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"""Custom HuggingFace modeling code for Marlin.

This module subclasses the upstream ``Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration``
(native in ``transformers >= 5.7.0``) and adds two convenience methods β€”
:meth:`MarlinForConditionalGeneration.caption` and
:meth:`MarlinForConditionalGeneration.find` β€” that mirror moondream's
image-SDK ergonomics for video captioning and temporal grounding.

The forward pass is **not** modified: we only add chat-template + generate +
post-processing wrappers. Loading the model through
``AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(..., trust_remote_code=True)`` returns
this subclass thanks to the ``auto_map`` entry in ``config.json``.

Required environment for video inference (set before importing transformers)::

    FORCE_QWENVL_VIDEO_READER=torchcodec
    VIDEO_MAX_PIXELS=200704
    FPS=2.0
    FPS_MAX_FRAMES=240
    FPS_MIN_FRAMES=4

System requirements:

* transformers >= 5.7.0
* torch >= 2.11.0
* torchcodec
* qwen-vl-utils >= 0.0.14
* av, pillow
"""

from __future__ import annotations

import os
import re
from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, TypedDict, Union

import torch

# ``Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration`` is the native HF class for Marlin's
# backbone (Qwen3.5-2B with vision tower). It ships in transformers >= 5.7.0.
# We import it lazily-friendly at module top so AutoModelForCausalLM resolution
# works correctly when this file is loaded via ``trust_remote_code=True``.
from transformers import Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration

__all__ = [
    "CAPTION_PROMPT",
    "GROUNDING_PROMPT_TEMPLATE",
    "CaptionResult",
    "FindResult",
    "Event",
    "MarlinForConditionalGeneration",
    "strip_thinking",
    "parse_caption",
    "parse_span",
]


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Canonical training-time prompts β€” DO NOT EDIT
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# These strings must match exactly what the model was fine-tuned on. Diverging
# from them silently degrades quality.

CAPTION_PROMPT: str = (
    "Provide a spatial description of this clip followed by time-ranged events.\n"
    "For each event, give the time range as <start - end> and a short description."
)

GROUNDING_PROMPT_TEMPLATE: str = (
    'Identify the timestamps during which "{event}" takes place. '
    'Output the time range as "From <start> to <end>." (numbers in seconds).'
)


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Thinking-tag stripping
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# ms-swift's Marlin training template uses ``add_non_thinking_prefix=True``,
# which prefixes every response with a bare ``<think>\n`` (no close tag). The
# model occasionally also emits a complete ``<think>...</think>`` block. Strip
# both robustly.

_THINK_BLOCK = re.compile(r"<think>.*?</think>\s*", re.DOTALL)
_THINK_PREFIX = re.compile(r"^\s*<think>\s*\n*", re.IGNORECASE)
_THINK_CLOSE = re.compile(r"</think>\s*", re.IGNORECASE)


def strip_thinking(text: str) -> str:
    """Remove ``<think>...</think>`` blocks and bare ``<think>`` prefixes.

    Parameters
    ----------
    text:
        Raw model output.

    Returns
    -------
    str
        The text with any thinking artifacts removed and outer whitespace
        stripped.
    """
    out = _THINK_BLOCK.sub("", text)
    out = _THINK_PREFIX.sub("", out)
    out = _THINK_CLOSE.sub("", out)
    return out.strip()


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Mode 1 β€” dense caption parser
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------


class Event(TypedDict):
    """A single time-ranged event extracted from a dense caption."""

    start: float
    end: float
    description: str


# Tolerates ``<1.2 - 3.4>`` / ``1.2 - 3.4`` / ``1.2-3.4`` with optional units.
# Unit alternation is ordered longest-first so e.g. ``"1.8 seconds"`` consumes
# the full word instead of leaving ``"econds"`` in the description.
_EVENT_LINE = re.compile(
    r"^\s*<?\s*(\d+\.?\d*)\s*(?:seconds?|secs?|s)?\s*-\s*"
    r"(\d+\.?\d*)\s*(?:seconds?|secs?|s)?\s*>?\s*[:\-]?\s*(.+?)\s*$"
)


def _parse_events(events_block: str) -> List[Event]:
    """Parse a multi-line events block into a list of :class:`Event` dicts."""
    out: List[Event] = []
    for raw_line in events_block.splitlines():
        line = raw_line.strip()
        if not line:
            continue
        m = _EVENT_LINE.match(line)
        if not m:
            continue
        start = float(m.group(1))
        end = float(m.group(2))
        desc = m.group(3).strip().lstrip("-").strip()
        if end <= start or not desc:
            continue
        out.append(Event(start=start, end=end, description=desc))
    return out


def parse_caption(text: str) -> Tuple[str, str, List[Event]]:
    """Parse a Mode 1 caption into ``(caption, scene, events)``.

    The model is trained to produce::

        Scene: <one-paragraph spatial description>

        Events:
        <start - end> <description>
        <start - end> <description>

    The parser is tolerant: if explicit ``Scene:`` / ``Events:`` headers are
    missing, ``scene`` falls back to everything before the first event line and
    ``events`` is whatever event-shaped lines were detected.

    Parameters
    ----------
    text:
        Raw model output. Thinking artifacts will be stripped.

    Returns
    -------
    tuple
        ``(caption, scene, events)`` β€” the post-thinking full text, the parsed
        scene paragraph, and a list of :class:`Event` dicts in emission order.
    """
    cleaned = strip_thinking(text)

    scene_match = re.search(
        r"(?:^|\n)\s*Scene\s*:\s*(.*?)(?=\n\s*Events\s*:|\Z)",
        cleaned,
        re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL,
    )
    events_match = re.search(
        r"(?:^|\n)\s*Events\s*:\s*(.*)\Z",
        cleaned,
        re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL,
    )

    if scene_match:
        scene = scene_match.group(1).strip()
    else:
        # Fallback: scene = everything before the first event-shaped line.
        scene_lines: List[str] = []
        for line in cleaned.splitlines():
            if _EVENT_LINE.match(line.strip()):
                break
            scene_lines.append(line)
        scene = "\n".join(scene_lines).strip()

    events_block = events_match.group(1) if events_match else cleaned
    events = _parse_events(events_block)

    return cleaned, scene, events


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Mode 2 β€” temporal grounding parser
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Tolerates ``From 1.2 to 3.4.``, ``From 1.2s to 3.4 sec``; trailing period
# optional.
_SPAN_RE = re.compile(
    r"From\s+(\d+\.?\d*)\s*(?:s|sec)?\s+to\s+(\d+\.?\d*)\s*(?:s|sec)?\.?",
    re.IGNORECASE,
)


def parse_span(text: str) -> Tuple[str, Optional[Tuple[float, float]]]:
    """Parse a Mode 2 grounding output into ``(text, span)``.

    Parameters
    ----------
    text:
        Raw model output. Thinking artifacts will be stripped.

    Returns
    -------
    tuple
        ``(cleaned, span)`` β€” the post-thinking text and ``(start, end)`` in
        seconds, or ``None`` if no valid ``"From X to Y"`` substring was found
        or the span was non-positive.
    """
    cleaned = strip_thinking(text)
    m = _SPAN_RE.search(cleaned)
    if not m:
        return cleaned, None
    start = float(m.group(1))
    end = float(m.group(2))
    if end <= start:
        return cleaned, None
    return cleaned, (start, end)


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Result dicts
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------


class CaptionResult(TypedDict):
    """Return type for :meth:`MarlinForConditionalGeneration.caption`.

    Keys
    ----
    caption : str
        Post-thinking model output (e.g. ``"Scene: ...\\n\\nEvents:\\n..."``).
    scene : str
        Parsed ``Scene:`` paragraph.
    events : list of :class:`Event`
        Parsed ``{start, end, description}`` dicts in emission order.
    raw : str
        Raw model output *before* thinking-prefix stripping (for debugging).
    """

    caption: str
    scene: str
    events: List[Event]
    raw: str


class FindResult(TypedDict):
    """Return type for :meth:`MarlinForConditionalGeneration.find`.

    Keys
    ----
    raw : str
        Raw post-thinking model output (e.g. ``"From 1.2 to 3.4."``).
    span : tuple of (float, float) or None
        ``(start, end)`` in seconds, or ``None`` if parsing failed.
    format_ok : bool
        ``True`` iff the output matched the trained ``"From X to Y."`` format.
    """

    raw: str
    span: Optional[Tuple[float, float]]
    format_ok: bool


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Default video-preprocessing env vars
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# qwen-vl-utils reads these from the environment when ``apply_chat_template``
# decodes a video. We populate them here as a safety net for users who forget
# to set them before importing transformers. Existing env values are NEVER
# overwritten β€” explicit user settings always win.

_DEFAULT_VIDEO_ENV: Dict[str, str] = {
    "FORCE_QWENVL_VIDEO_READER": "torchcodec",
    "VIDEO_MAX_PIXELS": "200704",
    "FPS": "2.0",
    "FPS_MAX_FRAMES": "240",
    "FPS_MIN_FRAMES": "4",
}

for _k, _v in _DEFAULT_VIDEO_ENV.items():
    os.environ.setdefault(_k, _v)


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# The actual model class
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------


class MarlinForConditionalGeneration(Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration):
    """Marlin with ``.caption()`` and ``.find()`` convenience methods.

    Inherits the full forward / generate / from_pretrained machinery from
    :class:`transformers.Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration`; only adds two
    helpers that wrap chat-template construction, generation, and the trained
    output parsers.

    Use it via the standard auto class::

        from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
        model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
            "NemoStation/Marlin-2B",
            trust_remote_code=True,
            dtype=torch.bfloat16,
            device_map={"": "cuda"},
        )
        result = model.caption("video.mp4")
        span = model.find("video.mp4", event="a person enters the room")
    """

    # ------------------------------------------------------------------ utils

    @property
    def processor(self):  # type: ignore[override]
        """Lazily-loaded :class:`~transformers.AutoProcessor` for this checkpoint.

        Cached on the instance to avoid the expensive HF Hub lookup on every
        call.
        """
        cached = getattr(self, "_processor", None)
        if cached is None:
            from transformers import AutoProcessor

            cached = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(
                self.config._name_or_path,
                trust_remote_code=True,
            )
            self._processor = cached
        return cached

    def compile(self, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> "MarlinForConditionalGeneration":
        """Optional ``torch.compile`` wrapper around the model.

        Returns ``self`` so it chains naturally after ``from_pretrained``::

            model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(...).compile()

        All positional / keyword args are forwarded to ``torch.compile``.
        """
        # ``torch.compile`` replaces the module's forward with a compiled
        # version in-place; we still return self for fluent chaining.
        torch.compile(self, *args, **kwargs)
        return self

    # ----------------------------------------------------------- core generate

    def _generate_video(
        self,
        video_path: Union[str, os.PathLike],
        prompt: str,
        max_tokens: int,
        *,
        do_sample: bool = False,
        temperature: float = 1.0,
        top_p: float = 1.0,
    ) -> str:
        """Build a chat message with one video + one text turn and decode.

        Returns the raw decoded string (with any ``<think>`` artifacts still
        attached β€” callers are expected to run :func:`strip_thinking`).
        """
        messages = [
            {
                "role": "user",
                "content": [
                    {"type": "video", "video": str(video_path)},
                    {"type": "text", "text": prompt},
                ],
            }
        ]

        inputs = self.processor.apply_chat_template(
            messages,
            tokenize=True,
            add_generation_prompt=True,
            return_tensors="pt",
            return_dict=True,
        ).to(self.device)

        with torch.inference_mode():
            out = self.generate(
                **inputs,
                max_new_tokens=max_tokens,
                do_sample=do_sample,
                temperature=temperature if do_sample else 1.0,
                top_p=top_p if do_sample else 1.0,
            )

        # Strip the prompt prefix so we only return the model's continuation.
        prompt_len = inputs["input_ids"].shape[1]
        out = out[:, prompt_len:]
        return self.processor.batch_decode(out, skip_special_tokens=True)[0]

    # ---------------------------------------------------------------- caption

    def caption(
        self,
        video_path: Union[str, os.PathLike],
        *,
        prompt: Optional[str] = None,
        do_sample: bool = False,
        temperature: float = 1.0,
        top_p: float = 1.0,
        max_new_tokens: int = 2048,
    ) -> CaptionResult:
        """Generate a dense caption for a video.

        Parameters
        ----------
        video_path:
            Local path to a video file (mp4, webm, etc.).
        prompt:
            Override the canonical training prompt. Almost always leave at
            ``None``; diverging from training silently degrades quality.
        do_sample:
            If ``True``, switch to nucleus sampling. Defaults to greedy.
        temperature, top_p:
            Sampling params, only used when ``do_sample=True``.
        max_new_tokens:
            Generation cap. Default 2048 is enough for any dense caption the
            model produces in practice.

        Returns
        -------
        CaptionResult
            Dict with keys ``caption``, ``scene``, ``events``, ``raw``.
        """
        prompt_text = prompt if prompt is not None else CAPTION_PROMPT
        raw = self._generate_video(
            video_path,
            prompt_text,
            max_tokens=max_new_tokens,
            do_sample=do_sample,
            temperature=temperature,
            top_p=top_p,
        )
        cleaned, scene, events = parse_caption(raw)
        return CaptionResult(
            caption=cleaned,
            scene=scene,
            events=events,
            raw=raw,
        )

    # ------------------------------------------------------------------- find

    def find(
        self,
        video_path: Union[str, os.PathLike],
        event: str,
        *,
        prompt_template: Optional[str] = None,
        do_sample: bool = False,
        temperature: float = 1.0,
        top_p: float = 1.0,
        max_new_tokens: int = 64,
    ) -> FindResult:
        """Locate when a natural-language event occurs in a video.

        Parameters
        ----------
        video_path:
            Local path to a video file.
        event:
            Free-form description of the event to locate, e.g.
            ``"a person enters the room"``. Inserted into the trained prompt
            via the ``{event}`` placeholder.
        prompt_template:
            Override the canonical training prompt template. Must include a
            ``{event}`` placeholder. Almost always leave at ``None``.
        do_sample:
            If ``True``, switch to nucleus sampling. Defaults to greedy.
        temperature, top_p:
            Sampling params, only used when ``do_sample=True``.
        max_new_tokens:
            Output budget. 64 is plenty for the one-line trained format.

        Returns
        -------
        FindResult
            Dict with keys ``raw``, ``span`` and ``format_ok``.

        Raises
        ------
        ValueError
            If ``event`` is empty or whitespace-only.
        """
        event_str = (event or "").strip()
        if not event_str:
            raise ValueError("`event` must be a non-empty string")

        template = prompt_template if prompt_template is not None else GROUNDING_PROMPT_TEMPLATE
        prompt_text = template.format(event=event_str)

        raw = self._generate_video(
            video_path,
            prompt_text,
            max_tokens=max_new_tokens,
            do_sample=do_sample,
            temperature=temperature,
            top_p=top_p,
        )
        cleaned, span = parse_span(raw)
        return FindResult(
            raw=cleaned,
            span=span,
            format_ok=span is not None,
        )