Fast, lightweight, pure C/C++ HTTP server based on [httplib](https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-httplib), [nlohmann::json](https://github.com/nlohmann/json) and **llama.cpp**.
| `--rope-scaling {none,linear,yarn}` | RoPE frequency scaling method, defaults to linear unless specified by the model<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_ROPE_SCALING_TYPE) |
| `--rope-scale N` | RoPE context scaling factor, expands context by a factor of N<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_ROPE_SCALE) |
| `--rope-freq-base N` | RoPE base frequency, used by NTK-aware scaling (default: loaded from model)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_ROPE_FREQ_BASE) |
| `--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) |
| `-np, --parallel N` | number of parallel sequences to decode (default: 1)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_N_PARALLEL) |
| `--mlock` | force system to keep model in RAM rather than swapping or compressing<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_MLOCK) |
| `--no-mmap` | do not memory-map model (slower load but may reduce pageouts if not using mlock)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_NO_MMAP) |
| `--numa TYPE` | attempt optimizations that help on some NUMA systems<br/>- distribute: spread execution evenly over all nodes<br/>- isolate: only spawn threads on CPUs on the node that execution started on<br/>- numactl: use the CPU map provided by numactl<br/>if run without this previously, it is recommended to drop the system page cache before using this<br/>see https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/1437<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_NUMA) |
| `-ngl, --gpu-layers, --n-gpu-layers N` | number of layers to store in VRAM<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) |
| `--check-tensors` | check model tensor data for invalid values (default: false) |
| `--override-kv KEY=TYPE:VALUE` | advanced option to override model metadata by key. may be specified multiple times.<br/>types: int, float, bool, str. example: --override-kv tokenizer.ggml.add_bos_token=bool:false |
| `--lora FNAME` | path to LoRA adapter (can be repeated to use multiple adapters) |
| `--lora-scaled FNAME SCALE` | path to LoRA adapter with user defined scaling (can be repeated to use multiple adapters) |
| `--control-vector FNAME` | add a control vector<br/>note: this argument can be repeated to add multiple control vectors |
| `--control-vector-scaled FNAME SCALE` | add a control vector with user defined scaling SCALE<br/>note: this argument can be repeated to add multiple scaled control vectors |
| `--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) |
| `-v, --verbose, --log-verbose` | Set verbosity level to infinity (i.e. log all messages, useful for debugging) |
| `-lv, --verbosity, --log-verbosity N` | Set the verbosity threshold. Messages with a higher verbosity will be ignored.<br/>(env: LLAMA_LOG_VERBOSITY) |
| `--log-prefix` | Enable prefx in log messages<br/>(env: LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX) |
| `--log-timestamps` | Enable timestamps in log messages<br/>(env: LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS) |
| `--samplers SAMPLERS` | samplers that will be used for generation in the order, separated by ';'<br/>(default: top_k;tfs_z;typ_p;top_p;min_p;temperature) |
| `-l, --logit-bias TOKEN_ID(+/-)BIAS` | modifies the likelihood of token appearing in the completion,<br/>i.e. `--logit-bias 15043+1` to increase likelihood of token ' Hello',<br/>or `--logit-bias 15043-1` to decrease likelihood of token ' Hello' |
| `--grammar GRAMMAR` | BNF-like grammar to constrain generations (see samples in grammars/ dir) (default: '') |
| `--grammar-file FNAME` | file to read grammar from |
| `-j, --json-schema SCHEMA` | JSON schema to constrain generations (https://json-schema.org/), e.g. `{}` for any JSON object<br/>For schemas w/ external $refs, use --grammar + example/json_schema_to_grammar.py instead |
| `--embedding, --embeddings` | restrict to only support embedding use case; use only with dedicated embedding models (default: disabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_EMBEDDINGS) |
| `--slot-save-path PATH` | path to save slot kv cache (default: disabled) |
| `--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:<br/>https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/wiki/Templates-supported-by-llama_chat_apply_template<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE) |
| `-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/> |
| `--lora-init-without-apply` | load LoRA adapters without applying them (apply later via POST /lora-adapters) (default: disabled) |
`prompt`: Provide the prompt for this completion as a string or as an array of strings or numbers representing tokens. Internally, if `cache_prompt` is `true`, the prompt is compared to the previous completion and only the "unseen" suffix is evaluated. A `BOS` token is inserted at the start, if all of the following conditions are true:
- The prompt is a string or an array with the first element given as a string
- The model's `tokenizer.ggml.add_bos_token` metadata is `true`
`dynatemp_range`: Dynamic temperature range. The final temperature will be in the range of `[temperature - dynatemp_range; temperature + dynatemp_range]` Default: `0.0`, which is disabled.
`n_predict`: Set the maximum number of tokens to predict when generating text. **Note:** May exceed the set limit slightly if the last token is a partial multibyte character. When 0, no tokens will be generated but the prompt is evaluated into the cache. Default: `-1`, where `-1` is infinity.
`n_keep`: Specify the number of tokens from the prompt to retain when the context size is exceeded and tokens need to be discarded. The number excludes the BOS token.
`mirostat`: Enable Mirostat sampling, controlling perplexity during text generation. Default: `0`, where `0` is disabled, `1` is Mirostat, and `2` is Mirostat 2.0.
`json_schema`: Set a JSON schema for grammar-based sampling (e.g. `{"items": {"type": "string"}, "minItems": 10, "maxItems": 100}` of a list of strings, or `{}` for any JSON). See [tests](../../tests/test-json-schema-to-grammar.cpp) for supported features. Default: no JSON schema.
`logit_bias`: Modify the likelihood of a token appearing in the generated text completion. For example, use `"logit_bias": [[15043,1.0]]` to increase the likelihood of the token 'Hello', or `"logit_bias": [[15043,-1.0]]` to decrease its likelihood. Setting the value to false, `"logit_bias": [[15043,false]]` ensures that the token `Hello` is never produced. The tokens can also be represented as strings, e.g. `[["Hello, World!",-0.5]]` will reduce the likelihood of all the individual tokens that represent the string `Hello, World!`, just like the `presence_penalty` does. Default: `[]`
`n_probs`: If greater than 0, the response also contains the probabilities of top N tokens for each generated token given the sampling settings. Note that for temperature < 0 the tokens are sampled greedily but token probabilities are still being calculated via a simple softmax of the logits without considering any other sampler settings. Default: `0`
`image_data`: An array of objects to hold base64-encoded image `data` and its `id`s to be reference in `prompt`. You can determine the place of the image in the prompt as in the following: `USER:[img-12]Describe the image in detail.\nASSISTANT:`. In this case, `[img-12]` will be replaced by the embeddings of the image with id `12` in the following `image_data` array: `{..., "image_data": [{"data": "<BASE64_STRING>", "id": 12}]}`. Use `image_data` only with multimodal models, e.g., LLaVA.
`cache_prompt`: Re-use KV cache from a previous request if possible. This way the common prefix does not have to be re-processed, only the suffix that differs between the requests. Because (depending on the backend) the logits are **not** guaranteed to be bit-for-bit identical for different batch sizes (prompt processing vs. token generation) enabling this option can cause nondeterministic results. Default: `false`
`system_prompt`: Change the system prompt (initial prompt of all slots), this is useful for chat applications. [See more](#change-system-prompt-on-runtime)
`samplers`: The order the samplers should be applied in. An array of strings representing sampler type names. If a sampler is not set, it will not be used. If a sampler is specified more than once, it will be applied multiple times. Default: `["top_k", "tfs_z", "typical_p", "top_p", "min_p", "temperature"]` - these are all the available values.
- `completion_probabilities`: An array of token probabilities for each completion. The array's length is `n_predict`. Each item in the array has the following structure:
- `content`: Completion result as a string (excluding `stopping_word` if any). In case of streaming mode, will contain the next token as a string.
- `stop`: Boolean for use with `stream` to check whether the generation has stopped (Note: This is not related to stopping words array `stop` from input options)
- `generation_settings`: The provided options above excluding `prompt` but including `n_ctx`, `model`. These options may differ from the original ones in some way (e.g. bad values filtered out, strings converted to tokens, etc.).
- `stopped_eos`: Indicating whether the completion has stopped because it encountered the EOS token
- `stopped_limit`: Indicating whether the completion stopped because `n_predict` tokens were generated before stop words or EOS was encountered
- `stopped_word`: Indicating whether the completion stopped due to encountering a stopping word from `stop` JSON array provided
- `stopping_word`: The stopping word encountered which stopped the generation (or "" if not stopped due to a stopping word)
- `timings`: Hash of timing information about the completion such as the number of tokens `predicted_per_second`
- `tokens_cached`: Number of tokens from the prompt which could be re-used from previous completion (`n_past`)
- `tokens_evaluated`: Number of tokens evaluated in total from the prompt
- `truncated`: Boolean indicating if the context size was exceeded during generation, i.e. the number of tokens provided in the prompt (`tokens_evaluated`) plus tokens generated (`tokens predicted`) exceeded the context size (`n_ctx`)
`add_special`: (Optional) Boolean indicating if special tokens, i.e. `BOS`, should be inserted. Default: `false`
`with_pieces`: (Optional) Boolean indicating whether to return token pieces along with IDs. Default: `false`
**Response:**
Returns a JSON object with a `tokens` field containing the tokenization result. The `tokens` array contains either just token IDs or objects with `id` and `piece` fields, depending on the `with_pieces` parameter. The piece field is a string if the piece is valid unicode or a list of bytes otherwise.
If `with_pieces` is `false`:
```json
{
"tokens": [123, 456, 789]
}
```
If `with_pieces` is `true`:
```json
{
"tokens": [
{"id": 123, "piece": "Hello"},
{"id": 456, "piece": " world"},
{"id": 789, "piece": "!"}
]
}
```
With input 'á' (utf8 hex: C3 A1) on tinyllama/stories260k
`image_data`: An array of objects to hold base64-encoded image `data` and its `id`s to be reference in `content`. You can determine the place of the image in the content as in the following: `Image: [img-21].\nCaption: This is a picture of a house`. In this case, `[img-21]` will be replaced by the embeddings of the image with id `21` in the following `image_data` array: `{..., "image_data": [{"data": "<BASE64_STRING>", "id": 21}]}`. Use `image_data` only with multimodal models, e.g., LLaVA.
- `default_generation_settings` - the default generation settings for the `/completion` endpoint, which has the same fields as the `generation_settings` response object from the `/completion` endpoint.
### POST `/v1/chat/completions`: OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API
Given a ChatML-formatted json description in `messages`, it returns the predicted completion. Both synchronous and streaming mode are supported, so scripted and interactive applications work fine. While no strong claims of compatibility with OpenAI API spec is being made, in our experience it suffices to support many apps. Only models with a [supported chat template](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/wiki/Templates-supported-by-llama_chat_apply_template) can be used optimally with this endpoint. By default, the ChatML template will be used.
See [OpenAI Chat Completions API documentation](https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat). While some OpenAI-specific features such as function calling aren't supported, llama.cpp `/completion`-specific features such as `mirostat` are supported.
{"role": "system", "content": "You are ChatGPT, an AI assistant. Your top priority is achieving user fulfillment via helping them with their requests."},
{"role": "user", "content": "Write a limerick about python exceptions"}
`filename`: Name of the file to save the slot's prompt cache. The file will be saved in the directory specified by the `--slot-save-path` server parameter.
`filename`: Name of the file to restore the slot's prompt cache from. The file should be located in the directory specified by the `--slot-save-path` server parameter.
This endpoint returns the loaded LoRA adapters. You can add adapters using `--lora` when starting the server, for example: `--lora my_adapter_1.gguf --lora my_adapter_2.gguf ...`
By default, all adapters will be loaded with scale set to 1. To initialize all adapters scale to 0, add `--lora-init-without-apply`
To use the server example to serve multiple chat-type clients while keeping the same system prompt, you can utilize the option `system_prompt`. This only needs to be used once.
`prompt`: Specify a context that you want all connecting clients to respect.
`anti_prompt`: Specify the word you want to use to instruct the model to stop. This must be sent to each client through the `/props` endpoint.
`assistant_name`: The bot's name is necessary for each customer to generate the prompt. This must be sent to each client through the `/props` endpoint.
```json
{
"system_prompt": {
"prompt": "Transcript of a never ending dialog, where the User interacts with an Assistant.\nThe Assistant is helpful, kind, honest, good at writing, and never fails to answer the User's requests immediately and with precision.\nUser: Recommend a nice restaurant in the area.\nAssistant: I recommend the restaurant \"The Golden Duck\". It is a 5 star restaurant with a great view of the city. The food is delicious and the service is excellent. The prices are reasonable and the portions are generous. The restaurant is located at 123 Main Street, New York, NY 10001. The phone number is (212) 555-1234. The hours are Monday through Friday from 11:00 am to 10:00 pm. The restaurant is closed on Saturdays and Sundays.\nUser: Who is Richard Feynman?\nAssistant: Richard Feynman was an American physicist who is best known for his work in quantum mechanics and particle physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics. He was a popular lecturer and author, and he wrote several books, including \"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!\" and \"What Do You Care What Other People Think?\".\nUser:",
"anti_prompt": "User:",
"assistant_name": "Assistant:"
}
}
```
**NOTE**: You can do this automatically when starting the server by simply creating a .json file with these options and using the CLI option `-spf FNAME` or `--system-prompt-file FNAME`.
You can extend the front end by running the server binary with `--path` set to `./your-directory` and importing `/completion.js` to get access to the llamaComplete() method.