Closes#9601
Makes the temporary scratch paths in vllm, vllm-omni, tinygrad, and pocket-tts
backends configurable via the standard TMPDIR env var, instead of always writing
to /tmp. This is a one-line change per call site that calls tempfile.gettempdir()
for the directory and keeps the same filename suffix.
Users who run on systems with a small root partition (or want to relocate scratch
files to a larger volume) can now redirect these by setting TMPDIR
(e.g. TMPDIR=/data/tmp), without affecting the existing LOCALAI_GENERATED_CONTENT_PATH
or LOCALAI_UPLOAD_PATH options that already cover other temp paths.
Files touched:
- backend/python/vllm/backend.py (1 site: video base64 scratch)
- backend/python/tinygrad/backend.py (1 site: image fallback dst)
- backend/python/pocket-tts/backend.py (1 site: tts wav fallback dst)
- backend/python/vllm-omni/backend.py (2 sites: video + audio scratch)
Drop the 295-line vendor/llama.py fork in favor of `tinygrad.apps.llm`,
which now provides the Transformer blocks, GGUF loader (incl. Q4/Q6/Q8
quantization), KV-cache and generate loop we were maintaining ourselves.
What changed:
- New vendor/appsllm_adapter.py (~90 LOC) — HF -> GGUF-native state-dict
keymap, Transformer kwargs builder, `_embed_hidden` helper, and a hard
rejection of qkv_bias models (Qwen2 / 2.5 are no longer supported; the
apps.llm Transformer ties `bias=False` on Q/K/V projections).
- backend.py routes both safetensors and GGUF paths through
apps.llm.Transformer. Generation now delegates to its (greedy-only)
`generate()`; Temperature / TopK / TopP / RepetitionPenalty are still
accepted on the wire but ignored — documented in the module docstring.
- Jinja chat render now passes `enable_thinking=False` so Qwen3's
reasoning preamble doesn't eat the tool-call token budget on small
models.
- Embedding path uses `_embed_hidden` (block stack + output_norm) rather
than the custom `embed()` method we were carrying on the vendored
Transformer.
- test.py gains TestAppsLLMAdapter covering the keymap rename, tied
embedding fallback, unknown-key skipping, and qkv_bias rejection.
- Makefile fixtures move from Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct to Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B
(apps.llm-compatible) and tool_parser from qwen3_xml to hermes (the
HF chat template emits hermes-style JSON tool calls).
Verified with the docker-backed targets:
test-extra-backend-tinygrad 5/5 PASS
test-extra-backend-tinygrad-embeddings 3/3 PASS
test-extra-backend-tinygrad-whisper 4/4 PASS
test-extra-backend-tinygrad-sd 3/3 PASS
* 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
