \r, \t, \', \", \\) (default: true) |
| `--no-escape` | do not process escape sequences |
Expand All @@ -61,11 +62,12 @@ The project is under active development, and we are [looking for feedback and co
| `--rope-freq-scale N` | RoPE frequency scaling factor, expands context by a factor of 1/N<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_ROPE_FREQ_SCALE) |
| `--yarn-orig-ctx N` | YaRN: original context size of model (default: 0 = model training context size)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_YARN_ORIG_CTX) |
| `--yarn-ext-factor N` | YaRN: extrapolation mix factor (default: -1.0, 0.0 = full interpolation)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_YARN_EXT_FACTOR) |
| `--yarn-attn-factor N` | YaRN: scale sqrt(t) or attention magnitude (default: 1.0)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_YARN_ATTN_FACTOR) |
| `--yarn-beta-slow N` | YaRN: high correction dim or alpha (default: 1.0)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_YARN_BETA_SLOW) |
| `--yarn-beta-fast N` | YaRN: low correction dim or beta (default: 32.0)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_YARN_BETA_FAST) |
| `--yarn-attn-factor N` | YaRN: scale sqrt(t) or attention magnitude (default: -1.0)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_YARN_ATTN_FACTOR) |
| `--yarn-beta-slow N` | YaRN: high correction dim or alpha (default: -1.0)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_YARN_BETA_SLOW) |
| `--yarn-beta-fast N` | YaRN: low correction dim or beta (default: -1.0)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_YARN_BETA_FAST) |
| `-nkvo, --no-kv-offload` | disable KV offload<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_NO_KV_OFFLOAD) |
| `-nr, --no-repack` | disable weight repacking<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_NO_REPACK) |
| `--no-host` | bypass host buffer allowing extra buffers to be used<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_NO_HOST) |
| `-ctk, --cache-type-k TYPE` | KV cache data type for K<br/>allowed values: f32, f16, bf16, q8_0, q4_0, q4_1, iq4_nl, q5_0, q5_1<br/>(default: f16)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CACHE_TYPE_K) |
| `-ctv, --cache-type-v TYPE` | KV cache data type for V<br/>allowed values: f32, f16, bf16, q8_0, q4_0, q4_1, iq4_nl, q5_0, q5_1<br/>(default: f16)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CACHE_TYPE_V) |
| `-dt, --defrag-thold N` | KV cache defragmentation threshold (DEPRECATED)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DEFRAG_THOLD) |
Expand All @@ -78,7 +80,7 @@ The project is under active development, and we are [looking for feedback and co
| `--override-tensor, -ot <tensor name pattern>=<buffer type>,...` | override tensor buffer type |
| `--cpu-moe, -cmoe` | keep all Mixture of Experts (MoE) weights in the CPU<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CPU_MOE) |
| `--n-cpu-moe, -ncmoe N` | keep the Mixture of Experts (MoE) weights of the first N layers in the CPU<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_N_CPU_MOE) |
| `-ngl, --gpu-layers, --n-gpu-layers N` | number of layers to store in VRAM<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_N_GPU_LAYERS) |
| `-ngl, --gpu-layers, --n-gpu-layers N` | max. number of layers to store in VRAM (default: -1)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_N_GPU_LAYERS) |
| `-sm, --split-mode {none,layer,row}` | how to split the model across multiple GPUs, one of:<br/>- none: use one GPU only<br/>- layer (default): split layers and KV across GPUs<br/>- row: split rows across GPUs<br/>(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<br/>(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)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_MAIN_GPU) |
Expand All @@ -92,6 +94,7 @@ The project is under active development, and we are [looking for feedback and co
| `--control-vector-layer-range START END` | layer range to apply the control vector(s) to, start and end inclusive |
| `-m, --model FNAME` | model path (default: `models/$filename` with filename from `--hf-file` or `--model-url` if set, otherwise models/7B/ggml-model-f16.gguf)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_MODEL) |
| `-mu, --model-url MODEL_URL` | model download url (default: unused)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_MODEL_URL) |
| `-dr, --docker-repo [<repo>/]<model>[:quant]` | Docker Hub model repository. repo is optional, default to ai/. quant is optional, default to :latest.<br/>example: gemma3<br/>(default: unused)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DOCKER_REPO) |
| `-hf, -hfr, --hf-repo <user>/<model>[: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.<br/>mmproj is also downloaded automatically if available. to disable, add --no-mmproj<br/>example: unsloth/phi-4-GGUF:q4_k_m<br/>(default: unused)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_HF_REPO) |
| `-hfd, -hfrd, --hf-repo-draft <user>/<model>[:quant]` | Same as --hf-repo, but for the draft model (default: unused)<br/>(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)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_HF_FILE) |
Expand All @@ -100,7 +103,7 @@ The project is under active development, and we are [looking for feedback and co
| `-hft, --hf-token TOKEN` | Hugging Face access token (default: value from HF_TOKEN environment variable)<br/>(env: HF_TOKEN) |
| `--log-disable` | Log disable |
| `--log-file FNAME` | Log to file |
| `--log-colors` | Enable colored logging<br/>(env: LLAMA_LOG_COLORS) |
| `--log-colors [on\|off\|auto]` | Set colored logging ('on', 'off', or 'auto', default: 'auto')<br/>'auto' enables colors when output is to a terminal<br/>(env: LLAMA_LOG_COLORS) |
| `-v, --verbose, --log-verbose` | Set verbosity level to infinity (i.e. log all messages, useful for debugging) |
| `--offline` | Offline mode: forces use of cache, prevents network access<br/>(env: LLAMA_OFFLINE) |
| `-lv, --verbosity, --log-verbosity N` | Set the verbosity threshold. Messages with a higher verbosity will be ignored.<br/>(env: LLAMA_LOG_VERBOSITY) |
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| Argument | Explanation |
| -------- | ----------- |
| `--swa-checkpoints N` | max number of SWA checkpoints per slot to create (default: 3)<br/>[(more info)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/15293)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_SWA_CHECKPOINTS) |
| `--ctx-checkpoints, --swa-checkpoints N` | max number of context checkpoints to create per slot (default: 8)<br/>[(more info)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/15293)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CTX_CHECKPOINTS) |
| `--cache-ram, -cram N` | set the maximum cache size in MiB (default: 8192, -1 - no limit, 0 - disable)<br/>[(more info)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/16391)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CACHE_RAM) |
| `--no-context-shift` | disables context shift on infinite text generation (default: enabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_NO_CONTEXT_SHIFT) |
| `--context-shift` | enables context shift on infinite text generation (default: disabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CONTEXT_SHIFT) |
| `-r, --reverse-prompt PROMPT` | halt generation at PROMPT, return control in interactive mode<br/> |
Expand All @@ -165,6 +169,8 @@ The project is under active development, and we are [looking for feedback and co
| `--mmproj-url URL` | URL to a multimodal projector file. see tools/mtmd/README.md<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_MMPROJ_URL) |
| `--no-mmproj` | explicitly disable multimodal projector, useful when using -hf<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_NO_MMPROJ) |
| `--no-mmproj-offload` | do not offload multimodal projector to GPU<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_NO_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)<br/>(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)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_IMAGE_MAX_TOKENS) |
| `--override-tensor-draft, -otd <tensor name pattern>=<buffer type>,...` | override tensor buffer type for draft model |
| `--cpu-moe-draft, -cmoed` | keep all Mixture of Experts (MoE) weights in the CPU for the draft model<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CPU_MOE_DRAFT) |
| `--n-cpu-moe-draft, -ncmoed N` | keep the Mixture of Experts (MoE) weights of the first N layers in the CPU for the draft model<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_N_CPU_MOE_DRAFT) |
Expand All @@ -189,13 +195,14 @@ The project is under active development, and we are [looking for feedback and co
| `--slots` | enable slots monitoring endpoint (default: enabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_ENDPOINT_SLOTS) |
| `--no-slots` | disables slots monitoring endpoint<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_NO_ENDPOINT_SLOTS) |
| `--slot-save-path PATH` | path to save slot kv cache (default: disabled) |
| `--jinja` | use jinja template for chat (default: disabled)<br/>(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:<br/>- none: leaves thoughts unparsed in `message.content`<br/>- deepseek: puts thoughts in `message.reasoning_content`<br/>- deepseek-legacy: keeps `<think>` tags in `message.content` while also populating `message.reasoning_content`<br/>(default: deepseek)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_THINK) |
| `--jinja` | use jinja template for chat (default: enabled)<br/><br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_JINJA) |
| `--no-jinja` | disable jinja template for chat (default: enabled)<br/><br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_NO_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:<br/>- none: leaves thoughts unparsed in `message.content`<br/>- deepseek: puts thoughts in `message.reasoning_content`<br/>- deepseek-legacy: keeps `<think>` tags in `message.content` while also populating `message.reasoning_content`<br/>(default: auto)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_THINK) |
| `--reasoning-budget N` | controls the amount of thinking allowed; currently only one of: -1 for unrestricted thinking budget, or 0 to disable thinking (default: -1)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_THINK_BUDGET) |
| `--chat-template JINJA_TEMPLATE` | set custom jinja chat template (default: template taken from model's metadata)<br/>if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled<br/>only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):<br/>list of built-in templates:<br/>bailing, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek2, deepseek3, exaone3, exaone4, falcon3, gemma, gigachat, glmedge, gpt-oss, granite, 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, phi3, phi4, rwkv-world, seed_oss, smolvlm, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE) |
| `--chat-template-file JINJA_TEMPLATE_FILE` | set custom jinja chat template file (default: template taken from model's metadata)<br/>if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled<br/>only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):<br/>list of built-in templates:<br/>bailing, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek2, deepseek3, exaone3, exaone4, falcon3, gemma, gigachat, glmedge, gpt-oss, granite, 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, phi3, phi4, rwkv-world, seed_oss, smolvlm, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE_FILE) |
| `--chat-template JINJA_TEMPLATE` | set custom jinja chat template (default: template taken from model's metadata)<br/>if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled<br/>only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):<br/>list of built-in templates:<br/>bailing, bailing-think, bailing2, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek2, deepseek3, 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, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE) |
| `--chat-template-file JINJA_TEMPLATE_FILE` | set custom jinja chat template file (default: template taken from model's metadata)<br/>if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled<br/>only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):<br/>list of built-in templates:<br/>bailing, bailing-think, bailing2, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek2, deepseek3, 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, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE_FILE) |
| `--no-prefill-assistant` | whether to prefill the assistant's response if the last message is an assistant message (default: prefill enabled)<br/>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<br/><br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_NO_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: 0.50, 0.0 = disabled)<br/> |
| `-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)<br/> |
| `--lora-init-without-apply` | load LoRA adapters without applying them (apply later via POST /lora-adapters) (default: 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) |
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| `--spec-replace TARGET DRAFT` | translate the string in TARGET into DRAFT if the draft model and main model are not compatible |
| `-mv, --model-vocoder FNAME` | vocoder model for audio generation (default: unused) |
| `--tts-use-guide-tokens` | Use guide tokens to improve TTS word recall |
| `--embd-bge-small-en-default` | use default bge-small-en-v1.5 model (note: can download weights from the internet) |
| `--embd-e5-small-en-default` | use default e5-small-v2 model (note: can download weights from the internet) |
| `--embd-gte-small-default` | use default gte-small model (note: can download weights from the internet) |
| `--embd-gemma-default` | use default EmbeddingGemma model (note: can download weights from the internet) |
| `--fim-qwen-1.5b-default` | use default Qwen 2.5 Coder 1.5B (note: can download weights from the internet) |
| `--fim-qwen-3b-default` | use default Qwen 2.5 Coder 3B (note: can download weights from the internet) |
| `--fim-qwen-7b-default` | use default Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B (note: can download weights from the internet) |
| `--fim-qwen-7b-spec` | use Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B + 0.5B draft for speculative decoding (note: can download weights from the internet) |
| `--fim-qwen-14b-spec` | use Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B + 0.5B draft for speculative decoding (note: can download weights from the internet) |
| `--fim-qwen-30b-default` | use default Qwen 3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct (note: can download weights from the internet) |
| `--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) |


Note: If both command line argument and environment variable are both set for the same param, the argument will take precedence over env var.
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server_args.append("--no-webui")
if self.jinja:
server_args.append("--jinja")
else:
server_args.append("--no-jinja")
if self.reasoning_format is not None:
server_args.extend(("--reasoning-format", self.reasoning_format))
if self.reasoning_budget is not None:
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