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LocalAI/core/config/backend_capabilities.go
LocalAI [bot] 600dafd20b feat(ced): sound-event classification backend (CED audio tagger) (#10425)
* feat(ced): sketch sound-classification backend (CED audio tagger)

Wires ced.cpp (CED, 527-class AudioSet sound-event tagger; baby cry,
footsteps, glass, alarms, dog bark) into LocalAI as a Go/purego backend.

SKETCH (backend skeleton real; core REST wiring + CI/gallery is a checklist
in DESIGN.md):
- backend/backend.proto: new SoundDetection rpc + SoundClass messages
  (run `make protogen-go` to regenerate pkg/grpc/proto).
- backend/go/ced: main.go (purego dlopen libced.so + ced_capi.h),
  goced.go (Ced gRPC backend: Load + SoundDetection), Makefile
  (clone-at-pin CED_VERSION, ggml static-PIC shared build), run.sh,
  package.sh, .gitignore.
- DESIGN.md: REST /v1/audio/classification wiring (handler/route/capability
  registration checklist), gallery/index + CI registration, and a scoping
  note for the realtime/websocket live-recognition path (sliding-window
  classify over the existing ws transport + voicegate; the ced C-API
  per-PCM entry point is already window-friendly).

Backend code does not compile until protogen-go regenerates the pb types
and a libced.so is built (Makefile clones+builds it).

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

* feat(ced): REST /v1/audio/classification endpoint + capability registration

Wires the ced sound-event classification backend (AudioSet audio tagger)
end to end through the REST surface, mirroring the transcription path.

- Handler: core/http/endpoints/openai/sound_classification.go parses the
  multipart audio upload, temp-files it, resolves the model config and
  calls the SoundDetection RPC; returns {model, detections[]} JSON.
- Backend wrapper: core/backend/sound_classification.go (ModelSoundDetection)
  loads the model and normalizes the proto response into schema types.
- Schema: core/schema/sound_classification.go (SoundClassificationResult).
- gRPC layer: SoundDetection wired through the LocalAI wrapper (interface,
  Backend client, Client, embed, server, base default) so the loader-typed
  client exposes the RPC; proto regenerated via make protogen-go.
- Route: POST /v1/audio/classification (+ /audio/classification alias) with
  the audio/multipart default-model middleware in routes/openai.go.
- Capability surfaces: swagger @Tags/@Router on the handler; FLAG_SOUND_
  CLASSIFICATION usecase flag + UsecaseSoundClassification + UsecaseInfoMap +
  GuessUsecases + ModalityGroups + GetAllModelConfigUsecases; meta usecase
  option; /api/instructions audio area updated; auth RouteFeatureRegistry +
  FeatureAudioClassification (APIFeatures, default ON) + FeatureMetas; UI
  usecaseFilters, capabilities.js CAP_SOUND_CLASSIFICATION, Models.jsx filter
  + i18n; docs page features/audio-classification.md + whats-new + crosslink.

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

* feat(ced): realtime sound-event detection over the websocket API

When a realtime pipeline configures a sound-classification model, each
VAD-committed utterance (the same window the transcription path produces)
is also run through the CED sound-event classifier and the scored AudioSet
tags are emitted as a new server event. No new backend rpc is needed: the
SoundDetection gRPC method already exists on this branch.

- config: add Pipeline.SoundDetection (yaml/json sound_detection,omitempty)
  beside Transcription/VAD.
- realtime: add Model.SoundDetection(ctx, audio, topK, threshold) to the
  ModelInterface; implement it on wrappedModel and transcriptOnlyModel by
  calling backend.ModelSoundDetection with the session's sound-classification
  model config (mirrors how Transcribe dispatches). Load the optional config
  in newModel / newTranscriptionOnlyModel; nil config keeps it additive.
- types: add ConversationItemSoundDetectionEvent (item_id, content_index,
  detections[]{label,score,index}) with type conversation.item.sound_detection,
  its ServerEventType constant and MarshalJSON, mirroring the transcription
  completed event.
- realtime: add emitSoundDetection (unary path: classify the committed window,
  build the event, t.SendEvent) and wire it at the utterance-commit hook right
  after emitTranscription; gated on session.SoundDetectionEnabled (resolved
  from Pipeline.SoundDetection at session setup, defaults top_k=5, threshold=0).
  Its error is logged via xlog but never aborts the turn.
- test: Ginkgo specs for emitSoundDetection (tags emitted, empty detections,
  classifier error) plus a SoundDetection method on the fakeModel double.

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

* fix(ced): implement SoundDetection in nodes backend test doubles

The SoundDetection method added to the grpc backend interface left two
test doubles (fakeBackendClient, fakeGRPCBackend) incomplete, so
core/services/nodes failed to compile under `go vet`/`go test` (go build
missed it: the doubles live in _test.go). Add the method to both,
mirroring their existing Detect mock. Repairs CI for the nodes package.

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

* feat(ced): decouple realtime sound detection from VAD (sound-only sessions)

Sound-event detection must activate on sounds, not speech, so it no longer
runs through the voice VAD/transcription path. A sound-detection-only
pipeline (sound_detection set, no transcription/LLM) now:

- is accepted by prepareRealtimeConfig (sound_detection counts as a pipeline
  stage),
- builds a lightweight model via newSoundDetectionOnlyModel (no VAD/STT/LLM/TTS
  loaded), and
- defaults the session to turn_detection none (no VAD) with no transcription
  stage, so the client drives windowing via input_audio_buffer.commit
  (option A: client-side sliding window). The per-PCM C-API already supports
  arbitrary windows.

commitUtterance gains a sound-only branch: it emits the
conversation.item.sound_detection event (scored AudioSet tags) and stops -
no transcription, no LLM response. generateResponse is now guarded on a
transcription stage being present, so a sound-only turn never invokes the LLM.

Existing transcription/VAD sessions are unchanged (additive). Added a
commitUtterance sound-only Ginkgo spec asserting it emits the sound event and
neither transcribes nor generates a response. go vet + golangci-lint
(new-from-merge-base) clean; openai suite green.

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

* feat(ced): register sound-classification backend in gallery + CI

Mechanical backend-image registration for the ced sound-event classifier,
mirroring the parakeet-cpp Go/purego backend everywhere it is wired up.

- .github/backend-matrix.yml: add the ced build matrix, field-for-field copies
  of the parakeet-cpp entries (cpu amd64/arm64, cublas cuda 12/13 amd64,
  l4t cuda-13 arm64, l4t-jetpack cuda-12 arm64, sycl f32/f16, vulkan
  amd64/arm64, rocm hipblas, and the metal darwin entry), changing only
  backend and tag-suffix. dockerfile stays ./backend/Dockerfile.golang.
- backend/index.yaml: add the &ced meta anchor (capabilities map per platform)
  plus ced-development and the per-arch image entries, each uri/mirror
  tag-suffix matching the matrix exactly. The model gallery (GGUF) entry is
  intentionally deferred pending the HuggingFace publish (TODO note inline).
- scripts/changed-backends.js: add an explicit item.backend === "ced" branch in
  inferBackendPath mapping to backend/go/ced/, same mechanism and ordering as
  the parakeet-cpp branch (before the generic golang fallthrough).
- .github/workflows/bump_deps.yaml: register mudler/ced.cpp -> CED_VERSION in
  backend/go/ced/Makefile so the daily bot bumps the pin.
- swagger/{docs.go,swagger.json,swagger.yaml}: regenerated via make swagger so
  the existing /v1/audio/classification annotations land in the generated spec.

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

* feat(ced): server-side windowing for realtime sound detection (option B)

Adds an optional server-driven sliding-window classifier so a sound-only
realtime client only has to stream audio (no input_audio_buffer.commit):

- Pipeline.sound_detection_window_ms / sound_detection_hop_ms config knobs.
  When both > 0 on a sound-only session, the server classifies the last
  window of streamed audio every hop and emits a conversation.item.sound_
  detection event; the input buffer is trimmed to one window so a long
  stream stays bounded. When unset, the session stays client-driven
  (option A). Runs independent of VAD (sound events are not speech).
- handleSoundWindow (ticker) + classifySoundWindow (one tick, extracted so
  it is unit-testable) + writeWindowWAV, which declares the true
  InputSampleRate (NewWAVHeaderWithRate) so the classifier resamples
  correctly. Goroutine is started after toggleVAD and torn down with the
  session (close + wg.Wait).
- Register pipeline.sound_detection (+window_ms/hop_ms) in the config meta
  registry; the earlier realtime commit added pipeline.sound_detection
  without a registry entry, failing TestAllFieldsHaveRegistryEntries. This
  fixes that and covers the two new knobs.

Tests: classifySoundWindow emits an event + trims the buffer to one window,
no-ops on too-little audio; writeWindowWAV declares the given sample rate.
go build/vet + golangci-lint (new-from-merge-base) clean; config + openai
suites green.

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

* feat(ced): add ced-base GGUF model gallery entries (f16 + q8_0)

The ced-base weights are now published at mudler/ced-base-gguf (Apache-2.0,
converted from mispeech/ced-base). Adds gallery/ced.yaml (backend: ced +
known_usecases: sound_classification) and two gallery/index.yaml entries
(ced-base-f16 default, ced-base-q8 smallest) with sha256-pinned files, and
removes the now-resolved TODO from backend/index.yaml.

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

* feat(ced): add tiny/mini/small GGUF model gallery entries

Publishes the rest of the CED family (same architecture, metadata-driven port
verified end-to-end on ced-tiny) to mudler/ced-{tiny,mini,small}-gguf and adds
their f16 + q8_0 gallery entries:

  ced-tiny  (5.5M, edge/Pi-class)  f16 11MB / q8_0 6MB
  ced-mini  (9.6M)                 f16 19MB / q8_0 11MB
  ced-small (22M)                  f16 42MB / q8_0 23MB

All sha256-pinned. ced-base remains the accuracy default.

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

* chore(ced): point gallery entries at the consolidated mudler/ced-gguf repo

All CED quantizations (tiny/mini/small/base, f16/q8_0) now live in a single
HuggingFace repo, mudler/ced-gguf, instead of per-model repos. Repoint the 8
gallery model entries' urls + file uris accordingly. sha256 and filenames are
unchanged.

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

* chore(ced): bump CED_VERSION to the short-clip fix

Pin the ced backend to ced.cpp 99c6ed3, which fixes a crash on any clip
shorter than target_length (~10.11s): time_pos_embed was added at its full
63-frame grid instead of being sliced to the clip's actual time grid, tripping
ggml_can_repeat in ggml_add. Surfaced by the live realtime e2e (sub-10s
windows) and gated with a short-clip parity test upstream.

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

* docs(ced): list ced.cpp as a LocalAI-team engine + backend-guide directive

- README.md: add ced.cpp to the "native C/C++/GGML engines developed and
  maintained by the LocalAI project" table.
- docs/content/features/backends.md: add a Sound Classification backend
  category (sound-event classification / audio tagging) listing ced.cpp.
- .agents/adding-backends.md: add a "Documenting the backend" section and two
  verification-checklist items requiring new backends to be documented in the
  backends.md category list, and in-house native engines to be added to the
  README maintained-engines table. This directive was missing.

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

* chore(ced): repin CED_VERSION to the v0.1.0 release commit

ced.cpp history was squashed into a single release commit (tagged v0.1.0), so
the previous pin (99c6ed3) no longer exists upstream. Pin to c04ac14, the
v0.1.0 release commit, so the backend builds against a commit that exists.

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

* fix(ced): silence gosec G304/G103 + govet unsafeptr on audited paths

- sound_classification.go: os.Create(dst) where dst = temp dir + path.Base of
  the upload (no traversal). #nosec G304, matching the depth-anything-cpp handler.
- goced.go: reading a NUL-terminated C string from a libced-owned buffer.
  #nosec G103 (gosec) + //nolint:govet (golangci-lint's unsafeptr check), since
  the uintptr is a C-owned malloc'd buffer, not Go-GC memory.

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>
2026-06-22 01:00:28 +02:00

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package config
import (
"slices"
"strings"
)
// Usecase name constants — the canonical string values used in gallery entries,
// model configs (known_usecases), and UsecaseInfoMap keys.
const (
UsecaseChat = "chat"
UsecaseCompletion = "completion"
UsecaseEdit = "edit"
UsecaseVision = "vision"
UsecaseEmbeddings = "embeddings"
UsecaseTokenize = "tokenize"
UsecaseImage = "image"
UsecaseVideo = "video"
UsecaseTranscript = "transcript"
UsecaseTTS = "tts"
UsecaseSoundGeneration = "sound_generation"
UsecaseRerank = "rerank"
UsecaseDetection = "detection"
UsecaseDepth = "depth"
UsecaseVAD = "vad"
UsecaseAudioTransform = "audio_transform"
UsecaseDiarization = "diarization"
UsecaseSoundClassification = "sound_classification"
UsecaseRealtimeAudio = "realtime_audio"
UsecaseFaceRecognition = "face_recognition"
UsecaseSpeakerRecognition = "speaker_recognition"
UsecaseTokenClassify = "token_classify"
)
// GRPCMethod identifies a Backend service RPC from backend.proto.
type GRPCMethod string
const (
MethodPredict GRPCMethod = "Predict"
MethodPredictStream GRPCMethod = "PredictStream"
MethodEmbedding GRPCMethod = "Embedding"
MethodGenerateImage GRPCMethod = "GenerateImage"
MethodGenerateVideo GRPCMethod = "GenerateVideo"
MethodAudioTranscription GRPCMethod = "AudioTranscription"
MethodTTS GRPCMethod = "TTS"
MethodTTSStream GRPCMethod = "TTSStream"
MethodSoundGeneration GRPCMethod = "SoundGeneration"
MethodTokenizeString GRPCMethod = "TokenizeString"
MethodDetect GRPCMethod = "Detect"
MethodDepth GRPCMethod = "Depth"
MethodRerank GRPCMethod = "Rerank"
MethodVAD GRPCMethod = "VAD"
MethodAudioTransform GRPCMethod = "AudioTransform"
MethodDiarize GRPCMethod = "Diarize"
MethodSoundDetection GRPCMethod = "SoundDetection"
MethodAudioToAudioStream GRPCMethod = "AudioToAudioStream"
MethodFaceVerify GRPCMethod = "FaceVerify"
MethodFaceAnalyze GRPCMethod = "FaceAnalyze"
MethodVoiceVerify GRPCMethod = "VoiceVerify"
MethodVoiceEmbed GRPCMethod = "VoiceEmbed"
MethodVoiceAnalyze GRPCMethod = "VoiceAnalyze"
MethodTokenClassify GRPCMethod = "TokenClassify"
)
// UsecaseInfo describes a single known_usecase value and how it maps
// to the gRPC backend API.
type UsecaseInfo struct {
// Flag is the ModelConfigUsecase bitmask value.
Flag ModelConfigUsecase
// GRPCMethod is the primary Backend service RPC this usecase maps to.
GRPCMethod GRPCMethod
// IsModifier is true when this usecase doesn't map to its own gRPC RPC
// but modifies how another RPC behaves (e.g., vision uses Predict with images).
IsModifier bool
// DependsOn names the usecase(s) this modifier requires (e.g., "chat").
DependsOn string
// Description is a human/LLM-readable explanation of what this usecase means.
Description string
}
// UsecaseInfoMap maps each known_usecase string to its gRPC and semantic info.
var UsecaseInfoMap = map[string]UsecaseInfo{
UsecaseChat: {
Flag: FLAG_CHAT,
GRPCMethod: MethodPredict,
Description: "Conversational/instruction-following via the Predict RPC with chat templates.",
},
UsecaseCompletion: {
Flag: FLAG_COMPLETION,
GRPCMethod: MethodPredict,
Description: "Text completion via the Predict RPC with a completion template.",
},
UsecaseEdit: {
Flag: FLAG_EDIT,
GRPCMethod: MethodPredict,
Description: "Text editing via the Predict RPC with an edit template.",
},
UsecaseVision: {
Flag: FLAG_VISION,
GRPCMethod: MethodPredict,
IsModifier: true,
DependsOn: UsecaseChat,
Description: "The model accepts images alongside text in the Predict RPC. For llama-cpp this requires an mmproj file.",
},
UsecaseEmbeddings: {
Flag: FLAG_EMBEDDINGS,
GRPCMethod: MethodEmbedding,
Description: "Vector embedding generation via the Embedding RPC.",
},
UsecaseTokenize: {
Flag: FLAG_TOKENIZE,
GRPCMethod: MethodTokenizeString,
Description: "Tokenization via the TokenizeString RPC without running inference.",
},
UsecaseImage: {
Flag: FLAG_IMAGE,
GRPCMethod: MethodGenerateImage,
Description: "Image generation via the GenerateImage RPC (Stable Diffusion, Flux, etc.).",
},
UsecaseVideo: {
Flag: FLAG_VIDEO,
GRPCMethod: MethodGenerateVideo,
Description: "Video generation via the GenerateVideo RPC.",
},
UsecaseTranscript: {
Flag: FLAG_TRANSCRIPT,
GRPCMethod: MethodAudioTranscription,
Description: "Speech-to-text via the AudioTranscription RPC.",
},
UsecaseTTS: {
Flag: FLAG_TTS,
GRPCMethod: MethodTTS,
Description: "Text-to-speech via the TTS RPC.",
},
UsecaseSoundGeneration: {
Flag: FLAG_SOUND_GENERATION,
GRPCMethod: MethodSoundGeneration,
Description: "Music/sound generation via the SoundGeneration RPC (not speech).",
},
UsecaseRerank: {
Flag: FLAG_RERANK,
GRPCMethod: MethodRerank,
Description: "Document reranking via the Rerank RPC.",
},
UsecaseDetection: {
Flag: FLAG_DETECTION,
GRPCMethod: MethodDetect,
Description: "Object detection via the Detect RPC with bounding boxes.",
},
UsecaseDepth: {
Flag: FLAG_DEPTH,
GRPCMethod: MethodDepth,
Description: "Per-pixel metric depth, camera pose and 3D point cloud via the Depth RPC (Depth Anything 3).",
},
UsecaseVAD: {
Flag: FLAG_VAD,
GRPCMethod: MethodVAD,
Description: "Voice activity detection via the VAD RPC.",
},
UsecaseAudioTransform: {
Flag: FLAG_AUDIO_TRANSFORM,
GRPCMethod: MethodAudioTransform,
Description: "Audio-in / audio-out transformations (echo cancellation, noise suppression, dereverberation, voice conversion) via the AudioTransform RPC.",
},
UsecaseDiarization: {
Flag: FLAG_DIARIZATION,
GRPCMethod: MethodDiarize,
Description: "Speaker diarization (who-spoke-when, per-speaker segments) via the Diarize RPC.",
},
UsecaseSoundClassification: {
Flag: FLAG_SOUND_CLASSIFICATION,
GRPCMethod: MethodSoundDetection,
Description: "Sound-event classification / audio tagging (scored AudioSet labels like baby cry, glass breaking, alarms) via the SoundDetection RPC.",
},
UsecaseRealtimeAudio: {
Flag: FLAG_REALTIME_AUDIO,
GRPCMethod: MethodAudioToAudioStream,
Description: "Self-contained any-to-any audio model for the Realtime API — accepts microphone audio and emits speech + transcript (+ optional function calls) from a single backend via the AudioToAudioStream RPC.",
},
UsecaseFaceRecognition: {
Flag: FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION,
GRPCMethod: MethodFaceVerify,
Description: "Face recognition — verify identity, analyze attributes (age/gender/emotion) via FaceVerify and FaceAnalyze RPCs.",
},
UsecaseSpeakerRecognition: {
Flag: FLAG_SPEAKER_RECOGNITION,
GRPCMethod: MethodVoiceVerify,
Description: "Speaker recognition — verify identity, embed and analyze voice via VoiceVerify, VoiceEmbed and VoiceAnalyze RPCs.",
},
UsecaseTokenClassify: {
Flag: FLAG_TOKEN_CLASSIFY,
GRPCMethod: MethodTokenClassify,
Description: "Per-token classification (NER) via the TokenClassify RPC — the PII detector tier. Declared explicitly via known_usecases; never auto-guessed, since the token-classification head is not useful as general generation or embeddings.",
},
}
// BackendCapability describes which gRPC methods and usecases a backend supports.
// Derived from reviewing actual implementations in backend/go/ and backend/python/.
type BackendCapability struct {
// GRPCMethods lists the Backend service RPCs this backend implements.
GRPCMethods []GRPCMethod
// PossibleUsecases lists all usecase strings this backend can support.
PossibleUsecases []string
// DefaultUsecases lists the conservative safe defaults.
DefaultUsecases []string
// AcceptsImages indicates multimodal image input in Predict.
AcceptsImages bool
// AcceptsVideos indicates multimodal video input in Predict.
AcceptsVideos bool
// AcceptsAudios indicates multimodal audio input in Predict.
AcceptsAudios bool
// Description is a human-readable summary of the backend.
Description string
}
// BackendCapabilities maps each backend name (as used in model configs and gallery
// entries) to its verified capabilities. This is the single source of truth for
// what each backend supports.
//
// Backend names use hyphens (e.g., "llama-cpp") matching the gallery convention.
// Use NormalizeBackendName() for names with dots (e.g., "llama.cpp").
var BackendCapabilities = map[string]BackendCapability{
// --- LLM / text generation backends ---
"llama-cpp": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodPredict, MethodPredictStream, MethodEmbedding, MethodTokenizeString},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseChat, UsecaseCompletion, UsecaseEdit, UsecaseEmbeddings, UsecaseTokenize, UsecaseVision},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseChat},
AcceptsImages: true, // requires mmproj
Description: "llama.cpp GGUF models — LLM inference with optional vision via mmproj",
},
// privacy-filter is the standalone GGML engine (backend/cpp/privacy-filter,
// wrapping privacy-filter.cpp) for the openai-privacy-filter PII/NER token
// classifier — the dedicated TokenClassify path that replaces the
// patched-llama.cpp route. Never auto-guessed; declared explicitly via
// known_usecases: [token_classify].
"privacy-filter": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodTokenClassify},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTokenClassify},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTokenClassify},
Description: "privacy-filter.cpp — standalone GGML backend for openai-privacy-filter PII/NER token classification",
},
"vllm": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodPredict, MethodPredictStream, MethodEmbedding},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseChat, UsecaseCompletion, UsecaseEmbeddings, UsecaseVision},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseChat},
AcceptsImages: true,
AcceptsVideos: true,
Description: "vLLM engine — high-throughput LLM serving with optional multimodal",
},
"sglang": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodPredict, MethodPredictStream, MethodTokenizeString},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseChat, UsecaseCompletion, UsecaseTokenize, UsecaseVision},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseChat},
AcceptsImages: true,
Description: "SGLang — fast LLM inference with structured generation and optional vision",
},
"vllm-omni": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodPredict, MethodPredictStream, MethodGenerateImage, MethodGenerateVideo, MethodTTS},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseChat, UsecaseCompletion, UsecaseImage, UsecaseVideo, UsecaseTTS, UsecaseVision},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseChat},
AcceptsImages: true,
AcceptsVideos: true,
AcceptsAudios: true,
Description: "vLLM omni-modal — supports text, image, video generation and TTS",
},
"transformers": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodPredict, MethodPredictStream, MethodEmbedding, MethodTTS, MethodSoundGeneration},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseChat, UsecaseCompletion, UsecaseEmbeddings, UsecaseTTS, UsecaseSoundGeneration},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseChat},
Description: "HuggingFace transformers — general-purpose Python inference",
},
"mlx": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodPredict, MethodPredictStream, MethodEmbedding},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseChat, UsecaseCompletion, UsecaseEmbeddings},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseChat},
Description: "Apple MLX framework — optimized for Apple Silicon",
},
"mlx-distributed": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodPredict, MethodPredictStream, MethodEmbedding},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseChat, UsecaseCompletion, UsecaseEmbeddings},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseChat},
Description: "MLX distributed inference across multiple Apple Silicon devices",
},
"mlx-vlm": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodPredict, MethodPredictStream, MethodEmbedding},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseChat, UsecaseCompletion, UsecaseEmbeddings, UsecaseVision},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseChat, UsecaseVision},
AcceptsImages: true,
AcceptsAudios: true,
Description: "MLX vision-language models with multimodal input",
},
"mlx-audio": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodPredict, MethodTTS},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseChat, UsecaseCompletion, UsecaseTTS},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseChat},
Description: "MLX audio models — text generation and TTS",
},
// --- Image/video generation backends ---
"diffusers": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodGenerateImage, MethodGenerateVideo},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseImage, UsecaseVideo},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseImage},
Description: "HuggingFace diffusers — Stable Diffusion, Flux, video generation",
},
"stablediffusion": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodGenerateImage},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseImage},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseImage},
Description: "Stable Diffusion native backend",
},
"stablediffusion-ggml": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodGenerateImage},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseImage},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseImage},
Description: "Stable Diffusion via GGML quantized models",
},
// --- Speech-to-text backends ---
"whisper": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodAudioTranscription, MethodVAD},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript, UsecaseVAD},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript},
Description: "OpenAI Whisper — speech recognition and voice activity detection",
},
"faster-whisper": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodAudioTranscription},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript},
Description: "CTranslate2-accelerated Whisper for faster transcription",
},
"whisperx": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodAudioTranscription},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript},
Description: "WhisperX — Whisper with word-level timestamps and speaker diarization",
},
"moonshine": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodAudioTranscription},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript},
Description: "Moonshine speech recognition",
},
"nemo": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodAudioTranscription},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript},
Description: "NVIDIA NeMo speech recognition",
},
"parakeet-cpp": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodAudioTranscription},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript},
Description: "NVIDIA NeMo Parakeet ASR (parakeet.cpp)",
},
"qwen-asr": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodAudioTranscription},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript},
Description: "Qwen automatic speech recognition",
},
"voxtral": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodAudioTranscription},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript},
Description: "Voxtral speech recognition",
},
"vibevoice": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodAudioTranscription, MethodTTS},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript, UsecaseTTS},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript, UsecaseTTS},
Description: "VibeVoice — bidirectional speech (transcription and synthesis)",
},
"vibevoice-cpp": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodAudioTranscription, MethodTTS, MethodTTSStream},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript, UsecaseTTS},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript, UsecaseTTS},
Description: "VibeVoice C++ — bidirectional speech, C++ backend with streaming TTS",
},
"sherpa-onnx": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodAudioTranscription, MethodTTS, MethodTTSStream, MethodVAD},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript, UsecaseTTS, UsecaseVAD},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTranscript},
Description: "Sherpa-ONNX — multi-model speech toolkit (ASR, TTS, VAD)",
},
// --- TTS backends ---
"piper": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodTTS},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
Description: "Piper — fast neural TTS optimized for Raspberry Pi",
},
"kokoro": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodTTS},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
Description: "Kokoro TTS",
},
"coqui": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodTTS},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
Description: "Coqui TTS — multi-speaker neural synthesis",
},
"kitten-tts": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodTTS},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
Description: "Kitten TTS",
},
"outetts": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodTTS},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
Description: "OuteTTS",
},
"pocket-tts": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodTTS},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
Description: "Pocket TTS — lightweight text-to-speech",
},
"qwen-tts": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodTTS},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
Description: "Qwen TTS",
},
"qwen3-tts-cpp": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodTTS, MethodTTSStream},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
Description: "Qwen3 TTS C++ - text-to-speech with streaming, named speakers, voice design and cloning (qwentts.cpp / GGML)",
},
"faster-qwen3-tts": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodTTS},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
Description: "Faster Qwen3 TTS — accelerated Qwen TTS",
},
"fish-speech": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodTTS},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
Description: "Fish Speech TTS",
},
"neutts": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodTTS},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
Description: "NeuTTS — neural text-to-speech",
},
"chatterbox": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodTTS},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
Description: "Chatterbox TTS",
},
"voxcpm": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodTTS, MethodTTSStream},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
Description: "VoxCPM TTS with streaming support",
},
// --- Sound generation backends ---
"ace-step": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodTTS, MethodSoundGeneration},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS, UsecaseSoundGeneration},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseSoundGeneration},
Description: "ACE-Step — music and sound generation",
},
"acestep-cpp": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodSoundGeneration},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseSoundGeneration},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseSoundGeneration},
Description: "ACE-Step C++ — native sound generation",
},
"transformers-musicgen": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodTTS, MethodSoundGeneration},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS, UsecaseSoundGeneration},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseSoundGeneration},
Description: "Meta MusicGen via transformers — music generation from text",
},
// --- Any-to-any audio backends ---
"liquid-audio": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodPredict, MethodPredictStream, MethodAudioTranscription, MethodTTS, MethodAudioToAudioStream, MethodVAD},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseChat, UsecaseCompletion, UsecaseTranscript, UsecaseTTS, UsecaseRealtimeAudio, UsecaseVAD},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseRealtimeAudio, UsecaseChat, UsecaseTranscript, UsecaseTTS, UsecaseVAD},
AcceptsAudios: true,
Description: "LFM2 / LFM2.5-Audio — self-contained any-to-any audio model for the Realtime API; also exposes chat, transcription, TTS and a stub energy-based VAD endpoint",
},
// --- Audio transform backends ---
"localvqe": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodAudioTransform},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseAudioTransform},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseAudioTransform},
Description: "LocalVQE — joint AEC, noise suppression, and dereverberation for 16 kHz mono speech",
},
// --- Utility backends ---
"rerankers": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodRerank},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseRerank},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseRerank},
Description: "Cross-encoder reranking models",
},
"rfdetr": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodDetect},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseDetection},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseDetection},
Description: "RF-DETR object detection",
},
"rfdetr-cpp": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodDetect},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseDetection},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseDetection},
Description: "RF-DETR C++ object detection",
},
"depth-anything": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodDepth, MethodPredict, MethodGenerateImage},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseDepth},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseDepth},
AcceptsImages: true,
Description: "Depth Anything 3 C++ — per-pixel metric depth, camera pose and 3D point cloud",
},
// --- Face and speaker recognition backends ---
"insightface": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodEmbedding, MethodDetect, MethodFaceVerify, MethodFaceAnalyze},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseEmbeddings, UsecaseDetection, UsecaseFaceRecognition},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseFaceRecognition},
AcceptsImages: true,
Description: "InsightFace — face detection, embedding, verification and attribute analysis",
},
"speaker-recognition": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodVoiceVerify, MethodVoiceEmbed, MethodVoiceAnalyze},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseSpeakerRecognition},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseSpeakerRecognition},
Description: "Speaker recognition — voice identity verification and analysis",
},
"silero-vad": {
GRPCMethods: []GRPCMethod{MethodVAD},
PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseVAD},
DefaultUsecases: []string{UsecaseVAD},
Description: "Silero VAD — voice activity detection",
},
}
// NormalizeBackendName converts backend names to the canonical hyphenated form
// used in gallery entries (e.g., "llama.cpp" → "llama-cpp").
func NormalizeBackendName(backend string) string {
return strings.ReplaceAll(backend, ".", "-")
}
// nonLlamaSamplerBackends lists backends whose native sampler defaults differ
// from llama.cpp's, so LocalAI must NOT inject llama.cpp's top_k=40 default for
// them (issue #6632). mlx_lm's intended default is top_k=0 (disabled) and mlx
// does not remap 0->40, so shipping 40 silently changes sampling for clients
// that omit top_k. Leaving TopK nil lets the wire value default to 0.
//
// This is intentionally a small allow-list of KNOWN non-llama backends: empty
// and unknown backends fall through to the llama.cpp default to preserve the
// GGUF auto-detect path's behavior.
var nonLlamaSamplerBackends = map[string]struct{}{
"mlx": {},
"mlx-vlm": {},
"mlx-distributed": {},
}
// UsesLlamaSamplerDefaults reports whether a backend should receive llama.cpp's
// sampler defaults (e.g. top_k=40). Empty/unknown backends return true so the
// GGUF auto-detect path (which resolves to llama.cpp) keeps today's behavior;
// only the known non-llama backends in nonLlamaSamplerBackends return false.
func UsesLlamaSamplerDefaults(backend string) bool {
if backend == "" {
return true
}
_, isNonLlama := nonLlamaSamplerBackends[NormalizeBackendName(backend)]
return !isNonLlama
}
// GetBackendCapability returns the capability info for a backend, or nil if unknown.
// Handles backend name normalization.
func GetBackendCapability(backend string) *BackendCapability {
if cap, ok := BackendCapabilities[NormalizeBackendName(backend)]; ok {
return &cap
}
return nil
}
// PossibleUsecasesForBackend returns all usecases a backend can support.
// Returns nil if the backend is unknown.
func PossibleUsecasesForBackend(backend string) []string {
if cap := GetBackendCapability(backend); cap != nil {
return cap.PossibleUsecases
}
return nil
}
// DefaultUsecasesForBackend returns the conservative default usecases.
// Returns nil if the backend is unknown.
func DefaultUsecasesForBackendCap(backend string) []string {
if cap := GetBackendCapability(backend); cap != nil {
return cap.DefaultUsecases
}
return nil
}
// IsValidUsecaseForBackend checks whether a usecase is in a backend's possible set.
// Returns true for unknown backends (permissive fallback).
func IsValidUsecaseForBackend(backend, usecase string) bool {
cap := GetBackendCapability(backend)
if cap == nil {
return true // unknown backend — don't restrict
}
return slices.Contains(cap.PossibleUsecases, usecase)
}
// AllBackendNames returns a sorted list of all known backend names.
func AllBackendNames() []string {
names := make([]string, 0, len(BackendCapabilities))
for name := range BackendCapabilities {
names = append(names, name)
}
slices.Sort(names)
return names
}