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import math
import os
import re
import json
from typing import List, Optional, Dict, Tuple, Union

from PIL import Image
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.functional as F
from transformers import AutoProcessor, Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration

# Treat these as empty/missing (case-insensitive, whitespace-tolerant)
_EMPTY_SENTINELS = {"", "-1", "none", "null", "na", "n/a", "nan", "<na>"}

def _is_empty_cell(x) -> bool:
    """True if x should be considered 'missing'."""
    if x is None:
        return True
    # float('nan') and numpy.float64('nan')
    try:
        if isinstance(x, float) and math.isnan(x):
            return True
    except Exception:
        pass
    s = str(x).strip().lower()
    return s in _EMPTY_SENTINELS

def _clean_text_or_empty(x) -> str:
    """Return a clean string or '' if missing."""
    return "" if _is_empty_cell(x) else str(x).strip()

try:
    from peft import LoraConfig, get_peft_model
    HAS_PEFT = True
except Exception:
    HAS_PEFT = False


# ----------------------- misc utils -----------------------

def l2norm(x: torch.Tensor, dim: int = -1, eps: float = 1e-12) -> torch.Tensor:
    return x / (x.norm(dim=dim, keepdim=True) + eps)

def masked_mean_pool(hidden: torch.Tensor, mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None) -> torch.Tensor:
    """Mean over tokens where mask==True."""
    if mask is None:
        return hidden.mean(dim=1)
    mask = mask.to(hidden.dtype)
    denom = mask.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1e-6)
    return (hidden * mask.unsqueeze(-1)).sum(dim=1) / denom

def to_qwen_grid(img: Image.Image, target: int = 512, patch_size: int = 14, merge_size: int = 2) -> Image.Image:
    """
    Resize image so H=W is a multiple of 28 (=patch_size*merge_size).
    FLOOR to nearest multiple (512->504, 1024->1008).
    """
    grid = patch_size * merge_size  # 28
    new = max(grid, (target // grid) * grid)
    return img.resize((new, new), Image.BILINEAR)

def _open_or_none(path: object, root: str = "") -> Optional[Image.Image]:
    """Returns a PIL.Image or None. Handles '', NaN, '-1', <NA>, etc."""
    if _is_empty_cell(path):
        return None
    p = str(path).strip()
    # Don't join URI-like paths
    if root and not re.match(r'^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9+\-.]*://', p):
        p = os.path.join(root, p)
    try:
        return Image.open(p).convert("RGB")
    except Exception:
        return None

def build_image_map_from_row(row, root: str = "") -> dict:
    """
    Mapping per your schema:
    - frontal_image <- img_path1  (also used as current_image)
    - lateral_image <- img_path2
    - prior_image   <- img_path3
    """
    m = {
        "frontal_image": _open_or_none(str(row.get("img_path1", "-1")), root),
        "lateral_image": _open_or_none(str(row.get("img_path2", "-1")), root),
        "prior_image":   _open_or_none(str(row.get("img_path3", "-1")), root),
    }
    # --- NEW: negative images available to templates ---
    n1 = _open_or_none(str(row.get("neg_image1", row.get("neg_path1", "-1"))), root)
    n2 = _open_or_none(str(row.get("neg_image2", row.get("neg_path2", "-1"))), root)
    # support either column name for prior: neg_image3 or neg_prior_image, also neg_path3
    n3 = _open_or_none(str(row.get("neg_image3", row.get("neg_prior_image", row.get("neg_path3", "-1")))), root)
    if n1 is not None:
        m.update({"neg_image1": n1, "neg_path1": n1, "neg_frontal_image": n1})
    if n2 is not None:
        m.update({"neg_image2": n2, "neg_path2": n2, "neg_lateral_image": n2})
    if n3 is not None:
        m.update({"neg_prior_image": n3, "neg_image3": n3, "neg_path3": n3})
    return m

def _s(x): return "" if x is None else str(x)

def build_text_map_from_row(row) -> Dict[str, str]:
    m = {
        "report":       _clean_text_or_empty(row.get("report")),
        "prior_report": _clean_text_or_empty(row.get("prior_report")),
        "demographics": _clean_text_or_empty(row.get("demographics")),
        # --- NEW ---
        "lab_test":     _clean_text_or_empty(row.get("lab_test")),
        "indication":   _clean_text_or_empty(row.get("indication")),
    }
    # drop empties
    return {k: v for k, v in m.items() if v}

def parse_text_placeholders(s) -> dict:
    if isinstance(s, dict):
        d = s
    elif isinstance(s, str) and s.strip():
        try:
            d = json.loads(s)
        except Exception:
            d = {}
    else:
        d = {}
    if not isinstance(d, dict):
        return {}
    out = {}
    for k, v in d.items():
        val = _clean_text_or_empty(v)
        if val:
            out[str(k).lower()] = val
    return out


# ----------------------- pooling modules -----------------------

class LatentAttentionPooler(nn.Module):
    """
    NV-Embed style: tokens (Q) attend to trainable latents (K=V), then MLP,
    then mean-pool over tokens (optionally masked).
    """
    def __init__(self, dim: int, num_latents: int = 512, num_layers: int = 1,
                 num_heads: int = 8, mlp_ratio: float = 2.0):
        super().__init__()
        self.latents = nn.Parameter(torch.randn(num_latents, dim) / math.sqrt(dim))
        self.layers = nn.ModuleList()
        self.ln_q = nn.LayerNorm(dim)     # for token queries
        self.ln_kv = nn.LayerNorm(dim)    # for latent K/V

        for _ in range(num_layers):
            attn = nn.MultiheadAttention(dim, num_heads, batch_first=True)
            ffn  = nn.Sequential(
                nn.Linear(dim, int(dim * mlp_ratio)),
                nn.GELU(),
                nn.Linear(int(dim * mlp_ratio), dim),
            )
            self.layers.append(nn.ModuleDict({"attn": attn, "ffn": ffn}))

    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor, mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None) -> torch.Tensor:
        # x: (B, S, D) last-layer token states from the LLM
        B, S, D = x.shape

        # Prepare Q (tokens) and K,V (trainable latents)
        q = self.ln_q(x)
        lat = self.latents.unsqueeze(0).expand(B, -1, -1).contiguous()
        kv = self.ln_kv(lat)

        # Cross-attn: tokens query the latent dictionary (no key padding mask on latents)
        for blk in self.layers:
            y = blk["attn"](q, kv, kv, need_weights=False)[0]
            q = q + y                  # residual
            q = q + blk["ffn"](q)      # MLP + residual

        # Mean-pool over **tokens**; mask only applied here
        return masked_mean_pool(q, mask)  # (B, D)

class Projection(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, in_dim: int, out_dim: int = 1024, hidden: Optional[int] = None):
        super().__init__()
        if hidden is None:
            self.proj = nn.Sequential(nn.Linear(in_dim, out_dim, bias=False))
        else:
            self.proj = nn.Sequential(nn.Linear(in_dim, hidden), nn.GELU(), nn.Linear(hidden, out_dim, bias=False))
    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
        return l2norm(self.proj(x))


# ----------------------- main wrapper -----------------------

class LingshuEmbedder(nn.Module):
    def __init__(
        self,
        model_name: str = "lingshu-medical-mllm/Lingshu-7B",
        attn_implementation: str = "flash_attention_2",
        torch_dtype: torch.dtype = torch.bfloat16,
        embed_dim: int = 1024,

        # unified pooling mode
        pool_mode: str = "latent_attention",   # "latent_attention" | "mean"
        num_latents_unified: int = 512,

        # image grid control (supports 504 and 1008)
        image_size: int = 504,                 # default grid; per-call override allowed (504 or 1008)
        min_grid: int = 256,
        max_grid: int = 1296,                  # up to 36x36 (for 1008)

        # LoRA (optional) - tuned for memorization
        # r=64 for balanced performance; increase to 128 if VRAM allows
        use_lora: bool = False,
        lora_r: int = 64, lora_alpha: int = 64, lora_dropout: float = 0.0,  # alpha=r, dropout=0 for memorization
        apply_lora_to_vision: bool = False,

        # make attention bi-directional (remove causal masking)
        bidirectional: bool = True,

        # text token budget (read by the training script)
        max_text_tokens: int = 2560,

        # gradient checkpointing
        enable_gradient_checkpointing: bool = False,

        device: Optional[Union[str, torch.device]] = None,
    ) -> None:
        super().__init__()

        # ---- device & backend ----
        if device is None:
            device = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
        else:
            device = torch.device(device)
        if device.type != "cuda":
            attn_implementation = "sdpa"
            if torch_dtype in (torch.float16, torch.bfloat16):
                torch_dtype = torch.float32

        # ---- load backbone + processor ----
        self.vl = Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
            model_name, torch_dtype=torch_dtype, attn_implementation=attn_implementation
        )
        self.processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(
            model_name,
            min_pixels=min_grid * 28 * 28,
            max_pixels=max_grid * 28 * 28,
        )
        self._propagate_attn_impl(attn_implementation)

        # freeze base
        for p in self.vl.parameters():
            p.requires_grad_(False)
        
        # UNFREEZE vision projector for better image→text binding
        # Qwen2.5-VL has a visual projection module
        unfrozen_modules = []
        for name, module in self.vl.named_modules():
            # Look for vision projector: often named 'visual', 'vision_proj', 'mm_projector', etc.
            if any(x in name.lower() for x in ['visual.merger', 'visual.proj', 'vision_proj', 'mm_projector']):
                n_params = sum(p.numel() for p in module.parameters())
                for p in module.parameters():
                    p.requires_grad_(True)
                unfrozen_modules.append((name, n_params))
        
        if unfrozen_modules:
            print(f"[model] Unfrozen vision projector modules for memorization:")
            for name, n_params in unfrozen_modules:
                print(f"  - {name}: {n_params:,} parameters")

        # dims
        txt_hidden = getattr(self.vl.config, "text_config", None)
        vis_hidden = getattr(self.vl.config, "vision_config", None)
        self.text_hidden = getattr(txt_hidden, "hidden_size", None)
        self.vision_hidden = getattr(vis_hidden, "out_hidden_size", None) or getattr(vis_hidden, "hidden_size", None)

        # projections (unified/text/image all project to same embed_dim space)
        self.text_proj    = Projection(self.text_hidden,  embed_dim, hidden=None)
        self.image_proj   = Projection(self.vision_hidden, embed_dim, hidden=None)
        self.unified_proj = Projection(self.text_hidden,  embed_dim, hidden=None)

        self.logit_scale = nn.Parameter(torch.tensor(math.log(1/0.07)))

        # unified pooling config
        self.pool_mode = pool_mode
        if self.pool_mode == "latent_attention":
            self.unified_pooler = LatentAttentionPooler(
                dim=self.text_hidden,
                num_latents=num_latents_unified,  # set default to 512 to match paper
                num_layers=1,
                num_heads=8
            )
        else:
            self.unified_pooler = None

        # image size handling (any multiple of 28 is allowed, e.g., 448, 504, 1008)
        if image_size % 28 != 0:
            raise ValueError(f"image_size must be a multiple of 28, got {image_size}")
        self.image_size = image_size  # default; can override per call

        # optional LoRA
        self.peft_active = False
        if use_lora:
            if not HAS_PEFT:
                raise ImportError("peft not installed")
            targets_text   = ("q_proj", "k_proj", "v_proj", "o_proj", "gate_proj", "up_proj", "down_proj")
            targets_vision = ("qkv", "proj")
            targets = list(set(targets_text + (targets_vision if apply_lora_to_vision else tuple())))
            cfg = LoraConfig(r=lora_r, lora_alpha=lora_alpha, lora_dropout=lora_dropout,
                             target_modules=targets, bias="none", task_type="CAUSAL_LM")
            self.vl = get_peft_model(self.vl, cfg)
            self.peft_active = True

        # make bi-directional if requested
        if bidirectional:
            self._enable_bidirectional_attention()

        # gradient checkpointing
        if enable_gradient_checkpointing:
            # Use the non-reentrant variant to avoid "requires_grad" warnings
            try:
                self.vl.gradient_checkpointing_enable(
                    gradient_checkpointing_kwargs={"use_reentrant": False}
                )
            except TypeError:
                # older transformers fallback
                self.vl.gradient_checkpointing_enable()
            try:
                self.vl.config.use_cache = False
            except Exception:
                pass

        # move to device
        self.to(device)
        self.device = device

        # align pooler dtype with model (and device)
        base_dtype = next(self.vl.parameters()).dtype
        if getattr(self, "unified_pooler", None) is not None:
            self.unified_pooler.to(device=device, dtype=base_dtype)

        # expose text token budget for processor calls in training script
        self.max_text_tokens = int(max_text_tokens)

    # ---------- internals ----------

    def _propagate_attn_impl(self, impl: str):
        cfgs = [getattr(self.vl, "config", None)]
        if cfgs[0] is not None:
            for sub in ("text_config", "vision_config"):
                cfgs.append(getattr(cfgs[0], sub, None))
        for cfg in cfgs:
            if cfg is None:
                continue
            try:
                cfg._attn_implementation = impl
                cfg.attn_implementation = impl
                if hasattr(cfg, "use_flash_attention_2"):
                    cfg.use_flash_attention_2 = (impl == "flash_attention_2")
            except Exception:
                pass
        for _, module in self.vl.named_modules():
            if hasattr(module, "config"):
                try:
                    module.config._attn_implementation = impl
                    module.config.attn_implementation = impl
                    if hasattr(module.config, "use_flash_attention_2"):
                        module.config.use_flash_attention_2 = (impl == "flash_attention_2")
                except Exception:
                    pass

    def _enable_bidirectional_attention(self):
        """Best-effort removal of causal masking."""
        cfg = getattr(self.vl, "config", None)
        if cfg is not None:
            if hasattr(cfg, "is_decoder"): cfg.is_decoder = False
            if hasattr(cfg, "use_cache"):  cfg.use_cache  = False
        core = getattr(self.vl, "model", self.vl)
        core_cfg = getattr(core, "config", None)
        if core_cfg is not None:
            if hasattr(core_cfg, "is_decoder"): core_cfg.is_decoder = False
            if hasattr(core_cfg, "use_cache"):  core_cfg.use_cache  = False
        for m in self.vl.modules():
            if hasattr(m, "is_causal"):
                try:
                    m.is_causal = False
                except Exception:
                    pass

    def _get_text_module(self):
        core = getattr(self.vl, "model", self.vl)
        for attr in ("language_model", "text_model", "lm"):
            m = getattr(core, attr, None)
            if m is not None and hasattr(m, "forward"):
                return m
        for _, module in self.vl.named_modules():
            cname = module.__class__.__name__.lower()
            if "vision" in cname:
                continue
            if hasattr(module, "forward") and hasattr(module, "embed_tokens"):
                return module
        raise AttributeError("Could not locate the text submodule in Qwen-VL.")

    def _get_vision_module(self):
        core = getattr(self.vl, "model", self.vl)
        for attr in ("vision_model", "vision_tower", "visual", "vision"):
            m = getattr(core, attr, None)
            if m is not None and hasattr(m, "forward"):
                return m
        for _, module in self.vl.named_modules():
            if "vision" in module.__class__.__name__.lower():
                return module
        raise AttributeError("Could not locate the vision submodule in Qwen-VL.")

    def _get_vision_entry(self):
        """
        Return the top-level VisionModel object that accepts:
            forward(pixel_values=..., grid_thw=..., output_hidden_states=..., return_dict=True)
        Avoid returning the inner transformer which expects (hidden_states, grid_thw).
        """
        core = getattr(self.vl, "model", self.vl)
        # Prefer the canonical attribute if present
        vis = getattr(core, "vision_model", None)
        if vis is not None:
            return vis
        # Fallback: search modules for something named *VisionModel
        for _, m in core.named_modules():
            name = m.__class__.__name__.lower()
            if name.endswith("visionmodel"):
                return m
        # Last resort: previous generic getter (may return transformer; not ideal)
        return self._get_vision_module()

    # ----- chat/content builders & masking -----

    def _target_from_image_size(self, image_size: Optional[int]) -> int:
        """
        Return a pixel target that will be floored to a multiple of 28 by to_qwen_grid().
        Any multiple of 28 works (e.g., 448, 504, 1008).
        """
        sz = image_size if isinstance(image_size, int) and image_size % 28 == 0 else self.image_size
        return int(sz)

    def _build_interleaved_content(self, text: str, imgs: List[Image.Image], append_unused_images: bool = False) -> Tuple[list, list]:
        """
        NUMERIC placeholders: <image1>, <image2>, ...
        Returns (content_list, images_in_order).
        """
        if text is None:
            text = ""
        content: list = []
        ordered_images: list = []
        imgs = imgs or []

        pat = re.compile(r"<image\s*(\d+)\s*>", re.IGNORECASE)
        pos = 0
        matches = list(pat.finditer(text))

        if not matches:
            # Do not auto-append images unless explicitly requested
            if text.strip():
                content.append({"type": "text", "text": text})
            if append_unused_images:
                for im in imgs:
                    content.append({"type": "image", "image": im})
                    ordered_images.append(im)
            return content, ordered_images

        for m in matches:
            s, e = m.span()
            if s > pos:
                seg = text[pos:s]
                if seg.strip():
                    content.append({"type": "text", "text": seg})
            idx = int(m.group(1)) - 1
            if 0 <= idx < len(imgs):
                content.append({"type": "image", "image": imgs[idx]})
                ordered_images.append(imgs[idx])
            pos = e

        if pos < len(text):
            seg = text[pos:]
            if seg.strip():
                content.append({"type": "text", "text": seg})

        if append_unused_images:
            used = set(ordered_images)
            for im in imgs:
                if im not in used:
                    content.append({"type": "image", "image": im})
                    ordered_images.append(im)

        return content, ordered_images

    def _build_content_from_template(
        self,
        template: str,
        image_map: Optional[Dict[str, Image.Image]],
        text_map: Optional[Dict[str, str]],
        append_unused_images: bool = False,
    ) -> Tuple[list, list]:
        """
        NAMED placeholders: <frontal_image>, <lateral_image>, <prior_image>, <report>, <prior_report>, <demographics>, ...
        Also supports alias: <current_image> -> <frontal_image>.
        """
        template = template or ""
        image_map = {k.lower(): v for k, v in (image_map or {}).items() if v is not None}
        text_map  = {k.lower(): v for k, v in (text_map  or {}).items() if v is not None and str(v).strip()}

        content: list = []
        images_in_order: list = []

        pat = re.compile(r"<\s*([A-Za-z_]\w*)\s*>")
        pos = 0
        for m in pat.finditer(template):
            s, e = m.span()
            if s > pos:
                seg = template[pos:s]
                if seg.strip():
                    content.append({"type": "text", "text": seg})

            name = m.group(1).lower()
            # alias: current_image -> frontal_image
            if name == "current_image":
                name = "frontal_image"

            if name in image_map:       # <<< generalized image handling
                img = image_map.get(name)
                if img is not None:
                    content.append({"type": "image", "image": img})
                    images_in_order.append(img)
            else:
                val = text_map.get(name)
                if val is not None:
                    content.append({"type": "text", "text": str(val)})

            pos = e

        if pos < len(template):
            tail = template[pos:]
            if tail.strip():
                content.append({"type": "text", "text": tail})

        # Append any not-yet-used images at the end (conditionally)
        if append_unused_images:
            for key, img in image_map.items():
                if img is not None and img not in images_in_order:
                    content.append({"type": "image", "image": img})
                    images_in_order.append(img)

        return content, images_in_order

    def _mask_last_role_block(self, inputs: dict, hidden: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
        """
        Boolean mask (B,S) selecting tokens inside the **last** role block (user/assistant),
        excluding the final <|im_end|>, for **any** batch size.
        Falls back to attention_mask if special tokens are unavailable.
        """
        device = hidden.device
        ids = inputs.get("input_ids", None)
        attn = inputs.get("attention_mask", None)
        if ids is None:
            return (attn if attn is not None else torch.ones(hidden.shape[:2], device=device, dtype=torch.long)).bool()

        B, S = ids.shape
        mask = torch.zeros((B, S), device=device, dtype=torch.bool)

        # Try to get ChatML boundary tokens
        try:
            start_id = self.processor.tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|im_start|>")
        except Exception:
            start_id = None
        try:
            end_id = self.processor.tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|im_end|>")
        except Exception:
            end_id = None

        if end_id is None:
            return (attn if attn is not None else torch.ones((B, S), device=device, dtype=torch.long)).bool()

        for b in range(B):
            # Limit search to valid tokens when attention mask is present
            if attn is not None:
                valid_len = int(attn[b].sum().item())
            else:
                valid_len = S
            valid_len = max(1, min(valid_len, S))
            seq = ids[b, :valid_len]

            ends = (seq == end_id).nonzero(as_tuple=False).flatten()
            if ends.numel() == 0:
                # No explicit blocks; fall back to all valid tokens
                mask[b, :valid_len] = True
                continue
            last_end = int(ends[-1].item())

            last_start = -1
            if start_id is not None:
                starts = (seq == start_id).nonzero(as_tuple=False).flatten()
                starts_before = starts[starts < last_end] if starts.numel() > 0 else None
                if starts_before is not None and starts_before.numel() > 0:
                    last_start = int(starts_before[-1].item())
                elif ends.numel() >= 2:
                    # Heuristic: if no <|im_start|>, use previous end as start
                    last_start = int(ends[-2].item())
            else:
                if ends.numel() >= 2:
                    last_start = int(ends[-2].item())

            left = max(last_start + 1, 0)
            right = max(last_end - 1, left)
            mask[b, left:right + 1] = True

        if attn is not None:
            mask = mask & attn.bool()
        return mask

    # ---------- encoders (unified everywhere) ----------

    @torch.no_grad()
    def encode_text_unified(self, instructions: List[Optional[str]], texts: List[str], role: str = "user",
                            normalize: bool = True) -> torch.Tensor:
        """Text-only, but still go through the unified VL path for consistency."""
        empty_images = [[] for _ in texts]
        return self.encode_interleaved(instructions, texts, empty_images, role=role, normalize=normalize)

    @torch.no_grad()
    def encode_images_unified(self, instructions: List[Optional[str]], image_templates: List[str],
                              image_maps: List[Dict[str, Image.Image]], role: str = "user",
                              normalize: bool = True, image_size: Optional[int] = None) -> torch.Tensor:
        """
        Image-only via unified path. Pass templates like "<frontal_image>" or "" (images only included if explicitly referenced).
        """
        empty_text_maps = [{} for _ in image_templates]
        return self.encode_interleaved_with_ph(instructions, image_templates, image_maps, empty_text_maps,
                                               role=role, normalize=normalize, image_size=image_size)

    @torch.no_grad()
    def encode_interleaved(
        self,
        instructions: List[Optional[str]],
        contents: List[str],
        images: List[List[Image.Image]],
        role: str = "user",
        normalize: bool = True,
        image_size: Optional[int] = None,  # 504 or 1008 override
    ) -> torch.Tensor:
        device = self.device
        vm = self._get_vision_module()
        vision_dtype = next(vm.parameters()).dtype

        assert len(instructions) == len(contents) == len(images), "length mismatch"
        out_vecs = []
        target = self._target_from_image_size(image_size)

        for inst, text, imgs in zip(instructions, contents, images):
            proc_imgs = [to_qwen_grid(im, target=target) for im in (imgs or [])]
            content_list, images_in_order = self._build_interleaved_content(
                text or "", proc_imgs, append_unused_images=False
            )

            msgs = []
            if inst and str(inst).strip():
                msgs.append({"role": "system", "content": [{"type": "text", "text": inst}]})
            msgs.append({"role": role, "content": content_list})

            chat_text = self.processor.apply_chat_template(msgs, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=False)

            proc = self.processor(
                text=[chat_text],
                images=images_in_order if images_in_order else None,
                return_tensors="pt",
                padding=True,
                truncation=True,
                do_resize=False,
                max_length=self.max_text_tokens,
            )
            inputs = {k: v.to(device) for k, v in proc.items()}
            if "pixel_values" in inputs:
                inputs["pixel_values"] = inputs["pixel_values"].to(device=device, dtype=vision_dtype)
            if "image_grid_thw" in inputs:
                inputs["image_grid_thw"] = inputs["image_grid_thw"].to(device)

            out = self.vl(**inputs, output_hidden_states=True, use_cache=False)
            hidden = out.hidden_states[-1]  # (1, S, H)
            span_mask = self._mask_last_role_block(inputs, hidden)  # (1, S)

            if self.pool_mode == "latent_attention":
                pool_dtype = next(self.unified_pooler.parameters()).dtype
                if hidden.dtype != pool_dtype:
                    hidden = hidden.to(dtype=pool_dtype)
                vec = self.unified_pooler(hidden, span_mask).squeeze(0)
            else:
                vec = masked_mean_pool(hidden, span_mask).squeeze(0)

            out_vecs.append(vec)

        embs = torch.stack(out_vecs, dim=0)
        proj_dtype = next(self.unified_proj.parameters()).dtype
        emb = self.unified_proj(embs.to(dtype=proj_dtype))
        if normalize:
            emb = emb / emb.norm(dim=-1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1e-12)
        return emb

    @torch.no_grad()
    def encode_interleaved_with_ph(
        self,
        instructions: List[Optional[str]],
        templates: List[str],
        image_maps: List[Optional[Dict[str, Image.Image]]],
        text_maps: List[Optional[Dict[str, str]]],
        role: str = "user",
        normalize: bool = True,
        image_size: Optional[int] = None,  # 504 or 1008 override
    ) -> torch.Tensor:
        device = self.device
        vm = self._get_vision_module()
        vision_dtype = next(vm.parameters()).dtype

        assert len(instructions) == len(templates) == len(image_maps) == len(text_maps), "length mismatch"

        vecs = []
        target = self._target_from_image_size(image_size)

        for inst, tmpl, imap, tmap in zip(instructions, templates, image_maps, text_maps):
            proc_imap: Dict[str, Image.Image] = {}
            if imap:
                for k, im in imap.items():
                    if im is not None:
                        proc_imap[k.lower()] = to_qwen_grid(im, target=target)

            content_list, images_in_order = self._build_content_from_template(tmpl or "", proc_imap, (tmap or {}))

            msgs = []
            if inst and str(inst).strip():
                msgs.append({"role": "system", "content": [{"type": "text", "text": inst}]})
            msgs.append({"role": role, "content": content_list})

            chat_text = self.processor.apply_chat_template(msgs, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=False)

            proc = self.processor(
                text=[chat_text],
                images=images_in_order if images_in_order else None,
                return_tensors="pt",
                padding=True,
                truncation=True,
                do_resize=False,
                max_length=self.max_text_tokens,
            )
            inputs = {k: v.to(device) for k, v in proc.items()}
            if "pixel_values" in inputs:
                inputs["pixel_values"] = inputs["pixel_values"].to(device=device, dtype=vision_dtype)
            if "image_grid_thw" in inputs:
                inputs["image_grid_thw"] = inputs["image_grid_thw"].to(device)

            out = self.vl(**inputs, output_hidden_states=True, use_cache=False)
            hidden = out.hidden_states[-1]  # (1, S, H)
            span_mask = self._mask_last_role_block(inputs, hidden)  # (1, S)

            if self.pool_mode == "latent_attention":
                pool_dtype = next(self.unified_pooler.parameters()).dtype
                if hidden.dtype != pool_dtype:
                    hidden = hidden.to(dtype=pool_dtype)
                vec = self.unified_pooler(hidden, span_mask).squeeze(0)
            else:
                vec = masked_mean_pool(hidden, span_mask).squeeze(0)

            vecs.append(vec)

        embs = torch.stack(vecs, dim=0)
        proj_dtype = next(self.unified_proj.parameters()).dtype
        emb = self.unified_proj(embs.to(dtype=proj_dtype))
        if normalize:
            emb = emb / emb.norm(dim=-1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1e-12)
        return emb

    # ------------- (dual encoders for debugging) -------------

    @torch.no_grad()
    def encode_text_dual(self, texts: List[str], normalize: bool = True) -> torch.Tensor:
        device = self.device
        tok = self.processor.tokenizer(text=texts, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors="pt", max_length=self.max_text_tokens)
        tok = {k: v.to(device) for k, v in tok.items()}
        lm = self._get_text_module()
        out = lm(**tok, output_hidden_states=True, use_cache=False)
        hidden = out.last_hidden_state
        mask = tok.get("attention_mask")
        pooled = masked_mean_pool(hidden, mask)
        proj_dtype = next(self.text_proj.parameters()).dtype
        emb = self.text_proj(pooled.to(dtype=proj_dtype))
        if normalize:
            emb = emb / emb.norm(dim=-1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1e-12)
        return emb

    @torch.no_grad()
    def encode_images_dual(self, images: List[List[Image.Image]], normalize: bool = True,
                           image_size: Optional[int] = None) -> torch.Tensor:
        device = self.device
        flat = [img for group in images for img in group]
        counts = [len(g) for g in images]
        if len(flat) == 0:
            proj_dtype = next(self.image_proj.parameters()).dtype
            zeros = torch.zeros((len(images), self.vision_hidden), device=device, dtype=proj_dtype)
            emb = self.image_proj(zeros)
            if normalize:
                emb = emb / emb.norm(dim=-1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1e-12)
            return emb
        target = self._target_from_image_size(image_size)
        processed = [to_qwen_grid(img, target=target) for img in flat]
        proc = self.processor.image_processor(images=processed, return_tensors="pt", do_resize=False)
        vm = self._get_vision_module()
        vision_dtype = next(vm.parameters()).dtype
        pixel_values = proc["pixel_values"].to(device=device, dtype=vision_dtype)
        vis_out = vm(pixel_values=pixel_values, output_hidden_states=True)
        feats = vis_out[0] if isinstance(vis_out, (tuple, list)) else getattr(vis_out, "last_hidden_state", None)
        if feats is None:
            feats = getattr(vis_out, "pooler_output", None)
        if feats is None:
            raise RuntimeError("Vision backbone did not return features as expected.")
        per_img = feats.mean(dim=1) if feats.ndim == 3 else feats
        splits = torch.split(per_img, counts, dim=0)
        set_vecs = torch.stack([s.mean(dim=0) if s.ndim > 1 else s for s in splits], dim=0)
        proj_dtype = next(self.image_proj.parameters()).dtype
        emb = self.image_proj(set_vecs.to(dtype=proj_dtype))
        if normalize:
            emb = emb / emb.norm(dim=-1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1e-12)
        return emb

    # ===================== PHRASE GROUNDING UTILS =====================

    def _find_subsequence(self, haystack: list, needle: list) -> list:
        """Return start indices where 'needle' occurs in 'haystack' (exact match)."""
        if not haystack or not needle or len(needle) > len(haystack):
            return []
        hits = []
        n = len(needle)
        for i in range(len(haystack) - n + 1):
            if haystack[i:i+n] == needle:
                hits.append(i)
        return hits

    def _window_decode_matches(self, tokenizer, ids, target_lower: str) -> list:
        """Fallback: sliding-window decode match (robust to BPE splits). Returns window (start,end) indices."""
        hits = []
        L = len(ids)
        # Small cap on window length to avoid expensive decode; most medical terms fit <= 5 tokens.
        for w in range(1, 8):
            for i in range(0, L - w + 1):
                s, e = i, i + w
                text = tokenizer.decode(ids[s:e], skip_special_tokens=True).lower().replace(" ", "")
                if target_lower in text:
                    hits.append((s, e))
        # De-duplicate overlapping windows by preferring shortest span
        hits = sorted(set(hits), key=lambda x: (x[1]-x[0], x[0]))
        return hits

    def _resize_heatmap_like(self, hm_np, target_w, target_h):
        from PIL import Image
        import numpy as np
        # hm_np: (H, W) in [0,1]; resize with bilinear to (target_h, target_w)
        H, W = hm_np.shape
        im = Image.fromarray((hm_np * 255.0).astype("uint8"), mode="L")
        im = im.resize((target_w, target_h), Image.BILINEAR)
        out = (np.array(im).astype("float32") / 255.0)
        return out

    def _overlay_heatmap_on_image(self, img_pil, hm_np, alpha=0.45):
        """Return PIL with heatmap overlay; hm_np in [0,1] same size as img."""
        import matplotlib
        import numpy as np
        from PIL import Image

        img = np.array(img_pil.convert("RGB")).astype("float32") / 255.0
        H, W = img.shape[:2]
        hm = np.clip(hm_np, 0.0, 1.0)
        if hm.shape[:2] != (H, W):
            raise ValueError("Heatmap and image size mismatch")
        # Use a perceptually reasonable colormap without fixing colors for downstream tools.
        cmap = matplotlib.cm.get_cmap("jet")
        color_hm = cmap(hm)[..., :3]  # (H,W,3)
        blended = (1.0 - alpha) * img + alpha * color_hm
        blended = np.clip(blended, 0.0, 1.0)
        return Image.fromarray((blended * 255).astype("uint8"))

    def phrase_ground_and_visualize(
        self,
        word: str,
        template: str,
        row,
        role: str = "user",
        instruction: str = None,
        image_size: int = None,          # multiples of 28; defaults to self.image_size
        layer_for_text: int = -1,        # which hidden_states layer to pull token reps from
        save_dir: str = None,            # if set, saves overlays as PNGs
        return_arrays: bool = False,     # if True, return heatmaps as numpy arrays
    ):
        """
        Compute patch-level grounding for a word against images referenced in `template` filled by `row`.
        Returns a PhraseGroundingOutput, and optionally writes overlay PNGs.

        Strategy:
          - Build a single-sample chat like encode_interleaved_with_ph().
          - Forward Qwen-VL with hidden_states (+ attention if available).
          - Locate word tokens inside last role block.
          - Run vision tower once to get per-patch features per image.
          - Project (text token avg) with text_proj, patches with image_proj; cosine sim per patch → heatmap.
          - (Optional) also compute LM self-attn from word tokens to any image placeholders if available.
        """
        import os, numpy as np, torch
        from PIL import Image

        device = self.device
        tok = self.processor.tokenizer
        target = self._target_from_image_size(image_size)

        # --- Build content exactly like your training path ---
        imap = build_image_map_from_row(row, root="")
        # resize to Qwen grid (only for actually referenced keys)
        # We won't pre-filter keys; _build_content_from_template handles which placeholders are used.
        proc_imap = {k.lower(): to_qwen_grid(v, target=target) for k, v in (imap or {}).items() if v is not None}
        tmap = build_text_map_from_row(row)

        content_list, images_in_order = self._build_content_from_template(template or "", proc_imap, (tmap or {}), append_unused_images=False)

        msgs = []
        if instruction and str(instruction).strip():
            msgs.append({"role": "system", "content": [{"type": "text", "text": f"INSTRUCTION:\n{instruction}"}]})
        msgs.append({"role": role, "content": content_list})
        chat_text = self.processor.apply_chat_template(msgs, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=False)

        vm = self._get_vision_module()
        vision_dtype = next(vm.parameters()).dtype

        proc = self.processor(
            text=[chat_text],
            images=images_in_order if images_in_order else None,
            return_tensors="pt",
            padding=True,
            truncation=True,
            do_resize=False,
            max_length=self.max_text_tokens,
        )
        inputs = {k: v.to(device) for k, v in proc.items()}
        if "pixel_values" in inputs:
            inputs["pixel_values"] = inputs["pixel_values"].to(device=device, dtype=vision_dtype)
        if "image_grid_thw" in inputs:
            inputs["image_grid_thw"] = inputs["image_grid_thw"].to(device)

        # --- Forward with hidden states (+ attentions if the model exposes them) ---
        with torch.no_grad():
            out = self.vl(**inputs, output_hidden_states=True, output_attentions=True, use_cache=False, return_dict=True)

        hidden = out.hidden_states[layer_for_text]  # (1, S, H)
        span_mask = self._mask_last_role_block(inputs, hidden)[0].bool()  # (S,)
        seq_ids = inputs["input_ids"][0].tolist()

        # --- Find token indices for the word inside the last role block ---
        # 1) exact subsequence match of token ids
        tgt_ids = tok(word, add_special_tokens=False)["input_ids"]
        last_role_positions = [i for i, m in enumerate(span_mask.tolist()) if m]
        id_seq_in_span = [seq_ids[i] for i in last_role_positions]
        hits = self._find_subsequence(id_seq_in_span, tgt_ids)
        token_span = None  # (abs_start, abs_end)
        if hits:
            start_in_span = hits[0]
            abs_start = last_role_positions[start_in_span]
            abs_end = last_role_positions[start_in_span + len(tgt_ids) - 1] + 1  # exclusive
            token_span = (abs_start, abs_end)
        else:
            # 2) fallback: decode windows in-span and fuzzy match lowercase without spaces
            win_hits = self._window_decode_matches(tok, id_seq_in_span, target_lower=word.lower().replace(" ", ""))
            if win_hits:
                s, e = win_hits[0]
                abs_start = last_role_positions[s]
                abs_end = last_role_positions[e - 1] + 1
                token_span = (abs_start, abs_end)

        if token_span is None:
            # If the word cannot be located, we center on the last token in the last-role block.
            # This keeps the visualization functional for debugging.
            last_idx = last_role_positions[-1]
            token_span = (last_idx, last_idx + 1)

        s_idx, e_idx = token_span
        word_tokens = hidden[0, s_idx:e_idx, :]  # (T_word, Htxt)
        # Average sub-tokens → one vector
        word_vec_txt = word_tokens.mean(dim=0, keepdim=True)  # (1, Htxt)

        # --- Get vision patch features per image ---
        heatmaps = []
        per_image_debug = []
        if "pixel_values" in inputs:
            # Use the TOP-LEVEL vision model entry
            vmodel = self._get_vision_entry()
            with torch.no_grad():
                vout = vmodel(
                    pixel_values=inputs["pixel_values"],
                    grid_thw=inputs.get("image_grid_thw", None),
                    output_hidden_states=True,
                    return_dict=True,
                )

            # vout.last_hidden_state: (B, Svis, C)
            vlast = vout.last_hidden_state
            B, Svis, C = vlast.shape

            # Grid sizes per image (T,H,W)
            grids = inputs.get("image_grid_thw", None)
            if grids is not None:
                # grids shape: (B, 3) => (T, H, W)
                thw = grids.detach().cpu().tolist()
                if isinstance(thw[0], (int, float)):  # single image edge case
                    thw = [thw]
            else:
                thw = [[1, int(round(Svis ** 0.5)), int(round(Svis ** 0.5))] for _ in range(B)]

            # If a CLS token exists, Svis == T*H*W + 1; drop it
            per_img = []
            offset = 0
            for i in range(B):
                t, h, w = map(int, thw[i])
                tokens_per = t * h * w
                take_from = 1 if (Svis == tokens_per + 1) else 0
                patches = vlast[i, take_from:take_from + tokens_per, :]  # (T*H*W, C)
                per_img.append((patches, (t, h, w)))

            proj_dtype_img = next(self.image_proj.parameters()).dtype
            proj_dtype_txt = next(self.text_proj.parameters()).dtype

            word_vec = self.text_proj(word_vec_txt.to(dtype=proj_dtype_txt))
            word_vec = word_vec / (word_vec.norm(dim=-1, keepdim=True) + 1e-12)

            for (patches, (t, h, w)) in per_img:
                patch_emb = self.image_proj(patches.to(dtype=proj_dtype_img))
                patch_emb = patch_emb / (patch_emb.norm(dim=-1, keepdim=True) + 1e-12)
                sim = (patch_emb @ word_vec[0].T).squeeze(-1)  # (P,)
                sim = sim.reshape(t, h, w).mean(dim=0)         # (H, W)
                smin, smax = float(sim.min()), float(sim.max())
                hm = (sim - smin) / max(1e-6, (smax - smin))
                heatmaps.append(hm.detach().cpu().numpy())
                per_image_debug.append({"tokens_per": t*h*w, "grid": (t, h, w)})

        # --- Save overlays if requested ---
        saved_paths = []
        if save_dir and heatmaps:
            os.makedirs(save_dir, exist_ok=True)
            for i, im in enumerate(images_in_order):
                # Ensure the heatmap is resized to the same (square) size we fed Qwen
                tgt_w, tgt_h = im.size
                hm_np = self._resize_heatmap_like(heatmaps[i], tgt_w, tgt_h)
                overlay = self._overlay_heatmap_on_image(im, hm_np, alpha=0.45)
                fname = os.path.join(save_dir, f"ground_{i:02d}_{word.replace(' ','_')}.png")
                overlay.save(fname)
                saved_paths.append(fname)

        result = PhraseGroundingOutput(
            token_span=(int(s_idx), int(e_idx)),
            per_image=[{
                "heatmap": (heatmaps[i] if return_arrays else None),
                "saved_path": (saved_paths[i] if i < len(saved_paths) else None),
                "grid": per_image_debug[i].get("grid", None),
                "tokens_per": per_image_debug[i].get("tokens_per", None),
                "placeholder_attn": per_image_debug[i].get("placeholder_attn", None),
            } for i in range(len(heatmaps))]
        )
        return result


class PhraseGroundingOutput:
    def __init__(self, token_span, per_image):
        self.token_span = token_span  # (start_idx, end_idx) within last-role span
        self.per_image = per_image    # list of dicts with fields below