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Richard Palethorpe
49ef40a187 feat(classifier/VAD): support voice control on low power devices (#10804)
* feat(llama-cpp): route Score through the slot loop

Score previously bypassed the slot loop with a direct llama_decode: a
conflict guard aborted the whole process if scoring raced generation, the
config validator had to reject score alongside chat/completion/embeddings,
and every candidate re-decoded the full shared prompt.

Add SERVER_TASK_TYPE_SCORE to the (patched) upstream server so score tasks
are scheduled like any other slot work: generation and scoring serialize
naturally, the shared prompt is decoded once per call, and the slot's
prompt cache carries the conversation prefix across calls. Context
checkpoints at the score boundary and at the cache-divergence point keep
SWA/hybrid/recurrent models (e.g. LFM2.5) from re-prefilling the whole
prompt per candidate: warm-turn scoring on a 6-option set drops from ~8s
to ~0.5s on a desktop CPU.

The conflict guard and the validation split are removed; declaring score
with generation usecases on one config is now supported and shares the
slot cache.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* feat(realtime): classifier wire types and pipeline config

Wire types and YAML config for realtime classifier mode: sessions carry a
localai_classifier extension (options with canned replies/tool calls,
softmax threshold, normalization, history trimming, fallback modes, and a
deterministic wake-word address gate), mirrored by pipeline.classifier in
the model YAML and surfaced in the config-meta registry. The
localai.classifier.result server event reports the full score distribution
per turn.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* feat(realtime): classifier response flow

Classifier-mode responses: instead of autoregressive generation, each user
turn is prefill-scored against the option list (router.ScoreClassifier
prompt/candidate shapes over the Score primitive) and the winning option's
canned reply and tool call are emitted through the existing response
machinery. Below-threshold turns take the configured fallback (none /
canned reply / generate); empty transcripts and unaddressed turns (wake
word not mentioned) skip scoring entirely. The scoring probe defaults to
the latest user message only — small scorers echo canned replies from
prior turns back as the top option otherwise.

Built for hardware that can afford prompt processing but not decode: with
slot-based Score the option list stays KV-cached across turns, so a turn
costs roughly one forward pass over the new words.

session_update_error events now carry the validation cause instead of a
generic message.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* fix(realtime): bound the VAD tick's scan window and buffer retention

The VAD tick loop re-scanned the entire input buffer every 300ms and only
trimmed it on zero-segment ticks or commits. Audio that keeps producing
segments without a committing pause (steady noise a mic pipeline lets
through, music, continuous speech) grew the buffer toward the 100MB cap
with each tick rescanning all of it — O(n^2), measured at ~3.3ms of silero
per buffered second: past ~90s retained, ticks run back to back and pin
~4 cores until the stream stops.

Silero's recurrent state only carries a few hundred ms of context, so
rescanning old audio buys nothing. Clip the slice handed to the VAD to the
largest silence the commit test can need to measure (server_vad silence
window or the semantic eagerness fallback) plus a warm-up margin, and
rebase the returned segment times so every downstream consumer keeps
whole-buffer coordinates. An open turn whose clipped window is all silence
now commits (the silence outran the window) instead of being discarded as
no-speech. Independently, retain at most 90s of raw buffer, rebasing the
live-feed and EOU cursors on trim — this also bounds the previously
unbounded VAD-error path. Turn boundaries are otherwise unchanged: no
forced commits, no new coordinator states.

pipeline.turn_detection.vad_window_sec can widen the scan window; values
below the automatic floor are ignored. The tick body is extracted into
vadTick so specs can drive turn detection synchronously (same shape as
classifySoundWindow); the babble reproduction that pinned 4 cores now
plateaus under 10% of one core.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* fix(backend): let per-model threads override the global default

ModelOptions overrode a set per-model threads value with the app-level
--threads whenever the latter was non-zero — and WithThreads defaults it
to the physical core count, so it always was. The YAML threads: knob has
been dead config: a tiny VAD model could never opt down from the global
pool size.

SetDefaults already fills an unset per-model value from the app config,
which is the intended precedence; resolve threads through a helper that
honors it (explicit threads: 0 still means unset).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* chore(gallery): single-thread the silero VAD

Silero is a ~2MB recurrent model with no exploitable graph parallelism:
measured per-call latency is identical at 1 and 10 ORT threads, while
every extra pool thread just spin-waits between the realtime loop's
frequent tiny inferences.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* docs(realtime): classifier mode, VAD scan window, threads precedence

Document the realtime classifier mode (options, threshold guidance,
wake-word address gate, empty-transcript handling), the VAD scan window
and 90s buffer retention (pipeline.turn_detection.vad_window_sec), the
per-model threads precedence, and the M3 classifier note in the realtime
state-machine design doc.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* perf(llama-cpp): score all candidates in one batched decode

One scoring call is now a single SERVER_TASK_TYPE_SCORE task: the slot
decodes the shared prefix (prompt + longest common candidate token
prefix) once, then forks one sequence per candidate off it
(metadata-only for the unified KV cache, copy-on-write for recurrent
state) and decodes every candidate's unique tail in one llama_decode.
Previously each candidate was its own task that restored the boundary
checkpoint and re-decoded its full tail sequentially, paying
per-candidate task and decode overhead.

The context reserves SERVER_SCORE_FORK_SEQS extra sequence ids (and
recurrent-state cells) beyond the parallel slots via the new
common_params::n_seq_score_forks. Forking requires the unified KV cache
(already this backend's default) since per-sequence streams would shrink
n_ctx_seq; an explicit kv_unified:false disables forking and Score calls
that need it fail cleanly. Candidates beyond the fork/output budget
decode in successive chunks.

Wire contract and scores are unchanged: per-token logprobs are stitched
from the shared region and the forked tails. Verified bitwise
deterministic call-to-call and independent of candidate order (no
cross-fork leakage via equal-length candidate swap); ranking matches the
per-candidate implementation on the drone battery (winner softmax
0.99996 vs 0.99997), and >16-candidate chunking, prefix-of-another and
empty candidates all pass.

Measured on a desktop CPU: warm /api/score calls 0.52s -> 0.23s; warm
realtime classifier turns 196-303ms. The 9-candidate drone turn decodes
~17 unique tail tokens in one batch instead of nine sequential ~220ms
checkpoint-restore tasks.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* fix(realtime): gate scoring capacity by model usecase

Reserve llama.cpp scoring slots only for models that explicitly declare the score usecase, while allowing score to coexist with chat and completion. Reject incompatible unified-KV settings and classifier activation on models without scoring capacity.

Propagate application defaults when resolving realtime and preload pipeline stages so unset thread counts are resolved consistently without overriding explicit model settings.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* fix(ci): honor APT mirrors in the prebuilt llama-cpp compile step

The builder-prebuilt path installs gcc-14 with apt directly and ignored
the APT_MIRROR/APT_PORTS_MIRROR build args the from-source path already
honors, so an ubuntu mirror outage broke every arm64 backend build. Pass
the args into the stage and run apt-mirror.sh (already in the build
context via COPY . /LocalAI) before the apt step.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* feat(realtime): classifier argument slots via constrained completion

Hybrid classify-then-complete: a classifier option's canned tool call can
declare typed argument slots (number | enum | string, with defaults and
prompt hints) referenced as "{{name}}" in the arguments template. When
the option wins, the slots are filled by a short grammar-constrained
completion that continues the exact scoring prompt — rendered by the same
cached ScoreClassifier, so the llama.cpp prompt cache is already warm —
with the chosen route JSON re-opened at the first slot field. A GBNF
grammar pins the field skeleton and frees only the values; temperature 0,
a couple dozen tokens at most (~300ms on a desktop CPU for two slots).

Slot declarations and hints ride the option descriptions in the shared
system prompt, informing scoring and the fill alike at no per-turn token
cost. The localai.classifier.result event carries the final arguments and
a fill_latency_ms. On inference failure the slots' defaults apply; a slot
without a default fails the response (or falls through with
fallback.mode: generate). Slot filling requires completion alongside
score in the scoring model's known_usecases.

Verified end-to-end on the Pi drone demo: "fly forward three meters" in
distance mode classifies forward and infers {"distance": 3, "units":
"meters"} in ~310ms, and the drone flies exactly 3 units.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* feat(realtime): splice filled slot values into classifier replies

A classifier option's spoken reply can now reference its tool's argument
slots ("Going forward {{distance}} {{units}}."): the values inferred by
the slot-fill completion — or the recovery defaults — are spliced into
the reply as plain text before it is emitted, so what the assistant says
confirms what it actually inferred. Placeholders without a value stay
literal, and options without slots are untouched.

FillToolArguments now returns the raw slot values alongside the spliced
arguments JSON to make the reply templating possible.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* fix(realtime): harden classifier slot completion

Reserve context for constrained slot filling, size completions from their encoded output, and encode enum grammar literals as valid JSON. Reject empty enum values and cover the failure modes with regression tests.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* feat(realtime): prewarm the classifier scoring prompt on registration

Swapping a session's classifier option list (a voice-switched command
mode, for instance) made the next turns pay a full re-prefill of the new
option-list prompt — measured 2.4s vs 0.3s warm on a desktop CPU, and
worse: on hybrid-memory models like LFM2.5, whose state cannot be
partially rewound (llama.cpp can only restore checkpoints), *every*
probe change re-prefilled from scratch whenever the last checkpoint
missed the probe boundary, so even same-list turns intermittently cost
full prefills.

Registering an option list (pipeline seed or session.update) now fires a
best-effort background prewarm: two throwaway scores with distinct
probes. The first prefills the new option-list prompt; the second,
diverging exactly where per-turn probe text starts, plants the backend's
rewind point (KV checkpoint) at the stable-prefix boundary that every
real turn reuses. The prewarm hides behind the canned mode-switch reply
— by the time it finishes speaking, the cache is warm. Idempotent per
option set, detached from the registering request's lifetime.

Measured on the drone demo (LFM2.5-1.2B, desktop CPU): first turn after
a mode switch 2374ms -> 340ms; intermittent same-list full prefills
(1.3-2.1s) all -> under 0.5s. For clients that swap lists frequently,
options: [parallel:2] on the scoring model additionally keeps one slot
per list via prefix-similarity routing (+26MB RSS, unified KV).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* perf(llama-cpp): checkpoint scoring at the caller-declared stable prefix

Hybrid-memory models (LFM2.5 shortconv, Qwen3.5 deltanet — where new
small models are headed) cannot rewind their state, so any prompt-cache
reuse that needs a rewind falls back to a full re-prefill. For classifier
scoring that meant every probe change re-processed the whole option-list
prompt: the server's checkpoints were placed reactively (at wherever the
previous task happened to diverge), so a checkpoint past the next
divergence was erased rather than restored — measured as intermittent
2-10s turns on prompts with a 95%+ common prefix.

The classifier now computes the probe-invariant prompt prefix once (the
byte-wise common prefix of two synthetic probe renders) and declares its
length with every Score request; the server maps it to a token boundary
and forces a KV checkpoint exactly there on each score prefill. That
checkpoint sits at or before every future divergence under the same
option list, so it always survives and always restores — repeat scoring
costs probe+candidates regardless of how the probe changes.

Also:
- prewarm reruns on every option-list registration instead of memoizing
  per list: with boundary checkpoints a redundant rewarm costs two
  probe-sized decodes, while skipping one after a slot eviction (three
  lists sharing fewer slots evict in LRU cascades) silently moves a full
  re-prefill onto the user's next turn
- new llama.cpp backend option rs_seq:N exposes bounded recurrent-state
  rollback outside speculative decoding; measured impractical for
  deltanet-scale states (65GB for 64 snapshots on Qwen3.5-4B) but cheap
  insurance for small-state models
- docs: the multi-list recipe (parallel:N + sps:0.5 — the default slot
  similarity threshold funnels distinct lists onto one slot)

Measured on the drone demo (LFM2.5-1.2B scorer, desktop CPU), steady
state: every turn 285-421ms including mode switches, vs 2.4s post-switch
and intermittent 1.3-2.9s re-prefills before.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* fix(realtime): align classifier cache guidance

Document the single-score prewarm behavior and clean the vendored score patch formatting.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* fix(llama-cpp): guard score task for fork backends

TurboQuant and Bonsai reuse the primary gRPC server against llama.cpp forks that do not carry LocalAI's slot-based Score patches. Compile the Score integration only for the patched primary backend and return UNIMPLEMENTED from fork builds instead of referencing absent task types and common_params fields.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5 [gh]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* fix(dev): generate gRPC code before commit lint

The coverage phase regenerates ignored protobuf bindings, but lint runs first and can fail against missing or stale output. Generate the pinned bindings before lint so the gate always type-checks the current schema.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

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Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-07-29 12:50:22 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]
4ac67d255d feat: single-build ggml CPU_ALL_VARIANTS for llama-cpp + turboquant (x86/arm64/apple) (#10497)
* feat(llama-cpp): single x86 CPU build via ggml CPU_ALL_VARIANTS

Replace the per-microarch avx/avx2/avx512/fallback multi-binary build on
x86 with a single grpc-server plus the dlopen-able libggml-cpu-*.so set
that ggml's backend registry selects at runtime by probing host CPU
features. One build instead of four, broader microarch coverage (adds
alderlake AVX-VNNI, zen4 AVX512-BF16, sapphirerapids AMX), and the
shell-side /proc/cpuinfo probing in run.sh goes away.

Build/link notes:
- CPU_ALL_VARIANTS requires GGML_BACKEND_DL + BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON, so
  ggml/llama become shared objects. SHARED_LIBS is now a make variable
  (default OFF) so the override survives the recursive sub-make into the
  VARIANT build dir instead of being re-clobbered by the base flags.
- The cpu-all target also builds "--target ggml": the per-microarch
  backends are runtime-dlopened, not link deps, so they only compile via
  ggml's add_dependencies().
- hw_grpc_proto is pinned STATIC. Under BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON it would
  otherwise become a DSO referencing hidden-visibility symbols in the
  static libprotobuf.a, which fails to link ("hidden symbol ... is
  referenced by DSO"). Keeping it static links gRPC/protobuf into the
  executable while only ggml/llama stay shared, so no PIC or base-image
  change is required.
- package.sh bundles the libggml-*.so set into package/lib; ggml finds
  them by scanning the bundled ld.so directory (/proc/self/exe), which
  run.sh launches from.

Scope: x86 only. arm64/darwin keep the single fallback build. The
ik-llama-cpp / turboquant forks and the other ggml C++ backends are
unchanged; the same recipe applies but is out of scope here.

Validated with a full docker build plus a live inference smoke test:
the model loads, ggml selects the AVX512_BF16 variant on a Zen-class
host, and tokens generate correctly.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* feat(llama-cpp,turboquant): extend CPU_ALL_VARIANTS to arm64 + turboquant

- llama-cpp: x86 AND arm64 now use the single llama-cpp-cpu-all build
  (only hipblas keeps the fallback build). ggml's arm64 variant table
  (armv8.x / armv9.x, plus apple_m* on darwin) is selected at runtime.
- turboquant: same recipe via a turboquant-cpu-all target. turboquant
  copies backend/cpp/llama-cpp's CMakeLists.txt + Makefile per flavor, so
  the hw_grpc_proto STATIC fix and the SHARED_LIBS / EXTRA_CMAKE_ARGS
  make-vars are inherited; the target just passes SHARED_LIBS=ON, the DL
  flags and --target ggml through, then collects the .so set. run.sh and
  package.sh updated to ship/select turboquant-cpu-all.
- Makefile lib-collection find now also matches *.dylib (for the darwin
  build, which emits dylibs rather than .so).

ik-llama-cpp is intentionally left unchanged: its pinned ggml has no
CPU_ALL_VARIANTS support and its IQK kernels require AVX2, so the
per-microarch dynamic backend set does not apply.

Scope still excludes the darwin packaging wiring (separate change).

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* feat(llama-cpp,turboquant): arm64 gcc-14 for SME variants + darwin cpu-all packaging

- arm64: ggml CPU_ALL_VARIANTS builds armv9.2 SME variants whose -march=...+sme
  is rejected by the Ubuntu 24.04 default gcc-13. Build the arm64 variants with
  gcc-14 (installed in the compile step). The host only selects a variant it
  actually supports at runtime, but every variant must still compile.
- darwin: scripts/build/llama-cpp-darwin.sh builds llama-cpp-cpu-all instead of
  the fallback binary, keeps Metal (GGML_METAL stays ON; --target ggml also builds
  ggml-metal). The per-microarch libggml-cpu-*.dylib are placed in the package
  root next to the binary (darwin has no bundled ld.so, so ggml's executable-dir
  scan looks there), while the other shared dylibs go in lib/ for DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* fix(llama-cpp-darwin): distribute ggml backends by suffix (.so root, .dylib lib)

ggml emits its loadable backends (per-microarch CPU variants, metal, blas) with a
.so suffix even on darwin, while the core libraries (ggml-base/ggml/llama/
llama-common/mtmd) use .dylib. Split the distribution by suffix: .so DL backends
go in the package root for ggml's executable-directory scan, .dylib core libs go
in lib/ for DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH. The previous .dylib name-pattern matched none of the
variants.

Verified on an M4: ggml loads the apple_m4 CPU variant (SME=1) and Metal, model
loads and generates correct tokens.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* fix(llama-cpp,turboquant): only CPU_ALL_VARIANTS for pure-CPU builds, GPU uses fallback

The previous gate sent every non-hipblas build through llama-cpp-cpu-all, so the
GPU image builds (cublas, sycl_f16/f32, vulkan, nvidia l4t) compiled the whole CPU
microarch variant matrix on top of their already-huge GPU backend - blowing the
build time (the sycl job was only 59% done after 2h11m) - and the arm64 l4t build
failed at `apt-get install gcc-14` (exit 100) on the Jetson base.

Gate on an empty BUILD_TYPE instead: only the pure CPU image (build-type: '' in
.github/backend-matrix.yml) builds the CPU_ALL_VARIANTS set; every GPU build gets a
single fallback CPU grpc-server, since the accelerator does the compute. This also
confines the arm64 gcc-14 step (needed for the armv9.2 SME variants) to the CPU
build, away from the GPU base images.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* docs(llama-cpp): correct run.sh comment for arm64/darwin cpu-all

arm64 and darwin CPU images now also ship llama-cpp-cpu-all (not fallback-only);
only GPU images ship fallback-only. Fix the stale comment to match.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

---------

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-06-25 15:47:03 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]
593f3a8648 ci: refactor llama-cpp variant Dockerfiles to consume prebuilt base-grpc images (PR 2/2) (#9738)
* ci(backend_build): plumb builder-base-image and BUILDER_TARGET build-args

Adds an optional builder-base-image input. When set, BUILDER_BASE_IMAGE
is forwarded as a build-arg AND BUILDER_TARGET=builder-prebuilt is set
to select the variant Dockerfile's prebuilt-base stage. When empty,
BUILDER_TARGET=builder-fromsource (the default) keeps the existing
from-source build path.

This makes the prebuilt-base optimization opt-in per matrix entry
without breaking local `make backends/<name>` invocations or backends
whose Dockerfile doesn't have a prebuilt path.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* ci(llama-cpp,ik-llama-cpp,turboquant): multi-target Dockerfiles for prebuilt + from-source

Restructure the three llama.cpp-derived Dockerfiles so each supports
two builder paths in a single file, selected via the BUILDER_TARGET
build-arg:

  BUILDER_TARGET=builder-fromsource (default)
    - Standalone build: gRPC stage + apt installs + (conditionally)
      CUDA/ROCm/Vulkan + compile.
    - Used by `make backends/llama-cpp` locally and any caller that
      doesn't supply a prebuilt base.

  BUILDER_TARGET=builder-prebuilt
    - FROM \${BUILDER_BASE_IMAGE} (one of quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:
      base-grpc-* shipped in PR #9737).
    - Skips ~25-35 min of gRPC compile + ~5-10 min of toolchain installs.
    - Used by CI when the matrix entry sets builder-base-image.

Final FROM scratch resolves BUILDER_TARGET via an aliasing FROM stage
(BuildKit doesn't support variable expansion directly in COPY --from),
then COPY --from=builder pulls package output from the chosen path.
BuildKit prunes the unreferenced builder, so each build only does the
work for the chosen path.

The compile RUN is identical between both builder stages, so it's
factored into .docker/<name>-compile.sh and bind-mounted into both.
ccache mount + cache-id stay per-arch / per-build-type.

Local DX preserved: `make backends/llama-cpp` (no extra args) defaults
to BUILDER_TARGET=builder-fromsource and works exactly as before.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* ci(backend.yml,backend_pr.yml): forward builder-base-image from matrix

Plumbs the new optional builder-base-image input from matrix into
backend_build.yml. backend_build.yml derives BUILDER_TARGET from
whether builder-base-image is set, so matrix entries that map to a
prebuilt base get the prebuilt path; entries that don't (python/go/
rust backends) fall through to the default builder-fromsource (which
their own Dockerfiles don't reference, so it's a no-op for them).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* ci(backend-matrix): wire builder-base-image to llama-cpp variants

For every entry whose Dockerfile is llama-cpp/ik-llama-cpp/turboquant,
add a builder-base-image field pointing at the appropriate prebuilt
quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:base-grpc-* tag.

backend_build.yml derives BUILDER_TARGET from this field's presence:
non-empty -> builder-prebuilt; empty -> builder-fromsource. So this
commit alone activates the prebuilt-base path for these 23 backends
in CI, while local `make backends/<name>` (no extra args) keeps the
from-source path.

Mapping by (build-type, arch):
- '' / amd64        -> base-grpc-amd64
- '' / arm64        -> base-grpc-arm64
- cublas-12 / amd64 -> base-grpc-cuda-12-amd64
- cublas-13 / amd64 -> base-grpc-cuda-13-amd64
- cublas-13 / arm64 -> base-grpc-cuda-13-arm64
- hipblas / amd64   -> base-grpc-rocm-amd64
- vulkan / amd64    -> base-grpc-vulkan-amd64
- vulkan / arm64    -> base-grpc-vulkan-arm64
- sycl_* / amd64    -> base-grpc-intel-amd64
- cublas-12 + JetPack r36.4.0 / arm64 -> base-grpc-l4t-cuda-12-arm64

Cold-build savings expected: ~25-35 min per variant (skips the gRPC
compile + toolchain install that's now in the base).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* ci: add base-grpc-l4t-cuda-12-arm64 variant for legacy JetPack entries

Two matrix entries (-nvidia-l4t-arm64-llama-cpp, -nvidia-l4t-arm64-
turboquant) build against nvcr.io/nvidia/l4t-jetpack:r36.4.0 + CUDA
12 ARM64. They're distinct from -nvidia-l4t-cuda-13-arm64-* which use
Ubuntu 24.04 + CUDA 13 sbsa. Add the missing JetPack-based variant
to base-images.yml so those two entries' builder-base-image mapping
in the previous commit resolves.

Bootstrap order before merging this PR (re-run base-images.yml on
this branch — 9 existing variants hit BuildKit cache, only the new
l4t-cuda-12-arm64 builds cold):

  gh workflow run base-images.yml --ref ci/base-images-consumers

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* ci: extract base-builder install logic into .docker/install-base-deps.sh

Pre-extraction, the apt + protoc + cmake + conditional CUDA/ROCm/Vulkan
+ gRPC install logic was duplicated across four files:
  - backend/Dockerfile.base-grpc-builder (CI prebuilt-base source of truth)
  - backend/Dockerfile.llama-cpp (builder-fromsource stage)
  - backend/Dockerfile.ik-llama-cpp (builder-fromsource stage)
  - backend/Dockerfile.turboquant (builder-fromsource stage)

A bump to e.g. CUDA toolkit packages had to be made in 4 places, and
drift between the prebuilt base and the variant-Dockerfile from-source
path was a real concern (ik-llama-cpp's hipblas branch was already
missing the rocBLAS Kernels echo that llama-cpp / turboquant /
base-grpc-builder all had).

Factor the install logic into a single .docker/install-base-deps.sh
that reads its inputs from env vars and runs conditionally on
BUILD_TYPE / CUDA_*_VERSION / TARGETARCH. Each Dockerfile now bind-
mounts the script alongside .docker/apt-mirror.sh and invokes it from
a single RUN step.

The variant Dockerfiles' grpc-source stage is removed entirely — the
script handles gRPC compile + install at /opt/grpc, and the
builder-fromsource stage mirrors builder-prebuilt by copying
/opt/grpc/. to /usr/local/.

Result:
  - install-base-deps.sh: 244 lines (one source of truth)
  - Dockerfile.base-grpc-builder: 268 -> 98 lines
  - Dockerfile.llama-cpp: 361 -> 157 lines
  - Dockerfile.ik-llama-cpp: 348 -> 151 lines
  - Dockerfile.turboquant: 355 -> 154 lines
  - Total Dockerfile bytes: 1332 -> 560 lines (58% reduction)

Bit-equivalence between prebuilt and from-source paths is now enforced
by construction: both invoke the same script with the same inputs.
A side-effect is that ik-llama-cpp now also gets the rocBLAS Kernels
echo + clblas block parity it was previously missing.

Includes the BUILD_TYPE=clblas branch (libclblast-dev) for parity even
though no current CI matrix entry uses it.

After this commit's force-push, base-images.yml needs to be redispatched
on this branch — the Dockerfile.base-grpc-builder content shifts so the
existing cache won't apply for the install layer (gRPC layer also
rebuilds since it's now in the same RUN step).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* ci(base-images): skip-drivers on JetPack l4t variant

cuda-nvcc-12-0 isn't installable via apt on the JetPack r36.4.0 base
image — JetPack ships CUDA preinstalled at /usr/local/cuda and its
apt feed doesn't carry the cuda-nvcc-* packages from the public
repositories. The original matrix entry for -nvidia-l4t-arm64-llama-cpp
on master sets skip-drivers: 'true' for exactly this reason; the
new base-grpc-l4t-cuda-12-arm64 base needs to match.

Also forwards SKIP_DRIVERS as a build-arg from matrix into the build
(was missing entirely before this commit).

Caught by run 25612030775 — l4t-cuda-12-arm64 failed at:
  E: Package 'cuda-nvcc-12-0' has no installation candidate

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
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>
2026-05-10 00:03:52 +02:00