managarten/packages/local-llm/src/engine.ts
Till JS e8423e7551 fix(local-llm): use two-step tokenization to fix Gemma 4 generate crash
The previous attempt to fix the "Cannot read properties of null
(reading 'dims')" chat error was incomplete: I only stopped passing
the bogus return_tensor:'pt' option to apply_chat_template. The
underlying issue was that apply_chat_template's all-in-one mode
(return_dict:true) does not produce a proper Tensor-backed
{ input_ids, attention_mask } pair for multimodal-capable processors
like Gemma4Processor — it returns a shape that has no .dims on
input_ids, so model.generate() crashes deep inside the forward pass
the moment it tries to read the sequence length.

Switch to the documented two-step pattern from the Gemma 4 model
card: call apply_chat_template with tokenize:false to get the
formatted prompt as a plain string, then run that string through
processor.tokenizer with return_tensors:'pt' to get a proper Tensor
pair. The tokenizer's return_tensors option is the *Python*
convention and IS supported by transformers.js's Tokenizer class
(the API name collision between apply_chat_template's return_tensor
boolean and Tokenizer's return_tensors string is one of those nasty
spots where the JS port intentionally diverges from Python).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-08 23:19:24 +02:00

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/**
* LocalLLMEngine — transformers.js wrapper for client-side inference.
*
* Lazy-loads a HuggingFace ONNX model on first use, caches weights in the
* browser's Cache API, and runs inference on the WebGPU backend.
*
* The default model is Google's Gemma 4 E2B (`onnx-community/gemma-4-E2B-it-ONNX`,
* q4f16). The external API of this class is intentionally identical to the
* previous WebLLM implementation so callers (Svelte stores, /llm-test page,
* playground module) need no changes when the underlying engine swaps.
*/
import type { ChatMessage, GenerateOptions, GenerateResult, LoadingStatus } from './types';
import type { ModelConfig } from './types';
import { MODELS, DEFAULT_MODEL, type ModelKey } from './models';
// transformers.js types are minimal here on purpose. The library does not
// publish first-class TS types for every model class, and we never expose
// these objects past this file — the public surface (LocalLLMEngine methods)
// is fully typed via our own GenerateResult / LoadingStatus etc.
type TransformersModule = typeof import('@huggingface/transformers');
// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
type AnyModel = any;
// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
type AnyProcessor = any;
export class LocalLLMEngine {
private model: AnyModel = null;
private processor: AnyProcessor = null;
private transformers: TransformersModule | null = null;
private loadPromise: Promise<void> | null = null;
private currentModel: ModelKey | null = null;
private _status: LoadingStatus = { state: 'idle' };
private statusListeners: Set<(status: LoadingStatus) => void> = new Set();
get status(): LoadingStatus {
return this._status;
}
get isReady(): boolean {
return this._status.state === 'ready';
}
get modelConfig(): ModelConfig | null {
return this.currentModel ? MODELS[this.currentModel] : null;
}
/**
* Subscribe to status changes (for non-Svelte usage).
*/
onStatusChange(listener: (status: LoadingStatus) => void): () => void {
this.statusListeners.add(listener);
return () => this.statusListeners.delete(listener);
}
private setStatus(status: LoadingStatus) {
this._status = status;
for (const listener of this.statusListeners) {
listener(status);
}
}
/**
* Check if WebGPU is available in this browser.
*/
static isSupported(): boolean {
return typeof navigator !== 'undefined' && 'gpu' in navigator;
}
/**
* Load a model. Idempotent — returns immediately if already loaded.
* Model weights are cached in the browser Cache API for instant reload.
*/
async load(model: ModelKey = DEFAULT_MODEL): Promise<void> {
// Already loaded with this model
if (this.model && this.currentModel === model) return;
// Already loading
if (this.loadPromise && this.currentModel === model) return this.loadPromise;
// Unload previous model if switching
if (this.model && this.currentModel !== model) {
await this.unload();
}
this.currentModel = model;
this.loadPromise = this._load(model);
return this.loadPromise;
}
private async _load(model: ModelKey): Promise<void> {
if (!LocalLLMEngine.isSupported()) {
this.setStatus({ state: 'error', error: 'WebGPU not supported in this browser' });
throw new Error('WebGPU not supported');
}
this.setStatus({ state: 'checking' });
try {
if (!this.transformers) {
this.transformers = await import('@huggingface/transformers');
}
const config = MODELS[model];
// transformers.js progress callback shape:
// { status: 'initiate'|'download'|'progress'|'done'|'ready',
// name?: string, file?: string, progress?: number,
// loaded?: number, total?: number }
//
// The callback fires per-file, and the library downloads many
// shards in parallel (config.json, tokenizer.json, several
// onnx weight files, …). If we naively report the latest event
// the bar bounces wildly between files. Instead we keep a
// per-file byte-accounting map and emit an aggregated total
// every time anything moves. The denominator can grow as new
// files are discovered (causing brief dips), but both
// numerator and denominator are individually monotonic, so the
// dips are small and brief — much smoother than per-file.
const fileProgress = new Map<string, { loaded: number; total: number }>();
const formatBytes = (bytes: number): string => {
if (bytes < 1024) return `${bytes} B`;
if (bytes < 1024 * 1024) return `${(bytes / 1024).toFixed(0)} KB`;
if (bytes < 1024 * 1024 * 1024) return `${(bytes / (1024 * 1024)).toFixed(0)} MB`;
return `${(bytes / (1024 * 1024 * 1024)).toFixed(2)} GB`;
};
const emitAggregate = () => {
let totalLoaded = 0;
let totalSize = 0;
for (const { loaded, total } of fileProgress.values()) {
totalLoaded += loaded;
totalSize += total;
}
const pct = totalSize > 0 ? totalLoaded / totalSize : 0;
this.setStatus({
state: 'downloading',
progress: pct,
text:
totalSize > 0
? `Downloading model (${(pct * 100).toFixed(0)}%, ${formatBytes(totalLoaded)} / ${formatBytes(totalSize)}, ${fileProgress.size} files)`
: `Downloading model (${fileProgress.size} files queued)`,
});
};
const progressCallback = (report: {
status: string;
file?: string;
name?: string;
progress?: number;
loaded?: number;
total?: number;
}) => {
const file = report.file ?? report.name ?? '_unknown';
if (report.status === 'initiate') {
if (!fileProgress.has(file)) fileProgress.set(file, { loaded: 0, total: 0 });
emitAggregate();
} else if (report.status === 'download' || report.status === 'progress') {
fileProgress.set(file, {
loaded: report.loaded ?? 0,
total: report.total ?? fileProgress.get(file)?.total ?? 0,
});
emitAggregate();
} else if (report.status === 'done') {
// Pin the file to 100% so a final emit shows it complete
const existing = fileProgress.get(file);
if (existing && existing.total > 0) {
fileProgress.set(file, { loaded: existing.total, total: existing.total });
}
emitAggregate();
}
// 'ready' is handled below after both processor + model finish
};
// AutoProcessor wraps tokenizer + image/audio preprocessors. For
// our text-only chat path we use the wrapped tokenizer's
// apply_chat_template, but loading the full processor is the
// path the model card documents and avoids architecture-specific
// special-casing.
const { AutoProcessor, Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration } = this.transformers as unknown as {
AutoProcessor: { from_pretrained(id: string, opts?: unknown): Promise<AnyProcessor> };
Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration: {
from_pretrained(id: string, opts?: unknown): Promise<AnyModel>;
};
};
this.processor = await AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(config.modelId, {
progress_callback: progressCallback,
});
this.model = await Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(config.modelId, {
dtype: config.dtype,
device: 'webgpu',
progress_callback: progressCallback,
});
this.setStatus({ state: 'ready' });
} catch (err) {
const message = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
this.setStatus({ state: 'error', error: message });
this.loadPromise = null;
throw err;
}
}
/**
* Unload the model and free GPU memory.
*/
async unload(): Promise<void> {
// transformers.js doesn't expose an explicit dispose() yet — dropping
// the references and letting the runtime/GC clean up is the
// recommended path. The WebGPU buffers are tied to the model object
// and get released when it's no longer reachable.
this.model = null;
this.processor = null;
this.currentModel = null;
this.loadPromise = null;
this.setStatus({ state: 'idle' });
}
/**
* Generate a response. Auto-loads the model if not yet loaded.
*
* Implementation notes for the transformers.js v4 backend:
*
* - We always attach a TextStreamer (regardless of whether the caller
* passed an `onToken`), because the streamer is the *only* documented
* stable way to read generated text out of model.generate(). The
* tensor return value of generate() varies between transformers.js
* versions and is sometimes null when a streamer is in play, which
* used to crash this method with "Cannot read properties of null
* (reading 'dims')" the moment a chat message was sent.
*
* - Token counts are computed from the tensor return value when
* available, and fall back to a chars/4 estimate when it isn't —
* so /llm-test still shows roughly meaningful prompt/completion
* counts even on versions where generate() returns nothing.
*/
async generate(options: GenerateOptions): Promise<GenerateResult> {
if (!this.model || !this.processor) {
await this.load();
}
const start = performance.now();
// Two-step input prep, matching the Gemma 4 model-card example:
// 1. Apply the chat template with tokenize:false to get the
// formatted prompt as a plain string (no tokens, no tensor).
// 2. Run the string through the processor's tokenizer with
// return_tensors:'pt' to get a proper { input_ids, attention_mask }
// pair backed by transformers.js Tensor objects.
//
// We previously asked apply_chat_template to do everything in one
// shot via `return_dict: true`, but for Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration
// that path returned a malformed shape (no .dims on input_ids), and
// model.generate() then crashed deep inside the forward pass with
// "Cannot read properties of null (reading 'dims')" — surfacing as
// an opaque chat error. The two-step path is what every transformers.js
// example for multimodal-capable processors uses.
const promptText: string = this.processor.apply_chat_template(options.messages, {
add_generation_prompt: true,
tokenize: false,
});
const inputs = this.processor.tokenizer(promptText, {
return_tensors: 'pt',
});
const promptTokenCount = this.tensorLength(inputs?.input_ids);
// Always attach a streamer — it's our reliable text channel.
let collectedText = '';
const transformers = this.transformers as TransformersModule;
// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
const TextStreamer = (transformers as any).TextStreamer;
const streamer = new TextStreamer(this.processor.tokenizer, {
skip_prompt: true,
skip_special_tokens: true,
callback_function: (text: string) => {
collectedText += text;
options.onToken?.(text);
},
});
// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
let generated: any = null;
try {
generated = await this.model.generate({
...inputs,
max_new_tokens: options.maxTokens ?? 1024,
temperature: options.temperature ?? 0.7,
do_sample: (options.temperature ?? 0.7) > 0,
streamer,
});
} catch (err) {
// Some transformers.js versions throw at the end of streaming
// even though the streamer successfully delivered all tokens.
// Only re-throw if we genuinely have nothing to return.
if (!collectedText) throw err;
}
// Token counts: prefer the tensor return value, fall back to a
// rough estimate from the collected text length so the UI still
// shows non-zero numbers even on versions where generate() returns
// null when a streamer is attached.
let completionTokenCount = 0;
try {
if (generated && generated.dims) {
const fullSequence = this.tensorRow(generated, 0);
completionTokenCount = Math.max(0, fullSequence.length - promptTokenCount);
}
} catch {
// fall through to estimate
}
if (completionTokenCount === 0 && collectedText) {
// Gemma's BPE averages ~4 chars per token in English/German,
// good enough for a UI hint, not for billing.
completionTokenCount = Math.ceil(collectedText.length / 4);
}
return {
content: collectedText,
usage: {
prompt_tokens: promptTokenCount,
completion_tokens: completionTokenCount,
total_tokens: promptTokenCount + completionTokenCount,
},
latencyMs: Math.round(performance.now() - start),
};
}
/**
* Helper: extract the seq-length of a transformers.js Tensor.
* The tensors expose `.dims` ([batch, seq_len]) and `.data` (TypedArray).
*/
// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
private tensorLength(tensor: any): number {
if (!tensor || !tensor.dims) return 0;
return tensor.dims[tensor.dims.length - 1];
}
/**
* Helper: extract row N of a 2D tensor as a number array.
*/
// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
private tensorRow(tensor: any, row: number): number[] {
const seqLen = tensor.dims[tensor.dims.length - 1];
const start = row * seqLen;
return Array.from(tensor.data.slice(start, start + seqLen)) as number[];
}
/**
* Convenience: single prompt → response.
*/
async prompt(
text: string,
opts?: { systemPrompt?: string; temperature?: number; maxTokens?: number }
): Promise<string> {
const messages: ChatMessage[] = [];
if (opts?.systemPrompt) {
messages.push({ role: 'system', content: opts.systemPrompt });
}
messages.push({ role: 'user', content: text });
const result = await this.generate({
messages,
temperature: opts?.temperature,
maxTokens: opts?.maxTokens,
});
return result.content;
}
/**
* Convenience: extract structured JSON from text.
*/
async extractJson<T = unknown>(
text: string,
instruction: string,
opts?: { temperature?: number }
): Promise<T> {
const result = await this.generate({
messages: [
{
role: 'system',
content:
'You are a JSON extraction assistant. Always respond with valid JSON only, no markdown, no explanation.',
},
{
role: 'user',
content: `${instruction}\n\nText:\n${text}`,
},
],
temperature: opts?.temperature ?? 0.1,
maxTokens: 2048,
});
return JSON.parse(result.content) as T;
}
/**
* Convenience: classify text into categories.
*/
async classify(text: string, categories: string[], opts?: { context?: string }): Promise<string> {
const categoryList = categories.map((c) => `"${c}"`).join(', ');
const result = await this.generate({
messages: [
{
role: 'system',
content: `Classify the text into exactly one of these categories: ${categoryList}. Respond with only the category name, nothing else.${opts?.context ? ` Context: ${opts.context}` : ''}`,
},
{ role: 'user', content: text },
],
temperature: 0,
maxTokens: 50,
});
const normalized = result.content.trim().replace(/^["']|["']$/g, '');
// Return the closest matching category
const match = categories.find((c) => c.toLowerCase() === normalized.toLowerCase());
return match ?? normalized;
}
}
/** Singleton instance for app-wide use */
export const localLLM = new LocalLLMEngine();