feat: Repetition-based StoppingCriteria for GraniteDocling (#2323)

* Experimental code for repetition detection, VLLM Streaming

Signed-off-by: Christoph Auer <cau@zurich.ibm.com>

* Update VLLM Streaming

Signed-off-by: Christoph Auer <cau@zurich.ibm.com>

* Update VLLM inference code, CLI and VLM specs

Signed-off-by: Christoph Auer <cau@zurich.ibm.com>

* Fix generation and decoder args for HF model

Signed-off-by: Christoph Auer <cau@zurich.ibm.com>

* Fix vllm device args

Signed-off-by: Christoph Auer <cau@zurich.ibm.com>

* Cleanup

Signed-off-by: Christoph Auer <cau@zurich.ibm.com>

* Bugfixes

Signed-off-by: Christoph Auer <cau@zurich.ibm.com>

* Remove streaming VLLM for the moment

Signed-off-by: Christoph Auer <cau@zurich.ibm.com>

* Add repetition StoppingCriteria for GraniteDocling/SmolDocling

Signed-off-by: Christoph Auer <cau@zurich.ibm.com>

* Make GenerationStopper base class and port for MLX

Signed-off-by: Christoph Auer <cau@zurich.ibm.com>

* Add streaming support and custom GenerationStopper support for ApiVlmModel

Signed-off-by: Christoph Auer <cau@zurich.ibm.com>

* Fixes for ApiVlmModel

Signed-off-by: Christoph Auer <cau@zurich.ibm.com>

* Fixes for ApiVlmModel

Signed-off-by: Christoph Auer <cau@zurich.ibm.com>

* Fix api_image_request_streaming when GenerationStopper triggers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Auer <cau@zurich.ibm.com>

* Move DocTagsRepetitionStopper to utility unit, update examples

Signed-off-by: Christoph Auer <cau@zurich.ibm.com>

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Signed-off-by: Christoph Auer <cau@zurich.ibm.com>

.github/workflows/checks.yml

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           for file in docs/examples/*.py; do
             # Skip batch_convert.py
-            if [[ "$(basename "$file")" =~ ^(batch_convert|compare_vlm_models|minimal|minimal_vlm_pipeline|minimal_asr_pipeline|export_multimodal|custom_convert|develop_picture_enrichment|rapidocr_with_custom_models|offline_convert|pictures_description|pictures_description_api|vlm_pipeline_api_model).py ]]; then
+            if [[ "$(basename "$file")" =~ ^(batch_convert|granitedocling_repetition_stopping|compare_vlm_models|minimal|minimal_vlm_pipeline|minimal_asr_pipeline|export_multimodal|custom_convert|develop_picture_enrichment|rapidocr_with_custom_models|offline_convert|pictures_description|pictures_description_api|vlm_pipeline_api_model).py ]]; then
                 echo "Skipping $file"
                 continue
             fi

docling/backend/asciidoc_backend.py

@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ class AsciiDocBackend(DeclarativeDocumentBackend):
 
         return doc
 
-    def _parse(self, doc: DoclingDocument):  # noqa: C901
+    def _parse(self, doc: DoclingDocument):
         """
         Main function that orchestrates the parsing by yielding components:
         title, section headers, text, lists, and tables.

docling/backend/msword_backend.py

@@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ class MsWordDocumentBackend(DeclarativeDocumentBackend):
             else prev_parent
         )
 
-    def _handle_text_elements(  # noqa: C901
+    def _handle_text_elements(
         self,
         element: BaseOxmlElement,
         docx_obj: DocxDocument,

docling/backend/xml/jats_backend.py

@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ class JatsDocumentBackend(DeclarativeDocumentBackend):
 
         return
 
-    def _parse_element_citation(self, node: etree._Element) -> str:  # noqa: C901
+    def _parse_element_citation(self, node: etree._Element) -> str:
         citation: Citation = {
             "author_names": "",
             "title": "",
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ class JatsDocumentBackend(DeclarativeDocumentBackend):
         return
 
     @staticmethod
-    def parse_table_data(element: Tag) -> Optional[TableData]:  # noqa: C901
+    def parse_table_data(element: Tag) -> Optional[TableData]:
         # TODO, see how to implement proper support for rich tables from HTML backend
         nested_tables = element.find("table")
         if nested_tables is not None:
@@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ class JatsDocumentBackend(DeclarativeDocumentBackend):
         )
         return
 
-    def _walk_linear(  # noqa: C901
+    def _walk_linear(
         self, doc: DoclingDocument, parent: NodeItem, node: etree._Element
     ) -> str:
         skip_tags = ["term"]

docling/backend/xml/uspto_backend.py

@@ -1523,7 +1523,7 @@ class XmlTable:
 
         return ncols_max
 
-    def _parse_table(self, table: Tag) -> TableData:  # noqa: C901
+    def _parse_table(self, table: Tag) -> TableData:
         """Parse the content of a table tag.
 
         Args:

docling/datamodel/pipeline_options_vlm_model.py

@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 from enum import Enum
-from typing import Any, Dict, List, Literal, Optional
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Literal, Optional, Union
 
 from docling_core.types.doc.page import SegmentedPage
-from pydantic import AnyUrl, BaseModel
+from pydantic import AnyUrl, BaseModel, ConfigDict
+from transformers import StoppingCriteria
 from typing_extensions import deprecated
 
 from docling.datamodel.accelerator_options import AcceleratorDevice
+from docling.models.utils.generation_utils import GenerationStopper
 
 
 class BaseVlmOptions(BaseModel):
@@ -50,6 +52,8 @@ class TransformersPromptStyle(str, Enum):
 
 
 class InlineVlmOptions(BaseVlmOptions):
+    model_config = ConfigDict(arbitrary_types_allowed=True)
+
     kind: Literal["inline_model_options"] = "inline_model_options"
 
     repo_id: str
@@ -72,6 +76,7 @@ class InlineVlmOptions(BaseVlmOptions):
     ]
 
     stop_strings: List[str] = []
+    custom_stopping_criteria: List[Union[StoppingCriteria, GenerationStopper]] = []
     extra_generation_config: Dict[str, Any] = {}
     extra_processor_kwargs: Dict[str, Any] = {}
 
@@ -89,6 +94,8 @@ class HuggingFaceVlmOptions(InlineVlmOptions):
 
 
 class ApiVlmOptions(BaseVlmOptions):
+    model_config = ConfigDict(arbitrary_types_allowed=True)
+
     kind: Literal["api_model_options"] = "api_model_options"
 
     url: AnyUrl = AnyUrl(
@@ -99,3 +106,6 @@ class ApiVlmOptions(BaseVlmOptions):
     timeout: float = 60
     concurrency: int = 1
     response_format: ResponseFormat
+
+    stop_strings: List[str] = []
+    custom_stopping_criteria: List[Union[GenerationStopper]] = []

docling/models/api_vlm_model.py

@@ -1,12 +1,18 @@
 from collections.abc import Iterable
 from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
 
+from transformers import StoppingCriteria
+
 from docling.datamodel.base_models import Page, VlmPrediction
 from docling.datamodel.document import ConversionResult
 from docling.datamodel.pipeline_options_vlm_model import ApiVlmOptions
 from docling.exceptions import OperationNotAllowed
 from docling.models.base_model import BasePageModel
-from docling.utils.api_image_request import api_image_request
+from docling.models.utils.generation_utils import GenerationStopper
+from docling.utils.api_image_request import (
+    api_image_request,
+    api_image_request_streaming,
+)
 from docling.utils.profiling import TimeRecorder
 
 
@@ -41,7 +47,7 @@ class ApiVlmModel(BasePageModel):
             assert page._backend is not None
             if not page._backend.is_valid():
                 return page
-            else:
+
             with TimeRecorder(conv_res, "vlm"):
                 assert page.size is not None
 
@@ -49,11 +55,35 @@ class ApiVlmModel(BasePageModel):
                     scale=self.vlm_options.scale, max_size=self.vlm_options.max_size
                 )
                 assert hi_res_image is not None
-                    if hi_res_image:
-                        if hi_res_image.mode != "RGB":
+                if hi_res_image and hi_res_image.mode != "RGB":
                     hi_res_image = hi_res_image.convert("RGB")
 
                 prompt = self.vlm_options.build_prompt(page.parsed_page)
+
+                if self.vlm_options.custom_stopping_criteria:
+                    # Instantiate any GenerationStopper classes before passing to streaming
+                    instantiated_stoppers = []
+                    for criteria in self.vlm_options.custom_stopping_criteria:
+                        if isinstance(criteria, GenerationStopper):
+                            instantiated_stoppers.append(criteria)
+                        elif isinstance(criteria, type) and issubclass(
+                            criteria, GenerationStopper
+                        ):
+                            instantiated_stoppers.append(criteria())
+                        # Skip non-GenerationStopper criteria (should have been caught in validation)
+
+                    # Streaming path with early abort support
+                    page_tags = api_image_request_streaming(
+                        image=hi_res_image,
+                        prompt=prompt,
+                        url=self.vlm_options.url,
+                        timeout=self.timeout,
+                        headers=self.vlm_options.headers,
+                        generation_stoppers=instantiated_stoppers,
+                        **self.params,
+                    )
+                else:
+                    # Non-streaming fallback (existing behavior)
                     page_tags = api_image_request(
                         image=hi_res_image,
                         prompt=prompt,
@@ -65,7 +95,6 @@ class ApiVlmModel(BasePageModel):
 
                 page_tags = self.vlm_options.decode_response(page_tags)
                 page.predictions.vlm_response = VlmPrediction(text=page_tags)
-
             return page
 
         with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=self.concurrency) as executor:

docling/models/readingorder_model.py

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ class ReadingOrderModel:
             else:
                 doc.add_text(parent=doc_item, label=c_label, text=c_text, prov=c_prov)
 
-    def _readingorder_elements_to_docling_doc(  # noqa: C901
+    def _readingorder_elements_to_docling_doc(
         self,
         conv_res: ConversionResult,
         ro_elements: List[ReadingOrderPageElement],

docling/models/utils/generation_utils.py

@@ -0,0 +1,157 @@
+import logging
+import re
+import sys
+from abc import abstractmethod
+from typing import List
+
+from transformers import StoppingCriteria
+
+_log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class GenerationStopper:
+    """
+    Base interface for stopping logic.
+    - should_stop(s): True to stop given the current decoded text window.
+    - lookback_tokens(): how many tokens should be considered (default: sys.maxsize).
+    """
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def should_stop(self, s: str) -> bool:
+        pass
+
+    def lookback_tokens(self) -> int:
+        return sys.maxsize
+
+
+class DocTagsRepetitionStopper(GenerationStopper):
+    """
+    Detects repetitive <tag>...<loc_x><loc_y><loc_w><loc_h>text</tag> blocks,
+    but only when repeats are **consecutive** and both tag & inner text are identical.
+
+    Performance:
+    - Heavy check runs every N calls (default 32).
+    - Only decodes the last LOOKBACK_TOKENS tokens per sequence (default 200).
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, *, N: int = 32, lookback_tokens: int = 200):
+        self.N = max(1, int(N))
+        self._lookback_tokens = max(1, int(lookback_tokens))
+        self._call_count = 0
+
+        # <tag> ... <loc_x><loc_y><loc_w><loc_h> text ... </tag>
+        self._PATTERN = re.compile(
+            r"""
+            <(?P<tag>[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)>\s*
+            (?P<prefix>.*?)?
+            <loc_(?P<x>\d+)><loc_(?P<y>\d+)><loc_(?P<w>\d+)><loc_(?P<h>\d+)>
+            (?P<text>.*?)
+            </(?P=tag)>
+            """,
+            re.DOTALL | re.VERBOSE,
+        )
+
+    # --- small helper ---
+    def _regular(self, vals: List[int]) -> bool:
+        """3+ strictly increasing values with ~regular spacing (±20%)."""
+        if len(vals) < 3:
+            return False
+        diffs = [b - a for a, b in zip(vals, vals[1:])]
+        if any(d <= 0 for d in diffs):
+            return False
+        mean = sum(diffs) / len(diffs)
+        tol = 0.2 * mean
+        return all(abs(d - mean) <= tol for d in diffs)
+
+    def should_stop(self, s: str) -> bool:
+        """
+        Trip only on **consecutive** runs (no other matched blocks between) of ≥3 items
+        with the same <tag> and identical inner text, where within that run we see:
+          - any exact duplicate (x,y,w,h), or
+          - stable X/W with regular Y progression, or
+          - stable Y/H with regular X progression.
+        """
+        # Stream matches and evaluate runs on-the-fly to stay compact and fast.
+        prev_tag = prev_text = None
+        run = []  # list of (x,y,w,h)
+
+        def run_repetitive(boxes: List[tuple]) -> bool:
+            if len(boxes) < 3:
+                return False
+            # duplicates?
+            if len(set(boxes)) < len(boxes):
+                return True
+            xs, ys, ws, hs = zip(*boxes)
+            x_stable = all(x == xs[0] for x in xs)
+            y_stable = all(y == ys[0] for y in ys)
+            w_stable = all(w == ws[0] for w in ws)
+            h_stable = all(h == hs[0] for h in hs)
+            # horizontal (down the page): X/W stable, Y regular
+            if (x_stable or w_stable) and self._regular(list(ys)):
+                return True
+            # vertical (across): Y/H stable, X regular
+            if (y_stable or h_stable) and self._regular(list(xs)):
+                return True
+            return False
+
+        for m in self._PATTERN.finditer(s):
+            tag, text = m.group("tag"), m.group("text")
+            box = (
+                int(m.group("x")),
+                int(m.group("y")),
+                int(m.group("w")),
+                int(m.group("h")),
+            )
+
+            if prev_tag == tag and prev_text == text:
+                run.append(box)  # consecutive same-tag+text
+            else:
+                # evaluate previous run before starting a new one
+                if run_repetitive(run):
+                    return True
+                prev_tag, prev_text = tag, text
+                run = [box]
+
+        # check the last run
+        return run_repetitive(run)
+
+
+class HFStoppingCriteriaWrapper(StoppingCriteria):
+    """
+    Adapts any GenerationStopper to HuggingFace Transformers.
+    Decodes exactly min(seq_len, stopper.lookback_tokens()) tokens from the end.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        tokenizer,
+        stopper: GenerationStopper,
+        *,
+        skip_special_tokens: bool = False,
+    ):
+        self.tokenizer = tokenizer
+        self.stopper = stopper
+        self.skip_special_tokens = skip_special_tokens
+
+    def __call__(self, input_ids, scores, **kwargs) -> bool:
+        lb = max(1, int(self.stopper.lookback_tokens()))
+        for seq in input_ids:  # (batch, seq_len)
+            window = seq[-lb:]  # slicing handles lb > len(seq)
+            try:
+                text = self.tokenizer.decode(
+                    window, skip_special_tokens=self.skip_special_tokens
+                )
+            except Exception as e:
+                _log.info(f"Decoding failed for stopping check: {e}")
+                continue
+
+            try:
+                if self.stopper.should_stop(text):
+                    _log.info(
+                        "HF wrapper: stopping due to TextStopper.should_stop==True"
+                    )
+                    return True
+            except Exception as e:
+                _log.info(f"Error in TextStopper.should_stop: {e}")
+                continue
+        return False

docling/models/vlm_models_inline/hf_transformers_model.py

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ from typing import Any, Optional, Union
 
 import numpy as np
 from PIL.Image import Image
-from transformers import StoppingCriteriaList, StopStringCriteria
+from transformers import StoppingCriteria, StoppingCriteriaList, StopStringCriteria
 
 from docling.datamodel.accelerator_options import (
     AcceleratorOptions,
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ from docling.datamodel.pipeline_options_vlm_model import (
     TransformersPromptStyle,
 )
 from docling.models.base_model import BaseVlmPageModel
+from docling.models.utils.generation_utils import (
+    GenerationStopper,
+    HFStoppingCriteriaWrapper,
+)
 from docling.models.utils.hf_model_download import (
     HuggingFaceModelDownloadMixin,
 )
@@ -253,15 +257,48 @@ class HuggingFaceTransformersVlmModel(BaseVlmPageModel, HuggingFaceModelDownload
         inputs = {k: v.to(self.device) for k, v in inputs.items()}
 
         # -- Optional stopping criteria
-        stopping_criteria = None
+        stopping_criteria_list: StoppingCriteriaList = StoppingCriteriaList()
+
+        # Add string-based stopping criteria
         if self.vlm_options.stop_strings:
-            stopping_criteria = StoppingCriteriaList(
-                [
+            stopping_criteria_list.append(
                 StopStringCriteria(
                     stop_strings=self.vlm_options.stop_strings,
                     tokenizer=self.processor.tokenizer,
                 )
-                ]
+            )
+
+        # Add custom stopping criteria
+        if self.vlm_options.custom_stopping_criteria:
+            for criteria in self.vlm_options.custom_stopping_criteria:
+                # If it's a class (not an instance), determine the type and handle accordingly
+                if isinstance(criteria, type):
+                    # Check if it's a GenerationStopper class
+                    if issubclass(criteria, GenerationStopper):
+                        # Instantiate GenerationStopper and wrap it
+                        stopper_instance = criteria()
+                        wrapped_criteria = HFStoppingCriteriaWrapper(
+                            self.processor.tokenizer, stopper_instance
+                        )
+                        stopping_criteria_list.append(wrapped_criteria)
+                    elif issubclass(criteria, StoppingCriteria):
+                        # It's a StoppingCriteria class, instantiate with tokenizer
+                        criteria_instance = criteria(self.processor.tokenizer)
+                        stopping_criteria_list.append(criteria_instance)
+                elif isinstance(criteria, GenerationStopper):
+                    # Wrap GenerationStopper instances in HFStoppingCriteriaWrapper
+                    wrapped_criteria = HFStoppingCriteriaWrapper(
+                        self.processor.tokenizer, criteria
+                    )
+                    stopping_criteria_list.append(wrapped_criteria)
+                else:
+                    # If it's already an instance of StoppingCriteria, use it directly
+                    stopping_criteria_list.append(criteria)
+
+        stopping_criteria = (
+            StoppingCriteriaList(stopping_criteria_list)
+            if stopping_criteria_list
+            else None
         )
 
         # -- Filter out decoder-specific keys from extra_generation_config

docling/models/vlm_models_inline/mlx_model.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import logging
+import sys
 import threading
 import time
 from collections.abc import Iterable
@@ -7,6 +8,7 @@ from typing import Optional, Union
 
 import numpy as np
 from PIL.Image import Image
+from transformers import StoppingCriteria
 
 from docling.datamodel.accelerator_options import (
     AcceleratorOptions,
@@ -15,6 +17,7 @@ from docling.datamodel.base_models import Page, VlmPrediction, VlmPredictionToke
 from docling.datamodel.document import ConversionResult
 from docling.datamodel.pipeline_options_vlm_model import InlineVlmOptions
 from docling.models.base_model import BaseVlmPageModel
+from docling.models.utils.generation_utils import GenerationStopper
 from docling.models.utils.hf_model_download import (
     HuggingFaceModelDownloadMixin,
 )
@@ -69,6 +72,22 @@ class HuggingFaceMlxModel(BaseVlmPageModel, HuggingFaceModelDownloadMixin):
             self.vlm_model, self.processor = load(artifacts_path)
             self.config = load_config(artifacts_path)
 
+            # Validate custom stopping criteria - MLX doesn't support HF StoppingCriteria
+            if self.vlm_options.custom_stopping_criteria:
+                for criteria in self.vlm_options.custom_stopping_criteria:
+                    if isinstance(criteria, StoppingCriteria):
+                        raise ValueError(
+                            f"MLX models do not support HuggingFace StoppingCriteria instances. "
+                            f"Found {type(criteria).__name__}. Use GenerationStopper instead."
+                        )
+                    elif isinstance(criteria, type) and issubclass(
+                        criteria, StoppingCriteria
+                    ):
+                        raise ValueError(
+                            f"MLX models do not support HuggingFace StoppingCriteria classes. "
+                            f"Found {criteria.__name__}. Use GenerationStopper instead."
+                        )
+
     def __call__(
         self, conv_res: ConversionResult, page_batch: Iterable[Page]
     ) -> Iterable[Page]:
@@ -193,7 +212,7 @@ class HuggingFaceMlxModel(BaseVlmPageModel, HuggingFaceModelDownloadMixin):
                     self.processor, self.config, user_prompt, num_images=1
                 )
 
-                # Stream generate with stop strings support
+                # Stream generate with stop strings and custom stopping criteria support
                 start_time = time.time()
                 _log.debug("start generating ...")
 
@@ -245,6 +264,43 @@ class HuggingFaceMlxModel(BaseVlmPageModel, HuggingFaceModelDownloadMixin):
                             _log.debug("Stopping generation due to stop string match")
                             break
 
+                    # Check for custom stopping criteria (GenerationStopper instances)
+                    if self.vlm_options.custom_stopping_criteria:
+                        for criteria in self.vlm_options.custom_stopping_criteria:
+                            # Handle both instances and classes of GenerationStopper
+                            if isinstance(criteria, GenerationStopper):
+                                stopper = criteria
+                            elif isinstance(criteria, type) and issubclass(
+                                criteria, GenerationStopper
+                            ):
+                                stopper = criteria()
+
+                            # Determine the text window to check based on lookback_tokens
+                            lookback_tokens = stopper.lookback_tokens()
+                            # Check only the last N characters worth of text
+                            # This is a simplified approach - in practice, you might want to
+                            # decode the last N tokens from the token list for more accuracy
+                            text_to_check = (
+                                output[-lookback_tokens:]
+                                if len(output) > lookback_tokens
+                                else output
+                            )
+
+                            try:
+                                if stopper.should_stop(text_to_check):
+                                    _log.info(
+                                        f"Stopping generation due to GenerationStopper: {type(stopper).__name__}"
+                                    )
+                                    break
+                            except Exception as e:
+                                _log.warning(
+                                    f"Error in GenerationStopper.should_stop: {e}"
+                                )
+                                continue
+                        else:  # note: for-else idiom
+                            continue  # Only executed if the inner loop didn't break
+                        break  # Break the outer loop if any stopper triggered
+
                 generation_time = time.time() - start_time
 
                 _log.debug(

docling/utils/api_image_request.py

@@ -1,13 +1,15 @@
 import base64
+import json
 import logging
 from io import BytesIO
-from typing import Dict, Optional
+from typing import Dict, List, Optional
 
 import requests
 from PIL import Image
 from pydantic import AnyUrl
 
 from docling.datamodel.base_models import OpenAiApiResponse
+from docling.models.utils.generation_utils import GenerationStopper
 
 _log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -59,3 +61,107 @@ def api_image_request(
     api_resp = OpenAiApiResponse.model_validate_json(r.text)
     generated_text = api_resp.choices[0].message.content.strip()
     return generated_text
+
+
+def api_image_request_streaming(
+    image: Image.Image,
+    prompt: str,
+    url: AnyUrl,
+    *,
+    timeout: float = 20,
+    headers: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
+    generation_stoppers: List[GenerationStopper] = [],
+    **params,
+) -> str:
+    """
+    Stream a chat completion from an OpenAI-compatible server (e.g., vLLM).
+    Parses SSE lines: 'data: {json}\\n\\n', terminated by 'data: [DONE]'.
+    Accumulates text and calls stopper.should_stop(window) as chunks arrive.
+    If stopper triggers, the HTTP connection is closed to abort server-side generation.
+    """
+    img_io = BytesIO()
+    image.save(img_io, "PNG")
+    image_b64 = base64.b64encode(img_io.getvalue()).decode("utf-8")
+
+    messages = [
+        {
+            "role": "user",
+            "content": [
+                {
+                    "type": "image_url",
+                    "image_url": {"url": f"data:image/png;base64,{image_b64}"},
+                },
+                {"type": "text", "text": prompt},
+            ],
+        }
+    ]
+
+    payload = {
+        "messages": messages,
+        "stream": True,  # <-- critical for SSE streaming
+        **params,
+    }
+
+    # Debug: Log the payload to verify temperature is included
+    _log.debug(f"API streaming request payload: {json.dumps(payload, indent=2)}")
+
+    # Some servers require Accept: text/event-stream for SSE.
+    # It's safe to set it; OpenAI-compatible servers tolerate it.
+    hdrs = {"Accept": "text/event-stream", **(headers or {})}
+
+    # Try to force temperature via header if server ignores payload parameter
+    if "temperature" in params:
+        hdrs["X-Temperature"] = str(params["temperature"])
+
+    # Stream the HTTP response
+    with requests.post(
+        str(url), headers=hdrs, json=payload, timeout=timeout, stream=True
+    ) as r:
+        if not r.ok:
+            _log.error(
+                f"Error calling the API {url} in streaming mode. Response was {r.text}"
+            )
+        r.raise_for_status()
+
+        full_text = []
+        for raw_line in r.iter_lines(decode_unicode=True):
+            if not raw_line:  # keep-alives / blank lines
+                continue
+            if not raw_line.startswith("data:"):
+                # Some proxies inject comments; ignore anything not starting with 'data:'
+                continue
+
+            data = raw_line[len("data:") :].strip()
+            if data == "[DONE]":
+                break
+
+            try:
+                obj = json.loads(data)
+            except json.JSONDecodeError:
+                _log.debug("Skipping non-JSON SSE chunk: %r", data[:200])
+                continue
+
+            # OpenAI-compatible delta format
+            # obj["choices"][0]["delta"]["content"] may be None or missing (e.g., tool calls)
+            try:
+                delta = obj["choices"][0].get("delta") or {}
+                piece = delta.get("content") or ""
+            except (KeyError, IndexError) as e:
+                _log.debug("Unexpected SSE chunk shape: %s", e)
+                piece = ""
+
+            if piece:
+                full_text.append(piece)
+                for stopper in generation_stoppers:
+                    # Respect stopper's lookback window. We use a simple string window which
+                    # works with the GenerationStopper interface.
+                    lookback = max(1, stopper.lookback_tokens())
+                    window = "".join(full_text)[-lookback:]
+                    if stopper.should_stop(window):
+                        # Break out of the loop cleanly. The context manager will handle
+                        # closing the connection when we exit the 'with' block.
+                        # vLLM/OpenAI-compatible servers will detect the client disconnect
+                        # and abort the request server-side.
+                        return "".join(full_text)
+
+        return "".join(full_text)

docs/examples/granitedocling_repetition_stopping.py

@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+# %% [markdown]
+# Experimental VLM pipeline with custom repetition stopping criteria.
+#
+# This script demonstrates the use of custom stopping criteria that detect
+# repetitive location coordinate patterns in generated text and stop generation
+# when such patterns are found.
+#
+# What this example does
+# - Uses the GraniteDocling model with custom repetition stopping criteria injected
+# - Processes a PDF document or image and monitors for repetitive coordinate patterns
+# - Stops generation early when repetitive patterns are detected
+
+
+# %%
+
+import logging
+
+from docling.datamodel import vlm_model_specs
+from docling.datamodel.base_models import InputFormat
+from docling.datamodel.pipeline_options import VlmPipelineOptions
+from docling.document_converter import DocumentConverter, PdfFormatOption
+from docling.models.utils.generation_utils import (
+    DocTagsRepetitionStopper,
+)
+from docling.pipeline.vlm_pipeline import VlmPipeline
+
+logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format="%(levelname)s:%(name)s:%(message)s")
+
+
+# Set up logging to see when repetition stopping is triggered
+logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
+
+# Replace with a local path if preferred.
+# source = "https://ibm.biz/docling-page-with-table" # Example that shows no repetitions.
+source = "tests/data_scanned/old_newspaper.png"  # Example that creates repetitions.
+print(f"Processing document: {source}")
+
+###### USING GRANITEDOCLING WITH CUSTOM REPETITION STOPPING
+
+## Using standard Huggingface Transformers (most portable, slowest)
+custom_vlm_options = vlm_model_specs.GRANITEDOCLING_TRANSFORMERS.model_copy()
+
+# Uncomment this to use MLX-accelerated version on Apple Silicon
+# custom_vlm_options = vlm_model_specs.GRANITEDOCLING_MLX.model_copy() # use this for Apple Silicon
+
+
+# Create custom VLM options with repetition stopping criteria
+custom_vlm_options.custom_stopping_criteria = [
+    DocTagsRepetitionStopper(N=32)
+]  # check for repetitions for every 32 new tokens decoded.
+
+pipeline_options = VlmPipelineOptions(
+    vlm_options=custom_vlm_options,
+)
+
+converter = DocumentConverter(
+    format_options={
+        InputFormat.IMAGE: PdfFormatOption(
+            pipeline_cls=VlmPipeline,
+            pipeline_options=pipeline_options,
+        ),
+    }
+)
+
+doc = converter.convert(source=source).document
+
+print(doc.export_to_markdown())
+
+## Using a remote VLM inference service (for example VLLM) - uncomment to use
+
+# custom_vlm_options = ApiVlmOptions(
+#     url="http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions",  # LM studio defaults to port 1234, VLLM to 8000
+#     params=dict(
+#         model=vlm_model_specs.GRANITEDOCLING_TRANSFORMERS.repo_id,
+#         max_tokens=8192,
+#         skip_special_tokens=True,  # needed for VLLM
+#     ),
+#     headers={
+#         "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
+#     },
+#     prompt=vlm_model_specs.GRANITEDOCLING_TRANSFORMERS.prompt,
+#     timeout=90,
+#     scale=2.0,
+#     temperature=0.0,
+#     response_format=ResponseFormat.DOCTAGS,
+#     custom_stopping_criteria=[
+#         DocTagsRepetitionStopper(N=1)
+#     ],  # check for repetitions for every new chunk of the response stream
+# )
+
+
+# pipeline_options = VlmPipelineOptions(
+#     vlm_options=custom_vlm_options,
+#     enable_remote_services=True, # required when using a remote inference service.
+# )
+
+# converter = DocumentConverter(
+#     format_options={
+#         InputFormat.IMAGE: PdfFormatOption(
+#             pipeline_cls=VlmPipeline,
+#             pipeline_options=pipeline_options,
+#         ),
+#     }
+# )
+
+# doc = converter.convert(source=source).document
+
+# print(doc.export_to_markdown())

pyproject.toml

@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ classmethod-decorators = [
 "tests/*.py" = ["ASYNC"]         # Disable ASYNC check for tests
 
 [tool.ruff.lint.mccabe]
-max-complexity = 20
+max-complexity = 30
 
 # [tool.ruff.lint.isort.sections]
 # "docling" = ["docling_core", "docling_ibm_models", "docling_parse"]