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  • New Features

    • TTS conversion now defaults to Q8_0; f16 and f32 remain supported.
    • Added benchmarks for ASR, TTS, diarization, and translation, with latency, throughput, and per-input results.
    • Added optimized CUDA paths for MagpieTTS generation and NanoCodec streaming, with fallbacks for unsupported configurations.
    • Added configurable CPU thread counts and CUDA stream priorities.
    • Added fused CUDA attention and convolution paths for supported workloads.
  • Documentation

    • Added benchmark guidance and performance results for streaming ASR and MagpieTTS.
    • Updated installation guidance for prebuilt releases, source builds, and checksum verification.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved CUDA synchronization and cache handling during speech generation.
    • Improved reliability of CUDA attention and reduction operations.

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The pull request changes TTS conversion defaults to Q8_0, adds fused CUDA and persistent streaming paths for MagpieTTS and NanoCodec, expands GGML support, and adds task-based CLI benchmarks for ASR, TTS, diarization, and translation.

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Speech conversion and runtime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Q8_0 conversion
conversion/registry.py, conversion/tts.py, docs/tts/models.md, tests/conversion/converter_contract_test.py
TTS defaults to Q8_0. Eligible projection weights use Q8_0. F16 and F32 remain supported. Tests and documentation describe the output types.
MagpieTTS CUDA execution
src/tts/magpietts/*, ggml-patches/0014-cuda-fused-attention-extensions.patch, ggml-patches/0017-cuda-stream-interop.patch
MagpieTTS adds fused decoder and local-transformer paths, cached attention handling, CUDA stream priority, persistent allocators, sampling changes, and graph fallbacks.
NanoCodec streaming execution
src/tts/nanocodec/*, ggml-patches/0024-cuda-im2col-1d-tiled.patch, ggml-patches/0025-cuda-conv1d-fused.patch, ggml-patches/0026-cuda-backend-graphs-toggle.patch, ggml-patches/0027-cuda-block-reduce-barrier.patch, ggml-patches/0028-cuda-conv1d-preactivation.patch
NanoCodec prepares fused and grouped convolution paths. Streaming state remains in backend tensors and graph writebacks.
GGML dispatch and CPU support
ggml-patches/0029-cuda-skinny-q8-history-independent-dispatch.patch, ggml-patches/0030-cpu-fp16-conversion-im2col.patch, src/runtime/ggml/nn.cpp, src/runtime/ggml/runtime.h, src/runtime/ggml/session.cpp
Q8 dispatch uses total column count. CPU im2col work uses output-position ranges. Configured CPU thread counts reach scheduled graph execution.

Multi-workload benchmarking

Layer / File(s) Summary
Benchmark framework and CLI wiring
app/bench.*, app/CMakeLists.txt, app/main.cpp, app/commands.h, app/synthesize.cpp, src/core/engine_registry.h
The benchmark command uses workload interfaces, task dispatch, common metrics, conditional workload builds, and eight-step TTS warmup.
Benchmark workloads and reporting
app/bench_asr.cpp, app/bench_tts.cpp, app/bench_diarize.cpp, app/bench_translate.cpp, docs/cli.md, BENCHMARK.md, README.md, test_files/tts/*
Workloads add input handling, execution, latency and throughput metrics, mismatch reporting, fixtures, benchmark results, and usage documentation.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MagpieGeneration
  participant PrefetchWorker
  participant MagpieEncoder
  participant MagpieDecoder
  MagpieGeneration->>PrefetchWorker: Start prefill for the next chunk
  PrefetchWorker->>MagpieEncoder: Encode the next text window
  PrefetchWorker->>MagpieDecoder: Build paired decoder prefill
  MagpieDecoder-->>PrefetchWorker: Return prefetched state
  PrefetchWorker-->>MagpieGeneration: Provide prefetched state
  MagpieGeneration->>MagpieDecoder: Adopt matching state or run normal decoding
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- Line 26: Update the declared gguf minimum version so it provides
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widths above 128, rather than only the first two rows per warp; preserve the
existing supported-width checks.

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- Around line 1270-1273: Update magpietts_lt_fused_capture_round’s argument
validation to reject codebook indices outside the valid round range and reject
missing codes when the index is greater than zero; preserve the existing
invalid-argument error and return behavior.

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- Around line 1292-1294: Update the prefetch_enabled condition to require
h.dec_kernel == 1 before enabling prefetch. This keeps models whose decoder
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- Persistent LT chain kernel: all rounds in one launch with in-kernel sampling (Q8_0 proj)
- Fused tensor-core conv1d op for the NanoCodec decoder, replacing im2col + cuBLAS
- Persistent decoder runtime reused across text chunks
- Converter: --outtype q8_0 for MagpieTTS, now the default
… prefetch path

- prefetch the next chunk's encoder pass, cross K/V and baked-context prefill on a side backend and seed the persistent decoder from it
- cache the constant unconditional-lane prefill; defer the alignment readback past the sampler launch
- LT sampler: Gumbel-max with exact top-k acceptance, deterministic and distribution-equivalent
- keep the prefetch thread off the driver lock: allocator reuse, grow-only device tensors, no CUDA graph capture on the side backend, codec stream priority above side streams
- ggml: per-backend CUDA graph toggle (0026) and a barrier in block_reduce fixing a soft_max race under SM sharing (0027)
- build on stock ggml: patched-only ops and CUDA interop behind NEMO_SPEECH_GGML_PATCHED
- gate the fast kernels to sm_80+ at runtime with arch-safe fallbacks; enable them on any GPU with 64+ SMs
- remove the runtime switches; paths are chosen from backend, GPU and model
- fix sampler argmax, stale sampler graph on top-k/CFG changes, prefill-cache race and lt-fp32 with q8_0 models
- select persistent kernel tier at runtime from SM count
- skip cp.async L2 hint on Hopper+ (ptxas miscompile)
- L2-prefetch upcoming weights when the cache fits them
- build the persistent runtime once; fix first-request and first-audio latency
- generic bench command; bench tts reports TTFA, inter-chunk latency, RTFx
- add BENCHMARK.md and README performance section
- N <= 8 always runs MMVQ (planar after a repack), wider calls always skinny-Q8 (patch 0029)
- fixes outputs changing with earlier requests, e.g. MagpieTTS audio after a short sentence
- remove GGML_SKINNY_Q8_OUTER_BATCH; match the cached-F16 check in nn.cpp
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- enable llamafile tinyBLAS GEMM by default; stock ggml leaves CPU matmuls on per-output dot products
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@pskrunner14 pskrunner14 changed the title perf(tts): Magpie TTS - CUDA fast path perf(tts): Magpie TTS - CUDA/CPU fast path Sep 30, 2026

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LGTM

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pskrunner14 merged commit 4c101bc into main Sep 30, 2026
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