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"""DW-KhotTaeVL-2B-QueryFrames — query-aware frame selection for video MCQ.

Single-file inference module. Wraps stock Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct with a
CLIP-ViT-L/14 query-aware frame selector and an optional task-type-aware
uniform-fallback policy.

Usage::

    from dw_queryframes import QueryFrames
    fv = QueryFrames(device="mps")
    answer = fv.answer_mcq(
        video_path="cooking.mp4",
        question="What does the chef do after pouring the oil?",
        options=["Stirs the oil", "Adds salt", "Pours broth", "Chops herbs"],
        task_type=None,        # or "Action Recognition" etc. for hybrid mode
    )

License: Apache 2.0 (this code)
Copyright 2026 Deaw (HF: @commandeaw)
Base model: Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct (Apache 2.0)
Frame scorer: openai/clip-vit-large-patch14 (MIT)

Always credit Qwen3-VL-Instruct as the base when using this work.
"""
from __future__ import annotations

import re
import os
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Optional

import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F
from PIL import Image


# Tasks where stock-64f does NOT outperform stock-8f on Video-MME mini
# (measured: Object Reasoning Δ -0.083, Temporal Reasoning Δ +0.000).
# For these tasks, frame-coverage is not the bottleneck; uniform sampling
# is at least as good as query-aware. The hybrid policy uses uniform
# selection for these task types when a label is provided.
NO_FRAME_GAIN_TASKS = frozenset({"Object Reasoning", "Temporal Reasoning"})


PROMPT_TEMPLATE = (
    "Select the best answer based on the video.\n\n"
    "Question: {question}\n"
    "Options:\n{options}\n"
    "Answer with only the letter."
)

LETTER_RE = re.compile(r"\b([ABCD])\b", re.IGNORECASE)
ANSWER_LINE_RE = re.compile(r"Answer:\s*([ABCD])\b", re.IGNORECASE)


class QueryFrames:
    """Query-aware frame selection over stock Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct."""

    def __init__(
        self,
        base_model: str = "Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct",
        clip_model: str = "openai/clip-vit-large-patch14",
        device: str = "auto",
        max_pixels: int = 262_144,
        max_new_tokens: int = 8,
        n_frames: int = 8,
        n_candidates: int = 32,
    ):
        os.environ.setdefault("PYTORCH_ENABLE_MPS_FALLBACK", "1")
        self.device = self._resolve_device(device)
        self.n_frames = n_frames
        self.n_candidates = n_candidates
        self.max_new_tokens = max_new_tokens

        from transformers import (
            AutoProcessor, Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration,
            CLIPModel, CLIPProcessor,
        )
        self.qwen_processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(base_model, max_pixels=max_pixels)
        self.qwen_model = Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
            base_model, dtype=torch.bfloat16,
        ).to(self.device).eval()
        self.clip_model = CLIPModel.from_pretrained(
            clip_model, torch_dtype=torch.float32,
        ).to(self.device).eval()
        self.clip_processor = CLIPProcessor.from_pretrained(clip_model)

    @staticmethod
    def _resolve_device(device: str) -> str:
        if device == "auto":
            if torch.backends.mps.is_available():
                return "mps"
            if torch.cuda.is_available():
                return "cuda"
            return "cpu"
        return device

    def sample_uniform_candidates(self, video_path: str | Path) -> list[Image.Image]:
        """Sample ``n_candidates`` uniformly-spaced frames as PIL images."""
        import decord
        vid = decord.VideoReader(str(video_path))
        total = len(vid)
        step = total / (self.n_candidates + 1)
        indices = [int((i + 1) * step) for i in range(self.n_candidates)]
        return [Image.fromarray(vid[i].asnumpy()) for i in indices]

    def select_frames(
        self,
        candidates: list[Image.Image],
        question: str,
    ) -> list[Image.Image]:
        """Return ``n_frames`` images: top-K by CLIP similarity to question,
        sorted by original temporal index (preserving sequence)."""
        inputs = self.clip_processor(
            text=[question], images=candidates,
            return_tensors="pt", padding=True, truncation=True,
        )
        inputs = {k: v.to(self.device) for k, v in inputs.items()}
        with torch.inference_mode():
            # transformers ≤ 4.x returns a tensor directly; ≥ 5.x returns
            # a BaseModelOutputWithPooling whose .pooler_output is the
            # projected embedding. Handle both.
            text_out = self.clip_model.get_text_features(
                input_ids=inputs["input_ids"],
                attention_mask=inputs["attention_mask"],
            )
            text_emb = (text_out.pooler_output
                        if hasattr(text_out, "pooler_output") else text_out)
            image_out = self.clip_model.get_image_features(
                pixel_values=inputs["pixel_values"]
            )
            image_embs = (image_out.pooler_output
                          if hasattr(image_out, "pooler_output") else image_out)
            text_emb = F.normalize(text_emb, dim=-1)
            image_embs = F.normalize(image_embs, dim=-1)
            sims = (text_emb @ image_embs.T).squeeze(0).float().cpu()
        topk = sims.topk(self.n_frames).indices.tolist()
        topk_sorted = sorted(topk)
        return [candidates[i] for i in topk_sorted]

    def select_uniform(self, candidates: list[Image.Image]) -> list[Image.Image]:
        """Return ``n_frames`` images sampled uniformly from candidates."""
        step = len(candidates) / self.n_frames
        idx = [int((k + 0.5) * step) for k in range(self.n_frames)]
        idx = [min(i, len(candidates) - 1) for i in idx]
        return [candidates[i] for i in idx]

    def answer_mcq(
        self,
        video_path: str | Path,
        question: str,
        options: list[str],
        task_type: Optional[str] = None,
    ) -> dict:
        """Answer one MCQ question on a video.

        Args:
            video_path: path to .mp4 (or any decord-readable video)
            question:   string question (no options)
            options:    list of 4 option strings (will be lettered A-D)
            task_type:  optional task category. If provided and matches
                        a known no-frame-gain task, falls back to
                        uniform sampling for collision-safe behavior.

        Returns:
            dict with keys: pred (letter), raw (model output),
            frames_used ("query_aware" | "uniform_fallback"),
            n_candidates, latency_clip_s, latency_gen_s.
        """
        import time
        candidates = self.sample_uniform_candidates(video_path)

        # Decide policy.
        use_uniform = task_type in NO_FRAME_GAIN_TASKS
        t1 = time.time()
        if use_uniform:
            frames = self.select_uniform(candidates)
        else:
            frames = self.select_frames(candidates, question)
        clip_dt = time.time() - t1

        # Build Qwen prompt and run inference.
        opts_text = "\n".join(f"{chr(65+i)}. {str(o).strip()}"
                              for i, o in enumerate(options))
        prompt = PROMPT_TEMPLATE.format(question=question, options=opts_text)
        messages = [{"role": "user", "content":
                    [{"type": "image"} for _ in frames]
                    + [{"type": "text", "text": prompt}]}]
        text_in = self.qwen_processor.apply_chat_template(
            messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True,
        )
        inputs = self.qwen_processor(
            text=[text_in], images=frames,
            return_tensors="pt", padding=True,
        )
        inputs = {k: v.to(self.device) for k, v in inputs.items()}
        t2 = time.time()
        with torch.inference_mode():
            out_ids = self.qwen_model.generate(
                **inputs,
                max_new_tokens=self.max_new_tokens,
                do_sample=False,
                temperature=1.0,
            )
        gen_dt = time.time() - t2
        new_tokens = out_ids[0, inputs["input_ids"].shape[1]:]
        raw = self.qwen_processor.tokenizer.decode(
            new_tokens, skip_special_tokens=True,
        )
        pred = self._extract_letter(raw)
        return {
            "pred": pred,
            "raw": raw,
            "frames_used": "uniform_fallback" if use_uniform else "query_aware",
            "n_candidates": self.n_candidates,
            "latency_clip_s": round(clip_dt, 3),
            "latency_gen_s": round(gen_dt, 3),
        }

    @staticmethod
    def _extract_letter(text: str) -> Optional[str]:
        s = text or ""
        m = ANSWER_LINE_RE.search(s)
        if m:
            return m.group(1).upper()
        m = LETTER_RE.search(s)
        return m.group(1).upper() if m else None


__all__ = ["QueryFrames", "NO_FRAME_GAIN_TASKS"]