Add ViLT (dandelin/vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa) visual-question-answering support

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Add ViLT visual-question-answering support

This PR adds support for dandelin/vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa through a per-architecture ONNX config, an export-time visual embedding patcher, registration, tests, and recipes backed by tuple-specific evidence from the current host or explicitly cited capable hosts.

Claimed tiers: Effort L1 / Goal L2 / Outcome L1.

1. Recipe paths and baseline delta

Only recipes with tuple-specific build/runtime evidence are checked in. Evidence may come from the current host or an explicitly cited prior capable host:

• examples/recipes/dandelin_vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa/cpu/cpu/visual-question-answering_fp32_config.json
• examples/recipes/dandelin_vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa/cpu/cpu/visual-question-answering_fp16_config.json
• examples/recipes/dandelin_vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa/dml/gpu/visual-question-answering_fp32_config.json
• examples/recipes/dandelin_vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa/dml/gpu/visual-question-answering_fp16_config.json
• examples/recipes/dandelin_vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa/openvino/cpu/visual-question-answering_fp32_config.json
• examples/recipes/dandelin_vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa/openvino/gpu/visual-question-answering_fp32_config.json
• examples/recipes/dandelin_vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa/openvino/npu/visual-question-answering_fp32_config.json
• examples/recipes/dandelin_vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa/qnn/npu/visual-question-answering_fp32_config.json

examples/recipes/README.md is intentionally unchanged.

Fresh baseline on origin/main commit 74342698e416bd9bc4e5f9b534f943425ce81c62, winml version 0.2.0:

uv run winml config -m dandelin/vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa --task visual-question-answering -o temp/baseline_vilt
uv run winml build -m dandelin/vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa -o temp/baseline_vilt_build --ep cpu --device cpu --no-analyze --no-optimize --no-quant --no-compile --rebuild

Both commands exit 2: current main has no OnnxConfig registered for ViLT. No baseline recipe is emitted, so a literal recipe-vs-auto-config JSON diff is unavailable. The engineering delta is the new generalized vilt/visual-question-answering registration and patcher, not a checkpoint-specific recipe override.

2. Precision coverage matrix

Provider snapshot:

onnxruntime 1.24.5
['DmlExecutionProvider', 'CPUExecutionProvider']

EP / device	Precision	L0 build	L1 runtime	Checked-in recipe
CPUExecutionProvider / cpu	fp32	PASS	PASS	yes
CPUExecutionProvider / cpu	fp16	PASS	PASS	yes
DmlExecutionProvider / gpu	fp32	PASS	HOST-BLOCKED	yes
DmlExecutionProvider / gpu	fp16	PASS	HOST-BLOCKED	yes
OpenVINOExecutionProvider / cpu	fp32	PASS on capable host	PASS: 213 ms mean	yes
OpenVINOExecutionProvider / cpu	fp16	HOST-BLOCKED	HOST-BLOCKED	no
OpenVINOExecutionProvider / gpu	fp32	Shared fp32 artifact	PASS: 7.9 ms mean	yes
OpenVINOExecutionProvider / gpu	fp16	HOST-BLOCKED	HOST-BLOCKED	no
OpenVINOExecutionProvider / npu	fp32	Shared fp32 artifact	PASS: 21 ms mean	yes
OpenVINOExecutionProvider / npu	fp16	HOST-BLOCKED	HOST-BLOCKED	no
QNNExecutionProvider / npu	fp32	PASS on ARM64 host: 172.8 s	not reported	yes
QNNExecutionProvider / npu	fp16	HOST-BLOCKED	HOST-BLOCKED	no
QNNExecutionProvider / npu	w8a8	HOST-BLOCKED	HOST-BLOCKED	no
QNNExecutionProvider / npu	w8a16	HOST-BLOCKED	HOST-BLOCKED	no

On the current host, OpenVINO registration fails because onnxruntime_providers_shared.dll is missing and QNN is absent. The retained fp32 recipes have explicit evidence from other capable hosts: OpenVINO CPU fp32 build plus CPU/GPU/NPU runtime, and QNN NPU fp32 build on Windows ARM64. OpenVINO fp16 and QNN fp16/w8a8/w8a16 have no precision-specific evidence and therefore remain report-only HOST-BLOCKED tuples.

3. Build output directories

• temp/vilt_951_tester/artifacts/cpu/cpu/fp32
• temp/vilt_951_tester/artifacts/cpu/cpu/fp16
• temp/vilt_951_tester/artifacts/dml/gpu/fp32
• temp/vilt_951_tester/artifacts/dml/gpu/fp16

4. Build log

EP / precision	Result
CPU fp32	Build complete in 46.8s; external data 470,917,484 bytes
CPU fp16	Build complete in 55.4s; 218 FLOAT16 initializers; external data 235,459,322 bytes
DML fp32	Build complete in 46.7s; structural validation PASS
DML fp16	Build complete in 55.4s; 218 FLOAT16 initializers; structural validation PASS

All artifacts have IR 8, opset 17, inputs input_ids, attention_mask, token_type_ids as int32 [1,40], pixel_values as float32 [1,3,384,384], and output logits [1,3129].

5. Findings

• The export patch replaces ViLT's non-exportable visual embedding path and omits pixel_mask under the documented all-ones assumption.
• The graph intentionally accepts square 384x384 images. Non-square processor output must be square-resized upstream; the source documents the aspect-ratio and accuracy caveat.
• fp16 requires the CLI --precision fp16; both size and initializer types were verified.
• Unavailable EP/precision tuples are evidence rows only. They are not represented by checked-in recipes.
• Prior capable-host evidence is preserved only for the exact tested precision; fp32 evidence is never generalized to fp16, w8a8, or w8a16.

6. Optimum coverage probe

model_type: vilt
vendor tasks: []
after winml: ['visual-question-answering']
added by winml: ['visual-question-answering']
verdict: WINML-ONLY

7. Claimed tiers

• Effort: L1 — new per-architecture OnnxConfig and patcher.
• Goal ceiling: L2 — build, runtime, and PyTorch-vs-ONNX parity.
• Outcome: L1 — recipes, source, tests, and findings.

8. Goal ladder

Tier	Verdict	Evidence
L0	PASS	CPU and DML fp32/fp16 builds and structural validation passed.
L1	PASS	CPU fp32/fp16 perf passed with real processor-derived named inputs. DML runtime is HOST-BLOCKED by native exit 0xC0000409.
L2	PASS	Identical real inputs: fp32 cosine 0.999999881, max abs 0.000015259; fp16 cosine 0.999999881, max abs 0.007852554; top index 17 matches PyTorch.

L3 is outside the committed ceiling. winml eval does not currently support visual-question-answering.

9. Methodology evolution

The run exposed a coverage-integrity error: a HOST-BLOCKED precision must remain in the report and must not produce a new checked-in recipe unless the exact tuple has explicit prior capable-host evidence. The PR was corrected tuple-by-tuple: prior OpenVINO/QNN fp32 evidence is retained, while untested fp16/w8a8/w8a16 recipes are removed.

10. Perf and numeric data

EP / device	Precision	Verdict	Mean	p50	Throughput	RAM delta
CPUExecutionProvider / cpu	fp32	PASS	78.684 ms	74.849 ms	12.71 samples/s	+398.15 MB
CPUExecutionProvider / cpu	fp16	PASS	104.039 ms	101.501 ms	9.61 samples/s	+407.25 MB
DmlExecutionProvider / gpu	fp32	HOST-BLOCKED	—	—	—	—
DmlExecutionProvider / gpu	fp16	HOST-BLOCKED	—	—	—	—

DML is registered but the native process exits -1073740791 (0xC0000409, STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN) on this host.

11. Component and op-level analysis

Command:

uv run winml analyze --model temp/vilt_951_tester/artifacts/cpu/cpu/fp32/model.onnx --ep all --output temp/vilt_951_tester/analyze_all.json

Status: ANALYZE-PARTIAL-SUCCESS. The command exits 1 because the installed OpenVINO plugin cannot load onnxruntime_providers_shared.dll, but emits parseable JSON with all six requested classifications.

• Total operators: 440
• Unique operator types: 17
• NvTensorRTRTX: 440 supported
• QNN static rules: 427 supported, partial classifications present for Cast, Div, Erf, Add, and Mul
• OpenVINO static rules: 440 supported
• CUDA, MIGraphX, and DML: 440 unknown because no applicable rules are present

Static analyze results are not runtime support claims.

12. Reproducible commands

uv run ruff check src/winml/modelkit/models/hf/vilt.py src/winml/modelkit/models/hf/__init__.py tests/unit/export/test_vilt_onnx_config.py
uv run pytest tests/unit/export/test_vilt_onnx_config.py -q

uv run winml build -c examples/recipes/dandelin_vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa/cpu/cpu/visual-question-answering_fp32_config.json -m dandelin/vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa -o temp/vilt_951_tester/artifacts/cpu/cpu/fp32 --device cpu --ep cpu --precision fp32 --rebuild --no-analyze
uv run winml build -c examples/recipes/dandelin_vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa/cpu/cpu/visual-question-answering_fp16_config.json -m dandelin/vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa -o temp/vilt_951_tester/artifacts/cpu/cpu/fp16 --device cpu --ep cpu --precision fp16 --rebuild --no-analyze
uv run winml build -c examples/recipes/dandelin_vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa/dml/gpu/visual-question-answering_fp32_config.json -m dandelin/vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa -o temp/vilt_951_tester/artifacts/dml/gpu/fp32 --device gpu --ep dml --precision fp32 --rebuild --no-analyze
uv run winml build -c examples/recipes/dandelin_vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa/dml/gpu/visual-question-answering_fp16_config.json -m dandelin/vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa -o temp/vilt_951_tester/artifacts/dml/gpu/fp16 --device gpu --ep dml --precision fp16 --rebuild --no-analyze

uv run winml analyze --model temp/vilt_951_tester/artifacts/cpu/cpu/fp32/model.onnx --ep all --output temp/vilt_951_tester/analyze_all.json
uv run winml perf -m temp/vilt_951_tester/artifacts/cpu/cpu/fp32/model.onnx --device cpu --ep cpu --precision fp32 --iterations 20 --warmup 5 --input-data temp/vilt_951_tester/real_inputs.npz --memory
uv run winml perf -m temp/vilt_951_tester/artifacts/cpu/cpu/fp16/model.onnx --device cpu --ep cpu --precision fp16 --iterations 20 --warmup 5 --input-data temp/vilt_951_tester/real_inputs.npz --memory
.venv/Scripts/python.exe temp/vilt_951_tester/compare_pytorch_onnx.py

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Reviewer verification: OV cpu / gpu / npu — branch \shzhen/add-vilt-vqa\

Commands

\\powershell

config

uv run winml config -m dandelin/vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa --task visual-question-answering -o temp/verify_pr951_vilt_config.json

build (OV CPU, fp32, using recipe)

uv run winml build -c examples/recipes/dandelin_vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa/visual-question-answering_config.json -m dandelin/vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa -o temp/verify_pr951_vilt_build --ep openvino --device cpu --precision fp32 --no-quant --no-compile --rebuild

perf — cpu / gpu / npu (from built ONNX, 5 iters + 2 warmup)

uv run winml perf -m temp/verify_pr951_vilt_build/model.onnx --ep openvino --device cpu --iterations 5 --warmup 2 --skip-build -f json
uv run winml perf -m temp/verify_pr951_vilt_build/model.onnx --ep openvino --device gpu --iterations 5 --warmup 2 --skip-build -f json
uv run winml perf -m temp/verify_pr951_vilt_build/model.onnx --ep openvino --device npu --iterations 5 --warmup 2 --skip-build -f json

eval schema check

uv run winml eval --schema --task visual-question-answering
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Results

Command	cpu	gpu	npu
config	✅ PASS	—	—
build	✅ PASS (94s, 449.2 MB, autoconf converged in 2 iters)	—	—
perf mean	✅ 213 ms/iter	✅ 7.9 ms/iter	✅ 21 ms/iter
perf throughput	4.69 samples/s	125.83 samples/s	46.95 samples/s
eval	❌ CLI-UNSUPPORTED	❌ CLI-UNSUPPORTED	❌ CLI-UNSUPPORTED

Notes:

• \config\ / \�uild\ / \perf\ pass cleanly on all three OV devices. OV sessions created successfully for cpu, gpu, and npu.
• \�val\ returns \Task 'visual-question-answering' is not supported by \winml eval.\ — this is a CLI limitation, not an OV EP limitation. VQA task is not yet wired into the eval pipeline.
• ONNX artifact: 954 nodes, opset 17, fp32, inputs: \input_ids[1,40], \�ttention_mask[1,40], \ oken_type_ids[1,40], \pixel_values[1,3,384,384], output: \logits[1,3129].

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Validation results (2026-06-25) for PR #951 on this Windows ARM64 host.

Scope

• Compare main vs PR branch behavior
• Verify winml config/build on QNN NPU/GPU where applicable

Main branch baseline (before PR)

• Command: uv run winml config -m dandelin/vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa --task visual-question-answering --ep cpu --device cpu
• Result: FAIL
• Error: No OnnxConfig registered for model_type='vilt' with task='visual-question-answering'

PR #951 branch

• CPU config: PASS
  • uv run winml config -m dandelin/vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa --task visual-question-answering --ep cpu --device cpu -o temp/vilt_config_test.json
• QNN NPU config: PASS
  • uv run winml config -m dandelin/vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa --task visual-question-answering --ep qnn --device npu -o temp/vilt_qnn_npu_config.json
  • Resolved to Device=NPU, EP=QNNExecutionProvider
• QNN NPU build: PASS
  • uv run winml build -c temp/vilt_qnn_npu_config.json -m dandelin/vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa -o temp/vilt_qnn_npu_build --rebuild
  • Build complete in 172.8s
• QNN GPU config: PASS
  • uv run winml config -m dandelin/vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa --task visual-question-answering --ep qnn --device gpu
  • (build/perf on QNN GPU not completed in this run)

Conclusion

• Confirmed: this PR introduces real support for ViLT visual-question-answering (main fails, PR passes), and QNN NPU path builds successfully.

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ADDENDUM: main branch baseline (NO support)

On current \main\ @ HEAD:
\\powershell
uv run winml config -m dandelin/vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa --task visual-question-answering
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Returns:
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Error: No OnnxConfig registered for model_type='vilt' with task='visual-question-answering'.
vilt is not supported yet for transformers.
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Conclusion: This PR introduces vilt support. The \�ilt.py\ source changes (custom \ViltVqaOnnxConfig\ + _ViltVisualEmbedPatcher) are necessary and not catalog-only. All OV devices now pass config/build/perf validation.

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reviewer verdict — APPROVE (draft; awaiting human ready-promotion)

Independent re-march of the checklist against the pushed producer fix (73f8d635):

• Gap closed — the original REQUEST_CHANGES was missing pytest coverage for the ViLT VQA OnnxConfig contract. The fix adds tests/unit/export/test_vilt_onnx_config.py (6 tests).
• Independent verification — re-ran pytest tests/unit/export/test_vilt_onnx_config.py from a clean env: 6 passed in 0.28s (not the producer's own reported run).
• Contract coverage — tests assert: ViltVqaOnnxConfig is the registered constructor; exactly 4 inputs {input_ids, attention_mask, token_type_ids, pixel_values}; pixel_mask deliberately dropped; output is ["logits"]; pixel_values static shape (3,384,384); MODEL_CLASS_MAPPING[("vilt","visual-question-answering")] binds ViltForQuestionAnswering.
• Cardinal Rule 1 — support lives in models/hf/vilt.py via @register_onnx_overwrite; no if model_type == ... branching. ✅
• Tier — L1 (from-scratch OnnxConfig); code_paths match tier. ✅

Coverage scope (honest annotation): this contribution is verified at the OnnxConfig-contract / unit-test level. coverage: partial — L2/L3 numerical-delta + per-EP perf on NPU/GPU hardware were not run in this environment (deferred_eps = non-CPU targets). No cross-EP breadth is claimed here.

Verdict: APPROVE. Left as draft per contributor request — promote with gh pr ready when you're ready to request review.

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reviewer verdict — CORRECTION + real Goal-ladder march

My earlier verdict on this PR only cited a pytest unit-test run. That was a process failure on my side: unit tests verify the OnnxConfig contract, they are NOT the Goal ladder. The claimed L1/L2 tiers were the original author's numbers, taken on faith. I have now independently re-marched the ladder on this host (CPU / CPUExecutionProvider, no NPU; DML available but not a target EP here).

Tier	Command	Result (independently re-run)
L0	winml build -c visual-question-answering_config.json -m dandelin/vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa + onnx.load	PASS — Build complete in 128.9s; artifact export.onnx + export.onnx.data (449.3 MB) co-located (✅ _meta-023); IR 8; inputs input_ids[1,40] attention_mask[1,40] token_type_ids[1,40] pixel_values[1,3,384,384] (pixel_mask dropped, static 384 ✓); output logits[1,3129]
L1	winml perf -m export.onnx --device cpu --ep cpu	PASS — Avg 55.66 ms / P50 53.50 ms / P90 66.64 / P99 71.84; throughput 17.97 samples/s; providers ['CPUExecutionProvider']; model-load +371.6 MB
L2	ad-hoc temp/vilt_l2_check.py (ONNX vs PyTorch, identical inputs)	PASS — cosine 1.000000, max_abs 2.10e-05, argmax match (pt=3, onnx=3)

Author's claim was L1 p50≈65.83ms / L2 cos=1.0 max_abs=4.2e-5 — independently reproduced (P50 differs only by host CPU; numerical delta matches).

Coverage: target_eps=[cpu] → fully verified. DML-GPU present on host but not a charter target; NPU absent (get_available_providers()=['DmlExecutionProvider','CPUExecutionProvider']). coverage: full on the CPU target.

Plus the unit-test contract coverage from before (6 passed). Verdict stands: APPROVE (draft; promote with gh pr ready).

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Reviewer verdict (independent second-host re-verification): APPROVE

Role note: posted as a review comment because GitHub disallows formally approving one's own PR. Re-verification ran on a different host (with a DirectML GPU) from a clean rebuild.

• Value fidelity: the appended section adds DML rows only and does not restate the original CPU numbers as mine; the CPU latency delta (288.28ms vs original 67.49ms) is explicitly attributed to different hardware.
• Load-bearing check re-run: ViLT's risk is the export-time _ViltVisualEmbedPatcher. L2 numerical parity PASSES on both CPU and DML (cos=1.0, argmax=3 on both), confirming the baked-in patched graph is EP-agnostic and not silently broken on GPU.
• L0/L1 re-run: build converges; both EPs run to completion; pixel_mask correctly dropped.

Coverage annotation:

• reachable-verified: CPUExecutionProvider, DmlExecutionProvider
• deferred (host-limited, not a defect): QNNExecutionProvider/NPU (no NPU on this host), OpenVINOExecutionProvider (present, not exercised), generative-VQA path (out of scope for this checkpoint)

Terminal state: APPROVE · coverage: partial (CPU+DML verified; QNN/NPU + OpenVINO deferred).

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Reviewer verdict — OpenVINO EP-coverage completion (2026-07-10)

Correcting my earlier "host-blocked" label: this host (Intel Lunar Lake) reaches its NPU+GPU through the downloadable OpenVINOExecutionProvider v1.8.80.0. Re-ran the EP flow on all three OpenVINO device targets.

ViLT VQA (#951) — APPROVE (strengthened). L1 PASS on OpenVINO NPU, GPU, and CPU with correct logits[1,3129]. NPU 15.42ms / 64.84 samples/sec (slightly faster than GPU 18.04ms). Key point: the export-time _ViltVisualEmbedPatcher is baked into the graph, so the fix is EP-agnostic — it inherits correctly on OpenVINO NPU/GPU with no EP-specific patching.

Reachable-EP coverage now verified: CPU + DML(GPU) + OpenVINO(NPU/GPU/CPU) — all PASS. Only N/A: QNN (Intel silicon).

No code changes requested.

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EP-coverage update — AMD NPU (VitisAI) + AMD GPU (MIGraphX) + NVIDIA GPU (NvTensorRTRTX) validated on an AMD Ryzen AI host (2026-07-13)

Net-new accelerator-EP coverage beyond the earlier CPU/DML rows. Host exposes, via WindowsML get_ep_devices(): AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 → VitisAIExecutionProvider (NPU), AMD Radeon 890M → MIGraphXExecutionProvider (GPU), NVIDIA RTX 4070 Laptop → NvTensorRTRTXExecutionProvider (GPU). CPU/DML skipped (already covered). No code change — the baked-in _ViltVisualEmbedPatcher graph is reused unchanged; this run confirms it is EP-agnostic on three additional accelerators.

Build reused across EPs: winml build -c examples/recipes/dandelin_vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa/visual-question-answering_config.json → model.onnx (449.2 MB, fp32). L2 method: target-EP ONNX vs CPU-ONNX reference with identical seeded inputs (CPU-ONNX == PyTorch at cos 1.0 was established in the original submission), isolating each EP's numerical fidelity.

Per-(EP, device) matrix — dandelin/vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa @ visual-question-answering @ fp32

Tier	EP / device	Result
L1 perf	MIGraphXExecutionProvider / gpu	PASS — avg 21.85 ms, p50 21.40, 45.76 samples/s, VRAM +738 MB
L1 perf	VitisAIExecutionProvider / npu	PASS — avg 42.62 ms, p50 43.11, 23.47 samples/s (real NPU AIE compile: convertToNNADF/peano-lib)
L1 perf	NvTensorRTRTXExecutionProvider / gpu	PASS — avg 5.33 ms, p50 5.31, 187.72 samples/s
L2 numeric	MIGraphX / gpu	PASS — cosine 1.000000, max_abs 3.24e-05, argmax match
L2 numeric	VitisAI / npu	PASS — cosine 0.999953, max_abs 5.24e-01, argmax match
L2 numeric	NvTensorRTRTX / gpu	PASS — cosine 1.000000, max_abs 7.77e-03, argmax match
L3 eval	all three	CLI-BLOCKED — visual-question-answering not in winml eval registry (unchanged)

Honesty note: VitisAI/NPU L2 max_abs (0.52) is elevated vs the GPU EPs — an NPU quantization/precision characteristic — but cosine 0.99995 and identical argmax (the load-bearing check for the patched export) confirm the graph is correct on the NPU. Coverage after this update: reachable-verified = CPU + DML (prior) + MIGraphX + VitisAI + NvTensorRTRTX. Still deferred: OpenVINO (not registered on this host), QNN (no Qualcomm NPU here).

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Producer update in 5172a6c: rebased onto current main; addressed the CodeQL unused-import finding; strengthened ViLT registration/patcher tests (8 passed); ran repo-wide Ruff clean; CPU fp32 smoke build passed; removed the forbidden recipe README entry; and replaced unsuffixed recipes with the frozen charter's 14 precision-suffixed nested recipes (fp32/fp16 for all six targets, plus w8a8/w8a16 for QNN NPU).

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Follow-up CI fix in 46bd14e: added explicit tensor/patcher method annotations and narrow ignores for untyped Optimum base classes. Ruff and the targeted ViLT tests (8 passed) remain clean; CI was retriggered.

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Final strict-mypy boundary fix in 6a2d753: cast the untyped Optimum dummy-input return to the declared mapping. Ruff and targeted ViLT tests (8 passed) are clean; CI retriggered.

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Rebased onto current main 7434269. Fresh detached-main baseline reconfirmed the engineering delta: winml config --task visual-question-answering exits 2 and no-recipe winml build exits 2 because ViLT has no registered OnnxConfig. Rebased-head Ruff passes and the targeted ViLT suite passes (8 tests); CI is retriggered.

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Independent reviewer verdict — APPROVE

Reviewed current head 5dfe7f33539818bb9fb04cb445366337bcad3ee6 against current origin/main 74342698e416bd9bc4e5f9b534f943425ce81c62 using the fail-closed adding-model-support checklist.

• Fresh detached-main baseline: winml config exit 2 and no-recipe winml build exit 2 (vilt has no registered OnnxConfig).
• Rebase artifact-reuse check: model code, tests, and all recipes are unchanged from the tested head.
• Scope: only 14 nested precision recipes, vilt.py, registration, and the targeted test; README/research absent.
• Deterministic gates: Ruff PASS; targeted pytest 8 passed; remote CI 9/9 success.
• External feedback: 4 threads enumerated, 0 open; all human and CodeQL comments have fixes/replies and are resolved.
• Engineering review: per-architecture ModelPatcher/registration abstraction is sound, patch restoration is exception-safe, I/O order and static-384 constraint are explicit and tested, and no shared hardcoded model branch was added.
• Op-level evidence: emitted JSON is parseable with 440 operators / 17 unique types and complete requested-EP classifications; non-zero host/plugin condition is preserved as ANALYZE-PARTIAL-SUCCESS, not promoted to runtime support.
• Goal ladder: L0/L1/L2 PASS on the freshly reachable CPU path; L3 is CLI-BLOCKED for VQA, with exact evidence.

Coverage: partial. Fresh verified tuples are CPU fp32/fp16; DML fp32/fp16 builds passed but runtime is HOST-BLOCKED; OpenVINO cpu/gpu/npu fp32/fp16 and QNN npu fp32/fp16/w8a8/w8a16 are explicitly carried-over at L0 and HOST-BLOCKED at runtime on this host. These are not upgraded to fresh PASS.

VERDICT: APPROVE. The PR is mergeable, green, and has no open review thread.

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Correction: removed 10 OpenVINO/QNN recipes that did not have fresh target-EP build evidence in this run. In particular, QNN fp32/fp16/w8a8/w8a16 were never built on this non-QNN host and must not be represented as verified coverage. The clean UTF-8 PR description now keeps those tuples as HOST-BLOCKED evidence rows only. Returning the PR to Draft until the corrected head passes CI and independent re-review.

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Second correction, now tuple-specific: restored OpenVINO CPU/GPU/NPU fp32 recipes because another capable host recorded OpenVINO CPU fp32 build plus runtime on all three devices; restored QNN NPU fp32 because the Windows ARM64 host recorded a 172.8s QNN NPU build. OpenVINO fp16 and QNN fp16/w8a8/w8a16 remain removed because no precision-specific build evidence exists. No fp32 result is generalized to another precision.