diff --git a/backends/llamacpp/csrc/backend.cpp b/backends/llamacpp/csrc/backend.cpp
index daf8de54..f2f5d4c6 100644
--- a/backends/llamacpp/csrc/backend.cpp
+++ b/backends/llamacpp/csrc/backend.cpp
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ namespace huggingface::tgi::backends::llamacpp {
             batch.token[i] = input_tokens[i];
             batch.pos[i] = i;
             batch.n_seq_id[i] = 1;
-            batch.seq_id[i] = 0;
+            batch.seq_id[i] = nullptr;
             batch.logits[i] = false;
             ++batch.n_tokens;
         }
@@ -84,13 +84,12 @@ namespace huggingface::tgi::backends::llamacpp {
             const generation_context_t &generation_context,
             const std::optional<llama_decode_callback> &callback) const {
         // Store information about context and generation size
-        auto prompt_length = std::ssize(generation_context.input_tokens);
         auto max_new_tokens = generation_context.generation_params.max_new_tokens;
 
         // Convert sampling params to what llama.cpp is looking for
         auto sampler = generation_context.sampling_params.into_llama_sampler(mModel_.get());
 
-        // Setup the prompt
+        // Set up the prompt
         auto copy = std::vector(generation_context.input_tokens.begin(), generation_context.input_tokens.end());
         auto batch = llama_batch_get_one(copy.data(), copy.size());
 
@@ -168,4 +167,15 @@ namespace huggingface::tgi::backends::llamacpp {
     ) {
         return mWorker_.generate(mContext_.get(), {generation_params, sampling_params, tokens, out}, callback);
     }
+
+    std::expected<size_t, backend_error_t>
+    multi_worker_backend_t::generate(
+            std::span<const llama_token>,
+            std::span<llama_token>,
+            const generation_params_t &generation_params,
+            const sampling_params_t &sampling_params,
+            const std::optional<llama_decode_callback> &callback) {
+        SPDLOG_ERROR("Not implemented yet");
+        return 0uz;
+    }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/backends/llamacpp/csrc/backend.hpp b/backends/llamacpp/csrc/backend.hpp
index e7545a3c..871490f2 100644
--- a/backends/llamacpp/csrc/backend.hpp
+++ b/backends/llamacpp/csrc/backend.hpp
@@ -180,8 +180,20 @@ namespace huggingface::tgi::backends::llamacpp {
                 const sampling_params_t &sampling_params,
                 const std::optional<llama_decode_callback> &callback
         ) override;
+    };
 
+    class multi_worker_backend_t : backend_base_t {
+    private:
+        llama_context_smart_ptr mContext_;
 
+    public:
+        std::expected<size_t, backend_error_t> generate(
+                std::span<const llama_token>,
+                std::span<llama_token>,
+                const generation_params_t &generation_params,
+                const sampling_params_t &sampling_params,
+                const std::optional<llama_decode_callback> &callback
+        ) override;
     };
 }
 
diff --git a/backends/llamacpp/csrc/ffi.hpp b/backends/llamacpp/csrc/ffi.hpp
index d15728b9..18254114 100644
--- a/backends/llamacpp/csrc/ffi.hpp
+++ b/backends/llamacpp/csrc/ffi.hpp
@@ -12,36 +12,92 @@
 #include <spdlog/spdlog.h>
 #include "backend.hpp"
 
-namespace huggingface::tgi::backends::llamacpp::impl {
-    class LlamaCppBackendImpl;
+namespace huggingface::tgi::backends::llamacpp {
+    struct generation_params_t;
+    struct sampling_params_t;
+
+    class llama_cpp_backend_impl_t;
 }
 
 
 #include "backends/llamacpp/src/lib.rs.h"
 
 
-namespace huggingface::tgi::backends::llamacpp::impl {
+namespace huggingface::tgi::backends::llamacpp {
 
-    class LlamaCppBackendException : std::exception {
+    // Concept identifying types which have a .generate() -> size_t method to do in-place generation
+    template<typename T>
+    concept has_emplace_generate = requires(
+            T t,
+            std::span<const llama_token> input_tokens,
+            std::span<llama_token> generated_tokens,
+            const generation_params_t &generation_params,
+            const sampling_params_t &sampling_params,
+            llama_decode_callback callback
+    ) {
+        {
+        t.generate(input_tokens, generated_tokens, generation_params, sampling_params, callback)
+        } -> std::same_as<std::expected<size_t, backend_error_t>>;
+    };
+
+    static_assert(has_emplace_generate<single_worker_backend_t>,
+                  "single_worker_backend_t doesn't meet concept is_generate_emplace_capable");
+    static_assert(has_emplace_generate<multi_worker_backend_t>,
+                  "multi_worker_backend_t doesn't meet concept is_generate_emplace_capable");
+
+    class llama_cpp_backend_exception_t : std::exception {
 
     };
 
-    class LlamaCppBackendImpl {
+    /**
+     * Llama.cpp backend interfacing with Rust FFI layer
+     */
+    class llama_cpp_backend_impl_t {
     private:
-        BackendBase _inner;
+        std::variant<single_worker_backend_t, multi_worker_backend_t> mInner_;
 
     public:
-        LlamaCppBackendImpl(llama_model *model) : _inner(model) {}
+        explicit llama_cpp_backend_impl_t(single_worker_backend_t &&backend) : mInner_(std::move(backend)) {}
+
+        explicit llama_cpp_backend_impl_t(multi_worker_backend_t &&backend) : mInner_(std::move(backend)) {}
+
+        size_t generate(
+                rust::Slice<const uint32_t> input_tokens,
+                rust::Slice <uint32_t> generated_tokens,
+                const generation_params_t &generation_params,
+                const sampling_params_t &sampling_params,
+                rust::Fn<void(uint32_t, bool)> callback
+        ) {
+            // Define the visitor lambda function which requires the has_emplace_generate constraint on T
+            static auto inner_fw = [=, &generation_params, &sampling_params]<has_emplace_generate T>(T &&backend)
+                    -> std::expected<size_t, backend_error_t> {
+
+                // Ask the compiler to create view over Rust slice transmuting from uint32_t* to int32_t*
+                auto input_tokens_v =
+                        std::span(reinterpret_cast<const llama_token *>(input_tokens.data()), input_tokens.size());
+                auto generated_tokens_v =
+                        std::span(reinterpret_cast<llama_token *>(generated_tokens.data()), generated_tokens.size());
+
+                return backend.generate(
+                        input_tokens_v, generated_tokens_v, generation_params, sampling_params, callback);
+            };
+
+            if (const auto result = std::visit(inner_fw, mInner_); result.has_value()) {
+                return *result;
+            } else {
+                throw llama_cpp_backend_exception_t();
+            }
+        }
     };
 
-    std::unique_ptr<LlamaCppBackendImpl> CreateLlamaCppBackendImpl(rust::Str modelPath, uint16_t nThreads) {
-        const auto cxxPath = std::string_view(modelPath);
-        if (auto maybe = TgiLlamaCppBackend::FromGGUF(std::filesystem::path(cxxPath), nThreads); maybe.has_value()) {
-            auto [model, context] = *maybe;
-            return std::make_unique<LlamaCppBackendImpl>(model, context);
-        } else {
-            throw LlamaCppBackendException();
-        }
+    std::unique_ptr<llama_cpp_backend_impl_t> create_single_worker_backend(rust::Str modelPath) {
+        const auto cxxPath = std::string(modelPath);
+        auto params = llama_model_default_params();
+        params.use_mmap = true;
+
+        auto *model = llama_load_model_from_file(cxxPath.c_str(), params);
+        auto backend = single_worker_backend_t(model, std::nullopt);
+        return std::make_unique<llama_cpp_backend_impl_t>(std::move(backend));
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/backends/llamacpp/src/backend.rs b/backends/llamacpp/src/backend.rs
index af50470d..6e9e8d2d 100644
--- a/backends/llamacpp/src/backend.rs
+++ b/backends/llamacpp/src/backend.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-use crate::ffi::{create_llamacpp_backend, LlamaCppBackendImpl};
+use crate::ffi::{
+    create_single_worker_backend, GenerationParams, LlamaCppBackendImpl, SamplingParams,
+};
 use async_trait::async_trait;
 use cxx::{Exception, UniquePtr};
-use std::ops::Deref;
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::thread::spawn;
@@ -25,10 +26,7 @@ pub enum LlamaCppBackendError {
 pub struct LlamaCppBackend {}
 
 impl LlamaCppBackend {
-    pub fn new<P: AsRef<Path> + Send>(
-        model_path: P,
-        n_threads: u16,
-    ) -> Result<Self, LlamaCppBackendError> {
+    pub fn new<P: AsRef<Path> + Send>(model_path: P) -> Result<Self, LlamaCppBackendError> {
         let path = Arc::new(model_path.as_ref());
         if !path.exists() {
             return Err(LlamaCppBackendError::ModelFileDoesntExist(
@@ -36,13 +34,12 @@ impl LlamaCppBackend {
             ));
         }
 
-        let mut backend =
-            create_llamacpp_backend(path.to_str().unwrap(), n_threads).map_err(|err| {
-                LlamaCppBackendError::ModelInitializationFailed(
-                    path.to_path_buf(),
-                    err.what().to_string(),
-                )
-            })?;
+        let mut backend = create_single_worker_backend(path.to_str().unwrap()).map_err(|err| {
+            LlamaCppBackendError::ModelInitializationFailed(
+                path.to_path_buf(),
+                err.what().to_string(),
+            )
+        })?;
 
         info!(
             "Successfully initialized llama.cpp backend from {}",
@@ -57,12 +54,20 @@ impl LlamaCppBackend {
 
 fn scheduler_loop(mut backend: UniquePtr<LlamaCppBackendImpl>) {
     println!("Scheduler loop");
-    let tokens = [128000i32, 5159, 836, 374, 23809];
-    let mut generated = vec![0i32; 128];
-    match backend
-        .pin_mut()
-        .generate(&tokens, &mut generated, 40, 32, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 2014)
-    {
+    let tokens = [128000u32, 5159, 836, 374, 23809];
+    let mut generated = vec![0u32; 16];
+    let generation_params = GenerationParams {
+        max_new_tokens: generated.len() as u32,
+    };
+    let sampling_params = SamplingParams::default();
+
+    match backend.pin_mut().generate(
+        &tokens,
+        &mut generated,
+        &generation_params,
+        &sampling_params,
+        |new_token_id: u32, is_eos: bool| println!("Generated {new_token_id} (is_eos: {is_eos})"),
+    ) {
         Ok(n_tokens) => {
             generated.truncate(n_tokens);
             println!("Generated {} tokens -> {:?}", n_tokens, generated);
diff --git a/backends/llamacpp/src/lib.rs b/backends/llamacpp/src/lib.rs
index 673fe130..9fb79501 100644
--- a/backends/llamacpp/src/lib.rs
+++ b/backends/llamacpp/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,17 +1,56 @@
+use crate::ffi::SamplingParams;
+
 pub mod backend;
 
-#[cxx::bridge(namespace = "huggingface::tgi::backends::llamacpp::impl")]
+impl Default for SamplingParams {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            top_k: u32::MAX,
+            top_p: 1.0f32,
+            frequency_penalty: 0.0f32,
+            repetition_penalty: 0.0f32,
+            seed: 2014u64,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[cxx::bridge(namespace = "huggingface::tgi::backends::llamacpp")]
 mod ffi {
+    struct GenerationParams {
+        max_new_tokens: u32,
+    }
+
+    struct SamplingParams {
+        top_k: u32,
+        top_p: f32,
+        frequency_penalty: f32,
+        repetition_penalty: f32,
+        seed: u64,
+    }
+
     unsafe extern "C++" {
         include!("backends/llamacpp/csrc/ffi.hpp");
 
+        #[cxx_name = "generation_params_t"]
+        type GenerationParams;
+
+        #[cxx_name = "sampling_params_t"]
+        type SamplingParams;
+
         /// Represent an instance of the llama.cpp backend instance on C++ side
+        #[cxx_name = "llama_cpp_backend_impl_t"]
         type LlamaCppBackendImpl;
 
-        #[rust_name = "create_llamacpp_backend"]
-        fn CreateLlamaCppBackendImpl(
-            modelPath: &str,
-            n_threads: u16,
-        ) -> Result<UniquePtr<LlamaCppBackendImpl>>;
+        #[rust_name = "create_single_worker_backend"]
+        fn create_single_worker_backend(modelPath: &str) -> Result<UniquePtr<LlamaCppBackendImpl>>;
+
+        fn generate(
+            self: Pin<&mut LlamaCppBackendImpl>,
+            tokens: &[u32],
+            generated: &mut [u32],
+            generation_params: &GenerationParams,
+            sampling_params: &SamplingParams,
+            callback: fn(u32, bool),
+        ) -> Result<usize>;
     }
 }
diff --git a/backends/llamacpp/src/main.rs b/backends/llamacpp/src/main.rs
index 3920da21..62f81848 100644
--- a/backends/llamacpp/src/main.rs
+++ b/backends/llamacpp/src/main.rs
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ async fn main() -> Result<(), RouterError> {
         }
     }
 
-    let backend = LlamaCppBackend::new(gguf_path, cores_per_instance)?;
+    let backend = LlamaCppBackend::new(gguf_path)?;
 
     // Run server
     server::run(