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.
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.
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.
* feat: wire min_p
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* feat: inferencing defaults
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* chore(refactor): re-use iterative parser
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* chore: generate automatically inference defaults from unsloth
Instead of trying to re-invent the wheel and maintain here the inference
defaults, prefer to consume unsloth ones, and contribute there as
necessary.
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* chore: apply defaults also to models installed via gallery
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* chore: be consistent and apply fallback to all endpoint
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* feat: add fine-tuning endpoint
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* feat(experimental): add fine-tuning endpoint and TRL support
This changeset defines new GRPC signatues for Fine tuning backends, and
add TRL backend as initial fine-tuning engine. This implementation also
supports exporting to GGUF and automatically importing it to LocalAI
after fine-tuning.
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* commit TRL backend, stop by killing process
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* move fine-tune to generic features
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* add evals, reorder menu
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* Fix tests
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AIO images are behind, and takes effort to maintain these. Wizard and
installation of models have been semplified massively, so AIO images
lost their purpose.
This allows us to be more laser focused on main images and reliefes
stress from CI.
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* feat(realtime): WebRTC support
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* fix(tracing): Show full LLM opts and deltas
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* feat(mlx-distributed): add new MLX-distributed backend
Add new MLX distributed backend with support for both TCP and RDMA for
model sharding.
This implementation ties in the discovery implementation already in
place, and re-uses the same P2P mechanism for the TCP MLX-distributed
inferencing.
The Auto-parallel implementation is inspired by Exo's
ones (who have been added to acknowledgement for the great work!)
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* expose a CLI to facilitate backend starting
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* feat: make manual rank0 configurable via model configs
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* Add missing features from mlx backend
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* Apply suggestion from @mudler
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* feat(backends): add faster-qwen3-tts
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* fix: this backend is CUDA only
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* fix: add requirements-install.txt with setuptools for build isolation
The faster-qwen3-tts backend requires setuptools to build packages
like sox that have setuptools as a build dependency. This ensures
the build completes successfully in CI.
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* feat(musicgen): add ace-step and UI interface
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* Correctly handle model dir
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* Drop auto-download
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* Fixups
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* Add to models, fixup UIs icons
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* fixups
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* Update docs
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* l4t13 is incompatbile
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* avoid pinning version for cuda12
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* Drop l4t12
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* feat(metal): try to extend support to remaining backends
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* neutts doesn't work
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* split outetts out of transformers
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* Remove torch pin to whisperx
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* 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.
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* feat(whisperx): register whisperx backend in Makefile
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* feat(whisperx): add whisperx meta and image entries to index.yaml
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* ci(whisperx): add build matrix entries for CPU, CUDA 12/13, and ROCm
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* 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
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* fix(whisperx): pin torch ROCm variant to fix CI build failure
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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Some datacenter setups might be stuck with the 5.x kernel which doesn't
play well with CUDA >=12.9. To incrase compatibility with the CUDA 12.x
branch, downgrade to 12.8. For newer systems, it is still suggested to
use CUDA 13.x wherever compatible.
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* feat(vllm-omni: add new backend
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* default to py3.12
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exllama2 development has stalled and only old architectures are
supported. exllamav3 is still in development, meanwhile cleaning up
exllama2 from the gallery.
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* feat(backends): add moonshine backend for faster transcription
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* Add backend to CI, update AGENTS.md from this exercise
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* chore(makefile): Add buildargs for sd and cuda when building backend
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* feat(whisper): Add prompt to condition transcription output
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* chore(deps): bump stable-diffusion.cpp to '8823dc48bcc1598eb9671da7b69e45338d0cc5a5'
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* fix(Dockerfile.golang): Make curl noisy to see when download fails
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* feat(vibevoice): add backend
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* chore: add workflow and backend index
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* chore(gallery): add vibevoice
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* Use self-hosted for intel builds
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* Pin python version for l4t
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* chore(ci): add cuda13 jobs
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* Add to pipelines and to capabilities. Start to work on the gallery
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* gallery
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* capabilities: try to detect by looking at /usr/local
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* neutts
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* backends.yaml
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* add cuda13 l4t requirements.txt
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* add cuda13 requirements.txt
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* Fixups
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* Fixups
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* Pin vllm
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* Not all backends are compatible
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* add vllm to requirements
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* vllm is not pre-compiled for cuda 13
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* chore(tests): check embeddings differs in llama.cpp
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* fix(llama.cpp): use the correct field for embedding
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* fix(llama.cpp): use embedding type none
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* chore(tests): add test-cases in aio-e2e suite
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* chore(ci): Build Go based backends on Darwin
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* chore(stablediffusion-ggml): Fixes for building on Darwin
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* chore(whisper): Build on Darwin
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