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hexagon: add an experimental Qualcomm FP8 DiT and VAE path - #1970
We are building high-performance DiT inference on Qualcomm devices, covering both Adreno GPUs and Hexagon NPUs, for Local Dream.
Our Adreno work is already being contributed to llama.cpp: #22755, #26085, and #26331 are merged; Fused QKNorm-RoPE #28446 is currently open.
This PR provides the integrated Hexagon NPU path for stable-diffusion.cpp.
Implementation
The v79+ path includes standard F8_E4M3 safetensor loading; HMX 32x32 set_tensor repacking; FP8 W8A16 GEMM;fused Q/K RMSNorm-RoPE; segmented-K Klein linear2; FP16 VAE activations; Implicit-GEMM convolution; fused GroupNorm-affine-SiLU; and fused upscale-convolution. Qwen3-4B uses the existing generic Hexagon Q4 kernels. This path supports end-to-end image generation at resolutions from 1K up to 2K, amazing for a phone!
The FP8 GEMM uses the v79 activation.hf / weight.f8 HMX path with FP32 accumulation. HMX cvt.hf = acc(2) applies the architectural 1/256 conversion; the HVX output epilogue compensates by 256 and folds the model's FP32 weight scale and any graph scalar scale into the same store pass.
Temporary integration
The FP8 plumbing required for full llama.cpp integration has not yet been accepted into llama.cpp's embedded ggml, for reasons that remain unclear to us. This PR temporarily uses happyyzy/ggml, branch work/qualcomm-hexagon-optimizations, commit 8121decc678bfb9f02a0f7190bce143bfb1599fa.
The generic pieces are being upstreamed into llama.cpp incrementally. This is a temporary integration vehicle for Local Dream until that work is complete.
End-to-end results
Device: Snapdragon 8 Elite / SM8750 / HTP v79. TE, DiT, and VAE all run on HTP. Prompt is a lovely cat, Euler, CFG 1, seed 42. ``E2Eisgenerate_image completed`, including live TE, all sampling steps, and VAE decode. None of these runs uses tiled VAE.
Model
Size
Steps
Upstream Q4_0 DiT
FP8 DiT
VAE
E2E
Z-Image Turbo
1024x1024
8
91.03 s/it
10.26 s/it
2.47s
100.54s
FLUX.2/Klein 4B
1024x1024
4
79.42 s/it
8.54 s/it
2.14s
49.89s
Z-Image Turbo
1536x1536
8
OOM
32.91 s/it
9.08s
306.03s
FLUX.2/Klein 4B
1536x1536
4
OOM
22.42 s/it
5.44s
111.68s
During the long 1536 runs, Z-Image iterations 5-8 rose to 36.16-38.37 s/it and the final Klein iteration rose to 25.24 s/it. The E2E numbers above include that thermal throttling.
This puts phone-class Snapdragon inference close to mainstream NVIDIA RTX GPU latency for these distilled pipelines.
Compared with upstream Hexagon using standard Q4_0/Q8_0 GGUF weights, FP8 is 8.87x faster for Z-Image and 9.30x faster for FLUX.2/Klein at 1K, while also delivering visibly better image quality.
Clarification: this PR is not intended to be merged into master; its purpose is to establish a temporary Qualcomm optimization branch. I would be happy to maintain this branch if granted write access, or alternatively, @leejet could create the Qualcomm branch from master and retarget #1970 to it.
Yes, getting first-class FP8 support merged into llama.cpp has proven difficult. The standalone ggml repository is not the primary development path; it is periodically synchronized from the copy embedded in llama.cpp. Several FP8 proposals remain open or in draft form:
Our Local Dream users also want to run newer DiT models beyond SDXL on-device.
This is intended to be a Qualcomm-wide optimization branch, covering both the Hexagon NPU and the Adreno OpenCL GPU path. We will also integrate the existing and follow-up Adreno OpenCL work, including #22755, #26085, #26331, and #28446, as those changes land upstream.
For this reason, I believe it would be practical to create a temporary qualcomm branch. I can maintain the branch while the generic components are upstreamed, progressively remove the local implementations as their upstream replacements land, and eventually retire the branch once the work has converged.
Yes, getting first-class FP8 support merged into llama.cpp has proven difficult.
You may wish to reach out to the GenieX team at Qualcomm. An earlier (pre-acquisition) version of what is now GenieX included stable-diffusion.cpp and they have regular meetings with the llama.cpp maintainer responsible for Hexagon.
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- Line 243: Replace the profanity in the Krea 2 Turbo text-editing sentence in
the README with neutral wording that conveys its poor text-editing results in
this comparison.
- Line 314: Update the Adreno build instruction to enable the OpenCL backend as
well as select its optimized kernels. Document both `SD_OPENCL` and
`GGML_OPENCL_USE_ADRENO_KERNELS` as enabled CMake options.
- Line 11: Update the README memory guidance around `--params-backend te=disk`
to state that this setting changes parameter residency only for the text encoder
and does not offload the DiT or VAE; document the appropriate module assignments
for users needing to change residency for those modules.
Review comments at @src/core/ggml_extend.cpp:
- Around line 239-246: Update read_safetensors_file to reject ComfyUI
int8_tensorwise metadata with a clear set_error message and return false, rather
than accepting I8 weights that later reach the GGML_ABORT in
ggml_ext_linear_i8_tensorwise. Leave other quantization formats unchanged.
Review comments at @src/model_io/safetensors_io.cpp:
- Line 92: Restore F8_E5M2 checkpoint loading by mapping the F8_E5M2 dtype to
its supported ggml type instead of GGML_TYPE_COUNT, preserving the existing
is_f8_e5m2 handling. In Linear::forward, include E5M2 weights in the
unsupported-FP8-matmul fallback so they are cast to BF16, alongside E4M3
weights.
Review comments at @src/model/diffusion/qwen_image_2_1.hpp:
- Line 17: In the Qwen Image 2.1 compute path, validate that the sum of
config.axes_dim equals config.head_dim before calling Rope::embed_nd or creating
the RoPE tensor; reject the configuration on mismatch so the embedding data size
matches the tensor size.
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src/model/common/block.hpp
src/model/common/ggml_block.hpp
src/model/common/rope.hpp
src/model/diffusion/flux.hpp
src/model/diffusion/flux3.hpp
src/model/diffusion/hidream_o1.hpp
src/model/diffusion/krea2.hpp
src/model/diffusion/model.hpp
src/model/diffusion/qwen_image_2_1.hpp
src/model/diffusion/z_image.hpp
src/model/te/llm.hpp
src/model/vae/auto_encoder_kl.hpp
src/model/vae/vae.hpp
src/model/vae/wan_vae.hpp
src/model_io/safetensors_io.cpp
src/model_loader.cpp
src/name_conversion.cpp
src/pipeline/diffusion_engine.cpp
src/pipeline/diffusion_engine.h
src/pipeline/image.cpp
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This change adds Qwen Image 2.1 and Flux.3 model support, including conditioning, model execution, and pipeline settings. It also updates shared inference and VAE operations, changes vision positional inputs, and replaces the README with Qualcomm-device documentation.
Changes: Shared inference execution
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Summary
Backend operations and tensor handling src/core/ggml_extend.*, src/model/common/*, src/model_io/safetensors_io.cpp
Backend-aware convolution, normalization, and tensor operations are added or adjusted. Unsupported F8_E5M2 and I8 convrot paths now follow unsupported-operation behavior.
Diffusion attention and residual paths src/model/diffusion/flux.hpp, src/model/diffusion/krea2.hpp, src/model/diffusion/z_image.hpp, src/model/diffusion/model.hpp
Flux, Krea 2, and Z-Image add fused-operation attempts with fallback paths. Diffusion extra parameters add Flux3 and Qwen Image 2.1 alternatives.
VAE execution and resampling src/model/vae/auto_encoder_kl.hpp, src/model/vae/wan_vae.hpp
VAE paths update precision handling, normalization, and resampling. Wan VAE adds backend-supported causal convolution and fused upscale/residual attempts.
Vision and text position inputs src/model/common/rope.hpp, src/model/te/llm.hpp, src/model/diffusion/hidream_o1.hpp
Vision encoders build integer rotary positions from image or video grids. LLM graph construction accepts supplied text position IDs.
Qwen Image 2.1
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Model detection and weight conversion src/model.h, src/model_loader.cpp, src/name_conversion.cpp
Model detection and tensor-name conversion add Qwen Image 2.1 handling.
Image conditioning and token types src/conditioning/conditioner.hpp
The conditioning path encodes reference images and assigns token types to image embedding ranges.
Diffusion model and VAE configuration src/model/diffusion/qwen_image_2_1.hpp, src/model/diffusion/model.hpp, src/model/vae/vae.hpp, src/model/vae/wan_vae.hpp
A Qwen Image 2.1 diffusion runner is added. VAE configuration includes its scale factor, latent dimensions, and statistics.
Pipeline and reference-image handling src/pipeline/diffusion_engine.cpp, src/pipeline/diffusion_engine.h, src/pipeline/image.cpp, src/pipeline/model_builders.cpp, src/pipeline/request.cpp
Pipeline selection, scheduler settings, model dimensions, and reference-image resizing include Qwen Image 2.1.
Flux.3 Image Klein
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Model detection and text conditioning src/model.h, src/model_loader.cpp, src/conditioning/conditioner.hpp, src/pipeline/model_builders.cpp
Version detection and prompt settings select the Flux.3 model path.
Diffusion model and runner src/model/diffusion/flux3.hpp
The new model processes image, optional reference-image, and text streams. Its runner builds rotary positions and supports flow-map timestep inputs.
Sampling and sigma schedule src/pipeline/diffusion_engine.cpp, src/runtime/denoiser.hpp
Flux.3 selects prediction settings, passes target timesteps, and uses a dedicated denoiser schedule.
Qualcomm documentation and repository references
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Qualcomm device documentation README.md
The README documents Hexagon and Adreno support, model examples, performance measurements, build settings, and image comparisons.
Repository guidance and ggml reference .gitmodules, AGENTS.md, ggml
The repository guidance file is removed. The ggml URL and subproject commit reference change.
sequenceDiagram
participant ImageConditioner
participant QwenImage21Runner
participant WanVAE
ImageConditioner->>QwenImage21Runner: text, image slots, and token types
QwenImage21Runner->>QwenImage21Runner: build layout and diffusion graph
QwenImage21Runner->>WanVAE: output latent for decoding
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sequenceDiagram
participant DiffusionPipeline
participant Flux3FlowDenoiser
participant Flux3Runner
DiffusionPipeline->>Flux3FlowDenoiser: scheduler timestep
Flux3FlowDenoiser->>Flux3Runner: sigma and target timestep
Flux3Runner->>Flux3Runner: build rotary positions and run model
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This experimental Qualcomm branch regresses two checkpoint formats: int8_tensorwise models now abort at the first forward pass, and F8_E5M2 safetensors are rejected at load. A Qwen Image 2.1 checkpoint whose head dimension differs from 128 can read out of bounds. The Adreno build instructions also leave out the OpenCL switch. Fix these before merging, or accept them explicitly for a temporary branch that is not meant to land on master.
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- Line 243: Replace the profanity in the Krea 2 Turbo text-editing sentence in
the README with neutral wording that conveys its poor text-editing results in
this comparison.
- Line 314: Update the Adreno build instruction to enable the OpenCL backend as
well as select its optimized kernels. Document both `SD_OPENCL` and
`GGML_OPENCL_USE_ADRENO_KERNELS` as enabled CMake options.
- Line 11: Update the README memory guidance around `--params-backend te=disk`
to state that this setting changes parameter residency only for the text encoder
and does not offload the DiT or VAE; document the appropriate module assignments
for users needing to change residency for those modules.
Review comments at @src/core/ggml_extend.cpp:
- Around line 239-246: Update read_safetensors_file to reject ComfyUI
int8_tensorwise metadata with a clear set_error message and return false, rather
than accepting I8 weights that later reach the GGML_ABORT in
ggml_ext_linear_i8_tensorwise. Leave other quantization formats unchanged.
Review comments at @src/model_io/safetensors_io.cpp:
- Line 92: Restore F8_E5M2 checkpoint loading by mapping the F8_E5M2 dtype to
its supported ggml type instead of GGML_TYPE_COUNT, preserving the existing
is_f8_e5m2 handling. In Linear::forward, include E5M2 weights in the
unsupported-FP8-matmul fallback so they are cast to BF16, alongside E4M3
weights.
Review comments at @src/model/diffusion/qwen_image_2_1.hpp:
- Line 17: In the Qwen Image 2.1 compute path, validate that the sum of
config.axes_dim equals config.head_dim before calling Rope::embed_nd or creating
the RoPE tensor; reject the configuration on mismatch so the embedding data size
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src/model/common/block.hpp
src/model/common/ggml_block.hpp
src/model/common/rope.hpp
src/model/diffusion/flux.hpp
src/model/diffusion/flux3.hpp
src/model/diffusion/hidream_o1.hpp
src/model/diffusion/krea2.hpp
src/model/diffusion/model.hpp
src/model/diffusion/qwen_image_2_1.hpp
src/model/diffusion/z_image.hpp
src/model/te/llm.hpp
src/model/vae/auto_encoder_kl.hpp
src/model/vae/vae.hpp
src/model/vae/wan_vae.hpp
src/model_io/safetensors_io.cpp
src/model_loader.cpp
src/name_conversion.cpp
src/pipeline/diffusion_engine.cpp
src/pipeline/diffusion_engine.h
src/pipeline/image.cpp
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Limit the memory guidance to the text encoder.
te=disk changes parameter residency only for the text encoder. It does not offload the DiT or VAE. Users with memory pressure in another module will still fail. State this scope and document the appropriate module assignment. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the README memory guidance around `--params-backend te=disk` to state
that this setting changes parameter residency only for the text encoder and does
not offload the DiT or VAE; document the appropriate module assignments for
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Use neutral wording in the public README.
The sentence contains profanity and is unsuitable for user-facing project documentation. Replace it with neutral wording, such as Krea 2 Turbo produces poor text-editing results in this comparison. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Replace the profanity in the Krea 2 Turbo text-editing sentence in the README
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Enable OpenCL in the Adreno build instructions.
A clean build leaves SD_OPENCL disabled. GGML_OPENCL_USE_ADRENO_KERNELS=ON only selects optimized kernels; it does not enable the OpenCL backend. Following this instruction alone does not produce an Adreno-capable binary. Document both options:
Proposed correction
- Build with `GGML_OPENCL_USE_ADRENO_KERNELS=ON`.+ Build with `-DSD_OPENCL=ON -DGGML_OPENCL_USE_ADRENO_KERNELS=ON`.
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Build with `GGML_OPENCL_USE_ADRENO_KERNELS=ON`.
Build with `-DSD_OPENCL=ON -DGGML_OPENCL_USE_ADRENO_KERNELS=ON`.
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Update the Adreno build instruction to enable the OpenCL backend as well as
select its optimized kernels. Document both `SD_OPENCL` and
`GGML_OPENCL_USE_ADRENO_KERNELS` as enabled CMake options.
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Fail int8_tensorwise models at load time instead of aborting during graph build.
ggml_ext_linear_i8_tensorwise now calls GGML_ABORT on every call. Two paths reach this abort:
Linear::forward in src/model/common/ggml_block.hpp, Lines 229-256. It calls this helper for every GGML_TYPE_I8 weight.
The convrot branch at ggml_block.hpp Line 244. It aborts before it reaches this helper.
read_safetensors_file still accepts ComfyUI int8_tensorwise checkpoints, at safetensors_io.cpp Lines 322-343. Linear::init_params still builds I8 parameters for them.
The trigger is a ComfyUI int8_tensorwise checkpoint. It loads, and then the process terminates at the first forward pass. Before this change, these checkpoints ran. The user gets no recoverable error, and the weight load is wasted.
Do one of these:
Reject int8_tensorwise metadata in read_safetensors_file and return a clear set_error message. This gives a clean error at load time.
Restore the I8 matmul path when the bundled ggml revision provides it.
Proposed load-time rejection
if (config != comfy_quant_configs.end() && config->second.format == "int8_tensorwise") {
- if (type != GGML_TYPE_I8) {- set_error(error, "ComfyUI int8_tensorwise weight is not I8: '" + name + "'");- return false;- }+ set_error(error, "ComfyUI int8_tensorwise weights are not supported by this ggml revision: '" + name + "'");+ return false;
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Update read_safetensors_file to reject ComfyUI int8_tensorwise metadata with a
clear set_error message and return false, rather than accepting I8 weights that
later reach the GGML_ABORT in ggml_ext_linear_i8_tensorwise. Leave other
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F8_E5M2 now maps to GGML_TYPE_COUNT, so the safetensors loader rejects every tensor with this dtype before the existing is_f8_e5m2 handling. The bundled ggml still defines this type.
The Linear::forward fallback was also narrowed to F8_E4M3. Restore the E5M2 condition so unsupported FP8-matmul backends cast E5M2 weights to BF16.
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ttype = GGML_TYPE_COUNT;
ttype = GGML_TYPE_F8_E5M2;
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Restore F8_E5M2 checkpoint loading by mapping the F8_E5M2 dtype to its supported
ggml type instead of GGML_TYPE_COUNT, preserving the existing is_f8_e5m2
handling. In Linear::forward, include E5M2 weights in the unsupported-FP8-matmul
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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Check that head_dim matches axes_dim before you build the RoPE tensor.
detect_from_weights reads config.head_dim from transformer_blocks.0.attn.norm_q.weight. axes_dim stays hardcoded as {16, 56, 56}, which sums to 128.
Rope::embed_nd(layout.positions, 1, 10000.f, config.axes_dim) sizes pe_data from sum(axes_dim).
ggml_new_tensor_4d(compute_ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, 2, 2, config.head_dim / 2, layout.positions.size()) sizes the pe tensor from head_dim.
set_backend_tensor_data(pe, pe_data.data()) then copies ggml_nbytes(pe) bytes from pe_data.
If a checkpoint has head_dim > 128, the copy reads past the end of pe_data. If head_dim < 128, the RoPE frequencies are wrong. Reject the mismatch in compute, or derive axes_dim from head_dim.
🛡️ Proposed guard
pe_data = Rope::embed_nd(layout.positions, 1, 10000.f, config.axes_dim);
+ int64_t axes_sum = 0;+ for (int a : config.axes_dim) {+ axes_sum += a;+ }+ if (axes_sum != config.head_dim) {+ LOG_ERROR("Qwen Image 2.1: RoPE axes sum %" PRId64 " does not match head_dim %" PRId64, axes_sum, config.head_dim);+ return {};+ }
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Review comment at @src/model/diffusion/qwen_image_2_1.hpp at line 17:
In the Qwen Image 2.1 compute path, validate that the sum of config.axes_dim
equals config.head_dim before calling Rope::embed_nd or creating the RoPE
tensor; reject the configuration on mismatch so the embedding data size matches
the tensor size.
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Motivation
We are building high-performance DiT inference on Qualcomm devices, covering both Adreno GPUs and Hexagon NPUs, for Local Dream.
Our Adreno work is already being contributed to llama.cpp: #22755, #26085, and #26331 are merged; Fused QKNorm-RoPE #28446 is currently open.
This PR provides the integrated Hexagon NPU path for stable-diffusion.cpp.
Implementation
The v79+ path includes standard
F8_E4M3safetensor loading; HMX 32x32set_tensorrepacking; FP8 W8A16 GEMM;fused Q/K RMSNorm-RoPE; segmented-K Kleinlinear2; FP16 VAE activations; Implicit-GEMM convolution; fused GroupNorm-affine-SiLU; and fused upscale-convolution. Qwen3-4B uses the existing generic Hexagon Q4 kernels. This path supports end-to-end image generation at resolutions from 1K up to 2K, amazing for a phone!The FP8 GEMM uses the v79
activation.hf/weight.f8HMX path with FP32 accumulation. HMXcvt.hf = acc(2)applies the architectural 1/256 conversion; the HVX output epilogue compensates by 256 and folds the model's FP32 weight scale and any graph scalar scale into the same store pass.Temporary integration
The FP8 plumbing required for full llama.cpp integration has not yet been accepted into llama.cpp's embedded ggml, for reasons that remain unclear to us. This PR temporarily uses happyyzy/ggml, branch
work/qualcomm-hexagon-optimizations, commit8121decc678bfb9f02a0f7190bce143bfb1599fa.The generic pieces are being upstreamed into llama.cpp incrementally. This is a temporary integration vehicle for Local Dream until that work is complete.
End-to-end results
Device: Snapdragon 8 Elite / SM8750 / HTP v79. TE, DiT, and VAE all run on HTP. Prompt is
a lovely cat, Euler, CFG 1, seed 42. ``E2Eisgenerate_image completed`, including live TE, all sampling steps, and VAE decode. None of these runs uses tiled VAE.During the long 1536 runs, Z-Image iterations 5-8 rose to 36.16-38.37 s/it and the final Klein iteration rose to 25.24 s/it. The E2E numbers above include that thermal throttling.
This puts phone-class Snapdragon inference close to mainstream NVIDIA RTX GPU latency for these distilled pipelines.
Commands
Images
Z-Image 1024, 8 steps
Klein 1024, 4 steps
Z-Image 1536, 8 steps
Klein 1536, 4 steps
FP8 vs Upstream Q4_0/Q8_0
Compared with upstream Hexagon using standard Q4_0/Q8_0 GGUF weights, FP8 is 8.87x faster for Z-Image and 9.30x faster for FLUX.2/Klein at 1K, while also delivering visibly better image quality.
Q4_0 + Q8_0
F8_E4M3
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