Genie C API 1.20.0:
Added audio encoder support.
Added LVM text to image generation support for Stable Diffusion 3.0.
SDK:
Optimized jump forward decoding when using Eaglet dialogs.
Added OpenAI API service support for the aarch64-oe-linux-gcc11.2
platform.
Added continuous batching support for dialogs.
JSON configuration:
Added option to enable asynchronous enqueueing of graph executions on
the QnnHtp engine.
Added support for prefill acceleration on multi-NSP core
configurations.
Bugfixes:
Fixed issue where tokenizer resources are never freed.
Genie C API 1.19.0:
Added GenieAccuracyConfig_bindLogger, GenieDlcConfig_bindLogger,
GenieProfileConfig_bindLogger, and GenieSamplerConfig_bindLogger
APIs.
Added token callback support for GenieNode.
SDK:
Added support for the Gemma 4 model family.
Added support for structured output and jump forward decoding.
Added Harmony output support.
Added engine sharing support to the GPU engine.
Bugfixes:
Fixed issue where peak RAM increased when using a text encoder LUT.
SDK:
Added dialog pause/resume tutorial to SDK documentation.
Added support for linear attention.
Enabled GPU engine on Windows.
Bugfixes:
Fixed issue where KV cache rewind did not correctly work with an
embedding LUT.
Fixed issue where backend extension configs with multiple contexts
were not correctly propagated.
Fixed issue where pipeline text generator state was not fully reset.
Genie C API 1.18.0:
Added GenieDialog_releaseLoraMemory to release memory allocated for a
LoRA.
Added GENIE_DIALOG_PARAM_APPLIED_LORA_ADAPTER to retrieve the
actively applied LoRA.
SDK:
Added genie-app command to clear command history.
Added genie-app dialog command options for setOemKey and
setPriority.
Bugfixes:
Fixed issue where the token generation rate is reported too high when
the number of generated tokens is small.
Fixed issue where the genie-app async command does not work inside of
the loop statement.
Genie C API 1.17.0:
Added GENIE_NODE_WILDCARD option for connecting hidden states between
nodes in a pipeline.
Added the following new APIs:
GenieDlc.h:
These APIs provide DLC support in Genie.
GenieDialogConfig_createFromDlc
GenieEmbeddingConfig_createFromDlc
GenieNodeConfig_createFromDlc
GenieDialog_batchQuery
GenieNode.h:
These new GenieNode APIs provide the ability to execute a single
node.
GenieNode_getData and GenieNode_execute
GenieNode_reset
GenieSampler.h:
The new GenieSampler APIs provide for a standalone sampler.
GenieSampler_create, GenieSampler_free, and
GenieSampler_sampleData.
SDK:
Added Qwen3 VL MRoPE support.
Added support for parallel initialization of HTP context binaries
and the tokenizer.
Removed QnnGenAITransformerBE OpPackage dependency.
QnnGenAiTransformerCpuOpPkg library is removed from the SDK.
Bugfixes:
Fixed a segmentation fault in the GenAiTransformer backend when using
kv-share and engine-share features together.
Fixed an issue where an Eaglet dialog could could produce out of
range tokens.
Fixed uninitialized variables which could potentially cause Genie to
crash.
Genie C API 1.16.0:
Added GenieNode_train and GenieNode_saveLora APIs.
SDK:
Added genie-app source code example.
Bugfixes:
Fixed issue where a successful process code would be returned from
genie-app when a Genie API call had failed.
Fixed issue where the token query API would always fail for dialogs
with embedding LUT encoders.
Genie C API 1.15.0:
Added the GenieDialog_getValue API and
GENIE_DIALOG_PARAM_CONTEXT_OCCUPANCY option.
Dialog JSON configuration:
Added the weight-shared-lora JSON configuration option.
SDK:
Added dialog rewindQuery and setStopSequence commands to genie-app.
Allow file outputs for genie-app pipeline execute commands.
Added call to dlclose when freeing QNN HTP engines.
Bugfixes:
Fixed seg fault in GenieDialog_save/restore when using QNN GPU
engines.
Fixed issue in the QNN GenAiTransformer engine’s GGUF file reader
which could cause parsing errors and segmentation faults.
Dialog JSON configuration:
Added support for YaRN and linear RoPE.
Added a configuration option for controlling the KeyDiff anchor
weight.
SDK:
Added support for cross attention.
Added look-ahead decoding dialog support for GenieDialog_tokenQuery.
Added GenieDialog_tokenQuery support in genie-app.
Added support for 16KB page size in the Android sample code build.
Bugfixes:
Fixed issue where grouped LoRA adapters would fail to apply.
Fixed a bug in perplexity calculations with FP32 models or tokenized
inputs.
Fixed issue with Windows example code build.
Genie C API 1.14.0:
Introduced GenieAccuracy.h to support perplexity measurements.
Dialog JSON configuration:
Added multimodal RoPE support.
Bugfixes:
Fixed issue where the HTP engine does not mmap serialized binaries
when the use-mmap flag is enabled.
Fixed an issue that could cause poor-quality output from certain
8-bit quantized decoder models by improving the detection logic for
the prefill stage of the decoder.
Fixed issue with example code build on Windows platforms.
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Genie C API 1.13.0:
Introduced new profiling option for collecting detailed trace events.
Added the GenieDialog_embeddingTokenQuery API.
Added the GenieDialog_setMaxNumTokens API.
Added the GENIE_STATUS_WARNING_CONTEXT_EXCEEDED status code to
provide a specific status when a prompt exceeds the model’s context
length limit.
Bugfixes:
Fixed an issue that caused incorrect calculation of KV cache tensor
sizes on the HTP backend, which could lead to segmentation faults.
Fixed an issue where no output was generated for certain models when
the prompt prefill phase required multiple graph executions.
Genie C API 1.12.0:
Added GENIE_NODE_IMAGE_ENCODER_IMAGE_FULL_ATTN_MASK and
GENIE_NODE_IMAGE_ENCODER_IMAGE_WINDOW_ATTN_MASK node inputs.
Dialog JSON configuration:
Added engine sharing support for HTP and basic or SSD dialogs.
SDK:
Added embeddingQuery support in genie-app.
Added support for encoder-decoder model in Gen AI Transformer.
Added support for Cross Layer Attention in HTP backend.
Added genie-t2e-run source code example.
Bugfixes:
Added missing type field in sampler.json config example.
Fixed issue loading the lm_head or LoRA adapters on Windows
platforms.
Fixed segmentation fault due to uninitialized variables.
Fixed an issue where Eaglet token generation rate had regressed.
Fixed an issue where the prompt-template is not applied when
GenieEmbedding_generate outputs are truncated.
Fixed issue where Genie could crash if the vocabulary size is less
than the AR-N.
Fixed issue where a paused query with LUT encoder models failed to
resume.
Fixed memory leaks during GenieDialog_applyLora.
Fixed reduced SSD acceptance rate when using cache-group with
long context.
Genie C API 1.11.0:
Added GENIE_NODE_IMAGE_ENCODER_IMAGE_POS_SIN and
GENIE_NODE_IMAGE_ENCODER_IMAGE_POS_COS node inputs.
SDK:
Added an async command to genie-app allowing for execution of
asynchronous statements.
Added GenieEmbedding support to genie-app.
Added Eaglet dialog support for dual head draft models.
Dialog JSON configuration:
Added support for non-updatable quantization (NUQ) and grouped LoRA.
Added the cache-groups JSON configuration option allowing for the
sliding window attention (SWA) cache management policy.
Introduced the SSD dialog “branch-mode” config option with “top-1”
and “all-expand” supported values.
Bugfixes:
Fixed issue where SSD or SPD dialog types would crash on the
aarch64-oe-linux-gcc11.2 platform.
Fixed segmentation fault when graph switching is enabled along with
memory mapping.
Fixed minor memory leaks.
Genie C API 1.10.0:
Added support for profiling and logging of GenieEngine APIs.
Introduced Genie Dialog and Embedding APIs to set and get performance
policy.
Added support for pausing and resuming active dialog queries.
SDK:
Added experimental support for arm64x-windows-msvc.
Include Eaglet dialog implementation in the SDK source code example.
Added support for KV cache rewind after KV cache restore.
Added a performance optimization where tokenizers are shared across
dialogs and embeddings when their tokenizer file paths are identical.
Added a performance optimization for improved KV cache conversion
logic for kv-share dialogs.
Dialog JSON configuration:
Added skip-lora-validation option to reduce LoRA adapter switch time
on HTP.
Added support for repetition penalties in sampling within the Genie
sampler.
Bugfixes:
Fixed sampling for float16 models which would produce nonsensical
response text.
Fixed LM head scheduling optimization when native sampling is
enabled.
Fixed segmentation fault when model validation fails on HTP.
Fixed memory leak in the tokenizer implementation.
Reduced memory overhead for token embedding LUT encoders.
Genie C API 1.9.0:
Introduced the (experimental quality) GeniePipeline.h and GenieNode.h
APIs which provide multimodal support.
Introduced the GenieTokenizer.h API.
SDK:
Introduced the (experimental quality) genie-app command-line utility.
Removed printing of KPIs to stdout by the Genie library.
Dialog JSON configuration:
Added support for use-mmap on Windows platforms.
Added a data-alignment-size configuration options for dialogs and
embeddings APIs.
Bugfixes:
Fixed issue where GenieProfiling data could report invalid init time
data.
Fixed an issue detected by BinSkim in Genie.dll.
Fixed issue where stop sequence would not work with
GenieDialog_embeddingQuery.
Fixed issue where save/restore would not work for Eaglet dialogs.
Fixed issue in Eaglet dialogs where incorrect sentence code was
called back.
Genie C API 1.8.0:
Added GenieEngine.h, GenieDialog_getEngine, and
GenieDialog_bindEngine APIs.
Added GenieSampler_registerUserDataCallback API which adds a userData
argument to the sampler custom callback.
Added token-acceptance-rate to the GenieProfile output for some
dialog types.
Added the Eaglet dialog type.
SDK:
Introduced a performance optimization where logits are sampled using
the native datatype output of the LLM.
Bugfixes:
Fixed genie-t2t-run issue where dialog de-init data was not saved.
Fixed issue where GenieEmbedding_generate would return a rank of 0.
Fixed issue where quantized value may overflow or underflow.
Genie C API 1.7.0:
Added the GenieLog.h API.
Added LoRA adapter switch latency to GenieProfile output.
Allow sampler type to be changed in GenieSampler_applyConfig.
Bugfixes:
Fixed issue where RPC memory handles were not unregistered.
Fixed issue where queries after a KV cache rewind resulted in poor
text generation.
Genie C API 1.6.0:
Added dialog priority support with GenieDialog_setOemKey and
GenieDialog_setPriority.
SDK:
Added Windows build support for the source code examples.
Reorganized the Genie SDK documentation.
Removed shift concat and pointer shift KV cache update methods in
lieu of smart mask.
Bugfixes:
Fixed issue where SPD token rate is incorrectly reported when the
query is aborted.
Fixed issue where multi-token stop sequences were not fully omitted
in queryCallback and KV$.
Fixed issue where tokenizer state is corrupted after a query abort.
Fixed issue where a Gen AI Transformer dialog attempts to double free
memory.
Fixed a qnn-genai-transformer-composer failure when preparing LoRA
adapters.
Fixed a performance regression for kv-share dialogs using the token
query API.
Genie C API 1.5.0:
Added GenieDialog_signal API.
Dialog JSON configuration:
Added dialog debug configuration option.
Bugfixes:
Improved numerical stability of embedding requantization in
genie-t2t-run.
Fixed a crash in genie when running lookahead decoder dialog when
setting up attention masks and rope position embeddings.
Fixed issue with value data type in GenieProfile JSON output.
Genie C API 1.4.0:
Added GenieProfile.h APIs.
Added GENIE_DIALOG_SENTENCE_REWIND sentence code option.
Added support for dialog custom sampler implementations.
Added GenieDialog_setStopSequence API to allow updating the stop
sequence configuration between dialog queries.
Bugfixes:
Fix issue causing FP16 model validation failures.
Fix issue where the end sentence code is not provided on a stop
sequence match.
SDK:
Improved prompt processing time for SSD dialogs.
Include GenieEmbedding implementation in the SDK source code example.
Reduced the size of libGenie.so built from the source example.
Genie C API 1.3.0:
Added GenieSampler.h API.
Dialog JSON configuration:
Added QNN GPU engine type.
Added enable-graph-switching dialog JSON configuration option.
Added LoRA V1 support.
Added LoRA V2 support in GenAiTransformer backend.
Added JSON config support for longrope.
Added support for multistream SSD dialogs.
Added support for multistream embedding to text dialog.
Bugfixes:
Fix issue in genie-t2t-run that could result in a double free of a
dialog config handle.
Fix issue where KV cache restore could hang on aarch64-windows-msvc.
Fixed handling of rope-theta and rope-scaling configuration.
SDK:
Added genie-t2e-run application and sample config for
GenieEmbedding.h.
Added llama-3-8b JSON config example for HTP.
Genie C API 1.2.0:
Added GenieEmbedding.h.
Added GenieDialog_applyLora and GenieDialog_setLoraStrength.
Added GenieDialog_tokenQuery. (Supported for basic dialog type only).
Added GenieDialog_save and GenieDialog_restore.
Dialog JSON configuration:
Added self-speculative decoding (SSD) dialog type.
Added speculative decoding (SPD) dialog type.
Added lookahead decoding (LADE) dialog type.
Added multistream dialog type.
Added rope-scaling.
Added support for multiple EOS tokens.
Added alibi and absolute positional encoding support.
Added SSD support for GenieDialog_embeddingQuery.
Bugfixes:
Fixed issue where mmap-budget was unused.
Fixed link issue with libGenie.so on aarch64-oe-linux-gcc11.2.
Fixed memory leak in model loading when setting use-mmap to false.
SDK:
Added genie-t2t-run source code example.
Added llama-3-8b JSON config example for HTP.
Genie C API 1.1.0:
Added GenieDialog_embeddingQuery API with corresponding tool and
configuration support.
Dialog JSON configuration:
Added kv-share dialog type which provides support for KV cache
transfer between HTP and GenAiTransformer backends.
Added max-num-tokens dialog configuration option.
Bugfixes:
Fixed issue where IO encodings were not updated when a LoRA adapter
was applied.
Workaround issue where segmentation fault occurs after
GenieDialog_free when using the HTP backend.
Dialog JSON configuration:
Added eot-token configuration option.
Added rope-theta configuration option.
Added support for async initialization and added allow-async-init
config option.
Added stop-sequence configuration option to enable dialog query
cancellation based upon response text matching.
Bugfixes:
Fix issue where incorrect Windows .lib files were packaged.
Fix issue where unknown genie-t2t-run option does not generate an
error.
Fixed memory allocation failures during HTP initialization.
Genie C API 1.0.0:
Genie C API moves into production.
Dialog JSON configuration:
Introduced GenieDialog JSON configuration format.
Genie C API 0.1.0:
Added GenieCommon.h and GenieDialog.h.