feat: preload textual model

machine-learning/app/main.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from typing import Any, AsyncGenerator, Callable, Iterator
 from zipfile import BadZipFile
 
 import orjson
-from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI, File, Form, HTTPException
+from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI, File, Form, HTTPException, Response
 from fastapi.responses import ORJSONResponse
 from onnxruntime.capi.onnxruntime_pybind11_state import InvalidProtobuf, NoSuchFile
 from PIL.Image import Image
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ from .schemas import (
     InferenceEntries,
     InferenceEntry,
     InferenceResponse,
+    LoadModelEntry,
     MessageResponse,
     ModelFormat,
     ModelIdentity,
@@ -124,6 +125,24 @@ def get_entries(entries: str = Form()) -> InferenceEntries:
         raise HTTPException(422, "Invalid request format.")
 
 
+def get_entry(entries: str = Form()) -> LoadModelEntry:
+    try:
+        request: PipelineRequest = orjson.loads(entries)
+        for task, types in request.items():
+            for type, entry in types.items():
+                parsed: LoadModelEntry = {
+                    "name": entry["modelName"],
+                    "task": task,
+                    "type": type,
+                    "options": entry.get("options", {}),
+                    "ttl": entry["ttl"] if "ttl" in entry else settings.ttl,
+                }
+        return parsed
+    except (orjson.JSONDecodeError, ValidationError, KeyError, AttributeError) as e:
+        log.error(f"Invalid request format: {e}")
+        raise HTTPException(422, "Invalid request format.")
+
+
 app = FastAPI(lifespan=lifespan)
 
 
@@ -137,6 +156,13 @@ def ping() -> str:
     return "pong"
 
 
+@app.post("/load", response_model=TextResponse)
+async def load_model(entry: InferenceEntry = Depends(get_entry)) -> None:
+    model = await model_cache.get(entry["name"], entry["type"], entry["task"], ttl=settings.model_ttl)
+    model = await load(model)
+    return Response(status_code=200)
+
+
 @app.post("/predict", dependencies=[Depends(update_state)])
 async def predict(
     entries: InferenceEntries = Depends(get_entries),

machine-learning/app/schemas.py

@@ -109,6 +109,17 @@ class InferenceEntry(TypedDict):
     options: dict[str, Any]
 
 
+class LoadModelEntry(InferenceEntry):
+    ttl: int
+
+    def __init__(self, name: str, task: ModelTask, type: ModelType, options: dict[str, Any], ttl: int):
+        super().__init__(name=name, task=task, type=type, options=options)
+
+        if ttl <= 0:
+            raise ValueError("ttl must be a positive integer")
+        self.ttl = ttl
+
+
 InferenceEntries = tuple[list[InferenceEntry], list[InferenceEntry]]
 
 

mobile/openapi/README.md

@@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ Class | Method | HTTP request | Description
  - [LibraryStatsResponseDto](doc//LibraryStatsResponseDto.md)
  - [LicenseKeyDto](doc//LicenseKeyDto.md)
  - [LicenseResponseDto](doc//LicenseResponseDto.md)
+ - [LoadTextualModelOnConnection](doc//LoadTextualModelOnConnection.md)
  - [LogLevel](doc//LogLevel.md)
  - [LoginCredentialDto](doc//LoginCredentialDto.md)
  - [LoginResponseDto](doc//LoginResponseDto.md)

mobile/openapi/lib/api.dart

@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ part 'model/library_response_dto.dart';
 part 'model/library_stats_response_dto.dart';
 part 'model/license_key_dto.dart';
 part 'model/license_response_dto.dart';
+part 'model/load_textual_model_on_connection.dart';
 part 'model/log_level.dart';
 part 'model/login_credential_dto.dart';
 part 'model/login_response_dto.dart';

mobile/openapi/lib/api_client.dart

@@ -357,6 +357,8 @@ class ApiClient {
           return LicenseKeyDto.fromJson(value);
         case 'LicenseResponseDto':
           return LicenseResponseDto.fromJson(value);
+        case 'LoadTextualModelOnConnection':
+          return LoadTextualModelOnConnection.fromJson(value);
         case 'LogLevel':
           return LogLevelTypeTransformer().decode(value);
         case 'LoginCredentialDto':

mobile/openapi/lib/model/clip_config.dart

@@ -14,30 +14,36 @@ class CLIPConfig {
   /// Returns a new [CLIPConfig] instance.
   CLIPConfig({
     required this.enabled,
+    required this.loadTextualModelOnConnection,
     required this.modelName,
   });
 
   bool enabled;
 
+  LoadTextualModelOnConnection loadTextualModelOnConnection;
+
   String modelName;
 
   @override
   bool operator ==(Object other) => identical(this, other) || other is CLIPConfig &&
     other.enabled == enabled &&
+    other.loadTextualModelOnConnection == loadTextualModelOnConnection &&
     other.modelName == modelName;
 
   @override
   int get hashCode =>
     // ignore: unnecessary_parenthesis
     (enabled.hashCode) +
+    (loadTextualModelOnConnection.hashCode) +
     (modelName.hashCode);
 
   @override
-  String toString() => 'CLIPConfig[enabled=$enabled, modelName=$modelName]';
+  String toString() => 'CLIPConfig[enabled=$enabled, loadTextualModelOnConnection=$loadTextualModelOnConnection, modelName=$modelName]';
 
   Map<String, dynamic> toJson() {
     final json = <String, dynamic>{};
       json[r'enabled'] = this.enabled;
+      json[r'loadTextualModelOnConnection'] = this.loadTextualModelOnConnection;
       json[r'modelName'] = this.modelName;
     return json;
   }
@@ -51,6 +57,7 @@ class CLIPConfig {
 
       return CLIPConfig(
         enabled: mapValueOfType<bool>(json, r'enabled')!,
+        loadTextualModelOnConnection: LoadTextualModelOnConnection.fromJson(json[r'loadTextualModelOnConnection'])!,
         modelName: mapValueOfType<String>(json, r'modelName')!,
       );
     }
@@ -100,6 +107,7 @@ class CLIPConfig {
   /// The list of required keys that must be present in a JSON.
   static const requiredKeys = <String>{
     'enabled',
+    'loadTextualModelOnConnection',
     'modelName',
   };
 }

mobile/openapi/lib/model/load_textual_model_on_connection.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+//
+// AUTO-GENERATED FILE, DO NOT MODIFY!
+//
+// @dart=2.18
+
+// ignore_for_file: unused_element, unused_import
+// ignore_for_file: always_put_required_named_parameters_first
+// ignore_for_file: constant_identifier_names
+// ignore_for_file: lines_longer_than_80_chars
+
+part of openapi.api;
+
+class LoadTextualModelOnConnection {
+  /// Returns a new [LoadTextualModelOnConnection] instance.
+  LoadTextualModelOnConnection({
+    required this.enabled,
+    required this.ttl,
+  });
+
+  bool enabled;
+
+  /// Minimum value: 0
+  num ttl;
+
+  @override
+  bool operator ==(Object other) => identical(this, other) || other is LoadTextualModelOnConnection &&
+    other.enabled == enabled &&
+    other.ttl == ttl;
+
+  @override
+  int get hashCode =>
+    // ignore: unnecessary_parenthesis
+    (enabled.hashCode) +
+    (ttl.hashCode);
+
+  @override
+  String toString() => 'LoadTextualModelOnConnection[enabled=$enabled, ttl=$ttl]';
+
+  Map<String, dynamic> toJson() {
+    final json = <String, dynamic>{};
+      json[r'enabled'] = this.enabled;
+      json[r'ttl'] = this.ttl;
+    return json;
+  }
+
+  /// Returns a new [LoadTextualModelOnConnection] instance and imports its values from
+  /// [value] if it's a [Map], null otherwise.
+  // ignore: prefer_constructors_over_static_methods
+  static LoadTextualModelOnConnection? fromJson(dynamic value) {
+    if (value is Map) {
+      final json = value.cast<String, dynamic>();
+
+      return LoadTextualModelOnConnection(
+        enabled: mapValueOfType<bool>(json, r'enabled')!,
+        ttl: num.parse('${json[r'ttl']}'),
+      );
+    }
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  static List<LoadTextualModelOnConnection> listFromJson(dynamic json, {bool growable = false,}) {
+    final result = <LoadTextualModelOnConnection>[];
+    if (json is List && json.isNotEmpty) {
+      for (final row in json) {
+        final value = LoadTextualModelOnConnection.fromJson(row);
+        if (value != null) {
+          result.add(value);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    return result.toList(growable: growable);
+  }
+
+  static Map<String, LoadTextualModelOnConnection> mapFromJson(dynamic json) {
+    final map = <String, LoadTextualModelOnConnection>{};
+    if (json is Map && json.isNotEmpty) {
+      json = json.cast<String, dynamic>(); // ignore: parameter_assignments
+      for (final entry in json.entries) {
+        final value = LoadTextualModelOnConnection.fromJson(entry.value);
+        if (value != null) {
+          map[entry.key] = value;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    return map;
+  }
+
+  // maps a json object with a list of LoadTextualModelOnConnection-objects as value to a dart map
+  static Map<String, List<LoadTextualModelOnConnection>> mapListFromJson(dynamic json, {bool growable = false,}) {
+    final map = <String, List<LoadTextualModelOnConnection>>{};
+    if (json is Map && json.isNotEmpty) {
+      // ignore: parameter_assignments
+      json = json.cast<String, dynamic>();
+      for (final entry in json.entries) {
+        map[entry.key] = LoadTextualModelOnConnection.listFromJson(entry.value, growable: growable,);
+      }
+    }
+    return map;
+  }
+
+  /// The list of required keys that must be present in a JSON.
+  static const requiredKeys = <String>{
+    'enabled',
+    'ttl',
+  };
+}
+

open-api/immich-openapi-specs.json

@@ -8603,12 +8603,16 @@
           "enabled": {
             "type": "boolean"
           },
+          "loadTextualModelOnConnection": {
+            "$ref": "#/components/schemas/LoadTextualModelOnConnection"
+          },
           "modelName": {
             "type": "string"
           }
         },
         "required": [
           "enabled",
+          "loadTextualModelOnConnection",
           "modelName"
         ],
         "type": "object"
@@ -9433,6 +9437,23 @@
         ],
         "type": "object"
       },
+      "LoadTextualModelOnConnection": {
+        "properties": {
+          "enabled": {
+            "type": "boolean"
+          },
+          "ttl": {
+            "format": "int64",
+            "minimum": 0,
+            "type": "number"
+          }
+        },
+        "required": [
+          "enabled",
+          "ttl"
+        ],
+        "type": "object"
+      },
       "LogLevel": {
         "enum": [
           "verbose",

open-api/typescript-sdk/src/fetch-client.ts

@@ -1100,8 +1100,13 @@ export type SystemConfigLoggingDto = {
     enabled: boolean;
     level: LogLevel;
 };
+export type LoadTextualModelOnConnection = {
+    enabled: boolean;
+    ttl: number;
+};
 export type ClipConfig = {
     enabled: boolean;
+    loadTextualModelOnConnection: LoadTextualModelOnConnection;
     modelName: string;
 };
 export type DuplicateDetectionConfig = {

server/src/config.ts

@@ -120,6 +120,10 @@ export interface SystemConfig {
     clip: {
       enabled: boolean;
       modelName: string;
+      loadTextualModelOnConnection: {
+        enabled: boolean;
+        ttl: number;
+      };
     };
     duplicateDetection: {
       enabled: boolean;
@@ -270,6 +274,10 @@ export const defaults = Object.freeze<SystemConfig>({
     clip: {
       enabled: true,
       modelName: 'ViT-B-32__openai',
+      loadTextualModelOnConnection: {
+        enabled: false,
+        ttl: 300,
+      },
     },
     duplicateDetection: {
       enabled: true,

server/src/dtos/model-config.dto.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { ApiProperty } from '@nestjs/swagger';
 import { Type } from 'class-transformer';
-import { IsNotEmpty, IsNumber, IsString, Max, Min } from 'class-validator';
+import { IsNotEmpty, IsNumber, IsObject, IsString, Max, Min, ValidateNested } from 'class-validator';
 import { ValidateBoolean } from 'src/validation';
 
 export class TaskConfig {
@@ -14,7 +14,20 @@ export class ModelConfig extends TaskConfig {
   modelName!: string;
 }
 
-export class CLIPConfig extends ModelConfig {}
+export class LoadTextualModelOnConnection extends TaskConfig {
+  @IsNumber()
+  @Min(0)
+  @Type(() => Number)
+  @ApiProperty({ type: 'number', format: 'int64' })
+  ttl!: number;
+}
+
+export class CLIPConfig extends ModelConfig {
+  @Type(() => LoadTextualModelOnConnection)
+  @ValidateNested()
+  @IsObject()
+  loadTextualModelOnConnection!: LoadTextualModelOnConnection;
+}
 
 export class DuplicateDetectionConfig extends TaskConfig {
   @IsNumber()

server/src/interfaces/machine-learning.interface.ts

@@ -24,13 +24,17 @@ export type ModelPayload = { imagePath: string } | { text: string };
 
 type ModelOptions = { modelName: string };
 
+export interface LoadModelOptions extends ModelOptions {
+  ttl: number;
+}
+
 export type FaceDetectionOptions = ModelOptions & { minScore: number };
 
 type VisualResponse = { imageHeight: number; imageWidth: number };
 export type ClipVisualRequest = { [ModelTask.SEARCH]: { [ModelType.VISUAL]: ModelOptions } };
 export type ClipVisualResponse = { [ModelTask.SEARCH]: number[] } & VisualResponse;
 
-export type ClipTextualRequest = { [ModelTask.SEARCH]: { [ModelType.TEXTUAL]: ModelOptions } };
+export type ClipTextualRequest = { [ModelTask.SEARCH]: { [ModelType.TEXTUAL]: ModelOptions | LoadModelOptions } };
 export type ClipTextualResponse = { [ModelTask.SEARCH]: number[] };
 
 export type FacialRecognitionRequest = {
@@ -54,4 +58,5 @@ export interface IMachineLearningRepository {
   encodeImage(url: string, imagePath: string, config: ModelOptions): Promise<number[]>;
   encodeText(url: string, text: string, config: ModelOptions): Promise<number[]>;
   detectFaces(url: string, imagePath: string, config: FaceDetectionOptions): Promise<DetectedFaces>;
+  loadTextModel(url: string, config: ModelOptions): Promise<void>;
 }

server/src/repositories/event.repository.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import {
   WebSocketServer,
 } from '@nestjs/websockets';
 import { Server, Socket } from 'socket.io';
+import { SystemConfigCore } from 'src/cores/system-config.core';
 import {
   ArgsOf,
   ClientEventMap,
@@ -19,6 +20,8 @@ import {
   ServerEventMap,
 } from 'src/interfaces/event.interface';
 import { ILoggerRepository } from 'src/interfaces/logger.interface';
+import { IMachineLearningRepository } from 'src/interfaces/machine-learning.interface';
+import { ISystemMetadataRepository } from 'src/interfaces/system-metadata.interface';
 import { AuthService } from 'src/services/auth.service';
 import { Instrumentation } from 'src/utils/instrumentation';
 
@@ -33,6 +36,7 @@ type EmitHandlers = Partial<{ [T in EmitEvent]: EmitHandler<T>[] }>;
 @Injectable()
 export class EventRepository implements OnGatewayConnection, OnGatewayDisconnect, OnGatewayInit, IEventRepository {
   private emitHandlers: EmitHandlers = {};
+  private configCore: SystemConfigCore;
 
   @WebSocketServer()
   private server?: Server;
@@ -41,8 +45,11 @@ export class EventRepository implements OnGatewayConnection, OnGatewayDisconnect
     private moduleRef: ModuleRef,
     private eventEmitter: EventEmitter2,
     @Inject(ILoggerRepository) private logger: ILoggerRepository,
+    @Inject(IMachineLearningRepository) private machineLearningRepository: IMachineLearningRepository,
+    @Inject(ISystemMetadataRepository) systemMetadataRepository: ISystemMetadataRepository,
   ) {
     this.logger.setContext(EventRepository.name);
+    this.configCore = SystemConfigCore.create(systemMetadataRepository, this.logger);
   }
 
   afterInit(server: Server) {
@@ -68,6 +75,16 @@ export class EventRepository implements OnGatewayConnection, OnGatewayDisconnect
         queryParams: {},
         metadata: { adminRoute: false, sharedLinkRoute: false, uri: '/api/socket.io' },
       });
+      if ('background' in client.handshake.query && client.handshake.query.background === 'false') {
+        const { machineLearning } = await this.configCore.getConfig({ withCache: true });
+        if (machineLearning.clip.loadTextualModelOnConnection.enabled) {
+          try {
+            this.machineLearningRepository.loadTextModel(machineLearning.url, machineLearning.clip);
+          } catch (error) {
+            this.logger.warn(error);
+          }
+        }
+      }
       await client.join(auth.user.id);
       if (auth.session) {
         await client.join(auth.session.id);

server/src/repositories/machine-learning.repository.ts

@@ -20,13 +20,9 @@ const errorPrefix = 'Machine learning request';
 @Injectable()
 export class MachineLearningRepository implements IMachineLearningRepository {
   private async predict<T>(url: string, payload: ModelPayload, config: MachineLearningRequest): Promise<T> {
-    const formData = await this.getFormData(payload, config);
+    const formData = await this.getFormData(config, payload);
 
-    const res = await fetch(new URL('/predict', url), { method: 'POST', body: formData }).catch(
+    const res = await this.fetchData(url, '/predict', formData);
-      (error: Error | any) => {
-        throw new Error(`${errorPrefix} to "${url}" failed with ${error?.cause || error}`);
-      },
-    );
 
     if (res.status >= 400) {
       throw new Error(`${errorPrefix} '${JSON.stringify(config)}' failed with status ${res.status}: ${res.statusText}`);
@@ -34,6 +30,25 @@ export class MachineLearningRepository implements IMachineLearningRepository {
     return res.json();
   }
 
+  private async fetchData(url: string, path: string, formData?: FormData): Promise<Response> {
+    const res = await fetch(new URL(path, url), { method: 'POST', body: formData }).catch((error: Error | any) => {
+      throw new Error(`${errorPrefix} to "${url}" failed with ${error?.cause || error}`);
+    });
+
+    return res;
+  }
+
+  async loadTextModel(url: string, { modelName, loadTextualModelOnConnection: { ttl } }: CLIPConfig) {
+    try {
+      const request = { [ModelTask.SEARCH]: { [ModelType.TEXTUAL]: { modelName, ttl } } };
+      const formData = await this.getFormData(request);
+      const res = await this.fetchData(url, '/load', formData);
+      if (res.status >= 400) {
+        throw new Error(`${errorPrefix} Loadings textual model failed with status ${res.status}: ${res.statusText}`);
+      }
+    } catch (error) {}
+  }
+
   async detectFaces(url: string, imagePath: string, { modelName, minScore }: FaceDetectionOptions) {
     const request = {
       [ModelTask.FACIAL_RECOGNITION]: {
@@ -61,16 +76,17 @@ export class MachineLearningRepository implements IMachineLearningRepository {
     return response[ModelTask.SEARCH];
   }
 
-  private async getFormData(payload: ModelPayload, config: MachineLearningRequest): Promise<FormData> {
+  private async getFormData(config: MachineLearningRequest, payload?: ModelPayload): Promise<FormData> {
     const formData = new FormData();
     formData.append('entries', JSON.stringify(config));
-
+    if (payload) {
-    if ('imagePath' in payload) {
+      if ('imagePath' in payload) {
-      formData.append('image', new Blob([await readFile(payload.imagePath)]));
+        formData.append('image', new Blob([await readFile(payload.imagePath)]));
-    } else if ('text' in payload) {
+      } else if ('text' in payload) {
-      formData.append('text', payload.text);
+        formData.append('text', payload.text);
-    } else {
+      } else {
-      throw new Error('Invalid input');
+        throw new Error('Invalid input');
+      }
     }
 
     return formData;

web/src/lib/components/admin-page/settings/machine-learning-settings/machine-learning-settings.svelte

@@ -75,6 +75,38 @@
               </FormatMessage>
             </p>
           </SettingInputField>
+
+          <SettingAccordion
+            key="Preload clip model"
+            title={$t('admin.machine_learning_preload_model')}
+            subtitle={$t('admin.machine_learning_preload_model_setting_description')}
+          >
+            <div class="ml-4 mt-4 flex flex-col gap-4">
+              <SettingSwitch
+                title={$t('admin.machine_learning_preload_model_enabled')}
+                subtitle={$t('admin.machine_learning_preload_model_enabled_description')}
+                bind:checked={config.machineLearning.clip.loadTextualModelOnConnection.enabled}
+                disabled={disabled || !config.machineLearning.enabled || !config.machineLearning.clip.enabled}
+              />
+
+              <hr />
+
+              <SettingInputField
+                inputType={SettingInputFieldType.NUMBER}
+                label={$t('admin.machine_learning_preload_model_ttl')}
+                bind:value={config.machineLearning.clip.loadTextualModelOnConnection.ttl}
+                step="1"
+                min={0}
+                desc={$t('admin.machine_learning_max_detection_distance_description')}
+                disabled={disabled ||
+                  !config.machineLearning.enabled ||
+                  !config.machineLearning.clip.enabled ||
+                  !config.machineLearning.clip.loadTextualModelOnConnection.enabled}
+                isEdited={config.machineLearning.clip.loadTextualModelOnConnection.ttl !==
+                  savedConfig.machineLearning.clip.loadTextualModelOnConnection.ttl}
+              />
+            </div>
+          </SettingAccordion>
         </div>
       </SettingAccordion>
 

web/src/lib/i18n/en.json

@@ -114,6 +114,12 @@
     "machine_learning_min_detection_score_description": "Minimum confidence score for a face to be detected from 0-1. Lower values will detect more faces but may result in false positives.",
     "machine_learning_min_recognized_faces": "Minimum recognized faces",
     "machine_learning_min_recognized_faces_description": "The minimum number of recognized faces for a person to be created. Increasing this makes Facial Recognition more precise at the cost of increasing the chance that a face is not assigned to a person.",
+    "machine_learning_preload_model": "Preload model",
+    "machine_learning_preload_model_enabled": "Enable preload model",
+    "machine_learning_preload_model_enabled_description": "Preload the textual model during the connexion instead of during the first search",
+    "machine_learning_preload_model_setting_description": "Preload the textual model during the connexion",
+    "machine_learning_preload_model_ttl": "Inactivity time before a model in unloaded",
+    "machine_learning_preload_model_ttl_description": "Preload the textual model during the connexion",
     "machine_learning_settings": "Machine Learning Settings",
     "machine_learning_settings_description": "Manage machine learning features and settings",
     "machine_learning_smart_search": "Smart Search",

web/src/lib/stores/websocket.ts

@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ const websocket: Socket<Events> = io({
   reconnection: true,
   forceNew: true,
   autoConnect: false,
+  query: {
+    background: false,
+  },
 });
 
 export const websocketStore = {