The llama.cpp server has been updated to support chunked prefill for causal LLM rerankers, specifically addressing limitations with models like Qwen3 and Qwen3-VL. Previously, the system rejected RANK-pooling inputs exceeding n_ubatch due to hardcoded architectural checks, effectively breaking long-document and multimodal reranking tasks. The fix exposes runtime attention type checks, allowing the graph builder to dynamically permit chunked prefill when the context is causal. This change removes code duplication and enables efficient processing of larger batches for these specific model architectures.
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