diff --git a/common/arg.cpp b/common/arg.cpp
index af24699bc..1edb367f4 100644
--- a/common/arg.cpp
+++ b/common/arg.cpp
@@ -1,10 +1,21 @@
+#include "gguf.h" // for reading GGUF splits
 #include "arg.h"
 
+#include "common.h"
 #include "log.h"
 #include "sampling.h"
 #include "chat.h"
 #include "build-info.h"
 
+// fix problem with std::min and std::max
+#if defined(_WIN32)
+#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
+#ifndef NOMINMAX
+#   define NOMINMAX
+#endif
+#include <windows.h>
+#endif
+
 #include <algorithm>
 #include <climits>
 #include <cstdarg>
@@ -15,6 +26,14 @@
 #include <thread>
 #include <vector>
 
+//#define LLAMA_USE_CURL
+
+#if defined(LLAMA_USE_CURL)
+#include <curl/curl.h>
+#include <curl/easy.h>
+#include <future>
+#endif
+
 #include "json-schema-to-grammar.h"
 
 using json = nlohmann::ordered_json;
@@ -126,47 +145,549 @@ std::string common_arg::to_string() {
     return ss.str();
 }
 
+//
+// downloader
+//
+
+struct common_hf_file_res {
+    std::string repo; // repo name with ":tag" removed
+    std::string ggufFile;
+    std::string mmprojFile;
+};
+
+#ifdef LLAMA_USE_CURL
+
+#ifdef __linux__
+#include <linux/limits.h>
+#elif defined(_WIN32)
+#   if !defined(PATH_MAX)
+#   define PATH_MAX MAX_PATH
+#   endif
+#else
+#include <sys/syslimits.h>
+#endif
+#define LLAMA_CURL_MAX_URL_LENGTH 2084 // Maximum URL Length in Chrome: 2083
+
+//
+// CURL utils
+//
+
+using curl_ptr = std::unique_ptr<CURL, decltype(&curl_easy_cleanup)>;
+
+// cannot use unique_ptr for curl_slist, because we cannot update without destroying the old one
+struct curl_slist_ptr {
+    struct curl_slist * ptr = nullptr;
+    ~curl_slist_ptr() {
+        if (ptr) {
+            curl_slist_free_all(ptr);
+        }
+    }
+};
+
+#define CURL_MAX_RETRY 3
+#define CURL_RETRY_DELAY_SECONDS 2
+
+static bool curl_perform_with_retry(const std::string & url, CURL * curl, int max_attempts, int retry_delay_seconds) {
+    int remaining_attempts = max_attempts;
+
+    while (remaining_attempts > 0) {
+        LOG_INF("%s: Trying to download from %s (attempt %d of %d)...\n", __func__ , url.c_str(), max_attempts - remaining_attempts + 1, max_attempts);
+
+        CURLcode res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+        if (res == CURLE_OK) {
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        int exponential_backoff_delay = std::pow(retry_delay_seconds, max_attempts - remaining_attempts) * 1000;
+        LOG_WRN("%s: curl_easy_perform() failed: %s, retrying after %d milliseconds...\n", __func__, curl_easy_strerror(res), exponential_backoff_delay);
+
+        remaining_attempts--;
+        std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(exponential_backoff_delay));
+    }
+
+    LOG_ERR("%s: curl_easy_perform() failed after %d attempts\n", __func__, max_attempts);
+
+    return false;
+}
+
+// download one single file from remote URL to local path
+static bool common_download_file_single(const std::string & url, const std::string & path, const std::string & bearer_token) {
+    // Initialize libcurl
+    curl_ptr       curl(curl_easy_init(), &curl_easy_cleanup);
+    curl_slist_ptr http_headers;
+    if (!curl) {
+        LOG_ERR("%s: error initializing libcurl\n", __func__);
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    bool force_download = false;
+
+    // Set the URL, allow to follow http redirection
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_URL, url.c_str());
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
+
+    // Check if hf-token or bearer-token was specified
+    if (!bearer_token.empty()) {
+        std::string auth_header = "Authorization: Bearer " + bearer_token;
+        http_headers.ptr = curl_slist_append(http_headers.ptr, auth_header.c_str());
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, http_headers.ptr);
+    }
+
+#if defined(_WIN32)
+    // CURLSSLOPT_NATIVE_CA tells libcurl to use standard certificate store of
+    //   operating system. Currently implemented under MS-Windows.
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_SSL_OPTIONS, CURLSSLOPT_NATIVE_CA);
+#endif
+
+    // Check if the file already exists locally
+    auto file_exists = std::filesystem::exists(path);
+
+    // If the file exists, check its JSON metadata companion file.
+    std::string metadata_path = path + ".json";
+    nlohmann::json metadata;
+    std::string etag;
+    std::string last_modified;
+
+    if (file_exists) {
+        // Try and read the JSON metadata file (note: stream autoclosed upon exiting this block).
+        std::ifstream metadata_in(metadata_path);
+        if (metadata_in.good()) {
+            try {
+                metadata_in >> metadata;
+                LOG_INF("%s: previous metadata file found %s: %s\n", __func__, metadata_path.c_str(), metadata.dump().c_str());
+                if (metadata.contains("url") && metadata.at("url").is_string()) {
+                    auto previous_url = metadata.at("url").get<std::string>();
+                    if (previous_url != url) {
+                        LOG_ERR("%s: Model URL mismatch: %s != %s\n", __func__, url.c_str(), previous_url.c_str());
+                        return false;
+                    }
+                }
+                if (metadata.contains("etag") && metadata.at("etag").is_string()) {
+                    etag = metadata.at("etag");
+                }
+                if (metadata.contains("lastModified") && metadata.at("lastModified").is_string()) {
+                    last_modified = metadata.at("lastModified");
+                }
+            } catch (const nlohmann::json::exception & e) {
+            LOG_ERR("%s: error reading metadata file %s: %s\n", __func__, metadata_path.c_str(), e.what());
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+    } else {
+        LOG_INF("%s: no previous model file found %s\n", __func__, path.c_str());
+    }
+
+    // Send a HEAD request to retrieve the etag and last-modified headers
+    struct common_load_model_from_url_headers {
+        std::string etag;
+        std::string last_modified;
+    };
+
+    common_load_model_from_url_headers headers;
+
+    {
+        typedef size_t(*CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION_PTR)(char *, size_t, size_t, void *);
+        auto header_callback = [](char * buffer, size_t /*size*/, size_t n_items, void * userdata) -> size_t {
+            common_load_model_from_url_headers * headers = (common_load_model_from_url_headers *) userdata;
+
+            static std::regex header_regex("([^:]+): (.*)\r\n");
+            static std::regex etag_regex("ETag", std::regex_constants::icase);
+            static std::regex last_modified_regex("Last-Modified", std::regex_constants::icase);
+
+            std::string header(buffer, n_items);
+            std::smatch match;
+            if (std::regex_match(header, match, header_regex)) {
+                const std::string & key = match[1];
+                const std::string & value = match[2];
+                if (std::regex_match(key, match, etag_regex)) {
+                    headers->etag = value;
+                } else if (std::regex_match(key, match, last_modified_regex)) {
+                    headers->last_modified = value;
+                }
+            }
+            return n_items;
+        };
+
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1L); // will trigger the HEAD verb
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 1L); // hide head request progress
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION, static_cast<CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION_PTR>(header_callback));
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_HEADERDATA, &headers);
+
+        bool was_perform_successful = curl_perform_with_retry(url, curl.get(), CURL_MAX_RETRY, CURL_RETRY_DELAY_SECONDS);
+        if (!was_perform_successful) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        long http_code = 0;
+        curl_easy_getinfo(curl.get(), CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE, &http_code);
+        if (http_code != 200) {
+            // HEAD not supported, we don't know if the file has changed
+            // force trigger downloading
+            force_download = true;
+            LOG_ERR("%s: HEAD invalid http status code received: %ld\n", __func__, http_code);
+        }
+    }
+
+    bool should_download = !file_exists || force_download;
+    if (!should_download) {
+        if (!etag.empty() && etag != headers.etag) {
+            LOG_WRN("%s: ETag header is different (%s != %s): triggering a new download\n", __func__, etag.c_str(), headers.etag.c_str());
+            should_download = true;
+        } else if (!last_modified.empty() && last_modified != headers.last_modified) {
+            LOG_WRN("%s: Last-Modified header is different (%s != %s): triggering a new download\n", __func__, last_modified.c_str(), headers.last_modified.c_str());
+            should_download = true;
+        }
+    }
+    if (should_download) {
+        std::string path_temporary = path + ".downloadInProgress";
+        if (file_exists) {
+            LOG_WRN("%s: deleting previous downloaded file: %s\n", __func__, path.c_str());
+            if (remove(path.c_str()) != 0) {
+                LOG_ERR("%s: unable to delete file: %s\n", __func__, path.c_str());
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Set the output file
+
+        struct FILE_deleter {
+            void operator()(FILE * f) const {
+                fclose(f);
+            }
+        };
+
+        std::unique_ptr<FILE, FILE_deleter> outfile(fopen(path_temporary.c_str(), "wb"));
+        if (!outfile) {
+            LOG_ERR("%s: error opening local file for writing: %s\n", __func__, path.c_str());
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        typedef size_t(*CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION_PTR)(void * data, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void * fd);
+        auto write_callback = [](void * data, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void * fd) -> size_t {
+            return fwrite(data, size, nmemb, (FILE *)fd);
+        };
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_NOBODY, 0L);
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, static_cast<CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION_PTR>(write_callback));
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, outfile.get());
+
+        //  display download progress
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 0L);
+
+        // helper function to hide password in URL
+        auto llama_download_hide_password_in_url = [](const std::string & url) -> std::string {
+            std::size_t protocol_pos = url.find("://");
+            if (protocol_pos == std::string::npos) {
+                return url;  // Malformed URL
+            }
+
+            std::size_t at_pos = url.find('@', protocol_pos + 3);
+            if (at_pos == std::string::npos) {
+                return url;  // No password in URL
+            }
+
+            return url.substr(0, protocol_pos + 3) + "********" + url.substr(at_pos);
+        };
+
+        // start the download
+        LOG_INF("%s: trying to download model from %s to %s (server_etag:%s, server_last_modified:%s)...\n", __func__,
+            llama_download_hide_password_in_url(url).c_str(), path.c_str(), headers.etag.c_str(), headers.last_modified.c_str());
+        bool was_perform_successful = curl_perform_with_retry(url, curl.get(), CURL_MAX_RETRY, CURL_RETRY_DELAY_SECONDS);
+        if (!was_perform_successful) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        long http_code = 0;
+        curl_easy_getinfo (curl.get(), CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE, &http_code);
+        if (http_code < 200 || http_code >= 400) {
+            LOG_ERR("%s: invalid http status code received: %ld\n", __func__, http_code);
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        // Causes file to be closed explicitly here before we rename it.
+        outfile.reset();
+
+        // Write the updated JSON metadata file.
+        metadata.update({
+            {"url", url},
+            {"etag", headers.etag},
+            {"lastModified", headers.last_modified}
+        });
+        std::ofstream(metadata_path) << metadata.dump(4);
+        LOG_INF("%s: file metadata saved: %s\n", __func__, metadata_path.c_str());
+
+        if (rename(path_temporary.c_str(), path.c_str()) != 0) {
+            LOG_ERR("%s: unable to rename file: %s to %s\n", __func__, path_temporary.c_str(), path.c_str());
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+
+    return true;
+}
+
+// download multiple files from remote URLs to local paths
+// the input is a vector of pairs <url, path>
+static bool common_download_file_multiple(const std::vector<std::pair<std::string, std::string>> & urls, const std::string & bearer_token) {
+    // Prepare download in parallel
+    std::vector<std::future<bool>> futures_download;
+    for (auto const & item : urls) {
+        futures_download.push_back(std::async(std::launch::async, [bearer_token](const std::pair<std::string, std::string> & it) -> bool {
+            return common_download_file_single(it.first, it.second, bearer_token);
+        }, item));
+    }
+
+    // Wait for all downloads to complete
+    for (auto & f : futures_download) {
+        if (!f.get()) {
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+
+    return true;
+}
+
+static bool common_download_model(
+        const common_params_model & model,
+        const std::string & bearer_token) {
+    // Basic validation of the model.url
+    if (model.url.empty()) {
+        LOG_ERR("%s: invalid model url\n", __func__);
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    if (!common_download_file_single(model.url, model.path, bearer_token)) {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    // check for additional GGUFs split to download
+    int n_split = 0;
+    {
+        struct gguf_init_params gguf_params = {
+            /*.no_alloc = */ true,
+            /*.ctx      = */ NULL,
+        };
+        auto * ctx_gguf = gguf_init_from_file(model.path.c_str(), gguf_params);
+        if (!ctx_gguf) {
+            LOG_ERR("\n%s:  failed to load input GGUF from %s\n", __func__, model.path.c_str());
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        auto key_n_split = gguf_find_key(ctx_gguf, LLM_KV_SPLIT_COUNT);
+        if (key_n_split >= 0) {
+            n_split = gguf_get_val_u16(ctx_gguf, key_n_split);
+        }
+
+        gguf_free(ctx_gguf);
+    }
+
+    if (n_split > 1) {
+        char split_prefix[PATH_MAX] = {0};
+        char split_url_prefix[LLAMA_CURL_MAX_URL_LENGTH] = {0};
+
+        // Verify the first split file format
+        // and extract split URL and PATH prefixes
+        {
+            if (!llama_split_prefix(split_prefix, sizeof(split_prefix), model.path.c_str(), 0, n_split)) {
+                LOG_ERR("\n%s: unexpected model file name: %s n_split=%d\n", __func__, model.path.c_str(), n_split);
+                return false;
+            }
+
+            if (!llama_split_prefix(split_url_prefix, sizeof(split_url_prefix), model.url.c_str(), 0, n_split)) {
+                LOG_ERR("\n%s: unexpected model url: %s n_split=%d\n", __func__, model.url.c_str(), n_split);
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+
+        std::vector<std::pair<std::string, std::string>> urls;
+        for (int idx = 1; idx < n_split; idx++) {
+            char split_path[PATH_MAX] = {0};
+            llama_split_path(split_path, sizeof(split_path), split_prefix, idx, n_split);
+
+            char split_url[LLAMA_CURL_MAX_URL_LENGTH] = {0};
+            llama_split_path(split_url, sizeof(split_url), split_url_prefix, idx, n_split);
+
+            if (std::string(split_path) == model.path) {
+                continue; // skip the already downloaded file
+            }
+
+            urls.push_back({split_url, split_path});
+        }
+
+        // Download in parallel
+        common_download_file_multiple(urls, bearer_token);
+    }
+
+    return true;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Allow getting the HF file from the HF repo with tag (like ollama), for example:
+ * - bartowski/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-GGUF:q4
+ * - bartowski/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M
+ * - bartowski/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-GGUF:q5_k_s
+ * Tag is optional, default to "latest" (meaning it checks for Q4_K_M first, then Q4, then if not found, return the first GGUF file in repo)
+ *
+ * Return pair of <repo, file> (with "repo" already having tag removed)
+ *
+ * Note: we use the Ollama-compatible HF API, but not using the blobId. Instead, we use the special "ggufFile" field which returns the value for "hf_file". This is done to be backward-compatible with existing cache files.
+ */
+static struct common_hf_file_res common_get_hf_file(const std::string & hf_repo_with_tag, const std::string & bearer_token) {
+    auto parts = string_split<std::string>(hf_repo_with_tag, ':');
+    std::string tag = parts.size() > 1 ? parts.back() : "latest";
+    std::string hf_repo = parts[0];
+    if (string_split<std::string>(hf_repo, '/').size() != 2) {
+        throw std::invalid_argument("error: invalid HF repo format, expected <user>/<model>[:quant]\n");
+    }
+
+    // fetch model info from Hugging Face Hub API
+    curl_ptr       curl(curl_easy_init(), &curl_easy_cleanup);
+    curl_slist_ptr http_headers;
+    std::string res_str;
+    std::string url = "https://huggingface.co/v2/" + hf_repo + "/manifests/" + tag;
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_URL, url.c_str());
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 1L);
+    typedef size_t(*CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION_PTR)(void * ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void * data);
+    auto write_callback = [](void * ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void * data) -> size_t {
+        static_cast<std::string *>(data)->append((char * ) ptr, size * nmemb);
+        return size * nmemb;
+    };
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, static_cast<CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION_PTR>(write_callback));
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &res_str);
+#if defined(_WIN32)
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_SSL_OPTIONS, CURLSSLOPT_NATIVE_CA);
+#endif
+    if (!bearer_token.empty()) {
+        std::string auth_header = "Authorization: Bearer " + bearer_token;
+        http_headers.ptr = curl_slist_append(http_headers.ptr, auth_header.c_str());
+    }
+    // Important: the User-Agent must be "llama-cpp" to get the "ggufFile" field in the response
+    http_headers.ptr = curl_slist_append(http_headers.ptr, "User-Agent: llama-cpp");
+    http_headers.ptr = curl_slist_append(http_headers.ptr, "Accept: application/json");
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, http_headers.ptr);
+
+    CURLcode res = curl_easy_perform(curl.get());
+
+    if (res != CURLE_OK) {
+        throw std::runtime_error("error: cannot make GET request to HF API");
+    }
+
+    long res_code;
+    std::string ggufFile   = "";
+    std::string mmprojFile = "";
+    curl_easy_getinfo(curl.get(), CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE, &res_code);
+    if (res_code == 200) {
+        // extract ggufFile.rfilename in json, using regex
+        {
+            std::regex pattern("\"ggufFile\"[\\s\\S]*?\"rfilename\"\\s*:\\s*\"([^\"]+)\"");
+            std::smatch match;
+            if (std::regex_search(res_str, match, pattern)) {
+                ggufFile = match[1].str();
+            }
+        }
+        // extract mmprojFile.rfilename in json, using regex
+        {
+            std::regex pattern("\"mmprojFile\"[\\s\\S]*?\"rfilename\"\\s*:\\s*\"([^\"]+)\"");
+            std::smatch match;
+            if (std::regex_search(res_str, match, pattern)) {
+                mmprojFile = match[1].str();
+            }
+        }
+    } else if (res_code == 401) {
+        throw std::runtime_error("error: model is private or does not exist; if you are accessing a gated model, please provide a valid HF token");
+    } else {
+        throw std::runtime_error(string_format("error from HF API, response code: %ld, data: %s", res_code, res_str.c_str()));
+    }
+
+    // check response
+    if (ggufFile.empty()) {
+        throw std::runtime_error("error: model does not have ggufFile");
+    }
+
+    return { hf_repo, ggufFile, mmprojFile };
+}
+
+#else
+
+static bool common_download_file_single(const std::string &, const std::string &, const std::string &) {
+    LOG_ERR("error: built without CURL, cannot download model from internet\n");
+    return false;
+}
+
+static bool common_download_file_multiple(const std::vector<std::pair<std::string, std::string>> &, const std::string &) {
+    LOG_ERR("error: built without CURL, cannot download model from the internet\n");
+    return false;
+}
+
+static bool common_download_model(
+        const common_params_model &,
+        const std::string &) {
+    LOG_ERR("error: built without CURL, cannot download model from the internet\n");
+    return false;
+}
+
+static struct common_hf_file_res common_get_hf_file(const std::string &, const std::string &) {
+    LOG_ERR("error: built without CURL, cannot download model from the internet\n");
+    return {};
+}
+
+#endif // LLAMA_USE_CURL
+
 //
 // utils
 //
 
-static void common_params_handle_model_default(
-        std::string & model,
-        const std::string & model_url,
-        std::string & hf_repo,
-        std::string & hf_file,
-        const std::string & hf_token,
-        const std::string & model_default) {
-    if (!hf_repo.empty()) {
-        // short-hand to avoid specifying --hf-file -> default it to --model
-        if (hf_file.empty()) {
-            if (model.empty()) {
-                auto auto_detected = common_get_hf_file(hf_repo, hf_token);
-                if (auto_detected.first.empty() || auto_detected.second.empty()) {
-                    exit(1); // built without CURL, error message already printed
+static void common_params_handle_model(
+        struct common_params_model & model,
+        const std::string & bearer_token,
+        const std::string & model_path_default,
+        bool is_mmproj = false) { // TODO: move is_mmproj to an enum when we have more files?
+    // handle pre-fill default model path and url based on hf_repo and hf_file
+    {
+        if (!model.hf_repo.empty()) {
+            // short-hand to avoid specifying --hf-file -> default it to --model
+            if (model.hf_file.empty()) {
+                if (model.path.empty()) {
+                    auto auto_detected = common_get_hf_file(model.hf_repo, bearer_token);
+                    if (auto_detected.repo.empty() || auto_detected.ggufFile.empty()) {
+                        exit(1); // built without CURL, error message already printed
+                    }
+                    model.hf_repo = auto_detected.repo;
+                    model.hf_file = is_mmproj ? auto_detected.mmprojFile : auto_detected.ggufFile;
+                } else {
+                    model.hf_file = model.path;
                 }
-                hf_repo = auto_detected.first;
-                hf_file = auto_detected.second;
-            } else {
-                hf_file = model;
             }
+
+            // TODO: allow custom host
+            model.url = "https://huggingface.co/" + model.hf_repo + "/resolve/main/" + model.hf_file;
+
+            // make sure model path is present (for caching purposes)
+            if (model.path.empty()) {
+                // this is to avoid different repo having same file name, or same file name in different subdirs
+                std::string filename = model.hf_repo + "_" + model.hf_file;
+                // to make sure we don't have any slashes in the filename
+                string_replace_all(filename, "/", "_");
+                model.path = fs_get_cache_file(filename);
+            }
+
+        } else if (!model.url.empty()) {
+            if (model.path.empty()) {
+                auto f = string_split<std::string>(model.url, '#').front();
+                f = string_split<std::string>(f, '?').front();
+                model.path = fs_get_cache_file(string_split<std::string>(f, '/').back());
+            }
+
+        } else if (model.path.empty()) {
+            model.path = model_path_default;
         }
-        // make sure model path is present (for caching purposes)
-        if (model.empty()) {
-            // this is to avoid different repo having same file name, or same file name in different subdirs
-            std::string filename = hf_repo + "_" + hf_file;
-            // to make sure we don't have any slashes in the filename
-            string_replace_all(filename, "/", "_");
-            model = fs_get_cache_file(filename);
+    }
+
+    // then, download it if needed
+    if (!model.url.empty()) {
+        bool ok = common_download_model(model, bearer_token);
+        if (!ok) {
+            LOG_ERR("error: failed to download model from %s\n", model.url.c_str());
+            exit(1);
         }
-    } else if (!model_url.empty()) {
-        if (model.empty()) {
-            auto f = string_split<std::string>(model_url, '#').front();
-            f = string_split<std::string>(f, '?').front();
-            model = fs_get_cache_file(string_split<std::string>(f, '/').back());
-        }
-    } else if (model.empty()) {
-        model = model_default;
     }
 }
 
@@ -301,10 +822,16 @@ static bool common_params_parse_ex(int argc, char ** argv, common_params_context
         throw std::invalid_argument("error: --prompt-cache-all not supported in interactive mode yet\n");
     }
 
-    // TODO: refactor model params in a common struct
-    common_params_handle_model_default(params.model,             params.model_url,             params.hf_repo,             params.hf_file,             params.hf_token, DEFAULT_MODEL_PATH);
-    common_params_handle_model_default(params.speculative.model, params.speculative.model_url, params.speculative.hf_repo, params.speculative.hf_file, params.hf_token, "");
-    common_params_handle_model_default(params.vocoder.model,     params.vocoder.model_url,     params.vocoder.hf_repo,     params.vocoder.hf_file,     params.hf_token, "");
+    common_params_handle_model(params.model,             params.hf_token, DEFAULT_MODEL_PATH);
+    common_params_handle_model(params.speculative.model, params.hf_token, "");
+    common_params_handle_model(params.vocoder.model,     params.hf_token, "");
+
+    // allow --mmproj to be set from -hf
+    // assuming that mmproj is always in the same repo as text model
+    if (!params.model.hf_repo.empty() && ctx_arg.ex == LLAMA_EXAMPLE_LLAVA) {
+        params.mmproj.hf_repo = params.model.hf_repo;
+    }
+    common_params_handle_model(params.mmproj,            params.hf_token, "", true);
 
     if (params.escape) {
         string_process_escapes(params.prompt);
@@ -323,6 +850,10 @@ static bool common_params_parse_ex(int argc, char ** argv, common_params_context
         params.kv_overrides.back().key[0] = 0;
     }
 
+    if (!params.tensor_buft_overrides.empty()) {
+        params.tensor_buft_overrides.push_back({nullptr, nullptr});
+    }
+
     if (params.reranking && params.embedding) {
         throw std::invalid_argument("error: either --embedding or --reranking can be specified, but not both");
     }
@@ -1562,7 +2093,14 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         {"--mmproj"}, "FILE",
         "path to a multimodal projector file for LLaVA. see examples/llava/README.md",
         [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
-            params.mmproj = value;
+            params.mmproj.path = value;
+        }
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_LLAVA}));
+    add_opt(common_arg(
+        {"--mmproj-url"}, "URL",
+        "URL to a multimodal projector file for LLaVA. see examples/llava/README.md",
+        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
+            params.mmproj.url = value;
         }
     ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_LLAVA}));
     add_opt(common_arg(
@@ -1648,6 +2186,41 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
             exit(0);
         }
     ));
+    add_opt(common_arg(
+        {"--override-tensor", "-ot"}, "<tensor name pattern>=<buffer type>,...",
+        "override tensor buffer type", [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
+            /* static */ std::map<std::string, ggml_backend_buffer_type_t> buft_list;
+            if (buft_list.empty()) {
+                // enumerate all the devices and add their buffer types to the list
+                for (size_t i = 0; i < ggml_backend_dev_count(); ++i) {
+                    auto * dev = ggml_backend_dev_get(i);
+                    auto * buft = ggml_backend_dev_buffer_type(dev);
+                    if (buft) {
+                        buft_list[ggml_backend_buft_name(buft)] = buft;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            for (const auto & override : string_split<std::string>(value, ',')) {
+                std::string::size_type pos = override.find('=');
+                if (pos == std::string::npos) {
+                    throw std::invalid_argument("invalid value");
+                }
+                std::string tensor_name = override.substr(0, pos);
+                std::string buffer_type = override.substr(pos + 1);
+
+                if (buft_list.find(buffer_type) == buft_list.end()) {
+                    printf("Available buffer types:\n");
+                    for (const auto & it : buft_list) {
+                        printf("  %s\n", ggml_backend_buft_name(it.second));
+                    }
+                    throw std::invalid_argument("unknown buffer type");
+                }
+                // FIXME: this leaks memory
+                params.tensor_buft_overrides.push_back({strdup(tensor_name.c_str()), buft_list.at(buffer_type)});
+            }
+        }
+    ));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"-ngl", "--gpu-layers", "--n-gpu-layers"}, "N",
         "number of layers to store in VRAM",
@@ -1791,14 +2364,14 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
                 "or `--model-url` if set, otherwise %s)", DEFAULT_MODEL_PATH
             ),
         [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
-            params.model = value;
+            params.model.path = value;
         }
     ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_COMMON, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_EXPORT_LORA}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_MODEL"));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"-mu", "--model-url"}, "MODEL_URL",
         "model download url (default: unused)",
         [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
-            params.model_url = value;
+            params.model.url = value;
         }
     ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_MODEL_URL"));
     add_opt(common_arg(
@@ -1807,35 +2380,35 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         "example: unsloth/phi-4-GGUF:q4_k_m\n"
         "(default: unused)",
         [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
-            params.hf_repo = value;
+            params.model.hf_repo = value;
         }
     ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_HF_REPO"));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"-hfd", "-hfrd", "--hf-repo-draft"}, "<user>/<model>[:quant]",
         "Same as --hf-repo, but for the draft model (default: unused)",
         [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
-            params.speculative.hf_repo = value;
+            params.speculative.model.hf_repo = value;
         }
     ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_HFD_REPO"));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"-hff", "--hf-file"}, "FILE",
         "Hugging Face model file. If specified, it will override the quant in --hf-repo (default: unused)",
         [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
-            params.hf_file = value;
+            params.model.hf_file = value;
         }
     ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_HF_FILE"));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"-hfv", "-hfrv", "--hf-repo-v"}, "<user>/<model>[:quant]",
         "Hugging Face model repository for the vocoder model (default: unused)",
         [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
-            params.vocoder.hf_repo = value;
+            params.vocoder.model.hf_repo = value;
         }
     ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_HF_REPO_V"));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"-hffv", "--hf-file-v"}, "FILE",
         "Hugging Face model file for the vocoder model (default: unused)",
         [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
-            params.vocoder.hf_file = value;
+            params.vocoder.model.hf_file = value;
         }
     ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_HF_FILE_V"));
     add_opt(common_arg(
@@ -2455,7 +3028,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         {"-md", "--model-draft"}, "FNAME",
         "draft model for speculative decoding (default: unused)",
         [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
-            params.speculative.model = value;
+            params.speculative.model.path = value;
         }
     ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SPECULATIVE, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_MODEL_DRAFT"));
 
@@ -2463,7 +3036,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         {"-mv", "--model-vocoder"}, "FNAME",
         "vocoder model for audio generation (default: unused)",
         [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
-            params.vocoder.model = value;
+            params.vocoder.model.path = value;
         }
     ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_TTS, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}));
      add_opt(common_arg(
@@ -2486,10 +3059,10 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         {"--tts-oute-default"},
         string_format("use default OuteTTS models (note: can download weights from the internet)"),
         [](common_params & params) {
-            params.hf_repo = "OuteAI/OuteTTS-0.2-500M-GGUF";
-            params.hf_file = "OuteTTS-0.2-500M-Q8_0.gguf";
-            params.vocoder.hf_repo = "ggml-org/WavTokenizer";
-            params.vocoder.hf_file = "WavTokenizer-Large-75-F16.gguf";
+            params.model.hf_repo = "OuteAI/OuteTTS-0.2-500M-GGUF";
+            params.model.hf_file = "OuteTTS-0.2-500M-Q8_0.gguf";
+            params.vocoder.model.hf_repo = "ggml-org/WavTokenizer";
+            params.vocoder.model.hf_file = "WavTokenizer-Large-75-F16.gguf";
         }
     ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_TTS}));
 
@@ -2497,8 +3070,8 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         {"--embd-bge-small-en-default"},
         string_format("use default bge-small-en-v1.5 model (note: can download weights from the internet)"),
         [](common_params & params) {
-            params.hf_repo = "ggml-org/bge-small-en-v1.5-Q8_0-GGUF";
-            params.hf_file = "bge-small-en-v1.5-q8_0.gguf";
+            params.model.hf_repo = "ggml-org/bge-small-en-v1.5-Q8_0-GGUF";
+            params.model.hf_file = "bge-small-en-v1.5-q8_0.gguf";
             params.pooling_type = LLAMA_POOLING_TYPE_NONE;
             params.embd_normalize = 2;
             params.n_ctx = 512;
@@ -2511,8 +3084,8 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         {"--embd-e5-small-en-default"},
         string_format("use default e5-small-v2 model (note: can download weights from the internet)"),
         [](common_params & params) {
-            params.hf_repo = "ggml-org/e5-small-v2-Q8_0-GGUF";
-            params.hf_file = "e5-small-v2-q8_0.gguf";
+            params.model.hf_repo = "ggml-org/e5-small-v2-Q8_0-GGUF";
+            params.model.hf_file = "e5-small-v2-q8_0.gguf";
             params.pooling_type = LLAMA_POOLING_TYPE_NONE;
             params.embd_normalize = 2;
             params.n_ctx = 512;
@@ -2525,8 +3098,8 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         {"--embd-gte-small-default"},
         string_format("use default gte-small model (note: can download weights from the internet)"),
         [](common_params & params) {
-            params.hf_repo = "ggml-org/gte-small-Q8_0-GGUF";
-            params.hf_file = "gte-small-q8_0.gguf";
+            params.model.hf_repo = "ggml-org/gte-small-Q8_0-GGUF";
+            params.model.hf_file = "gte-small-q8_0.gguf";
             params.pooling_type = LLAMA_POOLING_TYPE_NONE;
             params.embd_normalize = 2;
             params.n_ctx = 512;
@@ -2539,8 +3112,8 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         {"--fim-qwen-1.5b-default"},
         string_format("use default Qwen 2.5 Coder 1.5B (note: can download weights from the internet)"),
         [](common_params & params) {
-            params.hf_repo = "ggml-org/Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Q8_0-GGUF";
-            params.hf_file = "qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-q8_0.gguf";
+            params.model.hf_repo = "ggml-org/Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Q8_0-GGUF";
+            params.model.hf_file = "qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-q8_0.gguf";
             params.port = 8012;
             params.n_gpu_layers = 99;
             params.flash_attn = true;
@@ -2555,8 +3128,8 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         {"--fim-qwen-3b-default"},
         string_format("use default Qwen 2.5 Coder 3B (note: can download weights from the internet)"),
         [](common_params & params) {
-            params.hf_repo = "ggml-org/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Q8_0-GGUF";
-            params.hf_file = "qwen2.5-coder-3b-q8_0.gguf";
+            params.model.hf_repo = "ggml-org/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Q8_0-GGUF";
+            params.model.hf_file = "qwen2.5-coder-3b-q8_0.gguf";
             params.port = 8012;
             params.n_gpu_layers = 99;
             params.flash_attn = true;
@@ -2571,8 +3144,8 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         {"--fim-qwen-7b-default"},
         string_format("use default Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B (note: can download weights from the internet)"),
         [](common_params & params) {
-            params.hf_repo = "ggml-org/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Q8_0-GGUF";
-            params.hf_file = "qwen2.5-coder-7b-q8_0.gguf";
+            params.model.hf_repo = "ggml-org/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Q8_0-GGUF";
+            params.model.hf_file = "qwen2.5-coder-7b-q8_0.gguf";
             params.port = 8012;
             params.n_gpu_layers = 99;
             params.flash_attn = true;
@@ -2587,10 +3160,10 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         {"--fim-qwen-7b-spec"},
         string_format("use Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B + 0.5B draft for speculative decoding (note: can download weights from the internet)"),
         [](common_params & params) {
-            params.hf_repo = "ggml-org/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Q8_0-GGUF";
-            params.hf_file = "qwen2.5-coder-7b-q8_0.gguf";
-            params.speculative.hf_repo = "ggml-org/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Q8_0-GGUF";
-            params.speculative.hf_file = "qwen2.5-coder-0.5b-q8_0.gguf";
+            params.model.hf_repo = "ggml-org/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Q8_0-GGUF";
+            params.model.hf_file = "qwen2.5-coder-7b-q8_0.gguf";
+            params.speculative.model.hf_repo = "ggml-org/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Q8_0-GGUF";
+            params.speculative.model.hf_file = "qwen2.5-coder-0.5b-q8_0.gguf";
             params.speculative.n_gpu_layers = 99;
             params.port = 8012;
             params.n_gpu_layers = 99;
@@ -2606,10 +3179,10 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         {"--fim-qwen-14b-spec"},
         string_format("use Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B + 0.5B draft for speculative decoding (note: can download weights from the internet)"),
         [](common_params & params) {
-            params.hf_repo = "ggml-org/Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Q8_0-GGUF";
-            params.hf_file = "qwen2.5-coder-14b-q8_0.gguf";
-            params.speculative.hf_repo = "ggml-org/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Q8_0-GGUF";
-            params.speculative.hf_file = "qwen2.5-coder-0.5b-q8_0.gguf";
+            params.model.hf_repo = "ggml-org/Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Q8_0-GGUF";
+            params.model.hf_file = "qwen2.5-coder-14b-q8_0.gguf";
+            params.speculative.model.hf_repo = "ggml-org/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Q8_0-GGUF";
+            params.speculative.model.hf_file = "qwen2.5-coder-0.5b-q8_0.gguf";
             params.speculative.n_gpu_layers = 99;
             params.port = 8012;
             params.n_gpu_layers = 99;
diff --git a/common/common.cpp b/common/common.cpp
index 20ef8aa8b..a09153a37 100644
--- a/common/common.cpp
+++ b/common/common.cpp
@@ -55,47 +55,11 @@
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #endif
-#if defined(LLAMA_USE_CURL)
-#include <curl/curl.h>
-#include <curl/easy.h>
-#include <future>
-#endif
 
 #if defined(_MSC_VER)
 #pragma warning(disable: 4244 4267) // possible loss of data
 #endif
 
-#if defined(LLAMA_USE_CURL)
-#ifdef __linux__
-#include <linux/limits.h>
-#elif defined(_WIN32)
-#   if !defined(PATH_MAX)
-#   define PATH_MAX MAX_PATH
-#   endif
-#else
-#include <sys/syslimits.h>
-#endif
-#define LLAMA_CURL_MAX_URL_LENGTH 2084 // Maximum URL Length in Chrome: 2083
-
-//
-// CURL utils
-//
-
-using curl_ptr = std::unique_ptr<CURL, decltype(&curl_easy_cleanup)>;
-
-// cannot use unique_ptr for curl_slist, because we cannot update without destroying the old one
-struct curl_slist_ptr {
-    struct curl_slist * ptr = nullptr;
-    ~curl_slist_ptr() {
-        if (ptr) {
-            curl_slist_free_all(ptr);
-        }
-    }
-};
-#endif // LLAMA_USE_CURL
-
-using json = nlohmann::ordered_json;
-
 //
 // CPU utils
 //
@@ -904,22 +868,14 @@ std::string fs_get_cache_file(const std::string & filename) {
 //
 // Model utils
 //
+
 struct common_init_result common_init_from_params(common_params & params) {
     common_init_result iparams;
     auto mparams = common_model_params_to_llama(params);
 
-    llama_model * model = nullptr;
-
-    if (!params.hf_repo.empty() && !params.hf_file.empty()) {
-        model = common_load_model_from_hf(params.hf_repo, params.hf_file, params.model, params.hf_token, mparams);
-    } else if (!params.model_url.empty()) {
-        model = common_load_model_from_url(params.model_url, params.model, params.hf_token, mparams);
-    } else {
-        model = llama_model_load_from_file(params.model.c_str(), mparams);
-    }
-
+    llama_model * model = llama_model_load_from_file(params.model.path.c_str(), mparams);
     if (model == NULL) {
-        LOG_ERR("%s: failed to load model '%s'\n", __func__, params.model.c_str());
+        LOG_ERR("%s: failed to load model '%s'\n", __func__, params.model.path.c_str());
         return iparams;
     }
 
@@ -954,7 +910,7 @@ struct common_init_result common_init_from_params(common_params & params) {
 
     llama_context * lctx = llama_init_from_model(model, cparams);
     if (lctx == NULL) {
-        LOG_ERR("%s: failed to create context with model '%s'\n", __func__, params.model.c_str());
+        LOG_ERR("%s: failed to create context with model '%s'\n", __func__, params.model.path.c_str());
         llama_model_free(model);
         return iparams;
     }
@@ -1093,15 +1049,18 @@ struct llama_model_params common_model_params_to_llama(common_params & params) {
     if (!params.devices.empty()) {
         mparams.devices = params.devices.data();
     }
+
     if (params.n_gpu_layers != -1) {
         mparams.n_gpu_layers = params.n_gpu_layers;
     }
+
     mparams.main_gpu        = params.main_gpu;
     mparams.split_mode      = params.split_mode;
     mparams.tensor_split    = params.tensor_split;
     mparams.use_mmap        = params.use_mmap;
     mparams.use_mlock       = params.use_mlock;
     mparams.check_tensors   = params.check_tensors;
+
     if (params.kv_overrides.empty()) {
         mparams.kv_overrides = NULL;
     } else {
@@ -1109,6 +1068,13 @@ struct llama_model_params common_model_params_to_llama(common_params & params) {
         mparams.kv_overrides = params.kv_overrides.data();
     }
 
+    if (params.tensor_buft_overrides.empty()) {
+        mparams.tensor_buft_overrides = NULL;
+    } else {
+        GGML_ASSERT(params.tensor_buft_overrides.back().pattern == nullptr && "Tensor buffer overrides not terminated with empty pattern");
+        mparams.tensor_buft_overrides = params.tensor_buft_overrides.data();
+    }
+
     return mparams;
 }
 
@@ -1168,451 +1134,6 @@ struct ggml_threadpool_params ggml_threadpool_params_from_cpu_params(const cpu_p
     return tpp;
 }
 
-#ifdef LLAMA_USE_CURL
-
-#define CURL_MAX_RETRY 3
-#define CURL_RETRY_DELAY_SECONDS 2
-
-static bool curl_perform_with_retry(const std::string & url, CURL * curl, int max_attempts, int retry_delay_seconds) {
-    int remaining_attempts = max_attempts;
-
-    while (remaining_attempts > 0) {
-        LOG_INF("%s: Trying to download from %s (attempt %d of %d)...\n", __func__ , url.c_str(), max_attempts - remaining_attempts + 1, max_attempts);
-
-        CURLcode res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
-        if (res == CURLE_OK) {
-            return true;
-        }
-
-        int exponential_backoff_delay = std::pow(retry_delay_seconds, max_attempts - remaining_attempts) * 1000;
-        LOG_WRN("%s: curl_easy_perform() failed: %s, retrying after %d milliseconds...\n", __func__, curl_easy_strerror(res), exponential_backoff_delay);
-
-        remaining_attempts--;
-        std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(exponential_backoff_delay));
-    }
-
-    LOG_ERR("%s: curl_easy_perform() failed after %d attempts\n", __func__, max_attempts);
-
-    return false;
-}
-
-static bool common_download_file(const std::string & url, const std::string & path, const std::string & hf_token) {
-    // Initialize libcurl
-    curl_ptr       curl(curl_easy_init(), &curl_easy_cleanup);
-    curl_slist_ptr http_headers;
-    if (!curl) {
-        LOG_ERR("%s: error initializing libcurl\n", __func__);
-        return false;
-    }
-
-    bool force_download = false;
-
-    // Set the URL, allow to follow http redirection
-    curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_URL, url.c_str());
-    curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
-
-    // Check if hf-token or bearer-token was specified
-    if (!hf_token.empty()) {
-        std::string auth_header = "Authorization: Bearer " + hf_token;
-        http_headers.ptr = curl_slist_append(http_headers.ptr, auth_header.c_str());
-        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, http_headers.ptr);
-    }
-
-#if defined(_WIN32)
-    // CURLSSLOPT_NATIVE_CA tells libcurl to use standard certificate store of
-    //   operating system. Currently implemented under MS-Windows.
-    curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_SSL_OPTIONS, CURLSSLOPT_NATIVE_CA);
-#endif
-
-    // Check if the file already exists locally
-    auto file_exists = std::filesystem::exists(path);
-
-    // If the file exists, check its JSON metadata companion file.
-    std::string metadata_path = path + ".json";
-    nlohmann::json metadata;
-    std::string etag;
-    std::string last_modified;
-
-    if (file_exists) {
-        // Try and read the JSON metadata file (note: stream autoclosed upon exiting this block).
-        std::ifstream metadata_in(metadata_path);
-        if (metadata_in.good()) {
-            try {
-                metadata_in >> metadata;
-                LOG_INF("%s: previous metadata file found %s: %s\n", __func__, metadata_path.c_str(), metadata.dump().c_str());
-                if (metadata.contains("url") && metadata.at("url").is_string()) {
-                    auto previous_url = metadata.at("url").get<std::string>();
-                    if (previous_url != url) {
-                        LOG_ERR("%s: Model URL mismatch: %s != %s\n", __func__, url.c_str(), previous_url.c_str());
-                        return false;
-                    }
-                }
-                if (metadata.contains("etag") && metadata.at("etag").is_string()) {
-                    etag = metadata.at("etag");
-                }
-                if (metadata.contains("lastModified") && metadata.at("lastModified").is_string()) {
-                    last_modified = metadata.at("lastModified");
-                }
-            } catch (const nlohmann::json::exception & e) {
-            LOG_ERR("%s: error reading metadata file %s: %s\n", __func__, metadata_path.c_str(), e.what());
-                return false;
-            }
-        }
-    } else {
-        LOG_INF("%s: no previous model file found %s\n", __func__, path.c_str());
-    }
-
-    // Send a HEAD request to retrieve the etag and last-modified headers
-    struct common_load_model_from_url_headers {
-        std::string etag;
-        std::string last_modified;
-    };
-
-    common_load_model_from_url_headers headers;
-
-    {
-        typedef size_t(*CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION_PTR)(char *, size_t, size_t, void *);
-        auto header_callback = [](char * buffer, size_t /*size*/, size_t n_items, void * userdata) -> size_t {
-            common_load_model_from_url_headers * headers = (common_load_model_from_url_headers *) userdata;
-
-            static std::regex header_regex("([^:]+): (.*)\r\n");
-            static std::regex etag_regex("ETag", std::regex_constants::icase);
-            static std::regex last_modified_regex("Last-Modified", std::regex_constants::icase);
-
-            std::string header(buffer, n_items);
-            std::smatch match;
-            if (std::regex_match(header, match, header_regex)) {
-                const std::string & key = match[1];
-                const std::string & value = match[2];
-                if (std::regex_match(key, match, etag_regex)) {
-                    headers->etag = value;
-                } else if (std::regex_match(key, match, last_modified_regex)) {
-                    headers->last_modified = value;
-                }
-            }
-            return n_items;
-        };
-
-        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1L); // will trigger the HEAD verb
-        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 1L); // hide head request progress
-        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION, static_cast<CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION_PTR>(header_callback));
-        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_HEADERDATA, &headers);
-
-        bool was_perform_successful = curl_perform_with_retry(url, curl.get(), CURL_MAX_RETRY, CURL_RETRY_DELAY_SECONDS);
-        if (!was_perform_successful) {
-            return false;
-        }
-
-        long http_code = 0;
-        curl_easy_getinfo(curl.get(), CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE, &http_code);
-        if (http_code != 200) {
-            // HEAD not supported, we don't know if the file has changed
-            // force trigger downloading
-            force_download = true;
-            LOG_ERR("%s: HEAD invalid http status code received: %ld\n", __func__, http_code);
-        }
-    }
-
-    bool should_download = !file_exists || force_download;
-    if (!should_download) {
-        if (!etag.empty() && etag != headers.etag) {
-            LOG_WRN("%s: ETag header is different (%s != %s): triggering a new download\n", __func__, etag.c_str(), headers.etag.c_str());
-            should_download = true;
-        } else if (!last_modified.empty() && last_modified != headers.last_modified) {
-            LOG_WRN("%s: Last-Modified header is different (%s != %s): triggering a new download\n", __func__, last_modified.c_str(), headers.last_modified.c_str());
-            should_download = true;
-        }
-    }
-    if (should_download) {
-        std::string path_temporary = path + ".downloadInProgress";
-        if (file_exists) {
-            LOG_WRN("%s: deleting previous downloaded file: %s\n", __func__, path.c_str());
-            if (remove(path.c_str()) != 0) {
-                LOG_ERR("%s: unable to delete file: %s\n", __func__, path.c_str());
-                return false;
-            }
-        }
-
-        // Set the output file
-
-        struct FILE_deleter {
-            void operator()(FILE * f) const {
-                fclose(f);
-            }
-        };
-
-        std::unique_ptr<FILE, FILE_deleter> outfile(fopen(path_temporary.c_str(), "wb"));
-        if (!outfile) {
-            LOG_ERR("%s: error opening local file for writing: %s\n", __func__, path.c_str());
-            return false;
-        }
-
-        typedef size_t(*CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION_PTR)(void * data, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void * fd);
-        auto write_callback = [](void * data, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void * fd) -> size_t {
-            return fwrite(data, size, nmemb, (FILE *)fd);
-        };
-        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_NOBODY, 0L);
-        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, static_cast<CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION_PTR>(write_callback));
-        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, outfile.get());
-
-        //  display download progress
-        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 0L);
-
-        // helper function to hide password in URL
-        auto llama_download_hide_password_in_url = [](const std::string & url) -> std::string {
-            std::size_t protocol_pos = url.find("://");
-            if (protocol_pos == std::string::npos) {
-                return url;  // Malformed URL
-            }
-
-            std::size_t at_pos = url.find('@', protocol_pos + 3);
-            if (at_pos == std::string::npos) {
-                return url;  // No password in URL
-            }
-
-            return url.substr(0, protocol_pos + 3) + "********" + url.substr(at_pos);
-        };
-
-        // start the download
-        LOG_INF("%s: trying to download model from %s to %s (server_etag:%s, server_last_modified:%s)...\n", __func__,
-            llama_download_hide_password_in_url(url).c_str(), path.c_str(), headers.etag.c_str(), headers.last_modified.c_str());
-        bool was_perform_successful = curl_perform_with_retry(url, curl.get(), CURL_MAX_RETRY, CURL_RETRY_DELAY_SECONDS);
-        if (!was_perform_successful) {
-            return false;
-        }
-
-        long http_code = 0;
-        curl_easy_getinfo (curl.get(), CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE, &http_code);
-        if (http_code < 200 || http_code >= 400) {
-            LOG_ERR("%s: invalid http status code received: %ld\n", __func__, http_code);
-            return false;
-        }
-
-        // Causes file to be closed explicitly here before we rename it.
-        outfile.reset();
-
-        // Write the updated JSON metadata file.
-        metadata.update({
-            {"url", url},
-            {"etag", headers.etag},
-            {"lastModified", headers.last_modified}
-        });
-        std::ofstream(metadata_path) << metadata.dump(4);
-        LOG_INF("%s: file metadata saved: %s\n", __func__, metadata_path.c_str());
-
-        if (rename(path_temporary.c_str(), path.c_str()) != 0) {
-            LOG_ERR("%s: unable to rename file: %s to %s\n", __func__, path_temporary.c_str(), path.c_str());
-            return false;
-        }
-    }
-
-    return true;
-}
-
-struct llama_model * common_load_model_from_url(
-        const std::string & model_url,
-        const std::string & local_path,
-        const std::string & hf_token,
-        const struct llama_model_params & params) {
-    // Basic validation of the model_url
-    if (model_url.empty()) {
-        LOG_ERR("%s: invalid model_url\n", __func__);
-        return NULL;
-    }
-
-    if (!common_download_file(model_url, local_path, hf_token)) {
-        return NULL;
-    }
-
-    // check for additional GGUFs split to download
-    int n_split = 0;
-    {
-        struct gguf_init_params gguf_params = {
-            /*.no_alloc = */ true,
-            /*.ctx      = */ NULL,
-        };
-        auto * ctx_gguf = gguf_init_from_file(local_path.c_str(), gguf_params);
-        if (!ctx_gguf) {
-            LOG_ERR("\n%s:  failed to load input GGUF from %s\n", __func__, local_path.c_str());
-            return NULL;
-        }
-
-        auto key_n_split = gguf_find_key(ctx_gguf, LLM_KV_SPLIT_COUNT);
-        if (key_n_split >= 0) {
-            n_split = gguf_get_val_u16(ctx_gguf, key_n_split);
-        }
-
-        gguf_free(ctx_gguf);
-    }
-
-    if (n_split > 1) {
-        char split_prefix[PATH_MAX] = {0};
-        char split_url_prefix[LLAMA_CURL_MAX_URL_LENGTH] = {0};
-
-        // Verify the first split file format
-        // and extract split URL and PATH prefixes
-        {
-            if (!llama_split_prefix(split_prefix, sizeof(split_prefix), local_path.c_str(), 0, n_split)) {
-                LOG_ERR("\n%s: unexpected model file name: %s n_split=%d\n", __func__, local_path.c_str(), n_split);
-                return NULL;
-            }
-
-            if (!llama_split_prefix(split_url_prefix, sizeof(split_url_prefix), model_url.c_str(), 0, n_split)) {
-                LOG_ERR("\n%s: unexpected model url: %s n_split=%d\n", __func__, model_url.c_str(), n_split);
-                return NULL;
-            }
-        }
-
-        // Prepare download in parallel
-        std::vector<std::future<bool>> futures_download;
-        for (int idx = 1; idx < n_split; idx++) {
-            futures_download.push_back(std::async(std::launch::async, [&split_prefix, &split_url_prefix, &n_split, hf_token](int download_idx) -> bool {
-                char split_path[PATH_MAX] = {0};
-                llama_split_path(split_path, sizeof(split_path), split_prefix, download_idx, n_split);
-
-                char split_url[LLAMA_CURL_MAX_URL_LENGTH] = {0};
-                llama_split_path(split_url, sizeof(split_url), split_url_prefix, download_idx, n_split);
-
-                return common_download_file(split_url, split_path, hf_token);
-            }, idx));
-        }
-
-        // Wait for all downloads to complete
-        for (auto & f : futures_download) {
-            if (!f.get()) {
-                return NULL;
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    return llama_model_load_from_file(local_path.c_str(), params);
-}
-
-struct llama_model * common_load_model_from_hf(
-        const std::string & repo,
-        const std::string & remote_path,
-        const std::string & local_path,
-        const std::string & hf_token,
-        const struct llama_model_params & params) {
-    // construct hugging face model url:
-    //
-    //  --repo ggml-org/models --file tinyllama-1.1b/ggml-model-f16.gguf
-    //    https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/models/resolve/main/tinyllama-1.1b/ggml-model-f16.gguf
-    //
-    //  --repo TheBloke/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1-GGUF --file mixtral-8x7b-v0.1.Q4_K_M.gguf
-    //    https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1-GGUF/resolve/main/mixtral-8x7b-v0.1.Q4_K_M.gguf
-    //
-
-    std::string model_url = "https://huggingface.co/";
-    model_url += repo;
-    model_url += "/resolve/main/";
-    model_url += remote_path;
-
-    return common_load_model_from_url(model_url, local_path, hf_token, params);
-}
-
-/**
- * Allow getting the HF file from the HF repo with tag (like ollama), for example:
- * - bartowski/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-GGUF:q4
- * - bartowski/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M
- * - bartowski/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-GGUF:q5_k_s
- * Tag is optional, default to "latest" (meaning it checks for Q4_K_M first, then Q4, then if not found, return the first GGUF file in repo)
- *
- * Return pair of <repo, file> (with "repo" already having tag removed)
- *
- * Note: we use the Ollama-compatible HF API, but not using the blobId. Instead, we use the special "ggufFile" field which returns the value for "hf_file". This is done to be backward-compatible with existing cache files.
- */
-std::pair<std::string, std::string> common_get_hf_file(const std::string & hf_repo_with_tag, const std::string & hf_token) {
-    auto parts = string_split<std::string>(hf_repo_with_tag, ':');
-    std::string tag = parts.size() > 1 ? parts.back() : "latest";
-    std::string hf_repo = parts[0];
-    if (string_split<std::string>(hf_repo, '/').size() != 2) {
-        throw std::invalid_argument("error: invalid HF repo format, expected <user>/<model>[:quant]\n");
-    }
-
-    // fetch model info from Hugging Face Hub API
-    json model_info;
-    curl_ptr       curl(curl_easy_init(), &curl_easy_cleanup);
-    curl_slist_ptr http_headers;
-    std::string res_str;
-    std::string url = "https://huggingface.co/v2/" + hf_repo + "/manifests/" + tag;
-    curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_URL, url.c_str());
-    curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 1L);
-    typedef size_t(*CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION_PTR)(void * ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void * data);
-    auto write_callback = [](void * ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void * data) -> size_t {
-        static_cast<std::string *>(data)->append((char * ) ptr, size * nmemb);
-        return size * nmemb;
-    };
-    curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, static_cast<CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION_PTR>(write_callback));
-    curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &res_str);
-#if defined(_WIN32)
-    curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_SSL_OPTIONS, CURLSSLOPT_NATIVE_CA);
-#endif
-    if (!hf_token.empty()) {
-        std::string auth_header = "Authorization: Bearer " + hf_token;
-        http_headers.ptr = curl_slist_append(http_headers.ptr, auth_header.c_str());
-    }
-    // Important: the User-Agent must be "llama-cpp" to get the "ggufFile" field in the response
-    http_headers.ptr = curl_slist_append(http_headers.ptr, "User-Agent: llama-cpp");
-    http_headers.ptr = curl_slist_append(http_headers.ptr, "Accept: application/json");
-    curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, http_headers.ptr);
-
-    CURLcode res = curl_easy_perform(curl.get());
-
-    if (res != CURLE_OK) {
-        throw std::runtime_error("error: cannot make GET request to HF API");
-    }
-
-    long res_code;
-    curl_easy_getinfo(curl.get(), CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE, &res_code);
-    if (res_code == 200) {
-        model_info = json::parse(res_str);
-    } else if (res_code == 401) {
-        throw std::runtime_error("error: model is private or does not exist; if you are accessing a gated model, please provide a valid HF token");
-    } else {
-        throw std::runtime_error(string_format("error from HF API, response code: %ld, data: %s", res_code, res_str.c_str()));
-    }
-
-    // check response
-    if (!model_info.contains("ggufFile")) {
-        throw std::runtime_error("error: model does not have ggufFile");
-    }
-    json & gguf_file = model_info.at("ggufFile");
-    if (!gguf_file.contains("rfilename")) {
-        throw std::runtime_error("error: ggufFile does not have rfilename");
-    }
-
-    return std::make_pair(hf_repo, gguf_file.at("rfilename"));
-}
-
-#else
-
-struct llama_model * common_load_model_from_url(
-        const std::string & /*model_url*/,
-        const std::string & /*local_path*/,
-        const std::string & /*hf_token*/,
-        const struct llama_model_params & /*params*/) {
-    LOG_WRN("%s: llama.cpp built without libcurl, downloading from an url not supported.\n", __func__);
-    return nullptr;
-}
-
-struct llama_model * common_load_model_from_hf(
-        const std::string & /*repo*/,
-        const std::string & /*remote_path*/,
-        const std::string & /*local_path*/,
-        const std::string & /*hf_token*/,
-        const struct llama_model_params & /*params*/) {
-    LOG_WRN("%s: llama.cpp built without libcurl, downloading from Hugging Face not supported.\n", __func__);
-    return nullptr;
-}
-
-std::pair<std::string, std::string> common_get_hf_file(const std::string &, const std::string &) {
-    LOG_WRN("%s: llama.cpp built without libcurl, downloading from Hugging Face not supported.\n", __func__);
-    return std::make_pair("", "");
-}
-
-#endif // LLAMA_USE_CURL
-
 //
 // Batch utils
 //
@@ -2036,26 +1557,3 @@ common_control_vector_data common_control_vector_load(const std::vector<common_c
 
     return result;
 }
-
-template <>
-json common_grammar_trigger::to_json() const {
-    json out {
-        {"type", (int) type},
-        {"value", value},
-    };
-    if (type == COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_TOKEN) {
-        out["token"] = (int) token;
-    }
-    return out;
-}
-
-template <>
-common_grammar_trigger common_grammar_trigger::from_json(const json & in) {
-    common_grammar_trigger out;
-    out.type = (common_grammar_trigger_type) in.at("type").get<int>();
-    out.value = in.at("value").get<std::string>();
-    if (out.type == COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_TOKEN) {
-        out.token = (llama_token) in.at("token").get<int>();
-    }
-    return out;
-}
diff --git a/common/common.h b/common/common.h
index 290e3c1b2..e49b81108 100644
--- a/common/common.h
+++ b/common/common.h
@@ -117,10 +117,6 @@ struct common_grammar_trigger {
     common_grammar_trigger_type type;
     std::string value;
     llama_token token = LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL;
-
-    // T can only be nlohmann::ordered_json
-    template <class T> T to_json() const;
-    template <class T> static common_grammar_trigger from_json(const T & in);
 };
 
 // sampling parameters
@@ -180,6 +176,13 @@ struct common_params_sampling {
     std::string print() const;
 };
 
+struct common_params_model {
+    std::string path    = ""; // model local path                                           // NOLINT
+    std::string url     = ""; // model url to download                                      // NOLINT
+    std::string hf_repo = ""; // HF repo                                                    // NOLINT
+    std::string hf_file = ""; // HF file                                                    // NOLINT
+};
+
 struct common_params_speculative {
     std::vector<ggml_backend_dev_t> devices; // devices to use for offloading
 
@@ -193,19 +196,11 @@ struct common_params_speculative {
     struct cpu_params cpuparams;
     struct cpu_params cpuparams_batch;
 
-    std::string hf_repo = ""; // HF repo                                                     // NOLINT
-    std::string hf_file = ""; // HF file                                                     // NOLINT
-
-    std::string model = "";     // draft model for speculative decoding                      // NOLINT
-    std::string model_url = ""; // model url to download                                     // NOLINT
+    struct common_params_model model;
 };
 
 struct common_params_vocoder {
-    std::string hf_repo = ""; // HF repo                                                     // NOLINT
-    std::string hf_file = ""; // HF file                                                     // NOLINT
-
-    std::string model     = ""; // model path                                                // NOLINT
-    std::string model_url = ""; // model url to download                                     // NOLINT
+    struct common_params_model model;
 
     std::string speaker_file = ""; // speaker file path                                      // NOLINT
 
@@ -263,12 +258,10 @@ struct common_params {
     struct common_params_speculative speculative;
     struct common_params_vocoder     vocoder;
 
-    std::string model                = ""; // model path                                                    // NOLINT
+    struct common_params_model model;
+
     std::string model_alias          = ""; // model alias                                                   // NOLINT
-    std::string model_url            = ""; // model url to download                                         // NOLINT
     std::string hf_token             = ""; // HF token                                                      // NOLINT
-    std::string hf_repo              = ""; // HF repo                                                       // NOLINT
-    std::string hf_file              = ""; // HF file                                                       // NOLINT
     std::string prompt               = "";                                                                  // NOLINT
     std::string system_prompt        = "";                                                                  // NOLINT
     std::string prompt_file          = ""; // store the external prompt file name                           // NOLINT
@@ -282,6 +275,7 @@ struct common_params {
     std::vector<std::string> in_files;   // all input files
     std::vector<std::string> antiprompt; // strings upon which more user input is prompted (a.k.a. reverse prompts)
     std::vector<llama_model_kv_override> kv_overrides;
+    std::vector<llama_model_tensor_buft_override> tensor_buft_overrides;
 
     bool lora_init_without_apply = false; // only load lora to memory, but do not apply it to ctx (user can manually apply lora later using llama_adapter_lora_apply)
     std::vector<common_adapter_lora_info> lora_adapters; // lora adapter path with user defined scale
@@ -343,7 +337,7 @@ struct common_params {
     common_conversation_mode conversation_mode = COMMON_CONVERSATION_MODE_AUTO;
 
     // multimodal models (see examples/llava)
-    std::string mmproj = "";        // path to multimodal projector                                         // NOLINT
+    struct common_params_model mmproj;
     std::vector<std::string> image; // path to image file(s)
 
     // embedding
@@ -542,23 +536,6 @@ struct llama_model_params     common_model_params_to_llama  (      common_params
 struct llama_context_params   common_context_params_to_llama(const common_params & params);
 struct ggml_threadpool_params ggml_threadpool_params_from_cpu_params(const cpu_params & params);
 
-struct llama_model * common_load_model_from_url(
-    const std::string & model_url,
-    const std::string & local_path,
-    const std::string & hf_token,
-    const struct llama_model_params & params);
-
-struct llama_model * common_load_model_from_hf(
-    const std::string & repo,
-    const std::string & remote_path,
-    const std::string & local_path,
-    const std::string & hf_token,
-    const struct llama_model_params & params);
-
-std::pair<std::string, std::string> common_get_hf_file(
-    const std::string & hf_repo_with_tag,
-    const std::string & hf_token);
-
 // clear LoRA adapters from context, then apply new list of adapters
 void common_set_adapter_lora(struct llama_context * ctx, std::vector<common_adapter_lora_info> & lora);
 
diff --git a/convert_hf_to_gguf.py b/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
index 3cf8b5165..cfe94deaf 100755
--- a/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
+++ b/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
@@ -5146,10 +5146,7 @@ class BailingMoeModel(Model):
     def set_gguf_parameters(self):
         super().set_gguf_parameters()
         hparams = self.hparams
-        if hparams.get("head_dim"):
-            rope_dim = hparams["head_dim"]
-        else:
-            rope_dim = hparams["hidden_size"] // hparams["num_attention_heads"]
+        rope_dim = hparams.get("head_dim") or hparams["hidden_size"] // hparams["num_attention_heads"]
 
         self.gguf_writer.add_rope_dimension_count(rope_dim)
         self.gguf_writer.add_rope_scaling_type(gguf.RopeScalingType.NONE)
@@ -5175,7 +5172,7 @@ class BailingMoeModel(Model):
         n_head = self.hparams["num_attention_heads"]
         n_kv_head = self.hparams.get("num_key_value_heads")
         n_embd = self.hparams["hidden_size"]
-        head_dim = self.hparams.get("head_dim", n_embd // n_head)
+        head_dim = self.hparams.get("head_dim") or n_embd // n_head
 
         output_name = self.format_tensor_name(gguf.MODEL_TENSOR.OUTPUT)
 
diff --git a/examples/llava/README-gemma3.md b/examples/llava/README-gemma3.md
index 20bf73fb5..3c25ee258 100644
--- a/examples/llava/README-gemma3.md
+++ b/examples/llava/README-gemma3.md
@@ -4,6 +4,26 @@
 >
 > This is very experimental, only used for demo purpose.
 
+## Quick started
+
+You can use pre-quantized model from [ggml-org](https://huggingface.co/ggml-org)'s Hugging Face account
+
+```bash
+# build
+cmake -B build
+cmake --build build --target llama-gemma3-cli
+
+# alternatively, install from brew (MacOS)
+brew install llama.cpp
+
+# run it
+llama-gemma3-cli -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-4b-it-GGUF
+llama-gemma3-cli -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-12b-it-GGUF
+llama-gemma3-cli -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-27b-it-GGUF
+
+# note: 1B model does not support vision
+```
+
 ## How to get mmproj.gguf?
 
 ```bash
diff --git a/examples/llava/gemma3-cli.cpp b/examples/llava/gemma3-cli.cpp
index c36bb2eda..7813ac19f 100644
--- a/examples/llava/gemma3-cli.cpp
+++ b/examples/llava/gemma3-cli.cpp
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ struct gemma3_context {
     }
 
     void init_clip_model(common_params & params) {
-        const char * clip_path = params.mmproj.c_str();
+        const char * clip_path = params.mmproj.path.c_str();
         ctx_clip = clip_model_load(clip_path, params.verbosity > 1);
     }
 
@@ -232,13 +232,13 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
     common_init();
 
-    if (params.mmproj.empty()) {
+    if (params.mmproj.path.empty()) {
         show_additional_info(argc, argv);
         return 1;
     }
 
     gemma3_context ctx(params);
-    printf("%s: %s\n", __func__, params.model.c_str());
+    printf("%s: %s\n", __func__, params.model.path.c_str());
 
     bool is_single_turn = !params.prompt.empty() && !params.image.empty();
 
diff --git a/examples/llava/llava-cli.cpp b/examples/llava/llava-cli.cpp
index 40aa0876f..a15131343 100644
--- a/examples/llava/llava-cli.cpp
+++ b/examples/llava/llava-cli.cpp
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ static struct llama_model * llava_init(common_params * params) {
 
     llama_model_params model_params = common_model_params_to_llama(*params);
 
-    llama_model * model = llama_model_load_from_file(params->model.c_str(), model_params);
+    llama_model * model = llama_model_load_from_file(params->model.path.c_str(), model_params);
     if (model == NULL) {
         LOG_ERR("%s: unable to load model\n" , __func__);
         return NULL;
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ static struct llama_model * llava_init(common_params * params) {
 }
 
 static struct llava_context * llava_init_context(common_params * params, llama_model * model) {
-    const char * clip_path = params->mmproj.c_str();
+    const char * clip_path = params->mmproj.path.c_str();
 
     auto prompt = params->prompt;
     if (prompt.empty()) {
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
     common_init();
 
-    if (params.mmproj.empty() || (params.image.empty() && !prompt_contains_image(params.prompt))) {
+    if (params.mmproj.path.empty() || (params.image.empty() && !prompt_contains_image(params.prompt))) {
         print_usage(argc, argv);
         return 1;
     }
diff --git a/examples/llava/minicpmv-cli.cpp b/examples/llava/minicpmv-cli.cpp
index 12f536cf5..48fddeaa4 100644
--- a/examples/llava/minicpmv-cli.cpp
+++ b/examples/llava/minicpmv-cli.cpp
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ static struct llama_model * llava_init(common_params * params) {
 
     llama_model_params model_params = common_model_params_to_llama(*params);
 
-    llama_model * model = llama_model_load_from_file(params->model.c_str(), model_params);
+    llama_model * model = llama_model_load_from_file(params->model.path.c_str(), model_params);
     if (model == NULL) {
         LOG_ERR("%s: unable to load model\n" , __func__);
         return NULL;
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static void llava_free(struct llava_context * ctx_llava) {
 }
 
 static struct clip_ctx * clip_init_context(common_params * params) {
-    const char * clip_path = params->mmproj.c_str();
+    const char * clip_path = params->mmproj.path.c_str();
 
     auto prompt = params->prompt;
     if (prompt.empty()) {
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
     common_init();
 
-    if (params.mmproj.empty() || (params.image.empty())) {
+    if (params.mmproj.path.empty() || (params.image.empty())) {
         show_additional_info(argc, argv);
         return 1;
     }
diff --git a/examples/llava/qwen2vl-cli.cpp b/examples/llava/qwen2vl-cli.cpp
index 132a7da54..c6481e482 100644
--- a/examples/llava/qwen2vl-cli.cpp
+++ b/examples/llava/qwen2vl-cli.cpp
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ static struct llama_model * llava_init(common_params * params) {
 
     llama_model_params model_params = common_model_params_to_llama(*params);
 
-    llama_model * model = llama_model_load_from_file(params->model.c_str(), model_params);
+    llama_model * model = llama_model_load_from_file(params->model.path.c_str(), model_params);
     if (model == NULL) {
         LOG_ERR("%s: unable to load model\n" , __func__);
         return NULL;
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ static struct llama_model * llava_init(common_params * params) {
 }
 
 static struct llava_context * llava_init_context(common_params * params, llama_model * model) {
-    const char * clip_path = params->mmproj.c_str();
+    const char * clip_path = params->mmproj.path.c_str();
 
     auto prompt = params->prompt;
     if (prompt.empty()) {
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
     common_init();
 
-    if (params.mmproj.empty() || (params.image.empty() && !prompt_contains_image(params.prompt))) {
+    if (params.mmproj.path.empty() || (params.image.empty() && !prompt_contains_image(params.prompt))) {
         print_usage(argc, argv);
         return 1;
     }
diff --git a/examples/server/server.cpp b/examples/server/server.cpp
index 17a292da1..760c36464 100644
--- a/examples/server/server.cpp
+++ b/examples/server/server.cpp
@@ -133,7 +133,8 @@ struct slot_params {
 
         auto grammar_triggers = json::array();
         for (const auto & trigger : sampling.grammar_triggers) {
-            grammar_triggers.push_back(trigger.to_json<json>());
+            server_grammar_trigger ct(std::move(trigger));
+            grammar_triggers.push_back(ct.to_json());
         }
 
         return json {
@@ -372,9 +373,9 @@ struct server_task {
             const auto grammar_triggers = data.find("grammar_triggers");
             if (grammar_triggers != data.end()) {
                 for (const auto & t : *grammar_triggers) {
-                    auto ct = common_grammar_trigger::from_json(t);
-                    if (ct.type == COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_WORD) {
-                        const auto & word = ct.value;
+                    server_grammar_trigger ct(t);
+                    if (ct.value.type == COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_WORD) {
+                        const auto & word = ct.value.value;
                         auto ids = common_tokenize(vocab, word, /* add_special= */ false, /* parse_special= */ true);
                         if (ids.size() == 1) {
                             auto token = ids[0];
@@ -392,7 +393,7 @@ struct server_task {
                             params.sampling.grammar_triggers.push_back({COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_WORD, word});
                         }
                     } else {
-                        params.sampling.grammar_triggers.push_back(ct);
+                        params.sampling.grammar_triggers.push_back(std::move(ct.value));
                     }
                 }
             }
@@ -1876,7 +1877,7 @@ struct server_context {
     }
 
     bool load_model(const common_params & params) {
-        SRV_INF("loading model '%s'\n", params.model.c_str());
+        SRV_INF("loading model '%s'\n", params.model.path.c_str());
 
         params_base = params;
 
@@ -1886,7 +1887,7 @@ struct server_context {
         ctx   = llama_init.context.get();
 
         if (model == nullptr) {
-            SRV_ERR("failed to load model, '%s'\n", params_base.model.c_str());
+            SRV_ERR("failed to load model, '%s'\n", params_base.model.path.c_str());
             return false;
         }
 
@@ -1897,16 +1898,13 @@ struct server_context {
         add_bos_token = llama_vocab_get_add_bos(vocab);
         has_eos_token = llama_vocab_eos(vocab) != LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL;
 
-        if (!params_base.speculative.model.empty() || !params_base.speculative.hf_repo.empty()) {
-            SRV_INF("loading draft model '%s'\n", params_base.speculative.model.c_str());
+        if (!params_base.speculative.model.path.empty() || !params_base.speculative.model.hf_repo.empty()) {
+            SRV_INF("loading draft model '%s'\n", params_base.speculative.model.path.c_str());
 
             auto params_dft = params_base;
 
             params_dft.devices      = params_base.speculative.devices;
-            params_dft.hf_file      = params_base.speculative.hf_file;
-            params_dft.hf_repo      = params_base.speculative.hf_repo;
             params_dft.model        = params_base.speculative.model;
-            params_dft.model_url    = params_base.speculative.model_url;
             params_dft.n_ctx        = params_base.speculative.n_ctx == 0 ? params_base.n_ctx / params_base.n_parallel : params_base.speculative.n_ctx;
             params_dft.n_gpu_layers = params_base.speculative.n_gpu_layers;
             params_dft.n_parallel   = 1;
@@ -1920,12 +1918,12 @@ struct server_context {
             model_dft = llama_init_dft.model.get();
 
             if (model_dft == nullptr) {
-                SRV_ERR("failed to load draft model, '%s'\n", params_base.speculative.model.c_str());
+                SRV_ERR("failed to load draft model, '%s'\n", params_base.speculative.model.path.c_str());
                 return false;
             }
 
             if (!common_speculative_are_compatible(ctx, llama_init_dft.context.get())) {
-                SRV_ERR("the draft model '%s' is not compatible with the target model '%s'\n", params_base.speculative.model.c_str(), params_base.model.c_str());
+                SRV_ERR("the draft model '%s' is not compatible with the target model '%s'\n", params_base.speculative.model.path.c_str(), params_base.model.path.c_str());
 
                 return false;
             }
@@ -3865,7 +3863,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         json data = {
             { "default_generation_settings", ctx_server.default_generation_settings_for_props },
             { "total_slots",                 ctx_server.params_base.n_parallel },
-            { "model_path",                  ctx_server.params_base.model },
+            { "model_path",                  ctx_server.params_base.model.path },
             { "chat_template",               common_chat_templates_source(ctx_server.chat_templates.get()) },
             { "bos_token",                   common_token_to_piece(ctx_server.ctx, llama_vocab_bos(ctx_server.vocab), /* special= */ true)},
             { "eos_token",                   common_token_to_piece(ctx_server.ctx, llama_vocab_eos(ctx_server.vocab), /* special= */ true)},
@@ -4131,7 +4129,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
             {"object", "list"},
             {"data", {
                 {
-                    {"id",       params.model_alias.empty() ? params.model : params.model_alias},
+                    {"id",       params.model_alias.empty() ? params.model.path : params.model_alias},
                     {"object",   "model"},
                     {"created",  std::time(0)},
                     {"owned_by", "llamacpp"},
diff --git a/examples/server/utils.hpp b/examples/server/utils.hpp
index 58cdd6af9..55cf3230d 100644
--- a/examples/server/utils.hpp
+++ b/examples/server/utils.hpp
@@ -58,6 +58,32 @@ static T json_value(const json & body, const std::string & key, const T & defaul
 
 const static std::string build_info("b" + std::to_string(LLAMA_BUILD_NUMBER) + "-" + LLAMA_COMMIT);
 
+// thin wrapper around common_grammar_trigger with (de)serialization functions
+struct server_grammar_trigger {
+    common_grammar_trigger value;
+
+    server_grammar_trigger() = default;
+    server_grammar_trigger(const common_grammar_trigger & value) : value(value) {}
+    server_grammar_trigger(const json & in) {
+        value.type = (common_grammar_trigger_type) in.at("type").get<int>();
+        value.value = in.at("value").get<std::string>();
+        if (value.type == COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_TOKEN) {
+            value.token = (llama_token) in.at("token").get<int>();
+        }
+    }
+
+    json to_json() const {
+        json out {
+            {"type", (int) value.type},
+            {"value", value.value},
+        };
+        if (value.type == COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_TOKEN) {
+            out["token"] = (int) value.token;
+        }
+        return out;
+    }
+};
+
 //
 // tokenizer and input processing utils
 //
@@ -627,7 +653,8 @@ static json oaicompat_completion_params_parse(
     llama_params["grammar_lazy"]     = chat_params.grammar_lazy;
     auto grammar_triggers = json::array();
     for (const auto & trigger : chat_params.grammar_triggers) {
-        grammar_triggers.push_back(trigger.to_json<json>());
+        server_grammar_trigger ct(trigger);
+        grammar_triggers.push_back(ct.to_json());
     }
     llama_params["grammar_triggers"] = grammar_triggers;
     llama_params["preserved_tokens"] = chat_params.preserved_tokens;
diff --git a/examples/tts/tts.cpp b/examples/tts/tts.cpp
index c7ac94cc5..0f0479869 100644
--- a/examples/tts/tts.cpp
+++ b/examples/tts/tts.cpp
@@ -577,12 +577,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
     const llama_vocab * vocab = llama_model_get_vocab(model_ttc);
 
-    // TODO: refactor in a common struct
-    params.model     = params.vocoder.model;
-    params.model_url = params.vocoder.model_url;
-    params.hf_repo   = params.vocoder.hf_repo;
-    params.hf_file   = params.vocoder.hf_file;
-
+    params.model = params.vocoder.model;
     params.embedding = true;
 
     common_init_result llama_init_cts = common_init_from_params(params);
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cann/ggml-cann.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-cann/ggml-cann.cpp
index 68cd9920d..5e790f05f 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-cann/ggml-cann.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cann/ggml-cann.cpp
@@ -1420,6 +1420,15 @@ static bool ggml_cann_compute_forward(ggml_backend_cann_context& ctx,
         case GGML_OP_ARGSORT:
             ggml_cann_argsort(ctx, dst);
             break;
+        case GGML_OP_ARGMAX:
+            ggml_cann_argmax(ctx, dst);
+            break;
+        case GGML_OP_COS:
+            ggml_cann_cos(ctx, dst);
+            break;
+        case GGML_OP_SIN:
+            ggml_cann_sin(ctx, dst);
+            break;
         default:
             return false;
     }
@@ -1458,11 +1467,6 @@ static void ggml_backend_cann_free(ggml_backend_t backend) {
     ACL_CHECK(aclrtSynchronizeDevice());
     ACL_CHECK(aclrtResetDevice(cann_ctx->device));
 
-    // finalize when last backend freed.
-    if (cann_ctx->device == ggml_backend_cann_get_device_count() - 1) {
-        ACL_CHECK(aclFinalize());
-    }
-
     delete cann_ctx;
     delete backend;
 }
@@ -1688,11 +1692,14 @@ static bool ggml_backend_cann_supports_op(ggml_backend_dev_t dev,
             }
         case GGML_OP_MUL_MAT: {
             switch (op->src[0]->type) {
-                case GGML_TYPE_Q8_0:
                 case GGML_TYPE_F16:
                 case GGML_TYPE_F32:
-                case GGML_TYPE_Q4_0:
                     return true;
+                case GGML_TYPE_Q8_0:
+                case GGML_TYPE_Q4_0:
+                    // only support contiguous for quantized types.
+                    return ggml_is_contiguous(op->src[0]) &&
+                            ggml_is_contiguous(op->src[1]);
                 default:
                     return false;
             }
@@ -1704,7 +1711,6 @@ static bool ggml_backend_cann_supports_op(ggml_backend_dev_t dev,
             switch (op->src[0]->type) {
                 case GGML_TYPE_F32:
                 case GGML_TYPE_F16:
-                case GGML_TYPE_Q4_0:
                 case GGML_TYPE_Q8_0:
                     return true;
                 default:
@@ -1712,16 +1718,21 @@ static bool ggml_backend_cann_supports_op(ggml_backend_dev_t dev,
             }
         } break;
         case GGML_OP_CPY: {
-            switch (op->type) {
-                case GGML_TYPE_F32:
-                case GGML_TYPE_F16:
-                case GGML_TYPE_Q8_0:
-                case GGML_TYPE_Q4_0:
-                    return true;
-                default:
-                    return false;
+            ggml_tensor *src = op->src[0];
+            if ((op->type != GGML_TYPE_F32 && op->type != GGML_TYPE_F16) ||
+                  (src->type != GGML_TYPE_F32 &&
+                    src->type != GGML_TYPE_F16)) {
+                // only support F32 and F16.
+                return false;
             }
-        }
+
+            if (!ggml_are_same_shape(op, src) && !ggml_is_contiguous(op)) {
+                // unsupport dst is not contiguous.
+                return false;
+            }
+
+            return true;
+        } break;
         case GGML_OP_CONT: {
             // TODO: support GGML_TYPE_BF16
             switch (op->src[0]->type) {
@@ -1734,13 +1745,14 @@ static bool ggml_backend_cann_supports_op(ggml_backend_dev_t dev,
         }
         case GGML_OP_ROPE: {
             // TODO: with ops-test v == 1
-            float * ext_factor = (float*)((int32_t*)op->op_params + 7);
+            float ext_factor = 0.0f;
+            memcpy(&ext_factor, (const float *) op->op_params + 7, sizeof(float));
             // TODO: n_dims <= ne0
             if (op->src[0]->ne[0] != op->op_params[1]) {
                 return false;
             }
             // TODO: ext_factor != 0
-            if (*ext_factor != 0) {
+            if (ext_factor != 0) {
                 return false;
             }
 
@@ -1762,9 +1774,19 @@ static bool ggml_backend_cann_supports_op(ggml_backend_dev_t dev,
             }
             return true;
         }
+        case GGML_OP_POOL_2D: {
+            const int32_t * opts = (const int32_t *) op->op_params;
+            const int       k0   = opts[1];
+            const int       k1   = opts[2];
+            const int       p0   = opts[5];
+            const int       p1   = opts[6];
+            // value of paddingH should be at most half of kernelH
+            // value of paddingW should be at most half of kernelW
+            return (p0 <= (k0 / 2)) && (p1 <= (k1 / 2));
+        }
+        case GGML_OP_DUP:
         case GGML_OP_IM2COL:
         case GGML_OP_CONCAT:
-        case GGML_OP_DUP:
         case GGML_OP_REPEAT:
         case GGML_OP_NONE:
         case GGML_OP_RESHAPE:
@@ -1781,7 +1803,6 @@ static bool ggml_backend_cann_supports_op(ggml_backend_dev_t dev,
         case GGML_OP_CLAMP:
         case GGML_OP_DIAG_MASK_INF:
         case GGML_OP_SOFT_MAX:
-        case GGML_OP_POOL_2D:
         case GGML_OP_SUM_ROWS:
         case GGML_OP_ARGSORT:
         case GGML_OP_ACC:
@@ -1790,6 +1811,9 @@ static bool ggml_backend_cann_supports_op(ggml_backend_dev_t dev,
         case GGML_OP_ARANGE:
         case GGML_OP_TIMESTEP_EMBEDDING:
         case GGML_OP_LEAKY_RELU:
+        case GGML_OP_ARGMAX:
+        case GGML_OP_COS:
+        case GGML_OP_SIN:
             return true;
         default:
             return false;
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/common.cuh b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/common.cuh
index 9e62c717d..4e222d4ed 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/common.cuh
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/common.cuh
@@ -729,7 +729,13 @@ struct ggml_cuda_graph {
     bool disable_due_to_failed_graph_capture = false;
     int number_consecutive_updates = 0;
     std::vector<ggml_graph_node_properties> ggml_graph_properties;
-    std::vector<char **> updated_kernel_arg;
+    bool use_cpy_indirection = false;
+    std::vector<char *> cpy_dest_ptrs;
+    char ** dest_ptrs_d;
+    int dest_ptrs_size = 0;
+    // Index to allow each cpy kernel to be aware of it's position within the graph
+    // relative to other cpy nodes.
+    int graph_cpynode_index = -1;
 #endif
 };
 
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/cpy.cu b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/cpy.cu
index cca2bee0b..1f3151e75 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/cpy.cu
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/cpy.cu
@@ -32,16 +32,18 @@ static __device__ void cpy_1_f16_f32(const char * cxi, char * cdsti) {
 }
 
 template <cpy_kernel_t cpy_1>
-static __global__ void cpy_f32_f16(const char * cx, char * cdst, const int ne,
+static __global__ void cpy_f32_f16(const char * cx, char * cdst_direct, const int ne,
                                    const int ne00, const int ne01, const int ne02, const int nb00, const int nb01, const int nb02,
                                    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11,
-                                   const int nb12, const int nb13) {
+                                   const int nb12, const int nb13, char ** cdst_indirect, int graph_cpynode_index) {
     const int64_t i = blockDim.x*blockIdx.x + threadIdx.x;
 
     if (i >= ne) {
         return;
     }
 
+    char * cdst = (cdst_indirect != nullptr) ? cdst_indirect[graph_cpynode_index]: cdst_direct;
+
     // determine indices i03/i13, i02/i12, i01/i11, i00/i10 as a function of index i of flattened tensor
     // then combine those indices with the corresponding byte offsets to get the total offsets
     const int64_t i03 = i/(ne00 * ne01 * ne02);
@@ -288,16 +290,18 @@ static __device__ void cpy_blck_f32_iq4_nl(const char * cxi, char * cdsti) {
 }
 
 template <cpy_kernel_t cpy_blck, int qk>
-static __global__ void cpy_f32_q(const char * cx, char * cdst, const int ne,
+static __global__ void cpy_f32_q(const char * cx, char * cdst_direct, const int ne,
                                  const int ne00, const int ne01, const int ne02, const int nb00, const int nb01, const int nb02,
                                  const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11,
-                                 const int nb12, const int nb13) {
+                                 const int nb12, const int nb13, char ** cdst_indirect, int graph_cpynode_index) {
     const int i = (blockDim.x*blockIdx.x + threadIdx.x)*qk;
 
     if (i >= ne) {
         return;
     }
 
+    char * cdst = (cdst_indirect != nullptr) ? cdst_indirect[graph_cpynode_index]: cdst_direct;
+
     const int i03 = i/(ne00 * ne01 * ne02);
     const int i02 = (i - i03*ne00*ne01*ne02 )/ (ne00*ne01);
     const int i01 = (i - i03*ne00*ne01*ne02  -  i02*ne01*ne00) / ne00;
@@ -314,16 +318,18 @@ static __global__ void cpy_f32_q(const char * cx, char * cdst, const int ne,
 }
 
 template <cpy_kernel_t cpy_blck, int qk>
-static __global__ void cpy_q_f32(const char * cx, char * cdst, const int ne,
+static __global__ void cpy_q_f32(const char * cx, char * cdst_direct, const int ne,
                                  const int ne00, const int ne01, const int ne02, const int nb00, const int nb01, const int nb02,
                                  const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11,
-                                 const int nb12, const int nb13) {
+                                 const int nb12, const int nb13, char ** cdst_indirect, int graph_cpynode_index) {
     const int i = (blockDim.x*blockIdx.x + threadIdx.x)*qk;
 
     if (i >= ne) {
         return;
     }
 
+    char * cdst = (cdst_indirect != nullptr) ? cdst_indirect[graph_cpynode_index]: cdst_direct;
+
     const int i03 = i/(ne00 * ne01 * ne02);
     const int i02 = (i - i03*ne00*ne01*ne02 )/ (ne00*ne01);
     const int i01 = (i - i03*ne00*ne01*ne02  -  i02*ne01*ne00) / ne00;
@@ -339,66 +345,84 @@ static __global__ void cpy_q_f32(const char * cx, char * cdst, const int ne,
     cpy_blck(cx + x_offset, cdst + dst_offset);
 }
 
+// Copy destination pointers to GPU to be available when pointer indirection is in use
+
+void ggml_cuda_cpy_dest_ptrs_copy(ggml_cuda_graph * cuda_graph, char ** host_dest_ptrs, const int host_dest_ptrs_size, cudaStream_t stream) {
+#if defined(GGML_CUDA_USE_GRAPHS) || defined(GGML_HIP_GRAPHS)
+    if (cuda_graph->dest_ptrs_size < host_dest_ptrs_size) { // (re-)allocate GPU memory for destination pointers
+        CUDA_CHECK(cudaStreamSynchronize(stream));
+        if (cuda_graph->dest_ptrs_d != nullptr) {
+            CUDA_CHECK(cudaFree(cuda_graph->dest_ptrs_d));
+        }
+        CUDA_CHECK(cudaMalloc(&cuda_graph->dest_ptrs_d, host_dest_ptrs_size*sizeof(char *)));
+        cuda_graph->dest_ptrs_size = host_dest_ptrs_size;
+    }
+    // copy destination pointers to GPU
+    CUDA_CHECK(cudaMemcpyAsync(cuda_graph->dest_ptrs_d, host_dest_ptrs, host_dest_ptrs_size*sizeof(char *), cudaMemcpyHostToDevice, stream));
+    cuda_graph->graph_cpynode_index = 0; // reset index
+#endif
+}
+
 static void ggml_cpy_f16_f32_cuda(
     const char * cx, char * cdst, const int ne,
     const int ne00, const int ne01, const int ne02, const int nb00, const int nb01, const int nb02,
-    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream, char ** cdst_indirect, int & graph_cpynode_index) {
 
     const int num_blocks = (ne + CUDA_CPY_BLOCK_SIZE - 1) / CUDA_CPY_BLOCK_SIZE;
     cpy_f32_f16<cpy_1_f16_f32><<<num_blocks, CUDA_CPY_BLOCK_SIZE, 0, stream>>>
-        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13);
+        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, cdst_indirect, graph_cpynode_index++);
 }
 
 static void ggml_cpy_f32_f32_cuda(
     const char * cx, char * cdst, const int ne,
     const int ne00, const int ne01, const int ne02, const int nb00, const int nb01, const int nb02,
-    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream, char ** cdst_indirect, int & graph_cpynode_index) {
 
     const int num_blocks = (ne + CUDA_CPY_BLOCK_SIZE - 1) / CUDA_CPY_BLOCK_SIZE;
     cpy_f32_f16<cpy_1_f32_f32><<<num_blocks, CUDA_CPY_BLOCK_SIZE, 0, stream>>>
-        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13);
+        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, cdst_indirect, graph_cpynode_index++);
 }
 
 static void ggml_cpy_f32_f16_cuda(
     const char * cx, char * cdst, const int ne,
     const int ne00, const int ne01, const int ne02, const int nb00, const int nb01, const int nb02,
-    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream, char ** cdst_indirect, int & graph_cpynode_index) {
 
     const int num_blocks = (ne + CUDA_CPY_BLOCK_SIZE - 1) / CUDA_CPY_BLOCK_SIZE;
     cpy_f32_f16<cpy_1_f32_f16><<<num_blocks, CUDA_CPY_BLOCK_SIZE, 0, stream>>>
-        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13);
+        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, cdst_indirect, graph_cpynode_index++);
 }
 
 static void ggml_cpy_f32_q8_0_cuda(
     const char * cx, char * cdst, const int ne,
     const int ne00, const int ne01, const int ne02, const int nb00, const int nb01, const int nb02,
-    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream, char ** cdst_indirect, int & graph_cpynode_index) {
 
     GGML_ASSERT(ne % QK8_0 == 0);
     const int num_blocks = ne / QK8_0;
     cpy_f32_q<cpy_blck_f32_q8_0, QK8_0><<<num_blocks, 1, 0, stream>>>
-        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13);
+        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, cdst_indirect, graph_cpynode_index++);
 }
 
 static void ggml_cpy_q8_0_f32_cuda(
     const char * cx, char * cdst, const int ne,
     const int ne00, const int ne01, const int ne02, const int nb00, const int nb01, const int nb02,
-    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream, char ** cdst_indirect, int & graph_cpynode_index) {
 
     const int num_blocks = ne;
     cpy_q_f32<cpy_blck_q8_0_f32, QK8_0><<<num_blocks, 1, 0, stream>>>
-        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13);
+        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, cdst_indirect, graph_cpynode_index++);
 }
 
 static void ggml_cpy_f32_q4_0_cuda(
     const char * cx, char * cdst, const int ne,
     const int ne00, const int ne01, const int ne02, const int nb00, const int nb01, const int nb02,
-    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream, char ** cdst_indirect, int & graph_cpynode_index) {
 
     GGML_ASSERT(ne % QK4_0 == 0);
     const int num_blocks = ne / QK4_0;
     cpy_f32_q<cpy_blck_f32_q4_0, QK4_0><<<num_blocks, 1, 0, stream>>>
-        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13);
+        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, cdst_indirect, graph_cpynode_index++);
 }
 
 static void ggml_cpy_q4_0_f32_cuda(
@@ -407,22 +431,22 @@ static void ggml_cpy_q4_0_f32_cuda(
     const int nb00, const int nb01, const int nb02,
     const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12,
     const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13,
-    cudaStream_t stream) {
+    cudaStream_t stream, char ** cdst_indirect, int & graph_cpynode_index) {
     const int num_blocks = ne;
     cpy_q_f32<cpy_blck_q_f32<dequantize_q4_0, QK4_0>, QK4_0><<<num_blocks, 1, 0, stream>>>(
         cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03,
-         ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13);
+         ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, cdst_indirect, graph_cpynode_index++);
 }
 
 static void ggml_cpy_f32_q4_1_cuda(
     const char * cx, char * cdst, const int ne,
     const int ne00, const int ne01, const int ne02, const int nb00, const int nb01, const int nb02,
-    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream, char ** cdst_indirect, int & graph_cpynode_index) {
 
     GGML_ASSERT(ne % QK4_1 == 0);
     const int num_blocks = ne / QK4_1;
     cpy_f32_q<cpy_blck_f32_q4_1, QK4_1><<<num_blocks, 1, 0, stream>>>
-        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13);
+        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, cdst_indirect, graph_cpynode_index++);
 }
 
 static void ggml_cpy_q4_1_f32_cuda(
@@ -431,22 +455,22 @@ static void ggml_cpy_q4_1_f32_cuda(
     const int nb00, const int nb01, const int nb02,
     const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12,
     const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13,
-    cudaStream_t stream) {
+    cudaStream_t stream, char ** cdst_indirect, int & graph_cpynode_index) {
     const int num_blocks = ne;
     cpy_q_f32<cpy_blck_q_f32<dequantize_q4_1, QK4_1>, QK4_1><<<num_blocks, 1, 0, stream>>>(
         cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03,
-         ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13);
+         ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, cdst_indirect, graph_cpynode_index++);
 }
 
 static void ggml_cpy_f32_q5_0_cuda(
     const char * cx, char * cdst, const int ne,
     const int ne00, const int ne01, const int ne02, const int nb00, const int nb01, const int nb02,
-    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream, char ** cdst_indirect, int & graph_cpynode_index) {
 
     GGML_ASSERT(ne % QK5_0 == 0);
     const int num_blocks = ne / QK5_0;
     cpy_f32_q<cpy_blck_f32_q5_0, QK5_0><<<num_blocks, 1, 0, stream>>>
-        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13);
+        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, cdst_indirect, graph_cpynode_index++);
 }
 
 static void ggml_cpy_q5_0_f32_cuda(
@@ -455,22 +479,22 @@ static void ggml_cpy_q5_0_f32_cuda(
     const int nb00, const int nb01, const int nb02,
     const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12,
     const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13,
-    cudaStream_t stream) {
+    cudaStream_t stream, char ** cdst_indirect, int & graph_cpynode_index) {
     const int num_blocks = ne;
     cpy_q_f32<cpy_blck_q_f32<dequantize_q5_0, QK5_0>, QK5_0><<<num_blocks, 1, 0, stream>>>(
         cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03,
-        ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13);
+        ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, cdst_indirect, graph_cpynode_index++);
 }
 
 static void ggml_cpy_f32_q5_1_cuda(
     const char * cx, char * cdst, const int ne,
     const int ne00, const int ne01, const int ne02, const int nb00, const int nb01, const int nb02,
-    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream, char ** cdst_indirect, int & graph_cpynode_index) {
 
     GGML_ASSERT(ne % QK5_1 == 0);
     const int num_blocks = ne / QK5_1;
     cpy_f32_q<cpy_blck_f32_q5_1, QK5_1><<<num_blocks, 1, 0, stream>>>
-        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13);
+        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, cdst_indirect, graph_cpynode_index++);
 }
 
 static void ggml_cpy_q5_1_f32_cuda(
@@ -479,32 +503,32 @@ static void ggml_cpy_q5_1_f32_cuda(
     const int nb00, const int nb01, const int nb02,
     const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12,
     const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13,
-    cudaStream_t stream) {
+    cudaStream_t stream, char ** cdst_indirect, int & graph_cpynode_index) {
     const int num_blocks = ne;
     cpy_q_f32<cpy_blck_q_f32<dequantize_q5_1, QK5_1>, QK5_1><<<num_blocks, 1, 0, stream>>>(
         cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03,
-        ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13);
+        ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, cdst_indirect, graph_cpynode_index++);
 }
 
 static void ggml_cpy_f32_iq4_nl_cuda(
     const char * cx, char * cdst, const int ne,
     const int ne00, const int ne01, const int ne02, const int nb00, const int nb01, const int nb02,
-    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream, char ** cdst_indirect, int & graph_cpynode_index) {
 
     GGML_ASSERT(ne % QK4_NL == 0);
     const int num_blocks = ne / QK4_NL;
     cpy_f32_q<cpy_blck_f32_iq4_nl, QK4_NL><<<num_blocks, 1, 0, stream>>>
-        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13);
+        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, cdst_indirect, graph_cpynode_index++);
 }
 
 static void ggml_cpy_f16_f16_cuda(
     const char * cx, char * cdst, const int ne,
     const int ne00, const int ne01, const int ne02, const int nb00, const int nb01, const int nb02,
-    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    const int nb03, const int ne10, const int ne11, const int ne12, const int nb10, const int nb11, const int nb12, const int nb13, cudaStream_t stream, char ** cdst_indirect, int & graph_cpynode_index) {
 
     const int num_blocks = (ne + CUDA_CPY_BLOCK_SIZE - 1) / CUDA_CPY_BLOCK_SIZE;
     cpy_f32_f16<cpy_1_f16_f16><<<num_blocks, CUDA_CPY_BLOCK_SIZE, 0, stream>>>
-        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13);
+        (cx, cdst, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, cdst_indirect, graph_cpynode_index++);
 }
 
 void ggml_cuda_cpy(ggml_backend_cuda_context & ctx, const ggml_tensor * src0, ggml_tensor * src1) {
@@ -541,46 +565,60 @@ void ggml_cuda_cpy(ggml_backend_cuda_context & ctx, const ggml_tensor * src0, gg
     char * src0_ddc = (char *) src0->data;
     char * src1_ddc = (char *) src1->data;
 
+    char ** dest_ptrs_d = nullptr;
+    int graph_cpynode_index = -1;
+#if defined(GGML_CUDA_USE_GRAPHS) || defined(GGML_HIP_GRAPHS)
+    if(ctx.cuda_graph->use_cpy_indirection) {
+        dest_ptrs_d = ctx.cuda_graph->dest_ptrs_d;
+        graph_cpynode_index = ctx.cuda_graph->graph_cpynode_index;
+    }
+#endif
     if (src0->type == src1->type && ggml_is_contiguous(src0) && ggml_is_contiguous(src1)) {
         GGML_ASSERT(ggml_nbytes(src0) == ggml_nbytes(src1));
         CUDA_CHECK(cudaMemcpyAsync(src1_ddc, src0_ddc, ggml_nbytes(src0), cudaMemcpyDeviceToDevice, main_stream));
     } else if (src0->type == GGML_TYPE_F32 && src1->type == GGML_TYPE_F32) {
-        ggml_cpy_f32_f32_cuda (src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream);
+        ggml_cpy_f32_f32_cuda (src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream, dest_ptrs_d, graph_cpynode_index);
     } else if (src0->type == GGML_TYPE_F32 && src1->type == GGML_TYPE_F16) {
-        ggml_cpy_f32_f16_cuda (src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream);
+        ggml_cpy_f32_f16_cuda (src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream, dest_ptrs_d, graph_cpynode_index);
     } else if (src0->type == GGML_TYPE_F32 && src1->type == GGML_TYPE_Q8_0) {
-        ggml_cpy_f32_q8_0_cuda(src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream);
+        ggml_cpy_f32_q8_0_cuda(src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream, dest_ptrs_d, graph_cpynode_index);
     } else if (src0->type == GGML_TYPE_Q8_0 && src1->type == GGML_TYPE_F32) {
-        ggml_cpy_q8_0_f32_cuda(src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream);
+        ggml_cpy_q8_0_f32_cuda(src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream, dest_ptrs_d, graph_cpynode_index);
     } else if (src0->type == GGML_TYPE_F32 && src1->type == GGML_TYPE_Q4_0) {
-        ggml_cpy_f32_q4_0_cuda(src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream);
+        ggml_cpy_f32_q4_0_cuda(src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream, dest_ptrs_d, graph_cpynode_index);
     } else if (src0->type == GGML_TYPE_Q4_0 && src1->type == GGML_TYPE_F32) {
         ggml_cpy_q4_0_f32_cuda(src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02,
-            nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream);
+            nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream, dest_ptrs_d, graph_cpynode_index);
     } else if (src0->type == GGML_TYPE_F32 && src1->type == GGML_TYPE_Q4_1) {
-        ggml_cpy_f32_q4_1_cuda(src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream);
+        ggml_cpy_f32_q4_1_cuda(src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream, dest_ptrs_d, graph_cpynode_index);
     } else if (src0->type == GGML_TYPE_Q4_1 && src1->type == GGML_TYPE_F32) {
         ggml_cpy_q4_1_f32_cuda(src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02,
-            nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream);
+            nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream, dest_ptrs_d, graph_cpynode_index);
     } else if (src0->type == GGML_TYPE_F32 && src1->type == GGML_TYPE_Q5_0) {
-        ggml_cpy_f32_q5_0_cuda(src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream);
+        ggml_cpy_f32_q5_0_cuda(src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream, dest_ptrs_d, graph_cpynode_index);
     } else if (src0->type == GGML_TYPE_Q5_0 && src1->type == GGML_TYPE_F32) {
         ggml_cpy_q5_0_f32_cuda(src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02,
-            nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream);
+            nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream, dest_ptrs_d, graph_cpynode_index);
     } else if (src0->type == GGML_TYPE_F32 && src1->type == GGML_TYPE_IQ4_NL) {
-        ggml_cpy_f32_iq4_nl_cuda(src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream);
+        ggml_cpy_f32_iq4_nl_cuda(src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream, dest_ptrs_d, graph_cpynode_index);
     } else if (src0->type == GGML_TYPE_F32 && src1->type == GGML_TYPE_Q5_1) {
-        ggml_cpy_f32_q5_1_cuda(src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream);
+        ggml_cpy_f32_q5_1_cuda(src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream, dest_ptrs_d, graph_cpynode_index);
     } else if (src0->type == GGML_TYPE_Q5_1 && src1->type == GGML_TYPE_F32) {
-        ggml_cpy_q5_1_f32_cuda(src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream);
+        ggml_cpy_q5_1_f32_cuda(src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream, dest_ptrs_d, graph_cpynode_index);
     } else if (src0->type == GGML_TYPE_F16 && src1->type == GGML_TYPE_F16) {
-        ggml_cpy_f16_f16_cuda (src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream);
+        ggml_cpy_f16_f16_cuda (src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream, dest_ptrs_d, graph_cpynode_index);
     } else if (src0->type == GGML_TYPE_F16 && src1->type == GGML_TYPE_F32) {
-        ggml_cpy_f16_f32_cuda (src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream);
+        ggml_cpy_f16_f32_cuda (src0_ddc, src1_ddc, ne, ne00, ne01, ne02, nb00, nb01, nb02, nb03, ne10, ne11, ne12, nb10, nb11, nb12, nb13, main_stream, dest_ptrs_d, graph_cpynode_index);
     } else {
         GGML_ABORT("%s: unsupported type combination (%s to %s)\n", __func__,
                 ggml_type_name(src0->type), ggml_type_name(src1->type));
     }
+#if defined(GGML_CUDA_USE_GRAPHS) || defined(GGML_HIP_GRAPHS)
+    if(ctx.cuda_graph->use_cpy_indirection) {
+        ctx.cuda_graph->graph_cpynode_index = graph_cpynode_index;
+    }
+#endif
+
 }
 
 void ggml_cuda_dup(ggml_backend_cuda_context & ctx, ggml_tensor * dst) {
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/cpy.cuh b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/cpy.cuh
index 28b06cdda..6bed0564d 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/cpy.cuh
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/cpy.cuh
@@ -7,3 +7,5 @@ void ggml_cuda_cpy(ggml_backend_cuda_context & ctx, const ggml_tensor * src0, gg
 void ggml_cuda_dup(ggml_backend_cuda_context & ctx, ggml_tensor * dst);
 
 void* ggml_cuda_cpy_fn(const ggml_tensor * src0, ggml_tensor * src1);
+
+void ggml_cuda_cpy_dest_ptrs_copy(ggml_cuda_graph * cuda_graph, char ** host_dest_ptrs, const int host_dest_ptrs_size, cudaStream_t stream);
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ggml-cuda.cu b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ggml-cuda.cu
index bcf9d30e6..1b019deb7 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ggml-cuda.cu
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ggml-cuda.cu
@@ -2446,10 +2446,11 @@ static void ggml_backend_cuda_synchronize(ggml_backend_t backend) {
 
 #ifdef USE_CUDA_GRAPH
 static bool check_node_graph_compatibility_and_refresh_copy_ops(ggml_backend_cuda_context * cuda_ctx, ggml_cgraph * cgraph,
-    std::vector<void *> & ggml_cuda_cpy_fn_ptrs, bool use_cuda_graph) {
+    bool use_cuda_graph) {
 
     // Loop over nodes in GGML graph to obtain info needed for CUDA graph
-    cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->updated_kernel_arg.clear();
+    cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->cpy_dest_ptrs.clear();
+
     for (int i = 0; i < cgraph->n_nodes; i++) {
         ggml_tensor * node = cgraph->nodes[i];
 
@@ -2481,8 +2482,11 @@ static bool check_node_graph_compatibility_and_refresh_copy_ops(ggml_backend_cud
         }
 
         if (node->op == GGML_OP_CPY) {
-            // store the copy op parameter which changes with each token.
-            cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->updated_kernel_arg.push_back((char **) &(node->src[1]->data));
+
+            // Store the pointers which are updated for each token, such that these can be sent
+            // to the device and accessed using indirection from CUDA graph
+            cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->cpy_dest_ptrs.push_back((char *) node->src[1]->data);
+
             // store a pointer to each copy op CUDA kernel to identify it later
             void * ptr = ggml_cuda_cpy_fn(node->src[0], node->src[1]);
             if (!ptr) {
@@ -2490,10 +2494,6 @@ static bool check_node_graph_compatibility_and_refresh_copy_ops(ggml_backend_cud
 #ifndef NDEBUG
                 GGML_LOG_DEBUG("%s: disabling CUDA graphs due to unsupported copy op\n", __func__);
 #endif
-            } else {
-                if (std::find(ggml_cuda_cpy_fn_ptrs.begin(), ggml_cuda_cpy_fn_ptrs.end(), ptr) == ggml_cuda_cpy_fn_ptrs.end()) {
-                    ggml_cuda_cpy_fn_ptrs.push_back(ptr);
-                }
             }
         }
 
@@ -2502,6 +2502,12 @@ static bool check_node_graph_compatibility_and_refresh_copy_ops(ggml_backend_cud
         }
     }
 
+    if (use_cuda_graph) {
+        cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->use_cpy_indirection = true;
+        // copy pointers to GPU so they can be accessed via indirection within CUDA graph
+        ggml_cuda_cpy_dest_ptrs_copy(cuda_ctx->cuda_graph.get(), cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->cpy_dest_ptrs.data(), cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->cpy_dest_ptrs.size(), cuda_ctx->stream());
+    }
+
     return use_cuda_graph;
 }
 
@@ -2556,51 +2562,6 @@ static bool ggml_graph_node_has_matching_properties(ggml_tensor * node, ggml_gra
     return true;
 }
 
-static void maintain_cuda_graph(ggml_backend_cuda_context * cuda_ctx, std::vector<void *> & ggml_cuda_cpy_fn_ptrs, bool cuda_graph_update_required) {
-
-    if (cuda_graph_update_required) {
-        // Extract nodes from graph
-        // First call with null argument gets number of nodes in graph
-        CUDA_CHECK(cudaGraphGetNodes(cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->graph, nullptr, &cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->num_nodes));
-        // Subsequent call with non-null argument gets nodes
-        cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->nodes.clear();
-        cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->nodes.resize(cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->num_nodes);
-        cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->params.clear();
-        cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->params.resize(cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->num_nodes);
-        if (cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->num_nodes > 0) {
-            CUDA_CHECK(cudaGraphGetNodes(cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->graph, cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->nodes.data(), &cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->num_nodes));
-
-            // Loop over nodes, and extract kernel parameters from each node
-            for (size_t i = 0; i < cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->num_nodes; i++) {
-                cudaGraphNodeType node_type;
-                CUDA_CHECK(cudaGraphNodeGetType(cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->nodes[i], &node_type));
-                if (node_type == cudaGraphNodeTypeKernel) {
-                    cudaError_t stat = cudaGraphKernelNodeGetParams(cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->nodes[i], &cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->params[i]); // Get params using runtime
-                    if (stat == cudaErrorInvalidDeviceFunction) {
-                        // Fails due to incorrect handling by CUDA runtime of CUDA BLAS node.
-                        // We don't need to update blas nodes, so clear error and move on.
-                        (void)cudaGetLastError();
-                    } else {
-                        GGML_ASSERT(stat == cudaSuccess);
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    } else {
-        // One of the arguments to the copy kernel is updated for each token, hence we need to
-        // replace that argument with the updated value in the CUDA graph
-        // on update steps, the live parameters will already be captured
-        int k = 0;
-        for (size_t i = 0; i < cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->num_nodes; i++) {
-            if(count(ggml_cuda_cpy_fn_ptrs.begin(), ggml_cuda_cpy_fn_ptrs.end(), cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->params[i].func) > 0) {
-                char ** updated_kernel_arg_ptr = cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->updated_kernel_arg.at(k++);
-                *(void**)cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->params[i].kernelParams[1] = *(void**)updated_kernel_arg_ptr;
-                CUDA_CHECK(cudaGraphKernelNodeSetParams(cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->nodes[i], &cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->params[i]));
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 static bool is_cuda_graph_update_required(ggml_backend_cuda_context * cuda_ctx, ggml_cgraph * cgraph) {
 
     bool cuda_graph_update_required = false;
@@ -2660,8 +2621,7 @@ static void update_cuda_graph_executable(ggml_backend_cuda_context * cuda_ctx) {
 #endif
 
 static void evaluate_and_capture_cuda_graph(ggml_backend_cuda_context * cuda_ctx, ggml_cgraph * cgraph,
-   [[maybe_unused]] std::vector<void *> & ggml_cuda_cpy_fn_ptrs,  bool & graph_evaluated_or_captured, bool & use_cuda_graph,
-    bool & cuda_graph_update_required) {
+    bool & graph_evaluated_or_captured, bool & use_cuda_graph, bool & cuda_graph_update_required) {
 
     while (!graph_evaluated_or_captured) {
         // Only perform the graph execution if CUDA graphs are not enabled, or we are capturing the graph.
@@ -2711,13 +2671,9 @@ static void evaluate_and_capture_cuda_graph(ggml_backend_cuda_context * cuda_ctx
         if (cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->instance == nullptr) { // Create executable graph from captured graph.
             CUDA_CHECK(cudaGraphInstantiate(&cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->instance, cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->graph, NULL, NULL, 0));
         }
-
-        // Perform update to graph (if required for this token), and change copy parameter (required for every token)
-        maintain_cuda_graph(cuda_ctx, ggml_cuda_cpy_fn_ptrs, cuda_graph_update_required);
-
-        // Update graph executable
-        update_cuda_graph_executable(cuda_ctx);
-
+        if (cuda_graph_update_required) { // Update graph executable
+            update_cuda_graph_executable(cuda_ctx);
+        }
         // Launch graph
         CUDA_CHECK(cudaGraphLaunch(cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->instance, cuda_ctx->stream()));
 #else
@@ -2731,10 +2687,6 @@ static enum ggml_status ggml_backend_cuda_graph_compute(ggml_backend_t backend,
 
     ggml_cuda_set_device(cuda_ctx->device);
 
-    // vector of pointers to CUDA cpy kernels, which are required to identify
-    // kernel parameters which need updated in the graph for each token
-    std::vector<void *> ggml_cuda_cpy_fn_ptrs;
-
 #ifdef USE_CUDA_GRAPH
     static const bool disable_cuda_graphs_due_to_env = (getenv("GGML_CUDA_DISABLE_GRAPHS") != nullptr);
 
@@ -2768,8 +2720,7 @@ static enum ggml_status ggml_backend_cuda_graph_compute(ggml_backend_t backend,
     if (use_cuda_graph) {
         cuda_graph_update_required = is_cuda_graph_update_required(cuda_ctx, cgraph);
 
-        use_cuda_graph = check_node_graph_compatibility_and_refresh_copy_ops(cuda_ctx, cgraph,
-                             ggml_cuda_cpy_fn_ptrs, use_cuda_graph);
+        use_cuda_graph = check_node_graph_compatibility_and_refresh_copy_ops(cuda_ctx, cgraph, use_cuda_graph);
 
         // Disable CUDA graphs (from the next token) if the use-case is demanding too many consecutive graph updates.
         if (use_cuda_graph && cuda_graph_update_required) {
@@ -2790,6 +2741,10 @@ static enum ggml_status ggml_backend_cuda_graph_compute(ggml_backend_t backend,
         CUDA_CHECK(cudaStreamBeginCapture(cuda_ctx->stream(), cudaStreamCaptureModeRelaxed));
     }
 
+    if (!use_cuda_graph) {
+        cuda_ctx->cuda_graph->use_cpy_indirection = false;
+    }
+
 #else
     bool use_cuda_graph = false;
     bool cuda_graph_update_required = false;
@@ -2797,7 +2752,7 @@ static enum ggml_status ggml_backend_cuda_graph_compute(ggml_backend_t backend,
 
     bool graph_evaluated_or_captured = false;
 
-    evaluate_and_capture_cuda_graph(cuda_ctx, cgraph, ggml_cuda_cpy_fn_ptrs, graph_evaluated_or_captured, use_cuda_graph, cuda_graph_update_required);
+    evaluate_and_capture_cuda_graph(cuda_ctx, cgraph, graph_evaluated_or_captured, use_cuda_graph, cuda_graph_update_required);
 
     return GGML_STATUS_SUCCESS;
 }
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ssm-conv.cu b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ssm-conv.cu
index cfe03d68f..f63757196 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ssm-conv.cu
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ssm-conv.cu
@@ -4,13 +4,14 @@ template <size_t split_d_inner, size_t d_conv>
 static __global__ void ssm_conv_f32(const float * __restrict__ src0, const float * __restrict__ src1,
                                     const int src0_nb0, const int src0_nb1, const int src0_nb2, const int src1_nb1,
                                     float * __restrict__ dst, const int dst_nb0, const int dst_nb1, const int dst_nb2,
-                                    const int nc, const int ncs, const int nr, const int n_t, const int n_s) {
+                                    const int64_t n_t) {
+    GGML_UNUSED(src0_nb0);
     const int tid  = threadIdx.x;
     const int bidx = blockIdx.x;
     const int bidy = blockIdx.y;
 
-    const float * x_block = (const float *) ((char *) src0 + bidx * src0_nb2 + bidy * split_d_inner * src0_nb1);
-    const float * w_block = (const float *) ((char *) src1 + bidy * split_d_inner * src1_nb1);
+    const float * x_block = (const float *) ((const char *) src0 + bidx * src0_nb2 + bidy * split_d_inner * src0_nb1);
+    const float * w_block = (const float *) ((const char *) src1 + bidy * split_d_inner * src1_nb1);
     float *       y_block = (float *) ((char *) dst + bidx * dst_nb2 + bidy * split_d_inner * dst_nb0);
 
     const int stride_x = src0_nb1 / sizeof(float);
@@ -21,15 +22,15 @@ static __global__ void ssm_conv_f32(const float * __restrict__ src0, const float
     float w[d_conv] = { 0.0f };
 
 #pragma unroll
-    for (int j = 0; j < d_conv; j++) {
+    for (size_t j = 0; j < d_conv; j++) {
         w[j] = w_block[tid * stride_w + j];
     }
 
-    for (int i = 0; i < n_t; i++) {
+    for (int64_t i = 0; i < n_t; i++) {
         float sumf = 0.0f;
 
         if (i == 0) {
-            for (int j = 0; j < d_conv; j++) {
+            for (size_t j = 0; j < d_conv; j++) {
                 x[j] = x_block[tid * stride_x + j];
             }
         } else {
@@ -37,27 +38,26 @@ static __global__ void ssm_conv_f32(const float * __restrict__ src0, const float
         }
 
 #pragma unroll
-        for (int j = 0; j < d_conv; j++) {
+        for (size_t j = 0; j < d_conv; j++) {
             sumf += x[(i + j) % d_conv] * w[j];
         }
         y_block[i * stride_y + tid] = sumf;
     }
 }
 
-template <size_t split_d_inner, size_t d_conv, size_t split_n_t>
+template <size_t split_d_inner, size_t d_conv, int64_t split_n_t>
 static __global__ void ssm_conv_long_token_f32(const float * __restrict__ src0, const float * __restrict__ src1,
                                                const int src0_nb0, const int src0_nb1, const int src0_nb2,
                                                const int src1_nb1, float * __restrict__ dst, const int dst_nb0,
-                                               const int dst_nb1, const int dst_nb2, const int nc, const int ncs,
-                                               const int nr, const int n_t, const int n_s) {
+                                               const int dst_nb1, const int dst_nb2, const int64_t n_t) {
     const int tid  = threadIdx.x;
     const int bidx = blockIdx.x;
     const int bidy = blockIdx.y;
     const int bidz = blockIdx.z;
 
-    const float * x_block = (const float *) ((char *) src0 + bidx * src0_nb2 + bidy * split_d_inner * src0_nb1 +
+    const float * x_block = (const float *) ((const char *) src0 + bidx * src0_nb2 + bidy * split_d_inner * src0_nb1 +
                                              bidz * split_n_t * src0_nb0);
-    const float * w_block = (const float *) ((char *) src1 + bidy * split_d_inner * src1_nb1);
+    const float * w_block = (const float *) ((const char *) src1 + bidy * split_d_inner * src1_nb1);
     float *       y_block =
         (float *) ((char *) dst + bidx * dst_nb2 + bidz * split_n_t * dst_nb1 + bidy * split_d_inner * dst_nb0);
 
@@ -69,17 +69,17 @@ static __global__ void ssm_conv_long_token_f32(const float * __restrict__ src0,
     float w[d_conv] = { 0.0f };
 
 #pragma unroll
-    for (int j = 0; j < d_conv; j++) {
+    for (size_t j = 0; j < d_conv; j++) {
         w[j] = w_block[tid * stride_w + j];
     }
 
 #pragma unroll
-    for (int i = 0; i < split_n_t; i++) {
+    for (int64_t i = 0; i < split_n_t; i++) {
         if (bidz * split_n_t + i < n_t) {
             float sumf = 0.0f;
 
             if (i == 0) {
-                for (int j = 0; j < d_conv; j++) {
+                for (size_t j = 0; j < d_conv; j++) {
                     x[j] = x_block[tid * stride_x + j];
                 }
             } else {
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ static __global__ void ssm_conv_long_token_f32(const float * __restrict__ src0,
             }
 
 #pragma unroll
-            for (int j = 0; j < d_conv; j++) {
+            for (size_t j = 0; j < d_conv; j++) {
                 sumf += x[(i + j) % d_conv] * w[j];
             }
             y_block[i * stride_y + tid] = sumf;
@@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ static __global__ void ssm_conv_long_token_f32(const float * __restrict__ src0,
 
 static void ssm_conv_f32_cuda(const float * src0, const float * src1, const int src0_nb0, const int src0_nb1,
                               const int src0_nb2, const int src1_nb1, float * dst, const int dst_nb0, const int dst_nb1,
-                              const int dst_nb2, const int nc, const int ncs, const int nr, const int n_t,
-                              const int n_s, cudaStream_t stream) {
+                              const int dst_nb2, const int64_t nc, const int64_t nr, const int64_t n_t,
+                              const int64_t n_s, cudaStream_t stream) {
     const int threads = 128;
     GGML_ASSERT(nr % threads == 0);
 
@@ -106,18 +106,16 @@ static void ssm_conv_f32_cuda(const float * src0, const float * src1, const int
         const dim3 blocks(n_s, (nr + threads - 1) / threads, 1);
         if (nc == 4) {
             ssm_conv_f32<threads, 4><<<blocks, threads, 0, stream>>>(src0, src1, src0_nb0, src0_nb1, src0_nb2, src1_nb1,
-                                                                     dst, dst_nb0, dst_nb1, dst_nb2, nc, ncs, nr, n_t,
-                                                                     n_s);
+                                                                     dst, dst_nb0, dst_nb1, dst_nb2, n_t);
         } else {
             GGML_ABORT("Only support kernel size = 4  now.");
         }
     } else {
         if (nc == 4) {
-            const int split_n_t = 32;
-            dim3      blocks(n_s, (nr + threads - 1) / threads, (n_t + split_n_t - 1) / split_n_t);
-            ssm_conv_long_token_f32<threads, 4, split_n_t>
-                <<<blocks, threads, 0, stream>>>(src0, src1, src0_nb0, src0_nb1, src0_nb2, src1_nb1, dst, dst_nb0,
-                                                 dst_nb1, dst_nb2, nc, ncs, nr, n_t, n_s);
+            const int64_t split_n_t = 32;
+            dim3          blocks(n_s, (nr + threads - 1) / threads, (n_t + split_n_t - 1) / split_n_t);
+            ssm_conv_long_token_f32<threads, 4, split_n_t><<<blocks, threads, 0, stream>>>(
+                src0, src1, src0_nb0, src0_nb1, src0_nb2, src1_nb1, dst, dst_nb0, dst_nb1, dst_nb2, n_t);
         } else {
             GGML_ABORT("Only support kernel size = 4 right now.");
         }
@@ -128,11 +126,10 @@ void ggml_cuda_op_ssm_conv(ggml_backend_cuda_context & ctx, ggml_tensor * dst) {
     const struct ggml_tensor * src0 = dst->src[0];  // conv_x
     const struct ggml_tensor * src1 = dst->src[1];  // conv1d.weight
 
-    const int nc  = src1->ne[0];                    // d_conv
-    const int ncs = src0->ne[0];                    // d_conv - 1 + n_t
-    const int nr  = src0->ne[1];                    // d_inner
-    const int n_t = dst->ne[1];                     // tokens per sequence
-    const int n_s = dst->ne[2];                     // number of sequences in the batch
+    const int64_t nc  = src1->ne[0];                // d_conv
+    const int64_t nr  = src0->ne[1];                // d_inner
+    const int64_t n_t = dst->ne[1];                 // tokens per sequence
+    const int64_t n_s = dst->ne[2];                 // number of sequences in the batch
 
     GGML_ASSERT(dst->ne[0] == nr);
     GGML_ASSERT(src0->nb[0] == sizeof(float));
@@ -147,5 +144,5 @@ void ggml_cuda_op_ssm_conv(ggml_backend_cuda_context & ctx, ggml_tensor * dst) {
     GGML_ASSERT(src0->type == GGML_TYPE_F32);
     GGML_ASSERT(dst->type == GGML_TYPE_F32);
     ssm_conv_f32_cuda(src0_d, src1_d, src0->nb[0], src0->nb[1], src0->nb[2], src1->nb[1], dst_d, dst->nb[0], dst->nb[1],
-                      dst->nb[2], nc, ncs, nr, n_t, n_s, stream);
+                      dst->nb[2], nc, nr, n_t, n_s, stream);
 }
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ssm-scan.cu b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ssm-scan.cu
index 52db17cd9..37ee208c0 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ssm-scan.cu
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ssm-scan.cu
@@ -1,10 +1,5 @@
 #include "ssm-scan.cuh"
 
-// #include <cuda_runtime.h>
-// static __device__ void global_to_shared(const float *src, float *dst) {
-//   asm volatile("cp.async.");
-// }
-
 template <size_t splitD, size_t N>
 __global__ void __launch_bounds__(splitD, 2)
     ssm_scan_f32(const float * __restrict__ src0, const float * __restrict__ src1, const float * __restrict__ src2,
@@ -12,7 +7,9 @@ __global__ void __launch_bounds__(splitD, 2)
                  const int src0_nb1, const int src0_nb2, const int src1_nb0, const int src1_nb1, const int src1_nb2,
                  const int src1_nb3, const int src2_nb0, const int src2_nb1, const int src2_nb2, const int src3_nb1,
                  const int src4_nb1, const int src4_nb2, const int src5_nb1, const int src5_nb2,
-                 float * __restrict__ dst, const int D, const int L, const int B) {
+                 float * __restrict__ dst, const int64_t L) {
+    GGML_UNUSED(src1_nb0);
+    GGML_UNUSED(src2_nb0);
     const int bidx = blockIdx.x;  // split along B
     const int bidy = blockIdx.y;  // split along D
     const int tid  = threadIdx.x;
@@ -25,12 +22,12 @@ __global__ void __launch_bounds__(splitD, 2)
     float *                 smem_A     = smem;
     float *                 smem_s0    = smem_A + splitD * stride_sA;
 
-    const float * s0_block = (const float *) ((char *) src0 + bidx * src0_nb2 + bidy * splitD * src0_nb1);
-    const float * x_block  = (const float *) ((char *) src1 + (bidx * src1_nb2) + bidy * splitD * sizeof(float));
-    const float * dt_block = (const float *) ((char *) src2 + (bidx * src2_nb2) + bidy * splitD * sizeof(float));
-    const float * A_block  = (const float *) ((char *) src3 + bidy * splitD * src3_nb1);
-    const float * B_block  = (const float *) ((char *) src4 + (bidx * src4_nb2));
-    const float * C_block  = (const float *) ((char *) src5 + (bidx * src5_nb2));
+    const float * s0_block = (const float *) ((const char *) src0 + bidx * src0_nb2 + bidy * splitD * src0_nb1);
+    const float * x_block  = (const float *) ((const char *) src1 + (bidx * src1_nb2) + bidy * splitD * sizeof(float));
+    const float * dt_block = (const float *) ((const char *) src2 + (bidx * src2_nb2) + bidy * splitD * sizeof(float));
+    const float * A_block  = (const float *) ((const char *) src3 + bidy * splitD * src3_nb1);
+    const float * B_block  = (const float *) ((const char *) src4 + (bidx * src4_nb2));
+    const float * C_block  = (const float *) ((const char *) src5 + (bidx * src5_nb2));
     float *       y_block  = (float *) ((char *) dst + (bidx * src1_nb2) + bidy * splitD * sizeof(float));
     float *       s_block  = (float *) ((char *) dst + src1_nb3 + bidx * src0_nb2 + bidy * splitD * src0_nb1);
 
@@ -46,7 +43,7 @@ __global__ void __launch_bounds__(splitD, 2)
     // can N not be 16? for example 32?
     if (N == 16) {
 #pragma unroll
-        for (int i = 0; i < splitD / 4; i += 2) {
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < splitD / 4; i += 2) {
             float value = A_block[(wid * warpSize + i) * stride_A + wtid];
             // todo: bank conflict
             // I am always confused with how to use the swizzling method to solve
@@ -54,7 +51,7 @@ __global__ void __launch_bounds__(splitD, 2)
             smem_A[(wid * warpSize + i) * stride_sA + wtid + ((wtid / 16) > 0 ? 1 : 0)] = value;
         }
 #pragma unroll
-        for (int i = 0; i < splitD / 4; i += 2) {
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < splitD / 4; i += 2) {
             float value = s0_block[(wid * warpSize + i) * stride_s0 + wtid];
             smem_s0[(wid * warpSize + i) * stride_ss0 + wtid + ((wtid / 16) > 0 ? 1 : 0)] = value;
         }
@@ -62,7 +59,7 @@ __global__ void __launch_bounds__(splitD, 2)
 
     __syncthreads();
 
-    for (int i = 0; i < L; i++) {
+    for (int64_t i = 0; i < L; i++) {
         float dt_soft_plus = dt_block[i * stride_dt + tid];
         if (dt_soft_plus <= 20.0f) {
             dt_soft_plus = log1pf(exp(dt_soft_plus));
@@ -70,7 +67,7 @@ __global__ void __launch_bounds__(splitD, 2)
         float x_dt = x_block[i * stride_x + tid] * dt_soft_plus;
         float sumf = 0.0f;
 #pragma unroll
-        for (int j = 0; j < N; j++) {
+        for (size_t j = 0; j < N; j++) {
             float state = (smem_s0[tid * stride_ss0 + j] * expf(dt_soft_plus * smem_A[tid * stride_sA + j])) +
                           (B_block[i * stride_B + j] * x_dt);
             sumf += state * C_block[i * stride_C + j];
@@ -90,7 +87,8 @@ static void ssm_scan_f32_cuda(const float * src0, const float * src1, const floa
                               const int src1_nb0, const int src1_nb1, const int src1_nb2, const int src1_nb3,
                               const int src2_nb0, const int src2_nb1, const int src2_nb2, const int src3_nb1,
                               const int src4_nb1, const int src4_nb2, const int src5_nb1, const int src5_nb2,
-                              float * dst, const int N, const int D, const int L, const int B, cudaStream_t stream) {
+                              float * dst, const int64_t N, const int64_t D, const int64_t L, const int64_t B,
+                              cudaStream_t stream) {
     const int threads = 128;
     // todo: consider D cannot be divided,does this situation exist?
     GGML_ASSERT(D % threads == 0);
@@ -99,7 +97,7 @@ static void ssm_scan_f32_cuda(const float * src0, const float * src1, const floa
     if (N == 16) {
         ssm_scan_f32<128, 16><<<blocks, threads, smem_size, stream>>>(
             src0, src1, src2, src3, src4, src5, src0_nb1, src0_nb2, src1_nb0, src1_nb1, src1_nb2, src1_nb3, src2_nb0,
-            src2_nb1, src2_nb2, src3_nb1, src4_nb1, src4_nb2, src5_nb1, src5_nb2, dst, D, L, B);
+            src2_nb1, src2_nb2, src3_nb1, src4_nb1, src4_nb2, src5_nb1, src5_nb2, dst, L);
     } else {
         GGML_ABORT("doesn't support N!=16.");
     }
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-metal/ggml-metal.m b/ggml/src/ggml-metal/ggml-metal.m
index 3a042638a..b995e76fc 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-metal/ggml-metal.m
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-metal/ggml-metal.m
@@ -4179,7 +4179,7 @@ static void ggml_metal_encode_node(
                     // ne00*(nsg)
                     // each simdgroup has a full f16 head vector in shared mem to accumulate results
                     //
-#define FATTN_SMEM(nsg) (GGML_PAD((nqptg*(GGML_PAD(ne00, 128) + 2*ncpsg*(nsg)) + ne20*(nsg))*(sizeof(float)/2), 16))
+#define FATTN_SMEM(nsg) (GGML_PAD((nqptg*(GGML_PAD(ne00, 128) + 4*ncpsg*(nsg)) + ne20*(nsg))*(sizeof(float)/2), 16))
 
                     int64_t nsgmax = 2;
                     while (true) {
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-metal/ggml-metal.metal b/ggml/src/ggml-metal/ggml-metal.metal
index 80d0765b4..b08666e27 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-metal/ggml-metal.metal
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-metal/ggml-metal.metal
@@ -3184,8 +3184,8 @@ kernel void kernel_flash_attn_ext(
     threadgroup_barrier(mem_flags::mem_threadgroup);
 
     {
-        half S[Q] = { [0 ... Q-1] = 0.0f };
-        half M[Q] = { [0 ... Q-1] = -__FLT16_MAX__/2 };
+        float S[Q] = { [0 ... Q-1] = 0.0f };
+        float M[Q] = { [0 ... Q-1] = -__FLT16_MAX__/2 };
 
         // thread indices inside the simdgroup
         // TODO: see if we can utilize quad-group functions for better performance
@@ -3202,13 +3202,13 @@ kernel void kernel_flash_attn_ext(
 
         const bool has_mask = mask != q;
 
-        half slope = 1.0f;
+        float slope = 1.0f;
 
         // ALiBi
         if (args.max_bias > 0.0f) {
             const short h = iq2;
 
-            const half  base = h < args.n_head_log2 ? args.m0 : args.m1;
+            const float base = h < args.n_head_log2 ? args.m0 : args.m1;
             const short exph = h < args.n_head_log2 ? h + 1 : 2*(h - args.n_head_log2) + 1;
 
             slope = pow(base, exph);
@@ -3224,14 +3224,14 @@ kernel void kernel_flash_attn_ext(
 
             if (has_mask) {
                 // used to detect blocks full of -INF
-                half smax = -INFINITY;
+                float smax = -INFINITY;
 
                 // load the mask in shared memory
                 #pragma unroll(Q)
                 for (short j = 0; j < Q; ++j) {
                     device const half * pm = (device const half *) ((device const char *) mask + (iq1 + j)*args.nb31);
 
-                    const half m = pm[ic + tiisg];
+                    const float m = pm[ic + tiisg];
 
                     ss[j*TS + C + tiisg] = m;
                     smax = max(smax, m);
@@ -3327,10 +3327,10 @@ kernel void kernel_flash_attn_ext(
             // online softmax
             {
                 for (ushort j = 0; j < Q; ++j) {
-                    const half m = M[j];
+                    const float m = M[j];
 
                     // scale and apply the logitcap / mask
-                    half s = ss[j*TS + tiisg]*args.scale;
+                    float s = ss[j*TS + tiisg]*args.scale;
 
                     if (args.logit_softcap != 0.0f) {
                         s = args.logit_softcap*precise::tanh(s);
@@ -3341,8 +3341,8 @@ kernel void kernel_flash_attn_ext(
 
                     M[j] = simd_max(max(M[j], s));
 
-                    const half ms = exp(m - M[j]);
-                    const half vs = exp(s - M[j]);
+                    const float ms = exp(m - M[j]);
+                    const float vs = exp(s - M[j]);
 
                     S[j] = S[j]*ms + simd_sum(vs);
 
@@ -3444,8 +3444,8 @@ kernel void kernel_flash_attn_ext(
 
     // reduce the warps sequentially
     for (ushort sg = 1; sg < nsg; ++sg) {
-        half S = { 0.0f };
-        half M = { -__FLT16_MAX__/2 };
+        float S = { 0.0f };
+        float M = { -__FLT16_MAX__/2 };
 
         threadgroup_barrier(mem_flags::mem_threadgroup);
 
@@ -3461,16 +3461,16 @@ kernel void kernel_flash_attn_ext(
         // the first simdgroup accumulates the results from the other simdgroups
         if (sgitg == 0) {
             for (short j = 0; j < Q; ++j) {
-                const half S0 = ss[j*TS +         0];
-                const half S1 = ss[j*TS + sg*SH + 0];
+                const float S0 = ss[j*TS +         0];
+                const float S1 = ss[j*TS + sg*SH + 0];
 
-                const half M0 = ss[j*TS +         1];
-                const half M1 = ss[j*TS + sg*SH + 1];
+                const float M0 = ss[j*TS +         1];
+                const float M1 = ss[j*TS + sg*SH + 1];
 
                 M = max(M0, M1);
 
-                const half ms0 = exp(M0 - M);
-                const half ms1 = exp(M1 - M);
+                const float ms0 = exp(M0 - M);
+                const float ms1 = exp(M1 - M);
 
                 S = S0*ms0 + S1*ms1;
 
@@ -3646,16 +3646,16 @@ kernel void kernel_flash_attn_ext_vec(
     constexpr short DV4 = DV/4;
     constexpr short NW  = N_SIMDWIDTH;
     constexpr short NL  = NW/NE; // note: this can be adjusted to support different head sizes and simdgroup work loads
-    constexpr short SH  = 2*C;   // shared memory per simdgroup
+    constexpr short SH  = 4*C;   // shared memory per simdgroup
 
     const short T = DK + nsg*SH; // shared memory size per query in (half)
 
-  //threadgroup q_t  * sq  = (threadgroup q_t  *) (shmem_f16 +                0*DK); // holds the query data
-    threadgroup q4_t * sq4 = (threadgroup q4_t *) (shmem_f16 +                0*DK); // same as above but in q4_t
-    threadgroup s_t  * ss  = (threadgroup s_t  *) (shmem_f16 + sgitg*SH     + Q*DK); // scratch buffer for attention
-    threadgroup s4_t * ss4 = (threadgroup s4_t *) (shmem_f16 + sgitg*SH     + Q*DK); // same as above but in s4_t
-    threadgroup half * sm  = (threadgroup half *) (shmem_f16 + sgitg*SH + C + Q*DK); // scratch buffer for mask
-    threadgroup o4_t * sr4 = (threadgroup o4_t *) (shmem_f16 + sgitg*DV     + Q*T);  // scratch buffer for the results
+  //threadgroup q_t   * sq  = (threadgroup q_t   *) (shmem_f16 +                  0*DK); // holds the query data
+    threadgroup q4_t  * sq4 = (threadgroup q4_t  *) (shmem_f16 +                  0*DK); // same as above but in q4_t
+    threadgroup s_t   * ss  = (threadgroup s_t   *) (shmem_f16 + sgitg*SH       + Q*DK); // scratch buffer for attention
+    threadgroup s4_t  * ss4 = (threadgroup s4_t  *) (shmem_f16 + sgitg*SH       + Q*DK); // same as above but in s4_t
+    threadgroup float * sm  = (threadgroup float *) (shmem_f16 + sgitg*SH + 2*C + Q*DK); // scratch buffer for mask
+    threadgroup o4_t  * sr4 = (threadgroup o4_t  *) (shmem_f16 + sgitg*DV       + Q*T);  // scratch buffer for the results
 
     // store the result for all queries in local memory (the O matrix from the paper)
     o4_t lo[DV4/NL];
@@ -3684,8 +3684,8 @@ kernel void kernel_flash_attn_ext_vec(
     threadgroup_barrier(mem_flags::mem_threadgroup);
 
     {
-        half S = 0.0f;
-        half M = -__FLT16_MAX__/2;
+        float S = 0.0f;
+        float M = -__FLT16_MAX__/2;
 
         // thread indices inside the simdgroup
         const short tx = tiisg%NL;
@@ -3703,13 +3703,13 @@ kernel void kernel_flash_attn_ext_vec(
         // pointer to the mask
         device const half * pm = (device const half *) (mask + iq1*args.nb31);
 
-        half slope = 1.0f;
+        float slope = 1.0f;
 
         // ALiBi
         if (args.max_bias > 0.0f) {
             const short h = iq2;
 
-            const half  base = h < args.n_head_log2 ? args.m0 : args.m1;
+            const float base = h < args.n_head_log2 ? args.m0 : args.m1;
             const short exph = h < args.n_head_log2 ? h + 1 : 2*(h - args.n_head_log2) + 1;
 
             slope = pow(base, exph);
@@ -3799,13 +3799,13 @@ kernel void kernel_flash_attn_ext_vec(
 
             // online softmax
             {
-                const half m = M;
-                const half s = ss[tiisg];
+                const float m = M;
+                const float s = ss[tiisg];
 
                 M = simd_max(max(M, s));
 
-                const half ms = exp(m - M);
-                const half vs = exp(s - M);
+                const float ms = exp(m - M);
+                const float vs = exp(s - M);
 
                 S = S*ms + simd_sum(vs);
 
@@ -3836,7 +3836,7 @@ kernel void kernel_flash_attn_ext_vec(
                         v4_t mv;
                         deq_v_t4(pv4 + i/nl_v, i%nl_v, mv);
 
-                        lo[ii/NL] += mv*ms;
+                        lo[ii/NL] += o4_t(float4(mv)*float4(ms));
                     }
                 }
             }
@@ -3907,18 +3907,18 @@ kernel void kernel_flash_attn_ext_vec(
     // parallel reduce
     for (short r = nsg/2; r > 0; r >>= 1) {
         if (sgitg < r) {
-            const half S0 = ss[       0];
-            const half S1 = ss[r*SH + 0];
+            const float S0 = ss[           0];
+            const float S1 = ss[r*(SH/2) + 0];
 
-            const half M0 = ss[       1];
-            const half M1 = ss[r*SH + 1];
+            const float M0 = ss[           1];
+            const float M1 = ss[r*(SH/2) + 1];
 
-            const half M = max(M0, M1);
+            const float M = max(M0, M1);
 
-            const half ms0 = exp(M0 - M);
-            const half ms1 = exp(M1 - M);
+            const float ms0 = exp(M0 - M);
+            const float ms1 = exp(M1 - M);
 
-            const half S = S0*ms0 + S1*ms1;
+            const float S = S0*ms0 + S1*ms1;
 
             if (tiisg == 0) {
                 ss[0] = S;
@@ -3950,11 +3950,11 @@ kernel void kernel_flash_attn_ext_vec(
 //       in the other (non-vec) kernel, we need s_t to also be float because we scale during the soft_max
 //
 #define FA_TYPES \
-           half4, \
-           half4, \
-           half4, \
-    float,        \
-    half,  half4, \
+           half4,  \
+           half4,  \
+           half4,  \
+    float,         \
+    float, float4, \
            half4
 
 typedef decltype(kernel_flash_attn_ext_vec<FA_TYPES, half4, 1, dequantize_f16_t4, half4, 1, dequantize_f16_t4, 128, 128, 4>) flash_attn_ext_vec_t;
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-opencl/ggml-opencl.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-opencl/ggml-opencl.cpp
index 6c123ddef..6806c1397 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-opencl/ggml-opencl.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-opencl/ggml-opencl.cpp
@@ -921,10 +921,30 @@ static ggml_backend_opencl_context * ggml_cl2_init(ggml_backend_dev_t dev) {
     backend_ctx->program_CL_gemm = build_program_from_source(context, device, kernel_src_CL_gemm.c_str(), compile_opts);
     CL_CHECK((backend_ctx->CL_mul_mat_Ab_Bi_8x4 = clCreateKernel(backend_ctx->program_CL_gemm, "kernel_mul_mat_Ab_Bi_8x4", &err), err));
 
+    // TODO: fixme: these sizes are hardcoded for now.
+    //  they should be allocated based on the model's size
+    //  and the device's max alloc size
     // Allocate intermediate buffers and images
-    size_t max_A_q_d_bytes = 311164928;
-    size_t max_A_s_d_bytes = 38895616;
-    size_t max_B_d_bytes = 45088768;
+    size_t required_A_q_d_bytes = 311164928;
+    size_t required_A_s_d_bytes = 38895616;
+    size_t required_B_d_bytes = 45088768;
+
+    // Ensure buffer sizes do not exceed the maximum allocation size
+    size_t max_A_q_d_bytes = MIN(required_A_q_d_bytes, backend_ctx->max_alloc_size);
+    size_t max_A_s_d_bytes = MIN(required_A_s_d_bytes, backend_ctx->max_alloc_size);
+    size_t max_B_d_bytes   = MIN(required_B_d_bytes, backend_ctx->max_alloc_size);
+    if (required_A_q_d_bytes > backend_ctx->max_alloc_size) {
+        GGML_LOG_WARN("ggml_opencl: A_q_d buffer size reduced from %zu to %zu due to device limitations.\n",
+                      required_A_q_d_bytes, max_A_q_d_bytes);
+    }
+    if (required_A_s_d_bytes > backend_ctx->max_alloc_size) {
+        GGML_LOG_WARN("ggml_opencl: A_s_d buffer size reduced from %zu to %zu due to device limitations.\n",
+                      required_A_s_d_bytes, max_A_s_d_bytes);
+    }
+    if (required_B_d_bytes > backend_ctx->max_alloc_size) {
+        GGML_LOG_WARN("ggml_opencl: B_d buffer size reduced from %zu to %zu due to device limitations.\n",
+                      required_B_d_bytes, max_B_d_bytes);
+    }
 
     CL_CHECK((backend_ctx->A_q_d_max = clCreateBuffer(context, 0, max_A_q_d_bytes, NULL, &err), err));
     CL_CHECK((backend_ctx->A_s_d_max = clCreateBuffer(context, 0, max_A_s_d_bytes, NULL, &err), err));
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/ggml-vulkan.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/ggml-vulkan.cpp
index c6a621861..a7e9510ec 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/ggml-vulkan.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/ggml-vulkan.cpp
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 
 #define ROUNDUP_POW2(M, N) (((M) + (N) - 1) & ~((N) - 1))
 #define CEIL_DIV(M, N) (((M) + (N)-1) / (N))
+static bool is_pow2(uint32_t x) { return x > 1 && (x & (x-1)) == 0; }
 
 #define VK_VENDOR_ID_AMD 0x1002
 #define VK_VENDOR_ID_APPLE 0x106b
@@ -359,6 +360,7 @@ struct vk_device_struct {
     vk_pipeline pipeline_flash_attn_f32_f16_D112[GGML_TYPE_COUNT][2][2][2];
     vk_pipeline pipeline_flash_attn_f32_f16_D128[GGML_TYPE_COUNT][2][2][2];
     vk_pipeline pipeline_flash_attn_f32_f16_D256[GGML_TYPE_COUNT][2][2][2];
+    vk_pipeline pipeline_flash_attn_split_k_reduce;
 
     std::unordered_map<std::string, vk_pipeline_ref> pipelines;
     std::unordered_map<std::string, uint64_t> pipeline_descriptor_set_requirements;
@@ -508,6 +510,10 @@ struct vk_flash_attn_push_constants {
     uint32_t n_head_log2;
     float m0;
     float m1;
+
+    uint32_t gqa_ratio;
+    uint32_t split_kv;
+    uint32_t k_num;
 };
 
 struct vk_op_push_constants {
@@ -1480,7 +1486,7 @@ static std::array<uint32_t, 2> fa_rows_cols(uint32_t D, uint32_t clamp, ggml_typ
 
     // small rows, large cols
     if (small_rows) {
-        return {flash_attention_num_small_rows, 128};
+        return {flash_attention_num_small_rows, 64};
     }
     // small cols to reduce register count
     if (ggml_is_quantized(type) || D == 256) {
@@ -2336,6 +2342,7 @@ static void ggml_vk_load_shaders(vk_device& device) {
     ggml_vk_create_pipeline(device, device->pipeline_get_rows_f32[GGML_TYPE_IQ4_NL],  "get_rows_iq4_nl_f32",  get_rows_iq4_nl_f32_len,  get_rows_iq4_nl_f32_data,  "main", 3, sizeof(vk_op_binary_push_constants), {1024, 1, 1}, {}, 1);
 
     ggml_vk_create_pipeline(device, device->pipeline_matmul_split_k_reduce, "split_k_reduce", split_k_reduce_len, split_k_reduce_data, "main", 2, 2 * sizeof(uint32_t), {256 * 4, 1, 1}, {}, 1);
+    ggml_vk_create_pipeline(device, device->pipeline_flash_attn_split_k_reduce, "fa_split_k_reduce", fa_split_k_reduce_len, fa_split_k_reduce_data, "main", 2, 3 * sizeof(uint32_t), {1, 1, 1}, {}, 1, true);
     ggml_vk_create_pipeline(device, device->pipeline_quantize_q8_1, "quantize_q8_1", quantize_q8_1_len, quantize_q8_1_data, "main", 2, 1 * sizeof(uint32_t), {32 * device->subgroup_size / 8, 1, 1}, { device->subgroup_size }, 1);
 
     for (uint32_t i = 0; i < p021_max_gqa_ratio; ++i) {
@@ -5417,7 +5424,7 @@ static void ggml_vk_flash_attn(ggml_backend_vk_context * ctx, vk_context& subctx
     const uint32_t nbm1 = mask ? mask->nb[1] : 0;
 
     const uint32_t D = neq0;
-    const uint32_t N = neq1;
+    uint32_t N = neq1;
     const uint32_t KV = nek1;
 
     GGML_ASSERT(ne0 == D);
@@ -5475,9 +5482,54 @@ static void ggml_vk_flash_attn(ggml_backend_vk_context * ctx, vk_context& subctx
     vk_pipeline pipeline = pipelines[aligned];
     assert(pipeline);
 
+    uint32_t gqa_ratio = 1;
+    uint32_t qk_ratio = neq2 / nek2;
+    uint32_t workgroups_x = (uint32_t)neq1;
+    uint32_t workgroups_y = (uint32_t)neq2;
+    uint32_t workgroups_z = (uint32_t)neq3;
+
+    if (N == 1 && qk_ratio > 1 && is_pow2(qk_ratio) && gqa_ratio <= flash_attention_num_small_rows &&
+        qk_ratio * nek2 == neq2 && nek2 == nev2 && neq3 == 1 && nek3 == 1 && nev3 == 1) {
+        // grouped query attention - make the N dimension equal to gqa_ratio, reduce
+        // workgroups proportionally in y dimension. The shader will detect gqa_ratio > 1
+        // and change addressing calculations to index Q's dimension 2.
+        gqa_ratio = qk_ratio;
+        N = gqa_ratio;
+        workgroups_y /= N;
+    }
+
+    uint32_t split_kv = KV;
+    uint32_t split_k = 1;
+
+    if (gqa_ratio > 1 && ctx->device->shader_core_count > 0) {
+        GGML_ASSERT(workgroups_x == 1);
+        // Try to run two workgroups per SM.
+        split_k = ctx->device->shader_core_count * 2 / workgroups_y;
+        if (split_k > 1) {
+            // Try to evenly split KV into split_k chunks, but it needs to be a multiple
+            // of "align", so recompute split_k based on that.
+            split_kv = ROUNDUP_POW2(KV / split_k, pipelines[1]->align);
+            split_k = CEIL_DIV(KV, split_kv);
+            workgroups_x = split_k;
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Reserve space for split_k temporaries. For each split, we need to store the O matrix (D x ne1)
+    // and the per-row m and L values (ne1 rows).
+    const uint64_t split_k_size = split_k > 1 ? (D * ne1 * sizeof(float) + ne1 * sizeof(float) * 2) * split_k : 0;
+    if (split_k_size > ctx->device->max_memory_allocation_size) {
+        GGML_ABORT("Requested preallocation size is too large");
+    }
+    if (ctx->prealloc_size_split_k < split_k_size) {
+        ctx->prealloc_size_split_k = split_k_size;
+    }
+
     if (dryrun) {
         // Request descriptor sets
         ggml_pipeline_request_descriptor_sets(ctx->device, pipeline, 1);
+        if (split_k > 1) {
+            ggml_pipeline_request_descriptor_sets(ctx->device, ctx->device->pipeline_flash_attn_split_k_reduce, 1);
+        }
         return;
     }
 
@@ -5498,8 +5550,6 @@ static void ggml_vk_flash_attn(ggml_backend_vk_context * ctx, vk_context& subctx
     const float m0 = powf(2.0f, -(max_bias       ) / n_head_log2);
     const float m1 = powf(2.0f, -(max_bias / 2.0f) / n_head_log2);
 
-    ggml_vk_sync_buffers(subctx);
-
     vk_buffer d_Q = nullptr, d_K = nullptr, d_V = nullptr, d_D = nullptr, d_M = nullptr;
     size_t q_buf_offset = 0, k_buf_offset = 0, v_buf_offset = 0, d_buf_offset = 0, m_buf_offset = 0;
 
@@ -5564,16 +5614,45 @@ static void ggml_vk_flash_attn(ggml_backend_vk_context * ctx, vk_context& subctx
                                               v_stride, (uint32_t)nbv2, (uint32_t)nbv3,
                                               nbm1,
                                               scale, max_bias, logit_softcap,
-                                              mask != nullptr, n_head_log2, m0, m1 };
-    ggml_vk_dispatch_pipeline(ctx, subctx, pipeline,
-                                {
-                                    vk_subbuffer{d_Q, q_buf_offset, VK_WHOLE_SIZE},
-                                    vk_subbuffer{d_K, k_buf_offset, VK_WHOLE_SIZE},
-                                    vk_subbuffer{d_V, v_buf_offset, VK_WHOLE_SIZE},
-                                    vk_subbuffer{d_M, m_buf_offset, VK_WHOLE_SIZE},
-                                    vk_subbuffer{d_D, d_buf_offset, VK_WHOLE_SIZE},
-                                },
-                                sizeof(vk_flash_attn_push_constants), &pc, { (uint32_t)neq1, (uint32_t)neq2, (uint32_t)neq3 });
+                                              mask != nullptr, n_head_log2, m0, m1,
+                                              gqa_ratio, split_kv, split_k };
+
+    ggml_vk_sync_buffers(subctx);
+
+    if (split_k > 1) {
+        ggml_vk_dispatch_pipeline(ctx, subctx, pipeline,
+                                    {
+                                        vk_subbuffer{d_Q, q_buf_offset, VK_WHOLE_SIZE},
+                                        vk_subbuffer{d_K, k_buf_offset, VK_WHOLE_SIZE},
+                                        vk_subbuffer{d_V, v_buf_offset, VK_WHOLE_SIZE},
+                                        vk_subbuffer{d_M, m_buf_offset, VK_WHOLE_SIZE},
+                                        vk_subbuffer{ctx->prealloc_split_k, 0, VK_WHOLE_SIZE},
+                                    },
+                                    // We only use split_k when group query attention is enabled, which means
+                                    // there's no more than one tile of rows (i.e. workgroups_x would have been
+                                    // one). We reuse workgroups_x to mean the number of splits, so we need to
+                                    // cancel out the divide by wg_denoms[0].
+                                    sizeof(vk_flash_attn_push_constants), &pc, { workgroups_x * pipeline->wg_denoms[0], workgroups_y, workgroups_z });
+
+        ggml_vk_sync_buffers(subctx);
+        const std::array<uint32_t, 3> pc2 = { D, (uint32_t)ne1, split_k };
+        ggml_vk_dispatch_pipeline(ctx, subctx, ctx->device->pipeline_flash_attn_split_k_reduce,
+                                    {
+                                        vk_subbuffer{ctx->prealloc_split_k, 0, VK_WHOLE_SIZE},
+                                        vk_subbuffer{d_D, d_buf_offset, VK_WHOLE_SIZE},
+                                    },
+                                    pc2.size() * uint32_t{sizeof(uint32_t)}, pc2.data(), { (uint32_t)ne1, 1, 1 });
+    } else {
+        ggml_vk_dispatch_pipeline(ctx, subctx, pipeline,
+                                    {
+                                        vk_subbuffer{d_Q, q_buf_offset, VK_WHOLE_SIZE},
+                                        vk_subbuffer{d_K, k_buf_offset, VK_WHOLE_SIZE},
+                                        vk_subbuffer{d_V, v_buf_offset, VK_WHOLE_SIZE},
+                                        vk_subbuffer{d_M, m_buf_offset, VK_WHOLE_SIZE},
+                                        vk_subbuffer{d_D, d_buf_offset, VK_WHOLE_SIZE},
+                                    },
+                                    sizeof(vk_flash_attn_push_constants), &pc, { workgroups_x, workgroups_y, workgroups_z });
+    }
 }
 
 static vk_pipeline ggml_vk_op_get_pipeline(ggml_backend_vk_context * ctx, const ggml_tensor * src0, const ggml_tensor * src1, const ggml_tensor * src2, ggml_tensor * dst, ggml_op op) {
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/flash_attn_cm2.comp b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/flash_attn_cm2.comp
index df30355f6..d78092000 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/flash_attn_cm2.comp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/flash_attn_cm2.comp
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ layout (push_constant) uniform parameter {
     uint32_t n_head_log2;
     float m0;
     float m1;
+
+    uint32_t gqa_ratio;
+    uint32_t split_kv;
+    uint32_t k_num;
 } p;
 
 layout (binding = 0) readonly buffer Q {uint8_t data_q[];};
@@ -103,6 +107,38 @@ ACC_TYPE Max(const in uint32_t row, const in uint32_t col, const in ACC_TYPE ele
 #define DECODEFUNC
 #endif
 
+// Store the output when doing grouped query attention.
+// Rows index by Q's dimension 2, and the first N rows are valid.
+D_TYPE perElemOpGqaStore(const in uint32_t r, const in uint32_t c, const in D_TYPE elem, const in uint32_t o_offset, const in uint32_t iq2, const in uint32_t N)
+{
+    if (r < N && c < D) {
+        uint32_t offset = (iq2 + r) * D + c;
+        data_o[o_offset + offset] = D_TYPE(elem);
+    }
+    return elem;
+}
+
+// Store column zero. This is used to save per-row m and L values for split_k.
+ACC_TYPE perElemOpStoreCol0(const in uint32_t r, const in uint32_t c, const in ACC_TYPE elem, const in uint32_t o_offset, const in uint32_t iq2, const in uint32_t N)
+{
+    if (r < N && c == 0) {
+        uint32_t offset = iq2 + r;
+        data_o[o_offset + offset] = D_TYPE(elem);
+    }
+    return elem;
+}
+
+// Load the slope matrix, indexed by Q's dimension 2.
+ACC_TYPE perElemOpComputeSlope(const in uint32_t r, const in uint32_t c, const in ACC_TYPE elem, const in uint32_t iq2)
+{
+    const uint32_t h = iq2 + (r & (p.gqa_ratio - 1));
+
+    const ACC_TYPE base = ACC_TYPE(h < p.n_head_log2 ? p.m0 : p.m1);
+    const int      exph = int(h < p.n_head_log2 ? h + 1 : 2*(h - p.n_head_log2) + 1);
+
+    return ACC_TYPE(pow(base, ACC_TYPE(exph)));
+}
+
 void main() {
 #ifdef NEEDS_INIT_IQ_SHMEM
     init_iq_shmem(gl_WorkGroupSize);
@@ -111,12 +147,22 @@ void main() {
     const uint32_t N = p.N;
     const uint32_t KV = p.KV;
 
+    uint32_t i = gl_WorkGroupID.x;
+    uint32_t split_k_index = 0;
+
+    if (p.k_num > 1) {
+        i = 0;
+        split_k_index = gl_WorkGroupID.x;
+    }
+
     const uint32_t Tr = CEIL_DIV(N, Br);
-    const uint32_t Tc = CEIL_DIV(KV, Bc);
 
-    const uint32_t i = gl_WorkGroupID.x;
+    const uint32_t start_j = split_k_index * p.split_kv / Bc;
+    const uint32_t end_j = CEIL_DIV(min(KV, (split_k_index + 1) * p.split_kv), Bc);
 
-    const uint32_t iq2 = gl_WorkGroupID.y;
+    // When not using grouped query attention, all rows share the same iq2, equal to gl_WorkGroupID.y.
+    // When using grouped query attention, each workgroup does gqa_ratio consecutive values of iq2.
+    const uint32_t iq2 = gl_WorkGroupID.y * p.gqa_ratio;
     const uint32_t iq3 = gl_WorkGroupID.z;
 
     // broadcast factors
@@ -149,8 +195,10 @@ void main() {
     tensorLayoutK = setTensorLayoutDimensionNV(tensorLayoutK, KV, D);
     tensorLayoutV = setTensorLayoutDimensionNV(tensorLayoutV, KV, D);
 
-    // nb?1 are already divided by the type size and are in units of elements
-    uint32_t q_stride = p.nb01;
+    // nb?1 are already divided by the type size and are in units of elements.
+    // When using grouped query attention, Q is indexed by iq2, so the stride
+    // should be nb02 (which is in bytes).
+    uint32_t q_stride = p.gqa_ratio > 1 ? (p.nb02 / 4) : p.nb01;
     uint32_t k_stride = p.nb11;
     uint32_t v_stride = p.nb21;
     // hint to the compiler that strides are aligned for the aligned variant of the shader
@@ -182,20 +230,15 @@ void main() {
     L = coopmat<ACC_TYPE, gl_ScopeWorkgroup, Br, Bc, gl_MatrixUseAccumulator>(0);
     M = coopmat<ACC_TYPE, gl_ScopeWorkgroup, Br, Bc, gl_MatrixUseAccumulator>(-1.0/0.0);
 
-    ACC_TYPE slope = ACC_TYPE(1.0);
+    coopmat<ACC_TYPE, gl_ScopeWorkgroup, Br, Bc, gl_MatrixUseAccumulator> slopeMat = coopmat<ACC_TYPE, gl_ScopeWorkgroup, Br, Bc, gl_MatrixUseAccumulator>(1.0);
 
     // ALiBi
     if (p.max_bias > 0.0f) {
-        const uint32_t h = iq2;
-
-        const ACC_TYPE base = ACC_TYPE(h < p.n_head_log2 ? p.m0 : p.m1);
-        const int      exph = int(h < p.n_head_log2 ? h + 1 : 2*(h - p.n_head_log2) + 1);
-
-        slope = pow(base, ACC_TYPE(exph));
+        coopMatPerElementNV(slopeMat, slopeMat, perElemOpComputeSlope, iq2);
     }
 
     [[dont_unroll]]
-    for (uint32_t j = 0; j < Tc; ++j) {
+    for (uint32_t j = start_j; j < end_j; ++j) {
 
         coopmat<ACC_TYPE, gl_ScopeWorkgroup, Br, Bc, gl_MatrixUseAccumulator> S = coopmat<ACC_TYPE, gl_ScopeWorkgroup, Br, Bc, gl_MatrixUseAccumulator>(0);
 
@@ -215,12 +258,16 @@ void main() {
         if (p.mask != 0) {
             tensorLayoutNV<2, gl_CooperativeMatrixClampModeConstantNV> tensorLayoutM = createTensorLayoutNV(2, gl_CooperativeMatrixClampModeConstantNV);
             tensorLayoutM = setTensorLayoutDimensionNV(tensorLayoutM, p.nem1, KV);
+            // When using grouped query attention, all rows use the same mask.
+            if (p.gqa_ratio > 1) {
+                tensorLayoutM = setTensorLayoutStrideNV(tensorLayoutM, 0, 1);
+            }
 
             coopmat<float16_t, gl_ScopeWorkgroup, Br, Bc, gl_MatrixUseAccumulator> mv;
 
             coopMatLoadTensorNV(mv, data_m, 0, sliceTensorLayoutNV(tensorLayoutM, i * Br, Br, j * Bc, Bc));
 
-            S += slope*coopmat<ACC_TYPE, gl_ScopeWorkgroup, Br, Bc, gl_MatrixUseAccumulator>(mv);
+            S += slopeMat*coopmat<ACC_TYPE, gl_ScopeWorkgroup, Br, Bc, gl_MatrixUseAccumulator>(mv);
         }
 
         // Clear padding elements to -inf, so they don't contribute to rowmax
@@ -285,6 +332,20 @@ void main() {
         O = coopMatMulAdd(P_A, V, O);
     }
 
+    // If there is split_k, then the split_k resolve shader does the final
+    // division by L. Store the intermediate O value and per-row m and L values.
+    if (p.k_num > 1) {
+        coopmat<D_TYPE, gl_ScopeWorkgroup, Br, D, gl_MatrixUseAccumulator> O_D = coopmat<D_TYPE, gl_ScopeWorkgroup, Br, D, gl_MatrixUseAccumulator>(O);
+
+        uint32_t o_offset = D * p.ne1 * split_k_index;
+        coopMatPerElementNV(O_D, O_D, perElemOpGqaStore, o_offset, iq2, N);
+
+        o_offset = D * p.ne1 * p.k_num + p.ne1 * split_k_index * 2;
+        coopMatPerElementNV(L, L, perElemOpStoreCol0, o_offset, iq2, N);
+        coopMatPerElementNV(M, M, perElemOpStoreCol0, o_offset + p.ne1, iq2, N);
+        return;
+    }
+
     coopmat<ACC_TYPE, gl_ScopeWorkgroup, Br, D, gl_MatrixUseAccumulator> Ldiag;
 
     // resize L by using smear/reduce
@@ -297,13 +358,18 @@ void main() {
 
     O = Ldiag*O;
 
-    tensorLayoutNV<3, gl_CooperativeMatrixClampModeConstantNV> tensorLayoutD = createTensorLayoutNV(3, gl_CooperativeMatrixClampModeConstantNV);
-    tensorLayoutD = setTensorLayoutDimensionNV(tensorLayoutD, p.ne2, p.ne1, D);
-
-    // permute dimensions
-    tensorViewNV<3, false, 1, 0, 2> tensorViewPermute = createTensorViewNV(3, false, 1, 0, 2);
     uint32_t o_offset = iq3*p.ne2*p.ne1;
 
     coopmat<D_TYPE, gl_ScopeWorkgroup, Br, D, gl_MatrixUseAccumulator> O_D = coopmat<D_TYPE, gl_ScopeWorkgroup, Br, D, gl_MatrixUseAccumulator>(O);
-    coopMatStoreTensorNV(O_D, data_o, o_offset, sliceTensorLayoutNV(tensorLayoutD, i * Br, Br, iq2, 1, 0, D), tensorViewPermute);
+    if (p.gqa_ratio > 1) {
+        coopMatPerElementNV(O_D, O_D, perElemOpGqaStore, o_offset, iq2, N);
+    } else {
+        tensorLayoutNV<3, gl_CooperativeMatrixClampModeConstantNV> tensorLayoutD = createTensorLayoutNV(3, gl_CooperativeMatrixClampModeConstantNV);
+        tensorLayoutD = setTensorLayoutDimensionNV(tensorLayoutD, p.ne2, p.ne1, D);
+
+        // permute dimensions
+        tensorViewNV<3, false, 1, 0, 2> tensorViewPermute = createTensorViewNV(3, false, 1, 0, 2);
+
+        coopMatStoreTensorNV(O_D, data_o, o_offset, sliceTensorLayoutNV(tensorLayoutD, i * Br, Br, iq2, N, 0, D), tensorViewPermute);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/flash_attn_split_k_reduce.comp b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/flash_attn_split_k_reduce.comp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a7e395685
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/flash_attn_split_k_reduce.comp
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+#version 450
+
+#extension GL_EXT_control_flow_attributes : enable
+
+#define BLOCK_SIZE 32
+
+layout(local_size_x = BLOCK_SIZE, local_size_y = 1, local_size_z = 1) in;
+
+layout (binding = 0) readonly buffer A {float data_a[];};
+layout (binding = 1) writeonly buffer D {float data_d[];};
+
+layout (push_constant) uniform parameter {
+    uint D;
+    uint N;
+    uint k_num;
+} p;
+
+void main() {
+    // Each workgroup handles a row
+    const uint n = gl_WorkGroupID.x;
+    const uint tid = gl_LocalInvocationID.x;
+
+    uint D = p.D;
+    uint N = p.N;
+    uint k_num = p.k_num;
+
+    uint l_offset = D * N * k_num + n;
+    uint m_offset = D * N * k_num + N + n;
+    uint lm_stride = N * 2;
+
+    // Compute the max m value for the row
+    float m_max = -1.0/0.0;
+    [[unroll]] for (uint k = 0; k < k_num; ++k) {
+        float m = data_a[m_offset + k * lm_stride];
+        m_max = max(m_max, m);
+    }
+
+    // Compute L based on m_max
+    float L = 0;
+    [[unroll]] for (uint k = 0; k < k_num; ++k) {
+        float l = data_a[l_offset + k * lm_stride];
+        float m = data_a[m_offset + k * lm_stride];
+        L += exp(m - m_max) * l;
+    }
+
+    L = 1.0 / L;
+
+    // Scale and sum the O contributions based on m_max and store the result to memory
+    for (uint d = tid; d < D; d += BLOCK_SIZE) {
+        float O = 0.0;
+        [[unroll]] for (uint k = 0; k < k_num; ++k) {
+            uint o_offset = D * N * k + D * n + d;
+            float m = data_a[m_offset + k * lm_stride];
+            O += exp(m - m_max) * data_a[o_offset];
+        }
+        O *= L;
+        data_d[D * n + d] = O;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/mul_mmq.comp b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/mul_mmq.comp
index 42f81356e..284a35caa 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/mul_mmq.comp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/mul_mmq.comp
@@ -234,9 +234,9 @@ void main() {
 #endif
 
 #if QUANT_AUXF == 1
-    FLOAT_TYPE cache_a_dm[TM];
+    FLOAT_TYPE cache_a_dm[WMITER * TM];
 #else
-    FLOAT_TYPE_VEC2 cache_a_dm[TM];
+    FLOAT_TYPE_VEC2 cache_a_dm[WMITER * TM];
 #endif
 
     FLOAT_TYPE_VEC2 cache_b_ds[TN];
@@ -247,7 +247,6 @@ void main() {
             const uint iqs = loadr_a;
             const uint buf_ib = loadc_a + l;
 
-            // Should ds be gated to a single thread?
             if (iqs == 0) {
 #if QUANT_AUXF == 1
                 buf_a_dm[buf_ib] = get_d(ib);
@@ -276,7 +275,6 @@ void main() {
 
             const uint buf_ib = loadc_b + l;
 
-            // Should ds be gated to a single thread?
             if (iqs == 0) {
                 buf_b_ds[buf_ib] = FLOAT_TYPE_VEC2(data_b[ib].ds);
             }
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/mul_mmq_funcs.comp b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/mul_mmq_funcs.comp
index c4c35e105..63b15471b 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/mul_mmq_funcs.comp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/mul_mmq_funcs.comp
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ i32vec2 repack(uint ib, uint iqs) {
 }
 
 ACC_TYPE mul_q8_1(int32_t q_sum, float da, vec2 dsb) {
-    return ACC_TYPE(da * (float(q_sum) * dsb.x - 8.0 * dsb.y));
+    return ACC_TYPE(da * (float(q_sum) * dsb.x - 8.0f * dsb.y));
 }
 #endif
 
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ i32vec2 repack(uint ib, uint iqs) {
 }
 
 ACC_TYPE mul_q8_1(int32_t q_sum, float da, vec2 dsb) {
-    return ACC_TYPE(da * (float(q_sum) * dsb.x - 16.0 * dsb.y));
+    return ACC_TYPE(da * (float(q_sum) * dsb.x - 16.0f * dsb.y));
 }
 #endif
 
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/vulkan-shaders-gen.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/vulkan-shaders-gen.cpp
index 994fa4ce7..a83844334 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/vulkan-shaders-gen.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/vulkan-shaders-gen.cpp
@@ -474,6 +474,7 @@ void process_shaders() {
     string_to_spv("acc_f32", "acc.comp", {{"A_TYPE", "float"}, {"B_TYPE", "float"}, {"D_TYPE", "float"}, {"FLOAT_TYPE", "float"}});
 
     string_to_spv("split_k_reduce", "mul_mat_split_k_reduce.comp", {});
+    string_to_spv("fa_split_k_reduce", "flash_attn_split_k_reduce.comp", {});
     string_to_spv("quantize_q8_1", "quantize_q8_1.comp", {});
 
     string_to_spv("mul_f32", "mul.comp", {{"A_TYPE", "float"}, {"B_TYPE", "float"}, {"D_TYPE", "float"}, {"FLOAT_TYPE", "float"}});
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml.c b/ggml/src/ggml.c
index 84785339c..d44efeb32 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml.c
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml.c
@@ -1172,6 +1172,12 @@ int64_t ggml_nrows(const struct ggml_tensor * tensor) {
 }
 
 size_t ggml_nbytes(const struct ggml_tensor * tensor) {
+    for (int i = 0; i < GGML_MAX_DIMS; ++i) {
+        if (tensor->ne[i] <= 0) {
+            return 0;
+        }
+    }
+
     size_t nbytes;
     const size_t blck_size = ggml_blck_size(tensor->type);
     if (blck_size == 1) {
diff --git a/include/llama.h b/include/llama.h
index a6e8dcd3a..15c59ae3f 100644
--- a/include/llama.h
+++ b/include/llama.h
@@ -282,10 +282,18 @@ extern "C" {
         };
     };
 
+    struct llama_model_tensor_buft_override {
+        const char * pattern;
+        ggml_backend_buffer_type_t buft;
+    };
+
     struct llama_model_params {
         // NULL-terminated list of devices to use for offloading (if NULL, all available devices are used)
         ggml_backend_dev_t * devices;
 
+        // NULL-terminated list of buffer types to use for tensors that match a pattern
+        const struct llama_model_tensor_buft_override * tensor_buft_overrides;
+
         int32_t n_gpu_layers; // number of layers to store in VRAM
         enum llama_split_mode split_mode; // how to split the model across multiple GPUs
 
diff --git a/klite.embd b/klite.embd
index 4673d71db..cb7cd4c85 100644
--- a/klite.embd
+++ b/klite.embd
@@ -3815,7 +3815,7 @@ Current version indicated by LITEVER below.
 	document.getElementById("lastreq1").innerHTML =
 	document.getElementById("lastreq2").innerHTML =
 	document.getElementById("lastreq3").innerHTML =
-	`<a href="#" class="color_grayurl" onclick="msgbox('Source code is available at https://github.com/LostRuins/lite.koboldai.net \\nPlease report any bugs you find there.','Information')">KoboldAI Lite</a> v${LITEVER} Web - Frontend for <a href="#" class="color_grayurl" onclick="msgbox('KoboldAI Lite allows you to connect to various third-party AI services. We do not control or assume responsibility for the models or content generated by these services. The user is responsible for ensuring that their usage of this software is legal in their country, and complies with the terms of service of the service they are connected to. Use at your own discretion.','Disclaimer')">External API Services</a>`;
+	`<a href="#" class="color_grayurl mainnav" title="KoboldAI Lite Information" onclick="msgbox('Source code is available at https://github.com/LostRuins/lite.koboldai.net \\nPlease report any bugs you find there.','Information')">KoboldAI Lite</a> v${LITEVER} Web - Frontend for <a href="#" class="color_grayurl mainnav" title="KoboldAI Lite Disclaimer" onclick="msgbox('KoboldAI Lite allows you to connect to various third-party AI services. We do not control or assume responsibility for the models or content generated by these services. The user is responsible for ensuring that their usage of this software is legal in their country, and complies with the terms of service of the service they are connected to. Use at your own discretion.','Disclaimer')">External API Services</a>`;
 
 	trigger_abort_controller(); //first trigger sets it up
 
@@ -14987,14 +14987,26 @@ Current version indicated by LITEVER below.
 				}
 
 				urlbase = default_gemini_base + mdlname + default_gemini_suffix;
+				let geminiparts = [];
+
+				if (insertAIVisionImages.length > 0) {
+					for (let i = 0; i < insertAIVisionImages.length; ++i) {
+						let oaiimg = {
+							"inline_data": {
+								"mime_type": "image/jpeg",
+								"data": insertAIVisionImages[i]
+							}
+						};
+						geminiparts.push(oaiimg);
+					}
+				}
+
+				geminiparts.push({"text": submit_payload.prompt});
+
 				let payload = {
 				"contents": [
 					{
-					"parts": [
-						{
-						"text": submit_payload.prompt
-						}
-					]
+					"parts": geminiparts
 					}
 				],
 				"safetySettings": [
@@ -15028,6 +15040,12 @@ Current version indicated by LITEVER below.
 					"stopSequences": []
 				}
 				};
+
+				if(document.getElementById("usegeminiweb").checked)
+				{
+					payload["tools"] = [{"google_search": {}}];
+				}
+
 				let sentrole = document.getElementById("geminiroledropdown").value;
 				if(sentrole!="")
 				{
@@ -15675,7 +15693,8 @@ Current version indicated by LITEVER below.
 			if(savedmeta.visionmode==4)
 			{
 				let isoai = (custom_oai_key!="" && document.getElementById("useoaichatcompl").checked);
-				visionstatus = isoai?`<span class="color_green">OpenAI API (Conditional)</span>`:`<span class="color_yellow">Unsupported</span>`;
+				let isgemini = (custom_gemini_key!="");
+				visionstatus = (isoai?`<span class="color_green">OpenAI API (Conditional)</span>`:(isgemini?`<span class="color_green">Gemini API (Conditional)</span>`:`<span class="color_yellow">Unsupported</span>`));
 			}
 			else if(savedmeta.visionmode==3)
 			{
@@ -22469,17 +22488,17 @@ Current version indicated by LITEVER below.
 					<span style="float:right;">
 					<a href="#" class="color_green" onclick="get_and_show_workers()">[See Current Volunteers] </a>
 					</span>
-					<select class="form-control" id="pickedmodel" size="7" multiple></select>
+					<select title="AI Horde Target Selection" class="form-control" id="pickedmodel" size="7" multiple></select>
 				</div>
 
 				<div class="menutext" style="text-align: left;">
 					Select By Worker <span class="helpicon">?
 						<span class="helptext">This option explicitly assigns worker IDs, fixed based on the current workers available at model selection time.</span>
 					</span>
-					<input type="checkbox" id="manualworker" onclick="toggle_manual_horde_worker()">
+					<input title="Select by Worker" type="checkbox" id="manualworker" onclick="toggle_manual_horde_worker()">
 
 					<span style="float:right;">
-						<input class="settinglabel miniinput" style="margin: 3px; width: 90px;" type="text" placeholder="Quick Search" value="" id="modelquicksearch" oninput="model_quick_search()">
+						<input title="Quick Search" class="settinglabel miniinput" style="margin: 3px; width: 90px;" type="text" placeholder="Quick Search" value="" id="modelquicksearch" oninput="model_quick_search()">
 					</span>
 				</div>
 
@@ -22489,8 +22508,8 @@ Current version indicated by LITEVER below.
 				You can use this to connect to a KoboldAI instance running via a remote tunnel such as <span class="color_orange" style="font-weight: bold;">trycloudflare, localtunnel, ngrok</span>.<br><br>
 				Localhost IPs require host mode enabled. You can use the remote address displayed in the <span class="color_orange" style="font-weight: bold;">terminal console</span> or <span class="color_orange" style="font-weight: bold;">colab window</span>, note that the model must be loaded first.<br><br>
 				<span class="color_green" style="font-weight: bold;">Please input URL of the KoboldAI instance.</span><br><br>
-				<input class="form-control" id="customkoboldendpoint" placeholder="https://sample-remote-address.trycloudflare.com" value="">
-				<input class="form-control" type="password" id="customkoboldkey" placeholder="KoboldAI API Key (Optional)" value="" onfocus="focus_api_keys()" onblur="blur_api_keys()"><br>
+				<input class="form-control" title="Enter KoboldCpp Custom Endpoint" id="customkoboldendpoint" placeholder="https://sample-remote-address.trycloudflare.com" value="">
+				<input class="form-control" title="Enter KoboldCpp API Key" type="password" id="customkoboldkey" placeholder="KoboldAI API Key (Optional)" value="" onfocus="focus_api_keys()" onblur="blur_api_keys()"><br>
 				<div class="borderbox flex flex-push-right">
 					<input type="checkbox" id="remoteconsolelog">
 					<div class="box-label" title="Will display outputs to the remote endpoint's console logs, useful for debugging.">Show Console Logging</div>
@@ -22526,7 +22545,7 @@ Current version indicated by LITEVER below.
 				<input class="form-control" type="text" id="custom_oai_endpoint" placeholder="OpenAI API URL" value="" onblur="try_fetch_oai_models_auto()">
 				<input class="form-control" type="password" id="custom_oai_key" placeholder="API Key (Required)" value="" onfocus="focus_api_keys()" onblur="blur_api_keys()"><br>
 				Model Choice:<br>
-				<select style="padding:4px;display:inline;width:calc(100% - 220px)" class="form-control" id="custom_oai_model" onchange="oai_model_change(true)">
+				<select title="OpenAI Model Selection" style="padding:4px;display:inline;width:calc(100% - 220px)" class="form-control" id="custom_oai_model" onchange="oai_model_change(true)">
 					<option value="gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct" selected="selected">gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct</option>
 					<option value="davinci-002">davinci-002</option>
 					<option value="gpt-3.5-turbo">gpt-3.5-turbo</option>
@@ -22539,7 +22558,7 @@ Current version indicated by LITEVER below.
 					<option value="o1-preview">o1-preview</option>
 					<option style="display:none;" class="custom_model_option" value="custom">[Custom]</option>
 				</select>
-				<select style="padding:4px;display:inline;width:calc(100% - 220px)" class="form-control hidden" id="custom_openrouter_model" onchange="oai_model_change(true)">
+				<select title="OpenRouter AI Model Selection" style="padding:4px;display:inline;width:calc(100% - 220px)" class="form-control hidden" id="custom_openrouter_model" onchange="oai_model_change(true)">
 					<option value="openai/gpt-3.5-turbo">openai/gpt-3.5-turbo</option>
 					<option value="openai/gpt-4">openai/gpt-4</option>
 					<option value="openai/gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct">openai/gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct</option>
@@ -22549,7 +22568,7 @@ Current version indicated by LITEVER below.
 					<option value="anthropic/claude-2.0">anthropic/claude-2.0</option>
 					<option style="display:none;" class="custom_model_option" value="custom">[Custom]</option>
 				</select>
-				<select style="padding:4px;display:inline;width:calc(100% - 220px)" class="form-control hidden" id="custom_mistralai_model" onchange="oai_model_change(true)">
+				<select title="Mistral AI Model Selection" style="padding:4px;display:inline;width:calc(100% - 220px)" class="form-control hidden" id="custom_mistralai_model" onchange="oai_model_change(true)">
 					<option value="open-mistral-7b">open-mistral-7b</option>
 					<option value="open-mistral-nemo">open-mistral-nemo</option>
 					<option value="open-mixtral-8x22b">open-mixtral-8x22b</option>
@@ -22562,7 +22581,7 @@ Current version indicated by LITEVER below.
 					<option value="codestral-latest">codestral-latest</option>
 					<option style="display:none;" class="custom_model_option" value="custom">[Custom]</option>
 				</select>
-				<select style="padding:4px;display:inline;width:calc(100% - 220px)" class="form-control hidden" id="custom_featherless_model" onchange="oai_model_change(true)">
+				<select title="Featherless AI Model Selection" style="padding:4px;display:inline;width:calc(100% - 220px)" class="form-control hidden" id="custom_featherless_model" onchange="oai_model_change(true)">
 					<option value="Sao10K/L3-8B-Lunaris-v1">Sao10K/L3-8B-Lunaris-v1</option>
 					<option value="Sao10K/L3-8B-Stheno-v3.2">Sao10K/L3-8B-Stheno-v3.2</option>
 					<option value="unsloth/llama-3-8b-Instruct">unsloth/llama-3-8b-Instruct</option>
@@ -22576,7 +22595,7 @@ Current version indicated by LITEVER below.
 					<option value="meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct">meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct</option>
 				<option style="display:none;" class="custom_model_option" value="custom">[Custom]</option>
 				</select>
-				<select style="padding:4px;display:inline;width:calc(100% - 220px)" class="form-control hidden" id="custom_grok_model" onchange="oai_model_change(true)">
+				<select title="Grok AI Model Selection" style="padding:4px;display:inline;width:calc(100% - 220px)" class="form-control hidden" id="custom_grok_model" onchange="oai_model_change(true)">
 					<option value="grok-beta">grok-beta</option>
 					<option style="display:none;" class="custom_model_option" value="custom">[Custom]</option>
 				</select>
@@ -22599,38 +22618,38 @@ Current version indicated by LITEVER below.
 				<span id="useoaichatcomplbox" class="hidden" onload="toggleoaichatcompl();">
 					<br>
 					Main Message Role:
-					<select class="form-control" style="height: 25px; font-size:12px; padding:4px;display:inline;width:100px" id="oairoledropdown">
+					<select title="Main Message Role" class="form-control" style="height: 25px; font-size:12px; padding:4px;display:inline;width:100px" id="oairoledropdown">
 						<option value="0" selected>User</option>
 						<option value="1">Assistant</option>
 						<option value="2">System</option>
 						<option value="3">AutoRole</option>
 					</select>
-					<input type="checkbox" id="jailbreakprompt" onchange="togglejailbreak()">
-					<div class="box-label" title="Adds extra text at the start to improve AI response">Add Prefix</div>
-					<input type="checkbox" id="jailbreakprompt2" onchange="togglejailbreak2()">
-					<div class="box-label" title="Adds extra text to the end to improve AI response">Add Postfix</div>
+					<input type="checkbox" title="Add Prefix Prompt" id="jailbreakprompt" onchange="togglejailbreak()">
+					<div class="box-label" title="Add Prefix. Forcefully inserts extra text at the start of the prompt to steer the AI.">Add Prefix</div>
+					<input type="checkbox" title="Add Postfix Prompt" id="jailbreakprompt2" onchange="togglejailbreak2()">
+					<div class="box-label" title="Add Postfix. Forcefully inserts extra text to before the AI response to steer the AI.">Add Postfix</div>
 
 					<div style="display:flex" id="oaijailbreakpromptblock1">
-					<select class="form-control" style="height: 25px; font-size:12px; padding:4px;display:inline;width:100px" id="jailbreakprompttextrole">
+					<select title="Injected Prefix Message Role" class="form-control" style="height: 25px; font-size:12px; padding:4px;display:inline;width:100px" id="jailbreakprompttextrole">
 						<option value="0">User</option>
 						<option value="1">Assistant</option>
 						<option value="2" selected>System</option>
 					</select>
-					<textarea class="form-control" rows="3" style="resize: vertical; line-height:1.1; padding:4px; display:inline; width: 100%" type="text" id="jailbreakprompttext" placeholder="(Enter System Prefix)"
+					<textarea title="Enter Prefix Prompt String" class="form-control" rows="3" style="resize: vertical; line-height:1.1; padding:4px; display:inline; width: 100%" type="text" id="jailbreakprompttext" placeholder="(Enter System Prefix)"
 					value="" onload="togglejailbreak();"></textarea>
 					</div>
 
 					<div style="display:flex" id="oaijailbreakpromptblock2">
-					<select class="form-control" style="height: 25px; font-size:12px; padding:4px;display:inline;width:100px" id="jailbreakprompttext2role">
+					<select title="Injected Postfix Message Role" class="form-control" style="height: 25px; font-size:12px; padding:4px;display:inline;width:100px" id="jailbreakprompttext2role">
 						<option value="0">User</option>
 						<option value="1" selected>Assistant</option>
 						<option value="2">System</option>
 					</select>
-					<textarea class="form-control" rows="3" style="resize: vertical; line-height:1.1; padding:4px;  display:inline; width: 100%;" type="text" id="jailbreakprompttext2" placeholder="(Enter Assistant Postfix)"
+					<textarea title="Enter Postfix Prompt String" class="form-control" rows="3" style="resize: vertical; line-height:1.1; padding:4px;  display:inline; width: 100%;" type="text" id="jailbreakprompttext2" placeholder="(Enter Assistant Postfix)"
 					value="" onload="togglejailbreak2();"></textarea>
 					</div>
 				</span>
-				<span id="openrouterproviderbox" class="hidden"><br>Preferred Provider: <input style="height: 25px; font-size:12px;padding:4px;display:inline;width:calc(100% - 140px)" class="form-control" type="text" id="openrouterproviders" placeholder="(Automatic)" value="">
+				<span id="openrouterproviderbox" class="hidden"><br>Preferred Provider: <input title="Enter Preferred AI Provider" style="height: 25px; font-size:12px;padding:4px;display:inline;width:calc(100% - 140px)" class="form-control" type="text" id="openrouterproviders" placeholder="(Automatic)" value="">
 					<div style="display:inline;width:210px;">
 					</div>
 				</span>
@@ -22643,7 +22662,7 @@ Current version indicated by LITEVER below.
 				<input class="form-control" type="text" id="custom_claude_endpoint" placeholder="Claude API URL" value="">
 				<input class="form-control" type="password" id="custom_claude_key" placeholder="Claude API Key (Required)" value="" onfocus="focus_api_keys()" onblur="blur_api_keys()"><br>
 				Model Choice:<br>
-				<select style="padding:4px; width:calc(100% - 110px); display:inline-block" class="form-control" id="custom_claude_model"  onload="toggleclaudemodel()"  onchange="toggleclaudemodel()">
+				<select title="Claude AI Model Selection" style="padding:4px; width:calc(100% - 110px); display:inline-block" class="form-control" id="custom_claude_model"  onload="toggleclaudemodel()"  onchange="toggleclaudemodel()">
 					<option value="claude-v1">claude-v1</option>
 					<option value="claude-v1-100k">claude-v1-100k</option>
 					<option value="claude-instant-v1">claude-instant-v1</option>
@@ -22661,21 +22680,21 @@ Current version indicated by LITEVER below.
 					<option value="claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219">claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219</option>
 				</select>
 				<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary" style="display:inline;width:105px;" id="claudefetchlist" onclick="claude_fetch_models()">Fetch List</button>
-				<input type="checkbox" id="claudeaddversion" onchange="" checked>
+				<input type="checkbox" title="Add endpoint version" id="claudeaddversion" onchange="" checked>
 				<div class="box-label" title="Add endpoint version">Add Endpoint Version</div>
 				<span id="clauderenamecompatdiv">
-				<input type="checkbox" id="clauderenamecompat" onchange="" checked>
+				<input type="checkbox" title="Claude Compatibility Rename Fix" id="clauderenamecompat" onchange="" checked>
 				<div class="box-label" title="Rename User and Bot tags to work with claude, force inject them otherwise">Claude Compatibility Rename Fix</div>
 				</span>
 
-				<textarea class="form-control hidden" rows="2" style="resize: vertical; line-height:1.1; padding:4px; display:inline; width: 100%" type="text" id="claudesystemprompt" placeholder="(Enter System Prompt)"
+				<textarea class="form-control hidden" title="Claude System Prompt" rows="2" style="resize: vertical; line-height:1.1; padding:4px; display:inline; width: 100%" type="text" id="claudesystemprompt" placeholder="(Enter System Prompt, which steers overall AI behavior.)"
 				value="" onload=""></textarea>
-				<textarea class="form-control hidden" rows="2" style="resize: vertical; line-height:1.1; padding:4px; display:inline; width: 100%" type="text" id="claudejailbreakprompt" placeholder="(Enter Assistant Postfix)"
+				<textarea class="form-control hidden" title="Claude Assistant Postfix" rows="2" style="resize: vertical; line-height:1.1; padding:4px; display:inline; width: 100%" type="text" id="claudejailbreakprompt" placeholder="(Enter Assistant Postfix, which forces the AI to start responses with this text.)"
 				value="" onload=""></textarea>
 
 				<div id="claudethinkingbox" class="hidden">
 				<div class="box-label" title="Enable Thinking">Enable Thinking </div>
-				<input type="checkbox" style="display:inline;" id="claudethinking">
+				<input type="checkbox" title="Enable Thinking" style="display:inline;" id="claudethinking">
 				</div>
 
 			</div>
@@ -22683,7 +22702,7 @@ Current version indicated by LITEVER below.
 				Uses Gemini by Google.<br><br>
 				Note that KoboldAI Lite takes no responsibility for your usage or consequences of this feature. Your API key is used directly with the Gemini API and is not transmitted to us.<br><br>
 				<div>
-				<select style="padding:4px; width:calc(100% - 110px); display:inline-block" class="form-control" id="custom_gemini_model" onchange="togglegeminimodel()">
+				<select title="Gemini AI Model Selection" style="padding:4px; width:calc(100% - 110px); display:inline-block" class="form-control" id="custom_gemini_model" onchange="togglegeminimodel()">
 					<option value="gemini-1.5-flash-latest" selected="selected">gemini-1.5-flash-latest</option>
 					<option value="gemini-1.5-pro-001">gemini-1.5-pro-001</option>
 					<option value="gemini-1.5-pro-002">gemini-1.5-pro-002</option>
@@ -22700,28 +22719,30 @@ Current version indicated by LITEVER below.
 				<div id="gemini_role_options">
 				<div>
 					Main Message Role:
-					<select class="form-control" style="height: 25px; font-size:12px; padding:4px;display:inline;width:100px" onload="togglegeminirole();" onchange="togglegeminirole();" id="geminiroledropdown">
+					<select title="Main Message Role" class="form-control" style="height: 25px; font-size:12px; padding:4px;display:inline;width:100px" onload="togglegeminirole();" onchange="togglegeminirole();" id="geminiroledropdown">
 						<option value="" selected>Default</option>
 						<option value="user">User</option>
 						<option value="model">Model</option>
 					</select>
 				</div>
 				<div id="gemini_role_options2" style="display:flex">
-					<select class="form-control" style="height: 25px; font-size:12px; padding:4px;display:inline;width:100px" id="gemini_postfix_role">
+					<select title="Postfix Message Role" class="form-control" style="height: 25px; font-size:12px; padding:4px;display:inline;width:100px" id="gemini_postfix_role">
 						<option value="user">User</option>
 						<option value="model" selected>Model</option>
 					</select>
-					<textarea class="form-control" rows="3" style="resize: vertical; line-height:1.1; padding:4px;  display:inline; width: 100%;" type="text" id="gemini_postfix_text" placeholder="(Enter Gemini Postfix)"
+					<textarea title="Gemini Postfix Prompt" class="form-control" rows="3" style="resize: vertical; line-height:1.1; padding:4px;  display:inline; width: 100%;" type="text" id="gemini_postfix_text" placeholder="(Enter Gemini Postfix)"
 					value=""></textarea>
 				</div>
 				</div>
-				<textarea class="form-control" rows="3" style="resize: vertical; line-height:1.1; padding:4px; display:inline; width: 100%" type="text" id="gemini_system_instruction" placeholder="(Enter System Instruction)"
+				<textarea title="Gemini System Prompt" class="form-control" rows="3" style="resize: vertical; line-height:1.1; padding:4px; display:inline; width: 100%" type="text" id="gemini_system_instruction" placeholder="(Enter System Instruction)"
 				value=""></textarea><br>
+				<input type="checkbox" title="Use Gemini WebSearch" id="usegeminiweb">
+				<div class="box-label">Use WebSearch</div><br>
 			</div>
 			<div id="coherecustom" class="menutext hidden">
 				Uses Cohere's models through their own API.<br><br>
 				Note that KoboldAI Lite takes no responsibility for your usage or consequences of this feature. Your API key is used directly with the Cohere API and is not transmitted to us.<br><br>
-				<select style="padding:4px;" class="form-control" id="custom_cohere_model">
+				<select  title="Cohere AI Model Selection" style="padding:4px;" class="form-control" id="custom_cohere_model">
 					<option value="command" selected="selected">command</option>
 					<option value="command-r">command-r</option>
 					<option value="command-r-plus">command-r-plus</option>
@@ -22732,10 +22753,10 @@ Current version indicated by LITEVER below.
 				</select>
 				<span class="color_green" style="font-weight: bold;">Please input Cohere API Key.</span><br><br>
 				<input class="form-control" type="password" id="custom_cohere_key" placeholder="Cohere API Key (Required)" value="" onfocus="focus_api_keys()" onblur="blur_api_keys()"><br>
-				<input type="checkbox" id="usecohereweb">
-				<div class="box-label" id="usecohereweblabel">Use WebSearch</div>
-				<input type="checkbox" id="useocoherepreamble" onchange="togglecoherepreamble()">
-				<div class="box-label" id="useocoherepreamblelabel">Use Preamble</div>
+				<input type="checkbox" title="Use Cohere WebSearch" id="usecohereweb">
+				<div class="box-label">Use WebSearch</div>
+				<input type="checkbox" title="Use Cohere Preamble" id="useocoherepreamble" onchange="togglecoherepreamble()">
+				<div class="box-label">Use Preamble</div>
 
 				<span id="useocoherepreamblebox" class="hidden" onload="togglecoherepreamble();">
 					<textarea class="form-control" id="cohere_preamble" rows="3" style="resize: vertical; line-height:1.1; padding:4px; display:inline; width: 100%" type="text" placeholder="(Enter Preamble)" value=""></textarea>
diff --git a/src/llama-arch.cpp b/src/llama-arch.cpp
index 954ae65a3..047782e7d 100644
--- a/src/llama-arch.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-arch.cpp
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ static const std::map<llm_kv, const char *> LLM_KV_NAMES = {
     { LLM_KV_GENERAL_ARCHITECTURE,         "general.architecture"                  },
     { LLM_KV_GENERAL_QUANTIZATION_VERSION, "general.quantization_version"          },
     { LLM_KV_GENERAL_ALIGNMENT,            "general.alignment"                     },
+    { LLM_KV_GENERAL_FILE_TYPE,            "general.file_type"                     },
     { LLM_KV_GENERAL_NAME,                 "general.name"                          },
     { LLM_KV_GENERAL_AUTHOR,               "general.author"                        },
     { LLM_KV_GENERAL_VERSION,              "general.version"                       },
diff --git a/src/llama-arch.h b/src/llama-arch.h
index 7e2a3dd29..297cfa4da 100644
--- a/src/llama-arch.h
+++ b/src/llama-arch.h
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ enum llm_kv {
     LLM_KV_GENERAL_ARCHITECTURE,
     LLM_KV_GENERAL_QUANTIZATION_VERSION,
     LLM_KV_GENERAL_ALIGNMENT,
+    LLM_KV_GENERAL_FILE_TYPE,
     LLM_KV_GENERAL_NAME,
     LLM_KV_GENERAL_AUTHOR,
     LLM_KV_GENERAL_VERSION,
diff --git a/src/llama-context.cpp b/src/llama-context.cpp
index d6a88ef36..52edd69f9 100644
--- a/src/llama-context.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-context.cpp
@@ -255,7 +255,8 @@ llama_context::llama_context(
             model.n_devices() > 1 &&
             model.params.n_gpu_layers > (int) model.hparams.n_layer &&
             model.params.split_mode == LLAMA_SPLIT_MODE_LAYER &&
-            cparams.offload_kqv;
+            cparams.offload_kqv &&
+            !model.has_tensor_overrides();
 
         // pipeline parallelism requires support for async compute and events in all devices
         if (pipeline_parallel) {
@@ -1202,33 +1203,7 @@ int llama_context::decode(llama_batch & inp_batch) {
     const int64_t n_tokens_all = batch.n_tokens;
     const int64_t n_embd       = hparams.n_embd;
 
-    // TODO: remove this stuff
-    class batch_guard {
-    public:
-        batch_guard(llama_kv_cache_unified & kv_self) : kv_slot_restorer(kv_self) {
-        }
-
-        ~batch_guard() {
-            if (!is_done) {
-                kv_slot_restorer.restore();
-            }
-        }
-
-        void done() {
-            is_done = true;
-        }
-
-        void save(const llama_kv_cache_slot_info & slot_info) {
-            kv_slot_restorer.save(slot_info);
-        }
-
-    private:
-        bool is_done = false;
-
-        llama_kv_slot_restorer kv_slot_restorer;
-    };
-
-    batch_guard bg(*kv_self);
+    llama_kv_cache_guard kv_guard(kv_self.get());
 
     GGML_ASSERT((!batch.token && batch.embd) || (batch.token && !batch.embd)); // NOLINT
 
@@ -1281,6 +1256,9 @@ int llama_context::decode(llama_batch & inp_batch) {
         return -2;
     };
 
+    // handle any pending defrags/shifts
+    kv_self_update();
+
     int64_t n_outputs_prev = 0;
 
     while (sbatch.n_tokens > 0) {
@@ -1320,22 +1298,12 @@ int llama_context::decode(llama_batch & inp_batch) {
 
         // find KV slot
         {
-            kv_self_update();
+            if (!kv_self->find_slot(ubatch)) {
+                LLAMA_LOG_WARN("%s: failed to find KV cache slot for ubatch of size %d\n", __func__, ubatch.n_tokens);
 
-            // if we have enough unused cells before the current head ->
-            //   better to start searching from the beginning of the cache, hoping to fill it
-            if (kv_self->head > kv_self->used + 2*ubatch.n_tokens) {
-                kv_self->head = 0;
+                return 1;
             }
 
-            const auto slot_info = kv_self->find_slot(ubatch);
-            if (!slot_info) {
-                LLAMA_LOG_ERROR("%s: failed to prepare ubatch\n", __func__);
-                return -3;
-            }
-
-            bg.save(slot_info);
-
             if (!kv_self->recurrent) {
                 // a heuristic, to avoid attending the full cache if it is not yet utilized
                 // after enough generations, the benefit from this heuristic disappears
@@ -1372,16 +1340,6 @@ int llama_context::decode(llama_batch & inp_batch) {
             }
         }
 
-        // update the kv ring buffer
-        {
-            kv_self->head += ubatch.n_tokens;
-
-            // Ensure kv cache head points to a valid index.
-            if (kv_self->head >= kv_self->size) {
-                kv_self->head = 0;
-            }
-        }
-
         // plot the computation graph in dot format (for debugging purposes)
         //if (n_past%100 == 0) {
         //    ggml_graph_dump_dot(gf, NULL, "llama.dot");
@@ -1468,7 +1426,7 @@ int llama_context::decode(llama_batch & inp_batch) {
     }
 
     // finalize the batch processing
-    bg.done();
+    kv_guard.commit();
 
     // set output mappings
     {
diff --git a/src/llama-kv-cache.cpp b/src/llama-kv-cache.cpp
index e01a785ed..3ba793de8 100644
--- a/src/llama-kv-cache.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-kv-cache.cpp
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@
 #include <map>
 #include <stdexcept>
 
-static const llama_kv_cache_slot_info llama_kv_cache_slot_info_failed{false};
-
 llama_kv_cache_unified::llama_kv_cache_unified(const llama_hparams & hparams, callbacks cbs) : hparams(hparams), cbs(std::move(cbs)) {
 }
 
@@ -206,6 +204,8 @@ bool llama_kv_cache_unified::seq_rm(llama_seq_id seq_id, llama_pos p0, llama_pos
                 return false;
             }
         }
+
+        return true;
     }
 
     for (uint32_t i = 0; i < size; ++i) {
@@ -446,16 +446,66 @@ void llama_kv_cache_unified::defrag() {
     }
 }
 
+void llama_kv_cache_unified::restore() {
+    if (pending.ranges.empty()) {
+        return;
+    }
+
+    // TODO: tmp - move to llama_kv_cache_recurrent
+    if (recurrent) {
+        seq_rm(-1, -1, -1);
+        return;
+    }
+
+    uint32_t new_head = size;
+
+    for (auto & range : pending.ranges) {
+        for (uint32_t i = range.c0; i < range.c1; ++i) {
+            cells[i].seq_id.clear();
+
+            // keep count of the number of used cells
+            if (cells[i].pos >= 0) {
+                used--;
+            }
+
+            cells[i].pos = -1;
+            cells[i].src = -1;
+        }
+
+        new_head = std::min(new_head, range.c0);
+    }
+
+    if (new_head != size && new_head < head) {
+        head = new_head;
+    }
+}
+
+void llama_kv_cache_unified::commit() {
+    if (pending.ranges.empty()) {
+        LLAMA_LOG_WARN("%s: no pending KV cache updates to commit - might indicate a bug (ref: %s)\n",
+                __func__, "https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/12695");
+        return;
+    }
+
+    pending.ranges.clear();
+}
+
 bool llama_kv_cache_unified::get_can_shift() const {
     return can_shift;
 }
 
-llama_kv_cache_slot_info llama_kv_cache_unified::find_slot(
+bool llama_kv_cache_unified::find_slot(
        const llama_ubatch & ubatch) {
     const uint32_t n_tokens = ubatch.n_tokens;
     const uint32_t n_seqs   = ubatch.n_seqs;
     const uint32_t n_seq_tokens = ubatch.n_seq_tokens;
 
+    // if we have enough unused cells before the current head ->
+    //   better to start searching from the beginning of the cache, hoping to fill it
+    if (head > used + 2*ubatch.n_tokens) {
+        head = 0;
+    }
+
     if (recurrent) {
         // For recurrent state architectures (like Mamba or RWKV),
         // each cache cell can store the state for a whole sequence.
@@ -477,7 +527,7 @@ llama_kv_cache_slot_info llama_kv_cache_unified::find_slot(
                     // too big seq_id
                     // TODO: would it be possible to resize the cache instead?
                     LLAMA_LOG_ERROR("%s: seq_id=%d >= n_seq_max=%d Try using a bigger --parallel value\n", __func__, seq_id, size);
-                    return llama_kv_cache_slot_info_failed;
+                    return false;
                 }
                 if (j > 0) {
                     llama_kv_cell & seq = cells[seq_id];
@@ -616,14 +666,14 @@ llama_kv_cache_slot_info llama_kv_cache_unified::find_slot(
             [](const llama_kv_cell& cell){ return !cell.is_empty(); });
 
         // sanity check
-        return llama_kv_cache_slot_info(n >= n_seqs);
+        return n >= n_seqs;
     }
 
     // otherwise, one cell per token.
 
     if (n_tokens > size) {
         LLAMA_LOG_ERROR("%s: n_tokens = %d > size = %d\n", __func__, n_tokens, size);
-        return llama_kv_cache_slot_info_failed;
+        return false;
     }
 
     uint32_t n_tested = 0;
@@ -651,7 +701,7 @@ llama_kv_cache_slot_info llama_kv_cache_unified::find_slot(
 
         if (n_tested >= size) {
             //LLAMA_LOG_ERROR("%s: failed to find a slot for %d tokens\n", __func__, n_tokens);
-            return llama_kv_cache_slot_info_failed;
+            return false;
         }
     }
 
@@ -668,7 +718,9 @@ llama_kv_cache_slot_info llama_kv_cache_unified::find_slot(
 
     used += n_tokens;
 
-    return llama_kv_cache_slot_info(head, head + n_tokens);
+    pending.ranges.push_back({head, head + n_tokens});
+
+    return true;
 }
 
 uint32_t llama_kv_cache_unified::get_padding(const llama_cparams & cparams) const {
@@ -1033,6 +1085,7 @@ bool llama_kv_cache_unified::state_read_meta(llama_io_read_i & io, uint32_t cell
             LLAMA_LOG_ERROR("%s: failed to find available cells in kv cache\n", __func__);
             return false;
         }
+        commit();
 
         // DEBUG CHECK: kv.head should be our first cell, kv.head + cell_count - 1 should be our last cell (verify seq_id and pos values)
         // Assume that this is one contiguous block of cells
diff --git a/src/llama-kv-cache.h b/src/llama-kv-cache.h
index 0a7ff8a4e..ff0ba3540 100644
--- a/src/llama-kv-cache.h
+++ b/src/llama-kv-cache.h
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ struct llama_ubatch;
 struct llama_kv_cache : public llama_memory_i {
     using llama_memory_i::llama_memory_i;
 
+    virtual void restore() = 0; // call if batch processing fails - restores the cache state
+    virtual void commit() = 0;  // call after successful batch processing - clears any pending state
+
     virtual int32_t  get_n_tokens()   const = 0;
     virtual uint32_t get_used_cells() const = 0; // TODO: remove, this is too-specific to the unified cache
 
@@ -25,9 +28,24 @@ struct llama_kv_cache : public llama_memory_i {
     bool get_can_edit() const override { return get_can_shift(); }
 };
 
+struct llama_kv_cache_guard {
+    llama_kv_cache_guard(llama_kv_cache * kv) : kv(kv) {}
+
+    ~llama_kv_cache_guard() {
+        kv->restore();
+    }
+
+    void commit() {
+        kv->commit();
+    }
+
+private:
+    llama_kv_cache * kv;
+};
+
 struct llama_kv_cell {
     llama_pos pos   = -1;
-    llama_pos delta = 0;
+    llama_pos delta =  0;
     int32_t   src   = -1; // used by recurrent state models to copy states
     int32_t   tail  = -1;
 
@@ -46,17 +64,6 @@ struct llama_kv_cell {
     }
 };
 
-// a structure holds information about the slot found in llama_kv_cache_find_slot
-struct llama_kv_cache_slot_info {
-    std::pair<uint32_t, uint32_t> boundaries; // slot boundaries [begin, end)
-    bool found = false;                       // the slot was found
-
-    explicit llama_kv_cache_slot_info(bool found_) : found{found_} {}
-    llama_kv_cache_slot_info(uint32_t begin, uint32_t end) : boundaries{begin, end}, found{true} {}
-
-    operator bool() const { return found; }
-};
-
 // ring-buffer of cached KV data
 // TODO: pimpl
 // TODO: add notion of max sequences
@@ -93,6 +100,9 @@ public:
     void clear() override;
     void defrag() override;
 
+    virtual void restore() override;
+    virtual void commit() override;
+
     bool seq_rm  (llama_seq_id seq_id,                              llama_pos p0, llama_pos p1) override;
     void seq_cp  (llama_seq_id seq_id_src, llama_seq_id seq_id_dst, llama_pos p0, llama_pos p1) override;
     void seq_keep(llama_seq_id seq_id) override;
@@ -105,10 +115,9 @@ public:
 
     // find an empty slot of size "n_tokens" in the cache
     // updates the cache head
-    // returns a structure holding information about the slot found
     // Note: On success, it's important that cache.head points
     // to the first cell of the slot.
-    llama_kv_cache_slot_info find_slot(const llama_ubatch & batch);
+    bool find_slot(const llama_ubatch & batch);
 
     // TODO: maybe not needed
     uint32_t get_padding(const llama_cparams & cparams) const;
@@ -128,7 +137,19 @@ public:
     // return true if cells have been moved
     bool defrag_prepare(int32_t n_max_nodes);
 
-    // state save/load
+    // commit/restore cache
+
+    struct slot_range {
+        uint32_t c0 = 0; // note: these are cell indices, not sequence positions
+        uint32_t c1 = 0;
+    };
+
+    // pending cell updates that are not yet committed
+    struct {
+        std::vector<slot_range> ranges;
+    } pending;
+
+    // state write/load
 
     void state_write(llama_io_write_i & io, llama_seq_id seq_id = -1) const;
     void state_read (llama_io_read_i  & io, llama_seq_id seq_id = -1);
@@ -183,59 +204,6 @@ private:
 //    using llama_kv_cache_unified::llama_kv_cache_unified;
 //};
 
-//
-// kv cache restore
-//
-
-// saves the kv_cache state for future recovery.
-// used to rollback llama_kv_cache_find_slot changes.
-struct llama_kv_slot_restorer {
-    struct llama_kv_cache_state {
-        uint32_t head = 0;
-        uint32_t n    = 0;
-    } old_state;
-
-    // for non-recurrent models only
-    // list of slots to restore
-    std::vector<std::pair<uint32_t, uint32_t>> slot_boundaries;
-
-    bool do_restore = false;
-
-    llama_kv_cache_unified & cache;
-
-    explicit llama_kv_slot_restorer(llama_kv_cache_unified & cache) : cache(cache) {
-        old_state.head = cache.head;
-        old_state.n    = cache.n;
-    }
-
-    // saves a slot information for future restoration
-    void save(const llama_kv_cache_slot_info & slot) {
-        if (slot) {
-            do_restore = true;
-            if (slot.boundaries.first != slot.boundaries.second) {
-                slot_boundaries.push_back(slot.boundaries);
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    // must be explicitly called to restore the kv_cache state
-    // and rollback changes from all llama_kv_cache_find_slot calls
-    void restore() {
-        if (do_restore) {
-            cache.head = old_state.head;
-            cache.n    = old_state.n;
-
-            if (cache.recurrent) { // recurrent models like Mamba or RWKV can't have a state partially erased
-                cache.seq_rm(-1, -1, -1);
-            } else {
-                for (auto & slot : slot_boundaries) {
-                    cache.seq_rm(-1, slot.first, slot.second);
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-};
-
 // TODO: maybe become part of the public llama_kv_cache in the future
 int32_t llama_kv_cache_n_tokens(const llama_kv_cache * kv);
 
diff --git a/src/llama-model-loader.cpp b/src/llama-model-loader.cpp
index 3907b86e7..99425d069 100644
--- a/src/llama-model-loader.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-model-loader.cpp
@@ -449,7 +449,8 @@ llama_model_loader::llama_model_loader(
         std::vector<std::string> & splits,
         bool use_mmap,
         bool check_tensors,
-        const struct llama_model_kv_override * param_overrides_p) {
+        const llama_model_kv_override * param_overrides_p,
+        const llama_model_tensor_buft_override * param_tensor_buft_overrides_p) {
     int trace = 0;
     if (getenv("LLAMA_TRACE")) {
         trace = atoi(getenv("LLAMA_TRACE"));
@@ -461,6 +462,8 @@ llama_model_loader::llama_model_loader(
         }
     }
 
+    tensor_buft_overrides = param_tensor_buft_overrides_p;
+
     // Load the main GGUF
     struct ggml_context * ctx = NULL;
     struct gguf_init_params params = {
@@ -605,7 +608,9 @@ llama_model_loader::llama_model_loader(
 
             if (trace > 0) {
                 const uint16_t sid = w.idx;
-                LLAMA_LOG_INFO("%s: - tensor split %2d: %32s %-8s [ %s ]\n", __func__, sid, ggml_get_name(tensor), ggml_type_name(type), llama_format_tensor_shape(tensor).c_str());
+                LLAMA_LOG_INFO("%s: - tensor split %2d: %32s %-8s [ %s ] %8.2f MiB\n", __func__,
+                        sid, ggml_get_name(tensor), ggml_type_name(type), llama_format_tensor_shape(tensor).c_str(),
+                        ggml_nbytes(tensor)/1024.0f/1024.0f);
             }
         }
 
@@ -645,9 +650,9 @@ llama_model_loader::llama_model_loader(
         ftype = (llama_ftype) (ftype | LLAMA_FTYPE_GUESSED);
 
         {
-            const int kid = gguf_find_key(meta.get(), "general.file_type"); // TODO: use LLM_KV
-            if (kid >= 0) {
-                ftype = (llama_ftype) gguf_get_val_u32(meta.get(), kid);
+            uint32_t ftype_val = 0;
+            if (get_key(LLM_KV_GENERAL_FILE_TYPE, ftype_val, false)) {
+                ftype = (llama_ftype) ftype_val;
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/src/llama-model-loader.h b/src/llama-model-loader.h
index fe35404b2..0f52b011b 100644
--- a/src/llama-model-loader.h
+++ b/src/llama-model-loader.h
@@ -77,8 +77,9 @@ struct llama_model_loader {
 
     llama_mmaps mappings;
 
-    std::map<std::string, struct llama_tensor_weight, weight_name_comparer> weights_map;
-    std::unordered_map<std::string, struct llama_model_kv_override> kv_overrides;
+    std::map<std::string, llama_tensor_weight, weight_name_comparer> weights_map;
+    std::unordered_map<std::string, llama_model_kv_override> kv_overrides;
+    const llama_model_tensor_buft_override * tensor_buft_overrides;
 
     gguf_context_ptr meta;
     std::vector<ggml_context_ptr> contexts;
@@ -95,7 +96,8 @@ struct llama_model_loader {
         std::vector<std::string> & splits, // optional, only need if the split does not follow naming scheme
         bool use_mmap,
         bool check_tensors,
-        const struct llama_model_kv_override * param_overrides_p);
+        const llama_model_kv_override * param_overrides_p,
+        const llama_model_tensor_buft_override * param_tensor_buft_overrides_p);
 
     template<typename T>
     typename std::enable_if<std::is_integral<T>::value, bool>::type
diff --git a/src/llama-model.cpp b/src/llama-model.cpp
index a72ac5448..f69af2fe1 100644
--- a/src/llama-model.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-model.cpp
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include <cmath>
 #include <functional>
 #include <map>
+#include <regex>
 #include <sstream>
 #include <stdexcept>
 #include <iostream>
@@ -383,9 +384,12 @@ struct llama_model::impl {
     layer_dev dev_input = {};
     layer_dev dev_output = {};
     std::vector<layer_dev> dev_layer;
+
+    bool has_tensor_overrides;
 };
 
 llama_model::llama_model(const llama_model_params & params) : params(params), pimpl(std::make_unique<impl>()) {
+    pimpl->has_tensor_overrides = params.tensor_buft_overrides && params.tensor_buft_overrides[0].pattern;
 }
 
 llama_model::~llama_model() {}
@@ -1586,9 +1590,26 @@ bool llama_model::load_tensors(llama_model_loader & ml) {
                     GGML_ABORT("invalid layer %d for tensor %s", info.layer, tn.str().c_str());
             }
 
-            ggml_backend_buffer_type_t buft = select_weight_buft(hparams, t_meta, op, *buft_list);
+            ggml_backend_buffer_type_t buft = nullptr;
+
+            // check overrides
+            if (ml.tensor_buft_overrides) {
+                std::string tensor_name = tn.str();
+                for (const auto * overrides = ml.tensor_buft_overrides; overrides->pattern != nullptr; ++overrides) {
+                    std::regex pattern(overrides->pattern);
+                    if (std::regex_search(tensor_name, pattern)) {
+                        LLAMA_LOG_DEBUG("tensor %s buffer type overriden to %s\n", tensor_name.c_str(), ggml_backend_buft_name(overrides->buft));
+                        buft = overrides->buft;
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
             if (!buft) {
-                throw std::runtime_error(format("failed to find a compatible buffer type for tensor %s", tn.str().c_str()));
+                buft = select_weight_buft(hparams, t_meta, op, *buft_list);
+                if (!buft) {
+                    throw std::runtime_error(format("failed to find a compatible buffer type for tensor %s", tn.str().c_str()));
+                }
             }
 
             // avoid using a host buffer when using mmap
@@ -4250,6 +4271,10 @@ ggml_backend_buffer_type_t llama_model::select_buft(int il) const {
             });
 }
 
+bool llama_model::has_tensor_overrides() const {
+    return pimpl->has_tensor_overrides;
+}
+
 const ggml_tensor * llama_model::get_tensor(const char * name) const {
     auto it = std::find_if(tensors_by_name.begin(), tensors_by_name.end(),
             [name](const std::pair<std::string, ggml_tensor *> & it) {
@@ -12422,6 +12447,7 @@ llm_graph_result_ptr llama_model::build_graph(
 llama_model_params llama_model_default_params() {
     llama_model_params result = {
         /*.devices                     =*/ nullptr,
+        /*.tensor_buft_overrides       =*/ nullptr,
         /*.n_gpu_layers                =*/ 0,
         /*.split_mode                  =*/ LLAMA_SPLIT_MODE_LAYER,
         /*.main_gpu                    =*/ 0,
diff --git a/src/llama-model.h b/src/llama-model.h
index f1bf0df3a..91e6e8725 100644
--- a/src/llama-model.h
+++ b/src/llama-model.h
@@ -382,6 +382,8 @@ struct llama_model {
 
     ggml_backend_buffer_type_t select_buft(int il) const;
 
+    bool has_tensor_overrides() const;
+
     const struct ggml_tensor * get_tensor(const char * name) const;
 
     // TODO: move this to new llm_arch_model_i interface
diff --git a/src/llama-quant.cpp b/src/llama-quant.cpp
index f7bafe853..c5d9c9072 100644
--- a/src/llama-quant.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-quant.cpp
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ static void llama_model_quantize_impl(const std::string & fname_inp, const std::
     }
 
     std::vector<std::string> splits = {};
-    llama_model_loader ml(fname_inp, splits, use_mmap, /*check_tensors*/ true, kv_overrides);
+    llama_model_loader ml(fname_inp, splits, use_mmap, /*check_tensors*/ true, kv_overrides, nullptr);
     ml.init_mappings(false); // no prefetching
 
     llama_model model(llama_model_default_params());
diff --git a/src/llama-vocab.cpp b/src/llama-vocab.cpp
index a0d634134..27bdcdf2b 100644
--- a/src/llama-vocab.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-vocab.cpp
@@ -636,7 +636,8 @@ struct llm_tokenizer_bpe : llm_tokenizer {
                 regex_exprs = {
                     // original regex from tokenizer.json
                     // "'(?i:[sdmt]|ll|ve|re)|[^\\r\\n\\p{L}\\p{N}]?+\\p{L}+|\\p{N}| ?[^\\s\\p{L}\\p{N}]++[\\r\\n]*|\\s*[\\r\\n]|\\s+(?!\\S)|\\s+"
-                    "'(?:[sSdDmMtT]|[lL][lL]|[vV][eE]|[rR][eE])|[^\\r\\n\\p{L}\\p{N}]?+\\p{L}+|\\p{N}| ?[^\\s\\p{L}\\p{N}]++[\\r\\n]*|\\s*[\\r\\n]|\\s+(?!\\S)|\\s+",
+                    // FIXME? Changed possessive quantifiers (?+ and ++) to greedy to avoid errors and imatrix hanging (tried atomic grouping but it's not supported?)
+                    "'(?:[sSdDmMtT]|[lL][lL]|[vV][eE]|[rR][eE])|[^\\r\\n\\p{L}\\p{N}]?\\p{L}+|\\p{N}| ?[^\\s\\p{L}\\p{N}]+[\\r\\n]*|\\s*[\\r\\n]|\\s+(?!\\S)|\\s+",
                 };
                 break;
             default:
diff --git a/src/llama.cpp b/src/llama.cpp
index f10ed4428..9fd3677c1 100644
--- a/src/llama.cpp
+++ b/src/llama.cpp
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static int llama_model_load(const std::string & fname, std::vector<std::string>
     model.t_start_us = tm.t_start_us;
 
     try {
-        llama_model_loader ml(fname, splits, params.use_mmap, params.check_tensors, params.kv_overrides);
+        llama_model_loader ml(fname, splits, params.use_mmap, params.check_tensors, params.kv_overrides, params.tensor_buft_overrides);
 
         ml.print_info();