"""DiffusionGemma vs Gemma-4 on post-OCR correction — ZeroGPU comparison Space. gradio.Server pattern: custom HTML frontend (index.html) + Gradio queuing backend. Side-by-side correction of 19th-century English newspaper OCR by an experimental block-diffusion LLM (google/diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it) and an autoregressive baseline (google/gemma-4-E4B-it). """ import difflib import json import os import re import time from pathlib import Path import spaces import torch from fastapi.responses import HTMLResponse, JSONResponse from fastapi.staticfiles import StaticFiles from gradio import Server from transformers import ( AutoModelForMultimodalLM, AutoProcessor, DiffusionGemmaForBlockDiffusion, TextDiffusionStreamer, ) HERE = Path(__file__).resolve().parent # Keep in sync with benchmark.py PROMPT_TEMPLATE — the benchmark numbers in the # results tab were produced with exactly this prompt. PROMPT_TEMPLATE = """\ Correct the OCR errors in the following text from a 19th-century English newspaper. Fix only recognition errors (wrong, missing, or extra characters). Do not modernise \ spelling, do not rephrase, and do not add or remove content. Preserve the original \ punctuation unless it is clearly an OCR error. Output only the corrected text, with no commentary or preamble. OCR text: {ocr}""" MAX_INPUT_CHARS = 1200 # roughly the 220-token benchmark cap STOP_MARKERS = ("", "", "", "") def model_path(volume_path: str, model_id: str) -> str: """Prefer a mounted hf:// volume unless USE_VOLUMES=0 (FUSE reads can be slower for safetensors loading than a fresh download to local disk).""" if os.environ.get("USE_VOLUMES", "1") == "0": return model_id return volume_path if os.path.isdir(volume_path) else model_id DG_PATH = model_path("/models/dg", "google/diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it") G4_PATH = model_path("/models/gemma", "google/gemma-4-E4B-it") t0 = time.perf_counter() print(f"loading DiffusionGemma from {DG_PATH} ...") dg_processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(DG_PATH) dg_model = DiffusionGemmaForBlockDiffusion.from_pretrained(DG_PATH, dtype=torch.bfloat16).to("cuda") print(f"DiffusionGemma loaded in {time.perf_counter() - t0:.0f}s") t0 = time.perf_counter() print(f"loading Gemma-4 from {G4_PATH} ...") g4_processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(G4_PATH) g4_model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained(G4_PATH, dtype=torch.bfloat16).to("cuda") print(f"Gemma-4 loaded in {time.perf_counter() - t0:.0f}s") # ---------------------------------------------------------------- text utils def extract_answer(raw: str) -> str: """DiffusionGemma's block looks like `<|channel>thought\\nANSWER...` even with thinking off — the answer is the text after the last ``. Gemma-4 emits plain text; we just cut at the first stop marker.""" stops = [i for m in STOP_MARKERS if (i := raw.find(m)) != -1] if stops: raw = raw[: min(stops)] if "" in raw: raw = raw.rpartition("")[2] return raw.strip() def diff_segments(input_text: str, output_text: str) -> list[dict]: """Word+whitespace diff of output vs input -> [{text, op}] segments, op in {same, changed, added, removed}. Rendered by the frontend.""" tokens_in = re.findall(r"\S+|\s+", input_text) tokens_out = re.findall(r"\S+|\s+", output_text) sm = difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, tokens_in, tokens_out, autojunk=False) segments = [] for op, i1, i2, j1, j2 in sm.get_opcodes(): if op == "equal": segments.append({"text": "".join(tokens_out[j1:j2]), "op": "same"}) elif op == "replace": segments.append({"text": "".join(tokens_out[j1:j2]), "op": "changed"}) elif op == "insert": segments.append({"text": "".join(tokens_out[j1:j2]), "op": "added"}) elif op == "delete": segments.append({"text": "".join(tokens_in[i1:i2]), "op": "removed"}) return segments class SnapshotStreamer(TextDiffusionStreamer): """Captures the decoded canvas at each denoising step; suppresses the parent's ANSI console printing.""" def __init__(self, tokenizer): super().__init__(tokenizer=tokenizer) self.tok = tokenizer self.snapshots: list[str] = [] def put_draft(self, value, **kwargs): try: ids = value[0] if value.ndim > 1 else value self.snapshots.append(self.tok.decode(ids, skip_special_tokens=False)) except Exception: pass def put(self, value): pass def end(self): pass def _prepare_inputs(processor, model, ocr_text: str): message = [{"role": "user", "content": PROMPT_TEMPLATE.format(ocr=ocr_text.strip())}] return processor.apply_chat_template( message, tokenize=True, add_generation_prompt=True, return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt" ).to(model.device) def _decode_generated(processor, output, input_len) -> str: # DiffusionGemma returns a DiffusionGemmaGenerationOutput whose .sequences # includes the prompt (like AR generate, which returns a plain tensor). seq = output.sequences if hasattr(output, "sequences") else output generated = seq[0][input_len:] if seq.shape[-1] > input_len else seq[0] raw = processor.tokenizer.decode(generated, skip_special_tokens=False) return extract_answer(raw) def _validate(ocr_text: str) -> str | None: if not ocr_text or not ocr_text.strip(): return "Empty input." if len(ocr_text) > MAX_INPUT_CHARS: return ( f"Input too long ({len(ocr_text)} chars). DiffusionGemma generates a single " f"256-token block, so inputs are capped at ~{MAX_INPUT_CHARS} characters." ) return None # ---------------------------------------------------------------- API app = Server() @app.api(name="run_diffusiongemma") @spaces.GPU(duration=90, size="xlarge") def run_diffusiongemma(ocr_text: str, canvas_init: bool = False, gold: str = "") -> dict: """Correct OCR text with DiffusionGemma. canvas_init=True seeds the first denoising canvas with the OCR text itself (experimental — under-corrects; see the results tab) instead of random noise. If a gold transcription is supplied (demo examples), a diff against it is returned too.""" if err := _validate(ocr_text): return {"error": err} inputs = _prepare_inputs(dg_processor, dg_model, ocr_text) streamer = SnapshotStreamer(dg_processor.tokenizer) gen_kwargs: dict = {"max_new_tokens": 256, "streamer": streamer} if canvas_init: canvas_length = getattr(dg_model.generation_config, "canvas_length", None) or 256 ids = dg_processor.tokenizer(ocr_text, add_special_tokens=False)["input_ids"] ids = ids[:canvas_length] vocab = dg_model.config.text_config.vocab_size pad = torch.randint(vocab, (canvas_length - len(ids),)) canvas = torch.cat([torch.tensor(ids, dtype=torch.long), pad]) gen_kwargs["decoder_input_ids"] = canvas.unsqueeze(0).to(dg_model.device) t0 = time.perf_counter() output = dg_model.generate(**inputs, **gen_kwargs) torch.cuda.synchronize() seconds = time.perf_counter() - t0 text = _decode_generated(dg_processor, output, inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]) n_tokens = len(dg_processor.tokenizer(text)["input_ids"]) return { "text": text, "diff": diff_segments(ocr_text.strip(), text), "diff_gold": diff_segments(gold.strip(), text) if gold.strip() else None, "seconds": round(seconds, 2), "tokens_per_second": round(n_tokens / seconds, 1), "denoising_steps": len(streamer.snapshots), "snapshots": [extract_answer(s) for s in streamer.snapshots], "canvas_init": canvas_init, "error": None, } @app.api(name="run_gemma4") @spaces.GPU(duration=60, size="xlarge") def run_gemma4(ocr_text: str, gold: str = "") -> dict: """Correct OCR text with the autoregressive Gemma-4-E4B baseline (greedy).""" if err := _validate(ocr_text): return {"error": err} inputs = _prepare_inputs(g4_processor, g4_model, ocr_text) t0 = time.perf_counter() output = g4_model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=256, do_sample=False) torch.cuda.synchronize() seconds = time.perf_counter() - t0 text = _decode_generated(g4_processor, output, inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]) n_tokens = len(g4_processor.tokenizer(text)["input_ids"]) return { "text": text, "diff": diff_segments(ocr_text.strip(), text), "diff_gold": diff_segments(gold.strip(), text) if gold.strip() else None, "seconds": round(seconds, 2), "tokens_per_second": round(n_tokens / seconds, 1), "error": None, } # ---------------------------------------------------------------- static data @app.get("/", response_class=HTMLResponse) async def homepage(): return (HERE / "index.html").read_text(encoding="utf-8") @app.get("/data/examples") async def get_examples(): examples = json.loads((HERE / "examples.json").read_text()) cached, golds = {}, {} cached_path = HERE / "examples_cached.json" if cached_path.exists(): for e in json.loads(cached_path.read_text()): for m, out in e["output"].items(): out.pop("_raw", None) cached[e["id"]] = e["output"] golds[e["id"]] = e.get("gold", "") for e in examples: e["cached"] = cached.get(e["id"]) e["gold"] = golds.get(e["id"], "") if e["cached"]: for m, out in e["cached"].items(): out["diff"] = diff_segments(e["ocr_input"].strip(), out["text"]) if e["gold"]: out["diff_gold"] = diff_segments(e["gold"].strip(), out["text"]) return JSONResponse(examples) @app.get("/data/results") async def get_results(): summary = (HERE / "results" / "summary.md").read_text() rows = [ json.loads(line) for line in (HERE / "results" / "per_passage_metrics.jsonl").read_text().splitlines() if line.strip() ] return JSONResponse({"summary_md": summary, "per_passage": rows}) _images_dir = HERE / "images" if _images_dir.is_dir(): app.mount("/static", StaticFiles(directory=str(_images_dir)), name="static") if __name__ == "__main__": app.launch(show_error=True)