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LLaMA-7B C++/CUDA Inference Engine

A high-performance, production-ready inference engine for LLaMA-7B models implemented in C++/CUDA with Python bindings. Optimized for H100 GPUs with support for efficient autoregressive text generation, KV caching, and multiple sampling strategies.

Table of Contents

Overview

This inference engine provides a complete implementation of LLaMA-7B inference from scratch, including:

  • GGUF model file parsing
  • GPU memory management and optimization
  • Custom CUDA kernels for core operations
  • Efficient KV caching for autoregressive generation
  • Multiple sampling strategies
  • Python bindings for easy integration
  • Flask web application integration

The engine is designed to be production-ready, with proper error handling, memory management, and performance optimizations for H100 GPUs (compute capability 9.0).

Features

Model Support

  • GGUF Format: Primary format support with full tensor parsing
  • PyTorch .pth: Support via conversion to GGUF (recommended)
  • Quantization: Framework supports quantized formats (Q4/Q8) - implementation pending
  • Model Size: Optimized for LLaMA-7B (7 billion parameters)

Core Components

  • Token Embeddings: Efficient GPU-based embedding lookup
  • RMSNorm: Fused CUDA kernel for layer normalization
  • RoPE (Rotary Positional Embeddings): Precomputed cos/sin tables with efficient application
  • Multi-Head Attention: Scaled dot-product attention with causal masking
  • SwiGLU MLP: Gated linear unit activation with efficient GEMM operations
  • KV Cache: Per-layer key-value cache for efficient autoregressive generation

Sampling Strategies

  • Greedy: Deterministic argmax sampling
  • Top-k: Sample from k highest probability tokens
  • Top-p (Nucleus): Sample from smallest set with cumulative probability >= p
  • Temperature: Temperature scaling for controlled randomness

Performance Optimizations

  • FP16 precision for weights and activations
  • cuBLAS/cuBLASLt for optimized GEMM operations
  • Memory-mapped file I/O for efficient model loading
  • Reusable activation buffers to minimize allocations
  • Optimized CUDA kernels with shared memory usage

Architecture

Component Overview

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                   Python Interface                      │
│              (llama_client.py, Flask app)                │
└────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────┘
                     │
┌────────────────────▼────────────────────────────────────┐
│              Python Bindings (pybind11)                 │
│              (python_bindings.cpp)                       │
└────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────┘
                     │
┌────────────────────▼────────────────────────────────────┐
│              Inference Engine (C++)                      │
│              (inference.cpp)                             │
│  - Forward pass                                         │
│  - KV cache management                                  │
│  - Sampling                                             │
└──────┬───────────────────────────────┬──────────────────┘
       │                               │
┌──────▼──────────┐         ┌─────────▼──────────────┐
│  Model Loader   │         │   CUDA Kernels          │
│ (model_loader)  │         │   (kernels.cu)          │
│  - GGUF parser  │         │   - RMSNorm             │
│  - Tensor index │         │   - RoPE                │
└──────┬──────────┘         │   - Attention           │
       │                    │   - SwiGLU              │
┌──────▼────────────────────▼──────────────────────────┐
│              Model Graph (llama_model)                │
│  - Weight storage (GPU)                              │
│  - KV cache allocation                                │
│  - RoPE table precomputation                          │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Memory Layout

Weights (FP16):

  • Token embeddings: [vocab_size, d_model] = [32000, 4096] ≈ 256 MB
  • Layer weights (32 layers): ~13 GB total
  • Output projection: [vocab_size, d_model] ≈ 256 MB
  • Total weights: ~14 GB

KV Cache (FP16):

  • Per layer: [n_heads, max_seq_len, head_dim] = [32, 2048, 128]
  • K cache: 32 layers × 2 bytes × 32 × 2048 × 128 = 512 MB
  • V cache: 32 layers × 2 bytes × 32 × 2048 × 128 = 512 MB
  • Total KV cache: ~1 GB

Activations:

  • Activation buffer: [d_model] = 8 KB (reused)
  • Temporary buffers: ~100 MB
  • Total activations: ~100 MB

Total GPU Memory: ~15-16 GB (well within H100 80GB capacity)

Data Flow

  1. Model Loading:

    • Parse GGUF file header and metadata
    • Build tensor index mapping
    • Allocate GPU memory for weights
    • Upload weights from memory-mapped file
    • Precompute RoPE tables

  2. Inference:

    • Tokenize input text
    • Embed tokens to vectors
    • Forward through 32 transformer layers:
      • RMSNorm → Attention (with RoPE) → Residual
      • RMSNorm → MLP (SwiGLU) → Residual
    • Final RMSNorm and logits projection
    • Sample next token
    • Append to KV cache
    • Repeat for autoregressive generation

Requirements

Hardware

  • GPU: NVIDIA H100 (compute capability 9.0) or compatible
  • VRAM: Minimum 20 GB (recommended 40+ GB for larger models)
  • CPU: x86_64 architecture
  • RAM: 16+ GB system memory

Software

  • CUDA: 12.x (tested with 12.0+)
  • cuBLAS: Included with CUDA
  • CMake: 3.20 or higher
  • Python: 3.8 or higher
  • C++ Compiler: GCC 9+ or Clang 12+ with C++17 support
  • NVCC: CUDA compiler (included with CUDA)

Python Dependencies

  • pybind11 >= 2.10.0
  • numpy (for Python bindings)
  • Flask (for web integration)
  • cmake >= 3.20

Installation

Step 1: Install CUDA

Ensure CUDA 12.x is installed and accessible:

nvcc --version
# Should show CUDA 12.x

echo $CUDA_HOME
# Should point to CUDA installation directory

If CUDA_HOME is not set:

export CUDA_HOME=/usr/local/cuda
export PATH=$CUDA_HOME/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$CUDA_HOME/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Step 2: Install Python Dependencies

cd /home/azureuser/divakar_projects/dl_ai
source venv/bin/activate
pip install pybind11 cmake numpy

Step 3: Build the Inference Engine

Option A: Using Build Script (Recommended)

cd llama_inference
./build.sh

Option B: Manual CMake Build

cd llama_inference
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make -j$(nproc)

Option C: Using setup.py

cd llama_inference
python setup.py build_ext --inplace

Step 4: Install Python Module

After building, the Python module will be in build/llama_inference*.so. Install it:

# Option 1: Copy to Python path
cp build/llama_inference*.so $(python -c "import site; print(site.getsitepackages()[0])")

# Option 2: Add to PYTHONPATH
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$(pwd)/build

# Option 3: Install in development mode
pip install -e .

Step 5: Verify Installation

python -c "import llama_inference; print('LLaMA inference module loaded successfully')"

Usage

Python API

Basic Usage

import llama_inference

# Create inference engine
engine = llama_inference.LlamaInference()

# Load model and tokenizer
engine.load(
    model_path="path/to/llama-7b.gguf",
    tokenizer_path="path/to/tokenizer.model",
    max_seq_len=2048
)

# Configure sampling
params = llama_inference.SamplingParams()
params.temperature = 0.7
params.top_k = 50
params.top_p = 0.9
params.greedy = False

# Generate text
response = engine.generate(
    prompt="Hello, how are you?",
    params=params,
    max_tokens=512
)

print(response)

Single Token Inference

# Get logits for a specific token at position
logits = engine.get_logits(token_id=1234, position=0)

# Reset KV cache for new sequence
engine.reset_kv_cache()

Flask Integration

The inference engine is automatically integrated into the Flask application. Set environment variables:

export LLAMA_MODEL_PATH=/path/to/llama-7b.gguf
export LLAMA_TOKENIZER_PATH=/path/to/tokenizer.model

Or place model files in common locations:

  • /models/llama-7b/llama-7b.gguf
  • ./models/llama-7b.gguf
  • ~/models/llama-7b.gguf

Start the Flask app:

python app.py

The app will automatically try to use LLaMA inference engine with the following priority:

  1. LangChain Mistral API (if available)
  2. LLaMA C++/CUDA engine (if model files found)
  3. vLLM (fallback)

Command Line Testing

# Test health endpoint
curl http://localhost:5000/health

# Test chat endpoint
curl -X POST http://localhost:5000/chat \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"message": "What is machine learning?"}'

API Documentation

LlamaInference Class

Methods

load(model_path, tokenizer_path, max_seq_len=2048)

Load model and tokenizer from files.

  • model_path (str): Path to GGUF model file
  • tokenizer_path (str): Path to tokenizer file (SentencePiece model)
  • max_seq_len (int): Maximum sequence length (default: 2048)

Returns: bool (True if successful)

generate(prompt, params, max_tokens=512)

Generate text from a prompt.

  • prompt (str): Input text prompt
  • params (SamplingParams): Sampling parameters
  • max_tokens (int): Maximum tokens to generate

Returns: str (generated text)

get_logits(token_id, position)

Get logits for a token at a specific position.

  • token_id (int): Token ID
  • position (int): Position in sequence

Returns: list[float] (logits vector)

reset_kv_cache()

Reset the KV cache for a new sequence.

SamplingParams Class

Configuration for text generation sampling.

Attributes:

  • temperature (float): Sampling temperature (0.0 = greedy, >0.0 = random)
  • top_k (int): Top-k sampling (0 = disabled)
  • top_p (float): Top-p (nucleus) sampling (0.0-1.0)
  • greedy (bool): Use greedy sampling (overrides other settings)

Configuration

Environment Variables

  • LLAMA_MODEL_PATH: Path to GGUF model file
  • LLAMA_TOKENIZER_PATH: Path to tokenizer file
  • CUDA_HOME: CUDA installation directory (if not in PATH)
  • CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES: GPU device selection (e.g., "0" for first GPU)

Model File Requirements

GGUF Model File:

  • Format: GGUF v3
  • Precision: FP16 recommended (FP32 supported)
  • Required tensors:
    • tok_embeddings.weight
    • layers.{i}.attention.wqkv.weight (or separate wq/wk/wv)
    • layers.{i}.attention.wo.weight
    • layers.{i}.feed_forward.w1.weight
    • layers.{i}.feed_forward.w2.weight
    • layers.{i}.feed_forward.w3.weight
    • layers.{i}.attention_norm.weight
    • layers.{i}.ffn_norm.weight
    • norm.weight
    • output.weight or lm_head.weight

Tokenizer File:

  • Format: SentencePiece model (.model extension)
  • Alternative: BPE tokenizer (vocab.json + merges.txt) - implementation pending

Converting Models

To convert PyTorch models to GGUF:

# Using llama.cpp conversion tools
git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp
cd llama.cpp
python convert-pth-to-gguf.py \
    /path/to/llama-7b.pth \
    --outfile llama-7b.gguf \
    --outtype f16

Performance

Expected Performance (H100 GPU)

Memory Usage:

  • Model weights (FP16): ~14 GB
  • KV cache (max_seq_len=2048): ~1 GB
  • Activations and workspace: ~1-2 GB
  • Total: ~16-17 GB

Speed:

  • First token latency: <100ms
  • Generation speed: >50 tokens/second
  • Prefill (full prompt): ~20-30 tokens/second

Optimization Opportunities:

  • Flash Attention integration (2-3x speedup)
  • Quantization (Q4/Q8) for 2-4x memory reduction
  • Batch processing for higher throughput
  • Fused kernels for residual connections

Benchmarking

To benchmark performance:

import time
import llama_inference

engine = llama_inference.LlamaInference()
engine.load("model.gguf", "tokenizer.model")

# Warmup
engine.generate("test", params, max_tokens=10)

# Benchmark
start = time.time()
response = engine.generate("Hello, how are you?", params, max_tokens=100)
end = time.time()

tokens = len(response.split())
tokens_per_sec = tokens / (end - start)
print(f"Speed: {tokens_per_sec:.2f} tokens/second")

Troubleshooting

Build Issues

Error: "CUDA not found"

export CUDA_HOME=/usr/local/cuda
export PATH=$CUDA_HOME/bin:$PATH

Error: "CMake version too old"

# Install CMake 3.20+
wget https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v3.27.0/cmake-3.27.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
tar -xzf cmake-3.27.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
export PATH=$(pwd)/cmake-3.27.0-linux-x86_64/bin:$PATH

Error: "pybind11 not found"

pip install pybind11

Runtime Issues

Error: "Model file not found"

  • Verify model path is correct
  • Check file permissions
  • Ensure GGUF format (not PyTorch .pth)

Error: "Out of memory"

  • Reduce max_seq_len (e.g., 1024 instead of 2048)
  • Use quantized model (Q4/Q8) when available
  • Close other GPU processes

Error: "Tokenizer not found"

  • Verify tokenizer path
  • Ensure SentencePiece model format
  • Check file permissions

Error: "CUDA kernel launch failed"

  • Check GPU compute capability (should be 9.0 for H100)
  • Verify CUDA driver version
  • Check GPU memory availability

Debugging

Enable verbose logging:

import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

Check GPU status:

nvidia-smi

Verify model file:

# Check GGUF file
file llama-7b.gguf
# Should show: GGUF model file

Development

Project Structure

llama_inference/
├── include/                 # Header files
│   ├── model_loader.h      # GGUF parser interface
│   ├── llama_model.h       # Model graph interface
│   ├── kernels.h           # CUDA kernel interface
│   ├── inference.h         # Inference engine interface
│   └── tokenizer.h         # Tokenizer interface
├── src/                    # Implementation files
│   ├── model_loader.cpp    # GGUF parser implementation
│   ├── llama_model.cpp     # Model graph implementation
│   ├── kernels.cu          # CUDA kernels
│   ├── inference.cpp       # Inference engine
│   ├── tokenizer.cpp       # Tokenizer implementation
│   └── python_bindings.cpp # Python bindings
├── CMakeLists.txt          # CMake build configuration
├── setup.py                # Python build script
├── build.sh                # Automated build script
├── README.md               # This file
└── IMPLEMENTATION_STATUS.md # Implementation details

Adding New Features

Adding a New Kernel:

  1. Add kernel declaration to include/kernels.h
  2. Implement kernel in src/kernels.cu
  3. Add wrapper function with error checking
  4. Update CMakeLists.txt if needed

Adding a New Sampling Strategy:

  1. Add method to LlamaInference class in include/inference.h
  2. Implement in src/inference.cpp
  3. Add to sample_token() method
  4. Expose via Python bindings if needed

Code Style

  • C++: C++17 standard, Google style guide
  • CUDA: Follow NVIDIA CUDA best practices
  • Python: PEP 8 style guide
  • Naming: snake_case for functions, PascalCase for classes

Testing

Unit tests (to be implemented):

# Run kernel tests
./test_kernels

# Run model loader tests
./test_model_loader

# Run integration tests
./test_inference

File Structure

Core Files

model_loader.cpp/h

  • GGUF file format parser
  • Tensor index mapping
  • Hyperparameter extraction
  • Memory-mapped file I/O

llama_model.cpp/h

  • GPU memory allocation
  • Weight upload and management
  • KV cache allocation
  • RoPE table precomputation
  • Model graph construction

kernels.cu/h

  • RMSNorm CUDA kernel
  • RoPE application kernel
  • Causal masking kernel
  • Stable softmax kernel
  • SwiGLU activation kernel
  • cuBLAS wrapper functions

inference.cpp/h

  • Single-token forward pass
  • Multi-layer processing
  • KV cache management
  • Sampling strategies
  • Text generation loop

tokenizer.cpp/h

  • SentencePiece integration (stub)
  • BPE tokenizer (stub)
  • Token encoding/decoding

python_bindings.cpp

  • pybind11 interface
  • Python class bindings
  • Type conversions

Integration Files

llama_client.py

  • Python wrapper class
  • Automatic model detection
  • Error handling
  • Flask integration support

app.py (modified)

  • LLaMA client integration
  • Fallback chain implementation
  • Health endpoint updates

References

LLaMA Architecture

GGUF Format

CUDA Optimization

Related Projects

  • llama.cpp: C++ inference engine (reference implementation)
  • vLLM: High-throughput LLM serving
  • transformers: Hugging Face transformers library

License

[Specify your license here]

Contributing

[Contributing guidelines if applicable]

Support

For issues and questions:

  • Check IMPLEMENTATION_STATUS.md for known issues
  • Review troubleshooting section
  • Check CUDA and model file compatibility

Changelog

Version 0.1.0 (Current)

  • Initial implementation
  • GGUF model support
  • CUDA kernels for core operations
  • Python bindings
  • Flask integration
  • Basic sampling strategies

Planned Features

  • Full tokenizer implementation (SentencePiece/BPE)
  • Quantization support (Q4/Q8)
  • Flash Attention integration
  • Batch processing
  • Performance profiling tools
  • Comprehensive test suite

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