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Faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp

58 points by pptadversary 2 days ago | 9 comments

Btw, if anyone has experience with the open source community in general and llama.cpp in specific, I would greatly appreciate some advice. I’m facing a bit of an interpersonal issue that I really hope is resolved without any ill will. Here is the context:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wr5ylm/comment...

Any advice for what I can do? Due to this, I cannot create a PR or issue in the llama.cpp repository. However, I am worried about bothering the maintainers on other channels in case it aggravates them further. Thank you for your help!

embedding-shape 52 minutes ago

> Any advice for what I can do?

Email that author (email can usually be found via GitHub, or contact via other private way they've shared somewhere) and explain the situation, don't lambast them publicly on social media or similar ways. If that doesn't work, do the same but for another maintainer. Don't spam all of them straight up, wait a week or something before contacting someone else.

electroglyph 4 hours ago

hopefully someone on the team sees this and fixes the situation, otherwise, if it's good, i'm sure somebody else will open the PR. thanks for your contribution.

wronglebowski 2 hours ago

I understand this repository must be under siege effectively with how popular it is, but the team needs to come up with a decent way to handle this. The current climate with Nvidia buying Hugging Face who effectively owns the llama.cpp team there’s a lot of discourse around their control of the team that’s negative.

rfgplk 2 hours ago

Just hard fork the project. Frankly, llama.cpp is so badly written that these kind of speedups are trivial, and a hard fork (or a total rewrite) has been needed for the longest time.

jadidbourbaki 22 hours ago

Fun update to this: Daniel Lemire added another optimization to make this even faster. https://github.com/jadidbourbaki/llama.cpp/pull/12

I’ll benchmark his change and add it to the article, crediting him for this improvement.

PicardsFlute 3 hours ago

So, instead of resolving it privately like you were asked, you come here and complain? Was the bot posts on Reddit not enough for you? Pro tip: There is a right way and a wrong way to approach these things and you are MOST certainly approaching this the wrong way. And before you go accusing me of anything: I am NOT associated with that project, but I DID see what happened. You are acting like a damned child and should be ashamed of yourself.

ricardobeat 2 hours ago

Is there some missing context here? Where was the author asked to resolve issues in private? And what 'private' channels would be available to them?

frazar0 56 minutes ago

I think they meant to reply to this comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859982#49863097

but commented on the post.