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LocalAI/.github/ci/variantproposals/propose_test.go
mudler's LocalAI [bot] 0cdd781c2d ci(gallery): propose variant groupings for review instead of letting them decay (#10992)
ci(gallery): propose variant groupings for review on a schedule

A gallery entry may declare `variants:`, references to other entries that
are alternative builds of the same weights, and auto-selection then installs
the best build for the host. Those families exist only because humans curated
them in two manual sweeps.

The gallery agent dedupes on the HuggingFace repo URL and picks one
quantization per model, so it never adds a second build of a repo it already
has, and consequently never creates a family and never joins one. A model
published across two repos lands as two unrelated standalone entries. The
grouping decays as the gallery grows and nothing notices.

Add a scheduled job, in the same shape as the checksum checker: compute
offline, edit the index textually, open a pull request against ci-forks. It
proposes and never decides. Grouping is a judgement call that has gone wrong
in both directions, so the value is catching drift and surfacing candidates
with their evidence.

Three grouping signals, taken from the manual sweeps: same name once
quantization markers are stripped, the `:` config-suffix convention, and the
same primary weight filename once quantization markers are stripped. The
third requires the same upstream repository. Excluding auxiliary files is not
enough on its own: bert-embeddings, an ultravox audio model and a roleplay
finetune all declare a primary file called llama-3.2-1b-instruct-q4_k_m.gguf,
and grouping on that is the same error that linked four wan-2.1 entries and
Z-Image-Turbo to qwen3-4b.

Add gallery/variant-exclusions.yaml, a checked-in rejection ledger. A job
that re-proposes declined candidates every night becomes noise and gets
ignored. Declining a proposal is one flow-mapping line a reviewer adds inside
the proposal pull request itself. Seeded with the six -abliterated pairs whose
base is also in the gallery, the mistral-small multimodal pair, the whisper-1
alias, the kokoros language set, and the recurring finetune tokens. qat and
apex are deliberately not on it: they are quantization techniques.

Proposals refuse to nest, to let two parents claim one target, to target an
entry that installs nothing, and to touch a merge anchor, since a variants key
added to an anchor is inherited by every merging child. The anchor refusal
names every entry that would inherit, which is the worklist a human needs.

Run against the pre-sweep gallery, the job rediscovers 12 of the 19 groupings
the second manual sweep made, with no false positives. The rest it reports as
refusals or ledger declines rather than missing silently.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-20 23:08:00 +02:00

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package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
)
// entryYAML writes one gallery entry with a single weight file, which is the
// shape almost every real entry has. Specs that need something else write the
// YAML out by hand.
func entryYAML(name, repo, filename, sha string) string {
return fmt.Sprintf(`- name: %s
url: github:mudler/LocalAI/gallery/virtual.yaml@master
overrides:
parameters:
model: %s
files:
- filename: %s
uri: huggingface://%s/%s
sha256: %s
`, name, filename, filename, repo, filename, sha)
}
func indexOf(entries ...string) *Index {
ix, err := ParseIndex(strings.Join(entries, ""))
ExpectWithOffset(1, err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
return ix
}
// familyNames flattens a result into "parent <- variant, variant" strings, the
// form the specs assert against.
func familyNames(r *Result) []string {
out := make([]string, 0, len(r.Families))
for _, f := range r.Families {
names := make([]string, 0, len(f.Proposals))
for _, p := range f.Proposals {
names = append(names, p.Variant)
}
out = append(out, f.Parent+" <- "+strings.Join(names, ", "))
}
return out
}
func refusalReasons(r *Result) string {
var b strings.Builder
for _, ref := range r.Refusals {
b.WriteString(strings.Join(ref.Members, " + ") + ": " + ref.Reason + "\n")
}
return b.String()
}
func suppressionReasons(r *Result) string {
var b strings.Builder
for _, s := range r.Suppressed {
b.WriteString(s.String() + "\n")
}
return b.String()
}
var _ = Describe("Propose", func() {
Describe("the grouping signals", func() {
It("groups entries whose names differ only by a quantization marker", func() {
ix := indexOf(
entryYAML("foo-model", "acme/foo-GGUF", "foo-model-Q4_K_M.gguf", "aa"),
entryYAML("foo-model-q8_0", "acme/foo-GGUF", "foo-model-Q8_0.gguf", "bb"),
)
r := Propose(ix, nil)
Expect(familyNames(r)).To(ConsistOf("foo-model <- foo-model-q8_0"))
Expect(r.Families[0].Proposals[0].Evidence.Signals).To(ContainElement(SignalName))
Expect(r.Families[0].Proposals[0].Evidence.SharedStem).To(Equal("foo-model"))
Expect(r.Families[0].Proposals[0].Evidence.QuantTokens).To(ContainElements("q4_k_m", "q8_0"))
})
It("groups entries that use the colon config-suffix convention", func() {
ix := indexOf(
entryYAML("bar-model", "acme/bar-GGUF", "bar-model-Q4_K_M.gguf", "aa"),
entryYAML("bar-model:grammar-functioncall", "acme/bar-GGUF", "bar-model-Q4_K_M-grammar.gguf", "bb"),
)
r := Propose(ix, nil)
Expect(familyNames(r)).To(ConsistOf("bar-model <- bar-model:grammar-functioncall"))
Expect(r.Families[0].Proposals[0].Evidence.Signals).To(ContainElement(SignalConfigSuffix))
})
It("groups entries whose own weight file is the same file at another quantization", func() {
// The names share no stem, so only the filename signal can link
// these two.
ix := indexOf(
entryYAML("omni-cpp", "Serveurperso/Omni-GGUF", "omnivoice-base-Q8_0.gguf", "aa"),
entryYAML("omni-cpp-hq", "Serveurperso/Omni-GGUF", "omnivoice-base-BF16.gguf", "bb"),
)
r := Propose(ix, nil)
Expect(familyNames(r)).To(ConsistOf("omni-cpp <- omni-cpp-hq"))
ev := r.Families[0].Proposals[0].Evidence
Expect(ev.Signals).To(ConsistOf(SignalWeightFile))
Expect(ev.SharedFile).To(Equal("omnivoice-base"))
Expect(ev.SharedRepo).To(Equal("serveurperso/omni-gguf"))
})
It("does not let a shared auxiliary file link unrelated models", func() {
// Both entries ship the same text encoder. That is a packaging
// convention, not evidence of shared weights: this is how an
// earlier sweep linked four wan-2.1 entries to each other.
ix := indexOf(`- name: wan-2.1-t2v
url: u
files:
- filename: wan-2.1-t2v-Q4_K_M.gguf
uri: huggingface://acme/wan/wan-2.1-t2v-Q4_K_M.gguf
sha256: aa
- filename: umt5-xxl-encoder-Q8_0.gguf
uri: huggingface://acme/wan/umt5-xxl-encoder-Q8_0.gguf
sha256: cc
`, `- name: z-image-turbo
url: u
files:
- filename: z-image-turbo-Q4_K_M.gguf
uri: huggingface://acme/wan/z-image-turbo-Q4_K_M.gguf
sha256: bb
- filename: umt5-xxl-encoder-Q8_0.gguf
uri: huggingface://acme/wan/umt5-xxl-encoder-Q8_0.gguf
sha256: cc
`)
r := Propose(ix, nil)
Expect(familyNames(r)).To(BeEmpty())
})
It("does not treat a shared filename in two different repos as evidence", func() {
// A finetune republished under the base model's filename is the
// most common way this signal misfires.
ix := indexOf(
entryYAML("llama-3.2-3b-instruct", "hugging-quants/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-GGUF", "llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m.gguf", "aa"),
entryYAML("llama-3.2-3b-shiro-roleplay", "someone/Shiro-GGUF", "Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct.Q8_0.gguf", "bb"),
)
r := Propose(ix, nil)
Expect(familyNames(r)).To(BeEmpty())
})
})
Describe("what must never be proposed", func() {
It("does not group different parameter sizes that share a prefix", func() {
ix := indexOf(
entryYAML("qwen3-tts-cpp-0.6b-base", "Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF", "qwen3-tts-talker-Q4_K_M.gguf", "aa"),
entryYAML("qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-base", "Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF", "qwen3-tts-talker-Q8_0.gguf", "bb"),
)
r := Propose(ix, nil)
Expect(familyNames(r)).To(BeEmpty())
Expect(suppressionReasons(r)).To(ContainSubstring("different parameter sizes"))
})
It("does not group the Gemma effective sizes", func() {
ix := indexOf(
entryYAML("gemma-4-e2b-it", "google/gemma-GGUF", "gemma-4-it-Q4_K_M.gguf", "aa"),
entryYAML("gemma-4-e4b-it", "google/gemma-GGUF", "gemma-4-it-Q8_0.gguf", "bb"),
)
r := Propose(ix, nil)
Expect(familyNames(r)).To(BeEmpty())
Expect(suppressionReasons(r)).To(ContainSubstring("different parameter sizes"))
})
It("does not group entries with a byte-identical install payload", func() {
// whisper-1 exists so OpenAI-compatible clients can send that name.
// Folding it under whisper-base would hide the name they send.
payload := ` url: github:mudler/LocalAI/gallery/whisper-base.yaml@master
overrides:
parameters:
model: ggml-whisper-base.bin
files:
- filename: ggml-whisper-base.bin
uri: huggingface://ggerganov/whisper.cpp/ggml-base.bin
sha256: aa
`
ix := indexOf("- name: whisper-base\n"+payload, "- name: whisper-1\n"+payload)
r := Propose(ix, nil)
Expect(familyNames(r)).To(BeEmpty())
Expect(r.AliasSkipped).To(HaveLen(1))
Expect(r.AliasSkipped[0].Reason).To(ContainSubstring("aliases"))
})
DescribeTable("declines the categories the ledger records",
func(nameA, nameB string, ledgerYAML string) {
ix := indexOf(
entryYAML(nameA, "acme/repo", "shared-weights-Q4_K_M.gguf", "aa"),
entryYAML(nameB, "acme/repo", "shared-weights-Q8_0.gguf", "bb"),
)
ledger, err := ParseLedger([]byte(ledgerYAML))
Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
// Without the ledger these would be proposed, which is what
// makes the ledger load bearing rather than decorative.
Expect(familyNames(Propose(ix, nil))).ToNot(BeEmpty())
r := Propose(ix, ledger)
Expect(familyNames(r)).To(BeEmpty())
Expect(r.Suppressed).To(HaveLen(1))
},
Entry("a finetune", "base-model", "base-model-abliterated",
"tokens:\n - {token: abliterated, reason: finetune}\n"),
Entry("a distill", "base-model", "base-model-distilled",
"tokens:\n - {token: distilled, reason: distilled}\n"),
Entry("English-only versus multilingual ASR", "whisper-small", "whisper-small-en",
"pairs:\n - {parent: whisper-small, variant: whisper-small-en, reason: English-only versus multilingual}\n"),
Entry("two products sharing a prefix", "vibevoice-cpp", "vibevoice-cpp-asr",
"pairs:\n - {parent: vibevoice-cpp, variant: vibevoice-cpp-asr, reason: different products}\n"),
Entry("a per-language release", "kokoros-de", "kokoros-ja",
"groups:\n - {members: [kokoros, kokoros-de, kokoros-ja], reason: different languages}\n"),
)
It("reports the ledger's reason so its effect stays visible", func() {
ix := indexOf(
entryYAML("base-model", "acme/repo", "shared-weights-Q4_K_M.gguf", "aa"),
entryYAML("base-model-heretic", "acme/repo", "shared-weights-Q8_0.gguf", "bb"),
)
ledger, err := ParseLedger([]byte("tokens:\n - {token: heretic, reason: \"finetune, not a re-quantization\"}\n"))
Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
r := Propose(ix, ledger)
Expect(suppressionReasons(r)).To(ContainSubstring("finetune, not a re-quantization"))
Expect(suppressionReasons(r)).To(ContainSubstring(`token "heretic"`))
})
})
Describe("parent selection", func() {
It("picks the bare-named entry when one exists", func() {
ix := indexOf(
entryYAML("base-model-q8_0", "acme/repo", "base-model-Q8_0.gguf", "aa"),
entryYAML("base-model", "acme/repo", "base-model-Q4_K_M.gguf", "bb"),
entryYAML("base-model-f16", "acme/repo", "base-model-f16.gguf", "cc"),
)
r := Propose(ix, nil)
Expect(familyNames(r)).To(ConsistOf("base-model <- base-model-f16, base-model-q8_0"))
})
It("picks the smallest build when no entry is bare-named", func() {
ix := indexOf(
entryYAML("ced-base-f16", "acme/repo", "ced-base-f16.gguf", "aa"),
entryYAML("ced-base-q8", "acme/repo", "ced-base-Q8_0.gguf", "bb"),
)
r := Propose(ix, nil)
Expect(familyNames(r)).To(ConsistOf("ced-base-q8 <- ced-base-f16"))
})
It("judges the smallest build by the quantization in the model filename, not the name", func() {
// The names carry no marker at all; only the filenames say which
// build is which.
ix := indexOf(
entryYAML("thing-hq", "acme/repo", "thing-weights-BF16.gguf", "aa"),
entryYAML("thing-lite", "acme/repo", "thing-weights-Q4_K_M.gguf", "bb"),
)
r := Propose(ix, nil)
Expect(familyNames(r)).To(ConsistOf("thing-lite <- thing-hq"))
})
})
Describe("the rules a proposal has to respect", func() {
It("refuses to nest: a target that already offers variants of its own", func() {
ix := indexOf(
entryYAML("nest-model", "acme/repo", "nest-model-Q4_K_M.gguf", "aa"),
`- name: nest-model-q8_0
url: u
variants:
- model: nest-model-q8_0-mtp
overrides:
parameters:
model: nest-model-Q8_0.gguf
files:
- filename: nest-model-Q8_0.gguf
uri: huggingface://acme/repo/nest-model-Q8_0.gguf
sha256: bb
`,
entryYAML("nest-model-q8_0-mtp", "other/repo", "nest-model-mtp.gguf", "cc"),
)
r := Propose(ix, nil)
Expect(familyNames(r)).To(BeEmpty())
Expect(refusalReasons(r)).To(ContainSubstring("already offers variants of its own"))
})
It("refuses to nest: a parent that is already somebody else's variant", func() {
ix := indexOf(
`- name: outer
url: u
variants:
- model: middle
overrides:
parameters:
model: outer-Q4_K_M.gguf
files:
- filename: outer-Q4_K_M.gguf
uri: huggingface://acme/repo/outer-Q4_K_M.gguf
sha256: aa
`,
entryYAML("middle", "acme/other", "middle-Q4_K_M.gguf", "bb"),
entryYAML("middle-q8_0", "acme/other", "middle-Q8_0.gguf", "cc"),
)
r := Propose(ix, nil)
Expect(familyNames(r)).To(BeEmpty())
Expect(refusalReasons(r)).To(ContainSubstring("would nest variants"))
})
It("refuses to let two parents claim one target", func() {
ix := indexOf(
`- name: claimant
url: u
variants:
- model: contested-q8_0
overrides:
parameters:
model: claimant-Q4_K_M.gguf
files:
- filename: claimant-Q4_K_M.gguf
uri: huggingface://acme/repo/claimant-Q4_K_M.gguf
sha256: aa
`,
entryYAML("contested", "acme/other", "contested-Q4_K_M.gguf", "bb"),
entryYAML("contested-q8_0", "acme/other", "contested-Q8_0.gguf", "cc"),
)
r := Propose(ix, nil)
Expect(familyNames(r)).To(BeEmpty())
Expect(refusalReasons(r)).To(ContainSubstring("already a variant of"))
})
It("refuses a target that is not independently installable", func() {
ix := indexOf(
entryYAML("stub-model", "acme/repo", "stub-model-Q4_K_M.gguf", "aa"),
"- name: stub-model-q8_0\n description: a stanza nobody finished\n",
)
r := Propose(ix, nil)
Expect(familyNames(r)).To(BeEmpty())
Expect(refusalReasons(r)).To(ContainSubstring("not independently installable"))
})
It("refuses a family whose parent defines a merge anchor, naming the entries that would inherit", func() {
ix := indexOf(
`- &anchored
name: anchored-model
url: u
overrides:
parameters:
model: anchored-Q4_K_M.gguf
files:
- filename: anchored-Q4_K_M.gguf
uri: huggingface://acme/repo/anchored-Q4_K_M.gguf
sha256: aa
`,
`- !!merge <<: *anchored
name: anchored-child
variants: []
overrides:
parameters:
model: unrelated-child-Q4_K_M.gguf
files:
- filename: unrelated-child-Q4_K_M.gguf
uri: huggingface://other/repo/unrelated-child-Q4_K_M.gguf
sha256: cc
`,
entryYAML("anchored-model-q8_0", "acme/repo", "anchored-Q8_0.gguf", "bb"),
)
r := Propose(ix, nil)
Expect(familyNames(r)).To(BeEmpty())
Expect(refusalReasons(r)).To(ContainSubstring("defines YAML anchor &anchored"))
Expect(refusalReasons(r)).To(ContainSubstring("anchored-child"))
Expect(refusalReasons(r)).To(ContainSubstring("variants: []"))
})
It("refuses an entry whose name is not unique in the gallery", func() {
ix := indexOf(
entryYAML("twin", "acme/repo", "twin-Q4_K_M.gguf", "aa"),
entryYAML("twin", "acme/repo", "twin-Q4_K_M.gguf", "aa"),
entryYAML("twin-q8_0", "acme/repo", "twin-Q8_0.gguf", "bb"),
)
r := Propose(ix, nil)
Expect(familyNames(r)).To(BeEmpty())
Expect(refusalReasons(r)).To(ContainSubstring("appears more than once"))
})
It("says nothing about a pair that is already grouped", func() {
ix := indexOf(
`- name: settled
url: u
variants:
- model: settled-q8_0
overrides:
parameters:
model: settled-Q4_K_M.gguf
files:
- filename: settled-Q4_K_M.gguf
uri: huggingface://acme/repo/settled-Q4_K_M.gguf
sha256: aa
`,
entryYAML("settled-q8_0", "acme/repo", "settled-Q8_0.gguf", "bb"),
)
r := Propose(ix, nil)
Expect(r.HasProposals()).To(BeFalse())
Expect(r.Refusals).To(BeEmpty())
Expect(r.Suppressed).To(BeEmpty())
})
It("adds only the missing members to a family that already exists", func() {
ix := indexOf(
`- name: partial
url: u
variants:
- model: partial-q8_0
overrides:
parameters:
model: partial-Q4_K_M.gguf
files:
- filename: partial-Q4_K_M.gguf
uri: huggingface://acme/repo/partial-Q4_K_M.gguf
sha256: aa
`,
entryYAML("partial-q8_0", "acme/repo", "partial-Q8_0.gguf", "bb"),
entryYAML("partial-f16", "acme/repo", "partial-f16.gguf", "cc"),
)
r := Propose(ix, nil)
Expect(familyNames(r)).To(ConsistOf("partial <- partial-f16"))
})
})
It("does not modify the index it was given", func() {
text := entryYAML("foo-model", "acme/foo-GGUF", "foo-model-Q4_K_M.gguf", "aa") +
entryYAML("foo-model-q8_0", "acme/foo-GGUF", "foo-model-Q8_0.gguf", "bb")
ix, err := ParseIndex(text)
Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
before := strings.Join(ix.Lines, "\n")
Propose(ix, nil)
Expect(strings.Join(ix.Lines, "\n")).To(Equal(before))
})
})