diff --git a/common/common.cpp b/common/common.cpp
index c08f01b429056..2bc0b8800a939 100644
--- a/common/common.cpp
+++ b/common/common.cpp
@@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ struct common_init_result common_init_from_params(common_params & params) {
         }
 
         if (llama_model_has_encoder(model)) {
-            llama_encode(lctx, llama_batch_get_one(tmp.data(), tmp.size(), 0, 0));
+            llama_encode(lctx, llama_batch_get_one(tmp.data(), tmp.size()));
             llama_token decoder_start_token_id = llama_model_decoder_start_token(model);
             if (decoder_start_token_id == -1) {
                 decoder_start_token_id = bos;
@@ -964,7 +964,7 @@ struct common_init_result common_init_from_params(common_params & params) {
             tmp.push_back(decoder_start_token_id);
         }
         if (llama_model_has_decoder(model)) {
-            llama_decode(lctx, llama_batch_get_one(tmp.data(), std::min(tmp.size(), (size_t) params.n_batch), 0, 0));
+            llama_decode(lctx, llama_batch_get_one(tmp.data(), std::min(tmp.size(), (size_t) params.n_batch)));
         }
         llama_kv_cache_clear(lctx);
         llama_synchronize(lctx);
diff --git a/examples/batched-bench/batched-bench.cpp b/examples/batched-bench/batched-bench.cpp
index 81c3220ada0b0..a3b21ad6bce44 100644
--- a/examples/batched-bench/batched-bench.cpp
+++ b/examples/batched-bench/batched-bench.cpp
@@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
                 batch.n_seq_id + i,
                 batch.seq_id   + i,
                 batch.logits   + i,
-                0, 0, 0, // unused
             };
 
             const int ret = llama_decode(ctx, batch_view);
diff --git a/examples/cvector-generator/cvector-generator.cpp b/examples/cvector-generator/cvector-generator.cpp
index 69e141ecb94e4..d1731bba64e1b 100644
--- a/examples/cvector-generator/cvector-generator.cpp
+++ b/examples/cvector-generator/cvector-generator.cpp
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ static bool cb_eval(struct ggml_tensor * t, bool ask, void * user_data) {
 
 static bool get_hidden_layers(llama_context * ctx, std::vector<llama_token> & tokens) {
     llama_kv_cache_clear(ctx);
-    if (llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(tokens.data(), tokens.size(), 0, 0))) {
+    if (llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(tokens.data(), tokens.size()))) {
         fprintf(stderr, "%s : failed to eval\n", __func__);
         return false;
     }
diff --git a/examples/eval-callback/eval-callback.cpp b/examples/eval-callback/eval-callback.cpp
index fb52db4e151c8..c08e3e5f675ed 100644
--- a/examples/eval-callback/eval-callback.cpp
+++ b/examples/eval-callback/eval-callback.cpp
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static bool run(llama_context * ctx, const common_params & params) {
 
     std::vector<llama_token> tokens = common_tokenize(ctx, params.prompt, add_bos);
 
-    if (llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(tokens.data(), tokens.size(), 0, 0))) {
+    if (llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(tokens.data(), tokens.size()))) {
         LOG_ERR("%s : failed to eval\n", __func__);
         return false;
     }
diff --git a/examples/imatrix/imatrix.cpp b/examples/imatrix/imatrix.cpp
index d1ff3e8bc4c7f..70ff47768c02b 100644
--- a/examples/imatrix/imatrix.cpp
+++ b/examples/imatrix/imatrix.cpp
@@ -496,6 +496,8 @@ static bool compute_imatrix(llama_context * ctx, const common_params & params) {
         // clear the KV cache
         llama_kv_cache_clear(ctx);
 
+        llama_batch batch = llama_batch_init(n_batch, 0, 1);
+
         for (int j = 0; j < num_batches; ++j) {
             const int batch_start = start + j * n_batch;
             const int batch_size  = std::min(end - batch_start, n_batch);
@@ -508,9 +510,14 @@ static bool compute_imatrix(llama_context * ctx, const common_params & params) {
                 tokens[batch_start] = llama_token_bos(llama_get_model(ctx));
             }
 
-            // TODO: use batch.logits to save computations instead of relying on logits_all == true
-            if (llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(tokens.data() + batch_start, batch_size, j * n_batch, 0))) {
+            common_batch_clear(batch);
+            for (int i = 0; i < batch_size; i++) {
+                common_batch_add(batch, tokens[batch_start + i], j*n_batch + i, {0}, true);
+            }
+
+            if (llama_decode(ctx, batch)) {
                 LOG_ERR("%s : failed to eval\n", __func__);
+                llama_batch_free(batch);
                 return false;
             }
 
@@ -523,6 +530,8 @@ static bool compute_imatrix(llama_context * ctx, const common_params & params) {
             }
         }
 
+        llama_batch_free(batch);
+
         const auto t_end = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now();
 
         if (i == 0) {
diff --git a/examples/infill/infill.cpp b/examples/infill/infill.cpp
index f82c614f5706f..f18362c91c7bf 100644
--- a/examples/infill/infill.cpp
+++ b/examples/infill/infill.cpp
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
                 LOG_DBG("eval: %s\n", string_from(ctx, embd).c_str());
 
-                if (llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(&embd[i], n_eval, n_past, 0))) {
+                if (llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(&embd[i], n_eval))) {
                     LOG_ERR("%s : failed to eval\n", __func__);
                     return 1;
                 }
diff --git a/examples/llama-bench/llama-bench.cpp b/examples/llama-bench/llama-bench.cpp
index 60a7aef5bd355..4a8ea96764630 100644
--- a/examples/llama-bench/llama-bench.cpp
+++ b/examples/llama-bench/llama-bench.cpp
@@ -1428,7 +1428,7 @@ struct sql_printer : public printer {
     }
 };
 
-static void test_prompt(llama_context * ctx, int n_prompt, int n_past, int n_batch, int n_threads) {
+static void test_prompt(llama_context * ctx, int n_prompt, int n_batch, int n_threads) {
     llama_set_n_threads(ctx, n_threads, n_threads);
 
     const llama_model * model = llama_get_model(ctx);
@@ -1444,14 +1444,14 @@ static void test_prompt(llama_context * ctx, int n_prompt, int n_past, int n_bat
         for (int i = 1; i < n_tokens; i++) {
             tokens[i] = std::rand() % n_vocab;
         }
-        llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(tokens.data(), n_tokens, n_past + n_processed, 0));
+        llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(tokens.data(), n_tokens));
         n_processed += n_tokens;
     }
 
     llama_synchronize(ctx);
 }
 
-static void test_gen(llama_context * ctx, int n_gen, int n_past, int n_threads) {
+static void test_gen(llama_context * ctx, int n_gen, int n_threads) {
     llama_set_n_threads(ctx, n_threads, n_threads);
 
     const llama_model * model = llama_get_model(ctx);
@@ -1460,7 +1460,7 @@ static void test_gen(llama_context * ctx, int n_gen, int n_past, int n_threads)
     llama_token token = llama_add_bos_token(model) ? llama_token_bos(model) : std::rand() % n_vocab;
 
     for (int i = 0; i < n_gen; i++) {
-        llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(&token, 1, n_past + i, 0));
+        llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(&token, 1));
         llama_synchronize(ctx);
         token = std::rand() % n_vocab;
     }
@@ -1596,13 +1596,13 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
                 fprintf(stderr, "llama-bench: benchmark %d/%ld: warmup prompt run\n", params_idx, params_count);
             }
             //test_prompt(ctx, std::min(t.n_batch, std::min(t.n_prompt, 32)), 0, t.n_batch, t.n_threads);
-            test_prompt(ctx, t.n_prompt, 0, t.n_batch, t.n_threads);
+            test_prompt(ctx, t.n_prompt, t.n_batch, t.n_threads);
         }
         if (t.n_gen > 0) {
             if (params.progress) {
                 fprintf(stderr, "llama-bench: benchmark %d/%ld: warmup generation run\n", params_idx, params_count);
             }
-            test_gen(ctx, 1, 0, t.n_threads);
+            test_gen(ctx, 1, t.n_threads);
         }
 
         for (int i = 0; i < params.reps; i++) {
@@ -1614,13 +1614,13 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
                 if (params.progress) {
                     fprintf(stderr, "llama-bench: benchmark %d/%ld: prompt run %d/%d\n", params_idx, params_count, i + 1, params.reps);
                 }
-                test_prompt(ctx, t.n_prompt, 0, t.n_batch, t.n_threads);
+                test_prompt(ctx, t.n_prompt, t.n_batch, t.n_threads);
             }
             if (t.n_gen > 0) {
                 if (params.progress) {
                     fprintf(stderr, "llama-bench: benchmark %d/%ld: generation run %d/%d\n", params_idx, params_count, i + 1, params.reps);
                 }
-                test_gen(ctx, t.n_gen, t.n_prompt, t.n_threads);
+                test_gen(ctx, t.n_gen, t.n_threads);
             }
 
             uint64_t t_ns = get_time_ns() - t_start;
diff --git a/examples/llama.android/llama/src/main/cpp/llama-android.cpp b/examples/llama.android/llama/src/main/cpp/llama-android.cpp
index f5ffd063f8e2d..b3858ddfb6168 100644
--- a/examples/llama.android/llama/src/main/cpp/llama-android.cpp
+++ b/examples/llama.android/llama/src/main/cpp/llama-android.cpp
@@ -283,9 +283,6 @@ Java_android_llama_cpp_LLamaAndroid_new_1batch(JNIEnv *, jobject, jint n_tokens,
         nullptr,
         nullptr,
         nullptr,
-        0,
-        0,
-        0,
     };
 
     if (embd) {
diff --git a/examples/llava/llava-cli.cpp b/examples/llava/llava-cli.cpp
index 5f9abe2b62083..1610985858fc9 100644
--- a/examples/llava/llava-cli.cpp
+++ b/examples/llava/llava-cli.cpp
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ static bool eval_tokens(struct llama_context * ctx_llama, std::vector<llama_toke
         if (n_eval > n_batch) {
             n_eval = n_batch;
         }
-        if (llama_decode(ctx_llama, llama_batch_get_one(&tokens[i], n_eval, *n_past, 0))) {
+        if (llama_decode(ctx_llama, llama_batch_get_one(&tokens[i], n_eval))) {
             LOG_ERR("%s : failed to eval. token %d/%d (batch size %d, n_past %d)\n", __func__, i, N, n_batch, *n_past);
             return false;
         }
diff --git a/examples/llava/llava.cpp b/examples/llava/llava.cpp
index 2c96973c8ed31..be69885408433 100644
--- a/examples/llava/llava.cpp
+++ b/examples/llava/llava.cpp
@@ -401,6 +401,39 @@ bool llava_image_embed_make_with_clip_img(clip_ctx * ctx_clip, int n_threads, co
     return true;
 }
 
+struct llava_embd_batch {
+    std::vector<llama_pos>      pos;
+    std::vector<int32_t>        n_seq_id;
+    std::vector<llama_seq_id>   seq_id_0;
+    std::vector<llama_seq_id *> seq_ids;
+    std::vector<int8_t>         logits;
+    llama_batch batch;
+    llava_embd_batch(float * embd, int32_t n_tokens, llama_pos pos_0, llama_seq_id seq_id) {
+        pos     .resize(n_tokens);
+        n_seq_id.resize(n_tokens);
+        seq_ids .resize(n_tokens + 1);
+        logits  .resize(n_tokens);
+        seq_id_0.resize(1);
+        seq_id_0[0] = seq_id;
+        seq_ids [n_tokens] = nullptr;
+        batch = {
+            /*n_tokens       =*/ n_tokens,
+            /*tokens         =*/ nullptr,
+            /*embd           =*/ embd,
+            /*pos            =*/ pos.data(),
+            /*n_seq_id       =*/ n_seq_id.data(),
+            /*seq_id         =*/ seq_ids.data(),
+            /*logits         =*/ logits.data(),
+        };
+        for (int i = 0; i < n_tokens; i++) {
+            batch.pos     [i] = pos_0 + i;
+            batch.n_seq_id[i] = 1;
+            batch.seq_id  [i] = seq_id_0.data();
+            batch.logits  [i] = false;
+        }
+    }
+};
+
 bool llava_eval_image_embed(llama_context * ctx_llama, const struct llava_image_embed * image_embed, int n_batch, int * n_past) {
     int n_embd  = llama_n_embd(llama_get_model(ctx_llama));
 
@@ -409,8 +442,9 @@ bool llava_eval_image_embed(llama_context * ctx_llama, const struct llava_image_
         if (n_eval > n_batch) {
             n_eval = n_batch;
         }
-        llama_batch batch = {int32_t(n_eval), nullptr, (image_embed->embed+i*n_embd), nullptr, nullptr, nullptr, nullptr, *n_past, 1, 0, };
-        if (llama_decode(ctx_llama, batch)) {
+        float * embd = image_embed->embed+i*n_embd;
+        llava_embd_batch llava_batch = llava_embd_batch(embd, n_eval, *n_past, 0);
+        if (llama_decode(ctx_llama, llava_batch.batch)) {
             LOG_ERR("%s : failed to eval\n", __func__);
             return false;
         }
diff --git a/examples/llava/minicpmv-cli.cpp b/examples/llava/minicpmv-cli.cpp
index 6b666de1b7ea1..cbecec343c640 100644
--- a/examples/llava/minicpmv-cli.cpp
+++ b/examples/llava/minicpmv-cli.cpp
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ static bool eval_tokens(struct llama_context * ctx_llama, std::vector<llama_toke
         if (n_eval > n_batch) {
             n_eval = n_batch;
         }
-        if (llama_decode(ctx_llama, llama_batch_get_one(&tokens[i], n_eval, *n_past, 0))) {
+        if (llama_decode(ctx_llama, llama_batch_get_one(&tokens[i], n_eval))) {
             LOG_ERR("%s : failed to eval. token %d/%d (batch size %d, n_past %d)\n", __func__, i, N, n_batch, *n_past);
             return false;
         }
diff --git a/examples/lookahead/lookahead.cpp b/examples/lookahead/lookahead.cpp
index f9e4aba81c403..3c0ccfea2ccd7 100644
--- a/examples/lookahead/lookahead.cpp
+++ b/examples/lookahead/lookahead.cpp
@@ -89,8 +89,8 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     const auto t_enc_start = ggml_time_us();
 
     // eval the prompt
-    llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one( inp.data(), n_input - 1, 0,           0));
-    llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(&inp.back(),           1, n_input - 1, 0));
+    llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one( inp.data(), n_input - 1));
+    llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(&inp.back(),           1));
 
     for (int s = 1; s < W + G + 1; ++s) {
         llama_kv_cache_seq_cp(ctx, 0, s, -1, -1);
diff --git a/examples/lookup/lookup.cpp b/examples/lookup/lookup.cpp
index 82fc7d46621fb..a04728b1834cc 100644
--- a/examples/lookup/lookup.cpp
+++ b/examples/lookup/lookup.cpp
@@ -89,8 +89,8 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv){
 
     const auto t_enc_start = ggml_time_us();
 
-    llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one( inp.data(), n_input - 1, 0,           0));
-    llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(&inp.back(),           1, n_input - 1, 0));
+    llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one( inp.data(), n_input - 1));
+    llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(&inp.back(),           1));
 
     const auto t_enc_end = ggml_time_us();
 
diff --git a/examples/main/main.cpp b/examples/main/main.cpp
index 65483c45f3f92..374ed47ad6311 100644
--- a/examples/main/main.cpp
+++ b/examples/main/main.cpp
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         int enc_input_size = embd_inp.size();
         llama_token * enc_input_buf = embd_inp.data();
 
-        if (llama_encode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(enc_input_buf, enc_input_size, 0, 0))) {
+        if (llama_encode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(enc_input_buf, enc_input_size))) {
             LOG_ERR("%s : failed to eval\n", __func__);
             return 1;
         }
@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
                 LOG_DBG("eval: %s\n", string_from(ctx, embd).c_str());
 
-                if (llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(&embd[i], n_eval, n_past, 0))) {
+                if (llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(&embd[i], n_eval))) {
                     LOG_ERR("%s : failed to eval\n", __func__);
                     return 1;
                 }
diff --git a/examples/parallel/parallel.cpp b/examples/parallel/parallel.cpp
index 20274c1479a47..43c8f3ed56ba9 100644
--- a/examples/parallel/parallel.cpp
+++ b/examples/parallel/parallel.cpp
@@ -308,7 +308,6 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
                 batch.n_seq_id + i,
                 batch.seq_id   + i,
                 batch.logits   + i,
-                0, 0, 0, // unused
             };
 
             const int ret = llama_decode(ctx, batch_view);
diff --git a/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp b/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp
index efb41b80a3df3..e803ff143f7d1 100644
--- a/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp
+++ b/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp
@@ -408,14 +408,21 @@ static results_perplexity perplexity_v2(llama_context * ctx, const common_params
         // clear the KV cache
         llama_kv_cache_clear(ctx);
 
+        llama_batch batch = llama_batch_init(n_batch, 0, 1);
+
         for (int j = 0; j < num_batches; ++j) {
             const int batch_start = start + j * n_batch;
             const int batch_size  = std::min(end - batch_start, n_batch);
 
+            common_batch_clear(batch);
+            for (int i = 0; i < batch_size; i++) {
+                common_batch_add(batch, tokens[batch_start + i], j*n_batch + i, {0}, true);
+            }
+
             //LOG_DBG("    Batch %d: starts at %d, size is %d, n_past is %d\n",j,batch_start,batch_size,j * n_batch);
-            // TODO: use llama_batch.logits instead of relying on logits_all == true
-            if (llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(tokens.data() + batch_start, batch_size, j * n_batch, 0))) {
+            if (llama_decode(ctx, batch)) {
                 //LOG_ERR("%s : failed to eval\n", __func__);
+                llama_batch_free(batch);
                 return {tokens, -1, logit_history, prob_history};
             }
 
@@ -435,6 +442,8 @@ static results_perplexity perplexity_v2(llama_context * ctx, const common_params
             }
         }
 
+        llama_batch_free(batch);
+
         const auto t_end = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now();
 
         if (i == 0) {
@@ -704,7 +713,6 @@ static bool decode_helper(llama_context * ctx, llama_batch & batch, std::vector<
             batch.n_seq_id + i,
             batch.seq_id   + i,
             batch.logits   + i,
-            0, 0, 0, // unused
         };
 
         const int ret = llama_decode(ctx, batch_view);
@@ -1791,6 +1799,8 @@ static void kl_divergence(llama_context * ctx, const common_params & params) {
         // clear the KV cache
         llama_kv_cache_clear(ctx);
 
+        llama_batch batch = llama_batch_init(n_batch, 0, 1);
+
         for (int j = 0; j < num_batches; ++j) {
             const int batch_start = start + j * n_batch;
             const int batch_size  = std::min(end - batch_start, n_batch);
@@ -1803,9 +1813,14 @@ static void kl_divergence(llama_context * ctx, const common_params & params) {
                 tokens[batch_start] = llama_token_bos(llama_get_model(ctx));
             }
 
-            // TODO: use llama_batch.logits instead of relying on logits_all == true
-            if (llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(tokens.data() + batch_start, batch_size, j * n_batch, 0))) {
+            common_batch_clear(batch);
+            for (int i = 0; i < batch_size; i++) {
+                common_batch_add(batch, tokens[batch_start + i], j*n_batch + i, {0}, true);
+            }
+
+            if (llama_decode(ctx, batch)) {
                 LOG_ERR("%s : failed to eval\n", __func__);
+                llama_batch_free(batch);
                 return;
             }
 
@@ -1818,6 +1833,8 @@ static void kl_divergence(llama_context * ctx, const common_params & params) {
             }
         }
 
+        llama_batch_free(batch);
+
         const auto t_end = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now();
 
         if (i == 0) {
diff --git a/examples/save-load-state/save-load-state.cpp b/examples/save-load-state/save-load-state.cpp
index 3866cfa27e13e..5f60a86cbc2d2 100644
--- a/examples/save-load-state/save-load-state.cpp
+++ b/examples/save-load-state/save-load-state.cpp
@@ -48,9 +48,16 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     // tokenize prompt
     auto tokens = common_tokenize(ctx, params.prompt, true);
 
+    // prepare the batch
+    llama_batch batch = llama_batch_init(tokens.size(), 0, 1);
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < tokens.size(); i++) {
+        common_batch_add(batch, tokens[i], i, {0}, false);
+    }
+    batch.logits[batch.n_tokens - 1] = true; // generate next token
+
     // evaluate prompt
-    llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(tokens.data(), tokens.size(), n_past, 0));
-    n_past += tokens.size();
+    llama_decode(ctx, batch);
+    n_past += batch.n_tokens;
 
     // save state (rng, logits, embedding and kv_cache) to file
     {
@@ -77,8 +84,12 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         printf("%s", next_token_str.c_str());
         result0 += next_token_str;
 
-        if (llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(&next_token, 1, n_past, 0))) {
+        common_batch_clear(batch);
+        common_batch_add(batch, next_token, n_past, {0}, true);
+
+        if (llama_decode(ctx, batch)) {
             fprintf(stderr, "\n%s : failed to evaluate\n", __func__);
+            llama_batch_free(batch);
             llama_free(ctx);
             llama_free_model(model);
             return 1;
@@ -133,8 +144,12 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         printf("%s", next_token_str.c_str());
         result1 += next_token_str;
 
-        if (llama_decode(ctx2, llama_batch_get_one(&next_token, 1, n_past, 0))) {
+        common_batch_clear(batch);
+        common_batch_add(batch, next_token, n_past, {0}, true);
+
+        if (llama_decode(ctx2, batch)) {
             fprintf(stderr, "\n%s : failed to evaluate\n", __func__);
+            llama_batch_free(batch);
             llama_free(ctx2);
             llama_free_model(model);
             return 1;
@@ -221,8 +236,12 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         printf("%s", next_token_str.c_str());
         result2 += next_token_str;
 
-        if (llama_decode(ctx3, llama_batch_get_one(&next_token, 1, n_past, 1))) {
+        common_batch_clear(batch);
+        common_batch_add(batch, next_token, n_past, {1}, true);
+
+        if (llama_decode(ctx3, batch)) {
             fprintf(stderr, "\n%s : failed to evaluate\n", __func__);
+            llama_batch_free(batch);
             llama_free(ctx3);
             llama_free_model(model);
             return 1;
@@ -236,6 +255,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     llama_sampler_free(smpl2);
     llama_sampler_free(smpl3);
 
+    llama_batch_free(batch);
     llama_free(ctx3);
     llama_free_model(model);
 
diff --git a/examples/server/server.cpp b/examples/server/server.cpp
index 8fd4438784662..3992108e7f383 100644
--- a/examples/server/server.cpp
+++ b/examples/server/server.cpp
@@ -2326,7 +2326,6 @@ struct server_context {
                 batch.n_seq_id + i,
                 batch.seq_id   + i,
                 batch.logits   + i,
-                0, 0, 0, // unused
             };
 
             const int ret = llama_decode(ctx, batch_view);
diff --git a/examples/simple/simple.cpp b/examples/simple/simple.cpp
index be91b2891db78..59760fe95db22 100644
--- a/examples/simple/simple.cpp
+++ b/examples/simple/simple.cpp
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
     // prepare a batch for the prompt
 
-    llama_batch batch = llama_batch_get_one(prompt_tokens.data(), prompt_tokens.size(), 0, 0);
+    llama_batch batch = llama_batch_get_one(prompt_tokens.data(), prompt_tokens.size());
 
     // main loop
 
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
             fflush(stdout);
 
             // prepare the next batch with the sampled token
-            batch = llama_batch_get_one(&new_token_id, 1, n_pos, 0);
+            batch = llama_batch_get_one(&new_token_id, 1);
 
             n_decode += 1;
         }
diff --git a/examples/speculative/speculative.cpp b/examples/speculative/speculative.cpp
index 5a7b3084fd7c5..b201bd714a447 100644
--- a/examples/speculative/speculative.cpp
+++ b/examples/speculative/speculative.cpp
@@ -155,9 +155,9 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     const auto t_enc_start = ggml_time_us();
 
     // eval the prompt with both models
-    llama_decode(ctx_tgt, llama_batch_get_one( inp.data(), n_input - 1, 0,           0));
-    llama_decode(ctx_tgt, llama_batch_get_one(&inp.back(),           1, n_input - 1, 0));
-    llama_decode(ctx_dft, llama_batch_get_one( inp.data(), n_input,     0,           0));
+    llama_decode(ctx_tgt, llama_batch_get_one( inp.data(), n_input - 1));
+    llama_decode(ctx_tgt, llama_batch_get_one(&inp.back(),           1));
+    llama_decode(ctx_dft, llama_batch_get_one( inp.data(), n_input));
 
     const auto t_enc_end = ggml_time_us();
 
diff --git a/include/llama.h b/include/llama.h
index 1a13360c21e3a..2558e9267905b 100644
--- a/include/llama.h
+++ b/include/llama.h
@@ -232,8 +232,11 @@ extern "C" {
     // - token  : the token ids of the input (used when embd is NULL)
     // - embd   : token embeddings (i.e. float vector of size n_embd) (used when token is NULL)
     // - pos    : the positions of the respective token in the sequence
+    //            (if set to NULL, the token position will be tracked automatically by llama_decode)
     // - seq_id : the sequence to which the respective token belongs
+    //            (if set to NULL, the sequence ID will be assumed to be 0)
     // - logits : if zero, the logits (and/or the embeddings) for the respective token will not be output
+    //            (if set to NULL, only the logits for last token will be returned)
     //
     typedef struct llama_batch {
         int32_t n_tokens;
@@ -244,15 +247,6 @@ extern "C" {
         int32_t      *  n_seq_id;
         llama_seq_id ** seq_id;
         int8_t       *  logits; // TODO: rename this to "output"
-
-        // NOTE: helpers for smooth API transition - can be deprecated in the future
-        //       for future-proof code, use the above fields instead and ignore everything below
-        //
-        // pos[i] = all_pos_0 + i*all_pos_1
-        //
-        llama_pos    all_pos_0;  // used if pos == NULL
-        llama_pos    all_pos_1;  // used if pos == NULL
-        llama_seq_id all_seq_id; // used if seq_id == NULL
     } llama_batch;
 
     enum llama_model_kv_override_type {
@@ -776,15 +770,15 @@ extern "C" {
     // Decoding
     //
 
-    // Return batch for single sequence of tokens starting at pos_0
+    // Return batch for single sequence of tokens
+    // The sequence ID will be fixed to 0
+    // The position of the tokens will be tracked automatically by llama_decode
     //
     // NOTE: this is a helper function to facilitate transition to the new batch API - avoid using it
     //
     LLAMA_API struct llama_batch llama_batch_get_one(
                   llama_token * tokens,
-                      int32_t   n_tokens,
-                    llama_pos   pos_0,
-                 llama_seq_id   seq_id);
+                      int32_t   n_tokens);
 
     // Allocates a batch of tokens on the heap that can hold a maximum of n_tokens
     // Each token can be assigned up to n_seq_max sequence ids
diff --git a/src/llama.cpp b/src/llama.cpp
index 10c975bf463e1..1813dd29be2b2 100644
--- a/src/llama.cpp
+++ b/src/llama.cpp
@@ -2949,9 +2949,6 @@ struct llama_sbatch_seq {
     llama_seq_id * seq_id;
     size_t offset;
     size_t length;
-
-    // helper for smoother batch API transition -- can be deprecated in the future
-    llama_seq_id all_seq_id; // used if seq_id == NULL
 };
 
 // sequence-length-aware batch splitting
@@ -3046,30 +3043,18 @@ struct llama_sbatch {
         } else {
             ubatch.embd = nullptr;
         }
-        // from here on, the else branches are deprecated;
-        // they are helpers for smoother batch API transition
-        if (batch->pos) {
-            if (ubatch.equal_seqs) {
-                for (size_t i = 0; i < length; ++i) {
-                    ubatch.pos[ubatch.n_tokens + i] = batch->pos[ids[seq.offset + i]];
-                }
-            } else {
-                // simple split
-                ubatch.pos = batch->pos + seq.offset;
-            }
-        } else {
+        if (ubatch.equal_seqs) {
             for (size_t i = 0; i < length; ++i) {
-                llama_pos bi = ids[seq.offset + i];
-                ubatch.pos[ubatch.n_tokens + i] = batch->all_pos_0 + (bi * batch->all_pos_1);
+                ubatch.pos[ubatch.n_tokens + i] = batch->pos[ids[seq.offset + i]];
             }
+        } else {
+            // simple split
+            ubatch.pos = batch->pos + seq.offset;
         }
         if (ubatch.equal_seqs) {
             ubatch.n_seq_id[ubatch.n_seqs] = seq.n_seq_id;
             if (seq.seq_id) {
                 ubatch.seq_id[ubatch.n_seqs] = seq.seq_id;
-            } else {
-                GGML_ASSERT(seq.n_seq_id == 1);
-                ubatch.seq_id[ubatch.n_seqs] = &seq.all_seq_id;
             }
         } else {
             // simple split
@@ -3082,10 +3067,6 @@ struct llama_sbatch {
             }
             if (batch->seq_id) {
                 ubatch.seq_id = batch->seq_id + seq.offset;
-            } else {
-                for (size_t i = 0; i < length; ++i) {
-                    ubatch.seq_id[ubatch.n_seqs + i] = &seq.all_seq_id;
-                }
             }
         }
         if (logits_all) {
@@ -3204,7 +3185,6 @@ struct llama_sbatch {
             s.seq_id = nullptr;
             s.offset = 0;
             s.length = n_tokens;
-            s.all_seq_id = batch.all_seq_id;
             return;
         }
         std::sort(ids.begin(), ids.end(),
@@ -3227,7 +3207,7 @@ struct llama_sbatch {
                     if (batch.pos) {
                         return batch.pos[a] < batch.pos[b];
                     }
-                    // no pos, sort by id (assuming batch.all_pos_1 is positive)
+                    // no pos, sort by id
                     return a < b;
                 }
                 // shared prompts go first
@@ -3237,30 +3217,25 @@ struct llama_sbatch {
         // init seq
         llama_sbatch_seq * last_seq = nullptr;
 
-        if (batch.n_seq_id != nullptr && batch.seq_id != nullptr) {
-            for (size_t i = 0; i < n_tokens; ++i) {
-                const size_t bi = ids[i];
-                const int32_t n_seqs = batch.n_seq_id[bi];
-                llama_seq_id * seq_ids = batch.seq_id[bi];
-                if (last_seq != nullptr) {
-                    bool same = n_seqs == last_seq->n_seq_id;
-                    for (int32_t j = 0; same && j < n_seqs; ++j) {
-                        if (seq_ids[j] != last_seq->seq_id[j]) {
-                            same = false;
-                        }
-                    }
-                    if (same) {
-                        last_seq->length += 1;
-                        continue;
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < n_tokens; ++i) {
+            const size_t bi = ids[i];
+            const int32_t n_seqs = batch.n_seq_id[bi];
+            llama_seq_id * seq_ids = batch.seq_id[bi];
+            if (last_seq != nullptr) {
+                bool same = n_seqs == last_seq->n_seq_id;
+                for (int32_t j = 0; same && j < n_seqs; ++j) {
+                    if (seq_ids[j] != last_seq->seq_id[j]) {
+                        same = false;
                     }
                 }
-                llama_sbatch_seq new_seq = {n_seqs, seq_ids, i, 1, batch.all_seq_id};
-                seq.push_back(new_seq);
-                last_seq = &seq.back();
+                if (same) {
+                    last_seq->length += 1;
+                    continue;
+                }
             }
-        } else {
-            llama_sbatch_seq new_seq = {1, nullptr, 0, n_tokens, batch.all_seq_id};
+            llama_sbatch_seq new_seq = {n_seqs, seq_ids, i, 1};
             seq.push_back(new_seq);
+            last_seq = &seq.back();
         }
         // keep shared prompts first at the end, then sort by length descending.
         std::sort(seq.begin(), seq.end(),
@@ -21096,9 +21071,7 @@ void llama_set_causal_attn(struct llama_context * ctx, bool causal_attn) {
 
 struct llama_batch llama_batch_get_one(
              llama_token * tokens,
-                 int32_t   n_tokens,
-               llama_pos   pos_0,
-            llama_seq_id   seq_id) {
+                 int32_t   n_tokens) {
     return {
         /*n_tokens       =*/ n_tokens,
         /*tokens         =*/ tokens,
@@ -21107,9 +21080,6 @@ struct llama_batch llama_batch_get_one(
         /*n_seq_id       =*/ nullptr,
         /*seq_id         =*/ nullptr,
         /*logits         =*/ nullptr,
-        /*all_pos_0      =*/ pos_0,
-        /*all_pos_1      =*/ 1,
-        /*all_seq_id     =*/ seq_id,
     };
 }
 
@@ -21122,9 +21092,6 @@ struct llama_batch llama_batch_init(int32_t n_tokens_alloc, int32_t embd, int32_
         /*n_seq_id       =*/ nullptr,
         /*seq_id         =*/ nullptr,
         /*logits         =*/ nullptr,
-        /*all_pos_0      =*/ 0,
-        /*all_pos_1      =*/ 0,
-        /*all_seq_id     =*/ 0,
     };
 
     if (embd) {
@@ -21160,11 +21127,62 @@ void llama_batch_free(struct llama_batch batch) {
     if (batch.logits)   free(batch.logits);
 }
 
+// temporary allocate memory for the input batch if needed
+static const llama_seq_id batch_default_seq_id = 0;
+struct llama_batch_allocr {
+    std::array<llama_seq_id, 1> seq_id_0 = {batch_default_seq_id};
+    std::vector<llama_pos>      pos;
+    std::vector<int32_t>        n_seq_id;
+    std::vector<llama_seq_id *> seq_id;
+    std::vector<int8_t>         logits;
+    struct llama_batch          batch;
+    // optionally fulfill the batch returned by llama_batch_get_one
+    llama_batch_allocr(struct llama_context * ctx, struct llama_batch in_batch) {
+        batch = in_batch;
+        if (!batch.pos) {
+            // determine the last position in KV cache
+            llama_pos last_pos = -1;
+            for (const auto & cell : ctx->kv_self.cells) {
+                if (cell.has_seq_id(batch_default_seq_id)) {
+                    last_pos = std::max(last_pos, cell.pos);
+                }
+            }
+            last_pos++; // next position
+            pos.resize(batch.n_tokens);
+            for (int32_t i = 0; i < batch.n_tokens; i++) {
+                pos[i] = i+last_pos;
+            }
+            batch.pos = pos.data();
+        }
+        if (!batch.n_seq_id) {
+            n_seq_id.resize(batch.n_tokens);
+            for (int32_t i = 0; i < batch.n_tokens; i++) {
+                n_seq_id[i] = seq_id_0.size();
+            }
+            batch.n_seq_id = n_seq_id.data();
+        }
+        if (!batch.seq_id) {
+            seq_id.resize(batch.n_tokens + 1);
+            seq_id[batch.n_tokens] = NULL;
+            for (int32_t i = 0; i < batch.n_tokens; i++) {
+                seq_id[i] = seq_id_0.data();
+            }
+            batch.seq_id = seq_id.data();
+        }
+        if (!batch.logits) {
+            logits.resize(batch.n_tokens);
+            logits[logits.size() - 1] = true;
+            batch.logits = logits.data();
+        }
+    }
+};
+
 int32_t llama_encode(
         struct llama_context * ctx,
           struct llama_batch   batch) {
-    const int ret = llama_encode_internal(*ctx, batch);
-    if (ret < 0) {
+    llama_batch_allocr batch_allocr(ctx, batch);
+    const int ret = llama_encode_internal(*ctx, batch_allocr.batch);
+    if (ret != 0) {
         LLAMA_LOG_ERROR("%s: failed to encode, ret = %d\n", __func__, ret);
     }
 
@@ -21174,8 +21192,9 @@ int32_t llama_encode(
 int32_t llama_decode(
         struct llama_context * ctx,
           struct llama_batch   batch) {
-    const int ret = llama_decode_internal(*ctx, batch);
-    if (ret < 0) {
+    llama_batch_allocr batch_allocr(ctx, batch);
+    const int ret = llama_decode_internal(*ctx, batch_allocr.batch);
+    if (ret != 0) {
         LLAMA_LOG_ERROR("%s: failed to decode, ret = %d\n", __func__, ret);
     }