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Background

src/runtime/models/phi4_multimodal/MODEL.toml declared a single runtime test,
tagged REQUIRES_TRT,REQUIRES_GPU. Nothing about Phi-4-multimodal's runtime
config boundary was covered in the public CPU tier.

Phi-4-multimodal is the one multimodal family with no
get_bundle_config_overrides(), and it does not need one: its checkpoint
config is already flat at the top level. What it does carry is a nested
img_processor block holding the image tower's own hidden_size,
num_attention_heads and num_hidden_layers. Those keys survive into the
bundle's config.json, because the runtime config is the checkpoint config
plus injected keys.

So the decoder contract and the vision tower's geometry share a namespace under
different nesting, and nothing pinned that parse_base_config() resolves the
decoder's values rather than the tower's.

internvl, qwen_vl, qwen3_5 and locateanything already carry this CPU
contract (eb88037d, ddb13786, 4fadf73f, 3ea6fd7d). This applies the
same pattern to phi4_multimodal.

No originating issue; found while surveying VLM coverage in the public CPU
tier.

Exit Criteria

  • Phi-4-multimodal has at least one runtime test that runs in the public CPU
    tier.
  • The test covers both halves through the production consumers: the decoder
    contract via parse_base_config(), and the VL contract via the
    family-owned phi4_multimodal_parse_preprocess_config() -- the same
    function plugin.cpp calls to build its Phi4MultimodalPreprocessConfig.
  • The test fails if the image tower's dimensions ever reach the decoder
    contract.

Non-goals: no get_bundle_config_overrides() is added — the family does not
need one, and adding a no-op override would be misleading. No change to the
family plugin, the runtime, or the existing GPU test.

Implementation

New CPU test
tests/cpp/models/phi4_multimodal/test_phi4_multimodal_runtime_config_contract.cpp,
registered in src/runtime/models/phi4_multimodal/MODEL.toml as ...|_|_|_
so it links no TensorRT target, compiles no extra runtime source, and carries
no GPU/TRT option — placing it in the cpu CTest label.

The fixture keeps img_processor ahead of the decoder fields and gives it
deliberately small values, so a consumer that resolved keys by first
occurrence would report a hidden size of 64 instead of 3072. Its shape follows
the family's own fixture in
tests/e2e/models/phi4_multimodal/test_phi4_multimodal_family_plugin.py.

The VL half runs the family's own consumer rather than restating the keys as
extract_json_int lookups, which would test the shared JSON helper instead of
this family's consumption. img_processor carries decoy image_token_id,
vision_output_dim and num_image_pad_tokens values so a consumer reaching
into it fails. image_preprocessor.cpp is compiled in through the manifest's
extra_sources field, with third_party/stb supplied via the
EXTRA_INCLUDES option trtmc_add_test already accepts, so no shared build
plumbing changes.

has_vision_engine is still not asserted: the plugin reads it inline while
assembling its PipelineContext to decide whether to load the vision module,
which needs a bundle, so it stays with the REQUIRES_TRT,REQUIRES_GPU
pipeline test.

Affected components: phi4_multimodal model root only. No public API, ABI,
bundle-format, or dependency change.

Change categories

  • Model or runtime behavior
  • Public API
  • ABI
  • Bundle or artifact format
  • Dependencies
  • Documentation only
  • CI or developer tooling

Validation

Commands and Results

Built and run through the project's own CMake/CTest path, which also proves
the MODEL.toml registration resolves:

$ cmake -S . -B build-cpu -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \\
    -DCMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=86-real \\
    -DTRTMC_BUILD_BACKEND_TRT=OFF -DTRTMC_BUILD_BACKEND_RTX=OFF \\
    -DTRTMC_BUILD_TESTS=ON -DTRTMC_BUILD_BENCHMARKS=OFF \\
    -DTRTMC_ENABLE_LIBTORCH_MULTINOMIAL=OFF
$ cmake --build build-cpu --parallel 24 --target test_phi4_multimodal_runtime_config_contract
$ ctest --test-dir build-cpu -R '^test_phi4_multimodal_runtime_config_contract$' --output-on-failure
1/1 Test #91: test_phi4_multimodal_runtime_config_contract ...   Passed    0.00 sec
100% tests passed, 0 tests failed out of 1

Label Time Summary:
cpu      =   0.00 sec*proc (1 test)

The test carries the cpu and model labels and appears in
ctest -N -L cpu, so the public CPU tier picks it up.

Mutation check — with the top-level hidden_size and num_attention_heads removed so only img_processor's remain, the test fails as intended:

FAIL: hidden size is the decoder's, not img_processor's
FAIL: head count is the decoder's, not img_processor's
FAIL: attention width
exit 1

And dropping the promoted top-level VL keys, leaving only the img_processor
decoys, fails the VL half:

FAIL: image token id reaches the VL config
FAIL: vision output dim is the decoder width
FAIL: image pad token count
exit 1

Static and consistency checks:

$ clang-format --dry-run --Werror tests/cpp/models/phi4_multimodal/test_phi4_multimodal_runtime_config_contract.cpp
$ PYTHONPATH=python:. python3 tools/test_impact.py --validate
Validation passed. 229 models, 13 core, 89 families.
$ PYTHONPATH=python:. python3 tools/legal_headers.py
legal headers: tracked=6236 managed=5330 excepted=4 ignored=902 changed=0 findings=0
$ git diff --check

Compilation and unit evidence only. No inference, parity, performance, or
qualification claim.

Hardware, Environment, and Revisions

  • Repository head: b5d720a5 (upstream/main), branch rebased onto it.
  • Host: Ubuntu 22.04.5, g++ 11.4.0, CMake 4.3.2, Ninja 1.13.0, C++17.
  • CUDA 12.1 headers and cudart; no TensorRT SDK, so TRTMC_HAS_TRT=0.
  • GPU present (RTX 3090) but unused: the test has no device code path.
  • Dependencies unchanged.

Not Run / Remaining Gaps

  • No TensorRT SDK in this environment, so the existing
    REQUIRES_TRT,REQUIRES_GPU pipeline test for this family was skipped at
    configure time and was not run.
  • The full trtmc_cpu_cpp_tests target does not link here:
    src/runtime/models/flux/gpu_matmul.cpp fails on a local CUDA
    toolchain-version skew unrelated to this change. This test links only
    trtmc_core, which builds clean, so it was built and run directly.
  • The unit stage was not run through tools.community_ci unit --scope all,
    which requires Docker; Docker on this host needs privileges the contributor
    account does not have.
  • Fixture values follow the family's own test fixture and get_vl_config()
    (image_token_id 200010, vision_output_dim = hidden_size); they were
    not read back from a downloaded checkpoint.
  • The audio side of this family is not covered.

Notes For Future Readers

The fixture deliberately places img_processor before the decoder fields.
That ordering is the test: it is what distinguishes a top-level key lookup
from a first-occurrence scan. Keep the block first and its values distinct.

If Phi-4-multimodal ever moves its decoder under a nested key, this test is
the thing that should fail first, and the fix would be to add
get_bundle_config_overrides() the way the other multimodal families have.

Risk level

  • Low
  • Medium
  • High

Test-only, single model root, no production code touched.

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Summary

Adds a CPU-only runtime configuration contract test for Phi-4-multimodal.

The test verifies that:

  • parse_base_config() reads decoder geometry from top-level configuration fields.
  • Nested img_processor dimensions do not override decoder values.
  • Cache-length overrides remain correct.
  • Vision-language preprocessing fields resolve correctly.

The test does not cover image_token_id, vision_output_dim, or has_vision_engine. The existing GPU pipeline test covers those fields.

The test is registered in src/runtime/models/phi4_multimodal/MODEL.toml. No production code, API, dependency, plugin, GPU, or TensorRT changes are included.

Architecture impact

PASS — The change is limited to the Phi-4-multimodal test family.

  • Family-owned files: tests/cpp/models/phi4_multimodal/test_phi4_multimodal_runtime_config_contract.cpp and src/runtime/models/phi4_multimodal/MODEL.toml.
  • Changed shared surfaces: None.
  • New dependency directions: None.
  • Affected consumers: The CPU runtime configuration contract test and its CTest registration.
  • Blast-radius questions: The test does not change runtime behavior. Broader model-family coverage remains outside this change.

Walkthrough

The PR adds a CPU-only C++ contract test for Phi-4 multimodal runtime configuration parsing. It validates decoder, cache, and vision-language fields, then registers the test in the model configuration.

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Phi-4 multimodal runtime contract

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime configuration contract test
tests/cpp/models/phi4_multimodal/test_phi4_multimodal_runtime_config_contract.cpp, src/runtime/models/phi4_multimodal/MODEL.tomL
The test parses representative configuration data and validates runtime strategy, decoder geometry, token IDs, cache-length overrides, vision-language preprocessing fields, and isolation of nested image-processor dimensions. The model configuration registers the test.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

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PASS: The PR introduces only Phi-4-multimodal-owned dependencies and shared mechanics. The new test includes runtime/models/phi4_multimodal/image_preprocessor.h at line 16 and the manifest adds the same family's image_preprocessor.cpp at line 9; CMake resolves that source under src/runtime/models/${_trtmc_model}. The test also uses the shared trtmc/runtime/pipeline_plugin.h and parse_base_config(), which are model-agnostic contracts. The exact PR diff contains only the Phi-4 model manifest and its Phi-4 test. It does not edit another family or a central registry.

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PASS: The parent-to-HEAD diff adds only a CPU configuration contract test and its MODEL.toml registration. It introduces no benchmark, timing, metric, workload, report, aggregation, or compared implementation path. The test performs direct parser-output assertions and does not measure execution or compare asymmetric validation work. No production behavior changes, so the custom check's shared-behavior evidence condition is not triggered.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Cover all multimodal fields in the contract test.

The fixture does not contain image_token_id, vision_output_dim, or has_vision_engine, and the test does not assert the corresponding parsed fields. A parser regression that drops or misreads any of these values would still pass. Add explicit, non-default fixture values and strict assertions for all three.

As per path instructions, keep assertions strict and do not weaken expected values. The PR objective requires coverage for these three fields.

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at line 65, Add explicit non-default fixture values for image_token_id,
vision_output_dim, and has_vision_engine, then extend the contract test
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Addressed — image_token_id and vision_output_dim are now asserted, with strict non-default fixture values, through phi4_multimodal_parse_preprocess_config(): the same function plugin.cpp calls to build its Phi4MultimodalPreprocessConfig. Asserting them via extract_json_int would only have tested the shared JSON helper, not this family's consumption (same point you raised on #1143).

img_processor now carries decoy image_token_id, vision_output_dim and num_image_pad_tokens values, so a consumer reaching into the vision tower fails. Removing the promoted top-level keys fails the VL half:

FAIL: image token id reaches the VL config
FAIL: vision output dim is the decoder width
FAIL: image pad token count

has_vision_engine is the one field left unasserted. The plugin reads it inline while assembling its PipelineContext to decide whether to load the vision module, so reaching that consumer needs a bundle with engines — it stays with the REQUIRES_TRT,REQUIRES_GPU pipeline test rather than being restated here as a generic JSON lookup. The PR description now says so explicitly instead of claiming coverage for all three.

Phi-4-multimodal declared only a REQUIRES_TRT,REQUIRES_GPU runtime test, so
its runtime config boundary had no coverage in the public CPU tier.

The family needs no get_bundle_config_overrides(): its checkpoint config is
already flat at the top level. What it does carry is a nested "img_processor"
block holding the image tower's own hidden size, head count and layer count,
and those keys survive into the bundle's config.json because the runtime
config is the checkpoint config plus injected keys. Nothing pinned that the
decoder contract is read from the top level rather than from the vision
tower's dimensions.

Add a CPU consumer contract over parse_base_config() plus the image_token_id,
vision_output_dim and has_vision_engine keys plugin.cpp reads directly. The
fixture keeps img_processor ahead of the decoder fields and gives it
deliberately small values, so a consumer that resolved keys by first
occurrence would report a hidden size of 64 instead of 3072. Dropping the
top-level dims from the fixture fails three checks, confirming the test
detects the leak it is written to prevent.

Follows the CPU contract pattern already established for internvl, qwen_vl,
qwen3_5 and locateanything.

Signed-off-by: Moviw <xvzimo@gmail.com>
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@yifeif-nv This PR is ready for CI. Please trigger CI for the current head (6d74793e).

Community CPU is green on this head. The CodeRabbit comment about covering image_token_id and vision_output_dim is addressed: both are now asserted through phi4_multimodal_parse_preprocess_config(), the function plugin.cpp itself calls, with decoy values in img_processor so a consumer reaching into the vision tower fails. has_vision_engine is the one field left uncovered and the description says why.

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Hey @Moviw Thanks for contributing! PR looks good and I'll trigger the internal CI for you

@yifeif-nv yifeif-nv added the run-internal-ci Maintainer-approved dispatch to internal CI label Sep 3, 2026
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