diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0378a674e..6ab6acf12 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ Typically finetunes of the base models below are supported as well.
 - Java: [kherud/java-llama.cpp](https://github.com/kherud/java-llama.cpp)
 - Zig: [deins/llama.cpp.zig](https://github.com/Deins/llama.cpp.zig)
 - Flutter/Dart: [netdur/llama_cpp_dart](https://github.com/netdur/llama_cpp_dart)
+- Flutter: [xuegao-tzx/Fllama](https://github.com/xuegao-tzx/Fllama)
 - PHP (API bindings and features built on top of llama.cpp): [distantmagic/resonance](https://github.com/distantmagic/resonance) [(more info)](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/6326)
 - Guile Scheme: [guile_llama_cpp](https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/guile-llama-cpp)
 - Swift [srgtuszy/llama-cpp-swift](https://github.com/srgtuszy/llama-cpp-swift)
diff --git a/examples/convert_legacy_llama.py b/examples/convert_legacy_llama.py
index 9ab9ab06e..c4ec5c524 100755
--- a/examples/convert_legacy_llama.py
+++ b/examples/convert_legacy_llama.py
@@ -840,6 +840,8 @@ class OutputFile:
                         self.gguf.add_base_model_version(key, base_model_entry["version"])
                     if "organization" in base_model_entry:
                         self.gguf.add_base_model_organization(key, base_model_entry["organization"])
+                    if "description" in base_model_entry:
+                        self.gguf.add_base_model_description(key, base_model_entry["description"])
                     if "url" in base_model_entry:
                         self.gguf.add_base_model_url(key, base_model_entry["url"])
                     if "doi" in base_model_entry:
@@ -849,12 +851,32 @@ class OutputFile:
                     if "repo_url" in base_model_entry:
                         self.gguf.add_base_model_repo_url(key, base_model_entry["repo_url"])
 
+            if metadata.datasets is not None:
+                self.gguf.add_dataset_count(len(metadata.datasets))
+                for key, dataset_entry in enumerate(metadata.datasets):
+                    if "name" in dataset_entry:
+                        self.gguf.add_dataset_name(key, dataset_entry["name"])
+                    if "author" in dataset_entry:
+                        self.gguf.add_dataset_author(key, dataset_entry["author"])
+                    if "version" in dataset_entry:
+                        self.gguf.add_dataset_version(key, dataset_entry["version"])
+                    if "organization" in dataset_entry:
+                        self.gguf.add_dataset_organization(key, dataset_entry["organization"])
+                    if "description" in dataset_entry:
+                        self.gguf.add_dataset_description(key, dataset_entry["description"])
+                    if "url" in dataset_entry:
+                        self.gguf.add_dataset_url(key, dataset_entry["url"])
+                    if "doi" in dataset_entry:
+                        self.gguf.add_dataset_doi(key, dataset_entry["doi"])
+                    if "uuid" in dataset_entry:
+                        self.gguf.add_dataset_uuid(key, dataset_entry["uuid"])
+                    if "repo_url" in dataset_entry:
+                        self.gguf.add_dataset_repo_url(key, dataset_entry["repo_url"])
+
             if metadata.tags is not None:
                 self.gguf.add_tags(metadata.tags)
             if metadata.languages is not None:
                 self.gguf.add_languages(metadata.languages)
-            if metadata.datasets is not None:
-                self.gguf.add_datasets(metadata.datasets)
 
     def add_meta_arch(self, params: Params) -> None:
         # Metadata About The Neural Architecture Itself
diff --git a/examples/server/README.md b/examples/server/README.md
index c911745f4..6f72c6bb8 100644
--- a/examples/server/README.md
+++ b/examples/server/README.md
@@ -383,6 +383,10 @@ node index.js
 
     `dry_sequence_breakers`: Specify an array of sequence breakers for DRY sampling. Only a JSON array of strings is accepted. Default: `['\n', ':', '"', '*']`
 
+    `xtc_probability`: Set the chance for token removal via XTC sampler. Default: `0.0`, which is disabled.
+
+    `xtc_threshold`: Set a minimum probability threshold for tokens to be removed via XTC sampler. Default: `0.1` (> `0.5` disables XTC)
+
     `mirostat`: Enable Mirostat sampling, controlling perplexity during text generation. Default: `0`, where `0` is disabled, `1` is Mirostat, and `2` is Mirostat 2.0.
 
     `mirostat_tau`: Set the Mirostat target entropy, parameter tau. Default: `5.0`
@@ -411,7 +415,7 @@ node index.js
 
     `cache_prompt`: Re-use KV cache from a previous request if possible. This way the common prefix does not have to be re-processed, only the suffix that differs between the requests. Because (depending on the backend) the logits are **not** guaranteed to be bit-for-bit identical for different batch sizes (prompt processing vs. token generation) enabling this option can cause nondeterministic results. Default: `false`
 
-    `samplers`: The order the samplers should be applied in. An array of strings representing sampler type names. If a sampler is not set, it will not be used. If a sampler is specified more than once, it will be applied multiple times. Default: `["top_k", "typical_p", "top_p", "min_p", "temperature"]` - these are all the available values.
+    `samplers`: The order the samplers should be applied in. An array of strings representing sampler type names. If a sampler is not set, it will not be used. If a sampler is specified more than once, it will be applied multiple times. Default: `["dry", "top_k", "typ_p", "top_p", "min_p", "xtc", "temperature"]` - these are all the available values.
 
 **Response format**
 
diff --git a/examples/server/server.cpp b/examples/server/server.cpp
index a6d3a1c95..cac55007a 100644
--- a/examples/server/server.cpp
+++ b/examples/server/server.cpp
@@ -655,11 +655,16 @@ struct server_context {
     }
 
     bool validate_model_chat_template() const {
-        llama_chat_message chat[] = {{"user", "test"}};
-
-        const int res = llama_chat_apply_template(model, nullptr, chat, 1, true, nullptr, 0);
-
-        return res > 0;
+        std::vector<char> model_template(2048, 0); // longest known template is about 1200 bytes
+        std::string template_key = "tokenizer.chat_template";
+        int32_t res = llama_model_meta_val_str(model, template_key.c_str(), model_template.data(), model_template.size());
+        if (res >= 0) {
+            llama_chat_message chat[] = {{"user", "test"}};
+            std::string tmpl = std::string(model_template.data(), model_template.size());
+            int32_t chat_res = llama_chat_apply_template(model, tmpl.c_str(), chat, 1, true, nullptr, 0);
+            return chat_res > 0;
+        }
+        return false;
     }
 
     void init() {
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/ggml-sycl.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/ggml-sycl.cpp
index 255bc64c6..2dba15d23 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/ggml-sycl.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/ggml-sycl.cpp
@@ -4350,6 +4350,10 @@ static bool ggml_backend_sycl_device_supports_op(ggml_backend_dev_t dev, const g
                 if (op->op == GGML_OP_MUL_MAT) {
                     a = op->src[0];
                     b = op->src[1];
+                    if (ggml_is_permuted(a) || ggml_is_permuted(b)) {
+                        // TODO: fix like https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/10021
+                        return false;
+                    }
                 } else {
                     a = op->src[2];
                     b = op->src[1];
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/norm.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/norm.cpp
index b3159b9d1..72d8fdb87 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/norm.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/norm.cpp
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ static void norm_f32(const float* x, float* dst, const int ncols, const float ep
 
     const int nthreads = item_ct1.get_local_range(2);
     const int nwarps = nthreads / WARP_SIZE;
-    assert(nwarps % WARP_SIZE == 0);
     sycl::float2 mean_var = sycl::float2(0.f, 0.f);
 
     for (int col = tid; col < ncols; col += block_size) {
@@ -55,7 +54,6 @@ static void group_norm_f32(const float* x, float* dst, const int group_size, con
     int end = start + group_size;
     const int nthreads = item_ct1.get_local_range(2);
     const int nwarps = nthreads / WARP_SIZE;
-    assert(nwarps % WARP_SIZE == 0);
     start += item_ct1.get_local_id(2);
     int nreduce = nwarps / WARP_SIZE;
 
@@ -144,7 +142,6 @@ static void rms_norm_f32(const float* x, float* dst, const int ncols, const floa
     const int tid = item_ct1.get_local_id(2);
     const int nthreads = item_ct1.get_local_range(2);
     const int nwarps = nthreads / WARP_SIZE;
-    assert(nwarps % WARP_SIZE == 0);
     float tmp = 0.0f; // partial sum for thread in warp
 
     for (int col = tid; col < ncols; col += block_size) {
@@ -202,6 +199,7 @@ static void norm_f32_sycl(const float* x, float* dst, const int ncols,
     }
     else {
         const int work_group_size = ggml_sycl_info().max_work_group_sizes[device];
+        assert(work_group_size % (WARP_SIZE * WARP_SIZE) == 0);
         const sycl::range<3> block_dims(1, 1, work_group_size);
         /*
         DPCT1049:17: The work-group size passed to the SYCL kernel may exceed
@@ -244,6 +242,7 @@ static void group_norm_f32_sycl(const float* x, float* dst,
     }
     else {
         const int work_group_size = ggml_sycl_info().max_work_group_sizes[device];
+        assert(work_group_size % (WARP_SIZE * WARP_SIZE) == 0);
         const sycl::range<3> block_dims(1, 1, work_group_size);
         /*
         DPCT1049:18: The work-group size passed to the SYCL kernel may exceed
@@ -290,6 +289,7 @@ static void rms_norm_f32_sycl(const float* x, float* dst, const int ncols,
     }
     else {
         const int work_group_size = ggml_sycl_info().max_work_group_sizes[device];
+        assert(work_group_size % (WARP_SIZE * WARP_SIZE) == 0);
         const sycl::range<3> block_dims(1, 1, work_group_size);
         /*
         DPCT1049:19: The work-group size passed to the SYCL kernel may exceed
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/outprod.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/outprod.cpp
index c2779df0e..e61cdc2ca 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/outprod.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/outprod.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #include <sycl/sycl.hpp>
+#include <oneapi/mkl.hpp>
 #include "outprod.hpp"
 
 
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ void ggml_sycl_op_out_prod(ggml_backend_sycl_context& ctx, const ggml_tensor* sr
 
     try {
         // Perform matrix multiplication using oneMKL GEMM
-        oneapi::mkl::blas::gemm(*stream,
+        oneapi::mkl::blas::column_major::gemm(*stream,
             oneapi::mkl::transpose::nontrans, src1_op,
             ne0, ne1, ne01,
             alpha,
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/ggml-vulkan.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/ggml-vulkan.cpp
index 6c4c92262..ec31e726a 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/ggml-vulkan.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/ggml-vulkan.cpp
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ struct vk_device_struct {
     vk_pipeline pipeline_pad_f32;
     vk_pipeline pipeline_repeat_f32;
     vk_pipeline pipeline_cpy_f32_f32, pipeline_cpy_f32_f16, pipeline_cpy_f16_f16;
+    vk_pipeline pipeline_contig_cpy_f32_f32, pipeline_contig_cpy_f32_f16, pipeline_contig_cpy_f16_f16;
     vk_pipeline pipeline_norm_f32;
     vk_pipeline pipeline_group_norm_f32;
     vk_pipeline pipeline_rms_norm_f32;
@@ -722,6 +723,12 @@ static void ggml_vk_create_pipeline_func(vk_device& device, vk_pipeline& pipelin
         std::lock_guard<std::mutex> guard(compile_count_mutex);
         assert(compile_count > 0);
         compile_count--;
+
+        // "Progress bar" for shader compiles
+        static uint32_t total_compile_count = 0;
+        if ((total_compile_count++ % 10) == 0) {
+            std::cerr << ".";
+        }
     }
     compile_count_cond.notify_all();
 }
@@ -1200,6 +1207,8 @@ static void ggml_vk_wait_events(vk_context& ctx, std::vector<vk::Event>&& events
 static void ggml_vk_load_shaders(vk_device& device) {
     VK_LOG_DEBUG("ggml_vk_load_shaders(" << device->name << ")");
 
+    std::cerr << "ggml_vulkan: Compiling shaders";
+
     // mulmat
     std::initializer_list<uint32_t> warptile_l = { 128, 128, 128, 16, device->subgroup_size * 2, 64, 2, 4, 4, device->subgroup_size };
     std::initializer_list<uint32_t> warptile_m = { 128,  64,  64, 16, device->subgroup_size, 32, 2, 4, 2, device->subgroup_size };
@@ -1759,6 +1768,10 @@ static void ggml_vk_load_shaders(vk_device& device) {
     ggml_vk_create_pipeline(device, device->pipeline_cpy_f32_f16, "cpy_f32_f16", cpy_f32_f16_len, cpy_f32_f16_data, "main", 2, sizeof(vk_op_unary_push_constants), {512, 1, 1}, {}, 1);
     ggml_vk_create_pipeline(device, device->pipeline_cpy_f16_f16, "cpy_f16_f16", cpy_f16_f16_len, cpy_f16_f16_data, "main", 2, sizeof(vk_op_unary_push_constants), {512, 1, 1}, {}, 1);
 
+    ggml_vk_create_pipeline(device, device->pipeline_contig_cpy_f32_f32, "contig_cpy_f32_f32", contig_cpy_f32_f32_len, contig_cpy_f32_f32_data, "main", 2, sizeof(vk_op_unary_push_constants), {512, 1, 1}, {}, 1);
+    ggml_vk_create_pipeline(device, device->pipeline_contig_cpy_f32_f16, "contig_cpy_f32_f16", contig_cpy_f32_f16_len, contig_cpy_f32_f16_data, "main", 2, sizeof(vk_op_unary_push_constants), {512, 1, 1}, {}, 1);
+    ggml_vk_create_pipeline(device, device->pipeline_contig_cpy_f16_f16, "contig_cpy_f16_f16", contig_cpy_f16_f16_len, contig_cpy_f16_f16_data, "main", 2, sizeof(vk_op_unary_push_constants), {512, 1, 1}, {}, 1);
+
     ggml_vk_create_pipeline(device, device->pipeline_add_f32, "add_f32", add_f32_len, add_f32_data, "main", 3, sizeof(vk_op_binary_push_constants), {512, 1, 1}, {}, 1);
     ggml_vk_create_pipeline(device, device->pipeline_add_f16_f32_f16, "add_f16_f32_f16", add_f16_f32_f16_len, add_f16_f32_f16_data, "main", 3, sizeof(vk_op_binary_push_constants), {512, 1, 1}, {}, 1);
 
@@ -1817,6 +1830,7 @@ static void ggml_vk_load_shaders(vk_device& device) {
     for (auto &c : compiles) {
         c.wait();
     }
+    std::cerr << "Done!" << std::endl;
 }
 
 static vk_device ggml_vk_get_device(size_t idx) {
@@ -3061,18 +3075,34 @@ static bool ggml_vk_dim01_contiguous(const ggml_tensor * tensor) {
         tensor->nb[3] == tensor->nb[2]*tensor->ne[2];
 }
 
-static vk_pipeline ggml_vk_get_cpy_pipeline(ggml_backend_vk_context * ctx, ggml_type from, ggml_type to) {
-    if (from == GGML_TYPE_F32 && to == GGML_TYPE_F32) {
-        return ctx->device->pipeline_cpy_f32_f32;
+static vk_pipeline ggml_vk_get_cpy_pipeline(ggml_backend_vk_context * ctx, const ggml_tensor * src, const ggml_tensor * dst, ggml_type to) {
+
+    // Choose "contiguous copy" shader if src/dst are contiguous
+    bool contig = ggml_is_contiguous(src) && (!dst || ggml_is_contiguous(dst));
+
+    if (src->type == GGML_TYPE_F32 && to == GGML_TYPE_F32) {
+        if (contig) {
+            return ctx->device->pipeline_contig_cpy_f32_f32;
+        } else {
+            return ctx->device->pipeline_cpy_f32_f32;
+        }
     }
-    if (from == GGML_TYPE_F32 && to == GGML_TYPE_F16) {
-        return ctx->device->pipeline_cpy_f32_f16;
+    if (src->type == GGML_TYPE_F32 && to == GGML_TYPE_F16) {
+        if (contig) {
+            return ctx->device->pipeline_contig_cpy_f32_f16;
+        } else {
+            return ctx->device->pipeline_cpy_f32_f16;
+        }
     }
-    if (from == GGML_TYPE_F16 && to == GGML_TYPE_F16) {
-        return ctx->device->pipeline_cpy_f16_f16;
+    if (src->type == GGML_TYPE_F16 && to == GGML_TYPE_F16) {
+        if (contig) {
+            return ctx->device->pipeline_contig_cpy_f16_f16;
+        } else {
+            return ctx->device->pipeline_cpy_f16_f16;
+        }
     }
 
-    std::cerr << "Missing CPY op for types: " << ggml_type_name(from) << " " << ggml_type_name(to) << std::endl;
+    std::cerr << "Missing CPY op for types: " << ggml_type_name(src->type) << " " << ggml_type_name(to) << std::endl;
     GGML_ABORT("fatal error");
 }
 
@@ -3082,6 +3112,15 @@ static void ggml_vk_cpy_to_contiguous(ggml_backend_vk_context * ctx, vk_context&
     const int tensor_type_size = ggml_type_size(tensor->type);
 
     const uint32_t ne = ggml_nelements(tensor);
+    std::array<uint32_t, 3> elements;
+
+    if (ne > 262144) {
+        elements = { 512, 512, CEIL_DIV(ne, 262144) };
+    } else if (ne > 512) {
+        elements = { 512, CEIL_DIV(ne, 512), 1 };
+    } else {
+        elements = { ne, 1, 1 };
+    }
 
     const vk_op_unary_push_constants pc = {
         (uint32_t)ne,
@@ -3091,7 +3130,7 @@ static void ggml_vk_cpy_to_contiguous(ggml_backend_vk_context * ctx, vk_context&
         0.0f, 0.0f,
     };
     ggml_vk_sync_buffers(subctx);
-    ggml_vk_dispatch_pipeline(ctx, subctx, pipeline, { in, out }, sizeof(vk_op_unary_push_constants), &pc, { ne, 1, 1 });
+    ggml_vk_dispatch_pipeline(ctx, subctx, pipeline, { in, out }, sizeof(vk_op_unary_push_constants), &pc, elements);
 }
 
 static void ggml_vk_mul_mat_q_f16(ggml_backend_vk_context * ctx, vk_context& subctx, const ggml_tensor * src0, const ggml_tensor * src1, ggml_tensor * dst, bool dryrun = false) {
@@ -3176,12 +3215,12 @@ static void ggml_vk_mul_mat_q_f16(ggml_backend_vk_context * ctx, vk_context& sub
     vk_pipeline to_fp16_vk_1 = nullptr;
 
     if (x_non_contig) {
-        to_fp16_vk_0 = ggml_vk_get_cpy_pipeline(ctx, src0->type, GGML_TYPE_F16);
+        to_fp16_vk_0 = ggml_vk_get_cpy_pipeline(ctx, src0, nullptr, GGML_TYPE_F16);
     } else {
         to_fp16_vk_0 = ggml_vk_get_to_fp16(ctx, src0->type);
     }
     if (y_non_contig) {
-        to_fp16_vk_1 = ggml_vk_get_cpy_pipeline(ctx, src1->type, GGML_TYPE_F16);
+        to_fp16_vk_1 = ggml_vk_get_cpy_pipeline(ctx, src1, nullptr, GGML_TYPE_F16);
     } else {
         to_fp16_vk_1 = ggml_vk_get_to_fp16(ctx, src1->type);
     }
@@ -3361,10 +3400,10 @@ static void ggml_vk_mul_mat_vec_q_f16(ggml_backend_vk_context * ctx, vk_context&
     vk_pipeline to_fp16_vk_0 = nullptr;
     vk_pipeline to_fp16_vk_1 = nullptr;
     if (x_non_contig) {
-        to_fp16_vk_0 = ggml_vk_get_cpy_pipeline(ctx, src0->type, src0->type);
+        to_fp16_vk_0 = ggml_vk_get_cpy_pipeline(ctx, src0, nullptr, src0->type);
     }
     if (y_non_contig) {
-        to_fp16_vk_1 = ggml_vk_get_cpy_pipeline(ctx, src1->type, src1->type);
+        to_fp16_vk_1 = ggml_vk_get_cpy_pipeline(ctx, src1, nullptr, src1->type);
     } else {
         to_fp16_vk_1 = ggml_vk_get_to_fp16(ctx, src1->type);
     }
@@ -3745,12 +3784,12 @@ static void ggml_vk_mul_mat_id_q_f16(ggml_backend_vk_context * ctx, vk_context&
     vk_pipeline to_fp16_vk_1 = nullptr;
 
     if (x_non_contig) {
-        to_fp16_vk_0 = ggml_vk_get_cpy_pipeline(ctx, src0->type, GGML_TYPE_F16);
+        to_fp16_vk_0 = ggml_vk_get_cpy_pipeline(ctx, src0, nullptr, GGML_TYPE_F16);
     } else {
         to_fp16_vk_0 = ggml_vk_get_to_fp16(ctx, src0->type);
     }
     if (y_non_contig) {
-        to_fp16_vk_1 = ggml_vk_get_cpy_pipeline(ctx, src1->type, GGML_TYPE_F16);
+        to_fp16_vk_1 = ggml_vk_get_cpy_pipeline(ctx, src1, nullptr, GGML_TYPE_F16);
     } else {
         to_fp16_vk_1 = ggml_vk_get_to_fp16(ctx, src1->type);
     }
@@ -3938,10 +3977,10 @@ static void ggml_vk_mul_mat_vec_id_q_f16(ggml_backend_vk_context * ctx, vk_conte
     vk_pipeline to_fp16_vk_0 = nullptr;
     vk_pipeline to_fp16_vk_1 = nullptr;
     if (x_non_contig) {
-        to_fp16_vk_0 = ggml_vk_get_cpy_pipeline(ctx, src0->type, src0->type);
+        to_fp16_vk_0 = ggml_vk_get_cpy_pipeline(ctx, src0, nullptr, src0->type);
     }
     if (y_non_contig) {
-        to_fp16_vk_1 = ggml_vk_get_cpy_pipeline(ctx, src1->type, src1->type);
+        to_fp16_vk_1 = ggml_vk_get_cpy_pipeline(ctx, src1, nullptr, src1->type);
     } else {
         to_fp16_vk_1 = ggml_vk_get_to_fp16(ctx, src1->type);
     }
@@ -4148,7 +4187,7 @@ static vk_pipeline ggml_vk_op_get_pipeline(ggml_backend_vk_context * ctx, const
     case GGML_OP_CPY:
     case GGML_OP_CONT:
     case GGML_OP_DUP:
-        return ggml_vk_get_cpy_pipeline(ctx, src0->type, dst->type);
+        return ggml_vk_get_cpy_pipeline(ctx, src0, dst, dst->type);
     case GGML_OP_NORM:
         if (src0->type == GGML_TYPE_F32 && dst->type == GGML_TYPE_F32) {
             return ctx->device->pipeline_norm_f32;
@@ -4281,7 +4320,6 @@ static bool ggml_vk_op_supports_incontiguous(ggml_op op) {
     case GGML_OP_DIV:
     case GGML_OP_CONCAT:
     case GGML_OP_UPSCALE:
-    case GGML_OP_SCALE:
     case GGML_OP_SQR:
     case GGML_OP_SIN:
     case GGML_OP_COS:
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/clamp.comp b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/clamp.comp
index 7071302a4..ae8fa8753 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/clamp.comp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/clamp.comp
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 #include "types.comp"
 #include "generic_unary_head.comp"
 
+layout(local_size_x = 512, local_size_y = 1, local_size_z = 1) in;
+
 void main() {
     const uint idx = get_idx();
 
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/contig_copy.comp b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/contig_copy.comp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9acbdd3d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/contig_copy.comp
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#version 450
+
+#include "types.comp"
+#include "generic_unary_head.comp"
+
+#extension GL_EXT_control_flow_attributes : require
+
+const uint num_threads = 128;
+
+layout(local_size_x = num_threads, local_size_y = 1, local_size_z = 1) in;
+
+void main() {
+    uint idx = get_idx();
+
+    // num_threads * num_iter must equal 512, to match the wg_denoms and get_idx calculation
+    const uint num_iter = 4;
+
+    // fast path for when all four iterations are in-bounds
+    if (idx + (num_iter-1)*num_threads < p.ne) {
+        [[unroll]] for (uint i = 0; i < num_iter; ++i) {
+#ifndef OPTIMIZATION_ERROR_WORKAROUND
+            data_d[p.d_offset + idx] = D_TYPE(data_a[idx]);
+#else
+            data_d[p.d_offset + idx] = data_a[idx];
+#endif
+            idx += num_threads;
+        }
+    } else {
+        [[unroll]] for (uint i = 0; i < num_iter; ++i) {
+            if (idx >= p.ne) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+#ifndef OPTIMIZATION_ERROR_WORKAROUND
+            data_d[p.d_offset + idx] = D_TYPE(data_a[idx]);
+#else
+            data_d[p.d_offset + idx] = data_a[idx];
+#endif
+            idx += num_threads;
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/copy.comp b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/copy.comp
index c26917c0f..2775068f9 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/copy.comp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/copy.comp
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 #include "types.comp"
 #include "generic_unary_head.comp"
 
+layout(local_size_x = 512, local_size_y = 1, local_size_z = 1) in;
+
 void main() {
     const uint idx = get_idx();
 
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/cos.comp b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/cos.comp
index f9a858cbf..fbd9d272c 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/cos.comp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/cos.comp
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 #include "types.comp"
 #include "generic_unary_head.comp"
 
+layout(local_size_x = 512, local_size_y = 1, local_size_z = 1) in;
+
 void main() {
     const uint idx = get_idx();
 
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/generic_unary_head.comp b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/generic_unary_head.comp
index eacdefc7d..4e1fa3af3 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/generic_unary_head.comp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/generic_unary_head.comp
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #extension GL_EXT_shader_16bit_storage : require
+#extension GL_EXT_control_flow_attributes : require
 
 layout (push_constant) uniform parameter
 {
@@ -9,8 +10,6 @@ layout (push_constant) uniform parameter
     float param1; float param2;
 } p;
 
-layout(local_size_x = 512, local_size_y = 1, local_size_z = 1) in;
-
 layout (binding = 0) readonly buffer A {A_TYPE data_a[];};
 layout (binding = 1) writeonly buffer D {D_TYPE data_d[];};
 
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/pad.comp b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/pad.comp
index a465cd52b..e87d8b18b 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/pad.comp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/pad.comp
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 #include "types.comp"
 #include "generic_unary_head.comp"
 
+layout(local_size_x = 512, local_size_y = 1, local_size_z = 1) in;
+
 void main() {
     const uint idx = gl_GlobalInvocationID.z * 262144 + gl_GlobalInvocationID.y * 512 + gl_GlobalInvocationID.x;
 
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/repeat.comp b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/repeat.comp
index a86af87e7..c03f737cc 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/repeat.comp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/repeat.comp
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 #include "types.comp"
 #include "generic_unary_head.comp"
 
+layout(local_size_x = 512, local_size_y = 1, local_size_z = 1) in;
+
 uint src0_idx_mod(uint idx) {
     const uint i13 = idx / (p.ne12*p.ne11*p.ne10);
     const uint i13_offset = i13 * p.ne12*p.ne11*p.ne10;
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/scale.comp b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/scale.comp
index 5cd2f668d..5cfee8c3b 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/scale.comp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/scale.comp
@@ -3,12 +3,22 @@
 #include "types.comp"
 #include "generic_unary_head.comp"
 
+const uint num_threads = 128;
+
+layout(local_size_x = num_threads, local_size_y = 1, local_size_z = 1) in;
+
 void main() {
-    const uint idx = get_idx();
+    uint idx = get_idx();
 
-    if (idx >= p.ne) {
-        return;
+    // num_threads * num_iter must equal 512, to match the wg_denoms and get_idx calculation
+    const uint num_iter = 4;
+
+    [[unroll]] for (uint i = 0; i < num_iter; ++i) {
+        if (idx >= p.ne) {
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        data_d[p.d_offset + idx] = D_TYPE(FLOAT_TYPE(data_a[idx]) * FLOAT_TYPE(p.param1));
+        idx += num_threads;
     }
-
-    data_d[p.d_offset + dst_idx(idx)] = D_TYPE(FLOAT_TYPE(data_a[src0_idx(idx)]) * FLOAT_TYPE(p.param1));
 }
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/sin.comp b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/sin.comp
index 7faf9be93..67c48fb9a 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/sin.comp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/sin.comp
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 #include "types.comp"
 #include "generic_unary_head.comp"
 
+layout(local_size_x = 512, local_size_y = 1, local_size_z = 1) in;
+
 void main() {
     const uint idx = get_idx();
 
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/square.comp b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/square.comp
index 1fa118c99..2ff48ddc5 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/square.comp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/square.comp
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 #include "types.comp"
 #include "generic_unary_head.comp"
 
+layout(local_size_x = 512, local_size_y = 1, local_size_z = 1) in;
+
 void main() {
     const uint idx = get_idx();
 
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/vulkan-shaders-gen.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/vulkan-shaders-gen.cpp
index 477355c29..5c84f473f 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/vulkan-shaders-gen.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/vulkan-shaders/vulkan-shaders-gen.cpp
@@ -350,6 +350,9 @@ void process_shaders() {
     string_to_spv("cpy_f32_f32", "copy.comp", {{"A_TYPE", "float"}, {"D_TYPE", "float"}});
     string_to_spv("cpy_f32_f16", "copy.comp", {{"A_TYPE", "float"}, {"D_TYPE", "float16_t"}});
     string_to_spv("cpy_f16_f16", "copy.comp", {{"A_TYPE", "float16_t"}, {"D_TYPE", "float16_t"}, {"OPTIMIZATION_ERROR_WORKAROUND", "1"}});
+    string_to_spv("contig_cpy_f32_f32", "contig_copy.comp", {{"A_TYPE", "float"}, {"D_TYPE", "float"}});
+    string_to_spv("contig_cpy_f32_f16", "contig_copy.comp", {{"A_TYPE", "float"}, {"D_TYPE", "float16_t"}});
+    string_to_spv("contig_cpy_f16_f16", "contig_copy.comp", {{"A_TYPE", "float16_t"}, {"D_TYPE", "float16_t"}, {"OPTIMIZATION_ERROR_WORKAROUND", "1"}});
 
     string_to_spv("add_f32", "add.comp", {{"A_TYPE", "float"}, {"B_TYPE", "float"}, {"D_TYPE", "float"}, {"FLOAT_TYPE", "float"}});
     string_to_spv("add_f16_f32_f16", "add.comp", {{"A_TYPE", "float16_t"}, {"B_TYPE", "float"}, {"D_TYPE", "float16_t"}, {"FLOAT_TYPE", "float"}});
diff --git a/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py b/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
index 7ab08b036..bc2b649d1 100644
--- a/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
+++ b/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
@@ -64,15 +64,27 @@ class Keys:
         BASE_MODEL_AUTHOR          = "general.base_model.{id}.author"
         BASE_MODEL_VERSION         = "general.base_model.{id}.version"
         BASE_MODEL_ORGANIZATION    = "general.base_model.{id}.organization"
+        BASE_MODEL_DESCRIPTION     = "general.base_model.{id}.description"
         BASE_MODEL_URL             = "general.base_model.{id}.url" # Model Website/Paper
         BASE_MODEL_DOI             = "general.base_model.{id}.doi"
         BASE_MODEL_UUID            = "general.base_model.{id}.uuid"
         BASE_MODEL_REPO_URL        = "general.base_model.{id}.repo_url" # Model Source Repository (git/svn/etc...)
 
+        # Dataset Source
+        DATASET_COUNT           = "general.dataset.count"
+        DATASET_NAME            = "general.dataset.{id}.name"
+        DATASET_AUTHOR          = "general.dataset.{id}.author"
+        DATASET_VERSION         = "general.dataset.{id}.version"
+        DATASET_ORGANIZATION    = "general.dataset.{id}.organization"
+        DATASET_DESCRIPTION     = "general.dataset.{id}.description"
+        DATASET_URL             = "general.dataset.{id}.url" # Model Website/Paper
+        DATASET_DOI             = "general.dataset.{id}.doi"
+        DATASET_UUID            = "general.dataset.{id}.uuid"
+        DATASET_REPO_URL        = "general.dataset.{id}.repo_url" # Model Source Repository (git/svn/etc...)
+
         # Array based KV stores
         TAGS                       = "general.tags"
         LANGUAGES                  = "general.languages"
-        DATASETS                   = "general.datasets"
 
     class LLM:
         VOCAB_SIZE                        = "{arch}.vocab_size"
diff --git a/gguf-py/gguf/gguf_writer.py b/gguf-py/gguf/gguf_writer.py
index 0d8d8a0b0..7a55d1296 100644
--- a/gguf-py/gguf/gguf_writer.py
+++ b/gguf-py/gguf/gguf_writer.py
@@ -568,6 +568,9 @@ class GGUFWriter:
     def add_base_model_organization(self, source_id: int, organization: str) -> None:
         self.add_string(Keys.General.BASE_MODEL_ORGANIZATION.format(id=source_id), organization)
 
+    def add_base_model_description(self, source_id: int, description: str) -> None:
+        self.add_string(Keys.General.BASE_MODEL_DESCRIPTION.format(id=source_id), description)
+
     def add_base_model_url(self, source_id: int, url: str) -> None:
         self.add_string(Keys.General.BASE_MODEL_URL.format(id=source_id), url)
 
@@ -580,15 +583,42 @@ class GGUFWriter:
     def add_base_model_repo_url(self, source_id: int, repo_url: str) -> None:
         self.add_string(Keys.General.BASE_MODEL_REPO_URL.format(id=source_id), repo_url)
 
+    def add_dataset_count(self, source_count: int) -> None:
+        self.add_uint32(Keys.General.DATASET_COUNT, source_count)
+
+    def add_dataset_name(self, source_id: int, name: str) -> None:
+        self.add_string(Keys.General.DATASET_NAME.format(id=source_id), name)
+
+    def add_dataset_author(self, source_id: int, author: str) -> None:
+        self.add_string(Keys.General.DATASET_AUTHOR.format(id=source_id), author)
+
+    def add_dataset_version(self, source_id: int, version: str) -> None:
+        self.add_string(Keys.General.DATASET_VERSION.format(id=source_id), version)
+
+    def add_dataset_organization(self, source_id: int, organization: str) -> None:
+        self.add_string(Keys.General.DATASET_ORGANIZATION.format(id=source_id), organization)
+
+    def add_dataset_description(self, source_id: int, description: str) -> None:
+        self.add_string(Keys.General.DATASET_DESCRIPTION.format(id=source_id), description)
+
+    def add_dataset_url(self, source_id: int, url: str) -> None:
+        self.add_string(Keys.General.DATASET_URL.format(id=source_id), url)
+
+    def add_dataset_doi(self, source_id: int, doi: str) -> None:
+        self.add_string(Keys.General.DATASET_DOI.format(id=source_id), doi)
+
+    def add_dataset_uuid(self, source_id: int, uuid: str) -> None:
+        self.add_string(Keys.General.DATASET_UUID.format(id=source_id), uuid)
+
+    def add_dataset_repo_url(self, source_id: int, repo_url: str) -> None:
+        self.add_string(Keys.General.DATASET_REPO_URL.format(id=source_id), repo_url)
+
     def add_tags(self, tags: Sequence[str]) -> None:
         self.add_array(Keys.General.TAGS, tags)
 
     def add_languages(self, languages: Sequence[str]) -> None:
         self.add_array(Keys.General.LANGUAGES, languages)
 
-    def add_datasets(self, datasets: Sequence[str]) -> None:
-        self.add_array(Keys.General.DATASETS, datasets)
-
     def add_tensor_data_layout(self, layout: str) -> None:
         self.add_string(Keys.LLM.TENSOR_DATA_LAYOUT.format(arch=self.arch), layout)
 
diff --git a/gguf-py/gguf/metadata.py b/gguf-py/gguf/metadata.py
index db318542a..321cbcd4c 100644
--- a/gguf-py/gguf/metadata.py
+++ b/gguf-py/gguf/metadata.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class Metadata:
     base_models: Optional[list[dict]] = None
     tags: Optional[list[str]] = None
     languages: Optional[list[str]] = None
-    datasets: Optional[list[str]] = None
+    datasets: Optional[list[dict]] = None
 
     @staticmethod
     def load(metadata_override_path: Optional[Path] = None, model_path: Optional[Path] = None, model_name: Optional[str] = None, total_params: int = 0) -> Metadata:
@@ -91,9 +91,11 @@ class Metadata:
         # Base Models is received here as an array of models
         metadata.base_models     = metadata_override.get("general.base_models",        metadata.base_models)
 
+        # Datasets is received here as an array of datasets
+        metadata.datasets        = metadata_override.get("general.datasets",           metadata.datasets)
+
         metadata.tags            = metadata_override.get(Keys.General.TAGS,            metadata.tags)
         metadata.languages       = metadata_override.get(Keys.General.LANGUAGES,       metadata.languages)
-        metadata.datasets        = metadata_override.get(Keys.General.DATASETS,        metadata.datasets)
 
         # Direct Metadata Override (via direct cli argument)
         if model_name is not None:
@@ -346,12 +348,12 @@ class Metadata:
             use_model_card_metadata("author", "model_creator")
             use_model_card_metadata("basename", "model_type")
 
-            if "base_model" in model_card:
+            if "base_model" in model_card or "base_models" in model_card or "base_model_sources" in model_card:
                 # This represents the parent models that this is based on
                 # Example: stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0. Can also be a list (for merges)
                 # Example of merges: https://huggingface.co/EmbeddedLLM/Mistral-7B-Merge-14-v0.1/blob/main/README.md
                 metadata_base_models = []
-                base_model_value = model_card.get("base_model", None)
+                base_model_value = model_card.get("base_model", model_card.get("base_models", model_card.get("base_model_sources", None)))
 
                 if base_model_value is not None:
                     if isinstance(base_model_value, str):
@@ -364,18 +366,106 @@ class Metadata:
 
                 for model_id in metadata_base_models:
                     # NOTE: model size of base model is assumed to be similar to the size of the current model
-                    model_full_name_component, org_component, basename, finetune, version, size_label = Metadata.get_model_id_components(model_id, total_params)
                     base_model = {}
-                    if model_full_name_component is not None:
-                        base_model["name"] = Metadata.id_to_title(model_full_name_component)
-                    if org_component is not None:
-                        base_model["organization"] = Metadata.id_to_title(org_component)
-                    if version is not None:
-                        base_model["version"] = version
-                    if org_component is not None and model_full_name_component is not None:
-                        base_model["repo_url"] = f"https://huggingface.co/{org_component}/{model_full_name_component}"
+                    if isinstance(model_id, str):
+                        if model_id.startswith("http://") or model_id.startswith("https://") or model_id.startswith("ssh://"):
+                            base_model["repo_url"] = model_id
+
+                            # Check if Hugging Face ID is present in URL
+                            if "huggingface.co" in model_id:
+                                match = re.match(r"https?://huggingface.co/([^/]+/[^/]+)$", model_id)
+                                if match:
+                                    model_id_component = match.group(1)
+                                    model_full_name_component, org_component, basename, finetune, version, size_label = Metadata.get_model_id_components(model_id_component, total_params)
+
+                                    # Populate model dictionary with extracted components
+                                    if model_full_name_component is not None:
+                                        base_model["name"] = Metadata.id_to_title(model_full_name_component)
+                                    if org_component is not None:
+                                        base_model["organization"] = Metadata.id_to_title(org_component)
+                                    if version is not None:
+                                        base_model["version"] = version
+
+                        else:
+                            # Likely a Hugging Face ID
+                            model_full_name_component, org_component, basename, finetune, version, size_label = Metadata.get_model_id_components(model_id, total_params)
+
+                            # Populate model dictionary with extracted components
+                            if model_full_name_component is not None:
+                                base_model["name"] = Metadata.id_to_title(model_full_name_component)
+                            if org_component is not None:
+                                base_model["organization"] = Metadata.id_to_title(org_component)
+                            if version is not None:
+                                base_model["version"] = version
+                            if org_component is not None and model_full_name_component is not None:
+                                base_model["repo_url"] = f"https://huggingface.co/{org_component}/{model_full_name_component}"
+
+                    elif isinstance(model_id, dict):
+                        base_model = model_id
+
+                    else:
+                        logger.error(f"base model entry '{str(model_id)}' not in a known format")
+
                     metadata.base_models.append(base_model)
 
+            if "datasets" in model_card or "dataset" in model_card or "dataset_sources" in model_card:
+                # This represents the datasets that this was trained from
+                metadata_datasets = []
+                dataset_value = model_card.get("datasets", model_card.get("dataset", model_card.get("dataset_sources", None)))
+
+                if dataset_value is not None:
+                    if isinstance(dataset_value, str):
+                        metadata_datasets.append(dataset_value)
+                    elif isinstance(dataset_value, list):
+                        metadata_datasets.extend(dataset_value)
+
+                if metadata.datasets is None:
+                    metadata.datasets = []
+
+                for dataset_id in metadata_datasets:
+                    # NOTE: model size of base model is assumed to be similar to the size of the current model
+                    dataset = {}
+                    if isinstance(dataset_id, str):
+                        if dataset_id.startswith(("http://", "https://", "ssh://")):
+                            dataset["repo_url"] = dataset_id
+
+                            # Check if Hugging Face ID is present in URL
+                            if "huggingface.co" in dataset_id:
+                                match = re.match(r"https?://huggingface.co/([^/]+/[^/]+)$", dataset_id)
+                                if match:
+                                    dataset_id_component = match.group(1)
+                                    dataset_name_component, org_component, basename, finetune, version, size_label = Metadata.get_model_id_components(dataset_id_component, total_params)
+
+                                    # Populate dataset dictionary with extracted components
+                                    if dataset_name_component is not None:
+                                        dataset["name"] = Metadata.id_to_title(dataset_name_component)
+                                    if org_component is not None:
+                                        dataset["organization"] = Metadata.id_to_title(org_component)
+                                    if version is not None:
+                                        dataset["version"] = version
+
+                        else:
+                            # Likely a Hugging Face ID
+                            dataset_name_component, org_component, basename, finetune, version, size_label = Metadata.get_model_id_components(dataset_id, total_params)
+
+                            # Populate dataset dictionary with extracted components
+                            if dataset_name_component is not None:
+                                dataset["name"] = Metadata.id_to_title(dataset_name_component)
+                            if org_component is not None:
+                                dataset["organization"] = Metadata.id_to_title(org_component)
+                            if version is not None:
+                                dataset["version"] = version
+                            if org_component is not None and dataset_name_component is not None:
+                                dataset["repo_url"] = f"https://huggingface.co/{org_component}/{dataset_name_component}"
+
+                    elif isinstance(dataset_id, dict):
+                        dataset = dataset_id
+
+                    else:
+                        logger.error(f"dataset entry '{str(dataset_id)}' not in a known format")
+
+                    metadata.datasets.append(dataset)
+
             use_model_card_metadata("license", "license")
             use_model_card_metadata("license_name", "license_name")
             use_model_card_metadata("license_link", "license_link")
@@ -386,9 +476,6 @@ class Metadata:
             use_array_model_card_metadata("languages", "languages")
             use_array_model_card_metadata("languages", "language")
 
-            use_array_model_card_metadata("datasets", "datasets")
-            use_array_model_card_metadata("datasets", "dataset")
-
         # Hugging Face Parameter Heuristics
         ####################################
 
@@ -493,6 +580,8 @@ class Metadata:
                     gguf_writer.add_base_model_version(key, base_model_entry["version"])
                 if "organization" in base_model_entry:
                     gguf_writer.add_base_model_organization(key, base_model_entry["organization"])
+                if "description" in base_model_entry:
+                    gguf_writer.add_base_model_description(key, base_model_entry["description"])
                 if "url" in base_model_entry:
                     gguf_writer.add_base_model_url(key, base_model_entry["url"])
                 if "doi" in base_model_entry:
@@ -502,9 +591,29 @@ class Metadata:
                 if "repo_url" in base_model_entry:
                     gguf_writer.add_base_model_repo_url(key, base_model_entry["repo_url"])
 
+        if self.datasets is not None:
+            gguf_writer.add_dataset_count(len(self.datasets))
+            for key, dataset_entry in enumerate(self.datasets):
+                if "name" in dataset_entry:
+                    gguf_writer.add_dataset_name(key, dataset_entry["name"])
+                if "author" in dataset_entry:
+                    gguf_writer.add_dataset_author(key, dataset_entry["author"])
+                if "version" in dataset_entry:
+                    gguf_writer.add_dataset_version(key, dataset_entry["version"])
+                if "organization" in dataset_entry:
+                    gguf_writer.add_dataset_organization(key, dataset_entry["organization"])
+                if "description" in dataset_entry:
+                    gguf_writer.add_dataset_description(key, dataset_entry["description"])
+                if "url" in dataset_entry:
+                    gguf_writer.add_dataset_url(key, dataset_entry["url"])
+                if "doi" in dataset_entry:
+                    gguf_writer.add_dataset_doi(key, dataset_entry["doi"])
+                if "uuid" in dataset_entry:
+                    gguf_writer.add_dataset_uuid(key, dataset_entry["uuid"])
+                if "repo_url" in dataset_entry:
+                    gguf_writer.add_dataset_repo_url(key, dataset_entry["repo_url"])
+
         if self.tags is not None:
             gguf_writer.add_tags(self.tags)
         if self.languages is not None:
             gguf_writer.add_languages(self.languages)
-        if self.datasets is not None:
-            gguf_writer.add_datasets(self.datasets)
diff --git a/gguf-py/tests/test_metadata.py b/gguf-py/tests/test_metadata.py
index 81a2a30ae..40d484f4e 100755
--- a/gguf-py/tests/test_metadata.py
+++ b/gguf-py/tests/test_metadata.py
@@ -182,8 +182,43 @@ class TestMetadataMethod(unittest.TestCase):
         expect.base_models=[{'name': 'Mistral 7B Merge 14 v0', 'organization': 'EmbeddedLLM', 'version': '14-v0', 'repo_url': 'https://huggingface.co/EmbeddedLLM/Mistral-7B-Merge-14-v0'}, {'name': 'Trinity v1', 'organization': 'Janai Hq', 'version': 'v1', 'repo_url': 'https://huggingface.co/janai-hq/trinity-v1'}]
         expect.tags=['Llama-3', 'instruct', 'finetune', 'chatml', 'DPO', 'RLHF', 'gpt4', 'synthetic data', 'distillation', 'function calling', 'json mode', 'axolotl']
         expect.languages=['en']
-        expect.datasets=['teknium/OpenHermes-2.5']
+        expect.datasets=[{'name': 'OpenHermes 2.5', 'organization': 'Teknium', 'version': '2.5', 'repo_url': 'https://huggingface.co/teknium/OpenHermes-2.5'}]
+        self.assertEqual(got, expect)
 
+        # Base Model spec is inferred from model id
+        model_card = {'base_models': 'teknium/OpenHermes-2.5'}
+        expect = gguf.Metadata(base_models=[{'name': 'OpenHermes 2.5', 'organization': 'Teknium', 'version': '2.5', 'repo_url': 'https://huggingface.co/teknium/OpenHermes-2.5'}])
+        got = gguf.Metadata.apply_metadata_heuristic(gguf.Metadata(), model_card, None, None)
+        self.assertEqual(got, expect)
+
+        # Base Model spec is only url
+        model_card = {'base_models': ['https://huggingface.co/teknium/OpenHermes-2.5']}
+        expect = gguf.Metadata(base_models=[{'name': 'OpenHermes 2.5', 'organization': 'Teknium', 'version': '2.5', 'repo_url': 'https://huggingface.co/teknium/OpenHermes-2.5'}])
+        got = gguf.Metadata.apply_metadata_heuristic(gguf.Metadata(), model_card, None, None)
+        self.assertEqual(got, expect)
+
+        # Base Model spec is given directly
+        model_card = {'base_models': [{'name': 'OpenHermes 2.5', 'organization': 'Teknium', 'version': '2.5', 'repo_url': 'https://huggingface.co/teknium/OpenHermes-2.5'}]}
+        expect = gguf.Metadata(base_models=[{'name': 'OpenHermes 2.5', 'organization': 'Teknium', 'version': '2.5', 'repo_url': 'https://huggingface.co/teknium/OpenHermes-2.5'}])
+        got = gguf.Metadata.apply_metadata_heuristic(gguf.Metadata(), model_card, None, None)
+        self.assertEqual(got, expect)
+
+        # Dataset spec is inferred from model id
+        model_card = {'datasets': 'teknium/OpenHermes-2.5'}
+        expect = gguf.Metadata(datasets=[{'name': 'OpenHermes 2.5', 'organization': 'Teknium', 'version': '2.5', 'repo_url': 'https://huggingface.co/teknium/OpenHermes-2.5'}])
+        got = gguf.Metadata.apply_metadata_heuristic(gguf.Metadata(), model_card, None, None)
+        self.assertEqual(got, expect)
+
+        # Dataset spec is only url
+        model_card = {'datasets': ['https://huggingface.co/teknium/OpenHermes-2.5']}
+        expect = gguf.Metadata(datasets=[{'name': 'OpenHermes 2.5', 'organization': 'Teknium', 'version': '2.5', 'repo_url': 'https://huggingface.co/teknium/OpenHermes-2.5'}])
+        got = gguf.Metadata.apply_metadata_heuristic(gguf.Metadata(), model_card, None, None)
+        self.assertEqual(got, expect)
+
+        # Dataset spec is given directly
+        model_card = {'datasets': [{'name': 'OpenHermes 2.5', 'organization': 'Teknium', 'version': '2.5', 'repo_url': 'https://huggingface.co/teknium/OpenHermes-2.5'}]}
+        expect = gguf.Metadata(datasets=[{'name': 'OpenHermes 2.5', 'organization': 'Teknium', 'version': '2.5', 'repo_url': 'https://huggingface.co/teknium/OpenHermes-2.5'}])
+        got = gguf.Metadata.apply_metadata_heuristic(gguf.Metadata(), model_card, None, None)
         self.assertEqual(got, expect)
 
     def test_apply_metadata_heuristic_from_hf_parameters(self):
diff --git a/include/llama.h b/include/llama.h
index ccb48f73c..5e742642e 100644
--- a/include/llama.h
+++ b/include/llama.h
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ extern "C" {
     // Processes a batch of tokens with the ecoder part of the encoder-decoder model.
     // Stores the encoder output internally for later use by the decoder cross-attention layers.
     //   0 - success
-    // < 0 - error
+    // < 0 - error. the KV cache state is restored to the state before this call
     LLAMA_API int32_t llama_encode(
             struct llama_context * ctx,
               struct llama_batch   batch);
@@ -805,7 +805,7 @@ extern "C" {
     // Positive return values does not mean a fatal error, but rather a warning.
     //   0 - success
     //   1 - could not find a KV slot for the batch (try reducing the size of the batch or increase the context)
-    // < 0 - error
+    // < 0 - error. the KV cache state is restored to the state before this call
     LLAMA_API int32_t llama_decode(
             struct llama_context * ctx,
               struct llama_batch   batch);
diff --git a/scripts/sync-ggml.last b/scripts/sync-ggml.last
index e82984f49..199237a21 100644
--- a/scripts/sync-ggml.last
+++ b/scripts/sync-ggml.last
@@ -1 +1 @@
-89952d649e0c5cabbb9ff8c4906f5a843a789fb2
+8a3d799484d861748f86eb87c8314fa2dbccc254
diff --git a/src/llama.cpp b/src/llama.cpp
index 7e7a61196..6ec419e9b 100644
--- a/src/llama.cpp
+++ b/src/llama.cpp
@@ -3502,11 +3502,24 @@ static bool llama_kv_cache_init(
     return true;
 }
 
+// a structure holds information about the slot found in llama_kv_cache_find_slot
+struct llama_kv_cache_slot_info {
+    std::pair<uint32_t, uint32_t> boundaries; // slot boundaries [begin, end)
+    bool found = false;                       // the slot was found
+
+    explicit llama_kv_cache_slot_info(bool found_) : found{found_} {}
+    llama_kv_cache_slot_info(uint32_t begin, uint32_t end) : boundaries{begin, end}, found{true} {}
+
+    operator bool() const { return found; }
+};
+static const llama_kv_cache_slot_info llama_kv_cache_slot_info_failed{false};
+
 // find an empty slot of size "n_tokens" in the cache
 // updates the cache head
+// returns a structure holding information about the slot found
 // Note: On success, it's important that cache.head points
 // to the first cell of the slot.
-static bool llama_kv_cache_find_slot(
+static struct llama_kv_cache_slot_info llama_kv_cache_find_slot(
            struct llama_kv_cache & cache,
        const struct llama_ubatch & batch) {
     const uint32_t n_tokens = batch.n_tokens;
@@ -3534,7 +3547,7 @@ static bool llama_kv_cache_find_slot(
                     // too big seq_id
                     // TODO: would it be possible to resize the cache instead?
                     LLAMA_LOG_ERROR("%s: seq_id=%d >= n_seq_max=%d Try using a bigger --parallel value\n", __func__, seq_id, cache.size);
-                    return false;
+                    return llama_kv_cache_slot_info_failed;
                 }
                 if (j > 0) {
                     llama_kv_cell & seq = cache.cells[seq_id];
@@ -3669,15 +3682,17 @@ static bool llama_kv_cache_find_slot(
         // allow getting the range of used cells, from head to head + n
         cache.head = min;
         cache.n    = max - min + 1;
+        cache.used = std::count_if(cache.cells.begin(), cache.cells.end(),
+            [](const llama_kv_cell& cell){ return !cell.is_empty(); });
 
         // sanity check
-        return cache.n >= n_seqs;
+        return llama_kv_cache_slot_info(cache.n >= n_seqs);
     }
     // otherwise, one cell per token.
 
     if (n_tokens > cache.size) {
         LLAMA_LOG_ERROR("%s: n_tokens=%d > cache.size=%d\n", __func__, n_tokens, cache.size);
-        return false;
+        return llama_kv_cache_slot_info_failed;
     }
 
     uint32_t n_tested = 0;
@@ -3705,7 +3720,7 @@ static bool llama_kv_cache_find_slot(
 
         if (n_tested >= cache.size) {
             //LLAMA_LOG_ERROR("%s: failed to find a slot for %d tokens\n", __func__, n_tokens);
-            return false;
+            return llama_kv_cache_slot_info_failed;
         }
     }
 
@@ -3722,7 +3737,7 @@ static bool llama_kv_cache_find_slot(
 
     cache.used += n_tokens;
 
-    return true;
+    return llama_kv_cache_slot_info(cache.head, cache.head + n_tokens);
 }
 
 // find how many cells are currently in use
@@ -3998,6 +4013,53 @@ static uint32_t llama_kv_cache_get_padding(const struct llama_cparams & cparams)
     return cparams.flash_attn ? 256u : 32u;
 }
 
+// saves the kv_cache state for future recovery.
+// used to rollback llama_kv_cache_find_slot changes.
+struct llama_kv_slot_restorer {
+    struct llama_kv_cache_state {
+        uint32_t head = 0;
+        uint32_t n    = 0;
+    } old_state;
+
+    // for non-recurrent models only
+    // list of slots to restore
+    std::vector<std::pair<uint32_t, uint32_t>> slot_boundaries;
+
+    bool do_restore = false;
+
+    explicit llama_kv_slot_restorer(const struct llama_kv_cache & cache) {
+        old_state.head  = cache.head;
+        old_state.n     = cache.n;
+    }
+
+    // saves a slot information for future restoration
+    void save(const struct llama_kv_cache_slot_info & slot) {
+        if (slot) {
+            do_restore = true;
+            if (slot.boundaries.first != slot.boundaries.second) {
+                slot_boundaries.push_back(slot.boundaries);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // must be explicitly called to restore the kv_cache state
+    // and rollback changes from all llama_kv_cache_find_slot calls
+    void restore(struct llama_kv_cache & cache) {
+        if (do_restore) {
+            cache.head  = old_state.head;
+            cache.n     = old_state.n;
+
+            if (cache.recurrent) { // recurrent models like Mamba or RWKV can't have a state partially erased
+                llama_kv_cache_seq_rm(cache, -1, -1, -1);
+            } else {
+                for (auto & slot : slot_boundaries) {
+                    llama_kv_cache_seq_rm(cache, -1, slot.first, slot.second);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+};
+
 //
 // model loading and saving
 //
@@ -17185,7 +17247,8 @@ static void llama_output_reorder(struct llama_context * ctx) {
     }
 }
 
-static void llama_graph_compute(
+// returns the result of ggml_backend_sched_graph_compute_async execution
+static enum ggml_status llama_graph_compute(
           llama_context & lctx,
             ggml_cgraph * gf,
                     int   n_threads,
@@ -17200,15 +17263,20 @@ static void llama_graph_compute(
         set_n_threads_fn.second(set_n_threads_fn.first, n_threads);
     }
 
-    auto err = ggml_backend_sched_graph_compute_async(lctx.sched.get(), gf);
-    if (err != GGML_STATUS_SUCCESS) {
-        LLAMA_LOG_ERROR("%s: ggml_backend_sched_graph_compute_async failed with error %d\n", __func__, err);
+    auto status = ggml_backend_sched_graph_compute_async(lctx.sched.get(), gf);
+    if (status != GGML_STATUS_SUCCESS) {
+        LLAMA_LOG_ERROR("%s: ggml_backend_sched_graph_compute_async failed with error %d\n", __func__, status);
     }
 
     // fprintf(stderr, "splits: %d\n", ggml_backend_sched_get_n_splits(lctx.sched));
+
+    return status;
 }
 
 // decode a batch of tokens by evaluating the transformer
+// in case of unsuccessful decoding (error or warning),
+// the kv_cache state will be returned to its original state
+// (for non-recurrent models) or cleaned (for recurrent models)
 //
 //   - lctx:      llama context
 //   - batch:     batch to evaluate
@@ -17258,6 +17326,7 @@ static int llama_decode_internal(
     lctx.n_queued_tokens += n_tokens_all;
 
     auto & kv_self = lctx.kv_self;
+    llama_kv_slot_restorer kv_slot_restorer(kv_self);
 
     const int64_t n_embd  = hparams.n_embd;
     const int64_t n_vocab = hparams.n_vocab;
@@ -17342,9 +17411,11 @@ static int llama_decode_internal(
                 kv_self.head = 0;
             }
 
-            if (!llama_kv_cache_find_slot(kv_self, ubatch)) {
+            const auto slot = llama_kv_cache_find_slot(kv_self, ubatch);
+            if (!slot) {
                 return 1;
             }
+            kv_slot_restorer.save(slot);
 
             if (!kv_self.recurrent) {
                 // a heuristic, to avoid attending the full cache if it is not yet utilized
@@ -17391,7 +17462,19 @@ static int llama_decode_internal(
 
         llama_set_inputs(lctx, ubatch);
 
-        llama_graph_compute(lctx, gf, n_threads, threadpool);
+        const auto compute_status = llama_graph_compute(lctx, gf, n_threads, threadpool);
+        if (compute_status != GGML_STATUS_SUCCESS) {
+            kv_slot_restorer.restore(kv_self);
+            switch (compute_status) {
+                case GGML_STATUS_ABORTED:
+                    return 2;
+                case GGML_STATUS_ALLOC_FAILED:
+                    return -2;
+                case GGML_STATUS_FAILED:
+                default:
+                    return -3;
+            }
+        }
 
         // update the kv ring buffer
         {
@@ -17628,7 +17711,18 @@ static int llama_encode_internal(
 
     llama_set_inputs(lctx, ubatch);
 
-    llama_graph_compute(lctx, gf, n_threads, threadpool);
+    const auto compute_status = llama_graph_compute(lctx, gf, n_threads, threadpool);
+    switch (compute_status) {
+        case GGML_STATUS_SUCCESS:
+            break;
+        case GGML_STATUS_ABORTED:
+            return 2;
+        case GGML_STATUS_ALLOC_FAILED:
+            return -2;
+        case GGML_STATUS_FAILED:
+        default:
+            return -3;
+    }
 
     // extract embeddings
     if (embd) {
diff --git a/tests/test-backend-ops.cpp b/tests/test-backend-ops.cpp
index 65be43281..6618d03d1 100644
--- a/tests/test-backend-ops.cpp
+++ b/tests/test-backend-ops.cpp
@@ -681,6 +681,7 @@ struct test_case {
 
         // run
         int64_t total_time_us = 0;
+        int64_t total_mem = 0;
         int total_runs = 0;
         do {
             int64_t start_time = ggml_time_us();
@@ -688,6 +689,7 @@ struct test_case {
             int64_t end_time = ggml_time_us();
 
             total_time_us += end_time - start_time;
+            total_mem += mem;
             total_runs += n_runs;
         } while (total_time_us < 1000*1000); // run for at least 1 second
 
@@ -717,7 +719,7 @@ struct test_case {
         } else {
             printf("%8zu kB/run - \033[1;34m%7.2f GB/s\033[0m",
                 op_size(out) / 1024,
-                mem / (total_time_us / 1e6) / 1024.0 / 1024.0 / 1024.0);
+                total_mem / (total_time_us / 1e6) / 1024.0 / 1024.0 / 1024.0);
         }
         printf("\n");
 
@@ -2740,6 +2742,13 @@ struct test_flash_attn_ext : public test_case {
         return 5e-4;
     }
 
+    uint64_t op_flops(ggml_tensor * t) override {
+        GGML_UNUSED(t);
+        // Just counting matmul costs:
+        // Q*K^T is nb x hs x kv, P*V is nb x kv x hs, per head
+        return 2 * 2 * nh * nb * hs * kv;
+    }
+
     test_flash_attn_ext(int64_t hs = 128, int64_t nh = 32, int64_t kv = 96, int64_t nb = 8,
                         bool mask = true, float max_bias = 0.0f, float logit_softcap = 0.0f, ggml_type type_KV = GGML_TYPE_F16)
         : hs(hs), nh(nh), kv(kv), nb(nb), mask(mask), max_bias(max_bias), logit_softcap(logit_softcap), type_KV(type_KV) {}
@@ -3779,6 +3788,8 @@ static std::vector<std::unique_ptr<test_case>> make_test_cases_perf() {
     test_cases.emplace_back(new test_bin_bcast(ggml_add, GGML_TYPE_F32, {4096, 1, 1, 1}, {1,   1, 1, 1}));
     test_cases.emplace_back(new test_bin_bcast(ggml_add, GGML_TYPE_F32, {4096, 1, 1, 1}, {1, 512, 1, 1}));
 
+    test_cases.emplace_back(new test_cpy(GGML_TYPE_F32, GGML_TYPE_F16, {512, 3072, 1, 1}));
+
     for (int bs : {1, 512}) {
         for (ggml_type type_a : all_types) {
             for (ggml_type type_b : {GGML_TYPE_F32}) {