Repository: ggml-org/llama.cpp
Pull request: llama : rotate activations for better quantization

## Overview

In anticipation of the incoming flood of vibe generated PRs implementing [TurboQuant](https://research.google/blog/turboquant-redefining-ai-efficiency-with-extreme-compression/), I'm raising the baseline a bit using a very simple interpretation of the idea of using Hadamard transform to reduce outliers in the attention and improve the quantization quality:

- Rotate input Q, K, V and store in cache
- Perform attention with the rotated Q, K, V
- Rotate back the output vector of the attention

This works because:
  - Rotation does not affect the dot product of 2 vectors
  - The output vector is a linear combination of rotated vectors

The implementation is very simple and backend agnostic - use Hadamard matrix of size `n x n`, normalized by `1/sqrt(n)` so that it is orthonormal and can be used both for the forward and backward rotation. Technically any rotation matrix (and it's inverse) should work - I just think this is what is commonly used due to it's simplicity. The implementation does not introduce new types and is compatible with all existing quantizations. It adds 4 matrix multiplication operators in the attention, though I think some of them can be fused in the attention weights (similar to [QuaRot](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00456)).

I don't know what is the impact of the remaining techniques explained in TurboQuant (PolarQuant, QJL, etc.). They could be important and can potentially improve further on top of this. In any case, having a better baseline at almost 0 cost won't hurt. Only based on the PPL data below, I think this should never be worse that before, though it needs a bit more evaluation.

Note: MLA is not supported

## Additional information

Here are some PPL results before and after using base models. Ideally, there should be KLD data too, but leaving it for people to play with it and see if it looks good.

```bash
./bin/llama-perplexity -m model.gguf -f wiki.test.raw --chunks 128 -ctk f16 -ctv f16
```

### Model: Qwen3 0.6B BF16
https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-Base

Baseline F16 cache: PPL = 13.6711 +/- 0.21422

| type | master   | PR      |
| ---  | ---      | ---     |
| q8_0 | 13.9115  | 13.6713 |
| q5_1 | 61.6992  | 14.1452 |
| q5_0 | 17.2805  | 14.2171 |
| q4_1 | 212.479  | 22.2816 |
| q4_0 | 62.0161  | 46.2503 |


### Model: Qwen3 8B BF16
https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-8B-Base

Baseline F16 cache: PPL = 7.3203 +/- 0.09901

| type | master  | PR     |
| ---  | ---     | ---    |
| q8_0 | 7.3172  | 7.3195 |
| q5_0 | 7.3793  | 7.3323 |
| q4_0 | 7.6451  | 7.5012 |


### Model: Gemma3 4B Q8_0
https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-3-4b-pt

Baseline F16 cache: PPL = 7.6905 +/- 0.10483

| type | master  | PR     |
| ---  | ---     | ---    |
| q8_0 | 7.6928  | 7.6914 |
| q5_1 | 7.7133  | 7.7052 |
| q5_0 | 7.7544  | 7.7182 |
| q4_1 | 7.8095  | 7.7531 |
| q4_0 | 7.8535  | 7.7928 |


### Model: Qwen3.5 4B F16
https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B-Base

Baseline F16 cache: PPL = 8.3266 +/- 0.11623

| type | master   | PR     |
| ---  | ---      | ---    |
| q8_0 | 8.3272   | 8.3261 |
| q5_0 | 8.3359   | 8.3339 |
| q4_0 | 8.3475   | 8.3448 |


### TODOs

- [x] Cache shift support https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/commit/ff76c6731d9a72b7ea1dbc034020c70330a37ff8
- [x] Disable rotations with env variable (`LLAMA_ATTN_ROT_DISABLE`)

### Next PRs

- Add randomized Hadamard matrices (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/commit/f0fea264b0118fe0c84d92cbfff4508ca2792c26)

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Changed files:
filename: src/llama-graph.cpp
patch: @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 // dedup helpers
 
-static ggml_tensor * build_kq_mask(
+static ggml_tensor * build_attn_inp_kq_mask(
         ggml_context * ctx,
         const llama_kv_cache_context * mctx,
         const llama_ubatch & ubatch,
@@ -28,7 +28,11 @@ static ggml_tensor * build_kq_mask(
     const auto n_tokens = ubatch.n_tokens;
     const auto n_stream = cparams.kv_unified ? 1 : ubatch.n_seqs_unq;
 
-    return ggml_new_tensor_4d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, n_kv, n_tokens/n_stream, 1, n_stream);
+    ggml_tensor * res = ggml_new_tensor_4d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, n_kv, n_tokens/n_stream, 1, n_stream);
+    ggml_set_input(res);
+    ggml_set_name(res, "attn_inp_kq_mask");
+
+    return res;
 }
 
 static bool can_reuse_kq_mask(
@@ -52,6 +56,21 @@ static bool can_reuse_kq_mask(
 
 // impl
 
+static ggml_tensor * ggml_mul_mat_aux(
+        ggml_context * ctx,
+        ggml_tensor * cur,
+        ggml_tensor * rot) {
+    const auto n = rot->ne[0];
+
+    ggml_tensor * res;
+
+    res = ggml_reshape_2d(ctx, cur, n, ggml_nelements(cur)/n);
+    res = ggml_mul_mat   (ctx, rot, res);
+    res = ggml_reshape_4d(ctx, res, cur->ne[0], cur->ne[1], cur->ne[2], cur->ne[3]);
+
+    return res;
+}
+
 void llm_graph_input_embd::set_input(const llama_ubatch * ubatch) {
     if (ubatch->token) {
         const int64_t n_tokens = ubatch->n_tokens;
@@ -429,6 +448,14 @@ void llm_graph_input_attn_kv::set_input(const llama_ubatch * ubatch) {
     mctx->set_input_v_idxs(self_v_idxs, ubatch);
 
     mctx->set_input_kq_mask(self_kq_mask, ubatch, cparams.causal_attn);
+
+    if (self_k_rot) {
+        mctx->set_input_k_rot(self_k_rot);
+    }
+
+    if (self_v_rot) {
+        mctx->set_input_v_rot(self_v_rot);
+    }
 }
 
 bool llm_graph_input_attn_kv::can_reuse(const llm_graph_params & params) {
@@ -476,6 +503,14 @@ void llm_graph_input_attn_kv_iswa::set_input(const llama_ubatch * ubatch) {
     mctx->get_swa()->set_input_v_idxs(self_v_idxs_swa, ubatch);
 
     mctx->get_swa()->set_input_kq_mask(self_kq_mask_swa, ubatch, cparams.causal_attn);
+
+    if (self_k_rot) {
+        mctx->get_base()->set_input_k_rot(self_k_rot);
+    }
+
+    if (self_v_rot) {
+        mctx->get_base()->set_input_v_rot(self_v_rot);
+    }
 }
 
 bool llm_graph_input_attn_kv_iswa::can_reuse(const llm_graph_params & params) {
@@ -532,6 +567,14 @@ void llm_graph_input_mem_hybrid::set_input(const llama_ubatch * ubatch) {
 
     mctx->get_attn()->set_input_kq_mask(inp_attn->self_kq_mask, ubatch, cparams.causal_attn);
 
+    if (inp_attn->self_k_rot) {
+        mctx->get_attn()->set_input_k_rot(inp_attn->self_k_rot);
+    }
+
+    if (inp_attn->self_v_rot) {
+        mctx->get_attn()->set_input_v_rot(inp_attn->self_v_rot);
+    }
+
     const int64_t n_rs = mctx->get_recr()->get_n_rs();
 
     if (inp_rs->s_copy) {
@@ -630,6 +673,14 @@ void llm_graph_input_mem_hybrid_iswa::set_input(const llama_ubatch * ubatch) {
         attn_ctx->get_swa()->set_input_kq_mask(inp_attn->self_kq_mask_swa, ubatch, cparams.causal_attn);
     }
 
+    if (inp_attn->self_k_rot) {
+        attn_ctx->get_base()->set_input_k_rot(inp_attn->self_k_rot);
+    }
+
+    if (inp_attn->self_v_rot) {
+        attn_ctx->get_base()->set_input_v_rot(inp_attn->self_v_rot);
+    }
+
     const int64_t n_rs = mctx->get_recr()->get_n_rs();
 
     if (inp_rs->s_copy) {
@@ -2002,13 +2053,13 @@ static std::unique_ptr<llm_graph_input_attn_kv> build_attn_inp_kv_impl(
         inp->self_k_idxs = mctx_cur->build_input_k_idxs(ctx0, ubatch);
         inp->self_v_idxs = mctx_cur->build_input_v_idxs(ctx0, ubatch);
 
-        inp->self_kq_mask = build_kq_mask(ctx0, mctx_cur, ubatch, cparams);
-
-        ggml_set_input(inp->self_kq_mask);
-
+        inp->self_kq_mask = build_attn_inp_kq_mask(ctx0, mctx_cur, ubatch, cparams);
         inp->self_kq_mask_cnv = cparams.flash_attn ? ggml_cast(ctx0, inp->self_kq_mask, GGML_TYPE_F16) : inp->self_kq_mask;
     }
 
+    inp->self_k_rot = mctx_cur->build_input_k_rot(ctx0);
+    inp->self_v_rot = mctx_cur->build_input_v_rot(ctx0);
+
     return inp;
 }
 
@@ -2034,6 +2085,15 @@ ggml_tensor * llm_graph_context::build_attn(
             int       il) const {
     GGML_ASSERT(v_mla == nullptr);
 
+    if (inp->self_k_rot) {
+        q_cur = ggml_mul_mat_aux(ctx0, q_cur, inp->self_k_rot);
+        k_cur = ggml_mul_mat_aux(ctx0, k_cur, inp->self_k_rot);
+    }
+
+    if (inp->self_v_rot) {
+        v_cur = ggml_mul_mat_aux(ctx0, v_cur, inp->self_v_rot);
+    }
+
     // these nodes are added to the graph together so that they are not reordered
     // by doing so, the number of splits in the graph is reduced
     // expand k later to enable rope fusion which directly writes into k-v cache
@@ -2061,6 +2121,10 @@ ggml_tensor * llm_graph_context::build_attn(
     ggml_tensor * cur = build_attn_mha(q, k, v, kq_b, kq_mask, sinks, v_mla, kq_scale, il);
     cb(cur, "kqv_out", il);
 
+    if (inp->self_v_rot) {
+        cur = ggml_mul_mat_aux(ctx0, cur, inp->self_v_rot);
+    }
+
     if (wo) {
         cur = build_lora_mm(wo, cur);
         if (arch == LLM_ARCH_GLM4 || arch == LLM_ARCH_GLM4_MOE || arch == LLM_ARCH_JAIS2) {
@@ -2090,9 +2154,7 @@ static std::unique_ptr<llm_graph_input_attn_k> build_attn_inp_k_impl(
 
         inp->self_k_idxs = mctx_cur->build_input_k_idxs(ctx0, ubatch);
 
-        inp->self_kq_mask = build_kq_mask(ctx0, mctx_cur, ubatch, cparams);
-        ggml_set_input(inp->self_kq_mask);
-
+        inp->self_kq_mask = build_attn_inp_kq_mask(ctx0, mctx_cur, ubatch, cparams);
         inp->self_kq_mask_cnv = cparams.flash_attn ? ggml_cast(ctx0, inp->self_kq_mask, GGML_TYPE_F16) : inp->self_kq_mask;
     }
 
@@ -2171,6 +2233,18 @@ ggml_tensor * llm_graph_context::build_attn(
         ggml_tensor * v_mla,
             float     kq_scale,
             int       il) const {
+    if (inp->self_k_rot) {
+        q_cur = ggml_mul_mat_aux(ctx0, q_cur, inp->self_k_rot);
+        if (k_cur) {
+            k_cur = ggml_mul_mat_aux(ctx0, k_cur, inp->self_k_rot);
+        }
+    }
+    if (inp->self_v_rot) {
+        if (v_cur) {
+            v_cur = ggml_mul_mat_aux(ctx0, v_cur, inp->self_v_rot);
+        }
+    }
+
     // these nodes are added to the graph together so that they are not reordered
     // by doing so, the number of splits in the graph is reduced
     ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, q_cur);
@@ -2211,6 +2285,10 @@ ggml_tensor * llm_graph_context::build_attn(
     ggml_tensor * cur = build_attn_mha(q, k, v, kq_b, kq_mask, sinks, v_mla, kq_scale, il);
     cb(cur, "kqv_out", il);
 
+    if (inp->self_v_rot) {
+        cur = ggml_mul_mat_aux(ctx0, cur, inp->self_v_rot);
+    }
+
     if (wo) {
         cur = build_lora_mm(wo, cur);
     }
@@ -2293,12 +2371,8 @@ llm_graph_input_attn_kv_iswa * llm_graph_context::build_attn_inp_kv_iswa() const
         inp->self_k_idxs = mctx_cur->get_base()->build_input_k_idxs(ctx0, ubatch);
         inp->self_v_idxs = mctx_cur->get_base()->build_input_v_idxs(ctx0, ubatch);
 
-        inp->self_kq_mask = build_kq_mask(ctx0, mctx_cur->get_base(), ubatch, cparams);
-        ggml_set_input(inp->self_kq_mask);
-        ggml_set_name(inp->self_kq_mask, "self_kq_mask");
-
+        inp->self_kq_mask = build_attn_inp_kq_mask(ctx0, mctx_cur->get_base(), ubatch, cparams);
         inp->self_kq_mask_cnv = cparams.flash_attn ? ggml_cast(ctx0, inp->self_kq_mask, GGML_TYPE_F16) : inp->self_kq_mask;
-        ggml_set_name(inp->self_kq_mask_cnv, "self_kq_mask_cnv");
     }
 
     {
@@ -2307,14 +2381,13 @@ llm_graph_input_attn_kv_iswa * llm_graph_context::build_attn_inp_kv_iswa() const
         inp->self_k_idxs_swa = mctx_cur->get_swa()->build_input_k_idxs(ctx0, ubatch);
         inp->self_v_idxs_swa = mctx_cur->get_swa()->build_input_v_idxs(ctx0, ubatch);
 
-        inp->self_kq_mask_swa = build_kq_mask(ctx0, mctx_cur->get_swa(), ubatch, cparams);
-        ggml_set_input(inp->self_kq_mask_swa);
-        ggml_set_name(inp->self_kq_mask_swa, "self_kq_mask_swa");
-
+        inp->self_kq_mask_swa = build_attn_inp_kq_mask(ctx0, mctx_cur->get_swa(), ubatch, cparams);
         inp->self_kq_mask_swa_cnv = cparams.flash_attn ? ggml_cast(ctx0, inp->self_kq_mask_swa, GGML_TYPE_F16) : inp->self_kq_mask_swa;
-        ggml_set_name(inp->self_kq_mask_swa_cnv, "self_kq_mask_swa_cnv");
     }
 
+    inp->self_k_rot = mctx_cur->get_base()->build_input_k_rot(ctx0);
+    inp->self_v_rot = mctx_cur->get_base()->build_input_v_rot(ctx0);
+
     return (llm_graph_input_attn_kv_iswa *) res->add_input(std::move(inp));
 }
 
@@ -2473,19 +2546,15 @@ llm_graph_input_mem_hybrid_iswa * llm_graph_context::build_inp_mem_hybrid_iswa()
         inp_attn->self_k_idxs = attn_ctx->get_base()->build_input_k_idxs(ctx0, ubatch);
         inp_attn->self_v_idxs = attn_ctx->get_base()->build_input_v_idxs(ctx0, ubatch);
 
-        inp_attn->self_kq_mask = build_kq_mask(ctx0, attn_ctx->get_base(), ubatch, cparams);
-        ggml_set_input(inp_attn->self_kq_mask);
-
+        inp_attn->self_kq_mask = build_attn_inp_kq_mask(ctx0, attn_ctx->get_base(), ubatch, cparams);
         inp_attn->self_kq_mask_cnv = cparams.flash_attn ? ggml_cast(ctx0, inp_attn->self_kq_mask, GGML_TYPE_F16) : inp_attn->self_kq_mask;
     }
 
     {
         inp_attn->self_k_idxs_swa = attn_ctx->get_swa()->build_input_k_idxs(ctx0, ubatch);
         inp_attn->self_v_idxs_swa = attn_ctx->get_swa()->build_input_v_idxs(ctx0, ubatch);
 
-        inp_attn->self_kq_mask_swa = build_kq_mask(ctx0, attn_ctx->get_swa(), ubatch, cparams);
-        ggml_set_input(inp_attn->self_kq_mask_swa);
-
+        inp_attn->self_kq_mask_swa = build_attn_inp_kq_mask(ctx0, attn_ctx->get_swa(), ubatch, cparams);
         inp_attn->self_kq_mask_swa_cnv = cparams.flash_attn ? ggml_cast(ctx0, inp_attn->self_kq_mask_swa, GGML_TYPE_F16) : inp_attn->self_kq_mask_swa;
     }
 

filename: src/llama-graph.h
patch: @@ -308,6 +308,10 @@ class llm_graph_input_attn_kv : public llm_graph_input_i {
     ggml_tensor * self_kq_mask     = nullptr; // F32 [n_kv, n_batch/n_stream, 1, n_stream]
     ggml_tensor * self_kq_mask_cnv = nullptr; //     [n_kv, n_batch/n_stream, 1, n_stream]
 
+    // note: assumes v_rot^ == I
+    ggml_tensor * self_k_rot = nullptr;
+    ggml_tensor * self_v_rot = nullptr;
+
     // note: these have to be copies because in order to be able to reuse a graph, its inputs
     //       need to carry these parameters with them. otherwise, they can point to freed
     //       llm_graph_params from a previous batch, causing stack-use-after-return
@@ -384,6 +388,10 @@ class llm_graph_input_attn_kv_iswa : public llm_graph_input_i {
     ggml_tensor * self_kq_mask_swa     = nullptr; // F32 [n_kv, n_batch/n_stream, 1, n_stream]
     ggml_tensor * self_kq_mask_swa_cnv = nullptr; //     [n_kv, n_batch/n_stream, 1, n_stream]
 
+    // note: using same rotation matrices for both base and swa cache
+    ggml_tensor * self_k_rot = nullptr;
+    ggml_tensor * self_v_rot = nullptr;
+
     const llama_hparams hparams;
     const llama_cparams cparams;
 

filename: src/llama-kv-cache.cpp
patch: @@ -13,6 +13,65 @@
 #include <map>
 #include <stdexcept>
 
+static bool ggml_is_power_of_2(int n) {
+    return (n & (n - 1)) == 0;
+}
+
+// orthonormal Walsh-Hadamard rotation matrix
+// note: res^2 == I
+static void ggml_gen_hadamard(ggml_tensor * tensor) {
+    assert(tensor->type == GGML_TYPE_F32);
+
+    const int n = tensor->ne[0];
+
+    assert(ggml_is_power_of_2(n));
+    assert(tensor->ne[1] == n);
+    assert(tensor->ne[2] == 1);
+    assert(tensor->ne[3] == 1);
+
+    std::vector<float> data_f32;
+
+    float * data = (float *) tensor->data;
+
+    if (tensor->type != GGML_TYPE_F32) {
+        data_f32.resize(n*n);
+        data = data_f32.data();
+    }
+
+    data[0*n + 0] = 1.0 / sqrtf(n);
+
+    for (int s = 1; s < n; s *= 2) {
+        for (int i = 0; i < s; i++) {
+            for (int j = 0; j < s; j++) {
+                const float val = data[i*n + j];
+
+                data[(i + s)*n + (j    )] =  val;
+                data[(i    )*n + (j + s)] =  val;
+                data[(i + s)*n + (j + s)] = -val;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    if (tensor->type != GGML_TYPE_F32) {
+        ggml_quantize_chunk(tensor->type, data, tensor->data, 0, 1, n*n, nullptr);
+    }
+}
+
+static ggml_tensor * ggml_mul_mat_aux(
+        ggml_context * ctx,
+        ggml_tensor * cur,
+        ggml_tensor * rot) {
+    const auto n = rot->ne[0];
+
+    ggml_tensor * res;
+
+    res = ggml_reshape_2d(ctx, cur, n, ggml_nelements(cur)/n);
+    res = ggml_mul_mat   (ctx, rot, res);
+    res = ggml_reshape_4d(ctx, res, cur->ne[0], cur->ne[1], cur->ne[2], cur->ne[3]);
+
+    return res;
+}
+
 //
 // llama_kv_cache
 //
@@ -209,6 +268,48 @@ llama_kv_cache::llama_kv_cache(
                 ggml_type_name(type_v), (float)memory_size_v / (1024.0f * 1024.0f));
     }
 
+    const char * LLAMA_ATTN_ROT_DISABLE = getenv("LLAMA_ATTN_ROT_DISABLE");
+    const bool attn_rot_disable = LLAMA_ATTN_ROT_DISABLE ? atoi(LLAMA_ATTN_ROT_DISABLE) : false;
+    if (attn_rot_disable) {
+        LLAMA_LOG_WARN("%s: attention rotation force disabled (LLAMA_ATTN_ROT_DISABLE)\n", __func__);
+    }
+
+    attn_rot_k =
+        !attn_rot_disable &&
+        ggml_is_quantized(type_k) &&
+        !hparams.is_n_embd_k_gqa_variable() &&
+        hparams.n_embd_head_k() % 64 == 0;
+
+    attn_rot_v =
+        !attn_rot_disable &&
+        ggml_is_quantized(type_v) &&
+        !hparams.is_n_embd_v_gqa_variable() &&
+        hparams.n_embd_head_v() % 64 == 0;
+
+    LLAMA_LOG_INFO("%s: attn_rot_k = %d\n", __func__, attn_rot_k);
+    LLAMA_LOG_INFO("%s: attn_rot_v = %d\n", __func__, attn_rot_v);
+
+    // pre-compute the haramard matrices and keep them in host memory
+    // TODO: in the future, we can make copies in the backend buffers to avoid host -> device transfers
+    if (attn_rot_k || attn_rot_v) {
+        for (int64_t n = 64; n <= std::max(hparams.n_embd_head_k(), hparams.n_embd_head_v()); n *= 2) {
+            attn_rot_hadamard[n] = std::vector<float>(n*n);
+
+            ggml_init_params params = {
+                /* .mem_size   = */ 1*ggml_tensor_overhead(),
+                /* .mem_buffer = */ nullptr,
+                /* .no_alloc   = */ true,
+            };
+
+            ggml_context_ptr ctx { ggml_init(params) };
+
+            ggml_tensor * tmp = ggml_new_tensor_2d(ctx.get(), GGML_TYPE_F32, n, n);
+            tmp->data = attn_rot_hadamard[n].data();
+
+            ggml_gen_hadamard(tmp);
+        }
+    }
+
     const char * LLAMA_KV_CACHE_DEBUG = getenv("LLAMA_KV_CACHE_DEBUG");
     debug = LLAMA_KV_CACHE_DEBUG ? atoi(LLAMA_KV_CACHE_DEBUG) : 0;
 }
@@ -1004,6 +1105,14 @@ bool llama_kv_cache::get_has_shift() const {
     return result;
 }
 
+ggml_type llama_kv_cache::type_k() const {
+    return layers[0].k->type;
+}
+
+ggml_type llama_kv_cache::type_v() const {
+    return layers[0].v->type;
+}
+
 uint32_t llama_kv_cache::get_n_kv(const slot_info & sinfo) const {
     uint32_t result = 0;
 
@@ -1189,6 +1298,47 @@ ggml_tensor * llama_kv_cache::build_input_v_idxs(ggml_context * ctx, const llama
     return v_idxs;
 }
 
+ggml_tensor * llama_kv_cache::build_input_k_rot(ggml_context * ctx) const {
+    ggml_tensor * res = nullptr;
+
+    if (attn_rot_k) {
+        int nrot = 64;
+
+        // TODO: investigate if using the smallest rotation matrix is beneficial also for K (similar as for V)
+        // ref: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/21038#issuecomment-4141323088
+        do {
+            nrot *= 2;
+        } while (hparams.n_embd_head_k() % nrot == 0);
+        nrot /= 2;
+
+        res = ggml_new_tensor_2d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, nrot, nrot);
+        ggml_set_input(res);
+        ggml_set_name(res, "attn_inp_k_rot");
+    }
+
+    return res;
+}
+
+ggml_tensor * llama_kv_cache::build_input_v_rot(ggml_context * ctx) const {
+    ggml_tensor * res = nullptr;
+
+    if (attn_rot_v) {
+        int nrot = 64;
+        // using smaller rotation matrices for V seems beneficial
+        // ref: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/21038#issuecomment-4146397570
+        //do {
+        //    nrot *= 2;
+        //} while (hparams.n_embd_head_v() % nrot == 0);
+        //nrot /= 2;
+
+        res = ggml_new_tensor_2d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, nrot, nrot);
+        ggml_set_input(res);
+        ggml_set_name(res, "attn_inp_v_rot");
+    }
+
+    return res;
+}
+
 void llama_kv_cache::set_input_k_idxs(ggml_tensor * dst, const llama_ubatch * ubatch, const slot_info & sinfo) const {
     const uint32_t n_tokens = ubatch->n_tokens;
     GGML_ASSERT(n_tokens == (int64_t) sinfo.size()*sinfo.n_stream());
@@ -1507,6 +1657,24 @@ void llama_kv_cache::set_input_pos_bucket(ggml_tensor * dst, const llama_ubatch
     }
 }
 
+void llama_kv_cache::set_input_k_rot(ggml_tensor * dst) const {
+    GGML_ASSERT(ggml_backend_buffer_is_host(dst->buffer));
+
+    const auto n_rot = dst->ne[0];
+    GGML_ASSERT(attn_rot_hadamard.count(dst->ne[0]));
+
+    memcpy(dst->data, attn_rot_hadamard.at(n_rot).data(), ggml_nbytes(dst));
+}
+
+void llama_kv_cache::set_input_v_rot(ggml_tensor * dst) const {
+    GGML_ASSERT(ggml_backend_buffer_is_host(dst->buffer));
+
+    const auto n_rot = dst->ne[0];
+    GGML_ASSERT(attn_rot_hadamard.count(dst->ne[0]));
+
+    memcpy(dst->data, attn_rot_hadamard.at(n_rot).data(), ggml_nbytes(dst));
+}
+
 size_t llama_kv_cache::total_size() const {
     size_t size = 0;
 
@@ -1542,6 +1710,7 @@ ggml_tensor * llama_kv_cache::build_rope_shift(
                ggml_context * ctx,
                 ggml_tensor * cur,
                 ggml_tensor * shift,
+                ggml_tensor * rot,
                 ggml_tensor * factors,
                       float   freq_base,
                       float   freq_scale,
@@ -1567,10 +1736,16 @@ ggml_tensor * llama_kv_cache::build_rope_shift(
         // dequantize to f32 -> RoPE -> quantize back
         tmp = ggml_cast(ctx, cur, GGML_TYPE_F32);
 
+        // rotate back
+        tmp = ggml_mul_mat_aux(ctx, tmp, rot);
+
         tmp = ggml_rope_ext(ctx, tmp,
                 shift, factors, n_rot, rope_type, n_ctx_orig, freq_base, freq_scale,
                 yarn_ext_factor, yarn_attn_factor, yarn_beta_fast, yarn_beta_slow);
 
+        // rotate fwd
+        tmp = ggml_mul_mat_aux(ctx, tmp, rot);
+
         tmp = ggml_cpy(ctx, tmp, cur);
     } else {
         // we rotate only the first n_rot dimensions
@@ -1591,6 +1766,9 @@ class llm_graph_input_k_shift : public llm_graph_input_i {
 
     ggml_tensor * k_shift; // I32 [kv_size*n_stream]
 
+    // note: assumes k_rot^2 == I
+    ggml_tensor * k_rot = nullptr;
+
     const llama_kv_cache * kv_self;
 };
 
@@ -1600,6 +1778,10 @@ void llm_graph_input_k_shift::set_input(const llama_ubatch * ubatch) {
     if (k_shift) {
         kv_self->set_input_k_shift(k_shift);
     }
+
+    if (k_rot) {
+        kv_self->set_input_k_rot(k_rot);
+    }
 }
 
 ggml_cgraph * llama_kv_cache::build_graph_shift(llm_graph_result * res, llama_context * lctx) const {
@@ -1611,6 +1793,8 @@ ggml_cgraph * llama_kv_cache::build_graph_shift(llm_graph_result * res, llama_co
     inp->k_shift = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_I32, (int64_t) get_size()*n_stream);
     ggml_set_input(inp->k_shift);
 
+    inp->k_rot = build_input_k_rot(ctx);
+
     const auto & cparams = lctx->get_cparams();
 
     for (const auto & layer : layers) {
@@ -1635,7 +1819,7 @@ ggml_cgraph * llama_kv_cache::build_graph_shift(llm_graph_result * res, llama_co
                 ggml_row_size(layer.k->type, n_embd_k_gqa),
                 ggml_row_size(layer.k->type, n_embd_nope));
 
-        ggml_tensor * cur = build_rope_shift(cparams, ctx, k, inp->k_shift, rope_factors, freq_base_l, freq_scale_l, il);
+        ggml_tensor * cur = build_rope_shift(cparams, ctx, k, inp->k_shift, inp->k_rot, rope_factors, freq_base_l, freq_scale_l, il);
 
         ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, cur);
     }
@@ -2239,6 +2423,14 @@ uint32_t llama_kv_cache_context::get_n_kv() const {
     return n_kv;
 }
 
+ggml_type llama_kv_cache_context::type_k() const {
+    return kv->type_k();
+}
+
+ggml_type llama_kv_cache_context::type_v() const {
+    return kv->type_v();
+}
+
 ggml_tensor * llama_kv_cache_context::get_k(ggml_context * ctx, int32_t il) const {
     return kv->get_k(ctx, il, n_kv, sinfos[i_cur]);
 }
@@ -2263,6 +2455,14 @@ ggml_tensor * llama_kv_cache_context::build_input_v_idxs(ggml_context * ctx, con
     return kv->build_input_v_idxs(ctx, ubatch);
 }
 
+ggml_tensor * llama_kv_cache_context::build_input_k_rot(ggml_context * ctx) const {
+    return kv->build_input_k_rot(ctx);
+}
+
+ggml_tensor * llama_kv_cache_context::build_input_v_rot(ggml_context * ctx) const {
+    return kv->build_input_v_rot(ctx);
+}
+
 void llama_kv_cache_context::set_input_k_shift(ggml_tensor * dst) const {
     kv->set_input_k_shift(dst);
 }
@@ -2282,3 +2482,11 @@ void llama_kv_cache_context::set_input_kq_mask(ggml_tensor * dst, const llama_ub
 void llama_kv_cache_context::set_input_pos_bucket(ggml_tensor * dst, const llama_ubatch * ubatch) const {
     kv->set_input_pos_bucket(dst, ubatch);
 }
+
+void llama_kv_cache_context::set_input_k_rot(ggml_tensor * dst) const {
+    kv->set_input_k_rot(dst);
+}
+
+void llama_kv_cache_context::set_input_v_rot(ggml_tensor * dst) const {
+    kv->set_input_v_rot(dst);
+}

filename: src/llama-kv-cache.h
patch: @@ -152,6 +152,9 @@ class llama_kv_cache : public llama_memory_i {
 
     bool get_has_shift() const;
 
+    ggml_type type_k() const;
+    ggml_type type_v() const;
+
     //
     // graph_build API
     //
@@ -191,6 +194,9 @@ class llama_kv_cache : public llama_memory_i {
     ggml_tensor * build_input_k_idxs(ggml_context * ctx, const llama_ubatch & ubatch) const;
     ggml_tensor * build_input_v_idxs(ggml_context * ctx, const llama_ubatch & ubatch) const;
 
+    ggml_tensor * build_input_k_rot(ggml_context * ctx) const;
+    ggml_tensor * build_input_v_rot(ggml_context * ctx) const;
+
     void set_input_k_idxs(ggml_tensor * dst, const llama_ubatch * ubatch, const slot_info & sinfo) const;
     void set_input_v_idxs(ggml_tensor * dst, const llama_ubatch * ubatch, const slot_info & sinfo) const;
 
@@ -199,6 +205,9 @@ class llama_kv_cache : public llama_memory_i {
     void set_input_kq_mask   (ggml_tensor * dst, const llama_ubatch * ubatch, bool causal_attn) const;
     void set_input_pos_bucket(ggml_tensor * dst, const llama_ubatch * ubatch) const;
 
+    void set_input_k_rot(ggml_tensor * dst) const;
+    void set_input_v_rot(ggml_tensor * dst) const;
+
 private:
     const llama_model & model;
     const llama_hparams & hparams;
@@ -226,6 +235,13 @@ class llama_kv_cache : public llama_memory_i {
     // SWA
     const uint32_t n_swa = 0;
 
+    // env: LLAMA_ATTN_ROT_DISABLE
+    bool attn_rot_k = false;
+    bool attn_rot_v = false;
+
+    // pre-computed hadamard martrices
+    std::unordered_map<int64_t, std::vector<float>> attn_rot_hadamard;
+
     // env: LLAMA_KV_CACHE_DEBUG
     int debug = 0;
 
@@ -262,6 +278,7 @@ class llama_kv_cache : public llama_memory_i {
                    ggml_context * ctx,
                     ggml_tensor * cur,
                     ggml_tensor * shift,
+                    ggml_tensor * rot,
                     ggml_tensor * factors,
                           float   freq_base,
                           float   freq_scale,
@@ -328,6 +345,9 @@ class llama_kv_cache_context : public llama_memory_context_i {
 
     uint32_t get_n_kv() const;
 
+    ggml_type type_k() const;
+    ggml_type type_v() const;
+
     // get views of the current state of the cache
     ggml_tensor * get_k(ggml_context * ctx, int32_t il) const;
     ggml_tensor * get_v(ggml_context * ctx, int32_t il) const;
@@ -347,13 +367,19 @@ class llama_kv_cache_context : public llama_memory_context_i {
     ggml_tensor * build_input_k_idxs(ggml_context * ctx, const llama_ubatch & ubatch) const;
     ggml_tensor * build_input_v_idxs(ggml_context * ctx, const llama_ubatch & ubatch) const;
 
+    ggml_tensor * build_input_k_rot(ggml_context * ctx) const;
+    ggml_tensor * build_input_v_rot(ggml_context * ctx) const;
+
     void set_input_k_idxs(ggml_tensor * dst, const llama_ubatch * ubatch) const;
     void set_input_v_idxs(ggml_tensor * dst, const llama_ubatch * ubatch) const;
 
     void set_input_k_shift   (ggml_tensor * dst) const;
     void set_input_kq_mask   (ggml_tensor * dst, const llama_ubatch * ubatch, bool causal_attn) const;
     void set_input_pos_bucket(ggml_tensor * dst, const llama_ubatch * ubatch) const;
 
+    void set_input_k_rot(ggml_tensor * dst) const;
+    void set_input_v_rot(ggml_tensor * dst) const;
+
 private:
     llama_memory_status status;