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Summary

  • CLIPModel.get_image_features() returned a plain torch.Tensor in transformers <5.0. Starting in v5 (huggingface/transformers#42564) it returns a BaseModelOutputWithPooling wrapper instead — .pooler_output is the documented equivalent of the old return value (migration guide).
  • feluda-vid-vec-rep-clip only declares transformers>=4.51.1 (no upper bound), so any environment that resolves the newest available transformers at install time breaks with:
    mean() received an invalid combination of arguments - got (BaseModelOutputWithPooling, dim=int), but expected ...
    
  • Not specific to this project — other libraries hit the identical break upgrading to transformers 5 (e.g. Lightning-AI/torchmetrics#3407, huggingface/lerobot#3418). Found via a real job failure downstream in data-analysis-platform's Batch/Feluda video-embedding pipeline.
  • Fix checks the actual return type rather than the installed version, so it's correct on both transformers 4.x and 5.x — no upper-bound pin needed, and nothing changes for anyone already on 4.x.
  • Bumped operators/vid_vec_rep 0.1.5 → 0.1.6 (patch, backward-compatible bugfix).

Test plan

  • Added test_extract_features_accepts_plain_tensor — simulates transformers <5.0 (plain tensor return), asserts it passes through unchanged.
  • Added test_extract_features_unwraps_transformers_v5_output — simulates transformers >=5.0 (BaseModelOutputWithPooling-shaped return via mocking), asserts .pooler_output is correctly unwrapped.
  • Both new tests mock get_image_features directly, so they exercise the actual fix regardless of which transformers version this repo's CI happens to install.
  • CI (Run Modified Operator Tests) will run the full operators/vid_vec_rep/test.py suite, including the existing real-video integration test.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved video feature extraction compatibility across Transformers versions.
    • Feature extraction now correctly handles both direct tensor results and wrapped model outputs.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for supported output formats to help ensure consistent feature extraction behavior.
  • Chores

    • Updated the video vector representation package version to 0.1.6.

…es in BaseModelOutputWithPooling

CLIPModel.get_image_features() returned a plain torch.Tensor in
transformers <5.0. Starting in v5 (huggingface/transformers PR #42564)
it returns a BaseModelOutputWithPooling wrapper instead, whose
.pooler_output is the documented equivalent of the old return value.

feluda-vid-vec-rep-clip only declares transformers>=4.51.1 (no upper
bound), so any environment that resolves the newest available
transformers at install time silently breaks with:

    mean() received an invalid combination of arguments - got
    (BaseModelOutputWithPooling, dim=int), but expected ...

Not specific to this project -- other libraries hit the identical
break upgrading to transformers 5 (e.g. Lightning-AI/torchmetrics#3407,
huggingface/lerobot#3418).

Fix checks the actual return type rather than the installed version,
so it's correct on both transformers 4.x and 5.x without needing an
upper-bound pin. Added unit tests covering both return shapes via
mocking, so this doesn't depend on which transformers version CI
happens to install.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0163s8jEcoELUcWm1xd5w9Sb
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The change updates extract_features for transformers v5 wrapped outputs, preserves plain tensor handling, adds tests for both output forms, and increments the package version to 0.1.6.

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CLIP feature output compatibility

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Handle CLIP feature outputs
operators/vid_vec_rep/vid_vec_rep.py, operators/vid_vec_rep/test.py, operators/vid_vec_rep/pyproject.toml
extract_features returns plain tensors unchanged and unwraps pooler_output from wrapped outputs. Tests cover both behaviors. The package version increases from 0.1.5 to 0.1.6.

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The update supports tensor and wrapped CLIP feature results, but configurations that return tuple outputs can still fail feature extraction at runtime. Handle that output shape before release.

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In `@operators/vid_vec_rep/vid_vec_rep.py`:
- Around line 150-151: Update the output handling after
self.model.get_image_features() so tuple results are unpacked or converted to
the expected feature tensor before any pooler_output access; retain the existing
pooler_output handling for model-output objects and direct Tensor results. Add a
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if not isinstance(features, torch.Tensor):
features = features.pooler_output

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Pull Request #42564 in the Hugging Face transformers library introduced a breaking change (BC) to the get_image_features (along with get_text_features, get_audio_features, and get_video_features) methods for multi-modal models like CLIP [1][2]. Prior to this change, these helper methods typically returned a pooled embedding tensor directly [2]. With this update, they now return a BaseModelOutputWithPooling (or a subclass) by default, which includes the pooler_output alongside other potential outputs such as last_hidden_state, hidden_states (when output_hidden_states=True), and attentions (when output_attentions=True) [2]. If your existing code expects a tensor output (e.g., features = model.get_image_features(inputs)), you must update it to access the pooler_output attribute [2]. The recommended migration pattern is: python # Before image_features = model.get_image_features(inputs) # After outputs = model.get_image_features(inputs, return_dict=True) image_features = outputs.pooler_output If you explicitly pass return_dict=True, the method returns a ModelOutput object [2]. This change was part of the preparation for Transformers v5 to provide more consistent output structures across different model architectures [2][3].

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  • 1: GitHub pull request 42564 in huggingface/transformers (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
  • 2: huggingface/transformers@55dadb8
  • 3: GitHub issue 42710 in huggingface/transformers (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)

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Hugging Face transformers commit 55dadb865681d9330f7b1e8fec92156cc38cd253, titled "[BC] Update get_(text|image|audio|video)_features methods to return BaseModelOutputWithPooling", introduced a breaking change regarding how convenience methods like get_image_features behave [1]. Before this commit, get_image_features typically returned a pooled embedding tensor directly [1]. With this change, the method now returns a BaseModelOutputWithPooling object (or a subclass) [1]. This object contains several fields, most notably: - pooler_output: The pooled representation (equivalent to what was previously returned as the tensor) [1]. - last_hidden_state: The unpooled token or patch embeddings [1]. - hidden_states and attentions: Available when output_hidden_states=True or output_attentions=True are passed [1]. If your existing code expects a tensor, you should update it to extract the pooler_output from the returned object [1]: python # Old way image_features = model.get_image_features(inputs) # New way outputs = model.get_image_features(inputs, return_dict=True) image_features = outputs.pooler_output This change was implemented as part of pull request #42564 to standardize the output format for these multi-modal convenience methods across the library [1][2].

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Handle tuple outputs before reading pooler_output.

When Transformers v5 returns a tuple from self.model.get_image_features(), the current branch accesses pooler_output on the tuple and can raise AttributeError. Handle tuple outputs explicitly and add a regression test.

Proposed fix
             if not isinstance(features, torch.Tensor):
-                features = features.pooler_output
+                features = (
+                    features[1]
+                    if isinstance(features, tuple)
+                    else features.pooler_output
+                )
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if not isinstance(features, torch.Tensor):
features = features.pooler_output
if not isinstance(features, torch.Tensor):
features = (
features[1]
if isinstance(features, tuple)
else features.pooler_output
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In `@operators/vid_vec_rep/vid_vec_rep.py` around lines 150 - 151, Update the
output handling after self.model.get_image_features() so tuple results are
unpacked or converted to the expected feature tensor before any pooler_output
access; retain the existing pooler_output handling for model-output objects and
direct Tensor results. Add a regression test covering a tuple return from
get_image_features and verifying the resulting image features are processed
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