v0.1.4

What's Changed

• Refactor Gemma ctor and improve pool NUMA support by @copybara-service in #520
• Fix the prompt wrapping of gemma3-1b by @ufownl in #523
• Add note on attention length and SFP by @copybara-service in #521
• Add support for a secondary EOS token by @copybara-service in #525
• Update app argument documentation by @copybara-service in #526
• Set the secondary EOS for Gemma2 by @ufownl in #527

Full Changelog: v0.1.3...v0.1.4

v0.1.3

• Support for PaliGemma 2 and Gemma 3.
• Major update to MatMul and MatMul-using operations; significant performance increases in multiple parts of the codebase.
• Codebase simplifications and refactors in many areas.
• Bugfixes

What's Changed

• Add more ops: Sigmoid, (Two)MatVecAdd. Faster TwoMatVec. by @veluca93 in #129
• Improve weight handling. by @veluca93 in #130
• Remove unused includes by @copybara-service in #132
• Add a benchmark and additional tests. by @veluca93 in #131
• Adding Griffin implementation. by @pculliton in #136
• Change NumGemmaLayers and NumGriffinLayers to constants in configs by @ufownl in #139
• Mention Makefile contributed by @jart by @copybara-service in #141
• Refactor data structures to reduce memory usage by @ufownl in #142
• Added functionality of storing layers activations output. by @atorero in #145
• Further improve IO, enable multiple backends without -D. by @copybara-service in #148
• Use lambda to split function and Make stream_token can break prefill by @zeerd in #156
• Simplify prefill early-exit (originally Merge #156) by @copybara-service in #158
• Fix underflow in NUQ ClusterCost() by @copybara-service in #162
• Add error-checking for py binding, add missing include+hwasan check by @copybara-service in #163
• Simplify threading: remove the use of inner_pool. by @szabadka in #167
• Use more parallelism in the QKV projections in MQA mode. by @szabadka in #170
• Fix kv offset computation for MHA config. by @szabadka in #172
• Use more parallelism in the final output of the attention block. by @szabadka in #175
• Use more parallelism in the QKV projections of the MHA block. by @szabadka in #176
• Factor out deinterleaving of bf16 vectors for MatVecs. by @samkaufman in #166
• Use more parallelism in attention block in prefill mode. by @szabadka in #177
• work with cmake install by @xinpingwang in #169
• 2x speedup of SFP decode (1.4x overall) on AVX3_DL+. by @copybara-service in #178
• Support additional scaling by @copybara-service in #181
• Store tokens/sec in auxiliary struct TimingInfo. by @copybara-service in #183
• Add TTFT to TimingInfo by @copybara-service in #186
• Make BlobWriter::Add() accept const void* by @copybara-service in #188
• Adds Kaggle testing to CI workflow by @pculliton in #189
• Fix normalization in Softmax function. by @szabadka in #194
• Clarified README by @zond in #137
• Unrolled / tiled 4x4 MatMul by @copybara-service in #199
• Refactor GemmaImpl dispatch to use Highway 1.2's HWY_DYNAMIC_DISPATCH_T by @copybara-service in #202
• Add first version of backpropagation support. by @szabadka in #203
• Fix for GenerateZeroMat call in TestTiledMatMul by @copybara-service in #206
• Remove no longer required stats.h - use Highway version instead by @copybara-service in #208
• Simplifications: remove GemmaInterface and GemmaImpl by @copybara-service in #209
• Implement mixed mode matmul: f32 * bf16 by @copybara-service in #210
• Fix Softmax on SVE by @copybara-service in #213
• Fix fix for weight type define, refs #198 by @copybara-service in #216
• Add Adam optimizer. by @szabadka in #212
• Add support for custom sampling function to runtime config. by @szabadka in #217
• Shifting large matrix init to heap in ops_test.cc by @copybara-service in #220
• Add CPU output, error if not C++17, simplify tokenizer ctor by @copybara-service in #222
• Use CompressedWeights<TConfig> in backpropagation. by @szabadka in #224
• Update benchmark with internal init by @copybara-service in #225
• Use Loader/AppArgs to construct gemma_test model, simplify AcceptFunc by @copybara-service in #227
• Implement float * SfpStream matmul by decompressing 4 * kColsA_RowsB -sized chunks of the second matrix. by @copybara-service in #231
• Add benchmark dependency to cmake build. by @szabadka in #234
• Fix numerical issue in Softcap by subtracting max. by @copybara-service in #236
• Extends Transformer() to prepare for batched processing. by @copybara-service in #238
• Tiny cleanup: distinguish between "ids" and "pieces" in argument names when encoding. by @copybara-service in #239
• Support mixed (bf16, sfp) tiled MatMul. Same sfp-decompress strategy as in (f32, by @copybara-service in #237
• Increase parallelism in ops_test by @copybara-service in #233
• Added MatMul_4x4_Batch which is MatMul_4x4, but with the first template arg moved to the first function arg, so the batch size (num A rows) can be variable at run-time. by @copybara-service in #241
• Reduce duplication in Config* by inheriting no-SSM by @copybara-service in #242
• Major duplicated code reduction in test/benchmarks by @copybara-service in #240
• Implement a missing (bf16, f32) tiled MatMul kernel. by @copybara-service in #245
• Removed now redundant non-batch matmul by @copybara-service in #246
• Integrate matmul into FFW: 4.3x prefill speedup by @copybara-service in #243
• Internal change. by @copybara-service in #244
• Added bias vector addition to MatMul by @copybara-service in #247
• Refactor CompressedWeights. by @copybara-service in #248
• Fix DASSERT - TiledBatch requires at least 2 vectors. by @copybara-service in #253
• Move raw_weights into separate header, used mainly by compress_weights. by @copybara-service in #249
• Further simplification to ForEachTensor, thanks I.K. by @copybara-service in #254
• Update developer docs and mention asan/msan by @copybara-service in #255
• 1.15x 7b sfp prefill speedup: Matmul in attention by @copybara-service in #256
• Fix Py binding/run_example: use GemmaEnv by @copybara-service in #257
• Simplify Attention. by @copybara-service in #258
• Fix debug_prompt and other binaries (internal init) by @copybara-service in #259
• Move kGriffinLayers into ConfigNoSSM, set kGemmaLayers directly by @copybara-service in #260
• Split out common parts (embedder and transformer block) from Prefill() and Transformer() into separate functions. by @copybara-service in #261
• Move test placeholder to a later pos. by @copybara-service in #263
• Code cleanup by @copybara-service in #264
• Refactor kCachePosSize and kCacheLayerSize into separate functors. by @copybara-service in #262
• Fixing two typos. by @copybara-service in #265
• Fix compilation errors in clang by @ufownl in #267
• Fix KV cache size calculation error by @ufownl in #266
• Skip the last RMSNormInplaceBatched in the Prefill phase. by @copybara-service in #268
• Improve logging when running Gemma examples: fix the issue when max_tokens, max_generated_tokens and temperature were logging without any trailing space/newline. by @copybara-service in #270
• Use hwy::ThreadPool::MaxThreads() to determine the number of threads to use. by @copybara-service in https://github.com/google/gem...

v0.1.2

• MQA implementation
• Ops refactorings and optimizations
• Bugfixes
• Model exporting script (util/convert_weights.py)

Important Note: With the MQA implementation, older 2B model artifacts need to be updated. Please re-download weights from Kaggle and ensure you have the latest version (-mqa or version 3).

What's Changed

• Clean up docs for developers by @austinvhuang in #102
• MQA Implementation for 2B models by @ufownl in #114
• Enhancing Utility Functions in ops.h by @enum-class in #105
• Added a missing space in app.h by @villesundell in #115
• Fix compilation error when HWY_COMPILER_GCC_ACTUAL < 1300 by @ufownl in #120
• .bazelversion: Bazel 7.1.1 by @LINKIWI in #122
• Add standalone tool to compress weights. by @szabadka in #125
• 1.07x speedup: merge MQA parallel sections as suggested by @veluca93 by @copybara-service in #126
• Fix off-by-one errors in generation code and token streaming callback. by @szabadka in #127

New Contributors

• @villesundell made their first contribution in #115
• @LINKIWI made their first contribution in #122
• @szabadka made their first contribution in #125

Full Changelog: v0.1.1...v0.1.2

v0.1.1

• Refactor library interfaces
• Fixes to enable android and windows builds + general improvements to builds
• Bazel builds
• CI automation
• Allow either HF or Kaggle (vs Kaggle only) for artifact downloads
• Many small fixes and quality-of-life improvements from initial 0.1.0 release

What's Changed

• Dev -> Main sync by @austinvhuang in #24
• Update build.yml by @eltociear in #22
• Fix typos by @shirayu in #32
• Allow building on Windows using clang-cl toolchain by @dcoles in #6
• Do not pass explicitly -O2 flag to compiler in Release build by @traversaro in #3
• Fix build. by @dan-zheng in #35
• reset conversation by @kishida in #34
• Rename BUILD to BUILD.bazel. by @dan-zheng in #36
• Add --eot_line option by @shirayu in #33
• clean up formatting after 129e66a by @austinvhuang in #58
• Warning fixes: unused member, cast, unused function by @copybara-service in #61
• CLI args + README improvements + cleanup by @austinvhuang in #66
• Fix for Android's 32-bit off_t. Fixes #62 by @copybara-service in #63
• Add DEVELOPERS notes on using gemma as a library by @austinvhuang in #71
• Add clang-tidy, fix narrowing issues, fix constness by @enum-class in #65
• Support Bazel builds. Fixes #16 by @copybara-service in #75
• Add instructions to download from Hugging Face Hub by @osanseviero in #74
• Separate KV cache from GemmaImpl by @ufownl in #81
• Avoid fadvise on older Android. Fixes #84 by @copybara-service in #85
• use hwy/simd for RMSNorm(f, bf, f) calculation by @enum-class in #78
• Use highway simd for SquaredL2 calculation by @enum-class in #77
• Detect and print build type. Refs #88 by @copybara-service in #92
• libgemma API refactor - decouple from interactive repl demo specifics, add hello world example using libgemma by @austinvhuang in #82
• Additional cleanup after libgemma refactor #82 by @austinvhuang in #87
• Use bf16-rounded sqrt for scaling embeddings to match Gemma by @copybara-service in #93
• Remove unused ascii banner string by @copybara-service in #96
• Allow changing k parameter of SampleTopK as a compiler flag by @ufownl in #97
• Add missing log that point to a failed Generation by @zeerd in #98

New Contributors

• @austinvhuang made their first contribution in #24
• @eltociear made their first contribution in #22
• @shirayu made their first contribution in #32
• @dcoles made their first contribution in #6
• @traversaro made their first contribution in #3
• @dan-zheng made their first contribution in #35
• @kishida made their first contribution in #34
• @copybara-service made their first contribution in #61
• @enum-class made their first contribution in #65
• @osanseviero made their first contribution in #74
• @ufownl made their first contribution in #81
• @zeerd made their first contribution in #98

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.1

v0.1.0

Initial release.