#!/usr/bin/env python3 """Tier-2 vision captioner backed by llama.cpp (GGUF) instead of PyTorch/transformers. Drop-in replacement for tools/vision_caption.py: SAME manifest/output contract, so the Java HighlightVisionDirector is unchanged — only the configured script path differs. Uses a stronger local VLM (e.g. Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct) through llama.cpp's multimodal CLI (`llama-mtmd-cli --mmproj`), which runs on this Intel x86 CPU via AVX SIMD and sidesteps the torch==2.2.2 / transformers 4.x version trap entirely. Manifest JSON: [{"id": "...", "image": "/abs/path.jpg", "question": "..."}] Output JSON: [{"id": "...", "answer": "..."}] Fully offline. Paths come from env vars (so the Java side needs no backend-specific args): LLAMACPP_MTMD_BIN path to the llama.cpp `llama-mtmd-cli` binary (required) LLAMACPP_VLM_MODEL path to the VLM GGUF weights, e.g. Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf (required) LLAMACPP_VLM_MMPROJ path to the matching multimodal projector GGUF (mmproj-*.gguf) (required) LLAMACPP_VLM_NTOKENS max tokens to generate per answer (optional, default 64) Per-frame invocation keeps the worker simple and serverless (no loopback). The model is memory-mapped, so after the first call the OS page cache keeps repeated loads cheap. For heavy batches a persistent `llama-server` backend would be faster — a documented future optimisation, not required here. """ from __future__ import annotations import argparse import json import os import re import subprocess import sys def _clean(text: str) -> str: # Strip llama.cpp control/log noise and whitespace; keep the model's answer text. text = text.replace("\x1b[0m", "").strip() # Drop obvious log lines (timings, "llama_", "main:", "mtmd_", "encoding image") if any leak to stdout. lines = [ln for ln in text.splitlines() if ln.strip() and not re.match(r"^(llama_|main:|mtmd_|clip_|ggml_|build:|load|encoding image|\s*[\d.]+\s*(ms|tokens))", ln.strip(), re.IGNORECASE)] return " ".join(lines).strip() def _caption(binary: str, model: str, mmproj: str, image: str, question: str, ntokens: int) -> str: command = [ binary, "-m", model, "--mmproj", mmproj, "--image", image, "-p", question, "--temp", "0", "-n", str(ntokens), ] proc = subprocess.run(command, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=600) if proc.returncode != 0: sys.stderr.write("vision_caption_llamacpp: cli failed (%s): %s\n" % (proc.returncode, proc.stderr[-500:])) return "" return _clean(proc.stdout) def main() -> int: parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Local VLM frame captioner (llama.cpp / GGUF)") parser.add_argument("--manifest", required=True) parser.add_argument("--output", required=True) args = parser.parse_args() binary = os.environ.get("LLAMACPP_MTMD_BIN", "") model = os.environ.get("LLAMACPP_VLM_MODEL", "") mmproj = os.environ.get("LLAMACPP_VLM_MMPROJ", "") ntokens = int(os.environ.get("LLAMACPP_VLM_NTOKENS", "64")) missing = [name for name, val in (("LLAMACPP_MTMD_BIN", binary), ("LLAMACPP_VLM_MODEL", model), ("LLAMACPP_VLM_MMPROJ", mmproj)) if not val or not os.path.exists(val)] if missing: sys.stderr.write("vision_caption_llamacpp: missing/invalid env paths: %s\n" % ", ".join(missing)) return 2 with open(args.manifest, "r", encoding="utf-8") as handle: items = json.load(handle) results = [] for item in items: answer = "" try: answer = _caption(binary, model, mmproj, item["image"], item["question"], ntokens) except Exception as exc: # a single bad frame must never fail the batch sys.stderr.write("vision_caption_llamacpp: frame %s failed: %s\n" % (item.get("id"), exc)) results.append({"id": item.get("id"), "answer": answer}) os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(args.output)), exist_ok=True) with open(args.output, "w", encoding="utf-8") as handle: json.dump(results, handle, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2) return 0 if __name__ == "__main__": raise SystemExit(main())