mtmd: deepseek-ocr v1 multi-tile (#24717)

* mtmd: deepseek-ocr v1 multi-tile dynamic resolution + unified image-preprocessors for both versions (ds-ocr v1 and v2)

* remove hacky API

* fuse row into a long image

* almost working

* adapt to new preprocessor api

* rm debugging printf

* improve

* mtmd: dsocr-tiles fixes (#25481)

* ds-ocr img-preproc fuse_row tile-drop fix for multi rows and columns images

* mtmd drop the duplicate redundant img_end

* deepseekocr graph simplify CLS broadcast cleanup

* test-deepseek-ocr: relax v1 single-view tolerance; drop trailing prompt space; make DRY opt-in and n_predict model-specific (#25486)

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Co-authored-by: Saba Fallah <10401143+sfallah@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Saba Fallah <sabafallah@gmail.com>

tools/mtmd/clip-graph.h

@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ struct clip_graph {
     const clip_hparams & hparams;
     projector_type proj_type;
 
-    // we only support single image per batch
+    const clip_image_f32 & img; // for backward compat
-    const clip_image_f32 & img;
+    const clip_image_f32_batch * img_batch = nullptr;
 
     const int patch_size;
     const int n_patches_x;
@@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ struct clip_graph {
     //
     void cb(ggml_tensor * cur0, const char * name, int il) const;
 
+    const clip_image_f32 & get_img(size_t idx) const {
+        GGML_ASSERT(img_batch);
+        GGML_ASSERT(idx < img_batch->entries.size());
+        return img_batch->entries[idx];
+    }
+
     // siglip2 naflex
     ggml_tensor * resize_position_embeddings(uint32_t interpolation_mode = DEFAULT_INTERPOLATION_MODE);
 

tools/mtmd/clip-model.h

@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ struct clip_hparams {
     std::vector<clip_image_size> image_res_candidates;
     int32_t preproc_min_tiles = 0;
     int32_t preproc_max_tiles = 0;
+    int32_t preproc_tile_size = 0; // local tile size (deepseek-ocr)
     resize_algo image_resize_algo_rf = RESIZE_ALGO_BICUBIC;
     resize_algo image_resize_algo_ov = RESIZE_ALGO_BILINEAR;
     pad_style image_pad_rf = PAD_CEIL;  // padding style for the refined image (e.g. llava-1.6)

tools/mtmd/clip.cpp

@@ -1024,6 +1024,8 @@ static std::unique_ptr<clip_graph> clip_get_graph_builder(clip_ctx * ctx, const
             GGML_ABORT("missing cgraph builder");
     }
 
+    builder->img_batch = &imgs;
+
     // TODO [QWEN_VIDEO]: improve this in the future
     builder->n_batch = imgs.entries.size();
 
@@ -1580,7 +1582,16 @@ struct clip_model_loader {
                         get_u32(KEY_SAM_N_HEAD, hparams.sam_n_head, true);
                         get_u32(KEY_SAM_N_EMBD, hparams.sam_n_embd, true);
                         get_u32(KEY_ATTN_WINDOW_SIZE, hparams.attn_window_size, true);
+                        hparams.preproc_min_tiles = 2;
+                        if (model.proj_type == PROJECTOR_TYPE_DEEPSEEKOCR) {
+                            hparams.preproc_max_tiles = 9;
+                            hparams.preproc_tile_size = 640;
+                            // the CLIP/ViT body runs its layernorms at 1e-5 (the SAM stage uses 1e-6)
+                            hparams.eps = 1e-5f;
+                        }
                         if (model.proj_type == PROJECTOR_TYPE_DEEPSEEKOCR2) {
+                            hparams.preproc_max_tiles = 6;
+                            hparams.preproc_tile_size = 768;
                             // qwen2 encoder is GQA, requires KEY_N_HEAD_KV
                             get_u32(string_format(KEY_N_HEAD_KV, "vision"), hparams.n_head_kv);
                         }
@@ -3251,6 +3262,9 @@ int clip_n_output_tokens_x(const clip_ctx * ctx, const clip_image_f32 * img) {
             return (img->nx() / params.patch_size) / 2;
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_STEP3VL:
             return img->nx() / (params.patch_size * params.n_merge);
+        case PROJECTOR_TYPE_DEEPSEEKOCR:
+        case PROJECTOR_TYPE_DEEPSEEKOCR2:
+            return (img->nx() / params.patch_size) / 4;
         default:
             break;
     }
@@ -3460,10 +3474,17 @@ int clip_n_output_tokens(const clip_ctx * ctx, const clip_image_f32 * img) {
             // E.g., 64x64 -> 16x16 patches
             n_patches /= 16;
 
-            // build_global_local_features adds image newlines and view separator
+            if (img->add_viewsep) {
-            // Formula: h*(w+1) + 1 where h = w = sqrt(n_patches)
+                // global view: one image-newline per token-row + trailing view separator
-            int h = static_cast<int>(std::sqrt(static_cast<float>(n_patches)));
+                const int h = static_cast<int>(std::sqrt(static_cast<float>(n_patches)));
-            n_patches = h * (h + 1) + 1;
+                n_patches = h * (h + 1) + 1;
+            } else if (img->ny() >= img->nx() && img->ny() % img->nx() == 0) {
+                // tile row: one image-newline per token-row
+                const int grid_w = img->ny() / img->nx();
+                const int tile_patches = img->nx() / (patch_size * 4); // patches per tile side (SAM divides by 4)
+                const int h = tile_patches;
+                n_patches = (tile_patches * grid_w + 1) * h;
+            }
         } break;
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_HUNYUANVL:
             {
@@ -4103,7 +4124,10 @@ bool clip_image_batch_encode(clip_ctx * ctx, int n_threads, const clip_image_f32
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_DEEPSEEKOCR:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_DEEPSEEKOCR2:
             {
-                GGML_ASSERT(pos_w == pos_h);
+                GGML_ASSERT(
+                    (pos_w == pos_h) // overview image
+                    || (pos_h >= pos_w && pos_h % pos_w == 0) // tile images
+                );
 
                 const int window = hparams.attn_window_size;
                 const int pos = pos_w;

tools/mtmd/models/deepseekocr.cpp

@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ ggml_tensor * clip_graph_deepseekocr::build_sam(ggml_tensor * inp_raw) {
     const int n_heads = hparams.sam_n_head;
     const int d_heads = n_embd / n_heads;
     const int window  = hparams.attn_window_size;
+    // SAM stage runs its layernorms at 1e-6
+    const float sam_eps = 1e-6f;
 
     ggml_tensor * inpL;
 
@@ -134,7 +136,7 @@ ggml_tensor * clip_graph_deepseekocr::build_sam(ggml_tensor * inp_raw) {
         ggml_tensor * shortcut = cur;
 
         // layernorm1
-        cur = build_norm(cur, layer.ln_1_w, layer.ln_1_b, NORM_TYPE_NORMAL, eps, il);
+        cur = build_norm(cur, layer.ln_1_w, layer.ln_1_b, NORM_TYPE_NORMAL, sam_eps, il);
 
         const int64_t w0 = cur->ne[1];
         const int64_t h0 = cur->ne[2];
@@ -214,7 +216,7 @@ ggml_tensor * clip_graph_deepseekocr::build_sam(ggml_tensor * inp_raw) {
         ggml_tensor * inpFF = cur;
 
         // layernorm2
-        cur = build_norm(inpFF, layer.ln_2_w, layer.ln_2_b, NORM_TYPE_NORMAL, eps, il);
+        cur = build_norm(inpFF, layer.ln_2_w, layer.ln_2_b, NORM_TYPE_NORMAL, sam_eps, il);
 
         // ffn
         cur = build_ffn(cur, layer.ff_up_w, layer.ff_up_b, nullptr, nullptr, layer.ff_down_w, layer.ff_down_b,
@@ -229,12 +231,12 @@ ggml_tensor * clip_graph_deepseekocr::build_sam(ggml_tensor * inp_raw) {
 
     cur = ggml_conv_2d(ctx0, model.neck_0_w, cur, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1);
     cur = ggml_cont(ctx0, ggml_permute(ctx0, cur, 1, 2, 0, 3));
-    cur = build_norm(cur, model.neck_1_w, model.neck_1_b, NORM_TYPE_NORMAL, hparams.eps, -1);
+    cur = build_norm(cur, model.neck_1_w, model.neck_1_b, NORM_TYPE_NORMAL, sam_eps, -1);
     cur = ggml_cont(ctx0, ggml_permute(ctx0, cur, 2, 0, 1, 3));
 
     cur = ggml_conv_2d(ctx0, model.neck_2_w, cur, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1);
     cur = ggml_cont(ctx0, ggml_permute(ctx0, cur, 1, 2, 0, 3));
-    cur = build_norm(cur, model.neck_3_w, model.neck_3_b, NORM_TYPE_NORMAL, hparams.eps, -1);
+    cur = build_norm(cur, model.neck_3_w, model.neck_3_b, NORM_TYPE_NORMAL, sam_eps, -1);
     cur = ggml_cont(ctx0, ggml_permute(ctx0, cur, 2, 0, 1, 3));
 
     cur = ggml_conv_2d(ctx0, model.net_2, cur, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1);
@@ -248,8 +250,40 @@ ggml_tensor * clip_graph_deepseekocr::build_sam(ggml_tensor * inp_raw) {
 ggml_cgraph * clip_graph_deepseekocr::build() {
     // patch embedding
     ggml_tensor * inp_raw = build_inp_raw();
+
+    bool is_overview = img.add_viewsep;
+    int n_tiles_per_row = 0;
+
+    // note: we expect either a batch of rows or a batch of overviews, but not a mix of both
+
+    if (!is_overview) {
+        // handle the case where we have a batch of rows
+        // sanity check
+        for (auto & entry : img_batch->entries) {
+            if (entry.add_viewsep) {
+                throw std::runtime_error("DeepSeek-OCR: mixed overview and non-overview images in batch");
+            }
+            if (entry.nx() != img.nx() || entry.ny() != img.ny()) {
+                throw std::runtime_error("DeepSeek-OCR: mixed image sizes in batch");
+            }
+        }
+
+        GGML_ASSERT(img.ny() >= img.nx());
+        GGML_ASSERT(img.ny() % img.nx() == 0);
+        n_tiles_per_row = img.ny() / img.nx();
+
+        // input shape: [tile_size, tile_size * n_tiles_per_row, 3]
+        // we want to reshape it to [tile_size, tile_size, 3, n_tiles_per_row]
+        inp_raw = ggml_reshape_4d(ctx0, inp_raw, img.nx(), img.nx(), n_tiles_per_row, 3);
+        inp_raw = ggml_cont(ctx0, ggml_permute(ctx0, inp_raw, 0, 1, 3, 2));
+    }
+
     ggml_tensor * sam_out = build_sam(inp_raw);
 
+    if (!is_overview) {
+        n_batch = n_tiles_per_row;
+    }
+
     const int clip_n_patches = sam_out->ne[0] * sam_out->ne[1];
 
     ggml_tensor * clip_out;
@@ -257,7 +291,9 @@ ggml_cgraph * clip_graph_deepseekocr::build() {
     {
         ggml_tensor * inp;
 
-        inp = ggml_reshape_2d(ctx0, sam_out, clip_n_patches, sam_out->ne[2]);
+        // sam_out: [patch_h, patch_w, n_embd, n_batch]
+        // -> [n_embd, clip_n_patches, n_batch]
+        inp = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, sam_out, clip_n_patches, sam_out->ne[2], sam_out->ne[3]);
         inp = ggml_cont(ctx0, ggml_permute(ctx0, inp, 1, 0, 2, 3));
 
         ggml_tensor * new_pos_embd = model.position_embeddings;
@@ -281,8 +317,11 @@ ggml_cgraph * clip_graph_deepseekocr::build() {
             n_pos        = tgt_size * tgt_size + 1;
         }
 
-        // add CLS token
+        // add CLS token per batch item
-        inp = ggml_concat(ctx0, model.class_embedding, inp, 1);
+        // inp: [n_embd, clip_n_patches, n_batch]
+        // class_embedding: [n_embd] -> [n_embd, 1, n_batch]
+        ggml_tensor * cls_embd = ggml_repeat_4d(ctx0, model.class_embedding, n_embd, 1, n_batch, 1);
+        inp = ggml_concat(ctx0, cls_embd, inp, 1);
 
         // for selecting learned pos embd, used by ViT
         ggml_tensor * positions        = ggml_cast(ctx0, ggml_arange(ctx0, 0, n_pos, 1), GGML_TYPE_I32);
@@ -294,25 +333,56 @@ ggml_cgraph * clip_graph_deepseekocr::build() {
         clip_out = cur;
     }
 
+    // sam_out: [patch_h, patch_w, n_embd, n_batch]
+    // -> [n_embd, clip_n_patches, n_batch]
     sam_out  = ggml_cont(ctx0, ggml_permute(ctx0, sam_out, 1, 2, 0, 3));
-    sam_out  = ggml_reshape_2d(ctx0, sam_out, sam_out->ne[0], clip_n_patches);
+    sam_out  = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, sam_out, sam_out->ne[0], clip_n_patches, n_batch);
-    clip_out = ggml_view_2d(ctx0, clip_out, n_embd, clip_n_patches, clip_out->nb[1], clip_out->nb[1]);
+
+    // clip_out: [n_embd, n_pos, n_batch] where n_pos = clip_n_patches + 1 (CLS)
+    // strip CLS token: skip first position, view only the patch tokens
+    clip_out = ggml_view_3d(ctx0, clip_out, n_embd, clip_n_patches, n_batch,
+                            clip_out->nb[1], clip_out->nb[2], clip_out->nb[1]);
 
     ggml_tensor * cur;
     cur = ggml_concat(ctx0, clip_out, sam_out, 0);
     cur = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, model.mm_fc_w, cur);
     cur = ggml_add(ctx0, cur, model.mm_fc_b);
 
-    const auto h     = static_cast<int>(std::sqrt(static_cast<float>(cur->ne[1])));
+    if (is_overview) {
-    const auto w     = h;
+        // global view: weave one newline per row + trailing view separator
-    const auto n_dim = cur->ne[0];
+        const auto h     = static_cast<int>(std::sqrt(static_cast<float>(cur->ne[1])));
+        const auto w     = h;
+        const auto n_dim = cur->ne[0];
 
-    ggml_tensor * imgnl;
+        ggml_tensor * imgnl = ggml_repeat_4d(ctx0, model.image_newline, n_dim, 1, h, 1);
+        cur = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, cur, n_dim, w, h);
+        cur = ggml_reshape_2d(ctx0, ggml_concat(ctx0, cur, imgnl, 1), n_dim, (w + 1) * h);
+        cur = ggml_concat(ctx0, cur, model.view_seperator, 1);  // (n_dim, h*(w+1) + 1)
+    } else {
+        // tile row: interleave tiles within each row, add newline per row
+        const int grid_x      = static_cast<int>(std::sqrt(static_cast<float>(clip_n_patches)));
+        const int grid_y      = grid_x;
+        const auto n_dim      = cur->ne[0];
 
-    imgnl = ggml_repeat_4d(ctx0, model.image_newline, n_dim, 1, h, 1);
+        // (n_dim, clip_n_patches, n_batch) -> (n_dim, grid_x, grid_y, n_batch)
-    cur   = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, cur, n_dim, w, h);
+        cur = ggml_reshape_4d(ctx0, cur, n_dim, grid_x, grid_y, n_batch);
-    cur   = ggml_reshape_2d(ctx0, ggml_concat(ctx0, cur, imgnl, 1), n_dim, (w + 1) * h);
+
-    cur   = ggml_concat(ctx0, cur, model.view_seperator, 1);  // (n_dim, h*(w+1) + 1)
+        // tiles: re-order from A.row0 A.row1 B.row0 B.row1 ...
+        //        to A.row0 B.row0 A.row1 B.row1 ...
+        //        then add nl: A.row0 B.row0 [nl] A.row1 B.row1 [nl] ...
+        // interleave tiles: (n_dim, grid_x, grid_y, n_batch) -> (n_dim, grid_x, n_batch, grid_y)
+        cur = ggml_cont(ctx0, ggml_permute(ctx0, cur, 0, 1, 3, 2));
+
+        // merge: (n_dim, grid_x, n_batch, grid_y) -> (n_dim, grid_x*n_batch, grid_y, 1)
+        cur = ggml_reshape_4d(ctx0, cur, n_dim, grid_x * n_batch, grid_y, 1);
+
+        // append newline per row: (n_dim, grid_x*n_batch+1, grid_y, 1)
+        ggml_tensor * imgnl = ggml_repeat_4d(ctx0, model.image_newline, n_dim, 1, grid_y, 1);
+        cur = ggml_concat(ctx0, cur, imgnl, 1);
+
+        // flatten: (n_dim, (grid_x*n_batch+1)*grid_y)
+        cur = ggml_reshape_2d(ctx0, cur, n_dim, (grid_x * n_batch + 1) * grid_y);
+    }
 
     cb(cur, "dsocr_output", -1);
 

tools/mtmd/models/models.h

@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ struct clip_graph_deepseekocr : clip_graph {
     clip_graph_deepseekocr(clip_ctx * ctx, const clip_image_f32 & img) : clip_graph(ctx, img) {}
     ggml_cgraph * build() override;
     ggml_tensor * build_sam(ggml_tensor * inp); // build the SAM model
+    // bool support_batch() const override { return true; } // TODO: support batch for DeepSeek-OCR v1
 };
 
 struct clip_graph_deepseekocr2 : clip_graph_deepseekocr {

tools/mtmd/mtmd-image.cpp

@@ -1107,44 +1107,7 @@ mtmd_image_preproc_out mtmd_image_preprocessor_internvl::preprocess(const clip_i
 // mtmd_image_preprocessor_deepseekocr
 //
 
-mtmd_image_preproc_out mtmd_image_preprocessor_deepseekocr::preprocess(const clip_image_u8 & img) {
+std::vector<clip_image_size> mtmd_image_preprocessor_deepseekocr::get_target_ratios() const {
-    static constexpr int native_resolutions[] = { 1024 /* base */, 1280 /* large */ };
-    // TODO: support 512 (tiny) and 640 (small) once we have eval data for them
-
-    const int64_t orig_area = static_cast<int64_t>(img.get_size().area());
-
-    size_t  mode_i   = 0;
-    int64_t min_diff = std::numeric_limits<int64_t>::max();
-    for (size_t i = 0; i < std::size(native_resolutions); i++) {
-        const int64_t r    = native_resolutions[i];
-        const int64_t diff = std::abs(orig_area - r * r);
-        if (diff < min_diff) {
-            mode_i   = i;
-            min_diff = diff;
-        }
-    }
-    const int image_size = native_resolutions[mode_i];
-
-    // Aspect-preserving fit-and-pad. Pillow bicubic + PAD_NEAREST for
-    // byte-parity with the upstream deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR HF preprocessor.
-    clip_image_u8 padded;
-    img_tool::resize(img, padded, {image_size, image_size}, RESIZE_ALGO_BICUBIC_PILLOW,
-                     PAD_NEAREST, hparams.image_pad_color);
-    mtmd_image_preproc_out output;
-    output.append_overview(hparams, padded, true);
-    output.grid_x = 0;
-    output.grid_y = 0;
-    // TODO @ngxson : support slicing for DeepSeek-OCR, to do in another PR
-    return output;
-}
-
-//
-// mtmd_image_preprocessor_deepseekocr2
-//
-
-// candidate tile grids (cols, rows) with min_tiles <= cols*rows <= max_tiles
-// sorted by tile count
-std::vector<clip_image_size> mtmd_image_preprocessor_deepseekocr2::get_target_ratios() {
     std::vector<clip_image_size> ratios;
     for (int n = min_tiles; n <= max_tiles; n++) {
         for (int w = 1; w <= n; w++) {
@@ -1171,13 +1134,11 @@ std::vector<clip_image_size> mtmd_image_preprocessor_deepseekocr2::get_target_ra
     return ratios;
 }
 
-// pick the grid whose aspect ratio is closest to the image
+clip_image_size mtmd_image_preprocessor_deepseekocr::find_closest_aspect_ratio(
-// on a tie, prefer the larger grid when the image fits
-clip_image_size mtmd_image_preprocessor_deepseekocr2::find_closest_aspect_ratio(
     float                                aspect_ratio,
     const std::vector<clip_image_size> & target_ratios,
     int                                  width,
-    int                                  height) {
+    int                                  height) const {
     float           best_ratio_diff = std::numeric_limits<float>::max();
     clip_image_size best_ratio      = { 1, 1 };
     const float     area            = static_cast<float>(width * height);
@@ -1198,37 +1159,69 @@ clip_image_size mtmd_image_preprocessor_deepseekocr2::find_closest_aspect_ratio(
     return best_ratio;
 }
 
-mtmd_image_preproc_out mtmd_image_preprocessor_deepseekocr2::preprocess(const clip_image_u8 & img) {
+mtmd_image_preproc_out mtmd_image_preprocessor_deepseekocr::preprocess(const clip_image_u8 & img) {
-    // emit 768x768 local tiles when the image is larger than a tile in either
-    // dimension, then always a 1024x1024 global view. order: [tiles..., global].
-
     mtmd_image_preproc_out output;
+    int grid_w = 0;
+    int grid_h = 0;
     const auto img_size = img.get_size();
+
+    // global view: aspect-preserving fit-and-pad to base_size
+    clip_image_u8 padded;
+    img_tool::resize(img, padded,
+                    { base_size, base_size },
+                    RESIZE_ALGO_BICUBIC_PILLOW,
+                    PAD_NEAREST,
+                    hparams.image_pad_color);
+    output.append_overview(hparams, padded, true);
+    output.overview.add_viewsep = true;
+
+    // if this condition doesn't hold, the output is overview only, no tiles
     if (img_size.width > tile_size || img_size.height > tile_size) {
         const float           aspect_ratio  = static_cast<float>(img_size.width) / img_size.height;
         const auto            target_ratios = get_target_ratios();
-        const clip_image_size grid          = find_closest_aspect_ratio(aspect_ratio, target_ratios, img_size.width, img_size.height);
+        const clip_image_size grid =
+            find_closest_aspect_ratio(aspect_ratio, target_ratios, img_size.width, img_size.height);
+        grid_w = grid.width;
+        grid_h = grid.height;
 
-        // stretch onto the grid (no aspect preserve), then crop tiles row-major.
         clip_image_u8 refined;
-        img_tool::resize(img, refined, { tile_size * grid.width, tile_size * grid.height },
+        img_tool::resize(img, refined, { tile_size * grid_w, tile_size * grid_h }, RESIZE_ALGO_BICUBIC_PILLOW,
-                         RESIZE_ALGO_BICUBIC_PILLOW, PAD_NONE);
+                         PAD_NONE);
 
-        for (int row = 0; row < grid.height; row++) {
+        for (int row = 0; row < grid_h; row++) {
-            for (int col = 0; col < grid.width; col++) {
+            if (fuse_row) {
-                clip_image_u8 tile;
+                // concat all tiles in this row into a single image, along the H axis
-                img_tool::crop(refined, tile, col * tile_size, row * tile_size, tile_size, tile_size);
+                // output image size: w = tile_size, h = tile_size * grid_w
-                output.append(hparams, tile, true);
+                // this is to ensure the whole row is always processed together
+                clip_image_u8 row_img;
+                row_img.set_size({tile_size, tile_size * grid_w}, false);
+                for (int col = 0; col < grid_w; col++) {
+                    for (int py = 0; py < tile_size; py++) {
+                        for (int px = 0; px < tile_size; px++) {
+                            row_img.set_pixel(px, col * tile_size + py,
+                                              refined.get_pixel(col * tile_size + px, row * tile_size + py));
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+                output.append(hparams, row_img, true);
+            } else {
+                for (int col = 0; col < grid_w; col++) {
+                    clip_image_u8 tile;
+                    img_tool::crop(refined, tile, col * tile_size, row * tile_size, tile_size, tile_size);
+                    output.append(hparams, tile, true);
+                }
             }
         }
+        if (fuse_row) {
+            grid_w = 1; // each fused row is one image; a single output column
+        }
     }
 
-    // global view: aspect-preserving fit-and-pad to base_size.
+    LOG_DBG("%s: grid size: %d x %d (%d tiles) + global view\n", __func__, grid_w, grid_h, grid_w * grid_h);
-    clip_image_u8 padded;
+    LOG_DBG("%s: overview size: %d x %d\n", __func__, padded.get_size().width, padded.get_size().height);
-    img_tool::resize(img, padded, { base_size, base_size }, RESIZE_ALGO_BICUBIC_PILLOW,
+
-                     PAD_NEAREST, hparams.image_pad_color);
+    output.grid_x = grid_w;
-    output.append_overview(hparams, padded, true);
+    output.grid_y = grid_h;
-    output.overview.add_viewsep = true;
     return output;
 }
 

tools/mtmd/mtmd-image.h

@@ -160,29 +160,29 @@ struct mtmd_image_preprocessor_internvl : mtmd_image_preprocessor_llava_uhd {
     mtmd_image_preproc_out preprocess(const clip_image_u8 & img) override;
 };
 
+// DeepSeek-OCR (v1/v2) global view + optional local tile grid
 struct mtmd_image_preprocessor_deepseekocr : mtmd_image_preprocessor {
-    mtmd_image_preprocessor_deepseekocr(const clip_ctx * ctx) : mtmd_image_preprocessor(ctx) {}
+    mtmd_image_preprocessor_deepseekocr(const clip_ctx * ctx)
-    mtmd_image_preproc_out preprocess(const clip_image_u8 & img) override;
+        : mtmd_image_preprocessor(ctx),
-};
+            fuse_row(clip_get_projector_type(ctx) == PROJECTOR_TYPE_DEEPSEEKOCR),
-
+          base_size(hparams.image_size),
-// DeepSeek-OCR-2: a 1024x1024 global view, plus InternVL-style 768x768 local
+          tile_size(hparams.preproc_tile_size),
-// tiles when the image is larger than a tile in either dimension.
+          min_tiles(hparams.preproc_min_tiles),
-struct mtmd_image_preprocessor_deepseekocr2 : mtmd_image_preprocessor {
+          max_tiles(hparams.preproc_max_tiles) {}
-    static constexpr int base_size = 1024; // global view
-    static constexpr int tile_size = 768;  // local tile
-    static constexpr int min_tiles = 2;
-    static constexpr int max_tiles = 6;
-
-    mtmd_image_preprocessor_deepseekocr2(const clip_ctx * ctx) : mtmd_image_preprocessor(ctx) {}
     mtmd_image_preproc_out preprocess(const clip_image_u8 & img) override;
 
 private:
-    static std::vector<clip_image_size> get_target_ratios();
+    bool fuse_row; // v1 fuses a tile-row into one image; v2 keeps tiles separate
-    static clip_image_size              find_closest_aspect_ratio(
+    int base_size; // global view
-        float                                aspect_ratio,
+    int tile_size; // each tile
-        const std::vector<clip_image_size> & target_ratios,
+    int min_tiles;
-        int                                  width,
+    int max_tiles;
-        int                                  height);
+
+    std::vector<clip_image_size> get_target_ratios() const;
+    clip_image_size find_closest_aspect_ratio(
+            float aspect_ratio,
+            const std::vector<clip_image_size> & target_ratios,
+            int width, int height) const;
 };
 
 // custom image preprocessing for Step3VL

tools/mtmd/mtmd.cpp

@@ -618,15 +618,10 @@ struct mtmd_context {
                     image_preproc = std::make_unique<mtmd_image_preprocessor_dyn_size>(ctx_v);
                 } break;
             case PROJECTOR_TYPE_DEEPSEEKOCR:
-                {
-                    img_end = "\n"; // prevent empty batch on llama-server
-                    image_preproc = std::make_unique<mtmd_image_preprocessor_deepseekocr>(ctx_v);
-                    ov_img_first = false;
-                } break;
             case PROJECTOR_TYPE_DEEPSEEKOCR2:
                 {
                     img_end = "\n"; // prevent empty batch on llama-server
-                    image_preproc = std::make_unique<mtmd_image_preprocessor_deepseekocr2>(ctx_v);
+                    image_preproc = std::make_unique<mtmd_image_preprocessor_deepseekocr>(ctx_v);
                     ov_img_first = false;
                 } break;
             case PROJECTOR_TYPE_HUNYUANVL:
@@ -1132,6 +1127,7 @@ struct mtmd_tokenizer {
 
                 // add slices (or tiles)
                 if (!chunks.empty()) {
+                    LOG_DBG("%s: adding %d slices (%d rows x %d cols)\n", __func__, (int)chunks.size(), n_row, n_col);
                     GGML_ASSERT((int)chunks.size() == n_row * n_col);
                     add_text(ctx->tok_slices_start);
                     for (int y = 0; y < n_row; y++) {
@@ -1174,7 +1170,6 @@ struct mtmd_tokenizer {
                     cur.entries.emplace_back(std::move(ov_chunk));
                     add_text(ctx->tok_ov_img_end);
                 }
-
             } else {
 
                 if (preproc_out.entries.size() == 0) {

tools/mtmd/tests/test-deepseek-ocr.py

@@ -29,12 +29,15 @@ class ModelSpec:
     mmproj_arg: str
     model_default: str
     mmproj_default: str
-    prompt: str = "Free OCR. "
+    prompt: str = "Free OCR."
     n_predict: int = 512
     n_ctx: int | None = None
     # Unlimited-OCR's "document parsing" prompt emits <|det|> grounding markup that
     # the HF reference strips in result.md; drop it before scoring to match.
     strip_grounding: bool = False
+    # v2/Unlimited loop on hard tiles; DRY caps it the way HF's
+    # no_repeat_ngram_size does. v1 scores fine without it.
+    dry: bool = False
 
 
 @dataclass
@@ -69,6 +72,9 @@ MODELS = {
         model_arg="--llama-model-2", mmproj_arg="--mmproj-2",
         model_default="gguf_models/deepseek-ai/deepseek-ocr-2-bf16.gguf",
         mmproj_default="gguf_models/deepseek-ai/mmproj-deepseek-ocr-2-bf16.gguf",
+        # v2 keeps generating past 512 on multi-tile; give it room to match the HF ref.
+        n_predict=2048,
+        dry=True,
     ),
     "unlimited": ModelSpec(
         key="unlimited", label="Unlimited-OCR",
@@ -83,6 +89,7 @@ MODELS = {
         n_predict=4096,
         n_ctx=16384,
         strip_grounding=True,
+        dry=True,
     ),
 }
 
@@ -91,7 +98,9 @@ CASES = [
         model_key="v1", label="single-view scan",
         image="tools/mtmd/test-1.jpeg",
         ground_truth="tools/mtmd/tests/test-1-ground-truth.txt",
-        hf_cer=0.3030, hf_chrf=67.52, cer_tol=0.02, chrf_tol=2.0,
+        # Fragile image: the HF ref itself swings ~0.286-0.314 across precision
+        # configs -- hence the wide tol. llama.cpp bf16 ~0.322/63.8.
+        hf_cer=0.3140, hf_chrf=67.57, cer_tol=0.04, chrf_tol=5.0,
     ),
     TestCase(
         model_key="v2", label="single-view scan",
@@ -103,6 +112,24 @@ CASES = [
         # is one pixel off and lands at ~0.69 instead.
         hf_cer=0.7761, hf_chrf=28.70, cer_tol=0.12, chrf_tol=8.0,
     ),
+    TestCase(
+        model_key="v1", label="multi-tile (dynamic resolution)",
+        image="tools/mtmd/tests/test-1-positive.png",
+        ground_truth="tools/mtmd/tests/test-1-ground-truth.txt",
+        # 429x806 -- 806 > 640 triggers the v1 "Gundam" path: (1,2) grid ->
+        # 2 local 640 tiles + 1 global 1024 view. Regression guard for the
+        # tiling preprocessor -- a broken tile path craters the score.
+        # hf_cer/hf_chrf are HF v1's measured scores -- it reads this clean crop exactly.
+        hf_cer=0.0000, hf_chrf=100.00, cer_tol=0.03, chrf_tol=3.0,
+    ),
+    TestCase(
+        model_key="v2", label="multi-tile (dynamic resolution)",
+        image="tools/mtmd/tests/test-1-positive.png",
+        ground_truth="tools/mtmd/tests/test-1-ground-truth.txt",
+        # 429x806 -- 806 > 768 triggers the v2 path: (1,2) grid ->
+        # 2 local 768 tiles + 1 global 1024 view = 545 image tokens.
+        hf_cer=0.0236, hf_chrf=97.05, cer_tol=0.03, chrf_tol=3.0,
+    ),
     TestCase(
         model_key="unlimited", label="single-view scan",
         image="tools/mtmd/test-1.jpeg",
@@ -180,14 +207,17 @@ def run_mtmd_cli(spec: "ModelSpec", model_path, mmproj_path, image_path, bin_pat
         "--flash-attn", "off",  # match the HF "eager" attention reference
         "--no-warmup",
         "-n", str(spec.n_predict),  # cap loops on hard images (KV would otherwise fill)
+    ]
+    if spec.dry:
         # HF decodes with no_repeat_ngram_size; llama.cpp's analog is DRY.
         # Default DRY breakers include "\n", so they are cleared below.
-        "--dry-multiplier", "0.8",
+        cmd += [
-        "--dry-base", "1.75",
+            "--dry-multiplier", "0.8",
-        "--dry-allowed-length", "2",
+            "--dry-base", "1.75",
-        "--dry-penalty-last-n", "-1",
+            "--dry-allowed-length", "2",
-        "--dry-sequence-breaker", "none",
+            "--dry-penalty-last-n", "-1",
-    ]
+            "--dry-sequence-breaker", "none",
+        ]
     if spec.n_ctx is not None:
         cmd += ["-c", str(spec.n_ctx)]
     logger.debug(f"  command: {' '.join(cmd)}")