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# Disable parallel execution for backend builds
feat(realtime): Add Liquid Audio s2s model and assistant mode on talk page (#9801)
* feat(liquid-audio): add LFM2.5-Audio any-to-any backend + realtime_audio usecase
Wires LiquidAI's LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B as a self-contained Realtime API model:
single engine handles VAD, transcription, LLM, and TTS in one bidirectional
stream — drop-in alternative to a VAD+STT+LLM+TTS pipeline.
Backend
- backend/python/liquid-audio/ — new Python gRPC backend wrapping the
`liquid-audio` package. Modes: chat / asr / tts / s2s, voice presets,
Load/Predict/PredictStream/AudioTranscription/TTS/VAD/AudioToAudioStream/
Free and StartFineTune/FineTuneProgress/StopFineTune. Runtime monkey-patch
on `liquid_audio.utils.snapshot_download` so absolute local paths from
LocalAI's gallery resolve without a HF round-trip. soundfile in place of
torchaudio.load/save (torchcodec drags NVIDIA NPP we don't bundle).
- backend/backend.proto + pkg/grpc/{backend,client,server,base,embed,
interface}.go — new AudioToAudioStream RPC mirroring AudioTransformStream
(config/frame/control oneof in; typed event+pcm+meta out).
- core/services/nodes/{health_mock,inflight}_test.go — add stubs for the
new RPC to the test fakes.
Config + capabilities
- core/config/backend_capabilities.go — UsecaseRealtimeAudio, MethodAudio
ToAudioStream, UsecaseInfoMap entry, liquid-audio BackendCapability row.
- core/config/model_config.go — FLAG_REALTIME_AUDIO bitmask, ModalityGroups
membership in both speech-input and audio-output groups so a lone flag
still reads as multimodal, GetAllModelConfigUsecases entry, GuessUsecases
branch.
Realtime endpoint
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime.go — extract prepareRealtimeConfig()
so the gate is unit-testable; accept realtime_audio models and self-fill
empty pipeline slots with the model's own name (user-pinned slots win).
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime_gate_test.go — six specs covering nil
cfg, empty pipeline, legacy pipeline, self-contained realtime_audio,
user-pinned VAD slot, and partial legacy pipeline.
UI + endpoints
- core/http/routes/ui.go — /api/pipeline-models accepts either a legacy
VAD+STT+LLM+TTS pipeline or a realtime_audio model; surfaces a
self_contained flag so the Talk page can collapse the four cards.
- core/http/routes/ui_api.go — realtime_audio in usecaseFilters.
- core/http/routes/ui_pipeline_models_test.go — covers both code paths.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Talk.jsx — self-contained badge instead of
the four-slot grid; rename Edit Pipeline → Edit Model Config; less
pipeline-specific wording.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Models.jsx + locales/en/models.json — new
realtime_audio filter button + i18n.
- core/http/react-ui/src/utils/capabilities.js — CAP_REALTIME_AUDIO.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/FineTune.jsx — voice + validation-dataset
fields, surfaced when backend === liquid-audio, plumbed via
extra_options on submit/export/import.
Gallery + importer
- gallery/liquid-audio.yaml — config template with known_usecases:
[realtime_audio, chat, tts, transcript, vad].
- gallery/index.yaml — four model entries (realtime/chat/asr/tts) keyed by
mode option. Fixed pre-existing `transcribe` typo on the asr entry
(loader silently dropped the unknown string → entry never surfaced as a
transcript model).
- gallery/lfm.yaml — function block for the LFM2 Pythonic tool-call format
`<|tool_call_start|>[name(k="v")]<|tool_call_end|>` matching
common_chat_params_init_lfm2 in vendored llama.cpp.
- core/gallery/importers/{liquid-audio,liquid-audio_test}.go — detector
matches LFM2-Audio HF repos (excludes -gguf mirrors); mode/voice
preferences plumbed through to options.
- core/gallery/importers/importers.go — register LiquidAudioImporter
before LlamaCPPImporter.
- pkg/functions/parse_lfm2_test.go — seven specs for the response/argument
regex pair on the LFM2 pythonic format.
Build matrix
- .github/backend-matrix.yml — seven liquid-audio targets (cuda12, cuda13,
l4t-cuda-13, hipblas, intel, cpu amd64, cpu arm64). Jetpack r36 cuda-12
is skipped (Ubuntu 22.04 / Python 3.10 incompatible with liquid-audio's
3.12 floor).
- backend/index.yaml — anchor + 13 image entries.
- Makefile — .NOTPARALLEL, prepare-test-extra, test-extra,
docker-build-liquid-audio.
Docs
- .agents/plans/liquid-audio-integration.md — phased plan; PR-D (real
any-to-any wiring via AudioToAudioStream), PR-E (mid-audio tool-call
detector), PR-G (GGUF entries once upstream llama.cpp PR #18641 lands)
remain.
- .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md — expand the capability-surface
checklist with every place a new FLAG_* needs to be registered.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(realtime): function calling + history cap for any-to-any models
Three pieces, all on the realtime_audio path that just landed:
1. liquid-audio backend (backend/python/liquid-audio/backend.py):
- _build_chat_state grows a `tools_prelude` arg.
- new _render_tools_prelude parses request.Tools (the OpenAI Chat
Completions function array realtime.go already serialises) and
emits an LFM2 `<|tool_list_start|>…<|tool_list_end|>` system turn
ahead of the user history. Mirrors gallery/lfm.yaml's `function:`
template so the model sees the same prompt shape whether served
via llama-cpp or here. Without this the backend silently dropped
tools — function calling was wired end-to-end on the Go side but
the model never saw a tool list.
2. Realtime history cap (core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime.go):
- Session grows MaxHistoryItems int; default picked by new
defaultMaxHistoryItems(cfg) — 6 for realtime_audio models (LFM2.5
1.5B degrades quickly past a handful of turns), 0/unlimited for
legacy pipelines composing larger LLMs.
- triggerResponse runs conv.Items through trimRealtimeItems before
building conversationHistory. Helper walks the cut left if it
would orphan a function_call_output, so tool result + call pairs
stay intact.
- realtime_gate_test.go: specs for defaultMaxHistoryItems and
trimRealtimeItems (zero cap, under cap, over cap, tool-call pair
preservation).
3. Talk page (core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Talk.jsx):
- Reuses the chat page's MCP plumbing — useMCPClient hook,
ClientMCPDropdown component, same auto-connect/disconnect effect
pattern. No bespoke tool registry, no new REST endpoints; tools
come from whichever MCP servers the user toggles on, exactly as
on the chat page.
- sendSessionUpdate now passes session.tools=getToolsForLLM(); the
update re-fires when the active server set changes mid-session.
- New response.function_call_arguments.done handler executes via
the hook's executeTool (which round-trips through the MCP client
SDK), then replies with conversation.item.create
{type:function_call_output} + response.create so the model
completes its turn with the tool output. Mirrors chat's
client-side agentic loop, translated to the realtime wire shape.
UI changes require a LocalAI image rebuild (Dockerfile:308-313 bakes
react-ui/dist into the runtime image). Backend.py changes can be
swapped live in /backends/<id>/backend.py + /backend/shutdown.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(realtime): LocalAI Assistant ("Manage Mode") for the Talk page
Mirrors the chat-page metadata.localai_assistant flow so users can ask the
realtime model what's loaded / installed / configured. Tools are run
server-side via the same in-process MCP holder that powers the chat
modality — no transport switch, no proxy, no new wire protocol.
Wire:
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime.go:
- RealtimeSessionOptions{LocalAIAssistant,IsAdmin}; isCurrentUserAdmin
helper mirrors chat.go's requireAssistantAccess (no-op when auth
disabled, else requires auth.RoleAdmin).
- Session grows AssistantExecutor mcpTools.ToolExecutor.
- runRealtimeSession, when opts.LocalAIAssistant is set: gate on admin,
fail closed if DisableLocalAIAssistant or the holder has no tools,
DiscoverTools and inject into session.Tools, prepend
holder.SystemPrompt() to instructions.
- Tool-call dispatch loop: when AssistantExecutor.IsTool(name), run
ExecuteTool inproc, append a FunctionCallOutput to conv.Items, skip
the function_call_arguments client emit (the client can't execute
these — it doesn't know about them). After the loop, if any
assistant tool ran, trigger another response so the model speaks the
result. Mirrors chat's agentic loop, driven server-side rather than
via client round-trip.
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime_webrtc.go: RealtimeCallRequest
gains `localai_assistant` (JSON omitempty). Handshake calls
isCurrentUserAdmin and builds RealtimeSessionOptions.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Talk.jsx: admin-only "Manage Mode"
checkbox under the Tools dropdown; passes localai_assistant: true to
realtimeApi.call's body, captured in the connect callback's deps.
Mirroring chat's pattern means the in-process MCP tools surface "just
works" for the Talk page without exposing a Streamable-HTTP MCP endpoint
(which was the alternative). Clients with their own MCP servers can
still use the existing ClientMCPDropdown path in parallel; the realtime
handler distinguishes them by AssistantExecutor.IsTool() at dispatch
time.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(realtime): render Manage Mode tool calls in the Talk transcript
Previously the realtime endpoint only emitted response.output_item.added
for the FunctionCall item, and Talk.jsx's switch ignored the event — so
server-side tool runs were invisible in the UI. The model would speak
the result but the user had no way to see what tool was actually
called.
realtime.go: after executing an assistant tool inproc, emit a second
output_item.added/.done pair for the FunctionCallOutput item. Mirrors
the way the chat page displays tool_call + tool_result blocks.
Talk.jsx: handle both response.output_item.added and .done. Render
FunctionCall (with arguments) and FunctionCallOutput (pretty-printed
JSON when possible) as two transcript entries — `tool_call` with the
wrench icon, `tool_result` with the clipboard icon, both in mono-space
secondary-colour. Resets streamingRef after the result so the next
assistant text delta starts a fresh transcript entry instead of
appending to the previous turn.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* refactor(realtime): bound the Manage Mode tool-loop + preserve assistant tools
Fallout from a review pass on the Manage Mode patches:
- Bound the server-side agentic loop. triggerResponse used to recurse on
executedAssistantTool with no cap — a model that kept calling tools
would blow the goroutine stack. New maxAssistantToolTurns = 10 (mirrors
useChat.js's maxToolTurns). Public triggerResponse is now a thin shim
over triggerResponseAtTurn(toolTurn int); recursion increments the
counter and stops at the cap with an xlog.Warn.
- Preserve Manage Mode tools across client session.update. The handler
used to blindly overwrite session.Tools, so toggling a client MCP
server mid-session silently wiped the in-process admin tools. Session
now caches the original AssistantTools slice at session creation and
the session.update handler merges them back in (client names win on
collision — the client is explicit).
- strconv.ParseBool for the localai_assistant query param instead of
hand-rolled "1" || "true". Mirrors LocalAIAssistantFromMetadata.
- Talk.jsx: render both tool_call and tool_result on
response.output_item.done instead of splitting them across .added and
.done. The server's event pairing (added → done) stays correct; the
UI just doesn't need to inspect both phases of the same item. One
switch case instead of two, no behavioural change.
Out of scope (noted for follow-ups): extract a shared assistant-tools
helper between chat.go and realtime.go (duplication is small enough
that two parallel implementations stay readable for now), and an i18n
key for the Manage Mode helper text (Talk.jsx doesn't use i18n
anywhere else yet).
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* ci(test-extra): wire liquid-audio backend smoke test
The backend ships test.py + a `make test` target and is listed in
backend-matrix.yml, so scripts/changed-backends.js already writes a
`liquid-audio=true|false` output when files under backend/python/liquid-audio/
change. The workflow just wasn't reading it.
- Expose the `liquid-audio` output on the detect-changes job
- Add a tests-liquid-audio job that runs `make` + `make test` in
backend/python/liquid-audio, gated on the per-backend detect flag
The smoke covers Health() and LoadModel(mode:finetune); fine-tune mode
short-circuits before any HuggingFace download (backend.py:192), so the
job needs neither weights nor a GPU. The full-inference path remains
gated on LIQUID_AUDIO_MODEL_ID, which CI doesn't set.
The four new Go test files (core/gallery/importers/liquid-audio_test.go,
core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime_gate_test.go,
core/http/routes/ui_pipeline_models_test.go, pkg/functions/parse_lfm2_test.go)
are already picked up by the existing test.yml workflow via `make test` →
`ginkgo -r ./pkg/... ./core/...`; their packages all carry RunSpecs entries.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
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.NOTPARALLEL : backends /diffusers backends /llama -cpp backends /turboquant backends /outetts backends /piper backends /stablediffusion -ggml backends /whisper backends /faster -whisper backends /silero -vad backends /local -store backends /huggingface backends /rfdetr backends /insightface backends /speaker -recognition backends /kitten -tts backends /kokoro backends /chatterbox backends /llama -cpp -darwin backends /neutts build -darwin -python -backend build -darwin -go -backend backends /mlx backends /diffuser -darwin backends /mlx -vlm backends /mlx -audio backends /mlx -distributed backends /stablediffusion -ggml -darwin backends /vllm backends /vllm -omni backends /sglang backends /moonshine backends /pocket -tts backends /qwen -tts backends /faster -qwen 3-tts backends /qwen -asr backends /nemo backends /voxcpm backends /whisperx backends /ace -step backends /acestep -cpp backends /fish -speech backends /voxtral backends /opus backends /trl backends /llama -cpp -quantization backends /kokoros backends /sam 3-cpp backends /qwen 3-tts -cpp backends /vibevoice -cpp backends /localvqe backends /tinygrad backends /sherpa -onnx backends /ds 4 backends /ds 4-darwin backends /liquid -audio
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GOCMD = go
GOTEST = $( GOCMD) test
GOVET = $( GOCMD) vet
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BINARY_NAME = local-ai
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LAUNCHER_BINARY_NAME = local-ai-launcher
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UBUNTU_VERSION ?= 2404
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UBUNTU_CODENAME ?= noble
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feat(ci): allow routing apt traffic through an alternate Ubuntu mirror (#9650)
* feat(ci): allow routing apt traffic through an alternate Ubuntu mirror
Adds opt-in APT_MIRROR / APT_PORTS_MIRROR knobs to all Dockerfiles, the
Makefile, and CI workflows so we can fail over to a non-canonical Ubuntu
mirror when archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com
are degraded (recently observed: multi-day DDoS against the default pool).
Defaults are empty everywhere — behavior is unchanged unless a mirror is
configured. To enable in CI, set the repo-level GitHub Actions variables
APT_MIRROR (and APT_PORTS_MIRROR for arm64 builds). Locally:
make docker APT_MIRROR=http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com
A small POSIX-sh helper in .docker/apt-mirror.sh rewrites both DEB822
(/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources, Ubuntu 24.04+) and the legacy
/etc/apt/sources.list before the first apt-get update. Dockerfile stages
load it via RUN --mount=type=bind, so there is no extra layer and no
cache invalidation when the script is unchanged. Reusable workflows also
rewrite the runner's own /etc/apt sources before any sudo apt-get call.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(apt-mirror): default to the Azure mirror, visible in the workflow source
Bakes Azure (http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com / http://azure.ports.ubuntu.com)
in as the default for both Docker builds and runner-side apt — rather than
hiding the URL behind a GitHub Actions repo variable that's not visible
from the source tree.
A new composite action at .github/actions/configure-apt-mirror is the
single source of truth for runner-side rewrites. Five standalone
workflows (build-test, release, tests-e2e, tests-ui-e2e, update_swagger)
just `uses: ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror`.
Three workflows (image_build, backend_build, checksum_checker) keep an
inline bash rewrite, because they install/upgrade git via apt *before*
the checkout step (so the local composite action isn't loadable yet).
The Azure URL is visible in those files too.
The `apt-mirror` / `apt-ports-mirror` inputs of the reusable workflows
keep their now-Azure defaults — they still feed the Docker build-args
block in addition to the inline runner-side rewrite. Callers (image.yml,
image-pr.yml, backend.yml, backend_pr.yml) drop the previous
`vars.APT_MIRROR` plumbing and rely on those defaults.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(apt-mirror): drop Force Install GIT, consolidate on the composite action
The PPA git upgrade ran add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa, which talks
to api.launchpad.net — also part of Canonical's infrastructure and
currently returning HTTP 504. The Azure mirror only covers
archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com, not PPAs.
The system git that ubuntu-latest already ships is sufficient for
actions/checkout and the build pipeline, so just drop the upgrade. With
that gone, the apt-before-checkout constraint disappears too — all three
holdouts (image_build, backend_build, checksum_checker) can now switch
to ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror like the other five.
Net: 0 inline apt-mirror blocks, all 8 workflows route through the
composite action.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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# Optional Ubuntu apt mirror overrides forwarded to docker builds.
# Empty = use upstream archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com.
# Set e.g. APT_MIRROR=http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com to route apt traffic
# during outages of the default Ubuntu pool.
APT_MIRROR ?=
APT_PORTS_MIRROR ?=
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GORELEASER ?=
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export BUILD_TYPE ?=
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export CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION ?= 13
export CUDA_MINOR_VERSION ?= 0
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GO_TAGS ?=
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BUILD_ID ?=
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NATIVE ?= false
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TEST_DIR = /tmp/test
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TEST_FLAKES ?= 5
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RANDOM := $( shell bash -c 'echo $$RANDOM' )
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VERSION ?= $( shell git describe --always --tags || echo "dev" )
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# go tool nm ./local-ai | grep Commit
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LD_FLAGS ?= -s -w
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o v e r r i d e LD_FLAGS += -X " github.com/mudler/LocalAI/internal.Version= $( VERSION) "
o v e r r i d e LD_FLAGS += -X " github.com/mudler/LocalAI/internal.Commit= $( shell git rev-parse HEAD) "
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OPTIONAL_TARGETS ?=
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export OS := $( shell uname -s)
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ARCH := $( shell uname -m)
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GREEN := $( shell tput -Txterm setaf 2)
YELLOW := $( shell tput -Txterm setaf 3)
WHITE := $( shell tput -Txterm setaf 7)
CYAN := $( shell tput -Txterm setaf 6)
RESET := $( shell tput -Txterm sgr0)
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# Default Docker bridge IP
E2E_BRIDGE_IP ?= 172.17.0.1
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i f n d e f U N A M E _ S
UNAME_S := $( shell uname -s)
e n d i f
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i f e q ( $( OS ) , D a r w i n )
ifeq ( $( OSX_SIGNING_IDENTITY) ,)
OSX_SIGNING_IDENTITY := $( shell security find-identity -v -p codesigning | grep '"' | head -n 1 | sed -E 's/.*"(.*)"/\1/' )
endif
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e n d i f
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# check if goreleaser exists
i f e q ( , $( shell which goreleaser ) )
GORELEASER = curl -sfL https://goreleaser.com/static/run | bash -s --
e l s e
GORELEASER = $( shell which goreleaser)
e n d i f
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TEST_PATHS ?= ./api/... ./pkg/... ./core/...
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chore: add golangci-lint with new-from-merge-base baseline (#9603)
* chore: add golangci-lint with new-from-merge-base baseline
Configure golangci-lint v2 with the standard linter set (errcheck, govet,
ineffassign, unused) plus forbidigo, which enforces the Ginkgo/Gomega-only
test convention from .agents/coding-style.md by rejecting stdlib testing
calls (t.Errorf, t.Fatalf, t.Run, ...). staticcheck is disabled — the
codebase has many pre-existing QF-style suggestions not worth gating on.
issues.new-from-merge-base = master makes the lint job a gate for new
issues only; the ~1300 pre-existing baseline stays visible via
'make lint-all' for incremental cleanup. CI runs 'make lint'.
Backends needing C/C++ headers we don't install in the lint runner are
excluded via a deny list in the Makefile (backend/go/{piper,silero-vad,
llm}, cmd/launcher). Discovery still flows through 'go list ./...', so
new packages are scanned automatically.
To make backend/go/{sam3-cpp,stablediffusion-ggml,whisper} typecheckable,
move their .cpp/.h sources into cpp/ subdirs (matching qwen3-tts-cpp /
acestep-cpp). Without this 'go list' rejects the package because Go does
not allow .cpp alongside .go without cgo.
Fix two real bugs found by lint in tests/integration/ (run only via
'make test-stores', not default CI): a stale zerolog reference left over
from the slog migration (c37785b7) and an unused 'os' import.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:Opus 4.7 (1M) [Bash] [Read] [Edit] [Write]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* ci(lint): generate proto sources and fetch full history
The lint job was failing for two reasons:
- pkg/grpc/proto/*.go is generated, not checked in. Several packages
import it, so without 'make protogen-go' typecheck fails project-wide
with "no required module provides package github.com/mudler/LocalAI/
pkg/grpc/proto".
- golangci-lint's new-from-merge-base needs to git-merge-base the PR
against master, but actions/checkout's default shallow clone doesn't
fetch master. fetch-depth: 0 brings full history; the config now
references origin/master (the remote-tracking branch that survives
the shallow checkout) instead of bare master (which doesn't exist
locally after checkout).
Assisted-by: Claude Code:Opus 4.7 (1M) [Bash] [Read] [Edit] [Write]
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* ci(lint): stub react-ui/dist for go:embed glob
core/http/app.go has //go:embed react-ui/dist/*. The glob must match at
least one non-hidden entry or typecheck fails the whole core/http
package. We don't need the real React bundle to lint Go code, so just
touch an empty index.html to satisfy the embed.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:Opus 4.7 (1M) [Bash] [Read] [Edit] [Write]
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.PHONY : all test build vendor lint lint -all
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all : help
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## GENERIC
rebuild : ## Rebuilds the project
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$( GOCMD) clean -cache
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$( MAKE) build
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clean : ## Remove build related file
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$( GOCMD) clean -cache
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rm -f prepare
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rm -rf $( BINARY_NAME)
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rm -rf release/
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$( MAKE) protogen-clean
rmdir pkg/grpc/proto || true
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clean-tests :
rm -rf test-models
rm -rf test-dir
refactor(tests): split app_test.go, move real-backend coverage to e2e-backends
core/http/app_test.go had grown to 1495 lines exercising three concerns at
once: HTTP-layer integration, real-backend inference (llama-gguf, tts,
stablediffusion, transformers embeddings, whisper), and service logic that
already has unit-level coverage. Each PR paid for 6 backend builds plus
real-model downloads to satisfy a single suite.
Reorg per layer:
- app_test.go (1495 -> 1003 lines) drives the mock-backend binary only.
Kept: auth, routing, gallery API, file:// import, /system, agent-jobs
HTTP plumbing, config-file model loading. Deleted real-inference specs
(llama-gguf chat, ggml completions/streaming, logprobs, logit_bias,
transcription, embeddings, External-gRPC, Stores duplicate, Model gallery
Context). Lifted Agent Jobs out of the deleted Stores Context.
- tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go gains logprobs, logit_bias, and
no-first-token-dup specs (the latter folded into PredictStream). Two
new caps gate them so non-LLM backends opt out.
- tests/e2e-aio/e2e_test.go gains a streaming smoke under Context("text")
to catch container-level streaming regressions.
- tests/models_fixtures/ removed; all fixtures referenced testmodel.ggml.
app_test.go now writes per-Context inline mock-model YAMLs.
CI:
- test.yml + tests-e2e.yml gain paths-ignore (docs/, examples/, *.md,
backend/) so docs and backend-only PRs skip them. test.yml drops the
6-backend Build step plus TRANSFORMER_BACKEND/GO_TAGS=tts; tests-apple
drops the llama-cpp-darwin build.
- New tests-aio.yml runs the AIO container nightly + on workflow_dispatch
+ master/tags. The tests-e2e-container job moved out of test.yml so PRs
no longer pay AIO cost.
- New tests-llama-cpp-smoke job in test-extra.yml runs on every PR with
no detect-changes gate; pulls quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai-backends:
master-cpu-llama-cpp (no build on PR) and exercises predict/stream/
logprobs/logit_bias against Qwen3-0.6B. This is the PR-acceptance
real-backend gate after AIO moved to nightly. The path-gated heavy
test-extra-backend-llama-cpp wrapper appends the same caps so it
exercises the moved specs when the backend actually changes.
Makefile:
- Deleted test-models/testmodel.ggml (the wget chain), test-llama-gguf,
test-tts, test-stablediffusion, test-realtime-models. test target
drops --label-filter, HUGGINGFACE_GRPC, TRANSFORMER_BACKEND, TEST_DIR,
FIXTURES, CONFIG_FILE, MODELS_PATH, BACKENDS_PATH; depends on
build-mock-backend. test-stores keeps a focused entry point and depends
on backends/local-store. clean-tests also clears the mock-backend
binary.
Net per typical Go-side PR: ~25min (6 backend builds + tests + AIO) +
~8min e2e drops to ~5min mock-backend test + ~8min e2e + ~5-10min
llama-cpp-smoke (image pulled). Docs and backend-only PRs skip the
always-on workflows entirely.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7 [Edit] [Write] [Bash]
2026-04-27 23:09:20 +00:00
rm -f tests/e2e/mock-backend/mock-backend
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## Install Go tools
install-go-tools :
go install google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc@1958fcbe2ca8bd93af633f11e97d44e567e945af
go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@v1.34.2
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## React UI:
react-ui :
i f n e q ( $( wildcard core /http /react -ui /dist ) , )
@echo "react-ui dist already exists, skipping build"
e l s e
cd core/http/react-ui && npm install && npm run build
e n d i f
react-ui-docker :
docker run --entrypoint /bin/bash -v $( CURDIR) :/app:z oven/bun:1 \
-c "cd /app/core/http/react-ui && bun install && bun run build"
core/http/react-ui/dist : react -ui
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## Build:
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build : protogen -go generate install -go -tools core /http /react -ui /dist ## Build the project
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$( info ${ GREEN } I local-ai build info:${ RESET } )
$( info ${ GREEN } I BUILD_TYPE: ${ YELLOW } $( BUILD_TYPE) ${ RESET } )
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$( info ${ GREEN } I GO_TAGS: ${ YELLOW } $( GO_TAGS) ${ RESET } )
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$( info ${ GREEN } I LD_FLAGS: ${ YELLOW } $( LD_FLAGS) ${ RESET } )
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$( info ${ GREEN } I UPX: ${ YELLOW } $( UPX) ${ RESET } )
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rm -rf $( BINARY_NAME) || true
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CGO_LDFLAGS = " $( CGO_LDFLAGS) " $( GOCMD) build -ldflags " $( LD_FLAGS) " -tags " $( GO_TAGS) " -o $( BINARY_NAME) ./cmd/local-ai
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build-launcher : ## Build the launcher application
$( info ${ GREEN } I local-ai launcher build info:${ RESET } )
$( info ${ GREEN } I BUILD_TYPE: ${ YELLOW } $( BUILD_TYPE) ${ RESET } )
$( info ${ GREEN } I GO_TAGS: ${ YELLOW } $( GO_TAGS) ${ RESET } )
$( info ${ GREEN } I LD_FLAGS: ${ YELLOW } $( LD_FLAGS) ${ RESET } )
rm -rf $( LAUNCHER_BINARY_NAME) || true
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CGO_LDFLAGS = " $( CGO_LDFLAGS) " $( GOCMD) build -ldflags " $( LD_FLAGS) " -tags " $( GO_TAGS) " -o $( LAUNCHER_BINARY_NAME) ./cmd/launcher
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build-all : build build -launcher ## Build both server and launcher
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build-dev : ## Run LocalAI in dev mode with live reload
@command -v air >/dev/null 2>& 1 || go install github.com/air-verse/air@latest
air -c .air.toml
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dev-dist :
$( GORELEASER) build --snapshot --clean
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dist :
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$( GORELEASER) build --clean
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osx-signed : build
codesign --deep --force --sign " $( OSX_SIGNING_IDENTITY) " --entitlements "./Entitlements.plist" " ./ $( BINARY_NAME) "
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## Run
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run : ## run local-ai
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CGO_LDFLAGS = " $( CGO_LDFLAGS) " $( GOCMD) run ./
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refactor(tests): split app_test.go, move real-backend coverage to e2e-backends
core/http/app_test.go had grown to 1495 lines exercising three concerns at
once: HTTP-layer integration, real-backend inference (llama-gguf, tts,
stablediffusion, transformers embeddings, whisper), and service logic that
already has unit-level coverage. Each PR paid for 6 backend builds plus
real-model downloads to satisfy a single suite.
Reorg per layer:
- app_test.go (1495 -> 1003 lines) drives the mock-backend binary only.
Kept: auth, routing, gallery API, file:// import, /system, agent-jobs
HTTP plumbing, config-file model loading. Deleted real-inference specs
(llama-gguf chat, ggml completions/streaming, logprobs, logit_bias,
transcription, embeddings, External-gRPC, Stores duplicate, Model gallery
Context). Lifted Agent Jobs out of the deleted Stores Context.
- tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go gains logprobs, logit_bias, and
no-first-token-dup specs (the latter folded into PredictStream). Two
new caps gate them so non-LLM backends opt out.
- tests/e2e-aio/e2e_test.go gains a streaming smoke under Context("text")
to catch container-level streaming regressions.
- tests/models_fixtures/ removed; all fixtures referenced testmodel.ggml.
app_test.go now writes per-Context inline mock-model YAMLs.
CI:
- test.yml + tests-e2e.yml gain paths-ignore (docs/, examples/, *.md,
backend/) so docs and backend-only PRs skip them. test.yml drops the
6-backend Build step plus TRANSFORMER_BACKEND/GO_TAGS=tts; tests-apple
drops the llama-cpp-darwin build.
- New tests-aio.yml runs the AIO container nightly + on workflow_dispatch
+ master/tags. The tests-e2e-container job moved out of test.yml so PRs
no longer pay AIO cost.
- New tests-llama-cpp-smoke job in test-extra.yml runs on every PR with
no detect-changes gate; pulls quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai-backends:
master-cpu-llama-cpp (no build on PR) and exercises predict/stream/
logprobs/logit_bias against Qwen3-0.6B. This is the PR-acceptance
real-backend gate after AIO moved to nightly. The path-gated heavy
test-extra-backend-llama-cpp wrapper appends the same caps so it
exercises the moved specs when the backend actually changes.
Makefile:
- Deleted test-models/testmodel.ggml (the wget chain), test-llama-gguf,
test-tts, test-stablediffusion, test-realtime-models. test target
drops --label-filter, HUGGINGFACE_GRPC, TRANSFORMER_BACKEND, TEST_DIR,
FIXTURES, CONFIG_FILE, MODELS_PATH, BACKENDS_PATH; depends on
build-mock-backend. test-stores keeps a focused entry point and depends
on backends/local-store. clean-tests also clears the mock-backend
binary.
Net per typical Go-side PR: ~25min (6 backend builds + tests + AIO) +
~8min e2e drops to ~5min mock-backend test + ~8min e2e + ~5-10min
llama-cpp-smoke (image pulled). Docs and backend-only PRs skip the
always-on workflows entirely.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7 [Edit] [Write] [Bash]
2026-04-27 23:09:20 +00:00
prepare-test : protogen -go build -mock -backend
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########################################################
## Tests
########################################################
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## Test targets
refactor(tests): split app_test.go, move real-backend coverage to e2e-backends
core/http/app_test.go had grown to 1495 lines exercising three concerns at
once: HTTP-layer integration, real-backend inference (llama-gguf, tts,
stablediffusion, transformers embeddings, whisper), and service logic that
already has unit-level coverage. Each PR paid for 6 backend builds plus
real-model downloads to satisfy a single suite.
Reorg per layer:
- app_test.go (1495 -> 1003 lines) drives the mock-backend binary only.
Kept: auth, routing, gallery API, file:// import, /system, agent-jobs
HTTP plumbing, config-file model loading. Deleted real-inference specs
(llama-gguf chat, ggml completions/streaming, logprobs, logit_bias,
transcription, embeddings, External-gRPC, Stores duplicate, Model gallery
Context). Lifted Agent Jobs out of the deleted Stores Context.
- tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go gains logprobs, logit_bias, and
no-first-token-dup specs (the latter folded into PredictStream). Two
new caps gate them so non-LLM backends opt out.
- tests/e2e-aio/e2e_test.go gains a streaming smoke under Context("text")
to catch container-level streaming regressions.
- tests/models_fixtures/ removed; all fixtures referenced testmodel.ggml.
app_test.go now writes per-Context inline mock-model YAMLs.
CI:
- test.yml + tests-e2e.yml gain paths-ignore (docs/, examples/, *.md,
backend/) so docs and backend-only PRs skip them. test.yml drops the
6-backend Build step plus TRANSFORMER_BACKEND/GO_TAGS=tts; tests-apple
drops the llama-cpp-darwin build.
- New tests-aio.yml runs the AIO container nightly + on workflow_dispatch
+ master/tags. The tests-e2e-container job moved out of test.yml so PRs
no longer pay AIO cost.
- New tests-llama-cpp-smoke job in test-extra.yml runs on every PR with
no detect-changes gate; pulls quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai-backends:
master-cpu-llama-cpp (no build on PR) and exercises predict/stream/
logprobs/logit_bias against Qwen3-0.6B. This is the PR-acceptance
real-backend gate after AIO moved to nightly. The path-gated heavy
test-extra-backend-llama-cpp wrapper appends the same caps so it
exercises the moved specs when the backend actually changes.
Makefile:
- Deleted test-models/testmodel.ggml (the wget chain), test-llama-gguf,
test-tts, test-stablediffusion, test-realtime-models. test target
drops --label-filter, HUGGINGFACE_GRPC, TRANSFORMER_BACKEND, TEST_DIR,
FIXTURES, CONFIG_FILE, MODELS_PATH, BACKENDS_PATH; depends on
build-mock-backend. test-stores keeps a focused entry point and depends
on backends/local-store. clean-tests also clears the mock-backend
binary.
Net per typical Go-side PR: ~25min (6 backend builds + tests + AIO) +
~8min e2e drops to ~5min mock-backend test + ~8min e2e + ~5-10min
llama-cpp-smoke (image pulled). Docs and backend-only PRs skip the
always-on workflows entirely.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7 [Edit] [Write] [Bash]
2026-04-27 23:09:20 +00:00
## After the test-suite reorg (see plans/test-reorg) the default `make test`
## no longer downloads multi-GB GGUF/whisper fixtures or builds llama-cpp /
## transformers / piper / whisper / stablediffusion-ggml. core/http/app_test.go
## now drives the mock-backend binary built by build-mock-backend; real-backend
## inference moved into tests/e2e-backends/ (per-backend, path-filtered) and
## tests/e2e-aio/ (nightly).
test : prepare -test
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@echo 'Running tests'
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export GO_TAGS = "debug"
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OPUS_SHIM_LIBRARY = $( abspath ./pkg/opus/shim/libopusshim.so) \
refactor(tests): split app_test.go, move real-backend coverage to e2e-backends
core/http/app_test.go had grown to 1495 lines exercising three concerns at
once: HTTP-layer integration, real-backend inference (llama-gguf, tts,
stablediffusion, transformers embeddings, whisper), and service logic that
already has unit-level coverage. Each PR paid for 6 backend builds plus
real-model downloads to satisfy a single suite.
Reorg per layer:
- app_test.go (1495 -> 1003 lines) drives the mock-backend binary only.
Kept: auth, routing, gallery API, file:// import, /system, agent-jobs
HTTP plumbing, config-file model loading. Deleted real-inference specs
(llama-gguf chat, ggml completions/streaming, logprobs, logit_bias,
transcription, embeddings, External-gRPC, Stores duplicate, Model gallery
Context). Lifted Agent Jobs out of the deleted Stores Context.
- tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go gains logprobs, logit_bias, and
no-first-token-dup specs (the latter folded into PredictStream). Two
new caps gate them so non-LLM backends opt out.
- tests/e2e-aio/e2e_test.go gains a streaming smoke under Context("text")
to catch container-level streaming regressions.
- tests/models_fixtures/ removed; all fixtures referenced testmodel.ggml.
app_test.go now writes per-Context inline mock-model YAMLs.
CI:
- test.yml + tests-e2e.yml gain paths-ignore (docs/, examples/, *.md,
backend/) so docs and backend-only PRs skip them. test.yml drops the
6-backend Build step plus TRANSFORMER_BACKEND/GO_TAGS=tts; tests-apple
drops the llama-cpp-darwin build.
- New tests-aio.yml runs the AIO container nightly + on workflow_dispatch
+ master/tags. The tests-e2e-container job moved out of test.yml so PRs
no longer pay AIO cost.
- New tests-llama-cpp-smoke job in test-extra.yml runs on every PR with
no detect-changes gate; pulls quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai-backends:
master-cpu-llama-cpp (no build on PR) and exercises predict/stream/
logprobs/logit_bias against Qwen3-0.6B. This is the PR-acceptance
real-backend gate after AIO moved to nightly. The path-gated heavy
test-extra-backend-llama-cpp wrapper appends the same caps so it
exercises the moved specs when the backend actually changes.
Makefile:
- Deleted test-models/testmodel.ggml (the wget chain), test-llama-gguf,
test-tts, test-stablediffusion, test-realtime-models. test target
drops --label-filter, HUGGINGFACE_GRPC, TRANSFORMER_BACKEND, TEST_DIR,
FIXTURES, CONFIG_FILE, MODELS_PATH, BACKENDS_PATH; depends on
build-mock-backend. test-stores keeps a focused entry point and depends
on backends/local-store. clean-tests also clears the mock-backend
binary.
Net per typical Go-side PR: ~25min (6 backend builds + tests + AIO) +
~8min e2e drops to ~5min mock-backend test + ~8min e2e + ~5-10min
llama-cpp-smoke (image pulled). Docs and backend-only PRs skip the
always-on workflows entirely.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7 [Edit] [Write] [Bash]
2026-04-27 23:09:20 +00:00
$( GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --flake-attempts $( TEST_FLAKES) --fail-fast -v -r $( TEST_PATHS)
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chore: add golangci-lint with new-from-merge-base baseline (#9603)
* chore: add golangci-lint with new-from-merge-base baseline
Configure golangci-lint v2 with the standard linter set (errcheck, govet,
ineffassign, unused) plus forbidigo, which enforces the Ginkgo/Gomega-only
test convention from .agents/coding-style.md by rejecting stdlib testing
calls (t.Errorf, t.Fatalf, t.Run, ...). staticcheck is disabled — the
codebase has many pre-existing QF-style suggestions not worth gating on.
issues.new-from-merge-base = master makes the lint job a gate for new
issues only; the ~1300 pre-existing baseline stays visible via
'make lint-all' for incremental cleanup. CI runs 'make lint'.
Backends needing C/C++ headers we don't install in the lint runner are
excluded via a deny list in the Makefile (backend/go/{piper,silero-vad,
llm}, cmd/launcher). Discovery still flows through 'go list ./...', so
new packages are scanned automatically.
To make backend/go/{sam3-cpp,stablediffusion-ggml,whisper} typecheckable,
move their .cpp/.h sources into cpp/ subdirs (matching qwen3-tts-cpp /
acestep-cpp). Without this 'go list' rejects the package because Go does
not allow .cpp alongside .go without cgo.
Fix two real bugs found by lint in tests/integration/ (run only via
'make test-stores', not default CI): a stale zerolog reference left over
from the slog migration (c37785b7) and an unused 'os' import.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:Opus 4.7 (1M) [Bash] [Read] [Edit] [Write]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* ci(lint): generate proto sources and fetch full history
The lint job was failing for two reasons:
- pkg/grpc/proto/*.go is generated, not checked in. Several packages
import it, so without 'make protogen-go' typecheck fails project-wide
with "no required module provides package github.com/mudler/LocalAI/
pkg/grpc/proto".
- golangci-lint's new-from-merge-base needs to git-merge-base the PR
against master, but actions/checkout's default shallow clone doesn't
fetch master. fetch-depth: 0 brings full history; the config now
references origin/master (the remote-tracking branch that survives
the shallow checkout) instead of bare master (which doesn't exist
locally after checkout).
Assisted-by: Claude Code:Opus 4.7 (1M) [Bash] [Read] [Edit] [Write]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* ci(lint): stub react-ui/dist for go:embed glob
core/http/app.go has //go:embed react-ui/dist/*. The glob must match at
least one non-hidden entry or typecheck fails the whole core/http
package. We don't need the real React bundle to lint Go code, so just
touch an empty index.html to satisfy the embed.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:Opus 4.7 (1M) [Bash] [Read] [Edit] [Write]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
---------
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-04-28 20:07:44 +00:00
########################################################
## Lint
########################################################
## Runs golangci-lint with config from .golangci.yml. Includes the standard
## linter set plus forbidigo, which enforces the Ginkgo/Gomega-only test
## convention documented in .agents/coding-style.md.
##
## LINT_EXCLUDE_DIRS_RE matches directories whose Go packages can't typecheck
## without C/C++ headers we don't install in the lint runner (cgo wrappers
## around llama.cpp, piper/spdlog, silero-vad/onnxruntime, and Fyne/OpenGL for
## the launcher). Their compile-time correctness is enforced by their own
## build pipelines. Keep this as a deny list — `go list ./...` discovers
## everything else automatically, so new packages are scanned by default.
LINT_EXCLUDE_DIRS_RE = /( backend/go/( piper| silero-vad| llm) | cmd/launcher) ( /| $$ )
lint :
@command -v golangci-lint >/dev/null 2>& 1 || { \
echo 'golangci-lint not installed. Install: go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/v2/cmd/golangci-lint@latest' ; \
exit 1; \
}
golangci-lint run $$ ( go list -e -f '{{.Dir}}' ./... | grep -vE '$(LINT_EXCLUDE_DIRS_RE)' )
## Like `lint` but reports every issue, including the pre-existing baseline
## that `lint` ignores via .golangci.yml's new-from-merge-base. Use this to
## see what's available to clean up.
lint-all :
@command -v golangci-lint >/dev/null 2>& 1 || { \
echo 'golangci-lint not installed. Install: go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/v2/cmd/golangci-lint@latest' ; \
exit 1; \
}
golangci-lint run --new= false --new-from-merge-base= --new-from-rev= $$ ( go list -e -f '{{.Dir}}' ./... | grep -vE '$(LINT_EXCLUDE_DIRS_RE)' )
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########################################################
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## E2E AIO tests (uses standard image with pre-configured models)
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########################################################
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docker-build-e2e :
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docker build \
--build-arg MAKEFLAGS = "--jobs=5 --output-sync=target" \
--build-arg BASE_IMAGE = $( BASE_IMAGE) \
--build-arg IMAGE_TYPE = $( IMAGE_TYPE) \
--build-arg BUILD_TYPE = $( BUILD_TYPE) \
--build-arg CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION = $( CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION) \
--build-arg CUDA_MINOR_VERSION = $( CUDA_MINOR_VERSION) \
--build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION = $( UBUNTU_VERSION) \
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--build-arg UBUNTU_CODENAME = $( UBUNTU_CODENAME) \
feat(ci): allow routing apt traffic through an alternate Ubuntu mirror (#9650)
* feat(ci): allow routing apt traffic through an alternate Ubuntu mirror
Adds opt-in APT_MIRROR / APT_PORTS_MIRROR knobs to all Dockerfiles, the
Makefile, and CI workflows so we can fail over to a non-canonical Ubuntu
mirror when archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com
are degraded (recently observed: multi-day DDoS against the default pool).
Defaults are empty everywhere — behavior is unchanged unless a mirror is
configured. To enable in CI, set the repo-level GitHub Actions variables
APT_MIRROR (and APT_PORTS_MIRROR for arm64 builds). Locally:
make docker APT_MIRROR=http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com
A small POSIX-sh helper in .docker/apt-mirror.sh rewrites both DEB822
(/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources, Ubuntu 24.04+) and the legacy
/etc/apt/sources.list before the first apt-get update. Dockerfile stages
load it via RUN --mount=type=bind, so there is no extra layer and no
cache invalidation when the script is unchanged. Reusable workflows also
rewrite the runner's own /etc/apt sources before any sudo apt-get call.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(apt-mirror): default to the Azure mirror, visible in the workflow source
Bakes Azure (http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com / http://azure.ports.ubuntu.com)
in as the default for both Docker builds and runner-side apt — rather than
hiding the URL behind a GitHub Actions repo variable that's not visible
from the source tree.
A new composite action at .github/actions/configure-apt-mirror is the
single source of truth for runner-side rewrites. Five standalone
workflows (build-test, release, tests-e2e, tests-ui-e2e, update_swagger)
just `uses: ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror`.
Three workflows (image_build, backend_build, checksum_checker) keep an
inline bash rewrite, because they install/upgrade git via apt *before*
the checkout step (so the local composite action isn't loadable yet).
The Azure URL is visible in those files too.
The `apt-mirror` / `apt-ports-mirror` inputs of the reusable workflows
keep their now-Azure defaults — they still feed the Docker build-args
block in addition to the inline runner-side rewrite. Callers (image.yml,
image-pr.yml, backend.yml, backend_pr.yml) drop the previous
`vars.APT_MIRROR` plumbing and rely on those defaults.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(apt-mirror): drop Force Install GIT, consolidate on the composite action
The PPA git upgrade ran add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa, which talks
to api.launchpad.net — also part of Canonical's infrastructure and
currently returning HTTP 504. The Azure mirror only covers
archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com, not PPAs.
The system git that ubuntu-latest already ships is sufficient for
actions/checkout and the build pipeline, so just drop the upgrade. With
that gone, the apt-before-checkout constraint disappears too — all three
holdouts (image_build, backend_build, checksum_checker) can now switch
to ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror like the other five.
Net: 0 inline apt-mirror blocks, all 8 workflows route through the
composite action.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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--build-arg APT_MIRROR = $( APT_MIRROR) \
--build-arg APT_PORTS_MIRROR = $( APT_PORTS_MIRROR) \
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--build-arg GO_TAGS = " $( GO_TAGS) " \
-t local-ai:tests -f Dockerfile .
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e2e-aio :
LOCALAI_BACKEND_DIR = $( abspath ./backends) \
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LOCALAI_MODELS_DIR = $( abspath ./tests/e2e-aio/models) \
LOCALAI_IMAGE_TAG = tests \
LOCALAI_IMAGE = local-ai \
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$( MAKE) run-e2e-aio
run-e2e-aio : protogen -go
@echo 'Running e2e AIO tests'
$( GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --flake-attempts $( TEST_FLAKES) -v -r ./tests/e2e-aio
feat(vllm, distributed): tensor parallel distributed workers (#9612)
* feat(vllm): build vllm from source for Intel XPU
Upstream publishes no XPU wheels for vllm. The Intel profile was
silently picking up a non-XPU wheel that imported but errored at
engine init, and several runtime deps (pillow, charset-normalizer,
chardet) were missing on Intel -- backend.py crashed at import time
before the gRPC server came up.
Switch the Intel profile to upstream's documented from-source
procedure (docs/getting_started/installation/gpu.xpu.inc.md in
vllm-project/vllm):
- Bump portable Python to 3.12 -- vllm-xpu-kernels ships only a
cp312 wheel.
- Source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh so vllm's CMake build sees
the dpcpp/sycl compiler from the oneapi-basekit base image.
- Hide requirements-intel-after.txt during installRequirements
(it used to 'pip install vllm'); install vllm's deps from a
fresh git clone of vllm via 'uv pip install -r
requirements/xpu.txt', swap stock triton for
triton-xpu==3.7.0, then 'VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=xpu uv pip install
--no-deps .'.
- requirements-intel.txt trimmed to LocalAI's direct deps
(accelerate / transformers / bitsandbytes); torch-xpu, vllm,
vllm_xpu_kernels and the rest come from upstream's xpu.txt
during the source build.
- requirements.txt: add pillow + charset-normalizer + chardet --
used by backend.py and missing on the Intel install profile.
- run.sh: 'set -x' so backend startup is visible in container
logs (the gRPC startup error path was previously opaque).
Also adds a one-line docs example for engine_args.attention_backend
under the vLLM section, since older XE-HPG GPUs (e.g. Arc A770)
need TRITON_ATTN to bypass the cutlass path in vllm_xpu_kernels.
Tested end-to-end on an Intel Arc A770 with Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
via LocalAI's /v1/chat/completions.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(vllm): add multi-node data-parallel follower worker
vLLM v1's multi-node story is one process per node sharing a DP
coordinator over ZMQ -- the head runs the API server with
data_parallel_size > 1 and followers run `vllm serve --headless ...`
with matching topology. Today LocalAI can already configure DP on the
head via the engine_args YAML map, but there's no way to bring up the
follower nodes -- so the head sits waiting for ranks that never
handshake.
Add `local-ai p2p-worker vllm`, mirroring MLXDistributed's structural
precedent (operator-launched, static config, no NATS placement). The
worker:
- Optionally self-registers with the frontend as an agent-type node
tagged `node.role=vllm-follower` so it's visible in the admin UI
and operators can scope ordinary models away via inverse
selectors.
- Resolves the platform-specific vllm backend via the gallery's
"vllm" meta-entry (cuda*, intel-vllm, rocm-vllm, ...).
- Runs vLLM as a child process so the heartbeat goroutine survives
until vLLM exits; forwards SIGINT/SIGTERM so vLLM can clean up its
ZMQ sockets before we tear down.
- Validates --headless + --start-rank 0 is rejected (rank 0 is the
head and must serve the API).
Backend run.sh dispatches `serve` as the first arg to vllm's own CLI
instead of LocalAI's backend.py gRPC server -- the follower speaks
ZMQ directly to the head, there is no LocalAI gRPC on the follower
side. Single-node usage is unchanged.
Generalises the gallery resolution helper into findBackendPath()
shared by MLX and vLLM workers; extracts ParseNodeLabels for the
comma-separated label parsing both use.
Ships with two compose recipes (`docker-compose.vllm-multinode.yaml`
for NVIDIA, `docker-compose.vllm-multinode.intel.yaml` for Intel
XPU/xccl) plus `tests/e2e/vllm-multinode/smoke.sh`. Both vendors are
supported (NCCL for CUDA/ROCm, xccl for XPU) but mixed-vendor DP is
not -- PyTorch's process group requires every rank to use the same
collective backend, and NCCL/xccl/gloo don't interoperate.
Out of scope (deferred): SmartRouter-driven placement of follower
ranks via NATS backend.install events, follower log streaming through
/api/backend-logs, tensor-parallel across nodes, disaggregated
prefill via KVTransferConfig.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* test(vllm): CPU-only end-to-end test for multi-node DP
Adds tests/e2e/vllm-multinode/, a Ginkgo + testcontainers-go suite
that brings up a head + headless follower from the locally-built
local-ai:tests image, bind-mounts the cpu-vllm backend extracted by
make extract-backend-vllm so it's seen as a system backend (no gallery
fetch, no registry server), and asserts a chat completion across both
DP ranks. New `make test-e2e-vllm-multinode` target wires the docker
build, backend extract, and ginkgo run together; BuildKit caches both
images so re-runs only rebuild what changed. Tagged Label("VLLMMultinode")
so the existing distributed suite isn't pulled along.
Two pre-existing bugs surfaced by the test:
1. extract-backend-% (Makefile) failed for every backend, because all
backend images end with `FROM scratch` and `docker create` rejects
an image with no CMD/ENTRYPOINT. Fixed by passing
--entrypoint=/run.sh -- the container is never started, only
docker-cp'd, so the path doesn't have to exist; we just need
anything that satisfies the daemon's create-time validation.
2. backend/python/vllm/run.sh's `serve` shortcut for the multi-node DP
follower exec'd ${EDIR}/venv/bin/vllm directly, but uv bakes an
absolute build-time shebang (`#!/vllm/venv/bin/python3`) that no
longer resolves once the backend is relocated to BackendsPath.
_makeVenvPortable's shebang rewriter only matches paths that
already point at ${EDIR}, so the original shebang slips through
unchanged. Fixed by exec-ing ${EDIR}/venv/bin/python with the script
as an argument -- Python ignores the script's shebang in that case.
The test fixture caps memory aggressively (max_model_len=512,
VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE=1, TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE=1) so two CPU engines
fit on a 32 GB box. TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE is currently mandatory for
cpu-vllm: torch._inductor's CPU-ISA probe runs even with
enforce_eager=True and needs g++ on PATH, which the LocalAI runtime
image doesn't ship -- to be addressed in a follow-up that bundles a
toolchain in the cpu-vllm backend.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(vllm): bundle a g++ toolchain in the cpu-vllm backend image
torch._inductor's CPU-ISA probe (`cpu_model_runner.py:65 "Warming up
model for the compilation"`) shells out to `g++` at vllm engine
startup, regardless of `enforce_eager=True` -- the eager flag only
disables CUDA graphs, not inductor's first-batch warmup. The LocalAI
CPU runtime image (Dockerfile, unconditional apt list) does not ship
build-essential, and the cpu-vllm backend image is `FROM scratch`,
so any non-trivial inference on cpu-vllm crashes with:
torch._inductor.exc.InductorError:
InvalidCxxCompiler: No working C++ compiler found in
torch._inductor.config.cpp.cxx: (None, 'g++')
Bundling the toolchain in the CPU runtime image would bloat every
non-vllm-CPU deployment and force a single GCC version on backends
that may want clang or a different version. So this lives in the
backend, gated to BUILD_TYPE=='' (the CPU profile).
`package.sh` snapshots g++ + binutils + cc1plus + libstdc++ + libc6
(runtime + dev) + the math libs cc1plus links (libisl/libmpc/libmpfr/
libjansson) into ${BACKEND}/toolchain/, mirroring /usr/... layout. The
unversioned binaries on Debian/Ubuntu are symlink chains pointing into
multiarch packages (`g++` -> `g++-13` -> `x86_64-linux-gnu-g++-13`,
the latter in `g++-13-x86-64-linux-gnu`), so the package list resolves
both the version and the arch-triplet variant. Symlinks /lib ->
usr/lib and /lib64 -> usr/lib64 are recreated under the toolchain
root because Ubuntu's UsrMerge keeps them at /, and ld scripts
(`libc.so`, `libm.so`) hardcode `/lib/...` paths that --sysroot
re-roots into the toolchain.
The unversioned `g++`/`gcc`/`cpp` symlinks are replaced with wrapper
shell scripts that resolve their own location at runtime and pass
`--sysroot=<toolchain>` and `-B <toolchain>/usr/lib/gcc/<triplet>/<ver>/`
to the underlying versioned binary. That's how torch's bare `g++ foo.cpp
-o foo` invocation finds cc1plus (-B), system headers (--sysroot), and
the bundled libstdc++ (--sysroot, --sysroot is recursive into linker).
`run.sh` adds the toolchain bin dir to PATH and the toolchain's
shared-lib dir to LD_LIBRARY_PATH -- everything else (header search,
linker search, executable search) is encapsulated in the wrappers.
No-op for non-CPU builds, the dir doesn't exist there.
The cpu-vllm image grows by ~217 MB. Tradeoff is acceptable -- cpu-vllm
is already a niche profile (few users compared to GPU vllm) and the
alternative is a backend that crashes at first inference unless the
operator manually sets TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE=1, which silently disables
all torch.compile optimizations.
Drops `TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE=1` from tests/e2e/vllm-multinode -- the
smoke now exercises the real compile path through the bundled toolchain.
Test runtime is +20s for the warmup compile, still <90s end to end.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* fix(vllm): scope jetson-ai-lab index to L4T-specific wheels via pyproject.toml
The L4T arm64 build resolves dependencies through pypi.jetson-ai-lab.io,
which hosts the L4T-specific torch / vllm / flash-attn wheels but also
transparently proxies the rest of PyPI through `/+f/<sha>/<filename>`
URLs. With `--extra-index-url` + `--index-strategy=unsafe-best-match`
uv would pick those proxy URLs for ordinary PyPI packages —
anthropic/openai/propcache/annotated-types — and fail when the proxy
503s. Master is hitting the same bug on its own l4t-vllm matrix entry.
Switch the l4t13 install path to a pyproject.toml that marks the
jetson-ai-lab index `explicit = true` and pins only torch, torchvision,
torchaudio, flash-attn, and vllm to it via [tool.uv.sources]. uv won't
consult the L4T mirror for anything else, so transitive deps fall back
to PyPI as the default index — no exposure to the proxy 503s.
`uv pip install -r requirements.txt` ignores [tool.uv.sources], so the
l4t13 branch in install.sh now invokes `uv pip install --requirement
pyproject.toml` directly, replacing the old requirements-l4t13*.txt
files. Other BUILD_PROFILEs continue using libbackend.sh's
installRequirements and never read pyproject.toml.
Local resolution test (x86_64, dry-run) confirms uv hits the L4T
index for torch and falls through to PyPI for everything else.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Read] [Edit] [Bash] [Write]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
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# vLLM multi-node DP smoke (CPU). Builds local-ai:tests and the
# cpu-vllm backend from the current working tree, then drives a
# head + headless follower via testcontainers-go and asserts a chat
# completion. BuildKit caches both images, so re-runs only rebuild
# what changed. The test lives under tests/e2e/distributed and is
# selected by the VLLMMultinode label so it doesn't run alongside
# the other distributed-suite tests by default.
test-e2e-vllm-multinode : docker -build -e 2e extract -backend -vllm protogen -go
@echo 'Running e2e vLLM multi-node DP test'
LOCALAI_IMAGE = local-ai \
LOCALAI_IMAGE_TAG = tests \
LOCALAI_VLLM_BACKEND_DIR = $( abspath ./local-backends/vllm) \
$( GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --label-filter= 'VLLMMultinode' -v -r ./tests/e2e/distributed
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########################################################
## E2E tests
########################################################
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prepare-e2e :
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docker build \
--build-arg IMAGE_TYPE = core \
--build-arg BUILD_TYPE = $( BUILD_TYPE) \
--build-arg BASE_IMAGE = $( BASE_IMAGE) \
--build-arg CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION = $( CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION) \
--build-arg CUDA_MINOR_VERSION = $( CUDA_MINOR_VERSION) \
--build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION = $( UBUNTU_VERSION) \
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--build-arg UBUNTU_CODENAME = $( UBUNTU_CODENAME) \
feat(ci): allow routing apt traffic through an alternate Ubuntu mirror (#9650)
* feat(ci): allow routing apt traffic through an alternate Ubuntu mirror
Adds opt-in APT_MIRROR / APT_PORTS_MIRROR knobs to all Dockerfiles, the
Makefile, and CI workflows so we can fail over to a non-canonical Ubuntu
mirror when archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com
are degraded (recently observed: multi-day DDoS against the default pool).
Defaults are empty everywhere — behavior is unchanged unless a mirror is
configured. To enable in CI, set the repo-level GitHub Actions variables
APT_MIRROR (and APT_PORTS_MIRROR for arm64 builds). Locally:
make docker APT_MIRROR=http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com
A small POSIX-sh helper in .docker/apt-mirror.sh rewrites both DEB822
(/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources, Ubuntu 24.04+) and the legacy
/etc/apt/sources.list before the first apt-get update. Dockerfile stages
load it via RUN --mount=type=bind, so there is no extra layer and no
cache invalidation when the script is unchanged. Reusable workflows also
rewrite the runner's own /etc/apt sources before any sudo apt-get call.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(apt-mirror): default to the Azure mirror, visible in the workflow source
Bakes Azure (http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com / http://azure.ports.ubuntu.com)
in as the default for both Docker builds and runner-side apt — rather than
hiding the URL behind a GitHub Actions repo variable that's not visible
from the source tree.
A new composite action at .github/actions/configure-apt-mirror is the
single source of truth for runner-side rewrites. Five standalone
workflows (build-test, release, tests-e2e, tests-ui-e2e, update_swagger)
just `uses: ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror`.
Three workflows (image_build, backend_build, checksum_checker) keep an
inline bash rewrite, because they install/upgrade git via apt *before*
the checkout step (so the local composite action isn't loadable yet).
The Azure URL is visible in those files too.
The `apt-mirror` / `apt-ports-mirror` inputs of the reusable workflows
keep their now-Azure defaults — they still feed the Docker build-args
block in addition to the inline runner-side rewrite. Callers (image.yml,
image-pr.yml, backend.yml, backend_pr.yml) drop the previous
`vars.APT_MIRROR` plumbing and rely on those defaults.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(apt-mirror): drop Force Install GIT, consolidate on the composite action
The PPA git upgrade ran add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa, which talks
to api.launchpad.net — also part of Canonical's infrastructure and
currently returning HTTP 504. The Azure mirror only covers
archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com, not PPAs.
The system git that ubuntu-latest already ships is sufficient for
actions/checkout and the build pipeline, so just drop the upgrade. With
that gone, the apt-before-checkout constraint disappears too — all three
holdouts (image_build, backend_build, checksum_checker) can now switch
to ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror like the other five.
Net: 0 inline apt-mirror blocks, all 8 workflows route through the
composite action.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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--build-arg APT_MIRROR = $( APT_MIRROR) \
--build-arg APT_PORTS_MIRROR = $( APT_PORTS_MIRROR) \
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--build-arg GO_TAGS = " $( GO_TAGS) " \
--build-arg MAKEFLAGS = " $( DOCKER_MAKEFLAGS) " \
-t localai-tests .
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run-e2e-image :
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docker run -p 5390:8080 -e MODELS_PATH = /models -e THREADS = 1 -e DEBUG = true -d --rm -v $( TEST_DIR) :/models --name e2e-tests-$( RANDOM) localai-tests
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test-e2e : build -mock -backend prepare -e 2e run -e 2e -image
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@echo 'Running e2e tests'
BUILD_TYPE = $( BUILD_TYPE) \
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LOCALAI_API = http://$( E2E_BRIDGE_IP) :5390 \
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$( GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --flake-attempts $( TEST_FLAKES) -v -r ./tests/e2e
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$( MAKE) clean-mock-backend
$( MAKE) teardown-e2e
docker rmi localai-tests
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teardown-e2e :
rm -rf $( TEST_DIR) || true
docker stop $$ ( docker ps -q --filter ancestor = localai-tests)
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########################################################
## Integration and unit tests
########################################################
refactor(tests): split app_test.go, move real-backend coverage to e2e-backends
core/http/app_test.go had grown to 1495 lines exercising three concerns at
once: HTTP-layer integration, real-backend inference (llama-gguf, tts,
stablediffusion, transformers embeddings, whisper), and service logic that
already has unit-level coverage. Each PR paid for 6 backend builds plus
real-model downloads to satisfy a single suite.
Reorg per layer:
- app_test.go (1495 -> 1003 lines) drives the mock-backend binary only.
Kept: auth, routing, gallery API, file:// import, /system, agent-jobs
HTTP plumbing, config-file model loading. Deleted real-inference specs
(llama-gguf chat, ggml completions/streaming, logprobs, logit_bias,
transcription, embeddings, External-gRPC, Stores duplicate, Model gallery
Context). Lifted Agent Jobs out of the deleted Stores Context.
- tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go gains logprobs, logit_bias, and
no-first-token-dup specs (the latter folded into PredictStream). Two
new caps gate them so non-LLM backends opt out.
- tests/e2e-aio/e2e_test.go gains a streaming smoke under Context("text")
to catch container-level streaming regressions.
- tests/models_fixtures/ removed; all fixtures referenced testmodel.ggml.
app_test.go now writes per-Context inline mock-model YAMLs.
CI:
- test.yml + tests-e2e.yml gain paths-ignore (docs/, examples/, *.md,
backend/) so docs and backend-only PRs skip them. test.yml drops the
6-backend Build step plus TRANSFORMER_BACKEND/GO_TAGS=tts; tests-apple
drops the llama-cpp-darwin build.
- New tests-aio.yml runs the AIO container nightly + on workflow_dispatch
+ master/tags. The tests-e2e-container job moved out of test.yml so PRs
no longer pay AIO cost.
- New tests-llama-cpp-smoke job in test-extra.yml runs on every PR with
no detect-changes gate; pulls quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai-backends:
master-cpu-llama-cpp (no build on PR) and exercises predict/stream/
logprobs/logit_bias against Qwen3-0.6B. This is the PR-acceptance
real-backend gate after AIO moved to nightly. The path-gated heavy
test-extra-backend-llama-cpp wrapper appends the same caps so it
exercises the moved specs when the backend actually changes.
Makefile:
- Deleted test-models/testmodel.ggml (the wget chain), test-llama-gguf,
test-tts, test-stablediffusion, test-realtime-models. test target
drops --label-filter, HUGGINGFACE_GRPC, TRANSFORMER_BACKEND, TEST_DIR,
FIXTURES, CONFIG_FILE, MODELS_PATH, BACKENDS_PATH; depends on
build-mock-backend. test-stores keeps a focused entry point and depends
on backends/local-store. clean-tests also clears the mock-backend
binary.
Net per typical Go-side PR: ~25min (6 backend builds + tests + AIO) +
~8min e2e drops to ~5min mock-backend test + ~8min e2e + ~5-10min
llama-cpp-smoke (image pulled). Docs and backend-only PRs skip the
always-on workflows entirely.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7 [Edit] [Write] [Bash]
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## Storage / vector-store integration. Requires the local-store backend to
## be available — we build it on demand and pass its location via
## BACKENDS_PATH (the model loader looks there for the gRPC binary).
test-stores : backends /local -store
BACKENDS_PATH = $( abspath ./) /backends \
$( GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --flake-attempts $( TEST_FLAKES) -v -r tests/integration
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test-opus :
@echo 'Running opus backend tests'
$( MAKE) -C backend/go/opus libopusshim.so
$( GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --flake-attempts $( TEST_FLAKES) -v -r ./backend/go/opus/...
test-opus-docker :
@echo 'Running opus backend tests in Docker'
docker build --target builder \
--build-arg BUILD_TYPE = $( or $( BUILD_TYPE) ,) \
--build-arg BASE_IMAGE = $( or $( BASE_IMAGE) ,ubuntu:24.04) \
feat(ci): allow routing apt traffic through an alternate Ubuntu mirror (#9650)
* feat(ci): allow routing apt traffic through an alternate Ubuntu mirror
Adds opt-in APT_MIRROR / APT_PORTS_MIRROR knobs to all Dockerfiles, the
Makefile, and CI workflows so we can fail over to a non-canonical Ubuntu
mirror when archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com
are degraded (recently observed: multi-day DDoS against the default pool).
Defaults are empty everywhere — behavior is unchanged unless a mirror is
configured. To enable in CI, set the repo-level GitHub Actions variables
APT_MIRROR (and APT_PORTS_MIRROR for arm64 builds). Locally:
make docker APT_MIRROR=http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com
A small POSIX-sh helper in .docker/apt-mirror.sh rewrites both DEB822
(/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources, Ubuntu 24.04+) and the legacy
/etc/apt/sources.list before the first apt-get update. Dockerfile stages
load it via RUN --mount=type=bind, so there is no extra layer and no
cache invalidation when the script is unchanged. Reusable workflows also
rewrite the runner's own /etc/apt sources before any sudo apt-get call.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(apt-mirror): default to the Azure mirror, visible in the workflow source
Bakes Azure (http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com / http://azure.ports.ubuntu.com)
in as the default for both Docker builds and runner-side apt — rather than
hiding the URL behind a GitHub Actions repo variable that's not visible
from the source tree.
A new composite action at .github/actions/configure-apt-mirror is the
single source of truth for runner-side rewrites. Five standalone
workflows (build-test, release, tests-e2e, tests-ui-e2e, update_swagger)
just `uses: ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror`.
Three workflows (image_build, backend_build, checksum_checker) keep an
inline bash rewrite, because they install/upgrade git via apt *before*
the checkout step (so the local composite action isn't loadable yet).
The Azure URL is visible in those files too.
The `apt-mirror` / `apt-ports-mirror` inputs of the reusable workflows
keep their now-Azure defaults — they still feed the Docker build-args
block in addition to the inline runner-side rewrite. Callers (image.yml,
image-pr.yml, backend.yml, backend_pr.yml) drop the previous
`vars.APT_MIRROR` plumbing and rely on those defaults.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(apt-mirror): drop Force Install GIT, consolidate on the composite action
The PPA git upgrade ran add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa, which talks
to api.launchpad.net — also part of Canonical's infrastructure and
currently returning HTTP 504. The Azure mirror only covers
archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com, not PPAs.
The system git that ubuntu-latest already ships is sufficient for
actions/checkout and the build pipeline, so just drop the upgrade. With
that gone, the apt-before-checkout constraint disappears too — all three
holdouts (image_build, backend_build, checksum_checker) can now switch
to ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror like the other five.
Net: 0 inline apt-mirror blocks, all 8 workflows route through the
composite action.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
---------
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-05-03 21:50:13 +00:00
--build-arg APT_MIRROR = $( APT_MIRROR) \
--build-arg APT_PORTS_MIRROR = $( APT_PORTS_MIRROR) \
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--build-arg BACKEND = opus \
-t localai-opus-test -f backend/Dockerfile.golang .
docker run --rm localai-opus-test \
bash -c 'cd /LocalAI && go run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --flake-attempts $(TEST_FLAKES) -v -r ./backend/go/opus/...'
test-realtime : build -mock -backend
@echo 'Running realtime e2e tests (mock backend)'
$( GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --label-filter= "Realtime && !real-models" --flake-attempts $( TEST_FLAKES) -v -r ./tests/e2e
refactor(tests): split app_test.go, move real-backend coverage to e2e-backends
core/http/app_test.go had grown to 1495 lines exercising three concerns at
once: HTTP-layer integration, real-backend inference (llama-gguf, tts,
stablediffusion, transformers embeddings, whisper), and service logic that
already has unit-level coverage. Each PR paid for 6 backend builds plus
real-model downloads to satisfy a single suite.
Reorg per layer:
- app_test.go (1495 -> 1003 lines) drives the mock-backend binary only.
Kept: auth, routing, gallery API, file:// import, /system, agent-jobs
HTTP plumbing, config-file model loading. Deleted real-inference specs
(llama-gguf chat, ggml completions/streaming, logprobs, logit_bias,
transcription, embeddings, External-gRPC, Stores duplicate, Model gallery
Context). Lifted Agent Jobs out of the deleted Stores Context.
- tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go gains logprobs, logit_bias, and
no-first-token-dup specs (the latter folded into PredictStream). Two
new caps gate them so non-LLM backends opt out.
- tests/e2e-aio/e2e_test.go gains a streaming smoke under Context("text")
to catch container-level streaming regressions.
- tests/models_fixtures/ removed; all fixtures referenced testmodel.ggml.
app_test.go now writes per-Context inline mock-model YAMLs.
CI:
- test.yml + tests-e2e.yml gain paths-ignore (docs/, examples/, *.md,
backend/) so docs and backend-only PRs skip them. test.yml drops the
6-backend Build step plus TRANSFORMER_BACKEND/GO_TAGS=tts; tests-apple
drops the llama-cpp-darwin build.
- New tests-aio.yml runs the AIO container nightly + on workflow_dispatch
+ master/tags. The tests-e2e-container job moved out of test.yml so PRs
no longer pay AIO cost.
- New tests-llama-cpp-smoke job in test-extra.yml runs on every PR with
no detect-changes gate; pulls quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai-backends:
master-cpu-llama-cpp (no build on PR) and exercises predict/stream/
logprobs/logit_bias against Qwen3-0.6B. This is the PR-acceptance
real-backend gate after AIO moved to nightly. The path-gated heavy
test-extra-backend-llama-cpp wrapper appends the same caps so it
exercises the moved specs when the backend actually changes.
Makefile:
- Deleted test-models/testmodel.ggml (the wget chain), test-llama-gguf,
test-tts, test-stablediffusion, test-realtime-models. test target
drops --label-filter, HUGGINGFACE_GRPC, TRANSFORMER_BACKEND, TEST_DIR,
FIXTURES, CONFIG_FILE, MODELS_PATH, BACKENDS_PATH; depends on
build-mock-backend. test-stores keeps a focused entry point and depends
on backends/local-store. clean-tests also clears the mock-backend
binary.
Net per typical Go-side PR: ~25min (6 backend builds + tests + AIO) +
~8min e2e drops to ~5min mock-backend test + ~8min e2e + ~5-10min
llama-cpp-smoke (image pulled). Docs and backend-only PRs skip the
always-on workflows entirely.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7 [Edit] [Write] [Bash]
2026-04-27 23:09:20 +00:00
# Container-based real-model realtime testing. Build env vars / pipeline
# definition kept here so test-realtime-models-docker can drive a fully wired
# pipeline (VAD + STT + LLM + TTS) from inside a containerised runner.
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REALTIME_VAD ?= silero-vad-ggml
REALTIME_STT ?= whisper-1
REALTIME_LLM ?= qwen3-0.6b
REALTIME_TTS ?= tts-1
# --- Container-based real-model testing ---
REALTIME_BACKEND_NAMES ?= silero-vad whisper llama-cpp kokoro
REALTIME_MODELS_DIR ?= $( abspath ./models)
REALTIME_BACKENDS_DIR ?= $( abspath ./local-backends)
REALTIME_DOCKER_FLAGS ?= --gpus all
local-backends :
mkdir -p local-backends
extract-backend-% : docker -build -% local -backends
@echo " Extracting backend $* ... "
feat(vllm, distributed): tensor parallel distributed workers (#9612)
* feat(vllm): build vllm from source for Intel XPU
Upstream publishes no XPU wheels for vllm. The Intel profile was
silently picking up a non-XPU wheel that imported but errored at
engine init, and several runtime deps (pillow, charset-normalizer,
chardet) were missing on Intel -- backend.py crashed at import time
before the gRPC server came up.
Switch the Intel profile to upstream's documented from-source
procedure (docs/getting_started/installation/gpu.xpu.inc.md in
vllm-project/vllm):
- Bump portable Python to 3.12 -- vllm-xpu-kernels ships only a
cp312 wheel.
- Source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh so vllm's CMake build sees
the dpcpp/sycl compiler from the oneapi-basekit base image.
- Hide requirements-intel-after.txt during installRequirements
(it used to 'pip install vllm'); install vllm's deps from a
fresh git clone of vllm via 'uv pip install -r
requirements/xpu.txt', swap stock triton for
triton-xpu==3.7.0, then 'VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=xpu uv pip install
--no-deps .'.
- requirements-intel.txt trimmed to LocalAI's direct deps
(accelerate / transformers / bitsandbytes); torch-xpu, vllm,
vllm_xpu_kernels and the rest come from upstream's xpu.txt
during the source build.
- requirements.txt: add pillow + charset-normalizer + chardet --
used by backend.py and missing on the Intel install profile.
- run.sh: 'set -x' so backend startup is visible in container
logs (the gRPC startup error path was previously opaque).
Also adds a one-line docs example for engine_args.attention_backend
under the vLLM section, since older XE-HPG GPUs (e.g. Arc A770)
need TRITON_ATTN to bypass the cutlass path in vllm_xpu_kernels.
Tested end-to-end on an Intel Arc A770 with Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
via LocalAI's /v1/chat/completions.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(vllm): add multi-node data-parallel follower worker
vLLM v1's multi-node story is one process per node sharing a DP
coordinator over ZMQ -- the head runs the API server with
data_parallel_size > 1 and followers run `vllm serve --headless ...`
with matching topology. Today LocalAI can already configure DP on the
head via the engine_args YAML map, but there's no way to bring up the
follower nodes -- so the head sits waiting for ranks that never
handshake.
Add `local-ai p2p-worker vllm`, mirroring MLXDistributed's structural
precedent (operator-launched, static config, no NATS placement). The
worker:
- Optionally self-registers with the frontend as an agent-type node
tagged `node.role=vllm-follower` so it's visible in the admin UI
and operators can scope ordinary models away via inverse
selectors.
- Resolves the platform-specific vllm backend via the gallery's
"vllm" meta-entry (cuda*, intel-vllm, rocm-vllm, ...).
- Runs vLLM as a child process so the heartbeat goroutine survives
until vLLM exits; forwards SIGINT/SIGTERM so vLLM can clean up its
ZMQ sockets before we tear down.
- Validates --headless + --start-rank 0 is rejected (rank 0 is the
head and must serve the API).
Backend run.sh dispatches `serve` as the first arg to vllm's own CLI
instead of LocalAI's backend.py gRPC server -- the follower speaks
ZMQ directly to the head, there is no LocalAI gRPC on the follower
side. Single-node usage is unchanged.
Generalises the gallery resolution helper into findBackendPath()
shared by MLX and vLLM workers; extracts ParseNodeLabels for the
comma-separated label parsing both use.
Ships with two compose recipes (`docker-compose.vllm-multinode.yaml`
for NVIDIA, `docker-compose.vllm-multinode.intel.yaml` for Intel
XPU/xccl) plus `tests/e2e/vllm-multinode/smoke.sh`. Both vendors are
supported (NCCL for CUDA/ROCm, xccl for XPU) but mixed-vendor DP is
not -- PyTorch's process group requires every rank to use the same
collective backend, and NCCL/xccl/gloo don't interoperate.
Out of scope (deferred): SmartRouter-driven placement of follower
ranks via NATS backend.install events, follower log streaming through
/api/backend-logs, tensor-parallel across nodes, disaggregated
prefill via KVTransferConfig.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* test(vllm): CPU-only end-to-end test for multi-node DP
Adds tests/e2e/vllm-multinode/, a Ginkgo + testcontainers-go suite
that brings up a head + headless follower from the locally-built
local-ai:tests image, bind-mounts the cpu-vllm backend extracted by
make extract-backend-vllm so it's seen as a system backend (no gallery
fetch, no registry server), and asserts a chat completion across both
DP ranks. New `make test-e2e-vllm-multinode` target wires the docker
build, backend extract, and ginkgo run together; BuildKit caches both
images so re-runs only rebuild what changed. Tagged Label("VLLMMultinode")
so the existing distributed suite isn't pulled along.
Two pre-existing bugs surfaced by the test:
1. extract-backend-% (Makefile) failed for every backend, because all
backend images end with `FROM scratch` and `docker create` rejects
an image with no CMD/ENTRYPOINT. Fixed by passing
--entrypoint=/run.sh -- the container is never started, only
docker-cp'd, so the path doesn't have to exist; we just need
anything that satisfies the daemon's create-time validation.
2. backend/python/vllm/run.sh's `serve` shortcut for the multi-node DP
follower exec'd ${EDIR}/venv/bin/vllm directly, but uv bakes an
absolute build-time shebang (`#!/vllm/venv/bin/python3`) that no
longer resolves once the backend is relocated to BackendsPath.
_makeVenvPortable's shebang rewriter only matches paths that
already point at ${EDIR}, so the original shebang slips through
unchanged. Fixed by exec-ing ${EDIR}/venv/bin/python with the script
as an argument -- Python ignores the script's shebang in that case.
The test fixture caps memory aggressively (max_model_len=512,
VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE=1, TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE=1) so two CPU engines
fit on a 32 GB box. TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE is currently mandatory for
cpu-vllm: torch._inductor's CPU-ISA probe runs even with
enforce_eager=True and needs g++ on PATH, which the LocalAI runtime
image doesn't ship -- to be addressed in a follow-up that bundles a
toolchain in the cpu-vllm backend.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(vllm): bundle a g++ toolchain in the cpu-vllm backend image
torch._inductor's CPU-ISA probe (`cpu_model_runner.py:65 "Warming up
model for the compilation"`) shells out to `g++` at vllm engine
startup, regardless of `enforce_eager=True` -- the eager flag only
disables CUDA graphs, not inductor's first-batch warmup. The LocalAI
CPU runtime image (Dockerfile, unconditional apt list) does not ship
build-essential, and the cpu-vllm backend image is `FROM scratch`,
so any non-trivial inference on cpu-vllm crashes with:
torch._inductor.exc.InductorError:
InvalidCxxCompiler: No working C++ compiler found in
torch._inductor.config.cpp.cxx: (None, 'g++')
Bundling the toolchain in the CPU runtime image would bloat every
non-vllm-CPU deployment and force a single GCC version on backends
that may want clang or a different version. So this lives in the
backend, gated to BUILD_TYPE=='' (the CPU profile).
`package.sh` snapshots g++ + binutils + cc1plus + libstdc++ + libc6
(runtime + dev) + the math libs cc1plus links (libisl/libmpc/libmpfr/
libjansson) into ${BACKEND}/toolchain/, mirroring /usr/... layout. The
unversioned binaries on Debian/Ubuntu are symlink chains pointing into
multiarch packages (`g++` -> `g++-13` -> `x86_64-linux-gnu-g++-13`,
the latter in `g++-13-x86-64-linux-gnu`), so the package list resolves
both the version and the arch-triplet variant. Symlinks /lib ->
usr/lib and /lib64 -> usr/lib64 are recreated under the toolchain
root because Ubuntu's UsrMerge keeps them at /, and ld scripts
(`libc.so`, `libm.so`) hardcode `/lib/...` paths that --sysroot
re-roots into the toolchain.
The unversioned `g++`/`gcc`/`cpp` symlinks are replaced with wrapper
shell scripts that resolve their own location at runtime and pass
`--sysroot=<toolchain>` and `-B <toolchain>/usr/lib/gcc/<triplet>/<ver>/`
to the underlying versioned binary. That's how torch's bare `g++ foo.cpp
-o foo` invocation finds cc1plus (-B), system headers (--sysroot), and
the bundled libstdc++ (--sysroot, --sysroot is recursive into linker).
`run.sh` adds the toolchain bin dir to PATH and the toolchain's
shared-lib dir to LD_LIBRARY_PATH -- everything else (header search,
linker search, executable search) is encapsulated in the wrappers.
No-op for non-CPU builds, the dir doesn't exist there.
The cpu-vllm image grows by ~217 MB. Tradeoff is acceptable -- cpu-vllm
is already a niche profile (few users compared to GPU vllm) and the
alternative is a backend that crashes at first inference unless the
operator manually sets TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE=1, which silently disables
all torch.compile optimizations.
Drops `TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE=1` from tests/e2e/vllm-multinode -- the
smoke now exercises the real compile path through the bundled toolchain.
Test runtime is +20s for the warmup compile, still <90s end to end.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* fix(vllm): scope jetson-ai-lab index to L4T-specific wheels via pyproject.toml
The L4T arm64 build resolves dependencies through pypi.jetson-ai-lab.io,
which hosts the L4T-specific torch / vllm / flash-attn wheels but also
transparently proxies the rest of PyPI through `/+f/<sha>/<filename>`
URLs. With `--extra-index-url` + `--index-strategy=unsafe-best-match`
uv would pick those proxy URLs for ordinary PyPI packages —
anthropic/openai/propcache/annotated-types — and fail when the proxy
503s. Master is hitting the same bug on its own l4t-vllm matrix entry.
Switch the l4t13 install path to a pyproject.toml that marks the
jetson-ai-lab index `explicit = true` and pins only torch, torchvision,
torchaudio, flash-attn, and vllm to it via [tool.uv.sources]. uv won't
consult the L4T mirror for anything else, so transitive deps fall back
to PyPI as the default index — no exposure to the proxy 503s.
`uv pip install -r requirements.txt` ignores [tool.uv.sources], so the
l4t13 branch in install.sh now invokes `uv pip install --requirement
pyproject.toml` directly, replacing the old requirements-l4t13*.txt
files. Other BUILD_PROFILEs continue using libbackend.sh's
installRequirements and never read pyproject.toml.
Local resolution test (x86_64, dry-run) confirms uv hits the L4T
index for torch and falls through to PyPI for everything else.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Read] [Edit] [Bash] [Write]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
---------
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-05-05 22:22:50 +00:00
@CID= $$ ( docker create --entrypoint= /run.sh local-ai-backend:$* ) && \
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rm -rf local-backends/$* && mkdir -p local-backends/$* && \
docker cp $$ CID:/ - | tar -xf - -C local-backends/$* && \
docker rm $$ CID > /dev/null
extract-realtime-backends : $( addprefix extract -backend -,$ ( REALTIME_BACKEND_NAMES ) )
test-realtime-models-docker : build -mock -backend
docker build --target build-requirements \
--build-arg BUILD_TYPE = $( or $( BUILD_TYPE) ,cublas) \
--build-arg CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION = $( or $( CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION) ,13) \
--build-arg CUDA_MINOR_VERSION = $( or $( CUDA_MINOR_VERSION) ,0) \
feat(ci): allow routing apt traffic through an alternate Ubuntu mirror (#9650)
* feat(ci): allow routing apt traffic through an alternate Ubuntu mirror
Adds opt-in APT_MIRROR / APT_PORTS_MIRROR knobs to all Dockerfiles, the
Makefile, and CI workflows so we can fail over to a non-canonical Ubuntu
mirror when archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com
are degraded (recently observed: multi-day DDoS against the default pool).
Defaults are empty everywhere — behavior is unchanged unless a mirror is
configured. To enable in CI, set the repo-level GitHub Actions variables
APT_MIRROR (and APT_PORTS_MIRROR for arm64 builds). Locally:
make docker APT_MIRROR=http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com
A small POSIX-sh helper in .docker/apt-mirror.sh rewrites both DEB822
(/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources, Ubuntu 24.04+) and the legacy
/etc/apt/sources.list before the first apt-get update. Dockerfile stages
load it via RUN --mount=type=bind, so there is no extra layer and no
cache invalidation when the script is unchanged. Reusable workflows also
rewrite the runner's own /etc/apt sources before any sudo apt-get call.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(apt-mirror): default to the Azure mirror, visible in the workflow source
Bakes Azure (http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com / http://azure.ports.ubuntu.com)
in as the default for both Docker builds and runner-side apt — rather than
hiding the URL behind a GitHub Actions repo variable that's not visible
from the source tree.
A new composite action at .github/actions/configure-apt-mirror is the
single source of truth for runner-side rewrites. Five standalone
workflows (build-test, release, tests-e2e, tests-ui-e2e, update_swagger)
just `uses: ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror`.
Three workflows (image_build, backend_build, checksum_checker) keep an
inline bash rewrite, because they install/upgrade git via apt *before*
the checkout step (so the local composite action isn't loadable yet).
The Azure URL is visible in those files too.
The `apt-mirror` / `apt-ports-mirror` inputs of the reusable workflows
keep their now-Azure defaults — they still feed the Docker build-args
block in addition to the inline runner-side rewrite. Callers (image.yml,
image-pr.yml, backend.yml, backend_pr.yml) drop the previous
`vars.APT_MIRROR` plumbing and rely on those defaults.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(apt-mirror): drop Force Install GIT, consolidate on the composite action
The PPA git upgrade ran add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa, which talks
to api.launchpad.net — also part of Canonical's infrastructure and
currently returning HTTP 504. The Azure mirror only covers
archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com, not PPAs.
The system git that ubuntu-latest already ships is sufficient for
actions/checkout and the build pipeline, so just drop the upgrade. With
that gone, the apt-before-checkout constraint disappears too — all three
holdouts (image_build, backend_build, checksum_checker) can now switch
to ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror like the other five.
Net: 0 inline apt-mirror blocks, all 8 workflows route through the
composite action.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
---------
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-05-03 21:50:13 +00:00
--build-arg APT_MIRROR = $( APT_MIRROR) \
--build-arg APT_PORTS_MIRROR = $( APT_PORTS_MIRROR) \
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-t localai-test-runner .
docker run --rm \
$( REALTIME_DOCKER_FLAGS) \
-v $( abspath ./) :/build \
-v $( REALTIME_MODELS_DIR) :/models:ro \
-v $( REALTIME_BACKENDS_DIR) :/backends \
-v localai-go-cache:/root/go/pkg/mod \
-v localai-go-build-cache:/root/.cache/go-build \
-e REALTIME_TEST_MODEL = $$ { REALTIME_TEST_MODEL:-realtime-test-pipeline} \
-e REALTIME_VAD = $( REALTIME_VAD) \
-e REALTIME_STT = $( REALTIME_STT) \
-e REALTIME_LLM = $( REALTIME_LLM) \
-e REALTIME_TTS = $( REALTIME_TTS) \
-e REALTIME_BACKENDS_PATH = /backends \
-e REALTIME_MODELS_PATH = /models \
-w /build \
localai-test-runner \
bash -c ' git config --global --add safe.directory /build && \
make protogen-go && make build-mock-backend && \
go run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --label-filter= "Realtime" --flake-attempts $( TEST_FLAKES) -v -r ./tests/e2e'
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test-container :
docker build --target requirements -t local-ai-test-container .
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docker run -ti --rm --entrypoint /bin/bash -ti -v $( abspath ./) :/build local-ai-test-container
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feat: add biometrics UI (#9524)
* feat(react-ui): add Face & Voice Recognition pages
Expose the face and voice biometrics endpoints
(/v1/face/*, /v1/voice/*) through the React UI. Each page has four
tabs driving the six endpoints per modality: Analyze (demographics
with bounding boxes / waveform segments), Compare (verify with a
match gauge and live threshold slider), Enrollment (register /
identify / forget with a top-K matches view), Embedding (raw
vector inspector with sparkline + copy).
MediaInput supports file upload plus live capture: webcam
snap-to-canvas for face, MediaRecorder -> AudioContext ->
16-bit PCM mono WAV transcode for voice (libsndfile on the
backend only handles WAV/FLAC/OGG natively).
Sidebar gets a new Biometrics section feature-gated on
face_recognition / voice_recognition; routes are wrapped in
<RequireFeature>. No new dependencies -- Font Awesome icons
picked from the Free set.
Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.7
* fix(localai): accept data URI prefixes with codec/charset params
Browser MediaRecorder produces data URIs like
data:audio/webm;codecs=opus;base64,...
so the pre-';base64,' section can carry multiple parameter
segments. The `^data:([^;]+);base64,` regex in pkg/utils/base64.go
and core/http/endpoints/localai/audio.go only matched exactly one
segment, so recordings straight from the React UI's live-capture
tab failed the strip and then tripped the base64 decoder on the
leading 'data:' literal, surfacing as
"invalid audio base64: illegal base64 data at input byte 4"
Widened both regexes to `^data:[^,]+?;base64,` so any number of
';param=value' segments between the mime type and ';base64,' are
tolerated. Added a regression test covering the MediaRecorder
shape.
Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.7
* fix(insightface): scope pack ONNX loading to known manifests
LocalAI's gallery extracts buffalo_* zips flat into the models
directory, which inevitably mixes with ONNX files from other
backends (opencv face engine, MiniFASNet antispoof, WeSpeaker
voice embedding) and older buffalo pack installs. Feeding those
foreign files into insightface's model_zoo.get_model() blows up
inside the router -- it assumes a 4-D NCHW input and indexes
`input_shape[2]` on tensors that aren't shaped like a face model,
raising IndexError mid-load and leaving the backend unusable.
The router's dispatch isn't amenable to per-file try/except alone
(first-file-wins picks det_10g.onnx from buffalo_l even when the
user asked for buffalo_sc -- alphabetical order happens to favour
the wrong pack). Instead, ship an explicit manifest of the
upstream v0.7 pack contents and scope the glob to that when the
requested pack is known. The manifest is small and stable; future
packs can be added alongside or fall through to the tolerance
loop, which also swallows any remaining IndexError / ValueError
from foreign files with a clear `[insightface] skipped` stderr
line for diagnostics.
Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.7
* fix(speaker-recognition): extract FBank features for rank-3 ONNX encoders
Pre-exported speaker-encoder ONNX graphs come in two shapes:
rank-2 [batch, samples] -- some 3D-Speaker exports,
take raw waveform directly.
rank-3 [batch, frames, n_mels] -- WeSpeaker and most Kaldi-
lineage encoders, expect
pre-computed Kaldi FBank.
OnnxDirectEngine unconditionally fed `audio.reshape(1, -1)` --
correct for rank-2, IndexError-on-input_shape[3] on rank-3, which
surfaced to the UI as
"Invalid rank for input: feats Got: 2 Expected: 3"
Detect the input rank at session init and run Kaldi FBank
(80-dim, 25ms/10ms frames, dither=0.0, per-utterance CMN) before
the forward pass when rank>=3. All knobs are configurable via
backend options for encoders that deviate from defaults.
torchaudio.compliance.kaldi is already in the backend's
requirements (SpeechBrain pulls torchaudio in), so no new
dependency.
Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.7
* fix(biometrics): isolate face and voice vector stores
Face (ArcFace, 512-D) and voice (ECAPA-TDNN 192-D / WeSpeaker
256-D) biometric embeddings were colliding inside a single
in-memory local-store instance. Enrolling one after the other
failed with
"Try to add key with length N when existing length is M"
because local-store correctly refuses to mix dimensions in one
keyspace.
The registries were constructed with `storeName=""`, which in
StoreBackend() is just a WithModel() call. But ModelLoader's
cache is keyed on `modelID`, not `model` -- so both registries
collapsed to the same `modelID=""` slot and reused the same
backend process despite looking isolated on paper.
Three complementary fixes:
1. application.go -- give each registry a distinct default
namespace ("localai-face-biometrics" /
"localai-voice-biometrics"). The comment claimed
isolation, now it's actually enforced.
2. stores.go -- pass the storeName as both WithModelID and
WithModel so the ModelLoader cache key separates
namespaces and the loader spawns distinct processes.
3. local-store/store.go -- drop the Load() `opts.Model != ""`
guard. It was there to prevent generic model-loading loops
from picking up local-store by accident, but that auto-load
path is being retired; the guard now just blocks legitimate
namespace isolation. opts.Model is treated as a tag; the
per-tuple process isolation upstream handles discrimination.
Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.7
* fix(gallery): stale-file cleanup and upgrade-tmp directory safety
Two related robustness fixes for backend install/upgrade:
pkg/downloader/uri.go
OCI downloads passed through
if filepath.Ext(filePath) != "" ...
filePath = filepath.Dir(filePath)
which was intended to redirect file-shaped download targets
into their parent directory for OCI extraction. The heuristic
misfires on directory-shaped paths with a dot-suffix --
gallery.UpgradeBackend uses
tmpPath = "<backendsPath>/<name>.upgrade-tmp"
and Go's filepath.Ext treats ".upgrade-tmp" as an extension.
The rewrite landed the extraction at "<backendsPath>/", which
then **overwrote the real install** (backends/<name>/) with a
flat-layout file and left a stray run.sh at the top level. The
tmp dir itself stayed empty, so the validation step that
checked "<tmpPath>/run.sh" predictably failed with
"upgrade validation failed: run.sh not found in new backend"
Every manual upgrade silently corrupted the backends tree this
way. Guard the rewrite behind "target isn't already an existing
directory" -- InstallBackend / UpgradeBackend both pre-create
the target as a directory, so they get the correct behaviour;
existing file-path callers with a genuine dot-extension still
get the parent redirect.
core/gallery/backends.go
InstallBackend's MkdirAll returned ENOTDIR when something at
the target path was already a file (legacy dev builds dropped
golang backend binaries directly at `<backendsPath>/<name>`
instead of nesting them under their own subdir). That
permanently blocked reinstall and upgrade for anyone carrying
that state, since every retry hit the same error. Detect a
pre-existing non-directory, warn, and remove it before the
MkdirAll so the fresh install can write the correct nested
layout with metadata.json + run.sh.
Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.7
* fix(galleryop): refresh upgrade cache after backend ops
UpgradeChecker caches the last upgrade-check result and only
refreshes on the 6-hour tick or after an auto-upgrade cycle.
Manual upgrades (POST /api/backends/upgrade/:name) go through
the async galleryop worker, which completes the upgrade
correctly but never tells UpgradeChecker to re-check -- so
/api/backends/upgrades continued to list a just-upgraded backend
as upgradeable, indistinguishable from a failed upgrade, for up
to six hours.
Add an optional `OnBackendOpCompleted func()` hook on
GalleryService that fires after every successful install /
upgrade / delete on the backend channel (async, so a slow
callback doesn't stall the queue). startup.go wires it to
UpgradeChecker.TriggerCheck after both services exist. Result:
the upgrade banner clears within milliseconds of the worker
finishing.
Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.7
* build: prepend GOPATH/bin to PATH for protogen-go
install-go-tools runs `go install` for protoc-gen-go and
protoc-gen-go-grpc, which writes them into `go env GOPATH`/bin.
That directory isn't on every dev's PATH, and protoc resolves
its code-gen plugins via PATH, so the immediately-following
protoc invocation fails with
"protoc-gen-go: program not found"
which in turn blocks `make build` and any
`make backends/%` target that depends on build.
Prepend `go env GOPATH`/bin to PATH for the protoc invocation
so the freshly-installed plugins are found without requiring a
shell-profile change.
Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.7
* refactor(ui-api): non-blocking backend upgrade handler with opcache
POST /api/backends/upgrade/:name used to send the ManagementOp
directly onto the unbuffered BackendGalleryChannel, which blocked
the HTTP request whenever the galleryop worker was busy with a
prior operation. The op also didn't show up in /api/operations,
so the Backends UI couldn't reflect upgrade progress on the
affected row.
Register the op in opcache immediately, wrap it in a cancellable
context, store the cancellation function on the GalleryService,
and push onto the channel from a goroutine so the handler
returns right away. Response gains a `jobID` field and a
`message` string so clients have a consistent handle regardless
of whether the op is queued or running.
Pairs with the OnBackendOpCompleted hook added in the galleryop
commit — together the UI sees the upgrade start, watches
progress via /api/operations, and drops the "upgradeable" flag
the moment the worker finishes.
Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.7
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# install-go-tools writes protoc-gen-go and protoc-gen-go-grpc into
# $(shell go env GOPATH)/bin, which isn't on every dev's PATH. protoc
# resolves its code-gen plugins via PATH, so without this prefix the
# generate step fails with "protoc-gen-go: program not found". Prepend
# GOPATH/bin so the freshly-installed plugins win without requiring a
# shell-profile change.
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$( GOCMD) generate ./core/config/...
.PHONY : generate
generate : core /config /inference_defaults .json ## Ensure inference defaults exist
.PHONY : generate -force
generate-force : ## Re-fetch inference defaults from unsloth (always)
$( GOCMD) generate ./core/config/...
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$( RM) bin/*
prepare-test-extra : protogen -python
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feat(realtime): Add Liquid Audio s2s model and assistant mode on talk page (#9801)
* feat(liquid-audio): add LFM2.5-Audio any-to-any backend + realtime_audio usecase
Wires LiquidAI's LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B as a self-contained Realtime API model:
single engine handles VAD, transcription, LLM, and TTS in one bidirectional
stream — drop-in alternative to a VAD+STT+LLM+TTS pipeline.
Backend
- backend/python/liquid-audio/ — new Python gRPC backend wrapping the
`liquid-audio` package. Modes: chat / asr / tts / s2s, voice presets,
Load/Predict/PredictStream/AudioTranscription/TTS/VAD/AudioToAudioStream/
Free and StartFineTune/FineTuneProgress/StopFineTune. Runtime monkey-patch
on `liquid_audio.utils.snapshot_download` so absolute local paths from
LocalAI's gallery resolve without a HF round-trip. soundfile in place of
torchaudio.load/save (torchcodec drags NVIDIA NPP we don't bundle).
- backend/backend.proto + pkg/grpc/{backend,client,server,base,embed,
interface}.go — new AudioToAudioStream RPC mirroring AudioTransformStream
(config/frame/control oneof in; typed event+pcm+meta out).
- core/services/nodes/{health_mock,inflight}_test.go — add stubs for the
new RPC to the test fakes.
Config + capabilities
- core/config/backend_capabilities.go — UsecaseRealtimeAudio, MethodAudio
ToAudioStream, UsecaseInfoMap entry, liquid-audio BackendCapability row.
- core/config/model_config.go — FLAG_REALTIME_AUDIO bitmask, ModalityGroups
membership in both speech-input and audio-output groups so a lone flag
still reads as multimodal, GetAllModelConfigUsecases entry, GuessUsecases
branch.
Realtime endpoint
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime.go — extract prepareRealtimeConfig()
so the gate is unit-testable; accept realtime_audio models and self-fill
empty pipeline slots with the model's own name (user-pinned slots win).
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime_gate_test.go — six specs covering nil
cfg, empty pipeline, legacy pipeline, self-contained realtime_audio,
user-pinned VAD slot, and partial legacy pipeline.
UI + endpoints
- core/http/routes/ui.go — /api/pipeline-models accepts either a legacy
VAD+STT+LLM+TTS pipeline or a realtime_audio model; surfaces a
self_contained flag so the Talk page can collapse the four cards.
- core/http/routes/ui_api.go — realtime_audio in usecaseFilters.
- core/http/routes/ui_pipeline_models_test.go — covers both code paths.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Talk.jsx — self-contained badge instead of
the four-slot grid; rename Edit Pipeline → Edit Model Config; less
pipeline-specific wording.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Models.jsx + locales/en/models.json — new
realtime_audio filter button + i18n.
- core/http/react-ui/src/utils/capabilities.js — CAP_REALTIME_AUDIO.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/FineTune.jsx — voice + validation-dataset
fields, surfaced when backend === liquid-audio, plumbed via
extra_options on submit/export/import.
Gallery + importer
- gallery/liquid-audio.yaml — config template with known_usecases:
[realtime_audio, chat, tts, transcript, vad].
- gallery/index.yaml — four model entries (realtime/chat/asr/tts) keyed by
mode option. Fixed pre-existing `transcribe` typo on the asr entry
(loader silently dropped the unknown string → entry never surfaced as a
transcript model).
- gallery/lfm.yaml — function block for the LFM2 Pythonic tool-call format
`<|tool_call_start|>[name(k="v")]<|tool_call_end|>` matching
common_chat_params_init_lfm2 in vendored llama.cpp.
- core/gallery/importers/{liquid-audio,liquid-audio_test}.go — detector
matches LFM2-Audio HF repos (excludes -gguf mirrors); mode/voice
preferences plumbed through to options.
- core/gallery/importers/importers.go — register LiquidAudioImporter
before LlamaCPPImporter.
- pkg/functions/parse_lfm2_test.go — seven specs for the response/argument
regex pair on the LFM2 pythonic format.
Build matrix
- .github/backend-matrix.yml — seven liquid-audio targets (cuda12, cuda13,
l4t-cuda-13, hipblas, intel, cpu amd64, cpu arm64). Jetpack r36 cuda-12
is skipped (Ubuntu 22.04 / Python 3.10 incompatible with liquid-audio's
3.12 floor).
- backend/index.yaml — anchor + 13 image entries.
- Makefile — .NOTPARALLEL, prepare-test-extra, test-extra,
docker-build-liquid-audio.
Docs
- .agents/plans/liquid-audio-integration.md — phased plan; PR-D (real
any-to-any wiring via AudioToAudioStream), PR-E (mid-audio tool-call
detector), PR-G (GGUF entries once upstream llama.cpp PR #18641 lands)
remain.
- .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md — expand the capability-surface
checklist with every place a new FLAG_* needs to be registered.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(realtime): function calling + history cap for any-to-any models
Three pieces, all on the realtime_audio path that just landed:
1. liquid-audio backend (backend/python/liquid-audio/backend.py):
- _build_chat_state grows a `tools_prelude` arg.
- new _render_tools_prelude parses request.Tools (the OpenAI Chat
Completions function array realtime.go already serialises) and
emits an LFM2 `<|tool_list_start|>…<|tool_list_end|>` system turn
ahead of the user history. Mirrors gallery/lfm.yaml's `function:`
template so the model sees the same prompt shape whether served
via llama-cpp or here. Without this the backend silently dropped
tools — function calling was wired end-to-end on the Go side but
the model never saw a tool list.
2. Realtime history cap (core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime.go):
- Session grows MaxHistoryItems int; default picked by new
defaultMaxHistoryItems(cfg) — 6 for realtime_audio models (LFM2.5
1.5B degrades quickly past a handful of turns), 0/unlimited for
legacy pipelines composing larger LLMs.
- triggerResponse runs conv.Items through trimRealtimeItems before
building conversationHistory. Helper walks the cut left if it
would orphan a function_call_output, so tool result + call pairs
stay intact.
- realtime_gate_test.go: specs for defaultMaxHistoryItems and
trimRealtimeItems (zero cap, under cap, over cap, tool-call pair
preservation).
3. Talk page (core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Talk.jsx):
- Reuses the chat page's MCP plumbing — useMCPClient hook,
ClientMCPDropdown component, same auto-connect/disconnect effect
pattern. No bespoke tool registry, no new REST endpoints; tools
come from whichever MCP servers the user toggles on, exactly as
on the chat page.
- sendSessionUpdate now passes session.tools=getToolsForLLM(); the
update re-fires when the active server set changes mid-session.
- New response.function_call_arguments.done handler executes via
the hook's executeTool (which round-trips through the MCP client
SDK), then replies with conversation.item.create
{type:function_call_output} + response.create so the model
completes its turn with the tool output. Mirrors chat's
client-side agentic loop, translated to the realtime wire shape.
UI changes require a LocalAI image rebuild (Dockerfile:308-313 bakes
react-ui/dist into the runtime image). Backend.py changes can be
swapped live in /backends/<id>/backend.py + /backend/shutdown.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(realtime): LocalAI Assistant ("Manage Mode") for the Talk page
Mirrors the chat-page metadata.localai_assistant flow so users can ask the
realtime model what's loaded / installed / configured. Tools are run
server-side via the same in-process MCP holder that powers the chat
modality — no transport switch, no proxy, no new wire protocol.
Wire:
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime.go:
- RealtimeSessionOptions{LocalAIAssistant,IsAdmin}; isCurrentUserAdmin
helper mirrors chat.go's requireAssistantAccess (no-op when auth
disabled, else requires auth.RoleAdmin).
- Session grows AssistantExecutor mcpTools.ToolExecutor.
- runRealtimeSession, when opts.LocalAIAssistant is set: gate on admin,
fail closed if DisableLocalAIAssistant or the holder has no tools,
DiscoverTools and inject into session.Tools, prepend
holder.SystemPrompt() to instructions.
- Tool-call dispatch loop: when AssistantExecutor.IsTool(name), run
ExecuteTool inproc, append a FunctionCallOutput to conv.Items, skip
the function_call_arguments client emit (the client can't execute
these — it doesn't know about them). After the loop, if any
assistant tool ran, trigger another response so the model speaks the
result. Mirrors chat's agentic loop, driven server-side rather than
via client round-trip.
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime_webrtc.go: RealtimeCallRequest
gains `localai_assistant` (JSON omitempty). Handshake calls
isCurrentUserAdmin and builds RealtimeSessionOptions.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Talk.jsx: admin-only "Manage Mode"
checkbox under the Tools dropdown; passes localai_assistant: true to
realtimeApi.call's body, captured in the connect callback's deps.
Mirroring chat's pattern means the in-process MCP tools surface "just
works" for the Talk page without exposing a Streamable-HTTP MCP endpoint
(which was the alternative). Clients with their own MCP servers can
still use the existing ClientMCPDropdown path in parallel; the realtime
handler distinguishes them by AssistantExecutor.IsTool() at dispatch
time.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(realtime): render Manage Mode tool calls in the Talk transcript
Previously the realtime endpoint only emitted response.output_item.added
for the FunctionCall item, and Talk.jsx's switch ignored the event — so
server-side tool runs were invisible in the UI. The model would speak
the result but the user had no way to see what tool was actually
called.
realtime.go: after executing an assistant tool inproc, emit a second
output_item.added/.done pair for the FunctionCallOutput item. Mirrors
the way the chat page displays tool_call + tool_result blocks.
Talk.jsx: handle both response.output_item.added and .done. Render
FunctionCall (with arguments) and FunctionCallOutput (pretty-printed
JSON when possible) as two transcript entries — `tool_call` with the
wrench icon, `tool_result` with the clipboard icon, both in mono-space
secondary-colour. Resets streamingRef after the result so the next
assistant text delta starts a fresh transcript entry instead of
appending to the previous turn.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* refactor(realtime): bound the Manage Mode tool-loop + preserve assistant tools
Fallout from a review pass on the Manage Mode patches:
- Bound the server-side agentic loop. triggerResponse used to recurse on
executedAssistantTool with no cap — a model that kept calling tools
would blow the goroutine stack. New maxAssistantToolTurns = 10 (mirrors
useChat.js's maxToolTurns). Public triggerResponse is now a thin shim
over triggerResponseAtTurn(toolTurn int); recursion increments the
counter and stops at the cap with an xlog.Warn.
- Preserve Manage Mode tools across client session.update. The handler
used to blindly overwrite session.Tools, so toggling a client MCP
server mid-session silently wiped the in-process admin tools. Session
now caches the original AssistantTools slice at session creation and
the session.update handler merges them back in (client names win on
collision — the client is explicit).
- strconv.ParseBool for the localai_assistant query param instead of
hand-rolled "1" || "true". Mirrors LocalAIAssistantFromMetadata.
- Talk.jsx: render both tool_call and tool_result on
response.output_item.done instead of splitting them across .added and
.done. The server's event pairing (added → done) stays correct; the
UI just doesn't need to inspect both phases of the same item. One
switch case instead of two, no behavioural change.
Out of scope (noted for follow-ups): extract a shared assistant-tools
helper between chat.go and realtime.go (duplication is small enough
that two parallel implementations stay readable for now), and an i18n
key for the Manage Mode helper text (Talk.jsx doesn't use i18n
anywhere else yet).
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* ci(test-extra): wire liquid-audio backend smoke test
The backend ships test.py + a `make test` target and is listed in
backend-matrix.yml, so scripts/changed-backends.js already writes a
`liquid-audio=true|false` output when files under backend/python/liquid-audio/
change. The workflow just wasn't reading it.
- Expose the `liquid-audio` output on the detect-changes job
- Add a tests-liquid-audio job that runs `make` + `make test` in
backend/python/liquid-audio, gated on the per-backend detect flag
The smoke covers Health() and LoadModel(mode:finetune); fine-tune mode
short-circuits before any HuggingFace download (backend.py:192), so the
job needs neither weights nor a GPU. The full-inference path remains
gated on LIQUID_AUDIO_MODEL_ID, which CI doesn't set.
The four new Go test files (core/gallery/importers/liquid-audio_test.go,
core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime_gate_test.go,
core/http/routes/ui_pipeline_models_test.go, pkg/functions/parse_lfm2_test.go)
are already picked up by the existing test.yml workflow via `make test` →
`ginkgo -r ./pkg/... ./core/...`; their packages all carry RunSpecs entries.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
---------
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-05-13 19:57:27 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/liquid-audio
2026-01-07 20:44:35 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/moonshine
2026-01-13 22:35:19 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/pocket-tts
2026-01-23 14:18:41 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/qwen-tts
2026-03-12 06:48:23 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/fish-speech
2026-02-27 07:16:51 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/faster-qwen3-tts
2026-01-29 20:50:35 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/qwen-asr
2026-02-07 07:19:37 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/nemo
2026-01-28 13:44:04 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/voxcpm
2026-04-08 19:23:38 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/faster-whisper
feat(whisperx): add whisperx backend for transcription with speaker diarization (#8299)
* feat(proto): add speaker field to TranscriptSegment for diarization
Add speaker field to the gRPC TranscriptSegment message and map it
through the Go schema, enabling backends to return speaker labels.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* feat(whisperx): add whisperx backend for transcription with diarization
Add Python gRPC backend using WhisperX for speech-to-text with
word-level timestamps, forced alignment, and speaker diarization
via pyannote-audio when HF_TOKEN is provided.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* feat(whisperx): register whisperx backend in Makefile
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* feat(whisperx): add whisperx meta and image entries to index.yaml
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* ci(whisperx): add build matrix entries for CPU, CUDA 12/13, and ROCm
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(whisperx): unpin torch versions and use CPU index for cpu requirements
Address review feedback:
- Use --extra-index-url for CPU torch wheels to reduce size
- Remove torch version pins, let uv resolve compatible versions
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(whisperx): pin torch ROCm variant to fix CI build failure
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(whisperx): pin torch CPU variant to fix uv resolution failure
Pin torch==2.8.0+cpu so uv resolves the CPU wheel from the extra
index instead of picking torch==2.8.0+cu128 from PyPI, which pulls
unresolvable CUDA dependencies.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(whisperx): use unsafe-best-match index strategy to fix uv resolution failure
uv's default first-match strategy finds torch on PyPI before checking
the extra index, causing it to pick torch==2.8.0+cu128 instead of the
CPU variant. This makes whisperx's transitive torch dependency
unresolvable. Using unsafe-best-match lets uv consider all indexes.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(whisperx): drop +cpu local version suffix to fix uv resolution failure
PEP 440 ==2.8.0 matches 2.8.0+cpu from the extra index, avoiding the
issue where uv cannot locate an explicit +cpu local version specifier.
This aligns with the pattern used by all other CPU backends.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(backends): drop +rocm local version suffixes from hipblas requirements to fix uv resolution
uv cannot resolve PEP 440 local version specifiers (e.g. +rocm6.4,
+rocm6.3) in pinned requirements. The --extra-index-url already points
to the correct ROCm wheel index and --index-strategy unsafe-best-match
(set in libbackend.sh) ensures the ROCm variant is preferred.
Applies the same fix as 7f5d72e8 (which resolved this for +cpu) across
all 14 hipblas requirements files.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* revert: scope hipblas suffix fix to whisperx only
Reverts changes to non-whisperx hipblas requirements files per
maintainer review — other backends are building fine with the +rocm
local version suffix.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-02 15:33:12 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/whisperx
2026-02-05 11:04:53 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/ace-step
2026-03-21 01:08:02 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/trl
feat(backend): add tinygrad multimodal backend (experimental) (#9364)
* feat(backend): add tinygrad multimodal backend
Wire tinygrad as a new Python backend covering LLM text generation with
native tool-call extraction, embeddings, Stable Diffusion 1.x image
generation, and Whisper speech-to-text from a single self-contained
container.
Backend (`backend/python/tinygrad/`):
- `backend.py` gRPC servicer with LLM Predict/PredictStream (auto-detects
Llama / Qwen2 / Mistral architecture from `config.json`, supports
safetensors and GGUF), Embedding via mean-pooled last hidden state,
GenerateImage via the vendored SD1.x pipeline, AudioTranscription +
AudioTranscriptionStream via the vendored Whisper inference loop, plus
Tokenize / ModelMetadata / Status / Free.
- Vendored upstream model code under `vendor/` (MIT, headers preserved):
llama.py with an added `qkv_bias` flag for Qwen2-family bias support
and an `embed()` method that returns the last hidden state, plus
clip.py, unet.py, stable_diffusion.py (trimmed to drop the MLPerf
training branch that pulls `mlperf.initializers`), audio_helpers.py
and whisper.py (trimmed to drop the pyaudio listener).
- Pluggable tool-call parsers under `tool_parsers/`: hermes (Qwen2.5 /
Hermes), llama3_json (Llama 3.1+), qwen3_xml (Qwen 3), mistral
(Mistral / Mixtral). Auto-selected from model architecture or `Options`.
- `install.sh` pins Python 3.11.14 (tinygrad >=0.12 needs >=3.11; the
default portable python is 3.10).
- `package.sh` bundles libLLVM.so.1 + libedit/libtinfo/libgomp/libsndfile
into the scratch image. `run.sh` sets `CPU_LLVM=1` and `LLVM_PATH` so
tinygrad's CPU device uses the in-process libLLVM JIT instead of
shelling out to the missing `clang` binary.
- Local unit tests for Health and the four parsers in `test.py`.
Build wiring:
- Root `Makefile`: `.NOTPARALLEL`, `prepare-test-extra`, `test-extra`,
`BACKEND_TINYGRAD = tinygrad|python|.|false|true`,
docker-build-target eval, and `docker-build-backends` aggregator.
- `.github/workflows/backend.yml`: cpu / cuda12 / cuda13 build matrix
entries (mirrors the transformers backend placement).
- `backend/index.yaml`: `&tinygrad` meta + cpu/cuda12/cuda13 image
entries (latest + development).
E2E test wiring:
- `tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go` gains an `image` capability that
exercises GenerateImage and asserts a non-empty PNG is written to
`dst`. New `BACKEND_TEST_IMAGE_PROMPT` / `BACKEND_TEST_IMAGE_STEPS`
knobs.
- Five new make targets next to `test-extra-backend-vllm`:
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad` — Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct + hermes,
mirrors the vllm target 1:1 (5/9 specs in ~57s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-embeddings` — same model, embeddings
via LLM hidden state (3/9 in ~10s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-sd` — stable-diffusion-v1-5 mirror,
health/load/image (3/9 in ~10min, 4 diffusion steps on CPU).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-whisper` — openai/whisper-tiny.en
against jfk.wav from whisper.cpp samples (4/9 in ~49s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-all` aggregate.
All four targets land green on the first MVP pass: 15 specs total, 0
failures across LLM+tools, embeddings, image generation, and speech
transcription.
* refactor(tinygrad): collapse to a single backend image
tinygrad generates its own GPU kernels (PTX renderer for CUDA, the
autogen ctypes wrappers for HIP / Metal / WebGPU) and never links
against cuDNN, cuBLAS, or any toolkit-version-tied library. The only
runtime dependency that varies across hosts is the driver's libcuda.so.1
/ libamdhip64.so, which are injected into the container at run time by
the nvidia-container / rocm runtimes. So unlike torch- or vLLM-based
backends, there is no reason to ship per-CUDA-version images.
- Drop the cuda12-tinygrad and cuda13-tinygrad build-matrix entries
from .github/workflows/backend.yml. The sole remaining entry is
renamed to -tinygrad (from -cpu-tinygrad) since it is no longer
CPU-only.
- Collapse backend/index.yaml to a single meta + development pair.
The meta anchor carries the latest uri directly; the development
entry points at the master tag.
- run.sh picks the tinygrad device at launch time by probing
/usr/lib/... for libcuda.so.1 / libamdhip64.so. When libcuda is
visible we set CUDA=1 + CUDA_PTX=1 so tinygrad uses its own PTX
renderer (avoids any nvrtc/toolkit dependency); otherwise we fall
back to HIP or CLANG. CPU_LLVM=1 + LLVM_PATH keep the in-process
libLLVM JIT for the CLANG path.
- backend.py's _select_tinygrad_device() is trimmed to a CLANG-only
fallback since production device selection happens in run.sh.
Re-ran test-extra-backend-tinygrad after the change:
Ran 5 of 9 Specs in 56.541 seconds — 5 Passed, 0 Failed
2026-04-15 17:48:23 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/tinygrad
feat(face-recognition): add insightface/onnx backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis (#9480)
* feat(face-recognition): add insightface backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis
Adds face recognition as a new first-class capability in LocalAI via the
`insightface` Python backend, with a pluggable two-engine design so
non-commercial (insightface model packs) and commercial-safe
(OpenCV Zoo YuNet + SFace) models share the same gRPC/HTTP surface.
New gRPC RPCs (backend/backend.proto):
* FaceVerify(FaceVerifyRequest) returns FaceVerifyResponse
* FaceAnalyze(FaceAnalyzeRequest) returns FaceAnalyzeResponse
Existing Embedding and Detect RPCs are reused (face image in
PredictOptions.Images / DetectOptions.src) for face embedding and
face detection respectively.
New HTTP endpoints under /v1/face/:
* verify — 1:1 image pair same-person decision
* analyze — per-face age + gender (emotion/race reserved)
* register — 1:N enrollment; stores embedding in vector store
* identify — 1:N recognition; detect → embed → StoresFind
* forget — remove a registered face by opaque ID
Service layer (core/services/facerecognition/) introduces a
`Registry` interface with one in-memory `storeRegistry` impl backed
by LocalAI's existing local-store gRPC vector backend. HTTP handlers
depend on the interface, not on StoresSet/StoresFind directly, so a
persistent PostgreSQL/pgvector implementation can be slotted in via a
single constructor change in core/application (TODO marker in the
package doc).
New usecase flag FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION; insightface is also wired
into FLAG_DETECTION so /v1/detection works for face bounding boxes.
Gallery (backend/index.yaml) ships three entries:
* insightface-buffalo-l — SCRFD-10GF + ArcFace R50 + genderage
(~326MB pre-baked; non-commercial research use only)
* insightface-opencv — YuNet + SFace (~40MB pre-baked; Apache 2.0)
* insightface-buffalo-s — SCRFD-500MF + MBF (runtime download; non-commercial)
Python backend (backend/python/insightface/):
* engines.py — FaceEngine protocol with InsightFaceEngine and
OnnxDirectEngine; resolves model paths relative to the backend
directory so the same gallery config works in docker-scratch and
in the e2e-backends rootfs-extraction harness.
* backend.py — gRPC servicer implementing Health, LoadModel, Status,
Embedding, Detect, FaceVerify, FaceAnalyze.
* install.sh — pre-bakes buffalo_l + OpenCV YuNet/SFace inside the
backend directory so first-run is offline-clean (the final scratch
image only preserves files under /<backend>/).
* test.py — parametrized unit tests over both engines.
Tests:
* Registry unit tests (go test -race ./core/services/facerecognition/...)
— in-memory fake grpc.Backend, table-driven, covers register/
identify/forget/error paths + concurrent access.
* tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go extended with face caps
(face_detect, face_embed, face_verify, face_analyze); relative
ordering + configurable verifyCeiling per engine.
* Makefile targets: test-extra-backend-insightface-buffalo-l,
-opencv, and the -all aggregate.
* CI: .github/workflows/test-extra.yml gains tests-insightface-grpc,
auto-triggered by changes under backend/python/insightface/.
Docs:
* docs/content/features/face-recognition.md — feature page with
license table, quickstart (defaults to the commercial-safe model),
models matrix, API reference, 1:N workflow, storage caveats.
* Cross-refs in object-detection.md, stores.md, embeddings.md, and
whats-new.md.
* Contributor README at backend/python/insightface/README.md.
Verified end-to-end:
* buffalo_l: 6/6 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed,
face_verify, face_analyze).
* opencv: 5/5 specs (same minus face_analyze — SFace has no
demographic head; correctly skipped via BACKEND_TEST_CAPS).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): move engine selection to model gallery, collapse backend entries
The previous commit put engine/model_pack options on backend gallery
entries (`backend/index.yaml`). That was wrong — `GalleryBackend`
(core/gallery/backend_types.go:32) has no `options` field, so the
YAML decoder silently dropped those keys and all three "different
insightface-*" backend entries resolved to the same container image
with no distinguishing configuration.
Correct split:
* `backend/index.yaml` now has ONE `insightface` backend entry
shipping the CPU + CUDA 12 container images. The Python backend
bundles both the non-commercial insightface model packs
(buffalo_l / buffalo_s) and the commercial-safe OpenCV Zoo
weights (YuNet + SFace); the active engine is selected at
LoadModel time via `options: ["engine:..."]`.
* `gallery/index.yaml` gains three model entries —
`insightface-buffalo-l`, `insightface-opencv`,
`insightface-buffalo-s` — each setting the appropriate
`overrides.backend` + `overrides.options` so installing one
actually gives the user the intended engine. This matches how
`rfdetr-base` lives in the model gallery against the `rfdetr`
backend.
The earlier e2e tests passed despite this bug because the Makefile
targets pass `BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS` directly to LoadModel via gRPC,
bypassing any gallery resolution entirely. No code changes needed.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): cover all supported models in the gallery + drop weight baking
Follows up on the model-gallery split: adds entries for every model
configuration either engine actually supports, and switches weight
delivery from image-baked to LocalAI's standard gallery mechanism.
Gallery now has seven `insightface-*` model entries (gallery/index.yaml):
insightface (family) — non-commercial research use
• buffalo-l (326MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet50 + genderage, default
• buffalo-m (313MB) — SCRFD-2.5GF + ResNet50 + genderage
• buffalo-s (159MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF + genderage
• buffalo-sc (16MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF, recognition only
(no landmarks, no demographics — analyze
returns empty attributes)
• antelopev2 (407MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet100@Glint360K + genderage
OpenCV Zoo family — Apache 2.0 commercial-safe
• opencv — YuNet + SFace fp32 (~40MB)
• opencv-int8 — YuNet + SFace int8 (~12MB, ~3x smaller, faster on CPU)
Model weights are no longer baked into the backend image. The image
now ships only the Python runtime + libraries (~275MB content size,
~1.18GB disk vs ~1.21GB when weights were baked). Weights flow through
LocalAI's gallery mechanism:
* OpenCV variants list `files:` with ONNX URIs + SHA-256, so
`local-ai models install insightface-opencv` pulls them into the
models directory exactly like any other gallery-managed model.
* insightface packs (upstream distributes .zip archives only, not
individual ONNX files) auto-download on first LoadModel via
FaceAnalysis' built-in machinery, rooted at the LocalAI models
directory so they live alongside everything else — same pattern
`rfdetr` uses with `inference.get_model()`.
Backend changes (backend/python/insightface/):
* backend.py — LoadModel propagates `ModelOptions.ModelPath` (the
LocalAI models directory) to engines via a `_model_dir` hint.
This replaces the earlier ModelFile-dirname approach; ModelPath
is the canonical "models directory" variable set by the Go loader
(pkg/model/initializers.go:144) and is always populated.
* engines.py::_resolve_model_path — picks up `model_dir` and searches
it (plus basename-in-model-dir) before falling back to the dev
script-dir. This is how OnnxDirectEngine finds gallery-downloaded
YuNet/SFace files by filename only.
* engines.py::_flatten_insightface_pack — new helper that works
around an upstream packaging inconsistency: buffalo_l/s/sc zips
expand flat, but buffalo_m and antelopev2 zips wrap their ONNX
files in a redundant `<name>/` directory. insightface's own
loader looks one level too shallow and fails. We call
`ensure_available()` explicitly, flatten if nested, then hand to
FaceAnalysis.
* engines.py::InsightFaceEngine.prepare — root-resolution order now
includes the `_model_dir` hint so packs download into the LocalAI
models directory by default.
* install.sh — no longer pre-downloads any weights. Everything is
gallery-managed now.
* smoke.py (new) — parametrized smoke test that iterates over every
gallery configuration, simulating the LocalAI install flow
(creates a models dir, fetches OpenCV files with checksum
verification, lets insightface auto-download its packs), then
runs detect + embed + verify (+ analyze where supported) through
the in-process BackendServicer.
* test.py — OnnxDirectEngineTest no longer hardcodes `/models/opencv/`
paths; downloads ONNX files to a temp dir at setUpClass time and
passes ModelPath accordingly.
Registry change (core/services/facerecognition/store_registry.go):
* `dim=0` in NewStoreRegistry now means "accept whatever dimension
arrives" — needed because the backend supports 512-d ArcFace/MBF
and 128-d SFace via the same Registry. A non-zero dim still fails
fast with ErrDimensionMismatch.
* core/application plumbs `faceEmbeddingDim = 0`, explaining the
rationale in the comment.
Backend gallery description updated to reflect that the image carries
no weights — it's just Python + engines.
Smoke-tested all 7 configurations against the rebuilt image (with the
flatten fix applied), exit 0:
PASS: insightface-buffalo-l faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-sc faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-s faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-m faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-antelopev2 faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv-int8 faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
7/7 passed
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): pre-fetch OpenCV ONNX for e2e target; drop stale pre-baked claim
CI regression from the previous commit: I moved OpenCV Zoo weight
delivery to LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism, but the
test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv target was still passing
relative paths `detector_onnx:models/opencv/yunet.onnx` in
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS. The e2e suite drives LoadModel directly over
gRPC without going through the gallery, so those relative paths
resolved to nothing and OpenCV's ONNXImporter failed:
LoadModel failed: Failed to load face engine:
OpenCV(4.13.0) ... Can't read ONNX file: models/opencv/yunet.onnx
Fix: add an `insightface-opencv-models` prerequisite target that
fetches the two ONNX files (YuNet + SFace) to a deterministic host
cache at /tmp/localai-insightface-opencv-cache/, verifies SHA-256,
and skips the download on re-runs. The opencv test target depends on
it and passes absolute paths in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS, so the backend
finds the files via its normal absolute-path resolution branch.
Also refresh the buffalo_l comment: it no longer says "pre-baked"
(nothing is — the pack auto-downloads from upstream's GitHub release
on first LoadModel, same as in CI).
Locally verified: `make test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv` passes
5/5 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed, face_verify).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): add POST /v1/face/embed + correct /v1/embeddings docs
The docs promised that /v1/embeddings returns face vectors when you
send an image data-URI. That was never true: /v1/embeddings is
OpenAI-compatible and text-only by contract — its handler goes
through `core/backend/embeddings.go::ModelEmbedding`, which sets
`predictOptions.Embeddings = s` (a string of TEXT to embed) and never
populates `predictOptions.Images[]`. The Python backend's Embedding
gRPC method does handle Images[] (that's how /v1/face/register reaches
it internally via `backend.FaceEmbed`), but the HTTP embeddings
endpoint wasn't wired to populate it.
Rather than overload /v1/embeddings with image-vs-text detection —
messy, and the endpoint is OpenAI-compatible by design — add a
dedicated /v1/face/embed endpoint that wraps `backend.FaceEmbed`
(already used internally by /v1/face/register and /v1/face/identify).
Matches LocalAI's convention of a dedicated path per non-standard flow
(/v1/rerank, /v1/detection, /v1/face/verify etc.).
Response:
{
"embedding": [<dim> floats, L2-normed],
"dim": int, // 512 for ArcFace R50 / MBF, 128 for SFace
"model": "<name>"
}
Live-tested on the opencv engine: returns a 128-d L2-normalized vector
(sum(x^2) = 1.0000). Sentinel in docs updated to note /v1/embeddings
is text-only and point image users at /v1/face/embed instead.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(http): map malformed image input + gRPC status codes to proper 4xx
Image-input failures on LocalAI's single-image endpoints (/v1/detection,
/v1/face/{verify,analyze,embed,register,identify}) have historically
returned 500 — even when the client was the one who sent garbage.
Classic example: you POST an "image" that isn't a URL, isn't a
data-URI, and isn't a valid JPEG/PNG — the server shouldn't claim
that's its fault.
Two helpers land in core/http/endpoints/localai/images.go and every
single-image handler is switched over:
* decodeImageInput(s)
Wraps utils.GetContentURIAsBase64 and turns any failure
(invalid URL, not a data-URI, download error, etc.) into
echo.NewHTTPError(400, "invalid image input: ...").
* mapBackendError(err)
Inspects the gRPC status on a backend call error and maps:
INVALID_ARGUMENT → 400 Bad Request
NOT_FOUND → 404 Not Found
FAILED_PRECONDITION → 412 Precondition Failed
Unimplemented → 501 Not Implemented
All other codes fall through unchanged (still 500).
Before, my 1×1 PNG error-path test returned:
HTTP 500 "rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = failed to decode one or both images"
After:
HTTP 400 "failed to decode one or both images"
Scope-limited to the LocalAI single-image endpoints. The multi-modal
paths (middleware/request.go, openresponses/responses.go,
openai/realtime.go) intentionally log-and-skip individual media parts
when decoding fails — different design intent (graceful degradation
of a multi-part message), not a 400-worthy failure. Left untouched.
Live-verified: every error case in /tmp/face_errors.py now returns
4xx with a meaningful message; the "image with no face (1x1 PNG)"
case specifically went from 500 → 400.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* refactor(face-recognition): insightface packs go through gallery files:, drop FaceAnalysis
Follows up on the discovery that LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism
handles archives (zip, tar.gz, …) via mholt/archiver/v3 — the rhasspy
piper voices use exactly this pattern. Insightface packs are zip
archives, so we can now deliver them the same way every other
gallery-managed model gets delivered: declaratively, checksum-verified,
through LocalAI's standard download+extract pipeline.
Two changes:
1. Gallery (gallery/index.yaml) — every insightface-* entry gains a
`files:` list with the pack zip's URI + SHA-256. `local-ai models
install insightface-buffalo-l` now fetches the zip, verifies the
hash, and extracts it into the models directory. No more reliance
on insightface's library-internal `ensure_available()` auto-download
or its hardcoded `BASE_REPO_URL`.
2. InsightFaceEngine (backend/python/insightface/engines.py) — drops
the FaceAnalysis wrapper and drives insightface's `model_zoo`
directly. The ~50 lines FaceAnalysis provides — glob ONNX files,
route each through `model_zoo.get_model()`, build a
`{taskname: model}` dict, loop per-face at inference — are
reimplemented in `InsightFaceEngine`. The actual inference classes
(RetinaFace, ArcFaceONNX, Attribute, Landmark) are still
insightface's — we only replicate the glue, so drift risk against
upstream is minimal.
Why drop FaceAnalysis: it hard-codes a `<root>/models/<name>/*.onnx`
layout that doesn't match what LocalAI's zip extraction produces.
LocalAI unpacks archives flat into `<models_dir>`. Upstream packs
are inconsistent — buffalo_l/s/sc ship ONNX at the zip root (lands
at `<models_dir>/*.onnx`), buffalo_m/antelopev2 wrap in a redundant
`<name>/` dir (lands at `<models_dir>/<name>/*.onnx`). The new
`_locate_insightface_pack` helper searches both locations plus
legacy paths and returns whichever has ONNX files. Replaces the
earlier `_flatten_insightface_pack` helper (which tried to fight
FaceAnalysis's layout expectations; now we just find the files
wherever they are).
Net effect for users: install once via LocalAI's managed flow,
weights live alongside every other model, progress shows in the
jobs endpoint, no first-load network call. Same API surface,
cleaner plumbing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): CI's insightface e2e path needs the pack pre-fetched
The e2e suite drives LoadModel over gRPC without going through LocalAI's
gallery flow, so the engine's `_model_dir` option (normally populated
from ModelPath) is empty. Previously the insightface target relied on
FaceAnalysis auto-download to paper over this, but we dropped
FaceAnalysis in favor of direct model_zoo calls — so the buffalo_l
target started failing at LoadModel with "no insightface pack found".
Mirror the opencv target's pre-fetch pattern: download buffalo_sc.zip
(same SHA as the gallery entry), extract it on the host, and pass
`root:<dir>` so the engine locates the pack without needing
ModelPath. Switched to buffalo_sc (smallest pack, ~16MB) to keep CI
fast; it covers the same insightface engine code path as buffalo_l.
Face analyze cap dropped since buffalo_sc has no age/gender head.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* feat(face-recognition): surface face-recognition in advertised feature maps
The six /v1/face/* endpoints were missing from every place LocalAI
advertises its feature surface to clients:
* api_instructions — the machine-readable capability index at
GET /api/instructions. Added `face-recognition` as a dedicated
instruction area with an intro that calls out the in-memory
registry caveat and the /v1/face/embed vs /v1/embeddings split.
* auth/permissions — added FeatureFaceRecognition constant, routed
all six face endpoints through it so admins can gate them per-user
like any other API feature. Default ON (matches the other API
features).
* React UI capabilities — CAP_FACE_RECOGNITION symbol mapped to
FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION. Declared only for now; the Face page is a
follow-up (noted in the plan).
Instruction count bumped 9 → 10; test updated.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* docs(agents): capture advertising-surface steps in the endpoint guide
Before this change, adding a new /v1/* endpoint reliably missed one or
more of: the swagger @Tags annotation, the /api/instructions registry,
the auth RouteFeatureRegistry, and the React UI CAP_* symbol. The
endpoint would work but be invisible to API consumers, admins, and the
UI — and nothing in the existing docs said to look in those places.
Extend .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md with a new "Advertising
surfaces" section covering all four surfaces (swagger tags, /api/
instructions, capabilities.js, docs/), and expand the closing checklist
so it's impossible to ship a feature without visiting each one. Hoist a
one-liner reminder into AGENTS.md's Quick Reference so agents skim it
before diving in.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
2026-04-22 19:55:41 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/insightface
feat: voice recognition (#9500)
* feat(voice-recognition): add /v1/voice/{verify,analyze,embed} + speaker-recognition backend
Audio analog to face recognition. Adds three gRPC RPCs
(VoiceVerify / VoiceAnalyze / VoiceEmbed), their Go service and HTTP
layers, a new FLAG_SPEAKER_RECOGNITION capability flag, and a Python
backend scaffold under backend/python/speaker-recognition/ wrapping
SpeechBrain ECAPA-TDNN with a parallel OnnxDirectEngine for
WeSpeaker / 3D-Speaker ONNX exports.
The kokoros Rust backend gets matching unimplemented trait stubs —
tonic's async_trait has no defaults, so adding an RPC without Rust
stubs breaks the build (same regression fixed by eb01c772 for face).
Swagger, /api/instructions, and the auth RouteFeatureRegistry /
APIFeatures list are updated so the endpoints surface everywhere a
client or admin UI looks.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(voice-recognition): add 1:N identify + register/forget endpoints
Mirrors the face-recognition register/identify/forget surface. New
package core/services/voicerecognition/ carries a Registry interface
and a local-store-backed implementation (same in-memory vector-store
plumbing facerecognition uses, separate instance so the embedding
spaces stay isolated).
Handlers under /v1/voice/{register,identify,forget} reuse
backend.VoiceEmbed to compute the probe vector, then delegate the
nearest-neighbour search to the registry. Default cosine-distance
threshold is tuned for ECAPA-TDNN on VoxCeleb (0.25, EER ~1.9%).
As with the face registry, the current backing is in-memory only — a
pgvector implementation is a future constructor-level swap.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(voice-recognition): gallery, docs, CI and e2e coverage
- backend/index.yaml: speaker-recognition backend entry + CPU and
CUDA-12 image variants (plus matching development variants).
- gallery/index.yaml: speechbrain-ecapa-tdnn (default) and
wespeaker-resnet34 model entries. The WeSpeaker SHA-256 is a
deliberate placeholder — the HF URI must be curl'd and its hash
filled in before the entry installs.
- docs/content/features/voice-recognition.md: API reference + quickstart,
mirrors the face-recognition docs.
- React UI: CAP_SPEAKER_RECOGNITION flag export (consumers follow face's
precedent — no dedicated tab yet).
- tests/e2e-backends: voice_embed / voice_verify / voice_analyze specs.
Helper resolveFaceFixture is reused as-is — the only thing face/voice
share is "download a file into workDir", so no need for a new helper.
- Makefile: docker-build-speaker-recognition + test-extra-backend-
speaker-recognition-{ecapa,all} targets. Audio fixtures default to
VCTK p225/p226 samples from HuggingFace.
- CI: test-extra.yml grows a tests-speaker-recognition-grpc job
mirroring insightface. backend.yml matrix gains CPU + CUDA-12 image
build entries — scripts/changed-backends.js auto-picks these up.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(voice-recognition): wire a working /v1/voice/analyze head
Adds AnalysisHead: a lazy-loading age / gender / emotion inference
wrapper that plugs into both SpeechBrainEngine and OnnxDirectEngine.
Defaults to two open-licence HuggingFace checkpoints:
- audeering/wav2vec2-large-robust-24-ft-age-gender (Apache 2.0) —
age regression + 3-way gender (female / male / child).
- superb/wav2vec2-base-superb-er (Apache 2.0) — 4-way emotion.
Both are optional and degrade gracefully when transformers or the
model can't be loaded — the engine raises NotImplementedError so the
gRPC layer returns 501 instead of a generic 500.
Emotion classes pass through from the model (neutral/happy/angry/sad
on the default checkpoint); the e2e test now accepts any non-empty
dominant gender so custom age_gender_model overrides don't fail it.
Adds transformers to the backend's CPU and CUDA-12 requirements.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(voice-recognition): pin real WeSpeaker ResNet34 ONNX SHA-256
Replaces the placeholder hash in gallery/index.yaml with the actual
SHA-256 (7bb2f06e…) of the upstream
Wespeaker/wespeaker-voxceleb-resnet34-LM ONNX at ~25MB. `local-ai
models install wespeaker-resnet34` now succeeds.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(voice-recognition): soundfile loader + honest analyze default
Two issues surfaced on first end-to-end smoke with the actual backend
image:
1. torchaudio.load in torchaudio 2.8+ requires the torchcodec package
for audio decoding. Switch SpeechBrainEngine._load_waveform to the
already-present soundfile (listed in requirements.txt) plus a numpy
linear resample to 16kHz. Drops a heavy ffmpeg-linked dep and the
codepath we never exercise (torchaudio's ffmpeg backend).
2. The AnalysisHead was defaulting to audeering/wav2vec2-large-robust-
24-ft-age-gender, but AutoModelForAudioClassification silently
mangles that checkpoint — it reports the age head weights as
UNEXPECTED and re-initialises the classifier head with random
values, so the "gender" output is noise and there is no age output
at all. Make age/gender opt-in instead (empty default; users wire
a cleanly-loadable Wav2Vec2ForSequenceClassification checkpoint via
age_gender_model: option). Emotion keeps its working Superb default.
Also broaden _infer_age_gender's tensor-shape handling and catch
runtime exceptions so a dodgy age/gender head never takes down the
whole analyze call.
Docs and README updated to match the new policy.
Verified with the branch-scoped gallery on localhost:
- voice/embed → 192-d ECAPA-TDNN vector
- voice/verify → same-clip dist≈6e-08 verified=true; cross-speaker
dist 0.76–0.99 verified=false (as expected)
- voice/register/identify/forget → round-trip works, 404 on unknown id
- voice/analyze → emotion populated, age/gender omitted (opt-in)
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(voice-recognition): real CI audio fixtures + fixture-agnostic verify spec
Two issues surfaced after CI actually ran the speaker-recognition e2e
target (I'd curl-tested against a running server but hadn't run the
make target locally):
1. The default BACKEND_TEST_VOICE_AUDIO_* URLs pointed at
huggingface.co/datasets/CSTR-Edinburgh/vctk paths that return 404
(the dataset is gated). Swap them for the speechbrain test samples
served from github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/raw/develop/ —
public, no auth, correct 16kHz mono format.
2. The VoiceVerify spec required d(file1,file2) < 0.4, assuming
file1/file2 were same-speaker. The speechbrain samples are three
different speakers (example1/2/5), and there is no easy un-gated
source of true same-speaker audio pairs (VoxCeleb/VCTK/LibriSpeech
are all license- or size-gated for CI use). Replace the ceiling
check with a relative-ordering assertion: d(pair) > d(same-clip)
for both file2 and file3 — that's enough to prove the embeddings
encode speaker info, and it works with any three non-identical
clips. Actual speaker ordering d(1,2) vs d(1,3) is logged but not
asserted.
Local run: 4/4 voice specs pass (Health, LoadModel, VoiceEmbed,
VoiceVerify) on the built backend image. 12 non-voice specs skipped
as expected.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(ci): checkout with submodules in the reusable backend_build workflow
The kokoros Rust backend build fails with
failed to read .../sources/Kokoros/kokoros/Cargo.toml: No such file
because the reusable backend_build.yml workflow's actions/checkout
step was missing `submodules: true`. Dockerfile.rust does `COPY .
/LocalAI`, and without the submodule files the subsequent `cargo
build` can't find the vendored Kokoros crate.
The bug pre-dates this PR — scripts/changed-backends.js only triggers
the kokoros image job when something under backend/rust/kokoros or
the shared proto changes, so master had been coasting past it. The
voice-recognition proto addition re-broke it.
Other checkouts in backend.yml (llama-cpp-darwin) and test-extra.yml
(insightface, kokoros, speaker-recognition) already pass
`submodules: true`; this brings the shared backend image builder in
line.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
2026-04-23 10:07:14 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/speaker-recognition
2026-04-08 17:23:16 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/rust/kokoros kokoros-grpc
2023-12-08 14:45:04 +00:00
test-extra : prepare -test -extra
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/transformers test
2026-02-03 20:57:50 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/outetts test
2023-12-11 07:20:34 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/diffusers test
2025-05-30 08:52:55 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/chatterbox test
2025-04-30 12:55:07 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/vllm test
2026-01-24 21:23:30 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/vllm-omni test
2025-12-10 20:14:21 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/vibevoice test
feat(realtime): Add Liquid Audio s2s model and assistant mode on talk page (#9801)
* feat(liquid-audio): add LFM2.5-Audio any-to-any backend + realtime_audio usecase
Wires LiquidAI's LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B as a self-contained Realtime API model:
single engine handles VAD, transcription, LLM, and TTS in one bidirectional
stream — drop-in alternative to a VAD+STT+LLM+TTS pipeline.
Backend
- backend/python/liquid-audio/ — new Python gRPC backend wrapping the
`liquid-audio` package. Modes: chat / asr / tts / s2s, voice presets,
Load/Predict/PredictStream/AudioTranscription/TTS/VAD/AudioToAudioStream/
Free and StartFineTune/FineTuneProgress/StopFineTune. Runtime monkey-patch
on `liquid_audio.utils.snapshot_download` so absolute local paths from
LocalAI's gallery resolve without a HF round-trip. soundfile in place of
torchaudio.load/save (torchcodec drags NVIDIA NPP we don't bundle).
- backend/backend.proto + pkg/grpc/{backend,client,server,base,embed,
interface}.go — new AudioToAudioStream RPC mirroring AudioTransformStream
(config/frame/control oneof in; typed event+pcm+meta out).
- core/services/nodes/{health_mock,inflight}_test.go — add stubs for the
new RPC to the test fakes.
Config + capabilities
- core/config/backend_capabilities.go — UsecaseRealtimeAudio, MethodAudio
ToAudioStream, UsecaseInfoMap entry, liquid-audio BackendCapability row.
- core/config/model_config.go — FLAG_REALTIME_AUDIO bitmask, ModalityGroups
membership in both speech-input and audio-output groups so a lone flag
still reads as multimodal, GetAllModelConfigUsecases entry, GuessUsecases
branch.
Realtime endpoint
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime.go — extract prepareRealtimeConfig()
so the gate is unit-testable; accept realtime_audio models and self-fill
empty pipeline slots with the model's own name (user-pinned slots win).
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime_gate_test.go — six specs covering nil
cfg, empty pipeline, legacy pipeline, self-contained realtime_audio,
user-pinned VAD slot, and partial legacy pipeline.
UI + endpoints
- core/http/routes/ui.go — /api/pipeline-models accepts either a legacy
VAD+STT+LLM+TTS pipeline or a realtime_audio model; surfaces a
self_contained flag so the Talk page can collapse the four cards.
- core/http/routes/ui_api.go — realtime_audio in usecaseFilters.
- core/http/routes/ui_pipeline_models_test.go — covers both code paths.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Talk.jsx — self-contained badge instead of
the four-slot grid; rename Edit Pipeline → Edit Model Config; less
pipeline-specific wording.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Models.jsx + locales/en/models.json — new
realtime_audio filter button + i18n.
- core/http/react-ui/src/utils/capabilities.js — CAP_REALTIME_AUDIO.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/FineTune.jsx — voice + validation-dataset
fields, surfaced when backend === liquid-audio, plumbed via
extra_options on submit/export/import.
Gallery + importer
- gallery/liquid-audio.yaml — config template with known_usecases:
[realtime_audio, chat, tts, transcript, vad].
- gallery/index.yaml — four model entries (realtime/chat/asr/tts) keyed by
mode option. Fixed pre-existing `transcribe` typo on the asr entry
(loader silently dropped the unknown string → entry never surfaced as a
transcript model).
- gallery/lfm.yaml — function block for the LFM2 Pythonic tool-call format
`<|tool_call_start|>[name(k="v")]<|tool_call_end|>` matching
common_chat_params_init_lfm2 in vendored llama.cpp.
- core/gallery/importers/{liquid-audio,liquid-audio_test}.go — detector
matches LFM2-Audio HF repos (excludes -gguf mirrors); mode/voice
preferences plumbed through to options.
- core/gallery/importers/importers.go — register LiquidAudioImporter
before LlamaCPPImporter.
- pkg/functions/parse_lfm2_test.go — seven specs for the response/argument
regex pair on the LFM2 pythonic format.
Build matrix
- .github/backend-matrix.yml — seven liquid-audio targets (cuda12, cuda13,
l4t-cuda-13, hipblas, intel, cpu amd64, cpu arm64). Jetpack r36 cuda-12
is skipped (Ubuntu 22.04 / Python 3.10 incompatible with liquid-audio's
3.12 floor).
- backend/index.yaml — anchor + 13 image entries.
- Makefile — .NOTPARALLEL, prepare-test-extra, test-extra,
docker-build-liquid-audio.
Docs
- .agents/plans/liquid-audio-integration.md — phased plan; PR-D (real
any-to-any wiring via AudioToAudioStream), PR-E (mid-audio tool-call
detector), PR-G (GGUF entries once upstream llama.cpp PR #18641 lands)
remain.
- .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md — expand the capability-surface
checklist with every place a new FLAG_* needs to be registered.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(realtime): function calling + history cap for any-to-any models
Three pieces, all on the realtime_audio path that just landed:
1. liquid-audio backend (backend/python/liquid-audio/backend.py):
- _build_chat_state grows a `tools_prelude` arg.
- new _render_tools_prelude parses request.Tools (the OpenAI Chat
Completions function array realtime.go already serialises) and
emits an LFM2 `<|tool_list_start|>…<|tool_list_end|>` system turn
ahead of the user history. Mirrors gallery/lfm.yaml's `function:`
template so the model sees the same prompt shape whether served
via llama-cpp or here. Without this the backend silently dropped
tools — function calling was wired end-to-end on the Go side but
the model never saw a tool list.
2. Realtime history cap (core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime.go):
- Session grows MaxHistoryItems int; default picked by new
defaultMaxHistoryItems(cfg) — 6 for realtime_audio models (LFM2.5
1.5B degrades quickly past a handful of turns), 0/unlimited for
legacy pipelines composing larger LLMs.
- triggerResponse runs conv.Items through trimRealtimeItems before
building conversationHistory. Helper walks the cut left if it
would orphan a function_call_output, so tool result + call pairs
stay intact.
- realtime_gate_test.go: specs for defaultMaxHistoryItems and
trimRealtimeItems (zero cap, under cap, over cap, tool-call pair
preservation).
3. Talk page (core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Talk.jsx):
- Reuses the chat page's MCP plumbing — useMCPClient hook,
ClientMCPDropdown component, same auto-connect/disconnect effect
pattern. No bespoke tool registry, no new REST endpoints; tools
come from whichever MCP servers the user toggles on, exactly as
on the chat page.
- sendSessionUpdate now passes session.tools=getToolsForLLM(); the
update re-fires when the active server set changes mid-session.
- New response.function_call_arguments.done handler executes via
the hook's executeTool (which round-trips through the MCP client
SDK), then replies with conversation.item.create
{type:function_call_output} + response.create so the model
completes its turn with the tool output. Mirrors chat's
client-side agentic loop, translated to the realtime wire shape.
UI changes require a LocalAI image rebuild (Dockerfile:308-313 bakes
react-ui/dist into the runtime image). Backend.py changes can be
swapped live in /backends/<id>/backend.py + /backend/shutdown.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(realtime): LocalAI Assistant ("Manage Mode") for the Talk page
Mirrors the chat-page metadata.localai_assistant flow so users can ask the
realtime model what's loaded / installed / configured. Tools are run
server-side via the same in-process MCP holder that powers the chat
modality — no transport switch, no proxy, no new wire protocol.
Wire:
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime.go:
- RealtimeSessionOptions{LocalAIAssistant,IsAdmin}; isCurrentUserAdmin
helper mirrors chat.go's requireAssistantAccess (no-op when auth
disabled, else requires auth.RoleAdmin).
- Session grows AssistantExecutor mcpTools.ToolExecutor.
- runRealtimeSession, when opts.LocalAIAssistant is set: gate on admin,
fail closed if DisableLocalAIAssistant or the holder has no tools,
DiscoverTools and inject into session.Tools, prepend
holder.SystemPrompt() to instructions.
- Tool-call dispatch loop: when AssistantExecutor.IsTool(name), run
ExecuteTool inproc, append a FunctionCallOutput to conv.Items, skip
the function_call_arguments client emit (the client can't execute
these — it doesn't know about them). After the loop, if any
assistant tool ran, trigger another response so the model speaks the
result. Mirrors chat's agentic loop, driven server-side rather than
via client round-trip.
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime_webrtc.go: RealtimeCallRequest
gains `localai_assistant` (JSON omitempty). Handshake calls
isCurrentUserAdmin and builds RealtimeSessionOptions.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Talk.jsx: admin-only "Manage Mode"
checkbox under the Tools dropdown; passes localai_assistant: true to
realtimeApi.call's body, captured in the connect callback's deps.
Mirroring chat's pattern means the in-process MCP tools surface "just
works" for the Talk page without exposing a Streamable-HTTP MCP endpoint
(which was the alternative). Clients with their own MCP servers can
still use the existing ClientMCPDropdown path in parallel; the realtime
handler distinguishes them by AssistantExecutor.IsTool() at dispatch
time.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(realtime): render Manage Mode tool calls in the Talk transcript
Previously the realtime endpoint only emitted response.output_item.added
for the FunctionCall item, and Talk.jsx's switch ignored the event — so
server-side tool runs were invisible in the UI. The model would speak
the result but the user had no way to see what tool was actually
called.
realtime.go: after executing an assistant tool inproc, emit a second
output_item.added/.done pair for the FunctionCallOutput item. Mirrors
the way the chat page displays tool_call + tool_result blocks.
Talk.jsx: handle both response.output_item.added and .done. Render
FunctionCall (with arguments) and FunctionCallOutput (pretty-printed
JSON when possible) as two transcript entries — `tool_call` with the
wrench icon, `tool_result` with the clipboard icon, both in mono-space
secondary-colour. Resets streamingRef after the result so the next
assistant text delta starts a fresh transcript entry instead of
appending to the previous turn.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* refactor(realtime): bound the Manage Mode tool-loop + preserve assistant tools
Fallout from a review pass on the Manage Mode patches:
- Bound the server-side agentic loop. triggerResponse used to recurse on
executedAssistantTool with no cap — a model that kept calling tools
would blow the goroutine stack. New maxAssistantToolTurns = 10 (mirrors
useChat.js's maxToolTurns). Public triggerResponse is now a thin shim
over triggerResponseAtTurn(toolTurn int); recursion increments the
counter and stops at the cap with an xlog.Warn.
- Preserve Manage Mode tools across client session.update. The handler
used to blindly overwrite session.Tools, so toggling a client MCP
server mid-session silently wiped the in-process admin tools. Session
now caches the original AssistantTools slice at session creation and
the session.update handler merges them back in (client names win on
collision — the client is explicit).
- strconv.ParseBool for the localai_assistant query param instead of
hand-rolled "1" || "true". Mirrors LocalAIAssistantFromMetadata.
- Talk.jsx: render both tool_call and tool_result on
response.output_item.done instead of splitting them across .added and
.done. The server's event pairing (added → done) stays correct; the
UI just doesn't need to inspect both phases of the same item. One
switch case instead of two, no behavioural change.
Out of scope (noted for follow-ups): extract a shared assistant-tools
helper between chat.go and realtime.go (duplication is small enough
that two parallel implementations stay readable for now), and an i18n
key for the Manage Mode helper text (Talk.jsx doesn't use i18n
anywhere else yet).
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* ci(test-extra): wire liquid-audio backend smoke test
The backend ships test.py + a `make test` target and is listed in
backend-matrix.yml, so scripts/changed-backends.js already writes a
`liquid-audio=true|false` output when files under backend/python/liquid-audio/
change. The workflow just wasn't reading it.
- Expose the `liquid-audio` output on the detect-changes job
- Add a tests-liquid-audio job that runs `make` + `make test` in
backend/python/liquid-audio, gated on the per-backend detect flag
The smoke covers Health() and LoadModel(mode:finetune); fine-tune mode
short-circuits before any HuggingFace download (backend.py:192), so the
job needs neither weights nor a GPU. The full-inference path remains
gated on LIQUID_AUDIO_MODEL_ID, which CI doesn't set.
The four new Go test files (core/gallery/importers/liquid-audio_test.go,
core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime_gate_test.go,
core/http/routes/ui_pipeline_models_test.go, pkg/functions/parse_lfm2_test.go)
are already picked up by the existing test.yml workflow via `make test` →
`ginkgo -r ./pkg/... ./core/...`; their packages all carry RunSpecs entries.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
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Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-05-13 19:57:27 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/liquid-audio test
2026-01-07 20:44:35 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/moonshine test
2026-01-13 22:35:19 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/pocket-tts test
2026-01-23 14:18:41 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/qwen-tts test
2026-03-12 06:48:23 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/fish-speech test
2026-02-27 07:16:51 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/faster-qwen3-tts test
2026-01-29 20:50:35 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/qwen-asr test
2026-02-07 07:19:37 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/nemo test
2026-01-28 13:44:04 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/voxcpm test
2026-04-08 19:23:38 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/faster-whisper test
feat(whisperx): add whisperx backend for transcription with speaker diarization (#8299)
* feat(proto): add speaker field to TranscriptSegment for diarization
Add speaker field to the gRPC TranscriptSegment message and map it
through the Go schema, enabling backends to return speaker labels.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* feat(whisperx): add whisperx backend for transcription with diarization
Add Python gRPC backend using WhisperX for speech-to-text with
word-level timestamps, forced alignment, and speaker diarization
via pyannote-audio when HF_TOKEN is provided.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* feat(whisperx): register whisperx backend in Makefile
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* feat(whisperx): add whisperx meta and image entries to index.yaml
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* ci(whisperx): add build matrix entries for CPU, CUDA 12/13, and ROCm
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(whisperx): unpin torch versions and use CPU index for cpu requirements
Address review feedback:
- Use --extra-index-url for CPU torch wheels to reduce size
- Remove torch version pins, let uv resolve compatible versions
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(whisperx): pin torch ROCm variant to fix CI build failure
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(whisperx): pin torch CPU variant to fix uv resolution failure
Pin torch==2.8.0+cpu so uv resolves the CPU wheel from the extra
index instead of picking torch==2.8.0+cu128 from PyPI, which pulls
unresolvable CUDA dependencies.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(whisperx): use unsafe-best-match index strategy to fix uv resolution failure
uv's default first-match strategy finds torch on PyPI before checking
the extra index, causing it to pick torch==2.8.0+cu128 instead of the
CPU variant. This makes whisperx's transitive torch dependency
unresolvable. Using unsafe-best-match lets uv consider all indexes.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(whisperx): drop +cpu local version suffix to fix uv resolution failure
PEP 440 ==2.8.0 matches 2.8.0+cpu from the extra index, avoiding the
issue where uv cannot locate an explicit +cpu local version specifier.
This aligns with the pattern used by all other CPU backends.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(backends): drop +rocm local version suffixes from hipblas requirements to fix uv resolution
uv cannot resolve PEP 440 local version specifiers (e.g. +rocm6.4,
+rocm6.3) in pinned requirements. The --extra-index-url already points
to the correct ROCm wheel index and --index-strategy unsafe-best-match
(set in libbackend.sh) ensures the ROCm variant is preferred.
Applies the same fix as 7f5d72e8 (which resolved this for +cpu) across
all 14 hipblas requirements files.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* revert: scope hipblas suffix fix to whisperx only
Reverts changes to non-whisperx hipblas requirements files per
maintainer review — other backends are building fine with the +rocm
local version suffix.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-02 15:33:12 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/whisperx test
2026-02-05 11:04:53 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/ace-step test
2026-03-21 01:08:02 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/trl test
feat(backend): add tinygrad multimodal backend (experimental) (#9364)
* feat(backend): add tinygrad multimodal backend
Wire tinygrad as a new Python backend covering LLM text generation with
native tool-call extraction, embeddings, Stable Diffusion 1.x image
generation, and Whisper speech-to-text from a single self-contained
container.
Backend (`backend/python/tinygrad/`):
- `backend.py` gRPC servicer with LLM Predict/PredictStream (auto-detects
Llama / Qwen2 / Mistral architecture from `config.json`, supports
safetensors and GGUF), Embedding via mean-pooled last hidden state,
GenerateImage via the vendored SD1.x pipeline, AudioTranscription +
AudioTranscriptionStream via the vendored Whisper inference loop, plus
Tokenize / ModelMetadata / Status / Free.
- Vendored upstream model code under `vendor/` (MIT, headers preserved):
llama.py with an added `qkv_bias` flag for Qwen2-family bias support
and an `embed()` method that returns the last hidden state, plus
clip.py, unet.py, stable_diffusion.py (trimmed to drop the MLPerf
training branch that pulls `mlperf.initializers`), audio_helpers.py
and whisper.py (trimmed to drop the pyaudio listener).
- Pluggable tool-call parsers under `tool_parsers/`: hermes (Qwen2.5 /
Hermes), llama3_json (Llama 3.1+), qwen3_xml (Qwen 3), mistral
(Mistral / Mixtral). Auto-selected from model architecture or `Options`.
- `install.sh` pins Python 3.11.14 (tinygrad >=0.12 needs >=3.11; the
default portable python is 3.10).
- `package.sh` bundles libLLVM.so.1 + libedit/libtinfo/libgomp/libsndfile
into the scratch image. `run.sh` sets `CPU_LLVM=1` and `LLVM_PATH` so
tinygrad's CPU device uses the in-process libLLVM JIT instead of
shelling out to the missing `clang` binary.
- Local unit tests for Health and the four parsers in `test.py`.
Build wiring:
- Root `Makefile`: `.NOTPARALLEL`, `prepare-test-extra`, `test-extra`,
`BACKEND_TINYGRAD = tinygrad|python|.|false|true`,
docker-build-target eval, and `docker-build-backends` aggregator.
- `.github/workflows/backend.yml`: cpu / cuda12 / cuda13 build matrix
entries (mirrors the transformers backend placement).
- `backend/index.yaml`: `&tinygrad` meta + cpu/cuda12/cuda13 image
entries (latest + development).
E2E test wiring:
- `tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go` gains an `image` capability that
exercises GenerateImage and asserts a non-empty PNG is written to
`dst`. New `BACKEND_TEST_IMAGE_PROMPT` / `BACKEND_TEST_IMAGE_STEPS`
knobs.
- Five new make targets next to `test-extra-backend-vllm`:
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad` — Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct + hermes,
mirrors the vllm target 1:1 (5/9 specs in ~57s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-embeddings` — same model, embeddings
via LLM hidden state (3/9 in ~10s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-sd` — stable-diffusion-v1-5 mirror,
health/load/image (3/9 in ~10min, 4 diffusion steps on CPU).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-whisper` — openai/whisper-tiny.en
against jfk.wav from whisper.cpp samples (4/9 in ~49s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-all` aggregate.
All four targets land green on the first MVP pass: 15 specs total, 0
failures across LLM+tools, embeddings, image generation, and speech
transcription.
* refactor(tinygrad): collapse to a single backend image
tinygrad generates its own GPU kernels (PTX renderer for CUDA, the
autogen ctypes wrappers for HIP / Metal / WebGPU) and never links
against cuDNN, cuBLAS, or any toolkit-version-tied library. The only
runtime dependency that varies across hosts is the driver's libcuda.so.1
/ libamdhip64.so, which are injected into the container at run time by
the nvidia-container / rocm runtimes. So unlike torch- or vLLM-based
backends, there is no reason to ship per-CUDA-version images.
- Drop the cuda12-tinygrad and cuda13-tinygrad build-matrix entries
from .github/workflows/backend.yml. The sole remaining entry is
renamed to -tinygrad (from -cpu-tinygrad) since it is no longer
CPU-only.
- Collapse backend/index.yaml to a single meta + development pair.
The meta anchor carries the latest uri directly; the development
entry points at the master tag.
- run.sh picks the tinygrad device at launch time by probing
/usr/lib/... for libcuda.so.1 / libamdhip64.so. When libcuda is
visible we set CUDA=1 + CUDA_PTX=1 so tinygrad uses its own PTX
renderer (avoids any nvrtc/toolkit dependency); otherwise we fall
back to HIP or CLANG. CPU_LLVM=1 + LLVM_PATH keep the in-process
libLLVM JIT for the CLANG path.
- backend.py's _select_tinygrad_device() is trimmed to a CLANG-only
fallback since production device selection happens in run.sh.
Re-ran test-extra-backend-tinygrad after the change:
Ran 5 of 9 Specs in 56.541 seconds — 5 Passed, 0 Failed
2026-04-15 17:48:23 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/tinygrad test
feat(face-recognition): add insightface/onnx backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis (#9480)
* feat(face-recognition): add insightface backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis
Adds face recognition as a new first-class capability in LocalAI via the
`insightface` Python backend, with a pluggable two-engine design so
non-commercial (insightface model packs) and commercial-safe
(OpenCV Zoo YuNet + SFace) models share the same gRPC/HTTP surface.
New gRPC RPCs (backend/backend.proto):
* FaceVerify(FaceVerifyRequest) returns FaceVerifyResponse
* FaceAnalyze(FaceAnalyzeRequest) returns FaceAnalyzeResponse
Existing Embedding and Detect RPCs are reused (face image in
PredictOptions.Images / DetectOptions.src) for face embedding and
face detection respectively.
New HTTP endpoints under /v1/face/:
* verify — 1:1 image pair same-person decision
* analyze — per-face age + gender (emotion/race reserved)
* register — 1:N enrollment; stores embedding in vector store
* identify — 1:N recognition; detect → embed → StoresFind
* forget — remove a registered face by opaque ID
Service layer (core/services/facerecognition/) introduces a
`Registry` interface with one in-memory `storeRegistry` impl backed
by LocalAI's existing local-store gRPC vector backend. HTTP handlers
depend on the interface, not on StoresSet/StoresFind directly, so a
persistent PostgreSQL/pgvector implementation can be slotted in via a
single constructor change in core/application (TODO marker in the
package doc).
New usecase flag FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION; insightface is also wired
into FLAG_DETECTION so /v1/detection works for face bounding boxes.
Gallery (backend/index.yaml) ships three entries:
* insightface-buffalo-l — SCRFD-10GF + ArcFace R50 + genderage
(~326MB pre-baked; non-commercial research use only)
* insightface-opencv — YuNet + SFace (~40MB pre-baked; Apache 2.0)
* insightface-buffalo-s — SCRFD-500MF + MBF (runtime download; non-commercial)
Python backend (backend/python/insightface/):
* engines.py — FaceEngine protocol with InsightFaceEngine and
OnnxDirectEngine; resolves model paths relative to the backend
directory so the same gallery config works in docker-scratch and
in the e2e-backends rootfs-extraction harness.
* backend.py — gRPC servicer implementing Health, LoadModel, Status,
Embedding, Detect, FaceVerify, FaceAnalyze.
* install.sh — pre-bakes buffalo_l + OpenCV YuNet/SFace inside the
backend directory so first-run is offline-clean (the final scratch
image only preserves files under /<backend>/).
* test.py — parametrized unit tests over both engines.
Tests:
* Registry unit tests (go test -race ./core/services/facerecognition/...)
— in-memory fake grpc.Backend, table-driven, covers register/
identify/forget/error paths + concurrent access.
* tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go extended with face caps
(face_detect, face_embed, face_verify, face_analyze); relative
ordering + configurable verifyCeiling per engine.
* Makefile targets: test-extra-backend-insightface-buffalo-l,
-opencv, and the -all aggregate.
* CI: .github/workflows/test-extra.yml gains tests-insightface-grpc,
auto-triggered by changes under backend/python/insightface/.
Docs:
* docs/content/features/face-recognition.md — feature page with
license table, quickstart (defaults to the commercial-safe model),
models matrix, API reference, 1:N workflow, storage caveats.
* Cross-refs in object-detection.md, stores.md, embeddings.md, and
whats-new.md.
* Contributor README at backend/python/insightface/README.md.
Verified end-to-end:
* buffalo_l: 6/6 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed,
face_verify, face_analyze).
* opencv: 5/5 specs (same minus face_analyze — SFace has no
demographic head; correctly skipped via BACKEND_TEST_CAPS).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): move engine selection to model gallery, collapse backend entries
The previous commit put engine/model_pack options on backend gallery
entries (`backend/index.yaml`). That was wrong — `GalleryBackend`
(core/gallery/backend_types.go:32) has no `options` field, so the
YAML decoder silently dropped those keys and all three "different
insightface-*" backend entries resolved to the same container image
with no distinguishing configuration.
Correct split:
* `backend/index.yaml` now has ONE `insightface` backend entry
shipping the CPU + CUDA 12 container images. The Python backend
bundles both the non-commercial insightface model packs
(buffalo_l / buffalo_s) and the commercial-safe OpenCV Zoo
weights (YuNet + SFace); the active engine is selected at
LoadModel time via `options: ["engine:..."]`.
* `gallery/index.yaml` gains three model entries —
`insightface-buffalo-l`, `insightface-opencv`,
`insightface-buffalo-s` — each setting the appropriate
`overrides.backend` + `overrides.options` so installing one
actually gives the user the intended engine. This matches how
`rfdetr-base` lives in the model gallery against the `rfdetr`
backend.
The earlier e2e tests passed despite this bug because the Makefile
targets pass `BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS` directly to LoadModel via gRPC,
bypassing any gallery resolution entirely. No code changes needed.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): cover all supported models in the gallery + drop weight baking
Follows up on the model-gallery split: adds entries for every model
configuration either engine actually supports, and switches weight
delivery from image-baked to LocalAI's standard gallery mechanism.
Gallery now has seven `insightface-*` model entries (gallery/index.yaml):
insightface (family) — non-commercial research use
• buffalo-l (326MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet50 + genderage, default
• buffalo-m (313MB) — SCRFD-2.5GF + ResNet50 + genderage
• buffalo-s (159MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF + genderage
• buffalo-sc (16MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF, recognition only
(no landmarks, no demographics — analyze
returns empty attributes)
• antelopev2 (407MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet100@Glint360K + genderage
OpenCV Zoo family — Apache 2.0 commercial-safe
• opencv — YuNet + SFace fp32 (~40MB)
• opencv-int8 — YuNet + SFace int8 (~12MB, ~3x smaller, faster on CPU)
Model weights are no longer baked into the backend image. The image
now ships only the Python runtime + libraries (~275MB content size,
~1.18GB disk vs ~1.21GB when weights were baked). Weights flow through
LocalAI's gallery mechanism:
* OpenCV variants list `files:` with ONNX URIs + SHA-256, so
`local-ai models install insightface-opencv` pulls them into the
models directory exactly like any other gallery-managed model.
* insightface packs (upstream distributes .zip archives only, not
individual ONNX files) auto-download on first LoadModel via
FaceAnalysis' built-in machinery, rooted at the LocalAI models
directory so they live alongside everything else — same pattern
`rfdetr` uses with `inference.get_model()`.
Backend changes (backend/python/insightface/):
* backend.py — LoadModel propagates `ModelOptions.ModelPath` (the
LocalAI models directory) to engines via a `_model_dir` hint.
This replaces the earlier ModelFile-dirname approach; ModelPath
is the canonical "models directory" variable set by the Go loader
(pkg/model/initializers.go:144) and is always populated.
* engines.py::_resolve_model_path — picks up `model_dir` and searches
it (plus basename-in-model-dir) before falling back to the dev
script-dir. This is how OnnxDirectEngine finds gallery-downloaded
YuNet/SFace files by filename only.
* engines.py::_flatten_insightface_pack — new helper that works
around an upstream packaging inconsistency: buffalo_l/s/sc zips
expand flat, but buffalo_m and antelopev2 zips wrap their ONNX
files in a redundant `<name>/` directory. insightface's own
loader looks one level too shallow and fails. We call
`ensure_available()` explicitly, flatten if nested, then hand to
FaceAnalysis.
* engines.py::InsightFaceEngine.prepare — root-resolution order now
includes the `_model_dir` hint so packs download into the LocalAI
models directory by default.
* install.sh — no longer pre-downloads any weights. Everything is
gallery-managed now.
* smoke.py (new) — parametrized smoke test that iterates over every
gallery configuration, simulating the LocalAI install flow
(creates a models dir, fetches OpenCV files with checksum
verification, lets insightface auto-download its packs), then
runs detect + embed + verify (+ analyze where supported) through
the in-process BackendServicer.
* test.py — OnnxDirectEngineTest no longer hardcodes `/models/opencv/`
paths; downloads ONNX files to a temp dir at setUpClass time and
passes ModelPath accordingly.
Registry change (core/services/facerecognition/store_registry.go):
* `dim=0` in NewStoreRegistry now means "accept whatever dimension
arrives" — needed because the backend supports 512-d ArcFace/MBF
and 128-d SFace via the same Registry. A non-zero dim still fails
fast with ErrDimensionMismatch.
* core/application plumbs `faceEmbeddingDim = 0`, explaining the
rationale in the comment.
Backend gallery description updated to reflect that the image carries
no weights — it's just Python + engines.
Smoke-tested all 7 configurations against the rebuilt image (with the
flatten fix applied), exit 0:
PASS: insightface-buffalo-l faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-sc faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-s faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-m faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-antelopev2 faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv-int8 faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
7/7 passed
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): pre-fetch OpenCV ONNX for e2e target; drop stale pre-baked claim
CI regression from the previous commit: I moved OpenCV Zoo weight
delivery to LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism, but the
test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv target was still passing
relative paths `detector_onnx:models/opencv/yunet.onnx` in
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS. The e2e suite drives LoadModel directly over
gRPC without going through the gallery, so those relative paths
resolved to nothing and OpenCV's ONNXImporter failed:
LoadModel failed: Failed to load face engine:
OpenCV(4.13.0) ... Can't read ONNX file: models/opencv/yunet.onnx
Fix: add an `insightface-opencv-models` prerequisite target that
fetches the two ONNX files (YuNet + SFace) to a deterministic host
cache at /tmp/localai-insightface-opencv-cache/, verifies SHA-256,
and skips the download on re-runs. The opencv test target depends on
it and passes absolute paths in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS, so the backend
finds the files via its normal absolute-path resolution branch.
Also refresh the buffalo_l comment: it no longer says "pre-baked"
(nothing is — the pack auto-downloads from upstream's GitHub release
on first LoadModel, same as in CI).
Locally verified: `make test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv` passes
5/5 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed, face_verify).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): add POST /v1/face/embed + correct /v1/embeddings docs
The docs promised that /v1/embeddings returns face vectors when you
send an image data-URI. That was never true: /v1/embeddings is
OpenAI-compatible and text-only by contract — its handler goes
through `core/backend/embeddings.go::ModelEmbedding`, which sets
`predictOptions.Embeddings = s` (a string of TEXT to embed) and never
populates `predictOptions.Images[]`. The Python backend's Embedding
gRPC method does handle Images[] (that's how /v1/face/register reaches
it internally via `backend.FaceEmbed`), but the HTTP embeddings
endpoint wasn't wired to populate it.
Rather than overload /v1/embeddings with image-vs-text detection —
messy, and the endpoint is OpenAI-compatible by design — add a
dedicated /v1/face/embed endpoint that wraps `backend.FaceEmbed`
(already used internally by /v1/face/register and /v1/face/identify).
Matches LocalAI's convention of a dedicated path per non-standard flow
(/v1/rerank, /v1/detection, /v1/face/verify etc.).
Response:
{
"embedding": [<dim> floats, L2-normed],
"dim": int, // 512 for ArcFace R50 / MBF, 128 for SFace
"model": "<name>"
}
Live-tested on the opencv engine: returns a 128-d L2-normalized vector
(sum(x^2) = 1.0000). Sentinel in docs updated to note /v1/embeddings
is text-only and point image users at /v1/face/embed instead.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(http): map malformed image input + gRPC status codes to proper 4xx
Image-input failures on LocalAI's single-image endpoints (/v1/detection,
/v1/face/{verify,analyze,embed,register,identify}) have historically
returned 500 — even when the client was the one who sent garbage.
Classic example: you POST an "image" that isn't a URL, isn't a
data-URI, and isn't a valid JPEG/PNG — the server shouldn't claim
that's its fault.
Two helpers land in core/http/endpoints/localai/images.go and every
single-image handler is switched over:
* decodeImageInput(s)
Wraps utils.GetContentURIAsBase64 and turns any failure
(invalid URL, not a data-URI, download error, etc.) into
echo.NewHTTPError(400, "invalid image input: ...").
* mapBackendError(err)
Inspects the gRPC status on a backend call error and maps:
INVALID_ARGUMENT → 400 Bad Request
NOT_FOUND → 404 Not Found
FAILED_PRECONDITION → 412 Precondition Failed
Unimplemented → 501 Not Implemented
All other codes fall through unchanged (still 500).
Before, my 1×1 PNG error-path test returned:
HTTP 500 "rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = failed to decode one or both images"
After:
HTTP 400 "failed to decode one or both images"
Scope-limited to the LocalAI single-image endpoints. The multi-modal
paths (middleware/request.go, openresponses/responses.go,
openai/realtime.go) intentionally log-and-skip individual media parts
when decoding fails — different design intent (graceful degradation
of a multi-part message), not a 400-worthy failure. Left untouched.
Live-verified: every error case in /tmp/face_errors.py now returns
4xx with a meaningful message; the "image with no face (1x1 PNG)"
case specifically went from 500 → 400.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* refactor(face-recognition): insightface packs go through gallery files:, drop FaceAnalysis
Follows up on the discovery that LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism
handles archives (zip, tar.gz, …) via mholt/archiver/v3 — the rhasspy
piper voices use exactly this pattern. Insightface packs are zip
archives, so we can now deliver them the same way every other
gallery-managed model gets delivered: declaratively, checksum-verified,
through LocalAI's standard download+extract pipeline.
Two changes:
1. Gallery (gallery/index.yaml) — every insightface-* entry gains a
`files:` list with the pack zip's URI + SHA-256. `local-ai models
install insightface-buffalo-l` now fetches the zip, verifies the
hash, and extracts it into the models directory. No more reliance
on insightface's library-internal `ensure_available()` auto-download
or its hardcoded `BASE_REPO_URL`.
2. InsightFaceEngine (backend/python/insightface/engines.py) — drops
the FaceAnalysis wrapper and drives insightface's `model_zoo`
directly. The ~50 lines FaceAnalysis provides — glob ONNX files,
route each through `model_zoo.get_model()`, build a
`{taskname: model}` dict, loop per-face at inference — are
reimplemented in `InsightFaceEngine`. The actual inference classes
(RetinaFace, ArcFaceONNX, Attribute, Landmark) are still
insightface's — we only replicate the glue, so drift risk against
upstream is minimal.
Why drop FaceAnalysis: it hard-codes a `<root>/models/<name>/*.onnx`
layout that doesn't match what LocalAI's zip extraction produces.
LocalAI unpacks archives flat into `<models_dir>`. Upstream packs
are inconsistent — buffalo_l/s/sc ship ONNX at the zip root (lands
at `<models_dir>/*.onnx`), buffalo_m/antelopev2 wrap in a redundant
`<name>/` dir (lands at `<models_dir>/<name>/*.onnx`). The new
`_locate_insightface_pack` helper searches both locations plus
legacy paths and returns whichever has ONNX files. Replaces the
earlier `_flatten_insightface_pack` helper (which tried to fight
FaceAnalysis's layout expectations; now we just find the files
wherever they are).
Net effect for users: install once via LocalAI's managed flow,
weights live alongside every other model, progress shows in the
jobs endpoint, no first-load network call. Same API surface,
cleaner plumbing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): CI's insightface e2e path needs the pack pre-fetched
The e2e suite drives LoadModel over gRPC without going through LocalAI's
gallery flow, so the engine's `_model_dir` option (normally populated
from ModelPath) is empty. Previously the insightface target relied on
FaceAnalysis auto-download to paper over this, but we dropped
FaceAnalysis in favor of direct model_zoo calls — so the buffalo_l
target started failing at LoadModel with "no insightface pack found".
Mirror the opencv target's pre-fetch pattern: download buffalo_sc.zip
(same SHA as the gallery entry), extract it on the host, and pass
`root:<dir>` so the engine locates the pack without needing
ModelPath. Switched to buffalo_sc (smallest pack, ~16MB) to keep CI
fast; it covers the same insightface engine code path as buffalo_l.
Face analyze cap dropped since buffalo_sc has no age/gender head.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* feat(face-recognition): surface face-recognition in advertised feature maps
The six /v1/face/* endpoints were missing from every place LocalAI
advertises its feature surface to clients:
* api_instructions — the machine-readable capability index at
GET /api/instructions. Added `face-recognition` as a dedicated
instruction area with an intro that calls out the in-memory
registry caveat and the /v1/face/embed vs /v1/embeddings split.
* auth/permissions — added FeatureFaceRecognition constant, routed
all six face endpoints through it so admins can gate them per-user
like any other API feature. Default ON (matches the other API
features).
* React UI capabilities — CAP_FACE_RECOGNITION symbol mapped to
FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION. Declared only for now; the Face page is a
follow-up (noted in the plan).
Instruction count bumped 9 → 10; test updated.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* docs(agents): capture advertising-surface steps in the endpoint guide
Before this change, adding a new /v1/* endpoint reliably missed one or
more of: the swagger @Tags annotation, the /api/instructions registry,
the auth RouteFeatureRegistry, and the React UI CAP_* symbol. The
endpoint would work but be invisible to API consumers, admins, and the
UI — and nothing in the existing docs said to look in those places.
Extend .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md with a new "Advertising
surfaces" section covering all four surfaces (swagger tags, /api/
instructions, capabilities.js, docs/), and expand the closing checklist
so it's impossible to ship a feature without visiting each one. Hoist a
one-liner reminder into AGENTS.md's Quick Reference so agents skim it
before diving in.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
2026-04-22 19:55:41 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/insightface test
feat: voice recognition (#9500)
* feat(voice-recognition): add /v1/voice/{verify,analyze,embed} + speaker-recognition backend
Audio analog to face recognition. Adds three gRPC RPCs
(VoiceVerify / VoiceAnalyze / VoiceEmbed), their Go service and HTTP
layers, a new FLAG_SPEAKER_RECOGNITION capability flag, and a Python
backend scaffold under backend/python/speaker-recognition/ wrapping
SpeechBrain ECAPA-TDNN with a parallel OnnxDirectEngine for
WeSpeaker / 3D-Speaker ONNX exports.
The kokoros Rust backend gets matching unimplemented trait stubs —
tonic's async_trait has no defaults, so adding an RPC without Rust
stubs breaks the build (same regression fixed by eb01c772 for face).
Swagger, /api/instructions, and the auth RouteFeatureRegistry /
APIFeatures list are updated so the endpoints surface everywhere a
client or admin UI looks.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(voice-recognition): add 1:N identify + register/forget endpoints
Mirrors the face-recognition register/identify/forget surface. New
package core/services/voicerecognition/ carries a Registry interface
and a local-store-backed implementation (same in-memory vector-store
plumbing facerecognition uses, separate instance so the embedding
spaces stay isolated).
Handlers under /v1/voice/{register,identify,forget} reuse
backend.VoiceEmbed to compute the probe vector, then delegate the
nearest-neighbour search to the registry. Default cosine-distance
threshold is tuned for ECAPA-TDNN on VoxCeleb (0.25, EER ~1.9%).
As with the face registry, the current backing is in-memory only — a
pgvector implementation is a future constructor-level swap.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(voice-recognition): gallery, docs, CI and e2e coverage
- backend/index.yaml: speaker-recognition backend entry + CPU and
CUDA-12 image variants (plus matching development variants).
- gallery/index.yaml: speechbrain-ecapa-tdnn (default) and
wespeaker-resnet34 model entries. The WeSpeaker SHA-256 is a
deliberate placeholder — the HF URI must be curl'd and its hash
filled in before the entry installs.
- docs/content/features/voice-recognition.md: API reference + quickstart,
mirrors the face-recognition docs.
- React UI: CAP_SPEAKER_RECOGNITION flag export (consumers follow face's
precedent — no dedicated tab yet).
- tests/e2e-backends: voice_embed / voice_verify / voice_analyze specs.
Helper resolveFaceFixture is reused as-is — the only thing face/voice
share is "download a file into workDir", so no need for a new helper.
- Makefile: docker-build-speaker-recognition + test-extra-backend-
speaker-recognition-{ecapa,all} targets. Audio fixtures default to
VCTK p225/p226 samples from HuggingFace.
- CI: test-extra.yml grows a tests-speaker-recognition-grpc job
mirroring insightface. backend.yml matrix gains CPU + CUDA-12 image
build entries — scripts/changed-backends.js auto-picks these up.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(voice-recognition): wire a working /v1/voice/analyze head
Adds AnalysisHead: a lazy-loading age / gender / emotion inference
wrapper that plugs into both SpeechBrainEngine and OnnxDirectEngine.
Defaults to two open-licence HuggingFace checkpoints:
- audeering/wav2vec2-large-robust-24-ft-age-gender (Apache 2.0) —
age regression + 3-way gender (female / male / child).
- superb/wav2vec2-base-superb-er (Apache 2.0) — 4-way emotion.
Both are optional and degrade gracefully when transformers or the
model can't be loaded — the engine raises NotImplementedError so the
gRPC layer returns 501 instead of a generic 500.
Emotion classes pass through from the model (neutral/happy/angry/sad
on the default checkpoint); the e2e test now accepts any non-empty
dominant gender so custom age_gender_model overrides don't fail it.
Adds transformers to the backend's CPU and CUDA-12 requirements.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(voice-recognition): pin real WeSpeaker ResNet34 ONNX SHA-256
Replaces the placeholder hash in gallery/index.yaml with the actual
SHA-256 (7bb2f06e…) of the upstream
Wespeaker/wespeaker-voxceleb-resnet34-LM ONNX at ~25MB. `local-ai
models install wespeaker-resnet34` now succeeds.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(voice-recognition): soundfile loader + honest analyze default
Two issues surfaced on first end-to-end smoke with the actual backend
image:
1. torchaudio.load in torchaudio 2.8+ requires the torchcodec package
for audio decoding. Switch SpeechBrainEngine._load_waveform to the
already-present soundfile (listed in requirements.txt) plus a numpy
linear resample to 16kHz. Drops a heavy ffmpeg-linked dep and the
codepath we never exercise (torchaudio's ffmpeg backend).
2. The AnalysisHead was defaulting to audeering/wav2vec2-large-robust-
24-ft-age-gender, but AutoModelForAudioClassification silently
mangles that checkpoint — it reports the age head weights as
UNEXPECTED and re-initialises the classifier head with random
values, so the "gender" output is noise and there is no age output
at all. Make age/gender opt-in instead (empty default; users wire
a cleanly-loadable Wav2Vec2ForSequenceClassification checkpoint via
age_gender_model: option). Emotion keeps its working Superb default.
Also broaden _infer_age_gender's tensor-shape handling and catch
runtime exceptions so a dodgy age/gender head never takes down the
whole analyze call.
Docs and README updated to match the new policy.
Verified with the branch-scoped gallery on localhost:
- voice/embed → 192-d ECAPA-TDNN vector
- voice/verify → same-clip dist≈6e-08 verified=true; cross-speaker
dist 0.76–0.99 verified=false (as expected)
- voice/register/identify/forget → round-trip works, 404 on unknown id
- voice/analyze → emotion populated, age/gender omitted (opt-in)
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(voice-recognition): real CI audio fixtures + fixture-agnostic verify spec
Two issues surfaced after CI actually ran the speaker-recognition e2e
target (I'd curl-tested against a running server but hadn't run the
make target locally):
1. The default BACKEND_TEST_VOICE_AUDIO_* URLs pointed at
huggingface.co/datasets/CSTR-Edinburgh/vctk paths that return 404
(the dataset is gated). Swap them for the speechbrain test samples
served from github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/raw/develop/ —
public, no auth, correct 16kHz mono format.
2. The VoiceVerify spec required d(file1,file2) < 0.4, assuming
file1/file2 were same-speaker. The speechbrain samples are three
different speakers (example1/2/5), and there is no easy un-gated
source of true same-speaker audio pairs (VoxCeleb/VCTK/LibriSpeech
are all license- or size-gated for CI use). Replace the ceiling
check with a relative-ordering assertion: d(pair) > d(same-clip)
for both file2 and file3 — that's enough to prove the embeddings
encode speaker info, and it works with any three non-identical
clips. Actual speaker ordering d(1,2) vs d(1,3) is logged but not
asserted.
Local run: 4/4 voice specs pass (Health, LoadModel, VoiceEmbed,
VoiceVerify) on the built backend image. 12 non-voice specs skipped
as expected.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(ci): checkout with submodules in the reusable backend_build workflow
The kokoros Rust backend build fails with
failed to read .../sources/Kokoros/kokoros/Cargo.toml: No such file
because the reusable backend_build.yml workflow's actions/checkout
step was missing `submodules: true`. Dockerfile.rust does `COPY .
/LocalAI`, and without the submodule files the subsequent `cargo
build` can't find the vendored Kokoros crate.
The bug pre-dates this PR — scripts/changed-backends.js only triggers
the kokoros image job when something under backend/rust/kokoros or
the shared proto changes, so master had been coasting past it. The
voice-recognition proto addition re-broke it.
Other checkouts in backend.yml (llama-cpp-darwin) and test-extra.yml
(insightface, kokoros, speaker-recognition) already pass
`submodules: true`; this brings the shared backend image builder in
line.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
2026-04-23 10:07:14 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/python/speaker-recognition test
2026-04-08 17:23:16 +00:00
$( MAKE) -C backend/rust/kokoros test
feat(conda): conda environments (#1144)
* feat(autogptq): add a separate conda environment for autogptq (#1137)
**Description**
This PR related to #1117
**Notes for Reviewers**
Here we lock down the version of the dependencies. Make sure it can be
used all the time without failed if the version of dependencies were
upgraded.
I change the order of importing packages according to the pylint, and no
change the logic of code. It should be ok.
I will do more investigate on writing some test cases for every backend.
I can run the service in my environment, but there is not exist a way to
test it. So, I am not confident on it.
Add a README.md in the `grpc` root. This is the common commands for
creating `conda` environment. And it can be used to the reference file
for creating extral gRPC backend document.
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* [Extra backend] Add seperate environment for ttsbark (#1141)
**Description**
This PR relates to #1117
**Notes for Reviewers**
Same to the latest PR:
* The code is also changed, but only the order of the import package
parts. And some code comments are also added.
* Add a configuration of the `conda` environment
* Add a simple test case for testing if the service can be startup in
current `conda` environment. It is succeed in VSCode, but the it is not
out of box on terminal. So, it is hard to say the test case really
useful.
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* feat(conda): Add seperate conda env for diffusers (#1145)
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* Add `conda` env `diffusers.yml`
* Add Makefile to create it automatically
* Add `run.sh` to support running as a extra backend
* Also adding it to the main Dockerfile
* Add make command in the root Makefile
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* feat(conda):Add seperate env for vllm (#1148)
**Description**
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* The gRPC server can be started as normal
* The test case can be triggered in VSCode
* Same to other this kind of PRs, add `vllm.yml` Makefile and add
`run.sh` to the main Dockerfile, and command to the main Makefile
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* feat(conda):Add seperate env for huggingface (#1146)
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* Add conda env `huggingface.yml`
* Change the import order, and also remove the no-used packages
* Add `run.sh` and `make command` to the main Dockerfile and Makefile
* Add test cases for it. It can be triggered and succeed under VSCode
Python extension but it is hang by using `python -m unites
test_huggingface.py` in the terminal
```
Running tests (unittest): /workspaces/LocalAI/extra/grpc/huggingface
Running tests: /workspaces/LocalAI/extra/grpc/huggingface/test_huggingface.py::TestBackendServicer::test_embedding
/workspaces/LocalAI/extra/grpc/huggingface/test_huggingface.py::TestBackendServicer::test_load_model
/workspaces/LocalAI/extra/grpc/huggingface/test_huggingface.py::TestBackendServicer::test_server_startup
./test_huggingface.py::TestBackendServicer::test_embedding Passed
./test_huggingface.py::TestBackendServicer::test_load_model Passed
./test_huggingface.py::TestBackendServicer::test_server_startup Passed
Total number of tests expected to run: 3
Total number of tests run: 3
Total number of tests passed: 3
Total number of tests failed: 0
Total number of tests failed with errors: 0
Total number of tests skipped: 0
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* feat(conda): Add the seperate conda env for VALL-E X (#1147)
**Description**
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* The gRPC server cannot start up
```
(ttsvalle) @Aisuko ➜ /workspaces/LocalAI (feat/vall-e-x) $ /opt/conda/envs/ttsvalle/bin/python /workspaces/LocalAI/extra/grpc/vall-e-x/ttsvalle.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/workspaces/LocalAI/extra/grpc/vall-e-x/ttsvalle.py", line 14, in <module>
from utils.generation import SAMPLE_RATE, generate_audio, preload_models
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'utils'
```
The installation steps follow
https://github.com/Plachtaa/VALL-E-X#-installation below:
* Under the `ttsvalle` conda env
```
git clone https://github.com/Plachtaa/VALL-E-X.git
cd VALL-E-X
pip install -r requirements.txt
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##
## End-to-end gRPC tests that exercise a built backend container image.
##
## The test suite in tests/e2e-backends is backend-agnostic. You drive it via env
## vars (see tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go for the full list) and the
## capability-driven harness picks which gRPC RPCs to exercise:
##
## BACKEND_IMAGE Required. Docker image to test, e.g. local-ai-backend:llama-cpp.
## BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL URL of a model file to download and load.
## BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_FILE Path to an already-downloaded model (skips download).
feat(vllm): parity with llama.cpp backend (#9328)
* fix(schema): serialize ToolCallID and Reasoning in Messages.ToProto
The ToProto conversion was dropping tool_call_id and reasoning_content
even though both proto and Go fields existed, breaking multi-turn tool
calling and reasoning passthrough to backends.
* refactor(config): introduce backend hook system and migrate llama-cpp defaults
Adds RegisterBackendHook/runBackendHooks so each backend can register
default-filling functions that run during ModelConfig.SetDefaults().
Migrates the existing GGUF guessing logic into hooks_llamacpp.go,
registered for both 'llama-cpp' and the empty backend (auto-detect).
Removes the old guesser.go shim.
* feat(config): add vLLM parser defaults hook and importer auto-detection
Introduces parser_defaults.json mapping model families to vLLM
tool_parser/reasoning_parser names, with longest-pattern-first matching.
The vllmDefaults hook auto-fills tool_parser and reasoning_parser
options at load time for known families, while the VLLMImporter writes
the same values into generated YAML so users can review and edit them.
Adds tests covering MatchParserDefaults, hook registration via
SetDefaults, and the user-override behavior.
* feat(vllm): wire native tool/reasoning parsers + chat deltas + logprobs
- Use vLLM's ToolParserManager/ReasoningParserManager to extract structured
output (tool calls, reasoning content) instead of reimplementing parsing
- Convert proto Messages to dicts and pass tools to apply_chat_template
- Emit ChatDelta with content/reasoning_content/tool_calls in Reply
- Extract prompt_tokens, completion_tokens, and logprobs from output
- Replace boolean GuidedDecoding with proper GuidedDecodingParams from Grammar
- Add TokenizeString and Free RPC methods
- Fix missing `time` import used by load_video()
* feat(vllm): CPU support + shared utils + vllm-omni feature parity
- Split vllm install per acceleration: move generic `vllm` out of
requirements-after.txt into per-profile after files (cublas12, hipblas,
intel) and add CPU wheel URL for cpu-after.txt
- requirements-cpu.txt now pulls torch==2.7.0+cpu from PyTorch CPU index
- backend/index.yaml: register cpu-vllm / cpu-vllm-development variants
- New backend/python/common/vllm_utils.py: shared parse_options,
messages_to_dicts, setup_parsers helpers (used by both vllm backends)
- vllm-omni: replace hardcoded chat template with tokenizer.apply_chat_template,
wire native parsers via shared utils, emit ChatDelta with token counts,
add TokenizeString and Free RPCs, detect CPU and set VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE
- Add test_cpu_inference.py: standalone script to validate CPU build with
a small model (Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct)
* fix(vllm): CPU build compatibility with vllm 0.14.1
Validated end-to-end on CPU with Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct (LoadModel, Predict,
TokenizeString, Free all working).
- requirements-cpu-after.txt: pin vllm to 0.14.1+cpu (pre-built wheel from
GitHub releases) for x86_64 and aarch64. vllm 0.14.1 is the newest CPU
wheel whose torch dependency resolves against published PyTorch builds
(torch==2.9.1+cpu). Later vllm CPU wheels currently require
torch==2.10.0+cpu which is only available on the PyTorch test channel
with incompatible torchvision.
- requirements-cpu.txt: bump torch to 2.9.1+cpu, add torchvision/torchaudio
so uv resolves them consistently from the PyTorch CPU index.
- install.sh: add --index-strategy=unsafe-best-match for CPU builds so uv
can mix the PyTorch index and PyPI for transitive deps (matches the
existing intel profile behaviour).
- backend.py LoadModel: vllm >= 0.14 removed AsyncLLMEngine.get_model_config
so the old code path errored out with AttributeError on model load.
Switch to the new get_tokenizer()/tokenizer accessor with a fallback
to building the tokenizer directly from request.Model.
* fix(vllm): tool parser constructor compat + e2e tool calling test
Concrete vLLM tool parsers override the abstract base's __init__ and
drop the tools kwarg (e.g. Hermes2ProToolParser only takes tokenizer).
Instantiating with tools= raised TypeError which was silently caught,
leaving chat_deltas.tool_calls empty.
Retry the constructor without the tools kwarg on TypeError — tools
aren't required by these parsers since extract_tool_calls finds tool
syntax in the raw model output directly.
Validated with Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct + hermes parser on CPU:
the backend correctly returns ToolCallDelta{name='get_weather',
arguments='{"location": "Paris, France"}'} in ChatDelta.
test_tool_calls.py is a standalone smoke test that spawns the gRPC
backend, sends a chat completion with tools, and asserts the response
contains a structured tool call.
* ci(backend): build cpu-vllm container image
Add the cpu-vllm variant to the backend container build matrix so the
image registered in backend/index.yaml (cpu-vllm / cpu-vllm-development)
is actually produced by CI.
Follows the same pattern as the other CPU python backends
(cpu-diffusers, cpu-chatterbox, etc.) with build-type='' and no CUDA.
backend_pr.yml auto-picks this up via its matrix filter from backend.yml.
* test(e2e-backends): add tools capability + HF model name support
Extends tests/e2e-backends to cover backends that:
- Resolve HuggingFace model ids natively (vllm, vllm-omni) instead of
loading a local file: BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME is passed verbatim as
ModelOptions.Model with no download/ModelFile.
- Parse tool calls into ChatDelta.tool_calls: new "tools" capability
sends a Predict with a get_weather function definition and asserts
the Reply contains a matching ToolCallDelta. Uses UseTokenizerTemplate
with OpenAI-style Messages so the backend can wire tools into the
model's chat template.
- Need backend-specific Options[]: BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS lets a test set
e.g. "tool_parser:hermes,reasoning_parser:qwen3" at LoadModel time.
Adds make target test-extra-backend-vllm that:
- docker-build-vllm
- loads Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
- runs health,load,predict,stream,tools with tool_parser:hermes
Drops backend/python/vllm/test_{cpu_inference,tool_calls}.py — those
standalone scripts were scaffolding used while bringing up the Python
backend; the e2e-backends harness now covers the same ground uniformly
alongside llama-cpp and ik-llama-cpp.
* ci(test-extra): run vllm e2e tests on CPU
Adds tests-vllm-grpc to the test-extra workflow, mirroring the
llama-cpp and ik-llama-cpp gRPC jobs. Triggers when files under
backend/python/vllm/ change (or on run-all), builds the local-ai
vllm container image, and runs the tests/e2e-backends harness with
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME=Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct, tool_parser:hermes,
and the tools capability enabled.
Uses ubuntu-latest (no GPU) — vllm runs on CPU via the cpu-vllm
wheel we pinned in requirements-cpu-after.txt. Frees disk space
before the build since the docker image + torch + vllm wheel is
sizeable.
* fix(vllm): build from source on CI to avoid SIGILL on prebuilt wheel
The prebuilt vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel from GitHub releases is compiled with
SIMD instructions (AVX-512 VNNI/BF16 or AMX-BF16) that not every CPU
supports. GitHub Actions ubuntu-latest runners SIGILL when vllm spawns
the model_executor.models.registry subprocess for introspection, so
LoadModel never reaches the actual inference path.
- install.sh: when FROM_SOURCE=true on a CPU build, temporarily hide
requirements-cpu-after.txt so installRequirements installs the base
deps + torch CPU without pulling the prebuilt wheel, then clone vllm
and compile it with VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=cpu. The resulting binaries
target the host's actual CPU.
- backend/Dockerfile.python: accept a FROM_SOURCE build-arg and expose
it as an ENV so install.sh sees it during `make`.
- Makefile docker-build-backend: forward FROM_SOURCE as --build-arg
when set, so backends that need source builds can opt in.
- Makefile test-extra-backend-vllm: call docker-build-vllm via a
recursive $(MAKE) invocation so FROM_SOURCE flows through.
- .github/workflows/test-extra.yml: set FROM_SOURCE=true on the
tests-vllm-grpc job. Slower but reliable — the prebuilt wheel only
works on hosts that share the build-time SIMD baseline.
Answers 'did you test locally?': yes, end-to-end on my local machine
with the prebuilt wheel (CPU supports AVX-512 VNNI). The CI runner CPU
gap was not covered locally — this commit plugs that gap.
* ci(vllm): use bigger-runner instead of source build
The prebuilt vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel requires SIMD instructions (AVX-512
VNNI/BF16) that stock ubuntu-latest GitHub runners don't support —
vllm.model_executor.models.registry SIGILLs on import during LoadModel.
Source compilation works but takes 30-40 minutes per CI run, which is
too slow for an e2e smoke test. Instead, switch tests-vllm-grpc to the
bigger-runner self-hosted label (already used by backend.yml for the
llama-cpp CUDA build) — that hardware has the required SIMD baseline
and the prebuilt wheel runs cleanly.
FROM_SOURCE=true is kept as an opt-in escape hatch:
- install.sh still has the CPU source-build path for hosts that need it
- backend/Dockerfile.python still declares the ARG + ENV
- Makefile docker-build-backend still forwards the build-arg when set
Default CI path uses the fast prebuilt wheel; source build can be
re-enabled by exporting FROM_SOURCE=true in the environment.
* ci(vllm): install make + build deps on bigger-runner
bigger-runner is a bare self-hosted runner used by backend.yml for
docker image builds — it has docker but not the usual ubuntu-latest
toolchain. The make-based test target needs make, build-essential
(cgo in 'go test'), and curl/unzip (the Makefile protoc target
downloads protoc from github releases).
protoc-gen-go and protoc-gen-go-grpc come via 'go install' in the
install-go-tools target, which setup-go makes possible.
* ci(vllm): install libnuma1 + libgomp1 on bigger-runner
The vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel ships a _C C++ extension that dlopens
libnuma.so.1 at import time. When the runner host doesn't have it,
the extension silently fails to register its torch ops, so
EngineCore crashes on init_device with:
AttributeError: '_OpNamespace' '_C_utils' object has no attribute
'init_cpu_threads_env'
Also add libgomp1 (OpenMP runtime, used by torch CPU kernels) to be
safe on stripped-down runners.
* feat(vllm): bundle libnuma/libgomp via package.sh
The vllm CPU wheel ships a _C extension that dlopens libnuma.so.1 at
import time; torch's CPU kernels in turn use libgomp.so.1 (OpenMP).
Without these on the host, vllm._C silently fails to register its
torch ops and EngineCore crashes with:
AttributeError: '_OpNamespace' '_C_utils' object has no attribute
'init_cpu_threads_env'
Rather than asking every user to install libnuma1/libgomp1 on their
host (or every LocalAI base image to ship them), bundle them into
the backend image itself — same pattern fish-speech and the GPU libs
already use. libbackend.sh adds ${EDIR}/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at
run time so the bundled copies are picked up automatically.
- backend/python/vllm/package.sh (new): copies libnuma.so.1 and
libgomp.so.1 from the builder's multilib paths into ${BACKEND}/lib,
preserving soname symlinks. Runs during Dockerfile.python's
'Run backend-specific packaging' step (which already invokes
package.sh if present).
- backend/Dockerfile.python: install libnuma1 + libgomp1 in the
builder stage so package.sh has something to copy (the Ubuntu
base image otherwise only has libgomp in the gcc dep chain).
- test-extra.yml: drop the workaround that installed these libs on
the runner host — with the backend image self-contained, the
runner no longer needs them, and the test now exercises the
packaging path end-to-end the way a production host would.
* ci(vllm): disable tests-vllm-grpc job (heterogeneous runners)
Both ubuntu-latest and bigger-runner have inconsistent CPU baselines:
some instances support the AVX-512 VNNI/BF16 instructions the prebuilt
vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel was compiled with, others SIGILL on import of
vllm.model_executor.models.registry. The libnuma packaging fix doesn't
help when the wheel itself can't be loaded.
FROM_SOURCE=true compiles vllm against the actual host CPU and works
everywhere, but takes 30-50 minutes per run — too slow for a smoke
test on every PR.
Comment out the job for now. The test itself is intact and passes
locally; run it via 'make test-extra-backend-vllm' on a host with the
required SIMD baseline. Re-enable when:
- we have a self-hosted runner label with guaranteed AVX-512 VNNI/BF16, or
- vllm publishes a CPU wheel with a wider baseline, or
- we set up a docker layer cache that makes FROM_SOURCE acceptable
The detect-changes vllm output, the test harness changes (tests/
e2e-backends + tools cap), the make target (test-extra-backend-vllm),
the package.sh and the Dockerfile/install.sh plumbing all stay in
place.
2026-04-13 09:00:29 +00:00
## BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME HuggingFace repo id (e.g. Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct).
## Use this instead of MODEL_URL for backends that
## resolve HF model ids natively (vllm, vllm-omni).
2026-04-12 11:51:28 +00:00
## BACKEND_TEST_CAPS Comma-separated capabilities, default "health,load,predict,stream".
feat(vllm): parity with llama.cpp backend (#9328)
* fix(schema): serialize ToolCallID and Reasoning in Messages.ToProto
The ToProto conversion was dropping tool_call_id and reasoning_content
even though both proto and Go fields existed, breaking multi-turn tool
calling and reasoning passthrough to backends.
* refactor(config): introduce backend hook system and migrate llama-cpp defaults
Adds RegisterBackendHook/runBackendHooks so each backend can register
default-filling functions that run during ModelConfig.SetDefaults().
Migrates the existing GGUF guessing logic into hooks_llamacpp.go,
registered for both 'llama-cpp' and the empty backend (auto-detect).
Removes the old guesser.go shim.
* feat(config): add vLLM parser defaults hook and importer auto-detection
Introduces parser_defaults.json mapping model families to vLLM
tool_parser/reasoning_parser names, with longest-pattern-first matching.
The vllmDefaults hook auto-fills tool_parser and reasoning_parser
options at load time for known families, while the VLLMImporter writes
the same values into generated YAML so users can review and edit them.
Adds tests covering MatchParserDefaults, hook registration via
SetDefaults, and the user-override behavior.
* feat(vllm): wire native tool/reasoning parsers + chat deltas + logprobs
- Use vLLM's ToolParserManager/ReasoningParserManager to extract structured
output (tool calls, reasoning content) instead of reimplementing parsing
- Convert proto Messages to dicts and pass tools to apply_chat_template
- Emit ChatDelta with content/reasoning_content/tool_calls in Reply
- Extract prompt_tokens, completion_tokens, and logprobs from output
- Replace boolean GuidedDecoding with proper GuidedDecodingParams from Grammar
- Add TokenizeString and Free RPC methods
- Fix missing `time` import used by load_video()
* feat(vllm): CPU support + shared utils + vllm-omni feature parity
- Split vllm install per acceleration: move generic `vllm` out of
requirements-after.txt into per-profile after files (cublas12, hipblas,
intel) and add CPU wheel URL for cpu-after.txt
- requirements-cpu.txt now pulls torch==2.7.0+cpu from PyTorch CPU index
- backend/index.yaml: register cpu-vllm / cpu-vllm-development variants
- New backend/python/common/vllm_utils.py: shared parse_options,
messages_to_dicts, setup_parsers helpers (used by both vllm backends)
- vllm-omni: replace hardcoded chat template with tokenizer.apply_chat_template,
wire native parsers via shared utils, emit ChatDelta with token counts,
add TokenizeString and Free RPCs, detect CPU and set VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE
- Add test_cpu_inference.py: standalone script to validate CPU build with
a small model (Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct)
* fix(vllm): CPU build compatibility with vllm 0.14.1
Validated end-to-end on CPU with Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct (LoadModel, Predict,
TokenizeString, Free all working).
- requirements-cpu-after.txt: pin vllm to 0.14.1+cpu (pre-built wheel from
GitHub releases) for x86_64 and aarch64. vllm 0.14.1 is the newest CPU
wheel whose torch dependency resolves against published PyTorch builds
(torch==2.9.1+cpu). Later vllm CPU wheels currently require
torch==2.10.0+cpu which is only available on the PyTorch test channel
with incompatible torchvision.
- requirements-cpu.txt: bump torch to 2.9.1+cpu, add torchvision/torchaudio
so uv resolves them consistently from the PyTorch CPU index.
- install.sh: add --index-strategy=unsafe-best-match for CPU builds so uv
can mix the PyTorch index and PyPI for transitive deps (matches the
existing intel profile behaviour).
- backend.py LoadModel: vllm >= 0.14 removed AsyncLLMEngine.get_model_config
so the old code path errored out with AttributeError on model load.
Switch to the new get_tokenizer()/tokenizer accessor with a fallback
to building the tokenizer directly from request.Model.
* fix(vllm): tool parser constructor compat + e2e tool calling test
Concrete vLLM tool parsers override the abstract base's __init__ and
drop the tools kwarg (e.g. Hermes2ProToolParser only takes tokenizer).
Instantiating with tools= raised TypeError which was silently caught,
leaving chat_deltas.tool_calls empty.
Retry the constructor without the tools kwarg on TypeError — tools
aren't required by these parsers since extract_tool_calls finds tool
syntax in the raw model output directly.
Validated with Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct + hermes parser on CPU:
the backend correctly returns ToolCallDelta{name='get_weather',
arguments='{"location": "Paris, France"}'} in ChatDelta.
test_tool_calls.py is a standalone smoke test that spawns the gRPC
backend, sends a chat completion with tools, and asserts the response
contains a structured tool call.
* ci(backend): build cpu-vllm container image
Add the cpu-vllm variant to the backend container build matrix so the
image registered in backend/index.yaml (cpu-vllm / cpu-vllm-development)
is actually produced by CI.
Follows the same pattern as the other CPU python backends
(cpu-diffusers, cpu-chatterbox, etc.) with build-type='' and no CUDA.
backend_pr.yml auto-picks this up via its matrix filter from backend.yml.
* test(e2e-backends): add tools capability + HF model name support
Extends tests/e2e-backends to cover backends that:
- Resolve HuggingFace model ids natively (vllm, vllm-omni) instead of
loading a local file: BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME is passed verbatim as
ModelOptions.Model with no download/ModelFile.
- Parse tool calls into ChatDelta.tool_calls: new "tools" capability
sends a Predict with a get_weather function definition and asserts
the Reply contains a matching ToolCallDelta. Uses UseTokenizerTemplate
with OpenAI-style Messages so the backend can wire tools into the
model's chat template.
- Need backend-specific Options[]: BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS lets a test set
e.g. "tool_parser:hermes,reasoning_parser:qwen3" at LoadModel time.
Adds make target test-extra-backend-vllm that:
- docker-build-vllm
- loads Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
- runs health,load,predict,stream,tools with tool_parser:hermes
Drops backend/python/vllm/test_{cpu_inference,tool_calls}.py — those
standalone scripts were scaffolding used while bringing up the Python
backend; the e2e-backends harness now covers the same ground uniformly
alongside llama-cpp and ik-llama-cpp.
* ci(test-extra): run vllm e2e tests on CPU
Adds tests-vllm-grpc to the test-extra workflow, mirroring the
llama-cpp and ik-llama-cpp gRPC jobs. Triggers when files under
backend/python/vllm/ change (or on run-all), builds the local-ai
vllm container image, and runs the tests/e2e-backends harness with
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME=Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct, tool_parser:hermes,
and the tools capability enabled.
Uses ubuntu-latest (no GPU) — vllm runs on CPU via the cpu-vllm
wheel we pinned in requirements-cpu-after.txt. Frees disk space
before the build since the docker image + torch + vllm wheel is
sizeable.
* fix(vllm): build from source on CI to avoid SIGILL on prebuilt wheel
The prebuilt vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel from GitHub releases is compiled with
SIMD instructions (AVX-512 VNNI/BF16 or AMX-BF16) that not every CPU
supports. GitHub Actions ubuntu-latest runners SIGILL when vllm spawns
the model_executor.models.registry subprocess for introspection, so
LoadModel never reaches the actual inference path.
- install.sh: when FROM_SOURCE=true on a CPU build, temporarily hide
requirements-cpu-after.txt so installRequirements installs the base
deps + torch CPU without pulling the prebuilt wheel, then clone vllm
and compile it with VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=cpu. The resulting binaries
target the host's actual CPU.
- backend/Dockerfile.python: accept a FROM_SOURCE build-arg and expose
it as an ENV so install.sh sees it during `make`.
- Makefile docker-build-backend: forward FROM_SOURCE as --build-arg
when set, so backends that need source builds can opt in.
- Makefile test-extra-backend-vllm: call docker-build-vllm via a
recursive $(MAKE) invocation so FROM_SOURCE flows through.
- .github/workflows/test-extra.yml: set FROM_SOURCE=true on the
tests-vllm-grpc job. Slower but reliable — the prebuilt wheel only
works on hosts that share the build-time SIMD baseline.
Answers 'did you test locally?': yes, end-to-end on my local machine
with the prebuilt wheel (CPU supports AVX-512 VNNI). The CI runner CPU
gap was not covered locally — this commit plugs that gap.
* ci(vllm): use bigger-runner instead of source build
The prebuilt vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel requires SIMD instructions (AVX-512
VNNI/BF16) that stock ubuntu-latest GitHub runners don't support —
vllm.model_executor.models.registry SIGILLs on import during LoadModel.
Source compilation works but takes 30-40 minutes per CI run, which is
too slow for an e2e smoke test. Instead, switch tests-vllm-grpc to the
bigger-runner self-hosted label (already used by backend.yml for the
llama-cpp CUDA build) — that hardware has the required SIMD baseline
and the prebuilt wheel runs cleanly.
FROM_SOURCE=true is kept as an opt-in escape hatch:
- install.sh still has the CPU source-build path for hosts that need it
- backend/Dockerfile.python still declares the ARG + ENV
- Makefile docker-build-backend still forwards the build-arg when set
Default CI path uses the fast prebuilt wheel; source build can be
re-enabled by exporting FROM_SOURCE=true in the environment.
* ci(vllm): install make + build deps on bigger-runner
bigger-runner is a bare self-hosted runner used by backend.yml for
docker image builds — it has docker but not the usual ubuntu-latest
toolchain. The make-based test target needs make, build-essential
(cgo in 'go test'), and curl/unzip (the Makefile protoc target
downloads protoc from github releases).
protoc-gen-go and protoc-gen-go-grpc come via 'go install' in the
install-go-tools target, which setup-go makes possible.
* ci(vllm): install libnuma1 + libgomp1 on bigger-runner
The vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel ships a _C C++ extension that dlopens
libnuma.so.1 at import time. When the runner host doesn't have it,
the extension silently fails to register its torch ops, so
EngineCore crashes on init_device with:
AttributeError: '_OpNamespace' '_C_utils' object has no attribute
'init_cpu_threads_env'
Also add libgomp1 (OpenMP runtime, used by torch CPU kernels) to be
safe on stripped-down runners.
* feat(vllm): bundle libnuma/libgomp via package.sh
The vllm CPU wheel ships a _C extension that dlopens libnuma.so.1 at
import time; torch's CPU kernels in turn use libgomp.so.1 (OpenMP).
Without these on the host, vllm._C silently fails to register its
torch ops and EngineCore crashes with:
AttributeError: '_OpNamespace' '_C_utils' object has no attribute
'init_cpu_threads_env'
Rather than asking every user to install libnuma1/libgomp1 on their
host (or every LocalAI base image to ship them), bundle them into
the backend image itself — same pattern fish-speech and the GPU libs
already use. libbackend.sh adds ${EDIR}/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at
run time so the bundled copies are picked up automatically.
- backend/python/vllm/package.sh (new): copies libnuma.so.1 and
libgomp.so.1 from the builder's multilib paths into ${BACKEND}/lib,
preserving soname symlinks. Runs during Dockerfile.python's
'Run backend-specific packaging' step (which already invokes
package.sh if present).
- backend/Dockerfile.python: install libnuma1 + libgomp1 in the
builder stage so package.sh has something to copy (the Ubuntu
base image otherwise only has libgomp in the gcc dep chain).
- test-extra.yml: drop the workaround that installed these libs on
the runner host — with the backend image self-contained, the
runner no longer needs them, and the test now exercises the
packaging path end-to-end the way a production host would.
* ci(vllm): disable tests-vllm-grpc job (heterogeneous runners)
Both ubuntu-latest and bigger-runner have inconsistent CPU baselines:
some instances support the AVX-512 VNNI/BF16 instructions the prebuilt
vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel was compiled with, others SIGILL on import of
vllm.model_executor.models.registry. The libnuma packaging fix doesn't
help when the wheel itself can't be loaded.
FROM_SOURCE=true compiles vllm against the actual host CPU and works
everywhere, but takes 30-50 minutes per run — too slow for a smoke
test on every PR.
Comment out the job for now. The test itself is intact and passes
locally; run it via 'make test-extra-backend-vllm' on a host with the
required SIMD baseline. Re-enable when:
- we have a self-hosted runner label with guaranteed AVX-512 VNNI/BF16, or
- vllm publishes a CPU wheel with a wider baseline, or
- we set up a docker layer cache that makes FROM_SOURCE acceptable
The detect-changes vllm output, the test harness changes (tests/
e2e-backends + tools cap), the make target (test-extra-backend-vllm),
the package.sh and the Dockerfile/install.sh plumbing all stay in
place.
2026-04-13 09:00:29 +00:00
## Adds "tools" to exercise ChatDelta tool call extraction.
2026-04-12 11:51:28 +00:00
## BACKEND_TEST_PROMPT Override the prompt used in predict/stream specs.
feat(vllm): parity with llama.cpp backend (#9328)
* fix(schema): serialize ToolCallID and Reasoning in Messages.ToProto
The ToProto conversion was dropping tool_call_id and reasoning_content
even though both proto and Go fields existed, breaking multi-turn tool
calling and reasoning passthrough to backends.
* refactor(config): introduce backend hook system and migrate llama-cpp defaults
Adds RegisterBackendHook/runBackendHooks so each backend can register
default-filling functions that run during ModelConfig.SetDefaults().
Migrates the existing GGUF guessing logic into hooks_llamacpp.go,
registered for both 'llama-cpp' and the empty backend (auto-detect).
Removes the old guesser.go shim.
* feat(config): add vLLM parser defaults hook and importer auto-detection
Introduces parser_defaults.json mapping model families to vLLM
tool_parser/reasoning_parser names, with longest-pattern-first matching.
The vllmDefaults hook auto-fills tool_parser and reasoning_parser
options at load time for known families, while the VLLMImporter writes
the same values into generated YAML so users can review and edit them.
Adds tests covering MatchParserDefaults, hook registration via
SetDefaults, and the user-override behavior.
* feat(vllm): wire native tool/reasoning parsers + chat deltas + logprobs
- Use vLLM's ToolParserManager/ReasoningParserManager to extract structured
output (tool calls, reasoning content) instead of reimplementing parsing
- Convert proto Messages to dicts and pass tools to apply_chat_template
- Emit ChatDelta with content/reasoning_content/tool_calls in Reply
- Extract prompt_tokens, completion_tokens, and logprobs from output
- Replace boolean GuidedDecoding with proper GuidedDecodingParams from Grammar
- Add TokenizeString and Free RPC methods
- Fix missing `time` import used by load_video()
* feat(vllm): CPU support + shared utils + vllm-omni feature parity
- Split vllm install per acceleration: move generic `vllm` out of
requirements-after.txt into per-profile after files (cublas12, hipblas,
intel) and add CPU wheel URL for cpu-after.txt
- requirements-cpu.txt now pulls torch==2.7.0+cpu from PyTorch CPU index
- backend/index.yaml: register cpu-vllm / cpu-vllm-development variants
- New backend/python/common/vllm_utils.py: shared parse_options,
messages_to_dicts, setup_parsers helpers (used by both vllm backends)
- vllm-omni: replace hardcoded chat template with tokenizer.apply_chat_template,
wire native parsers via shared utils, emit ChatDelta with token counts,
add TokenizeString and Free RPCs, detect CPU and set VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE
- Add test_cpu_inference.py: standalone script to validate CPU build with
a small model (Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct)
* fix(vllm): CPU build compatibility with vllm 0.14.1
Validated end-to-end on CPU with Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct (LoadModel, Predict,
TokenizeString, Free all working).
- requirements-cpu-after.txt: pin vllm to 0.14.1+cpu (pre-built wheel from
GitHub releases) for x86_64 and aarch64. vllm 0.14.1 is the newest CPU
wheel whose torch dependency resolves against published PyTorch builds
(torch==2.9.1+cpu). Later vllm CPU wheels currently require
torch==2.10.0+cpu which is only available on the PyTorch test channel
with incompatible torchvision.
- requirements-cpu.txt: bump torch to 2.9.1+cpu, add torchvision/torchaudio
so uv resolves them consistently from the PyTorch CPU index.
- install.sh: add --index-strategy=unsafe-best-match for CPU builds so uv
can mix the PyTorch index and PyPI for transitive deps (matches the
existing intel profile behaviour).
- backend.py LoadModel: vllm >= 0.14 removed AsyncLLMEngine.get_model_config
so the old code path errored out with AttributeError on model load.
Switch to the new get_tokenizer()/tokenizer accessor with a fallback
to building the tokenizer directly from request.Model.
* fix(vllm): tool parser constructor compat + e2e tool calling test
Concrete vLLM tool parsers override the abstract base's __init__ and
drop the tools kwarg (e.g. Hermes2ProToolParser only takes tokenizer).
Instantiating with tools= raised TypeError which was silently caught,
leaving chat_deltas.tool_calls empty.
Retry the constructor without the tools kwarg on TypeError — tools
aren't required by these parsers since extract_tool_calls finds tool
syntax in the raw model output directly.
Validated with Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct + hermes parser on CPU:
the backend correctly returns ToolCallDelta{name='get_weather',
arguments='{"location": "Paris, France"}'} in ChatDelta.
test_tool_calls.py is a standalone smoke test that spawns the gRPC
backend, sends a chat completion with tools, and asserts the response
contains a structured tool call.
* ci(backend): build cpu-vllm container image
Add the cpu-vllm variant to the backend container build matrix so the
image registered in backend/index.yaml (cpu-vllm / cpu-vllm-development)
is actually produced by CI.
Follows the same pattern as the other CPU python backends
(cpu-diffusers, cpu-chatterbox, etc.) with build-type='' and no CUDA.
backend_pr.yml auto-picks this up via its matrix filter from backend.yml.
* test(e2e-backends): add tools capability + HF model name support
Extends tests/e2e-backends to cover backends that:
- Resolve HuggingFace model ids natively (vllm, vllm-omni) instead of
loading a local file: BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME is passed verbatim as
ModelOptions.Model with no download/ModelFile.
- Parse tool calls into ChatDelta.tool_calls: new "tools" capability
sends a Predict with a get_weather function definition and asserts
the Reply contains a matching ToolCallDelta. Uses UseTokenizerTemplate
with OpenAI-style Messages so the backend can wire tools into the
model's chat template.
- Need backend-specific Options[]: BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS lets a test set
e.g. "tool_parser:hermes,reasoning_parser:qwen3" at LoadModel time.
Adds make target test-extra-backend-vllm that:
- docker-build-vllm
- loads Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
- runs health,load,predict,stream,tools with tool_parser:hermes
Drops backend/python/vllm/test_{cpu_inference,tool_calls}.py — those
standalone scripts were scaffolding used while bringing up the Python
backend; the e2e-backends harness now covers the same ground uniformly
alongside llama-cpp and ik-llama-cpp.
* ci(test-extra): run vllm e2e tests on CPU
Adds tests-vllm-grpc to the test-extra workflow, mirroring the
llama-cpp and ik-llama-cpp gRPC jobs. Triggers when files under
backend/python/vllm/ change (or on run-all), builds the local-ai
vllm container image, and runs the tests/e2e-backends harness with
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME=Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct, tool_parser:hermes,
and the tools capability enabled.
Uses ubuntu-latest (no GPU) — vllm runs on CPU via the cpu-vllm
wheel we pinned in requirements-cpu-after.txt. Frees disk space
before the build since the docker image + torch + vllm wheel is
sizeable.
* fix(vllm): build from source on CI to avoid SIGILL on prebuilt wheel
The prebuilt vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel from GitHub releases is compiled with
SIMD instructions (AVX-512 VNNI/BF16 or AMX-BF16) that not every CPU
supports. GitHub Actions ubuntu-latest runners SIGILL when vllm spawns
the model_executor.models.registry subprocess for introspection, so
LoadModel never reaches the actual inference path.
- install.sh: when FROM_SOURCE=true on a CPU build, temporarily hide
requirements-cpu-after.txt so installRequirements installs the base
deps + torch CPU without pulling the prebuilt wheel, then clone vllm
and compile it with VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=cpu. The resulting binaries
target the host's actual CPU.
- backend/Dockerfile.python: accept a FROM_SOURCE build-arg and expose
it as an ENV so install.sh sees it during `make`.
- Makefile docker-build-backend: forward FROM_SOURCE as --build-arg
when set, so backends that need source builds can opt in.
- Makefile test-extra-backend-vllm: call docker-build-vllm via a
recursive $(MAKE) invocation so FROM_SOURCE flows through.
- .github/workflows/test-extra.yml: set FROM_SOURCE=true on the
tests-vllm-grpc job. Slower but reliable — the prebuilt wheel only
works on hosts that share the build-time SIMD baseline.
Answers 'did you test locally?': yes, end-to-end on my local machine
with the prebuilt wheel (CPU supports AVX-512 VNNI). The CI runner CPU
gap was not covered locally — this commit plugs that gap.
* ci(vllm): use bigger-runner instead of source build
The prebuilt vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel requires SIMD instructions (AVX-512
VNNI/BF16) that stock ubuntu-latest GitHub runners don't support —
vllm.model_executor.models.registry SIGILLs on import during LoadModel.
Source compilation works but takes 30-40 minutes per CI run, which is
too slow for an e2e smoke test. Instead, switch tests-vllm-grpc to the
bigger-runner self-hosted label (already used by backend.yml for the
llama-cpp CUDA build) — that hardware has the required SIMD baseline
and the prebuilt wheel runs cleanly.
FROM_SOURCE=true is kept as an opt-in escape hatch:
- install.sh still has the CPU source-build path for hosts that need it
- backend/Dockerfile.python still declares the ARG + ENV
- Makefile docker-build-backend still forwards the build-arg when set
Default CI path uses the fast prebuilt wheel; source build can be
re-enabled by exporting FROM_SOURCE=true in the environment.
* ci(vllm): install make + build deps on bigger-runner
bigger-runner is a bare self-hosted runner used by backend.yml for
docker image builds — it has docker but not the usual ubuntu-latest
toolchain. The make-based test target needs make, build-essential
(cgo in 'go test'), and curl/unzip (the Makefile protoc target
downloads protoc from github releases).
protoc-gen-go and protoc-gen-go-grpc come via 'go install' in the
install-go-tools target, which setup-go makes possible.
* ci(vllm): install libnuma1 + libgomp1 on bigger-runner
The vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel ships a _C C++ extension that dlopens
libnuma.so.1 at import time. When the runner host doesn't have it,
the extension silently fails to register its torch ops, so
EngineCore crashes on init_device with:
AttributeError: '_OpNamespace' '_C_utils' object has no attribute
'init_cpu_threads_env'
Also add libgomp1 (OpenMP runtime, used by torch CPU kernels) to be
safe on stripped-down runners.
* feat(vllm): bundle libnuma/libgomp via package.sh
The vllm CPU wheel ships a _C extension that dlopens libnuma.so.1 at
import time; torch's CPU kernels in turn use libgomp.so.1 (OpenMP).
Without these on the host, vllm._C silently fails to register its
torch ops and EngineCore crashes with:
AttributeError: '_OpNamespace' '_C_utils' object has no attribute
'init_cpu_threads_env'
Rather than asking every user to install libnuma1/libgomp1 on their
host (or every LocalAI base image to ship them), bundle them into
the backend image itself — same pattern fish-speech and the GPU libs
already use. libbackend.sh adds ${EDIR}/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at
run time so the bundled copies are picked up automatically.
- backend/python/vllm/package.sh (new): copies libnuma.so.1 and
libgomp.so.1 from the builder's multilib paths into ${BACKEND}/lib,
preserving soname symlinks. Runs during Dockerfile.python's
'Run backend-specific packaging' step (which already invokes
package.sh if present).
- backend/Dockerfile.python: install libnuma1 + libgomp1 in the
builder stage so package.sh has something to copy (the Ubuntu
base image otherwise only has libgomp in the gcc dep chain).
- test-extra.yml: drop the workaround that installed these libs on
the runner host — with the backend image self-contained, the
runner no longer needs them, and the test now exercises the
packaging path end-to-end the way a production host would.
* ci(vllm): disable tests-vllm-grpc job (heterogeneous runners)
Both ubuntu-latest and bigger-runner have inconsistent CPU baselines:
some instances support the AVX-512 VNNI/BF16 instructions the prebuilt
vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel was compiled with, others SIGILL on import of
vllm.model_executor.models.registry. The libnuma packaging fix doesn't
help when the wheel itself can't be loaded.
FROM_SOURCE=true compiles vllm against the actual host CPU and works
everywhere, but takes 30-50 minutes per run — too slow for a smoke
test on every PR.
Comment out the job for now. The test itself is intact and passes
locally; run it via 'make test-extra-backend-vllm' on a host with the
required SIMD baseline. Re-enable when:
- we have a self-hosted runner label with guaranteed AVX-512 VNNI/BF16, or
- vllm publishes a CPU wheel with a wider baseline, or
- we set up a docker layer cache that makes FROM_SOURCE acceptable
The detect-changes vllm output, the test harness changes (tests/
e2e-backends + tools cap), the make target (test-extra-backend-vllm),
the package.sh and the Dockerfile/install.sh plumbing all stay in
place.
2026-04-13 09:00:29 +00:00
## BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS Comma-separated Options[] entries forwarded to LoadModel,
## e.g. "tool_parser:hermes,reasoning_parser:qwen3".
2026-04-12 11:51:28 +00:00
##
## Direct usage (image already built, no docker-build-* dependency):
##
## make test-extra-backend BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:llama-cpp \
## BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL=https://.../model.gguf
##
## Convenience wrappers below build a specific backend image first, then run the
## suite against it.
##
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL ?= https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-0.6B-Q8_0.gguf
## Generic target — runs the suite against whatever BACKEND_IMAGE points at.
## Depends on protogen-go so pkg/grpc/proto is generated before `go test`.
test-extra-backend : protogen -go
@test -n " $$ BACKEND_IMAGE " || { echo "BACKEND_IMAGE must be set" >& 2; exit 1; }
BACKEND_IMAGE = " $$ BACKEND_IMAGE " \
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL = " $$ {BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL:- $( BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL) } " \
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_FILE = " $$ BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_FILE " \
feat(vllm): parity with llama.cpp backend (#9328)
* fix(schema): serialize ToolCallID and Reasoning in Messages.ToProto
The ToProto conversion was dropping tool_call_id and reasoning_content
even though both proto and Go fields existed, breaking multi-turn tool
calling and reasoning passthrough to backends.
* refactor(config): introduce backend hook system and migrate llama-cpp defaults
Adds RegisterBackendHook/runBackendHooks so each backend can register
default-filling functions that run during ModelConfig.SetDefaults().
Migrates the existing GGUF guessing logic into hooks_llamacpp.go,
registered for both 'llama-cpp' and the empty backend (auto-detect).
Removes the old guesser.go shim.
* feat(config): add vLLM parser defaults hook and importer auto-detection
Introduces parser_defaults.json mapping model families to vLLM
tool_parser/reasoning_parser names, with longest-pattern-first matching.
The vllmDefaults hook auto-fills tool_parser and reasoning_parser
options at load time for known families, while the VLLMImporter writes
the same values into generated YAML so users can review and edit them.
Adds tests covering MatchParserDefaults, hook registration via
SetDefaults, and the user-override behavior.
* feat(vllm): wire native tool/reasoning parsers + chat deltas + logprobs
- Use vLLM's ToolParserManager/ReasoningParserManager to extract structured
output (tool calls, reasoning content) instead of reimplementing parsing
- Convert proto Messages to dicts and pass tools to apply_chat_template
- Emit ChatDelta with content/reasoning_content/tool_calls in Reply
- Extract prompt_tokens, completion_tokens, and logprobs from output
- Replace boolean GuidedDecoding with proper GuidedDecodingParams from Grammar
- Add TokenizeString and Free RPC methods
- Fix missing `time` import used by load_video()
* feat(vllm): CPU support + shared utils + vllm-omni feature parity
- Split vllm install per acceleration: move generic `vllm` out of
requirements-after.txt into per-profile after files (cublas12, hipblas,
intel) and add CPU wheel URL for cpu-after.txt
- requirements-cpu.txt now pulls torch==2.7.0+cpu from PyTorch CPU index
- backend/index.yaml: register cpu-vllm / cpu-vllm-development variants
- New backend/python/common/vllm_utils.py: shared parse_options,
messages_to_dicts, setup_parsers helpers (used by both vllm backends)
- vllm-omni: replace hardcoded chat template with tokenizer.apply_chat_template,
wire native parsers via shared utils, emit ChatDelta with token counts,
add TokenizeString and Free RPCs, detect CPU and set VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE
- Add test_cpu_inference.py: standalone script to validate CPU build with
a small model (Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct)
* fix(vllm): CPU build compatibility with vllm 0.14.1
Validated end-to-end on CPU with Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct (LoadModel, Predict,
TokenizeString, Free all working).
- requirements-cpu-after.txt: pin vllm to 0.14.1+cpu (pre-built wheel from
GitHub releases) for x86_64 and aarch64. vllm 0.14.1 is the newest CPU
wheel whose torch dependency resolves against published PyTorch builds
(torch==2.9.1+cpu). Later vllm CPU wheels currently require
torch==2.10.0+cpu which is only available on the PyTorch test channel
with incompatible torchvision.
- requirements-cpu.txt: bump torch to 2.9.1+cpu, add torchvision/torchaudio
so uv resolves them consistently from the PyTorch CPU index.
- install.sh: add --index-strategy=unsafe-best-match for CPU builds so uv
can mix the PyTorch index and PyPI for transitive deps (matches the
existing intel profile behaviour).
- backend.py LoadModel: vllm >= 0.14 removed AsyncLLMEngine.get_model_config
so the old code path errored out with AttributeError on model load.
Switch to the new get_tokenizer()/tokenizer accessor with a fallback
to building the tokenizer directly from request.Model.
* fix(vllm): tool parser constructor compat + e2e tool calling test
Concrete vLLM tool parsers override the abstract base's __init__ and
drop the tools kwarg (e.g. Hermes2ProToolParser only takes tokenizer).
Instantiating with tools= raised TypeError which was silently caught,
leaving chat_deltas.tool_calls empty.
Retry the constructor without the tools kwarg on TypeError — tools
aren't required by these parsers since extract_tool_calls finds tool
syntax in the raw model output directly.
Validated with Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct + hermes parser on CPU:
the backend correctly returns ToolCallDelta{name='get_weather',
arguments='{"location": "Paris, France"}'} in ChatDelta.
test_tool_calls.py is a standalone smoke test that spawns the gRPC
backend, sends a chat completion with tools, and asserts the response
contains a structured tool call.
* ci(backend): build cpu-vllm container image
Add the cpu-vllm variant to the backend container build matrix so the
image registered in backend/index.yaml (cpu-vllm / cpu-vllm-development)
is actually produced by CI.
Follows the same pattern as the other CPU python backends
(cpu-diffusers, cpu-chatterbox, etc.) with build-type='' and no CUDA.
backend_pr.yml auto-picks this up via its matrix filter from backend.yml.
* test(e2e-backends): add tools capability + HF model name support
Extends tests/e2e-backends to cover backends that:
- Resolve HuggingFace model ids natively (vllm, vllm-omni) instead of
loading a local file: BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME is passed verbatim as
ModelOptions.Model with no download/ModelFile.
- Parse tool calls into ChatDelta.tool_calls: new "tools" capability
sends a Predict with a get_weather function definition and asserts
the Reply contains a matching ToolCallDelta. Uses UseTokenizerTemplate
with OpenAI-style Messages so the backend can wire tools into the
model's chat template.
- Need backend-specific Options[]: BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS lets a test set
e.g. "tool_parser:hermes,reasoning_parser:qwen3" at LoadModel time.
Adds make target test-extra-backend-vllm that:
- docker-build-vllm
- loads Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
- runs health,load,predict,stream,tools with tool_parser:hermes
Drops backend/python/vllm/test_{cpu_inference,tool_calls}.py — those
standalone scripts were scaffolding used while bringing up the Python
backend; the e2e-backends harness now covers the same ground uniformly
alongside llama-cpp and ik-llama-cpp.
* ci(test-extra): run vllm e2e tests on CPU
Adds tests-vllm-grpc to the test-extra workflow, mirroring the
llama-cpp and ik-llama-cpp gRPC jobs. Triggers when files under
backend/python/vllm/ change (or on run-all), builds the local-ai
vllm container image, and runs the tests/e2e-backends harness with
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME=Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct, tool_parser:hermes,
and the tools capability enabled.
Uses ubuntu-latest (no GPU) — vllm runs on CPU via the cpu-vllm
wheel we pinned in requirements-cpu-after.txt. Frees disk space
before the build since the docker image + torch + vllm wheel is
sizeable.
* fix(vllm): build from source on CI to avoid SIGILL on prebuilt wheel
The prebuilt vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel from GitHub releases is compiled with
SIMD instructions (AVX-512 VNNI/BF16 or AMX-BF16) that not every CPU
supports. GitHub Actions ubuntu-latest runners SIGILL when vllm spawns
the model_executor.models.registry subprocess for introspection, so
LoadModel never reaches the actual inference path.
- install.sh: when FROM_SOURCE=true on a CPU build, temporarily hide
requirements-cpu-after.txt so installRequirements installs the base
deps + torch CPU without pulling the prebuilt wheel, then clone vllm
and compile it with VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=cpu. The resulting binaries
target the host's actual CPU.
- backend/Dockerfile.python: accept a FROM_SOURCE build-arg and expose
it as an ENV so install.sh sees it during `make`.
- Makefile docker-build-backend: forward FROM_SOURCE as --build-arg
when set, so backends that need source builds can opt in.
- Makefile test-extra-backend-vllm: call docker-build-vllm via a
recursive $(MAKE) invocation so FROM_SOURCE flows through.
- .github/workflows/test-extra.yml: set FROM_SOURCE=true on the
tests-vllm-grpc job. Slower but reliable — the prebuilt wheel only
works on hosts that share the build-time SIMD baseline.
Answers 'did you test locally?': yes, end-to-end on my local machine
with the prebuilt wheel (CPU supports AVX-512 VNNI). The CI runner CPU
gap was not covered locally — this commit plugs that gap.
* ci(vllm): use bigger-runner instead of source build
The prebuilt vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel requires SIMD instructions (AVX-512
VNNI/BF16) that stock ubuntu-latest GitHub runners don't support —
vllm.model_executor.models.registry SIGILLs on import during LoadModel.
Source compilation works but takes 30-40 minutes per CI run, which is
too slow for an e2e smoke test. Instead, switch tests-vllm-grpc to the
bigger-runner self-hosted label (already used by backend.yml for the
llama-cpp CUDA build) — that hardware has the required SIMD baseline
and the prebuilt wheel runs cleanly.
FROM_SOURCE=true is kept as an opt-in escape hatch:
- install.sh still has the CPU source-build path for hosts that need it
- backend/Dockerfile.python still declares the ARG + ENV
- Makefile docker-build-backend still forwards the build-arg when set
Default CI path uses the fast prebuilt wheel; source build can be
re-enabled by exporting FROM_SOURCE=true in the environment.
* ci(vllm): install make + build deps on bigger-runner
bigger-runner is a bare self-hosted runner used by backend.yml for
docker image builds — it has docker but not the usual ubuntu-latest
toolchain. The make-based test target needs make, build-essential
(cgo in 'go test'), and curl/unzip (the Makefile protoc target
downloads protoc from github releases).
protoc-gen-go and protoc-gen-go-grpc come via 'go install' in the
install-go-tools target, which setup-go makes possible.
* ci(vllm): install libnuma1 + libgomp1 on bigger-runner
The vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel ships a _C C++ extension that dlopens
libnuma.so.1 at import time. When the runner host doesn't have it,
the extension silently fails to register its torch ops, so
EngineCore crashes on init_device with:
AttributeError: '_OpNamespace' '_C_utils' object has no attribute
'init_cpu_threads_env'
Also add libgomp1 (OpenMP runtime, used by torch CPU kernels) to be
safe on stripped-down runners.
* feat(vllm): bundle libnuma/libgomp via package.sh
The vllm CPU wheel ships a _C extension that dlopens libnuma.so.1 at
import time; torch's CPU kernels in turn use libgomp.so.1 (OpenMP).
Without these on the host, vllm._C silently fails to register its
torch ops and EngineCore crashes with:
AttributeError: '_OpNamespace' '_C_utils' object has no attribute
'init_cpu_threads_env'
Rather than asking every user to install libnuma1/libgomp1 on their
host (or every LocalAI base image to ship them), bundle them into
the backend image itself — same pattern fish-speech and the GPU libs
already use. libbackend.sh adds ${EDIR}/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at
run time so the bundled copies are picked up automatically.
- backend/python/vllm/package.sh (new): copies libnuma.so.1 and
libgomp.so.1 from the builder's multilib paths into ${BACKEND}/lib,
preserving soname symlinks. Runs during Dockerfile.python's
'Run backend-specific packaging' step (which already invokes
package.sh if present).
- backend/Dockerfile.python: install libnuma1 + libgomp1 in the
builder stage so package.sh has something to copy (the Ubuntu
base image otherwise only has libgomp in the gcc dep chain).
- test-extra.yml: drop the workaround that installed these libs on
the runner host — with the backend image self-contained, the
runner no longer needs them, and the test now exercises the
packaging path end-to-end the way a production host would.
* ci(vllm): disable tests-vllm-grpc job (heterogeneous runners)
Both ubuntu-latest and bigger-runner have inconsistent CPU baselines:
some instances support the AVX-512 VNNI/BF16 instructions the prebuilt
vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel was compiled with, others SIGILL on import of
vllm.model_executor.models.registry. The libnuma packaging fix doesn't
help when the wheel itself can't be loaded.
FROM_SOURCE=true compiles vllm against the actual host CPU and works
everywhere, but takes 30-50 minutes per run — too slow for a smoke
test on every PR.
Comment out the job for now. The test itself is intact and passes
locally; run it via 'make test-extra-backend-vllm' on a host with the
required SIMD baseline. Re-enable when:
- we have a self-hosted runner label with guaranteed AVX-512 VNNI/BF16, or
- vllm publishes a CPU wheel with a wider baseline, or
- we set up a docker layer cache that makes FROM_SOURCE acceptable
The detect-changes vllm output, the test harness changes (tests/
e2e-backends + tools cap), the make target (test-extra-backend-vllm),
the package.sh and the Dockerfile/install.sh plumbing all stay in
place.
2026-04-13 09:00:29 +00:00
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME = " $$ BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME " \
2026-04-14 14:13:40 +00:00
BACKEND_TEST_MMPROJ_URL = " $$ BACKEND_TEST_MMPROJ_URL " \
BACKEND_TEST_MMPROJ_FILE = " $$ BACKEND_TEST_MMPROJ_FILE " \
BACKEND_TEST_AUDIO_URL = " $$ BACKEND_TEST_AUDIO_URL " \
BACKEND_TEST_AUDIO_FILE = " $$ BACKEND_TEST_AUDIO_FILE " \
2026-04-12 11:51:28 +00:00
BACKEND_TEST_CAPS = " $$ BACKEND_TEST_CAPS " \
BACKEND_TEST_PROMPT = " $$ BACKEND_TEST_PROMPT " \
feat(vllm): parity with llama.cpp backend (#9328)
* fix(schema): serialize ToolCallID and Reasoning in Messages.ToProto
The ToProto conversion was dropping tool_call_id and reasoning_content
even though both proto and Go fields existed, breaking multi-turn tool
calling and reasoning passthrough to backends.
* refactor(config): introduce backend hook system and migrate llama-cpp defaults
Adds RegisterBackendHook/runBackendHooks so each backend can register
default-filling functions that run during ModelConfig.SetDefaults().
Migrates the existing GGUF guessing logic into hooks_llamacpp.go,
registered for both 'llama-cpp' and the empty backend (auto-detect).
Removes the old guesser.go shim.
* feat(config): add vLLM parser defaults hook and importer auto-detection
Introduces parser_defaults.json mapping model families to vLLM
tool_parser/reasoning_parser names, with longest-pattern-first matching.
The vllmDefaults hook auto-fills tool_parser and reasoning_parser
options at load time for known families, while the VLLMImporter writes
the same values into generated YAML so users can review and edit them.
Adds tests covering MatchParserDefaults, hook registration via
SetDefaults, and the user-override behavior.
* feat(vllm): wire native tool/reasoning parsers + chat deltas + logprobs
- Use vLLM's ToolParserManager/ReasoningParserManager to extract structured
output (tool calls, reasoning content) instead of reimplementing parsing
- Convert proto Messages to dicts and pass tools to apply_chat_template
- Emit ChatDelta with content/reasoning_content/tool_calls in Reply
- Extract prompt_tokens, completion_tokens, and logprobs from output
- Replace boolean GuidedDecoding with proper GuidedDecodingParams from Grammar
- Add TokenizeString and Free RPC methods
- Fix missing `time` import used by load_video()
* feat(vllm): CPU support + shared utils + vllm-omni feature parity
- Split vllm install per acceleration: move generic `vllm` out of
requirements-after.txt into per-profile after files (cublas12, hipblas,
intel) and add CPU wheel URL for cpu-after.txt
- requirements-cpu.txt now pulls torch==2.7.0+cpu from PyTorch CPU index
- backend/index.yaml: register cpu-vllm / cpu-vllm-development variants
- New backend/python/common/vllm_utils.py: shared parse_options,
messages_to_dicts, setup_parsers helpers (used by both vllm backends)
- vllm-omni: replace hardcoded chat template with tokenizer.apply_chat_template,
wire native parsers via shared utils, emit ChatDelta with token counts,
add TokenizeString and Free RPCs, detect CPU and set VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE
- Add test_cpu_inference.py: standalone script to validate CPU build with
a small model (Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct)
* fix(vllm): CPU build compatibility with vllm 0.14.1
Validated end-to-end on CPU with Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct (LoadModel, Predict,
TokenizeString, Free all working).
- requirements-cpu-after.txt: pin vllm to 0.14.1+cpu (pre-built wheel from
GitHub releases) for x86_64 and aarch64. vllm 0.14.1 is the newest CPU
wheel whose torch dependency resolves against published PyTorch builds
(torch==2.9.1+cpu). Later vllm CPU wheels currently require
torch==2.10.0+cpu which is only available on the PyTorch test channel
with incompatible torchvision.
- requirements-cpu.txt: bump torch to 2.9.1+cpu, add torchvision/torchaudio
so uv resolves them consistently from the PyTorch CPU index.
- install.sh: add --index-strategy=unsafe-best-match for CPU builds so uv
can mix the PyTorch index and PyPI for transitive deps (matches the
existing intel profile behaviour).
- backend.py LoadModel: vllm >= 0.14 removed AsyncLLMEngine.get_model_config
so the old code path errored out with AttributeError on model load.
Switch to the new get_tokenizer()/tokenizer accessor with a fallback
to building the tokenizer directly from request.Model.
* fix(vllm): tool parser constructor compat + e2e tool calling test
Concrete vLLM tool parsers override the abstract base's __init__ and
drop the tools kwarg (e.g. Hermes2ProToolParser only takes tokenizer).
Instantiating with tools= raised TypeError which was silently caught,
leaving chat_deltas.tool_calls empty.
Retry the constructor without the tools kwarg on TypeError — tools
aren't required by these parsers since extract_tool_calls finds tool
syntax in the raw model output directly.
Validated with Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct + hermes parser on CPU:
the backend correctly returns ToolCallDelta{name='get_weather',
arguments='{"location": "Paris, France"}'} in ChatDelta.
test_tool_calls.py is a standalone smoke test that spawns the gRPC
backend, sends a chat completion with tools, and asserts the response
contains a structured tool call.
* ci(backend): build cpu-vllm container image
Add the cpu-vllm variant to the backend container build matrix so the
image registered in backend/index.yaml (cpu-vllm / cpu-vllm-development)
is actually produced by CI.
Follows the same pattern as the other CPU python backends
(cpu-diffusers, cpu-chatterbox, etc.) with build-type='' and no CUDA.
backend_pr.yml auto-picks this up via its matrix filter from backend.yml.
* test(e2e-backends): add tools capability + HF model name support
Extends tests/e2e-backends to cover backends that:
- Resolve HuggingFace model ids natively (vllm, vllm-omni) instead of
loading a local file: BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME is passed verbatim as
ModelOptions.Model with no download/ModelFile.
- Parse tool calls into ChatDelta.tool_calls: new "tools" capability
sends a Predict with a get_weather function definition and asserts
the Reply contains a matching ToolCallDelta. Uses UseTokenizerTemplate
with OpenAI-style Messages so the backend can wire tools into the
model's chat template.
- Need backend-specific Options[]: BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS lets a test set
e.g. "tool_parser:hermes,reasoning_parser:qwen3" at LoadModel time.
Adds make target test-extra-backend-vllm that:
- docker-build-vllm
- loads Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
- runs health,load,predict,stream,tools with tool_parser:hermes
Drops backend/python/vllm/test_{cpu_inference,tool_calls}.py — those
standalone scripts were scaffolding used while bringing up the Python
backend; the e2e-backends harness now covers the same ground uniformly
alongside llama-cpp and ik-llama-cpp.
* ci(test-extra): run vllm e2e tests on CPU
Adds tests-vllm-grpc to the test-extra workflow, mirroring the
llama-cpp and ik-llama-cpp gRPC jobs. Triggers when files under
backend/python/vllm/ change (or on run-all), builds the local-ai
vllm container image, and runs the tests/e2e-backends harness with
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME=Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct, tool_parser:hermes,
and the tools capability enabled.
Uses ubuntu-latest (no GPU) — vllm runs on CPU via the cpu-vllm
wheel we pinned in requirements-cpu-after.txt. Frees disk space
before the build since the docker image + torch + vllm wheel is
sizeable.
* fix(vllm): build from source on CI to avoid SIGILL on prebuilt wheel
The prebuilt vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel from GitHub releases is compiled with
SIMD instructions (AVX-512 VNNI/BF16 or AMX-BF16) that not every CPU
supports. GitHub Actions ubuntu-latest runners SIGILL when vllm spawns
the model_executor.models.registry subprocess for introspection, so
LoadModel never reaches the actual inference path.
- install.sh: when FROM_SOURCE=true on a CPU build, temporarily hide
requirements-cpu-after.txt so installRequirements installs the base
deps + torch CPU without pulling the prebuilt wheel, then clone vllm
and compile it with VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=cpu. The resulting binaries
target the host's actual CPU.
- backend/Dockerfile.python: accept a FROM_SOURCE build-arg and expose
it as an ENV so install.sh sees it during `make`.
- Makefile docker-build-backend: forward FROM_SOURCE as --build-arg
when set, so backends that need source builds can opt in.
- Makefile test-extra-backend-vllm: call docker-build-vllm via a
recursive $(MAKE) invocation so FROM_SOURCE flows through.
- .github/workflows/test-extra.yml: set FROM_SOURCE=true on the
tests-vllm-grpc job. Slower but reliable — the prebuilt wheel only
works on hosts that share the build-time SIMD baseline.
Answers 'did you test locally?': yes, end-to-end on my local machine
with the prebuilt wheel (CPU supports AVX-512 VNNI). The CI runner CPU
gap was not covered locally — this commit plugs that gap.
* ci(vllm): use bigger-runner instead of source build
The prebuilt vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel requires SIMD instructions (AVX-512
VNNI/BF16) that stock ubuntu-latest GitHub runners don't support —
vllm.model_executor.models.registry SIGILLs on import during LoadModel.
Source compilation works but takes 30-40 minutes per CI run, which is
too slow for an e2e smoke test. Instead, switch tests-vllm-grpc to the
bigger-runner self-hosted label (already used by backend.yml for the
llama-cpp CUDA build) — that hardware has the required SIMD baseline
and the prebuilt wheel runs cleanly.
FROM_SOURCE=true is kept as an opt-in escape hatch:
- install.sh still has the CPU source-build path for hosts that need it
- backend/Dockerfile.python still declares the ARG + ENV
- Makefile docker-build-backend still forwards the build-arg when set
Default CI path uses the fast prebuilt wheel; source build can be
re-enabled by exporting FROM_SOURCE=true in the environment.
* ci(vllm): install make + build deps on bigger-runner
bigger-runner is a bare self-hosted runner used by backend.yml for
docker image builds — it has docker but not the usual ubuntu-latest
toolchain. The make-based test target needs make, build-essential
(cgo in 'go test'), and curl/unzip (the Makefile protoc target
downloads protoc from github releases).
protoc-gen-go and protoc-gen-go-grpc come via 'go install' in the
install-go-tools target, which setup-go makes possible.
* ci(vllm): install libnuma1 + libgomp1 on bigger-runner
The vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel ships a _C C++ extension that dlopens
libnuma.so.1 at import time. When the runner host doesn't have it,
the extension silently fails to register its torch ops, so
EngineCore crashes on init_device with:
AttributeError: '_OpNamespace' '_C_utils' object has no attribute
'init_cpu_threads_env'
Also add libgomp1 (OpenMP runtime, used by torch CPU kernels) to be
safe on stripped-down runners.
* feat(vllm): bundle libnuma/libgomp via package.sh
The vllm CPU wheel ships a _C extension that dlopens libnuma.so.1 at
import time; torch's CPU kernels in turn use libgomp.so.1 (OpenMP).
Without these on the host, vllm._C silently fails to register its
torch ops and EngineCore crashes with:
AttributeError: '_OpNamespace' '_C_utils' object has no attribute
'init_cpu_threads_env'
Rather than asking every user to install libnuma1/libgomp1 on their
host (or every LocalAI base image to ship them), bundle them into
the backend image itself — same pattern fish-speech and the GPU libs
already use. libbackend.sh adds ${EDIR}/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at
run time so the bundled copies are picked up automatically.
- backend/python/vllm/package.sh (new): copies libnuma.so.1 and
libgomp.so.1 from the builder's multilib paths into ${BACKEND}/lib,
preserving soname symlinks. Runs during Dockerfile.python's
'Run backend-specific packaging' step (which already invokes
package.sh if present).
- backend/Dockerfile.python: install libnuma1 + libgomp1 in the
builder stage so package.sh has something to copy (the Ubuntu
base image otherwise only has libgomp in the gcc dep chain).
- test-extra.yml: drop the workaround that installed these libs on
the runner host — with the backend image self-contained, the
runner no longer needs them, and the test now exercises the
packaging path end-to-end the way a production host would.
* ci(vllm): disable tests-vllm-grpc job (heterogeneous runners)
Both ubuntu-latest and bigger-runner have inconsistent CPU baselines:
some instances support the AVX-512 VNNI/BF16 instructions the prebuilt
vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel was compiled with, others SIGILL on import of
vllm.model_executor.models.registry. The libnuma packaging fix doesn't
help when the wheel itself can't be loaded.
FROM_SOURCE=true compiles vllm against the actual host CPU and works
everywhere, but takes 30-50 minutes per run — too slow for a smoke
test on every PR.
Comment out the job for now. The test itself is intact and passes
locally; run it via 'make test-extra-backend-vllm' on a host with the
required SIMD baseline. Re-enable when:
- we have a self-hosted runner label with guaranteed AVX-512 VNNI/BF16, or
- vllm publishes a CPU wheel with a wider baseline, or
- we set up a docker layer cache that makes FROM_SOURCE acceptable
The detect-changes vllm output, the test harness changes (tests/
e2e-backends + tools cap), the make target (test-extra-backend-vllm),
the package.sh and the Dockerfile/install.sh plumbing all stay in
place.
2026-04-13 09:00:29 +00:00
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS = " $$ BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS " \
BACKEND_TEST_TOOL_PROMPT = " $$ BACKEND_TEST_TOOL_PROMPT " \
BACKEND_TEST_TOOL_NAME = " $$ BACKEND_TEST_TOOL_NAME " \
feat(backend): add turboquant llama.cpp-fork backend (#9355)
* feat(backend): add turboquant llama.cpp-fork backend
turboquant is a llama.cpp fork (TheTom/llama-cpp-turboquant, branch
feature/turboquant-kv-cache) that adds a TurboQuant KV-cache scheme.
It ships as a first-class backend reusing backend/cpp/llama-cpp sources
via a thin wrapper Makefile: each variant target copies ../llama-cpp
into a sibling build dir and invokes llama-cpp's build-llama-cpp-grpc-server
with LLAMA_REPO/LLAMA_VERSION overridden to point at the fork. No
duplication of grpc-server.cpp — upstream fixes flow through automatically.
Wires up the full matrix (CPU, CUDA 12/13, L4T, L4T-CUDA13, ROCm, SYCL
f32/f16, Vulkan) in backend.yml and the gallery entries in index.yaml,
adds a tests-turboquant-grpc e2e job driven by BACKEND_TEST_CACHE_TYPE_K/V=q8_0
to exercise the KV-cache config path (backend_test.go gains dedicated env
vars wired into ModelOptions.CacheTypeKey/Value — a generic improvement
usable by any llama.cpp-family backend), and registers a nightly auto-bump
PR in bump_deps.yaml tracking feature/turboquant-kv-cache.
scripts/changed-backends.js gets a special-case so edits to
backend/cpp/llama-cpp/ also retrigger the turboquant CI pipeline, since
the wrapper reuses those sources.
* feat(turboquant): carry upstream patches against fork API drift
turboquant branched from llama.cpp before upstream commit 66060008
("server: respect the ignore eos flag", #21203) which added the
`logit_bias_eog` field to `server_context_meta` and a matching
parameter to `server_task::params_from_json_cmpl`. The shared
backend/cpp/llama-cpp/grpc-server.cpp depends on that field, so
building it against the fork unmodified fails.
Cherry-pick that commit as a patch file under
backend/cpp/turboquant/patches/ and apply it to the cloned fork
sources via a new apply-patches.sh hook called from the wrapper
Makefile. Simplifies the build flow too: instead of hopping through
llama-cpp's build-llama-cpp-grpc-server indirection, the wrapper now
drives the copied Makefile directly (clone -> patch -> build).
Drop the corresponding patch whenever the fork catches up with
upstream — the build fails fast if a patch stops applying, which
is the signal to retire it.
* docs: add turboquant backend section + clarify cache_type_k/v
Document the new turboquant (llama.cpp fork with TurboQuant KV-cache)
backend alongside the existing llama-cpp / ik-llama-cpp sections in
features/text-generation.md: when to pick it, how to install it from
the gallery, and a YAML example showing backend: turboquant together
with cache_type_k / cache_type_v.
Also expand the cache_type_k / cache_type_v table rows in
advanced/model-configuration.md to spell out the accepted llama.cpp
quantization values and note that these fields apply to all
llama.cpp-family backends, not just vLLM.
* feat(turboquant): patch ggml-rpc GGML_OP_COUNT assertion
The fork adds new GGML ops bringing GGML_OP_COUNT to 97, but
ggml/include/ggml-rpc.h static-asserts it equals 96, breaking
the GGML_RPC=ON build paths (turboquant-grpc / turboquant-rpc-server).
Carry a one-line patch that updates the expected count so the
assertion holds. Drop this patch whenever the fork fixes it upstream.
* feat(turboquant): allow turbo* KV-cache types and exercise them in e2e
The shared backend/cpp/llama-cpp/grpc-server.cpp carries its own
allow-list of accepted KV-cache types (kv_cache_types[]) and rejects
anything outside it before the value reaches llama.cpp's parser. That
list only contains the standard llama.cpp types — turbo2/turbo3/turbo4
would throw "Unsupported cache type" at LoadModel time, meaning
nothing the LocalAI gRPC layer accepted was actually fork-specific.
Add a build-time augmentation step (patch-grpc-server.sh, called from
the turboquant wrapper Makefile) that inserts GGML_TYPE_TURBO2_0/3_0/4_0
into the allow-list of the *copied* grpc-server.cpp under
turboquant-<flavor>-build/. The original file under backend/cpp/llama-cpp/
is never touched, so the stock llama-cpp build keeps compiling against
vanilla upstream which has no notion of those enum values.
Switch test-extra-backend-turboquant to set
BACKEND_TEST_CACHE_TYPE_K=turbo3 / _V=turbo3 so the e2e gRPC suite
actually runs the fork's TurboQuant KV-cache code paths (turbo3 also
auto-enables flash_attention in the fork). Picking q8_0 here would
only re-test the standard llama.cpp path that the upstream llama-cpp
backend already covers.
Refresh the docs (text-generation.md + model-configuration.md) to
list turbo2/turbo3/turbo4 explicitly and call out that you only get
the TurboQuant code path with this backend + a turbo* cache type.
* fix(turboquant): rewrite patch-grpc-server.sh in awk, not python3
The builder image (ubuntu:24.04 stage-2 in Dockerfile.turboquant)
does not install python3, so the python-based augmentation step
errored with `python3: command not found` at make time. Switch to
awk, which ships in coreutils and is already available everywhere
the rest of the wrapper Makefile runs.
* Apply suggestion from @mudler
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@users.noreply.github.com>
---------
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-04-14 23:25:04 +00:00
BACKEND_TEST_CACHE_TYPE_K = " $$ BACKEND_TEST_CACHE_TYPE_K " \
BACKEND_TEST_CACHE_TYPE_V = " $$ BACKEND_TEST_CACHE_TYPE_V " \
feat(face-recognition): add insightface/onnx backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis (#9480)
* feat(face-recognition): add insightface backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis
Adds face recognition as a new first-class capability in LocalAI via the
`insightface` Python backend, with a pluggable two-engine design so
non-commercial (insightface model packs) and commercial-safe
(OpenCV Zoo YuNet + SFace) models share the same gRPC/HTTP surface.
New gRPC RPCs (backend/backend.proto):
* FaceVerify(FaceVerifyRequest) returns FaceVerifyResponse
* FaceAnalyze(FaceAnalyzeRequest) returns FaceAnalyzeResponse
Existing Embedding and Detect RPCs are reused (face image in
PredictOptions.Images / DetectOptions.src) for face embedding and
face detection respectively.
New HTTP endpoints under /v1/face/:
* verify — 1:1 image pair same-person decision
* analyze — per-face age + gender (emotion/race reserved)
* register — 1:N enrollment; stores embedding in vector store
* identify — 1:N recognition; detect → embed → StoresFind
* forget — remove a registered face by opaque ID
Service layer (core/services/facerecognition/) introduces a
`Registry` interface with one in-memory `storeRegistry` impl backed
by LocalAI's existing local-store gRPC vector backend. HTTP handlers
depend on the interface, not on StoresSet/StoresFind directly, so a
persistent PostgreSQL/pgvector implementation can be slotted in via a
single constructor change in core/application (TODO marker in the
package doc).
New usecase flag FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION; insightface is also wired
into FLAG_DETECTION so /v1/detection works for face bounding boxes.
Gallery (backend/index.yaml) ships three entries:
* insightface-buffalo-l — SCRFD-10GF + ArcFace R50 + genderage
(~326MB pre-baked; non-commercial research use only)
* insightface-opencv — YuNet + SFace (~40MB pre-baked; Apache 2.0)
* insightface-buffalo-s — SCRFD-500MF + MBF (runtime download; non-commercial)
Python backend (backend/python/insightface/):
* engines.py — FaceEngine protocol with InsightFaceEngine and
OnnxDirectEngine; resolves model paths relative to the backend
directory so the same gallery config works in docker-scratch and
in the e2e-backends rootfs-extraction harness.
* backend.py — gRPC servicer implementing Health, LoadModel, Status,
Embedding, Detect, FaceVerify, FaceAnalyze.
* install.sh — pre-bakes buffalo_l + OpenCV YuNet/SFace inside the
backend directory so first-run is offline-clean (the final scratch
image only preserves files under /<backend>/).
* test.py — parametrized unit tests over both engines.
Tests:
* Registry unit tests (go test -race ./core/services/facerecognition/...)
— in-memory fake grpc.Backend, table-driven, covers register/
identify/forget/error paths + concurrent access.
* tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go extended with face caps
(face_detect, face_embed, face_verify, face_analyze); relative
ordering + configurable verifyCeiling per engine.
* Makefile targets: test-extra-backend-insightface-buffalo-l,
-opencv, and the -all aggregate.
* CI: .github/workflows/test-extra.yml gains tests-insightface-grpc,
auto-triggered by changes under backend/python/insightface/.
Docs:
* docs/content/features/face-recognition.md — feature page with
license table, quickstart (defaults to the commercial-safe model),
models matrix, API reference, 1:N workflow, storage caveats.
* Cross-refs in object-detection.md, stores.md, embeddings.md, and
whats-new.md.
* Contributor README at backend/python/insightface/README.md.
Verified end-to-end:
* buffalo_l: 6/6 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed,
face_verify, face_analyze).
* opencv: 5/5 specs (same minus face_analyze — SFace has no
demographic head; correctly skipped via BACKEND_TEST_CAPS).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): move engine selection to model gallery, collapse backend entries
The previous commit put engine/model_pack options on backend gallery
entries (`backend/index.yaml`). That was wrong — `GalleryBackend`
(core/gallery/backend_types.go:32) has no `options` field, so the
YAML decoder silently dropped those keys and all three "different
insightface-*" backend entries resolved to the same container image
with no distinguishing configuration.
Correct split:
* `backend/index.yaml` now has ONE `insightface` backend entry
shipping the CPU + CUDA 12 container images. The Python backend
bundles both the non-commercial insightface model packs
(buffalo_l / buffalo_s) and the commercial-safe OpenCV Zoo
weights (YuNet + SFace); the active engine is selected at
LoadModel time via `options: ["engine:..."]`.
* `gallery/index.yaml` gains three model entries —
`insightface-buffalo-l`, `insightface-opencv`,
`insightface-buffalo-s` — each setting the appropriate
`overrides.backend` + `overrides.options` so installing one
actually gives the user the intended engine. This matches how
`rfdetr-base` lives in the model gallery against the `rfdetr`
backend.
The earlier e2e tests passed despite this bug because the Makefile
targets pass `BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS` directly to LoadModel via gRPC,
bypassing any gallery resolution entirely. No code changes needed.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): cover all supported models in the gallery + drop weight baking
Follows up on the model-gallery split: adds entries for every model
configuration either engine actually supports, and switches weight
delivery from image-baked to LocalAI's standard gallery mechanism.
Gallery now has seven `insightface-*` model entries (gallery/index.yaml):
insightface (family) — non-commercial research use
• buffalo-l (326MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet50 + genderage, default
• buffalo-m (313MB) — SCRFD-2.5GF + ResNet50 + genderage
• buffalo-s (159MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF + genderage
• buffalo-sc (16MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF, recognition only
(no landmarks, no demographics — analyze
returns empty attributes)
• antelopev2 (407MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet100@Glint360K + genderage
OpenCV Zoo family — Apache 2.0 commercial-safe
• opencv — YuNet + SFace fp32 (~40MB)
• opencv-int8 — YuNet + SFace int8 (~12MB, ~3x smaller, faster on CPU)
Model weights are no longer baked into the backend image. The image
now ships only the Python runtime + libraries (~275MB content size,
~1.18GB disk vs ~1.21GB when weights were baked). Weights flow through
LocalAI's gallery mechanism:
* OpenCV variants list `files:` with ONNX URIs + SHA-256, so
`local-ai models install insightface-opencv` pulls them into the
models directory exactly like any other gallery-managed model.
* insightface packs (upstream distributes .zip archives only, not
individual ONNX files) auto-download on first LoadModel via
FaceAnalysis' built-in machinery, rooted at the LocalAI models
directory so they live alongside everything else — same pattern
`rfdetr` uses with `inference.get_model()`.
Backend changes (backend/python/insightface/):
* backend.py — LoadModel propagates `ModelOptions.ModelPath` (the
LocalAI models directory) to engines via a `_model_dir` hint.
This replaces the earlier ModelFile-dirname approach; ModelPath
is the canonical "models directory" variable set by the Go loader
(pkg/model/initializers.go:144) and is always populated.
* engines.py::_resolve_model_path — picks up `model_dir` and searches
it (plus basename-in-model-dir) before falling back to the dev
script-dir. This is how OnnxDirectEngine finds gallery-downloaded
YuNet/SFace files by filename only.
* engines.py::_flatten_insightface_pack — new helper that works
around an upstream packaging inconsistency: buffalo_l/s/sc zips
expand flat, but buffalo_m and antelopev2 zips wrap their ONNX
files in a redundant `<name>/` directory. insightface's own
loader looks one level too shallow and fails. We call
`ensure_available()` explicitly, flatten if nested, then hand to
FaceAnalysis.
* engines.py::InsightFaceEngine.prepare — root-resolution order now
includes the `_model_dir` hint so packs download into the LocalAI
models directory by default.
* install.sh — no longer pre-downloads any weights. Everything is
gallery-managed now.
* smoke.py (new) — parametrized smoke test that iterates over every
gallery configuration, simulating the LocalAI install flow
(creates a models dir, fetches OpenCV files with checksum
verification, lets insightface auto-download its packs), then
runs detect + embed + verify (+ analyze where supported) through
the in-process BackendServicer.
* test.py — OnnxDirectEngineTest no longer hardcodes `/models/opencv/`
paths; downloads ONNX files to a temp dir at setUpClass time and
passes ModelPath accordingly.
Registry change (core/services/facerecognition/store_registry.go):
* `dim=0` in NewStoreRegistry now means "accept whatever dimension
arrives" — needed because the backend supports 512-d ArcFace/MBF
and 128-d SFace via the same Registry. A non-zero dim still fails
fast with ErrDimensionMismatch.
* core/application plumbs `faceEmbeddingDim = 0`, explaining the
rationale in the comment.
Backend gallery description updated to reflect that the image carries
no weights — it's just Python + engines.
Smoke-tested all 7 configurations against the rebuilt image (with the
flatten fix applied), exit 0:
PASS: insightface-buffalo-l faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-sc faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-s faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-m faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-antelopev2 faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv-int8 faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
7/7 passed
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): pre-fetch OpenCV ONNX for e2e target; drop stale pre-baked claim
CI regression from the previous commit: I moved OpenCV Zoo weight
delivery to LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism, but the
test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv target was still passing
relative paths `detector_onnx:models/opencv/yunet.onnx` in
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS. The e2e suite drives LoadModel directly over
gRPC without going through the gallery, so those relative paths
resolved to nothing and OpenCV's ONNXImporter failed:
LoadModel failed: Failed to load face engine:
OpenCV(4.13.0) ... Can't read ONNX file: models/opencv/yunet.onnx
Fix: add an `insightface-opencv-models` prerequisite target that
fetches the two ONNX files (YuNet + SFace) to a deterministic host
cache at /tmp/localai-insightface-opencv-cache/, verifies SHA-256,
and skips the download on re-runs. The opencv test target depends on
it and passes absolute paths in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS, so the backend
finds the files via its normal absolute-path resolution branch.
Also refresh the buffalo_l comment: it no longer says "pre-baked"
(nothing is — the pack auto-downloads from upstream's GitHub release
on first LoadModel, same as in CI).
Locally verified: `make test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv` passes
5/5 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed, face_verify).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): add POST /v1/face/embed + correct /v1/embeddings docs
The docs promised that /v1/embeddings returns face vectors when you
send an image data-URI. That was never true: /v1/embeddings is
OpenAI-compatible and text-only by contract — its handler goes
through `core/backend/embeddings.go::ModelEmbedding`, which sets
`predictOptions.Embeddings = s` (a string of TEXT to embed) and never
populates `predictOptions.Images[]`. The Python backend's Embedding
gRPC method does handle Images[] (that's how /v1/face/register reaches
it internally via `backend.FaceEmbed`), but the HTTP embeddings
endpoint wasn't wired to populate it.
Rather than overload /v1/embeddings with image-vs-text detection —
messy, and the endpoint is OpenAI-compatible by design — add a
dedicated /v1/face/embed endpoint that wraps `backend.FaceEmbed`
(already used internally by /v1/face/register and /v1/face/identify).
Matches LocalAI's convention of a dedicated path per non-standard flow
(/v1/rerank, /v1/detection, /v1/face/verify etc.).
Response:
{
"embedding": [<dim> floats, L2-normed],
"dim": int, // 512 for ArcFace R50 / MBF, 128 for SFace
"model": "<name>"
}
Live-tested on the opencv engine: returns a 128-d L2-normalized vector
(sum(x^2) = 1.0000). Sentinel in docs updated to note /v1/embeddings
is text-only and point image users at /v1/face/embed instead.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(http): map malformed image input + gRPC status codes to proper 4xx
Image-input failures on LocalAI's single-image endpoints (/v1/detection,
/v1/face/{verify,analyze,embed,register,identify}) have historically
returned 500 — even when the client was the one who sent garbage.
Classic example: you POST an "image" that isn't a URL, isn't a
data-URI, and isn't a valid JPEG/PNG — the server shouldn't claim
that's its fault.
Two helpers land in core/http/endpoints/localai/images.go and every
single-image handler is switched over:
* decodeImageInput(s)
Wraps utils.GetContentURIAsBase64 and turns any failure
(invalid URL, not a data-URI, download error, etc.) into
echo.NewHTTPError(400, "invalid image input: ...").
* mapBackendError(err)
Inspects the gRPC status on a backend call error and maps:
INVALID_ARGUMENT → 400 Bad Request
NOT_FOUND → 404 Not Found
FAILED_PRECONDITION → 412 Precondition Failed
Unimplemented → 501 Not Implemented
All other codes fall through unchanged (still 500).
Before, my 1×1 PNG error-path test returned:
HTTP 500 "rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = failed to decode one or both images"
After:
HTTP 400 "failed to decode one or both images"
Scope-limited to the LocalAI single-image endpoints. The multi-modal
paths (middleware/request.go, openresponses/responses.go,
openai/realtime.go) intentionally log-and-skip individual media parts
when decoding fails — different design intent (graceful degradation
of a multi-part message), not a 400-worthy failure. Left untouched.
Live-verified: every error case in /tmp/face_errors.py now returns
4xx with a meaningful message; the "image with no face (1x1 PNG)"
case specifically went from 500 → 400.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* refactor(face-recognition): insightface packs go through gallery files:, drop FaceAnalysis
Follows up on the discovery that LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism
handles archives (zip, tar.gz, …) via mholt/archiver/v3 — the rhasspy
piper voices use exactly this pattern. Insightface packs are zip
archives, so we can now deliver them the same way every other
gallery-managed model gets delivered: declaratively, checksum-verified,
through LocalAI's standard download+extract pipeline.
Two changes:
1. Gallery (gallery/index.yaml) — every insightface-* entry gains a
`files:` list with the pack zip's URI + SHA-256. `local-ai models
install insightface-buffalo-l` now fetches the zip, verifies the
hash, and extracts it into the models directory. No more reliance
on insightface's library-internal `ensure_available()` auto-download
or its hardcoded `BASE_REPO_URL`.
2. InsightFaceEngine (backend/python/insightface/engines.py) — drops
the FaceAnalysis wrapper and drives insightface's `model_zoo`
directly. The ~50 lines FaceAnalysis provides — glob ONNX files,
route each through `model_zoo.get_model()`, build a
`{taskname: model}` dict, loop per-face at inference — are
reimplemented in `InsightFaceEngine`. The actual inference classes
(RetinaFace, ArcFaceONNX, Attribute, Landmark) are still
insightface's — we only replicate the glue, so drift risk against
upstream is minimal.
Why drop FaceAnalysis: it hard-codes a `<root>/models/<name>/*.onnx`
layout that doesn't match what LocalAI's zip extraction produces.
LocalAI unpacks archives flat into `<models_dir>`. Upstream packs
are inconsistent — buffalo_l/s/sc ship ONNX at the zip root (lands
at `<models_dir>/*.onnx`), buffalo_m/antelopev2 wrap in a redundant
`<name>/` dir (lands at `<models_dir>/<name>/*.onnx`). The new
`_locate_insightface_pack` helper searches both locations plus
legacy paths and returns whichever has ONNX files. Replaces the
earlier `_flatten_insightface_pack` helper (which tried to fight
FaceAnalysis's layout expectations; now we just find the files
wherever they are).
Net effect for users: install once via LocalAI's managed flow,
weights live alongside every other model, progress shows in the
jobs endpoint, no first-load network call. Same API surface,
cleaner plumbing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): CI's insightface e2e path needs the pack pre-fetched
The e2e suite drives LoadModel over gRPC without going through LocalAI's
gallery flow, so the engine's `_model_dir` option (normally populated
from ModelPath) is empty. Previously the insightface target relied on
FaceAnalysis auto-download to paper over this, but we dropped
FaceAnalysis in favor of direct model_zoo calls — so the buffalo_l
target started failing at LoadModel with "no insightface pack found".
Mirror the opencv target's pre-fetch pattern: download buffalo_sc.zip
(same SHA as the gallery entry), extract it on the host, and pass
`root:<dir>` so the engine locates the pack without needing
ModelPath. Switched to buffalo_sc (smallest pack, ~16MB) to keep CI
fast; it covers the same insightface engine code path as buffalo_l.
Face analyze cap dropped since buffalo_sc has no age/gender head.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* feat(face-recognition): surface face-recognition in advertised feature maps
The six /v1/face/* endpoints were missing from every place LocalAI
advertises its feature surface to clients:
* api_instructions — the machine-readable capability index at
GET /api/instructions. Added `face-recognition` as a dedicated
instruction area with an intro that calls out the in-memory
registry caveat and the /v1/face/embed vs /v1/embeddings split.
* auth/permissions — added FeatureFaceRecognition constant, routed
all six face endpoints through it so admins can gate them per-user
like any other API feature. Default ON (matches the other API
features).
* React UI capabilities — CAP_FACE_RECOGNITION symbol mapped to
FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION. Declared only for now; the Face page is a
follow-up (noted in the plan).
Instruction count bumped 9 → 10; test updated.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* docs(agents): capture advertising-surface steps in the endpoint guide
Before this change, adding a new /v1/* endpoint reliably missed one or
more of: the swagger @Tags annotation, the /api/instructions registry,
the auth RouteFeatureRegistry, and the React UI CAP_* symbol. The
endpoint would work but be invisible to API consumers, admins, and the
UI — and nothing in the existing docs said to look in those places.
Extend .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md with a new "Advertising
surfaces" section covering all four surfaces (swagger tags, /api/
instructions, capabilities.js, docs/), and expand the closing checklist
so it's impossible to ship a feature without visiting each one. Hoist a
one-liner reminder into AGENTS.md's Quick Reference so agents skim it
before diving in.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
2026-04-22 19:55:41 +00:00
BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_1_URL = " $$ BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_1_URL " \
BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_1_FILE = " $$ BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_1_FILE " \
BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_2_URL = " $$ BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_2_URL " \
BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_2_FILE = " $$ BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_2_FILE " \
BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_3_URL = " $$ BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_3_URL " \
BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_3_FILE = " $$ BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_3_FILE " \
BACKEND_TEST_VERIFY_DISTANCE_CEILING = " $$ BACKEND_TEST_VERIFY_DISTANCE_CEILING " \
feat(vllm): parity with llama.cpp backend (#9328)
* fix(schema): serialize ToolCallID and Reasoning in Messages.ToProto
The ToProto conversion was dropping tool_call_id and reasoning_content
even though both proto and Go fields existed, breaking multi-turn tool
calling and reasoning passthrough to backends.
* refactor(config): introduce backend hook system and migrate llama-cpp defaults
Adds RegisterBackendHook/runBackendHooks so each backend can register
default-filling functions that run during ModelConfig.SetDefaults().
Migrates the existing GGUF guessing logic into hooks_llamacpp.go,
registered for both 'llama-cpp' and the empty backend (auto-detect).
Removes the old guesser.go shim.
* feat(config): add vLLM parser defaults hook and importer auto-detection
Introduces parser_defaults.json mapping model families to vLLM
tool_parser/reasoning_parser names, with longest-pattern-first matching.
The vllmDefaults hook auto-fills tool_parser and reasoning_parser
options at load time for known families, while the VLLMImporter writes
the same values into generated YAML so users can review and edit them.
Adds tests covering MatchParserDefaults, hook registration via
SetDefaults, and the user-override behavior.
* feat(vllm): wire native tool/reasoning parsers + chat deltas + logprobs
- Use vLLM's ToolParserManager/ReasoningParserManager to extract structured
output (tool calls, reasoning content) instead of reimplementing parsing
- Convert proto Messages to dicts and pass tools to apply_chat_template
- Emit ChatDelta with content/reasoning_content/tool_calls in Reply
- Extract prompt_tokens, completion_tokens, and logprobs from output
- Replace boolean GuidedDecoding with proper GuidedDecodingParams from Grammar
- Add TokenizeString and Free RPC methods
- Fix missing `time` import used by load_video()
* feat(vllm): CPU support + shared utils + vllm-omni feature parity
- Split vllm install per acceleration: move generic `vllm` out of
requirements-after.txt into per-profile after files (cublas12, hipblas,
intel) and add CPU wheel URL for cpu-after.txt
- requirements-cpu.txt now pulls torch==2.7.0+cpu from PyTorch CPU index
- backend/index.yaml: register cpu-vllm / cpu-vllm-development variants
- New backend/python/common/vllm_utils.py: shared parse_options,
messages_to_dicts, setup_parsers helpers (used by both vllm backends)
- vllm-omni: replace hardcoded chat template with tokenizer.apply_chat_template,
wire native parsers via shared utils, emit ChatDelta with token counts,
add TokenizeString and Free RPCs, detect CPU and set VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE
- Add test_cpu_inference.py: standalone script to validate CPU build with
a small model (Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct)
* fix(vllm): CPU build compatibility with vllm 0.14.1
Validated end-to-end on CPU with Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct (LoadModel, Predict,
TokenizeString, Free all working).
- requirements-cpu-after.txt: pin vllm to 0.14.1+cpu (pre-built wheel from
GitHub releases) for x86_64 and aarch64. vllm 0.14.1 is the newest CPU
wheel whose torch dependency resolves against published PyTorch builds
(torch==2.9.1+cpu). Later vllm CPU wheels currently require
torch==2.10.0+cpu which is only available on the PyTorch test channel
with incompatible torchvision.
- requirements-cpu.txt: bump torch to 2.9.1+cpu, add torchvision/torchaudio
so uv resolves them consistently from the PyTorch CPU index.
- install.sh: add --index-strategy=unsafe-best-match for CPU builds so uv
can mix the PyTorch index and PyPI for transitive deps (matches the
existing intel profile behaviour).
- backend.py LoadModel: vllm >= 0.14 removed AsyncLLMEngine.get_model_config
so the old code path errored out with AttributeError on model load.
Switch to the new get_tokenizer()/tokenizer accessor with a fallback
to building the tokenizer directly from request.Model.
* fix(vllm): tool parser constructor compat + e2e tool calling test
Concrete vLLM tool parsers override the abstract base's __init__ and
drop the tools kwarg (e.g. Hermes2ProToolParser only takes tokenizer).
Instantiating with tools= raised TypeError which was silently caught,
leaving chat_deltas.tool_calls empty.
Retry the constructor without the tools kwarg on TypeError — tools
aren't required by these parsers since extract_tool_calls finds tool
syntax in the raw model output directly.
Validated with Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct + hermes parser on CPU:
the backend correctly returns ToolCallDelta{name='get_weather',
arguments='{"location": "Paris, France"}'} in ChatDelta.
test_tool_calls.py is a standalone smoke test that spawns the gRPC
backend, sends a chat completion with tools, and asserts the response
contains a structured tool call.
* ci(backend): build cpu-vllm container image
Add the cpu-vllm variant to the backend container build matrix so the
image registered in backend/index.yaml (cpu-vllm / cpu-vllm-development)
is actually produced by CI.
Follows the same pattern as the other CPU python backends
(cpu-diffusers, cpu-chatterbox, etc.) with build-type='' and no CUDA.
backend_pr.yml auto-picks this up via its matrix filter from backend.yml.
* test(e2e-backends): add tools capability + HF model name support
Extends tests/e2e-backends to cover backends that:
- Resolve HuggingFace model ids natively (vllm, vllm-omni) instead of
loading a local file: BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME is passed verbatim as
ModelOptions.Model with no download/ModelFile.
- Parse tool calls into ChatDelta.tool_calls: new "tools" capability
sends a Predict with a get_weather function definition and asserts
the Reply contains a matching ToolCallDelta. Uses UseTokenizerTemplate
with OpenAI-style Messages so the backend can wire tools into the
model's chat template.
- Need backend-specific Options[]: BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS lets a test set
e.g. "tool_parser:hermes,reasoning_parser:qwen3" at LoadModel time.
Adds make target test-extra-backend-vllm that:
- docker-build-vllm
- loads Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
- runs health,load,predict,stream,tools with tool_parser:hermes
Drops backend/python/vllm/test_{cpu_inference,tool_calls}.py — those
standalone scripts were scaffolding used while bringing up the Python
backend; the e2e-backends harness now covers the same ground uniformly
alongside llama-cpp and ik-llama-cpp.
* ci(test-extra): run vllm e2e tests on CPU
Adds tests-vllm-grpc to the test-extra workflow, mirroring the
llama-cpp and ik-llama-cpp gRPC jobs. Triggers when files under
backend/python/vllm/ change (or on run-all), builds the local-ai
vllm container image, and runs the tests/e2e-backends harness with
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME=Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct, tool_parser:hermes,
and the tools capability enabled.
Uses ubuntu-latest (no GPU) — vllm runs on CPU via the cpu-vllm
wheel we pinned in requirements-cpu-after.txt. Frees disk space
before the build since the docker image + torch + vllm wheel is
sizeable.
* fix(vllm): build from source on CI to avoid SIGILL on prebuilt wheel
The prebuilt vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel from GitHub releases is compiled with
SIMD instructions (AVX-512 VNNI/BF16 or AMX-BF16) that not every CPU
supports. GitHub Actions ubuntu-latest runners SIGILL when vllm spawns
the model_executor.models.registry subprocess for introspection, so
LoadModel never reaches the actual inference path.
- install.sh: when FROM_SOURCE=true on a CPU build, temporarily hide
requirements-cpu-after.txt so installRequirements installs the base
deps + torch CPU without pulling the prebuilt wheel, then clone vllm
and compile it with VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=cpu. The resulting binaries
target the host's actual CPU.
- backend/Dockerfile.python: accept a FROM_SOURCE build-arg and expose
it as an ENV so install.sh sees it during `make`.
- Makefile docker-build-backend: forward FROM_SOURCE as --build-arg
when set, so backends that need source builds can opt in.
- Makefile test-extra-backend-vllm: call docker-build-vllm via a
recursive $(MAKE) invocation so FROM_SOURCE flows through.
- .github/workflows/test-extra.yml: set FROM_SOURCE=true on the
tests-vllm-grpc job. Slower but reliable — the prebuilt wheel only
works on hosts that share the build-time SIMD baseline.
Answers 'did you test locally?': yes, end-to-end on my local machine
with the prebuilt wheel (CPU supports AVX-512 VNNI). The CI runner CPU
gap was not covered locally — this commit plugs that gap.
* ci(vllm): use bigger-runner instead of source build
The prebuilt vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel requires SIMD instructions (AVX-512
VNNI/BF16) that stock ubuntu-latest GitHub runners don't support —
vllm.model_executor.models.registry SIGILLs on import during LoadModel.
Source compilation works but takes 30-40 minutes per CI run, which is
too slow for an e2e smoke test. Instead, switch tests-vllm-grpc to the
bigger-runner self-hosted label (already used by backend.yml for the
llama-cpp CUDA build) — that hardware has the required SIMD baseline
and the prebuilt wheel runs cleanly.
FROM_SOURCE=true is kept as an opt-in escape hatch:
- install.sh still has the CPU source-build path for hosts that need it
- backend/Dockerfile.python still declares the ARG + ENV
- Makefile docker-build-backend still forwards the build-arg when set
Default CI path uses the fast prebuilt wheel; source build can be
re-enabled by exporting FROM_SOURCE=true in the environment.
* ci(vllm): install make + build deps on bigger-runner
bigger-runner is a bare self-hosted runner used by backend.yml for
docker image builds — it has docker but not the usual ubuntu-latest
toolchain. The make-based test target needs make, build-essential
(cgo in 'go test'), and curl/unzip (the Makefile protoc target
downloads protoc from github releases).
protoc-gen-go and protoc-gen-go-grpc come via 'go install' in the
install-go-tools target, which setup-go makes possible.
* ci(vllm): install libnuma1 + libgomp1 on bigger-runner
The vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel ships a _C C++ extension that dlopens
libnuma.so.1 at import time. When the runner host doesn't have it,
the extension silently fails to register its torch ops, so
EngineCore crashes on init_device with:
AttributeError: '_OpNamespace' '_C_utils' object has no attribute
'init_cpu_threads_env'
Also add libgomp1 (OpenMP runtime, used by torch CPU kernels) to be
safe on stripped-down runners.
* feat(vllm): bundle libnuma/libgomp via package.sh
The vllm CPU wheel ships a _C extension that dlopens libnuma.so.1 at
import time; torch's CPU kernels in turn use libgomp.so.1 (OpenMP).
Without these on the host, vllm._C silently fails to register its
torch ops and EngineCore crashes with:
AttributeError: '_OpNamespace' '_C_utils' object has no attribute
'init_cpu_threads_env'
Rather than asking every user to install libnuma1/libgomp1 on their
host (or every LocalAI base image to ship them), bundle them into
the backend image itself — same pattern fish-speech and the GPU libs
already use. libbackend.sh adds ${EDIR}/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at
run time so the bundled copies are picked up automatically.
- backend/python/vllm/package.sh (new): copies libnuma.so.1 and
libgomp.so.1 from the builder's multilib paths into ${BACKEND}/lib,
preserving soname symlinks. Runs during Dockerfile.python's
'Run backend-specific packaging' step (which already invokes
package.sh if present).
- backend/Dockerfile.python: install libnuma1 + libgomp1 in the
builder stage so package.sh has something to copy (the Ubuntu
base image otherwise only has libgomp in the gcc dep chain).
- test-extra.yml: drop the workaround that installed these libs on
the runner host — with the backend image self-contained, the
runner no longer needs them, and the test now exercises the
packaging path end-to-end the way a production host would.
* ci(vllm): disable tests-vllm-grpc job (heterogeneous runners)
Both ubuntu-latest and bigger-runner have inconsistent CPU baselines:
some instances support the AVX-512 VNNI/BF16 instructions the prebuilt
vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel was compiled with, others SIGILL on import of
vllm.model_executor.models.registry. The libnuma packaging fix doesn't
help when the wheel itself can't be loaded.
FROM_SOURCE=true compiles vllm against the actual host CPU and works
everywhere, but takes 30-50 minutes per run — too slow for a smoke
test on every PR.
Comment out the job for now. The test itself is intact and passes
locally; run it via 'make test-extra-backend-vllm' on a host with the
required SIMD baseline. Re-enable when:
- we have a self-hosted runner label with guaranteed AVX-512 VNNI/BF16, or
- vllm publishes a CPU wheel with a wider baseline, or
- we set up a docker layer cache that makes FROM_SOURCE acceptable
The detect-changes vllm output, the test harness changes (tests/
e2e-backends + tools cap), the make target (test-extra-backend-vllm),
the package.sh and the Dockerfile/install.sh plumbing all stay in
place.
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go test -v -timeout 30m ./tests/e2e-backends/...
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## Convenience wrappers: build the image, then exercise it.
test-extra-backend-llama-cpp : docker -build -llama -cpp
refactor(tests): split app_test.go, move real-backend coverage to e2e-backends
core/http/app_test.go had grown to 1495 lines exercising three concerns at
once: HTTP-layer integration, real-backend inference (llama-gguf, tts,
stablediffusion, transformers embeddings, whisper), and service logic that
already has unit-level coverage. Each PR paid for 6 backend builds plus
real-model downloads to satisfy a single suite.
Reorg per layer:
- app_test.go (1495 -> 1003 lines) drives the mock-backend binary only.
Kept: auth, routing, gallery API, file:// import, /system, agent-jobs
HTTP plumbing, config-file model loading. Deleted real-inference specs
(llama-gguf chat, ggml completions/streaming, logprobs, logit_bias,
transcription, embeddings, External-gRPC, Stores duplicate, Model gallery
Context). Lifted Agent Jobs out of the deleted Stores Context.
- tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go gains logprobs, logit_bias, and
no-first-token-dup specs (the latter folded into PredictStream). Two
new caps gate them so non-LLM backends opt out.
- tests/e2e-aio/e2e_test.go gains a streaming smoke under Context("text")
to catch container-level streaming regressions.
- tests/models_fixtures/ removed; all fixtures referenced testmodel.ggml.
app_test.go now writes per-Context inline mock-model YAMLs.
CI:
- test.yml + tests-e2e.yml gain paths-ignore (docs/, examples/, *.md,
backend/) so docs and backend-only PRs skip them. test.yml drops the
6-backend Build step plus TRANSFORMER_BACKEND/GO_TAGS=tts; tests-apple
drops the llama-cpp-darwin build.
- New tests-aio.yml runs the AIO container nightly + on workflow_dispatch
+ master/tags. The tests-e2e-container job moved out of test.yml so PRs
no longer pay AIO cost.
- New tests-llama-cpp-smoke job in test-extra.yml runs on every PR with
no detect-changes gate; pulls quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai-backends:
master-cpu-llama-cpp (no build on PR) and exercises predict/stream/
logprobs/logit_bias against Qwen3-0.6B. This is the PR-acceptance
real-backend gate after AIO moved to nightly. The path-gated heavy
test-extra-backend-llama-cpp wrapper appends the same caps so it
exercises the moved specs when the backend actually changes.
Makefile:
- Deleted test-models/testmodel.ggml (the wget chain), test-llama-gguf,
test-tts, test-stablediffusion, test-realtime-models. test target
drops --label-filter, HUGGINGFACE_GRPC, TRANSFORMER_BACKEND, TEST_DIR,
FIXTURES, CONFIG_FILE, MODELS_PATH, BACKENDS_PATH; depends on
build-mock-backend. test-stores keeps a focused entry point and depends
on backends/local-store. clean-tests also clears the mock-backend
binary.
Net per typical Go-side PR: ~25min (6 backend builds + tests + AIO) +
~8min e2e drops to ~5min mock-backend test + ~8min e2e + ~5-10min
llama-cpp-smoke (image pulled). Docs and backend-only PRs skip the
always-on workflows entirely.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7 [Edit] [Write] [Bash]
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BACKEND_IMAGE = local-ai-backend:llama-cpp \
BACKEND_TEST_CAPS = health,load,predict,stream,logprobs,logit_bias \
$( MAKE) test-extra-backend
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test-extra-backend-ik-llama-cpp : docker -build -ik -llama -cpp
BACKEND_IMAGE = local-ai-backend:ik-llama-cpp $( MAKE) test-extra-backend
feat(backend): add turboquant llama.cpp-fork backend (#9355)
* feat(backend): add turboquant llama.cpp-fork backend
turboquant is a llama.cpp fork (TheTom/llama-cpp-turboquant, branch
feature/turboquant-kv-cache) that adds a TurboQuant KV-cache scheme.
It ships as a first-class backend reusing backend/cpp/llama-cpp sources
via a thin wrapper Makefile: each variant target copies ../llama-cpp
into a sibling build dir and invokes llama-cpp's build-llama-cpp-grpc-server
with LLAMA_REPO/LLAMA_VERSION overridden to point at the fork. No
duplication of grpc-server.cpp — upstream fixes flow through automatically.
Wires up the full matrix (CPU, CUDA 12/13, L4T, L4T-CUDA13, ROCm, SYCL
f32/f16, Vulkan) in backend.yml and the gallery entries in index.yaml,
adds a tests-turboquant-grpc e2e job driven by BACKEND_TEST_CACHE_TYPE_K/V=q8_0
to exercise the KV-cache config path (backend_test.go gains dedicated env
vars wired into ModelOptions.CacheTypeKey/Value — a generic improvement
usable by any llama.cpp-family backend), and registers a nightly auto-bump
PR in bump_deps.yaml tracking feature/turboquant-kv-cache.
scripts/changed-backends.js gets a special-case so edits to
backend/cpp/llama-cpp/ also retrigger the turboquant CI pipeline, since
the wrapper reuses those sources.
* feat(turboquant): carry upstream patches against fork API drift
turboquant branched from llama.cpp before upstream commit 66060008
("server: respect the ignore eos flag", #21203) which added the
`logit_bias_eog` field to `server_context_meta` and a matching
parameter to `server_task::params_from_json_cmpl`. The shared
backend/cpp/llama-cpp/grpc-server.cpp depends on that field, so
building it against the fork unmodified fails.
Cherry-pick that commit as a patch file under
backend/cpp/turboquant/patches/ and apply it to the cloned fork
sources via a new apply-patches.sh hook called from the wrapper
Makefile. Simplifies the build flow too: instead of hopping through
llama-cpp's build-llama-cpp-grpc-server indirection, the wrapper now
drives the copied Makefile directly (clone -> patch -> build).
Drop the corresponding patch whenever the fork catches up with
upstream — the build fails fast if a patch stops applying, which
is the signal to retire it.
* docs: add turboquant backend section + clarify cache_type_k/v
Document the new turboquant (llama.cpp fork with TurboQuant KV-cache)
backend alongside the existing llama-cpp / ik-llama-cpp sections in
features/text-generation.md: when to pick it, how to install it from
the gallery, and a YAML example showing backend: turboquant together
with cache_type_k / cache_type_v.
Also expand the cache_type_k / cache_type_v table rows in
advanced/model-configuration.md to spell out the accepted llama.cpp
quantization values and note that these fields apply to all
llama.cpp-family backends, not just vLLM.
* feat(turboquant): patch ggml-rpc GGML_OP_COUNT assertion
The fork adds new GGML ops bringing GGML_OP_COUNT to 97, but
ggml/include/ggml-rpc.h static-asserts it equals 96, breaking
the GGML_RPC=ON build paths (turboquant-grpc / turboquant-rpc-server).
Carry a one-line patch that updates the expected count so the
assertion holds. Drop this patch whenever the fork fixes it upstream.
* feat(turboquant): allow turbo* KV-cache types and exercise them in e2e
The shared backend/cpp/llama-cpp/grpc-server.cpp carries its own
allow-list of accepted KV-cache types (kv_cache_types[]) and rejects
anything outside it before the value reaches llama.cpp's parser. That
list only contains the standard llama.cpp types — turbo2/turbo3/turbo4
would throw "Unsupported cache type" at LoadModel time, meaning
nothing the LocalAI gRPC layer accepted was actually fork-specific.
Add a build-time augmentation step (patch-grpc-server.sh, called from
the turboquant wrapper Makefile) that inserts GGML_TYPE_TURBO2_0/3_0/4_0
into the allow-list of the *copied* grpc-server.cpp under
turboquant-<flavor>-build/. The original file under backend/cpp/llama-cpp/
is never touched, so the stock llama-cpp build keeps compiling against
vanilla upstream which has no notion of those enum values.
Switch test-extra-backend-turboquant to set
BACKEND_TEST_CACHE_TYPE_K=turbo3 / _V=turbo3 so the e2e gRPC suite
actually runs the fork's TurboQuant KV-cache code paths (turbo3 also
auto-enables flash_attention in the fork). Picking q8_0 here would
only re-test the standard llama.cpp path that the upstream llama-cpp
backend already covers.
Refresh the docs (text-generation.md + model-configuration.md) to
list turbo2/turbo3/turbo4 explicitly and call out that you only get
the TurboQuant code path with this backend + a turbo* cache type.
* fix(turboquant): rewrite patch-grpc-server.sh in awk, not python3
The builder image (ubuntu:24.04 stage-2 in Dockerfile.turboquant)
does not install python3, so the python-based augmentation step
errored with `python3: command not found` at make time. Switch to
awk, which ships in coreutils and is already available everywhere
the rest of the wrapper Makefile runs.
* Apply suggestion from @mudler
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@users.noreply.github.com>
---------
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@users.noreply.github.com>
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## turboquant: exercises the llama.cpp-fork backend with the fork's
## *TurboQuant-specific* KV-cache types (turbo3 for both K and V). turbo3
## is what makes this backend distinct from stock llama-cpp — picking q8_0
## here would only test the standard llama.cpp code path that the upstream
## llama-cpp backend already covers. The fork auto-enables flash_attention
## when turbo3/turbo4 are active, so we don't need to set it explicitly.
test-extra-backend-turboquant : docker -build -turboquant
BACKEND_IMAGE = local-ai-backend:turboquant \
BACKEND_TEST_CACHE_TYPE_K = q8_0 \
BACKEND_TEST_CACHE_TYPE_V = turbo3 \
$( MAKE) test-extra-backend
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## Audio transcription wrapper for the llama-cpp backend.
## Drives the new AudioTranscription / AudioTranscriptionStream RPCs against
## ggml-org/Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-GGUF (a small ASR model that requires its mmproj
## audio encoder companion). The audio fixture is a short public-domain
## "jfk.wav" clip ggml-org bundles with whisper.cpp's CI assets.
test-extra-backend-llama-cpp-transcription : docker -build -llama -cpp
BACKEND_IMAGE = local-ai-backend:llama-cpp \
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL = https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-Q8_0.gguf \
BACKEND_TEST_MMPROJ_URL = https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-GGUF/resolve/main/mmproj-Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-Q8_0.gguf \
BACKEND_TEST_AUDIO_URL = https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/raw/master/samples/jfk.wav \
BACKEND_TEST_CAPS = health,load,transcription \
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BACKEND_TEST_CTX_SIZE = 2048 \
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$( MAKE) test-extra-backend
feat(vllm): parity with llama.cpp backend (#9328)
* fix(schema): serialize ToolCallID and Reasoning in Messages.ToProto
The ToProto conversion was dropping tool_call_id and reasoning_content
even though both proto and Go fields existed, breaking multi-turn tool
calling and reasoning passthrough to backends.
* refactor(config): introduce backend hook system and migrate llama-cpp defaults
Adds RegisterBackendHook/runBackendHooks so each backend can register
default-filling functions that run during ModelConfig.SetDefaults().
Migrates the existing GGUF guessing logic into hooks_llamacpp.go,
registered for both 'llama-cpp' and the empty backend (auto-detect).
Removes the old guesser.go shim.
* feat(config): add vLLM parser defaults hook and importer auto-detection
Introduces parser_defaults.json mapping model families to vLLM
tool_parser/reasoning_parser names, with longest-pattern-first matching.
The vllmDefaults hook auto-fills tool_parser and reasoning_parser
options at load time for known families, while the VLLMImporter writes
the same values into generated YAML so users can review and edit them.
Adds tests covering MatchParserDefaults, hook registration via
SetDefaults, and the user-override behavior.
* feat(vllm): wire native tool/reasoning parsers + chat deltas + logprobs
- Use vLLM's ToolParserManager/ReasoningParserManager to extract structured
output (tool calls, reasoning content) instead of reimplementing parsing
- Convert proto Messages to dicts and pass tools to apply_chat_template
- Emit ChatDelta with content/reasoning_content/tool_calls in Reply
- Extract prompt_tokens, completion_tokens, and logprobs from output
- Replace boolean GuidedDecoding with proper GuidedDecodingParams from Grammar
- Add TokenizeString and Free RPC methods
- Fix missing `time` import used by load_video()
* feat(vllm): CPU support + shared utils + vllm-omni feature parity
- Split vllm install per acceleration: move generic `vllm` out of
requirements-after.txt into per-profile after files (cublas12, hipblas,
intel) and add CPU wheel URL for cpu-after.txt
- requirements-cpu.txt now pulls torch==2.7.0+cpu from PyTorch CPU index
- backend/index.yaml: register cpu-vllm / cpu-vllm-development variants
- New backend/python/common/vllm_utils.py: shared parse_options,
messages_to_dicts, setup_parsers helpers (used by both vllm backends)
- vllm-omni: replace hardcoded chat template with tokenizer.apply_chat_template,
wire native parsers via shared utils, emit ChatDelta with token counts,
add TokenizeString and Free RPCs, detect CPU and set VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE
- Add test_cpu_inference.py: standalone script to validate CPU build with
a small model (Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct)
* fix(vllm): CPU build compatibility with vllm 0.14.1
Validated end-to-end on CPU with Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct (LoadModel, Predict,
TokenizeString, Free all working).
- requirements-cpu-after.txt: pin vllm to 0.14.1+cpu (pre-built wheel from
GitHub releases) for x86_64 and aarch64. vllm 0.14.1 is the newest CPU
wheel whose torch dependency resolves against published PyTorch builds
(torch==2.9.1+cpu). Later vllm CPU wheels currently require
torch==2.10.0+cpu which is only available on the PyTorch test channel
with incompatible torchvision.
- requirements-cpu.txt: bump torch to 2.9.1+cpu, add torchvision/torchaudio
so uv resolves them consistently from the PyTorch CPU index.
- install.sh: add --index-strategy=unsafe-best-match for CPU builds so uv
can mix the PyTorch index and PyPI for transitive deps (matches the
existing intel profile behaviour).
- backend.py LoadModel: vllm >= 0.14 removed AsyncLLMEngine.get_model_config
so the old code path errored out with AttributeError on model load.
Switch to the new get_tokenizer()/tokenizer accessor with a fallback
to building the tokenizer directly from request.Model.
* fix(vllm): tool parser constructor compat + e2e tool calling test
Concrete vLLM tool parsers override the abstract base's __init__ and
drop the tools kwarg (e.g. Hermes2ProToolParser only takes tokenizer).
Instantiating with tools= raised TypeError which was silently caught,
leaving chat_deltas.tool_calls empty.
Retry the constructor without the tools kwarg on TypeError — tools
aren't required by these parsers since extract_tool_calls finds tool
syntax in the raw model output directly.
Validated with Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct + hermes parser on CPU:
the backend correctly returns ToolCallDelta{name='get_weather',
arguments='{"location": "Paris, France"}'} in ChatDelta.
test_tool_calls.py is a standalone smoke test that spawns the gRPC
backend, sends a chat completion with tools, and asserts the response
contains a structured tool call.
* ci(backend): build cpu-vllm container image
Add the cpu-vllm variant to the backend container build matrix so the
image registered in backend/index.yaml (cpu-vllm / cpu-vllm-development)
is actually produced by CI.
Follows the same pattern as the other CPU python backends
(cpu-diffusers, cpu-chatterbox, etc.) with build-type='' and no CUDA.
backend_pr.yml auto-picks this up via its matrix filter from backend.yml.
* test(e2e-backends): add tools capability + HF model name support
Extends tests/e2e-backends to cover backends that:
- Resolve HuggingFace model ids natively (vllm, vllm-omni) instead of
loading a local file: BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME is passed verbatim as
ModelOptions.Model with no download/ModelFile.
- Parse tool calls into ChatDelta.tool_calls: new "tools" capability
sends a Predict with a get_weather function definition and asserts
the Reply contains a matching ToolCallDelta. Uses UseTokenizerTemplate
with OpenAI-style Messages so the backend can wire tools into the
model's chat template.
- Need backend-specific Options[]: BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS lets a test set
e.g. "tool_parser:hermes,reasoning_parser:qwen3" at LoadModel time.
Adds make target test-extra-backend-vllm that:
- docker-build-vllm
- loads Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
- runs health,load,predict,stream,tools with tool_parser:hermes
Drops backend/python/vllm/test_{cpu_inference,tool_calls}.py — those
standalone scripts were scaffolding used while bringing up the Python
backend; the e2e-backends harness now covers the same ground uniformly
alongside llama-cpp and ik-llama-cpp.
* ci(test-extra): run vllm e2e tests on CPU
Adds tests-vllm-grpc to the test-extra workflow, mirroring the
llama-cpp and ik-llama-cpp gRPC jobs. Triggers when files under
backend/python/vllm/ change (or on run-all), builds the local-ai
vllm container image, and runs the tests/e2e-backends harness with
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME=Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct, tool_parser:hermes,
and the tools capability enabled.
Uses ubuntu-latest (no GPU) — vllm runs on CPU via the cpu-vllm
wheel we pinned in requirements-cpu-after.txt. Frees disk space
before the build since the docker image + torch + vllm wheel is
sizeable.
* fix(vllm): build from source on CI to avoid SIGILL on prebuilt wheel
The prebuilt vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel from GitHub releases is compiled with
SIMD instructions (AVX-512 VNNI/BF16 or AMX-BF16) that not every CPU
supports. GitHub Actions ubuntu-latest runners SIGILL when vllm spawns
the model_executor.models.registry subprocess for introspection, so
LoadModel never reaches the actual inference path.
- install.sh: when FROM_SOURCE=true on a CPU build, temporarily hide
requirements-cpu-after.txt so installRequirements installs the base
deps + torch CPU without pulling the prebuilt wheel, then clone vllm
and compile it with VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=cpu. The resulting binaries
target the host's actual CPU.
- backend/Dockerfile.python: accept a FROM_SOURCE build-arg and expose
it as an ENV so install.sh sees it during `make`.
- Makefile docker-build-backend: forward FROM_SOURCE as --build-arg
when set, so backends that need source builds can opt in.
- Makefile test-extra-backend-vllm: call docker-build-vllm via a
recursive $(MAKE) invocation so FROM_SOURCE flows through.
- .github/workflows/test-extra.yml: set FROM_SOURCE=true on the
tests-vllm-grpc job. Slower but reliable — the prebuilt wheel only
works on hosts that share the build-time SIMD baseline.
Answers 'did you test locally?': yes, end-to-end on my local machine
with the prebuilt wheel (CPU supports AVX-512 VNNI). The CI runner CPU
gap was not covered locally — this commit plugs that gap.
* ci(vllm): use bigger-runner instead of source build
The prebuilt vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel requires SIMD instructions (AVX-512
VNNI/BF16) that stock ubuntu-latest GitHub runners don't support —
vllm.model_executor.models.registry SIGILLs on import during LoadModel.
Source compilation works but takes 30-40 minutes per CI run, which is
too slow for an e2e smoke test. Instead, switch tests-vllm-grpc to the
bigger-runner self-hosted label (already used by backend.yml for the
llama-cpp CUDA build) — that hardware has the required SIMD baseline
and the prebuilt wheel runs cleanly.
FROM_SOURCE=true is kept as an opt-in escape hatch:
- install.sh still has the CPU source-build path for hosts that need it
- backend/Dockerfile.python still declares the ARG + ENV
- Makefile docker-build-backend still forwards the build-arg when set
Default CI path uses the fast prebuilt wheel; source build can be
re-enabled by exporting FROM_SOURCE=true in the environment.
* ci(vllm): install make + build deps on bigger-runner
bigger-runner is a bare self-hosted runner used by backend.yml for
docker image builds — it has docker but not the usual ubuntu-latest
toolchain. The make-based test target needs make, build-essential
(cgo in 'go test'), and curl/unzip (the Makefile protoc target
downloads protoc from github releases).
protoc-gen-go and protoc-gen-go-grpc come via 'go install' in the
install-go-tools target, which setup-go makes possible.
* ci(vllm): install libnuma1 + libgomp1 on bigger-runner
The vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel ships a _C C++ extension that dlopens
libnuma.so.1 at import time. When the runner host doesn't have it,
the extension silently fails to register its torch ops, so
EngineCore crashes on init_device with:
AttributeError: '_OpNamespace' '_C_utils' object has no attribute
'init_cpu_threads_env'
Also add libgomp1 (OpenMP runtime, used by torch CPU kernels) to be
safe on stripped-down runners.
* feat(vllm): bundle libnuma/libgomp via package.sh
The vllm CPU wheel ships a _C extension that dlopens libnuma.so.1 at
import time; torch's CPU kernels in turn use libgomp.so.1 (OpenMP).
Without these on the host, vllm._C silently fails to register its
torch ops and EngineCore crashes with:
AttributeError: '_OpNamespace' '_C_utils' object has no attribute
'init_cpu_threads_env'
Rather than asking every user to install libnuma1/libgomp1 on their
host (or every LocalAI base image to ship them), bundle them into
the backend image itself — same pattern fish-speech and the GPU libs
already use. libbackend.sh adds ${EDIR}/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at
run time so the bundled copies are picked up automatically.
- backend/python/vllm/package.sh (new): copies libnuma.so.1 and
libgomp.so.1 from the builder's multilib paths into ${BACKEND}/lib,
preserving soname symlinks. Runs during Dockerfile.python's
'Run backend-specific packaging' step (which already invokes
package.sh if present).
- backend/Dockerfile.python: install libnuma1 + libgomp1 in the
builder stage so package.sh has something to copy (the Ubuntu
base image otherwise only has libgomp in the gcc dep chain).
- test-extra.yml: drop the workaround that installed these libs on
the runner host — with the backend image self-contained, the
runner no longer needs them, and the test now exercises the
packaging path end-to-end the way a production host would.
* ci(vllm): disable tests-vllm-grpc job (heterogeneous runners)
Both ubuntu-latest and bigger-runner have inconsistent CPU baselines:
some instances support the AVX-512 VNNI/BF16 instructions the prebuilt
vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel was compiled with, others SIGILL on import of
vllm.model_executor.models.registry. The libnuma packaging fix doesn't
help when the wheel itself can't be loaded.
FROM_SOURCE=true compiles vllm against the actual host CPU and works
everywhere, but takes 30-50 minutes per run — too slow for a smoke
test on every PR.
Comment out the job for now. The test itself is intact and passes
locally; run it via 'make test-extra-backend-vllm' on a host with the
required SIMD baseline. Re-enable when:
- we have a self-hosted runner label with guaranteed AVX-512 VNNI/BF16, or
- vllm publishes a CPU wheel with a wider baseline, or
- we set up a docker layer cache that makes FROM_SOURCE acceptable
The detect-changes vllm output, the test harness changes (tests/
e2e-backends + tools cap), the make target (test-extra-backend-vllm),
the package.sh and the Dockerfile/install.sh plumbing all stay in
place.
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## vllm is resolved from a HuggingFace model id (no file download) and
## exercises Predict + streaming + tool-call extraction via the hermes parser.
## Requires a host CPU with the SIMD instructions the prebuilt vllm CPU
## wheel was compiled against (AVX-512 VNNI/BF16); older CPUs will SIGILL
## on import — on CI this means using the bigger-runner label.
test-extra-backend-vllm : docker -build -vllm
BACKEND_IMAGE = local-ai-backend:vllm \
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME = Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct \
BACKEND_TEST_CAPS = health,load,predict,stream,tools \
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS = tool_parser:hermes \
$( MAKE) test-extra-backend
feat(vllm, distributed): tensor parallel distributed workers (#9612)
* feat(vllm): build vllm from source for Intel XPU
Upstream publishes no XPU wheels for vllm. The Intel profile was
silently picking up a non-XPU wheel that imported but errored at
engine init, and several runtime deps (pillow, charset-normalizer,
chardet) were missing on Intel -- backend.py crashed at import time
before the gRPC server came up.
Switch the Intel profile to upstream's documented from-source
procedure (docs/getting_started/installation/gpu.xpu.inc.md in
vllm-project/vllm):
- Bump portable Python to 3.12 -- vllm-xpu-kernels ships only a
cp312 wheel.
- Source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh so vllm's CMake build sees
the dpcpp/sycl compiler from the oneapi-basekit base image.
- Hide requirements-intel-after.txt during installRequirements
(it used to 'pip install vllm'); install vllm's deps from a
fresh git clone of vllm via 'uv pip install -r
requirements/xpu.txt', swap stock triton for
triton-xpu==3.7.0, then 'VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=xpu uv pip install
--no-deps .'.
- requirements-intel.txt trimmed to LocalAI's direct deps
(accelerate / transformers / bitsandbytes); torch-xpu, vllm,
vllm_xpu_kernels and the rest come from upstream's xpu.txt
during the source build.
- requirements.txt: add pillow + charset-normalizer + chardet --
used by backend.py and missing on the Intel install profile.
- run.sh: 'set -x' so backend startup is visible in container
logs (the gRPC startup error path was previously opaque).
Also adds a one-line docs example for engine_args.attention_backend
under the vLLM section, since older XE-HPG GPUs (e.g. Arc A770)
need TRITON_ATTN to bypass the cutlass path in vllm_xpu_kernels.
Tested end-to-end on an Intel Arc A770 with Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
via LocalAI's /v1/chat/completions.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(vllm): add multi-node data-parallel follower worker
vLLM v1's multi-node story is one process per node sharing a DP
coordinator over ZMQ -- the head runs the API server with
data_parallel_size > 1 and followers run `vllm serve --headless ...`
with matching topology. Today LocalAI can already configure DP on the
head via the engine_args YAML map, but there's no way to bring up the
follower nodes -- so the head sits waiting for ranks that never
handshake.
Add `local-ai p2p-worker vllm`, mirroring MLXDistributed's structural
precedent (operator-launched, static config, no NATS placement). The
worker:
- Optionally self-registers with the frontend as an agent-type node
tagged `node.role=vllm-follower` so it's visible in the admin UI
and operators can scope ordinary models away via inverse
selectors.
- Resolves the platform-specific vllm backend via the gallery's
"vllm" meta-entry (cuda*, intel-vllm, rocm-vllm, ...).
- Runs vLLM as a child process so the heartbeat goroutine survives
until vLLM exits; forwards SIGINT/SIGTERM so vLLM can clean up its
ZMQ sockets before we tear down.
- Validates --headless + --start-rank 0 is rejected (rank 0 is the
head and must serve the API).
Backend run.sh dispatches `serve` as the first arg to vllm's own CLI
instead of LocalAI's backend.py gRPC server -- the follower speaks
ZMQ directly to the head, there is no LocalAI gRPC on the follower
side. Single-node usage is unchanged.
Generalises the gallery resolution helper into findBackendPath()
shared by MLX and vLLM workers; extracts ParseNodeLabels for the
comma-separated label parsing both use.
Ships with two compose recipes (`docker-compose.vllm-multinode.yaml`
for NVIDIA, `docker-compose.vllm-multinode.intel.yaml` for Intel
XPU/xccl) plus `tests/e2e/vllm-multinode/smoke.sh`. Both vendors are
supported (NCCL for CUDA/ROCm, xccl for XPU) but mixed-vendor DP is
not -- PyTorch's process group requires every rank to use the same
collective backend, and NCCL/xccl/gloo don't interoperate.
Out of scope (deferred): SmartRouter-driven placement of follower
ranks via NATS backend.install events, follower log streaming through
/api/backend-logs, tensor-parallel across nodes, disaggregated
prefill via KVTransferConfig.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* test(vllm): CPU-only end-to-end test for multi-node DP
Adds tests/e2e/vllm-multinode/, a Ginkgo + testcontainers-go suite
that brings up a head + headless follower from the locally-built
local-ai:tests image, bind-mounts the cpu-vllm backend extracted by
make extract-backend-vllm so it's seen as a system backend (no gallery
fetch, no registry server), and asserts a chat completion across both
DP ranks. New `make test-e2e-vllm-multinode` target wires the docker
build, backend extract, and ginkgo run together; BuildKit caches both
images so re-runs only rebuild what changed. Tagged Label("VLLMMultinode")
so the existing distributed suite isn't pulled along.
Two pre-existing bugs surfaced by the test:
1. extract-backend-% (Makefile) failed for every backend, because all
backend images end with `FROM scratch` and `docker create` rejects
an image with no CMD/ENTRYPOINT. Fixed by passing
--entrypoint=/run.sh -- the container is never started, only
docker-cp'd, so the path doesn't have to exist; we just need
anything that satisfies the daemon's create-time validation.
2. backend/python/vllm/run.sh's `serve` shortcut for the multi-node DP
follower exec'd ${EDIR}/venv/bin/vllm directly, but uv bakes an
absolute build-time shebang (`#!/vllm/venv/bin/python3`) that no
longer resolves once the backend is relocated to BackendsPath.
_makeVenvPortable's shebang rewriter only matches paths that
already point at ${EDIR}, so the original shebang slips through
unchanged. Fixed by exec-ing ${EDIR}/venv/bin/python with the script
as an argument -- Python ignores the script's shebang in that case.
The test fixture caps memory aggressively (max_model_len=512,
VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE=1, TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE=1) so two CPU engines
fit on a 32 GB box. TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE is currently mandatory for
cpu-vllm: torch._inductor's CPU-ISA probe runs even with
enforce_eager=True and needs g++ on PATH, which the LocalAI runtime
image doesn't ship -- to be addressed in a follow-up that bundles a
toolchain in the cpu-vllm backend.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(vllm): bundle a g++ toolchain in the cpu-vllm backend image
torch._inductor's CPU-ISA probe (`cpu_model_runner.py:65 "Warming up
model for the compilation"`) shells out to `g++` at vllm engine
startup, regardless of `enforce_eager=True` -- the eager flag only
disables CUDA graphs, not inductor's first-batch warmup. The LocalAI
CPU runtime image (Dockerfile, unconditional apt list) does not ship
build-essential, and the cpu-vllm backend image is `FROM scratch`,
so any non-trivial inference on cpu-vllm crashes with:
torch._inductor.exc.InductorError:
InvalidCxxCompiler: No working C++ compiler found in
torch._inductor.config.cpp.cxx: (None, 'g++')
Bundling the toolchain in the CPU runtime image would bloat every
non-vllm-CPU deployment and force a single GCC version on backends
that may want clang or a different version. So this lives in the
backend, gated to BUILD_TYPE=='' (the CPU profile).
`package.sh` snapshots g++ + binutils + cc1plus + libstdc++ + libc6
(runtime + dev) + the math libs cc1plus links (libisl/libmpc/libmpfr/
libjansson) into ${BACKEND}/toolchain/, mirroring /usr/... layout. The
unversioned binaries on Debian/Ubuntu are symlink chains pointing into
multiarch packages (`g++` -> `g++-13` -> `x86_64-linux-gnu-g++-13`,
the latter in `g++-13-x86-64-linux-gnu`), so the package list resolves
both the version and the arch-triplet variant. Symlinks /lib ->
usr/lib and /lib64 -> usr/lib64 are recreated under the toolchain
root because Ubuntu's UsrMerge keeps them at /, and ld scripts
(`libc.so`, `libm.so`) hardcode `/lib/...` paths that --sysroot
re-roots into the toolchain.
The unversioned `g++`/`gcc`/`cpp` symlinks are replaced with wrapper
shell scripts that resolve their own location at runtime and pass
`--sysroot=<toolchain>` and `-B <toolchain>/usr/lib/gcc/<triplet>/<ver>/`
to the underlying versioned binary. That's how torch's bare `g++ foo.cpp
-o foo` invocation finds cc1plus (-B), system headers (--sysroot), and
the bundled libstdc++ (--sysroot, --sysroot is recursive into linker).
`run.sh` adds the toolchain bin dir to PATH and the toolchain's
shared-lib dir to LD_LIBRARY_PATH -- everything else (header search,
linker search, executable search) is encapsulated in the wrappers.
No-op for non-CPU builds, the dir doesn't exist there.
The cpu-vllm image grows by ~217 MB. Tradeoff is acceptable -- cpu-vllm
is already a niche profile (few users compared to GPU vllm) and the
alternative is a backend that crashes at first inference unless the
operator manually sets TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE=1, which silently disables
all torch.compile optimizations.
Drops `TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE=1` from tests/e2e/vllm-multinode -- the
smoke now exercises the real compile path through the bundled toolchain.
Test runtime is +20s for the warmup compile, still <90s end to end.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* fix(vllm): scope jetson-ai-lab index to L4T-specific wheels via pyproject.toml
The L4T arm64 build resolves dependencies through pypi.jetson-ai-lab.io,
which hosts the L4T-specific torch / vllm / flash-attn wheels but also
transparently proxies the rest of PyPI through `/+f/<sha>/<filename>`
URLs. With `--extra-index-url` + `--index-strategy=unsafe-best-match`
uv would pick those proxy URLs for ordinary PyPI packages —
anthropic/openai/propcache/annotated-types — and fail when the proxy
503s. Master is hitting the same bug on its own l4t-vllm matrix entry.
Switch the l4t13 install path to a pyproject.toml that marks the
jetson-ai-lab index `explicit = true` and pins only torch, torchvision,
torchaudio, flash-attn, and vllm to it via [tool.uv.sources]. uv won't
consult the L4T mirror for anything else, so transitive deps fall back
to PyPI as the default index — no exposure to the proxy 503s.
`uv pip install -r requirements.txt` ignores [tool.uv.sources], so the
l4t13 branch in install.sh now invokes `uv pip install --requirement
pyproject.toml` directly, replacing the old requirements-l4t13*.txt
files. Other BUILD_PROFILEs continue using libbackend.sh's
installRequirements and never read pyproject.toml.
Local resolution test (x86_64, dry-run) confirms uv hits the L4T
index for torch and falls through to PyPI for everything else.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Read] [Edit] [Bash] [Write]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
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Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-05-05 22:22:50 +00:00
## vllm multi-node data-parallel smoke test. Runs LocalAI head + a
## `local-ai p2p-worker vllm` follower in docker compose against
## Qwen2.5-0.5B with data_parallel_size=2. Requires 2 NVIDIA GPUs and
## nvidia-container-runtime on the host — vLLM v1's DP coordinator is
## not viable on CPU so this cannot run in CI without GPU.
test-extra-backend-vllm-multinode :
./tests/e2e/vllm-multinode/smoke.sh
feat(backend): add tinygrad multimodal backend (experimental) (#9364)
* feat(backend): add tinygrad multimodal backend
Wire tinygrad as a new Python backend covering LLM text generation with
native tool-call extraction, embeddings, Stable Diffusion 1.x image
generation, and Whisper speech-to-text from a single self-contained
container.
Backend (`backend/python/tinygrad/`):
- `backend.py` gRPC servicer with LLM Predict/PredictStream (auto-detects
Llama / Qwen2 / Mistral architecture from `config.json`, supports
safetensors and GGUF), Embedding via mean-pooled last hidden state,
GenerateImage via the vendored SD1.x pipeline, AudioTranscription +
AudioTranscriptionStream via the vendored Whisper inference loop, plus
Tokenize / ModelMetadata / Status / Free.
- Vendored upstream model code under `vendor/` (MIT, headers preserved):
llama.py with an added `qkv_bias` flag for Qwen2-family bias support
and an `embed()` method that returns the last hidden state, plus
clip.py, unet.py, stable_diffusion.py (trimmed to drop the MLPerf
training branch that pulls `mlperf.initializers`), audio_helpers.py
and whisper.py (trimmed to drop the pyaudio listener).
- Pluggable tool-call parsers under `tool_parsers/`: hermes (Qwen2.5 /
Hermes), llama3_json (Llama 3.1+), qwen3_xml (Qwen 3), mistral
(Mistral / Mixtral). Auto-selected from model architecture or `Options`.
- `install.sh` pins Python 3.11.14 (tinygrad >=0.12 needs >=3.11; the
default portable python is 3.10).
- `package.sh` bundles libLLVM.so.1 + libedit/libtinfo/libgomp/libsndfile
into the scratch image. `run.sh` sets `CPU_LLVM=1` and `LLVM_PATH` so
tinygrad's CPU device uses the in-process libLLVM JIT instead of
shelling out to the missing `clang` binary.
- Local unit tests for Health and the four parsers in `test.py`.
Build wiring:
- Root `Makefile`: `.NOTPARALLEL`, `prepare-test-extra`, `test-extra`,
`BACKEND_TINYGRAD = tinygrad|python|.|false|true`,
docker-build-target eval, and `docker-build-backends` aggregator.
- `.github/workflows/backend.yml`: cpu / cuda12 / cuda13 build matrix
entries (mirrors the transformers backend placement).
- `backend/index.yaml`: `&tinygrad` meta + cpu/cuda12/cuda13 image
entries (latest + development).
E2E test wiring:
- `tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go` gains an `image` capability that
exercises GenerateImage and asserts a non-empty PNG is written to
`dst`. New `BACKEND_TEST_IMAGE_PROMPT` / `BACKEND_TEST_IMAGE_STEPS`
knobs.
- Five new make targets next to `test-extra-backend-vllm`:
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad` — Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct + hermes,
mirrors the vllm target 1:1 (5/9 specs in ~57s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-embeddings` — same model, embeddings
via LLM hidden state (3/9 in ~10s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-sd` — stable-diffusion-v1-5 mirror,
health/load/image (3/9 in ~10min, 4 diffusion steps on CPU).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-whisper` — openai/whisper-tiny.en
against jfk.wav from whisper.cpp samples (4/9 in ~49s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-all` aggregate.
All four targets land green on the first MVP pass: 15 specs total, 0
failures across LLM+tools, embeddings, image generation, and speech
transcription.
* refactor(tinygrad): collapse to a single backend image
tinygrad generates its own GPU kernels (PTX renderer for CUDA, the
autogen ctypes wrappers for HIP / Metal / WebGPU) and never links
against cuDNN, cuBLAS, or any toolkit-version-tied library. The only
runtime dependency that varies across hosts is the driver's libcuda.so.1
/ libamdhip64.so, which are injected into the container at run time by
the nvidia-container / rocm runtimes. So unlike torch- or vLLM-based
backends, there is no reason to ship per-CUDA-version images.
- Drop the cuda12-tinygrad and cuda13-tinygrad build-matrix entries
from .github/workflows/backend.yml. The sole remaining entry is
renamed to -tinygrad (from -cpu-tinygrad) since it is no longer
CPU-only.
- Collapse backend/index.yaml to a single meta + development pair.
The meta anchor carries the latest uri directly; the development
entry points at the master tag.
- run.sh picks the tinygrad device at launch time by probing
/usr/lib/... for libcuda.so.1 / libamdhip64.so. When libcuda is
visible we set CUDA=1 + CUDA_PTX=1 so tinygrad uses its own PTX
renderer (avoids any nvrtc/toolkit dependency); otherwise we fall
back to HIP or CLANG. CPU_LLVM=1 + LLVM_PATH keep the in-process
libLLVM JIT for the CLANG path.
- backend.py's _select_tinygrad_device() is trimmed to a CLANG-only
fallback since production device selection happens in run.sh.
Re-ran test-extra-backend-tinygrad after the change:
Ran 5 of 9 Specs in 56.541 seconds — 5 Passed, 0 Failed
2026-04-15 17:48:23 +00:00
## tinygrad mirrors the vllm target (same model, same caps, same parser) so
## the two backends are directly comparable. The LLM path covers Predict,
## streaming and native tool-call extraction. Companion targets below cover
## embeddings, Stable Diffusion and Whisper — run them individually or via
## the `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-all` aggregate.
test-extra-backend-tinygrad : docker -build -tinygrad
BACKEND_IMAGE = local-ai-backend:tinygrad \
2026-04-16 20:41:18 +00:00
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME = Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B \
feat(backend): add tinygrad multimodal backend (experimental) (#9364)
* feat(backend): add tinygrad multimodal backend
Wire tinygrad as a new Python backend covering LLM text generation with
native tool-call extraction, embeddings, Stable Diffusion 1.x image
generation, and Whisper speech-to-text from a single self-contained
container.
Backend (`backend/python/tinygrad/`):
- `backend.py` gRPC servicer with LLM Predict/PredictStream (auto-detects
Llama / Qwen2 / Mistral architecture from `config.json`, supports
safetensors and GGUF), Embedding via mean-pooled last hidden state,
GenerateImage via the vendored SD1.x pipeline, AudioTranscription +
AudioTranscriptionStream via the vendored Whisper inference loop, plus
Tokenize / ModelMetadata / Status / Free.
- Vendored upstream model code under `vendor/` (MIT, headers preserved):
llama.py with an added `qkv_bias` flag for Qwen2-family bias support
and an `embed()` method that returns the last hidden state, plus
clip.py, unet.py, stable_diffusion.py (trimmed to drop the MLPerf
training branch that pulls `mlperf.initializers`), audio_helpers.py
and whisper.py (trimmed to drop the pyaudio listener).
- Pluggable tool-call parsers under `tool_parsers/`: hermes (Qwen2.5 /
Hermes), llama3_json (Llama 3.1+), qwen3_xml (Qwen 3), mistral
(Mistral / Mixtral). Auto-selected from model architecture or `Options`.
- `install.sh` pins Python 3.11.14 (tinygrad >=0.12 needs >=3.11; the
default portable python is 3.10).
- `package.sh` bundles libLLVM.so.1 + libedit/libtinfo/libgomp/libsndfile
into the scratch image. `run.sh` sets `CPU_LLVM=1` and `LLVM_PATH` so
tinygrad's CPU device uses the in-process libLLVM JIT instead of
shelling out to the missing `clang` binary.
- Local unit tests for Health and the four parsers in `test.py`.
Build wiring:
- Root `Makefile`: `.NOTPARALLEL`, `prepare-test-extra`, `test-extra`,
`BACKEND_TINYGRAD = tinygrad|python|.|false|true`,
docker-build-target eval, and `docker-build-backends` aggregator.
- `.github/workflows/backend.yml`: cpu / cuda12 / cuda13 build matrix
entries (mirrors the transformers backend placement).
- `backend/index.yaml`: `&tinygrad` meta + cpu/cuda12/cuda13 image
entries (latest + development).
E2E test wiring:
- `tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go` gains an `image` capability that
exercises GenerateImage and asserts a non-empty PNG is written to
`dst`. New `BACKEND_TEST_IMAGE_PROMPT` / `BACKEND_TEST_IMAGE_STEPS`
knobs.
- Five new make targets next to `test-extra-backend-vllm`:
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad` — Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct + hermes,
mirrors the vllm target 1:1 (5/9 specs in ~57s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-embeddings` — same model, embeddings
via LLM hidden state (3/9 in ~10s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-sd` — stable-diffusion-v1-5 mirror,
health/load/image (3/9 in ~10min, 4 diffusion steps on CPU).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-whisper` — openai/whisper-tiny.en
against jfk.wav from whisper.cpp samples (4/9 in ~49s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-all` aggregate.
All four targets land green on the first MVP pass: 15 specs total, 0
failures across LLM+tools, embeddings, image generation, and speech
transcription.
* refactor(tinygrad): collapse to a single backend image
tinygrad generates its own GPU kernels (PTX renderer for CUDA, the
autogen ctypes wrappers for HIP / Metal / WebGPU) and never links
against cuDNN, cuBLAS, or any toolkit-version-tied library. The only
runtime dependency that varies across hosts is the driver's libcuda.so.1
/ libamdhip64.so, which are injected into the container at run time by
the nvidia-container / rocm runtimes. So unlike torch- or vLLM-based
backends, there is no reason to ship per-CUDA-version images.
- Drop the cuda12-tinygrad and cuda13-tinygrad build-matrix entries
from .github/workflows/backend.yml. The sole remaining entry is
renamed to -tinygrad (from -cpu-tinygrad) since it is no longer
CPU-only.
- Collapse backend/index.yaml to a single meta + development pair.
The meta anchor carries the latest uri directly; the development
entry points at the master tag.
- run.sh picks the tinygrad device at launch time by probing
/usr/lib/... for libcuda.so.1 / libamdhip64.so. When libcuda is
visible we set CUDA=1 + CUDA_PTX=1 so tinygrad uses its own PTX
renderer (avoids any nvrtc/toolkit dependency); otherwise we fall
back to HIP or CLANG. CPU_LLVM=1 + LLVM_PATH keep the in-process
libLLVM JIT for the CLANG path.
- backend.py's _select_tinygrad_device() is trimmed to a CLANG-only
fallback since production device selection happens in run.sh.
Re-ran test-extra-backend-tinygrad after the change:
Ran 5 of 9 Specs in 56.541 seconds — 5 Passed, 0 Failed
2026-04-15 17:48:23 +00:00
BACKEND_TEST_CAPS = health,load,predict,stream,tools \
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS = tool_parser:hermes \
$( MAKE) test-extra-backend
## tinygrad — embeddings via LLM last-hidden-state pooling. Reuses the same
2026-04-16 20:41:18 +00:00
## Qwen3-0.6B as the chat target so we don't need a separate BERT vendor;
## the Embedding RPC mean-pools and L2-normalizes the last-layer hidden
## state.
feat(backend): add tinygrad multimodal backend (experimental) (#9364)
* feat(backend): add tinygrad multimodal backend
Wire tinygrad as a new Python backend covering LLM text generation with
native tool-call extraction, embeddings, Stable Diffusion 1.x image
generation, and Whisper speech-to-text from a single self-contained
container.
Backend (`backend/python/tinygrad/`):
- `backend.py` gRPC servicer with LLM Predict/PredictStream (auto-detects
Llama / Qwen2 / Mistral architecture from `config.json`, supports
safetensors and GGUF), Embedding via mean-pooled last hidden state,
GenerateImage via the vendored SD1.x pipeline, AudioTranscription +
AudioTranscriptionStream via the vendored Whisper inference loop, plus
Tokenize / ModelMetadata / Status / Free.
- Vendored upstream model code under `vendor/` (MIT, headers preserved):
llama.py with an added `qkv_bias` flag for Qwen2-family bias support
and an `embed()` method that returns the last hidden state, plus
clip.py, unet.py, stable_diffusion.py (trimmed to drop the MLPerf
training branch that pulls `mlperf.initializers`), audio_helpers.py
and whisper.py (trimmed to drop the pyaudio listener).
- Pluggable tool-call parsers under `tool_parsers/`: hermes (Qwen2.5 /
Hermes), llama3_json (Llama 3.1+), qwen3_xml (Qwen 3), mistral
(Mistral / Mixtral). Auto-selected from model architecture or `Options`.
- `install.sh` pins Python 3.11.14 (tinygrad >=0.12 needs >=3.11; the
default portable python is 3.10).
- `package.sh` bundles libLLVM.so.1 + libedit/libtinfo/libgomp/libsndfile
into the scratch image. `run.sh` sets `CPU_LLVM=1` and `LLVM_PATH` so
tinygrad's CPU device uses the in-process libLLVM JIT instead of
shelling out to the missing `clang` binary.
- Local unit tests for Health and the four parsers in `test.py`.
Build wiring:
- Root `Makefile`: `.NOTPARALLEL`, `prepare-test-extra`, `test-extra`,
`BACKEND_TINYGRAD = tinygrad|python|.|false|true`,
docker-build-target eval, and `docker-build-backends` aggregator.
- `.github/workflows/backend.yml`: cpu / cuda12 / cuda13 build matrix
entries (mirrors the transformers backend placement).
- `backend/index.yaml`: `&tinygrad` meta + cpu/cuda12/cuda13 image
entries (latest + development).
E2E test wiring:
- `tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go` gains an `image` capability that
exercises GenerateImage and asserts a non-empty PNG is written to
`dst`. New `BACKEND_TEST_IMAGE_PROMPT` / `BACKEND_TEST_IMAGE_STEPS`
knobs.
- Five new make targets next to `test-extra-backend-vllm`:
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad` — Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct + hermes,
mirrors the vllm target 1:1 (5/9 specs in ~57s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-embeddings` — same model, embeddings
via LLM hidden state (3/9 in ~10s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-sd` — stable-diffusion-v1-5 mirror,
health/load/image (3/9 in ~10min, 4 diffusion steps on CPU).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-whisper` — openai/whisper-tiny.en
against jfk.wav from whisper.cpp samples (4/9 in ~49s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-all` aggregate.
All four targets land green on the first MVP pass: 15 specs total, 0
failures across LLM+tools, embeddings, image generation, and speech
transcription.
* refactor(tinygrad): collapse to a single backend image
tinygrad generates its own GPU kernels (PTX renderer for CUDA, the
autogen ctypes wrappers for HIP / Metal / WebGPU) and never links
against cuDNN, cuBLAS, or any toolkit-version-tied library. The only
runtime dependency that varies across hosts is the driver's libcuda.so.1
/ libamdhip64.so, which are injected into the container at run time by
the nvidia-container / rocm runtimes. So unlike torch- or vLLM-based
backends, there is no reason to ship per-CUDA-version images.
- Drop the cuda12-tinygrad and cuda13-tinygrad build-matrix entries
from .github/workflows/backend.yml. The sole remaining entry is
renamed to -tinygrad (from -cpu-tinygrad) since it is no longer
CPU-only.
- Collapse backend/index.yaml to a single meta + development pair.
The meta anchor carries the latest uri directly; the development
entry points at the master tag.
- run.sh picks the tinygrad device at launch time by probing
/usr/lib/... for libcuda.so.1 / libamdhip64.so. When libcuda is
visible we set CUDA=1 + CUDA_PTX=1 so tinygrad uses its own PTX
renderer (avoids any nvrtc/toolkit dependency); otherwise we fall
back to HIP or CLANG. CPU_LLVM=1 + LLVM_PATH keep the in-process
libLLVM JIT for the CLANG path.
- backend.py's _select_tinygrad_device() is trimmed to a CLANG-only
fallback since production device selection happens in run.sh.
Re-ran test-extra-backend-tinygrad after the change:
Ran 5 of 9 Specs in 56.541 seconds — 5 Passed, 0 Failed
2026-04-15 17:48:23 +00:00
test-extra-backend-tinygrad-embeddings : docker -build -tinygrad
BACKEND_IMAGE = local-ai-backend:tinygrad \
2026-04-16 20:41:18 +00:00
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME = Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B \
feat(backend): add tinygrad multimodal backend (experimental) (#9364)
* feat(backend): add tinygrad multimodal backend
Wire tinygrad as a new Python backend covering LLM text generation with
native tool-call extraction, embeddings, Stable Diffusion 1.x image
generation, and Whisper speech-to-text from a single self-contained
container.
Backend (`backend/python/tinygrad/`):
- `backend.py` gRPC servicer with LLM Predict/PredictStream (auto-detects
Llama / Qwen2 / Mistral architecture from `config.json`, supports
safetensors and GGUF), Embedding via mean-pooled last hidden state,
GenerateImage via the vendored SD1.x pipeline, AudioTranscription +
AudioTranscriptionStream via the vendored Whisper inference loop, plus
Tokenize / ModelMetadata / Status / Free.
- Vendored upstream model code under `vendor/` (MIT, headers preserved):
llama.py with an added `qkv_bias` flag for Qwen2-family bias support
and an `embed()` method that returns the last hidden state, plus
clip.py, unet.py, stable_diffusion.py (trimmed to drop the MLPerf
training branch that pulls `mlperf.initializers`), audio_helpers.py
and whisper.py (trimmed to drop the pyaudio listener).
- Pluggable tool-call parsers under `tool_parsers/`: hermes (Qwen2.5 /
Hermes), llama3_json (Llama 3.1+), qwen3_xml (Qwen 3), mistral
(Mistral / Mixtral). Auto-selected from model architecture or `Options`.
- `install.sh` pins Python 3.11.14 (tinygrad >=0.12 needs >=3.11; the
default portable python is 3.10).
- `package.sh` bundles libLLVM.so.1 + libedit/libtinfo/libgomp/libsndfile
into the scratch image. `run.sh` sets `CPU_LLVM=1` and `LLVM_PATH` so
tinygrad's CPU device uses the in-process libLLVM JIT instead of
shelling out to the missing `clang` binary.
- Local unit tests for Health and the four parsers in `test.py`.
Build wiring:
- Root `Makefile`: `.NOTPARALLEL`, `prepare-test-extra`, `test-extra`,
`BACKEND_TINYGRAD = tinygrad|python|.|false|true`,
docker-build-target eval, and `docker-build-backends` aggregator.
- `.github/workflows/backend.yml`: cpu / cuda12 / cuda13 build matrix
entries (mirrors the transformers backend placement).
- `backend/index.yaml`: `&tinygrad` meta + cpu/cuda12/cuda13 image
entries (latest + development).
E2E test wiring:
- `tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go` gains an `image` capability that
exercises GenerateImage and asserts a non-empty PNG is written to
`dst`. New `BACKEND_TEST_IMAGE_PROMPT` / `BACKEND_TEST_IMAGE_STEPS`
knobs.
- Five new make targets next to `test-extra-backend-vllm`:
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad` — Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct + hermes,
mirrors the vllm target 1:1 (5/9 specs in ~57s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-embeddings` — same model, embeddings
via LLM hidden state (3/9 in ~10s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-sd` — stable-diffusion-v1-5 mirror,
health/load/image (3/9 in ~10min, 4 diffusion steps on CPU).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-whisper` — openai/whisper-tiny.en
against jfk.wav from whisper.cpp samples (4/9 in ~49s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-all` aggregate.
All four targets land green on the first MVP pass: 15 specs total, 0
failures across LLM+tools, embeddings, image generation, and speech
transcription.
* refactor(tinygrad): collapse to a single backend image
tinygrad generates its own GPU kernels (PTX renderer for CUDA, the
autogen ctypes wrappers for HIP / Metal / WebGPU) and never links
against cuDNN, cuBLAS, or any toolkit-version-tied library. The only
runtime dependency that varies across hosts is the driver's libcuda.so.1
/ libamdhip64.so, which are injected into the container at run time by
the nvidia-container / rocm runtimes. So unlike torch- or vLLM-based
backends, there is no reason to ship per-CUDA-version images.
- Drop the cuda12-tinygrad and cuda13-tinygrad build-matrix entries
from .github/workflows/backend.yml. The sole remaining entry is
renamed to -tinygrad (from -cpu-tinygrad) since it is no longer
CPU-only.
- Collapse backend/index.yaml to a single meta + development pair.
The meta anchor carries the latest uri directly; the development
entry points at the master tag.
- run.sh picks the tinygrad device at launch time by probing
/usr/lib/... for libcuda.so.1 / libamdhip64.so. When libcuda is
visible we set CUDA=1 + CUDA_PTX=1 so tinygrad uses its own PTX
renderer (avoids any nvrtc/toolkit dependency); otherwise we fall
back to HIP or CLANG. CPU_LLVM=1 + LLVM_PATH keep the in-process
libLLVM JIT for the CLANG path.
- backend.py's _select_tinygrad_device() is trimmed to a CLANG-only
fallback since production device selection happens in run.sh.
Re-ran test-extra-backend-tinygrad after the change:
Ran 5 of 9 Specs in 56.541 seconds — 5 Passed, 0 Failed
2026-04-15 17:48:23 +00:00
BACKEND_TEST_CAPS = health,load,embeddings \
$( MAKE) test-extra-backend
## tinygrad — Stable Diffusion 1.5. The original CompVis/runwayml repos have
## been gated, so we use the community-maintained mirror at
## stable-diffusion-v1-5/stable-diffusion-v1-5 with the EMA-only pruned
## checkpoint (~4.3GB). Step count is kept low (4) so a CPU-only run finishes
## in a few minutes; bump BACKEND_TEST_IMAGE_STEPS for higher quality.
test-extra-backend-tinygrad-sd : docker -build -tinygrad
BACKEND_IMAGE = local-ai-backend:tinygrad \
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME = stable-diffusion-v1-5/stable-diffusion-v1-5 \
BACKEND_TEST_CAPS = health,load,image \
$( MAKE) test-extra-backend
## tinygrad — Whisper. Loads OpenAI's tiny.en checkpoint (smallest at ~75MB)
## from the original azure CDN through tinygrad's `fetch` helper, and
## transcribes the canonical jfk.wav fixture from whisper.cpp's CI samples.
## Exercises both AudioTranscription and AudioTranscriptionStream.
test-extra-backend-tinygrad-whisper : docker -build -tinygrad
BACKEND_IMAGE = local-ai-backend:tinygrad \
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME = openai/whisper-tiny.en \
BACKEND_TEST_AUDIO_URL = https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/raw/master/samples/jfk.wav \
BACKEND_TEST_CAPS = health,load,transcription \
$( MAKE) test-extra-backend
test-extra-backend-tinygrad-all : \
test-extra-backend-tinygrad \
test-extra-backend-tinygrad-embeddings \
test-extra-backend-tinygrad-sd \
test-extra-backend-tinygrad-whisper
feat(face-recognition): add insightface/onnx backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis (#9480)
* feat(face-recognition): add insightface backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis
Adds face recognition as a new first-class capability in LocalAI via the
`insightface` Python backend, with a pluggable two-engine design so
non-commercial (insightface model packs) and commercial-safe
(OpenCV Zoo YuNet + SFace) models share the same gRPC/HTTP surface.
New gRPC RPCs (backend/backend.proto):
* FaceVerify(FaceVerifyRequest) returns FaceVerifyResponse
* FaceAnalyze(FaceAnalyzeRequest) returns FaceAnalyzeResponse
Existing Embedding and Detect RPCs are reused (face image in
PredictOptions.Images / DetectOptions.src) for face embedding and
face detection respectively.
New HTTP endpoints under /v1/face/:
* verify — 1:1 image pair same-person decision
* analyze — per-face age + gender (emotion/race reserved)
* register — 1:N enrollment; stores embedding in vector store
* identify — 1:N recognition; detect → embed → StoresFind
* forget — remove a registered face by opaque ID
Service layer (core/services/facerecognition/) introduces a
`Registry` interface with one in-memory `storeRegistry` impl backed
by LocalAI's existing local-store gRPC vector backend. HTTP handlers
depend on the interface, not on StoresSet/StoresFind directly, so a
persistent PostgreSQL/pgvector implementation can be slotted in via a
single constructor change in core/application (TODO marker in the
package doc).
New usecase flag FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION; insightface is also wired
into FLAG_DETECTION so /v1/detection works for face bounding boxes.
Gallery (backend/index.yaml) ships three entries:
* insightface-buffalo-l — SCRFD-10GF + ArcFace R50 + genderage
(~326MB pre-baked; non-commercial research use only)
* insightface-opencv — YuNet + SFace (~40MB pre-baked; Apache 2.0)
* insightface-buffalo-s — SCRFD-500MF + MBF (runtime download; non-commercial)
Python backend (backend/python/insightface/):
* engines.py — FaceEngine protocol with InsightFaceEngine and
OnnxDirectEngine; resolves model paths relative to the backend
directory so the same gallery config works in docker-scratch and
in the e2e-backends rootfs-extraction harness.
* backend.py — gRPC servicer implementing Health, LoadModel, Status,
Embedding, Detect, FaceVerify, FaceAnalyze.
* install.sh — pre-bakes buffalo_l + OpenCV YuNet/SFace inside the
backend directory so first-run is offline-clean (the final scratch
image only preserves files under /<backend>/).
* test.py — parametrized unit tests over both engines.
Tests:
* Registry unit tests (go test -race ./core/services/facerecognition/...)
— in-memory fake grpc.Backend, table-driven, covers register/
identify/forget/error paths + concurrent access.
* tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go extended with face caps
(face_detect, face_embed, face_verify, face_analyze); relative
ordering + configurable verifyCeiling per engine.
* Makefile targets: test-extra-backend-insightface-buffalo-l,
-opencv, and the -all aggregate.
* CI: .github/workflows/test-extra.yml gains tests-insightface-grpc,
auto-triggered by changes under backend/python/insightface/.
Docs:
* docs/content/features/face-recognition.md — feature page with
license table, quickstart (defaults to the commercial-safe model),
models matrix, API reference, 1:N workflow, storage caveats.
* Cross-refs in object-detection.md, stores.md, embeddings.md, and
whats-new.md.
* Contributor README at backend/python/insightface/README.md.
Verified end-to-end:
* buffalo_l: 6/6 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed,
face_verify, face_analyze).
* opencv: 5/5 specs (same minus face_analyze — SFace has no
demographic head; correctly skipped via BACKEND_TEST_CAPS).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): move engine selection to model gallery, collapse backend entries
The previous commit put engine/model_pack options on backend gallery
entries (`backend/index.yaml`). That was wrong — `GalleryBackend`
(core/gallery/backend_types.go:32) has no `options` field, so the
YAML decoder silently dropped those keys and all three "different
insightface-*" backend entries resolved to the same container image
with no distinguishing configuration.
Correct split:
* `backend/index.yaml` now has ONE `insightface` backend entry
shipping the CPU + CUDA 12 container images. The Python backend
bundles both the non-commercial insightface model packs
(buffalo_l / buffalo_s) and the commercial-safe OpenCV Zoo
weights (YuNet + SFace); the active engine is selected at
LoadModel time via `options: ["engine:..."]`.
* `gallery/index.yaml` gains three model entries —
`insightface-buffalo-l`, `insightface-opencv`,
`insightface-buffalo-s` — each setting the appropriate
`overrides.backend` + `overrides.options` so installing one
actually gives the user the intended engine. This matches how
`rfdetr-base` lives in the model gallery against the `rfdetr`
backend.
The earlier e2e tests passed despite this bug because the Makefile
targets pass `BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS` directly to LoadModel via gRPC,
bypassing any gallery resolution entirely. No code changes needed.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): cover all supported models in the gallery + drop weight baking
Follows up on the model-gallery split: adds entries for every model
configuration either engine actually supports, and switches weight
delivery from image-baked to LocalAI's standard gallery mechanism.
Gallery now has seven `insightface-*` model entries (gallery/index.yaml):
insightface (family) — non-commercial research use
• buffalo-l (326MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet50 + genderage, default
• buffalo-m (313MB) — SCRFD-2.5GF + ResNet50 + genderage
• buffalo-s (159MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF + genderage
• buffalo-sc (16MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF, recognition only
(no landmarks, no demographics — analyze
returns empty attributes)
• antelopev2 (407MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet100@Glint360K + genderage
OpenCV Zoo family — Apache 2.0 commercial-safe
• opencv — YuNet + SFace fp32 (~40MB)
• opencv-int8 — YuNet + SFace int8 (~12MB, ~3x smaller, faster on CPU)
Model weights are no longer baked into the backend image. The image
now ships only the Python runtime + libraries (~275MB content size,
~1.18GB disk vs ~1.21GB when weights were baked). Weights flow through
LocalAI's gallery mechanism:
* OpenCV variants list `files:` with ONNX URIs + SHA-256, so
`local-ai models install insightface-opencv` pulls them into the
models directory exactly like any other gallery-managed model.
* insightface packs (upstream distributes .zip archives only, not
individual ONNX files) auto-download on first LoadModel via
FaceAnalysis' built-in machinery, rooted at the LocalAI models
directory so they live alongside everything else — same pattern
`rfdetr` uses with `inference.get_model()`.
Backend changes (backend/python/insightface/):
* backend.py — LoadModel propagates `ModelOptions.ModelPath` (the
LocalAI models directory) to engines via a `_model_dir` hint.
This replaces the earlier ModelFile-dirname approach; ModelPath
is the canonical "models directory" variable set by the Go loader
(pkg/model/initializers.go:144) and is always populated.
* engines.py::_resolve_model_path — picks up `model_dir` and searches
it (plus basename-in-model-dir) before falling back to the dev
script-dir. This is how OnnxDirectEngine finds gallery-downloaded
YuNet/SFace files by filename only.
* engines.py::_flatten_insightface_pack — new helper that works
around an upstream packaging inconsistency: buffalo_l/s/sc zips
expand flat, but buffalo_m and antelopev2 zips wrap their ONNX
files in a redundant `<name>/` directory. insightface's own
loader looks one level too shallow and fails. We call
`ensure_available()` explicitly, flatten if nested, then hand to
FaceAnalysis.
* engines.py::InsightFaceEngine.prepare — root-resolution order now
includes the `_model_dir` hint so packs download into the LocalAI
models directory by default.
* install.sh — no longer pre-downloads any weights. Everything is
gallery-managed now.
* smoke.py (new) — parametrized smoke test that iterates over every
gallery configuration, simulating the LocalAI install flow
(creates a models dir, fetches OpenCV files with checksum
verification, lets insightface auto-download its packs), then
runs detect + embed + verify (+ analyze where supported) through
the in-process BackendServicer.
* test.py — OnnxDirectEngineTest no longer hardcodes `/models/opencv/`
paths; downloads ONNX files to a temp dir at setUpClass time and
passes ModelPath accordingly.
Registry change (core/services/facerecognition/store_registry.go):
* `dim=0` in NewStoreRegistry now means "accept whatever dimension
arrives" — needed because the backend supports 512-d ArcFace/MBF
and 128-d SFace via the same Registry. A non-zero dim still fails
fast with ErrDimensionMismatch.
* core/application plumbs `faceEmbeddingDim = 0`, explaining the
rationale in the comment.
Backend gallery description updated to reflect that the image carries
no weights — it's just Python + engines.
Smoke-tested all 7 configurations against the rebuilt image (with the
flatten fix applied), exit 0:
PASS: insightface-buffalo-l faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-sc faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-s faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-m faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-antelopev2 faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv-int8 faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
7/7 passed
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): pre-fetch OpenCV ONNX for e2e target; drop stale pre-baked claim
CI regression from the previous commit: I moved OpenCV Zoo weight
delivery to LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism, but the
test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv target was still passing
relative paths `detector_onnx:models/opencv/yunet.onnx` in
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS. The e2e suite drives LoadModel directly over
gRPC without going through the gallery, so those relative paths
resolved to nothing and OpenCV's ONNXImporter failed:
LoadModel failed: Failed to load face engine:
OpenCV(4.13.0) ... Can't read ONNX file: models/opencv/yunet.onnx
Fix: add an `insightface-opencv-models` prerequisite target that
fetches the two ONNX files (YuNet + SFace) to a deterministic host
cache at /tmp/localai-insightface-opencv-cache/, verifies SHA-256,
and skips the download on re-runs. The opencv test target depends on
it and passes absolute paths in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS, so the backend
finds the files via its normal absolute-path resolution branch.
Also refresh the buffalo_l comment: it no longer says "pre-baked"
(nothing is — the pack auto-downloads from upstream's GitHub release
on first LoadModel, same as in CI).
Locally verified: `make test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv` passes
5/5 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed, face_verify).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): add POST /v1/face/embed + correct /v1/embeddings docs
The docs promised that /v1/embeddings returns face vectors when you
send an image data-URI. That was never true: /v1/embeddings is
OpenAI-compatible and text-only by contract — its handler goes
through `core/backend/embeddings.go::ModelEmbedding`, which sets
`predictOptions.Embeddings = s` (a string of TEXT to embed) and never
populates `predictOptions.Images[]`. The Python backend's Embedding
gRPC method does handle Images[] (that's how /v1/face/register reaches
it internally via `backend.FaceEmbed`), but the HTTP embeddings
endpoint wasn't wired to populate it.
Rather than overload /v1/embeddings with image-vs-text detection —
messy, and the endpoint is OpenAI-compatible by design — add a
dedicated /v1/face/embed endpoint that wraps `backend.FaceEmbed`
(already used internally by /v1/face/register and /v1/face/identify).
Matches LocalAI's convention of a dedicated path per non-standard flow
(/v1/rerank, /v1/detection, /v1/face/verify etc.).
Response:
{
"embedding": [<dim> floats, L2-normed],
"dim": int, // 512 for ArcFace R50 / MBF, 128 for SFace
"model": "<name>"
}
Live-tested on the opencv engine: returns a 128-d L2-normalized vector
(sum(x^2) = 1.0000). Sentinel in docs updated to note /v1/embeddings
is text-only and point image users at /v1/face/embed instead.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(http): map malformed image input + gRPC status codes to proper 4xx
Image-input failures on LocalAI's single-image endpoints (/v1/detection,
/v1/face/{verify,analyze,embed,register,identify}) have historically
returned 500 — even when the client was the one who sent garbage.
Classic example: you POST an "image" that isn't a URL, isn't a
data-URI, and isn't a valid JPEG/PNG — the server shouldn't claim
that's its fault.
Two helpers land in core/http/endpoints/localai/images.go and every
single-image handler is switched over:
* decodeImageInput(s)
Wraps utils.GetContentURIAsBase64 and turns any failure
(invalid URL, not a data-URI, download error, etc.) into
echo.NewHTTPError(400, "invalid image input: ...").
* mapBackendError(err)
Inspects the gRPC status on a backend call error and maps:
INVALID_ARGUMENT → 400 Bad Request
NOT_FOUND → 404 Not Found
FAILED_PRECONDITION → 412 Precondition Failed
Unimplemented → 501 Not Implemented
All other codes fall through unchanged (still 500).
Before, my 1×1 PNG error-path test returned:
HTTP 500 "rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = failed to decode one or both images"
After:
HTTP 400 "failed to decode one or both images"
Scope-limited to the LocalAI single-image endpoints. The multi-modal
paths (middleware/request.go, openresponses/responses.go,
openai/realtime.go) intentionally log-and-skip individual media parts
when decoding fails — different design intent (graceful degradation
of a multi-part message), not a 400-worthy failure. Left untouched.
Live-verified: every error case in /tmp/face_errors.py now returns
4xx with a meaningful message; the "image with no face (1x1 PNG)"
case specifically went from 500 → 400.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* refactor(face-recognition): insightface packs go through gallery files:, drop FaceAnalysis
Follows up on the discovery that LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism
handles archives (zip, tar.gz, …) via mholt/archiver/v3 — the rhasspy
piper voices use exactly this pattern. Insightface packs are zip
archives, so we can now deliver them the same way every other
gallery-managed model gets delivered: declaratively, checksum-verified,
through LocalAI's standard download+extract pipeline.
Two changes:
1. Gallery (gallery/index.yaml) — every insightface-* entry gains a
`files:` list with the pack zip's URI + SHA-256. `local-ai models
install insightface-buffalo-l` now fetches the zip, verifies the
hash, and extracts it into the models directory. No more reliance
on insightface's library-internal `ensure_available()` auto-download
or its hardcoded `BASE_REPO_URL`.
2. InsightFaceEngine (backend/python/insightface/engines.py) — drops
the FaceAnalysis wrapper and drives insightface's `model_zoo`
directly. The ~50 lines FaceAnalysis provides — glob ONNX files,
route each through `model_zoo.get_model()`, build a
`{taskname: model}` dict, loop per-face at inference — are
reimplemented in `InsightFaceEngine`. The actual inference classes
(RetinaFace, ArcFaceONNX, Attribute, Landmark) are still
insightface's — we only replicate the glue, so drift risk against
upstream is minimal.
Why drop FaceAnalysis: it hard-codes a `<root>/models/<name>/*.onnx`
layout that doesn't match what LocalAI's zip extraction produces.
LocalAI unpacks archives flat into `<models_dir>`. Upstream packs
are inconsistent — buffalo_l/s/sc ship ONNX at the zip root (lands
at `<models_dir>/*.onnx`), buffalo_m/antelopev2 wrap in a redundant
`<name>/` dir (lands at `<models_dir>/<name>/*.onnx`). The new
`_locate_insightface_pack` helper searches both locations plus
legacy paths and returns whichever has ONNX files. Replaces the
earlier `_flatten_insightface_pack` helper (which tried to fight
FaceAnalysis's layout expectations; now we just find the files
wherever they are).
Net effect for users: install once via LocalAI's managed flow,
weights live alongside every other model, progress shows in the
jobs endpoint, no first-load network call. Same API surface,
cleaner plumbing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): CI's insightface e2e path needs the pack pre-fetched
The e2e suite drives LoadModel over gRPC without going through LocalAI's
gallery flow, so the engine's `_model_dir` option (normally populated
from ModelPath) is empty. Previously the insightface target relied on
FaceAnalysis auto-download to paper over this, but we dropped
FaceAnalysis in favor of direct model_zoo calls — so the buffalo_l
target started failing at LoadModel with "no insightface pack found".
Mirror the opencv target's pre-fetch pattern: download buffalo_sc.zip
(same SHA as the gallery entry), extract it on the host, and pass
`root:<dir>` so the engine locates the pack without needing
ModelPath. Switched to buffalo_sc (smallest pack, ~16MB) to keep CI
fast; it covers the same insightface engine code path as buffalo_l.
Face analyze cap dropped since buffalo_sc has no age/gender head.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* feat(face-recognition): surface face-recognition in advertised feature maps
The six /v1/face/* endpoints were missing from every place LocalAI
advertises its feature surface to clients:
* api_instructions — the machine-readable capability index at
GET /api/instructions. Added `face-recognition` as a dedicated
instruction area with an intro that calls out the in-memory
registry caveat and the /v1/face/embed vs /v1/embeddings split.
* auth/permissions — added FeatureFaceRecognition constant, routed
all six face endpoints through it so admins can gate them per-user
like any other API feature. Default ON (matches the other API
features).
* React UI capabilities — CAP_FACE_RECOGNITION symbol mapped to
FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION. Declared only for now; the Face page is a
follow-up (noted in the plan).
Instruction count bumped 9 → 10; test updated.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* docs(agents): capture advertising-surface steps in the endpoint guide
Before this change, adding a new /v1/* endpoint reliably missed one or
more of: the swagger @Tags annotation, the /api/instructions registry,
the auth RouteFeatureRegistry, and the React UI CAP_* symbol. The
endpoint would work but be invisible to API consumers, admins, and the
UI — and nothing in the existing docs said to look in those places.
Extend .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md with a new "Advertising
surfaces" section covering all four surfaces (swagger tags, /api/
instructions, capabilities.js, docs/), and expand the closing checklist
so it's impossible to ship a feature without visiting each one. Hoist a
one-liner reminder into AGENTS.md's Quick Reference so agents skim it
before diving in.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
2026-04-22 19:55:41 +00:00
## insightface — face recognition.
##
## Face fixtures default to the sample images shipped in the
## deepinsight/insightface repository (MIT-licensed). For offline/local
## runs override with BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_{1,2,3}_FILE pointing at
## local paths.
FACE_IMAGE_1_URL ?= https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface/raw/master/python-package/insightface/data/images/t1.jpg
FACE_IMAGE_2_URL ?= https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface/raw/master/python-package/insightface/data/images/t1.jpg
FACE_IMAGE_3_URL ?= https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface/raw/master/python-package/insightface/data/images/mask_white.jpg
feat(insightface): add antispoofing (liveness) detection (#9515)
* feat(insightface): add antispoofing (liveness) detection
Light up the anti_spoofing flag that was parked during the first pass.
Both FaceVerify and FaceAnalyze now run the Silent-Face MiniFASNetV2 +
MiniFASNetV1SE ensemble (~4 MB, Apache 2.0, CPU <10ms) when the flag is
set. Failed liveness on either image vetoes FaceVerify regardless of
embedding similarity. Every insightface* gallery entry now ships the
MiniFASNet ONNX weights so existing packs light up after reinstall.
Setting the flag against a model without the MiniFASNet files returns
FAILED_PRECONDITION (HTTP 412) with a clear install message — no
silent is_real=false.
FaceVerifyResponse gained per-image img{1,2}_is_real and
img{1,2}_antispoof_score (proto 9-12); FaceAnalysis's existing
is_real/antispoof_score fields are now populated. Schema fields are
pointers so they are fully absent from the JSON response when
anti_spoofing was not requested — avoids collapsing "not checked" with
"checked and fake" under Go's omitempty on bool.
Validated end-to-end over HTTP against a local install:
- verify + anti_spoofing, both real -> verified=true, score ~0.76
- verify + anti_spoofing, img2 spoof -> verified=false, img2_is_real=false
- analyze + anti_spoofing -> is_real and score per face
- flag against model without MiniFASNet -> HTTP 412 fail-loud
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 go vet
* test(insightface): wire test target into test-extra
The root Makefile's `test-extra` already runs
`$(MAKE) -C backend/python/insightface test`, but the backend's
Makefile never defined the target — so the command silently errored
and the suite was never executed in CI. Adding the two-line target
(matching ace-step/Makefile) hooks `test.sh` → `runUnittests` →
`python -m unittest test.py`, which discovers both the pre-existing
engine classes (InsightFaceEngineTest, OnnxDirectEngineTest) and the
new AntispoofingTest. Each class skips gracefully when its weights
can't be downloaded from a network-restricted runner.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* test(insightface): exercise antispoofing in e2e-backends (both paths)
Add a `face_antispoof` capability to the Ginkgo e2e suite and extend
the existing FaceVerify + FaceAnalyze specs with liveness assertions
covering BOTH paths:
real fixture -> is_real=true, score>0, verified stays true
spoof fixture -> is_real=false, verified vetoed to false
The spoof fixture is upstream's own `image_F2.jpg` (via the yakhyo
mirror) — verified locally against the MiniFASNetV2+V1SE ensemble to
classify as is_real=false with score ~0.013. That makes the assertion
deterministic across CI runs; synthetic/derived spoofs fool the model
unpredictably and would be flaky.
Makefile wires it up end-to-end:
- New INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_* cache dir + two ONNX downloads with
pinned SHAs, matching the gallery entries.
- insightface-antispoof-models target shared by both backend configs.
- FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL passed via BACKEND_TEST_FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL.
- Both e2e targets (buffalo-sc + opencv) now:
* depend on insightface-antispoof-models
* pass antispoof_v2_onnx / antispoof_v1se_onnx in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS
* include face_antispoof in BACKEND_TEST_CAPS
backend_test.go adds the new capability constant and a faceSpoofFile
fixture resolved the same way as faceFile1/2/3. Spoof assertions are
gated on both capFaceAntispoof AND faceSpoofFile being set, so a test
config that omits the spoof fixture degrades gracefully to "real path
only" instead of failing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 go vet
2026-04-23 16:28:15 +00:00
## Known spoof fixture used by the face_antispoof e2e cap. This is
## upstream's own `image_F2.jpg` (Silent-Face repo, via yakhyo mirror)
## — verified to classify as is_real=false with score < 0.05 on the
## MiniFASNetV2 + MiniFASNetV1SE ensemble.
FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL ?= https://github.com/yakhyo/face-anti-spoofing/raw/main/assets/image_F2.jpg
feat(face-recognition): add insightface/onnx backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis (#9480)
* feat(face-recognition): add insightface backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis
Adds face recognition as a new first-class capability in LocalAI via the
`insightface` Python backend, with a pluggable two-engine design so
non-commercial (insightface model packs) and commercial-safe
(OpenCV Zoo YuNet + SFace) models share the same gRPC/HTTP surface.
New gRPC RPCs (backend/backend.proto):
* FaceVerify(FaceVerifyRequest) returns FaceVerifyResponse
* FaceAnalyze(FaceAnalyzeRequest) returns FaceAnalyzeResponse
Existing Embedding and Detect RPCs are reused (face image in
PredictOptions.Images / DetectOptions.src) for face embedding and
face detection respectively.
New HTTP endpoints under /v1/face/:
* verify — 1:1 image pair same-person decision
* analyze — per-face age + gender (emotion/race reserved)
* register — 1:N enrollment; stores embedding in vector store
* identify — 1:N recognition; detect → embed → StoresFind
* forget — remove a registered face by opaque ID
Service layer (core/services/facerecognition/) introduces a
`Registry` interface with one in-memory `storeRegistry` impl backed
by LocalAI's existing local-store gRPC vector backend. HTTP handlers
depend on the interface, not on StoresSet/StoresFind directly, so a
persistent PostgreSQL/pgvector implementation can be slotted in via a
single constructor change in core/application (TODO marker in the
package doc).
New usecase flag FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION; insightface is also wired
into FLAG_DETECTION so /v1/detection works for face bounding boxes.
Gallery (backend/index.yaml) ships three entries:
* insightface-buffalo-l — SCRFD-10GF + ArcFace R50 + genderage
(~326MB pre-baked; non-commercial research use only)
* insightface-opencv — YuNet + SFace (~40MB pre-baked; Apache 2.0)
* insightface-buffalo-s — SCRFD-500MF + MBF (runtime download; non-commercial)
Python backend (backend/python/insightface/):
* engines.py — FaceEngine protocol with InsightFaceEngine and
OnnxDirectEngine; resolves model paths relative to the backend
directory so the same gallery config works in docker-scratch and
in the e2e-backends rootfs-extraction harness.
* backend.py — gRPC servicer implementing Health, LoadModel, Status,
Embedding, Detect, FaceVerify, FaceAnalyze.
* install.sh — pre-bakes buffalo_l + OpenCV YuNet/SFace inside the
backend directory so first-run is offline-clean (the final scratch
image only preserves files under /<backend>/).
* test.py — parametrized unit tests over both engines.
Tests:
* Registry unit tests (go test -race ./core/services/facerecognition/...)
— in-memory fake grpc.Backend, table-driven, covers register/
identify/forget/error paths + concurrent access.
* tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go extended with face caps
(face_detect, face_embed, face_verify, face_analyze); relative
ordering + configurable verifyCeiling per engine.
* Makefile targets: test-extra-backend-insightface-buffalo-l,
-opencv, and the -all aggregate.
* CI: .github/workflows/test-extra.yml gains tests-insightface-grpc,
auto-triggered by changes under backend/python/insightface/.
Docs:
* docs/content/features/face-recognition.md — feature page with
license table, quickstart (defaults to the commercial-safe model),
models matrix, API reference, 1:N workflow, storage caveats.
* Cross-refs in object-detection.md, stores.md, embeddings.md, and
whats-new.md.
* Contributor README at backend/python/insightface/README.md.
Verified end-to-end:
* buffalo_l: 6/6 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed,
face_verify, face_analyze).
* opencv: 5/5 specs (same minus face_analyze — SFace has no
demographic head; correctly skipped via BACKEND_TEST_CAPS).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): move engine selection to model gallery, collapse backend entries
The previous commit put engine/model_pack options on backend gallery
entries (`backend/index.yaml`). That was wrong — `GalleryBackend`
(core/gallery/backend_types.go:32) has no `options` field, so the
YAML decoder silently dropped those keys and all three "different
insightface-*" backend entries resolved to the same container image
with no distinguishing configuration.
Correct split:
* `backend/index.yaml` now has ONE `insightface` backend entry
shipping the CPU + CUDA 12 container images. The Python backend
bundles both the non-commercial insightface model packs
(buffalo_l / buffalo_s) and the commercial-safe OpenCV Zoo
weights (YuNet + SFace); the active engine is selected at
LoadModel time via `options: ["engine:..."]`.
* `gallery/index.yaml` gains three model entries —
`insightface-buffalo-l`, `insightface-opencv`,
`insightface-buffalo-s` — each setting the appropriate
`overrides.backend` + `overrides.options` so installing one
actually gives the user the intended engine. This matches how
`rfdetr-base` lives in the model gallery against the `rfdetr`
backend.
The earlier e2e tests passed despite this bug because the Makefile
targets pass `BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS` directly to LoadModel via gRPC,
bypassing any gallery resolution entirely. No code changes needed.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): cover all supported models in the gallery + drop weight baking
Follows up on the model-gallery split: adds entries for every model
configuration either engine actually supports, and switches weight
delivery from image-baked to LocalAI's standard gallery mechanism.
Gallery now has seven `insightface-*` model entries (gallery/index.yaml):
insightface (family) — non-commercial research use
• buffalo-l (326MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet50 + genderage, default
• buffalo-m (313MB) — SCRFD-2.5GF + ResNet50 + genderage
• buffalo-s (159MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF + genderage
• buffalo-sc (16MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF, recognition only
(no landmarks, no demographics — analyze
returns empty attributes)
• antelopev2 (407MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet100@Glint360K + genderage
OpenCV Zoo family — Apache 2.0 commercial-safe
• opencv — YuNet + SFace fp32 (~40MB)
• opencv-int8 — YuNet + SFace int8 (~12MB, ~3x smaller, faster on CPU)
Model weights are no longer baked into the backend image. The image
now ships only the Python runtime + libraries (~275MB content size,
~1.18GB disk vs ~1.21GB when weights were baked). Weights flow through
LocalAI's gallery mechanism:
* OpenCV variants list `files:` with ONNX URIs + SHA-256, so
`local-ai models install insightface-opencv` pulls them into the
models directory exactly like any other gallery-managed model.
* insightface packs (upstream distributes .zip archives only, not
individual ONNX files) auto-download on first LoadModel via
FaceAnalysis' built-in machinery, rooted at the LocalAI models
directory so they live alongside everything else — same pattern
`rfdetr` uses with `inference.get_model()`.
Backend changes (backend/python/insightface/):
* backend.py — LoadModel propagates `ModelOptions.ModelPath` (the
LocalAI models directory) to engines via a `_model_dir` hint.
This replaces the earlier ModelFile-dirname approach; ModelPath
is the canonical "models directory" variable set by the Go loader
(pkg/model/initializers.go:144) and is always populated.
* engines.py::_resolve_model_path — picks up `model_dir` and searches
it (plus basename-in-model-dir) before falling back to the dev
script-dir. This is how OnnxDirectEngine finds gallery-downloaded
YuNet/SFace files by filename only.
* engines.py::_flatten_insightface_pack — new helper that works
around an upstream packaging inconsistency: buffalo_l/s/sc zips
expand flat, but buffalo_m and antelopev2 zips wrap their ONNX
files in a redundant `<name>/` directory. insightface's own
loader looks one level too shallow and fails. We call
`ensure_available()` explicitly, flatten if nested, then hand to
FaceAnalysis.
* engines.py::InsightFaceEngine.prepare — root-resolution order now
includes the `_model_dir` hint so packs download into the LocalAI
models directory by default.
* install.sh — no longer pre-downloads any weights. Everything is
gallery-managed now.
* smoke.py (new) — parametrized smoke test that iterates over every
gallery configuration, simulating the LocalAI install flow
(creates a models dir, fetches OpenCV files with checksum
verification, lets insightface auto-download its packs), then
runs detect + embed + verify (+ analyze where supported) through
the in-process BackendServicer.
* test.py — OnnxDirectEngineTest no longer hardcodes `/models/opencv/`
paths; downloads ONNX files to a temp dir at setUpClass time and
passes ModelPath accordingly.
Registry change (core/services/facerecognition/store_registry.go):
* `dim=0` in NewStoreRegistry now means "accept whatever dimension
arrives" — needed because the backend supports 512-d ArcFace/MBF
and 128-d SFace via the same Registry. A non-zero dim still fails
fast with ErrDimensionMismatch.
* core/application plumbs `faceEmbeddingDim = 0`, explaining the
rationale in the comment.
Backend gallery description updated to reflect that the image carries
no weights — it's just Python + engines.
Smoke-tested all 7 configurations against the rebuilt image (with the
flatten fix applied), exit 0:
PASS: insightface-buffalo-l faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-sc faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-s faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-m faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-antelopev2 faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv-int8 faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
7/7 passed
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): pre-fetch OpenCV ONNX for e2e target; drop stale pre-baked claim
CI regression from the previous commit: I moved OpenCV Zoo weight
delivery to LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism, but the
test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv target was still passing
relative paths `detector_onnx:models/opencv/yunet.onnx` in
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS. The e2e suite drives LoadModel directly over
gRPC without going through the gallery, so those relative paths
resolved to nothing and OpenCV's ONNXImporter failed:
LoadModel failed: Failed to load face engine:
OpenCV(4.13.0) ... Can't read ONNX file: models/opencv/yunet.onnx
Fix: add an `insightface-opencv-models` prerequisite target that
fetches the two ONNX files (YuNet + SFace) to a deterministic host
cache at /tmp/localai-insightface-opencv-cache/, verifies SHA-256,
and skips the download on re-runs. The opencv test target depends on
it and passes absolute paths in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS, so the backend
finds the files via its normal absolute-path resolution branch.
Also refresh the buffalo_l comment: it no longer says "pre-baked"
(nothing is — the pack auto-downloads from upstream's GitHub release
on first LoadModel, same as in CI).
Locally verified: `make test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv` passes
5/5 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed, face_verify).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): add POST /v1/face/embed + correct /v1/embeddings docs
The docs promised that /v1/embeddings returns face vectors when you
send an image data-URI. That was never true: /v1/embeddings is
OpenAI-compatible and text-only by contract — its handler goes
through `core/backend/embeddings.go::ModelEmbedding`, which sets
`predictOptions.Embeddings = s` (a string of TEXT to embed) and never
populates `predictOptions.Images[]`. The Python backend's Embedding
gRPC method does handle Images[] (that's how /v1/face/register reaches
it internally via `backend.FaceEmbed`), but the HTTP embeddings
endpoint wasn't wired to populate it.
Rather than overload /v1/embeddings with image-vs-text detection —
messy, and the endpoint is OpenAI-compatible by design — add a
dedicated /v1/face/embed endpoint that wraps `backend.FaceEmbed`
(already used internally by /v1/face/register and /v1/face/identify).
Matches LocalAI's convention of a dedicated path per non-standard flow
(/v1/rerank, /v1/detection, /v1/face/verify etc.).
Response:
{
"embedding": [<dim> floats, L2-normed],
"dim": int, // 512 for ArcFace R50 / MBF, 128 for SFace
"model": "<name>"
}
Live-tested on the opencv engine: returns a 128-d L2-normalized vector
(sum(x^2) = 1.0000). Sentinel in docs updated to note /v1/embeddings
is text-only and point image users at /v1/face/embed instead.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(http): map malformed image input + gRPC status codes to proper 4xx
Image-input failures on LocalAI's single-image endpoints (/v1/detection,
/v1/face/{verify,analyze,embed,register,identify}) have historically
returned 500 — even when the client was the one who sent garbage.
Classic example: you POST an "image" that isn't a URL, isn't a
data-URI, and isn't a valid JPEG/PNG — the server shouldn't claim
that's its fault.
Two helpers land in core/http/endpoints/localai/images.go and every
single-image handler is switched over:
* decodeImageInput(s)
Wraps utils.GetContentURIAsBase64 and turns any failure
(invalid URL, not a data-URI, download error, etc.) into
echo.NewHTTPError(400, "invalid image input: ...").
* mapBackendError(err)
Inspects the gRPC status on a backend call error and maps:
INVALID_ARGUMENT → 400 Bad Request
NOT_FOUND → 404 Not Found
FAILED_PRECONDITION → 412 Precondition Failed
Unimplemented → 501 Not Implemented
All other codes fall through unchanged (still 500).
Before, my 1×1 PNG error-path test returned:
HTTP 500 "rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = failed to decode one or both images"
After:
HTTP 400 "failed to decode one or both images"
Scope-limited to the LocalAI single-image endpoints. The multi-modal
paths (middleware/request.go, openresponses/responses.go,
openai/realtime.go) intentionally log-and-skip individual media parts
when decoding fails — different design intent (graceful degradation
of a multi-part message), not a 400-worthy failure. Left untouched.
Live-verified: every error case in /tmp/face_errors.py now returns
4xx with a meaningful message; the "image with no face (1x1 PNG)"
case specifically went from 500 → 400.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* refactor(face-recognition): insightface packs go through gallery files:, drop FaceAnalysis
Follows up on the discovery that LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism
handles archives (zip, tar.gz, …) via mholt/archiver/v3 — the rhasspy
piper voices use exactly this pattern. Insightface packs are zip
archives, so we can now deliver them the same way every other
gallery-managed model gets delivered: declaratively, checksum-verified,
through LocalAI's standard download+extract pipeline.
Two changes:
1. Gallery (gallery/index.yaml) — every insightface-* entry gains a
`files:` list with the pack zip's URI + SHA-256. `local-ai models
install insightface-buffalo-l` now fetches the zip, verifies the
hash, and extracts it into the models directory. No more reliance
on insightface's library-internal `ensure_available()` auto-download
or its hardcoded `BASE_REPO_URL`.
2. InsightFaceEngine (backend/python/insightface/engines.py) — drops
the FaceAnalysis wrapper and drives insightface's `model_zoo`
directly. The ~50 lines FaceAnalysis provides — glob ONNX files,
route each through `model_zoo.get_model()`, build a
`{taskname: model}` dict, loop per-face at inference — are
reimplemented in `InsightFaceEngine`. The actual inference classes
(RetinaFace, ArcFaceONNX, Attribute, Landmark) are still
insightface's — we only replicate the glue, so drift risk against
upstream is minimal.
Why drop FaceAnalysis: it hard-codes a `<root>/models/<name>/*.onnx`
layout that doesn't match what LocalAI's zip extraction produces.
LocalAI unpacks archives flat into `<models_dir>`. Upstream packs
are inconsistent — buffalo_l/s/sc ship ONNX at the zip root (lands
at `<models_dir>/*.onnx`), buffalo_m/antelopev2 wrap in a redundant
`<name>/` dir (lands at `<models_dir>/<name>/*.onnx`). The new
`_locate_insightface_pack` helper searches both locations plus
legacy paths and returns whichever has ONNX files. Replaces the
earlier `_flatten_insightface_pack` helper (which tried to fight
FaceAnalysis's layout expectations; now we just find the files
wherever they are).
Net effect for users: install once via LocalAI's managed flow,
weights live alongside every other model, progress shows in the
jobs endpoint, no first-load network call. Same API surface,
cleaner plumbing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): CI's insightface e2e path needs the pack pre-fetched
The e2e suite drives LoadModel over gRPC without going through LocalAI's
gallery flow, so the engine's `_model_dir` option (normally populated
from ModelPath) is empty. Previously the insightface target relied on
FaceAnalysis auto-download to paper over this, but we dropped
FaceAnalysis in favor of direct model_zoo calls — so the buffalo_l
target started failing at LoadModel with "no insightface pack found".
Mirror the opencv target's pre-fetch pattern: download buffalo_sc.zip
(same SHA as the gallery entry), extract it on the host, and pass
`root:<dir>` so the engine locates the pack without needing
ModelPath. Switched to buffalo_sc (smallest pack, ~16MB) to keep CI
fast; it covers the same insightface engine code path as buffalo_l.
Face analyze cap dropped since buffalo_sc has no age/gender head.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* feat(face-recognition): surface face-recognition in advertised feature maps
The six /v1/face/* endpoints were missing from every place LocalAI
advertises its feature surface to clients:
* api_instructions — the machine-readable capability index at
GET /api/instructions. Added `face-recognition` as a dedicated
instruction area with an intro that calls out the in-memory
registry caveat and the /v1/face/embed vs /v1/embeddings split.
* auth/permissions — added FeatureFaceRecognition constant, routed
all six face endpoints through it so admins can gate them per-user
like any other API feature. Default ON (matches the other API
features).
* React UI capabilities — CAP_FACE_RECOGNITION symbol mapped to
FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION. Declared only for now; the Face page is a
follow-up (noted in the plan).
Instruction count bumped 9 → 10; test updated.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* docs(agents): capture advertising-surface steps in the endpoint guide
Before this change, adding a new /v1/* endpoint reliably missed one or
more of: the swagger @Tags annotation, the /api/instructions registry,
the auth RouteFeatureRegistry, and the React UI CAP_* symbol. The
endpoint would work but be invisible to API consumers, admins, and the
UI — and nothing in the existing docs said to look in those places.
Extend .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md with a new "Advertising
surfaces" section covering all four surfaces (swagger tags, /api/
instructions, capabilities.js, docs/), and expand the closing checklist
so it's impossible to ship a feature without visiting each one. Hoist a
one-liner reminder into AGENTS.md's Quick Reference so agents skim it
before diving in.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
2026-04-22 19:55:41 +00:00
## Host-side cache for the OpenCV Zoo face ONNX files used by the
## opencv e2e target. The backend image no longer bakes model weights —
## gallery installs bring them via `files:` — but the e2e suite drives
## LoadModel over gRPC directly without going through the gallery. We
## pre-download the ONNX files to a stable host path and pass absolute
## paths in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS; `make` skips the downloads when the
## SHA-256 already matches.
INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_DIR := /tmp/localai-insightface-opencv-cache
INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_YUNET_URL := https://github.com/opencv/opencv_zoo/raw/main/models/face_detection_yunet/face_detection_yunet_2023mar.onnx
INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_SFACE_URL := https://github.com/opencv/opencv_zoo/raw/main/models/face_recognition_sface/face_recognition_sface_2021dec.onnx
INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_YUNET_SHA := 8f2383e4dd3cfbb4553ea8718107fc0423210dc964f9f4280604804ed2552fa4
INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_SFACE_SHA := 0ba9fbfa01b5270c96627c4ef784da859931e02f04419c829e83484087c34e79
## buffalo_sc (insightface) — pack zip + SHA-256 mirrors the gallery
## entry so the e2e target matches exactly what `local-ai models install
## insightface-buffalo-sc` would have fetched. Smallest insightface pack
## (~16MB) — keeps CI fast while still covering the insightface engine
## code path end-to-end.
INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_DIR := /tmp/localai-insightface-buffalo-sc-cache
INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_URL := https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface/releases/download/v0.7/buffalo_sc.zip
INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_SHA := 57d31b56b6ffa911c8a73cfc1707c73cab76efe7f13b675a05223bf42de47c72
feat(insightface): add antispoofing (liveness) detection (#9515)
* feat(insightface): add antispoofing (liveness) detection
Light up the anti_spoofing flag that was parked during the first pass.
Both FaceVerify and FaceAnalyze now run the Silent-Face MiniFASNetV2 +
MiniFASNetV1SE ensemble (~4 MB, Apache 2.0, CPU <10ms) when the flag is
set. Failed liveness on either image vetoes FaceVerify regardless of
embedding similarity. Every insightface* gallery entry now ships the
MiniFASNet ONNX weights so existing packs light up after reinstall.
Setting the flag against a model without the MiniFASNet files returns
FAILED_PRECONDITION (HTTP 412) with a clear install message — no
silent is_real=false.
FaceVerifyResponse gained per-image img{1,2}_is_real and
img{1,2}_antispoof_score (proto 9-12); FaceAnalysis's existing
is_real/antispoof_score fields are now populated. Schema fields are
pointers so they are fully absent from the JSON response when
anti_spoofing was not requested — avoids collapsing "not checked" with
"checked and fake" under Go's omitempty on bool.
Validated end-to-end over HTTP against a local install:
- verify + anti_spoofing, both real -> verified=true, score ~0.76
- verify + anti_spoofing, img2 spoof -> verified=false, img2_is_real=false
- analyze + anti_spoofing -> is_real and score per face
- flag against model without MiniFASNet -> HTTP 412 fail-loud
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 go vet
* test(insightface): wire test target into test-extra
The root Makefile's `test-extra` already runs
`$(MAKE) -C backend/python/insightface test`, but the backend's
Makefile never defined the target — so the command silently errored
and the suite was never executed in CI. Adding the two-line target
(matching ace-step/Makefile) hooks `test.sh` → `runUnittests` →
`python -m unittest test.py`, which discovers both the pre-existing
engine classes (InsightFaceEngineTest, OnnxDirectEngineTest) and the
new AntispoofingTest. Each class skips gracefully when its weights
can't be downloaded from a network-restricted runner.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* test(insightface): exercise antispoofing in e2e-backends (both paths)
Add a `face_antispoof` capability to the Ginkgo e2e suite and extend
the existing FaceVerify + FaceAnalyze specs with liveness assertions
covering BOTH paths:
real fixture -> is_real=true, score>0, verified stays true
spoof fixture -> is_real=false, verified vetoed to false
The spoof fixture is upstream's own `image_F2.jpg` (via the yakhyo
mirror) — verified locally against the MiniFASNetV2+V1SE ensemble to
classify as is_real=false with score ~0.013. That makes the assertion
deterministic across CI runs; synthetic/derived spoofs fool the model
unpredictably and would be flaky.
Makefile wires it up end-to-end:
- New INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_* cache dir + two ONNX downloads with
pinned SHAs, matching the gallery entries.
- insightface-antispoof-models target shared by both backend configs.
- FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL passed via BACKEND_TEST_FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL.
- Both e2e targets (buffalo-sc + opencv) now:
* depend on insightface-antispoof-models
* pass antispoof_v2_onnx / antispoof_v1se_onnx in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS
* include face_antispoof in BACKEND_TEST_CAPS
backend_test.go adds the new capability constant and a faceSpoofFile
fixture resolved the same way as faceFile1/2/3. Spoof assertions are
gated on both capFaceAntispoof AND faceSpoofFile being set, so a test
config that omits the spoof fixture degrades gracefully to "real path
only" instead of failing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 go vet
2026-04-23 16:28:15 +00:00
## Silent-Face antispoofing (MiniFASNetV2 + MiniFASNetV1SE) — shared
## between the buffalo_sc and opencv e2e targets. Both ONNX files are
## ~1.7MB, Apache 2.0. URLs + SHAs mirror the gallery entries.
INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR := /tmp/localai-insightface-antispoof-cache
INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_V2_URL := https://github.com/yakhyo/face-anti-spoofing/releases/download/weights/MiniFASNetV2.onnx
INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_V2_SHA := b32929adc2d9c34b9486f8c4c7bc97c1b69bc0ea9befefc380e4faae4e463907
INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_V1SE_URL := https://github.com/yakhyo/face-anti-spoofing/releases/download/weights/MiniFASNetV1SE.onnx
INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_V1SE_SHA := ebab7f90c7833fbccd46d3a555410e78d969db5438e169b6524be444862b3676
feat(face-recognition): add insightface/onnx backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis (#9480)
* feat(face-recognition): add insightface backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis
Adds face recognition as a new first-class capability in LocalAI via the
`insightface` Python backend, with a pluggable two-engine design so
non-commercial (insightface model packs) and commercial-safe
(OpenCV Zoo YuNet + SFace) models share the same gRPC/HTTP surface.
New gRPC RPCs (backend/backend.proto):
* FaceVerify(FaceVerifyRequest) returns FaceVerifyResponse
* FaceAnalyze(FaceAnalyzeRequest) returns FaceAnalyzeResponse
Existing Embedding and Detect RPCs are reused (face image in
PredictOptions.Images / DetectOptions.src) for face embedding and
face detection respectively.
New HTTP endpoints under /v1/face/:
* verify — 1:1 image pair same-person decision
* analyze — per-face age + gender (emotion/race reserved)
* register — 1:N enrollment; stores embedding in vector store
* identify — 1:N recognition; detect → embed → StoresFind
* forget — remove a registered face by opaque ID
Service layer (core/services/facerecognition/) introduces a
`Registry` interface with one in-memory `storeRegistry` impl backed
by LocalAI's existing local-store gRPC vector backend. HTTP handlers
depend on the interface, not on StoresSet/StoresFind directly, so a
persistent PostgreSQL/pgvector implementation can be slotted in via a
single constructor change in core/application (TODO marker in the
package doc).
New usecase flag FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION; insightface is also wired
into FLAG_DETECTION so /v1/detection works for face bounding boxes.
Gallery (backend/index.yaml) ships three entries:
* insightface-buffalo-l — SCRFD-10GF + ArcFace R50 + genderage
(~326MB pre-baked; non-commercial research use only)
* insightface-opencv — YuNet + SFace (~40MB pre-baked; Apache 2.0)
* insightface-buffalo-s — SCRFD-500MF + MBF (runtime download; non-commercial)
Python backend (backend/python/insightface/):
* engines.py — FaceEngine protocol with InsightFaceEngine and
OnnxDirectEngine; resolves model paths relative to the backend
directory so the same gallery config works in docker-scratch and
in the e2e-backends rootfs-extraction harness.
* backend.py — gRPC servicer implementing Health, LoadModel, Status,
Embedding, Detect, FaceVerify, FaceAnalyze.
* install.sh — pre-bakes buffalo_l + OpenCV YuNet/SFace inside the
backend directory so first-run is offline-clean (the final scratch
image only preserves files under /<backend>/).
* test.py — parametrized unit tests over both engines.
Tests:
* Registry unit tests (go test -race ./core/services/facerecognition/...)
— in-memory fake grpc.Backend, table-driven, covers register/
identify/forget/error paths + concurrent access.
* tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go extended with face caps
(face_detect, face_embed, face_verify, face_analyze); relative
ordering + configurable verifyCeiling per engine.
* Makefile targets: test-extra-backend-insightface-buffalo-l,
-opencv, and the -all aggregate.
* CI: .github/workflows/test-extra.yml gains tests-insightface-grpc,
auto-triggered by changes under backend/python/insightface/.
Docs:
* docs/content/features/face-recognition.md — feature page with
license table, quickstart (defaults to the commercial-safe model),
models matrix, API reference, 1:N workflow, storage caveats.
* Cross-refs in object-detection.md, stores.md, embeddings.md, and
whats-new.md.
* Contributor README at backend/python/insightface/README.md.
Verified end-to-end:
* buffalo_l: 6/6 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed,
face_verify, face_analyze).
* opencv: 5/5 specs (same minus face_analyze — SFace has no
demographic head; correctly skipped via BACKEND_TEST_CAPS).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): move engine selection to model gallery, collapse backend entries
The previous commit put engine/model_pack options on backend gallery
entries (`backend/index.yaml`). That was wrong — `GalleryBackend`
(core/gallery/backend_types.go:32) has no `options` field, so the
YAML decoder silently dropped those keys and all three "different
insightface-*" backend entries resolved to the same container image
with no distinguishing configuration.
Correct split:
* `backend/index.yaml` now has ONE `insightface` backend entry
shipping the CPU + CUDA 12 container images. The Python backend
bundles both the non-commercial insightface model packs
(buffalo_l / buffalo_s) and the commercial-safe OpenCV Zoo
weights (YuNet + SFace); the active engine is selected at
LoadModel time via `options: ["engine:..."]`.
* `gallery/index.yaml` gains three model entries —
`insightface-buffalo-l`, `insightface-opencv`,
`insightface-buffalo-s` — each setting the appropriate
`overrides.backend` + `overrides.options` so installing one
actually gives the user the intended engine. This matches how
`rfdetr-base` lives in the model gallery against the `rfdetr`
backend.
The earlier e2e tests passed despite this bug because the Makefile
targets pass `BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS` directly to LoadModel via gRPC,
bypassing any gallery resolution entirely. No code changes needed.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): cover all supported models in the gallery + drop weight baking
Follows up on the model-gallery split: adds entries for every model
configuration either engine actually supports, and switches weight
delivery from image-baked to LocalAI's standard gallery mechanism.
Gallery now has seven `insightface-*` model entries (gallery/index.yaml):
insightface (family) — non-commercial research use
• buffalo-l (326MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet50 + genderage, default
• buffalo-m (313MB) — SCRFD-2.5GF + ResNet50 + genderage
• buffalo-s (159MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF + genderage
• buffalo-sc (16MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF, recognition only
(no landmarks, no demographics — analyze
returns empty attributes)
• antelopev2 (407MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet100@Glint360K + genderage
OpenCV Zoo family — Apache 2.0 commercial-safe
• opencv — YuNet + SFace fp32 (~40MB)
• opencv-int8 — YuNet + SFace int8 (~12MB, ~3x smaller, faster on CPU)
Model weights are no longer baked into the backend image. The image
now ships only the Python runtime + libraries (~275MB content size,
~1.18GB disk vs ~1.21GB when weights were baked). Weights flow through
LocalAI's gallery mechanism:
* OpenCV variants list `files:` with ONNX URIs + SHA-256, so
`local-ai models install insightface-opencv` pulls them into the
models directory exactly like any other gallery-managed model.
* insightface packs (upstream distributes .zip archives only, not
individual ONNX files) auto-download on first LoadModel via
FaceAnalysis' built-in machinery, rooted at the LocalAI models
directory so they live alongside everything else — same pattern
`rfdetr` uses with `inference.get_model()`.
Backend changes (backend/python/insightface/):
* backend.py — LoadModel propagates `ModelOptions.ModelPath` (the
LocalAI models directory) to engines via a `_model_dir` hint.
This replaces the earlier ModelFile-dirname approach; ModelPath
is the canonical "models directory" variable set by the Go loader
(pkg/model/initializers.go:144) and is always populated.
* engines.py::_resolve_model_path — picks up `model_dir` and searches
it (plus basename-in-model-dir) before falling back to the dev
script-dir. This is how OnnxDirectEngine finds gallery-downloaded
YuNet/SFace files by filename only.
* engines.py::_flatten_insightface_pack — new helper that works
around an upstream packaging inconsistency: buffalo_l/s/sc zips
expand flat, but buffalo_m and antelopev2 zips wrap their ONNX
files in a redundant `<name>/` directory. insightface's own
loader looks one level too shallow and fails. We call
`ensure_available()` explicitly, flatten if nested, then hand to
FaceAnalysis.
* engines.py::InsightFaceEngine.prepare — root-resolution order now
includes the `_model_dir` hint so packs download into the LocalAI
models directory by default.
* install.sh — no longer pre-downloads any weights. Everything is
gallery-managed now.
* smoke.py (new) — parametrized smoke test that iterates over every
gallery configuration, simulating the LocalAI install flow
(creates a models dir, fetches OpenCV files with checksum
verification, lets insightface auto-download its packs), then
runs detect + embed + verify (+ analyze where supported) through
the in-process BackendServicer.
* test.py — OnnxDirectEngineTest no longer hardcodes `/models/opencv/`
paths; downloads ONNX files to a temp dir at setUpClass time and
passes ModelPath accordingly.
Registry change (core/services/facerecognition/store_registry.go):
* `dim=0` in NewStoreRegistry now means "accept whatever dimension
arrives" — needed because the backend supports 512-d ArcFace/MBF
and 128-d SFace via the same Registry. A non-zero dim still fails
fast with ErrDimensionMismatch.
* core/application plumbs `faceEmbeddingDim = 0`, explaining the
rationale in the comment.
Backend gallery description updated to reflect that the image carries
no weights — it's just Python + engines.
Smoke-tested all 7 configurations against the rebuilt image (with the
flatten fix applied), exit 0:
PASS: insightface-buffalo-l faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-sc faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-s faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-m faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-antelopev2 faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv-int8 faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
7/7 passed
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): pre-fetch OpenCV ONNX for e2e target; drop stale pre-baked claim
CI regression from the previous commit: I moved OpenCV Zoo weight
delivery to LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism, but the
test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv target was still passing
relative paths `detector_onnx:models/opencv/yunet.onnx` in
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS. The e2e suite drives LoadModel directly over
gRPC without going through the gallery, so those relative paths
resolved to nothing and OpenCV's ONNXImporter failed:
LoadModel failed: Failed to load face engine:
OpenCV(4.13.0) ... Can't read ONNX file: models/opencv/yunet.onnx
Fix: add an `insightface-opencv-models` prerequisite target that
fetches the two ONNX files (YuNet + SFace) to a deterministic host
cache at /tmp/localai-insightface-opencv-cache/, verifies SHA-256,
and skips the download on re-runs. The opencv test target depends on
it and passes absolute paths in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS, so the backend
finds the files via its normal absolute-path resolution branch.
Also refresh the buffalo_l comment: it no longer says "pre-baked"
(nothing is — the pack auto-downloads from upstream's GitHub release
on first LoadModel, same as in CI).
Locally verified: `make test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv` passes
5/5 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed, face_verify).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): add POST /v1/face/embed + correct /v1/embeddings docs
The docs promised that /v1/embeddings returns face vectors when you
send an image data-URI. That was never true: /v1/embeddings is
OpenAI-compatible and text-only by contract — its handler goes
through `core/backend/embeddings.go::ModelEmbedding`, which sets
`predictOptions.Embeddings = s` (a string of TEXT to embed) and never
populates `predictOptions.Images[]`. The Python backend's Embedding
gRPC method does handle Images[] (that's how /v1/face/register reaches
it internally via `backend.FaceEmbed`), but the HTTP embeddings
endpoint wasn't wired to populate it.
Rather than overload /v1/embeddings with image-vs-text detection —
messy, and the endpoint is OpenAI-compatible by design — add a
dedicated /v1/face/embed endpoint that wraps `backend.FaceEmbed`
(already used internally by /v1/face/register and /v1/face/identify).
Matches LocalAI's convention of a dedicated path per non-standard flow
(/v1/rerank, /v1/detection, /v1/face/verify etc.).
Response:
{
"embedding": [<dim> floats, L2-normed],
"dim": int, // 512 for ArcFace R50 / MBF, 128 for SFace
"model": "<name>"
}
Live-tested on the opencv engine: returns a 128-d L2-normalized vector
(sum(x^2) = 1.0000). Sentinel in docs updated to note /v1/embeddings
is text-only and point image users at /v1/face/embed instead.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(http): map malformed image input + gRPC status codes to proper 4xx
Image-input failures on LocalAI's single-image endpoints (/v1/detection,
/v1/face/{verify,analyze,embed,register,identify}) have historically
returned 500 — even when the client was the one who sent garbage.
Classic example: you POST an "image" that isn't a URL, isn't a
data-URI, and isn't a valid JPEG/PNG — the server shouldn't claim
that's its fault.
Two helpers land in core/http/endpoints/localai/images.go and every
single-image handler is switched over:
* decodeImageInput(s)
Wraps utils.GetContentURIAsBase64 and turns any failure
(invalid URL, not a data-URI, download error, etc.) into
echo.NewHTTPError(400, "invalid image input: ...").
* mapBackendError(err)
Inspects the gRPC status on a backend call error and maps:
INVALID_ARGUMENT → 400 Bad Request
NOT_FOUND → 404 Not Found
FAILED_PRECONDITION → 412 Precondition Failed
Unimplemented → 501 Not Implemented
All other codes fall through unchanged (still 500).
Before, my 1×1 PNG error-path test returned:
HTTP 500 "rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = failed to decode one or both images"
After:
HTTP 400 "failed to decode one or both images"
Scope-limited to the LocalAI single-image endpoints. The multi-modal
paths (middleware/request.go, openresponses/responses.go,
openai/realtime.go) intentionally log-and-skip individual media parts
when decoding fails — different design intent (graceful degradation
of a multi-part message), not a 400-worthy failure. Left untouched.
Live-verified: every error case in /tmp/face_errors.py now returns
4xx with a meaningful message; the "image with no face (1x1 PNG)"
case specifically went from 500 → 400.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* refactor(face-recognition): insightface packs go through gallery files:, drop FaceAnalysis
Follows up on the discovery that LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism
handles archives (zip, tar.gz, …) via mholt/archiver/v3 — the rhasspy
piper voices use exactly this pattern. Insightface packs are zip
archives, so we can now deliver them the same way every other
gallery-managed model gets delivered: declaratively, checksum-verified,
through LocalAI's standard download+extract pipeline.
Two changes:
1. Gallery (gallery/index.yaml) — every insightface-* entry gains a
`files:` list with the pack zip's URI + SHA-256. `local-ai models
install insightface-buffalo-l` now fetches the zip, verifies the
hash, and extracts it into the models directory. No more reliance
on insightface's library-internal `ensure_available()` auto-download
or its hardcoded `BASE_REPO_URL`.
2. InsightFaceEngine (backend/python/insightface/engines.py) — drops
the FaceAnalysis wrapper and drives insightface's `model_zoo`
directly. The ~50 lines FaceAnalysis provides — glob ONNX files,
route each through `model_zoo.get_model()`, build a
`{taskname: model}` dict, loop per-face at inference — are
reimplemented in `InsightFaceEngine`. The actual inference classes
(RetinaFace, ArcFaceONNX, Attribute, Landmark) are still
insightface's — we only replicate the glue, so drift risk against
upstream is minimal.
Why drop FaceAnalysis: it hard-codes a `<root>/models/<name>/*.onnx`
layout that doesn't match what LocalAI's zip extraction produces.
LocalAI unpacks archives flat into `<models_dir>`. Upstream packs
are inconsistent — buffalo_l/s/sc ship ONNX at the zip root (lands
at `<models_dir>/*.onnx`), buffalo_m/antelopev2 wrap in a redundant
`<name>/` dir (lands at `<models_dir>/<name>/*.onnx`). The new
`_locate_insightface_pack` helper searches both locations plus
legacy paths and returns whichever has ONNX files. Replaces the
earlier `_flatten_insightface_pack` helper (which tried to fight
FaceAnalysis's layout expectations; now we just find the files
wherever they are).
Net effect for users: install once via LocalAI's managed flow,
weights live alongside every other model, progress shows in the
jobs endpoint, no first-load network call. Same API surface,
cleaner plumbing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): CI's insightface e2e path needs the pack pre-fetched
The e2e suite drives LoadModel over gRPC without going through LocalAI's
gallery flow, so the engine's `_model_dir` option (normally populated
from ModelPath) is empty. Previously the insightface target relied on
FaceAnalysis auto-download to paper over this, but we dropped
FaceAnalysis in favor of direct model_zoo calls — so the buffalo_l
target started failing at LoadModel with "no insightface pack found".
Mirror the opencv target's pre-fetch pattern: download buffalo_sc.zip
(same SHA as the gallery entry), extract it on the host, and pass
`root:<dir>` so the engine locates the pack without needing
ModelPath. Switched to buffalo_sc (smallest pack, ~16MB) to keep CI
fast; it covers the same insightface engine code path as buffalo_l.
Face analyze cap dropped since buffalo_sc has no age/gender head.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* feat(face-recognition): surface face-recognition in advertised feature maps
The six /v1/face/* endpoints were missing from every place LocalAI
advertises its feature surface to clients:
* api_instructions — the machine-readable capability index at
GET /api/instructions. Added `face-recognition` as a dedicated
instruction area with an intro that calls out the in-memory
registry caveat and the /v1/face/embed vs /v1/embeddings split.
* auth/permissions — added FeatureFaceRecognition constant, routed
all six face endpoints through it so admins can gate them per-user
like any other API feature. Default ON (matches the other API
features).
* React UI capabilities — CAP_FACE_RECOGNITION symbol mapped to
FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION. Declared only for now; the Face page is a
follow-up (noted in the plan).
Instruction count bumped 9 → 10; test updated.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* docs(agents): capture advertising-surface steps in the endpoint guide
Before this change, adding a new /v1/* endpoint reliably missed one or
more of: the swagger @Tags annotation, the /api/instructions registry,
the auth RouteFeatureRegistry, and the React UI CAP_* symbol. The
endpoint would work but be invisible to API consumers, admins, and the
UI — and nothing in the existing docs said to look in those places.
Extend .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md with a new "Advertising
surfaces" section covering all four surfaces (swagger tags, /api/
instructions, capabilities.js, docs/), and expand the closing checklist
so it's impossible to ship a feature without visiting each one. Hoist a
one-liner reminder into AGENTS.md's Quick Reference so agents skim it
before diving in.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
2026-04-22 19:55:41 +00:00
.PHONY : insightface -opencv -models
insightface-opencv-models :
@mkdir -p $( INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_DIR)
@if [ " $$ (sha256sum $( INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_DIR) /yunet.onnx 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $$ 1}') " != " $( INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_YUNET_SHA) " ] ; then \
echo "Fetching YuNet..." ; \
curl -fsSL -o $( INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_DIR) /yunet.onnx $( INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_YUNET_URL) ; \
echo " $( INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_YUNET_SHA) $( INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_DIR) /yunet.onnx " | sha256sum -c; \
fi
@if [ " $$ (sha256sum $( INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_DIR) /sface.onnx 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $$ 1}') " != " $( INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_SFACE_SHA) " ] ; then \
echo "Fetching SFace..." ; \
curl -fsSL -o $( INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_DIR) /sface.onnx $( INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_SFACE_URL) ; \
echo " $( INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_SFACE_SHA) $( INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_DIR) /sface.onnx " | sha256sum -c; \
fi
feat(insightface): add antispoofing (liveness) detection (#9515)
* feat(insightface): add antispoofing (liveness) detection
Light up the anti_spoofing flag that was parked during the first pass.
Both FaceVerify and FaceAnalyze now run the Silent-Face MiniFASNetV2 +
MiniFASNetV1SE ensemble (~4 MB, Apache 2.0, CPU <10ms) when the flag is
set. Failed liveness on either image vetoes FaceVerify regardless of
embedding similarity. Every insightface* gallery entry now ships the
MiniFASNet ONNX weights so existing packs light up after reinstall.
Setting the flag against a model without the MiniFASNet files returns
FAILED_PRECONDITION (HTTP 412) with a clear install message — no
silent is_real=false.
FaceVerifyResponse gained per-image img{1,2}_is_real and
img{1,2}_antispoof_score (proto 9-12); FaceAnalysis's existing
is_real/antispoof_score fields are now populated. Schema fields are
pointers so they are fully absent from the JSON response when
anti_spoofing was not requested — avoids collapsing "not checked" with
"checked and fake" under Go's omitempty on bool.
Validated end-to-end over HTTP against a local install:
- verify + anti_spoofing, both real -> verified=true, score ~0.76
- verify + anti_spoofing, img2 spoof -> verified=false, img2_is_real=false
- analyze + anti_spoofing -> is_real and score per face
- flag against model without MiniFASNet -> HTTP 412 fail-loud
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 go vet
* test(insightface): wire test target into test-extra
The root Makefile's `test-extra` already runs
`$(MAKE) -C backend/python/insightface test`, but the backend's
Makefile never defined the target — so the command silently errored
and the suite was never executed in CI. Adding the two-line target
(matching ace-step/Makefile) hooks `test.sh` → `runUnittests` →
`python -m unittest test.py`, which discovers both the pre-existing
engine classes (InsightFaceEngineTest, OnnxDirectEngineTest) and the
new AntispoofingTest. Each class skips gracefully when its weights
can't be downloaded from a network-restricted runner.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* test(insightface): exercise antispoofing in e2e-backends (both paths)
Add a `face_antispoof` capability to the Ginkgo e2e suite and extend
the existing FaceVerify + FaceAnalyze specs with liveness assertions
covering BOTH paths:
real fixture -> is_real=true, score>0, verified stays true
spoof fixture -> is_real=false, verified vetoed to false
The spoof fixture is upstream's own `image_F2.jpg` (via the yakhyo
mirror) — verified locally against the MiniFASNetV2+V1SE ensemble to
classify as is_real=false with score ~0.013. That makes the assertion
deterministic across CI runs; synthetic/derived spoofs fool the model
unpredictably and would be flaky.
Makefile wires it up end-to-end:
- New INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_* cache dir + two ONNX downloads with
pinned SHAs, matching the gallery entries.
- insightface-antispoof-models target shared by both backend configs.
- FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL passed via BACKEND_TEST_FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL.
- Both e2e targets (buffalo-sc + opencv) now:
* depend on insightface-antispoof-models
* pass antispoof_v2_onnx / antispoof_v1se_onnx in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS
* include face_antispoof in BACKEND_TEST_CAPS
backend_test.go adds the new capability constant and a faceSpoofFile
fixture resolved the same way as faceFile1/2/3. Spoof assertions are
gated on both capFaceAntispoof AND faceSpoofFile being set, so a test
config that omits the spoof fixture degrades gracefully to "real path
only" instead of failing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 go vet
2026-04-23 16:28:15 +00:00
.PHONY : insightface -antispoof -models
insightface-antispoof-models :
@mkdir -p $( INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR)
@if [ " $$ (sha256sum $( INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR) /MiniFASNetV2.onnx 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $$ 1}') " != " $( INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_V2_SHA) " ] ; then \
echo "Fetching MiniFASNetV2..." ; \
curl -fsSL -o $( INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR) /MiniFASNetV2.onnx $( INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_V2_URL) ; \
echo " $( INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_V2_SHA) $( INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR) /MiniFASNetV2.onnx " | sha256sum -c; \
fi
@if [ " $$ (sha256sum $( INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR) /MiniFASNetV1SE.onnx 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $$ 1}') " != " $( INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_V1SE_SHA) " ] ; then \
echo "Fetching MiniFASNetV1SE..." ; \
curl -fsSL -o $( INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR) /MiniFASNetV1SE.onnx $( INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_V1SE_URL) ; \
echo " $( INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_V1SE_SHA) $( INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR) /MiniFASNetV1SE.onnx " | sha256sum -c; \
fi
feat(face-recognition): add insightface/onnx backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis (#9480)
* feat(face-recognition): add insightface backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis
Adds face recognition as a new first-class capability in LocalAI via the
`insightface` Python backend, with a pluggable two-engine design so
non-commercial (insightface model packs) and commercial-safe
(OpenCV Zoo YuNet + SFace) models share the same gRPC/HTTP surface.
New gRPC RPCs (backend/backend.proto):
* FaceVerify(FaceVerifyRequest) returns FaceVerifyResponse
* FaceAnalyze(FaceAnalyzeRequest) returns FaceAnalyzeResponse
Existing Embedding and Detect RPCs are reused (face image in
PredictOptions.Images / DetectOptions.src) for face embedding and
face detection respectively.
New HTTP endpoints under /v1/face/:
* verify — 1:1 image pair same-person decision
* analyze — per-face age + gender (emotion/race reserved)
* register — 1:N enrollment; stores embedding in vector store
* identify — 1:N recognition; detect → embed → StoresFind
* forget — remove a registered face by opaque ID
Service layer (core/services/facerecognition/) introduces a
`Registry` interface with one in-memory `storeRegistry` impl backed
by LocalAI's existing local-store gRPC vector backend. HTTP handlers
depend on the interface, not on StoresSet/StoresFind directly, so a
persistent PostgreSQL/pgvector implementation can be slotted in via a
single constructor change in core/application (TODO marker in the
package doc).
New usecase flag FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION; insightface is also wired
into FLAG_DETECTION so /v1/detection works for face bounding boxes.
Gallery (backend/index.yaml) ships three entries:
* insightface-buffalo-l — SCRFD-10GF + ArcFace R50 + genderage
(~326MB pre-baked; non-commercial research use only)
* insightface-opencv — YuNet + SFace (~40MB pre-baked; Apache 2.0)
* insightface-buffalo-s — SCRFD-500MF + MBF (runtime download; non-commercial)
Python backend (backend/python/insightface/):
* engines.py — FaceEngine protocol with InsightFaceEngine and
OnnxDirectEngine; resolves model paths relative to the backend
directory so the same gallery config works in docker-scratch and
in the e2e-backends rootfs-extraction harness.
* backend.py — gRPC servicer implementing Health, LoadModel, Status,
Embedding, Detect, FaceVerify, FaceAnalyze.
* install.sh — pre-bakes buffalo_l + OpenCV YuNet/SFace inside the
backend directory so first-run is offline-clean (the final scratch
image only preserves files under /<backend>/).
* test.py — parametrized unit tests over both engines.
Tests:
* Registry unit tests (go test -race ./core/services/facerecognition/...)
— in-memory fake grpc.Backend, table-driven, covers register/
identify/forget/error paths + concurrent access.
* tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go extended with face caps
(face_detect, face_embed, face_verify, face_analyze); relative
ordering + configurable verifyCeiling per engine.
* Makefile targets: test-extra-backend-insightface-buffalo-l,
-opencv, and the -all aggregate.
* CI: .github/workflows/test-extra.yml gains tests-insightface-grpc,
auto-triggered by changes under backend/python/insightface/.
Docs:
* docs/content/features/face-recognition.md — feature page with
license table, quickstart (defaults to the commercial-safe model),
models matrix, API reference, 1:N workflow, storage caveats.
* Cross-refs in object-detection.md, stores.md, embeddings.md, and
whats-new.md.
* Contributor README at backend/python/insightface/README.md.
Verified end-to-end:
* buffalo_l: 6/6 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed,
face_verify, face_analyze).
* opencv: 5/5 specs (same minus face_analyze — SFace has no
demographic head; correctly skipped via BACKEND_TEST_CAPS).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): move engine selection to model gallery, collapse backend entries
The previous commit put engine/model_pack options on backend gallery
entries (`backend/index.yaml`). That was wrong — `GalleryBackend`
(core/gallery/backend_types.go:32) has no `options` field, so the
YAML decoder silently dropped those keys and all three "different
insightface-*" backend entries resolved to the same container image
with no distinguishing configuration.
Correct split:
* `backend/index.yaml` now has ONE `insightface` backend entry
shipping the CPU + CUDA 12 container images. The Python backend
bundles both the non-commercial insightface model packs
(buffalo_l / buffalo_s) and the commercial-safe OpenCV Zoo
weights (YuNet + SFace); the active engine is selected at
LoadModel time via `options: ["engine:..."]`.
* `gallery/index.yaml` gains three model entries —
`insightface-buffalo-l`, `insightface-opencv`,
`insightface-buffalo-s` — each setting the appropriate
`overrides.backend` + `overrides.options` so installing one
actually gives the user the intended engine. This matches how
`rfdetr-base` lives in the model gallery against the `rfdetr`
backend.
The earlier e2e tests passed despite this bug because the Makefile
targets pass `BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS` directly to LoadModel via gRPC,
bypassing any gallery resolution entirely. No code changes needed.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): cover all supported models in the gallery + drop weight baking
Follows up on the model-gallery split: adds entries for every model
configuration either engine actually supports, and switches weight
delivery from image-baked to LocalAI's standard gallery mechanism.
Gallery now has seven `insightface-*` model entries (gallery/index.yaml):
insightface (family) — non-commercial research use
• buffalo-l (326MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet50 + genderage, default
• buffalo-m (313MB) — SCRFD-2.5GF + ResNet50 + genderage
• buffalo-s (159MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF + genderage
• buffalo-sc (16MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF, recognition only
(no landmarks, no demographics — analyze
returns empty attributes)
• antelopev2 (407MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet100@Glint360K + genderage
OpenCV Zoo family — Apache 2.0 commercial-safe
• opencv — YuNet + SFace fp32 (~40MB)
• opencv-int8 — YuNet + SFace int8 (~12MB, ~3x smaller, faster on CPU)
Model weights are no longer baked into the backend image. The image
now ships only the Python runtime + libraries (~275MB content size,
~1.18GB disk vs ~1.21GB when weights were baked). Weights flow through
LocalAI's gallery mechanism:
* OpenCV variants list `files:` with ONNX URIs + SHA-256, so
`local-ai models install insightface-opencv` pulls them into the
models directory exactly like any other gallery-managed model.
* insightface packs (upstream distributes .zip archives only, not
individual ONNX files) auto-download on first LoadModel via
FaceAnalysis' built-in machinery, rooted at the LocalAI models
directory so they live alongside everything else — same pattern
`rfdetr` uses with `inference.get_model()`.
Backend changes (backend/python/insightface/):
* backend.py — LoadModel propagates `ModelOptions.ModelPath` (the
LocalAI models directory) to engines via a `_model_dir` hint.
This replaces the earlier ModelFile-dirname approach; ModelPath
is the canonical "models directory" variable set by the Go loader
(pkg/model/initializers.go:144) and is always populated.
* engines.py::_resolve_model_path — picks up `model_dir` and searches
it (plus basename-in-model-dir) before falling back to the dev
script-dir. This is how OnnxDirectEngine finds gallery-downloaded
YuNet/SFace files by filename only.
* engines.py::_flatten_insightface_pack — new helper that works
around an upstream packaging inconsistency: buffalo_l/s/sc zips
expand flat, but buffalo_m and antelopev2 zips wrap their ONNX
files in a redundant `<name>/` directory. insightface's own
loader looks one level too shallow and fails. We call
`ensure_available()` explicitly, flatten if nested, then hand to
FaceAnalysis.
* engines.py::InsightFaceEngine.prepare — root-resolution order now
includes the `_model_dir` hint so packs download into the LocalAI
models directory by default.
* install.sh — no longer pre-downloads any weights. Everything is
gallery-managed now.
* smoke.py (new) — parametrized smoke test that iterates over every
gallery configuration, simulating the LocalAI install flow
(creates a models dir, fetches OpenCV files with checksum
verification, lets insightface auto-download its packs), then
runs detect + embed + verify (+ analyze where supported) through
the in-process BackendServicer.
* test.py — OnnxDirectEngineTest no longer hardcodes `/models/opencv/`
paths; downloads ONNX files to a temp dir at setUpClass time and
passes ModelPath accordingly.
Registry change (core/services/facerecognition/store_registry.go):
* `dim=0` in NewStoreRegistry now means "accept whatever dimension
arrives" — needed because the backend supports 512-d ArcFace/MBF
and 128-d SFace via the same Registry. A non-zero dim still fails
fast with ErrDimensionMismatch.
* core/application plumbs `faceEmbeddingDim = 0`, explaining the
rationale in the comment.
Backend gallery description updated to reflect that the image carries
no weights — it's just Python + engines.
Smoke-tested all 7 configurations against the rebuilt image (with the
flatten fix applied), exit 0:
PASS: insightface-buffalo-l faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-sc faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-s faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-m faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-antelopev2 faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv-int8 faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
7/7 passed
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): pre-fetch OpenCV ONNX for e2e target; drop stale pre-baked claim
CI regression from the previous commit: I moved OpenCV Zoo weight
delivery to LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism, but the
test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv target was still passing
relative paths `detector_onnx:models/opencv/yunet.onnx` in
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS. The e2e suite drives LoadModel directly over
gRPC without going through the gallery, so those relative paths
resolved to nothing and OpenCV's ONNXImporter failed:
LoadModel failed: Failed to load face engine:
OpenCV(4.13.0) ... Can't read ONNX file: models/opencv/yunet.onnx
Fix: add an `insightface-opencv-models` prerequisite target that
fetches the two ONNX files (YuNet + SFace) to a deterministic host
cache at /tmp/localai-insightface-opencv-cache/, verifies SHA-256,
and skips the download on re-runs. The opencv test target depends on
it and passes absolute paths in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS, so the backend
finds the files via its normal absolute-path resolution branch.
Also refresh the buffalo_l comment: it no longer says "pre-baked"
(nothing is — the pack auto-downloads from upstream's GitHub release
on first LoadModel, same as in CI).
Locally verified: `make test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv` passes
5/5 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed, face_verify).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): add POST /v1/face/embed + correct /v1/embeddings docs
The docs promised that /v1/embeddings returns face vectors when you
send an image data-URI. That was never true: /v1/embeddings is
OpenAI-compatible and text-only by contract — its handler goes
through `core/backend/embeddings.go::ModelEmbedding`, which sets
`predictOptions.Embeddings = s` (a string of TEXT to embed) and never
populates `predictOptions.Images[]`. The Python backend's Embedding
gRPC method does handle Images[] (that's how /v1/face/register reaches
it internally via `backend.FaceEmbed`), but the HTTP embeddings
endpoint wasn't wired to populate it.
Rather than overload /v1/embeddings with image-vs-text detection —
messy, and the endpoint is OpenAI-compatible by design — add a
dedicated /v1/face/embed endpoint that wraps `backend.FaceEmbed`
(already used internally by /v1/face/register and /v1/face/identify).
Matches LocalAI's convention of a dedicated path per non-standard flow
(/v1/rerank, /v1/detection, /v1/face/verify etc.).
Response:
{
"embedding": [<dim> floats, L2-normed],
"dim": int, // 512 for ArcFace R50 / MBF, 128 for SFace
"model": "<name>"
}
Live-tested on the opencv engine: returns a 128-d L2-normalized vector
(sum(x^2) = 1.0000). Sentinel in docs updated to note /v1/embeddings
is text-only and point image users at /v1/face/embed instead.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(http): map malformed image input + gRPC status codes to proper 4xx
Image-input failures on LocalAI's single-image endpoints (/v1/detection,
/v1/face/{verify,analyze,embed,register,identify}) have historically
returned 500 — even when the client was the one who sent garbage.
Classic example: you POST an "image" that isn't a URL, isn't a
data-URI, and isn't a valid JPEG/PNG — the server shouldn't claim
that's its fault.
Two helpers land in core/http/endpoints/localai/images.go and every
single-image handler is switched over:
* decodeImageInput(s)
Wraps utils.GetContentURIAsBase64 and turns any failure
(invalid URL, not a data-URI, download error, etc.) into
echo.NewHTTPError(400, "invalid image input: ...").
* mapBackendError(err)
Inspects the gRPC status on a backend call error and maps:
INVALID_ARGUMENT → 400 Bad Request
NOT_FOUND → 404 Not Found
FAILED_PRECONDITION → 412 Precondition Failed
Unimplemented → 501 Not Implemented
All other codes fall through unchanged (still 500).
Before, my 1×1 PNG error-path test returned:
HTTP 500 "rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = failed to decode one or both images"
After:
HTTP 400 "failed to decode one or both images"
Scope-limited to the LocalAI single-image endpoints. The multi-modal
paths (middleware/request.go, openresponses/responses.go,
openai/realtime.go) intentionally log-and-skip individual media parts
when decoding fails — different design intent (graceful degradation
of a multi-part message), not a 400-worthy failure. Left untouched.
Live-verified: every error case in /tmp/face_errors.py now returns
4xx with a meaningful message; the "image with no face (1x1 PNG)"
case specifically went from 500 → 400.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* refactor(face-recognition): insightface packs go through gallery files:, drop FaceAnalysis
Follows up on the discovery that LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism
handles archives (zip, tar.gz, …) via mholt/archiver/v3 — the rhasspy
piper voices use exactly this pattern. Insightface packs are zip
archives, so we can now deliver them the same way every other
gallery-managed model gets delivered: declaratively, checksum-verified,
through LocalAI's standard download+extract pipeline.
Two changes:
1. Gallery (gallery/index.yaml) — every insightface-* entry gains a
`files:` list with the pack zip's URI + SHA-256. `local-ai models
install insightface-buffalo-l` now fetches the zip, verifies the
hash, and extracts it into the models directory. No more reliance
on insightface's library-internal `ensure_available()` auto-download
or its hardcoded `BASE_REPO_URL`.
2. InsightFaceEngine (backend/python/insightface/engines.py) — drops
the FaceAnalysis wrapper and drives insightface's `model_zoo`
directly. The ~50 lines FaceAnalysis provides — glob ONNX files,
route each through `model_zoo.get_model()`, build a
`{taskname: model}` dict, loop per-face at inference — are
reimplemented in `InsightFaceEngine`. The actual inference classes
(RetinaFace, ArcFaceONNX, Attribute, Landmark) are still
insightface's — we only replicate the glue, so drift risk against
upstream is minimal.
Why drop FaceAnalysis: it hard-codes a `<root>/models/<name>/*.onnx`
layout that doesn't match what LocalAI's zip extraction produces.
LocalAI unpacks archives flat into `<models_dir>`. Upstream packs
are inconsistent — buffalo_l/s/sc ship ONNX at the zip root (lands
at `<models_dir>/*.onnx`), buffalo_m/antelopev2 wrap in a redundant
`<name>/` dir (lands at `<models_dir>/<name>/*.onnx`). The new
`_locate_insightface_pack` helper searches both locations plus
legacy paths and returns whichever has ONNX files. Replaces the
earlier `_flatten_insightface_pack` helper (which tried to fight
FaceAnalysis's layout expectations; now we just find the files
wherever they are).
Net effect for users: install once via LocalAI's managed flow,
weights live alongside every other model, progress shows in the
jobs endpoint, no first-load network call. Same API surface,
cleaner plumbing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): CI's insightface e2e path needs the pack pre-fetched
The e2e suite drives LoadModel over gRPC without going through LocalAI's
gallery flow, so the engine's `_model_dir` option (normally populated
from ModelPath) is empty. Previously the insightface target relied on
FaceAnalysis auto-download to paper over this, but we dropped
FaceAnalysis in favor of direct model_zoo calls — so the buffalo_l
target started failing at LoadModel with "no insightface pack found".
Mirror the opencv target's pre-fetch pattern: download buffalo_sc.zip
(same SHA as the gallery entry), extract it on the host, and pass
`root:<dir>` so the engine locates the pack without needing
ModelPath. Switched to buffalo_sc (smallest pack, ~16MB) to keep CI
fast; it covers the same insightface engine code path as buffalo_l.
Face analyze cap dropped since buffalo_sc has no age/gender head.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* feat(face-recognition): surface face-recognition in advertised feature maps
The six /v1/face/* endpoints were missing from every place LocalAI
advertises its feature surface to clients:
* api_instructions — the machine-readable capability index at
GET /api/instructions. Added `face-recognition` as a dedicated
instruction area with an intro that calls out the in-memory
registry caveat and the /v1/face/embed vs /v1/embeddings split.
* auth/permissions — added FeatureFaceRecognition constant, routed
all six face endpoints through it so admins can gate them per-user
like any other API feature. Default ON (matches the other API
features).
* React UI capabilities — CAP_FACE_RECOGNITION symbol mapped to
FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION. Declared only for now; the Face page is a
follow-up (noted in the plan).
Instruction count bumped 9 → 10; test updated.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* docs(agents): capture advertising-surface steps in the endpoint guide
Before this change, adding a new /v1/* endpoint reliably missed one or
more of: the swagger @Tags annotation, the /api/instructions registry,
the auth RouteFeatureRegistry, and the React UI CAP_* symbol. The
endpoint would work but be invisible to API consumers, admins, and the
UI — and nothing in the existing docs said to look in those places.
Extend .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md with a new "Advertising
surfaces" section covering all four surfaces (swagger tags, /api/
instructions, capabilities.js, docs/), and expand the closing checklist
so it's impossible to ship a feature without visiting each one. Hoist a
one-liner reminder into AGENTS.md's Quick Reference so agents skim it
before diving in.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
2026-04-22 19:55:41 +00:00
.PHONY : insightface -buffalo -sc -models
insightface-buffalo-sc-models :
@mkdir -p $( INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_DIR)
@if [ " $$ (sha256sum $( INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_DIR) /buffalo_sc.zip 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $$ 1}') " != " $( INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_SHA) " ] ; then \
echo "Fetching buffalo_sc..." ; \
curl -fsSL -o $( INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_DIR) /buffalo_sc.zip $( INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_URL) ; \
echo " $( INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_SHA) $( INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_DIR) /buffalo_sc.zip " | sha256sum -c; \
rm -f $( INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_DIR) /*.onnx; \
fi
@if [ ! -f " $( INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_DIR) /det_500m.onnx " ] ; then \
echo "Extracting buffalo_sc..." ; \
unzip -o -q $( INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_DIR) /buffalo_sc.zip -d $( INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_DIR) ; \
fi
## buffalo_sc — smallest insightface pack (SCRFD-500MF detector + MBF
## recognizer, ~16MB). Exercises the insightface engine code path
## (model_zoo-backed inference) without the ~326MB buffalo_l download.
## No age/gender/landmark heads — face_analyze is dropped from caps.
## The pack is pre-fetched on the host and passed as `root:<dir>` since
## the e2e suite drives LoadModel directly without going through
## LocalAI's gallery flow (which is what would normally populate
## ModelPath and in turn the engine's `_model_dir` option).
feat(insightface): add antispoofing (liveness) detection (#9515)
* feat(insightface): add antispoofing (liveness) detection
Light up the anti_spoofing flag that was parked during the first pass.
Both FaceVerify and FaceAnalyze now run the Silent-Face MiniFASNetV2 +
MiniFASNetV1SE ensemble (~4 MB, Apache 2.0, CPU <10ms) when the flag is
set. Failed liveness on either image vetoes FaceVerify regardless of
embedding similarity. Every insightface* gallery entry now ships the
MiniFASNet ONNX weights so existing packs light up after reinstall.
Setting the flag against a model without the MiniFASNet files returns
FAILED_PRECONDITION (HTTP 412) with a clear install message — no
silent is_real=false.
FaceVerifyResponse gained per-image img{1,2}_is_real and
img{1,2}_antispoof_score (proto 9-12); FaceAnalysis's existing
is_real/antispoof_score fields are now populated. Schema fields are
pointers so they are fully absent from the JSON response when
anti_spoofing was not requested — avoids collapsing "not checked" with
"checked and fake" under Go's omitempty on bool.
Validated end-to-end over HTTP against a local install:
- verify + anti_spoofing, both real -> verified=true, score ~0.76
- verify + anti_spoofing, img2 spoof -> verified=false, img2_is_real=false
- analyze + anti_spoofing -> is_real and score per face
- flag against model without MiniFASNet -> HTTP 412 fail-loud
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 go vet
* test(insightface): wire test target into test-extra
The root Makefile's `test-extra` already runs
`$(MAKE) -C backend/python/insightface test`, but the backend's
Makefile never defined the target — so the command silently errored
and the suite was never executed in CI. Adding the two-line target
(matching ace-step/Makefile) hooks `test.sh` → `runUnittests` →
`python -m unittest test.py`, which discovers both the pre-existing
engine classes (InsightFaceEngineTest, OnnxDirectEngineTest) and the
new AntispoofingTest. Each class skips gracefully when its weights
can't be downloaded from a network-restricted runner.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* test(insightface): exercise antispoofing in e2e-backends (both paths)
Add a `face_antispoof` capability to the Ginkgo e2e suite and extend
the existing FaceVerify + FaceAnalyze specs with liveness assertions
covering BOTH paths:
real fixture -> is_real=true, score>0, verified stays true
spoof fixture -> is_real=false, verified vetoed to false
The spoof fixture is upstream's own `image_F2.jpg` (via the yakhyo
mirror) — verified locally against the MiniFASNetV2+V1SE ensemble to
classify as is_real=false with score ~0.013. That makes the assertion
deterministic across CI runs; synthetic/derived spoofs fool the model
unpredictably and would be flaky.
Makefile wires it up end-to-end:
- New INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_* cache dir + two ONNX downloads with
pinned SHAs, matching the gallery entries.
- insightface-antispoof-models target shared by both backend configs.
- FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL passed via BACKEND_TEST_FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL.
- Both e2e targets (buffalo-sc + opencv) now:
* depend on insightface-antispoof-models
* pass antispoof_v2_onnx / antispoof_v1se_onnx in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS
* include face_antispoof in BACKEND_TEST_CAPS
backend_test.go adds the new capability constant and a faceSpoofFile
fixture resolved the same way as faceFile1/2/3. Spoof assertions are
gated on both capFaceAntispoof AND faceSpoofFile being set, so a test
config that omits the spoof fixture degrades gracefully to "real path
only" instead of failing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 go vet
2026-04-23 16:28:15 +00:00
test-extra-backend-insightface-buffalo-sc : docker -build -insightface insightface -buffalo -sc -models insightface -antispoof -models
feat(face-recognition): add insightface/onnx backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis (#9480)
* feat(face-recognition): add insightface backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis
Adds face recognition as a new first-class capability in LocalAI via the
`insightface` Python backend, with a pluggable two-engine design so
non-commercial (insightface model packs) and commercial-safe
(OpenCV Zoo YuNet + SFace) models share the same gRPC/HTTP surface.
New gRPC RPCs (backend/backend.proto):
* FaceVerify(FaceVerifyRequest) returns FaceVerifyResponse
* FaceAnalyze(FaceAnalyzeRequest) returns FaceAnalyzeResponse
Existing Embedding and Detect RPCs are reused (face image in
PredictOptions.Images / DetectOptions.src) for face embedding and
face detection respectively.
New HTTP endpoints under /v1/face/:
* verify — 1:1 image pair same-person decision
* analyze — per-face age + gender (emotion/race reserved)
* register — 1:N enrollment; stores embedding in vector store
* identify — 1:N recognition; detect → embed → StoresFind
* forget — remove a registered face by opaque ID
Service layer (core/services/facerecognition/) introduces a
`Registry` interface with one in-memory `storeRegistry` impl backed
by LocalAI's existing local-store gRPC vector backend. HTTP handlers
depend on the interface, not on StoresSet/StoresFind directly, so a
persistent PostgreSQL/pgvector implementation can be slotted in via a
single constructor change in core/application (TODO marker in the
package doc).
New usecase flag FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION; insightface is also wired
into FLAG_DETECTION so /v1/detection works for face bounding boxes.
Gallery (backend/index.yaml) ships three entries:
* insightface-buffalo-l — SCRFD-10GF + ArcFace R50 + genderage
(~326MB pre-baked; non-commercial research use only)
* insightface-opencv — YuNet + SFace (~40MB pre-baked; Apache 2.0)
* insightface-buffalo-s — SCRFD-500MF + MBF (runtime download; non-commercial)
Python backend (backend/python/insightface/):
* engines.py — FaceEngine protocol with InsightFaceEngine and
OnnxDirectEngine; resolves model paths relative to the backend
directory so the same gallery config works in docker-scratch and
in the e2e-backends rootfs-extraction harness.
* backend.py — gRPC servicer implementing Health, LoadModel, Status,
Embedding, Detect, FaceVerify, FaceAnalyze.
* install.sh — pre-bakes buffalo_l + OpenCV YuNet/SFace inside the
backend directory so first-run is offline-clean (the final scratch
image only preserves files under /<backend>/).
* test.py — parametrized unit tests over both engines.
Tests:
* Registry unit tests (go test -race ./core/services/facerecognition/...)
— in-memory fake grpc.Backend, table-driven, covers register/
identify/forget/error paths + concurrent access.
* tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go extended with face caps
(face_detect, face_embed, face_verify, face_analyze); relative
ordering + configurable verifyCeiling per engine.
* Makefile targets: test-extra-backend-insightface-buffalo-l,
-opencv, and the -all aggregate.
* CI: .github/workflows/test-extra.yml gains tests-insightface-grpc,
auto-triggered by changes under backend/python/insightface/.
Docs:
* docs/content/features/face-recognition.md — feature page with
license table, quickstart (defaults to the commercial-safe model),
models matrix, API reference, 1:N workflow, storage caveats.
* Cross-refs in object-detection.md, stores.md, embeddings.md, and
whats-new.md.
* Contributor README at backend/python/insightface/README.md.
Verified end-to-end:
* buffalo_l: 6/6 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed,
face_verify, face_analyze).
* opencv: 5/5 specs (same minus face_analyze — SFace has no
demographic head; correctly skipped via BACKEND_TEST_CAPS).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): move engine selection to model gallery, collapse backend entries
The previous commit put engine/model_pack options on backend gallery
entries (`backend/index.yaml`). That was wrong — `GalleryBackend`
(core/gallery/backend_types.go:32) has no `options` field, so the
YAML decoder silently dropped those keys and all three "different
insightface-*" backend entries resolved to the same container image
with no distinguishing configuration.
Correct split:
* `backend/index.yaml` now has ONE `insightface` backend entry
shipping the CPU + CUDA 12 container images. The Python backend
bundles both the non-commercial insightface model packs
(buffalo_l / buffalo_s) and the commercial-safe OpenCV Zoo
weights (YuNet + SFace); the active engine is selected at
LoadModel time via `options: ["engine:..."]`.
* `gallery/index.yaml` gains three model entries —
`insightface-buffalo-l`, `insightface-opencv`,
`insightface-buffalo-s` — each setting the appropriate
`overrides.backend` + `overrides.options` so installing one
actually gives the user the intended engine. This matches how
`rfdetr-base` lives in the model gallery against the `rfdetr`
backend.
The earlier e2e tests passed despite this bug because the Makefile
targets pass `BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS` directly to LoadModel via gRPC,
bypassing any gallery resolution entirely. No code changes needed.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): cover all supported models in the gallery + drop weight baking
Follows up on the model-gallery split: adds entries for every model
configuration either engine actually supports, and switches weight
delivery from image-baked to LocalAI's standard gallery mechanism.
Gallery now has seven `insightface-*` model entries (gallery/index.yaml):
insightface (family) — non-commercial research use
• buffalo-l (326MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet50 + genderage, default
• buffalo-m (313MB) — SCRFD-2.5GF + ResNet50 + genderage
• buffalo-s (159MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF + genderage
• buffalo-sc (16MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF, recognition only
(no landmarks, no demographics — analyze
returns empty attributes)
• antelopev2 (407MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet100@Glint360K + genderage
OpenCV Zoo family — Apache 2.0 commercial-safe
• opencv — YuNet + SFace fp32 (~40MB)
• opencv-int8 — YuNet + SFace int8 (~12MB, ~3x smaller, faster on CPU)
Model weights are no longer baked into the backend image. The image
now ships only the Python runtime + libraries (~275MB content size,
~1.18GB disk vs ~1.21GB when weights were baked). Weights flow through
LocalAI's gallery mechanism:
* OpenCV variants list `files:` with ONNX URIs + SHA-256, so
`local-ai models install insightface-opencv` pulls them into the
models directory exactly like any other gallery-managed model.
* insightface packs (upstream distributes .zip archives only, not
individual ONNX files) auto-download on first LoadModel via
FaceAnalysis' built-in machinery, rooted at the LocalAI models
directory so they live alongside everything else — same pattern
`rfdetr` uses with `inference.get_model()`.
Backend changes (backend/python/insightface/):
* backend.py — LoadModel propagates `ModelOptions.ModelPath` (the
LocalAI models directory) to engines via a `_model_dir` hint.
This replaces the earlier ModelFile-dirname approach; ModelPath
is the canonical "models directory" variable set by the Go loader
(pkg/model/initializers.go:144) and is always populated.
* engines.py::_resolve_model_path — picks up `model_dir` and searches
it (plus basename-in-model-dir) before falling back to the dev
script-dir. This is how OnnxDirectEngine finds gallery-downloaded
YuNet/SFace files by filename only.
* engines.py::_flatten_insightface_pack — new helper that works
around an upstream packaging inconsistency: buffalo_l/s/sc zips
expand flat, but buffalo_m and antelopev2 zips wrap their ONNX
files in a redundant `<name>/` directory. insightface's own
loader looks one level too shallow and fails. We call
`ensure_available()` explicitly, flatten if nested, then hand to
FaceAnalysis.
* engines.py::InsightFaceEngine.prepare — root-resolution order now
includes the `_model_dir` hint so packs download into the LocalAI
models directory by default.
* install.sh — no longer pre-downloads any weights. Everything is
gallery-managed now.
* smoke.py (new) — parametrized smoke test that iterates over every
gallery configuration, simulating the LocalAI install flow
(creates a models dir, fetches OpenCV files with checksum
verification, lets insightface auto-download its packs), then
runs detect + embed + verify (+ analyze where supported) through
the in-process BackendServicer.
* test.py — OnnxDirectEngineTest no longer hardcodes `/models/opencv/`
paths; downloads ONNX files to a temp dir at setUpClass time and
passes ModelPath accordingly.
Registry change (core/services/facerecognition/store_registry.go):
* `dim=0` in NewStoreRegistry now means "accept whatever dimension
arrives" — needed because the backend supports 512-d ArcFace/MBF
and 128-d SFace via the same Registry. A non-zero dim still fails
fast with ErrDimensionMismatch.
* core/application plumbs `faceEmbeddingDim = 0`, explaining the
rationale in the comment.
Backend gallery description updated to reflect that the image carries
no weights — it's just Python + engines.
Smoke-tested all 7 configurations against the rebuilt image (with the
flatten fix applied), exit 0:
PASS: insightface-buffalo-l faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-sc faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-s faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-m faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-antelopev2 faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv-int8 faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
7/7 passed
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): pre-fetch OpenCV ONNX for e2e target; drop stale pre-baked claim
CI regression from the previous commit: I moved OpenCV Zoo weight
delivery to LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism, but the
test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv target was still passing
relative paths `detector_onnx:models/opencv/yunet.onnx` in
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS. The e2e suite drives LoadModel directly over
gRPC without going through the gallery, so those relative paths
resolved to nothing and OpenCV's ONNXImporter failed:
LoadModel failed: Failed to load face engine:
OpenCV(4.13.0) ... Can't read ONNX file: models/opencv/yunet.onnx
Fix: add an `insightface-opencv-models` prerequisite target that
fetches the two ONNX files (YuNet + SFace) to a deterministic host
cache at /tmp/localai-insightface-opencv-cache/, verifies SHA-256,
and skips the download on re-runs. The opencv test target depends on
it and passes absolute paths in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS, so the backend
finds the files via its normal absolute-path resolution branch.
Also refresh the buffalo_l comment: it no longer says "pre-baked"
(nothing is — the pack auto-downloads from upstream's GitHub release
on first LoadModel, same as in CI).
Locally verified: `make test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv` passes
5/5 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed, face_verify).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): add POST /v1/face/embed + correct /v1/embeddings docs
The docs promised that /v1/embeddings returns face vectors when you
send an image data-URI. That was never true: /v1/embeddings is
OpenAI-compatible and text-only by contract — its handler goes
through `core/backend/embeddings.go::ModelEmbedding`, which sets
`predictOptions.Embeddings = s` (a string of TEXT to embed) and never
populates `predictOptions.Images[]`. The Python backend's Embedding
gRPC method does handle Images[] (that's how /v1/face/register reaches
it internally via `backend.FaceEmbed`), but the HTTP embeddings
endpoint wasn't wired to populate it.
Rather than overload /v1/embeddings with image-vs-text detection —
messy, and the endpoint is OpenAI-compatible by design — add a
dedicated /v1/face/embed endpoint that wraps `backend.FaceEmbed`
(already used internally by /v1/face/register and /v1/face/identify).
Matches LocalAI's convention of a dedicated path per non-standard flow
(/v1/rerank, /v1/detection, /v1/face/verify etc.).
Response:
{
"embedding": [<dim> floats, L2-normed],
"dim": int, // 512 for ArcFace R50 / MBF, 128 for SFace
"model": "<name>"
}
Live-tested on the opencv engine: returns a 128-d L2-normalized vector
(sum(x^2) = 1.0000). Sentinel in docs updated to note /v1/embeddings
is text-only and point image users at /v1/face/embed instead.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(http): map malformed image input + gRPC status codes to proper 4xx
Image-input failures on LocalAI's single-image endpoints (/v1/detection,
/v1/face/{verify,analyze,embed,register,identify}) have historically
returned 500 — even when the client was the one who sent garbage.
Classic example: you POST an "image" that isn't a URL, isn't a
data-URI, and isn't a valid JPEG/PNG — the server shouldn't claim
that's its fault.
Two helpers land in core/http/endpoints/localai/images.go and every
single-image handler is switched over:
* decodeImageInput(s)
Wraps utils.GetContentURIAsBase64 and turns any failure
(invalid URL, not a data-URI, download error, etc.) into
echo.NewHTTPError(400, "invalid image input: ...").
* mapBackendError(err)
Inspects the gRPC status on a backend call error and maps:
INVALID_ARGUMENT → 400 Bad Request
NOT_FOUND → 404 Not Found
FAILED_PRECONDITION → 412 Precondition Failed
Unimplemented → 501 Not Implemented
All other codes fall through unchanged (still 500).
Before, my 1×1 PNG error-path test returned:
HTTP 500 "rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = failed to decode one or both images"
After:
HTTP 400 "failed to decode one or both images"
Scope-limited to the LocalAI single-image endpoints. The multi-modal
paths (middleware/request.go, openresponses/responses.go,
openai/realtime.go) intentionally log-and-skip individual media parts
when decoding fails — different design intent (graceful degradation
of a multi-part message), not a 400-worthy failure. Left untouched.
Live-verified: every error case in /tmp/face_errors.py now returns
4xx with a meaningful message; the "image with no face (1x1 PNG)"
case specifically went from 500 → 400.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* refactor(face-recognition): insightface packs go through gallery files:, drop FaceAnalysis
Follows up on the discovery that LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism
handles archives (zip, tar.gz, …) via mholt/archiver/v3 — the rhasspy
piper voices use exactly this pattern. Insightface packs are zip
archives, so we can now deliver them the same way every other
gallery-managed model gets delivered: declaratively, checksum-verified,
through LocalAI's standard download+extract pipeline.
Two changes:
1. Gallery (gallery/index.yaml) — every insightface-* entry gains a
`files:` list with the pack zip's URI + SHA-256. `local-ai models
install insightface-buffalo-l` now fetches the zip, verifies the
hash, and extracts it into the models directory. No more reliance
on insightface's library-internal `ensure_available()` auto-download
or its hardcoded `BASE_REPO_URL`.
2. InsightFaceEngine (backend/python/insightface/engines.py) — drops
the FaceAnalysis wrapper and drives insightface's `model_zoo`
directly. The ~50 lines FaceAnalysis provides — glob ONNX files,
route each through `model_zoo.get_model()`, build a
`{taskname: model}` dict, loop per-face at inference — are
reimplemented in `InsightFaceEngine`. The actual inference classes
(RetinaFace, ArcFaceONNX, Attribute, Landmark) are still
insightface's — we only replicate the glue, so drift risk against
upstream is minimal.
Why drop FaceAnalysis: it hard-codes a `<root>/models/<name>/*.onnx`
layout that doesn't match what LocalAI's zip extraction produces.
LocalAI unpacks archives flat into `<models_dir>`. Upstream packs
are inconsistent — buffalo_l/s/sc ship ONNX at the zip root (lands
at `<models_dir>/*.onnx`), buffalo_m/antelopev2 wrap in a redundant
`<name>/` dir (lands at `<models_dir>/<name>/*.onnx`). The new
`_locate_insightface_pack` helper searches both locations plus
legacy paths and returns whichever has ONNX files. Replaces the
earlier `_flatten_insightface_pack` helper (which tried to fight
FaceAnalysis's layout expectations; now we just find the files
wherever they are).
Net effect for users: install once via LocalAI's managed flow,
weights live alongside every other model, progress shows in the
jobs endpoint, no first-load network call. Same API surface,
cleaner plumbing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): CI's insightface e2e path needs the pack pre-fetched
The e2e suite drives LoadModel over gRPC without going through LocalAI's
gallery flow, so the engine's `_model_dir` option (normally populated
from ModelPath) is empty. Previously the insightface target relied on
FaceAnalysis auto-download to paper over this, but we dropped
FaceAnalysis in favor of direct model_zoo calls — so the buffalo_l
target started failing at LoadModel with "no insightface pack found".
Mirror the opencv target's pre-fetch pattern: download buffalo_sc.zip
(same SHA as the gallery entry), extract it on the host, and pass
`root:<dir>` so the engine locates the pack without needing
ModelPath. Switched to buffalo_sc (smallest pack, ~16MB) to keep CI
fast; it covers the same insightface engine code path as buffalo_l.
Face analyze cap dropped since buffalo_sc has no age/gender head.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* feat(face-recognition): surface face-recognition in advertised feature maps
The six /v1/face/* endpoints were missing from every place LocalAI
advertises its feature surface to clients:
* api_instructions — the machine-readable capability index at
GET /api/instructions. Added `face-recognition` as a dedicated
instruction area with an intro that calls out the in-memory
registry caveat and the /v1/face/embed vs /v1/embeddings split.
* auth/permissions — added FeatureFaceRecognition constant, routed
all six face endpoints through it so admins can gate them per-user
like any other API feature. Default ON (matches the other API
features).
* React UI capabilities — CAP_FACE_RECOGNITION symbol mapped to
FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION. Declared only for now; the Face page is a
follow-up (noted in the plan).
Instruction count bumped 9 → 10; test updated.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* docs(agents): capture advertising-surface steps in the endpoint guide
Before this change, adding a new /v1/* endpoint reliably missed one or
more of: the swagger @Tags annotation, the /api/instructions registry,
the auth RouteFeatureRegistry, and the React UI CAP_* symbol. The
endpoint would work but be invisible to API consumers, admins, and the
UI — and nothing in the existing docs said to look in those places.
Extend .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md with a new "Advertising
surfaces" section covering all four surfaces (swagger tags, /api/
instructions, capabilities.js, docs/), and expand the closing checklist
so it's impossible to ship a feature without visiting each one. Hoist a
one-liner reminder into AGENTS.md's Quick Reference so agents skim it
before diving in.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
2026-04-22 19:55:41 +00:00
BACKEND_IMAGE = local-ai-backend:insightface \
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME = insightface-buffalo-sc \
feat(insightface): add antispoofing (liveness) detection (#9515)
* feat(insightface): add antispoofing (liveness) detection
Light up the anti_spoofing flag that was parked during the first pass.
Both FaceVerify and FaceAnalyze now run the Silent-Face MiniFASNetV2 +
MiniFASNetV1SE ensemble (~4 MB, Apache 2.0, CPU <10ms) when the flag is
set. Failed liveness on either image vetoes FaceVerify regardless of
embedding similarity. Every insightface* gallery entry now ships the
MiniFASNet ONNX weights so existing packs light up after reinstall.
Setting the flag against a model without the MiniFASNet files returns
FAILED_PRECONDITION (HTTP 412) with a clear install message — no
silent is_real=false.
FaceVerifyResponse gained per-image img{1,2}_is_real and
img{1,2}_antispoof_score (proto 9-12); FaceAnalysis's existing
is_real/antispoof_score fields are now populated. Schema fields are
pointers so they are fully absent from the JSON response when
anti_spoofing was not requested — avoids collapsing "not checked" with
"checked and fake" under Go's omitempty on bool.
Validated end-to-end over HTTP against a local install:
- verify + anti_spoofing, both real -> verified=true, score ~0.76
- verify + anti_spoofing, img2 spoof -> verified=false, img2_is_real=false
- analyze + anti_spoofing -> is_real and score per face
- flag against model without MiniFASNet -> HTTP 412 fail-loud
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 go vet
* test(insightface): wire test target into test-extra
The root Makefile's `test-extra` already runs
`$(MAKE) -C backend/python/insightface test`, but the backend's
Makefile never defined the target — so the command silently errored
and the suite was never executed in CI. Adding the two-line target
(matching ace-step/Makefile) hooks `test.sh` → `runUnittests` →
`python -m unittest test.py`, which discovers both the pre-existing
engine classes (InsightFaceEngineTest, OnnxDirectEngineTest) and the
new AntispoofingTest. Each class skips gracefully when its weights
can't be downloaded from a network-restricted runner.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* test(insightface): exercise antispoofing in e2e-backends (both paths)
Add a `face_antispoof` capability to the Ginkgo e2e suite and extend
the existing FaceVerify + FaceAnalyze specs with liveness assertions
covering BOTH paths:
real fixture -> is_real=true, score>0, verified stays true
spoof fixture -> is_real=false, verified vetoed to false
The spoof fixture is upstream's own `image_F2.jpg` (via the yakhyo
mirror) — verified locally against the MiniFASNetV2+V1SE ensemble to
classify as is_real=false with score ~0.013. That makes the assertion
deterministic across CI runs; synthetic/derived spoofs fool the model
unpredictably and would be flaky.
Makefile wires it up end-to-end:
- New INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_* cache dir + two ONNX downloads with
pinned SHAs, matching the gallery entries.
- insightface-antispoof-models target shared by both backend configs.
- FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL passed via BACKEND_TEST_FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL.
- Both e2e targets (buffalo-sc + opencv) now:
* depend on insightface-antispoof-models
* pass antispoof_v2_onnx / antispoof_v1se_onnx in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS
* include face_antispoof in BACKEND_TEST_CAPS
backend_test.go adds the new capability constant and a faceSpoofFile
fixture resolved the same way as faceFile1/2/3. Spoof assertions are
gated on both capFaceAntispoof AND faceSpoofFile being set, so a test
config that omits the spoof fixture degrades gracefully to "real path
only" instead of failing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 go vet
2026-04-23 16:28:15 +00:00
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS = engine:insightface,model_pack:buffalo_sc,root:$( INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_DIR) ,antispoof_v2_onnx:$( INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR) /MiniFASNetV2.onnx,antispoof_v1se_onnx:$( INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR) /MiniFASNetV1SE.onnx \
BACKEND_TEST_CAPS = health,load,face_detect,face_embed,face_verify,face_antispoof \
feat(face-recognition): add insightface/onnx backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis (#9480)
* feat(face-recognition): add insightface backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis
Adds face recognition as a new first-class capability in LocalAI via the
`insightface` Python backend, with a pluggable two-engine design so
non-commercial (insightface model packs) and commercial-safe
(OpenCV Zoo YuNet + SFace) models share the same gRPC/HTTP surface.
New gRPC RPCs (backend/backend.proto):
* FaceVerify(FaceVerifyRequest) returns FaceVerifyResponse
* FaceAnalyze(FaceAnalyzeRequest) returns FaceAnalyzeResponse
Existing Embedding and Detect RPCs are reused (face image in
PredictOptions.Images / DetectOptions.src) for face embedding and
face detection respectively.
New HTTP endpoints under /v1/face/:
* verify — 1:1 image pair same-person decision
* analyze — per-face age + gender (emotion/race reserved)
* register — 1:N enrollment; stores embedding in vector store
* identify — 1:N recognition; detect → embed → StoresFind
* forget — remove a registered face by opaque ID
Service layer (core/services/facerecognition/) introduces a
`Registry` interface with one in-memory `storeRegistry` impl backed
by LocalAI's existing local-store gRPC vector backend. HTTP handlers
depend on the interface, not on StoresSet/StoresFind directly, so a
persistent PostgreSQL/pgvector implementation can be slotted in via a
single constructor change in core/application (TODO marker in the
package doc).
New usecase flag FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION; insightface is also wired
into FLAG_DETECTION so /v1/detection works for face bounding boxes.
Gallery (backend/index.yaml) ships three entries:
* insightface-buffalo-l — SCRFD-10GF + ArcFace R50 + genderage
(~326MB pre-baked; non-commercial research use only)
* insightface-opencv — YuNet + SFace (~40MB pre-baked; Apache 2.0)
* insightface-buffalo-s — SCRFD-500MF + MBF (runtime download; non-commercial)
Python backend (backend/python/insightface/):
* engines.py — FaceEngine protocol with InsightFaceEngine and
OnnxDirectEngine; resolves model paths relative to the backend
directory so the same gallery config works in docker-scratch and
in the e2e-backends rootfs-extraction harness.
* backend.py — gRPC servicer implementing Health, LoadModel, Status,
Embedding, Detect, FaceVerify, FaceAnalyze.
* install.sh — pre-bakes buffalo_l + OpenCV YuNet/SFace inside the
backend directory so first-run is offline-clean (the final scratch
image only preserves files under /<backend>/).
* test.py — parametrized unit tests over both engines.
Tests:
* Registry unit tests (go test -race ./core/services/facerecognition/...)
— in-memory fake grpc.Backend, table-driven, covers register/
identify/forget/error paths + concurrent access.
* tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go extended with face caps
(face_detect, face_embed, face_verify, face_analyze); relative
ordering + configurable verifyCeiling per engine.
* Makefile targets: test-extra-backend-insightface-buffalo-l,
-opencv, and the -all aggregate.
* CI: .github/workflows/test-extra.yml gains tests-insightface-grpc,
auto-triggered by changes under backend/python/insightface/.
Docs:
* docs/content/features/face-recognition.md — feature page with
license table, quickstart (defaults to the commercial-safe model),
models matrix, API reference, 1:N workflow, storage caveats.
* Cross-refs in object-detection.md, stores.md, embeddings.md, and
whats-new.md.
* Contributor README at backend/python/insightface/README.md.
Verified end-to-end:
* buffalo_l: 6/6 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed,
face_verify, face_analyze).
* opencv: 5/5 specs (same minus face_analyze — SFace has no
demographic head; correctly skipped via BACKEND_TEST_CAPS).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): move engine selection to model gallery, collapse backend entries
The previous commit put engine/model_pack options on backend gallery
entries (`backend/index.yaml`). That was wrong — `GalleryBackend`
(core/gallery/backend_types.go:32) has no `options` field, so the
YAML decoder silently dropped those keys and all three "different
insightface-*" backend entries resolved to the same container image
with no distinguishing configuration.
Correct split:
* `backend/index.yaml` now has ONE `insightface` backend entry
shipping the CPU + CUDA 12 container images. The Python backend
bundles both the non-commercial insightface model packs
(buffalo_l / buffalo_s) and the commercial-safe OpenCV Zoo
weights (YuNet + SFace); the active engine is selected at
LoadModel time via `options: ["engine:..."]`.
* `gallery/index.yaml` gains three model entries —
`insightface-buffalo-l`, `insightface-opencv`,
`insightface-buffalo-s` — each setting the appropriate
`overrides.backend` + `overrides.options` so installing one
actually gives the user the intended engine. This matches how
`rfdetr-base` lives in the model gallery against the `rfdetr`
backend.
The earlier e2e tests passed despite this bug because the Makefile
targets pass `BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS` directly to LoadModel via gRPC,
bypassing any gallery resolution entirely. No code changes needed.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): cover all supported models in the gallery + drop weight baking
Follows up on the model-gallery split: adds entries for every model
configuration either engine actually supports, and switches weight
delivery from image-baked to LocalAI's standard gallery mechanism.
Gallery now has seven `insightface-*` model entries (gallery/index.yaml):
insightface (family) — non-commercial research use
• buffalo-l (326MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet50 + genderage, default
• buffalo-m (313MB) — SCRFD-2.5GF + ResNet50 + genderage
• buffalo-s (159MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF + genderage
• buffalo-sc (16MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF, recognition only
(no landmarks, no demographics — analyze
returns empty attributes)
• antelopev2 (407MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet100@Glint360K + genderage
OpenCV Zoo family — Apache 2.0 commercial-safe
• opencv — YuNet + SFace fp32 (~40MB)
• opencv-int8 — YuNet + SFace int8 (~12MB, ~3x smaller, faster on CPU)
Model weights are no longer baked into the backend image. The image
now ships only the Python runtime + libraries (~275MB content size,
~1.18GB disk vs ~1.21GB when weights were baked). Weights flow through
LocalAI's gallery mechanism:
* OpenCV variants list `files:` with ONNX URIs + SHA-256, so
`local-ai models install insightface-opencv` pulls them into the
models directory exactly like any other gallery-managed model.
* insightface packs (upstream distributes .zip archives only, not
individual ONNX files) auto-download on first LoadModel via
FaceAnalysis' built-in machinery, rooted at the LocalAI models
directory so they live alongside everything else — same pattern
`rfdetr` uses with `inference.get_model()`.
Backend changes (backend/python/insightface/):
* backend.py — LoadModel propagates `ModelOptions.ModelPath` (the
LocalAI models directory) to engines via a `_model_dir` hint.
This replaces the earlier ModelFile-dirname approach; ModelPath
is the canonical "models directory" variable set by the Go loader
(pkg/model/initializers.go:144) and is always populated.
* engines.py::_resolve_model_path — picks up `model_dir` and searches
it (plus basename-in-model-dir) before falling back to the dev
script-dir. This is how OnnxDirectEngine finds gallery-downloaded
YuNet/SFace files by filename only.
* engines.py::_flatten_insightface_pack — new helper that works
around an upstream packaging inconsistency: buffalo_l/s/sc zips
expand flat, but buffalo_m and antelopev2 zips wrap their ONNX
files in a redundant `<name>/` directory. insightface's own
loader looks one level too shallow and fails. We call
`ensure_available()` explicitly, flatten if nested, then hand to
FaceAnalysis.
* engines.py::InsightFaceEngine.prepare — root-resolution order now
includes the `_model_dir` hint so packs download into the LocalAI
models directory by default.
* install.sh — no longer pre-downloads any weights. Everything is
gallery-managed now.
* smoke.py (new) — parametrized smoke test that iterates over every
gallery configuration, simulating the LocalAI install flow
(creates a models dir, fetches OpenCV files with checksum
verification, lets insightface auto-download its packs), then
runs detect + embed + verify (+ analyze where supported) through
the in-process BackendServicer.
* test.py — OnnxDirectEngineTest no longer hardcodes `/models/opencv/`
paths; downloads ONNX files to a temp dir at setUpClass time and
passes ModelPath accordingly.
Registry change (core/services/facerecognition/store_registry.go):
* `dim=0` in NewStoreRegistry now means "accept whatever dimension
arrives" — needed because the backend supports 512-d ArcFace/MBF
and 128-d SFace via the same Registry. A non-zero dim still fails
fast with ErrDimensionMismatch.
* core/application plumbs `faceEmbeddingDim = 0`, explaining the
rationale in the comment.
Backend gallery description updated to reflect that the image carries
no weights — it's just Python + engines.
Smoke-tested all 7 configurations against the rebuilt image (with the
flatten fix applied), exit 0:
PASS: insightface-buffalo-l faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-sc faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-s faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-m faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-antelopev2 faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv-int8 faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
7/7 passed
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): pre-fetch OpenCV ONNX for e2e target; drop stale pre-baked claim
CI regression from the previous commit: I moved OpenCV Zoo weight
delivery to LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism, but the
test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv target was still passing
relative paths `detector_onnx:models/opencv/yunet.onnx` in
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS. The e2e suite drives LoadModel directly over
gRPC without going through the gallery, so those relative paths
resolved to nothing and OpenCV's ONNXImporter failed:
LoadModel failed: Failed to load face engine:
OpenCV(4.13.0) ... Can't read ONNX file: models/opencv/yunet.onnx
Fix: add an `insightface-opencv-models` prerequisite target that
fetches the two ONNX files (YuNet + SFace) to a deterministic host
cache at /tmp/localai-insightface-opencv-cache/, verifies SHA-256,
and skips the download on re-runs. The opencv test target depends on
it and passes absolute paths in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS, so the backend
finds the files via its normal absolute-path resolution branch.
Also refresh the buffalo_l comment: it no longer says "pre-baked"
(nothing is — the pack auto-downloads from upstream's GitHub release
on first LoadModel, same as in CI).
Locally verified: `make test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv` passes
5/5 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed, face_verify).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): add POST /v1/face/embed + correct /v1/embeddings docs
The docs promised that /v1/embeddings returns face vectors when you
send an image data-URI. That was never true: /v1/embeddings is
OpenAI-compatible and text-only by contract — its handler goes
through `core/backend/embeddings.go::ModelEmbedding`, which sets
`predictOptions.Embeddings = s` (a string of TEXT to embed) and never
populates `predictOptions.Images[]`. The Python backend's Embedding
gRPC method does handle Images[] (that's how /v1/face/register reaches
it internally via `backend.FaceEmbed`), but the HTTP embeddings
endpoint wasn't wired to populate it.
Rather than overload /v1/embeddings with image-vs-text detection —
messy, and the endpoint is OpenAI-compatible by design — add a
dedicated /v1/face/embed endpoint that wraps `backend.FaceEmbed`
(already used internally by /v1/face/register and /v1/face/identify).
Matches LocalAI's convention of a dedicated path per non-standard flow
(/v1/rerank, /v1/detection, /v1/face/verify etc.).
Response:
{
"embedding": [<dim> floats, L2-normed],
"dim": int, // 512 for ArcFace R50 / MBF, 128 for SFace
"model": "<name>"
}
Live-tested on the opencv engine: returns a 128-d L2-normalized vector
(sum(x^2) = 1.0000). Sentinel in docs updated to note /v1/embeddings
is text-only and point image users at /v1/face/embed instead.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(http): map malformed image input + gRPC status codes to proper 4xx
Image-input failures on LocalAI's single-image endpoints (/v1/detection,
/v1/face/{verify,analyze,embed,register,identify}) have historically
returned 500 — even when the client was the one who sent garbage.
Classic example: you POST an "image" that isn't a URL, isn't a
data-URI, and isn't a valid JPEG/PNG — the server shouldn't claim
that's its fault.
Two helpers land in core/http/endpoints/localai/images.go and every
single-image handler is switched over:
* decodeImageInput(s)
Wraps utils.GetContentURIAsBase64 and turns any failure
(invalid URL, not a data-URI, download error, etc.) into
echo.NewHTTPError(400, "invalid image input: ...").
* mapBackendError(err)
Inspects the gRPC status on a backend call error and maps:
INVALID_ARGUMENT → 400 Bad Request
NOT_FOUND → 404 Not Found
FAILED_PRECONDITION → 412 Precondition Failed
Unimplemented → 501 Not Implemented
All other codes fall through unchanged (still 500).
Before, my 1×1 PNG error-path test returned:
HTTP 500 "rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = failed to decode one or both images"
After:
HTTP 400 "failed to decode one or both images"
Scope-limited to the LocalAI single-image endpoints. The multi-modal
paths (middleware/request.go, openresponses/responses.go,
openai/realtime.go) intentionally log-and-skip individual media parts
when decoding fails — different design intent (graceful degradation
of a multi-part message), not a 400-worthy failure. Left untouched.
Live-verified: every error case in /tmp/face_errors.py now returns
4xx with a meaningful message; the "image with no face (1x1 PNG)"
case specifically went from 500 → 400.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* refactor(face-recognition): insightface packs go through gallery files:, drop FaceAnalysis
Follows up on the discovery that LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism
handles archives (zip, tar.gz, …) via mholt/archiver/v3 — the rhasspy
piper voices use exactly this pattern. Insightface packs are zip
archives, so we can now deliver them the same way every other
gallery-managed model gets delivered: declaratively, checksum-verified,
through LocalAI's standard download+extract pipeline.
Two changes:
1. Gallery (gallery/index.yaml) — every insightface-* entry gains a
`files:` list with the pack zip's URI + SHA-256. `local-ai models
install insightface-buffalo-l` now fetches the zip, verifies the
hash, and extracts it into the models directory. No more reliance
on insightface's library-internal `ensure_available()` auto-download
or its hardcoded `BASE_REPO_URL`.
2. InsightFaceEngine (backend/python/insightface/engines.py) — drops
the FaceAnalysis wrapper and drives insightface's `model_zoo`
directly. The ~50 lines FaceAnalysis provides — glob ONNX files,
route each through `model_zoo.get_model()`, build a
`{taskname: model}` dict, loop per-face at inference — are
reimplemented in `InsightFaceEngine`. The actual inference classes
(RetinaFace, ArcFaceONNX, Attribute, Landmark) are still
insightface's — we only replicate the glue, so drift risk against
upstream is minimal.
Why drop FaceAnalysis: it hard-codes a `<root>/models/<name>/*.onnx`
layout that doesn't match what LocalAI's zip extraction produces.
LocalAI unpacks archives flat into `<models_dir>`. Upstream packs
are inconsistent — buffalo_l/s/sc ship ONNX at the zip root (lands
at `<models_dir>/*.onnx`), buffalo_m/antelopev2 wrap in a redundant
`<name>/` dir (lands at `<models_dir>/<name>/*.onnx`). The new
`_locate_insightface_pack` helper searches both locations plus
legacy paths and returns whichever has ONNX files. Replaces the
earlier `_flatten_insightface_pack` helper (which tried to fight
FaceAnalysis's layout expectations; now we just find the files
wherever they are).
Net effect for users: install once via LocalAI's managed flow,
weights live alongside every other model, progress shows in the
jobs endpoint, no first-load network call. Same API surface,
cleaner plumbing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): CI's insightface e2e path needs the pack pre-fetched
The e2e suite drives LoadModel over gRPC without going through LocalAI's
gallery flow, so the engine's `_model_dir` option (normally populated
from ModelPath) is empty. Previously the insightface target relied on
FaceAnalysis auto-download to paper over this, but we dropped
FaceAnalysis in favor of direct model_zoo calls — so the buffalo_l
target started failing at LoadModel with "no insightface pack found".
Mirror the opencv target's pre-fetch pattern: download buffalo_sc.zip
(same SHA as the gallery entry), extract it on the host, and pass
`root:<dir>` so the engine locates the pack without needing
ModelPath. Switched to buffalo_sc (smallest pack, ~16MB) to keep CI
fast; it covers the same insightface engine code path as buffalo_l.
Face analyze cap dropped since buffalo_sc has no age/gender head.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* feat(face-recognition): surface face-recognition in advertised feature maps
The six /v1/face/* endpoints were missing from every place LocalAI
advertises its feature surface to clients:
* api_instructions — the machine-readable capability index at
GET /api/instructions. Added `face-recognition` as a dedicated
instruction area with an intro that calls out the in-memory
registry caveat and the /v1/face/embed vs /v1/embeddings split.
* auth/permissions — added FeatureFaceRecognition constant, routed
all six face endpoints through it so admins can gate them per-user
like any other API feature. Default ON (matches the other API
features).
* React UI capabilities — CAP_FACE_RECOGNITION symbol mapped to
FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION. Declared only for now; the Face page is a
follow-up (noted in the plan).
Instruction count bumped 9 → 10; test updated.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* docs(agents): capture advertising-surface steps in the endpoint guide
Before this change, adding a new /v1/* endpoint reliably missed one or
more of: the swagger @Tags annotation, the /api/instructions registry,
the auth RouteFeatureRegistry, and the React UI CAP_* symbol. The
endpoint would work but be invisible to API consumers, admins, and the
UI — and nothing in the existing docs said to look in those places.
Extend .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md with a new "Advertising
surfaces" section covering all four surfaces (swagger tags, /api/
instructions, capabilities.js, docs/), and expand the closing checklist
so it's impossible to ship a feature without visiting each one. Hoist a
one-liner reminder into AGENTS.md's Quick Reference so agents skim it
before diving in.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
2026-04-22 19:55:41 +00:00
BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_1_URL = $( FACE_IMAGE_1_URL) \
BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_2_URL = $( FACE_IMAGE_2_URL) \
BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_3_URL = $( FACE_IMAGE_3_URL) \
feat(insightface): add antispoofing (liveness) detection (#9515)
* feat(insightface): add antispoofing (liveness) detection
Light up the anti_spoofing flag that was parked during the first pass.
Both FaceVerify and FaceAnalyze now run the Silent-Face MiniFASNetV2 +
MiniFASNetV1SE ensemble (~4 MB, Apache 2.0, CPU <10ms) when the flag is
set. Failed liveness on either image vetoes FaceVerify regardless of
embedding similarity. Every insightface* gallery entry now ships the
MiniFASNet ONNX weights so existing packs light up after reinstall.
Setting the flag against a model without the MiniFASNet files returns
FAILED_PRECONDITION (HTTP 412) with a clear install message — no
silent is_real=false.
FaceVerifyResponse gained per-image img{1,2}_is_real and
img{1,2}_antispoof_score (proto 9-12); FaceAnalysis's existing
is_real/antispoof_score fields are now populated. Schema fields are
pointers so they are fully absent from the JSON response when
anti_spoofing was not requested — avoids collapsing "not checked" with
"checked and fake" under Go's omitempty on bool.
Validated end-to-end over HTTP against a local install:
- verify + anti_spoofing, both real -> verified=true, score ~0.76
- verify + anti_spoofing, img2 spoof -> verified=false, img2_is_real=false
- analyze + anti_spoofing -> is_real and score per face
- flag against model without MiniFASNet -> HTTP 412 fail-loud
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 go vet
* test(insightface): wire test target into test-extra
The root Makefile's `test-extra` already runs
`$(MAKE) -C backend/python/insightface test`, but the backend's
Makefile never defined the target — so the command silently errored
and the suite was never executed in CI. Adding the two-line target
(matching ace-step/Makefile) hooks `test.sh` → `runUnittests` →
`python -m unittest test.py`, which discovers both the pre-existing
engine classes (InsightFaceEngineTest, OnnxDirectEngineTest) and the
new AntispoofingTest. Each class skips gracefully when its weights
can't be downloaded from a network-restricted runner.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* test(insightface): exercise antispoofing in e2e-backends (both paths)
Add a `face_antispoof` capability to the Ginkgo e2e suite and extend
the existing FaceVerify + FaceAnalyze specs with liveness assertions
covering BOTH paths:
real fixture -> is_real=true, score>0, verified stays true
spoof fixture -> is_real=false, verified vetoed to false
The spoof fixture is upstream's own `image_F2.jpg` (via the yakhyo
mirror) — verified locally against the MiniFASNetV2+V1SE ensemble to
classify as is_real=false with score ~0.013. That makes the assertion
deterministic across CI runs; synthetic/derived spoofs fool the model
unpredictably and would be flaky.
Makefile wires it up end-to-end:
- New INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_* cache dir + two ONNX downloads with
pinned SHAs, matching the gallery entries.
- insightface-antispoof-models target shared by both backend configs.
- FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL passed via BACKEND_TEST_FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL.
- Both e2e targets (buffalo-sc + opencv) now:
* depend on insightface-antispoof-models
* pass antispoof_v2_onnx / antispoof_v1se_onnx in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS
* include face_antispoof in BACKEND_TEST_CAPS
backend_test.go adds the new capability constant and a faceSpoofFile
fixture resolved the same way as faceFile1/2/3. Spoof assertions are
gated on both capFaceAntispoof AND faceSpoofFile being set, so a test
config that omits the spoof fixture degrades gracefully to "real path
only" instead of failing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 go vet
2026-04-23 16:28:15 +00:00
BACKEND_TEST_FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL = $( FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL) \
feat(face-recognition): add insightface/onnx backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis (#9480)
* feat(face-recognition): add insightface backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis
Adds face recognition as a new first-class capability in LocalAI via the
`insightface` Python backend, with a pluggable two-engine design so
non-commercial (insightface model packs) and commercial-safe
(OpenCV Zoo YuNet + SFace) models share the same gRPC/HTTP surface.
New gRPC RPCs (backend/backend.proto):
* FaceVerify(FaceVerifyRequest) returns FaceVerifyResponse
* FaceAnalyze(FaceAnalyzeRequest) returns FaceAnalyzeResponse
Existing Embedding and Detect RPCs are reused (face image in
PredictOptions.Images / DetectOptions.src) for face embedding and
face detection respectively.
New HTTP endpoints under /v1/face/:
* verify — 1:1 image pair same-person decision
* analyze — per-face age + gender (emotion/race reserved)
* register — 1:N enrollment; stores embedding in vector store
* identify — 1:N recognition; detect → embed → StoresFind
* forget — remove a registered face by opaque ID
Service layer (core/services/facerecognition/) introduces a
`Registry` interface with one in-memory `storeRegistry` impl backed
by LocalAI's existing local-store gRPC vector backend. HTTP handlers
depend on the interface, not on StoresSet/StoresFind directly, so a
persistent PostgreSQL/pgvector implementation can be slotted in via a
single constructor change in core/application (TODO marker in the
package doc).
New usecase flag FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION; insightface is also wired
into FLAG_DETECTION so /v1/detection works for face bounding boxes.
Gallery (backend/index.yaml) ships three entries:
* insightface-buffalo-l — SCRFD-10GF + ArcFace R50 + genderage
(~326MB pre-baked; non-commercial research use only)
* insightface-opencv — YuNet + SFace (~40MB pre-baked; Apache 2.0)
* insightface-buffalo-s — SCRFD-500MF + MBF (runtime download; non-commercial)
Python backend (backend/python/insightface/):
* engines.py — FaceEngine protocol with InsightFaceEngine and
OnnxDirectEngine; resolves model paths relative to the backend
directory so the same gallery config works in docker-scratch and
in the e2e-backends rootfs-extraction harness.
* backend.py — gRPC servicer implementing Health, LoadModel, Status,
Embedding, Detect, FaceVerify, FaceAnalyze.
* install.sh — pre-bakes buffalo_l + OpenCV YuNet/SFace inside the
backend directory so first-run is offline-clean (the final scratch
image only preserves files under /<backend>/).
* test.py — parametrized unit tests over both engines.
Tests:
* Registry unit tests (go test -race ./core/services/facerecognition/...)
— in-memory fake grpc.Backend, table-driven, covers register/
identify/forget/error paths + concurrent access.
* tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go extended with face caps
(face_detect, face_embed, face_verify, face_analyze); relative
ordering + configurable verifyCeiling per engine.
* Makefile targets: test-extra-backend-insightface-buffalo-l,
-opencv, and the -all aggregate.
* CI: .github/workflows/test-extra.yml gains tests-insightface-grpc,
auto-triggered by changes under backend/python/insightface/.
Docs:
* docs/content/features/face-recognition.md — feature page with
license table, quickstart (defaults to the commercial-safe model),
models matrix, API reference, 1:N workflow, storage caveats.
* Cross-refs in object-detection.md, stores.md, embeddings.md, and
whats-new.md.
* Contributor README at backend/python/insightface/README.md.
Verified end-to-end:
* buffalo_l: 6/6 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed,
face_verify, face_analyze).
* opencv: 5/5 specs (same minus face_analyze — SFace has no
demographic head; correctly skipped via BACKEND_TEST_CAPS).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): move engine selection to model gallery, collapse backend entries
The previous commit put engine/model_pack options on backend gallery
entries (`backend/index.yaml`). That was wrong — `GalleryBackend`
(core/gallery/backend_types.go:32) has no `options` field, so the
YAML decoder silently dropped those keys and all three "different
insightface-*" backend entries resolved to the same container image
with no distinguishing configuration.
Correct split:
* `backend/index.yaml` now has ONE `insightface` backend entry
shipping the CPU + CUDA 12 container images. The Python backend
bundles both the non-commercial insightface model packs
(buffalo_l / buffalo_s) and the commercial-safe OpenCV Zoo
weights (YuNet + SFace); the active engine is selected at
LoadModel time via `options: ["engine:..."]`.
* `gallery/index.yaml` gains three model entries —
`insightface-buffalo-l`, `insightface-opencv`,
`insightface-buffalo-s` — each setting the appropriate
`overrides.backend` + `overrides.options` so installing one
actually gives the user the intended engine. This matches how
`rfdetr-base` lives in the model gallery against the `rfdetr`
backend.
The earlier e2e tests passed despite this bug because the Makefile
targets pass `BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS` directly to LoadModel via gRPC,
bypassing any gallery resolution entirely. No code changes needed.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): cover all supported models in the gallery + drop weight baking
Follows up on the model-gallery split: adds entries for every model
configuration either engine actually supports, and switches weight
delivery from image-baked to LocalAI's standard gallery mechanism.
Gallery now has seven `insightface-*` model entries (gallery/index.yaml):
insightface (family) — non-commercial research use
• buffalo-l (326MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet50 + genderage, default
• buffalo-m (313MB) — SCRFD-2.5GF + ResNet50 + genderage
• buffalo-s (159MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF + genderage
• buffalo-sc (16MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF, recognition only
(no landmarks, no demographics — analyze
returns empty attributes)
• antelopev2 (407MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet100@Glint360K + genderage
OpenCV Zoo family — Apache 2.0 commercial-safe
• opencv — YuNet + SFace fp32 (~40MB)
• opencv-int8 — YuNet + SFace int8 (~12MB, ~3x smaller, faster on CPU)
Model weights are no longer baked into the backend image. The image
now ships only the Python runtime + libraries (~275MB content size,
~1.18GB disk vs ~1.21GB when weights were baked). Weights flow through
LocalAI's gallery mechanism:
* OpenCV variants list `files:` with ONNX URIs + SHA-256, so
`local-ai models install insightface-opencv` pulls them into the
models directory exactly like any other gallery-managed model.
* insightface packs (upstream distributes .zip archives only, not
individual ONNX files) auto-download on first LoadModel via
FaceAnalysis' built-in machinery, rooted at the LocalAI models
directory so they live alongside everything else — same pattern
`rfdetr` uses with `inference.get_model()`.
Backend changes (backend/python/insightface/):
* backend.py — LoadModel propagates `ModelOptions.ModelPath` (the
LocalAI models directory) to engines via a `_model_dir` hint.
This replaces the earlier ModelFile-dirname approach; ModelPath
is the canonical "models directory" variable set by the Go loader
(pkg/model/initializers.go:144) and is always populated.
* engines.py::_resolve_model_path — picks up `model_dir` and searches
it (plus basename-in-model-dir) before falling back to the dev
script-dir. This is how OnnxDirectEngine finds gallery-downloaded
YuNet/SFace files by filename only.
* engines.py::_flatten_insightface_pack — new helper that works
around an upstream packaging inconsistency: buffalo_l/s/sc zips
expand flat, but buffalo_m and antelopev2 zips wrap their ONNX
files in a redundant `<name>/` directory. insightface's own
loader looks one level too shallow and fails. We call
`ensure_available()` explicitly, flatten if nested, then hand to
FaceAnalysis.
* engines.py::InsightFaceEngine.prepare — root-resolution order now
includes the `_model_dir` hint so packs download into the LocalAI
models directory by default.
* install.sh — no longer pre-downloads any weights. Everything is
gallery-managed now.
* smoke.py (new) — parametrized smoke test that iterates over every
gallery configuration, simulating the LocalAI install flow
(creates a models dir, fetches OpenCV files with checksum
verification, lets insightface auto-download its packs), then
runs detect + embed + verify (+ analyze where supported) through
the in-process BackendServicer.
* test.py — OnnxDirectEngineTest no longer hardcodes `/models/opencv/`
paths; downloads ONNX files to a temp dir at setUpClass time and
passes ModelPath accordingly.
Registry change (core/services/facerecognition/store_registry.go):
* `dim=0` in NewStoreRegistry now means "accept whatever dimension
arrives" — needed because the backend supports 512-d ArcFace/MBF
and 128-d SFace via the same Registry. A non-zero dim still fails
fast with ErrDimensionMismatch.
* core/application plumbs `faceEmbeddingDim = 0`, explaining the
rationale in the comment.
Backend gallery description updated to reflect that the image carries
no weights — it's just Python + engines.
Smoke-tested all 7 configurations against the rebuilt image (with the
flatten fix applied), exit 0:
PASS: insightface-buffalo-l faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-sc faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-s faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-m faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-antelopev2 faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv-int8 faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
7/7 passed
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): pre-fetch OpenCV ONNX for e2e target; drop stale pre-baked claim
CI regression from the previous commit: I moved OpenCV Zoo weight
delivery to LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism, but the
test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv target was still passing
relative paths `detector_onnx:models/opencv/yunet.onnx` in
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS. The e2e suite drives LoadModel directly over
gRPC without going through the gallery, so those relative paths
resolved to nothing and OpenCV's ONNXImporter failed:
LoadModel failed: Failed to load face engine:
OpenCV(4.13.0) ... Can't read ONNX file: models/opencv/yunet.onnx
Fix: add an `insightface-opencv-models` prerequisite target that
fetches the two ONNX files (YuNet + SFace) to a deterministic host
cache at /tmp/localai-insightface-opencv-cache/, verifies SHA-256,
and skips the download on re-runs. The opencv test target depends on
it and passes absolute paths in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS, so the backend
finds the files via its normal absolute-path resolution branch.
Also refresh the buffalo_l comment: it no longer says "pre-baked"
(nothing is — the pack auto-downloads from upstream's GitHub release
on first LoadModel, same as in CI).
Locally verified: `make test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv` passes
5/5 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed, face_verify).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): add POST /v1/face/embed + correct /v1/embeddings docs
The docs promised that /v1/embeddings returns face vectors when you
send an image data-URI. That was never true: /v1/embeddings is
OpenAI-compatible and text-only by contract — its handler goes
through `core/backend/embeddings.go::ModelEmbedding`, which sets
`predictOptions.Embeddings = s` (a string of TEXT to embed) and never
populates `predictOptions.Images[]`. The Python backend's Embedding
gRPC method does handle Images[] (that's how /v1/face/register reaches
it internally via `backend.FaceEmbed`), but the HTTP embeddings
endpoint wasn't wired to populate it.
Rather than overload /v1/embeddings with image-vs-text detection —
messy, and the endpoint is OpenAI-compatible by design — add a
dedicated /v1/face/embed endpoint that wraps `backend.FaceEmbed`
(already used internally by /v1/face/register and /v1/face/identify).
Matches LocalAI's convention of a dedicated path per non-standard flow
(/v1/rerank, /v1/detection, /v1/face/verify etc.).
Response:
{
"embedding": [<dim> floats, L2-normed],
"dim": int, // 512 for ArcFace R50 / MBF, 128 for SFace
"model": "<name>"
}
Live-tested on the opencv engine: returns a 128-d L2-normalized vector
(sum(x^2) = 1.0000). Sentinel in docs updated to note /v1/embeddings
is text-only and point image users at /v1/face/embed instead.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(http): map malformed image input + gRPC status codes to proper 4xx
Image-input failures on LocalAI's single-image endpoints (/v1/detection,
/v1/face/{verify,analyze,embed,register,identify}) have historically
returned 500 — even when the client was the one who sent garbage.
Classic example: you POST an "image" that isn't a URL, isn't a
data-URI, and isn't a valid JPEG/PNG — the server shouldn't claim
that's its fault.
Two helpers land in core/http/endpoints/localai/images.go and every
single-image handler is switched over:
* decodeImageInput(s)
Wraps utils.GetContentURIAsBase64 and turns any failure
(invalid URL, not a data-URI, download error, etc.) into
echo.NewHTTPError(400, "invalid image input: ...").
* mapBackendError(err)
Inspects the gRPC status on a backend call error and maps:
INVALID_ARGUMENT → 400 Bad Request
NOT_FOUND → 404 Not Found
FAILED_PRECONDITION → 412 Precondition Failed
Unimplemented → 501 Not Implemented
All other codes fall through unchanged (still 500).
Before, my 1×1 PNG error-path test returned:
HTTP 500 "rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = failed to decode one or both images"
After:
HTTP 400 "failed to decode one or both images"
Scope-limited to the LocalAI single-image endpoints. The multi-modal
paths (middleware/request.go, openresponses/responses.go,
openai/realtime.go) intentionally log-and-skip individual media parts
when decoding fails — different design intent (graceful degradation
of a multi-part message), not a 400-worthy failure. Left untouched.
Live-verified: every error case in /tmp/face_errors.py now returns
4xx with a meaningful message; the "image with no face (1x1 PNG)"
case specifically went from 500 → 400.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* refactor(face-recognition): insightface packs go through gallery files:, drop FaceAnalysis
Follows up on the discovery that LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism
handles archives (zip, tar.gz, …) via mholt/archiver/v3 — the rhasspy
piper voices use exactly this pattern. Insightface packs are zip
archives, so we can now deliver them the same way every other
gallery-managed model gets delivered: declaratively, checksum-verified,
through LocalAI's standard download+extract pipeline.
Two changes:
1. Gallery (gallery/index.yaml) — every insightface-* entry gains a
`files:` list with the pack zip's URI + SHA-256. `local-ai models
install insightface-buffalo-l` now fetches the zip, verifies the
hash, and extracts it into the models directory. No more reliance
on insightface's library-internal `ensure_available()` auto-download
or its hardcoded `BASE_REPO_URL`.
2. InsightFaceEngine (backend/python/insightface/engines.py) — drops
the FaceAnalysis wrapper and drives insightface's `model_zoo`
directly. The ~50 lines FaceAnalysis provides — glob ONNX files,
route each through `model_zoo.get_model()`, build a
`{taskname: model}` dict, loop per-face at inference — are
reimplemented in `InsightFaceEngine`. The actual inference classes
(RetinaFace, ArcFaceONNX, Attribute, Landmark) are still
insightface's — we only replicate the glue, so drift risk against
upstream is minimal.
Why drop FaceAnalysis: it hard-codes a `<root>/models/<name>/*.onnx`
layout that doesn't match what LocalAI's zip extraction produces.
LocalAI unpacks archives flat into `<models_dir>`. Upstream packs
are inconsistent — buffalo_l/s/sc ship ONNX at the zip root (lands
at `<models_dir>/*.onnx`), buffalo_m/antelopev2 wrap in a redundant
`<name>/` dir (lands at `<models_dir>/<name>/*.onnx`). The new
`_locate_insightface_pack` helper searches both locations plus
legacy paths and returns whichever has ONNX files. Replaces the
earlier `_flatten_insightface_pack` helper (which tried to fight
FaceAnalysis's layout expectations; now we just find the files
wherever they are).
Net effect for users: install once via LocalAI's managed flow,
weights live alongside every other model, progress shows in the
jobs endpoint, no first-load network call. Same API surface,
cleaner plumbing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): CI's insightface e2e path needs the pack pre-fetched
The e2e suite drives LoadModel over gRPC without going through LocalAI's
gallery flow, so the engine's `_model_dir` option (normally populated
from ModelPath) is empty. Previously the insightface target relied on
FaceAnalysis auto-download to paper over this, but we dropped
FaceAnalysis in favor of direct model_zoo calls — so the buffalo_l
target started failing at LoadModel with "no insightface pack found".
Mirror the opencv target's pre-fetch pattern: download buffalo_sc.zip
(same SHA as the gallery entry), extract it on the host, and pass
`root:<dir>` so the engine locates the pack without needing
ModelPath. Switched to buffalo_sc (smallest pack, ~16MB) to keep CI
fast; it covers the same insightface engine code path as buffalo_l.
Face analyze cap dropped since buffalo_sc has no age/gender head.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* feat(face-recognition): surface face-recognition in advertised feature maps
The six /v1/face/* endpoints were missing from every place LocalAI
advertises its feature surface to clients:
* api_instructions — the machine-readable capability index at
GET /api/instructions. Added `face-recognition` as a dedicated
instruction area with an intro that calls out the in-memory
registry caveat and the /v1/face/embed vs /v1/embeddings split.
* auth/permissions — added FeatureFaceRecognition constant, routed
all six face endpoints through it so admins can gate them per-user
like any other API feature. Default ON (matches the other API
features).
* React UI capabilities — CAP_FACE_RECOGNITION symbol mapped to
FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION. Declared only for now; the Face page is a
follow-up (noted in the plan).
Instruction count bumped 9 → 10; test updated.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* docs(agents): capture advertising-surface steps in the endpoint guide
Before this change, adding a new /v1/* endpoint reliably missed one or
more of: the swagger @Tags annotation, the /api/instructions registry,
the auth RouteFeatureRegistry, and the React UI CAP_* symbol. The
endpoint would work but be invisible to API consumers, admins, and the
UI — and nothing in the existing docs said to look in those places.
Extend .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md with a new "Advertising
surfaces" section covering all four surfaces (swagger tags, /api/
instructions, capabilities.js, docs/), and expand the closing checklist
so it's impossible to ship a feature without visiting each one. Hoist a
one-liner reminder into AGENTS.md's Quick Reference so agents skim it
before diving in.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
2026-04-22 19:55:41 +00:00
BACKEND_TEST_VERIFY_DISTANCE_CEILING = 0.55 \
$( MAKE) test-extra-backend
## OpenCV Zoo YuNet + SFace — Apache 2.0, commercial-safe. face_analyze
## cap is dropped (SFace has no demographic head). The ONNX files are
## pre-fetched on the host via the insightface-opencv-models target and
## passed as absolute paths, since the e2e suite drives LoadModel
## directly without going through LocalAI's gallery flow.
feat(insightface): add antispoofing (liveness) detection (#9515)
* feat(insightface): add antispoofing (liveness) detection
Light up the anti_spoofing flag that was parked during the first pass.
Both FaceVerify and FaceAnalyze now run the Silent-Face MiniFASNetV2 +
MiniFASNetV1SE ensemble (~4 MB, Apache 2.0, CPU <10ms) when the flag is
set. Failed liveness on either image vetoes FaceVerify regardless of
embedding similarity. Every insightface* gallery entry now ships the
MiniFASNet ONNX weights so existing packs light up after reinstall.
Setting the flag against a model without the MiniFASNet files returns
FAILED_PRECONDITION (HTTP 412) with a clear install message — no
silent is_real=false.
FaceVerifyResponse gained per-image img{1,2}_is_real and
img{1,2}_antispoof_score (proto 9-12); FaceAnalysis's existing
is_real/antispoof_score fields are now populated. Schema fields are
pointers so they are fully absent from the JSON response when
anti_spoofing was not requested — avoids collapsing "not checked" with
"checked and fake" under Go's omitempty on bool.
Validated end-to-end over HTTP against a local install:
- verify + anti_spoofing, both real -> verified=true, score ~0.76
- verify + anti_spoofing, img2 spoof -> verified=false, img2_is_real=false
- analyze + anti_spoofing -> is_real and score per face
- flag against model without MiniFASNet -> HTTP 412 fail-loud
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 go vet
* test(insightface): wire test target into test-extra
The root Makefile's `test-extra` already runs
`$(MAKE) -C backend/python/insightface test`, but the backend's
Makefile never defined the target — so the command silently errored
and the suite was never executed in CI. Adding the two-line target
(matching ace-step/Makefile) hooks `test.sh` → `runUnittests` →
`python -m unittest test.py`, which discovers both the pre-existing
engine classes (InsightFaceEngineTest, OnnxDirectEngineTest) and the
new AntispoofingTest. Each class skips gracefully when its weights
can't be downloaded from a network-restricted runner.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* test(insightface): exercise antispoofing in e2e-backends (both paths)
Add a `face_antispoof` capability to the Ginkgo e2e suite and extend
the existing FaceVerify + FaceAnalyze specs with liveness assertions
covering BOTH paths:
real fixture -> is_real=true, score>0, verified stays true
spoof fixture -> is_real=false, verified vetoed to false
The spoof fixture is upstream's own `image_F2.jpg` (via the yakhyo
mirror) — verified locally against the MiniFASNetV2+V1SE ensemble to
classify as is_real=false with score ~0.013. That makes the assertion
deterministic across CI runs; synthetic/derived spoofs fool the model
unpredictably and would be flaky.
Makefile wires it up end-to-end:
- New INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_* cache dir + two ONNX downloads with
pinned SHAs, matching the gallery entries.
- insightface-antispoof-models target shared by both backend configs.
- FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL passed via BACKEND_TEST_FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL.
- Both e2e targets (buffalo-sc + opencv) now:
* depend on insightface-antispoof-models
* pass antispoof_v2_onnx / antispoof_v1se_onnx in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS
* include face_antispoof in BACKEND_TEST_CAPS
backend_test.go adds the new capability constant and a faceSpoofFile
fixture resolved the same way as faceFile1/2/3. Spoof assertions are
gated on both capFaceAntispoof AND faceSpoofFile being set, so a test
config that omits the spoof fixture degrades gracefully to "real path
only" instead of failing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 go vet
2026-04-23 16:28:15 +00:00
test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv : docker -build -insightface insightface -opencv -models insightface -antispoof -models
feat(face-recognition): add insightface/onnx backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis (#9480)
* feat(face-recognition): add insightface backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis
Adds face recognition as a new first-class capability in LocalAI via the
`insightface` Python backend, with a pluggable two-engine design so
non-commercial (insightface model packs) and commercial-safe
(OpenCV Zoo YuNet + SFace) models share the same gRPC/HTTP surface.
New gRPC RPCs (backend/backend.proto):
* FaceVerify(FaceVerifyRequest) returns FaceVerifyResponse
* FaceAnalyze(FaceAnalyzeRequest) returns FaceAnalyzeResponse
Existing Embedding and Detect RPCs are reused (face image in
PredictOptions.Images / DetectOptions.src) for face embedding and
face detection respectively.
New HTTP endpoints under /v1/face/:
* verify — 1:1 image pair same-person decision
* analyze — per-face age + gender (emotion/race reserved)
* register — 1:N enrollment; stores embedding in vector store
* identify — 1:N recognition; detect → embed → StoresFind
* forget — remove a registered face by opaque ID
Service layer (core/services/facerecognition/) introduces a
`Registry` interface with one in-memory `storeRegistry` impl backed
by LocalAI's existing local-store gRPC vector backend. HTTP handlers
depend on the interface, not on StoresSet/StoresFind directly, so a
persistent PostgreSQL/pgvector implementation can be slotted in via a
single constructor change in core/application (TODO marker in the
package doc).
New usecase flag FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION; insightface is also wired
into FLAG_DETECTION so /v1/detection works for face bounding boxes.
Gallery (backend/index.yaml) ships three entries:
* insightface-buffalo-l — SCRFD-10GF + ArcFace R50 + genderage
(~326MB pre-baked; non-commercial research use only)
* insightface-opencv — YuNet + SFace (~40MB pre-baked; Apache 2.0)
* insightface-buffalo-s — SCRFD-500MF + MBF (runtime download; non-commercial)
Python backend (backend/python/insightface/):
* engines.py — FaceEngine protocol with InsightFaceEngine and
OnnxDirectEngine; resolves model paths relative to the backend
directory so the same gallery config works in docker-scratch and
in the e2e-backends rootfs-extraction harness.
* backend.py — gRPC servicer implementing Health, LoadModel, Status,
Embedding, Detect, FaceVerify, FaceAnalyze.
* install.sh — pre-bakes buffalo_l + OpenCV YuNet/SFace inside the
backend directory so first-run is offline-clean (the final scratch
image only preserves files under /<backend>/).
* test.py — parametrized unit tests over both engines.
Tests:
* Registry unit tests (go test -race ./core/services/facerecognition/...)
— in-memory fake grpc.Backend, table-driven, covers register/
identify/forget/error paths + concurrent access.
* tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go extended with face caps
(face_detect, face_embed, face_verify, face_analyze); relative
ordering + configurable verifyCeiling per engine.
* Makefile targets: test-extra-backend-insightface-buffalo-l,
-opencv, and the -all aggregate.
* CI: .github/workflows/test-extra.yml gains tests-insightface-grpc,
auto-triggered by changes under backend/python/insightface/.
Docs:
* docs/content/features/face-recognition.md — feature page with
license table, quickstart (defaults to the commercial-safe model),
models matrix, API reference, 1:N workflow, storage caveats.
* Cross-refs in object-detection.md, stores.md, embeddings.md, and
whats-new.md.
* Contributor README at backend/python/insightface/README.md.
Verified end-to-end:
* buffalo_l: 6/6 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed,
face_verify, face_analyze).
* opencv: 5/5 specs (same minus face_analyze — SFace has no
demographic head; correctly skipped via BACKEND_TEST_CAPS).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): move engine selection to model gallery, collapse backend entries
The previous commit put engine/model_pack options on backend gallery
entries (`backend/index.yaml`). That was wrong — `GalleryBackend`
(core/gallery/backend_types.go:32) has no `options` field, so the
YAML decoder silently dropped those keys and all three "different
insightface-*" backend entries resolved to the same container image
with no distinguishing configuration.
Correct split:
* `backend/index.yaml` now has ONE `insightface` backend entry
shipping the CPU + CUDA 12 container images. The Python backend
bundles both the non-commercial insightface model packs
(buffalo_l / buffalo_s) and the commercial-safe OpenCV Zoo
weights (YuNet + SFace); the active engine is selected at
LoadModel time via `options: ["engine:..."]`.
* `gallery/index.yaml` gains three model entries —
`insightface-buffalo-l`, `insightface-opencv`,
`insightface-buffalo-s` — each setting the appropriate
`overrides.backend` + `overrides.options` so installing one
actually gives the user the intended engine. This matches how
`rfdetr-base` lives in the model gallery against the `rfdetr`
backend.
The earlier e2e tests passed despite this bug because the Makefile
targets pass `BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS` directly to LoadModel via gRPC,
bypassing any gallery resolution entirely. No code changes needed.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): cover all supported models in the gallery + drop weight baking
Follows up on the model-gallery split: adds entries for every model
configuration either engine actually supports, and switches weight
delivery from image-baked to LocalAI's standard gallery mechanism.
Gallery now has seven `insightface-*` model entries (gallery/index.yaml):
insightface (family) — non-commercial research use
• buffalo-l (326MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet50 + genderage, default
• buffalo-m (313MB) — SCRFD-2.5GF + ResNet50 + genderage
• buffalo-s (159MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF + genderage
• buffalo-sc (16MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF, recognition only
(no landmarks, no demographics — analyze
returns empty attributes)
• antelopev2 (407MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet100@Glint360K + genderage
OpenCV Zoo family — Apache 2.0 commercial-safe
• opencv — YuNet + SFace fp32 (~40MB)
• opencv-int8 — YuNet + SFace int8 (~12MB, ~3x smaller, faster on CPU)
Model weights are no longer baked into the backend image. The image
now ships only the Python runtime + libraries (~275MB content size,
~1.18GB disk vs ~1.21GB when weights were baked). Weights flow through
LocalAI's gallery mechanism:
* OpenCV variants list `files:` with ONNX URIs + SHA-256, so
`local-ai models install insightface-opencv` pulls them into the
models directory exactly like any other gallery-managed model.
* insightface packs (upstream distributes .zip archives only, not
individual ONNX files) auto-download on first LoadModel via
FaceAnalysis' built-in machinery, rooted at the LocalAI models
directory so they live alongside everything else — same pattern
`rfdetr` uses with `inference.get_model()`.
Backend changes (backend/python/insightface/):
* backend.py — LoadModel propagates `ModelOptions.ModelPath` (the
LocalAI models directory) to engines via a `_model_dir` hint.
This replaces the earlier ModelFile-dirname approach; ModelPath
is the canonical "models directory" variable set by the Go loader
(pkg/model/initializers.go:144) and is always populated.
* engines.py::_resolve_model_path — picks up `model_dir` and searches
it (plus basename-in-model-dir) before falling back to the dev
script-dir. This is how OnnxDirectEngine finds gallery-downloaded
YuNet/SFace files by filename only.
* engines.py::_flatten_insightface_pack — new helper that works
around an upstream packaging inconsistency: buffalo_l/s/sc zips
expand flat, but buffalo_m and antelopev2 zips wrap their ONNX
files in a redundant `<name>/` directory. insightface's own
loader looks one level too shallow and fails. We call
`ensure_available()` explicitly, flatten if nested, then hand to
FaceAnalysis.
* engines.py::InsightFaceEngine.prepare — root-resolution order now
includes the `_model_dir` hint so packs download into the LocalAI
models directory by default.
* install.sh — no longer pre-downloads any weights. Everything is
gallery-managed now.
* smoke.py (new) — parametrized smoke test that iterates over every
gallery configuration, simulating the LocalAI install flow
(creates a models dir, fetches OpenCV files with checksum
verification, lets insightface auto-download its packs), then
runs detect + embed + verify (+ analyze where supported) through
the in-process BackendServicer.
* test.py — OnnxDirectEngineTest no longer hardcodes `/models/opencv/`
paths; downloads ONNX files to a temp dir at setUpClass time and
passes ModelPath accordingly.
Registry change (core/services/facerecognition/store_registry.go):
* `dim=0` in NewStoreRegistry now means "accept whatever dimension
arrives" — needed because the backend supports 512-d ArcFace/MBF
and 128-d SFace via the same Registry. A non-zero dim still fails
fast with ErrDimensionMismatch.
* core/application plumbs `faceEmbeddingDim = 0`, explaining the
rationale in the comment.
Backend gallery description updated to reflect that the image carries
no weights — it's just Python + engines.
Smoke-tested all 7 configurations against the rebuilt image (with the
flatten fix applied), exit 0:
PASS: insightface-buffalo-l faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-sc faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-s faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-m faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-antelopev2 faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv-int8 faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
7/7 passed
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): pre-fetch OpenCV ONNX for e2e target; drop stale pre-baked claim
CI regression from the previous commit: I moved OpenCV Zoo weight
delivery to LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism, but the
test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv target was still passing
relative paths `detector_onnx:models/opencv/yunet.onnx` in
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS. The e2e suite drives LoadModel directly over
gRPC without going through the gallery, so those relative paths
resolved to nothing and OpenCV's ONNXImporter failed:
LoadModel failed: Failed to load face engine:
OpenCV(4.13.0) ... Can't read ONNX file: models/opencv/yunet.onnx
Fix: add an `insightface-opencv-models` prerequisite target that
fetches the two ONNX files (YuNet + SFace) to a deterministic host
cache at /tmp/localai-insightface-opencv-cache/, verifies SHA-256,
and skips the download on re-runs. The opencv test target depends on
it and passes absolute paths in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS, so the backend
finds the files via its normal absolute-path resolution branch.
Also refresh the buffalo_l comment: it no longer says "pre-baked"
(nothing is — the pack auto-downloads from upstream's GitHub release
on first LoadModel, same as in CI).
Locally verified: `make test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv` passes
5/5 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed, face_verify).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): add POST /v1/face/embed + correct /v1/embeddings docs
The docs promised that /v1/embeddings returns face vectors when you
send an image data-URI. That was never true: /v1/embeddings is
OpenAI-compatible and text-only by contract — its handler goes
through `core/backend/embeddings.go::ModelEmbedding`, which sets
`predictOptions.Embeddings = s` (a string of TEXT to embed) and never
populates `predictOptions.Images[]`. The Python backend's Embedding
gRPC method does handle Images[] (that's how /v1/face/register reaches
it internally via `backend.FaceEmbed`), but the HTTP embeddings
endpoint wasn't wired to populate it.
Rather than overload /v1/embeddings with image-vs-text detection —
messy, and the endpoint is OpenAI-compatible by design — add a
dedicated /v1/face/embed endpoint that wraps `backend.FaceEmbed`
(already used internally by /v1/face/register and /v1/face/identify).
Matches LocalAI's convention of a dedicated path per non-standard flow
(/v1/rerank, /v1/detection, /v1/face/verify etc.).
Response:
{
"embedding": [<dim> floats, L2-normed],
"dim": int, // 512 for ArcFace R50 / MBF, 128 for SFace
"model": "<name>"
}
Live-tested on the opencv engine: returns a 128-d L2-normalized vector
(sum(x^2) = 1.0000). Sentinel in docs updated to note /v1/embeddings
is text-only and point image users at /v1/face/embed instead.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(http): map malformed image input + gRPC status codes to proper 4xx
Image-input failures on LocalAI's single-image endpoints (/v1/detection,
/v1/face/{verify,analyze,embed,register,identify}) have historically
returned 500 — even when the client was the one who sent garbage.
Classic example: you POST an "image" that isn't a URL, isn't a
data-URI, and isn't a valid JPEG/PNG — the server shouldn't claim
that's its fault.
Two helpers land in core/http/endpoints/localai/images.go and every
single-image handler is switched over:
* decodeImageInput(s)
Wraps utils.GetContentURIAsBase64 and turns any failure
(invalid URL, not a data-URI, download error, etc.) into
echo.NewHTTPError(400, "invalid image input: ...").
* mapBackendError(err)
Inspects the gRPC status on a backend call error and maps:
INVALID_ARGUMENT → 400 Bad Request
NOT_FOUND → 404 Not Found
FAILED_PRECONDITION → 412 Precondition Failed
Unimplemented → 501 Not Implemented
All other codes fall through unchanged (still 500).
Before, my 1×1 PNG error-path test returned:
HTTP 500 "rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = failed to decode one or both images"
After:
HTTP 400 "failed to decode one or both images"
Scope-limited to the LocalAI single-image endpoints. The multi-modal
paths (middleware/request.go, openresponses/responses.go,
openai/realtime.go) intentionally log-and-skip individual media parts
when decoding fails — different design intent (graceful degradation
of a multi-part message), not a 400-worthy failure. Left untouched.
Live-verified: every error case in /tmp/face_errors.py now returns
4xx with a meaningful message; the "image with no face (1x1 PNG)"
case specifically went from 500 → 400.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* refactor(face-recognition): insightface packs go through gallery files:, drop FaceAnalysis
Follows up on the discovery that LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism
handles archives (zip, tar.gz, …) via mholt/archiver/v3 — the rhasspy
piper voices use exactly this pattern. Insightface packs are zip
archives, so we can now deliver them the same way every other
gallery-managed model gets delivered: declaratively, checksum-verified,
through LocalAI's standard download+extract pipeline.
Two changes:
1. Gallery (gallery/index.yaml) — every insightface-* entry gains a
`files:` list with the pack zip's URI + SHA-256. `local-ai models
install insightface-buffalo-l` now fetches the zip, verifies the
hash, and extracts it into the models directory. No more reliance
on insightface's library-internal `ensure_available()` auto-download
or its hardcoded `BASE_REPO_URL`.
2. InsightFaceEngine (backend/python/insightface/engines.py) — drops
the FaceAnalysis wrapper and drives insightface's `model_zoo`
directly. The ~50 lines FaceAnalysis provides — glob ONNX files,
route each through `model_zoo.get_model()`, build a
`{taskname: model}` dict, loop per-face at inference — are
reimplemented in `InsightFaceEngine`. The actual inference classes
(RetinaFace, ArcFaceONNX, Attribute, Landmark) are still
insightface's — we only replicate the glue, so drift risk against
upstream is minimal.
Why drop FaceAnalysis: it hard-codes a `<root>/models/<name>/*.onnx`
layout that doesn't match what LocalAI's zip extraction produces.
LocalAI unpacks archives flat into `<models_dir>`. Upstream packs
are inconsistent — buffalo_l/s/sc ship ONNX at the zip root (lands
at `<models_dir>/*.onnx`), buffalo_m/antelopev2 wrap in a redundant
`<name>/` dir (lands at `<models_dir>/<name>/*.onnx`). The new
`_locate_insightface_pack` helper searches both locations plus
legacy paths and returns whichever has ONNX files. Replaces the
earlier `_flatten_insightface_pack` helper (which tried to fight
FaceAnalysis's layout expectations; now we just find the files
wherever they are).
Net effect for users: install once via LocalAI's managed flow,
weights live alongside every other model, progress shows in the
jobs endpoint, no first-load network call. Same API surface,
cleaner plumbing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): CI's insightface e2e path needs the pack pre-fetched
The e2e suite drives LoadModel over gRPC without going through LocalAI's
gallery flow, so the engine's `_model_dir` option (normally populated
from ModelPath) is empty. Previously the insightface target relied on
FaceAnalysis auto-download to paper over this, but we dropped
FaceAnalysis in favor of direct model_zoo calls — so the buffalo_l
target started failing at LoadModel with "no insightface pack found".
Mirror the opencv target's pre-fetch pattern: download buffalo_sc.zip
(same SHA as the gallery entry), extract it on the host, and pass
`root:<dir>` so the engine locates the pack without needing
ModelPath. Switched to buffalo_sc (smallest pack, ~16MB) to keep CI
fast; it covers the same insightface engine code path as buffalo_l.
Face analyze cap dropped since buffalo_sc has no age/gender head.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* feat(face-recognition): surface face-recognition in advertised feature maps
The six /v1/face/* endpoints were missing from every place LocalAI
advertises its feature surface to clients:
* api_instructions — the machine-readable capability index at
GET /api/instructions. Added `face-recognition` as a dedicated
instruction area with an intro that calls out the in-memory
registry caveat and the /v1/face/embed vs /v1/embeddings split.
* auth/permissions — added FeatureFaceRecognition constant, routed
all six face endpoints through it so admins can gate them per-user
like any other API feature. Default ON (matches the other API
features).
* React UI capabilities — CAP_FACE_RECOGNITION symbol mapped to
FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION. Declared only for now; the Face page is a
follow-up (noted in the plan).
Instruction count bumped 9 → 10; test updated.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* docs(agents): capture advertising-surface steps in the endpoint guide
Before this change, adding a new /v1/* endpoint reliably missed one or
more of: the swagger @Tags annotation, the /api/instructions registry,
the auth RouteFeatureRegistry, and the React UI CAP_* symbol. The
endpoint would work but be invisible to API consumers, admins, and the
UI — and nothing in the existing docs said to look in those places.
Extend .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md with a new "Advertising
surfaces" section covering all four surfaces (swagger tags, /api/
instructions, capabilities.js, docs/), and expand the closing checklist
so it's impossible to ship a feature without visiting each one. Hoist a
one-liner reminder into AGENTS.md's Quick Reference so agents skim it
before diving in.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
2026-04-22 19:55:41 +00:00
BACKEND_IMAGE = local-ai-backend:insightface \
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME = insightface-opencv \
feat(insightface): add antispoofing (liveness) detection (#9515)
* feat(insightface): add antispoofing (liveness) detection
Light up the anti_spoofing flag that was parked during the first pass.
Both FaceVerify and FaceAnalyze now run the Silent-Face MiniFASNetV2 +
MiniFASNetV1SE ensemble (~4 MB, Apache 2.0, CPU <10ms) when the flag is
set. Failed liveness on either image vetoes FaceVerify regardless of
embedding similarity. Every insightface* gallery entry now ships the
MiniFASNet ONNX weights so existing packs light up after reinstall.
Setting the flag against a model without the MiniFASNet files returns
FAILED_PRECONDITION (HTTP 412) with a clear install message — no
silent is_real=false.
FaceVerifyResponse gained per-image img{1,2}_is_real and
img{1,2}_antispoof_score (proto 9-12); FaceAnalysis's existing
is_real/antispoof_score fields are now populated. Schema fields are
pointers so they are fully absent from the JSON response when
anti_spoofing was not requested — avoids collapsing "not checked" with
"checked and fake" under Go's omitempty on bool.
Validated end-to-end over HTTP against a local install:
- verify + anti_spoofing, both real -> verified=true, score ~0.76
- verify + anti_spoofing, img2 spoof -> verified=false, img2_is_real=false
- analyze + anti_spoofing -> is_real and score per face
- flag against model without MiniFASNet -> HTTP 412 fail-loud
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 go vet
* test(insightface): wire test target into test-extra
The root Makefile's `test-extra` already runs
`$(MAKE) -C backend/python/insightface test`, but the backend's
Makefile never defined the target — so the command silently errored
and the suite was never executed in CI. Adding the two-line target
(matching ace-step/Makefile) hooks `test.sh` → `runUnittests` →
`python -m unittest test.py`, which discovers both the pre-existing
engine classes (InsightFaceEngineTest, OnnxDirectEngineTest) and the
new AntispoofingTest. Each class skips gracefully when its weights
can't be downloaded from a network-restricted runner.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* test(insightface): exercise antispoofing in e2e-backends (both paths)
Add a `face_antispoof` capability to the Ginkgo e2e suite and extend
the existing FaceVerify + FaceAnalyze specs with liveness assertions
covering BOTH paths:
real fixture -> is_real=true, score>0, verified stays true
spoof fixture -> is_real=false, verified vetoed to false
The spoof fixture is upstream's own `image_F2.jpg` (via the yakhyo
mirror) — verified locally against the MiniFASNetV2+V1SE ensemble to
classify as is_real=false with score ~0.013. That makes the assertion
deterministic across CI runs; synthetic/derived spoofs fool the model
unpredictably and would be flaky.
Makefile wires it up end-to-end:
- New INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_* cache dir + two ONNX downloads with
pinned SHAs, matching the gallery entries.
- insightface-antispoof-models target shared by both backend configs.
- FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL passed via BACKEND_TEST_FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL.
- Both e2e targets (buffalo-sc + opencv) now:
* depend on insightface-antispoof-models
* pass antispoof_v2_onnx / antispoof_v1se_onnx in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS
* include face_antispoof in BACKEND_TEST_CAPS
backend_test.go adds the new capability constant and a faceSpoofFile
fixture resolved the same way as faceFile1/2/3. Spoof assertions are
gated on both capFaceAntispoof AND faceSpoofFile being set, so a test
config that omits the spoof fixture degrades gracefully to "real path
only" instead of failing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 go vet
2026-04-23 16:28:15 +00:00
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS = engine:onnx_direct,detector_onnx:$( INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_DIR) /yunet.onnx,recognizer_onnx:$( INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_DIR) /sface.onnx,antispoof_v2_onnx:$( INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR) /MiniFASNetV2.onnx,antispoof_v1se_onnx:$( INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR) /MiniFASNetV1SE.onnx \
BACKEND_TEST_CAPS = health,load,face_detect,face_embed,face_verify,face_antispoof \
feat(face-recognition): add insightface/onnx backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis (#9480)
* feat(face-recognition): add insightface backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis
Adds face recognition as a new first-class capability in LocalAI via the
`insightface` Python backend, with a pluggable two-engine design so
non-commercial (insightface model packs) and commercial-safe
(OpenCV Zoo YuNet + SFace) models share the same gRPC/HTTP surface.
New gRPC RPCs (backend/backend.proto):
* FaceVerify(FaceVerifyRequest) returns FaceVerifyResponse
* FaceAnalyze(FaceAnalyzeRequest) returns FaceAnalyzeResponse
Existing Embedding and Detect RPCs are reused (face image in
PredictOptions.Images / DetectOptions.src) for face embedding and
face detection respectively.
New HTTP endpoints under /v1/face/:
* verify — 1:1 image pair same-person decision
* analyze — per-face age + gender (emotion/race reserved)
* register — 1:N enrollment; stores embedding in vector store
* identify — 1:N recognition; detect → embed → StoresFind
* forget — remove a registered face by opaque ID
Service layer (core/services/facerecognition/) introduces a
`Registry` interface with one in-memory `storeRegistry` impl backed
by LocalAI's existing local-store gRPC vector backend. HTTP handlers
depend on the interface, not on StoresSet/StoresFind directly, so a
persistent PostgreSQL/pgvector implementation can be slotted in via a
single constructor change in core/application (TODO marker in the
package doc).
New usecase flag FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION; insightface is also wired
into FLAG_DETECTION so /v1/detection works for face bounding boxes.
Gallery (backend/index.yaml) ships three entries:
* insightface-buffalo-l — SCRFD-10GF + ArcFace R50 + genderage
(~326MB pre-baked; non-commercial research use only)
* insightface-opencv — YuNet + SFace (~40MB pre-baked; Apache 2.0)
* insightface-buffalo-s — SCRFD-500MF + MBF (runtime download; non-commercial)
Python backend (backend/python/insightface/):
* engines.py — FaceEngine protocol with InsightFaceEngine and
OnnxDirectEngine; resolves model paths relative to the backend
directory so the same gallery config works in docker-scratch and
in the e2e-backends rootfs-extraction harness.
* backend.py — gRPC servicer implementing Health, LoadModel, Status,
Embedding, Detect, FaceVerify, FaceAnalyze.
* install.sh — pre-bakes buffalo_l + OpenCV YuNet/SFace inside the
backend directory so first-run is offline-clean (the final scratch
image only preserves files under /<backend>/).
* test.py — parametrized unit tests over both engines.
Tests:
* Registry unit tests (go test -race ./core/services/facerecognition/...)
— in-memory fake grpc.Backend, table-driven, covers register/
identify/forget/error paths + concurrent access.
* tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go extended with face caps
(face_detect, face_embed, face_verify, face_analyze); relative
ordering + configurable verifyCeiling per engine.
* Makefile targets: test-extra-backend-insightface-buffalo-l,
-opencv, and the -all aggregate.
* CI: .github/workflows/test-extra.yml gains tests-insightface-grpc,
auto-triggered by changes under backend/python/insightface/.
Docs:
* docs/content/features/face-recognition.md — feature page with
license table, quickstart (defaults to the commercial-safe model),
models matrix, API reference, 1:N workflow, storage caveats.
* Cross-refs in object-detection.md, stores.md, embeddings.md, and
whats-new.md.
* Contributor README at backend/python/insightface/README.md.
Verified end-to-end:
* buffalo_l: 6/6 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed,
face_verify, face_analyze).
* opencv: 5/5 specs (same minus face_analyze — SFace has no
demographic head; correctly skipped via BACKEND_TEST_CAPS).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): move engine selection to model gallery, collapse backend entries
The previous commit put engine/model_pack options on backend gallery
entries (`backend/index.yaml`). That was wrong — `GalleryBackend`
(core/gallery/backend_types.go:32) has no `options` field, so the
YAML decoder silently dropped those keys and all three "different
insightface-*" backend entries resolved to the same container image
with no distinguishing configuration.
Correct split:
* `backend/index.yaml` now has ONE `insightface` backend entry
shipping the CPU + CUDA 12 container images. The Python backend
bundles both the non-commercial insightface model packs
(buffalo_l / buffalo_s) and the commercial-safe OpenCV Zoo
weights (YuNet + SFace); the active engine is selected at
LoadModel time via `options: ["engine:..."]`.
* `gallery/index.yaml` gains three model entries —
`insightface-buffalo-l`, `insightface-opencv`,
`insightface-buffalo-s` — each setting the appropriate
`overrides.backend` + `overrides.options` so installing one
actually gives the user the intended engine. This matches how
`rfdetr-base` lives in the model gallery against the `rfdetr`
backend.
The earlier e2e tests passed despite this bug because the Makefile
targets pass `BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS` directly to LoadModel via gRPC,
bypassing any gallery resolution entirely. No code changes needed.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): cover all supported models in the gallery + drop weight baking
Follows up on the model-gallery split: adds entries for every model
configuration either engine actually supports, and switches weight
delivery from image-baked to LocalAI's standard gallery mechanism.
Gallery now has seven `insightface-*` model entries (gallery/index.yaml):
insightface (family) — non-commercial research use
• buffalo-l (326MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet50 + genderage, default
• buffalo-m (313MB) — SCRFD-2.5GF + ResNet50 + genderage
• buffalo-s (159MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF + genderage
• buffalo-sc (16MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF, recognition only
(no landmarks, no demographics — analyze
returns empty attributes)
• antelopev2 (407MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet100@Glint360K + genderage
OpenCV Zoo family — Apache 2.0 commercial-safe
• opencv — YuNet + SFace fp32 (~40MB)
• opencv-int8 — YuNet + SFace int8 (~12MB, ~3x smaller, faster on CPU)
Model weights are no longer baked into the backend image. The image
now ships only the Python runtime + libraries (~275MB content size,
~1.18GB disk vs ~1.21GB when weights were baked). Weights flow through
LocalAI's gallery mechanism:
* OpenCV variants list `files:` with ONNX URIs + SHA-256, so
`local-ai models install insightface-opencv` pulls them into the
models directory exactly like any other gallery-managed model.
* insightface packs (upstream distributes .zip archives only, not
individual ONNX files) auto-download on first LoadModel via
FaceAnalysis' built-in machinery, rooted at the LocalAI models
directory so they live alongside everything else — same pattern
`rfdetr` uses with `inference.get_model()`.
Backend changes (backend/python/insightface/):
* backend.py — LoadModel propagates `ModelOptions.ModelPath` (the
LocalAI models directory) to engines via a `_model_dir` hint.
This replaces the earlier ModelFile-dirname approach; ModelPath
is the canonical "models directory" variable set by the Go loader
(pkg/model/initializers.go:144) and is always populated.
* engines.py::_resolve_model_path — picks up `model_dir` and searches
it (plus basename-in-model-dir) before falling back to the dev
script-dir. This is how OnnxDirectEngine finds gallery-downloaded
YuNet/SFace files by filename only.
* engines.py::_flatten_insightface_pack — new helper that works
around an upstream packaging inconsistency: buffalo_l/s/sc zips
expand flat, but buffalo_m and antelopev2 zips wrap their ONNX
files in a redundant `<name>/` directory. insightface's own
loader looks one level too shallow and fails. We call
`ensure_available()` explicitly, flatten if nested, then hand to
FaceAnalysis.
* engines.py::InsightFaceEngine.prepare — root-resolution order now
includes the `_model_dir` hint so packs download into the LocalAI
models directory by default.
* install.sh — no longer pre-downloads any weights. Everything is
gallery-managed now.
* smoke.py (new) — parametrized smoke test that iterates over every
gallery configuration, simulating the LocalAI install flow
(creates a models dir, fetches OpenCV files with checksum
verification, lets insightface auto-download its packs), then
runs detect + embed + verify (+ analyze where supported) through
the in-process BackendServicer.
* test.py — OnnxDirectEngineTest no longer hardcodes `/models/opencv/`
paths; downloads ONNX files to a temp dir at setUpClass time and
passes ModelPath accordingly.
Registry change (core/services/facerecognition/store_registry.go):
* `dim=0` in NewStoreRegistry now means "accept whatever dimension
arrives" — needed because the backend supports 512-d ArcFace/MBF
and 128-d SFace via the same Registry. A non-zero dim still fails
fast with ErrDimensionMismatch.
* core/application plumbs `faceEmbeddingDim = 0`, explaining the
rationale in the comment.
Backend gallery description updated to reflect that the image carries
no weights — it's just Python + engines.
Smoke-tested all 7 configurations against the rebuilt image (with the
flatten fix applied), exit 0:
PASS: insightface-buffalo-l faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-sc faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-s faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-m faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-antelopev2 faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv-int8 faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
7/7 passed
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): pre-fetch OpenCV ONNX for e2e target; drop stale pre-baked claim
CI regression from the previous commit: I moved OpenCV Zoo weight
delivery to LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism, but the
test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv target was still passing
relative paths `detector_onnx:models/opencv/yunet.onnx` in
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS. The e2e suite drives LoadModel directly over
gRPC without going through the gallery, so those relative paths
resolved to nothing and OpenCV's ONNXImporter failed:
LoadModel failed: Failed to load face engine:
OpenCV(4.13.0) ... Can't read ONNX file: models/opencv/yunet.onnx
Fix: add an `insightface-opencv-models` prerequisite target that
fetches the two ONNX files (YuNet + SFace) to a deterministic host
cache at /tmp/localai-insightface-opencv-cache/, verifies SHA-256,
and skips the download on re-runs. The opencv test target depends on
it and passes absolute paths in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS, so the backend
finds the files via its normal absolute-path resolution branch.
Also refresh the buffalo_l comment: it no longer says "pre-baked"
(nothing is — the pack auto-downloads from upstream's GitHub release
on first LoadModel, same as in CI).
Locally verified: `make test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv` passes
5/5 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed, face_verify).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): add POST /v1/face/embed + correct /v1/embeddings docs
The docs promised that /v1/embeddings returns face vectors when you
send an image data-URI. That was never true: /v1/embeddings is
OpenAI-compatible and text-only by contract — its handler goes
through `core/backend/embeddings.go::ModelEmbedding`, which sets
`predictOptions.Embeddings = s` (a string of TEXT to embed) and never
populates `predictOptions.Images[]`. The Python backend's Embedding
gRPC method does handle Images[] (that's how /v1/face/register reaches
it internally via `backend.FaceEmbed`), but the HTTP embeddings
endpoint wasn't wired to populate it.
Rather than overload /v1/embeddings with image-vs-text detection —
messy, and the endpoint is OpenAI-compatible by design — add a
dedicated /v1/face/embed endpoint that wraps `backend.FaceEmbed`
(already used internally by /v1/face/register and /v1/face/identify).
Matches LocalAI's convention of a dedicated path per non-standard flow
(/v1/rerank, /v1/detection, /v1/face/verify etc.).
Response:
{
"embedding": [<dim> floats, L2-normed],
"dim": int, // 512 for ArcFace R50 / MBF, 128 for SFace
"model": "<name>"
}
Live-tested on the opencv engine: returns a 128-d L2-normalized vector
(sum(x^2) = 1.0000). Sentinel in docs updated to note /v1/embeddings
is text-only and point image users at /v1/face/embed instead.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(http): map malformed image input + gRPC status codes to proper 4xx
Image-input failures on LocalAI's single-image endpoints (/v1/detection,
/v1/face/{verify,analyze,embed,register,identify}) have historically
returned 500 — even when the client was the one who sent garbage.
Classic example: you POST an "image" that isn't a URL, isn't a
data-URI, and isn't a valid JPEG/PNG — the server shouldn't claim
that's its fault.
Two helpers land in core/http/endpoints/localai/images.go and every
single-image handler is switched over:
* decodeImageInput(s)
Wraps utils.GetContentURIAsBase64 and turns any failure
(invalid URL, not a data-URI, download error, etc.) into
echo.NewHTTPError(400, "invalid image input: ...").
* mapBackendError(err)
Inspects the gRPC status on a backend call error and maps:
INVALID_ARGUMENT → 400 Bad Request
NOT_FOUND → 404 Not Found
FAILED_PRECONDITION → 412 Precondition Failed
Unimplemented → 501 Not Implemented
All other codes fall through unchanged (still 500).
Before, my 1×1 PNG error-path test returned:
HTTP 500 "rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = failed to decode one or both images"
After:
HTTP 400 "failed to decode one or both images"
Scope-limited to the LocalAI single-image endpoints. The multi-modal
paths (middleware/request.go, openresponses/responses.go,
openai/realtime.go) intentionally log-and-skip individual media parts
when decoding fails — different design intent (graceful degradation
of a multi-part message), not a 400-worthy failure. Left untouched.
Live-verified: every error case in /tmp/face_errors.py now returns
4xx with a meaningful message; the "image with no face (1x1 PNG)"
case specifically went from 500 → 400.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* refactor(face-recognition): insightface packs go through gallery files:, drop FaceAnalysis
Follows up on the discovery that LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism
handles archives (zip, tar.gz, …) via mholt/archiver/v3 — the rhasspy
piper voices use exactly this pattern. Insightface packs are zip
archives, so we can now deliver them the same way every other
gallery-managed model gets delivered: declaratively, checksum-verified,
through LocalAI's standard download+extract pipeline.
Two changes:
1. Gallery (gallery/index.yaml) — every insightface-* entry gains a
`files:` list with the pack zip's URI + SHA-256. `local-ai models
install insightface-buffalo-l` now fetches the zip, verifies the
hash, and extracts it into the models directory. No more reliance
on insightface's library-internal `ensure_available()` auto-download
or its hardcoded `BASE_REPO_URL`.
2. InsightFaceEngine (backend/python/insightface/engines.py) — drops
the FaceAnalysis wrapper and drives insightface's `model_zoo`
directly. The ~50 lines FaceAnalysis provides — glob ONNX files,
route each through `model_zoo.get_model()`, build a
`{taskname: model}` dict, loop per-face at inference — are
reimplemented in `InsightFaceEngine`. The actual inference classes
(RetinaFace, ArcFaceONNX, Attribute, Landmark) are still
insightface's — we only replicate the glue, so drift risk against
upstream is minimal.
Why drop FaceAnalysis: it hard-codes a `<root>/models/<name>/*.onnx`
layout that doesn't match what LocalAI's zip extraction produces.
LocalAI unpacks archives flat into `<models_dir>`. Upstream packs
are inconsistent — buffalo_l/s/sc ship ONNX at the zip root (lands
at `<models_dir>/*.onnx`), buffalo_m/antelopev2 wrap in a redundant
`<name>/` dir (lands at `<models_dir>/<name>/*.onnx`). The new
`_locate_insightface_pack` helper searches both locations plus
legacy paths and returns whichever has ONNX files. Replaces the
earlier `_flatten_insightface_pack` helper (which tried to fight
FaceAnalysis's layout expectations; now we just find the files
wherever they are).
Net effect for users: install once via LocalAI's managed flow,
weights live alongside every other model, progress shows in the
jobs endpoint, no first-load network call. Same API surface,
cleaner plumbing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): CI's insightface e2e path needs the pack pre-fetched
The e2e suite drives LoadModel over gRPC without going through LocalAI's
gallery flow, so the engine's `_model_dir` option (normally populated
from ModelPath) is empty. Previously the insightface target relied on
FaceAnalysis auto-download to paper over this, but we dropped
FaceAnalysis in favor of direct model_zoo calls — so the buffalo_l
target started failing at LoadModel with "no insightface pack found".
Mirror the opencv target's pre-fetch pattern: download buffalo_sc.zip
(same SHA as the gallery entry), extract it on the host, and pass
`root:<dir>` so the engine locates the pack without needing
ModelPath. Switched to buffalo_sc (smallest pack, ~16MB) to keep CI
fast; it covers the same insightface engine code path as buffalo_l.
Face analyze cap dropped since buffalo_sc has no age/gender head.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* feat(face-recognition): surface face-recognition in advertised feature maps
The six /v1/face/* endpoints were missing from every place LocalAI
advertises its feature surface to clients:
* api_instructions — the machine-readable capability index at
GET /api/instructions. Added `face-recognition` as a dedicated
instruction area with an intro that calls out the in-memory
registry caveat and the /v1/face/embed vs /v1/embeddings split.
* auth/permissions — added FeatureFaceRecognition constant, routed
all six face endpoints through it so admins can gate them per-user
like any other API feature. Default ON (matches the other API
features).
* React UI capabilities — CAP_FACE_RECOGNITION symbol mapped to
FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION. Declared only for now; the Face page is a
follow-up (noted in the plan).
Instruction count bumped 9 → 10; test updated.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* docs(agents): capture advertising-surface steps in the endpoint guide
Before this change, adding a new /v1/* endpoint reliably missed one or
more of: the swagger @Tags annotation, the /api/instructions registry,
the auth RouteFeatureRegistry, and the React UI CAP_* symbol. The
endpoint would work but be invisible to API consumers, admins, and the
UI — and nothing in the existing docs said to look in those places.
Extend .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md with a new "Advertising
surfaces" section covering all four surfaces (swagger tags, /api/
instructions, capabilities.js, docs/), and expand the closing checklist
so it's impossible to ship a feature without visiting each one. Hoist a
one-liner reminder into AGENTS.md's Quick Reference so agents skim it
before diving in.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
2026-04-22 19:55:41 +00:00
BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_1_URL = $( FACE_IMAGE_1_URL) \
BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_2_URL = $( FACE_IMAGE_2_URL) \
BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_3_URL = $( FACE_IMAGE_3_URL) \
feat(insightface): add antispoofing (liveness) detection (#9515)
* feat(insightface): add antispoofing (liveness) detection
Light up the anti_spoofing flag that was parked during the first pass.
Both FaceVerify and FaceAnalyze now run the Silent-Face MiniFASNetV2 +
MiniFASNetV1SE ensemble (~4 MB, Apache 2.0, CPU <10ms) when the flag is
set. Failed liveness on either image vetoes FaceVerify regardless of
embedding similarity. Every insightface* gallery entry now ships the
MiniFASNet ONNX weights so existing packs light up after reinstall.
Setting the flag against a model without the MiniFASNet files returns
FAILED_PRECONDITION (HTTP 412) with a clear install message — no
silent is_real=false.
FaceVerifyResponse gained per-image img{1,2}_is_real and
img{1,2}_antispoof_score (proto 9-12); FaceAnalysis's existing
is_real/antispoof_score fields are now populated. Schema fields are
pointers so they are fully absent from the JSON response when
anti_spoofing was not requested — avoids collapsing "not checked" with
"checked and fake" under Go's omitempty on bool.
Validated end-to-end over HTTP against a local install:
- verify + anti_spoofing, both real -> verified=true, score ~0.76
- verify + anti_spoofing, img2 spoof -> verified=false, img2_is_real=false
- analyze + anti_spoofing -> is_real and score per face
- flag against model without MiniFASNet -> HTTP 412 fail-loud
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 go vet
* test(insightface): wire test target into test-extra
The root Makefile's `test-extra` already runs
`$(MAKE) -C backend/python/insightface test`, but the backend's
Makefile never defined the target — so the command silently errored
and the suite was never executed in CI. Adding the two-line target
(matching ace-step/Makefile) hooks `test.sh` → `runUnittests` →
`python -m unittest test.py`, which discovers both the pre-existing
engine classes (InsightFaceEngineTest, OnnxDirectEngineTest) and the
new AntispoofingTest. Each class skips gracefully when its weights
can't be downloaded from a network-restricted runner.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* test(insightface): exercise antispoofing in e2e-backends (both paths)
Add a `face_antispoof` capability to the Ginkgo e2e suite and extend
the existing FaceVerify + FaceAnalyze specs with liveness assertions
covering BOTH paths:
real fixture -> is_real=true, score>0, verified stays true
spoof fixture -> is_real=false, verified vetoed to false
The spoof fixture is upstream's own `image_F2.jpg` (via the yakhyo
mirror) — verified locally against the MiniFASNetV2+V1SE ensemble to
classify as is_real=false with score ~0.013. That makes the assertion
deterministic across CI runs; synthetic/derived spoofs fool the model
unpredictably and would be flaky.
Makefile wires it up end-to-end:
- New INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_* cache dir + two ONNX downloads with
pinned SHAs, matching the gallery entries.
- insightface-antispoof-models target shared by both backend configs.
- FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL passed via BACKEND_TEST_FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL.
- Both e2e targets (buffalo-sc + opencv) now:
* depend on insightface-antispoof-models
* pass antispoof_v2_onnx / antispoof_v1se_onnx in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS
* include face_antispoof in BACKEND_TEST_CAPS
backend_test.go adds the new capability constant and a faceSpoofFile
fixture resolved the same way as faceFile1/2/3. Spoof assertions are
gated on both capFaceAntispoof AND faceSpoofFile being set, so a test
config that omits the spoof fixture degrades gracefully to "real path
only" instead of failing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 go vet
2026-04-23 16:28:15 +00:00
BACKEND_TEST_FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL = $( FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL) \
feat(face-recognition): add insightface/onnx backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis (#9480)
* feat(face-recognition): add insightface backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis
Adds face recognition as a new first-class capability in LocalAI via the
`insightface` Python backend, with a pluggable two-engine design so
non-commercial (insightface model packs) and commercial-safe
(OpenCV Zoo YuNet + SFace) models share the same gRPC/HTTP surface.
New gRPC RPCs (backend/backend.proto):
* FaceVerify(FaceVerifyRequest) returns FaceVerifyResponse
* FaceAnalyze(FaceAnalyzeRequest) returns FaceAnalyzeResponse
Existing Embedding and Detect RPCs are reused (face image in
PredictOptions.Images / DetectOptions.src) for face embedding and
face detection respectively.
New HTTP endpoints under /v1/face/:
* verify — 1:1 image pair same-person decision
* analyze — per-face age + gender (emotion/race reserved)
* register — 1:N enrollment; stores embedding in vector store
* identify — 1:N recognition; detect → embed → StoresFind
* forget — remove a registered face by opaque ID
Service layer (core/services/facerecognition/) introduces a
`Registry` interface with one in-memory `storeRegistry` impl backed
by LocalAI's existing local-store gRPC vector backend. HTTP handlers
depend on the interface, not on StoresSet/StoresFind directly, so a
persistent PostgreSQL/pgvector implementation can be slotted in via a
single constructor change in core/application (TODO marker in the
package doc).
New usecase flag FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION; insightface is also wired
into FLAG_DETECTION so /v1/detection works for face bounding boxes.
Gallery (backend/index.yaml) ships three entries:
* insightface-buffalo-l — SCRFD-10GF + ArcFace R50 + genderage
(~326MB pre-baked; non-commercial research use only)
* insightface-opencv — YuNet + SFace (~40MB pre-baked; Apache 2.0)
* insightface-buffalo-s — SCRFD-500MF + MBF (runtime download; non-commercial)
Python backend (backend/python/insightface/):
* engines.py — FaceEngine protocol with InsightFaceEngine and
OnnxDirectEngine; resolves model paths relative to the backend
directory so the same gallery config works in docker-scratch and
in the e2e-backends rootfs-extraction harness.
* backend.py — gRPC servicer implementing Health, LoadModel, Status,
Embedding, Detect, FaceVerify, FaceAnalyze.
* install.sh — pre-bakes buffalo_l + OpenCV YuNet/SFace inside the
backend directory so first-run is offline-clean (the final scratch
image only preserves files under /<backend>/).
* test.py — parametrized unit tests over both engines.
Tests:
* Registry unit tests (go test -race ./core/services/facerecognition/...)
— in-memory fake grpc.Backend, table-driven, covers register/
identify/forget/error paths + concurrent access.
* tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go extended with face caps
(face_detect, face_embed, face_verify, face_analyze); relative
ordering + configurable verifyCeiling per engine.
* Makefile targets: test-extra-backend-insightface-buffalo-l,
-opencv, and the -all aggregate.
* CI: .github/workflows/test-extra.yml gains tests-insightface-grpc,
auto-triggered by changes under backend/python/insightface/.
Docs:
* docs/content/features/face-recognition.md — feature page with
license table, quickstart (defaults to the commercial-safe model),
models matrix, API reference, 1:N workflow, storage caveats.
* Cross-refs in object-detection.md, stores.md, embeddings.md, and
whats-new.md.
* Contributor README at backend/python/insightface/README.md.
Verified end-to-end:
* buffalo_l: 6/6 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed,
face_verify, face_analyze).
* opencv: 5/5 specs (same minus face_analyze — SFace has no
demographic head; correctly skipped via BACKEND_TEST_CAPS).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): move engine selection to model gallery, collapse backend entries
The previous commit put engine/model_pack options on backend gallery
entries (`backend/index.yaml`). That was wrong — `GalleryBackend`
(core/gallery/backend_types.go:32) has no `options` field, so the
YAML decoder silently dropped those keys and all three "different
insightface-*" backend entries resolved to the same container image
with no distinguishing configuration.
Correct split:
* `backend/index.yaml` now has ONE `insightface` backend entry
shipping the CPU + CUDA 12 container images. The Python backend
bundles both the non-commercial insightface model packs
(buffalo_l / buffalo_s) and the commercial-safe OpenCV Zoo
weights (YuNet + SFace); the active engine is selected at
LoadModel time via `options: ["engine:..."]`.
* `gallery/index.yaml` gains three model entries —
`insightface-buffalo-l`, `insightface-opencv`,
`insightface-buffalo-s` — each setting the appropriate
`overrides.backend` + `overrides.options` so installing one
actually gives the user the intended engine. This matches how
`rfdetr-base` lives in the model gallery against the `rfdetr`
backend.
The earlier e2e tests passed despite this bug because the Makefile
targets pass `BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS` directly to LoadModel via gRPC,
bypassing any gallery resolution entirely. No code changes needed.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): cover all supported models in the gallery + drop weight baking
Follows up on the model-gallery split: adds entries for every model
configuration either engine actually supports, and switches weight
delivery from image-baked to LocalAI's standard gallery mechanism.
Gallery now has seven `insightface-*` model entries (gallery/index.yaml):
insightface (family) — non-commercial research use
• buffalo-l (326MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet50 + genderage, default
• buffalo-m (313MB) — SCRFD-2.5GF + ResNet50 + genderage
• buffalo-s (159MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF + genderage
• buffalo-sc (16MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF, recognition only
(no landmarks, no demographics — analyze
returns empty attributes)
• antelopev2 (407MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet100@Glint360K + genderage
OpenCV Zoo family — Apache 2.0 commercial-safe
• opencv — YuNet + SFace fp32 (~40MB)
• opencv-int8 — YuNet + SFace int8 (~12MB, ~3x smaller, faster on CPU)
Model weights are no longer baked into the backend image. The image
now ships only the Python runtime + libraries (~275MB content size,
~1.18GB disk vs ~1.21GB when weights were baked). Weights flow through
LocalAI's gallery mechanism:
* OpenCV variants list `files:` with ONNX URIs + SHA-256, so
`local-ai models install insightface-opencv` pulls them into the
models directory exactly like any other gallery-managed model.
* insightface packs (upstream distributes .zip archives only, not
individual ONNX files) auto-download on first LoadModel via
FaceAnalysis' built-in machinery, rooted at the LocalAI models
directory so they live alongside everything else — same pattern
`rfdetr` uses with `inference.get_model()`.
Backend changes (backend/python/insightface/):
* backend.py — LoadModel propagates `ModelOptions.ModelPath` (the
LocalAI models directory) to engines via a `_model_dir` hint.
This replaces the earlier ModelFile-dirname approach; ModelPath
is the canonical "models directory" variable set by the Go loader
(pkg/model/initializers.go:144) and is always populated.
* engines.py::_resolve_model_path — picks up `model_dir` and searches
it (plus basename-in-model-dir) before falling back to the dev
script-dir. This is how OnnxDirectEngine finds gallery-downloaded
YuNet/SFace files by filename only.
* engines.py::_flatten_insightface_pack — new helper that works
around an upstream packaging inconsistency: buffalo_l/s/sc zips
expand flat, but buffalo_m and antelopev2 zips wrap their ONNX
files in a redundant `<name>/` directory. insightface's own
loader looks one level too shallow and fails. We call
`ensure_available()` explicitly, flatten if nested, then hand to
FaceAnalysis.
* engines.py::InsightFaceEngine.prepare — root-resolution order now
includes the `_model_dir` hint so packs download into the LocalAI
models directory by default.
* install.sh — no longer pre-downloads any weights. Everything is
gallery-managed now.
* smoke.py (new) — parametrized smoke test that iterates over every
gallery configuration, simulating the LocalAI install flow
(creates a models dir, fetches OpenCV files with checksum
verification, lets insightface auto-download its packs), then
runs detect + embed + verify (+ analyze where supported) through
the in-process BackendServicer.
* test.py — OnnxDirectEngineTest no longer hardcodes `/models/opencv/`
paths; downloads ONNX files to a temp dir at setUpClass time and
passes ModelPath accordingly.
Registry change (core/services/facerecognition/store_registry.go):
* `dim=0` in NewStoreRegistry now means "accept whatever dimension
arrives" — needed because the backend supports 512-d ArcFace/MBF
and 128-d SFace via the same Registry. A non-zero dim still fails
fast with ErrDimensionMismatch.
* core/application plumbs `faceEmbeddingDim = 0`, explaining the
rationale in the comment.
Backend gallery description updated to reflect that the image carries
no weights — it's just Python + engines.
Smoke-tested all 7 configurations against the rebuilt image (with the
flatten fix applied), exit 0:
PASS: insightface-buffalo-l faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-sc faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-s faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-m faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-antelopev2 faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv-int8 faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
7/7 passed
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): pre-fetch OpenCV ONNX for e2e target; drop stale pre-baked claim
CI regression from the previous commit: I moved OpenCV Zoo weight
delivery to LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism, but the
test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv target was still passing
relative paths `detector_onnx:models/opencv/yunet.onnx` in
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS. The e2e suite drives LoadModel directly over
gRPC without going through the gallery, so those relative paths
resolved to nothing and OpenCV's ONNXImporter failed:
LoadModel failed: Failed to load face engine:
OpenCV(4.13.0) ... Can't read ONNX file: models/opencv/yunet.onnx
Fix: add an `insightface-opencv-models` prerequisite target that
fetches the two ONNX files (YuNet + SFace) to a deterministic host
cache at /tmp/localai-insightface-opencv-cache/, verifies SHA-256,
and skips the download on re-runs. The opencv test target depends on
it and passes absolute paths in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS, so the backend
finds the files via its normal absolute-path resolution branch.
Also refresh the buffalo_l comment: it no longer says "pre-baked"
(nothing is — the pack auto-downloads from upstream's GitHub release
on first LoadModel, same as in CI).
Locally verified: `make test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv` passes
5/5 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed, face_verify).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): add POST /v1/face/embed + correct /v1/embeddings docs
The docs promised that /v1/embeddings returns face vectors when you
send an image data-URI. That was never true: /v1/embeddings is
OpenAI-compatible and text-only by contract — its handler goes
through `core/backend/embeddings.go::ModelEmbedding`, which sets
`predictOptions.Embeddings = s` (a string of TEXT to embed) and never
populates `predictOptions.Images[]`. The Python backend's Embedding
gRPC method does handle Images[] (that's how /v1/face/register reaches
it internally via `backend.FaceEmbed`), but the HTTP embeddings
endpoint wasn't wired to populate it.
Rather than overload /v1/embeddings with image-vs-text detection —
messy, and the endpoint is OpenAI-compatible by design — add a
dedicated /v1/face/embed endpoint that wraps `backend.FaceEmbed`
(already used internally by /v1/face/register and /v1/face/identify).
Matches LocalAI's convention of a dedicated path per non-standard flow
(/v1/rerank, /v1/detection, /v1/face/verify etc.).
Response:
{
"embedding": [<dim> floats, L2-normed],
"dim": int, // 512 for ArcFace R50 / MBF, 128 for SFace
"model": "<name>"
}
Live-tested on the opencv engine: returns a 128-d L2-normalized vector
(sum(x^2) = 1.0000). Sentinel in docs updated to note /v1/embeddings
is text-only and point image users at /v1/face/embed instead.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(http): map malformed image input + gRPC status codes to proper 4xx
Image-input failures on LocalAI's single-image endpoints (/v1/detection,
/v1/face/{verify,analyze,embed,register,identify}) have historically
returned 500 — even when the client was the one who sent garbage.
Classic example: you POST an "image" that isn't a URL, isn't a
data-URI, and isn't a valid JPEG/PNG — the server shouldn't claim
that's its fault.
Two helpers land in core/http/endpoints/localai/images.go and every
single-image handler is switched over:
* decodeImageInput(s)
Wraps utils.GetContentURIAsBase64 and turns any failure
(invalid URL, not a data-URI, download error, etc.) into
echo.NewHTTPError(400, "invalid image input: ...").
* mapBackendError(err)
Inspects the gRPC status on a backend call error and maps:
INVALID_ARGUMENT → 400 Bad Request
NOT_FOUND → 404 Not Found
FAILED_PRECONDITION → 412 Precondition Failed
Unimplemented → 501 Not Implemented
All other codes fall through unchanged (still 500).
Before, my 1×1 PNG error-path test returned:
HTTP 500 "rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = failed to decode one or both images"
After:
HTTP 400 "failed to decode one or both images"
Scope-limited to the LocalAI single-image endpoints. The multi-modal
paths (middleware/request.go, openresponses/responses.go,
openai/realtime.go) intentionally log-and-skip individual media parts
when decoding fails — different design intent (graceful degradation
of a multi-part message), not a 400-worthy failure. Left untouched.
Live-verified: every error case in /tmp/face_errors.py now returns
4xx with a meaningful message; the "image with no face (1x1 PNG)"
case specifically went from 500 → 400.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* refactor(face-recognition): insightface packs go through gallery files:, drop FaceAnalysis
Follows up on the discovery that LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism
handles archives (zip, tar.gz, …) via mholt/archiver/v3 — the rhasspy
piper voices use exactly this pattern. Insightface packs are zip
archives, so we can now deliver them the same way every other
gallery-managed model gets delivered: declaratively, checksum-verified,
through LocalAI's standard download+extract pipeline.
Two changes:
1. Gallery (gallery/index.yaml) — every insightface-* entry gains a
`files:` list with the pack zip's URI + SHA-256. `local-ai models
install insightface-buffalo-l` now fetches the zip, verifies the
hash, and extracts it into the models directory. No more reliance
on insightface's library-internal `ensure_available()` auto-download
or its hardcoded `BASE_REPO_URL`.
2. InsightFaceEngine (backend/python/insightface/engines.py) — drops
the FaceAnalysis wrapper and drives insightface's `model_zoo`
directly. The ~50 lines FaceAnalysis provides — glob ONNX files,
route each through `model_zoo.get_model()`, build a
`{taskname: model}` dict, loop per-face at inference — are
reimplemented in `InsightFaceEngine`. The actual inference classes
(RetinaFace, ArcFaceONNX, Attribute, Landmark) are still
insightface's — we only replicate the glue, so drift risk against
upstream is minimal.
Why drop FaceAnalysis: it hard-codes a `<root>/models/<name>/*.onnx`
layout that doesn't match what LocalAI's zip extraction produces.
LocalAI unpacks archives flat into `<models_dir>`. Upstream packs
are inconsistent — buffalo_l/s/sc ship ONNX at the zip root (lands
at `<models_dir>/*.onnx`), buffalo_m/antelopev2 wrap in a redundant
`<name>/` dir (lands at `<models_dir>/<name>/*.onnx`). The new
`_locate_insightface_pack` helper searches both locations plus
legacy paths and returns whichever has ONNX files. Replaces the
earlier `_flatten_insightface_pack` helper (which tried to fight
FaceAnalysis's layout expectations; now we just find the files
wherever they are).
Net effect for users: install once via LocalAI's managed flow,
weights live alongside every other model, progress shows in the
jobs endpoint, no first-load network call. Same API surface,
cleaner plumbing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): CI's insightface e2e path needs the pack pre-fetched
The e2e suite drives LoadModel over gRPC without going through LocalAI's
gallery flow, so the engine's `_model_dir` option (normally populated
from ModelPath) is empty. Previously the insightface target relied on
FaceAnalysis auto-download to paper over this, but we dropped
FaceAnalysis in favor of direct model_zoo calls — so the buffalo_l
target started failing at LoadModel with "no insightface pack found".
Mirror the opencv target's pre-fetch pattern: download buffalo_sc.zip
(same SHA as the gallery entry), extract it on the host, and pass
`root:<dir>` so the engine locates the pack without needing
ModelPath. Switched to buffalo_sc (smallest pack, ~16MB) to keep CI
fast; it covers the same insightface engine code path as buffalo_l.
Face analyze cap dropped since buffalo_sc has no age/gender head.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* feat(face-recognition): surface face-recognition in advertised feature maps
The six /v1/face/* endpoints were missing from every place LocalAI
advertises its feature surface to clients:
* api_instructions — the machine-readable capability index at
GET /api/instructions. Added `face-recognition` as a dedicated
instruction area with an intro that calls out the in-memory
registry caveat and the /v1/face/embed vs /v1/embeddings split.
* auth/permissions — added FeatureFaceRecognition constant, routed
all six face endpoints through it so admins can gate them per-user
like any other API feature. Default ON (matches the other API
features).
* React UI capabilities — CAP_FACE_RECOGNITION symbol mapped to
FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION. Declared only for now; the Face page is a
follow-up (noted in the plan).
Instruction count bumped 9 → 10; test updated.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* docs(agents): capture advertising-surface steps in the endpoint guide
Before this change, adding a new /v1/* endpoint reliably missed one or
more of: the swagger @Tags annotation, the /api/instructions registry,
the auth RouteFeatureRegistry, and the React UI CAP_* symbol. The
endpoint would work but be invisible to API consumers, admins, and the
UI — and nothing in the existing docs said to look in those places.
Extend .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md with a new "Advertising
surfaces" section covering all four surfaces (swagger tags, /api/
instructions, capabilities.js, docs/), and expand the closing checklist
so it's impossible to ship a feature without visiting each one. Hoist a
one-liner reminder into AGENTS.md's Quick Reference so agents skim it
before diving in.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
2026-04-22 19:55:41 +00:00
BACKEND_TEST_VERIFY_DISTANCE_CEILING = 0.55 \
$( MAKE) test-extra-backend
## Aggregate — runs both face-recognition model configurations so CI
## catches regressions across engines together.
test-extra-backend-insightface-all : \
test-extra-backend-insightface-buffalo-sc \
test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv
feat: voice recognition (#9500)
* feat(voice-recognition): add /v1/voice/{verify,analyze,embed} + speaker-recognition backend
Audio analog to face recognition. Adds three gRPC RPCs
(VoiceVerify / VoiceAnalyze / VoiceEmbed), their Go service and HTTP
layers, a new FLAG_SPEAKER_RECOGNITION capability flag, and a Python
backend scaffold under backend/python/speaker-recognition/ wrapping
SpeechBrain ECAPA-TDNN with a parallel OnnxDirectEngine for
WeSpeaker / 3D-Speaker ONNX exports.
The kokoros Rust backend gets matching unimplemented trait stubs —
tonic's async_trait has no defaults, so adding an RPC without Rust
stubs breaks the build (same regression fixed by eb01c772 for face).
Swagger, /api/instructions, and the auth RouteFeatureRegistry /
APIFeatures list are updated so the endpoints surface everywhere a
client or admin UI looks.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(voice-recognition): add 1:N identify + register/forget endpoints
Mirrors the face-recognition register/identify/forget surface. New
package core/services/voicerecognition/ carries a Registry interface
and a local-store-backed implementation (same in-memory vector-store
plumbing facerecognition uses, separate instance so the embedding
spaces stay isolated).
Handlers under /v1/voice/{register,identify,forget} reuse
backend.VoiceEmbed to compute the probe vector, then delegate the
nearest-neighbour search to the registry. Default cosine-distance
threshold is tuned for ECAPA-TDNN on VoxCeleb (0.25, EER ~1.9%).
As with the face registry, the current backing is in-memory only — a
pgvector implementation is a future constructor-level swap.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(voice-recognition): gallery, docs, CI and e2e coverage
- backend/index.yaml: speaker-recognition backend entry + CPU and
CUDA-12 image variants (plus matching development variants).
- gallery/index.yaml: speechbrain-ecapa-tdnn (default) and
wespeaker-resnet34 model entries. The WeSpeaker SHA-256 is a
deliberate placeholder — the HF URI must be curl'd and its hash
filled in before the entry installs.
- docs/content/features/voice-recognition.md: API reference + quickstart,
mirrors the face-recognition docs.
- React UI: CAP_SPEAKER_RECOGNITION flag export (consumers follow face's
precedent — no dedicated tab yet).
- tests/e2e-backends: voice_embed / voice_verify / voice_analyze specs.
Helper resolveFaceFixture is reused as-is — the only thing face/voice
share is "download a file into workDir", so no need for a new helper.
- Makefile: docker-build-speaker-recognition + test-extra-backend-
speaker-recognition-{ecapa,all} targets. Audio fixtures default to
VCTK p225/p226 samples from HuggingFace.
- CI: test-extra.yml grows a tests-speaker-recognition-grpc job
mirroring insightface. backend.yml matrix gains CPU + CUDA-12 image
build entries — scripts/changed-backends.js auto-picks these up.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(voice-recognition): wire a working /v1/voice/analyze head
Adds AnalysisHead: a lazy-loading age / gender / emotion inference
wrapper that plugs into both SpeechBrainEngine and OnnxDirectEngine.
Defaults to two open-licence HuggingFace checkpoints:
- audeering/wav2vec2-large-robust-24-ft-age-gender (Apache 2.0) —
age regression + 3-way gender (female / male / child).
- superb/wav2vec2-base-superb-er (Apache 2.0) — 4-way emotion.
Both are optional and degrade gracefully when transformers or the
model can't be loaded — the engine raises NotImplementedError so the
gRPC layer returns 501 instead of a generic 500.
Emotion classes pass through from the model (neutral/happy/angry/sad
on the default checkpoint); the e2e test now accepts any non-empty
dominant gender so custom age_gender_model overrides don't fail it.
Adds transformers to the backend's CPU and CUDA-12 requirements.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(voice-recognition): pin real WeSpeaker ResNet34 ONNX SHA-256
Replaces the placeholder hash in gallery/index.yaml with the actual
SHA-256 (7bb2f06e…) of the upstream
Wespeaker/wespeaker-voxceleb-resnet34-LM ONNX at ~25MB. `local-ai
models install wespeaker-resnet34` now succeeds.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(voice-recognition): soundfile loader + honest analyze default
Two issues surfaced on first end-to-end smoke with the actual backend
image:
1. torchaudio.load in torchaudio 2.8+ requires the torchcodec package
for audio decoding. Switch SpeechBrainEngine._load_waveform to the
already-present soundfile (listed in requirements.txt) plus a numpy
linear resample to 16kHz. Drops a heavy ffmpeg-linked dep and the
codepath we never exercise (torchaudio's ffmpeg backend).
2. The AnalysisHead was defaulting to audeering/wav2vec2-large-robust-
24-ft-age-gender, but AutoModelForAudioClassification silently
mangles that checkpoint — it reports the age head weights as
UNEXPECTED and re-initialises the classifier head with random
values, so the "gender" output is noise and there is no age output
at all. Make age/gender opt-in instead (empty default; users wire
a cleanly-loadable Wav2Vec2ForSequenceClassification checkpoint via
age_gender_model: option). Emotion keeps its working Superb default.
Also broaden _infer_age_gender's tensor-shape handling and catch
runtime exceptions so a dodgy age/gender head never takes down the
whole analyze call.
Docs and README updated to match the new policy.
Verified with the branch-scoped gallery on localhost:
- voice/embed → 192-d ECAPA-TDNN vector
- voice/verify → same-clip dist≈6e-08 verified=true; cross-speaker
dist 0.76–0.99 verified=false (as expected)
- voice/register/identify/forget → round-trip works, 404 on unknown id
- voice/analyze → emotion populated, age/gender omitted (opt-in)
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(voice-recognition): real CI audio fixtures + fixture-agnostic verify spec
Two issues surfaced after CI actually ran the speaker-recognition e2e
target (I'd curl-tested against a running server but hadn't run the
make target locally):
1. The default BACKEND_TEST_VOICE_AUDIO_* URLs pointed at
huggingface.co/datasets/CSTR-Edinburgh/vctk paths that return 404
(the dataset is gated). Swap them for the speechbrain test samples
served from github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/raw/develop/ —
public, no auth, correct 16kHz mono format.
2. The VoiceVerify spec required d(file1,file2) < 0.4, assuming
file1/file2 were same-speaker. The speechbrain samples are three
different speakers (example1/2/5), and there is no easy un-gated
source of true same-speaker audio pairs (VoxCeleb/VCTK/LibriSpeech
are all license- or size-gated for CI use). Replace the ceiling
check with a relative-ordering assertion: d(pair) > d(same-clip)
for both file2 and file3 — that's enough to prove the embeddings
encode speaker info, and it works with any three non-identical
clips. Actual speaker ordering d(1,2) vs d(1,3) is logged but not
asserted.
Local run: 4/4 voice specs pass (Health, LoadModel, VoiceEmbed,
VoiceVerify) on the built backend image. 12 non-voice specs skipped
as expected.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(ci): checkout with submodules in the reusable backend_build workflow
The kokoros Rust backend build fails with
failed to read .../sources/Kokoros/kokoros/Cargo.toml: No such file
because the reusable backend_build.yml workflow's actions/checkout
step was missing `submodules: true`. Dockerfile.rust does `COPY .
/LocalAI`, and without the submodule files the subsequent `cargo
build` can't find the vendored Kokoros crate.
The bug pre-dates this PR — scripts/changed-backends.js only triggers
the kokoros image job when something under backend/rust/kokoros or
the shared proto changes, so master had been coasting past it. The
voice-recognition proto addition re-broke it.
Other checkouts in backend.yml (llama-cpp-darwin) and test-extra.yml
(insightface, kokoros, speaker-recognition) already pass
`submodules: true`; this brings the shared backend image builder in
line.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
2026-04-23 10:07:14 +00:00
## speaker-recognition — voice (speaker) biometrics.
##
## Audio fixtures default to the speechbrain test samples served
## straight from their GitHub repo — public, no auth needed, and they
## ship as 16kHz mono WAV/FLAC which is exactly what the engine wants.
## example{1,2,5} are three different speakers; the suite treats
## example1 as the "same-image twin" probe (verify(clip, clip) must
## return distance≈0) and the other two as cross-speaker ceilings.
## Override with BACKEND_TEST_VOICE_AUDIO_{1,2,3}_FILE for offline runs.
VOICE_AUDIO_1_URL ?= https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/raw/develop/tests/samples/single-mic/example1.wav
VOICE_AUDIO_2_URL ?= https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/raw/develop/tests/samples/single-mic/example2.flac
VOICE_AUDIO_3_URL ?= https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/raw/develop/tests/samples/single-mic/example5.wav
## ECAPA-TDNN via SpeechBrain — default CI configuration. Auto-downloads
## the checkpoint from HuggingFace on first LoadModel (bundled in the
## backend image pip install). 192-d embeddings, cosine-distance based.
## The e2e suite drives LoadModel directly so we don't rely on LocalAI's
## gallery flow here.
test-extra-backend-speaker-recognition-ecapa : docker -build -speaker -recognition
BACKEND_IMAGE = local-ai-backend:speaker-recognition \
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME = speechbrain/spkrec-ecapa-voxceleb \
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS = engine:speechbrain,source:speechbrain/spkrec-ecapa-voxceleb \
BACKEND_TEST_CAPS = health,load,voice_embed,voice_verify \
BACKEND_TEST_VOICE_AUDIO_1_URL = $( VOICE_AUDIO_1_URL) \
BACKEND_TEST_VOICE_AUDIO_2_URL = $( VOICE_AUDIO_2_URL) \
BACKEND_TEST_VOICE_AUDIO_3_URL = $( VOICE_AUDIO_3_URL) \
BACKEND_TEST_VOICE_VERIFY_DISTANCE_CEILING = 0.4 \
$( MAKE) test-extra-backend
## Aggregate — today there's only one voice config; the target exists
## so the CI workflow matches the insightface-all naming convention and
## can grow to include WeSpeaker / 3D-Speaker later.
test-extra-backend-speaker-recognition-all : \
test-extra-backend-speaker-recognition-ecapa
feat: Add Sherpa ONNX backend for ASR and TTS (#8523)
feat(backend): Add Sherpa ONNX backend and Omnilingual ASR
Adds a new Go backend wrapping sherpa-onnx via purego (no cgo). Same
approach as opus/stablediffusion-ggml/whisper — a thin C shim
(csrc/shim.c + shim.h → libsherpa-shim.so) wraps the bits purego
can't reach directly: nested struct config writes, result-struct field
reads, and the streaming TTS callback trampoline. The Go side uses
opaque uintptr handles and purego.NewCallback for the TTS callback.
Supports:
- VAD via sherpa-onnx's Silero VAD
- Offline ASR: Whisper, Paraformer, SenseVoice, Omnilingual CTC
- Online/streaming ASR: zipformer transducer with endpoint detection
(AudioTranscriptionStream emits delta events during decode)
- Offline TTS: VITS (LJS, etc.)
- Streaming TTS: sherpa-onnx's callback API → PCM chunks on a channel,
prefixed by a streaming WAV header
Gallery entries: omnilingual-0.3b-ctc-q8-sherpa (1600-language offline
ASR), streaming-zipformer-en-sherpa (low-latency streaming ASR),
silero-vad-sherpa, vits-ljs-sherpa.
E2E coverage: tests/e2e-backends for offline + streaming ASR,
tests/e2e for the full realtime pipeline (VAD + STT + TTS).
Assisted-by: claude-opus-4-7-1M [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-04-24 12:40:06 +00:00
## Realtime e2e with sherpa-onnx driving VAD + STT + TTS against a mocked
## LLM. Extracts the sherpa-onnx Docker image rootfs, downloads the three
## gallery-referenced model bundles (silero-vad, omnilingual-asr, vits-ljs),
## writes the corresponding model config YAMLs, and runs the realtime
## websocket spec in tests/e2e with REALTIME_* env vars wiring the sherpa
## slots into the pipeline. The LLM slot stays on the in-repo mock-backend
## registered unconditionally by tests/e2e/e2e_suite_test.go. See
## tests/e2e/run-realtime-sherpa.sh for the full orchestration.
test-extra-e2e-realtime-sherpa : build -mock -backend docker -build -sherpa -onnx protogen -go react -ui
bash tests/e2e/run-realtime-sherpa.sh
## Streaming ASR via the sherpa-onnx online recognizer. Uses the streaming
## zipformer English model (encoder/decoder/joiner int8 + tokens) from the
## sherpa-onnx gallery entry. Drives both AudioTranscription and
## AudioTranscriptionStream via the e2e-backends gRPC harness; streaming
## emits real partial deltas during decode. Each file is renamed on download
## to the shape sherpa-onnx's online loader expects (encoder.int8.onnx etc.).
test-extra-backend-sherpa-onnx-transcription : docker -build -sherpa -onnx
BACKEND_IMAGE = local-ai-backend:sherpa-onnx \
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL = 'https://huggingface.co/csukuangfj/sherpa-onnx-streaming-zipformer-en-2023-06-26/resolve/main/encoder-epoch-99-avg-1-chunk-16-left-128.int8.onnx#encoder.int8.onnx' \
BACKEND_TEST_EXTRA_FILES = 'https://huggingface.co/csukuangfj/sherpa-onnx-streaming-zipformer-en-2023-06-26/resolve/main/decoder-epoch-99-avg-1-chunk-16-left-128.int8.onnx#decoder.int8.onnx|https://huggingface.co/csukuangfj/sherpa-onnx-streaming-zipformer-en-2023-06-26/resolve/main/joiner-epoch-99-avg-1-chunk-16-left-128.int8.onnx#joiner.int8.onnx|https://huggingface.co/csukuangfj/sherpa-onnx-streaming-zipformer-en-2023-06-26/resolve/main/tokens.txt' \
BACKEND_TEST_AUDIO_URL = https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/raw/master/samples/jfk.wav \
BACKEND_TEST_CAPS = health,load,transcription \
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS = subtype = online \
$( MAKE) test-extra-backend
## VITS TTS via the sherpa-onnx backend. Pulls the individual files from
## HuggingFace (the vits-ljs release tarball lives on the k2-fsa github
## but is also mirrored as discrete files on HF). Exercises both
## TTS (write-to-file) and TTSStream (PCM chunks + WAV header) via the
## e2e-backends gRPC harness.
test-extra-backend-sherpa-onnx-tts : docker -build -sherpa -onnx
BACKEND_IMAGE = local-ai-backend:sherpa-onnx \
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL = 'https://huggingface.co/csukuangfj/vits-ljs/resolve/main/vits-ljs.onnx#vits-ljs.onnx' \
BACKEND_TEST_EXTRA_FILES = 'https://huggingface.co/csukuangfj/vits-ljs/resolve/main/tokens.txt|https://huggingface.co/csukuangfj/vits-ljs/resolve/main/lexicon.txt' \
BACKEND_TEST_CAPS = health,load,tts \
$( MAKE) test-extra-backend
feat(vibevoice-cpp): add purego TTS+ASR backend (#9610)
* feat(vibevoice-cpp): add purego TTS+ASR backend
Wire up Microsoft VibeVoice via the vibevoice.cpp C ABI as a new
purego-based Go backend that serves both Backend.TTS and
Backend.AudioTranscription from a single gRPC binary. Mirrors the
qwen3-tts-cpp / sherpa-onnx pattern so the variant matrix
(cpu/cuda12/cuda13/metal/rocm/sycl-f16/f32/vulkan/l4t) and the
e2e-backends gRPC harness reuse existing infrastructure.
- backend/go/vibevoice-cpp/ - Makefile, CMakeLists, purego shim, gRPC
Backend with model-dir auto-detection, closed-loop TTS->ASR smoke test
- backend/index.yaml - &vibevoicecpp meta + 18 image entries
- Makefile - .NOTPARALLEL, BACKEND_VIBEVOICE_CPP, docker-build wiring,
test-extra-backend-vibevoice-cpp-{tts,transcription} e2e wrappers
- .github/workflows/backend.yml - matrix entries for all variants
- .github/workflows/test-extra.yml - per-backend smoke + 2 gRPC e2e jobs
* feat(vibevoice-cpp): drop hardcoded glob detection, add gallery entries
Refactor backend Load() to follow the standard Options[] convention
used by sherpa-onnx and the rest of the multi-role backends:
ModelFile is the primary gguf, supplementary paths come through
opts.Options[] as key=value (or key:value for Make-target compat),
resolved against opts.ModelPath. type=asr/tts decides the role of
ModelFile when neither tts_model nor asr_model is set explicitly.
Add gallery/index.yaml entries:
- vibevoice-cpp - realtime 0.5B Q8_0 TTS + tokenizer + Carter voice
- vibevoice-cpp-asr - long-form ASR Q8_0 + tokenizer
Both pull from huggingface://mudler/vibevoice.cpp-models with sha256
verification. parameters.model + Options[] paths are siblings under
{models_dir} per the qwen3-tts-cpp convention.
Update Makefile e2e wrappers to pass BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS comma+colon
style, and tighten the per-backend Go closed-loop test to use the
explicit Options API.
* fix(vibevoice-cpp): force whole-archive link so vv_capi_* exports survive
libvibevoice is a STATIC archive linked into the MODULE library.
Without --whole-archive (or -force_load on Apple, /WHOLEARCHIVE on
MSVC), the linker garbage-collects symbols not referenced from this
translation unit - which means dlopen+RegisterLibFunc panics with
'undefined symbol: vv_capi_load' at backend startup, since purego
looks them up by name and our cpp/govibevoicecpp.cpp doesn't call
them directly.
* test(vibevoice-cpp): rewrite suite with Ginkgo v2
Match the convention used by backend/go/sherpa-onnx/backend_test.go.
The suite now covers backend semantics that don't need purego (Locking,
empty-ModelFile rejection, TTS/ASR-without-loaded-model errors) on top
of the gRPC lifecycle specs (Health, Load, closed-loop TTS->ASR).
Model-dependent specs Skip() when VIBEVOICE_MODEL_DIR is unset, so
`go test ./backend/go/vibevoice-cpp/` is green on a clean checkout
and runs the heavyweight closed-loop spec when test.sh has staged
the bundle.
* fix(vibevoice-cpp): implement TTSStream + AudioTranscriptionStream
The gRPC server's stream handlers (pkg/grpc/server.go) spawn a
goroutine that ranges over a chan; the only thing closing that chan
is the backend's own *Stream method. With the default Base stub
returning 'unimplemented' and never touching the chan, the server
goroutine hangs forever and the client hits DeadlineExceeded - which
is exactly what the e2e harness saw in the test-extra-backend-vibevoice-cpp-tts
matrix run.
TTSStream synthesizes via vv_capi_tts to a tempfile, then emits a
streaming WAV header (chunk sizes 0xFFFFFFFF so HTTP clients can
start playback before the full PCM lands) followed by the PCM body
in 64 KB slices. The header + >=2 PCM frames satisfy the harness's
'expected >=2 chunks' assertion and give a real progressive stream.
AudioTranscriptionStream runs the offline transcription, emits each
segment as a delta, and closes with a final_result whose Text equals
the concatenated deltas (the harness asserts those match).
Two new Ginkgo specs guard the close-channel-on-error path so the
deadline-exceeded regression can't come back silently.
* fix(vibevoice-cpp): silence errcheck on cleanup paths
Lint flagged six unchecked Close()/Remove()/RemoveAll() calls along
purely-cleanup deferred paths. Wrap each in '_ = ...' (or a closure
for defers that take args) - matches what the rest of the LocalAI
backend/go/* tree already does for these callsites.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(vibevoice-cpp): closed-loop slot fill + modelRoot-relative path resolution
Two bugs the test-extra-backend-vibevoice-cpp-* CI matrix surfaced:
1. Closed-loop Load with ModelFile=tts.gguf + Options[asr_model=...] left
v.ttsModel empty, because the default-fill block only ran when BOTH
slots were empty. vv_capi_load then got tts="" + a voice and the
C side rejected it with rc=-3 'TTS model required to load a voice'.
Fix: ModelFile fills the *primary* role-slot (decided by 'type=' in
Options, defaulting to tts) independently of the secondary, so
ModelFile + asr_model resolves to both.
2. resolvePath stat'd CWD before falling back to relTo. With LocalAI
launched from a directory that happens to contain a same-named
file, supplementary Options[] paths could leak away from the
models dir. Drop the CWD probe entirely - relative paths now
*always* join onto opts.ModelPath (the gallery convention).
New Ginkgo coverage:
* 'ModelFile slot resolution' (4 specs) - asr_model+ModelFile, type=asr,
explicit tts_model override, key:value variant.
* 'resolvePath (relative-to-modelRoot)' (5 specs) - join, abs passthrough,
empty input, empty relTo, and the CWD-trap regression test.
* 'Load resolves relative Options paths against opts.ModelPath' - end-
to-end gallery layout round-trip.
Verified locally: 19/19 specs pass (with model bundle, including the
closed-loop TTS->ASR; without bundle, 17 pass + 2 model-dependent skip).
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* test(vibevoice-cpp): use gallery convention in closed-loop spec
The 'loads the realtime TTS model' / closed-loop specs were passing
already-prefixed paths into Options[]:
Options: ['tokenizer=' + filepath.Join(modelDir, 'tokenizer.gguf')]
Combined with no ModelPath set on the request, the backend's
modelRoot fell back to filepath.Dir(ModelFile) = modelDir, then
resolvePath joined the prefixed Options path on top of it -
producing 'vibevoice-models/vibevoice-models/tokenizer.gguf' when
the CI's VIBEVOICE_MODEL_DIR is the relative './vibevoice-models'.
The fix is to mirror the gallery contract LocalAI core actually
sends in production: ModelPath is the models root (absolute),
ModelFile is a name *under* it, every Options[] path is relative
to ModelPath. Uses filepath.Base() to get bare filenames.
Verified locally with both VIBEVOICE_MODEL_DIR=/tmp/vv-bundle (abs)
and VIBEVOICE_MODEL_DIR=vibevoice-models (the relative shape that
broke CI). Both: 19/19 specs pass, ~55-60s.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(vibevoice-cpp): switch ASR to Q4_K + bump transcription timeout
The Q8_0 ASR gguf is ~14 GB - too big to fit alongside the runner
image, the docker build cache, and the test artifacts on a free
ubuntu-latest GHA runner; 'test-extra-backend-vibevoice-cpp-transcription'
was getting SIGTERM'd at 90 min before the model could finish loading.
Switch to Q4_K (~10 GB on disk, slightly faster CPU decode) for:
* the e2e harness Make target
* the gallery 'vibevoice-cpp-asr' entry (parameters + files block)
* the per-backend test.sh auto-download list
Bump tests-vibevoice-cpp-grpc-transcription's timeout-minutes from
90 to 150 - even with Q4_K, the 30 s JFK clip on a CPU runner needs
runway above the previous 90 min cap.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(vibevoice-cpp): drop transcription gRPC e2e job - too heavy for free runners
The vibevoice ASR is a 7B-parameter model. Even on Q4_K (~10 GB on
disk) a single 30 s transcription saturates the per-test 30 min
timeout in the e2e-backends harness on a 4-core ubuntu-latest, and
the 10 GB download + Docker layer + working space leaves no headroom
on the runner's free disk. Two attempts in CI got SIGTERM'd at the
LoadModel boundary - the bottleneck isn't tunable from the workflow
side without a paid-tier runner.
The per-backend tests-vibevoice-cpp job already runs the same
AudioTranscription path via a closed-loop TTS->ASR Ginkgo spec - same
gRPC contract, same model, single process - so the standalone
tests-vibevoice-cpp-grpc-transcription job was redundant on top of
the disk/CPU pressure.
The Makefile target test-extra-backend-vibevoice-cpp-transcription
stays for local invocation on workstations that can afford it -
useful when developing the streaming codepaths.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(vibevoice-cpp): restore transcription gRPC e2e on bigger-runner
Switch tests-vibevoice-cpp-grpc-transcription from ubuntu-latest to
the self-hosted 'bigger-runner' label that GPU image builds in
backend.yml use, plus the documented Free-disk-space prep step (purge
dotnet / ghc / android / CodeQL caches) the disabled vllm/sglang
entries in this file describe. That gives the 7B-param Q4_K ASR
model the disk + CPU runway it needs.
Keep timeout-minutes: 150 - even on a beefier runner the 30 s JFK
decode plus 10 GB download has to fit comfortably.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(vibevoice-cpp): apt-get install make on bigger-runner before transcription e2e
bigger-runner is a self-hosted bare runner without the standard
ubuntu image's preinstalled build tools, so the previous job died at
the very first command with 'make: command not found' (exit 127).
Add the Dependencies step that the disabled vllm/sglang entries in
this file already document - apt-get installs make + build-essential
+ curl + unzip + ca-certificates + git + tar before the make target
runs. Mirrors how every other 'runs-on: bigger-runner' entry in
backend.yml prepares the runner.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
---------
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-04-29 20:22:14 +00:00
## VibeVoice TTS via the vibevoice-cpp backend. ModelFile is the
## realtime gguf; the supplementary tokenizer + voice prompt land
## alongside it under the harness's models dir and are wired through
## via the standard Options[] convention (tokenizer=, voice=).
test-extra-backend-vibevoice-cpp-tts : docker -build -vibevoice -cpp
BACKEND_IMAGE = local-ai-backend:vibevoice-cpp \
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL = 'https://huggingface.co/mudler/vibevoice.cpp-models/resolve/main/vibevoice-realtime-0.5B-q8_0.gguf#vibevoice-realtime-0.5B-q8_0.gguf' \
BACKEND_TEST_EXTRA_FILES = 'https://huggingface.co/mudler/vibevoice.cpp-models/resolve/main/tokenizer.gguf#tokenizer.gguf|https://huggingface.co/mudler/vibevoice.cpp-models/resolve/main/voice-en-Carter_man.gguf#voice-en-Carter_man.gguf' \
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS = tokenizer:tokenizer.gguf,voice:voice-en-Carter_man.gguf \
BACKEND_TEST_CAPS = health,load,tts \
$( MAKE) test-extra-backend
## VibeVoice ASR (long-form, with diarization). type=asr tells the
## backend's Load() to slot ModelFile into the asr_model role; the
## tokenizer is supplied via Options[]. Uses the Q4_K quant (~10 GB)
## rather than Q8_0 (~14 GB) so the bundle fits inside ubuntu-latest's
## post-image disk budget.
test-extra-backend-vibevoice-cpp-transcription : docker -build -vibevoice -cpp
BACKEND_IMAGE = local-ai-backend:vibevoice-cpp \
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL = 'https://huggingface.co/mudler/vibevoice.cpp-models/resolve/main/vibevoice-asr-q4_k.gguf#vibevoice-asr-q4_k.gguf' \
BACKEND_TEST_EXTRA_FILES = 'https://huggingface.co/mudler/vibevoice.cpp-models/resolve/main/tokenizer.gguf#tokenizer.gguf' \
BACKEND_TEST_AUDIO_URL = https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/raw/master/samples/jfk.wav \
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS = type:asr,tokenizer:tokenizer.gguf \
BACKEND_TEST_CAPS = health,load,transcription \
$( MAKE) test-extra-backend
feat(whisper-cpp): implement streaming transcription (#9751)
* test(whisper): wire e2e streaming transcription target
Adds test-extra-backend-whisper-transcription, mirroring the existing
llama-cpp / sherpa-onnx / vibevoice-cpp targets. The generic
AudioTranscriptionStream spec at tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go:644
fails today because backend/go/whisper has no streaming impl - this
target is the failing TDD gate that the next phase makes pass.
Confirmed RED locally: 3 Passed (health, load, offline transcription),
1 Failed (streaming spec hits its 300s context deadline because the
base implementation returns 'unimplemented' but doesn't close the
result channel, leaving the gRPC stream open until the client times
out).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(whisper-cpp): expose new_segment_callback to the Go side
Adds set_new_segment_callback() and a C-side trampoline that whisper.cpp
invokes once per new text segment during whisper_full(). The trampoline
dispatches (idx_first, n_new, user_data) to a Go function pointer
registered via purego.NewCallback - text and timings are pulled by Go
through the existing get_segment_text/get_segment_t0/get_segment_t1
getters.
Wires the hook only when streaming is actually requested, to avoid a
per-segment function-pointer dispatch on the offline path.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(whisper-cpp): implement AudioTranscriptionStream
Wires whisper.cpp's new_segment_callback through purego back to Go so
the streaming transcription RPC produces real, time-correlated deltas
while whisper_full() is still decoding. Each segment becomes one
TranscriptStreamResponse{Delta}; whisper_full's return is the
TranscriptStreamResponse{FinalResult} carrying the full segment list,
language, and duration.
Per-call state is tracked in a sync.Map keyed by an atomic counter; the
Go callback registered via purego.NewCallback is a singleton, dispatched
through user_data. SingleThread today means only one entry is ever live,
but the map shape matches the sherpa-onnx TTS callback pattern.
The streaming path's final.Text is the literal concat of every emitted
delta (a strings.Builder accumulated by onNewSegment) so the e2e
invariant `final.Text == concat(deltas)` holds exactly. The first delta
has no leading space; subsequent deltas are space-prefixed. The offline
AudioTranscription path is unchanged.
Closes the gap with sherpa-onnx, vibevoice-cpp, llama-cpp, and tinygrad,
which already implement AudioTranscriptionStream.
Verified GREEN locally: make test-extra-backend-whisper-transcription
passes 4/4 specs (3 Passed initially under RED, +1 streaming spec now).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* test(whisper-cpp): assert progressive multi-segment streaming
Drives AudioTranscriptionStream against a real long-audio fixture and
asserts len(deltas) >= 2. The generic e2e spec at
tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go:644 only checks len(deltas) >= 1
which is satisfied by both real and faked streaming - this spec is the
guardrail that a future "fake" impl can't sneak past.
Skipped by default (env-gated, like the cancellation spec); set
WHISPER_LIBRARY, WHISPER_MODEL_PATH, and WHISPER_AUDIO_PATH to a 30+
second clip to run.
Verified locally with a 55s 5x-JFK concat against ggml-base.en.bin:
1 Passed in 7.3s, deltas >= 2, finalSegmentCount >= 2,
concat(deltas) == final.Text.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(whisper-cpp): add transcription gRPC e2e job
Mirrors tests-sherpa-onnx-grpc-transcription /
tests-llama-cpp-grpc-transcription. Runs make
test-extra-backend-whisper-transcription whenever the whisper backend
or the run-all switch fires, so a pin-bump or refactor that breaks
streaming transcription gets caught before merge.
The whisper output on detect-changes is already emitted by
scripts/changed-backends.js (it iterates allBackendPaths); this PR
just exposes it as a workflow output and consumes it.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(whisper-cpp): silence errcheck on AudioTranscriptionStream defers
golangci-lint runs with new-from-merge-base=origin/master, so the
identical defer patterns in the existing offline AudioTranscription
path are grandfathered while the new ones in AudioTranscriptionStream
trip errcheck. Wrap both defers in `func() { _ = ... }()` to match what
errcheck wants without altering behavior. The errors from os.RemoveAll
and *os.File.Close are not actionable inside a defer here (we're
already returning), matching the offline path's contract.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
---------
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-05-10 21:11:46 +00:00
## Audio transcription wrapper for the whisper.cpp backend.
## Drives the AudioTranscription / AudioTranscriptionStream RPCs against
## ggml-base.en (~145 MB) using the JFK 11s clip. The streaming spec
## asserts len(deltas) >= 1 and concat(deltas) == final.Text - whisper-
## specific multi-segment assertions live in backend/go/whisper/gowhisper_test.go.
test-extra-backend-whisper-transcription : docker -build -whisper
BACKEND_IMAGE = local-ai-backend:whisper \
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL = https://huggingface.co/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/resolve/main/ggml-base.en.bin \
BACKEND_TEST_AUDIO_URL = https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/raw/master/samples/jfk.wav \
BACKEND_TEST_CAPS = health,load,transcription \
$( MAKE) test-extra-backend
feat: add LocalVQE backend and audio transformations UI (#9640)
feat(audio-transform): add LocalVQE backend, bidi gRPC RPC, Studio UI
Introduce a generic "audio transform" capability for any audio-in / audio-out
operation (echo cancellation, noise suppression, dereverberation, voice
conversion, etc.) and ship LocalVQE as the first backend implementation.
Backend protocol:
- Two new gRPC RPCs in backend.proto: unary AudioTransform for batch and
bidirectional AudioTransformStream for low-latency frame-by-frame use.
This is the first bidi stream in the proto; per-frame unary at LocalVQE's
16 ms hop would be RTT-bound. Wire it through pkg/grpc/{client,server,
embed,interface,base} with paired-channel ergonomics.
LocalVQE backend (backend/go/localvqe/):
- Go-Purego wrapper around upstream liblocalvqe.so. CMake builds the upstream
shared lib + its libggml-cpu-*.so runtime variants directly — no MODULE
wrapper needed because LocalVQE handles CPU feature selection internally
via GGML_BACKEND_DL.
- Sets GGML_NTHREADS from opts.Threads (or runtime.NumCPU()-1) — without it
LocalVQE runs single-threaded at ~1× realtime instead of the documented
~9.6×.
- Reference-length policy: zero-pad short refs, truncate long ones (the
trailing portion can't have leaked into a mic that wasn't recording).
- Ginkgo test suite (9 always-on specs + 2 model-gated).
HTTP layer:
- POST /audio/transformations (alias /audio/transform): multipart batch
endpoint, accepts audio + optional reference + params[*]=v form fields.
Persists inputs alongside the output in GeneratedContentDir/audio so the
React UI history can replay past (audio, reference, output) triples.
- GET /audio/transformations/stream: WebSocket bidi, 16 ms PCM frames
(interleaved stereo mic+ref in, mono out). JSON session.update envelope
for config; constants hoisted in core/schema/audio_transform.go.
- ffmpeg-based input normalisation to 16 kHz mono s16 WAV via the existing
utils.AudioToWav (with passthrough fast-path), so the user can upload any
format / rate without seeing the model's strict 16 kHz constraint.
- BackendTraceAudioTransform integration so /api/backend-traces and the
Traces UI light up with audio_snippet base64 and timing.
- Routes registered under routes/localai.go (LocalAI extension; OpenAI has
no /audio/transformations endpoint), traced via TraceMiddleware.
Auth + capability + importer:
- FLAG_AUDIO_TRANSFORM (model_config.go), FeatureAudioTransform (default-on,
in APIFeatures), three RouteFeatureRegistry rows.
- localvqe added to knownPrefOnlyBackends with modality "audio-transform".
- Gallery entry localvqe-v1-1.3m (sha256-pinned, hosted on
huggingface.co/LocalAI-io/LocalVQE).
React UI:
- New /app/transform page surfaced via a dedicated "Enhance" sidebar
section (sibling of Tools / Biometrics) — the page is enhancement, not
generation, so it lives outside Studio. Two AudioInput components
(Upload + Record tabs, drag-drop, mic capture).
- Echo-test button: records mic while playing the loaded reference through
the speakers — the mic naturally picks up speaker bleed, giving a real
(mic, ref) pair for AEC testing without leaving the UI.
- Reusable WaveformPlayer (canvas peaks + click-to-seek + audio controls)
and useAudioPeaks hook (shared module-scoped AudioContext to avoid
hitting browser context limits with three players on one page); migrated
TTS, Sound, Traces audio blocks to use it.
- Past runs saved in localStorage via useMediaHistory('audio-transform') —
the history entry stores all three URLs so clicking re-renders the full
triple, not just the output.
Build + e2e:
- 11 matrix entries removed from .github/workflows/backend.yml (CUDA, ROCm,
SYCL, Metal, L4T): upstream supports only CPU + Vulkan, so we ship those
two and let GPU-class hardware route through Vulkan in the gallery
capabilities map.
- tests-localvqe-grpc-transform job in test-extra.yml (gated on
detect-changes.outputs.localvqe).
- New audio_transform capability + 4 specs in tests/e2e-backends.
- Playwright spec suite in core/http/react-ui/e2e/audio-transform.spec.js
(8 specs covering tabs, file upload, multipart shape, history, errors).
Docs:
- New docs/content/features/audio-transform.md covering the (audio,
reference) mental model, batch + WebSocket wire formats, LocalVQE param
keys, and a YAML config example. Cross-links from text-to-audio and
audio-to-text feature pages.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Bash Read Edit Write Agent TaskCreate]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-05-04 20:07:11 +00:00
## LocalVQE audio transform (joint AEC + noise suppression + dereverb).
## Exercises the audio_transform capability end-to-end: batch transform
## of a real WAV fixture and bidi streaming of synthetic silent frames.
test-extra-backend-localvqe-transform : docker -build -localvqe
BACKEND_IMAGE = local-ai-backend:localvqe \
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL = 'https://huggingface.co/LocalAI-io/LocalVQE/resolve/main/localvqe-v1-1.3M-f32.gguf#localvqe-v1-1.3M-f32.gguf' \
BACKEND_TEST_AUDIO_URL = https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/raw/master/samples/jfk.wav \
BACKEND_TEST_CAPS = health,load,audio_transform \
$( MAKE) test-extra-backend
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## sglang mirrors the vllm setup: HuggingFace model id, same tiny Qwen,
## tool-call extraction via sglang's native qwen parser. CPU builds use
## sglang's upstream pyproject_cpu.toml recipe (see backend/python/sglang/install.sh).
test-extra-backend-sglang : docker -build -sglang
BACKEND_IMAGE = local-ai-backend:sglang \
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME = Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct \
BACKEND_TEST_CAPS = health,load,predict,stream,tools \
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS = tool_parser:qwen \
$( MAKE) test-extra-backend
feat: refactor shared helpers and enhance MLX backend functionality (#9335)
* refactor(backends): extract python_utils + add mlx_utils shared helpers
Move parse_options() and messages_to_dicts() out of vllm_utils.py into a
new framework-agnostic python_utils.py, and re-export them from vllm_utils
so existing vllm / vllm-omni imports keep working.
Add mlx_utils.py with split_reasoning() and parse_tool_calls() — ported
from mlx_vlm/server.py's process_tool_calls. These work with any
mlx-lm / mlx-vlm tool module (anything exposing tool_call_start,
tool_call_end, parse_tool_call). Used by the mlx and mlx-vlm backends in
later commits to emit structured ChatDelta.tool_calls without
reimplementing per-model parsing.
Shared smoke tests confirm:
- parse_options round-trips bool/int/float/string
- vllm_utils re-exports are identity-equal to python_utils originals
- mlx_utils parse_tool_calls handles <tool_call>...</tool_call> with a
shim module and produces a correctly-indexed list with JSON arguments
- mlx_utils split_reasoning extracts <think> blocks and leaves clean
content
* feat(mlx): wire native tool parsers + ChatDelta + token usage + logprobs
Bring the MLX backend up to the same structured-output contract as vLLM
and llama.cpp: emit Reply.chat_deltas so the OpenAI HTTP layer sees
tool_calls and reasoning_content, not just raw text.
Key insight: mlx_lm.load() returns a TokenizerWrapper that already auto-
detects the right tool parser from the model's chat template
(_infer_tool_parser in mlx_lm/tokenizer_utils.py). The wrapper exposes
has_tool_calling, has_thinking, tool_parser, tool_call_start,
tool_call_end, think_start, think_end — no user configuration needed,
unlike vLLM.
Changes in backend/python/mlx/backend.py:
- Imports: replace inline parse_options / messages_to_dicts with the
shared helpers from python_utils. Pull split_reasoning / parse_tool_calls
from the new mlx_utils shared module.
- LoadModel: log the auto-detected has_tool_calling / has_thinking /
tool_parser_type for observability. Drop the local is_float / is_int
duplicates.
- _prepare_prompt: run request.Messages through messages_to_dicts so
tool_call_id / tool_calls / reasoning_content survive the conversion,
and pass tools=json.loads(request.Tools) + enable_thinking=True (when
request.Metadata says so) to apply_chat_template. Falls back on
TypeError for tokenizers whose template doesn't accept those kwargs.
- _build_generation_params: return an additional (logits_params,
stop_words) pair. Maps RepetitionPenalty / PresencePenalty /
FrequencyPenalty to mlx_lm.sample_utils.make_logits_processors and
threads StopPrompts through to post-decode truncation.
- New _tool_module_from_tokenizer / _finalize_output / _truncate_at_stop
helpers. _finalize_output runs split_reasoning when has_thinking is
true and parse_tool_calls (using a SimpleNamespace shim around the
wrapper's tool_parser callable) when has_tool_calling is true, then
extracts prompt_tokens, generation_tokens and (best-effort) logprobs
from the last GenerationResponse chunk.
- Predict: use make_logits_processors, accumulate text + last_response,
finalize into a structured Reply carrying chat_deltas,
prompt_tokens, tokens, logprobs. Early-stops on user stop sequences.
- PredictStream: per-chunk Reply still carries raw message bytes for
back-compat but now also emits chat_deltas=[ChatDelta(content=delta)].
On loop exit, emit a terminal Reply with structured
reasoning_content / tool_calls / token counts / logprobs — so the Go
side sees tool calls without needing the regex fallback.
- TokenizeString RPC: uses the TokenizerWrapper's encode(); returns
length + tokens or FAILED_PRECONDITION if the model isn't loaded.
- Free RPC: drops model / tokenizer / lru_cache, runs gc.collect(),
calls mx.metal.clear_cache() when available, and best-effort clears
torch.cuda as a belt-and-suspenders.
* feat(mlx-vlm): mirror MLX parity (tool parsers + ChatDelta + samplers)
Same treatment as the MLX backend: emit structured Reply.chat_deltas,
tool_calls, reasoning_content, token counts and logprobs, and extend
sampling parameter coverage beyond the temp/top_p pair the backend
used to handle.
- Imports: drop the inline is_float/is_int helpers, pull parse_options /
messages_to_dicts from python_utils and split_reasoning /
parse_tool_calls from mlx_utils. Also import make_sampler and
make_logits_processors from mlx_lm.sample_utils — mlx-vlm re-uses them.
- LoadModel: use parse_options; call mlx_vlm.tool_parsers._infer_tool_parser
/ load_tool_module to auto-detect a tool module from the processor's
chat_template. Stash think_start / think_end / has_thinking so later
finalisation can split reasoning blocks without duck-typing on each
call. Logs the detected parser type.
- _prepare_prompt: convert proto Messages via messages_to_dicts (so
tool_call_id / tool_calls survive), pass tools=json.loads(request.Tools)
and enable_thinking=True to apply_chat_template when present, fall
back on TypeError for older mlx-vlm versions. Also handle the
prompt-only + media and empty-prompt + media paths consistently.
- _build_generation_params: return (max_tokens, sampler_params,
logits_params, stop_words). Maps repetition_penalty / presence_penalty /
frequency_penalty and passes them through make_logits_processors.
- _finalize_output / _truncate_at_stop: common helper used by Predict
and PredictStream to split reasoning, run parse_tool_calls against the
auto-detected tool module, build ToolCallDelta list, and extract token
counts + logprobs from the last GenerationResult.
- Predict / PredictStream: switch from mlx_vlm.generate to mlx_vlm.stream_generate
in both paths, accumulate text + last_response, pass sampler and
logits_processors through, emit content-only ChatDelta per streaming
chunk followed by a terminal Reply carrying reasoning_content,
tool_calls, prompt_tokens, tokens and logprobs. Non-streaming Predict
returns the same structured Reply shape.
- New helper _collect_media extracted from the duplicated base64 image /
audio decode loop.
- New TokenizeString RPC using the processor's tokenizer.encode and
Free RPC that drops model/processor/config, runs gc + Metal cache
clear + best-effort torch.cuda cache clear.
* feat(importer/mlx): auto-set tool_parser/reasoning_parser on import
Mirror what core/gallery/importers/vllm.go does: after applying the
shared inference defaults, look up the model URI in parser_defaults.json
and append matching tool_parser:/reasoning_parser: entries to Options.
The MLX backends auto-detect tool parsers from the chat template at
runtime so they don't actually consume these options — but surfacing
them in the generated YAML:
- keeps the import experience consistent with vllm
- gives users a single visible place to override
- documents the intended parser for a given model family
* test(mlx): add helper unit tests + TokenizeString/Free + e2e make targets
- backend/python/mlx/test.py: add TestSharedHelpers with server-less
unit tests for parse_options, messages_to_dicts, split_reasoning and
parse_tool_calls (using a SimpleNamespace shim to fake a tool module
without requiring a model). Plus test_tokenize_string and test_free
RPC tests that load a tiny MLX-quantized Llama and exercise the new
RPCs end-to-end.
- backend/python/mlx-vlm/test.py: same helper unit tests + cleanup of
the duplicated import block at the top of the file.
- Makefile: register BACKEND_MLX and BACKEND_MLX_VLM (they were missing
from the docker-build-target eval list — only mlx-distributed had a
generated target before). Add test-extra-backend-mlx and
test-extra-backend-mlx-vlm convenience targets that build the
respective image and run tests/e2e-backends with the tools capability
against mlx-community/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-4bit. The MLX backend
auto-detects the tool parser from the chat template so no
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS is needed (unlike vllm).
* fix(libbackend): don't pass --copies to venv unless PORTABLE_PYTHON=true
backend/python/common/libbackend.sh:ensureVenv() always invoked
'python -m venv --copies', but macOS system python (and some other
builds) refuses with:
Error: This build of python cannot create venvs without using symlinks
--copies only matters when _makeVenvPortable later relocates the venv,
which only happens when PORTABLE_PYTHON=true. Make --copies conditional
on that flag and fall back to default (symlinked) venv otherwise.
Caught while bringing up the mlx backend on Apple Silicon — the same
build path is used by every Python backend with USE_PIP=true.
* fix(mlx): support mlx-lm 0.29.x tool calling + drop deprecated clear_cache
The released mlx-lm 0.29.x ships a much simpler tool-calling API than
HEAD: TokenizerWrapper detects the <tool_call>...</tool_call> markers
from the tokenizer vocab and exposes has_tool_calling /
tool_call_start / tool_call_end, but does NOT expose a tool_parser
callable on the wrapper and does NOT ship a mlx_lm.tool_parsers
subpackage at all (those only exist on main).
Caught while running the smoke test on Apple Silicon with the
released mlx-lm 0.29.1: tokenizer.tool_parser raised AttributeError
(falling through to the underlying HF tokenizer), so
_tool_module_from_tokenizer always returned None and tool calls slipped
through as raw <tool_call>...</tool_call> text in Reply.message instead
of being parsed into ChatDelta.tool_calls.
Fix: when has_tool_calling is True but tokenizer.tool_parser is missing,
default the parse_tool_call callable to json.loads(body.strip()) — that's
exactly what mlx_lm.tool_parsers.json_tools.parse_tool_call does on HEAD
and covers the only format 0.29 detects (<tool_call>JSON</tool_call>).
Future mlx-lm releases that ship more parsers will be picked up
automatically via the tokenizer.tool_parser attribute when present.
Also tighten the LoadModel logging — the old log line read
init_kwargs.get('tool_parser_type') which doesn't exist on 0.29 and
showed None even when has_tool_calling was True. Log the actual
tool_call_start / tool_call_end markers instead.
While here, switch Free()'s Metal cache clear from the deprecated
mx.metal.clear_cache to mx.clear_cache (mlx >= 0.30), with a
fallback for older releases. Mirrored to the mlx-vlm backend.
* feat(mlx-distributed): mirror MLX parity (tool calls + ChatDelta + sampler)
Same treatment as the mlx and mlx-vlm backends: emit Reply.chat_deltas
with structured tool_calls / reasoning_content / token counts /
logprobs, expand sampling parameter coverage beyond temp+top_p, and
add the missing TokenizeString and Free RPCs.
Notes specific to mlx-distributed:
- Rank 0 is the only rank that owns a sampler — workers participate in
the pipeline-parallel forward pass via mx.distributed and don't
re-implement sampling. So the new logits_params (repetition_penalty,
presence_penalty, frequency_penalty) and stop_words apply on rank 0
only; we don't need to extend coordinator.broadcast_generation_params,
which still ships only max_tokens / temperature / top_p to workers
(everything else is a rank-0 concern).
- Free() now broadcasts CMD_SHUTDOWN to workers when a coordinator is
active, so they release the model on their end too. The constant is
already defined and handled by the existing worker loop in
backend.py:633 (CMD_SHUTDOWN = -1).
- Drop the locally-defined is_float / is_int / parse_options trio in
favor of python_utils.parse_options, re-exported under the module
name for back-compat with anything that imported it directly.
- _prepare_prompt: route through messages_to_dicts so tool_call_id /
tool_calls / reasoning_content survive, pass tools=json.loads(
request.Tools) and enable_thinking=True to apply_chat_template, fall
back on TypeError for templates that don't accept those kwargs.
- New _tool_module_from_tokenizer (with the json.loads fallback for
mlx-lm 0.29.x), _finalize_output, _truncate_at_stop helpers — same
contract as the mlx backend.
- LoadModel logs the auto-detected has_tool_calling / has_thinking /
tool_call_start / tool_call_end so users can see what the wrapper
picked up for the loaded model.
- backend/python/mlx-distributed/test.py: add the same TestSharedHelpers
unit tests (parse_options, messages_to_dicts, split_reasoning,
parse_tool_calls) that exist for mlx and mlx-vlm.
2026-04-13 16:44:03 +00:00
## mlx is Apple-Silicon-first — the MLX backend auto-detects the right tool
## parser from the chat template, so no tool_parser: option is needed (it
## would be ignored at runtime). Run this on macOS / arm64 with Metal; the
## Linux/CPU mlx variant is untested in CI.
test-extra-backend-mlx : docker -build -mlx
BACKEND_IMAGE = local-ai-backend:mlx \
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME = mlx-community/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-4bit \
BACKEND_TEST_CAPS = health,load,predict,stream,tools \
$( MAKE) test-extra-backend
test-extra-backend-mlx-vlm : docker -build -mlx -vlm
BACKEND_IMAGE = local-ai-backend:mlx-vlm \
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME = mlx-community/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-4bit \
BACKEND_TEST_CAPS = health,load,predict,stream,tools \
$( MAKE) test-extra-backend
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DOCKER_IMAGE ?= local-ai
IMAGE_TYPE ?= core
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BASE_IMAGE ?= ubuntu:24.04
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docker :
docker build \
--build-arg BASE_IMAGE = $( BASE_IMAGE) \
--build-arg IMAGE_TYPE = $( IMAGE_TYPE) \
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--build-arg GO_TAGS = " $( GO_TAGS) " \
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--build-arg MAKEFLAGS = " $( DOCKER_MAKEFLAGS) " \
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--build-arg BUILD_TYPE = $( BUILD_TYPE) \
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--build-arg CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION = $( CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION) \
--build-arg CUDA_MINOR_VERSION = $( CUDA_MINOR_VERSION) \
--build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION = $( UBUNTU_VERSION) \
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--build-arg UBUNTU_CODENAME = $( UBUNTU_CODENAME) \
feat(ci): allow routing apt traffic through an alternate Ubuntu mirror (#9650)
* feat(ci): allow routing apt traffic through an alternate Ubuntu mirror
Adds opt-in APT_MIRROR / APT_PORTS_MIRROR knobs to all Dockerfiles, the
Makefile, and CI workflows so we can fail over to a non-canonical Ubuntu
mirror when archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com
are degraded (recently observed: multi-day DDoS against the default pool).
Defaults are empty everywhere — behavior is unchanged unless a mirror is
configured. To enable in CI, set the repo-level GitHub Actions variables
APT_MIRROR (and APT_PORTS_MIRROR for arm64 builds). Locally:
make docker APT_MIRROR=http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com
A small POSIX-sh helper in .docker/apt-mirror.sh rewrites both DEB822
(/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources, Ubuntu 24.04+) and the legacy
/etc/apt/sources.list before the first apt-get update. Dockerfile stages
load it via RUN --mount=type=bind, so there is no extra layer and no
cache invalidation when the script is unchanged. Reusable workflows also
rewrite the runner's own /etc/apt sources before any sudo apt-get call.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(apt-mirror): default to the Azure mirror, visible in the workflow source
Bakes Azure (http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com / http://azure.ports.ubuntu.com)
in as the default for both Docker builds and runner-side apt — rather than
hiding the URL behind a GitHub Actions repo variable that's not visible
from the source tree.
A new composite action at .github/actions/configure-apt-mirror is the
single source of truth for runner-side rewrites. Five standalone
workflows (build-test, release, tests-e2e, tests-ui-e2e, update_swagger)
just `uses: ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror`.
Three workflows (image_build, backend_build, checksum_checker) keep an
inline bash rewrite, because they install/upgrade git via apt *before*
the checkout step (so the local composite action isn't loadable yet).
The Azure URL is visible in those files too.
The `apt-mirror` / `apt-ports-mirror` inputs of the reusable workflows
keep their now-Azure defaults — they still feed the Docker build-args
block in addition to the inline runner-side rewrite. Callers (image.yml,
image-pr.yml, backend.yml, backend_pr.yml) drop the previous
`vars.APT_MIRROR` plumbing and rely on those defaults.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(apt-mirror): drop Force Install GIT, consolidate on the composite action
The PPA git upgrade ran add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa, which talks
to api.launchpad.net — also part of Canonical's infrastructure and
currently returning HTTP 504. The Azure mirror only covers
archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com, not PPAs.
The system git that ubuntu-latest already ships is sufficient for
actions/checkout and the build pipeline, so just drop the upgrade. With
that gone, the apt-before-checkout constraint disappears too — all three
holdouts (image_build, backend_build, checksum_checker) can now switch
to ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror like the other five.
Net: 0 inline apt-mirror blocks, all 8 workflows route through the
composite action.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
---------
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-05-03 21:50:13 +00:00
--build-arg APT_MIRROR = $( APT_MIRROR) \
--build-arg APT_PORTS_MIRROR = $( APT_PORTS_MIRROR) \
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-t $( DOCKER_IMAGE) .
2024-05-13 09:37:52 +00:00
2026-01-06 14:26:42 +00:00
docker-cuda12 :
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docker build \
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--build-arg CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION = ${ CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION } \
--build-arg CUDA_MINOR_VERSION = ${ CUDA_MINOR_VERSION } \
2024-06-19 15:50:49 +00:00
--build-arg BASE_IMAGE = $( BASE_IMAGE) \
--build-arg IMAGE_TYPE = $( IMAGE_TYPE) \
--build-arg GO_TAGS = " $( GO_TAGS) " \
--build-arg MAKEFLAGS = " $( DOCKER_MAKEFLAGS) " \
--build-arg BUILD_TYPE = $( BUILD_TYPE) \
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--build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION = $( UBUNTU_VERSION) \
2026-01-06 14:26:42 +00:00
--build-arg UBUNTU_CODENAME = $( UBUNTU_CODENAME) \
feat(ci): allow routing apt traffic through an alternate Ubuntu mirror (#9650)
* feat(ci): allow routing apt traffic through an alternate Ubuntu mirror
Adds opt-in APT_MIRROR / APT_PORTS_MIRROR knobs to all Dockerfiles, the
Makefile, and CI workflows so we can fail over to a non-canonical Ubuntu
mirror when archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com
are degraded (recently observed: multi-day DDoS against the default pool).
Defaults are empty everywhere — behavior is unchanged unless a mirror is
configured. To enable in CI, set the repo-level GitHub Actions variables
APT_MIRROR (and APT_PORTS_MIRROR for arm64 builds). Locally:
make docker APT_MIRROR=http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com
A small POSIX-sh helper in .docker/apt-mirror.sh rewrites both DEB822
(/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources, Ubuntu 24.04+) and the legacy
/etc/apt/sources.list before the first apt-get update. Dockerfile stages
load it via RUN --mount=type=bind, so there is no extra layer and no
cache invalidation when the script is unchanged. Reusable workflows also
rewrite the runner's own /etc/apt sources before any sudo apt-get call.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(apt-mirror): default to the Azure mirror, visible in the workflow source
Bakes Azure (http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com / http://azure.ports.ubuntu.com)
in as the default for both Docker builds and runner-side apt — rather than
hiding the URL behind a GitHub Actions repo variable that's not visible
from the source tree.
A new composite action at .github/actions/configure-apt-mirror is the
single source of truth for runner-side rewrites. Five standalone
workflows (build-test, release, tests-e2e, tests-ui-e2e, update_swagger)
just `uses: ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror`.
Three workflows (image_build, backend_build, checksum_checker) keep an
inline bash rewrite, because they install/upgrade git via apt *before*
the checkout step (so the local composite action isn't loadable yet).
The Azure URL is visible in those files too.
The `apt-mirror` / `apt-ports-mirror` inputs of the reusable workflows
keep their now-Azure defaults — they still feed the Docker build-args
block in addition to the inline runner-side rewrite. Callers (image.yml,
image-pr.yml, backend.yml, backend_pr.yml) drop the previous
`vars.APT_MIRROR` plumbing and rely on those defaults.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(apt-mirror): drop Force Install GIT, consolidate on the composite action
The PPA git upgrade ran add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa, which talks
to api.launchpad.net — also part of Canonical's infrastructure and
currently returning HTTP 504. The Azure mirror only covers
archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com, not PPAs.
The system git that ubuntu-latest already ships is sufficient for
actions/checkout and the build pipeline, so just drop the upgrade. With
that gone, the apt-before-checkout constraint disappears too — all three
holdouts (image_build, backend_build, checksum_checker) can now switch
to ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror like the other five.
Net: 0 inline apt-mirror blocks, all 8 workflows route through the
composite action.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
---------
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-05-03 21:50:13 +00:00
--build-arg APT_MIRROR = $( APT_MIRROR) \
--build-arg APT_PORTS_MIRROR = $( APT_PORTS_MIRROR) \
2026-01-06 14:26:42 +00:00
-t $( DOCKER_IMAGE) -cuda-12 .
2024-06-19 15:50:49 +00:00
2024-02-08 19:12:51 +00:00
docker-image-intel :
docker build \
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--build-arg BASE_IMAGE = intel/oneapi-basekit:2025.3.2-0-devel-ubuntu24.04 \
2024-03-07 13:37:45 +00:00
--build-arg IMAGE_TYPE = $( IMAGE_TYPE) \
2025-05-25 20:25:05 +00:00
--build-arg GO_TAGS = " $( GO_TAGS) " \
2024-03-29 21:32:40 +00:00
--build-arg MAKEFLAGS = " $( DOCKER_MAKEFLAGS) " \
2026-01-04 20:12:50 +00:00
--build-arg BUILD_TYPE = intel \
--build-arg CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION = $( CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION) \
--build-arg CUDA_MINOR_VERSION = $( CUDA_MINOR_VERSION) \
--build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION = $( UBUNTU_VERSION) \
2026-01-06 14:26:42 +00:00
--build-arg UBUNTU_CODENAME = $( UBUNTU_CODENAME) \
feat(ci): allow routing apt traffic through an alternate Ubuntu mirror (#9650)
* feat(ci): allow routing apt traffic through an alternate Ubuntu mirror
Adds opt-in APT_MIRROR / APT_PORTS_MIRROR knobs to all Dockerfiles, the
Makefile, and CI workflows so we can fail over to a non-canonical Ubuntu
mirror when archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com
are degraded (recently observed: multi-day DDoS against the default pool).
Defaults are empty everywhere — behavior is unchanged unless a mirror is
configured. To enable in CI, set the repo-level GitHub Actions variables
APT_MIRROR (and APT_PORTS_MIRROR for arm64 builds). Locally:
make docker APT_MIRROR=http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com
A small POSIX-sh helper in .docker/apt-mirror.sh rewrites both DEB822
(/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources, Ubuntu 24.04+) and the legacy
/etc/apt/sources.list before the first apt-get update. Dockerfile stages
load it via RUN --mount=type=bind, so there is no extra layer and no
cache invalidation when the script is unchanged. Reusable workflows also
rewrite the runner's own /etc/apt sources before any sudo apt-get call.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(apt-mirror): default to the Azure mirror, visible in the workflow source
Bakes Azure (http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com / http://azure.ports.ubuntu.com)
in as the default for both Docker builds and runner-side apt — rather than
hiding the URL behind a GitHub Actions repo variable that's not visible
from the source tree.
A new composite action at .github/actions/configure-apt-mirror is the
single source of truth for runner-side rewrites. Five standalone
workflows (build-test, release, tests-e2e, tests-ui-e2e, update_swagger)
just `uses: ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror`.
Three workflows (image_build, backend_build, checksum_checker) keep an
inline bash rewrite, because they install/upgrade git via apt *before*
the checkout step (so the local composite action isn't loadable yet).
The Azure URL is visible in those files too.
The `apt-mirror` / `apt-ports-mirror` inputs of the reusable workflows
keep their now-Azure defaults — they still feed the Docker build-args
block in addition to the inline runner-side rewrite. Callers (image.yml,
image-pr.yml, backend.yml, backend_pr.yml) drop the previous
`vars.APT_MIRROR` plumbing and rely on those defaults.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(apt-mirror): drop Force Install GIT, consolidate on the composite action
The PPA git upgrade ran add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa, which talks
to api.launchpad.net — also part of Canonical's infrastructure and
currently returning HTTP 504. The Azure mirror only covers
archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com, not PPAs.
The system git that ubuntu-latest already ships is sufficient for
actions/checkout and the build pipeline, so just drop the upgrade. With
that gone, the apt-before-checkout constraint disappears too — all three
holdouts (image_build, backend_build, checksum_checker) can now switch
to ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror like the other five.
Net: 0 inline apt-mirror blocks, all 8 workflows route through the
composite action.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
---------
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-05-03 21:50:13 +00:00
--build-arg APT_MIRROR = $( APT_MIRROR) \
--build-arg APT_PORTS_MIRROR = $( APT_PORTS_MIRROR) \
2026-01-04 20:12:50 +00:00
-t $( DOCKER_IMAGE) .
2024-03-29 21:29:33 +00:00
2025-07-18 11:24:12 +00:00
########################################################
## Backends
########################################################
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# Pattern rule for standard backends (docker-based)
# This matches all backends that use docker-build-* and docker-save-*
backends/% : docker -build -% docker -save -% build
./local-ai backends install " ocifile:// $( abspath ./backend-images/$* .tar) "
2025-08-22 06:42:29 +00:00
2026-01-04 20:12:50 +00:00
# Darwin-specific backends (keep as explicit targets since they have special build logic)
2025-08-22 06:42:29 +00:00
backends/llama-cpp-darwin : build
bash ./scripts/build/llama-cpp-darwin.sh
./local-ai backends install " ocifile:// $( abspath ./backend-images/llama-cpp.tar) "
feat: add ds4 backend (DeepSeek V4 Flash) with tool calls, thinking, KV cache (#9758)
* test(e2e-backends): allow BACKEND_BINARY for native-built backends
Adds an escape hatch for hardware-gated backends (e.g. ds4) where the
model is too large for Docker build context. When BACKEND_BINARY points
at a run.sh produced by 'make -C backend/cpp/<name> package', the suite
skips docker image extraction and drives the binary directly.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* test(e2e-backends): validate BACKEND_BINARY basename + log actual source
Two follow-ups from the cbcf5148 code review:
- BACKEND_BINARY now requires a path whose basename is `run.sh`. Without
this check, `filepath.Dir(binary)` silently discarded the filename, so
pointing the env var at an arbitrary binary failed later with a
confusing assertion that named a path the user never typed.
- The "Testing image=..." debug line printed an empty string when the
binary path was used, hiding the actual source in CI logs. The line
now reports whichever of BACKEND_IMAGE / BACKEND_BINARY is in effect
as `src=...`.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): scaffold ds4 backend dir
Adds prepare.sh, run.sh, and a .gitignore. CMakeLists, Makefile, and the
implementation arrive in follow-up commits.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): add backend Makefile
Drives ds4's upstream Makefile to produce engine .o files (CUDA on Linux
when BUILD_TYPE=cublas, Metal on Darwin, otherwise CPU debug path), then
invokes CMake on our wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): add CMakeLists for grpc-server
Generates protoc stubs from backend.proto, links grpc-server.cpp +
dsml_parser.cpp + dsml_renderer.cpp + kv_cache.cpp against pre-built
ds4 engine .o files. DS4_GPU=cuda|metal|cpu selects the backend.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): grpc-server skeleton + module stubs
The minimum that links: Backend service with Health + Free; other RPCs
default to UNIMPLEMENTED. Stub headers/sources for dsml_parser,
dsml_renderer, and kv_cache are in place so CMake links cleanly even
before those modules ship.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): implement LoadModel
Opens engine + creates session sized to ContextSize (default 32768).
Backend is compile-time: CPU when DS4_NO_GPU, Metal on __APPLE__, else
CUDA. MTP/speculative options are accepted via ModelOptions.Options[]
(mtp_path, mtp_draft, mtp_margin). kv_cache_dir option is captured into
g_kv_cache_dir for the cache module (Task 19 wires it in).
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): implement TokenizeString
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): implement Predict (plain text)
Tool calls + thinking-mode split arrive in Task 13 once dsml_parser is in.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): implement PredictStream (plain text)
ChatDelta + reasoning/tool_calls split arrives in Task 14.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): implement Status RPC
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): add DSML streaming parser
Classifies raw model-emitted token text into CONTENT / REASONING /
TOOL_START / TOOL_ARGS / TOOL_END events. Markers it watches for are the
literal DSML strings rendered by ds4_server.c's prompt template
(<｜DSML｜tool_calls>, <｜DSML｜invoke name=...>, <think>, etc.) - these are
plain text the model emits, not special tokens.
Partial markers split across token chunks are buffered until a full marker
or a definitively-not-a-marker '<' is observed. RandomToolId() generates
the API-side tool call id (call_xxx) that exact-replay would key on.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): split hex escapes in DSML markers + add cstring/cstdio includes
C++ \x hex escapes have no length cap. '\x9cD' was read as a single escape
producing byte 0xCD, eating the 'D'. The markers were never actually matching
the DSML text the model emits. Split each escape with adjacent string literal
concatenation so the byte sequence is exactly EF BD 9C 44 (｜D) at runtime.
Also adds <cstring> and <cstdio> includes (libstdc++ 13 does not transitively
expose std::strlen / std::snprintf via <string>).
The local plan file (uncommitted) was also updated with the same fixes so
Task 16's dsml_renderer.cpp does not re-introduce the bug.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): wire DsmlParser into Predict (ChatDelta)
Non-streaming Predict now emits one ChatDelta carrying content,
reasoning_content, and tool_calls[] parsed from the model's DSML output.
Reply.message still carries the raw model bytes for backends that prefer
the regex fallback path.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): wire DsmlParser into PredictStream
Per-token ChatDelta writes: content/reasoning_content go incrementally,
tool_calls emit TOOL_START as one delta (id + name) followed by
TOOL_ARGS deltas with incremental JSON. The Go-side aggregator
(pkg/functions/chat_deltas.go) reassembles them.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): chat template + reasoning_effort mapping
UseTokenizerTemplate=true + Messages -> ds4_chat_begin / append /
assistant_prefix. PredictOptions.Metadata['enable_thinking'] and
['reasoning_effort'] map to ds4_think_mode (DS4_THINK_HIGH default;
'max'/'xhigh' -> DS4_THINK_MAX; disabled -> DS4_THINK_NONE).
Tool-call rendering for assistant turns with tool_calls JSON arrives in
the next commit (dsml_renderer).
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): render assistant tool_calls + tool results to DSML
Closes the round-trip: when an OpenAI client sends a multi-turn chat
where prior turns contain tool_calls or role=tool messages, build_prompt
serializes them back to the DSML shape the model was trained on. Mirrors
ds4_server.c's prompt renderer; uses nlohmann::json for parsing the
OpenAI tool_calls payload.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): disk KV cache module
Dir-based cache keyed by SHA1(rendered prompt prefix). File format:
'DS4G' magic + version + ctx_size + prefix_len + prefix + payload_bytes
+ ds4_session_save_payload output. NOT bit-compatible with ds4-server's
KVC files - that interop is a follow-up plan. LoadLongestPrefix walks
the dir picking the longest stored prefix that prefixes the incoming
prompt.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): wire KvCache into Predict/PredictStream
LoadModel reads 'kv_cache_dir' from ModelOptions.Options[], passes it to
g_kv_cache.SetDir. Each Predict/PredictStream computes a render text for
the request, tries LoadLongestPrefix to recover state, then Saves the
new state after generation. ds4_session_sync handles the live-cache
fast path internally, so the disk cache only matters for cold-starts
and cross-session reuse.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): add package.sh
Linux: bundles libc + ld + libstdc++ + libgomp + GPU runtime libs into
package/lib so the FROM scratch image boots without a host libc.
Darwin is handled by scripts/build/ds4-darwin.sh which uses otool -L.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): rename namespace ds4_backend -> ds4cpp
ds4.h defines 'typedef enum {...} ds4_backend' which collides with our
C++ 'namespace ds4_backend' anywhere a TU includes both. kv_cache.h
includes ds4.h directly and surfaces the conflict immediately; other
TUs would hit it once gRPC dev headers are available.
Renames the C++ namespace to ds4cpp across all wrapper files and the
plan, leaving the upstream ds4 typedef untouched.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend): add Dockerfile.ds4
Single-stage builder (CUDA devel image for cublas, ubuntu:24.04 for cpu)
-> FROM scratch with packaged grpc-server + bundled runtime libs.
nlohmann-json3-dev is required for dsml_renderer's JSON handling.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(make): wire backend/cpp/ds4 + ds4-darwin into root Makefile
BACKEND_DS4 entry + generate-docker-build-target eval + docker-build-ds4
in docker-build-backends + .NOTPARALLEL guards. Also adds the
backends/ds4-darwin target which delegates to scripts/build/ds4-darwin.sh
(landed in Task 24).
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci: add backend-matrix entries for ds4 (cpu + cuda13, per-arch)
Two entries per build (amd64 + arm64) so backend-merge-jobs assembles a
multi-arch manifest. Skipping cuda12 - ds4 was validated against CUDA 13.
Darwin Metal is handled outside this matrix by backend_build_darwin.yml.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/index): add ds4 meta + image entries
cpu + cuda13 x latest + master. Darwin Metal builds publish under
ds4-darwin via the existing llama-cpp-darwin OCI pipeline.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(scripts/build): add ds4-darwin.sh
Native macOS/Metal build for the ds4 backend. Mirrors llama-cpp-darwin.sh:
make grpc-server -> otool -L for dylib bundling -> OCI tar that
'local-ai backends install' consumes via the backends/ds4-darwin
Makefile target.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(darwin): build ds4-darwin in backend_build_darwin
Adds a 'Build ds4 backend (Darwin Metal)' step that runs the
backends/ds4-darwin Makefile target on the macOS runner.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(import): auto-detect ds4 weights via DS4Importer
Adds core/gallery/importers/ds4.go which matches on the antirez/deepseek-v4-gguf
repo URI and the DeepSeek-V4-Flash-*.gguf filename pattern. Registered before
LlamaCPPImporter so ds4 weights route to backend: ds4 instead of falling
through to llama-cpp.
Also lists ds4 in /backends/known so the /import-model UI surfaces it as a
manual choice for users who want to force the backend on a non-canonical URI.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(gallery): add deepseek-v4-flash-q2 (ds4 backend)
One-click install of the q2 weights with backend: ds4.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* docs(.agents): add ds4-backend.md
Documents the backend shape, DSML state machine, thinking-mode mapping,
disk KV cache, build matrix (cpu/cuda13/Darwin), and the BACKEND_BINARY
hardware-validation path.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): pass UBUNTU_VERSION + arch env vars to install-base-deps
The .docker/install-base-deps.sh script needs UBUNTU_VERSION (defaults to
2404), TARGETARCH, SKIP_DRIVERS, and APT_MIRROR/APT_PORTS_MIRROR exported
into the environment so it can pick the right cuda-keyring / cudss / nvpl
debs and apt mirrors. Dockerfile.ds4 was declaring some of the ARGs but not
re-exporting them via ENV. Mirrors Dockerfile.llama-cpp's pattern.
Without this fix 'make docker-build-ds4 BUILD_TYPE=cublas CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=13'
failed at:
/usr/local/sbin/install-base-deps: line 120: UBUNTU_VERSION: unbound variable
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/index): add Metal image entries for ds4
Adds metal-ds4 + metal-ds4-development image entries pointing at
quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai-backends:{latest,master}-metal-darwin-arm64-ds4
(built by scripts/build/ds4-darwin.sh on macOS arm64 runners), plus the
'metal' and 'metal-darwin-arm64' capability mappings on the ds4 meta and
ds4-development variant.
Closes a gap from the initial Task 23 landing - the Darwin Metal build
script and CI workflow step were already wired (Tasks 24-25), but the
gallery had no image entry for users to install the Metal variant.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(ci): use ubuntu:24.04 base for ds4 cuda13 matrix entries
The initial Task 22 matrix landing used base-image: 'nvidia/cuda:13.0.0-devel-ubuntu24.04'
which clashes with install-base-deps.sh's cuda-keyring step:
E: Conflicting values set for option Signed-By regarding source
https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2404/sbsa/
The canonical pattern (llama-cpp, ik-llama-cpp, turboquant) uses plain
'ubuntu:24.04' + 'skip-drivers: false' so install-base-deps installs CUDA
from scratch via its own keyring setup. Adopting that here.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): drop install-base-deps.sh dependency
The .docker/install-base-deps.sh pipeline is built around the llama-cpp
needs: NVIDIA keyring + cuda-toolkit apt + gRPC-from-source build at
/opt/grpc. For ds4 we don't need any of that:
- CUDA: nvidia/cuda:13.0.0-devel-ubuntu24.04 ships /usr/local/cuda
ready to go; install-base-deps's keyring step then conflicts with
the pre-installed Signed-By.
- gRPC: ds4's grpc-server.cpp only links against grpc++; system
libgrpc++-dev (apt) is sufficient, no source build needed.
Replaced the install-base-deps invocation in Dockerfile.ds4 with a
direct 'apt-get install libgrpc++-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler-grpc
nlohmann-json3-dev cmake build-essential pkg-config git'. Matrix entries
back to nvidia/cuda base + skip-drivers=true so install-base-deps would
no-op even if some downstream tooling calls it.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): correct proto accessors + alias grpc::Status as GStatus
Two compile bugs caught by the docker build:
1. proto::Message uses snake_case accessors. The build_prompt loop called
m.toolcalls() / m.toolcallid() - the protoc-generated names are
m.tool_calls() / m.tool_call_id(). Plan-text bug propagated to the
wrapper.
2. The Status RPC method shadowed the 'using grpc::Status' alias, so any
later method declaration using Status as a return type failed to parse
('Status does not name a type' starting at LoadModel). Solution: alias
grpc::Status as GStatus instead, with no 'using' clause that would
conflict. All RPC method declarations and return-statement constructions
now use GStatus.
Pre-existing code reviewer flagged the Status-shadow concern as 'minor'
in the original Task 10 commit; it turned out to be a real compile blocker
under libstdc++ 13 once the surrounding methods were filled in.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): preserve TOOL_ARGS content in dsml_parser Flush
When the model emitted a parameter value that arrived in the same buffer
as the surrounding tool_call markers (e.g. the buffered tail after a
literal '</think>' opened the model output), the parser deferred all
buffered bytes to Flush() because looks_like_prefix() always returns
true while buf starts with '<'. Flush() then drained the buffer as
plain CONTENT/REASONING regardless of parser state, so the bytes
between the parameter open and close markers were classified as
CONTENT instead of TOOL_ARGS.
Symptom: the model emitted
<|DSML|parameter name="location" string="true">Paris, France</|DSML|parameter>
and the assembled tool_call arguments came out as {"location":""} -
the opener and closer were emitted into the args stream but the
"Paris, France" content went to the assistant message instead.
Fix:
1. Flush() now uses the same state-aware emit logic as DrainPlain:
PARAM_VALUE bytes become TOOL_ARGS (json-escaped when string),
THINK bytes become REASONING, TEXT bytes become CONTENT, and
INVOKE / TOOL_CALLS structural whitespace is discarded.
2. looks_like_prefix() restricts its leading-'<' fallback to buffers
that have not yet seen a '>'. Without that change, char-by-char
feeds would discard the '<' of '<|DSML|invoke name="..."' once
the marker prefix length was reached but the closing quote/'>'
were still in flight.
Verified with a standalone harness that runs the failing input three
ways (single Feed, split-after-'>', and char-by-char) and aggregates
TOOL_ARGS for tool index 0: all three now produce
{"location":"Paris, France"}.
Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.7 [Read,Edit,Bash]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): use ds4_session_sync + manual generation loop for KV persistence
ds4_engine_generate_argmax() is a self-contained helper that doesn't take or
update a ds4_session - it manages its own internal state. Our Predict and
PredictStream methods created g_session via ds4_session_create() but then
called ds4_engine_generate_argmax(), so g_session's KV state never advanced.
ds4_session_payload_bytes(g_session) returned 0 and the disk KV cache save
correctly rejected with 'session has no valid checkpoint to save'.
Switch both RPCs to the proper session API:
ds4_session_sync(g_session, &prompt, ...)
loop:
int token = ds4_session_argmax(g_session)
if token == eos: break
emit(token)
ds4_session_eval(g_session, token, ...)
After the loop the session has a real checkpoint and ds4_session_save_payload
writes the KV state to disk. Verified end-to-end on a DGX Spark GB10: three
.kv files (15-30 MB each) are written when BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS sets
kv_cache_dir, and the e2e tool-call assertion still passes.
Also added stderr diagnostics to KvCache (enabled/disabled at SetDir; per-save
path + payload_bytes + result) so future failures are visible instead of
silent. The 'wrote ok' lines are low-volume - one per Predict/PredictStream
when the cache is enabled - and skipped entirely when the option is unset.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): use ds4_session_eval_speculative_argmax when MTP loaded
Wires MTP (Multi-Token Prediction) speculative decoding into the manual
generation loop in both Predict and PredictStream. When the upstream MTP
weights are loaded via 'mtp_path:' option AND we're on CUDA / Metal,
ds4_engine_mtp_draft_tokens() returns >0 and we switch the inner loop to
ds4_session_eval_speculative_argmax(), which can accept N>1 tokens per
verifier step. When MTP is not loaded (no option, CPU backend, or weights
absent), we fall through to the simple ds4_session_argmax + ds4_session_eval
path with no behavior change.
Validated on a DGX Spark GB10 with the optional MTP GGUF
(DeepSeek-V4-Flash-MTP-Q4K-Q8_0-F32.gguf, ~3.6 GB). LoadModel logs
'ds4: MTP support model loaded ... (draft=2)' on stderr.
Caveat per upstream README: 'currently provides at most a slight speedup,
not a meaningful generation-speed win'. Wired now mainly to track the
upstream API; bigger speedups arrive when ds4 improves the speculative path.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): honor PredictOptions sampling with DSML-aware override
Mirrors ds4_server.c:7102-7115 sampling-policy semantics on the LocalAI
gRPC side. The generation loop now consults compute_sample_params() per
token to pick the effective (temperature, top_k, top_p, min_p), based on:
1. Request defaults: PredictOptions.temperature / .topk / .topp / .minp
2. Thinking-mode override: when enable_thinking != false, force T=1.0,
top_k=0, top_p=1.0, min_p=0.0 (creativity for the reasoning pass and
the trailing content)
3. DSML structural override: when DsmlParser::IsInDsmlStructural()
returns true (we are between tool-call markers but NOT in a param
value payload), force T=0.0 so protocol bytes parse cleanly
When the effective temperature is 0, we keep using ds4_session_argmax +
MTP speculative path (matches ds4-server's gate that only enables MTP for
greedy positions). When > 0, we call ds4_session_sample(s, T, ...) with
a per-thread RNG seeded from system_clock and fall back to single-token
ds4_session_eval.
New public method on DsmlParser: IsInDsmlStructural() encodes which states
need protocol-byte determinism. PARAM_VALUE is excluded (payload uses user
sampling); TEXT and THINK are excluded (no tool-call context to protect).
Verified on the DGX Spark GB10: the e2e suite still passes with all 5
specs including tools, and the Predict output now varies between runs
(creative sampling active) while the tool-call args remain a clean
'{"location":"Paris, France"}' because the parser-state check forces
greedy on the structural bytes.
UX note: thinking mode is ON by default (matching ds4-server). Users who
want deterministic output should set Metadata.enable_thinking = false.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(gallery): add sha256 to deepseek-v4-flash-q2 entry
Per HF LFS metadata for antirez/deepseek-v4-gguf:
size: 86720111200 bytes (~80.76 GiB)
sha256: 31598c67c8b8744d3bcebcd19aa62253c6dc43cef3b8adf9f593656c9e86fd8c
LocalAI's downloader verifies sha256 when present, so users who install
deepseek-v4-flash-q2 from the gallery get integrity-checked weights and
the partial-download issue (an 81 GB file is easy to truncate) becomes
recoverable instead of silently producing a broken backend.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
---------
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-05-11 20:15:47 +00:00
backends/ds4-darwin : build
bash ./scripts/build/ds4-darwin.sh
./local-ai backends install " ocifile:// $( abspath ./backend-images/ds4.tar) "
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build-darwin-python-backend : build
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bash ./scripts/build/python-darwin.sh
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build-darwin-go-backend : build
bash ./scripts/build/golang-darwin.sh
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backends/mlx :
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BACKEND = mlx $( MAKE) build-darwin-python-backend
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./local-ai backends install " ocifile:// $( abspath ./backend-images/mlx.tar) "
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backends/diffuser-darwin :
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BACKEND = diffusers $( MAKE) build-darwin-python-backend
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./local-ai backends install " ocifile:// $( abspath ./backend-images/diffusers.tar) "
2025-08-23 21:05:30 +00:00
backends/mlx-vlm :
BACKEND = mlx-vlm $( MAKE) build-darwin-python-backend
./local-ai backends install " ocifile:// $( abspath ./backend-images/mlx-vlm.tar) "
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backends/mlx-audio :
BACKEND = mlx-audio $( MAKE) build-darwin-python-backend
./local-ai backends install " ocifile:// $( abspath ./backend-images/mlx-audio.tar) "
2026-03-09 16:29:32 +00:00
backends/mlx-distributed :
BACKEND = mlx-distributed $( MAKE) build-darwin-python-backend
./local-ai backends install " ocifile:// $( abspath ./backend-images/mlx-distributed.tar) "
2025-09-01 20:18:30 +00:00
backends/stablediffusion-ggml-darwin :
BACKEND = stablediffusion-ggml BUILD_TYPE = metal $( MAKE) build-darwin-go-backend
./local-ai backends install " ocifile:// $( abspath ./backend-images/stablediffusion-ggml.tar) "
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backend-images :
mkdir -p backend-images
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# Backend metadata: BACKEND_NAME | DOCKERFILE_TYPE | BUILD_CONTEXT | PROGRESS_FLAG | NEEDS_BACKEND_ARG
# llama-cpp is special - uses llama-cpp Dockerfile and doesn't need BACKEND arg
BACKEND_LLAMA_CPP = llama-cpp| llama-cpp| .| false| false
2026-04-12 11:51:28 +00:00
# ik-llama-cpp is a fork of llama.cpp with superior CPU performance
BACKEND_IK_LLAMA_CPP = ik-llama-cpp| ik-llama-cpp| .| false| false
feat(backend): add turboquant llama.cpp-fork backend (#9355)
* feat(backend): add turboquant llama.cpp-fork backend
turboquant is a llama.cpp fork (TheTom/llama-cpp-turboquant, branch
feature/turboquant-kv-cache) that adds a TurboQuant KV-cache scheme.
It ships as a first-class backend reusing backend/cpp/llama-cpp sources
via a thin wrapper Makefile: each variant target copies ../llama-cpp
into a sibling build dir and invokes llama-cpp's build-llama-cpp-grpc-server
with LLAMA_REPO/LLAMA_VERSION overridden to point at the fork. No
duplication of grpc-server.cpp — upstream fixes flow through automatically.
Wires up the full matrix (CPU, CUDA 12/13, L4T, L4T-CUDA13, ROCm, SYCL
f32/f16, Vulkan) in backend.yml and the gallery entries in index.yaml,
adds a tests-turboquant-grpc e2e job driven by BACKEND_TEST_CACHE_TYPE_K/V=q8_0
to exercise the KV-cache config path (backend_test.go gains dedicated env
vars wired into ModelOptions.CacheTypeKey/Value — a generic improvement
usable by any llama.cpp-family backend), and registers a nightly auto-bump
PR in bump_deps.yaml tracking feature/turboquant-kv-cache.
scripts/changed-backends.js gets a special-case so edits to
backend/cpp/llama-cpp/ also retrigger the turboquant CI pipeline, since
the wrapper reuses those sources.
* feat(turboquant): carry upstream patches against fork API drift
turboquant branched from llama.cpp before upstream commit 66060008
("server: respect the ignore eos flag", #21203) which added the
`logit_bias_eog` field to `server_context_meta` and a matching
parameter to `server_task::params_from_json_cmpl`. The shared
backend/cpp/llama-cpp/grpc-server.cpp depends on that field, so
building it against the fork unmodified fails.
Cherry-pick that commit as a patch file under
backend/cpp/turboquant/patches/ and apply it to the cloned fork
sources via a new apply-patches.sh hook called from the wrapper
Makefile. Simplifies the build flow too: instead of hopping through
llama-cpp's build-llama-cpp-grpc-server indirection, the wrapper now
drives the copied Makefile directly (clone -> patch -> build).
Drop the corresponding patch whenever the fork catches up with
upstream — the build fails fast if a patch stops applying, which
is the signal to retire it.
* docs: add turboquant backend section + clarify cache_type_k/v
Document the new turboquant (llama.cpp fork with TurboQuant KV-cache)
backend alongside the existing llama-cpp / ik-llama-cpp sections in
features/text-generation.md: when to pick it, how to install it from
the gallery, and a YAML example showing backend: turboquant together
with cache_type_k / cache_type_v.
Also expand the cache_type_k / cache_type_v table rows in
advanced/model-configuration.md to spell out the accepted llama.cpp
quantization values and note that these fields apply to all
llama.cpp-family backends, not just vLLM.
* feat(turboquant): patch ggml-rpc GGML_OP_COUNT assertion
The fork adds new GGML ops bringing GGML_OP_COUNT to 97, but
ggml/include/ggml-rpc.h static-asserts it equals 96, breaking
the GGML_RPC=ON build paths (turboquant-grpc / turboquant-rpc-server).
Carry a one-line patch that updates the expected count so the
assertion holds. Drop this patch whenever the fork fixes it upstream.
* feat(turboquant): allow turbo* KV-cache types and exercise them in e2e
The shared backend/cpp/llama-cpp/grpc-server.cpp carries its own
allow-list of accepted KV-cache types (kv_cache_types[]) and rejects
anything outside it before the value reaches llama.cpp's parser. That
list only contains the standard llama.cpp types — turbo2/turbo3/turbo4
would throw "Unsupported cache type" at LoadModel time, meaning
nothing the LocalAI gRPC layer accepted was actually fork-specific.
Add a build-time augmentation step (patch-grpc-server.sh, called from
the turboquant wrapper Makefile) that inserts GGML_TYPE_TURBO2_0/3_0/4_0
into the allow-list of the *copied* grpc-server.cpp under
turboquant-<flavor>-build/. The original file under backend/cpp/llama-cpp/
is never touched, so the stock llama-cpp build keeps compiling against
vanilla upstream which has no notion of those enum values.
Switch test-extra-backend-turboquant to set
BACKEND_TEST_CACHE_TYPE_K=turbo3 / _V=turbo3 so the e2e gRPC suite
actually runs the fork's TurboQuant KV-cache code paths (turbo3 also
auto-enables flash_attention in the fork). Picking q8_0 here would
only re-test the standard llama.cpp path that the upstream llama-cpp
backend already covers.
Refresh the docs (text-generation.md + model-configuration.md) to
list turbo2/turbo3/turbo4 explicitly and call out that you only get
the TurboQuant code path with this backend + a turbo* cache type.
* fix(turboquant): rewrite patch-grpc-server.sh in awk, not python3
The builder image (ubuntu:24.04 stage-2 in Dockerfile.turboquant)
does not install python3, so the python-based augmentation step
errored with `python3: command not found` at make time. Switch to
awk, which ships in coreutils and is already available everywhere
the rest of the wrapper Makefile runs.
* Apply suggestion from @mudler
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@users.noreply.github.com>
---------
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-04-14 23:25:04 +00:00
# turboquant is a llama.cpp fork with TurboQuant KV-cache quantization.
# Reuses backend/cpp/llama-cpp grpc-server sources via a thin wrapper Makefile.
BACKEND_TURBOQUANT = turboquant| turboquant| .| false| false
feat: add ds4 backend (DeepSeek V4 Flash) with tool calls, thinking, KV cache (#9758)
* test(e2e-backends): allow BACKEND_BINARY for native-built backends
Adds an escape hatch for hardware-gated backends (e.g. ds4) where the
model is too large for Docker build context. When BACKEND_BINARY points
at a run.sh produced by 'make -C backend/cpp/<name> package', the suite
skips docker image extraction and drives the binary directly.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* test(e2e-backends): validate BACKEND_BINARY basename + log actual source
Two follow-ups from the cbcf5148 code review:
- BACKEND_BINARY now requires a path whose basename is `run.sh`. Without
this check, `filepath.Dir(binary)` silently discarded the filename, so
pointing the env var at an arbitrary binary failed later with a
confusing assertion that named a path the user never typed.
- The "Testing image=..." debug line printed an empty string when the
binary path was used, hiding the actual source in CI logs. The line
now reports whichever of BACKEND_IMAGE / BACKEND_BINARY is in effect
as `src=...`.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): scaffold ds4 backend dir
Adds prepare.sh, run.sh, and a .gitignore. CMakeLists, Makefile, and the
implementation arrive in follow-up commits.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): add backend Makefile
Drives ds4's upstream Makefile to produce engine .o files (CUDA on Linux
when BUILD_TYPE=cublas, Metal on Darwin, otherwise CPU debug path), then
invokes CMake on our wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): add CMakeLists for grpc-server
Generates protoc stubs from backend.proto, links grpc-server.cpp +
dsml_parser.cpp + dsml_renderer.cpp + kv_cache.cpp against pre-built
ds4 engine .o files. DS4_GPU=cuda|metal|cpu selects the backend.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): grpc-server skeleton + module stubs
The minimum that links: Backend service with Health + Free; other RPCs
default to UNIMPLEMENTED. Stub headers/sources for dsml_parser,
dsml_renderer, and kv_cache are in place so CMake links cleanly even
before those modules ship.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): implement LoadModel
Opens engine + creates session sized to ContextSize (default 32768).
Backend is compile-time: CPU when DS4_NO_GPU, Metal on __APPLE__, else
CUDA. MTP/speculative options are accepted via ModelOptions.Options[]
(mtp_path, mtp_draft, mtp_margin). kv_cache_dir option is captured into
g_kv_cache_dir for the cache module (Task 19 wires it in).
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): implement TokenizeString
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): implement Predict (plain text)
Tool calls + thinking-mode split arrive in Task 13 once dsml_parser is in.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): implement PredictStream (plain text)
ChatDelta + reasoning/tool_calls split arrives in Task 14.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): implement Status RPC
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): add DSML streaming parser
Classifies raw model-emitted token text into CONTENT / REASONING /
TOOL_START / TOOL_ARGS / TOOL_END events. Markers it watches for are the
literal DSML strings rendered by ds4_server.c's prompt template
(<｜DSML｜tool_calls>, <｜DSML｜invoke name=...>, <think>, etc.) - these are
plain text the model emits, not special tokens.
Partial markers split across token chunks are buffered until a full marker
or a definitively-not-a-marker '<' is observed. RandomToolId() generates
the API-side tool call id (call_xxx) that exact-replay would key on.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): split hex escapes in DSML markers + add cstring/cstdio includes
C++ \x hex escapes have no length cap. '\x9cD' was read as a single escape
producing byte 0xCD, eating the 'D'. The markers were never actually matching
the DSML text the model emits. Split each escape with adjacent string literal
concatenation so the byte sequence is exactly EF BD 9C 44 (｜D) at runtime.
Also adds <cstring> and <cstdio> includes (libstdc++ 13 does not transitively
expose std::strlen / std::snprintf via <string>).
The local plan file (uncommitted) was also updated with the same fixes so
Task 16's dsml_renderer.cpp does not re-introduce the bug.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): wire DsmlParser into Predict (ChatDelta)
Non-streaming Predict now emits one ChatDelta carrying content,
reasoning_content, and tool_calls[] parsed from the model's DSML output.
Reply.message still carries the raw model bytes for backends that prefer
the regex fallback path.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): wire DsmlParser into PredictStream
Per-token ChatDelta writes: content/reasoning_content go incrementally,
tool_calls emit TOOL_START as one delta (id + name) followed by
TOOL_ARGS deltas with incremental JSON. The Go-side aggregator
(pkg/functions/chat_deltas.go) reassembles them.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): chat template + reasoning_effort mapping
UseTokenizerTemplate=true + Messages -> ds4_chat_begin / append /
assistant_prefix. PredictOptions.Metadata['enable_thinking'] and
['reasoning_effort'] map to ds4_think_mode (DS4_THINK_HIGH default;
'max'/'xhigh' -> DS4_THINK_MAX; disabled -> DS4_THINK_NONE).
Tool-call rendering for assistant turns with tool_calls JSON arrives in
the next commit (dsml_renderer).
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): render assistant tool_calls + tool results to DSML
Closes the round-trip: when an OpenAI client sends a multi-turn chat
where prior turns contain tool_calls or role=tool messages, build_prompt
serializes them back to the DSML shape the model was trained on. Mirrors
ds4_server.c's prompt renderer; uses nlohmann::json for parsing the
OpenAI tool_calls payload.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): disk KV cache module
Dir-based cache keyed by SHA1(rendered prompt prefix). File format:
'DS4G' magic + version + ctx_size + prefix_len + prefix + payload_bytes
+ ds4_session_save_payload output. NOT bit-compatible with ds4-server's
KVC files - that interop is a follow-up plan. LoadLongestPrefix walks
the dir picking the longest stored prefix that prefixes the incoming
prompt.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): wire KvCache into Predict/PredictStream
LoadModel reads 'kv_cache_dir' from ModelOptions.Options[], passes it to
g_kv_cache.SetDir. Each Predict/PredictStream computes a render text for
the request, tries LoadLongestPrefix to recover state, then Saves the
new state after generation. ds4_session_sync handles the live-cache
fast path internally, so the disk cache only matters for cold-starts
and cross-session reuse.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): add package.sh
Linux: bundles libc + ld + libstdc++ + libgomp + GPU runtime libs into
package/lib so the FROM scratch image boots without a host libc.
Darwin is handled by scripts/build/ds4-darwin.sh which uses otool -L.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): rename namespace ds4_backend -> ds4cpp
ds4.h defines 'typedef enum {...} ds4_backend' which collides with our
C++ 'namespace ds4_backend' anywhere a TU includes both. kv_cache.h
includes ds4.h directly and surfaces the conflict immediately; other
TUs would hit it once gRPC dev headers are available.
Renames the C++ namespace to ds4cpp across all wrapper files and the
plan, leaving the upstream ds4 typedef untouched.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend): add Dockerfile.ds4
Single-stage builder (CUDA devel image for cublas, ubuntu:24.04 for cpu)
-> FROM scratch with packaged grpc-server + bundled runtime libs.
nlohmann-json3-dev is required for dsml_renderer's JSON handling.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(make): wire backend/cpp/ds4 + ds4-darwin into root Makefile
BACKEND_DS4 entry + generate-docker-build-target eval + docker-build-ds4
in docker-build-backends + .NOTPARALLEL guards. Also adds the
backends/ds4-darwin target which delegates to scripts/build/ds4-darwin.sh
(landed in Task 24).
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci: add backend-matrix entries for ds4 (cpu + cuda13, per-arch)
Two entries per build (amd64 + arm64) so backend-merge-jobs assembles a
multi-arch manifest. Skipping cuda12 - ds4 was validated against CUDA 13.
Darwin Metal is handled outside this matrix by backend_build_darwin.yml.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/index): add ds4 meta + image entries
cpu + cuda13 x latest + master. Darwin Metal builds publish under
ds4-darwin via the existing llama-cpp-darwin OCI pipeline.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(scripts/build): add ds4-darwin.sh
Native macOS/Metal build for the ds4 backend. Mirrors llama-cpp-darwin.sh:
make grpc-server -> otool -L for dylib bundling -> OCI tar that
'local-ai backends install' consumes via the backends/ds4-darwin
Makefile target.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(darwin): build ds4-darwin in backend_build_darwin
Adds a 'Build ds4 backend (Darwin Metal)' step that runs the
backends/ds4-darwin Makefile target on the macOS runner.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(import): auto-detect ds4 weights via DS4Importer
Adds core/gallery/importers/ds4.go which matches on the antirez/deepseek-v4-gguf
repo URI and the DeepSeek-V4-Flash-*.gguf filename pattern. Registered before
LlamaCPPImporter so ds4 weights route to backend: ds4 instead of falling
through to llama-cpp.
Also lists ds4 in /backends/known so the /import-model UI surfaces it as a
manual choice for users who want to force the backend on a non-canonical URI.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(gallery): add deepseek-v4-flash-q2 (ds4 backend)
One-click install of the q2 weights with backend: ds4.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* docs(.agents): add ds4-backend.md
Documents the backend shape, DSML state machine, thinking-mode mapping,
disk KV cache, build matrix (cpu/cuda13/Darwin), and the BACKEND_BINARY
hardware-validation path.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): pass UBUNTU_VERSION + arch env vars to install-base-deps
The .docker/install-base-deps.sh script needs UBUNTU_VERSION (defaults to
2404), TARGETARCH, SKIP_DRIVERS, and APT_MIRROR/APT_PORTS_MIRROR exported
into the environment so it can pick the right cuda-keyring / cudss / nvpl
debs and apt mirrors. Dockerfile.ds4 was declaring some of the ARGs but not
re-exporting them via ENV. Mirrors Dockerfile.llama-cpp's pattern.
Without this fix 'make docker-build-ds4 BUILD_TYPE=cublas CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=13'
failed at:
/usr/local/sbin/install-base-deps: line 120: UBUNTU_VERSION: unbound variable
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/index): add Metal image entries for ds4
Adds metal-ds4 + metal-ds4-development image entries pointing at
quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai-backends:{latest,master}-metal-darwin-arm64-ds4
(built by scripts/build/ds4-darwin.sh on macOS arm64 runners), plus the
'metal' and 'metal-darwin-arm64' capability mappings on the ds4 meta and
ds4-development variant.
Closes a gap from the initial Task 23 landing - the Darwin Metal build
script and CI workflow step were already wired (Tasks 24-25), but the
gallery had no image entry for users to install the Metal variant.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(ci): use ubuntu:24.04 base for ds4 cuda13 matrix entries
The initial Task 22 matrix landing used base-image: 'nvidia/cuda:13.0.0-devel-ubuntu24.04'
which clashes with install-base-deps.sh's cuda-keyring step:
E: Conflicting values set for option Signed-By regarding source
https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2404/sbsa/
The canonical pattern (llama-cpp, ik-llama-cpp, turboquant) uses plain
'ubuntu:24.04' + 'skip-drivers: false' so install-base-deps installs CUDA
from scratch via its own keyring setup. Adopting that here.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): drop install-base-deps.sh dependency
The .docker/install-base-deps.sh pipeline is built around the llama-cpp
needs: NVIDIA keyring + cuda-toolkit apt + gRPC-from-source build at
/opt/grpc. For ds4 we don't need any of that:
- CUDA: nvidia/cuda:13.0.0-devel-ubuntu24.04 ships /usr/local/cuda
ready to go; install-base-deps's keyring step then conflicts with
the pre-installed Signed-By.
- gRPC: ds4's grpc-server.cpp only links against grpc++; system
libgrpc++-dev (apt) is sufficient, no source build needed.
Replaced the install-base-deps invocation in Dockerfile.ds4 with a
direct 'apt-get install libgrpc++-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler-grpc
nlohmann-json3-dev cmake build-essential pkg-config git'. Matrix entries
back to nvidia/cuda base + skip-drivers=true so install-base-deps would
no-op even if some downstream tooling calls it.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): correct proto accessors + alias grpc::Status as GStatus
Two compile bugs caught by the docker build:
1. proto::Message uses snake_case accessors. The build_prompt loop called
m.toolcalls() / m.toolcallid() - the protoc-generated names are
m.tool_calls() / m.tool_call_id(). Plan-text bug propagated to the
wrapper.
2. The Status RPC method shadowed the 'using grpc::Status' alias, so any
later method declaration using Status as a return type failed to parse
('Status does not name a type' starting at LoadModel). Solution: alias
grpc::Status as GStatus instead, with no 'using' clause that would
conflict. All RPC method declarations and return-statement constructions
now use GStatus.
Pre-existing code reviewer flagged the Status-shadow concern as 'minor'
in the original Task 10 commit; it turned out to be a real compile blocker
under libstdc++ 13 once the surrounding methods were filled in.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): preserve TOOL_ARGS content in dsml_parser Flush
When the model emitted a parameter value that arrived in the same buffer
as the surrounding tool_call markers (e.g. the buffered tail after a
literal '</think>' opened the model output), the parser deferred all
buffered bytes to Flush() because looks_like_prefix() always returns
true while buf starts with '<'. Flush() then drained the buffer as
plain CONTENT/REASONING regardless of parser state, so the bytes
between the parameter open and close markers were classified as
CONTENT instead of TOOL_ARGS.
Symptom: the model emitted
<|DSML|parameter name="location" string="true">Paris, France</|DSML|parameter>
and the assembled tool_call arguments came out as {"location":""} -
the opener and closer were emitted into the args stream but the
"Paris, France" content went to the assistant message instead.
Fix:
1. Flush() now uses the same state-aware emit logic as DrainPlain:
PARAM_VALUE bytes become TOOL_ARGS (json-escaped when string),
THINK bytes become REASONING, TEXT bytes become CONTENT, and
INVOKE / TOOL_CALLS structural whitespace is discarded.
2. looks_like_prefix() restricts its leading-'<' fallback to buffers
that have not yet seen a '>'. Without that change, char-by-char
feeds would discard the '<' of '<|DSML|invoke name="..."' once
the marker prefix length was reached but the closing quote/'>'
were still in flight.
Verified with a standalone harness that runs the failing input three
ways (single Feed, split-after-'>', and char-by-char) and aggregates
TOOL_ARGS for tool index 0: all three now produce
{"location":"Paris, France"}.
Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.7 [Read,Edit,Bash]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): use ds4_session_sync + manual generation loop for KV persistence
ds4_engine_generate_argmax() is a self-contained helper that doesn't take or
update a ds4_session - it manages its own internal state. Our Predict and
PredictStream methods created g_session via ds4_session_create() but then
called ds4_engine_generate_argmax(), so g_session's KV state never advanced.
ds4_session_payload_bytes(g_session) returned 0 and the disk KV cache save
correctly rejected with 'session has no valid checkpoint to save'.
Switch both RPCs to the proper session API:
ds4_session_sync(g_session, &prompt, ...)
loop:
int token = ds4_session_argmax(g_session)
if token == eos: break
emit(token)
ds4_session_eval(g_session, token, ...)
After the loop the session has a real checkpoint and ds4_session_save_payload
writes the KV state to disk. Verified end-to-end on a DGX Spark GB10: three
.kv files (15-30 MB each) are written when BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS sets
kv_cache_dir, and the e2e tool-call assertion still passes.
Also added stderr diagnostics to KvCache (enabled/disabled at SetDir; per-save
path + payload_bytes + result) so future failures are visible instead of
silent. The 'wrote ok' lines are low-volume - one per Predict/PredictStream
when the cache is enabled - and skipped entirely when the option is unset.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): use ds4_session_eval_speculative_argmax when MTP loaded
Wires MTP (Multi-Token Prediction) speculative decoding into the manual
generation loop in both Predict and PredictStream. When the upstream MTP
weights are loaded via 'mtp_path:' option AND we're on CUDA / Metal,
ds4_engine_mtp_draft_tokens() returns >0 and we switch the inner loop to
ds4_session_eval_speculative_argmax(), which can accept N>1 tokens per
verifier step. When MTP is not loaded (no option, CPU backend, or weights
absent), we fall through to the simple ds4_session_argmax + ds4_session_eval
path with no behavior change.
Validated on a DGX Spark GB10 with the optional MTP GGUF
(DeepSeek-V4-Flash-MTP-Q4K-Q8_0-F32.gguf, ~3.6 GB). LoadModel logs
'ds4: MTP support model loaded ... (draft=2)' on stderr.
Caveat per upstream README: 'currently provides at most a slight speedup,
not a meaningful generation-speed win'. Wired now mainly to track the
upstream API; bigger speedups arrive when ds4 improves the speculative path.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): honor PredictOptions sampling with DSML-aware override
Mirrors ds4_server.c:7102-7115 sampling-policy semantics on the LocalAI
gRPC side. The generation loop now consults compute_sample_params() per
token to pick the effective (temperature, top_k, top_p, min_p), based on:
1. Request defaults: PredictOptions.temperature / .topk / .topp / .minp
2. Thinking-mode override: when enable_thinking != false, force T=1.0,
top_k=0, top_p=1.0, min_p=0.0 (creativity for the reasoning pass and
the trailing content)
3. DSML structural override: when DsmlParser::IsInDsmlStructural()
returns true (we are between tool-call markers but NOT in a param
value payload), force T=0.0 so protocol bytes parse cleanly
When the effective temperature is 0, we keep using ds4_session_argmax +
MTP speculative path (matches ds4-server's gate that only enables MTP for
greedy positions). When > 0, we call ds4_session_sample(s, T, ...) with
a per-thread RNG seeded from system_clock and fall back to single-token
ds4_session_eval.
New public method on DsmlParser: IsInDsmlStructural() encodes which states
need protocol-byte determinism. PARAM_VALUE is excluded (payload uses user
sampling); TEXT and THINK are excluded (no tool-call context to protect).
Verified on the DGX Spark GB10: the e2e suite still passes with all 5
specs including tools, and the Predict output now varies between runs
(creative sampling active) while the tool-call args remain a clean
'{"location":"Paris, France"}' because the parser-state check forces
greedy on the structural bytes.
UX note: thinking mode is ON by default (matching ds4-server). Users who
want deterministic output should set Metadata.enable_thinking = false.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(gallery): add sha256 to deepseek-v4-flash-q2 entry
Per HF LFS metadata for antirez/deepseek-v4-gguf:
size: 86720111200 bytes (~80.76 GiB)
sha256: 31598c67c8b8744d3bcebcd19aa62253c6dc43cef3b8adf9f593656c9e86fd8c
LocalAI's downloader verifies sha256 when present, so users who install
deepseek-v4-flash-q2 from the gallery get integrity-checked weights and
the partial-download issue (an 81 GB file is easy to truncate) becomes
recoverable instead of silently producing a broken backend.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-05-11 20:15:47 +00:00
# ds4 is antirez/ds4, a DeepSeek V4 Flash-specific inference engine.
# Single-model; hardware-only validation lives at tests/e2e-backends/
# (BACKEND_BINARY mode); see docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-11-ds4-backend.md.
BACKEND_DS4 = ds4| ds4| .| false| false
2026-01-04 20:12:50 +00:00
# Golang backends
BACKEND_PIPER = piper| golang| .| false| true
BACKEND_LOCAL_STORE = local-store| golang| .| false| true
BACKEND_HUGGINGFACE = huggingface| golang| .| false| true
BACKEND_SILERO_VAD = silero-vad| golang| .| false| true
BACKEND_STABLEDIFFUSION_GGML = stablediffusion-ggml| golang| .| --progress= plain| true
BACKEND_WHISPER = whisper| golang| .| false| true
2026-02-09 08:12:05 +00:00
BACKEND_VOXTRAL = voxtral| golang| .| false| true
2026-03-12 17:56:26 +00:00
BACKEND_ACESTEP_CPP = acestep-cpp| golang| .| false| true
2026-04-11 21:14:26 +00:00
BACKEND_QWEN3_TTS_CPP = qwen3-tts-cpp| golang| .| false| true
feat(vibevoice-cpp): add purego TTS+ASR backend (#9610)
* feat(vibevoice-cpp): add purego TTS+ASR backend
Wire up Microsoft VibeVoice via the vibevoice.cpp C ABI as a new
purego-based Go backend that serves both Backend.TTS and
Backend.AudioTranscription from a single gRPC binary. Mirrors the
qwen3-tts-cpp / sherpa-onnx pattern so the variant matrix
(cpu/cuda12/cuda13/metal/rocm/sycl-f16/f32/vulkan/l4t) and the
e2e-backends gRPC harness reuse existing infrastructure.
- backend/go/vibevoice-cpp/ - Makefile, CMakeLists, purego shim, gRPC
Backend with model-dir auto-detection, closed-loop TTS->ASR smoke test
- backend/index.yaml - &vibevoicecpp meta + 18 image entries
- Makefile - .NOTPARALLEL, BACKEND_VIBEVOICE_CPP, docker-build wiring,
test-extra-backend-vibevoice-cpp-{tts,transcription} e2e wrappers
- .github/workflows/backend.yml - matrix entries for all variants
- .github/workflows/test-extra.yml - per-backend smoke + 2 gRPC e2e jobs
* feat(vibevoice-cpp): drop hardcoded glob detection, add gallery entries
Refactor backend Load() to follow the standard Options[] convention
used by sherpa-onnx and the rest of the multi-role backends:
ModelFile is the primary gguf, supplementary paths come through
opts.Options[] as key=value (or key:value for Make-target compat),
resolved against opts.ModelPath. type=asr/tts decides the role of
ModelFile when neither tts_model nor asr_model is set explicitly.
Add gallery/index.yaml entries:
- vibevoice-cpp - realtime 0.5B Q8_0 TTS + tokenizer + Carter voice
- vibevoice-cpp-asr - long-form ASR Q8_0 + tokenizer
Both pull from huggingface://mudler/vibevoice.cpp-models with sha256
verification. parameters.model + Options[] paths are siblings under
{models_dir} per the qwen3-tts-cpp convention.
Update Makefile e2e wrappers to pass BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS comma+colon
style, and tighten the per-backend Go closed-loop test to use the
explicit Options API.
* fix(vibevoice-cpp): force whole-archive link so vv_capi_* exports survive
libvibevoice is a STATIC archive linked into the MODULE library.
Without --whole-archive (or -force_load on Apple, /WHOLEARCHIVE on
MSVC), the linker garbage-collects symbols not referenced from this
translation unit - which means dlopen+RegisterLibFunc panics with
'undefined symbol: vv_capi_load' at backend startup, since purego
looks them up by name and our cpp/govibevoicecpp.cpp doesn't call
them directly.
* test(vibevoice-cpp): rewrite suite with Ginkgo v2
Match the convention used by backend/go/sherpa-onnx/backend_test.go.
The suite now covers backend semantics that don't need purego (Locking,
empty-ModelFile rejection, TTS/ASR-without-loaded-model errors) on top
of the gRPC lifecycle specs (Health, Load, closed-loop TTS->ASR).
Model-dependent specs Skip() when VIBEVOICE_MODEL_DIR is unset, so
`go test ./backend/go/vibevoice-cpp/` is green on a clean checkout
and runs the heavyweight closed-loop spec when test.sh has staged
the bundle.
* fix(vibevoice-cpp): implement TTSStream + AudioTranscriptionStream
The gRPC server's stream handlers (pkg/grpc/server.go) spawn a
goroutine that ranges over a chan; the only thing closing that chan
is the backend's own *Stream method. With the default Base stub
returning 'unimplemented' and never touching the chan, the server
goroutine hangs forever and the client hits DeadlineExceeded - which
is exactly what the e2e harness saw in the test-extra-backend-vibevoice-cpp-tts
matrix run.
TTSStream synthesizes via vv_capi_tts to a tempfile, then emits a
streaming WAV header (chunk sizes 0xFFFFFFFF so HTTP clients can
start playback before the full PCM lands) followed by the PCM body
in 64 KB slices. The header + >=2 PCM frames satisfy the harness's
'expected >=2 chunks' assertion and give a real progressive stream.
AudioTranscriptionStream runs the offline transcription, emits each
segment as a delta, and closes with a final_result whose Text equals
the concatenated deltas (the harness asserts those match).
Two new Ginkgo specs guard the close-channel-on-error path so the
deadline-exceeded regression can't come back silently.
* fix(vibevoice-cpp): silence errcheck on cleanup paths
Lint flagged six unchecked Close()/Remove()/RemoveAll() calls along
purely-cleanup deferred paths. Wrap each in '_ = ...' (or a closure
for defers that take args) - matches what the rest of the LocalAI
backend/go/* tree already does for these callsites.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(vibevoice-cpp): closed-loop slot fill + modelRoot-relative path resolution
Two bugs the test-extra-backend-vibevoice-cpp-* CI matrix surfaced:
1. Closed-loop Load with ModelFile=tts.gguf + Options[asr_model=...] left
v.ttsModel empty, because the default-fill block only ran when BOTH
slots were empty. vv_capi_load then got tts="" + a voice and the
C side rejected it with rc=-3 'TTS model required to load a voice'.
Fix: ModelFile fills the *primary* role-slot (decided by 'type=' in
Options, defaulting to tts) independently of the secondary, so
ModelFile + asr_model resolves to both.
2. resolvePath stat'd CWD before falling back to relTo. With LocalAI
launched from a directory that happens to contain a same-named
file, supplementary Options[] paths could leak away from the
models dir. Drop the CWD probe entirely - relative paths now
*always* join onto opts.ModelPath (the gallery convention).
New Ginkgo coverage:
* 'ModelFile slot resolution' (4 specs) - asr_model+ModelFile, type=asr,
explicit tts_model override, key:value variant.
* 'resolvePath (relative-to-modelRoot)' (5 specs) - join, abs passthrough,
empty input, empty relTo, and the CWD-trap regression test.
* 'Load resolves relative Options paths against opts.ModelPath' - end-
to-end gallery layout round-trip.
Verified locally: 19/19 specs pass (with model bundle, including the
closed-loop TTS->ASR; without bundle, 17 pass + 2 model-dependent skip).
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* test(vibevoice-cpp): use gallery convention in closed-loop spec
The 'loads the realtime TTS model' / closed-loop specs were passing
already-prefixed paths into Options[]:
Options: ['tokenizer=' + filepath.Join(modelDir, 'tokenizer.gguf')]
Combined with no ModelPath set on the request, the backend's
modelRoot fell back to filepath.Dir(ModelFile) = modelDir, then
resolvePath joined the prefixed Options path on top of it -
producing 'vibevoice-models/vibevoice-models/tokenizer.gguf' when
the CI's VIBEVOICE_MODEL_DIR is the relative './vibevoice-models'.
The fix is to mirror the gallery contract LocalAI core actually
sends in production: ModelPath is the models root (absolute),
ModelFile is a name *under* it, every Options[] path is relative
to ModelPath. Uses filepath.Base() to get bare filenames.
Verified locally with both VIBEVOICE_MODEL_DIR=/tmp/vv-bundle (abs)
and VIBEVOICE_MODEL_DIR=vibevoice-models (the relative shape that
broke CI). Both: 19/19 specs pass, ~55-60s.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(vibevoice-cpp): switch ASR to Q4_K + bump transcription timeout
The Q8_0 ASR gguf is ~14 GB - too big to fit alongside the runner
image, the docker build cache, and the test artifacts on a free
ubuntu-latest GHA runner; 'test-extra-backend-vibevoice-cpp-transcription'
was getting SIGTERM'd at 90 min before the model could finish loading.
Switch to Q4_K (~10 GB on disk, slightly faster CPU decode) for:
* the e2e harness Make target
* the gallery 'vibevoice-cpp-asr' entry (parameters + files block)
* the per-backend test.sh auto-download list
Bump tests-vibevoice-cpp-grpc-transcription's timeout-minutes from
90 to 150 - even with Q4_K, the 30 s JFK clip on a CPU runner needs
runway above the previous 90 min cap.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(vibevoice-cpp): drop transcription gRPC e2e job - too heavy for free runners
The vibevoice ASR is a 7B-parameter model. Even on Q4_K (~10 GB on
disk) a single 30 s transcription saturates the per-test 30 min
timeout in the e2e-backends harness on a 4-core ubuntu-latest, and
the 10 GB download + Docker layer + working space leaves no headroom
on the runner's free disk. Two attempts in CI got SIGTERM'd at the
LoadModel boundary - the bottleneck isn't tunable from the workflow
side without a paid-tier runner.
The per-backend tests-vibevoice-cpp job already runs the same
AudioTranscription path via a closed-loop TTS->ASR Ginkgo spec - same
gRPC contract, same model, single process - so the standalone
tests-vibevoice-cpp-grpc-transcription job was redundant on top of
the disk/CPU pressure.
The Makefile target test-extra-backend-vibevoice-cpp-transcription
stays for local invocation on workstations that can afford it -
useful when developing the streaming codepaths.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(vibevoice-cpp): restore transcription gRPC e2e on bigger-runner
Switch tests-vibevoice-cpp-grpc-transcription from ubuntu-latest to
the self-hosted 'bigger-runner' label that GPU image builds in
backend.yml use, plus the documented Free-disk-space prep step (purge
dotnet / ghc / android / CodeQL caches) the disabled vllm/sglang
entries in this file describe. That gives the 7B-param Q4_K ASR
model the disk + CPU runway it needs.
Keep timeout-minutes: 150 - even on a beefier runner the 30 s JFK
decode plus 10 GB download has to fit comfortably.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(vibevoice-cpp): apt-get install make on bigger-runner before transcription e2e
bigger-runner is a self-hosted bare runner without the standard
ubuntu image's preinstalled build tools, so the previous job died at
the very first command with 'make: command not found' (exit 127).
Add the Dependencies step that the disabled vllm/sglang entries in
this file already document - apt-get installs make + build-essential
+ curl + unzip + ca-certificates + git + tar before the make target
runs. Mirrors how every other 'runs-on: bigger-runner' entry in
backend.yml prepares the runner.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-04-29 20:22:14 +00:00
BACKEND_VIBEVOICE_CPP = vibevoice-cpp| golang| .| false| true
feat: add LocalVQE backend and audio transformations UI (#9640)
feat(audio-transform): add LocalVQE backend, bidi gRPC RPC, Studio UI
Introduce a generic "audio transform" capability for any audio-in / audio-out
operation (echo cancellation, noise suppression, dereverberation, voice
conversion, etc.) and ship LocalVQE as the first backend implementation.
Backend protocol:
- Two new gRPC RPCs in backend.proto: unary AudioTransform for batch and
bidirectional AudioTransformStream for low-latency frame-by-frame use.
This is the first bidi stream in the proto; per-frame unary at LocalVQE's
16 ms hop would be RTT-bound. Wire it through pkg/grpc/{client,server,
embed,interface,base} with paired-channel ergonomics.
LocalVQE backend (backend/go/localvqe/):
- Go-Purego wrapper around upstream liblocalvqe.so. CMake builds the upstream
shared lib + its libggml-cpu-*.so runtime variants directly — no MODULE
wrapper needed because LocalVQE handles CPU feature selection internally
via GGML_BACKEND_DL.
- Sets GGML_NTHREADS from opts.Threads (or runtime.NumCPU()-1) — without it
LocalVQE runs single-threaded at ~1× realtime instead of the documented
~9.6×.
- Reference-length policy: zero-pad short refs, truncate long ones (the
trailing portion can't have leaked into a mic that wasn't recording).
- Ginkgo test suite (9 always-on specs + 2 model-gated).
HTTP layer:
- POST /audio/transformations (alias /audio/transform): multipart batch
endpoint, accepts audio + optional reference + params[*]=v form fields.
Persists inputs alongside the output in GeneratedContentDir/audio so the
React UI history can replay past (audio, reference, output) triples.
- GET /audio/transformations/stream: WebSocket bidi, 16 ms PCM frames
(interleaved stereo mic+ref in, mono out). JSON session.update envelope
for config; constants hoisted in core/schema/audio_transform.go.
- ffmpeg-based input normalisation to 16 kHz mono s16 WAV via the existing
utils.AudioToWav (with passthrough fast-path), so the user can upload any
format / rate without seeing the model's strict 16 kHz constraint.
- BackendTraceAudioTransform integration so /api/backend-traces and the
Traces UI light up with audio_snippet base64 and timing.
- Routes registered under routes/localai.go (LocalAI extension; OpenAI has
no /audio/transformations endpoint), traced via TraceMiddleware.
Auth + capability + importer:
- FLAG_AUDIO_TRANSFORM (model_config.go), FeatureAudioTransform (default-on,
in APIFeatures), three RouteFeatureRegistry rows.
- localvqe added to knownPrefOnlyBackends with modality "audio-transform".
- Gallery entry localvqe-v1-1.3m (sha256-pinned, hosted on
huggingface.co/LocalAI-io/LocalVQE).
React UI:
- New /app/transform page surfaced via a dedicated "Enhance" sidebar
section (sibling of Tools / Biometrics) — the page is enhancement, not
generation, so it lives outside Studio. Two AudioInput components
(Upload + Record tabs, drag-drop, mic capture).
- Echo-test button: records mic while playing the loaded reference through
the speakers — the mic naturally picks up speaker bleed, giving a real
(mic, ref) pair for AEC testing without leaving the UI.
- Reusable WaveformPlayer (canvas peaks + click-to-seek + audio controls)
and useAudioPeaks hook (shared module-scoped AudioContext to avoid
hitting browser context limits with three players on one page); migrated
TTS, Sound, Traces audio blocks to use it.
- Past runs saved in localStorage via useMediaHistory('audio-transform') —
the history entry stores all three URLs so clicking re-renders the full
triple, not just the output.
Build + e2e:
- 11 matrix entries removed from .github/workflows/backend.yml (CUDA, ROCm,
SYCL, Metal, L4T): upstream supports only CPU + Vulkan, so we ship those
two and let GPU-class hardware route through Vulkan in the gallery
capabilities map.
- tests-localvqe-grpc-transform job in test-extra.yml (gated on
detect-changes.outputs.localvqe).
- New audio_transform capability + 4 specs in tests/e2e-backends.
- Playwright spec suite in core/http/react-ui/e2e/audio-transform.spec.js
(8 specs covering tabs, file upload, multipart shape, history, errors).
Docs:
- New docs/content/features/audio-transform.md covering the (audio,
reference) mental model, batch + WebSocket wire formats, LocalVQE param
keys, and a YAML config example. Cross-links from text-to-audio and
audio-to-text feature pages.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Bash Read Edit Write Agent TaskCreate]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-05-04 20:07:11 +00:00
BACKEND_LOCALVQE = localvqe| golang| .| false| true
2026-03-13 20:37:15 +00:00
BACKEND_OPUS = opus| golang| .| false| true
feat: Add Sherpa ONNX backend for ASR and TTS (#8523)
feat(backend): Add Sherpa ONNX backend and Omnilingual ASR
Adds a new Go backend wrapping sherpa-onnx via purego (no cgo). Same
approach as opus/stablediffusion-ggml/whisper — a thin C shim
(csrc/shim.c + shim.h → libsherpa-shim.so) wraps the bits purego
can't reach directly: nested struct config writes, result-struct field
reads, and the streaming TTS callback trampoline. The Go side uses
opaque uintptr handles and purego.NewCallback for the TTS callback.
Supports:
- VAD via sherpa-onnx's Silero VAD
- Offline ASR: Whisper, Paraformer, SenseVoice, Omnilingual CTC
- Online/streaming ASR: zipformer transducer with endpoint detection
(AudioTranscriptionStream emits delta events during decode)
- Offline TTS: VITS (LJS, etc.)
- Streaming TTS: sherpa-onnx's callback API → PCM chunks on a channel,
prefixed by a streaming WAV header
Gallery entries: omnilingual-0.3b-ctc-q8-sherpa (1600-language offline
ASR), streaming-zipformer-en-sherpa (low-latency streaming ASR),
silero-vad-sherpa, vits-ljs-sherpa.
E2E coverage: tests/e2e-backends for offline + streaming ASR,
tests/e2e for the full realtime pipeline (VAD + STT + TTS).
Assisted-by: claude-opus-4-7-1M [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-04-24 12:40:06 +00:00
BACKEND_SHERPA_ONNX = sherpa-onnx| golang| .| false| true
2026-01-04 20:12:50 +00:00
# Python backends with root context
BACKEND_RERANKERS = rerankers| python| .| false| true
BACKEND_TRANSFORMERS = transformers| python| .| false| true
2026-02-03 20:57:50 +00:00
BACKEND_OUTETTS = outetts| python| .| false| true
2026-01-04 20:12:50 +00:00
BACKEND_FASTER_WHISPER = faster-whisper| python| .| false| true
BACKEND_COQUI = coqui| python| .| false| true
2026-01-13 22:35:19 +00:00
BACKEND_RFDETR = rfdetr| python| .| false| true
feat(face-recognition): add insightface/onnx backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis (#9480)
* feat(face-recognition): add insightface backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis
Adds face recognition as a new first-class capability in LocalAI via the
`insightface` Python backend, with a pluggable two-engine design so
non-commercial (insightface model packs) and commercial-safe
(OpenCV Zoo YuNet + SFace) models share the same gRPC/HTTP surface.
New gRPC RPCs (backend/backend.proto):
* FaceVerify(FaceVerifyRequest) returns FaceVerifyResponse
* FaceAnalyze(FaceAnalyzeRequest) returns FaceAnalyzeResponse
Existing Embedding and Detect RPCs are reused (face image in
PredictOptions.Images / DetectOptions.src) for face embedding and
face detection respectively.
New HTTP endpoints under /v1/face/:
* verify — 1:1 image pair same-person decision
* analyze — per-face age + gender (emotion/race reserved)
* register — 1:N enrollment; stores embedding in vector store
* identify — 1:N recognition; detect → embed → StoresFind
* forget — remove a registered face by opaque ID
Service layer (core/services/facerecognition/) introduces a
`Registry` interface with one in-memory `storeRegistry` impl backed
by LocalAI's existing local-store gRPC vector backend. HTTP handlers
depend on the interface, not on StoresSet/StoresFind directly, so a
persistent PostgreSQL/pgvector implementation can be slotted in via a
single constructor change in core/application (TODO marker in the
package doc).
New usecase flag FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION; insightface is also wired
into FLAG_DETECTION so /v1/detection works for face bounding boxes.
Gallery (backend/index.yaml) ships three entries:
* insightface-buffalo-l — SCRFD-10GF + ArcFace R50 + genderage
(~326MB pre-baked; non-commercial research use only)
* insightface-opencv — YuNet + SFace (~40MB pre-baked; Apache 2.0)
* insightface-buffalo-s — SCRFD-500MF + MBF (runtime download; non-commercial)
Python backend (backend/python/insightface/):
* engines.py — FaceEngine protocol with InsightFaceEngine and
OnnxDirectEngine; resolves model paths relative to the backend
directory so the same gallery config works in docker-scratch and
in the e2e-backends rootfs-extraction harness.
* backend.py — gRPC servicer implementing Health, LoadModel, Status,
Embedding, Detect, FaceVerify, FaceAnalyze.
* install.sh — pre-bakes buffalo_l + OpenCV YuNet/SFace inside the
backend directory so first-run is offline-clean (the final scratch
image only preserves files under /<backend>/).
* test.py — parametrized unit tests over both engines.
Tests:
* Registry unit tests (go test -race ./core/services/facerecognition/...)
— in-memory fake grpc.Backend, table-driven, covers register/
identify/forget/error paths + concurrent access.
* tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go extended with face caps
(face_detect, face_embed, face_verify, face_analyze); relative
ordering + configurable verifyCeiling per engine.
* Makefile targets: test-extra-backend-insightface-buffalo-l,
-opencv, and the -all aggregate.
* CI: .github/workflows/test-extra.yml gains tests-insightface-grpc,
auto-triggered by changes under backend/python/insightface/.
Docs:
* docs/content/features/face-recognition.md — feature page with
license table, quickstart (defaults to the commercial-safe model),
models matrix, API reference, 1:N workflow, storage caveats.
* Cross-refs in object-detection.md, stores.md, embeddings.md, and
whats-new.md.
* Contributor README at backend/python/insightface/README.md.
Verified end-to-end:
* buffalo_l: 6/6 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed,
face_verify, face_analyze).
* opencv: 5/5 specs (same minus face_analyze — SFace has no
demographic head; correctly skipped via BACKEND_TEST_CAPS).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): move engine selection to model gallery, collapse backend entries
The previous commit put engine/model_pack options on backend gallery
entries (`backend/index.yaml`). That was wrong — `GalleryBackend`
(core/gallery/backend_types.go:32) has no `options` field, so the
YAML decoder silently dropped those keys and all three "different
insightface-*" backend entries resolved to the same container image
with no distinguishing configuration.
Correct split:
* `backend/index.yaml` now has ONE `insightface` backend entry
shipping the CPU + CUDA 12 container images. The Python backend
bundles both the non-commercial insightface model packs
(buffalo_l / buffalo_s) and the commercial-safe OpenCV Zoo
weights (YuNet + SFace); the active engine is selected at
LoadModel time via `options: ["engine:..."]`.
* `gallery/index.yaml` gains three model entries —
`insightface-buffalo-l`, `insightface-opencv`,
`insightface-buffalo-s` — each setting the appropriate
`overrides.backend` + `overrides.options` so installing one
actually gives the user the intended engine. This matches how
`rfdetr-base` lives in the model gallery against the `rfdetr`
backend.
The earlier e2e tests passed despite this bug because the Makefile
targets pass `BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS` directly to LoadModel via gRPC,
bypassing any gallery resolution entirely. No code changes needed.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): cover all supported models in the gallery + drop weight baking
Follows up on the model-gallery split: adds entries for every model
configuration either engine actually supports, and switches weight
delivery from image-baked to LocalAI's standard gallery mechanism.
Gallery now has seven `insightface-*` model entries (gallery/index.yaml):
insightface (family) — non-commercial research use
• buffalo-l (326MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet50 + genderage, default
• buffalo-m (313MB) — SCRFD-2.5GF + ResNet50 + genderage
• buffalo-s (159MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF + genderage
• buffalo-sc (16MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF, recognition only
(no landmarks, no demographics — analyze
returns empty attributes)
• antelopev2 (407MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet100@Glint360K + genderage
OpenCV Zoo family — Apache 2.0 commercial-safe
• opencv — YuNet + SFace fp32 (~40MB)
• opencv-int8 — YuNet + SFace int8 (~12MB, ~3x smaller, faster on CPU)
Model weights are no longer baked into the backend image. The image
now ships only the Python runtime + libraries (~275MB content size,
~1.18GB disk vs ~1.21GB when weights were baked). Weights flow through
LocalAI's gallery mechanism:
* OpenCV variants list `files:` with ONNX URIs + SHA-256, so
`local-ai models install insightface-opencv` pulls them into the
models directory exactly like any other gallery-managed model.
* insightface packs (upstream distributes .zip archives only, not
individual ONNX files) auto-download on first LoadModel via
FaceAnalysis' built-in machinery, rooted at the LocalAI models
directory so they live alongside everything else — same pattern
`rfdetr` uses with `inference.get_model()`.
Backend changes (backend/python/insightface/):
* backend.py — LoadModel propagates `ModelOptions.ModelPath` (the
LocalAI models directory) to engines via a `_model_dir` hint.
This replaces the earlier ModelFile-dirname approach; ModelPath
is the canonical "models directory" variable set by the Go loader
(pkg/model/initializers.go:144) and is always populated.
* engines.py::_resolve_model_path — picks up `model_dir` and searches
it (plus basename-in-model-dir) before falling back to the dev
script-dir. This is how OnnxDirectEngine finds gallery-downloaded
YuNet/SFace files by filename only.
* engines.py::_flatten_insightface_pack — new helper that works
around an upstream packaging inconsistency: buffalo_l/s/sc zips
expand flat, but buffalo_m and antelopev2 zips wrap their ONNX
files in a redundant `<name>/` directory. insightface's own
loader looks one level too shallow and fails. We call
`ensure_available()` explicitly, flatten if nested, then hand to
FaceAnalysis.
* engines.py::InsightFaceEngine.prepare — root-resolution order now
includes the `_model_dir` hint so packs download into the LocalAI
models directory by default.
* install.sh — no longer pre-downloads any weights. Everything is
gallery-managed now.
* smoke.py (new) — parametrized smoke test that iterates over every
gallery configuration, simulating the LocalAI install flow
(creates a models dir, fetches OpenCV files with checksum
verification, lets insightface auto-download its packs), then
runs detect + embed + verify (+ analyze where supported) through
the in-process BackendServicer.
* test.py — OnnxDirectEngineTest no longer hardcodes `/models/opencv/`
paths; downloads ONNX files to a temp dir at setUpClass time and
passes ModelPath accordingly.
Registry change (core/services/facerecognition/store_registry.go):
* `dim=0` in NewStoreRegistry now means "accept whatever dimension
arrives" — needed because the backend supports 512-d ArcFace/MBF
and 128-d SFace via the same Registry. A non-zero dim still fails
fast with ErrDimensionMismatch.
* core/application plumbs `faceEmbeddingDim = 0`, explaining the
rationale in the comment.
Backend gallery description updated to reflect that the image carries
no weights — it's just Python + engines.
Smoke-tested all 7 configurations against the rebuilt image (with the
flatten fix applied), exit 0:
PASS: insightface-buffalo-l faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-sc faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-s faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-m faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-antelopev2 faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv-int8 faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
7/7 passed
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): pre-fetch OpenCV ONNX for e2e target; drop stale pre-baked claim
CI regression from the previous commit: I moved OpenCV Zoo weight
delivery to LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism, but the
test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv target was still passing
relative paths `detector_onnx:models/opencv/yunet.onnx` in
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS. The e2e suite drives LoadModel directly over
gRPC without going through the gallery, so those relative paths
resolved to nothing and OpenCV's ONNXImporter failed:
LoadModel failed: Failed to load face engine:
OpenCV(4.13.0) ... Can't read ONNX file: models/opencv/yunet.onnx
Fix: add an `insightface-opencv-models` prerequisite target that
fetches the two ONNX files (YuNet + SFace) to a deterministic host
cache at /tmp/localai-insightface-opencv-cache/, verifies SHA-256,
and skips the download on re-runs. The opencv test target depends on
it and passes absolute paths in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS, so the backend
finds the files via its normal absolute-path resolution branch.
Also refresh the buffalo_l comment: it no longer says "pre-baked"
(nothing is — the pack auto-downloads from upstream's GitHub release
on first LoadModel, same as in CI).
Locally verified: `make test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv` passes
5/5 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed, face_verify).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): add POST /v1/face/embed + correct /v1/embeddings docs
The docs promised that /v1/embeddings returns face vectors when you
send an image data-URI. That was never true: /v1/embeddings is
OpenAI-compatible and text-only by contract — its handler goes
through `core/backend/embeddings.go::ModelEmbedding`, which sets
`predictOptions.Embeddings = s` (a string of TEXT to embed) and never
populates `predictOptions.Images[]`. The Python backend's Embedding
gRPC method does handle Images[] (that's how /v1/face/register reaches
it internally via `backend.FaceEmbed`), but the HTTP embeddings
endpoint wasn't wired to populate it.
Rather than overload /v1/embeddings with image-vs-text detection —
messy, and the endpoint is OpenAI-compatible by design — add a
dedicated /v1/face/embed endpoint that wraps `backend.FaceEmbed`
(already used internally by /v1/face/register and /v1/face/identify).
Matches LocalAI's convention of a dedicated path per non-standard flow
(/v1/rerank, /v1/detection, /v1/face/verify etc.).
Response:
{
"embedding": [<dim> floats, L2-normed],
"dim": int, // 512 for ArcFace R50 / MBF, 128 for SFace
"model": "<name>"
}
Live-tested on the opencv engine: returns a 128-d L2-normalized vector
(sum(x^2) = 1.0000). Sentinel in docs updated to note /v1/embeddings
is text-only and point image users at /v1/face/embed instead.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(http): map malformed image input + gRPC status codes to proper 4xx
Image-input failures on LocalAI's single-image endpoints (/v1/detection,
/v1/face/{verify,analyze,embed,register,identify}) have historically
returned 500 — even when the client was the one who sent garbage.
Classic example: you POST an "image" that isn't a URL, isn't a
data-URI, and isn't a valid JPEG/PNG — the server shouldn't claim
that's its fault.
Two helpers land in core/http/endpoints/localai/images.go and every
single-image handler is switched over:
* decodeImageInput(s)
Wraps utils.GetContentURIAsBase64 and turns any failure
(invalid URL, not a data-URI, download error, etc.) into
echo.NewHTTPError(400, "invalid image input: ...").
* mapBackendError(err)
Inspects the gRPC status on a backend call error and maps:
INVALID_ARGUMENT → 400 Bad Request
NOT_FOUND → 404 Not Found
FAILED_PRECONDITION → 412 Precondition Failed
Unimplemented → 501 Not Implemented
All other codes fall through unchanged (still 500).
Before, my 1×1 PNG error-path test returned:
HTTP 500 "rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = failed to decode one or both images"
After:
HTTP 400 "failed to decode one or both images"
Scope-limited to the LocalAI single-image endpoints. The multi-modal
paths (middleware/request.go, openresponses/responses.go,
openai/realtime.go) intentionally log-and-skip individual media parts
when decoding fails — different design intent (graceful degradation
of a multi-part message), not a 400-worthy failure. Left untouched.
Live-verified: every error case in /tmp/face_errors.py now returns
4xx with a meaningful message; the "image with no face (1x1 PNG)"
case specifically went from 500 → 400.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* refactor(face-recognition): insightface packs go through gallery files:, drop FaceAnalysis
Follows up on the discovery that LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism
handles archives (zip, tar.gz, …) via mholt/archiver/v3 — the rhasspy
piper voices use exactly this pattern. Insightface packs are zip
archives, so we can now deliver them the same way every other
gallery-managed model gets delivered: declaratively, checksum-verified,
through LocalAI's standard download+extract pipeline.
Two changes:
1. Gallery (gallery/index.yaml) — every insightface-* entry gains a
`files:` list with the pack zip's URI + SHA-256. `local-ai models
install insightface-buffalo-l` now fetches the zip, verifies the
hash, and extracts it into the models directory. No more reliance
on insightface's library-internal `ensure_available()` auto-download
or its hardcoded `BASE_REPO_URL`.
2. InsightFaceEngine (backend/python/insightface/engines.py) — drops
the FaceAnalysis wrapper and drives insightface's `model_zoo`
directly. The ~50 lines FaceAnalysis provides — glob ONNX files,
route each through `model_zoo.get_model()`, build a
`{taskname: model}` dict, loop per-face at inference — are
reimplemented in `InsightFaceEngine`. The actual inference classes
(RetinaFace, ArcFaceONNX, Attribute, Landmark) are still
insightface's — we only replicate the glue, so drift risk against
upstream is minimal.
Why drop FaceAnalysis: it hard-codes a `<root>/models/<name>/*.onnx`
layout that doesn't match what LocalAI's zip extraction produces.
LocalAI unpacks archives flat into `<models_dir>`. Upstream packs
are inconsistent — buffalo_l/s/sc ship ONNX at the zip root (lands
at `<models_dir>/*.onnx`), buffalo_m/antelopev2 wrap in a redundant
`<name>/` dir (lands at `<models_dir>/<name>/*.onnx`). The new
`_locate_insightface_pack` helper searches both locations plus
legacy paths and returns whichever has ONNX files. Replaces the
earlier `_flatten_insightface_pack` helper (which tried to fight
FaceAnalysis's layout expectations; now we just find the files
wherever they are).
Net effect for users: install once via LocalAI's managed flow,
weights live alongside every other model, progress shows in the
jobs endpoint, no first-load network call. Same API surface,
cleaner plumbing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): CI's insightface e2e path needs the pack pre-fetched
The e2e suite drives LoadModel over gRPC without going through LocalAI's
gallery flow, so the engine's `_model_dir` option (normally populated
from ModelPath) is empty. Previously the insightface target relied on
FaceAnalysis auto-download to paper over this, but we dropped
FaceAnalysis in favor of direct model_zoo calls — so the buffalo_l
target started failing at LoadModel with "no insightface pack found".
Mirror the opencv target's pre-fetch pattern: download buffalo_sc.zip
(same SHA as the gallery entry), extract it on the host, and pass
`root:<dir>` so the engine locates the pack without needing
ModelPath. Switched to buffalo_sc (smallest pack, ~16MB) to keep CI
fast; it covers the same insightface engine code path as buffalo_l.
Face analyze cap dropped since buffalo_sc has no age/gender head.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* feat(face-recognition): surface face-recognition in advertised feature maps
The six /v1/face/* endpoints were missing from every place LocalAI
advertises its feature surface to clients:
* api_instructions — the machine-readable capability index at
GET /api/instructions. Added `face-recognition` as a dedicated
instruction area with an intro that calls out the in-memory
registry caveat and the /v1/face/embed vs /v1/embeddings split.
* auth/permissions — added FeatureFaceRecognition constant, routed
all six face endpoints through it so admins can gate them per-user
like any other API feature. Default ON (matches the other API
features).
* React UI capabilities — CAP_FACE_RECOGNITION symbol mapped to
FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION. Declared only for now; the Face page is a
follow-up (noted in the plan).
Instruction count bumped 9 → 10; test updated.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* docs(agents): capture advertising-surface steps in the endpoint guide
Before this change, adding a new /v1/* endpoint reliably missed one or
more of: the swagger @Tags annotation, the /api/instructions registry,
the auth RouteFeatureRegistry, and the React UI CAP_* symbol. The
endpoint would work but be invisible to API consumers, admins, and the
UI — and nothing in the existing docs said to look in those places.
Extend .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md with a new "Advertising
surfaces" section covering all four surfaces (swagger tags, /api/
instructions, capabilities.js, docs/), and expand the closing checklist
so it's impossible to ship a feature without visiting each one. Hoist a
one-liner reminder into AGENTS.md's Quick Reference so agents skim it
before diving in.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
2026-04-22 19:55:41 +00:00
BACKEND_INSIGHTFACE = insightface| python| .| false| true
feat: voice recognition (#9500)
* feat(voice-recognition): add /v1/voice/{verify,analyze,embed} + speaker-recognition backend
Audio analog to face recognition. Adds three gRPC RPCs
(VoiceVerify / VoiceAnalyze / VoiceEmbed), their Go service and HTTP
layers, a new FLAG_SPEAKER_RECOGNITION capability flag, and a Python
backend scaffold under backend/python/speaker-recognition/ wrapping
SpeechBrain ECAPA-TDNN with a parallel OnnxDirectEngine for
WeSpeaker / 3D-Speaker ONNX exports.
The kokoros Rust backend gets matching unimplemented trait stubs —
tonic's async_trait has no defaults, so adding an RPC without Rust
stubs breaks the build (same regression fixed by eb01c772 for face).
Swagger, /api/instructions, and the auth RouteFeatureRegistry /
APIFeatures list are updated so the endpoints surface everywhere a
client or admin UI looks.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(voice-recognition): add 1:N identify + register/forget endpoints
Mirrors the face-recognition register/identify/forget surface. New
package core/services/voicerecognition/ carries a Registry interface
and a local-store-backed implementation (same in-memory vector-store
plumbing facerecognition uses, separate instance so the embedding
spaces stay isolated).
Handlers under /v1/voice/{register,identify,forget} reuse
backend.VoiceEmbed to compute the probe vector, then delegate the
nearest-neighbour search to the registry. Default cosine-distance
threshold is tuned for ECAPA-TDNN on VoxCeleb (0.25, EER ~1.9%).
As with the face registry, the current backing is in-memory only — a
pgvector implementation is a future constructor-level swap.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(voice-recognition): gallery, docs, CI and e2e coverage
- backend/index.yaml: speaker-recognition backend entry + CPU and
CUDA-12 image variants (plus matching development variants).
- gallery/index.yaml: speechbrain-ecapa-tdnn (default) and
wespeaker-resnet34 model entries. The WeSpeaker SHA-256 is a
deliberate placeholder — the HF URI must be curl'd and its hash
filled in before the entry installs.
- docs/content/features/voice-recognition.md: API reference + quickstart,
mirrors the face-recognition docs.
- React UI: CAP_SPEAKER_RECOGNITION flag export (consumers follow face's
precedent — no dedicated tab yet).
- tests/e2e-backends: voice_embed / voice_verify / voice_analyze specs.
Helper resolveFaceFixture is reused as-is — the only thing face/voice
share is "download a file into workDir", so no need for a new helper.
- Makefile: docker-build-speaker-recognition + test-extra-backend-
speaker-recognition-{ecapa,all} targets. Audio fixtures default to
VCTK p225/p226 samples from HuggingFace.
- CI: test-extra.yml grows a tests-speaker-recognition-grpc job
mirroring insightface. backend.yml matrix gains CPU + CUDA-12 image
build entries — scripts/changed-backends.js auto-picks these up.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(voice-recognition): wire a working /v1/voice/analyze head
Adds AnalysisHead: a lazy-loading age / gender / emotion inference
wrapper that plugs into both SpeechBrainEngine and OnnxDirectEngine.
Defaults to two open-licence HuggingFace checkpoints:
- audeering/wav2vec2-large-robust-24-ft-age-gender (Apache 2.0) —
age regression + 3-way gender (female / male / child).
- superb/wav2vec2-base-superb-er (Apache 2.0) — 4-way emotion.
Both are optional and degrade gracefully when transformers or the
model can't be loaded — the engine raises NotImplementedError so the
gRPC layer returns 501 instead of a generic 500.
Emotion classes pass through from the model (neutral/happy/angry/sad
on the default checkpoint); the e2e test now accepts any non-empty
dominant gender so custom age_gender_model overrides don't fail it.
Adds transformers to the backend's CPU and CUDA-12 requirements.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(voice-recognition): pin real WeSpeaker ResNet34 ONNX SHA-256
Replaces the placeholder hash in gallery/index.yaml with the actual
SHA-256 (7bb2f06e…) of the upstream
Wespeaker/wespeaker-voxceleb-resnet34-LM ONNX at ~25MB. `local-ai
models install wespeaker-resnet34` now succeeds.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(voice-recognition): soundfile loader + honest analyze default
Two issues surfaced on first end-to-end smoke with the actual backend
image:
1. torchaudio.load in torchaudio 2.8+ requires the torchcodec package
for audio decoding. Switch SpeechBrainEngine._load_waveform to the
already-present soundfile (listed in requirements.txt) plus a numpy
linear resample to 16kHz. Drops a heavy ffmpeg-linked dep and the
codepath we never exercise (torchaudio's ffmpeg backend).
2. The AnalysisHead was defaulting to audeering/wav2vec2-large-robust-
24-ft-age-gender, but AutoModelForAudioClassification silently
mangles that checkpoint — it reports the age head weights as
UNEXPECTED and re-initialises the classifier head with random
values, so the "gender" output is noise and there is no age output
at all. Make age/gender opt-in instead (empty default; users wire
a cleanly-loadable Wav2Vec2ForSequenceClassification checkpoint via
age_gender_model: option). Emotion keeps its working Superb default.
Also broaden _infer_age_gender's tensor-shape handling and catch
runtime exceptions so a dodgy age/gender head never takes down the
whole analyze call.
Docs and README updated to match the new policy.
Verified with the branch-scoped gallery on localhost:
- voice/embed → 192-d ECAPA-TDNN vector
- voice/verify → same-clip dist≈6e-08 verified=true; cross-speaker
dist 0.76–0.99 verified=false (as expected)
- voice/register/identify/forget → round-trip works, 404 on unknown id
- voice/analyze → emotion populated, age/gender omitted (opt-in)
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(voice-recognition): real CI audio fixtures + fixture-agnostic verify spec
Two issues surfaced after CI actually ran the speaker-recognition e2e
target (I'd curl-tested against a running server but hadn't run the
make target locally):
1. The default BACKEND_TEST_VOICE_AUDIO_* URLs pointed at
huggingface.co/datasets/CSTR-Edinburgh/vctk paths that return 404
(the dataset is gated). Swap them for the speechbrain test samples
served from github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/raw/develop/ —
public, no auth, correct 16kHz mono format.
2. The VoiceVerify spec required d(file1,file2) < 0.4, assuming
file1/file2 were same-speaker. The speechbrain samples are three
different speakers (example1/2/5), and there is no easy un-gated
source of true same-speaker audio pairs (VoxCeleb/VCTK/LibriSpeech
are all license- or size-gated for CI use). Replace the ceiling
check with a relative-ordering assertion: d(pair) > d(same-clip)
for both file2 and file3 — that's enough to prove the embeddings
encode speaker info, and it works with any three non-identical
clips. Actual speaker ordering d(1,2) vs d(1,3) is logged but not
asserted.
Local run: 4/4 voice specs pass (Health, LoadModel, VoiceEmbed,
VoiceVerify) on the built backend image. 12 non-voice specs skipped
as expected.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(ci): checkout with submodules in the reusable backend_build workflow
The kokoros Rust backend build fails with
failed to read .../sources/Kokoros/kokoros/Cargo.toml: No such file
because the reusable backend_build.yml workflow's actions/checkout
step was missing `submodules: true`. Dockerfile.rust does `COPY .
/LocalAI`, and without the submodule files the subsequent `cargo
build` can't find the vendored Kokoros crate.
The bug pre-dates this PR — scripts/changed-backends.js only triggers
the kokoros image job when something under backend/rust/kokoros or
the shared proto changes, so master had been coasting past it. The
voice-recognition proto addition re-broke it.
Other checkouts in backend.yml (llama-cpp-darwin) and test-extra.yml
(insightface, kokoros, speaker-recognition) already pass
`submodules: true`; this brings the shared backend image builder in
line.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
2026-04-23 10:07:14 +00:00
BACKEND_SPEAKER_RECOGNITION = speaker-recognition| python| .| false| true
2026-01-13 22:35:19 +00:00
BACKEND_KITTEN_TTS = kitten-tts| python| .| false| true
BACKEND_NEUTTS = neutts| python| .| false| true
BACKEND_KOKORO = kokoro| python| .| false| true
BACKEND_VLLM = vllm| python| .| false| true
2026-01-24 21:23:30 +00:00
BACKEND_VLLM_OMNI = vllm-omni| python| .| false| true
2026-04-16 20:40:56 +00:00
BACKEND_SGLANG = sglang| python| .| false| true
2026-01-13 22:35:19 +00:00
BACKEND_DIFFUSERS = diffusers| python| .| --progress= plain| true
BACKEND_CHATTERBOX = chatterbox| python| .| false| true
BACKEND_VIBEVOICE = vibevoice| python| .| --progress= plain| true
feat(realtime): Add Liquid Audio s2s model and assistant mode on talk page (#9801)
* feat(liquid-audio): add LFM2.5-Audio any-to-any backend + realtime_audio usecase
Wires LiquidAI's LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B as a self-contained Realtime API model:
single engine handles VAD, transcription, LLM, and TTS in one bidirectional
stream — drop-in alternative to a VAD+STT+LLM+TTS pipeline.
Backend
- backend/python/liquid-audio/ — new Python gRPC backend wrapping the
`liquid-audio` package. Modes: chat / asr / tts / s2s, voice presets,
Load/Predict/PredictStream/AudioTranscription/TTS/VAD/AudioToAudioStream/
Free and StartFineTune/FineTuneProgress/StopFineTune. Runtime monkey-patch
on `liquid_audio.utils.snapshot_download` so absolute local paths from
LocalAI's gallery resolve without a HF round-trip. soundfile in place of
torchaudio.load/save (torchcodec drags NVIDIA NPP we don't bundle).
- backend/backend.proto + pkg/grpc/{backend,client,server,base,embed,
interface}.go — new AudioToAudioStream RPC mirroring AudioTransformStream
(config/frame/control oneof in; typed event+pcm+meta out).
- core/services/nodes/{health_mock,inflight}_test.go — add stubs for the
new RPC to the test fakes.
Config + capabilities
- core/config/backend_capabilities.go — UsecaseRealtimeAudio, MethodAudio
ToAudioStream, UsecaseInfoMap entry, liquid-audio BackendCapability row.
- core/config/model_config.go — FLAG_REALTIME_AUDIO bitmask, ModalityGroups
membership in both speech-input and audio-output groups so a lone flag
still reads as multimodal, GetAllModelConfigUsecases entry, GuessUsecases
branch.
Realtime endpoint
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime.go — extract prepareRealtimeConfig()
so the gate is unit-testable; accept realtime_audio models and self-fill
empty pipeline slots with the model's own name (user-pinned slots win).
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime_gate_test.go — six specs covering nil
cfg, empty pipeline, legacy pipeline, self-contained realtime_audio,
user-pinned VAD slot, and partial legacy pipeline.
UI + endpoints
- core/http/routes/ui.go — /api/pipeline-models accepts either a legacy
VAD+STT+LLM+TTS pipeline or a realtime_audio model; surfaces a
self_contained flag so the Talk page can collapse the four cards.
- core/http/routes/ui_api.go — realtime_audio in usecaseFilters.
- core/http/routes/ui_pipeline_models_test.go — covers both code paths.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Talk.jsx — self-contained badge instead of
the four-slot grid; rename Edit Pipeline → Edit Model Config; less
pipeline-specific wording.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Models.jsx + locales/en/models.json — new
realtime_audio filter button + i18n.
- core/http/react-ui/src/utils/capabilities.js — CAP_REALTIME_AUDIO.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/FineTune.jsx — voice + validation-dataset
fields, surfaced when backend === liquid-audio, plumbed via
extra_options on submit/export/import.
Gallery + importer
- gallery/liquid-audio.yaml — config template with known_usecases:
[realtime_audio, chat, tts, transcript, vad].
- gallery/index.yaml — four model entries (realtime/chat/asr/tts) keyed by
mode option. Fixed pre-existing `transcribe` typo on the asr entry
(loader silently dropped the unknown string → entry never surfaced as a
transcript model).
- gallery/lfm.yaml — function block for the LFM2 Pythonic tool-call format
`<|tool_call_start|>[name(k="v")]<|tool_call_end|>` matching
common_chat_params_init_lfm2 in vendored llama.cpp.
- core/gallery/importers/{liquid-audio,liquid-audio_test}.go — detector
matches LFM2-Audio HF repos (excludes -gguf mirrors); mode/voice
preferences plumbed through to options.
- core/gallery/importers/importers.go — register LiquidAudioImporter
before LlamaCPPImporter.
- pkg/functions/parse_lfm2_test.go — seven specs for the response/argument
regex pair on the LFM2 pythonic format.
Build matrix
- .github/backend-matrix.yml — seven liquid-audio targets (cuda12, cuda13,
l4t-cuda-13, hipblas, intel, cpu amd64, cpu arm64). Jetpack r36 cuda-12
is skipped (Ubuntu 22.04 / Python 3.10 incompatible with liquid-audio's
3.12 floor).
- backend/index.yaml — anchor + 13 image entries.
- Makefile — .NOTPARALLEL, prepare-test-extra, test-extra,
docker-build-liquid-audio.
Docs
- .agents/plans/liquid-audio-integration.md — phased plan; PR-D (real
any-to-any wiring via AudioToAudioStream), PR-E (mid-audio tool-call
detector), PR-G (GGUF entries once upstream llama.cpp PR #18641 lands)
remain.
- .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md — expand the capability-surface
checklist with every place a new FLAG_* needs to be registered.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(realtime): function calling + history cap for any-to-any models
Three pieces, all on the realtime_audio path that just landed:
1. liquid-audio backend (backend/python/liquid-audio/backend.py):
- _build_chat_state grows a `tools_prelude` arg.
- new _render_tools_prelude parses request.Tools (the OpenAI Chat
Completions function array realtime.go already serialises) and
emits an LFM2 `<|tool_list_start|>…<|tool_list_end|>` system turn
ahead of the user history. Mirrors gallery/lfm.yaml's `function:`
template so the model sees the same prompt shape whether served
via llama-cpp or here. Without this the backend silently dropped
tools — function calling was wired end-to-end on the Go side but
the model never saw a tool list.
2. Realtime history cap (core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime.go):
- Session grows MaxHistoryItems int; default picked by new
defaultMaxHistoryItems(cfg) — 6 for realtime_audio models (LFM2.5
1.5B degrades quickly past a handful of turns), 0/unlimited for
legacy pipelines composing larger LLMs.
- triggerResponse runs conv.Items through trimRealtimeItems before
building conversationHistory. Helper walks the cut left if it
would orphan a function_call_output, so tool result + call pairs
stay intact.
- realtime_gate_test.go: specs for defaultMaxHistoryItems and
trimRealtimeItems (zero cap, under cap, over cap, tool-call pair
preservation).
3. Talk page (core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Talk.jsx):
- Reuses the chat page's MCP plumbing — useMCPClient hook,
ClientMCPDropdown component, same auto-connect/disconnect effect
pattern. No bespoke tool registry, no new REST endpoints; tools
come from whichever MCP servers the user toggles on, exactly as
on the chat page.
- sendSessionUpdate now passes session.tools=getToolsForLLM(); the
update re-fires when the active server set changes mid-session.
- New response.function_call_arguments.done handler executes via
the hook's executeTool (which round-trips through the MCP client
SDK), then replies with conversation.item.create
{type:function_call_output} + response.create so the model
completes its turn with the tool output. Mirrors chat's
client-side agentic loop, translated to the realtime wire shape.
UI changes require a LocalAI image rebuild (Dockerfile:308-313 bakes
react-ui/dist into the runtime image). Backend.py changes can be
swapped live in /backends/<id>/backend.py + /backend/shutdown.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(realtime): LocalAI Assistant ("Manage Mode") for the Talk page
Mirrors the chat-page metadata.localai_assistant flow so users can ask the
realtime model what's loaded / installed / configured. Tools are run
server-side via the same in-process MCP holder that powers the chat
modality — no transport switch, no proxy, no new wire protocol.
Wire:
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime.go:
- RealtimeSessionOptions{LocalAIAssistant,IsAdmin}; isCurrentUserAdmin
helper mirrors chat.go's requireAssistantAccess (no-op when auth
disabled, else requires auth.RoleAdmin).
- Session grows AssistantExecutor mcpTools.ToolExecutor.
- runRealtimeSession, when opts.LocalAIAssistant is set: gate on admin,
fail closed if DisableLocalAIAssistant or the holder has no tools,
DiscoverTools and inject into session.Tools, prepend
holder.SystemPrompt() to instructions.
- Tool-call dispatch loop: when AssistantExecutor.IsTool(name), run
ExecuteTool inproc, append a FunctionCallOutput to conv.Items, skip
the function_call_arguments client emit (the client can't execute
these — it doesn't know about them). After the loop, if any
assistant tool ran, trigger another response so the model speaks the
result. Mirrors chat's agentic loop, driven server-side rather than
via client round-trip.
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime_webrtc.go: RealtimeCallRequest
gains `localai_assistant` (JSON omitempty). Handshake calls
isCurrentUserAdmin and builds RealtimeSessionOptions.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Talk.jsx: admin-only "Manage Mode"
checkbox under the Tools dropdown; passes localai_assistant: true to
realtimeApi.call's body, captured in the connect callback's deps.
Mirroring chat's pattern means the in-process MCP tools surface "just
works" for the Talk page without exposing a Streamable-HTTP MCP endpoint
(which was the alternative). Clients with their own MCP servers can
still use the existing ClientMCPDropdown path in parallel; the realtime
handler distinguishes them by AssistantExecutor.IsTool() at dispatch
time.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(realtime): render Manage Mode tool calls in the Talk transcript
Previously the realtime endpoint only emitted response.output_item.added
for the FunctionCall item, and Talk.jsx's switch ignored the event — so
server-side tool runs were invisible in the UI. The model would speak
the result but the user had no way to see what tool was actually
called.
realtime.go: after executing an assistant tool inproc, emit a second
output_item.added/.done pair for the FunctionCallOutput item. Mirrors
the way the chat page displays tool_call + tool_result blocks.
Talk.jsx: handle both response.output_item.added and .done. Render
FunctionCall (with arguments) and FunctionCallOutput (pretty-printed
JSON when possible) as two transcript entries — `tool_call` with the
wrench icon, `tool_result` with the clipboard icon, both in mono-space
secondary-colour. Resets streamingRef after the result so the next
assistant text delta starts a fresh transcript entry instead of
appending to the previous turn.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* refactor(realtime): bound the Manage Mode tool-loop + preserve assistant tools
Fallout from a review pass on the Manage Mode patches:
- Bound the server-side agentic loop. triggerResponse used to recurse on
executedAssistantTool with no cap — a model that kept calling tools
would blow the goroutine stack. New maxAssistantToolTurns = 10 (mirrors
useChat.js's maxToolTurns). Public triggerResponse is now a thin shim
over triggerResponseAtTurn(toolTurn int); recursion increments the
counter and stops at the cap with an xlog.Warn.
- Preserve Manage Mode tools across client session.update. The handler
used to blindly overwrite session.Tools, so toggling a client MCP
server mid-session silently wiped the in-process admin tools. Session
now caches the original AssistantTools slice at session creation and
the session.update handler merges them back in (client names win on
collision — the client is explicit).
- strconv.ParseBool for the localai_assistant query param instead of
hand-rolled "1" || "true". Mirrors LocalAIAssistantFromMetadata.
- Talk.jsx: render both tool_call and tool_result on
response.output_item.done instead of splitting them across .added and
.done. The server's event pairing (added → done) stays correct; the
UI just doesn't need to inspect both phases of the same item. One
switch case instead of two, no behavioural change.
Out of scope (noted for follow-ups): extract a shared assistant-tools
helper between chat.go and realtime.go (duplication is small enough
that two parallel implementations stay readable for now), and an i18n
key for the Manage Mode helper text (Talk.jsx doesn't use i18n
anywhere else yet).
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* ci(test-extra): wire liquid-audio backend smoke test
The backend ships test.py + a `make test` target and is listed in
backend-matrix.yml, so scripts/changed-backends.js already writes a
`liquid-audio=true|false` output when files under backend/python/liquid-audio/
change. The workflow just wasn't reading it.
- Expose the `liquid-audio` output on the detect-changes job
- Add a tests-liquid-audio job that runs `make` + `make test` in
backend/python/liquid-audio, gated on the per-backend detect flag
The smoke covers Health() and LoadModel(mode:finetune); fine-tune mode
short-circuits before any HuggingFace download (backend.py:192), so the
job needs neither weights nor a GPU. The full-inference path remains
gated on LIQUID_AUDIO_MODEL_ID, which CI doesn't set.
The four new Go test files (core/gallery/importers/liquid-audio_test.go,
core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime_gate_test.go,
core/http/routes/ui_pipeline_models_test.go, pkg/functions/parse_lfm2_test.go)
are already picked up by the existing test.yml workflow via `make test` →
`ginkgo -r ./pkg/... ./core/...`; their packages all carry RunSpecs entries.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
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Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-05-13 19:57:27 +00:00
BACKEND_LIQUID_AUDIO = liquid-audio| python| .| --progress= plain| true
2026-01-13 22:35:19 +00:00
BACKEND_MOONSHINE = moonshine| python| .| false| true
BACKEND_POCKET_TTS = pocket-tts| python| .| false| true
2026-01-23 14:18:41 +00:00
BACKEND_QWEN_TTS = qwen-tts| python| .| false| true
2026-03-12 06:48:23 +00:00
BACKEND_FISH_SPEECH = fish-speech| python| .| false| true
2026-02-27 07:16:51 +00:00
BACKEND_FASTER_QWEN3_TTS = faster-qwen3-tts| python| .| false| true
2026-01-29 20:50:35 +00:00
BACKEND_QWEN_ASR = qwen-asr| python| .| false| true
2026-02-07 07:19:37 +00:00
BACKEND_NEMO = nemo| python| .| false| true
2026-01-28 13:44:04 +00:00
BACKEND_VOXCPM = voxcpm| python| .| false| true
feat(whisperx): add whisperx backend for transcription with speaker diarization (#8299)
* feat(proto): add speaker field to TranscriptSegment for diarization
Add speaker field to the gRPC TranscriptSegment message and map it
through the Go schema, enabling backends to return speaker labels.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* feat(whisperx): add whisperx backend for transcription with diarization
Add Python gRPC backend using WhisperX for speech-to-text with
word-level timestamps, forced alignment, and speaker diarization
via pyannote-audio when HF_TOKEN is provided.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* feat(whisperx): register whisperx backend in Makefile
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* feat(whisperx): add whisperx meta and image entries to index.yaml
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* ci(whisperx): add build matrix entries for CPU, CUDA 12/13, and ROCm
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(whisperx): unpin torch versions and use CPU index for cpu requirements
Address review feedback:
- Use --extra-index-url for CPU torch wheels to reduce size
- Remove torch version pins, let uv resolve compatible versions
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(whisperx): pin torch ROCm variant to fix CI build failure
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(whisperx): pin torch CPU variant to fix uv resolution failure
Pin torch==2.8.0+cpu so uv resolves the CPU wheel from the extra
index instead of picking torch==2.8.0+cu128 from PyPI, which pulls
unresolvable CUDA dependencies.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(whisperx): use unsafe-best-match index strategy to fix uv resolution failure
uv's default first-match strategy finds torch on PyPI before checking
the extra index, causing it to pick torch==2.8.0+cu128 instead of the
CPU variant. This makes whisperx's transitive torch dependency
unresolvable. Using unsafe-best-match lets uv consider all indexes.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(whisperx): drop +cpu local version suffix to fix uv resolution failure
PEP 440 ==2.8.0 matches 2.8.0+cpu from the extra index, avoiding the
issue where uv cannot locate an explicit +cpu local version specifier.
This aligns with the pattern used by all other CPU backends.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(backends): drop +rocm local version suffixes from hipblas requirements to fix uv resolution
uv cannot resolve PEP 440 local version specifiers (e.g. +rocm6.4,
+rocm6.3) in pinned requirements. The --extra-index-url already points
to the correct ROCm wheel index and --index-strategy unsafe-best-match
(set in libbackend.sh) ensures the ROCm variant is preferred.
Applies the same fix as 7f5d72e8 (which resolved this for +cpu) across
all 14 hipblas requirements files.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* revert: scope hipblas suffix fix to whisperx only
Reverts changes to non-whisperx hipblas requirements files per
maintainer review — other backends are building fine with the +rocm
local version suffix.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-02 15:33:12 +00:00
BACKEND_WHISPERX = whisperx| python| .| false| true
2026-02-05 11:04:53 +00:00
BACKEND_ACE_STEP = ace-step| python| .| false| true
feat: refactor shared helpers and enhance MLX backend functionality (#9335)
* refactor(backends): extract python_utils + add mlx_utils shared helpers
Move parse_options() and messages_to_dicts() out of vllm_utils.py into a
new framework-agnostic python_utils.py, and re-export them from vllm_utils
so existing vllm / vllm-omni imports keep working.
Add mlx_utils.py with split_reasoning() and parse_tool_calls() — ported
from mlx_vlm/server.py's process_tool_calls. These work with any
mlx-lm / mlx-vlm tool module (anything exposing tool_call_start,
tool_call_end, parse_tool_call). Used by the mlx and mlx-vlm backends in
later commits to emit structured ChatDelta.tool_calls without
reimplementing per-model parsing.
Shared smoke tests confirm:
- parse_options round-trips bool/int/float/string
- vllm_utils re-exports are identity-equal to python_utils originals
- mlx_utils parse_tool_calls handles <tool_call>...</tool_call> with a
shim module and produces a correctly-indexed list with JSON arguments
- mlx_utils split_reasoning extracts <think> blocks and leaves clean
content
* feat(mlx): wire native tool parsers + ChatDelta + token usage + logprobs
Bring the MLX backend up to the same structured-output contract as vLLM
and llama.cpp: emit Reply.chat_deltas so the OpenAI HTTP layer sees
tool_calls and reasoning_content, not just raw text.
Key insight: mlx_lm.load() returns a TokenizerWrapper that already auto-
detects the right tool parser from the model's chat template
(_infer_tool_parser in mlx_lm/tokenizer_utils.py). The wrapper exposes
has_tool_calling, has_thinking, tool_parser, tool_call_start,
tool_call_end, think_start, think_end — no user configuration needed,
unlike vLLM.
Changes in backend/python/mlx/backend.py:
- Imports: replace inline parse_options / messages_to_dicts with the
shared helpers from python_utils. Pull split_reasoning / parse_tool_calls
from the new mlx_utils shared module.
- LoadModel: log the auto-detected has_tool_calling / has_thinking /
tool_parser_type for observability. Drop the local is_float / is_int
duplicates.
- _prepare_prompt: run request.Messages through messages_to_dicts so
tool_call_id / tool_calls / reasoning_content survive the conversion,
and pass tools=json.loads(request.Tools) + enable_thinking=True (when
request.Metadata says so) to apply_chat_template. Falls back on
TypeError for tokenizers whose template doesn't accept those kwargs.
- _build_generation_params: return an additional (logits_params,
stop_words) pair. Maps RepetitionPenalty / PresencePenalty /
FrequencyPenalty to mlx_lm.sample_utils.make_logits_processors and
threads StopPrompts through to post-decode truncation.
- New _tool_module_from_tokenizer / _finalize_output / _truncate_at_stop
helpers. _finalize_output runs split_reasoning when has_thinking is
true and parse_tool_calls (using a SimpleNamespace shim around the
wrapper's tool_parser callable) when has_tool_calling is true, then
extracts prompt_tokens, generation_tokens and (best-effort) logprobs
from the last GenerationResponse chunk.
- Predict: use make_logits_processors, accumulate text + last_response,
finalize into a structured Reply carrying chat_deltas,
prompt_tokens, tokens, logprobs. Early-stops on user stop sequences.
- PredictStream: per-chunk Reply still carries raw message bytes for
back-compat but now also emits chat_deltas=[ChatDelta(content=delta)].
On loop exit, emit a terminal Reply with structured
reasoning_content / tool_calls / token counts / logprobs — so the Go
side sees tool calls without needing the regex fallback.
- TokenizeString RPC: uses the TokenizerWrapper's encode(); returns
length + tokens or FAILED_PRECONDITION if the model isn't loaded.
- Free RPC: drops model / tokenizer / lru_cache, runs gc.collect(),
calls mx.metal.clear_cache() when available, and best-effort clears
torch.cuda as a belt-and-suspenders.
* feat(mlx-vlm): mirror MLX parity (tool parsers + ChatDelta + samplers)
Same treatment as the MLX backend: emit structured Reply.chat_deltas,
tool_calls, reasoning_content, token counts and logprobs, and extend
sampling parameter coverage beyond the temp/top_p pair the backend
used to handle.
- Imports: drop the inline is_float/is_int helpers, pull parse_options /
messages_to_dicts from python_utils and split_reasoning /
parse_tool_calls from mlx_utils. Also import make_sampler and
make_logits_processors from mlx_lm.sample_utils — mlx-vlm re-uses them.
- LoadModel: use parse_options; call mlx_vlm.tool_parsers._infer_tool_parser
/ load_tool_module to auto-detect a tool module from the processor's
chat_template. Stash think_start / think_end / has_thinking so later
finalisation can split reasoning blocks without duck-typing on each
call. Logs the detected parser type.
- _prepare_prompt: convert proto Messages via messages_to_dicts (so
tool_call_id / tool_calls survive), pass tools=json.loads(request.Tools)
and enable_thinking=True to apply_chat_template when present, fall
back on TypeError for older mlx-vlm versions. Also handle the
prompt-only + media and empty-prompt + media paths consistently.
- _build_generation_params: return (max_tokens, sampler_params,
logits_params, stop_words). Maps repetition_penalty / presence_penalty /
frequency_penalty and passes them through make_logits_processors.
- _finalize_output / _truncate_at_stop: common helper used by Predict
and PredictStream to split reasoning, run parse_tool_calls against the
auto-detected tool module, build ToolCallDelta list, and extract token
counts + logprobs from the last GenerationResult.
- Predict / PredictStream: switch from mlx_vlm.generate to mlx_vlm.stream_generate
in both paths, accumulate text + last_response, pass sampler and
logits_processors through, emit content-only ChatDelta per streaming
chunk followed by a terminal Reply carrying reasoning_content,
tool_calls, prompt_tokens, tokens and logprobs. Non-streaming Predict
returns the same structured Reply shape.
- New helper _collect_media extracted from the duplicated base64 image /
audio decode loop.
- New TokenizeString RPC using the processor's tokenizer.encode and
Free RPC that drops model/processor/config, runs gc + Metal cache
clear + best-effort torch.cuda cache clear.
* feat(importer/mlx): auto-set tool_parser/reasoning_parser on import
Mirror what core/gallery/importers/vllm.go does: after applying the
shared inference defaults, look up the model URI in parser_defaults.json
and append matching tool_parser:/reasoning_parser: entries to Options.
The MLX backends auto-detect tool parsers from the chat template at
runtime so they don't actually consume these options — but surfacing
them in the generated YAML:
- keeps the import experience consistent with vllm
- gives users a single visible place to override
- documents the intended parser for a given model family
* test(mlx): add helper unit tests + TokenizeString/Free + e2e make targets
- backend/python/mlx/test.py: add TestSharedHelpers with server-less
unit tests for parse_options, messages_to_dicts, split_reasoning and
parse_tool_calls (using a SimpleNamespace shim to fake a tool module
without requiring a model). Plus test_tokenize_string and test_free
RPC tests that load a tiny MLX-quantized Llama and exercise the new
RPCs end-to-end.
- backend/python/mlx-vlm/test.py: same helper unit tests + cleanup of
the duplicated import block at the top of the file.
- Makefile: register BACKEND_MLX and BACKEND_MLX_VLM (they were missing
from the docker-build-target eval list — only mlx-distributed had a
generated target before). Add test-extra-backend-mlx and
test-extra-backend-mlx-vlm convenience targets that build the
respective image and run tests/e2e-backends with the tools capability
against mlx-community/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-4bit. The MLX backend
auto-detects the tool parser from the chat template so no
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS is needed (unlike vllm).
* fix(libbackend): don't pass --copies to venv unless PORTABLE_PYTHON=true
backend/python/common/libbackend.sh:ensureVenv() always invoked
'python -m venv --copies', but macOS system python (and some other
builds) refuses with:
Error: This build of python cannot create venvs without using symlinks
--copies only matters when _makeVenvPortable later relocates the venv,
which only happens when PORTABLE_PYTHON=true. Make --copies conditional
on that flag and fall back to default (symlinked) venv otherwise.
Caught while bringing up the mlx backend on Apple Silicon — the same
build path is used by every Python backend with USE_PIP=true.
* fix(mlx): support mlx-lm 0.29.x tool calling + drop deprecated clear_cache
The released mlx-lm 0.29.x ships a much simpler tool-calling API than
HEAD: TokenizerWrapper detects the <tool_call>...</tool_call> markers
from the tokenizer vocab and exposes has_tool_calling /
tool_call_start / tool_call_end, but does NOT expose a tool_parser
callable on the wrapper and does NOT ship a mlx_lm.tool_parsers
subpackage at all (those only exist on main).
Caught while running the smoke test on Apple Silicon with the
released mlx-lm 0.29.1: tokenizer.tool_parser raised AttributeError
(falling through to the underlying HF tokenizer), so
_tool_module_from_tokenizer always returned None and tool calls slipped
through as raw <tool_call>...</tool_call> text in Reply.message instead
of being parsed into ChatDelta.tool_calls.
Fix: when has_tool_calling is True but tokenizer.tool_parser is missing,
default the parse_tool_call callable to json.loads(body.strip()) — that's
exactly what mlx_lm.tool_parsers.json_tools.parse_tool_call does on HEAD
and covers the only format 0.29 detects (<tool_call>JSON</tool_call>).
Future mlx-lm releases that ship more parsers will be picked up
automatically via the tokenizer.tool_parser attribute when present.
Also tighten the LoadModel logging — the old log line read
init_kwargs.get('tool_parser_type') which doesn't exist on 0.29 and
showed None even when has_tool_calling was True. Log the actual
tool_call_start / tool_call_end markers instead.
While here, switch Free()'s Metal cache clear from the deprecated
mx.metal.clear_cache to mx.clear_cache (mlx >= 0.30), with a
fallback for older releases. Mirrored to the mlx-vlm backend.
* feat(mlx-distributed): mirror MLX parity (tool calls + ChatDelta + sampler)
Same treatment as the mlx and mlx-vlm backends: emit Reply.chat_deltas
with structured tool_calls / reasoning_content / token counts /
logprobs, expand sampling parameter coverage beyond temp+top_p, and
add the missing TokenizeString and Free RPCs.
Notes specific to mlx-distributed:
- Rank 0 is the only rank that owns a sampler — workers participate in
the pipeline-parallel forward pass via mx.distributed and don't
re-implement sampling. So the new logits_params (repetition_penalty,
presence_penalty, frequency_penalty) and stop_words apply on rank 0
only; we don't need to extend coordinator.broadcast_generation_params,
which still ships only max_tokens / temperature / top_p to workers
(everything else is a rank-0 concern).
- Free() now broadcasts CMD_SHUTDOWN to workers when a coordinator is
active, so they release the model on their end too. The constant is
already defined and handled by the existing worker loop in
backend.py:633 (CMD_SHUTDOWN = -1).
- Drop the locally-defined is_float / is_int / parse_options trio in
favor of python_utils.parse_options, re-exported under the module
name for back-compat with anything that imported it directly.
- _prepare_prompt: route through messages_to_dicts so tool_call_id /
tool_calls / reasoning_content survive, pass tools=json.loads(
request.Tools) and enable_thinking=True to apply_chat_template, fall
back on TypeError for templates that don't accept those kwargs.
- New _tool_module_from_tokenizer (with the json.loads fallback for
mlx-lm 0.29.x), _finalize_output, _truncate_at_stop helpers — same
contract as the mlx backend.
- LoadModel logs the auto-detected has_tool_calling / has_thinking /
tool_call_start / tool_call_end so users can see what the wrapper
picked up for the loaded model.
- backend/python/mlx-distributed/test.py: add the same TestSharedHelpers
unit tests (parse_options, messages_to_dicts, split_reasoning,
parse_tool_calls) that exist for mlx and mlx-vlm.
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BACKEND_MLX = mlx| python| .| false| true
BACKEND_MLX_VLM = mlx-vlm| python| .| false| true
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BACKEND_MLX_DISTRIBUTED = mlx-distributed| python| ./| false| true
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BACKEND_TRL = trl| python| .| false| true
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BACKEND_LLAMA_CPP_QUANTIZATION = llama-cpp-quantization| python| .| false| true
feat(backend): add tinygrad multimodal backend (experimental) (#9364)
* feat(backend): add tinygrad multimodal backend
Wire tinygrad as a new Python backend covering LLM text generation with
native tool-call extraction, embeddings, Stable Diffusion 1.x image
generation, and Whisper speech-to-text from a single self-contained
container.
Backend (`backend/python/tinygrad/`):
- `backend.py` gRPC servicer with LLM Predict/PredictStream (auto-detects
Llama / Qwen2 / Mistral architecture from `config.json`, supports
safetensors and GGUF), Embedding via mean-pooled last hidden state,
GenerateImage via the vendored SD1.x pipeline, AudioTranscription +
AudioTranscriptionStream via the vendored Whisper inference loop, plus
Tokenize / ModelMetadata / Status / Free.
- Vendored upstream model code under `vendor/` (MIT, headers preserved):
llama.py with an added `qkv_bias` flag for Qwen2-family bias support
and an `embed()` method that returns the last hidden state, plus
clip.py, unet.py, stable_diffusion.py (trimmed to drop the MLPerf
training branch that pulls `mlperf.initializers`), audio_helpers.py
and whisper.py (trimmed to drop the pyaudio listener).
- Pluggable tool-call parsers under `tool_parsers/`: hermes (Qwen2.5 /
Hermes), llama3_json (Llama 3.1+), qwen3_xml (Qwen 3), mistral
(Mistral / Mixtral). Auto-selected from model architecture or `Options`.
- `install.sh` pins Python 3.11.14 (tinygrad >=0.12 needs >=3.11; the
default portable python is 3.10).
- `package.sh` bundles libLLVM.so.1 + libedit/libtinfo/libgomp/libsndfile
into the scratch image. `run.sh` sets `CPU_LLVM=1` and `LLVM_PATH` so
tinygrad's CPU device uses the in-process libLLVM JIT instead of
shelling out to the missing `clang` binary.
- Local unit tests for Health and the four parsers in `test.py`.
Build wiring:
- Root `Makefile`: `.NOTPARALLEL`, `prepare-test-extra`, `test-extra`,
`BACKEND_TINYGRAD = tinygrad|python|.|false|true`,
docker-build-target eval, and `docker-build-backends` aggregator.
- `.github/workflows/backend.yml`: cpu / cuda12 / cuda13 build matrix
entries (mirrors the transformers backend placement).
- `backend/index.yaml`: `&tinygrad` meta + cpu/cuda12/cuda13 image
entries (latest + development).
E2E test wiring:
- `tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go` gains an `image` capability that
exercises GenerateImage and asserts a non-empty PNG is written to
`dst`. New `BACKEND_TEST_IMAGE_PROMPT` / `BACKEND_TEST_IMAGE_STEPS`
knobs.
- Five new make targets next to `test-extra-backend-vllm`:
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad` — Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct + hermes,
mirrors the vllm target 1:1 (5/9 specs in ~57s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-embeddings` — same model, embeddings
via LLM hidden state (3/9 in ~10s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-sd` — stable-diffusion-v1-5 mirror,
health/load/image (3/9 in ~10min, 4 diffusion steps on CPU).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-whisper` — openai/whisper-tiny.en
against jfk.wav from whisper.cpp samples (4/9 in ~49s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-all` aggregate.
All four targets land green on the first MVP pass: 15 specs total, 0
failures across LLM+tools, embeddings, image generation, and speech
transcription.
* refactor(tinygrad): collapse to a single backend image
tinygrad generates its own GPU kernels (PTX renderer for CUDA, the
autogen ctypes wrappers for HIP / Metal / WebGPU) and never links
against cuDNN, cuBLAS, or any toolkit-version-tied library. The only
runtime dependency that varies across hosts is the driver's libcuda.so.1
/ libamdhip64.so, which are injected into the container at run time by
the nvidia-container / rocm runtimes. So unlike torch- or vLLM-based
backends, there is no reason to ship per-CUDA-version images.
- Drop the cuda12-tinygrad and cuda13-tinygrad build-matrix entries
from .github/workflows/backend.yml. The sole remaining entry is
renamed to -tinygrad (from -cpu-tinygrad) since it is no longer
CPU-only.
- Collapse backend/index.yaml to a single meta + development pair.
The meta anchor carries the latest uri directly; the development
entry points at the master tag.
- run.sh picks the tinygrad device at launch time by probing
/usr/lib/... for libcuda.so.1 / libamdhip64.so. When libcuda is
visible we set CUDA=1 + CUDA_PTX=1 so tinygrad uses its own PTX
renderer (avoids any nvrtc/toolkit dependency); otherwise we fall
back to HIP or CLANG. CPU_LLVM=1 + LLVM_PATH keep the in-process
libLLVM JIT for the CLANG path.
- backend.py's _select_tinygrad_device() is trimmed to a CLANG-only
fallback since production device selection happens in run.sh.
Re-ran test-extra-backend-tinygrad after the change:
Ran 5 of 9 Specs in 56.541 seconds — 5 Passed, 0 Failed
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BACKEND_TINYGRAD = tinygrad| python| .| false| true
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2026-04-08 17:23:16 +00:00
# Rust backends
BACKEND_KOKOROS = kokoros| rust| .| false| true
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# C++ backends (Go wrapper with purego)
BACKEND_SAM3_CPP = sam3-cpp| golang| .| false| true
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# Helper function to build docker image for a backend
# Usage: $(call docker-build-backend,BACKEND_NAME,DOCKERFILE_TYPE,BUILD_CONTEXT,PROGRESS_FLAG,NEEDS_BACKEND_ARG)
d e f i n e d o c k e r - b u i l d - b a c k e n d
docker build $( if $( filter-out false,$( 4) ) ,$( 4) ) \
--build-arg BUILD_TYPE = $( BUILD_TYPE) \
--build-arg BASE_IMAGE = $( BASE_IMAGE) \
--build-arg CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION = $( CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION) \
--build-arg CUDA_MINOR_VERSION = $( CUDA_MINOR_VERSION) \
--build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION = $( UBUNTU_VERSION) \
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--build-arg UBUNTU_CODENAME = $( UBUNTU_CODENAME) \
feat(ci): allow routing apt traffic through an alternate Ubuntu mirror (#9650)
* feat(ci): allow routing apt traffic through an alternate Ubuntu mirror
Adds opt-in APT_MIRROR / APT_PORTS_MIRROR knobs to all Dockerfiles, the
Makefile, and CI workflows so we can fail over to a non-canonical Ubuntu
mirror when archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com
are degraded (recently observed: multi-day DDoS against the default pool).
Defaults are empty everywhere — behavior is unchanged unless a mirror is
configured. To enable in CI, set the repo-level GitHub Actions variables
APT_MIRROR (and APT_PORTS_MIRROR for arm64 builds). Locally:
make docker APT_MIRROR=http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com
A small POSIX-sh helper in .docker/apt-mirror.sh rewrites both DEB822
(/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources, Ubuntu 24.04+) and the legacy
/etc/apt/sources.list before the first apt-get update. Dockerfile stages
load it via RUN --mount=type=bind, so there is no extra layer and no
cache invalidation when the script is unchanged. Reusable workflows also
rewrite the runner's own /etc/apt sources before any sudo apt-get call.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(apt-mirror): default to the Azure mirror, visible in the workflow source
Bakes Azure (http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com / http://azure.ports.ubuntu.com)
in as the default for both Docker builds and runner-side apt — rather than
hiding the URL behind a GitHub Actions repo variable that's not visible
from the source tree.
A new composite action at .github/actions/configure-apt-mirror is the
single source of truth for runner-side rewrites. Five standalone
workflows (build-test, release, tests-e2e, tests-ui-e2e, update_swagger)
just `uses: ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror`.
Three workflows (image_build, backend_build, checksum_checker) keep an
inline bash rewrite, because they install/upgrade git via apt *before*
the checkout step (so the local composite action isn't loadable yet).
The Azure URL is visible in those files too.
The `apt-mirror` / `apt-ports-mirror` inputs of the reusable workflows
keep their now-Azure defaults — they still feed the Docker build-args
block in addition to the inline runner-side rewrite. Callers (image.yml,
image-pr.yml, backend.yml, backend_pr.yml) drop the previous
`vars.APT_MIRROR` plumbing and rely on those defaults.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(apt-mirror): drop Force Install GIT, consolidate on the composite action
The PPA git upgrade ran add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa, which talks
to api.launchpad.net — also part of Canonical's infrastructure and
currently returning HTTP 504. The Azure mirror only covers
archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com, not PPAs.
The system git that ubuntu-latest already ships is sufficient for
actions/checkout and the build pipeline, so just drop the upgrade. With
that gone, the apt-before-checkout constraint disappears too — all three
holdouts (image_build, backend_build, checksum_checker) can now switch
to ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror like the other five.
Net: 0 inline apt-mirror blocks, all 8 workflows route through the
composite action.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
---------
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-05-03 21:50:13 +00:00
--build-arg APT_MIRROR = $( APT_MIRROR) \
--build-arg APT_PORTS_MIRROR = $( APT_PORTS_MIRROR) \
feat(vllm): parity with llama.cpp backend (#9328)
* fix(schema): serialize ToolCallID and Reasoning in Messages.ToProto
The ToProto conversion was dropping tool_call_id and reasoning_content
even though both proto and Go fields existed, breaking multi-turn tool
calling and reasoning passthrough to backends.
* refactor(config): introduce backend hook system and migrate llama-cpp defaults
Adds RegisterBackendHook/runBackendHooks so each backend can register
default-filling functions that run during ModelConfig.SetDefaults().
Migrates the existing GGUF guessing logic into hooks_llamacpp.go,
registered for both 'llama-cpp' and the empty backend (auto-detect).
Removes the old guesser.go shim.
* feat(config): add vLLM parser defaults hook and importer auto-detection
Introduces parser_defaults.json mapping model families to vLLM
tool_parser/reasoning_parser names, with longest-pattern-first matching.
The vllmDefaults hook auto-fills tool_parser and reasoning_parser
options at load time for known families, while the VLLMImporter writes
the same values into generated YAML so users can review and edit them.
Adds tests covering MatchParserDefaults, hook registration via
SetDefaults, and the user-override behavior.
* feat(vllm): wire native tool/reasoning parsers + chat deltas + logprobs
- Use vLLM's ToolParserManager/ReasoningParserManager to extract structured
output (tool calls, reasoning content) instead of reimplementing parsing
- Convert proto Messages to dicts and pass tools to apply_chat_template
- Emit ChatDelta with content/reasoning_content/tool_calls in Reply
- Extract prompt_tokens, completion_tokens, and logprobs from output
- Replace boolean GuidedDecoding with proper GuidedDecodingParams from Grammar
- Add TokenizeString and Free RPC methods
- Fix missing `time` import used by load_video()
* feat(vllm): CPU support + shared utils + vllm-omni feature parity
- Split vllm install per acceleration: move generic `vllm` out of
requirements-after.txt into per-profile after files (cublas12, hipblas,
intel) and add CPU wheel URL for cpu-after.txt
- requirements-cpu.txt now pulls torch==2.7.0+cpu from PyTorch CPU index
- backend/index.yaml: register cpu-vllm / cpu-vllm-development variants
- New backend/python/common/vllm_utils.py: shared parse_options,
messages_to_dicts, setup_parsers helpers (used by both vllm backends)
- vllm-omni: replace hardcoded chat template with tokenizer.apply_chat_template,
wire native parsers via shared utils, emit ChatDelta with token counts,
add TokenizeString and Free RPCs, detect CPU and set VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE
- Add test_cpu_inference.py: standalone script to validate CPU build with
a small model (Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct)
* fix(vllm): CPU build compatibility with vllm 0.14.1
Validated end-to-end on CPU with Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct (LoadModel, Predict,
TokenizeString, Free all working).
- requirements-cpu-after.txt: pin vllm to 0.14.1+cpu (pre-built wheel from
GitHub releases) for x86_64 and aarch64. vllm 0.14.1 is the newest CPU
wheel whose torch dependency resolves against published PyTorch builds
(torch==2.9.1+cpu). Later vllm CPU wheels currently require
torch==2.10.0+cpu which is only available on the PyTorch test channel
with incompatible torchvision.
- requirements-cpu.txt: bump torch to 2.9.1+cpu, add torchvision/torchaudio
so uv resolves them consistently from the PyTorch CPU index.
- install.sh: add --index-strategy=unsafe-best-match for CPU builds so uv
can mix the PyTorch index and PyPI for transitive deps (matches the
existing intel profile behaviour).
- backend.py LoadModel: vllm >= 0.14 removed AsyncLLMEngine.get_model_config
so the old code path errored out with AttributeError on model load.
Switch to the new get_tokenizer()/tokenizer accessor with a fallback
to building the tokenizer directly from request.Model.
* fix(vllm): tool parser constructor compat + e2e tool calling test
Concrete vLLM tool parsers override the abstract base's __init__ and
drop the tools kwarg (e.g. Hermes2ProToolParser only takes tokenizer).
Instantiating with tools= raised TypeError which was silently caught,
leaving chat_deltas.tool_calls empty.
Retry the constructor without the tools kwarg on TypeError — tools
aren't required by these parsers since extract_tool_calls finds tool
syntax in the raw model output directly.
Validated with Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct + hermes parser on CPU:
the backend correctly returns ToolCallDelta{name='get_weather',
arguments='{"location": "Paris, France"}'} in ChatDelta.
test_tool_calls.py is a standalone smoke test that spawns the gRPC
backend, sends a chat completion with tools, and asserts the response
contains a structured tool call.
* ci(backend): build cpu-vllm container image
Add the cpu-vllm variant to the backend container build matrix so the
image registered in backend/index.yaml (cpu-vllm / cpu-vllm-development)
is actually produced by CI.
Follows the same pattern as the other CPU python backends
(cpu-diffusers, cpu-chatterbox, etc.) with build-type='' and no CUDA.
backend_pr.yml auto-picks this up via its matrix filter from backend.yml.
* test(e2e-backends): add tools capability + HF model name support
Extends tests/e2e-backends to cover backends that:
- Resolve HuggingFace model ids natively (vllm, vllm-omni) instead of
loading a local file: BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME is passed verbatim as
ModelOptions.Model with no download/ModelFile.
- Parse tool calls into ChatDelta.tool_calls: new "tools" capability
sends a Predict with a get_weather function definition and asserts
the Reply contains a matching ToolCallDelta. Uses UseTokenizerTemplate
with OpenAI-style Messages so the backend can wire tools into the
model's chat template.
- Need backend-specific Options[]: BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS lets a test set
e.g. "tool_parser:hermes,reasoning_parser:qwen3" at LoadModel time.
Adds make target test-extra-backend-vllm that:
- docker-build-vllm
- loads Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
- runs health,load,predict,stream,tools with tool_parser:hermes
Drops backend/python/vllm/test_{cpu_inference,tool_calls}.py — those
standalone scripts were scaffolding used while bringing up the Python
backend; the e2e-backends harness now covers the same ground uniformly
alongside llama-cpp and ik-llama-cpp.
* ci(test-extra): run vllm e2e tests on CPU
Adds tests-vllm-grpc to the test-extra workflow, mirroring the
llama-cpp and ik-llama-cpp gRPC jobs. Triggers when files under
backend/python/vllm/ change (or on run-all), builds the local-ai
vllm container image, and runs the tests/e2e-backends harness with
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME=Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct, tool_parser:hermes,
and the tools capability enabled.
Uses ubuntu-latest (no GPU) — vllm runs on CPU via the cpu-vllm
wheel we pinned in requirements-cpu-after.txt. Frees disk space
before the build since the docker image + torch + vllm wheel is
sizeable.
* fix(vllm): build from source on CI to avoid SIGILL on prebuilt wheel
The prebuilt vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel from GitHub releases is compiled with
SIMD instructions (AVX-512 VNNI/BF16 or AMX-BF16) that not every CPU
supports. GitHub Actions ubuntu-latest runners SIGILL when vllm spawns
the model_executor.models.registry subprocess for introspection, so
LoadModel never reaches the actual inference path.
- install.sh: when FROM_SOURCE=true on a CPU build, temporarily hide
requirements-cpu-after.txt so installRequirements installs the base
deps + torch CPU without pulling the prebuilt wheel, then clone vllm
and compile it with VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=cpu. The resulting binaries
target the host's actual CPU.
- backend/Dockerfile.python: accept a FROM_SOURCE build-arg and expose
it as an ENV so install.sh sees it during `make`.
- Makefile docker-build-backend: forward FROM_SOURCE as --build-arg
when set, so backends that need source builds can opt in.
- Makefile test-extra-backend-vllm: call docker-build-vllm via a
recursive $(MAKE) invocation so FROM_SOURCE flows through.
- .github/workflows/test-extra.yml: set FROM_SOURCE=true on the
tests-vllm-grpc job. Slower but reliable — the prebuilt wheel only
works on hosts that share the build-time SIMD baseline.
Answers 'did you test locally?': yes, end-to-end on my local machine
with the prebuilt wheel (CPU supports AVX-512 VNNI). The CI runner CPU
gap was not covered locally — this commit plugs that gap.
* ci(vllm): use bigger-runner instead of source build
The prebuilt vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel requires SIMD instructions (AVX-512
VNNI/BF16) that stock ubuntu-latest GitHub runners don't support —
vllm.model_executor.models.registry SIGILLs on import during LoadModel.
Source compilation works but takes 30-40 minutes per CI run, which is
too slow for an e2e smoke test. Instead, switch tests-vllm-grpc to the
bigger-runner self-hosted label (already used by backend.yml for the
llama-cpp CUDA build) — that hardware has the required SIMD baseline
and the prebuilt wheel runs cleanly.
FROM_SOURCE=true is kept as an opt-in escape hatch:
- install.sh still has the CPU source-build path for hosts that need it
- backend/Dockerfile.python still declares the ARG + ENV
- Makefile docker-build-backend still forwards the build-arg when set
Default CI path uses the fast prebuilt wheel; source build can be
re-enabled by exporting FROM_SOURCE=true in the environment.
* ci(vllm): install make + build deps on bigger-runner
bigger-runner is a bare self-hosted runner used by backend.yml for
docker image builds — it has docker but not the usual ubuntu-latest
toolchain. The make-based test target needs make, build-essential
(cgo in 'go test'), and curl/unzip (the Makefile protoc target
downloads protoc from github releases).
protoc-gen-go and protoc-gen-go-grpc come via 'go install' in the
install-go-tools target, which setup-go makes possible.
* ci(vllm): install libnuma1 + libgomp1 on bigger-runner
The vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel ships a _C C++ extension that dlopens
libnuma.so.1 at import time. When the runner host doesn't have it,
the extension silently fails to register its torch ops, so
EngineCore crashes on init_device with:
AttributeError: '_OpNamespace' '_C_utils' object has no attribute
'init_cpu_threads_env'
Also add libgomp1 (OpenMP runtime, used by torch CPU kernels) to be
safe on stripped-down runners.
* feat(vllm): bundle libnuma/libgomp via package.sh
The vllm CPU wheel ships a _C extension that dlopens libnuma.so.1 at
import time; torch's CPU kernels in turn use libgomp.so.1 (OpenMP).
Without these on the host, vllm._C silently fails to register its
torch ops and EngineCore crashes with:
AttributeError: '_OpNamespace' '_C_utils' object has no attribute
'init_cpu_threads_env'
Rather than asking every user to install libnuma1/libgomp1 on their
host (or every LocalAI base image to ship them), bundle them into
the backend image itself — same pattern fish-speech and the GPU libs
already use. libbackend.sh adds ${EDIR}/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at
run time so the bundled copies are picked up automatically.
- backend/python/vllm/package.sh (new): copies libnuma.so.1 and
libgomp.so.1 from the builder's multilib paths into ${BACKEND}/lib,
preserving soname symlinks. Runs during Dockerfile.python's
'Run backend-specific packaging' step (which already invokes
package.sh if present).
- backend/Dockerfile.python: install libnuma1 + libgomp1 in the
builder stage so package.sh has something to copy (the Ubuntu
base image otherwise only has libgomp in the gcc dep chain).
- test-extra.yml: drop the workaround that installed these libs on
the runner host — with the backend image self-contained, the
runner no longer needs them, and the test now exercises the
packaging path end-to-end the way a production host would.
* ci(vllm): disable tests-vllm-grpc job (heterogeneous runners)
Both ubuntu-latest and bigger-runner have inconsistent CPU baselines:
some instances support the AVX-512 VNNI/BF16 instructions the prebuilt
vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel was compiled with, others SIGILL on import of
vllm.model_executor.models.registry. The libnuma packaging fix doesn't
help when the wheel itself can't be loaded.
FROM_SOURCE=true compiles vllm against the actual host CPU and works
everywhere, but takes 30-50 minutes per run — too slow for a smoke
test on every PR.
Comment out the job for now. The test itself is intact and passes
locally; run it via 'make test-extra-backend-vllm' on a host with the
required SIMD baseline. Re-enable when:
- we have a self-hosted runner label with guaranteed AVX-512 VNNI/BF16, or
- vllm publishes a CPU wheel with a wider baseline, or
- we set up a docker layer cache that makes FROM_SOURCE acceptable
The detect-changes vllm output, the test harness changes (tests/
e2e-backends + tools cap), the make target (test-extra-backend-vllm),
the package.sh and the Dockerfile/install.sh plumbing all stay in
place.
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$( if $( FROM_SOURCE) ,--build-arg FROM_SOURCE = $( FROM_SOURCE) ) \
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$( if $( AMDGPU_TARGETS) ,--build-arg AMDGPU_TARGETS = $( AMDGPU_TARGETS) ) \
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$( if $( filter true,$( 5) ) ,--build-arg BACKEND = $( 1) ) \
-t local-ai-backend:$( 1) -f backend/Dockerfile.$( 2) $( 3)
e n d e f
# Generate docker-build targets from backend definitions
d e f i n e g e n e r a t e - d o c k e r - b u i l d - t a r g e t
docker-build-$(word 1,$(subst |, ,$(1))) :
$$ ( call docker-build-backend,$( word 1,$( subst | , ,$( 1) ) ) ,$( word 2,$( subst | , ,$( 1) ) ) ,$( word 3,$( subst | , ,$( 1) ) ) ,$( word 4,$( subst | , ,$( 1) ) ) ,$( word 5,$( subst | , ,$( 1) ) ) )
e n d e f
# Generate all docker-build targets
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_LLAMA_CPP ) ) )
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$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_IK_LLAMA_CPP ) ) )
feat(backend): add turboquant llama.cpp-fork backend (#9355)
* feat(backend): add turboquant llama.cpp-fork backend
turboquant is a llama.cpp fork (TheTom/llama-cpp-turboquant, branch
feature/turboquant-kv-cache) that adds a TurboQuant KV-cache scheme.
It ships as a first-class backend reusing backend/cpp/llama-cpp sources
via a thin wrapper Makefile: each variant target copies ../llama-cpp
into a sibling build dir and invokes llama-cpp's build-llama-cpp-grpc-server
with LLAMA_REPO/LLAMA_VERSION overridden to point at the fork. No
duplication of grpc-server.cpp — upstream fixes flow through automatically.
Wires up the full matrix (CPU, CUDA 12/13, L4T, L4T-CUDA13, ROCm, SYCL
f32/f16, Vulkan) in backend.yml and the gallery entries in index.yaml,
adds a tests-turboquant-grpc e2e job driven by BACKEND_TEST_CACHE_TYPE_K/V=q8_0
to exercise the KV-cache config path (backend_test.go gains dedicated env
vars wired into ModelOptions.CacheTypeKey/Value — a generic improvement
usable by any llama.cpp-family backend), and registers a nightly auto-bump
PR in bump_deps.yaml tracking feature/turboquant-kv-cache.
scripts/changed-backends.js gets a special-case so edits to
backend/cpp/llama-cpp/ also retrigger the turboquant CI pipeline, since
the wrapper reuses those sources.
* feat(turboquant): carry upstream patches against fork API drift
turboquant branched from llama.cpp before upstream commit 66060008
("server: respect the ignore eos flag", #21203) which added the
`logit_bias_eog` field to `server_context_meta` and a matching
parameter to `server_task::params_from_json_cmpl`. The shared
backend/cpp/llama-cpp/grpc-server.cpp depends on that field, so
building it against the fork unmodified fails.
Cherry-pick that commit as a patch file under
backend/cpp/turboquant/patches/ and apply it to the cloned fork
sources via a new apply-patches.sh hook called from the wrapper
Makefile. Simplifies the build flow too: instead of hopping through
llama-cpp's build-llama-cpp-grpc-server indirection, the wrapper now
drives the copied Makefile directly (clone -> patch -> build).
Drop the corresponding patch whenever the fork catches up with
upstream — the build fails fast if a patch stops applying, which
is the signal to retire it.
* docs: add turboquant backend section + clarify cache_type_k/v
Document the new turboquant (llama.cpp fork with TurboQuant KV-cache)
backend alongside the existing llama-cpp / ik-llama-cpp sections in
features/text-generation.md: when to pick it, how to install it from
the gallery, and a YAML example showing backend: turboquant together
with cache_type_k / cache_type_v.
Also expand the cache_type_k / cache_type_v table rows in
advanced/model-configuration.md to spell out the accepted llama.cpp
quantization values and note that these fields apply to all
llama.cpp-family backends, not just vLLM.
* feat(turboquant): patch ggml-rpc GGML_OP_COUNT assertion
The fork adds new GGML ops bringing GGML_OP_COUNT to 97, but
ggml/include/ggml-rpc.h static-asserts it equals 96, breaking
the GGML_RPC=ON build paths (turboquant-grpc / turboquant-rpc-server).
Carry a one-line patch that updates the expected count so the
assertion holds. Drop this patch whenever the fork fixes it upstream.
* feat(turboquant): allow turbo* KV-cache types and exercise them in e2e
The shared backend/cpp/llama-cpp/grpc-server.cpp carries its own
allow-list of accepted KV-cache types (kv_cache_types[]) and rejects
anything outside it before the value reaches llama.cpp's parser. That
list only contains the standard llama.cpp types — turbo2/turbo3/turbo4
would throw "Unsupported cache type" at LoadModel time, meaning
nothing the LocalAI gRPC layer accepted was actually fork-specific.
Add a build-time augmentation step (patch-grpc-server.sh, called from
the turboquant wrapper Makefile) that inserts GGML_TYPE_TURBO2_0/3_0/4_0
into the allow-list of the *copied* grpc-server.cpp under
turboquant-<flavor>-build/. The original file under backend/cpp/llama-cpp/
is never touched, so the stock llama-cpp build keeps compiling against
vanilla upstream which has no notion of those enum values.
Switch test-extra-backend-turboquant to set
BACKEND_TEST_CACHE_TYPE_K=turbo3 / _V=turbo3 so the e2e gRPC suite
actually runs the fork's TurboQuant KV-cache code paths (turbo3 also
auto-enables flash_attention in the fork). Picking q8_0 here would
only re-test the standard llama.cpp path that the upstream llama-cpp
backend already covers.
Refresh the docs (text-generation.md + model-configuration.md) to
list turbo2/turbo3/turbo4 explicitly and call out that you only get
the TurboQuant code path with this backend + a turbo* cache type.
* fix(turboquant): rewrite patch-grpc-server.sh in awk, not python3
The builder image (ubuntu:24.04 stage-2 in Dockerfile.turboquant)
does not install python3, so the python-based augmentation step
errored with `python3: command not found` at make time. Switch to
awk, which ships in coreutils and is already available everywhere
the rest of the wrapper Makefile runs.
* Apply suggestion from @mudler
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2026-04-14 23:25:04 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_TURBOQUANT ) ) )
feat: add ds4 backend (DeepSeek V4 Flash) with tool calls, thinking, KV cache (#9758)
* test(e2e-backends): allow BACKEND_BINARY for native-built backends
Adds an escape hatch for hardware-gated backends (e.g. ds4) where the
model is too large for Docker build context. When BACKEND_BINARY points
at a run.sh produced by 'make -C backend/cpp/<name> package', the suite
skips docker image extraction and drives the binary directly.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* test(e2e-backends): validate BACKEND_BINARY basename + log actual source
Two follow-ups from the cbcf5148 code review:
- BACKEND_BINARY now requires a path whose basename is `run.sh`. Without
this check, `filepath.Dir(binary)` silently discarded the filename, so
pointing the env var at an arbitrary binary failed later with a
confusing assertion that named a path the user never typed.
- The "Testing image=..." debug line printed an empty string when the
binary path was used, hiding the actual source in CI logs. The line
now reports whichever of BACKEND_IMAGE / BACKEND_BINARY is in effect
as `src=...`.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): scaffold ds4 backend dir
Adds prepare.sh, run.sh, and a .gitignore. CMakeLists, Makefile, and the
implementation arrive in follow-up commits.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): add backend Makefile
Drives ds4's upstream Makefile to produce engine .o files (CUDA on Linux
when BUILD_TYPE=cublas, Metal on Darwin, otherwise CPU debug path), then
invokes CMake on our wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): add CMakeLists for grpc-server
Generates protoc stubs from backend.proto, links grpc-server.cpp +
dsml_parser.cpp + dsml_renderer.cpp + kv_cache.cpp against pre-built
ds4 engine .o files. DS4_GPU=cuda|metal|cpu selects the backend.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): grpc-server skeleton + module stubs
The minimum that links: Backend service with Health + Free; other RPCs
default to UNIMPLEMENTED. Stub headers/sources for dsml_parser,
dsml_renderer, and kv_cache are in place so CMake links cleanly even
before those modules ship.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): implement LoadModel
Opens engine + creates session sized to ContextSize (default 32768).
Backend is compile-time: CPU when DS4_NO_GPU, Metal on __APPLE__, else
CUDA. MTP/speculative options are accepted via ModelOptions.Options[]
(mtp_path, mtp_draft, mtp_margin). kv_cache_dir option is captured into
g_kv_cache_dir for the cache module (Task 19 wires it in).
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): implement TokenizeString
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): implement Predict (plain text)
Tool calls + thinking-mode split arrive in Task 13 once dsml_parser is in.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): implement PredictStream (plain text)
ChatDelta + reasoning/tool_calls split arrives in Task 14.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): implement Status RPC
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): add DSML streaming parser
Classifies raw model-emitted token text into CONTENT / REASONING /
TOOL_START / TOOL_ARGS / TOOL_END events. Markers it watches for are the
literal DSML strings rendered by ds4_server.c's prompt template
(<｜DSML｜tool_calls>, <｜DSML｜invoke name=...>, <think>, etc.) - these are
plain text the model emits, not special tokens.
Partial markers split across token chunks are buffered until a full marker
or a definitively-not-a-marker '<' is observed. RandomToolId() generates
the API-side tool call id (call_xxx) that exact-replay would key on.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): split hex escapes in DSML markers + add cstring/cstdio includes
C++ \x hex escapes have no length cap. '\x9cD' was read as a single escape
producing byte 0xCD, eating the 'D'. The markers were never actually matching
the DSML text the model emits. Split each escape with adjacent string literal
concatenation so the byte sequence is exactly EF BD 9C 44 (｜D) at runtime.
Also adds <cstring> and <cstdio> includes (libstdc++ 13 does not transitively
expose std::strlen / std::snprintf via <string>).
The local plan file (uncommitted) was also updated with the same fixes so
Task 16's dsml_renderer.cpp does not re-introduce the bug.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): wire DsmlParser into Predict (ChatDelta)
Non-streaming Predict now emits one ChatDelta carrying content,
reasoning_content, and tool_calls[] parsed from the model's DSML output.
Reply.message still carries the raw model bytes for backends that prefer
the regex fallback path.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): wire DsmlParser into PredictStream
Per-token ChatDelta writes: content/reasoning_content go incrementally,
tool_calls emit TOOL_START as one delta (id + name) followed by
TOOL_ARGS deltas with incremental JSON. The Go-side aggregator
(pkg/functions/chat_deltas.go) reassembles them.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): chat template + reasoning_effort mapping
UseTokenizerTemplate=true + Messages -> ds4_chat_begin / append /
assistant_prefix. PredictOptions.Metadata['enable_thinking'] and
['reasoning_effort'] map to ds4_think_mode (DS4_THINK_HIGH default;
'max'/'xhigh' -> DS4_THINK_MAX; disabled -> DS4_THINK_NONE).
Tool-call rendering for assistant turns with tool_calls JSON arrives in
the next commit (dsml_renderer).
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): render assistant tool_calls + tool results to DSML
Closes the round-trip: when an OpenAI client sends a multi-turn chat
where prior turns contain tool_calls or role=tool messages, build_prompt
serializes them back to the DSML shape the model was trained on. Mirrors
ds4_server.c's prompt renderer; uses nlohmann::json for parsing the
OpenAI tool_calls payload.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): disk KV cache module
Dir-based cache keyed by SHA1(rendered prompt prefix). File format:
'DS4G' magic + version + ctx_size + prefix_len + prefix + payload_bytes
+ ds4_session_save_payload output. NOT bit-compatible with ds4-server's
KVC files - that interop is a follow-up plan. LoadLongestPrefix walks
the dir picking the longest stored prefix that prefixes the incoming
prompt.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): wire KvCache into Predict/PredictStream
LoadModel reads 'kv_cache_dir' from ModelOptions.Options[], passes it to
g_kv_cache.SetDir. Each Predict/PredictStream computes a render text for
the request, tries LoadLongestPrefix to recover state, then Saves the
new state after generation. ds4_session_sync handles the live-cache
fast path internally, so the disk cache only matters for cold-starts
and cross-session reuse.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): add package.sh
Linux: bundles libc + ld + libstdc++ + libgomp + GPU runtime libs into
package/lib so the FROM scratch image boots without a host libc.
Darwin is handled by scripts/build/ds4-darwin.sh which uses otool -L.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): rename namespace ds4_backend -> ds4cpp
ds4.h defines 'typedef enum {...} ds4_backend' which collides with our
C++ 'namespace ds4_backend' anywhere a TU includes both. kv_cache.h
includes ds4.h directly and surfaces the conflict immediately; other
TUs would hit it once gRPC dev headers are available.
Renames the C++ namespace to ds4cpp across all wrapper files and the
plan, leaving the upstream ds4 typedef untouched.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend): add Dockerfile.ds4
Single-stage builder (CUDA devel image for cublas, ubuntu:24.04 for cpu)
-> FROM scratch with packaged grpc-server + bundled runtime libs.
nlohmann-json3-dev is required for dsml_renderer's JSON handling.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(make): wire backend/cpp/ds4 + ds4-darwin into root Makefile
BACKEND_DS4 entry + generate-docker-build-target eval + docker-build-ds4
in docker-build-backends + .NOTPARALLEL guards. Also adds the
backends/ds4-darwin target which delegates to scripts/build/ds4-darwin.sh
(landed in Task 24).
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci: add backend-matrix entries for ds4 (cpu + cuda13, per-arch)
Two entries per build (amd64 + arm64) so backend-merge-jobs assembles a
multi-arch manifest. Skipping cuda12 - ds4 was validated against CUDA 13.
Darwin Metal is handled outside this matrix by backend_build_darwin.yml.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/index): add ds4 meta + image entries
cpu + cuda13 x latest + master. Darwin Metal builds publish under
ds4-darwin via the existing llama-cpp-darwin OCI pipeline.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(scripts/build): add ds4-darwin.sh
Native macOS/Metal build for the ds4 backend. Mirrors llama-cpp-darwin.sh:
make grpc-server -> otool -L for dylib bundling -> OCI tar that
'local-ai backends install' consumes via the backends/ds4-darwin
Makefile target.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(darwin): build ds4-darwin in backend_build_darwin
Adds a 'Build ds4 backend (Darwin Metal)' step that runs the
backends/ds4-darwin Makefile target on the macOS runner.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(import): auto-detect ds4 weights via DS4Importer
Adds core/gallery/importers/ds4.go which matches on the antirez/deepseek-v4-gguf
repo URI and the DeepSeek-V4-Flash-*.gguf filename pattern. Registered before
LlamaCPPImporter so ds4 weights route to backend: ds4 instead of falling
through to llama-cpp.
Also lists ds4 in /backends/known so the /import-model UI surfaces it as a
manual choice for users who want to force the backend on a non-canonical URI.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(gallery): add deepseek-v4-flash-q2 (ds4 backend)
One-click install of the q2 weights with backend: ds4.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* docs(.agents): add ds4-backend.md
Documents the backend shape, DSML state machine, thinking-mode mapping,
disk KV cache, build matrix (cpu/cuda13/Darwin), and the BACKEND_BINARY
hardware-validation path.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): pass UBUNTU_VERSION + arch env vars to install-base-deps
The .docker/install-base-deps.sh script needs UBUNTU_VERSION (defaults to
2404), TARGETARCH, SKIP_DRIVERS, and APT_MIRROR/APT_PORTS_MIRROR exported
into the environment so it can pick the right cuda-keyring / cudss / nvpl
debs and apt mirrors. Dockerfile.ds4 was declaring some of the ARGs but not
re-exporting them via ENV. Mirrors Dockerfile.llama-cpp's pattern.
Without this fix 'make docker-build-ds4 BUILD_TYPE=cublas CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=13'
failed at:
/usr/local/sbin/install-base-deps: line 120: UBUNTU_VERSION: unbound variable
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/index): add Metal image entries for ds4
Adds metal-ds4 + metal-ds4-development image entries pointing at
quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai-backends:{latest,master}-metal-darwin-arm64-ds4
(built by scripts/build/ds4-darwin.sh on macOS arm64 runners), plus the
'metal' and 'metal-darwin-arm64' capability mappings on the ds4 meta and
ds4-development variant.
Closes a gap from the initial Task 23 landing - the Darwin Metal build
script and CI workflow step were already wired (Tasks 24-25), but the
gallery had no image entry for users to install the Metal variant.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(ci): use ubuntu:24.04 base for ds4 cuda13 matrix entries
The initial Task 22 matrix landing used base-image: 'nvidia/cuda:13.0.0-devel-ubuntu24.04'
which clashes with install-base-deps.sh's cuda-keyring step:
E: Conflicting values set for option Signed-By regarding source
https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2404/sbsa/
The canonical pattern (llama-cpp, ik-llama-cpp, turboquant) uses plain
'ubuntu:24.04' + 'skip-drivers: false' so install-base-deps installs CUDA
from scratch via its own keyring setup. Adopting that here.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): drop install-base-deps.sh dependency
The .docker/install-base-deps.sh pipeline is built around the llama-cpp
needs: NVIDIA keyring + cuda-toolkit apt + gRPC-from-source build at
/opt/grpc. For ds4 we don't need any of that:
- CUDA: nvidia/cuda:13.0.0-devel-ubuntu24.04 ships /usr/local/cuda
ready to go; install-base-deps's keyring step then conflicts with
the pre-installed Signed-By.
- gRPC: ds4's grpc-server.cpp only links against grpc++; system
libgrpc++-dev (apt) is sufficient, no source build needed.
Replaced the install-base-deps invocation in Dockerfile.ds4 with a
direct 'apt-get install libgrpc++-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler-grpc
nlohmann-json3-dev cmake build-essential pkg-config git'. Matrix entries
back to nvidia/cuda base + skip-drivers=true so install-base-deps would
no-op even if some downstream tooling calls it.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): correct proto accessors + alias grpc::Status as GStatus
Two compile bugs caught by the docker build:
1. proto::Message uses snake_case accessors. The build_prompt loop called
m.toolcalls() / m.toolcallid() - the protoc-generated names are
m.tool_calls() / m.tool_call_id(). Plan-text bug propagated to the
wrapper.
2. The Status RPC method shadowed the 'using grpc::Status' alias, so any
later method declaration using Status as a return type failed to parse
('Status does not name a type' starting at LoadModel). Solution: alias
grpc::Status as GStatus instead, with no 'using' clause that would
conflict. All RPC method declarations and return-statement constructions
now use GStatus.
Pre-existing code reviewer flagged the Status-shadow concern as 'minor'
in the original Task 10 commit; it turned out to be a real compile blocker
under libstdc++ 13 once the surrounding methods were filled in.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): preserve TOOL_ARGS content in dsml_parser Flush
When the model emitted a parameter value that arrived in the same buffer
as the surrounding tool_call markers (e.g. the buffered tail after a
literal '</think>' opened the model output), the parser deferred all
buffered bytes to Flush() because looks_like_prefix() always returns
true while buf starts with '<'. Flush() then drained the buffer as
plain CONTENT/REASONING regardless of parser state, so the bytes
between the parameter open and close markers were classified as
CONTENT instead of TOOL_ARGS.
Symptom: the model emitted
<|DSML|parameter name="location" string="true">Paris, France</|DSML|parameter>
and the assembled tool_call arguments came out as {"location":""} -
the opener and closer were emitted into the args stream but the
"Paris, France" content went to the assistant message instead.
Fix:
1. Flush() now uses the same state-aware emit logic as DrainPlain:
PARAM_VALUE bytes become TOOL_ARGS (json-escaped when string),
THINK bytes become REASONING, TEXT bytes become CONTENT, and
INVOKE / TOOL_CALLS structural whitespace is discarded.
2. looks_like_prefix() restricts its leading-'<' fallback to buffers
that have not yet seen a '>'. Without that change, char-by-char
feeds would discard the '<' of '<|DSML|invoke name="..."' once
the marker prefix length was reached but the closing quote/'>'
were still in flight.
Verified with a standalone harness that runs the failing input three
ways (single Feed, split-after-'>', and char-by-char) and aggregates
TOOL_ARGS for tool index 0: all three now produce
{"location":"Paris, France"}.
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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): use ds4_session_sync + manual generation loop for KV persistence
ds4_engine_generate_argmax() is a self-contained helper that doesn't take or
update a ds4_session - it manages its own internal state. Our Predict and
PredictStream methods created g_session via ds4_session_create() but then
called ds4_engine_generate_argmax(), so g_session's KV state never advanced.
ds4_session_payload_bytes(g_session) returned 0 and the disk KV cache save
correctly rejected with 'session has no valid checkpoint to save'.
Switch both RPCs to the proper session API:
ds4_session_sync(g_session, &prompt, ...)
loop:
int token = ds4_session_argmax(g_session)
if token == eos: break
emit(token)
ds4_session_eval(g_session, token, ...)
After the loop the session has a real checkpoint and ds4_session_save_payload
writes the KV state to disk. Verified end-to-end on a DGX Spark GB10: three
.kv files (15-30 MB each) are written when BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS sets
kv_cache_dir, and the e2e tool-call assertion still passes.
Also added stderr diagnostics to KvCache (enabled/disabled at SetDir; per-save
path + payload_bytes + result) so future failures are visible instead of
silent. The 'wrote ok' lines are low-volume - one per Predict/PredictStream
when the cache is enabled - and skipped entirely when the option is unset.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): use ds4_session_eval_speculative_argmax when MTP loaded
Wires MTP (Multi-Token Prediction) speculative decoding into the manual
generation loop in both Predict and PredictStream. When the upstream MTP
weights are loaded via 'mtp_path:' option AND we're on CUDA / Metal,
ds4_engine_mtp_draft_tokens() returns >0 and we switch the inner loop to
ds4_session_eval_speculative_argmax(), which can accept N>1 tokens per
verifier step. When MTP is not loaded (no option, CPU backend, or weights
absent), we fall through to the simple ds4_session_argmax + ds4_session_eval
path with no behavior change.
Validated on a DGX Spark GB10 with the optional MTP GGUF
(DeepSeek-V4-Flash-MTP-Q4K-Q8_0-F32.gguf, ~3.6 GB). LoadModel logs
'ds4: MTP support model loaded ... (draft=2)' on stderr.
Caveat per upstream README: 'currently provides at most a slight speedup,
not a meaningful generation-speed win'. Wired now mainly to track the
upstream API; bigger speedups arrive when ds4 improves the speculative path.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): honor PredictOptions sampling with DSML-aware override
Mirrors ds4_server.c:7102-7115 sampling-policy semantics on the LocalAI
gRPC side. The generation loop now consults compute_sample_params() per
token to pick the effective (temperature, top_k, top_p, min_p), based on:
1. Request defaults: PredictOptions.temperature / .topk / .topp / .minp
2. Thinking-mode override: when enable_thinking != false, force T=1.0,
top_k=0, top_p=1.0, min_p=0.0 (creativity for the reasoning pass and
the trailing content)
3. DSML structural override: when DsmlParser::IsInDsmlStructural()
returns true (we are between tool-call markers but NOT in a param
value payload), force T=0.0 so protocol bytes parse cleanly
When the effective temperature is 0, we keep using ds4_session_argmax +
MTP speculative path (matches ds4-server's gate that only enables MTP for
greedy positions). When > 0, we call ds4_session_sample(s, T, ...) with
a per-thread RNG seeded from system_clock and fall back to single-token
ds4_session_eval.
New public method on DsmlParser: IsInDsmlStructural() encodes which states
need protocol-byte determinism. PARAM_VALUE is excluded (payload uses user
sampling); TEXT and THINK are excluded (no tool-call context to protect).
Verified on the DGX Spark GB10: the e2e suite still passes with all 5
specs including tools, and the Predict output now varies between runs
(creative sampling active) while the tool-call args remain a clean
'{"location":"Paris, France"}' because the parser-state check forces
greedy on the structural bytes.
UX note: thinking mode is ON by default (matching ds4-server). Users who
want deterministic output should set Metadata.enable_thinking = false.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(gallery): add sha256 to deepseek-v4-flash-q2 entry
Per HF LFS metadata for antirez/deepseek-v4-gguf:
size: 86720111200 bytes (~80.76 GiB)
sha256: 31598c67c8b8744d3bcebcd19aa62253c6dc43cef3b8adf9f593656c9e86fd8c
LocalAI's downloader verifies sha256 when present, so users who install
deepseek-v4-flash-q2 from the gallery get integrity-checked weights and
the partial-download issue (an 81 GB file is easy to truncate) becomes
recoverable instead of silently producing a broken backend.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_DS 4) ) )
2026-01-04 20:12:50 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_PIPER ) ) )
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_LOCAL_STORE ) ) )
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_HUGGINGFACE ) ) )
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_SILERO_VAD ) ) )
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_STABLEDIFFUSION_GGML ) ) )
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_WHISPER ) ) )
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$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_VOXTRAL ) ) )
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$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_OPUS ) ) )
2026-01-04 20:12:50 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_RERANKERS ) ) )
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_TRANSFORMERS ) ) )
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$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_OUTETTS ) ) )
2026-01-04 20:12:50 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_FASTER_WHISPER ) ) )
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_COQUI ) ) )
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_RFDETR ) ) )
feat(face-recognition): add insightface/onnx backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis (#9480)
* feat(face-recognition): add insightface backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis
Adds face recognition as a new first-class capability in LocalAI via the
`insightface` Python backend, with a pluggable two-engine design so
non-commercial (insightface model packs) and commercial-safe
(OpenCV Zoo YuNet + SFace) models share the same gRPC/HTTP surface.
New gRPC RPCs (backend/backend.proto):
* FaceVerify(FaceVerifyRequest) returns FaceVerifyResponse
* FaceAnalyze(FaceAnalyzeRequest) returns FaceAnalyzeResponse
Existing Embedding and Detect RPCs are reused (face image in
PredictOptions.Images / DetectOptions.src) for face embedding and
face detection respectively.
New HTTP endpoints under /v1/face/:
* verify — 1:1 image pair same-person decision
* analyze — per-face age + gender (emotion/race reserved)
* register — 1:N enrollment; stores embedding in vector store
* identify — 1:N recognition; detect → embed → StoresFind
* forget — remove a registered face by opaque ID
Service layer (core/services/facerecognition/) introduces a
`Registry` interface with one in-memory `storeRegistry` impl backed
by LocalAI's existing local-store gRPC vector backend. HTTP handlers
depend on the interface, not on StoresSet/StoresFind directly, so a
persistent PostgreSQL/pgvector implementation can be slotted in via a
single constructor change in core/application (TODO marker in the
package doc).
New usecase flag FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION; insightface is also wired
into FLAG_DETECTION so /v1/detection works for face bounding boxes.
Gallery (backend/index.yaml) ships three entries:
* insightface-buffalo-l — SCRFD-10GF + ArcFace R50 + genderage
(~326MB pre-baked; non-commercial research use only)
* insightface-opencv — YuNet + SFace (~40MB pre-baked; Apache 2.0)
* insightface-buffalo-s — SCRFD-500MF + MBF (runtime download; non-commercial)
Python backend (backend/python/insightface/):
* engines.py — FaceEngine protocol with InsightFaceEngine and
OnnxDirectEngine; resolves model paths relative to the backend
directory so the same gallery config works in docker-scratch and
in the e2e-backends rootfs-extraction harness.
* backend.py — gRPC servicer implementing Health, LoadModel, Status,
Embedding, Detect, FaceVerify, FaceAnalyze.
* install.sh — pre-bakes buffalo_l + OpenCV YuNet/SFace inside the
backend directory so first-run is offline-clean (the final scratch
image only preserves files under /<backend>/).
* test.py — parametrized unit tests over both engines.
Tests:
* Registry unit tests (go test -race ./core/services/facerecognition/...)
— in-memory fake grpc.Backend, table-driven, covers register/
identify/forget/error paths + concurrent access.
* tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go extended with face caps
(face_detect, face_embed, face_verify, face_analyze); relative
ordering + configurable verifyCeiling per engine.
* Makefile targets: test-extra-backend-insightface-buffalo-l,
-opencv, and the -all aggregate.
* CI: .github/workflows/test-extra.yml gains tests-insightface-grpc,
auto-triggered by changes under backend/python/insightface/.
Docs:
* docs/content/features/face-recognition.md — feature page with
license table, quickstart (defaults to the commercial-safe model),
models matrix, API reference, 1:N workflow, storage caveats.
* Cross-refs in object-detection.md, stores.md, embeddings.md, and
whats-new.md.
* Contributor README at backend/python/insightface/README.md.
Verified end-to-end:
* buffalo_l: 6/6 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed,
face_verify, face_analyze).
* opencv: 5/5 specs (same minus face_analyze — SFace has no
demographic head; correctly skipped via BACKEND_TEST_CAPS).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): move engine selection to model gallery, collapse backend entries
The previous commit put engine/model_pack options on backend gallery
entries (`backend/index.yaml`). That was wrong — `GalleryBackend`
(core/gallery/backend_types.go:32) has no `options` field, so the
YAML decoder silently dropped those keys and all three "different
insightface-*" backend entries resolved to the same container image
with no distinguishing configuration.
Correct split:
* `backend/index.yaml` now has ONE `insightface` backend entry
shipping the CPU + CUDA 12 container images. The Python backend
bundles both the non-commercial insightface model packs
(buffalo_l / buffalo_s) and the commercial-safe OpenCV Zoo
weights (YuNet + SFace); the active engine is selected at
LoadModel time via `options: ["engine:..."]`.
* `gallery/index.yaml` gains three model entries —
`insightface-buffalo-l`, `insightface-opencv`,
`insightface-buffalo-s` — each setting the appropriate
`overrides.backend` + `overrides.options` so installing one
actually gives the user the intended engine. This matches how
`rfdetr-base` lives in the model gallery against the `rfdetr`
backend.
The earlier e2e tests passed despite this bug because the Makefile
targets pass `BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS` directly to LoadModel via gRPC,
bypassing any gallery resolution entirely. No code changes needed.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): cover all supported models in the gallery + drop weight baking
Follows up on the model-gallery split: adds entries for every model
configuration either engine actually supports, and switches weight
delivery from image-baked to LocalAI's standard gallery mechanism.
Gallery now has seven `insightface-*` model entries (gallery/index.yaml):
insightface (family) — non-commercial research use
• buffalo-l (326MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet50 + genderage, default
• buffalo-m (313MB) — SCRFD-2.5GF + ResNet50 + genderage
• buffalo-s (159MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF + genderage
• buffalo-sc (16MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF, recognition only
(no landmarks, no demographics — analyze
returns empty attributes)
• antelopev2 (407MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet100@Glint360K + genderage
OpenCV Zoo family — Apache 2.0 commercial-safe
• opencv — YuNet + SFace fp32 (~40MB)
• opencv-int8 — YuNet + SFace int8 (~12MB, ~3x smaller, faster on CPU)
Model weights are no longer baked into the backend image. The image
now ships only the Python runtime + libraries (~275MB content size,
~1.18GB disk vs ~1.21GB when weights were baked). Weights flow through
LocalAI's gallery mechanism:
* OpenCV variants list `files:` with ONNX URIs + SHA-256, so
`local-ai models install insightface-opencv` pulls them into the
models directory exactly like any other gallery-managed model.
* insightface packs (upstream distributes .zip archives only, not
individual ONNX files) auto-download on first LoadModel via
FaceAnalysis' built-in machinery, rooted at the LocalAI models
directory so they live alongside everything else — same pattern
`rfdetr` uses with `inference.get_model()`.
Backend changes (backend/python/insightface/):
* backend.py — LoadModel propagates `ModelOptions.ModelPath` (the
LocalAI models directory) to engines via a `_model_dir` hint.
This replaces the earlier ModelFile-dirname approach; ModelPath
is the canonical "models directory" variable set by the Go loader
(pkg/model/initializers.go:144) and is always populated.
* engines.py::_resolve_model_path — picks up `model_dir` and searches
it (plus basename-in-model-dir) before falling back to the dev
script-dir. This is how OnnxDirectEngine finds gallery-downloaded
YuNet/SFace files by filename only.
* engines.py::_flatten_insightface_pack — new helper that works
around an upstream packaging inconsistency: buffalo_l/s/sc zips
expand flat, but buffalo_m and antelopev2 zips wrap their ONNX
files in a redundant `<name>/` directory. insightface's own
loader looks one level too shallow and fails. We call
`ensure_available()` explicitly, flatten if nested, then hand to
FaceAnalysis.
* engines.py::InsightFaceEngine.prepare — root-resolution order now
includes the `_model_dir` hint so packs download into the LocalAI
models directory by default.
* install.sh — no longer pre-downloads any weights. Everything is
gallery-managed now.
* smoke.py (new) — parametrized smoke test that iterates over every
gallery configuration, simulating the LocalAI install flow
(creates a models dir, fetches OpenCV files with checksum
verification, lets insightface auto-download its packs), then
runs detect + embed + verify (+ analyze where supported) through
the in-process BackendServicer.
* test.py — OnnxDirectEngineTest no longer hardcodes `/models/opencv/`
paths; downloads ONNX files to a temp dir at setUpClass time and
passes ModelPath accordingly.
Registry change (core/services/facerecognition/store_registry.go):
* `dim=0` in NewStoreRegistry now means "accept whatever dimension
arrives" — needed because the backend supports 512-d ArcFace/MBF
and 128-d SFace via the same Registry. A non-zero dim still fails
fast with ErrDimensionMismatch.
* core/application plumbs `faceEmbeddingDim = 0`, explaining the
rationale in the comment.
Backend gallery description updated to reflect that the image carries
no weights — it's just Python + engines.
Smoke-tested all 7 configurations against the rebuilt image (with the
flatten fix applied), exit 0:
PASS: insightface-buffalo-l faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-sc faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-s faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-m faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-antelopev2 faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv-int8 faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
7/7 passed
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): pre-fetch OpenCV ONNX for e2e target; drop stale pre-baked claim
CI regression from the previous commit: I moved OpenCV Zoo weight
delivery to LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism, but the
test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv target was still passing
relative paths `detector_onnx:models/opencv/yunet.onnx` in
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS. The e2e suite drives LoadModel directly over
gRPC without going through the gallery, so those relative paths
resolved to nothing and OpenCV's ONNXImporter failed:
LoadModel failed: Failed to load face engine:
OpenCV(4.13.0) ... Can't read ONNX file: models/opencv/yunet.onnx
Fix: add an `insightface-opencv-models` prerequisite target that
fetches the two ONNX files (YuNet + SFace) to a deterministic host
cache at /tmp/localai-insightface-opencv-cache/, verifies SHA-256,
and skips the download on re-runs. The opencv test target depends on
it and passes absolute paths in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS, so the backend
finds the files via its normal absolute-path resolution branch.
Also refresh the buffalo_l comment: it no longer says "pre-baked"
(nothing is — the pack auto-downloads from upstream's GitHub release
on first LoadModel, same as in CI).
Locally verified: `make test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv` passes
5/5 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed, face_verify).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): add POST /v1/face/embed + correct /v1/embeddings docs
The docs promised that /v1/embeddings returns face vectors when you
send an image data-URI. That was never true: /v1/embeddings is
OpenAI-compatible and text-only by contract — its handler goes
through `core/backend/embeddings.go::ModelEmbedding`, which sets
`predictOptions.Embeddings = s` (a string of TEXT to embed) and never
populates `predictOptions.Images[]`. The Python backend's Embedding
gRPC method does handle Images[] (that's how /v1/face/register reaches
it internally via `backend.FaceEmbed`), but the HTTP embeddings
endpoint wasn't wired to populate it.
Rather than overload /v1/embeddings with image-vs-text detection —
messy, and the endpoint is OpenAI-compatible by design — add a
dedicated /v1/face/embed endpoint that wraps `backend.FaceEmbed`
(already used internally by /v1/face/register and /v1/face/identify).
Matches LocalAI's convention of a dedicated path per non-standard flow
(/v1/rerank, /v1/detection, /v1/face/verify etc.).
Response:
{
"embedding": [<dim> floats, L2-normed],
"dim": int, // 512 for ArcFace R50 / MBF, 128 for SFace
"model": "<name>"
}
Live-tested on the opencv engine: returns a 128-d L2-normalized vector
(sum(x^2) = 1.0000). Sentinel in docs updated to note /v1/embeddings
is text-only and point image users at /v1/face/embed instead.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(http): map malformed image input + gRPC status codes to proper 4xx
Image-input failures on LocalAI's single-image endpoints (/v1/detection,
/v1/face/{verify,analyze,embed,register,identify}) have historically
returned 500 — even when the client was the one who sent garbage.
Classic example: you POST an "image" that isn't a URL, isn't a
data-URI, and isn't a valid JPEG/PNG — the server shouldn't claim
that's its fault.
Two helpers land in core/http/endpoints/localai/images.go and every
single-image handler is switched over:
* decodeImageInput(s)
Wraps utils.GetContentURIAsBase64 and turns any failure
(invalid URL, not a data-URI, download error, etc.) into
echo.NewHTTPError(400, "invalid image input: ...").
* mapBackendError(err)
Inspects the gRPC status on a backend call error and maps:
INVALID_ARGUMENT → 400 Bad Request
NOT_FOUND → 404 Not Found
FAILED_PRECONDITION → 412 Precondition Failed
Unimplemented → 501 Not Implemented
All other codes fall through unchanged (still 500).
Before, my 1×1 PNG error-path test returned:
HTTP 500 "rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = failed to decode one or both images"
After:
HTTP 400 "failed to decode one or both images"
Scope-limited to the LocalAI single-image endpoints. The multi-modal
paths (middleware/request.go, openresponses/responses.go,
openai/realtime.go) intentionally log-and-skip individual media parts
when decoding fails — different design intent (graceful degradation
of a multi-part message), not a 400-worthy failure. Left untouched.
Live-verified: every error case in /tmp/face_errors.py now returns
4xx with a meaningful message; the "image with no face (1x1 PNG)"
case specifically went from 500 → 400.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* refactor(face-recognition): insightface packs go through gallery files:, drop FaceAnalysis
Follows up on the discovery that LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism
handles archives (zip, tar.gz, …) via mholt/archiver/v3 — the rhasspy
piper voices use exactly this pattern. Insightface packs are zip
archives, so we can now deliver them the same way every other
gallery-managed model gets delivered: declaratively, checksum-verified,
through LocalAI's standard download+extract pipeline.
Two changes:
1. Gallery (gallery/index.yaml) — every insightface-* entry gains a
`files:` list with the pack zip's URI + SHA-256. `local-ai models
install insightface-buffalo-l` now fetches the zip, verifies the
hash, and extracts it into the models directory. No more reliance
on insightface's library-internal `ensure_available()` auto-download
or its hardcoded `BASE_REPO_URL`.
2. InsightFaceEngine (backend/python/insightface/engines.py) — drops
the FaceAnalysis wrapper and drives insightface's `model_zoo`
directly. The ~50 lines FaceAnalysis provides — glob ONNX files,
route each through `model_zoo.get_model()`, build a
`{taskname: model}` dict, loop per-face at inference — are
reimplemented in `InsightFaceEngine`. The actual inference classes
(RetinaFace, ArcFaceONNX, Attribute, Landmark) are still
insightface's — we only replicate the glue, so drift risk against
upstream is minimal.
Why drop FaceAnalysis: it hard-codes a `<root>/models/<name>/*.onnx`
layout that doesn't match what LocalAI's zip extraction produces.
LocalAI unpacks archives flat into `<models_dir>`. Upstream packs
are inconsistent — buffalo_l/s/sc ship ONNX at the zip root (lands
at `<models_dir>/*.onnx`), buffalo_m/antelopev2 wrap in a redundant
`<name>/` dir (lands at `<models_dir>/<name>/*.onnx`). The new
`_locate_insightface_pack` helper searches both locations plus
legacy paths and returns whichever has ONNX files. Replaces the
earlier `_flatten_insightface_pack` helper (which tried to fight
FaceAnalysis's layout expectations; now we just find the files
wherever they are).
Net effect for users: install once via LocalAI's managed flow,
weights live alongside every other model, progress shows in the
jobs endpoint, no first-load network call. Same API surface,
cleaner plumbing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): CI's insightface e2e path needs the pack pre-fetched
The e2e suite drives LoadModel over gRPC without going through LocalAI's
gallery flow, so the engine's `_model_dir` option (normally populated
from ModelPath) is empty. Previously the insightface target relied on
FaceAnalysis auto-download to paper over this, but we dropped
FaceAnalysis in favor of direct model_zoo calls — so the buffalo_l
target started failing at LoadModel with "no insightface pack found".
Mirror the opencv target's pre-fetch pattern: download buffalo_sc.zip
(same SHA as the gallery entry), extract it on the host, and pass
`root:<dir>` so the engine locates the pack without needing
ModelPath. Switched to buffalo_sc (smallest pack, ~16MB) to keep CI
fast; it covers the same insightface engine code path as buffalo_l.
Face analyze cap dropped since buffalo_sc has no age/gender head.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* feat(face-recognition): surface face-recognition in advertised feature maps
The six /v1/face/* endpoints were missing from every place LocalAI
advertises its feature surface to clients:
* api_instructions — the machine-readable capability index at
GET /api/instructions. Added `face-recognition` as a dedicated
instruction area with an intro that calls out the in-memory
registry caveat and the /v1/face/embed vs /v1/embeddings split.
* auth/permissions — added FeatureFaceRecognition constant, routed
all six face endpoints through it so admins can gate them per-user
like any other API feature. Default ON (matches the other API
features).
* React UI capabilities — CAP_FACE_RECOGNITION symbol mapped to
FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION. Declared only for now; the Face page is a
follow-up (noted in the plan).
Instruction count bumped 9 → 10; test updated.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* docs(agents): capture advertising-surface steps in the endpoint guide
Before this change, adding a new /v1/* endpoint reliably missed one or
more of: the swagger @Tags annotation, the /api/instructions registry,
the auth RouteFeatureRegistry, and the React UI CAP_* symbol. The
endpoint would work but be invisible to API consumers, admins, and the
UI — and nothing in the existing docs said to look in those places.
Extend .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md with a new "Advertising
surfaces" section covering all four surfaces (swagger tags, /api/
instructions, capabilities.js, docs/), and expand the closing checklist
so it's impossible to ship a feature without visiting each one. Hoist a
one-liner reminder into AGENTS.md's Quick Reference so agents skim it
before diving in.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
2026-04-22 19:55:41 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_INSIGHTFACE ) ) )
feat: voice recognition (#9500)
* feat(voice-recognition): add /v1/voice/{verify,analyze,embed} + speaker-recognition backend
Audio analog to face recognition. Adds three gRPC RPCs
(VoiceVerify / VoiceAnalyze / VoiceEmbed), their Go service and HTTP
layers, a new FLAG_SPEAKER_RECOGNITION capability flag, and a Python
backend scaffold under backend/python/speaker-recognition/ wrapping
SpeechBrain ECAPA-TDNN with a parallel OnnxDirectEngine for
WeSpeaker / 3D-Speaker ONNX exports.
The kokoros Rust backend gets matching unimplemented trait stubs —
tonic's async_trait has no defaults, so adding an RPC without Rust
stubs breaks the build (same regression fixed by eb01c772 for face).
Swagger, /api/instructions, and the auth RouteFeatureRegistry /
APIFeatures list are updated so the endpoints surface everywhere a
client or admin UI looks.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(voice-recognition): add 1:N identify + register/forget endpoints
Mirrors the face-recognition register/identify/forget surface. New
package core/services/voicerecognition/ carries a Registry interface
and a local-store-backed implementation (same in-memory vector-store
plumbing facerecognition uses, separate instance so the embedding
spaces stay isolated).
Handlers under /v1/voice/{register,identify,forget} reuse
backend.VoiceEmbed to compute the probe vector, then delegate the
nearest-neighbour search to the registry. Default cosine-distance
threshold is tuned for ECAPA-TDNN on VoxCeleb (0.25, EER ~1.9%).
As with the face registry, the current backing is in-memory only — a
pgvector implementation is a future constructor-level swap.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(voice-recognition): gallery, docs, CI and e2e coverage
- backend/index.yaml: speaker-recognition backend entry + CPU and
CUDA-12 image variants (plus matching development variants).
- gallery/index.yaml: speechbrain-ecapa-tdnn (default) and
wespeaker-resnet34 model entries. The WeSpeaker SHA-256 is a
deliberate placeholder — the HF URI must be curl'd and its hash
filled in before the entry installs.
- docs/content/features/voice-recognition.md: API reference + quickstart,
mirrors the face-recognition docs.
- React UI: CAP_SPEAKER_RECOGNITION flag export (consumers follow face's
precedent — no dedicated tab yet).
- tests/e2e-backends: voice_embed / voice_verify / voice_analyze specs.
Helper resolveFaceFixture is reused as-is — the only thing face/voice
share is "download a file into workDir", so no need for a new helper.
- Makefile: docker-build-speaker-recognition + test-extra-backend-
speaker-recognition-{ecapa,all} targets. Audio fixtures default to
VCTK p225/p226 samples from HuggingFace.
- CI: test-extra.yml grows a tests-speaker-recognition-grpc job
mirroring insightface. backend.yml matrix gains CPU + CUDA-12 image
build entries — scripts/changed-backends.js auto-picks these up.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(voice-recognition): wire a working /v1/voice/analyze head
Adds AnalysisHead: a lazy-loading age / gender / emotion inference
wrapper that plugs into both SpeechBrainEngine and OnnxDirectEngine.
Defaults to two open-licence HuggingFace checkpoints:
- audeering/wav2vec2-large-robust-24-ft-age-gender (Apache 2.0) —
age regression + 3-way gender (female / male / child).
- superb/wav2vec2-base-superb-er (Apache 2.0) — 4-way emotion.
Both are optional and degrade gracefully when transformers or the
model can't be loaded — the engine raises NotImplementedError so the
gRPC layer returns 501 instead of a generic 500.
Emotion classes pass through from the model (neutral/happy/angry/sad
on the default checkpoint); the e2e test now accepts any non-empty
dominant gender so custom age_gender_model overrides don't fail it.
Adds transformers to the backend's CPU and CUDA-12 requirements.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(voice-recognition): pin real WeSpeaker ResNet34 ONNX SHA-256
Replaces the placeholder hash in gallery/index.yaml with the actual
SHA-256 (7bb2f06e…) of the upstream
Wespeaker/wespeaker-voxceleb-resnet34-LM ONNX at ~25MB. `local-ai
models install wespeaker-resnet34` now succeeds.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(voice-recognition): soundfile loader + honest analyze default
Two issues surfaced on first end-to-end smoke with the actual backend
image:
1. torchaudio.load in torchaudio 2.8+ requires the torchcodec package
for audio decoding. Switch SpeechBrainEngine._load_waveform to the
already-present soundfile (listed in requirements.txt) plus a numpy
linear resample to 16kHz. Drops a heavy ffmpeg-linked dep and the
codepath we never exercise (torchaudio's ffmpeg backend).
2. The AnalysisHead was defaulting to audeering/wav2vec2-large-robust-
24-ft-age-gender, but AutoModelForAudioClassification silently
mangles that checkpoint — it reports the age head weights as
UNEXPECTED and re-initialises the classifier head with random
values, so the "gender" output is noise and there is no age output
at all. Make age/gender opt-in instead (empty default; users wire
a cleanly-loadable Wav2Vec2ForSequenceClassification checkpoint via
age_gender_model: option). Emotion keeps its working Superb default.
Also broaden _infer_age_gender's tensor-shape handling and catch
runtime exceptions so a dodgy age/gender head never takes down the
whole analyze call.
Docs and README updated to match the new policy.
Verified with the branch-scoped gallery on localhost:
- voice/embed → 192-d ECAPA-TDNN vector
- voice/verify → same-clip dist≈6e-08 verified=true; cross-speaker
dist 0.76–0.99 verified=false (as expected)
- voice/register/identify/forget → round-trip works, 404 on unknown id
- voice/analyze → emotion populated, age/gender omitted (opt-in)
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(voice-recognition): real CI audio fixtures + fixture-agnostic verify spec
Two issues surfaced after CI actually ran the speaker-recognition e2e
target (I'd curl-tested against a running server but hadn't run the
make target locally):
1. The default BACKEND_TEST_VOICE_AUDIO_* URLs pointed at
huggingface.co/datasets/CSTR-Edinburgh/vctk paths that return 404
(the dataset is gated). Swap them for the speechbrain test samples
served from github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/raw/develop/ —
public, no auth, correct 16kHz mono format.
2. The VoiceVerify spec required d(file1,file2) < 0.4, assuming
file1/file2 were same-speaker. The speechbrain samples are three
different speakers (example1/2/5), and there is no easy un-gated
source of true same-speaker audio pairs (VoxCeleb/VCTK/LibriSpeech
are all license- or size-gated for CI use). Replace the ceiling
check with a relative-ordering assertion: d(pair) > d(same-clip)
for both file2 and file3 — that's enough to prove the embeddings
encode speaker info, and it works with any three non-identical
clips. Actual speaker ordering d(1,2) vs d(1,3) is logged but not
asserted.
Local run: 4/4 voice specs pass (Health, LoadModel, VoiceEmbed,
VoiceVerify) on the built backend image. 12 non-voice specs skipped
as expected.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(ci): checkout with submodules in the reusable backend_build workflow
The kokoros Rust backend build fails with
failed to read .../sources/Kokoros/kokoros/Cargo.toml: No such file
because the reusable backend_build.yml workflow's actions/checkout
step was missing `submodules: true`. Dockerfile.rust does `COPY .
/LocalAI`, and without the submodule files the subsequent `cargo
build` can't find the vendored Kokoros crate.
The bug pre-dates this PR — scripts/changed-backends.js only triggers
the kokoros image job when something under backend/rust/kokoros or
the shared proto changes, so master had been coasting past it. The
voice-recognition proto addition re-broke it.
Other checkouts in backend.yml (llama-cpp-darwin) and test-extra.yml
(insightface, kokoros, speaker-recognition) already pass
`submodules: true`; this brings the shared backend image builder in
line.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
2026-04-23 10:07:14 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_SPEAKER_RECOGNITION ) ) )
2026-01-04 20:12:50 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_KITTEN_TTS ) ) )
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_NEUTTS ) ) )
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_KOKORO ) ) )
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_VLLM ) ) )
2026-01-24 21:23:30 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_VLLM_OMNI ) ) )
2026-04-16 20:40:56 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_SGLANG ) ) )
2026-01-04 20:12:50 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_DIFFUSERS ) ) )
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_CHATTERBOX ) ) )
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_VIBEVOICE ) ) )
feat(realtime): Add Liquid Audio s2s model and assistant mode on talk page (#9801)
* feat(liquid-audio): add LFM2.5-Audio any-to-any backend + realtime_audio usecase
Wires LiquidAI's LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B as a self-contained Realtime API model:
single engine handles VAD, transcription, LLM, and TTS in one bidirectional
stream — drop-in alternative to a VAD+STT+LLM+TTS pipeline.
Backend
- backend/python/liquid-audio/ — new Python gRPC backend wrapping the
`liquid-audio` package. Modes: chat / asr / tts / s2s, voice presets,
Load/Predict/PredictStream/AudioTranscription/TTS/VAD/AudioToAudioStream/
Free and StartFineTune/FineTuneProgress/StopFineTune. Runtime monkey-patch
on `liquid_audio.utils.snapshot_download` so absolute local paths from
LocalAI's gallery resolve without a HF round-trip. soundfile in place of
torchaudio.load/save (torchcodec drags NVIDIA NPP we don't bundle).
- backend/backend.proto + pkg/grpc/{backend,client,server,base,embed,
interface}.go — new AudioToAudioStream RPC mirroring AudioTransformStream
(config/frame/control oneof in; typed event+pcm+meta out).
- core/services/nodes/{health_mock,inflight}_test.go — add stubs for the
new RPC to the test fakes.
Config + capabilities
- core/config/backend_capabilities.go — UsecaseRealtimeAudio, MethodAudio
ToAudioStream, UsecaseInfoMap entry, liquid-audio BackendCapability row.
- core/config/model_config.go — FLAG_REALTIME_AUDIO bitmask, ModalityGroups
membership in both speech-input and audio-output groups so a lone flag
still reads as multimodal, GetAllModelConfigUsecases entry, GuessUsecases
branch.
Realtime endpoint
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime.go — extract prepareRealtimeConfig()
so the gate is unit-testable; accept realtime_audio models and self-fill
empty pipeline slots with the model's own name (user-pinned slots win).
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime_gate_test.go — six specs covering nil
cfg, empty pipeline, legacy pipeline, self-contained realtime_audio,
user-pinned VAD slot, and partial legacy pipeline.
UI + endpoints
- core/http/routes/ui.go — /api/pipeline-models accepts either a legacy
VAD+STT+LLM+TTS pipeline or a realtime_audio model; surfaces a
self_contained flag so the Talk page can collapse the four cards.
- core/http/routes/ui_api.go — realtime_audio in usecaseFilters.
- core/http/routes/ui_pipeline_models_test.go — covers both code paths.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Talk.jsx — self-contained badge instead of
the four-slot grid; rename Edit Pipeline → Edit Model Config; less
pipeline-specific wording.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Models.jsx + locales/en/models.json — new
realtime_audio filter button + i18n.
- core/http/react-ui/src/utils/capabilities.js — CAP_REALTIME_AUDIO.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/FineTune.jsx — voice + validation-dataset
fields, surfaced when backend === liquid-audio, plumbed via
extra_options on submit/export/import.
Gallery + importer
- gallery/liquid-audio.yaml — config template with known_usecases:
[realtime_audio, chat, tts, transcript, vad].
- gallery/index.yaml — four model entries (realtime/chat/asr/tts) keyed by
mode option. Fixed pre-existing `transcribe` typo on the asr entry
(loader silently dropped the unknown string → entry never surfaced as a
transcript model).
- gallery/lfm.yaml — function block for the LFM2 Pythonic tool-call format
`<|tool_call_start|>[name(k="v")]<|tool_call_end|>` matching
common_chat_params_init_lfm2 in vendored llama.cpp.
- core/gallery/importers/{liquid-audio,liquid-audio_test}.go — detector
matches LFM2-Audio HF repos (excludes -gguf mirrors); mode/voice
preferences plumbed through to options.
- core/gallery/importers/importers.go — register LiquidAudioImporter
before LlamaCPPImporter.
- pkg/functions/parse_lfm2_test.go — seven specs for the response/argument
regex pair on the LFM2 pythonic format.
Build matrix
- .github/backend-matrix.yml — seven liquid-audio targets (cuda12, cuda13,
l4t-cuda-13, hipblas, intel, cpu amd64, cpu arm64). Jetpack r36 cuda-12
is skipped (Ubuntu 22.04 / Python 3.10 incompatible with liquid-audio's
3.12 floor).
- backend/index.yaml — anchor + 13 image entries.
- Makefile — .NOTPARALLEL, prepare-test-extra, test-extra,
docker-build-liquid-audio.
Docs
- .agents/plans/liquid-audio-integration.md — phased plan; PR-D (real
any-to-any wiring via AudioToAudioStream), PR-E (mid-audio tool-call
detector), PR-G (GGUF entries once upstream llama.cpp PR #18641 lands)
remain.
- .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md — expand the capability-surface
checklist with every place a new FLAG_* needs to be registered.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(realtime): function calling + history cap for any-to-any models
Three pieces, all on the realtime_audio path that just landed:
1. liquid-audio backend (backend/python/liquid-audio/backend.py):
- _build_chat_state grows a `tools_prelude` arg.
- new _render_tools_prelude parses request.Tools (the OpenAI Chat
Completions function array realtime.go already serialises) and
emits an LFM2 `<|tool_list_start|>…<|tool_list_end|>` system turn
ahead of the user history. Mirrors gallery/lfm.yaml's `function:`
template so the model sees the same prompt shape whether served
via llama-cpp or here. Without this the backend silently dropped
tools — function calling was wired end-to-end on the Go side but
the model never saw a tool list.
2. Realtime history cap (core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime.go):
- Session grows MaxHistoryItems int; default picked by new
defaultMaxHistoryItems(cfg) — 6 for realtime_audio models (LFM2.5
1.5B degrades quickly past a handful of turns), 0/unlimited for
legacy pipelines composing larger LLMs.
- triggerResponse runs conv.Items through trimRealtimeItems before
building conversationHistory. Helper walks the cut left if it
would orphan a function_call_output, so tool result + call pairs
stay intact.
- realtime_gate_test.go: specs for defaultMaxHistoryItems and
trimRealtimeItems (zero cap, under cap, over cap, tool-call pair
preservation).
3. Talk page (core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Talk.jsx):
- Reuses the chat page's MCP plumbing — useMCPClient hook,
ClientMCPDropdown component, same auto-connect/disconnect effect
pattern. No bespoke tool registry, no new REST endpoints; tools
come from whichever MCP servers the user toggles on, exactly as
on the chat page.
- sendSessionUpdate now passes session.tools=getToolsForLLM(); the
update re-fires when the active server set changes mid-session.
- New response.function_call_arguments.done handler executes via
the hook's executeTool (which round-trips through the MCP client
SDK), then replies with conversation.item.create
{type:function_call_output} + response.create so the model
completes its turn with the tool output. Mirrors chat's
client-side agentic loop, translated to the realtime wire shape.
UI changes require a LocalAI image rebuild (Dockerfile:308-313 bakes
react-ui/dist into the runtime image). Backend.py changes can be
swapped live in /backends/<id>/backend.py + /backend/shutdown.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(realtime): LocalAI Assistant ("Manage Mode") for the Talk page
Mirrors the chat-page metadata.localai_assistant flow so users can ask the
realtime model what's loaded / installed / configured. Tools are run
server-side via the same in-process MCP holder that powers the chat
modality — no transport switch, no proxy, no new wire protocol.
Wire:
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime.go:
- RealtimeSessionOptions{LocalAIAssistant,IsAdmin}; isCurrentUserAdmin
helper mirrors chat.go's requireAssistantAccess (no-op when auth
disabled, else requires auth.RoleAdmin).
- Session grows AssistantExecutor mcpTools.ToolExecutor.
- runRealtimeSession, when opts.LocalAIAssistant is set: gate on admin,
fail closed if DisableLocalAIAssistant or the holder has no tools,
DiscoverTools and inject into session.Tools, prepend
holder.SystemPrompt() to instructions.
- Tool-call dispatch loop: when AssistantExecutor.IsTool(name), run
ExecuteTool inproc, append a FunctionCallOutput to conv.Items, skip
the function_call_arguments client emit (the client can't execute
these — it doesn't know about them). After the loop, if any
assistant tool ran, trigger another response so the model speaks the
result. Mirrors chat's agentic loop, driven server-side rather than
via client round-trip.
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime_webrtc.go: RealtimeCallRequest
gains `localai_assistant` (JSON omitempty). Handshake calls
isCurrentUserAdmin and builds RealtimeSessionOptions.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Talk.jsx: admin-only "Manage Mode"
checkbox under the Tools dropdown; passes localai_assistant: true to
realtimeApi.call's body, captured in the connect callback's deps.
Mirroring chat's pattern means the in-process MCP tools surface "just
works" for the Talk page without exposing a Streamable-HTTP MCP endpoint
(which was the alternative). Clients with their own MCP servers can
still use the existing ClientMCPDropdown path in parallel; the realtime
handler distinguishes them by AssistantExecutor.IsTool() at dispatch
time.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(realtime): render Manage Mode tool calls in the Talk transcript
Previously the realtime endpoint only emitted response.output_item.added
for the FunctionCall item, and Talk.jsx's switch ignored the event — so
server-side tool runs were invisible in the UI. The model would speak
the result but the user had no way to see what tool was actually
called.
realtime.go: after executing an assistant tool inproc, emit a second
output_item.added/.done pair for the FunctionCallOutput item. Mirrors
the way the chat page displays tool_call + tool_result blocks.
Talk.jsx: handle both response.output_item.added and .done. Render
FunctionCall (with arguments) and FunctionCallOutput (pretty-printed
JSON when possible) as two transcript entries — `tool_call` with the
wrench icon, `tool_result` with the clipboard icon, both in mono-space
secondary-colour. Resets streamingRef after the result so the next
assistant text delta starts a fresh transcript entry instead of
appending to the previous turn.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* refactor(realtime): bound the Manage Mode tool-loop + preserve assistant tools
Fallout from a review pass on the Manage Mode patches:
- Bound the server-side agentic loop. triggerResponse used to recurse on
executedAssistantTool with no cap — a model that kept calling tools
would blow the goroutine stack. New maxAssistantToolTurns = 10 (mirrors
useChat.js's maxToolTurns). Public triggerResponse is now a thin shim
over triggerResponseAtTurn(toolTurn int); recursion increments the
counter and stops at the cap with an xlog.Warn.
- Preserve Manage Mode tools across client session.update. The handler
used to blindly overwrite session.Tools, so toggling a client MCP
server mid-session silently wiped the in-process admin tools. Session
now caches the original AssistantTools slice at session creation and
the session.update handler merges them back in (client names win on
collision — the client is explicit).
- strconv.ParseBool for the localai_assistant query param instead of
hand-rolled "1" || "true". Mirrors LocalAIAssistantFromMetadata.
- Talk.jsx: render both tool_call and tool_result on
response.output_item.done instead of splitting them across .added and
.done. The server's event pairing (added → done) stays correct; the
UI just doesn't need to inspect both phases of the same item. One
switch case instead of two, no behavioural change.
Out of scope (noted for follow-ups): extract a shared assistant-tools
helper between chat.go and realtime.go (duplication is small enough
that two parallel implementations stay readable for now), and an i18n
key for the Manage Mode helper text (Talk.jsx doesn't use i18n
anywhere else yet).
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* ci(test-extra): wire liquid-audio backend smoke test
The backend ships test.py + a `make test` target and is listed in
backend-matrix.yml, so scripts/changed-backends.js already writes a
`liquid-audio=true|false` output when files under backend/python/liquid-audio/
change. The workflow just wasn't reading it.
- Expose the `liquid-audio` output on the detect-changes job
- Add a tests-liquid-audio job that runs `make` + `make test` in
backend/python/liquid-audio, gated on the per-backend detect flag
The smoke covers Health() and LoadModel(mode:finetune); fine-tune mode
short-circuits before any HuggingFace download (backend.py:192), so the
job needs neither weights nor a GPU. The full-inference path remains
gated on LIQUID_AUDIO_MODEL_ID, which CI doesn't set.
The four new Go test files (core/gallery/importers/liquid-audio_test.go,
core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime_gate_test.go,
core/http/routes/ui_pipeline_models_test.go, pkg/functions/parse_lfm2_test.go)
are already picked up by the existing test.yml workflow via `make test` →
`ginkgo -r ./pkg/... ./core/...`; their packages all carry RunSpecs entries.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
---------
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-05-13 19:57:27 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_LIQUID_AUDIO ) ) )
2026-01-07 20:44:35 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_MOONSHINE ) ) )
2026-01-13 22:35:19 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_POCKET_TTS ) ) )
2026-01-23 14:18:41 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_QWEN_TTS ) ) )
2026-03-12 06:48:23 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_FISH_SPEECH ) ) )
2026-02-27 07:16:51 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_FASTER_QWEN 3_TTS ) ) )
2026-01-29 20:50:35 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_QWEN_ASR ) ) )
2026-02-07 07:19:37 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_NEMO ) ) )
2026-01-28 13:44:04 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_VOXCPM ) ) )
feat(whisperx): add whisperx backend for transcription with speaker diarization (#8299)
* feat(proto): add speaker field to TranscriptSegment for diarization
Add speaker field to the gRPC TranscriptSegment message and map it
through the Go schema, enabling backends to return speaker labels.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* feat(whisperx): add whisperx backend for transcription with diarization
Add Python gRPC backend using WhisperX for speech-to-text with
word-level timestamps, forced alignment, and speaker diarization
via pyannote-audio when HF_TOKEN is provided.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* feat(whisperx): register whisperx backend in Makefile
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* feat(whisperx): add whisperx meta and image entries to index.yaml
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* ci(whisperx): add build matrix entries for CPU, CUDA 12/13, and ROCm
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(whisperx): unpin torch versions and use CPU index for cpu requirements
Address review feedback:
- Use --extra-index-url for CPU torch wheels to reduce size
- Remove torch version pins, let uv resolve compatible versions
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(whisperx): pin torch ROCm variant to fix CI build failure
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(whisperx): pin torch CPU variant to fix uv resolution failure
Pin torch==2.8.0+cpu so uv resolves the CPU wheel from the extra
index instead of picking torch==2.8.0+cu128 from PyPI, which pulls
unresolvable CUDA dependencies.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(whisperx): use unsafe-best-match index strategy to fix uv resolution failure
uv's default first-match strategy finds torch on PyPI before checking
the extra index, causing it to pick torch==2.8.0+cu128 instead of the
CPU variant. This makes whisperx's transitive torch dependency
unresolvable. Using unsafe-best-match lets uv consider all indexes.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(whisperx): drop +cpu local version suffix to fix uv resolution failure
PEP 440 ==2.8.0 matches 2.8.0+cpu from the extra index, avoiding the
issue where uv cannot locate an explicit +cpu local version specifier.
This aligns with the pattern used by all other CPU backends.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* fix(backends): drop +rocm local version suffixes from hipblas requirements to fix uv resolution
uv cannot resolve PEP 440 local version specifiers (e.g. +rocm6.4,
+rocm6.3) in pinned requirements. The --extra-index-url already points
to the correct ROCm wheel index and --index-strategy unsafe-best-match
(set in libbackend.sh) ensures the ROCm variant is preferred.
Applies the same fix as 7f5d72e8 (which resolved this for +cpu) across
all 14 hipblas requirements files.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
* revert: scope hipblas suffix fix to whisperx only
Reverts changes to non-whisperx hipblas requirements files per
maintainer review — other backends are building fine with the +rocm
local version suffix.
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
---------
Signed-off-by: eureka928 <meobius123@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-02 15:33:12 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_WHISPERX ) ) )
2026-02-05 11:04:53 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_ACE_STEP ) ) )
2026-03-12 17:56:26 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_ACESTEP_CPP ) ) )
2026-04-11 21:14:26 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_QWEN 3_TTS_CPP ) ) )
feat(vibevoice-cpp): add purego TTS+ASR backend (#9610)
* feat(vibevoice-cpp): add purego TTS+ASR backend
Wire up Microsoft VibeVoice via the vibevoice.cpp C ABI as a new
purego-based Go backend that serves both Backend.TTS and
Backend.AudioTranscription from a single gRPC binary. Mirrors the
qwen3-tts-cpp / sherpa-onnx pattern so the variant matrix
(cpu/cuda12/cuda13/metal/rocm/sycl-f16/f32/vulkan/l4t) and the
e2e-backends gRPC harness reuse existing infrastructure.
- backend/go/vibevoice-cpp/ - Makefile, CMakeLists, purego shim, gRPC
Backend with model-dir auto-detection, closed-loop TTS->ASR smoke test
- backend/index.yaml - &vibevoicecpp meta + 18 image entries
- Makefile - .NOTPARALLEL, BACKEND_VIBEVOICE_CPP, docker-build wiring,
test-extra-backend-vibevoice-cpp-{tts,transcription} e2e wrappers
- .github/workflows/backend.yml - matrix entries for all variants
- .github/workflows/test-extra.yml - per-backend smoke + 2 gRPC e2e jobs
* feat(vibevoice-cpp): drop hardcoded glob detection, add gallery entries
Refactor backend Load() to follow the standard Options[] convention
used by sherpa-onnx and the rest of the multi-role backends:
ModelFile is the primary gguf, supplementary paths come through
opts.Options[] as key=value (or key:value for Make-target compat),
resolved against opts.ModelPath. type=asr/tts decides the role of
ModelFile when neither tts_model nor asr_model is set explicitly.
Add gallery/index.yaml entries:
- vibevoice-cpp - realtime 0.5B Q8_0 TTS + tokenizer + Carter voice
- vibevoice-cpp-asr - long-form ASR Q8_0 + tokenizer
Both pull from huggingface://mudler/vibevoice.cpp-models with sha256
verification. parameters.model + Options[] paths are siblings under
{models_dir} per the qwen3-tts-cpp convention.
Update Makefile e2e wrappers to pass BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS comma+colon
style, and tighten the per-backend Go closed-loop test to use the
explicit Options API.
* fix(vibevoice-cpp): force whole-archive link so vv_capi_* exports survive
libvibevoice is a STATIC archive linked into the MODULE library.
Without --whole-archive (or -force_load on Apple, /WHOLEARCHIVE on
MSVC), the linker garbage-collects symbols not referenced from this
translation unit - which means dlopen+RegisterLibFunc panics with
'undefined symbol: vv_capi_load' at backend startup, since purego
looks them up by name and our cpp/govibevoicecpp.cpp doesn't call
them directly.
* test(vibevoice-cpp): rewrite suite with Ginkgo v2
Match the convention used by backend/go/sherpa-onnx/backend_test.go.
The suite now covers backend semantics that don't need purego (Locking,
empty-ModelFile rejection, TTS/ASR-without-loaded-model errors) on top
of the gRPC lifecycle specs (Health, Load, closed-loop TTS->ASR).
Model-dependent specs Skip() when VIBEVOICE_MODEL_DIR is unset, so
`go test ./backend/go/vibevoice-cpp/` is green on a clean checkout
and runs the heavyweight closed-loop spec when test.sh has staged
the bundle.
* fix(vibevoice-cpp): implement TTSStream + AudioTranscriptionStream
The gRPC server's stream handlers (pkg/grpc/server.go) spawn a
goroutine that ranges over a chan; the only thing closing that chan
is the backend's own *Stream method. With the default Base stub
returning 'unimplemented' and never touching the chan, the server
goroutine hangs forever and the client hits DeadlineExceeded - which
is exactly what the e2e harness saw in the test-extra-backend-vibevoice-cpp-tts
matrix run.
TTSStream synthesizes via vv_capi_tts to a tempfile, then emits a
streaming WAV header (chunk sizes 0xFFFFFFFF so HTTP clients can
start playback before the full PCM lands) followed by the PCM body
in 64 KB slices. The header + >=2 PCM frames satisfy the harness's
'expected >=2 chunks' assertion and give a real progressive stream.
AudioTranscriptionStream runs the offline transcription, emits each
segment as a delta, and closes with a final_result whose Text equals
the concatenated deltas (the harness asserts those match).
Two new Ginkgo specs guard the close-channel-on-error path so the
deadline-exceeded regression can't come back silently.
* fix(vibevoice-cpp): silence errcheck on cleanup paths
Lint flagged six unchecked Close()/Remove()/RemoveAll() calls along
purely-cleanup deferred paths. Wrap each in '_ = ...' (or a closure
for defers that take args) - matches what the rest of the LocalAI
backend/go/* tree already does for these callsites.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(vibevoice-cpp): closed-loop slot fill + modelRoot-relative path resolution
Two bugs the test-extra-backend-vibevoice-cpp-* CI matrix surfaced:
1. Closed-loop Load with ModelFile=tts.gguf + Options[asr_model=...] left
v.ttsModel empty, because the default-fill block only ran when BOTH
slots were empty. vv_capi_load then got tts="" + a voice and the
C side rejected it with rc=-3 'TTS model required to load a voice'.
Fix: ModelFile fills the *primary* role-slot (decided by 'type=' in
Options, defaulting to tts) independently of the secondary, so
ModelFile + asr_model resolves to both.
2. resolvePath stat'd CWD before falling back to relTo. With LocalAI
launched from a directory that happens to contain a same-named
file, supplementary Options[] paths could leak away from the
models dir. Drop the CWD probe entirely - relative paths now
*always* join onto opts.ModelPath (the gallery convention).
New Ginkgo coverage:
* 'ModelFile slot resolution' (4 specs) - asr_model+ModelFile, type=asr,
explicit tts_model override, key:value variant.
* 'resolvePath (relative-to-modelRoot)' (5 specs) - join, abs passthrough,
empty input, empty relTo, and the CWD-trap regression test.
* 'Load resolves relative Options paths against opts.ModelPath' - end-
to-end gallery layout round-trip.
Verified locally: 19/19 specs pass (with model bundle, including the
closed-loop TTS->ASR; without bundle, 17 pass + 2 model-dependent skip).
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* test(vibevoice-cpp): use gallery convention in closed-loop spec
The 'loads the realtime TTS model' / closed-loop specs were passing
already-prefixed paths into Options[]:
Options: ['tokenizer=' + filepath.Join(modelDir, 'tokenizer.gguf')]
Combined with no ModelPath set on the request, the backend's
modelRoot fell back to filepath.Dir(ModelFile) = modelDir, then
resolvePath joined the prefixed Options path on top of it -
producing 'vibevoice-models/vibevoice-models/tokenizer.gguf' when
the CI's VIBEVOICE_MODEL_DIR is the relative './vibevoice-models'.
The fix is to mirror the gallery contract LocalAI core actually
sends in production: ModelPath is the models root (absolute),
ModelFile is a name *under* it, every Options[] path is relative
to ModelPath. Uses filepath.Base() to get bare filenames.
Verified locally with both VIBEVOICE_MODEL_DIR=/tmp/vv-bundle (abs)
and VIBEVOICE_MODEL_DIR=vibevoice-models (the relative shape that
broke CI). Both: 19/19 specs pass, ~55-60s.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(vibevoice-cpp): switch ASR to Q4_K + bump transcription timeout
The Q8_0 ASR gguf is ~14 GB - too big to fit alongside the runner
image, the docker build cache, and the test artifacts on a free
ubuntu-latest GHA runner; 'test-extra-backend-vibevoice-cpp-transcription'
was getting SIGTERM'd at 90 min before the model could finish loading.
Switch to Q4_K (~10 GB on disk, slightly faster CPU decode) for:
* the e2e harness Make target
* the gallery 'vibevoice-cpp-asr' entry (parameters + files block)
* the per-backend test.sh auto-download list
Bump tests-vibevoice-cpp-grpc-transcription's timeout-minutes from
90 to 150 - even with Q4_K, the 30 s JFK clip on a CPU runner needs
runway above the previous 90 min cap.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(vibevoice-cpp): drop transcription gRPC e2e job - too heavy for free runners
The vibevoice ASR is a 7B-parameter model. Even on Q4_K (~10 GB on
disk) a single 30 s transcription saturates the per-test 30 min
timeout in the e2e-backends harness on a 4-core ubuntu-latest, and
the 10 GB download + Docker layer + working space leaves no headroom
on the runner's free disk. Two attempts in CI got SIGTERM'd at the
LoadModel boundary - the bottleneck isn't tunable from the workflow
side without a paid-tier runner.
The per-backend tests-vibevoice-cpp job already runs the same
AudioTranscription path via a closed-loop TTS->ASR Ginkgo spec - same
gRPC contract, same model, single process - so the standalone
tests-vibevoice-cpp-grpc-transcription job was redundant on top of
the disk/CPU pressure.
The Makefile target test-extra-backend-vibevoice-cpp-transcription
stays for local invocation on workstations that can afford it -
useful when developing the streaming codepaths.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(vibevoice-cpp): restore transcription gRPC e2e on bigger-runner
Switch tests-vibevoice-cpp-grpc-transcription from ubuntu-latest to
the self-hosted 'bigger-runner' label that GPU image builds in
backend.yml use, plus the documented Free-disk-space prep step (purge
dotnet / ghc / android / CodeQL caches) the disabled vllm/sglang
entries in this file describe. That gives the 7B-param Q4_K ASR
model the disk + CPU runway it needs.
Keep timeout-minutes: 150 - even on a beefier runner the 30 s JFK
decode plus 10 GB download has to fit comfortably.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(vibevoice-cpp): apt-get install make on bigger-runner before transcription e2e
bigger-runner is a self-hosted bare runner without the standard
ubuntu image's preinstalled build tools, so the previous job died at
the very first command with 'make: command not found' (exit 127).
Add the Dependencies step that the disabled vllm/sglang entries in
this file already document - apt-get installs make + build-essential
+ curl + unzip + ca-certificates + git + tar before the make target
runs. Mirrors how every other 'runs-on: bigger-runner' entry in
backend.yml prepares the runner.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
---------
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-04-29 20:22:14 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_VIBEVOICE_CPP ) ) )
feat: add LocalVQE backend and audio transformations UI (#9640)
feat(audio-transform): add LocalVQE backend, bidi gRPC RPC, Studio UI
Introduce a generic "audio transform" capability for any audio-in / audio-out
operation (echo cancellation, noise suppression, dereverberation, voice
conversion, etc.) and ship LocalVQE as the first backend implementation.
Backend protocol:
- Two new gRPC RPCs in backend.proto: unary AudioTransform for batch and
bidirectional AudioTransformStream for low-latency frame-by-frame use.
This is the first bidi stream in the proto; per-frame unary at LocalVQE's
16 ms hop would be RTT-bound. Wire it through pkg/grpc/{client,server,
embed,interface,base} with paired-channel ergonomics.
LocalVQE backend (backend/go/localvqe/):
- Go-Purego wrapper around upstream liblocalvqe.so. CMake builds the upstream
shared lib + its libggml-cpu-*.so runtime variants directly — no MODULE
wrapper needed because LocalVQE handles CPU feature selection internally
via GGML_BACKEND_DL.
- Sets GGML_NTHREADS from opts.Threads (or runtime.NumCPU()-1) — without it
LocalVQE runs single-threaded at ~1× realtime instead of the documented
~9.6×.
- Reference-length policy: zero-pad short refs, truncate long ones (the
trailing portion can't have leaked into a mic that wasn't recording).
- Ginkgo test suite (9 always-on specs + 2 model-gated).
HTTP layer:
- POST /audio/transformations (alias /audio/transform): multipart batch
endpoint, accepts audio + optional reference + params[*]=v form fields.
Persists inputs alongside the output in GeneratedContentDir/audio so the
React UI history can replay past (audio, reference, output) triples.
- GET /audio/transformations/stream: WebSocket bidi, 16 ms PCM frames
(interleaved stereo mic+ref in, mono out). JSON session.update envelope
for config; constants hoisted in core/schema/audio_transform.go.
- ffmpeg-based input normalisation to 16 kHz mono s16 WAV via the existing
utils.AudioToWav (with passthrough fast-path), so the user can upload any
format / rate without seeing the model's strict 16 kHz constraint.
- BackendTraceAudioTransform integration so /api/backend-traces and the
Traces UI light up with audio_snippet base64 and timing.
- Routes registered under routes/localai.go (LocalAI extension; OpenAI has
no /audio/transformations endpoint), traced via TraceMiddleware.
Auth + capability + importer:
- FLAG_AUDIO_TRANSFORM (model_config.go), FeatureAudioTransform (default-on,
in APIFeatures), three RouteFeatureRegistry rows.
- localvqe added to knownPrefOnlyBackends with modality "audio-transform".
- Gallery entry localvqe-v1-1.3m (sha256-pinned, hosted on
huggingface.co/LocalAI-io/LocalVQE).
React UI:
- New /app/transform page surfaced via a dedicated "Enhance" sidebar
section (sibling of Tools / Biometrics) — the page is enhancement, not
generation, so it lives outside Studio. Two AudioInput components
(Upload + Record tabs, drag-drop, mic capture).
- Echo-test button: records mic while playing the loaded reference through
the speakers — the mic naturally picks up speaker bleed, giving a real
(mic, ref) pair for AEC testing without leaving the UI.
- Reusable WaveformPlayer (canvas peaks + click-to-seek + audio controls)
and useAudioPeaks hook (shared module-scoped AudioContext to avoid
hitting browser context limits with three players on one page); migrated
TTS, Sound, Traces audio blocks to use it.
- Past runs saved in localStorage via useMediaHistory('audio-transform') —
the history entry stores all three URLs so clicking re-renders the full
triple, not just the output.
Build + e2e:
- 11 matrix entries removed from .github/workflows/backend.yml (CUDA, ROCm,
SYCL, Metal, L4T): upstream supports only CPU + Vulkan, so we ship those
two and let GPU-class hardware route through Vulkan in the gallery
capabilities map.
- tests-localvqe-grpc-transform job in test-extra.yml (gated on
detect-changes.outputs.localvqe).
- New audio_transform capability + 4 specs in tests/e2e-backends.
- Playwright spec suite in core/http/react-ui/e2e/audio-transform.spec.js
(8 specs covering tabs, file upload, multipart shape, history, errors).
Docs:
- New docs/content/features/audio-transform.md covering the (audio,
reference) mental model, batch + WebSocket wire formats, LocalVQE param
keys, and a YAML config example. Cross-links from text-to-audio and
audio-to-text feature pages.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Bash Read Edit Write Agent TaskCreate]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-05-04 20:07:11 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_LOCALVQE ) ) )
feat: refactor shared helpers and enhance MLX backend functionality (#9335)
* refactor(backends): extract python_utils + add mlx_utils shared helpers
Move parse_options() and messages_to_dicts() out of vllm_utils.py into a
new framework-agnostic python_utils.py, and re-export them from vllm_utils
so existing vllm / vllm-omni imports keep working.
Add mlx_utils.py with split_reasoning() and parse_tool_calls() — ported
from mlx_vlm/server.py's process_tool_calls. These work with any
mlx-lm / mlx-vlm tool module (anything exposing tool_call_start,
tool_call_end, parse_tool_call). Used by the mlx and mlx-vlm backends in
later commits to emit structured ChatDelta.tool_calls without
reimplementing per-model parsing.
Shared smoke tests confirm:
- parse_options round-trips bool/int/float/string
- vllm_utils re-exports are identity-equal to python_utils originals
- mlx_utils parse_tool_calls handles <tool_call>...</tool_call> with a
shim module and produces a correctly-indexed list with JSON arguments
- mlx_utils split_reasoning extracts <think> blocks and leaves clean
content
* feat(mlx): wire native tool parsers + ChatDelta + token usage + logprobs
Bring the MLX backend up to the same structured-output contract as vLLM
and llama.cpp: emit Reply.chat_deltas so the OpenAI HTTP layer sees
tool_calls and reasoning_content, not just raw text.
Key insight: mlx_lm.load() returns a TokenizerWrapper that already auto-
detects the right tool parser from the model's chat template
(_infer_tool_parser in mlx_lm/tokenizer_utils.py). The wrapper exposes
has_tool_calling, has_thinking, tool_parser, tool_call_start,
tool_call_end, think_start, think_end — no user configuration needed,
unlike vLLM.
Changes in backend/python/mlx/backend.py:
- Imports: replace inline parse_options / messages_to_dicts with the
shared helpers from python_utils. Pull split_reasoning / parse_tool_calls
from the new mlx_utils shared module.
- LoadModel: log the auto-detected has_tool_calling / has_thinking /
tool_parser_type for observability. Drop the local is_float / is_int
duplicates.
- _prepare_prompt: run request.Messages through messages_to_dicts so
tool_call_id / tool_calls / reasoning_content survive the conversion,
and pass tools=json.loads(request.Tools) + enable_thinking=True (when
request.Metadata says so) to apply_chat_template. Falls back on
TypeError for tokenizers whose template doesn't accept those kwargs.
- _build_generation_params: return an additional (logits_params,
stop_words) pair. Maps RepetitionPenalty / PresencePenalty /
FrequencyPenalty to mlx_lm.sample_utils.make_logits_processors and
threads StopPrompts through to post-decode truncation.
- New _tool_module_from_tokenizer / _finalize_output / _truncate_at_stop
helpers. _finalize_output runs split_reasoning when has_thinking is
true and parse_tool_calls (using a SimpleNamespace shim around the
wrapper's tool_parser callable) when has_tool_calling is true, then
extracts prompt_tokens, generation_tokens and (best-effort) logprobs
from the last GenerationResponse chunk.
- Predict: use make_logits_processors, accumulate text + last_response,
finalize into a structured Reply carrying chat_deltas,
prompt_tokens, tokens, logprobs. Early-stops on user stop sequences.
- PredictStream: per-chunk Reply still carries raw message bytes for
back-compat but now also emits chat_deltas=[ChatDelta(content=delta)].
On loop exit, emit a terminal Reply with structured
reasoning_content / tool_calls / token counts / logprobs — so the Go
side sees tool calls without needing the regex fallback.
- TokenizeString RPC: uses the TokenizerWrapper's encode(); returns
length + tokens or FAILED_PRECONDITION if the model isn't loaded.
- Free RPC: drops model / tokenizer / lru_cache, runs gc.collect(),
calls mx.metal.clear_cache() when available, and best-effort clears
torch.cuda as a belt-and-suspenders.
* feat(mlx-vlm): mirror MLX parity (tool parsers + ChatDelta + samplers)
Same treatment as the MLX backend: emit structured Reply.chat_deltas,
tool_calls, reasoning_content, token counts and logprobs, and extend
sampling parameter coverage beyond the temp/top_p pair the backend
used to handle.
- Imports: drop the inline is_float/is_int helpers, pull parse_options /
messages_to_dicts from python_utils and split_reasoning /
parse_tool_calls from mlx_utils. Also import make_sampler and
make_logits_processors from mlx_lm.sample_utils — mlx-vlm re-uses them.
- LoadModel: use parse_options; call mlx_vlm.tool_parsers._infer_tool_parser
/ load_tool_module to auto-detect a tool module from the processor's
chat_template. Stash think_start / think_end / has_thinking so later
finalisation can split reasoning blocks without duck-typing on each
call. Logs the detected parser type.
- _prepare_prompt: convert proto Messages via messages_to_dicts (so
tool_call_id / tool_calls survive), pass tools=json.loads(request.Tools)
and enable_thinking=True to apply_chat_template when present, fall
back on TypeError for older mlx-vlm versions. Also handle the
prompt-only + media and empty-prompt + media paths consistently.
- _build_generation_params: return (max_tokens, sampler_params,
logits_params, stop_words). Maps repetition_penalty / presence_penalty /
frequency_penalty and passes them through make_logits_processors.
- _finalize_output / _truncate_at_stop: common helper used by Predict
and PredictStream to split reasoning, run parse_tool_calls against the
auto-detected tool module, build ToolCallDelta list, and extract token
counts + logprobs from the last GenerationResult.
- Predict / PredictStream: switch from mlx_vlm.generate to mlx_vlm.stream_generate
in both paths, accumulate text + last_response, pass sampler and
logits_processors through, emit content-only ChatDelta per streaming
chunk followed by a terminal Reply carrying reasoning_content,
tool_calls, prompt_tokens, tokens and logprobs. Non-streaming Predict
returns the same structured Reply shape.
- New helper _collect_media extracted from the duplicated base64 image /
audio decode loop.
- New TokenizeString RPC using the processor's tokenizer.encode and
Free RPC that drops model/processor/config, runs gc + Metal cache
clear + best-effort torch.cuda cache clear.
* feat(importer/mlx): auto-set tool_parser/reasoning_parser on import
Mirror what core/gallery/importers/vllm.go does: after applying the
shared inference defaults, look up the model URI in parser_defaults.json
and append matching tool_parser:/reasoning_parser: entries to Options.
The MLX backends auto-detect tool parsers from the chat template at
runtime so they don't actually consume these options — but surfacing
them in the generated YAML:
- keeps the import experience consistent with vllm
- gives users a single visible place to override
- documents the intended parser for a given model family
* test(mlx): add helper unit tests + TokenizeString/Free + e2e make targets
- backend/python/mlx/test.py: add TestSharedHelpers with server-less
unit tests for parse_options, messages_to_dicts, split_reasoning and
parse_tool_calls (using a SimpleNamespace shim to fake a tool module
without requiring a model). Plus test_tokenize_string and test_free
RPC tests that load a tiny MLX-quantized Llama and exercise the new
RPCs end-to-end.
- backend/python/mlx-vlm/test.py: same helper unit tests + cleanup of
the duplicated import block at the top of the file.
- Makefile: register BACKEND_MLX and BACKEND_MLX_VLM (they were missing
from the docker-build-target eval list — only mlx-distributed had a
generated target before). Add test-extra-backend-mlx and
test-extra-backend-mlx-vlm convenience targets that build the
respective image and run tests/e2e-backends with the tools capability
against mlx-community/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-4bit. The MLX backend
auto-detects the tool parser from the chat template so no
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS is needed (unlike vllm).
* fix(libbackend): don't pass --copies to venv unless PORTABLE_PYTHON=true
backend/python/common/libbackend.sh:ensureVenv() always invoked
'python -m venv --copies', but macOS system python (and some other
builds) refuses with:
Error: This build of python cannot create venvs without using symlinks
--copies only matters when _makeVenvPortable later relocates the venv,
which only happens when PORTABLE_PYTHON=true. Make --copies conditional
on that flag and fall back to default (symlinked) venv otherwise.
Caught while bringing up the mlx backend on Apple Silicon — the same
build path is used by every Python backend with USE_PIP=true.
* fix(mlx): support mlx-lm 0.29.x tool calling + drop deprecated clear_cache
The released mlx-lm 0.29.x ships a much simpler tool-calling API than
HEAD: TokenizerWrapper detects the <tool_call>...</tool_call> markers
from the tokenizer vocab and exposes has_tool_calling /
tool_call_start / tool_call_end, but does NOT expose a tool_parser
callable on the wrapper and does NOT ship a mlx_lm.tool_parsers
subpackage at all (those only exist on main).
Caught while running the smoke test on Apple Silicon with the
released mlx-lm 0.29.1: tokenizer.tool_parser raised AttributeError
(falling through to the underlying HF tokenizer), so
_tool_module_from_tokenizer always returned None and tool calls slipped
through as raw <tool_call>...</tool_call> text in Reply.message instead
of being parsed into ChatDelta.tool_calls.
Fix: when has_tool_calling is True but tokenizer.tool_parser is missing,
default the parse_tool_call callable to json.loads(body.strip()) — that's
exactly what mlx_lm.tool_parsers.json_tools.parse_tool_call does on HEAD
and covers the only format 0.29 detects (<tool_call>JSON</tool_call>).
Future mlx-lm releases that ship more parsers will be picked up
automatically via the tokenizer.tool_parser attribute when present.
Also tighten the LoadModel logging — the old log line read
init_kwargs.get('tool_parser_type') which doesn't exist on 0.29 and
showed None even when has_tool_calling was True. Log the actual
tool_call_start / tool_call_end markers instead.
While here, switch Free()'s Metal cache clear from the deprecated
mx.metal.clear_cache to mx.clear_cache (mlx >= 0.30), with a
fallback for older releases. Mirrored to the mlx-vlm backend.
* feat(mlx-distributed): mirror MLX parity (tool calls + ChatDelta + sampler)
Same treatment as the mlx and mlx-vlm backends: emit Reply.chat_deltas
with structured tool_calls / reasoning_content / token counts /
logprobs, expand sampling parameter coverage beyond temp+top_p, and
add the missing TokenizeString and Free RPCs.
Notes specific to mlx-distributed:
- Rank 0 is the only rank that owns a sampler — workers participate in
the pipeline-parallel forward pass via mx.distributed and don't
re-implement sampling. So the new logits_params (repetition_penalty,
presence_penalty, frequency_penalty) and stop_words apply on rank 0
only; we don't need to extend coordinator.broadcast_generation_params,
which still ships only max_tokens / temperature / top_p to workers
(everything else is a rank-0 concern).
- Free() now broadcasts CMD_SHUTDOWN to workers when a coordinator is
active, so they release the model on their end too. The constant is
already defined and handled by the existing worker loop in
backend.py:633 (CMD_SHUTDOWN = -1).
- Drop the locally-defined is_float / is_int / parse_options trio in
favor of python_utils.parse_options, re-exported under the module
name for back-compat with anything that imported it directly.
- _prepare_prompt: route through messages_to_dicts so tool_call_id /
tool_calls / reasoning_content survive, pass tools=json.loads(
request.Tools) and enable_thinking=True to apply_chat_template, fall
back on TypeError for templates that don't accept those kwargs.
- New _tool_module_from_tokenizer (with the json.loads fallback for
mlx-lm 0.29.x), _finalize_output, _truncate_at_stop helpers — same
contract as the mlx backend.
- LoadModel logs the auto-detected has_tool_calling / has_thinking /
tool_call_start / tool_call_end so users can see what the wrapper
picked up for the loaded model.
- backend/python/mlx-distributed/test.py: add the same TestSharedHelpers
unit tests (parse_options, messages_to_dicts, split_reasoning,
parse_tool_calls) that exist for mlx and mlx-vlm.
2026-04-13 16:44:03 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_MLX ) ) )
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_MLX_VLM ) ) )
2026-03-09 16:29:32 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_MLX_DISTRIBUTED ) ) )
2026-03-21 01:08:02 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_TRL ) ) )
2026-03-21 23:56:34 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_LLAMA_CPP_QUANTIZATION ) ) )
feat(backend): add tinygrad multimodal backend (experimental) (#9364)
* feat(backend): add tinygrad multimodal backend
Wire tinygrad as a new Python backend covering LLM text generation with
native tool-call extraction, embeddings, Stable Diffusion 1.x image
generation, and Whisper speech-to-text from a single self-contained
container.
Backend (`backend/python/tinygrad/`):
- `backend.py` gRPC servicer with LLM Predict/PredictStream (auto-detects
Llama / Qwen2 / Mistral architecture from `config.json`, supports
safetensors and GGUF), Embedding via mean-pooled last hidden state,
GenerateImage via the vendored SD1.x pipeline, AudioTranscription +
AudioTranscriptionStream via the vendored Whisper inference loop, plus
Tokenize / ModelMetadata / Status / Free.
- Vendored upstream model code under `vendor/` (MIT, headers preserved):
llama.py with an added `qkv_bias` flag for Qwen2-family bias support
and an `embed()` method that returns the last hidden state, plus
clip.py, unet.py, stable_diffusion.py (trimmed to drop the MLPerf
training branch that pulls `mlperf.initializers`), audio_helpers.py
and whisper.py (trimmed to drop the pyaudio listener).
- Pluggable tool-call parsers under `tool_parsers/`: hermes (Qwen2.5 /
Hermes), llama3_json (Llama 3.1+), qwen3_xml (Qwen 3), mistral
(Mistral / Mixtral). Auto-selected from model architecture or `Options`.
- `install.sh` pins Python 3.11.14 (tinygrad >=0.12 needs >=3.11; the
default portable python is 3.10).
- `package.sh` bundles libLLVM.so.1 + libedit/libtinfo/libgomp/libsndfile
into the scratch image. `run.sh` sets `CPU_LLVM=1` and `LLVM_PATH` so
tinygrad's CPU device uses the in-process libLLVM JIT instead of
shelling out to the missing `clang` binary.
- Local unit tests for Health and the four parsers in `test.py`.
Build wiring:
- Root `Makefile`: `.NOTPARALLEL`, `prepare-test-extra`, `test-extra`,
`BACKEND_TINYGRAD = tinygrad|python|.|false|true`,
docker-build-target eval, and `docker-build-backends` aggregator.
- `.github/workflows/backend.yml`: cpu / cuda12 / cuda13 build matrix
entries (mirrors the transformers backend placement).
- `backend/index.yaml`: `&tinygrad` meta + cpu/cuda12/cuda13 image
entries (latest + development).
E2E test wiring:
- `tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go` gains an `image` capability that
exercises GenerateImage and asserts a non-empty PNG is written to
`dst`. New `BACKEND_TEST_IMAGE_PROMPT` / `BACKEND_TEST_IMAGE_STEPS`
knobs.
- Five new make targets next to `test-extra-backend-vllm`:
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad` — Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct + hermes,
mirrors the vllm target 1:1 (5/9 specs in ~57s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-embeddings` — same model, embeddings
via LLM hidden state (3/9 in ~10s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-sd` — stable-diffusion-v1-5 mirror,
health/load/image (3/9 in ~10min, 4 diffusion steps on CPU).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-whisper` — openai/whisper-tiny.en
against jfk.wav from whisper.cpp samples (4/9 in ~49s).
- `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-all` aggregate.
All four targets land green on the first MVP pass: 15 specs total, 0
failures across LLM+tools, embeddings, image generation, and speech
transcription.
* refactor(tinygrad): collapse to a single backend image
tinygrad generates its own GPU kernels (PTX renderer for CUDA, the
autogen ctypes wrappers for HIP / Metal / WebGPU) and never links
against cuDNN, cuBLAS, or any toolkit-version-tied library. The only
runtime dependency that varies across hosts is the driver's libcuda.so.1
/ libamdhip64.so, which are injected into the container at run time by
the nvidia-container / rocm runtimes. So unlike torch- or vLLM-based
backends, there is no reason to ship per-CUDA-version images.
- Drop the cuda12-tinygrad and cuda13-tinygrad build-matrix entries
from .github/workflows/backend.yml. The sole remaining entry is
renamed to -tinygrad (from -cpu-tinygrad) since it is no longer
CPU-only.
- Collapse backend/index.yaml to a single meta + development pair.
The meta anchor carries the latest uri directly; the development
entry points at the master tag.
- run.sh picks the tinygrad device at launch time by probing
/usr/lib/... for libcuda.so.1 / libamdhip64.so. When libcuda is
visible we set CUDA=1 + CUDA_PTX=1 so tinygrad uses its own PTX
renderer (avoids any nvrtc/toolkit dependency); otherwise we fall
back to HIP or CLANG. CPU_LLVM=1 + LLVM_PATH keep the in-process
libLLVM JIT for the CLANG path.
- backend.py's _select_tinygrad_device() is trimmed to a CLANG-only
fallback since production device selection happens in run.sh.
Re-ran test-extra-backend-tinygrad after the change:
Ran 5 of 9 Specs in 56.541 seconds — 5 Passed, 0 Failed
2026-04-15 17:48:23 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_TINYGRAD ) ) )
2026-04-08 17:23:16 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_KOKOROS ) ) )
2026-04-09 19:49:11 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_SAM 3_CPP ) ) )
feat: Add Sherpa ONNX backend for ASR and TTS (#8523)
feat(backend): Add Sherpa ONNX backend and Omnilingual ASR
Adds a new Go backend wrapping sherpa-onnx via purego (no cgo). Same
approach as opus/stablediffusion-ggml/whisper — a thin C shim
(csrc/shim.c + shim.h → libsherpa-shim.so) wraps the bits purego
can't reach directly: nested struct config writes, result-struct field
reads, and the streaming TTS callback trampoline. The Go side uses
opaque uintptr handles and purego.NewCallback for the TTS callback.
Supports:
- VAD via sherpa-onnx's Silero VAD
- Offline ASR: Whisper, Paraformer, SenseVoice, Omnilingual CTC
- Online/streaming ASR: zipformer transducer with endpoint detection
(AudioTranscriptionStream emits delta events during decode)
- Offline TTS: VITS (LJS, etc.)
- Streaming TTS: sherpa-onnx's callback API → PCM chunks on a channel,
prefixed by a streaming WAV header
Gallery entries: omnilingual-0.3b-ctc-q8-sherpa (1600-language offline
ASR), streaming-zipformer-en-sherpa (low-latency streaming ASR),
silero-vad-sherpa, vits-ljs-sherpa.
E2E coverage: tests/e2e-backends for offline + streaming ASR,
tests/e2e for the full realtime pipeline (VAD + STT + TTS).
Assisted-by: claude-opus-4-7-1M [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-04-24 12:40:06 +00:00
$( eval $ ( call generate -docker -build -target ,$ ( BACKEND_SHERPA_ONNX ) ) )
2026-01-04 20:12:50 +00:00
# Pattern rule for docker-save targets
docker-save-% : backend -images
docker save local-ai-backend:$* -o backend-images/$* .tar
2025-07-18 11:24:12 +00:00
feat(realtime): Add Liquid Audio s2s model and assistant mode on talk page (#9801)
* feat(liquid-audio): add LFM2.5-Audio any-to-any backend + realtime_audio usecase
Wires LiquidAI's LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B as a self-contained Realtime API model:
single engine handles VAD, transcription, LLM, and TTS in one bidirectional
stream — drop-in alternative to a VAD+STT+LLM+TTS pipeline.
Backend
- backend/python/liquid-audio/ — new Python gRPC backend wrapping the
`liquid-audio` package. Modes: chat / asr / tts / s2s, voice presets,
Load/Predict/PredictStream/AudioTranscription/TTS/VAD/AudioToAudioStream/
Free and StartFineTune/FineTuneProgress/StopFineTune. Runtime monkey-patch
on `liquid_audio.utils.snapshot_download` so absolute local paths from
LocalAI's gallery resolve without a HF round-trip. soundfile in place of
torchaudio.load/save (torchcodec drags NVIDIA NPP we don't bundle).
- backend/backend.proto + pkg/grpc/{backend,client,server,base,embed,
interface}.go — new AudioToAudioStream RPC mirroring AudioTransformStream
(config/frame/control oneof in; typed event+pcm+meta out).
- core/services/nodes/{health_mock,inflight}_test.go — add stubs for the
new RPC to the test fakes.
Config + capabilities
- core/config/backend_capabilities.go — UsecaseRealtimeAudio, MethodAudio
ToAudioStream, UsecaseInfoMap entry, liquid-audio BackendCapability row.
- core/config/model_config.go — FLAG_REALTIME_AUDIO bitmask, ModalityGroups
membership in both speech-input and audio-output groups so a lone flag
still reads as multimodal, GetAllModelConfigUsecases entry, GuessUsecases
branch.
Realtime endpoint
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime.go — extract prepareRealtimeConfig()
so the gate is unit-testable; accept realtime_audio models and self-fill
empty pipeline slots with the model's own name (user-pinned slots win).
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime_gate_test.go — six specs covering nil
cfg, empty pipeline, legacy pipeline, self-contained realtime_audio,
user-pinned VAD slot, and partial legacy pipeline.
UI + endpoints
- core/http/routes/ui.go — /api/pipeline-models accepts either a legacy
VAD+STT+LLM+TTS pipeline or a realtime_audio model; surfaces a
self_contained flag so the Talk page can collapse the four cards.
- core/http/routes/ui_api.go — realtime_audio in usecaseFilters.
- core/http/routes/ui_pipeline_models_test.go — covers both code paths.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Talk.jsx — self-contained badge instead of
the four-slot grid; rename Edit Pipeline → Edit Model Config; less
pipeline-specific wording.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Models.jsx + locales/en/models.json — new
realtime_audio filter button + i18n.
- core/http/react-ui/src/utils/capabilities.js — CAP_REALTIME_AUDIO.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/FineTune.jsx — voice + validation-dataset
fields, surfaced when backend === liquid-audio, plumbed via
extra_options on submit/export/import.
Gallery + importer
- gallery/liquid-audio.yaml — config template with known_usecases:
[realtime_audio, chat, tts, transcript, vad].
- gallery/index.yaml — four model entries (realtime/chat/asr/tts) keyed by
mode option. Fixed pre-existing `transcribe` typo on the asr entry
(loader silently dropped the unknown string → entry never surfaced as a
transcript model).
- gallery/lfm.yaml — function block for the LFM2 Pythonic tool-call format
`<|tool_call_start|>[name(k="v")]<|tool_call_end|>` matching
common_chat_params_init_lfm2 in vendored llama.cpp.
- core/gallery/importers/{liquid-audio,liquid-audio_test}.go — detector
matches LFM2-Audio HF repos (excludes -gguf mirrors); mode/voice
preferences plumbed through to options.
- core/gallery/importers/importers.go — register LiquidAudioImporter
before LlamaCPPImporter.
- pkg/functions/parse_lfm2_test.go — seven specs for the response/argument
regex pair on the LFM2 pythonic format.
Build matrix
- .github/backend-matrix.yml — seven liquid-audio targets (cuda12, cuda13,
l4t-cuda-13, hipblas, intel, cpu amd64, cpu arm64). Jetpack r36 cuda-12
is skipped (Ubuntu 22.04 / Python 3.10 incompatible with liquid-audio's
3.12 floor).
- backend/index.yaml — anchor + 13 image entries.
- Makefile — .NOTPARALLEL, prepare-test-extra, test-extra,
docker-build-liquid-audio.
Docs
- .agents/plans/liquid-audio-integration.md — phased plan; PR-D (real
any-to-any wiring via AudioToAudioStream), PR-E (mid-audio tool-call
detector), PR-G (GGUF entries once upstream llama.cpp PR #18641 lands)
remain.
- .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md — expand the capability-surface
checklist with every place a new FLAG_* needs to be registered.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(realtime): function calling + history cap for any-to-any models
Three pieces, all on the realtime_audio path that just landed:
1. liquid-audio backend (backend/python/liquid-audio/backend.py):
- _build_chat_state grows a `tools_prelude` arg.
- new _render_tools_prelude parses request.Tools (the OpenAI Chat
Completions function array realtime.go already serialises) and
emits an LFM2 `<|tool_list_start|>…<|tool_list_end|>` system turn
ahead of the user history. Mirrors gallery/lfm.yaml's `function:`
template so the model sees the same prompt shape whether served
via llama-cpp or here. Without this the backend silently dropped
tools — function calling was wired end-to-end on the Go side but
the model never saw a tool list.
2. Realtime history cap (core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime.go):
- Session grows MaxHistoryItems int; default picked by new
defaultMaxHistoryItems(cfg) — 6 for realtime_audio models (LFM2.5
1.5B degrades quickly past a handful of turns), 0/unlimited for
legacy pipelines composing larger LLMs.
- triggerResponse runs conv.Items through trimRealtimeItems before
building conversationHistory. Helper walks the cut left if it
would orphan a function_call_output, so tool result + call pairs
stay intact.
- realtime_gate_test.go: specs for defaultMaxHistoryItems and
trimRealtimeItems (zero cap, under cap, over cap, tool-call pair
preservation).
3. Talk page (core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Talk.jsx):
- Reuses the chat page's MCP plumbing — useMCPClient hook,
ClientMCPDropdown component, same auto-connect/disconnect effect
pattern. No bespoke tool registry, no new REST endpoints; tools
come from whichever MCP servers the user toggles on, exactly as
on the chat page.
- sendSessionUpdate now passes session.tools=getToolsForLLM(); the
update re-fires when the active server set changes mid-session.
- New response.function_call_arguments.done handler executes via
the hook's executeTool (which round-trips through the MCP client
SDK), then replies with conversation.item.create
{type:function_call_output} + response.create so the model
completes its turn with the tool output. Mirrors chat's
client-side agentic loop, translated to the realtime wire shape.
UI changes require a LocalAI image rebuild (Dockerfile:308-313 bakes
react-ui/dist into the runtime image). Backend.py changes can be
swapped live in /backends/<id>/backend.py + /backend/shutdown.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(realtime): LocalAI Assistant ("Manage Mode") for the Talk page
Mirrors the chat-page metadata.localai_assistant flow so users can ask the
realtime model what's loaded / installed / configured. Tools are run
server-side via the same in-process MCP holder that powers the chat
modality — no transport switch, no proxy, no new wire protocol.
Wire:
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime.go:
- RealtimeSessionOptions{LocalAIAssistant,IsAdmin}; isCurrentUserAdmin
helper mirrors chat.go's requireAssistantAccess (no-op when auth
disabled, else requires auth.RoleAdmin).
- Session grows AssistantExecutor mcpTools.ToolExecutor.
- runRealtimeSession, when opts.LocalAIAssistant is set: gate on admin,
fail closed if DisableLocalAIAssistant or the holder has no tools,
DiscoverTools and inject into session.Tools, prepend
holder.SystemPrompt() to instructions.
- Tool-call dispatch loop: when AssistantExecutor.IsTool(name), run
ExecuteTool inproc, append a FunctionCallOutput to conv.Items, skip
the function_call_arguments client emit (the client can't execute
these — it doesn't know about them). After the loop, if any
assistant tool ran, trigger another response so the model speaks the
result. Mirrors chat's agentic loop, driven server-side rather than
via client round-trip.
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime_webrtc.go: RealtimeCallRequest
gains `localai_assistant` (JSON omitempty). Handshake calls
isCurrentUserAdmin and builds RealtimeSessionOptions.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Talk.jsx: admin-only "Manage Mode"
checkbox under the Tools dropdown; passes localai_assistant: true to
realtimeApi.call's body, captured in the connect callback's deps.
Mirroring chat's pattern means the in-process MCP tools surface "just
works" for the Talk page without exposing a Streamable-HTTP MCP endpoint
(which was the alternative). Clients with their own MCP servers can
still use the existing ClientMCPDropdown path in parallel; the realtime
handler distinguishes them by AssistantExecutor.IsTool() at dispatch
time.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(realtime): render Manage Mode tool calls in the Talk transcript
Previously the realtime endpoint only emitted response.output_item.added
for the FunctionCall item, and Talk.jsx's switch ignored the event — so
server-side tool runs were invisible in the UI. The model would speak
the result but the user had no way to see what tool was actually
called.
realtime.go: after executing an assistant tool inproc, emit a second
output_item.added/.done pair for the FunctionCallOutput item. Mirrors
the way the chat page displays tool_call + tool_result blocks.
Talk.jsx: handle both response.output_item.added and .done. Render
FunctionCall (with arguments) and FunctionCallOutput (pretty-printed
JSON when possible) as two transcript entries — `tool_call` with the
wrench icon, `tool_result` with the clipboard icon, both in mono-space
secondary-colour. Resets streamingRef after the result so the next
assistant text delta starts a fresh transcript entry instead of
appending to the previous turn.
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* refactor(realtime): bound the Manage Mode tool-loop + preserve assistant tools
Fallout from a review pass on the Manage Mode patches:
- Bound the server-side agentic loop. triggerResponse used to recurse on
executedAssistantTool with no cap — a model that kept calling tools
would blow the goroutine stack. New maxAssistantToolTurns = 10 (mirrors
useChat.js's maxToolTurns). Public triggerResponse is now a thin shim
over triggerResponseAtTurn(toolTurn int); recursion increments the
counter and stops at the cap with an xlog.Warn.
- Preserve Manage Mode tools across client session.update. The handler
used to blindly overwrite session.Tools, so toggling a client MCP
server mid-session silently wiped the in-process admin tools. Session
now caches the original AssistantTools slice at session creation and
the session.update handler merges them back in (client names win on
collision — the client is explicit).
- strconv.ParseBool for the localai_assistant query param instead of
hand-rolled "1" || "true". Mirrors LocalAIAssistantFromMetadata.
- Talk.jsx: render both tool_call and tool_result on
response.output_item.done instead of splitting them across .added and
.done. The server's event pairing (added → done) stays correct; the
UI just doesn't need to inspect both phases of the same item. One
switch case instead of two, no behavioural change.
Out of scope (noted for follow-ups): extract a shared assistant-tools
helper between chat.go and realtime.go (duplication is small enough
that two parallel implementations stay readable for now), and an i18n
key for the Manage Mode helper text (Talk.jsx doesn't use i18n
anywhere else yet).
Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* ci(test-extra): wire liquid-audio backend smoke test
The backend ships test.py + a `make test` target and is listed in
backend-matrix.yml, so scripts/changed-backends.js already writes a
`liquid-audio=true|false` output when files under backend/python/liquid-audio/
change. The workflow just wasn't reading it.
- Expose the `liquid-audio` output on the detect-changes job
- Add a tests-liquid-audio job that runs `make` + `make test` in
backend/python/liquid-audio, gated on the per-backend detect flag
The smoke covers Health() and LoadModel(mode:finetune); fine-tune mode
short-circuits before any HuggingFace download (backend.py:192), so the
job needs neither weights nor a GPU. The full-inference path remains
gated on LIQUID_AUDIO_MODEL_ID, which CI doesn't set.
The four new Go test files (core/gallery/importers/liquid-audio_test.go,
core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime_gate_test.go,
core/http/routes/ui_pipeline_models_test.go, pkg/functions/parse_lfm2_test.go)
are already picked up by the existing test.yml workflow via `make test` →
`ginkgo -r ./pkg/... ./core/...`; their packages all carry RunSpecs entries.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
---------
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
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docker-build-backends : docker -build -llama -cpp docker -build -ik -llama -cpp docker -build -turboquant docker -build -ds 4 docker -build -rerankers docker -build -vllm docker -build -vllm -omni docker -build -sglang docker -build -transformers docker -build -outetts docker -build -diffusers docker -build -kokoro docker -build -faster -whisper docker -build -coqui docker -build -chatterbox docker -build -vibevoice docker -build -liquid -audio docker -build -moonshine docker -build -pocket -tts docker -build -qwen -tts docker -build -fish -speech docker -build -faster -qwen 3-tts docker -build -qwen -asr docker -build -nemo docker -build -voxcpm docker -build -whisperx docker -build -ace -step docker -build -acestep -cpp docker -build -voxtral docker -build -mlx -distributed docker -build -trl docker -build -llama -cpp -quantization docker -build -tinygrad docker -build -kokoros docker -build -sam 3-cpp docker -build -qwen 3-tts -cpp docker -build -vibevoice -cpp docker -build -localvqe docker -build -insightface docker -build -speaker -recognition docker -build -sherpa -onnx
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########################################################
### Mock Backend for E2E Tests
########################################################
build-mock-backend : protogen -go
$( GOCMD) build -o tests/e2e/mock-backend/mock-backend ./tests/e2e/mock-backend
clean-mock-backend :
rm -f tests/e2e/mock-backend/mock-backend
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########################################################
### UI E2E Test Server
########################################################
build-ui-test-server : build -mock -backend react -ui protogen -go
$( GOCMD) build -o tests/e2e-ui/ui-test-server ./tests/e2e-ui
test-ui-e2e : build -ui -test -server
cd core/http/react-ui && npm install && npx playwright install --with-deps chromium && npx playwright test
test-ui-e2e-docker :
docker build -t localai-ui-e2e -f tests/e2e-ui/Dockerfile .
docker run --rm localai-ui-e2e
clean-ui-test-server :
rm -f tests/e2e-ui/ui-test-server
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########################################################
### END Backends
########################################################
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.PHONY : swagger
swagger :
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swag init -g core/http/app.go --output swagger
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# DEPRECATED: gen-assets is for the legacy Alpine.js UI. Remove when legacy UI is removed.
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.PHONY : gen -assets
gen-assets :
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$( GOCMD) run core/dependencies_manager/manager.go webui_static.yaml core/http/static/assets
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## Documentation
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docs/layouts/_default :
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mkdir -p docs/layouts/_default
docs/static/gallery.html : docs /layouts /_default
$( GOCMD) run ./.github/ci/modelslist.go ./gallery/index.yaml > docs/static/gallery.html
docs/public : docs /layouts /_default docs /static /gallery .html
cd docs && hugo --minify
docs-clean :
rm -rf docs/public
rm -rf docs/static/gallery.html
.PHONY : docs
docs : docs /static /gallery .html
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cd docs && hugo serve
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########################################################
## Platform-specific builds
########################################################
## fyne cross-platform build
build-launcher-darwin : build -launcher
go run github.com/tiagomelo/macos-dmg-creator/cmd/createdmg@latest \
--appName "LocalAI" \
--appBinaryPath " $( LAUNCHER_BINARY_NAME) " \
--bundleIdentifier "com.localai.launcher" \
--iconPath "core/http/static/logo.png" \
--outputDir "dist/"
build-launcher-linux :
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cd cmd/launcher && go run fyne.io/tools/cmd/fyne@latest package -os linux -icon ../../core/http/static/logo.png --executable $( LAUNCHER_BINARY_NAME) -linux && mv launcher.tar.xz ../../$( LAUNCHER_BINARY_NAME) -linux.tar.xz
