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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        "layer {layer} runs a gated FFN and carries no ffn_gate; the loader builds the \
58         pair together, so this is a bug in frink rather than in the checkpoint"
59    )]
60    MissingGate { layer: usize },
61    #[error(
62        "segment id {id} at position {pos} is outside this checkpoint's {n_segments}-row \
63         token-type table"
64    )]
65    SegmentOutOfRange {
66        id: u32,
67        pos: usize,
68        n_segments: usize,
69    },
70    #[error(
71        "{tokens} token(s) were given {segments} segment id(s); every position needs exactly \
72         one, or the graph would add a segment embedding to the wrong row"
73    )]
74    RaggedSegments { tokens: usize, segments: usize },
75    #[error(transparent)]
76    Pooling(#[from] PoolingError),
77}
78
79/// One two-segment encoder input: the token ids and, for each of them,
80/// which half of the pair it belongs to.
81///
82/// The two vectors are built together and travel together on purpose.
83/// They are the repo's dominant bug shape waiting to happen — two
84/// structures that must agree, here about a length and about where the
85/// boundary is — and the single place that can get them right is
86/// [`TextEncoder::wrap_special_pair`], which inserts the `[SEP]` that
87/// the boundary is defined by. Handing a caller the ids alone (what
88/// this seam used to do) meant the segment ids did not exist at all
89/// and every position was scored as "Sentence A".
90#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
91pub struct PairSequence {
92    /// `[CLS] a [SEP] b [SEP]` for BERT.
93    pub tokens: Vec<u32>,
94    /// `0` for the `[CLS] a [SEP]` half, `1` for the `b [SEP]` half —
95    /// HuggingFace's `token_type_ids`. Always the same length as
96    /// [`Self::tokens`].
97    pub segments: Vec<u32>,
98}
99
100/// A model that turns a whole token sequence into hidden states in one
101/// pass, with no carried state and no logits.
102///
103/// `Sync` because [`TextEncoder::encode`] hands `&self` to a rayon
104/// worker for the duration of the pass; see its doc comment.
105pub trait TextEncoder: Sync {
106    /// Width of one hidden-state row, and of the pooled embedding.
107    fn n_embd(&self) -> usize;
108
109    /// Longest sequence this checkpoint can represent. For a learned
110    /// position table this is the table's height, and exceeding it is
111    /// an error rather than a degradation.
112    fn n_ctx_train(&self) -> usize;
113
114    /// What the checkpoint's own `{arch}.pooling_type` said.
115    fn pooling_type(&self) -> PoolingType;
116
117    /// The BERT-family hyper-parameters, for a caller that needs the
118    /// facts the architecture decides -- the rotation and the FFN
119    /// shape (`crate::bert_encoder`). `None` for an encoder that is
120    /// not on that graph, so a second encoder family does not have to
121    /// invent a `BertHparams` to answer.
122    fn bert_hparams(&self) -> Option<&crate::bert_encoder::BertHparams> {
123        None
124    }
125
126    /// Wraps a tokenizer's pieces in whatever the *model* requires
127    /// around them — for BERT, `[CLS] … [SEP]`.
128    ///
129    /// This is on the encoder rather than the tokenizer because frink's
130    /// tokenizers deliberately encode text only (they are checked
131    /// token-for-token against `llama_tokenize(..., add_special =
132    /// false, ...)`), while llama.cpp keeps `add_special` in the vocab
133    /// and applies it here. The default adds nothing, so an encoder that
134    /// genuinely needs no wrapper does not have to say so.
135    fn wrap_special(&self, pieces: &[u32]) -> Vec<u32> {
136        pieces.to_vec()
137    }
138
139    /// How many rows the checkpoint's token-type ("segment") table
140    /// carries, i.e. the number of distinct segment ids
141    /// [`Self::encode`] will accept.
142    ///
143    /// `1` — the default — means the encoder can only represent
144    /// "Sentence A", which is enough for an embedding pass and is not
145    /// enough for a cross-encoder pair. Read at load time by
146    /// [`crate::EmbeddingModel`], which refuses a reranker checkpoint
147    /// that cannot express segment 1 rather than silently scoring the
148    /// document half as segment 0.
149    fn n_segments(&self) -> usize {
150        1
151    }
152
153    /// The two-segment input a **cross-encoder** scores: one sequence
154    /// holding a query and a document with the model's own boundary
155    /// between them, and the segment id of every position. For BERT
156    /// that is `[CLS] a [SEP] b [SEP]` with segments `0…0 1…1`, which is
157    /// exactly what HuggingFace's `tokenizer(query, document)` emits.
158    ///
159    /// `None` — the default — means this encoder has no two-segment
160    /// form, and a caller that needs one must refuse. Deliberately NOT
161    /// defaulted to `wrap_special(a ++ b)`: a cross-encoder was trained
162    /// with a separator between the halves, and one that never sees it
163    /// still returns a plausible float. That is the "computes something
164    /// else" failure, and it is invisible — a rerank with no boundary
165    /// produces an ordering, just not the model's.
166    fn wrap_special_pair(&self, _a: &[u32], _b: &[u32]) -> Option<PairSequence> {
167        None
168    }
169
170    /// `n_tokens × n_embd` hidden states, in row order.
171    ///
172    /// `segments` is the per-position segment id, or `None` for "all
173    /// zeros" — the single-sequence case. There is deliberately ONE
174    /// graph with a parameter rather than a segment-aware copy of a
175    /// segment-blind one: this repo has lost a model feature to every
176    /// copied forward pass it has ever had, and the pair path is
177    /// exercised far less often than the embedding path, so a copy is
178    /// exactly where a fix would fail to land.
179    ///
180    /// This is the body an encoder writes; callers want
181    /// [`Self::encode`], which is the same computation with the CPU
182    /// worker pool entered once for the whole pass.
183    fn encode_on_worker(
184        &self,
185        tokens: &[u32],
186        segments: Option<&[u32]>,
187    ) -> Result<Vec<f32>, EncodeError>;
188
189    /// [`Self::encode_on_worker`], with the CPU worker pool entered once
190    /// for the whole pass.
191    ///
192    /// Same rule, and the same reason, as
193    /// [`crate::engine::Engine::forward_token`]: a forward pass through
194    /// a stack of quantized projections opens a parallel region per
195    /// matmul, and every one of them costs a pthread park and wake when
196    /// the driving thread is not a rayon worker. An encoder pass is one
197    /// pass over the whole sequence rather than one per token, so the
198    /// saving is smaller than a decode loop's -- but it is the same
199    /// saving, and an encoder that had to remember to ask for it would
200    /// be one more place for the rule to be forgotten.
201    ///
202    /// Do not override. See
203    /// [`frink_core::par::on_workers`] for the three cases it declines
204    /// to promote.
205    fn encode(&self, tokens: &[u32], segments: Option<&[u32]>) -> Result<Vec<f32>, EncodeError> {
206        frink_core::par::on_workers(move || self.encode_on_worker(tokens, segments))
207    }
208
209    /// [`Self::encode`] for a single sequence: every position is
210    /// segment 0.
211    fn encode_tokens(&self, tokens: &[u32]) -> Result<Vec<f32>, EncodeError> {
212        self.encode(tokens, None)
213    }
214
215    /// [`Self::encode_tokens`] followed by the checkpoint's own pooling.
216    /// Not L2-normalized — see [`crate::pooling::pool`].
217    fn embed_tokens(&self, tokens: &[u32]) -> Result<Vec<f32>, EncodeError> {
218        let hidden = self.encode_tokens(tokens)?;
219        Ok(pool(&hidden, self.n_embd(), self.pooling_type())?)
220    }
221}