Merge branch 'upstream' into concedo_experimental

# Conflicts:
#	docs/backend/OPENCL.md
#	ggml/CMakeLists.txt
#	ggml/src/ggml-cpu/CMakeLists.txt
#	ggml/src/ggml-cpu/kleidiai/kernels.cpp
#	ggml/src/ggml-cpu/kleidiai/kernels.h
#	ggml/src/ggml-cpu/kleidiai/kleidiai.cpp
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/ggml-hexagon.cpp
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp-drv.cpp
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp-drv.h
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp/CMakeLists.txt
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp/act-ops.c
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp/argsort-ops.c
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp/binary-ops.c
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp/cumsum-ops.c
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp/flash-attn-ops.c
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp/hex-dma.h
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp/hex-profile.h
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp/hex-utils.h
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp/hmx-mm-kernels-tiled.h
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp/hmx-queue.c
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp/hmx-queue.h
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp/htp-ctx.h
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp/htp-ops.h
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp/main.c
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp/matmul-ops.c
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp/matmul-ops.h
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp/rope-ops.c
#	ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/htp/unary-ops.c
#	ggml/src/ggml-opencl/CMakeLists.txt
#	ggml/src/ggml-opencl/ggml-opencl.cpp
#	ggml/src/ggml-opencl/kernels/gemm_moe_mxfp4_q8_1_dp4a.cl
#	ggml/src/ggml-opencl/kernels/gemm_moe_q4_0_q8_1_dp4a.cl
#	ggml/src/ggml-opencl/kernels/gemm_moe_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a.cl
#	ggml/src/ggml-opencl/kernels/gemm_moe_q6_k_q8_1_dp4a.cl
#	ggml/src/ggml-opencl/kernels/gemm_moe_q8_1_dp4a.cl
#	ggml/src/ggml-opencl/kernels/gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_f32.cl
#	ggml/src/ggml-opencl/kernels/gemm_noshuffle_q4_k_q8_1_dp4a.cl
#	ggml/src/ggml-opencl/kernels/gemv_noshuffle_q4_k_f32.cl
#	ggml/src/ggml-opencl/kernels/mul_mv_q4_k_f32_flat.cl
#	ggml/src/ggml-opencl/kernels/mul_mv_q5_k_f32_flat.cl
#	ggml/src/ggml-sycl/dmmv.cpp
#	scripts/snapdragon/ggml-hexagon-profile.py
#	scripts/sync-ggml.last
#	tests/CMakeLists.txt
#	tests/test-backend-ops.cpp
#	tests/test-llama-archs.cpp
#	tests/test-recurrent-state-rollback.cpp
#	tools/cli/README.md
#	tools/completion/README.md
#	tools/server/README.md

ggml/include/ggml-cpu.h

@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ extern "C" {
     GGML_BACKEND_API int ggml_cpu_has_sve        (void);
     GGML_BACKEND_API int ggml_cpu_get_sve_cnt    (void);  // sve vector length in bytes
     GGML_BACKEND_API int ggml_cpu_has_sme        (void);
+    GGML_BACKEND_API int ggml_cpu_has_sme2       (void);
     // other
     GGML_BACKEND_API int ggml_cpu_has_riscv_v    (void);
     GGML_BACKEND_API int ggml_cpu_get_rvv_vlen   (void);  // risc-v vector length in bytes

ggml/include/ggml-rpc.h

@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ extern "C" {
 
 #define RPC_PROTO_MAJOR_VERSION    4
 #define RPC_PROTO_MINOR_VERSION    0
-#define RPC_PROTO_PATCH_VERSION    2
+#define RPC_PROTO_PATCH_VERSION    3
 
 #ifdef  __cplusplus
-static_assert(GGML_OP_COUNT == 98, "GGML_OP_COUNT has changed - update RPC_PROTO_PATCH_VERSION");
+static_assert(GGML_OP_COUNT == 101, "GGML_OP_COUNT has changed - update RPC_PROTO_PATCH_VERSION");
 #endif
 
 #define GGML_RPC_MAX_SERVERS       16

ggml/include/ggml.h

@@ -577,6 +577,9 @@ extern "C" {
         GGML_OP_SOLVE_TRI,
         GGML_OP_GATED_DELTA_NET,
         GGML_OP_LIGHTNING_INDEXER,
+        GGML_OP_DSV4_HC_COMB,
+        GGML_OP_DSV4_HC_PRE,
+        GGML_OP_DSV4_HC_POST,
 
         GGML_OP_UNARY,
 
@@ -2616,6 +2619,45 @@ extern "C" {
         struct ggml_tensor  * weights,
         struct ggml_tensor  * mask);
 
+    // DeepSeek V4 hyper-connections (ref. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.24880)
+    // In short these operations are replacements for the original residual connection (x = transformer(x) + x)
+    // using a richer representation through streams.
+    //
+    // hc_comb: mixes [(2 + hc)*hc, n_tokens], scale [3], base [(2 + hc)*hc]
+    //          -> [dst_hc, src_hc, n_tokens]
+    // logits[dst, src, t] = mixes[2*hc + dst + hc*src, t]*scale[2]
+    //                         + base[2*hc + dst + hc*src]
+    // Softmax over dst, add eps, normalize over src, then repeat normalization
+    // over dst followed by src for iterations 1 through n_iter - 1.
+    GGML_API struct ggml_tensor * ggml_dsv4_hc_comb(
+            struct ggml_context * ctx,
+            struct ggml_tensor  * mixes,
+            struct ggml_tensor  * scale,
+            struct ggml_tensor  * base,
+            float                 eps,
+            int32_t               n_iter);
+
+    // hc_pre: x [n_embd, hc, n_tokens], weights [hc, n_tokens] -> [n_embd, n_tokens]
+    //   result[i, t] = sum_h x[i, h, t]*weights[h, t]
+    //
+    GGML_API struct ggml_tensor * ggml_dsv4_hc_pre(
+            struct ggml_context * ctx,
+            struct ggml_tensor  * x,
+            struct ggml_tensor  * weights);
+
+    // hc_post: x [n_embd, n_tokens], residual [n_embd, hc, n_tokens],
+    //          post [hc, n_tokens], comb [dst_hc, src_hc, n_tokens]
+    //          -> [n_embd, hc, n_tokens]
+    //   result[i, dst, t] = x[i, t]*post[dst, t]
+    //                       + sum_src residual[i, src, t]*comb[dst, src, t]
+    //
+    GGML_API struct ggml_tensor * ggml_dsv4_hc_post(
+            struct ggml_context * ctx,
+            struct ggml_tensor  * x,
+            struct ggml_tensor  * residual,
+            struct ggml_tensor  * post,
+            struct ggml_tensor  * comb);
+
     // custom operators
 
     typedef void (*ggml_custom1_op_t)(struct ggml_tensor * dst , const struct ggml_tensor * a, int ith, int nth, void * userdata);