* [CANN] Add Ascend NPU backend
Ascend is a full-stack AI computing infrastructure for industry
applications and services based on Huawei Ascend processors and
software.
CANN (Compute Architecture of Neural Networks), developped by
Huawei, is a heterogeneous computing architecture for AI.
Co-authored-by: wangshuai09 <391746016@qq.com>
* delete trailing whitespaces
* Modify the code based on review comment
* Rename LLAMA_CANN to GGML_CANN
* Make ggml-common.h private
* add ggml_cann prefix for acl funcs
* Add logging for CANN backend
* Delete Trailing whitespace
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Co-authored-by: wangshuai09 <391746016@qq.com>
* Arm AArch64: optimized GEMV and GEMM kernels for q4_0_q8_0, and q8_0_q8_0 quantization
* Arm AArch64: add optimized GEMV and GEMM asm kernels for q4_0_q8_0 quantization and refactor code to address llama.cpp pr#5780 suggestions
* Arm AArch64: add optimized GEMV and GEMM asm kernels for q4_0_q8_0 quantization and refactor code to address llama.cpp pr#5780 suggestions
* Arm AArch64: add optimized GEMV and GEMM asm kernels for q4_0_q8_0 quantization and refactor code to address llama.cpp pr#5780 suggestions
* Arm AArch64: add optimized GEMV and GEMM asm kernels for q4_0_q8_0 quantization and refactor code to address llama.cpp pr#5780 suggestions
* Arm AArch64: add copyright claim only to ggml-aarch64.cpp and ggml-aarch64.h files
* Arm AArch64: minor code refactoring for rebase
* Arm AArch64: minor code refactoring for resolving a build issue with cmake
* Arm AArch64: minor code refactoring to split the Q4_0_AARC64 type into three separate types: Q4_0_4_4, Q4_0_4_8, and Q4_0_8_8
* Arm AArch64: minor code change for resolving a build issue with server-windows
* retrigger checks
* Arm AArch64: minor code changes for rebase
* Arm AArch64: minor changes to skip the pr#7433 vec_dot code for arm cpus with SVE VL not equal to 256 bits
* Arm AArch64: remove stale LLAMA_QKK_64 from CMakeLists.txt and delete build.zig
* Arm AArch64: add reference scalar gemm and gemv, and avoid dynamic memory allocations during quantization for Q4_0_4_4, Q4_0_4_8, and Q4_0_8_8
* Arm AArch64: add multithreaded quantization support for the new types: Q4_0_4_4, Q4_0_4_8, and Q4_0_8_8
* Arm AArch64: minor code refactoring
* Arm AArch64: simplify logic for calling gemm and gemv functions in ggml_compute_forward_mul_mat
* Arm AArch64: minimize changes in ggml_compute_forward_mul_mat
* Arm AArch64: minor code refactoring, and add reference scalar code to quantize routines for new quant types
* Arm AArch64: minor code refactoring
* Arm AArch64: minor code refactoring
* Arm AArch64: minor code refactoring
* rebase on the latest master commit 3fd62a6 and adapt to the new directory structure
* Arm AArch64: remove a redundant comment
* Arm AArch64: add pragma in ggml-aarch64.c to turn -Woverlength-strings warning off
* Arm AArch64: use __aarch64__ check to guard 64-bit neon kernels
* Arm AArch64: update docs/build.md README to include compile time flags for buiilding the Q4_0_4_4 quant type
