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ferrox_models/
encoder.rs

1//! The seam for encoder-only (embedding) models, which is deliberately
2//! **not** [`crate::engine::Engine`].
3//!
4//! # Why a second trait and not a variant of the first
5//!
6//! [`crate::engine::Engine`] is `forward_token(token_id, pos, &mut
7//! State) -> Vec<f32>`: one token in, one logit vector out, carrying
8//! per-layer state forward. Every part of that signature is an
9//! autoregression assumption, and a BERT encoder violates all of them:
10//!
11//! * **There is no state to carry.** Attention is bidirectional, so
12//!   token 0's output depends on token 7. Nothing can be computed until
13//!   the whole sequence is present, and nothing computed for one
14//!   sequence is reusable for the next. A KV cache is not merely
15//!   unnecessary here, it is meaningless — there is no "next token" for
16//!   a cached key to be attended to by.
17//! * **There are no logits.** The result is `n_tokens × n_embd` hidden
18//!   states (llama.cpp's `res->t_embd`); this checkpoint has no output
19//!   head at all, and `token_embd.weight` is not tied to one.
20//! * **`pos` is not a cursor, it is an index into a learned table.**
21//!   BERT adds `position_embd.weight[i]` to the token embedding rather
22//!   than rotating Q/K, which is why the sequence length is hard-capped
23//!   by `n_ctx_train` instead of merely degrading past it.
24//!
25//! Forcing that through `Engine` would mean a `State` that is a
26//! pretend-cache, a `forward_token` that can only be called with the
27//! last position after a hidden batch call, and a `vocab_size` that has
28//! no meaning. The Kimi comment on `Engine` already records the cost of
29//! bending a trait around a model it does not fit; this is the same
30//! judgement, made before rather than after.
31//!
32//! So: [`TextEncoder`] is sequence-in, matrix-out, stateless. What the
33//! two seams *do* share is pooling ([`crate::pooling`]), which is why
34//! that lives in its own module and not in either of them.
35
36use crate::pooling::{pool, PoolingError, PoolingType};
37use thiserror::Error;
38
39#[derive(Debug, Error)]
40pub enum EncodeError {
41    #[error("an encoder needs at least one token; got an empty sequence")]
42    EmptySequence,
43    #[error(
44        "sequence of {got} tokens exceeds the {max} learned position embeddings this \
45         checkpoint carries ({arch}.context_length). A learned position table cannot be \
46         extrapolated the way RoPE can, so this is a hard limit, not a quality cliff — \
47         truncate the input or use a longer-context embedding model"
48    )]
49    TooLong {
50        got: usize,
51        max: usize,
52        arch: String,
53    },
54    #[error("token id {id} is outside this checkpoint's {vocab_size}-entry vocabulary")]
55    TokenOutOfRange { id: u32, vocab_size: usize },
56    #[error(
57        "segment id {id} at position {pos} is outside this checkpoint's {n_segments}-row \
58         token-type table"
59    )]
60    SegmentOutOfRange {
61        id: u32,
62        pos: usize,
63        n_segments: usize,
64    },
65    #[error(
66        "{tokens} token(s) were given {segments} segment id(s); every position needs exactly \
67         one, or the graph would add a segment embedding to the wrong row"
68    )]
69    RaggedSegments { tokens: usize, segments: usize },
70    #[error(transparent)]
71    Pooling(#[from] PoolingError),
72}
73
74/// One two-segment encoder input: the token ids and, for each of them,
75/// which half of the pair it belongs to.
76///
77/// The two vectors are built together and travel together on purpose.
78/// They are the repo's dominant bug shape waiting to happen — two
79/// structures that must agree, here about a length and about where the
80/// boundary is — and the single place that can get them right is
81/// [`TextEncoder::wrap_special_pair`], which inserts the `[SEP]` that
82/// the boundary is defined by. Handing a caller the ids alone (what
83/// this seam used to do) meant the segment ids did not exist at all
84/// and every position was scored as "Sentence A".
85#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
86pub struct PairSequence {
87    /// `[CLS] a [SEP] b [SEP]` for BERT.
88    pub tokens: Vec<u32>,
89    /// `0` for the `[CLS] a [SEP]` half, `1` for the `b [SEP]` half —
90    /// HuggingFace's `token_type_ids`. Always the same length as
91    /// [`Self::tokens`].
92    pub segments: Vec<u32>,
93}
94
95/// A model that turns a whole token sequence into hidden states in one
96/// pass, with no carried state and no logits.
97pub trait TextEncoder {
98    /// Width of one hidden-state row, and of the pooled embedding.
99    fn n_embd(&self) -> usize;
100
101    /// Longest sequence this checkpoint can represent. For a learned
102    /// position table this is the table's height, and exceeding it is
103    /// an error rather than a degradation.
104    fn n_ctx_train(&self) -> usize;
105
106    /// What the checkpoint's own `{arch}.pooling_type` said.
107    fn pooling_type(&self) -> PoolingType;
108
109    /// Wraps a tokenizer's pieces in whatever the *model* requires
110    /// around them — for BERT, `[CLS] … [SEP]`.
111    ///
112    /// This is on the encoder rather than the tokenizer because ferrox's
113    /// tokenizers deliberately encode text only (they are checked
114    /// token-for-token against `llama_tokenize(..., add_special =
115    /// false, ...)`), while llama.cpp keeps `add_special` in the vocab
116    /// and applies it here. The default adds nothing, so an encoder that
117    /// genuinely needs no wrapper does not have to say so.
118    fn wrap_special(&self, pieces: &[u32]) -> Vec<u32> {
119        pieces.to_vec()
120    }
121
122    /// How many rows the checkpoint's token-type ("segment") table
123    /// carries, i.e. the number of distinct segment ids
124    /// [`Self::encode`] will accept.
125    ///
126    /// `1` — the default — means the encoder can only represent
127    /// "Sentence A", which is enough for an embedding pass and is not
128    /// enough for a cross-encoder pair. Read at load time by
129    /// [`crate::EmbeddingModel`], which refuses a reranker checkpoint
130    /// that cannot express segment 1 rather than silently scoring the
131    /// document half as segment 0.
132    fn n_segments(&self) -> usize {
133        1
134    }
135
136    /// The two-segment input a **cross-encoder** scores: one sequence
137    /// holding a query and a document with the model's own boundary
138    /// between them, and the segment id of every position. For BERT
139    /// that is `[CLS] a [SEP] b [SEP]` with segments `0…0 1…1`, which is
140    /// exactly what HuggingFace's `tokenizer(query, document)` emits.
141    ///
142    /// `None` — the default — means this encoder has no two-segment
143    /// form, and a caller that needs one must refuse. Deliberately NOT
144    /// defaulted to `wrap_special(a ++ b)`: a cross-encoder was trained
145    /// with a separator between the halves, and one that never sees it
146    /// still returns a plausible float. That is the "computes something
147    /// else" failure, and it is invisible — a rerank with no boundary
148    /// produces an ordering, just not the model's.
149    fn wrap_special_pair(&self, _a: &[u32], _b: &[u32]) -> Option<PairSequence> {
150        None
151    }
152
153    /// `n_tokens × n_embd` hidden states, in row order.
154    ///
155    /// `segments` is the per-position segment id, or `None` for "all
156    /// zeros" — the single-sequence case. There is deliberately ONE
157    /// graph with a parameter rather than a segment-aware copy of a
158    /// segment-blind one: this repo has lost a model feature to every
159    /// copied forward pass it has ever had, and the pair path is
160    /// exercised far less often than the embedding path, so a copy is
161    /// exactly where a fix would fail to land.
162    fn encode(&self, tokens: &[u32], segments: Option<&[u32]>) -> Result<Vec<f32>, EncodeError>;
163
164    /// [`Self::encode`] for a single sequence: every position is
165    /// segment 0.
166    fn encode_tokens(&self, tokens: &[u32]) -> Result<Vec<f32>, EncodeError> {
167        self.encode(tokens, None)
168    }
169
170    /// [`Self::encode_tokens`] followed by the checkpoint's own pooling.
171    /// Not L2-normalized — see [`crate::pooling::pool`].
172    fn embed_tokens(&self, tokens: &[u32]) -> Result<Vec<f32>, EncodeError> {
173        let hidden = self.encode_tokens(tokens)?;
174        Ok(pool(&hidden, self.n_embd(), self.pooling_type())?)
175    }
176}