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A client that keeps polling a model whose load fails (e.g. a backend that crashes deterministically on init) triggered a fresh backend start on every request: request -> load -> crash in ~10s -> 500, repeat on the next poll. Each attempt could leak GPU/CUDA state, and under LOCALAI_SINGLE_ACTIVE_BACKEND it kept stealing the active slot from healthy models. The existing loading-coalesce map only dedups *concurrent* loads, so sequential polls were never covered. Track load failures per modelID in ModelLoader. After a load fails, refuse fresh load triggers for that model until a cooldown elapses, returning a typed ModelLoadCooldownError that the HTTP layer maps to 503 with a Retry-After header. The cooldown grows exponentially per consecutive failure (base, doubling, capped at 5m) and resets on a successful load. The coalesced follower-retry of an in-flight burst bypasses the gate, so a genuinely concurrent burst still gets its one retry -- only new, independent triggers are refused, matching the report's "refuse new load-triggers" wording. Configurable via --model-load-failure-cooldown / LOCALAI_MODEL_LOAD_FAILURE_COOLDOWN (default 10s, 0 disables), plumbed through ApplicationConfig and applied unconditionally at startup. Closes #10719 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>