llama-cpp-capacitor 0.0.6 → 0.0.7

package/cpp/tools/mtmd/mtmd.cpp

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+#include "clip.h"
+#include "clip-impl.h"
+#include "mtmd.h"
+#include "mtmd-audio.h"
+
+#include "llama.h"
+
+#include <algorithm>
+#include <cerrno>
+#include <cstdio>
+#include <cstdlib>
+#include <cstring>
+#include <limits>
+#include <vector>
+
+// represents raw image data, layout is RGBRGBRGB...
+// length of data must be nx * ny * 3
+struct mtmd_bitmap {
+    uint32_t nx;
+    uint32_t ny;
+    std::vector<unsigned char> data;
+    std::string id; // optional user-defined id, for ex: can be set to image hash, useful for KV cache tracking
+    bool is_audio = false; // true if the bitmap is audio
+};
+
+struct mtmd_image_tokens {
+    uint32_t nx; // number of tokens in x direction
+    uint32_t ny; // number of tokens in y direction
+    bool use_mrope_pos = false; // use M-RoPE position counting (the whole image is 1 temporal position)
+    uint32_t n_tokens() const { return nx * ny; }
+    clip_image_f32_batch batch_f32; // preprocessed image patches
+    std::string id; // optional user-defined ID, useful for KV cache tracking
+
+    mtmd_image_tokens clone() {
+        return mtmd_image_tokens{
+            nx,
+            ny,
+            use_mrope_pos,
+            batch_f32.clone(),
+            id
+        };
+    }
+};
+using mtmd_image_tokens_ptr = std::unique_ptr<mtmd_image_tokens>;
+
+struct mtmd_audio_tokens {
+    uint32_t n_tokens; // number of tokens
+    clip_image_f32_batch batch_f32; // preprocessed image patches
+    std::string id; // optional user-defined ID, useful for KV cache tracking
+
+    mtmd_audio_tokens clone() {
+        return mtmd_audio_tokens{
+            n_tokens,
+            batch_f32.clone(),
+            id
+        };
+    }
+};
+using mtmd_audio_tokens_ptr = std::unique_ptr<mtmd_audio_tokens>;
+
+struct mtmd_input_chunk {
+    mtmd_input_chunk_type type;
+    std::vector<llama_token> tokens_text;
+    mtmd_image_tokens_ptr tokens_image;
+    mtmd_audio_tokens_ptr tokens_audio;
+};
+
+struct mtmd_input_chunks {
+    std::vector<mtmd_input_chunk> entries;
+};
+
+// slice template, used by some llava-uhd models to correctly place the special tokens around image embeddings
+// models not having it (llava-1.6) will process embeddings without any special tokens in-between
+enum mtmd_slice_tmpl {
+    MTMD_SLICE_TMPL_NONE,
+    MTMD_SLICE_TMPL_MINICPMV_2_5,
+    MTMD_SLICE_TMPL_MINICPMV_2_6,
+    MTMD_SLICE_TMPL_LLAMA4,
+    // TODO @ngxson : add support for idefics (SmolVLM)
+};
+
+const char * mtmd_default_marker() {
+    return "<__media__>";
+}
+
+mtmd_context_params mtmd_context_params_default() {
+    mtmd_context_params params;
+    params.use_gpu = true;
+    params.print_timings = true;
+    params.n_threads = 4;
+    params.verbosity = LM_GGML_LOG_LEVEL_INFO;
+    params.image_marker = MTMD_DEFAULT_IMAGE_MARKER;
+    params.media_marker = mtmd_default_marker();
+    return params;
+}
+
+struct mtmd_context {
+    struct clip_ctx * ctx_v; // vision
+    struct clip_ctx * ctx_a; // audio
+    const struct llama_model * text_model;
+    std::vector<float> image_embd_v; // image embedding vector
+
+    bool print_timings;
+    int n_threads;
+    std::string media_marker;
+    const int n_embd_text;
+
+    // these are not token, but strings used to mark the beginning and end of image/audio embeddings
+    std::string img_beg;
+    std::string img_end;
+    std::string aud_beg;
+    std::string aud_end;
+
+    // for llava-uhd style models, we need special tokens in-between slices
+    // minicpmv calls them "slices", llama 4 calls them "tiles"
+    mtmd_slice_tmpl slice_tmpl    = MTMD_SLICE_TMPL_NONE;
+    llama_token tok_ov_img_start  = LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL; // overview image
+    llama_token tok_ov_img_end    = LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL; // overview image
+    llama_token tok_slices_start  = LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL; // start of all slices
+    llama_token tok_slices_end    = LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL; // end of all slices
+    llama_token tok_sli_img_start = LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL; // single slice start
+    llama_token tok_sli_img_end   = LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL; // single slice end
+    llama_token tok_sli_img_mid   = LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL; // between 2 slices
+    llama_token tok_row_end       = LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL; // end of row
+    bool        tok_row_end_trail = false;
+    bool        ov_img_first      = false;
+
+    bool use_mrope = false; // for Qwen2VL, we need to use M-RoPE
+
+    // for whisper, we pre-calculate the mel filter bank
+    whisper_preprocessor::whisper_filters w_filters;
+
+    // TODO @ngxson : add timings
+
+    mtmd_context(const char * mmproj_fname,
+                   const llama_model * text_model,
+                   const mtmd_context_params & ctx_params) :
+        text_model   (text_model),
+        print_timings(ctx_params.print_timings),
+        n_threads    (ctx_params.n_threads),
+        media_marker (ctx_params.media_marker),
+        n_embd_text  (llama_model_n_embd(text_model))
+    {
+        if (std::string(ctx_params.image_marker) != MTMD_DEFAULT_IMAGE_MARKER) {
+            throw std::runtime_error("custom image_marker is not supported anymore, use media_marker instead");
+        }
+
+        if (media_marker.empty()) {
+            throw std::runtime_error("media_marker must not be empty");
+        }
+
+        clip_context_params ctx_clip_params;
+        ctx_clip_params.use_gpu   = ctx_params.use_gpu;
+        ctx_clip_params.verbosity = ctx_params.verbosity;
+        auto res = clip_init(mmproj_fname, ctx_clip_params);
+        ctx_v = res.ctx_v;
+        ctx_a = res.ctx_a;
+        if (!ctx_v && !ctx_a) {
+            throw std::runtime_error(string_format("Failed to load CLIP model from %s\n", mmproj_fname));
+        }
+
+        // if both vision and audio mmproj are present, we need to validate their n_embd
+        if (ctx_v && ctx_a) {
+            int n_embd_v = clip_n_mmproj_embd(ctx_v);
+            int n_embd_a = clip_n_mmproj_embd(ctx_a);
+            if (n_embd_v != n_embd_a) {
+                throw std::runtime_error(string_format(
+                    "mismatch between vision and audio mmproj (n_embd_v = %d, n_embd_a = %d)\n",
+                    n_embd_v, n_embd_a));
+            }
+        }
+
+        // since we already validate n_embd of vision and audio mmproj,
+        // we can safely assume that they are the same
+        int n_embd_clip = clip_n_mmproj_embd(ctx_v ? ctx_v : ctx_a);
+        if (n_embd_text != n_embd_clip) {
+            throw std::runtime_error(string_format(
+                "mismatch between text model (n_embd = %d) and mmproj (n_embd = %d)\n"
+                "hint: you may be using wrong mmproj\n",
+                n_embd_text, n_embd_clip));
+        }
+        if (ctx_v) {
+            init_vision();
+        }
+        if (ctx_a) {
+            init_audio();
+        }
+    }
+
+    void init_vision() {
+        LM_GGML_ASSERT(ctx_v != nullptr);
+        use_mrope = clip_is_qwen2vl(ctx_v);
+
+        projector_type proj = clip_get_projector_type(ctx_v);
+        int minicpmv_version = clip_is_minicpmv(ctx_v);
+        if (minicpmv_version == 2) {
+            // minicpmv 2.5 format:
+            // <image> (overview) </image><slice><image> (slice) </image><image> (slice) </image>\n ... </slice>
+            slice_tmpl        = MTMD_SLICE_TMPL_MINICPMV_2_5;
+            tok_ov_img_start  = lookup_token("<image>");
+            tok_ov_img_end    = lookup_token("</image>");
+            tok_slices_start  = lookup_token("<slice>");
+            tok_slices_end    = lookup_token("</slice>");
+            tok_sli_img_start = tok_ov_img_start;
+            tok_sli_img_end   = tok_ov_img_end;
+            tok_row_end       = lookup_token("\n");
+            tok_row_end_trail = false; // no trailing end-of-row token
+            ov_img_first      = true;
+
+        } else if (minicpmv_version == 3 || minicpmv_version == 4 || minicpmv_version == 5) {
+            // minicpmv 2.6 format:
+            // <image> (overview) </image><slice> (slice) </slice><slice> (slice) </slice>\n ...
+            slice_tmpl        = MTMD_SLICE_TMPL_MINICPMV_2_6;
+            tok_ov_img_start  = lookup_token("<image>");
+            tok_ov_img_end    = lookup_token("</image>");
+            tok_sli_img_start = lookup_token("<slice>");
+            tok_sli_img_end   = lookup_token("</slice>");
+            tok_row_end       = lookup_token("\n");
+            tok_row_end_trail = false; // no trailing end-of-row token
+            ov_img_first      = true;
+
+        } else if (minicpmv_version != 0) {
+            LM_GGML_ASSERT(false && "unsupported minicpmv version");
+        } else if (proj == PROJECTOR_TYPE_LLAMA4) {
+            // llama 4 format:
+            // <|image_start|>
+            //     (slice) <|tile_x_separator|> (slice) <|tile_x_separator|> ... <|tile_y_separator|>
+            //     (slice) <|tile_x_separator|> (slice) <|tile_x_separator|> ... <|tile_y_separator|>
+            //     ... <|tile_y_separator|>   <-- trailing end-of-row token
+            // <|image|> (overview)           <-- overview image is last
+            // <|image_end|>
+            slice_tmpl        = MTMD_SLICE_TMPL_LLAMA4;
+            tok_ov_img_start  = lookup_token("<|image|>");
+            tok_sli_img_mid   = lookup_token("<|tile_x_separator|>");
+            tok_row_end       = lookup_token("<|tile_y_separator|>");
+            tok_row_end_trail = true; // add trailing end-of-row token
+            ov_img_first      = false; // overview image is last
+        }
+
+        // set boi/eoi
+        if (proj == PROJECTOR_TYPE_GEMMA3) {
+            // <start_of_image> ... (image embeddings) ... <end_of_image>
+            img_beg = "<start_of_image>";
+            img_end = "<end_of_image>";
+
+        } else if (proj == PROJECTOR_TYPE_IDEFICS3) {
+            // https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/a42ba80fa520c784c8f11a973ca9034e5f859b79/src/transformers/models/idefics3/processing_idefics3.py#L192-L215
+            img_beg = "<fake_token_around_image><global-img>";
+            img_end = "<fake_token_around_image>";
+
+        } else if (proj == PROJECTOR_TYPE_PIXTRAL) {
+            // https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/1cd110c6cb6a6237614130c470e9a902dbc1a4bd/docs/source/en/model_doc/pixtral.md
+            img_end = "[IMG_END]";
+
+        } else if (proj == PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN2VL || proj == PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN25VL) {
+            // <|vision_start|> ... (image embeddings) ... <|vision_end|>
+            img_beg = "<|vision_start|>";
+            img_end = "<|vision_end|>";
+
+        } else if (proj == PROJECTOR_TYPE_LLAMA4) {
+            // (more details in mtmd_context constructor)
+            img_beg = "<|image_start|>";
+            img_end = "<|image_end|>";
+            LOG_WRN("%s: llama 4 vision is known to have degraded quality:\n"
+                    "    https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/13282\n", __func__);
+
+        } else if (proj == PROJECTOR_TYPE_INTERNVL) {
+            // <img> ... (image embeddings) ... </img>
+            img_beg = "<img>";
+            img_end = "</img>";
+
+        }
+    }
+
+    void init_audio() {
+        LM_GGML_ASSERT(ctx_a != nullptr);
+        projector_type proj = clip_get_projector_type(ctx_a);
+
+        if (clip_has_whisper_encoder(ctx_a)) {
+            // TODO @ngxson : check if model n_mel is 128 or 80
+            w_filters = whisper_precalc_filters::get_128_bins();
+        }
+
+        LOG_WRN("%s: audio input is in experimental stage and may have reduced quality:\n"
+                "    https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/13759\n", __func__);
+
+        if (proj == PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN2A) {
+            // <|audio_bos|> ... (embeddings) ... <|audio_eos|>
+            aud_beg = "<|audio_bos|>";
+            aud_end = "<|audio_eos|>";
+
+        } else if (proj == PROJECTOR_TYPE_ULTRAVOX) {
+            // [BEGIN_AUDIO] ... (embeddings) ...
+            aud_beg = "[BEGIN_AUDIO]";
+
+        }
+    }
+
+    // get clip ctx based on chunk type
+    clip_ctx * get_clip_ctx(const mtmd_input_chunk * chunk) const {
+        if (chunk->type == MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_IMAGE) {
+            return ctx_v;
+        } else if (chunk->type == MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_AUDIO) {
+            return ctx_a;
+        }
+        LM_GGML_ABORT("unknown chunk type");
+    }
+
+    projector_type proj_type_v() const {
+        return ctx_v ? clip_get_projector_type(ctx_v) : PROJECTOR_TYPE_UNKNOWN;
+    }
+
+    projector_type proj_type_a() const {
+        return ctx_a ? clip_get_projector_type(ctx_a) : PROJECTOR_TYPE_UNKNOWN;
+    }
+
+    ~mtmd_context() {
+        clip_free(ctx_a);
+        clip_free(ctx_v);
+    }
+
+private:
+    llama_token lookup_token(const std::string & token_text) {
+        const llama_vocab * vocab = llama_model_get_vocab(text_model);
+        const int n_vocab = llama_vocab_n_tokens(vocab);
+        for (int i = 0; i < n_vocab; i++) {
+            if (token_to_piece(vocab, i, true) == token_text) {
+                return i;
+            }
+        }
+        return LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL;
+    }
+
+    std::string token_to_piece(const llama_vocab * vocab, llama_token token, bool special) {
+        std::string piece;
+        piece.resize(piece.capacity());  // using string internal cache, 15 bytes + '\n'
+        const int n_chars = llama_token_to_piece(vocab, token, &piece[0], piece.size(), 0, special);
+        if (n_chars < 0) {
+            piece.resize(-n_chars);
+            int check = llama_token_to_piece(vocab, token, &piece[0], piece.size(), 0, special);
+            LM_GGML_ASSERT(check == -n_chars);
+        } else {
+            piece.resize(n_chars);
+        }
+        return piece;
+    }
+};
+
+mtmd_context * mtmd_init_from_file(const char * mmproj_fname,
+        const struct llama_model * text_model,
+        const struct mtmd_context_params ctx_params) {
+    try {
+        return new mtmd_context(mmproj_fname, text_model, ctx_params);
+    } catch (const std::exception & e) {
+        LOG_ERR("%s: error: %s\n", __func__, e.what());
+        return nullptr;
+    }
+}
+
+void mtmd_free(mtmd_context * ctx) {
+    if (ctx) {
+        delete ctx;
+    }
+}
+
+struct mtmd_tokenizer {
+    mtmd_context * ctx;
+    std::vector<const mtmd_bitmap *> bitmaps;
+
+    std::string input_text;
+    bool add_special;
+    bool parse_special;
+    const llama_vocab * vocab;
+
+    mtmd_input_chunks cur;
+
+    mtmd_tokenizer(mtmd_context * ctx,
+            const mtmd_input_text * text,
+            const mtmd_bitmap ** bitmaps,
+            size_t n_bitmaps) : ctx(ctx), bitmaps(bitmaps, bitmaps + n_bitmaps) {
+        add_special   = text->add_special;
+        parse_special = text->parse_special;
+        input_text    = text->text;
+        vocab         = llama_model_get_vocab(ctx->text_model);
+
+        // for compatibility, we convert image marker to media marker
+        string_replace_all(input_text, MTMD_DEFAULT_IMAGE_MARKER, ctx->media_marker);
+    }
+
+    int32_t tokenize(mtmd_input_chunks * output) {
+        cur.entries.clear();
+        std::vector<std::string> parts = split_text(input_text, ctx->media_marker);
+        size_t i_bm = 0; // index of the current bitmap
+        for (auto & part : parts) {
+            if (part == ctx->media_marker) {
+                // this is a marker, we should add the next bitmap
+                if (i_bm >= bitmaps.size()) {
+                    LOG_ERR("%s: error: number of bitmaps (%zu) does not match number of markers (%zu)\n",
+                            __func__, bitmaps.size(), parts.size() - 1);
+                    return 1;
+                }
+                const mtmd_bitmap * bitmap = bitmaps[i_bm++];
+                int32_t res = add_media(bitmap);
+                if (res != 0) {
+                    return res;
+                }
+            } else {
+                // this is a text part, we should add it as text
+                add_text(part, parse_special);
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (add_special && llama_vocab_get_add_bos(vocab)) {
+            // if first chunk is text, we add BOS token to first text chunk
+            // otherwise, create a new text chunk with BOS token
+            if (!cur.entries.empty() && cur.entries[0].type == MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_TEXT) {
+                // add BOS token to the beginning of first text chunk
+                cur.entries[0].tokens_text.insert(cur.entries[0].tokens_text.begin(), llama_vocab_bos(vocab));
+            } else {
+                // create a new text chunk with BOS token at the beginning
+                mtmd_input_chunk bos_chunk{
+                    MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_TEXT,
+                    {llama_vocab_bos(vocab)},
+                    nullptr, // image tokens
+                    nullptr, // audio tokens
+                };
+                cur.entries.insert(cur.entries.begin(), std::move(bos_chunk));
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (add_special && llama_vocab_get_add_eos(vocab)) {
+            // if last chunk is text, we add EOS token to it
+            add_text({llama_vocab_eos(vocab)});
+        }
+
+        if (i_bm != bitmaps.size()) {
+            LOG_ERR("%s: error: number of bitmaps (%zu) does not match number of markers (%zu)\n",
+                    __func__, bitmaps.size(), parts.size() - 1);
+            return 1;
+        }
+
+        *output = std::move(cur);
+
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+    void add_text(const std::string & txt, bool parse_special) {
+        LOG_DBG("%s: %s\n", __func__, txt.c_str());
+        auto tokens = mtmd_tokenize_text_internal(vocab, txt, /* add_special */ false, parse_special);
+        add_text(tokens);
+    }
+
+    void add_text(const std::vector<llama_token> & tokens) {
+        if (tokens.empty()) {
+            return;
+        }
+        // if last entry is also a text chunk, add tokens to it instead of creating new chunk
+        if (!cur.entries.empty() && cur.entries.back().type == MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_TEXT) {
+            cur.entries.back().tokens_text.insert(
+                                            cur.entries.back().tokens_text.end(),
+                                            tokens.begin(),
+                                            tokens.end());
+        } else {
+            mtmd_input_chunk chunk{
+                MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_TEXT,
+                tokens,
+                nullptr, // image tokens
+                nullptr, // audio tokens
+            };
+            cur.entries.emplace_back(std::move(chunk));
+        }
+    }
+
+    int32_t add_media(const mtmd_bitmap * bitmap) {
+        if (!bitmap->is_audio) {
+            // handle image
+
+            if (!ctx->ctx_v) {
+                LOG_ERR("%s: error: model does not support vision input\n", __func__);
+                return 2;
+            }
+
+            if (!ctx->img_beg.empty()) {
+                add_text(ctx->img_beg, true); // add image begin token
+            }
+
+            // convert mtmd_bitmap to clip_image_u8
+            clip_image_u8_ptr img_u8(clip_image_u8_init());
+            img_u8->nx = bitmap->nx;
+            img_u8->ny = bitmap->ny;
+            img_u8->buf.resize(bitmap->data.size());
+            std::memcpy(img_u8->buf.data(), bitmap->data.data(), img_u8->nx * img_u8->ny * 3);
+
+            // preprocess image
+            clip_image_f32_batch batch_f32;
+            bool ok = clip_image_preprocess(ctx->ctx_v, img_u8.get(), &batch_f32);
+            if (!ok) {
+                LOG_ERR("Unable to preprocess image\n");
+                return 2;
+            }
+
+            // handle llava-uhd style preprocessing
+            if (
+                ctx->slice_tmpl == MTMD_SLICE_TMPL_MINICPMV_2_5
+                || ctx->slice_tmpl == MTMD_SLICE_TMPL_MINICPMV_2_6
+                || ctx->slice_tmpl == MTMD_SLICE_TMPL_LLAMA4
+            ) {
+                const int n_col = batch_f32.grid_x;
+                const int n_row = batch_f32.grid_y;
+                // split batch into chunks of single images
+                // NOTE: batch_f32 will be invalidated after this call
+                auto chunks = split_batch_to_chunk(std::move(batch_f32), bitmap->id);
+                LM_GGML_ASSERT(chunks.size() > 0);
+
+                auto ov_chunk = std::move(chunks.front());
+                chunks.erase(chunks.begin());
+
+                // add overview image (first)
+                if (ctx->ov_img_first) {
+                    if (ctx->tok_ov_img_start != LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL) {
+                        add_text({ctx->tok_ov_img_start});
+                    }
+                    cur.entries.emplace_back(std::move(ov_chunk));
+                    if (ctx->tok_ov_img_end != LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL) {
+                        add_text({ctx->tok_ov_img_end});
+                    }
+                }
+
+                // add slices (or tiles)
+                if (!chunks.empty()) {
+                    LM_GGML_ASSERT((int)chunks.size() == n_row * n_col);
+                    if (ctx->tok_slices_start != LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL) {
+                        add_text({ctx->tok_slices_start});
+                    }
+                    for (int y = 0; y < n_row; y++) {
+                        for (int x = 0; x < n_col; x++) {
+                            const bool is_last_in_row = (x == n_col - 1);
+                            if (ctx->tok_sli_img_start != LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL) {
+                                add_text({ctx->tok_sli_img_start});
+                            }
+                            cur.entries.emplace_back(std::move(chunks[y * n_col + x]));
+                            if (ctx->tok_sli_img_end != LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL) {
+                                add_text({ctx->tok_sli_img_end});
+                            }
+                            if (!is_last_in_row && ctx->tok_sli_img_mid != LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL) {
+                                add_text({ctx->tok_sli_img_mid});
+                            }
+                        }
+                        if ((y != n_row - 1 || ctx->tok_row_end_trail) && ctx->tok_row_end != LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL) {
+                            add_text({ctx->tok_row_end});
+                        }
+                    }
+                    if (ctx->tok_slices_end != LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL) {
+                        add_text({ctx->tok_slices_end});
+                    }
+                }
+
+                // add overview image (last)
+                if (!ctx->ov_img_first) {
+                    if (ctx->tok_ov_img_start != LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL) {
+                        add_text({ctx->tok_ov_img_start});
+                    }
+                    cur.entries.emplace_back(std::move(ov_chunk));
+                    if (ctx->tok_ov_img_end != LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL) {
+                        add_text({ctx->tok_ov_img_end});
+                    }
+                }
+
+            } else {
+                size_t n_tokens = 0;
+                for (const auto & entry : batch_f32.entries) {
+                    n_tokens += clip_n_output_tokens(ctx->ctx_v, entry.get());
+                }
+
+                mtmd_image_tokens_ptr image_tokens(new mtmd_image_tokens);
+                if (ctx->use_mrope) {
+                    // for Qwen2VL, we need this information for M-RoPE decoding positions
+                    image_tokens->nx = clip_n_output_tokens_x(ctx->ctx_v, batch_f32.entries[0].get());
+                    image_tokens->ny = clip_n_output_tokens_y(ctx->ctx_v, batch_f32.entries[0].get());
+                    image_tokens->use_mrope_pos = true;
+                } else {
+                    // other models, we only need the total number of tokens
+                    image_tokens->nx = n_tokens;
+                    image_tokens->ny = 1;
+                }
+                image_tokens->batch_f32 = std::move(batch_f32);
+                image_tokens->id = bitmap->id; // optional
+
+                LOG_DBG("image_tokens->nx = %d\n", image_tokens->nx);
+                LOG_DBG("image_tokens->ny = %d\n", image_tokens->ny);
+                LOG_DBG("batch_f32 size = %d\n", (int)image_tokens->batch_f32.entries.size());
+
+                mtmd_input_chunk chunk{
+                    MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_IMAGE,
+                    {}, // text tokens
+                    std::move(image_tokens),
+                    nullptr, // audio tokens
+                };
+                cur.entries.emplace_back(std::move(chunk));
+            }
+
+            if (!ctx->img_end.empty()) {
+                add_text(ctx->img_end, true); // add image end token
+            }
+
+        } else {
+            // handle audio
+
+            if (!ctx->ctx_a) {
+                LOG_ERR("%s: error: model does not support audio input\n", __func__);
+                return 2;
+            }
+
+            if (bitmap->data.size() == 0) {
+                LOG_ERR("%s: error: empty audio data\n", __func__);
+                return 2;
+            }
+
+            if (!ctx->aud_beg.empty()) {
+                add_text(ctx->aud_beg, true); // add audio begin token
+            }
+
+            // preprocess audio
+            LM_GGML_ASSERT(ctx->w_filters.n_mel); // make sure we have filter preloaded
+            std::vector<whisper_preprocessor::whisper_mel> mel_spec_chunks;
+            const float * samples = (const float *)bitmap->data.data();
+            size_t n_samples = bitmap->data.size() / sizeof(float);
+            bool ok = whisper_preprocessor::preprocess_audio(samples, n_samples, ctx->w_filters, mel_spec_chunks);
+            if (!ok) {
+                LOG_ERR("Unable to preprocess audio\n");
+                return 2;
+            }
+
+            // consider each mel_spec as a separate audio chunk
+            // TODO: maybe support batching, but this may come with memory cost
+            for (auto & mel_spec : mel_spec_chunks) {
+                clip_image_f32_ptr mel_f32(clip_image_f32_init());
+                mel_f32->nx  = mel_spec.n_len;
+                mel_f32->ny  = mel_spec.n_mel;
+                mel_f32->buf = std::move(mel_spec.data);
+                size_t n_tokens = clip_n_output_tokens(ctx->ctx_a, mel_f32.get());
+
+                clip_image_f32_batch batch_f32;
+                batch_f32.is_audio = true;
+                batch_f32.entries.push_back(std::move(mel_f32));
+
+                mtmd_audio_tokens_ptr audio_tokens(new mtmd_audio_tokens);
+                audio_tokens->n_tokens = n_tokens;
+                audio_tokens->batch_f32 = std::move(batch_f32);
+                audio_tokens->id = bitmap->id; // optional
+
+                LOG_DBG("audio_tokens->n_tokens = %d\n", audio_tokens->n_tokens);
+
+                mtmd_input_chunk chunk{
+                    MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_AUDIO,
+                    {}, // text tokens
+                    nullptr, // image tokens
+                    std::move(audio_tokens),
+                };
+                cur.entries.emplace_back(std::move(chunk));
+            }
+
+            if (!ctx->aud_end.empty()) {
+                add_text(ctx->aud_end, true); // add audio end token
+            }
+        }
+
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+    std::vector<mtmd_input_chunk> split_batch_to_chunk(clip_image_f32_batch && batch_f32, const std::string & id) {
+        std::vector<mtmd_input_chunk> chunks;
+
+        for (auto & entry : batch_f32.entries) {
+            mtmd_image_tokens_ptr image_tokens(new mtmd_image_tokens);
+            image_tokens->nx = clip_n_output_tokens(ctx->ctx_v, entry.get());
+            image_tokens->ny = 1;
+            image_tokens->batch_f32.entries.push_back(std::move(entry));
+            image_tokens->id = id;
+
+            mtmd_input_chunk chunk{
+                MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_IMAGE,
+                {}, // text tokens
+                std::move(image_tokens),
+                nullptr, // audio tokens
+            };
+            chunks.emplace_back(std::move(chunk));
+        }
+
+        return chunks;
+    }
+
+    // for example: "a <__media__> b <__media__> c" --> "a", "<__media__>", "b", "<__media__>", "c"
+    static std::vector<std::string> split_text(const std::string & input, const std::string & delimiter) {
+        std::vector<std::string> result;
+        if (input.empty()) {
+            return result;
+        }
+        size_t start = 0;
+        size_t pos = 0;
+        while ((pos = input.find(delimiter, start)) != std::string::npos) {
+            if (pos > start) {
+                result.push_back(input.substr(start, pos - start));
+            }
+            result.push_back(delimiter);
+            start = pos + delimiter.length();
+        }
+        if (start < input.length()) {
+            result.push_back(input.substr(start));
+        }
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    // copied from common_tokenize
+    static std::vector<llama_token> mtmd_tokenize_text_internal(
+        const struct llama_vocab * vocab,
+               const std::string & text,
+                            bool   add_special,
+                            bool   parse_special) {
+        // upper limit for the number of tokens
+        int n_tokens = text.length() + 2 * add_special;
+        std::vector<llama_token> result(n_tokens);
+        n_tokens = llama_tokenize(vocab, text.data(), text.length(), result.data(), result.size(), add_special, parse_special);
+        if (n_tokens < 0) {
+            result.resize(-n_tokens);
+            int check = llama_tokenize(vocab, text.data(), text.length(), result.data(), result.size(), add_special, parse_special);
+            LM_GGML_ASSERT(check == -n_tokens);
+        } else {
+            result.resize(n_tokens);
+        }
+        return result;
+    }
+};
+
+int32_t mtmd_tokenize(mtmd_context * ctx,
+            mtmd_input_chunks * output,
+            const mtmd_input_text * text,
+            const mtmd_bitmap ** bitmaps,
+            size_t n_bitmaps) {
+    mtmd_tokenizer tokenizer(ctx, text, bitmaps, n_bitmaps);
+    return tokenizer.tokenize(output);
+}
+
+int32_t mtmd_encode_chunk(mtmd_context * ctx, const mtmd_input_chunk * chunk) {
+    if (chunk->type == MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_TEXT) {
+        LOG_WRN("mtmd_encode_chunk has no effect for text chunks\n");
+        return 0;
+    } else if (chunk->type == MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_IMAGE) {
+        if (!ctx->ctx_v) {
+            LOG_ERR("%s: model does not support vision input\n", __func__);
+            return 1;
+        }
+        return mtmd_encode(ctx, chunk->tokens_image.get());
+    } else if (chunk->type == MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_AUDIO) {
+        if (!ctx->ctx_a) {
+            LOG_ERR("%s: model does not support audio input\n", __func__);
+            return 1;
+        }
+        int n_mmproj_embd = ctx->n_embd_text;
+        ctx->image_embd_v.resize(chunk->tokens_audio->n_tokens * n_mmproj_embd);
+        bool ok = clip_image_batch_encode(
+            ctx->ctx_a,
+            ctx->n_threads,
+            &chunk->tokens_audio->batch_f32,
+            ctx->image_embd_v.data());
+        return ok ? 0 : 1;
+    }
+
+    LOG_ERR("%s: unknown chunk type %d\n", __func__, (int)chunk->type);
+    return 1;
+}
+
+int32_t mtmd_encode(mtmd_context * ctx, const mtmd_image_tokens * image_tokens) {
+    clip_ctx * ctx_clip = ctx->ctx_v;
+    if (!ctx_clip) {
+        LOG_ERR("%s: this API does not support non-vision input, please use mtmd_encode_chunk instead\n", __func__);
+        return 1;
+    }
+    int n_mmproj_embd = clip_n_mmproj_embd(ctx_clip);
+    ctx->image_embd_v.resize(image_tokens->n_tokens() * n_mmproj_embd);
+    bool ok = false;
+
+    if (clip_is_llava(ctx_clip) || clip_is_minicpmv(ctx_clip) || clip_is_glm(ctx_clip)) {
+        // TODO @ngxson : llava does not support batched encoding ; this should be fixed inside clip_image_batch_encode()
+        const auto & entries = image_tokens->batch_f32.entries;
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < entries.size(); i++) {
+            int n_tokens_per_image = clip_n_output_tokens(ctx_clip, entries[i].get());
+            ok = clip_image_encode(
+                ctx_clip,
+                ctx->n_threads,
+                entries[i].get(),
+                ctx->image_embd_v.data() + i*n_mmproj_embd*n_tokens_per_image);
+        }
+    } else {
+        ok = clip_image_batch_encode(
+            ctx_clip,
+            ctx->n_threads,
+            &image_tokens->batch_f32,
+            ctx->image_embd_v.data());
+    }
+
+    return ok ? 0 : 1;
+}
+
+float * mtmd_get_output_embd(mtmd_context * ctx) {
+    return ctx->image_embd_v.data();
+}
+
+bool mtmd_decode_use_non_causal(mtmd_context * ctx) {
+    if (ctx->ctx_v && clip_get_projector_type(ctx->ctx_v) == PROJECTOR_TYPE_GEMMA3) {
+        return true;
+    }
+    return false;
+}
+
+bool mtmd_decode_use_mrope(mtmd_context * ctx) {
+    return ctx->use_mrope;
+}
+
+bool mtmd_support_vision(mtmd_context * ctx) {
+    return ctx->ctx_v != nullptr;
+}
+
+bool mtmd_support_audio(mtmd_context * ctx) {
+    return ctx->ctx_a != nullptr;
+}
+
+int mtmd_get_audio_bitrate(mtmd_context * ctx) {
+    if (!ctx->ctx_a) {
+        return -1;
+    }
+    // for now, we assume that all audio models have the same bitrate
+    return 16000; // 16kHz
+}
+
+//
+// public API functions
+//
+
+// mtmd_bitmap
+
+mtmd_bitmap * mtmd_bitmap_init(uint32_t nx,
+                               uint32_t ny,
+                               const unsigned char * data) {
+    mtmd_bitmap * bitmap = new mtmd_bitmap;
+    bitmap->nx = nx;
+    bitmap->ny = ny;
+    size_t data_size = (size_t)nx * ny * 3;
+    bitmap->data.resize(data_size);
+    std::memcpy(bitmap->data.data(), data, data_size);
+    return bitmap;
+}
+
+mtmd_bitmap * mtmd_bitmap_init_from_audio(size_t n_samples,
+                                          const float * data) {
+    mtmd_bitmap * bitmap = new mtmd_bitmap;
+    bitmap->nx = n_samples;
+    bitmap->ny = 1;
+    bitmap->is_audio = true;
+    size_t data_size = n_samples * sizeof(float);
+    bitmap->data.resize(data_size);
+    std::memcpy(bitmap->data.data(), data, data_size);
+    return bitmap;
+}
+
+uint32_t mtmd_bitmap_get_nx(const mtmd_bitmap * bitmap) {
+    return bitmap->nx;
+}
+
+uint32_t mtmd_bitmap_get_ny(const mtmd_bitmap * bitmap) {
+    return bitmap->ny;
+}
+
+const unsigned char * mtmd_bitmap_get_data(const mtmd_bitmap * bitmap) {
+    return bitmap->data.data();
+}
+
+size_t mtmd_bitmap_get_n_bytes(const mtmd_bitmap * bitmap) {
+    return bitmap->data.size();
+}
+
+bool mtmd_bitmap_is_audio(const mtmd_bitmap * bitmap) {
+    return bitmap->is_audio;
+}
+
+const char * mtmd_bitmap_get_id(const mtmd_bitmap * bitmap) {
+    return bitmap->id.c_str();
+}
+
+void mtmd_bitmap_set_id(mtmd_bitmap * bitmap, const char * id) {
+    if (id) {
+        bitmap->id = std::string(id);
+    } else {
+        bitmap->id.clear();
+    }
+}
+
+void mtmd_bitmap_free(mtmd_bitmap * bitmap) {
+    if (bitmap) {
+        delete bitmap;
+    }
+}
+
+// mtmd_input_chunks
+
+mtmd_input_chunks * mtmd_input_chunks_init() {
+    return new mtmd_input_chunks;
+}
+
+size_t mtmd_input_chunks_size(const mtmd_input_chunks * chunks) {
+    return chunks->entries.size();
+}
+
+const mtmd_input_chunk * mtmd_input_chunks_get(const mtmd_input_chunks * chunks, size_t idx) {
+    if (idx >= chunks->entries.size()) {
+        return nullptr;
+    }
+    return &chunks->entries[idx];
+}
+
+void mtmd_input_chunks_free(mtmd_input_chunks * chunks) {
+    if (chunks) {
+        delete chunks;
+    }
+}
+
+// mtmd_input_chunk
+
+enum mtmd_input_chunk_type mtmd_input_chunk_get_type(const mtmd_input_chunk * chunk) {
+    return chunk->type;
+}
+
+const llama_token * mtmd_input_chunk_get_tokens_text(const mtmd_input_chunk * chunk, size_t * n_tokens_output) {
+    if (chunk->type == MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_TEXT) {
+        *n_tokens_output = chunk->tokens_text.size();
+        return chunk->tokens_text.data();
+    }
+    *n_tokens_output = 0;
+    return nullptr;
+}
+
+const mtmd_image_tokens * mtmd_input_chunk_get_tokens_image(const mtmd_input_chunk * chunk) {
+    if (chunk->type == MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_IMAGE) {
+        return chunk->tokens_image.get();
+    }
+    return nullptr;
+}
+
+size_t mtmd_input_chunk_get_n_tokens(const mtmd_input_chunk * chunk) {
+    if (chunk->type == MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_TEXT) {
+        return chunk->tokens_text.size();
+    } else if (chunk->type == MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_IMAGE) {
+        return mtmd_image_tokens_get_n_tokens(chunk->tokens_image.get());
+    } else if (chunk->type == MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_AUDIO) {
+        return chunk->tokens_audio->n_tokens;
+    } else {
+        LM_GGML_ABORT("invalid chunk type");
+    }
+}
+
+llama_pos mtmd_input_chunk_get_n_pos(const mtmd_input_chunk * chunk) {
+    if (chunk->type == MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_TEXT) {
+        return chunk->tokens_text.size();
+    } else if (chunk->type == MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_IMAGE) {
+        return mtmd_image_tokens_get_n_pos(chunk->tokens_image.get());
+    } else if (chunk->type == MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_AUDIO) {
+        return chunk->tokens_audio->n_tokens;
+    } else {
+        LM_GGML_ABORT("invalid chunk type");
+    }
+}
+
+const char * mtmd_input_chunk_get_id(const mtmd_input_chunk * chunk) {
+    if (chunk->type == MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_IMAGE) {
+        return chunk->tokens_image->id.c_str();
+    } else if (chunk->type == MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_AUDIO) {
+        return chunk->tokens_audio->id.c_str();
+    }
+    return nullptr;
+}
+
+mtmd_input_chunk * mtmd_input_chunk_copy(const mtmd_input_chunk * chunk) {
+    mtmd_input_chunk * copy = new mtmd_input_chunk{
+        chunk->type,
+        chunk->tokens_text,
+        nullptr,
+        nullptr,
+    };
+    if (chunk->tokens_image) {
+        // copy the image tokens
+        copy->tokens_image = mtmd_image_tokens_ptr(new mtmd_image_tokens());
+        *copy->tokens_image = chunk->tokens_image->clone();
+    }
+    if (chunk->tokens_audio) {
+        // copy the audio tokens
+        copy->tokens_audio = mtmd_audio_tokens_ptr(new mtmd_audio_tokens());
+        *copy->tokens_audio = chunk->tokens_audio->clone();
+    }
+    return copy;
+}
+
+void mtmd_input_chunk_free(mtmd_input_chunk * chunk) {
+    if (chunk) {
+        delete chunk;
+    }
+}
+
+// mtmd_image_tokens
+
+size_t mtmd_image_tokens_get_n_tokens(const mtmd_image_tokens * image_tokens) {
+    return image_tokens->n_tokens();
+}
+
+size_t mtmd_image_tokens_get_nx(const mtmd_image_tokens * image_tokens) {
+    return image_tokens->nx;
+}
+
+size_t mtmd_image_tokens_get_ny(const mtmd_image_tokens * image_tokens) {
+    return image_tokens->ny;
+}
+
+const char * mtmd_image_tokens_get_id(const mtmd_image_tokens * image_tokens) {
+    return image_tokens->id.c_str();
+}
+
+llama_pos mtmd_image_tokens_get_n_pos(const mtmd_image_tokens * image_tokens) {
+    if (image_tokens->use_mrope_pos) {
+        return 1; // for M-RoPE, the whole image is 1 in temporal dimension
+    }
+    return image_tokens->n_tokens();
+}
+
+// test function
+
+mtmd_input_chunks * mtmd_test_create_input_chunks() {
+    mtmd_input_chunks * chunks = mtmd_input_chunks_init();
+    if (!chunks) {
+        return nullptr;
+    }
+
+    // create a text chunk
+    std::vector<llama_token> tokens_text = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };
+    mtmd_input_chunk chunk_text{
+        MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_TEXT,
+        std::move(tokens_text),
+        nullptr, // image tokens
+        nullptr, // audio tokens
+    };
+    chunks->entries.emplace_back(std::move(chunk_text));
+
+    // create an image chunk
+    mtmd_image_tokens_ptr image_tokens(new mtmd_image_tokens);
+    image_tokens->nx = 4;
+    image_tokens->ny = 4;
+    image_tokens->batch_f32.entries.resize(16);
+    image_tokens->id = "image_1";
+    mtmd_input_chunk chunk_image{
+        MTMD_INPUT_CHUNK_TYPE_IMAGE,
+        {}, // text tokens
+        std::move(image_tokens),
+        nullptr, // audio tokens
+    };
+    chunks->entries.emplace_back(std::move(chunk_image));
+
+    return chunks;
+}