go-inference/inference.go

// Package inference defines shared interfaces for text generation backends.
//
// This package is the contract between GPU-specific backends (go-mlx, go-rocm)
// and consumers (go-ml, go-ai, go-i18n). It has zero dependencies and compiles
// on all platforms.
//
// Backend implementations register via init() with build tags:
//
//	// go-mlx: //go:build darwin && arm64
//	func init() { inference.Register(metal.NewBackend()) }
//
//	// go-rocm: //go:build linux && amd64
//	func init() { inference.Register(rocm.NewBackend()) }
//
// Consumers load models via the registry:
//
//	m, err := inference.LoadModel("/path/to/model/")
//	defer m.Close()
//	for tok := range m.Generate(ctx, "prompt", inference.WithMaxTokens(128)) {
//	    fmt.Print(tok.Text)
//	}
package inference

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"iter"
	"sync"
)

// Token represents a single generated token for streaming.
type Token struct {
	ID   int32
	Text string
}

// Message represents a chat message for multi-turn conversation.
type Message struct {
	Role    string // "system", "user", "assistant"
	Content string
}

// TextModel generates text from a loaded model.
type TextModel interface {
	// Generate streams tokens for the given prompt.
	Generate(ctx context.Context, prompt string, opts ...GenerateOption) iter.Seq[Token]

	// Chat streams tokens from a multi-turn conversation.
	// The model applies its native chat template.
	Chat(ctx context.Context, messages []Message, opts ...GenerateOption) iter.Seq[Token]

	// ModelType returns the architecture identifier (e.g. "gemma3", "qwen3", "llama3").
	ModelType() string

	// Err returns the error from the last Generate/Chat call, if any.
	// Check this after the iterator stops to distinguish EOS from errors.
	Err() error

	// Close releases all resources (GPU memory, caches, subprocess).
	Close() error
}

// Backend is a named inference engine that can load models.
type Backend interface {
	// Name returns the backend identifier (e.g. "metal", "rocm", "llama_cpp").
	Name() string

	// LoadModel loads a model from the given path.
	LoadModel(path string, opts ...LoadOption) (TextModel, error)

	// Available reports whether this backend can run on the current hardware.
	Available() bool
}

var (
	backendsMu sync.RWMutex
	backends   = map[string]Backend{}
)

// Register adds a backend to the registry. Typically called from init().
func Register(b Backend) {
	backendsMu.Lock()
	defer backendsMu.Unlock()
	backends[b.Name()] = b
}

// Get returns a registered backend by name.
func Get(name string) (Backend, bool) {
	backendsMu.RLock()
	defer backendsMu.RUnlock()
	b, ok := backends[name]
	return b, ok
}

// List returns the names of all registered backends.
func List() []string {
	backendsMu.RLock()
	defer backendsMu.RUnlock()
	names := make([]string, 0, len(backends))
	for name := range backends {
		names = append(names, name)
	}
	return names
}

// Default returns the first available backend.
// Prefers "metal" on macOS, "rocm" on Linux, then any registered backend.
func Default() (Backend, error) {
	backendsMu.RLock()
	defer backendsMu.RUnlock()

	// Platform preference order
	for _, name := range []string{"metal", "rocm", "llama_cpp"} {
		if b, ok := backends[name]; ok && b.Available() {
			return b, nil
		}
	}
	// Fall back to any available
	for _, b := range backends {
		if b.Available() {
			return b, nil
		}
	}
	return nil, fmt.Errorf("inference: no backends registered (import a backend package)")
}

// LoadModel loads a model using the specified or default backend.
func LoadModel(path string, opts ...LoadOption) (TextModel, error) {
	cfg := ApplyLoadOpts(opts)
	if cfg.Backend != "" {
		b, ok := Get(cfg.Backend)
		if !ok {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("inference: backend %q not registered", cfg.Backend)
		}
		if !b.Available() {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("inference: backend %q not available on this hardware", cfg.Backend)
		}
		return b.LoadModel(path, opts...)
	}
	b, err := Default()
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	return b.LoadModel(path, opts...)
}