Update documentation for llama

This commit is contained in:
Aaron Po
2026-04-02 23:24:06 -04:00
parent 077f6ab4ae
commit 8d306bf691
7 changed files with 245 additions and 1 deletions

View File

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
/**
* Text Generation / Inference Module
* Core module that performs LLM inference: converts text prompts into tokens,
* runs the neural network forward pass, samples the next token, and converts
* output tokens back to text. Supports both simple and system+user prompts.
*/
#include <spdlog/spdlog.h>
#include <algorithm>
@@ -22,21 +29,37 @@ std::string LlamaGenerator::Infer(const std::string& system_prompt,
std::string LlamaGenerator::InferFormatted(const std::string& formatted_prompt,
int max_tokens) {
/**
* Validate that model and context are loaded
*/
if (model_ == nullptr || context_ == nullptr)
throw std::runtime_error("LlamaGenerator: model not loaded");
/**
* Get vocabulary for tokenization and token-to-text conversion
*/
const llama_vocab* vocab = llama_model_get_vocab(model_);
if (vocab == nullptr)
throw std::runtime_error("LlamaGenerator: vocab unavailable");
/**
* Clear KV cache to ensure clean inference state (no residual context)
*/
llama_memory_clear(llama_get_memory(context_), true);
/**
* TOKENIZATION PHASE
* Convert text prompt into token IDs (integers) that the model understands
*/
std::vector<llama_token> prompt_tokens(formatted_prompt.size() + 8);
int32_t token_count = llama_tokenize(
vocab, formatted_prompt.c_str(),
static_cast<int32_t>(formatted_prompt.size()), prompt_tokens.data(),
static_cast<int32_t>(prompt_tokens.size()), true, true);
/**
* If buffer too small, negative return indicates required size
*/
if (token_count < 0) {
prompt_tokens.resize(static_cast<std::size_t>(-token_count));
token_count = llama_tokenize(
@@ -48,16 +71,31 @@ std::string LlamaGenerator::InferFormatted(const std::string& formatted_prompt,
if (token_count < 0)
throw std::runtime_error("LlamaGenerator: prompt tokenization failed");
/**
* CONTEXT SIZE VALIDATION
* Validate and compute effective token budgets based on context window
* constraints
*/
const int32_t n_ctx = static_cast<int32_t>(llama_n_ctx(context_));
const int32_t n_batch = static_cast<int32_t>(llama_n_batch(context_));
if (n_ctx <= 1 || n_batch <= 0)
throw std::runtime_error("LlamaGenerator: invalid context or batch size");
/**
* Clamp generation limit to available context window, reserve space for
* output
*/
const int32_t effective_max_tokens =
std::max(1, std::min(max_tokens, n_ctx - 1));
/**
* Prompt can use remaining context after reserving space for generation
*/
int32_t prompt_budget = std::min(n_batch, n_ctx - effective_max_tokens);
prompt_budget = std::max<int32_t>(1, prompt_budget);
/**
* Truncate prompt if necessary to fit within constraints
*/
prompt_tokens.resize(static_cast<std::size_t>(token_count));
if (token_count > prompt_budget) {
spdlog::warn(
@@ -68,11 +106,21 @@ std::string LlamaGenerator::InferFormatted(const std::string& formatted_prompt,
token_count = prompt_budget;
}
/**
* PROMPT PROCESSING PHASE
* Create a batch containing all prompt tokens and feed through the model
* This computes internal representations and fills the KV cache
*/
const llama_batch prompt_batch = llama_batch_get_one(
prompt_tokens.data(), static_cast<int32_t>(prompt_tokens.size()));
if (llama_decode(context_, prompt_batch) != 0)
throw std::runtime_error("LlamaGenerator: prompt decode failed");
/**
* SAMPLER CONFIGURATION PHASE
* Set up the probabilistic token selection pipeline (sampler chain)
* Samplers are applied in sequence: temperature -> top-p -> distribution
*/
llama_sampler_chain_params sampler_params =
llama_sampler_chain_default_params();
using SamplerPtr =
@@ -82,21 +130,48 @@ std::string LlamaGenerator::InferFormatted(const std::string& formatted_prompt,
if (!sampler)
throw std::runtime_error("LlamaGenerator: failed to initialize sampler");
/**
* Temperature: scales logits before softmax (controls randomness)
*/
llama_sampler_chain_add(sampler.get(),
llama_sampler_init_temp(sampling_temperature_));
/**
* Top-P: nucleus sampling - filters to most likely tokens summing to top_p
* probability
*/
llama_sampler_chain_add(sampler.get(),
llama_sampler_init_top_p(sampling_top_p_, 1));
/**
* Distribution sampler: selects actual token using configured seed for
* reproducibility
*/
llama_sampler_chain_add(sampler.get(),
llama_sampler_init_dist(sampling_seed_));
/**
* TOKEN GENERATION LOOP
* Iteratively generate tokens one at a time until max_tokens or
* end-of-sequence
*/
std::vector<llama_token> generated_tokens;
generated_tokens.reserve(static_cast<std::size_t>(effective_max_tokens));
for (int i = 0; i < effective_max_tokens; ++i) {
/**
* Sample next token using configured sampler chain and model logits
* Index -1 means use the last output position from previous batch
*/
const llama_token next =
llama_sampler_sample(sampler.get(), context_, -1);
/**
* Stop if model predicts end-of-generation token (EOS/EOT)
*/
if (llama_vocab_is_eog(vocab, next)) break;
generated_tokens.push_back(next);
/**
* Feed the sampled token back into model for next iteration
* (autoregressive)
*/
llama_token token = next;
const llama_batch one_token_batch = llama_batch_get_one(&token, 1);
if (llama_decode(context_, one_token_batch) != 0)
@@ -104,6 +179,10 @@ std::string LlamaGenerator::InferFormatted(const std::string& formatted_prompt,
"LlamaGenerator: decode failed during generation");
}
/**
* DETOKENIZATION PHASE
* Convert generated token IDs back to text using vocabulary
*/
std::string output;
for (const llama_token token : generated_tokens)
AppendTokenPiecePublic(vocab, token, output);