granite embedding small support (ModernBert arch)

[ryan-mangeno]

adding support to run granite embedding small, and it primarily pulls the modern bert architecture - https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2, currently working on it still, havent figured out the pre-tokenizer type or if I need to impliment it, also for the ubatch size the assert fails in llama-graph.cpp, hacked it to accept ubatch size of 1 for testing, but it seems to keep failing there and not sure why,

if I comment out of the line in llama-graph.cpp

assert(!ubatch.equal_seqs());

then it works

[ryan-mangeno]

@gabe-l-hart thanks in advance :)

[ryan-mangeno]

@gabe-l-hart thanks in advance :)

also realizing this a little late haha, but should I be changing all of the modern bert stuff to a granite embedding macro like LLM_ARCH_GRANITE_EMBD or keep it as is

[CISC]

You may want to check out an earlier attempt at ModernBert in #14014

[gabe-l-hart]

Thanks for getting this together @ryan-mangeno and thanks for pointing out the previous work @CISC. Ryan, let me know if/when you've looked over that PR and found anything to fix and I'll take a pass at review.

[gabe-l-hart]

also realizing this a little late haha, but should I be changing all of the modern bert stuff to a granite embedding macro like LLM_ARCH_GRANITE_EMBD or keep it as is

In general, we want to keep things as generic as possible, so since this uses the ModernBertModel architecture from transformers, it's best to keep the implementation here similarly robust unless there's a concrete reason to subset the transformers architecture to just work for granite (eg there's some non-trivial code path in the transformers version that would make sense as a separate architecture).

[ryan-mangeno]

Thanks for getting this together @ryan-mangeno and thanks for pointing out the previous work @CISC. Ryan, let me know if/when you've looked over that PR and found anything to fix and I'll take a pass at review.

will do

[ryan-mangeno]

@gabe-l-hart im looking into modern berts research paper, I cant find a mention of symmetric sliding window attention but rather local sliding window attention so I am going to opt to use LLAMA_SWA_TYPE_LOCAL versus LLAMA_SWA_TYPE_SYMMETRIC used in the previous attempt. It also uses global attention every third layer so I am going to implement this stuff and then it should be ready for a review :)

[gabe-l-hart]

@ryan-mangeno That sounds good! I haven't unpacked any of those mechanics myself, but can try to get into it if you get stuck.

[ryan-mangeno]

@ryan-mangeno That sounds good! I haven't unpacked any of those mechanics myself, but can try to get into it if you get stuck.

ok 👍 , made some changes but not sure if its fully ready yet, I will ping you when I think its ready if thats ok

[ryan-mangeno]

status update - I found out that modern bert uses an alternating rope method , per https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.13663

In ModernBERT, every third layer employs global
attention with a RoPE theta of 160,000 and the
remaining layers use a 128 token, local sliding window attention with a RoPE theta of 10,000.

I am currently figuring out how to implement this

[ehoogeveen-medweb]

status update - I found out that modern bert uses an alternating rope method , per arxiv.org/pdf/2412.13663

In ModernBERT, every third layer employs global
attention with a RoPE theta of 160,000 and the
remaining layers use a 128 token, local sliding window attention with a RoPE theta of 10,000.

I am currently figuring out how to implement this

IIUC this matches how sliding window attention is handled for Gemma3:

llama.cpp/src/llama-model.cpp

Line 1106 in 5d6688d

hparams.rope_freq_base_train_swa = 10000.0f;