UPSTREAM PR #18607: model : add LFM2-ColBert-350M

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Mirrored from ggml-org/llama.cpp#18607

PR adds support for LFM2-ColBert-350M by introducing n_embd_out - a separate output embedding dimension that can differ from the input embedding dimension (n_embd).

Initially, I introduced LLAMA_POOLING_TYPE_TOKEN, which was applying cls_out and outputting all embedding, but then switched to n_embd_out.

n_embd_out will be used in future multimodal models as well.

New GGUF key and API:

• LLM_KV_EMBEDDING_LENGTH_OUT - stores output embedding dimension
• llama_model_n_embd_out() - returns hparams.n_embd_out if set and fallbacks to hparams.n_embd

Testing

Convert

python convert_hf_to_gguf.py /data/playground/checkpoints/LFM2-ColBert-350M

Launch server

bin/llama-server -m /data/playground/checkpoints/LFM2-ColBert-350M/LFM2-ColBert-350M-F16.gguf --embeddings --pooling none

Run the attached Python script

❯ uv run rerank.py
Score: 29.74 | Q: What is panda? | D: hi
Score: 29.90 | Q: What is panda? | D: it is a bear
Score: 30.52 | Q: What is panda? | D: The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), sometimes called a panda bear or simply panda, is a bear species endemic to China.

rerank.py

cc: @ngxson

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• Up to 289.33% throughput improvement (vector begin operation)
• Up to 216.96% response time improvement (Rb_tree const_iterator)
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