hf_text-generation-inference/proto/generate.proto

syntax = "proto3";

package generate.v1;

service TextGenerationService {
    /// Service discovery
    rpc ServiceDiscovery (ServiceDiscoveryRequest) returns (ServiceDiscoveryResponse) {}
    /// Empties batch cache
    rpc ClearCache (ClearCacheRequest) returns (ClearCacheResponse);
    /// Prefill batch and decode first token
    rpc Prefill (PrefillRequest) returns (PrefillResponse);
    /// Decode token for a list of prefilled batches
    rpc Decode (DecodeRequest) returns (DecodeResponse);
}

/// Empty request
message ServiceDiscoveryRequest {}

message ServiceDiscoveryResponse {
    /// Other shards urls
    repeated string urls = 1;
}

message ClearCacheRequest {
    /// Optional batch id
    optional uint64 id = 1;
}

/// Empty response
message ClearCacheResponse {}

message NextTokenChooserParameters {
    /// exponential scaling output probability distribution
    float temperature = 1;
    /// restricting to the k highest probability elements
    uint32 top_k = 2;
    /// restricting to top tokens summing to prob_cut_off <= prob_cut_off
    float top_p = 3;
    /// restricting to top tokens summing to prob_cut_off <= prob_cut_off
    float typical_p = 4;
    /// apply sampling on the logits
    bool do_sample = 5;
    /// random seed for sampling
    uint64 seed = 6;
    /// repetition penalty
    float repetition_penalty = 7;
    /// token watermarking using "A Watermark for Large Language Models"
    bool watermark = 8;
}

message StoppingCriteriaParameters {
    /// Maximum number of generated tokens
    uint32 max_new_tokens = 1;
    /// Optional stopping sequences
    repeated string stop_sequences = 2;
    /// Ignore end of sequence token
    /// used for benchmarking
    bool ignore_eos_token = 3;
}

message Request {
    /// Request ID
    uint64 id = 1;
    /// The generation context
    string inputs = 2;
    /// Next Token Chooser Parameters
    NextTokenChooserParameters parameters = 3;
    /// Stopping Criteria Parameters
    StoppingCriteriaParameters stopping_parameters = 4;
}

message Batch {
    /// Batch ID
    uint64 id = 1;
    /// Individual requests
    repeated Request requests = 2;
    /// Batch size (==len(requests))
    uint32 size = 3;
}

enum FinishReason {
    FINISH_REASON_LENGTH = 0;
    FINISH_REASON_EOS_TOKEN = 1;
    FINISH_REASON_STOP_SEQUENCE = 2;
}

message GeneratedText {
    /// Output
    string text = 1;
    /// Number of generated tokens
    uint32 generated_tokens = 2;
    /// Finish reason
    FinishReason finish_reason = 3;
    /// Seed
    optional uint64 seed = 4;
}

message PrefillTokens {
    /// Prefill Token IDs
    repeated uint32 ids = 1;
    /// Prefill Logprobs
    repeated float logprobs = 2;
    /// Prefill tokens
    repeated string texts = 3;
}

message Generation {
    /// Request ID
    uint64 request_id = 1;
    /// Prefill tokens (optional)
    PrefillTokens prefill_tokens = 2;
    /// Token ID
    uint32 token_id = 3;
    /// Logprob
    float token_logprob = 4;
    /// Text
    string token_text = 5;
    /// Is it a special token
    bool token_is_special = 6;
    /// Complete generated text
    GeneratedText generated_text = 7;
}

message PrefillRequest {
    /// Batch
    Batch batch = 1;
}

message PrefillResponse {
    /// Generation
    repeated Generation generations = 1;
    /// Next batch (cached)
    optional Batch batch = 2;
}

message DecodeRequest {
    /// Cached batches
    repeated Batch batches = 1;
}

message DecodeResponse {
    /// Decodes
    repeated Generation generations = 1;
    /// Next batch (cached)
    optional Batch batch = 2;
}