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//! One GGUF path in, one embedding vector out.
//!
//! Binds a tokenizer to a [`TextEncoder`] and owns the two steps
//! between them that neither half should own alone: adding the model's
//! own special tokens (`[CLS] … [SEP]`) around the tokenizer's pieces,
//! and pooling the hidden states the way the checkpoint's
//! `pooling_type` says.
//!
//! This is the type `/v1/embeddings` and the CLI both hold. It exists
//! so neither of them has to know that `bert` is an encoder, that
//! WordPiece does not add its own specials, or that CLS pooling means
//! row zero.
use thiserror::Error;
use crate::bert_gguf_loader::{load_bert_encoder, read_bert_hparams, BERT_ARCH};
use crate::encoder::{EncodeError, TextEncoder};
use crate::loader::LoadError;
use crate::pooling::{l2_normalize, pool, PoolingType};
use crate::rank_head::{load_rank_head, RankHead};
use crate::tokenizer::{GgufWordPieceTokenizer, TokenizerLoadError};
/// Encoder architectures upstream builds from `bert.cpp` and the other
/// embedding rows in the capability catalog, with what each one needs
/// that this crate does not have. Used to refuse *by name* instead of
/// with a generic "unsupported".
const NOT_YET: &[(&str, &str)] = &[
("nomic-bert", "RoPE on Q/K and a gated FFN"),
("nomic-bert-moe", "RoPE, a gated FFN and MoE expert layers"),
("jina-bert-v2", "GEGLU and a second attention norm"),
("jina-bert-v3", "RoPE and per-projection QK norm"),
("neo-bert", "per-projection QK norm"),
(
"modern-bert",
"its own graph (local/global alternating attention)",
),
("eurobert", "its own graph"),
("t5encoder", "the T5 encoder stack"),
("llama-embed", "a decoder embedding path, not an encoder"),
(
"gemma-embedding",
"a decoder embedding path, not an encoder",
),
("pangu-embedded", "a decoder embedding path, not an encoder"),
];
/// True when `general.architecture` names an encoder / embedding model
/// rather than something with an output head.
///
/// This is the question a *server* asks before it decides which loader
/// a checkpoint path goes to: an encoder can never reach the decoder
/// path, so routing it there produces a refusal about a missing tensor
/// instead of "this is an embedding model". The answer comes from the
/// capability registry's own [`crate::capability::ArchScope`] and not
/// from a second list beside [`NOT_YET`], because two lists of the same
/// architectures is the copy this repo has already paid for seven times
/// — a row added to the registry is covered here the moment it lands.
///
/// `true` does not mean ferrox can serve it. It means
/// [`EmbeddingModel::from_gguf_path`] is the loader that will either
/// build it or refuse it *by name*.
pub fn is_embedding_arch(arch: &str) -> bool {
crate::capability::resolve_profile(arch).is_some_and(|p| {
matches!(
p.scope,
crate::capability::ArchScope::DeferredEncoderEmbedding
)
})
}
#[derive(Debug, Error)]
pub enum EmbedError {
#[error(transparent)]
Load(#[from] LoadError),
#[error(transparent)]
Tokenizer(#[from] TokenizerLoadError),
#[error(transparent)]
Encode(#[from] EncodeError),
#[error(
"architecture {arch:?} is an embedding model ferrox cannot serve yet: it needs {needs}. \
Only {BERT_ARCH:?} is implemented"
)]
NotYetImplemented { arch: String, needs: &'static str },
#[error(
"architecture {0:?} is not an embedding model this build knows. \
Only {BERT_ARCH:?} is implemented"
)]
NotAnEmbeddingModel(String),
#[error(
"{arch:?} carries tokenizer.ggml.model = {model:?}, but this embedding path only has \
WordPiece (\"bert\")"
)]
UnsupportedTokenizer { arch: String, model: String },
#[error(
"the embedding model {name:?} ({arch}) carries no reranker classification head: the \
checkpoint has no cls / cls.output tensors, so it has no relevance score to \
report. It can only produce embeddings"
)]
NoRankHead { name: String, arch: String },
#[error(
"the encoder for {arch:?} has no two-segment (query, document) input form, which a \
cross-encoder rerank needs. Concatenating the two texts would score fluently and \
wrongly, so this refuses instead"
)]
NoPairInput { arch: String },
}
/// A loaded embedding model: tokenizer + encoder + the checkpoint's own
/// pooling rule.
pub struct EmbeddingModel {
encoder: Box<dyn TextEncoder + Send + Sync>,
tokenizer: GgufWordPieceTokenizer,
/// The reranker classification head, when the checkpoint carries
/// one. `None` for a plain embedding model, and that is what makes
/// `/v1/rerank` refuse rather than substitute a cosine similarity.
rank_head: Option<RankHead>,
arch: String,
name: String,
}
impl EmbeddingModel {
/// Opens `path` and builds whichever embedding stack its
/// `general.architecture` names, or refuses naming what is missing.
pub fn from_gguf_path(path: impl AsRef<std::path::Path>) -> Result<Self, EmbedError> {
let file = ferrox_gguf::ShardedGguf::open(path.as_ref()).map_err(LoadError::from)?;
let arch = ferrox_gguf::TensorSource::metadata_str(&file, "general.architecture")
.ok_or_else(|| LoadError::MissingHparam("general.architecture".into()))?
.to_string();
if arch != BERT_ARCH {
return Err(match NOT_YET.iter().find(|(a, _)| *a == arch) {
Some((_, needs)) => EmbedError::NotYetImplemented { arch, needs },
None => EmbedError::NotAnEmbeddingModel(arch),
});
}
let tok_model = ferrox_gguf::TensorSource::metadata_str(&file, "tokenizer.ggml.model")
.unwrap_or_default()
.to_string();
if tok_model != "bert" {
return Err(EmbedError::UnsupportedTokenizer {
arch,
model: tok_model,
});
}
let name = ferrox_gguf::TensorSource::metadata_str(&file, "general.name")
.map(str::to_string)
.unwrap_or_else(|| arch.clone());
let tokenizer = GgufWordPieceTokenizer::from_gguf(&file)?;
// ORDER IS LOAD-BEARING. `load_rank_head` MUST run before
// `load_bert_encoder`, which ends in
// `assert_every_tensor_consumed`: `cls.weight`, `cls.output.*`
// and `cls.norm.weight` are read by nothing else in this crate,
// so with the two lines swapped every reranker checkpoint dies
// with an `UnconsumedTensors` refusal listing tensors ferrox
// does in fact read. `read_bert_hparams` touches metadata only,
// so asking for the geometry twice costs nothing.
let hp = read_bert_hparams(&file)?;
let rank_head = load_rank_head(&file, &hp.arch, hp.n_embd, hp.layer_norm_eps)?;
let encoder = load_bert_encoder(&file)?;
Ok(Self {
encoder: Box::new(encoder),
tokenizer,
rank_head,
arch,
name,
})
}
pub fn architecture(&self) -> &str {
&self.arch
}
/// The checkpoint's `general.name`, or its architecture when the
/// file carries none. What `/v1/embeddings` reports as `model`.
pub fn name(&self) -> &str {
&self.name
}
pub fn n_embd(&self) -> usize {
self.encoder.n_embd()
}
pub fn n_ctx_train(&self) -> usize {
self.encoder.n_ctx_train()
}
pub fn pooling_type(&self) -> PoolingType {
self.encoder.pooling_type()
}
/// The exact ids the encoder will see for `text`: the tokenizer's
/// pieces wrapped in the model's own special tokens. Public because
/// `/v1/embeddings` has to report `usage.prompt_tokens`, and that
/// number is this length — llama.cpp counts the specials too.
pub fn token_ids(&self, text: &str) -> Vec<u32> {
self.encoder.wrap_special(&self.tokenizer.encode(text))
}
/// Pooled embedding for `text`. `normalize` applies L2 normalization,
/// which is what an OpenAI-compatible `/v1/embeddings` response is
/// expected to carry and what llama.cpp's server does by default;
/// the raw pooled vector is what the graph produced.
pub fn embed(&self, text: &str, normalize: bool) -> Result<Vec<f32>, EmbedError> {
let ids = self.token_ids(text);
let mut v = self.encoder.embed_tokens(&ids)?;
if normalize {
l2_normalize(&mut v);
}
Ok(v)
}
/// Un-pooled `n_tokens × n_embd` hidden states, for a caller that
/// wants to pool differently (or not at all).
pub fn hidden_states(&self, text: &str) -> Result<Vec<f32>, EmbedError> {
Ok(self.encoder.encode_tokens(&self.token_ids(text))?)
}
/// The checkpoint's reranker classification head, or `None` for a
/// plain embedding model. What `/v1/rerank` checks before it
/// promises a caller a relevance score.
pub fn rank_head(&self) -> Option<&RankHead> {
self.rank_head.as_ref()
}
/// The exact ids [`Self::rerank_score`] will see for one
/// `(query, document)` pair: `[CLS] query [SEP] document [SEP]`.
///
/// Separate from the scoring call for the same reason
/// [`Self::token_ids`] is separate from [`Self::embed`] — a route
/// has to report `usage.prompt_tokens`, and that number is this
/// length.
pub fn rerank_token_ids(&self, query: &str, document: &str) -> Result<Vec<u32>, EmbedError> {
self.encoder
.wrap_special_pair(
&self.tokenizer.encode(query),
&self.tokenizer.encode(document),
)
.ok_or_else(|| EmbedError::NoPairInput {
arch: self.arch.clone(),
})
}
/// The head's relevance score for a pair sequence built by
/// [`Self::rerank_token_ids`].
///
/// This is upstream's RANK path in full: encode, take the **CLS**
/// row, run the classification head, report output 0
/// (`send_rerank`'s `embd[0]`). The CLS row is taken here regardless
/// of what `{arch}.pooling_type` says, because the head was trained
/// on that position — `pooling_type = RANK` is the checkpoint
/// *declaring* this path, not naming a pooling rule, which is why
/// [`crate::pooling::pool`] still refuses RANK and must keep
/// refusing it.
///
/// No L2 normalization and no sigmoid: upstream reports the raw
/// logit, so a score is comparable only against other scores from
/// the same head, and this must not quietly squash it into `0..1`.
pub fn rerank_score(&self, pair_ids: &[u32]) -> Result<f32, EmbedError> {
let head = self
.rank_head
.as_ref()
.ok_or_else(|| EmbedError::NoRankHead {
name: self.name.clone(),
arch: self.arch.clone(),
})?;
let hidden = self.encoder.encode_tokens(pair_ids)?;
let cls = pool(&hidden, self.encoder.n_embd(), PoolingType::Cls)
.map_err(|e| EmbedError::Encode(EncodeError::Pooling(e)))?;
Ok(head.score(&cls))
}
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
/// Every deferred embedding architecture must produce a refusal
/// that names it and names what it needs — not a generic error.
#[test]
fn every_deferred_embedding_arch_is_named_in_its_own_refusal() {
for (arch, needs) in NOT_YET {
let err = EmbedError::NotYetImplemented {
arch: (*arch).to_string(),
needs,
};
let msg = err.to_string();
assert!(msg.contains(arch), "{msg} does not name {arch}");
assert!(msg.contains(needs), "{msg} does not say what is missing");
}
}
/// The catalog rows this module claims to cover must actually be
/// the encoder/embedding rows the capability registry defers, so a
/// new row added there cannot silently fall through to the generic
/// "not an embedding model" arm.
#[test]
fn the_deferred_list_is_a_subset_of_the_capability_registry() {
for (arch, _) in NOT_YET {
assert!(
crate::capability::resolve_profile(arch).is_some(),
"{arch} is not in the capability registry"
);
}
}
/// [`is_embedding_arch`] is what a server routes on, so it has to
/// name *exactly* the architectures this module can answer for:
/// `bert`, which loads, plus every row in [`NOT_YET`], which
/// refuses by name. A registry row scoped
/// `DeferredEncoderEmbedding` that is in neither would be routed
/// here and hit the generic `NotAnEmbeddingModel` arm, which says
/// the opposite of the truth about it.
#[test]
fn is_embedding_arch_covers_the_registry_rows_and_nothing_else() {
let mut registry: Vec<&str> = crate::capability::architecture_catalog()
.iter()
.filter(|p| {
matches!(
p.scope,
crate::capability::ArchScope::DeferredEncoderEmbedding
)
})
.map(|p| p.gguf_name)
.collect();
registry.sort_unstable();
let mut known: Vec<&str> = NOT_YET
.iter()
.map(|(a, _)| *a)
.chain(std::iter::once(BERT_ARCH))
.collect();
known.sort_unstable();
assert_eq!(
registry, known,
"the registry's encoder/embedding rows and this module's own list disagree"
);
for arch in ®istry {
assert!(is_embedding_arch(arch), "{arch} is not routed to this path");
}
// A decoder must NOT be routed here, or `FERROX_MODEL_PATH`
// pointing at a llama GGUF would be told it is an embedding
// model.
for arch in ["llama", "qwen3", "gemma3", "deepseek2"] {
assert!(!is_embedding_arch(arch), "{arch} was routed to this path");
}
}
}