# Copyright 2025 The HuggingFace Team. All rights reserved. # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. from __future__ import annotations import os import re import sys from functools import partial from typing import TYPE_CHECKING import torch import torch.nn as nn from safetensors import safe_open from .cache_utils import Cache from .conversion_mapping import get_model_conversion_mapping from .core_model_loading import WeightRenaming, convert_and_load_state_dict_in_model from .masking_utils import LAYER_PATTERN_TO_MASK_FUNCTION_MAPPING, create_causal_mask from .modeling_outputs import ( BaseModelOutputWithPast, QuestionAnsweringModelOutput, SequenceClassifierOutputWithPast, TokenClassifierOutput, ) from .modeling_utils import LoadStateDictConfig, PreTrainedModel, _get_resolved_checkpoint_files from .models.auto import AutoModel from .processing_utils import Unpack from .utils import ContextManagers, TransformersKwargs, auto_docstring, can_return_tuple, logging from .utils.loading_report import log_state_dict_report if TYPE_CHECKING: from .cache_utils import MtpCache from .configuration_utils import PreTrainedConfig from .generation.logits_process import LogitsProcessorList logger = logging.get_logger(__name__) class GradientCheckpointingLayer(nn.Module): """Base class for layers with gradient checkpointing. This class enables gradient checkpointing functionality for a layer. By default, gradient checkpointing is disabled (`gradient_checkpointing = False`). When `model.set_gradient_checkpointing()` is called, gradient checkpointing is enabled by setting `gradient_checkpointing = True` and assigning a checkpointing function to `_gradient_checkpointing_func`. Important: When using gradient checkpointing with `use_reentrant=True`, inputs that require gradients (e.g. hidden states) must be passed as positional arguments (`*args`) rather than keyword arguments to properly propagate gradients. Example: ```python >>> # Correct - hidden_states passed as positional arg >>> out = self.layer(hidden_states, attention_mask=attention_mask) >>> # Incorrect - hidden_states passed as keyword arg >>> out = self.layer(hidden_states=hidden_states, attention_mask=attention_mask) ``` """ gradient_checkpointing = False # Layers that only read the KV cache can set this to keep it under gradient checkpointing (the recompute reads the # same states). Writers must leave it `False`, otherwise the cache is updated a second time on the backward replay. _can_checkpoint_with_cache = False def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs): if self.gradient_checkpointing and self.training: do_warn = False layer_name = self.__class__.__name__ message = f"Caching is incompatible with gradient checkpointing in {layer_name}. Setting" if "use_cache" in kwargs and kwargs["use_cache"]: kwargs["use_cache"] = False message += " `use_cache=False`," do_warn = True if not self._can_checkpoint_with_cache: # different names for the same thing in different layers # TODO cyril: this one without `S` can be removed after deprecation cycle if "past_key_value" in kwargs and kwargs["past_key_value"] is not None: kwargs["past_key_value"] = None message += " `past_key_value=None`," do_warn = True if "past_key_values" in kwargs and kwargs["past_key_values"] is not None: kwargs["past_key_values"] = None message += " `past_key_values=None`," do_warn = True if "layer_past" in kwargs and kwargs["layer_past"] is not None: kwargs["layer_past"] = None message += " `layer_past=None`," do_warn = True # warn if anything was changed if do_warn: message = message.rstrip(",") + "." logger.warning_once(message) return self._gradient_checkpointing_func(partial(super().__call__, **kwargs), *args) return super().__call__(*args, **kwargs) @auto_docstring class GenericForSequenceClassification: base_model_prefix = "model" def __init__(self, config): super().__init__(config) self.num_labels = config.num_labels # Similar to `self.model = AutoModel.from_config(config)` but allows to change the base model name if needed in the child class setattr(self, self.base_model_prefix, AutoModel.from_config(config)) self.score = nn.Linear(config.get_text_config().hidden_size, self.num_labels, bias=False) # Initialize weights and apply final processing self.post_init() @can_return_tuple @auto_docstring def forward( self, input_ids: torch.LongTensor | None = None, attention_mask: torch.Tensor | None = None, position_ids: torch.LongTensor | None = None, past_key_values: Cache | None = None, inputs_embeds: torch.FloatTensor | None = None, labels: torch.LongTensor | None = None, use_cache: bool | None = None, **kwargs: Unpack[TransformersKwargs], ) -> SequenceClassifierOutputWithPast: transformer_outputs: BaseModelOutputWithPast = getattr(self, self.base_model_prefix)( input_ids, attention_mask=attention_mask, position_ids=position_ids, past_key_values=past_key_values, inputs_embeds=inputs_embeds, use_cache=use_cache, **kwargs, ) hidden_states = transformer_outputs.last_hidden_state logits = self.score(hidden_states) if input_ids is not None: batch_size = input_ids.shape[0] else: batch_size = inputs_embeds.shape[0] if self.config.get_text_config().pad_token_id is None and batch_size != 1: raise ValueError("Cannot handle batch sizes > 1 if no padding token is defined.") if self.config.get_text_config().pad_token_id is None: last_non_pad_token = -1 elif input_ids is not None: # To handle both left- and right- padding, we take the rightmost token that is not equal to pad_token_id non_pad_mask = (input_ids != self.config.get_text_config().pad_token_id).to(logits.device, torch.int32) token_indices = torch.arange(input_ids.shape[-1], device=logits.device, dtype=torch.int32) last_non_pad_token = (token_indices * non_pad_mask).argmax(-1) else: last_non_pad_token = -1 logger.warning_once( f"{self.__class__.__name__} will not detect padding tokens in `inputs_embeds`. Results may be " "unexpected if using padding tokens in conjunction with `inputs_embeds.`" ) pooled_logits = logits[torch.arange(batch_size, device=logits.device), last_non_pad_token] loss = None if labels is not None: loss = self.loss_function(logits=logits, labels=labels, pooled_logits=pooled_logits, config=self.config) return SequenceClassifierOutputWithPast( loss=loss, logits=pooled_logits, past_key_values=transformer_outputs.past_key_values, hidden_states=transformer_outputs.hidden_states, attentions=transformer_outputs.attentions, ) @auto_docstring class GenericForQuestionAnswering: base_model_prefix = "model" def __init__(self, config): super().__init__(config) # Similar to `self.model = AutoModel.from_config(config)` but allows to change the base model name if needed in the child class setattr(self, self.base_model_prefix, AutoModel.from_config(config)) self.qa_outputs = nn.Linear(config.hidden_size, 2) # Initialize weights and apply final processing self.post_init() def get_input_embeddings(self): return getattr(self, self.base_model_prefix).embed_tokens def set_input_embeddings(self, value): getattr(self, self.base_model_prefix).embed_tokens = value @can_return_tuple @auto_docstring def forward( self, input_ids: torch.LongTensor | None = None, attention_mask: torch.Tensor | None = None, position_ids: torch.LongTensor | None = None, past_key_values: Cache | None = None, inputs_embeds: torch.FloatTensor | None = None, start_positions: torch.LongTensor | None = None, end_positions: torch.LongTensor | None = None, **kwargs: Unpack[TransformersKwargs], ) -> QuestionAnsweringModelOutput: outputs: BaseModelOutputWithPast = getattr(self, self.base_model_prefix)( input_ids, attention_mask=attention_mask, position_ids=position_ids, past_key_values=past_key_values, inputs_embeds=inputs_embeds, **kwargs, ) sequence_output = outputs.last_hidden_state logits = self.qa_outputs(sequence_output) start_logits, end_logits = logits.split(1, dim=-1) start_logits = start_logits.squeeze(-1).contiguous() end_logits = end_logits.squeeze(-1).contiguous() loss = None if start_positions is not None and end_positions is not None: loss = self.loss_function(start_logits, end_logits, start_positions, end_positions, **kwargs) return QuestionAnsweringModelOutput( loss=loss, start_logits=start_logits, end_logits=end_logits, hidden_states=outputs.hidden_states, attentions=outputs.attentions, ) @auto_docstring class GenericForTokenClassification: base_model_prefix = "model" def __init__(self, config): super().__init__(config) self.num_labels = config.num_labels # Similar to `self.model = AutoModel.from_config(config)` but allows to change the base model name if needed in the child class setattr(self, self.base_model_prefix, AutoModel.from_config(config)) if getattr(config, "classifier_dropout", None) is not None: classifier_dropout = config.classifier_dropout elif getattr(config, "hidden_dropout", None) is not None: classifier_dropout = config.hidden_dropout else: classifier_dropout = 0.1 self.dropout = nn.Dropout(classifier_dropout) self.score = nn.Linear( config.get_text_config().hidden_size, config.num_labels, bias=getattr(config, "token_classification_bias", True), ) # Initialize weights and apply final processing self.post_init() @can_return_tuple @auto_docstring def forward( self, input_ids: torch.LongTensor | None = None, attention_mask: torch.Tensor | None = None, position_ids: torch.LongTensor | None = None, past_key_values: Cache | None = None, inputs_embeds: torch.FloatTensor | None = None, labels: torch.LongTensor | None = None, use_cache: bool | None = None, **kwargs: Unpack[TransformersKwargs], ) -> TokenClassifierOutput: outputs: BaseModelOutputWithPast = getattr(self, self.base_model_prefix)( input_ids, attention_mask=attention_mask, position_ids=position_ids, past_key_values=past_key_values, inputs_embeds=inputs_embeds, use_cache=use_cache, **kwargs, ) sequence_output = outputs.last_hidden_state sequence_output = self.dropout(sequence_output) logits = self.score(sequence_output) loss = None if labels is not None: loss = self.loss_function(logits, labels, self.config) return TokenClassifierOutput( loss=loss, logits=logits, hidden_states=outputs.hidden_states, attentions=outputs.attentions, ) class MtpLayer(nn.Module): def __init__( self, config: PreTrainedConfig, decoder_layer_cls: type[nn.Module], norm_cls: type[nn.Module], layer_idx: int, use_post_norm: bool = True, ): super().__init__() self.config = config self.use_post_norm = use_post_norm self.enorm = norm_cls(config.hidden_size, eps=config.rms_norm_eps) self.hnorm = norm_cls(config.hidden_size, eps=config.rms_norm_eps) self.eh_proj = nn.Linear(config.hidden_size * 2, config.hidden_size, bias=False) self.mtp_block = decoder_layer_cls(config, layer_idx) self.post_norm = norm_cls(config.hidden_size, eps=config.rms_norm_eps) if use_post_norm else None def forward( self, inputs_embeds: torch.Tensor, previous_hidden_state: torch.Tensor, position_embeddings: tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor], attention_mask: torch.Tensor | None, position_ids: torch.Tensor | None, past_key_values: Cache | None, **kwargs, ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]: # Some checkpoints (e.g. Inkling :eyes:) order the projection input as [hidden, embeds] instead if getattr(self.config, "mtp_hidden_states_first", False): projection_input = torch.cat([self.hnorm(previous_hidden_state), self.enorm(inputs_embeds)], dim=-1) else: projection_input = torch.cat([self.enorm(inputs_embeds), self.hnorm(previous_hidden_state)], dim=-1) hidden_states = self.eh_proj(projection_input) hidden_states = self.mtp_block( hidden_states, attention_mask=attention_mask, position_embeddings=position_embeddings, position_ids=position_ids, past_key_values=past_key_values, **kwargs, ) if self.use_post_norm: hidden_states = self.post_norm(hidden_states) return hidden_states class MtpModel(PreTrainedModel): # These act as dummy values, that are properly set on the upstream model (without it, instantiating this model would # fail on an existing model's config where the attn is already set to a custom value) _supports_sdpa = True _supports_flex_attn = True _supports_flash_attn = True # Since the embedding/head are shared with main model, silence any warning if they are provided again _keys_to_ignore_on_load_unexpected = ["shared_head.head.weight", "embed_tokens.weight"] # Silence as well when not provided, since one again we take them from main model _keys_to_ignore_on_load_missing = ["shared_head.weight", "embed_tokens.weight"] def __init__(self, main_model: PreTrainedModel, num_mtp_layers: int): super().__init__(main_model.config.get_mtp_config()) # Make sure we have the correct loss type in case of training self.loss_type = "ForCausalLM" self.num_mtp_layers = num_mtp_layers # Infer the type of the layers based on the main model base_model = main_model.get_decoder() layer_cls = type(base_model.layers[-1]) norm_cls = next( type(module) for name, module in base_model.layers[-1].named_modules() # type: ignore if "norm" in name ) # If the config contains the field, we never use per-layer post norm, but maybe a shared one self.use_post_norm = True self.use_shared_post_norm = False if hasattr(self.config, "chain_hidden_post_norm"): self.use_post_norm = False self.use_shared_post_norm = self.config.chain_hidden_post_norm # Instantiate new mtp layers self.layers = nn.ModuleList( [MtpLayer(self.config, layer_cls, norm_cls, k, self.use_post_norm) for k in range(num_mtp_layers)] ) if self.use_shared_post_norm: self.shared_post_norm = norm_cls(self.config.hidden_size, eps=self.config.rms_norm_eps) # Embedding/head/rotary are shared with the main model self.tie_with_main_model(main_model) self.post_init() def tie_with_main_model(self, main_model: PreTrainedModel): """Tie the embedding/head/rotary layer with the main model.""" # The embeddings and head are shared between main model and MTP layers self.embed_tokens = main_model.get_input_embeddings() self.shared_head = main_model.lm_head # Use the same rotary class (it only has non-persistent buffers); models with learned # position biases (e.g. Inkling) have none base_model = main_model.get_decoder() self.rotary_emb = getattr(base_model, "rotary_emb", None) def _project_to_logits(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor: """Apply the shared head the same way the main model does (muP scaling, unpadded vocab slice).""" multiplier = getattr(self.config, "logits_mup_width_multiplier", None) if multiplier is not None: hidden_states = hidden_states / multiplier logits = self.shared_head(hidden_states) unpadded_vocab_size = getattr(self.config, "unpadded_vocab_size", None) if unpadded_vocab_size is not None and unpadded_vocab_size < logits.shape[-1]: logits = logits[..., :unpadded_vocab_size] return logits def create_masks_for_mtp_layer( self, layer_idx: int, inputs_embeds: torch.Tensor, mtp_cache: MtpCache, position_ids: torch.Tensor ): """ Create the (potentially several) masks required for layer `layer_idx`. This relies on the `layer_type` attribute of the mtp layer if any, otherwise simply create a causal mask for full attention. """ # Note that `_assisted_decoding` raises on batch_size > 1, so there is no padding mask to add mask_kwargs = { "config": self.config, "inputs_embeds": inputs_embeds, "attention_mask": None, "past_key_values": mtp_cache, "position_ids": position_ids, # Force the mask function to look at this current idx in the mtp_cache to account for positions offset of mtp layers "layer_idx": layer_idx, } mtp_layer_type = getattr(self.layers[layer_idx], "layer_type", None) masks = {} if mtp_layer_type is not None and mtp_layer_type in LAYER_PATTERN_TO_MASK_FUNCTION_MAPPING: mask_function = LAYER_PATTERN_TO_MASK_FUNCTION_MAPPING[mtp_layer_type] # Some `mtp_layer_type` may point to several needed mask, e.g. `hybrid` if isinstance(mask_function, dict): for actual_pattern, actual_function in mask_function.items(): masks[actual_pattern] = actual_function(**mask_kwargs) else: masks[mtp_layer_type] = mask_function(**mask_kwargs) else: masks["full_attention"] = create_causal_mask(**mask_kwargs) if len(masks) > 2: raise ValueError("You should have at most 2 masks, 1 for attention, and 1 for linear attention") # Remap to kwargs that the mtp_layer will understand internal_layer_expected_kwarg_mapping = { "full_attention": "attention_mask", "sliding_attention": "attention_mask", "linear_attention": "conv_mask", } # Remap so that we can feed diretcly into the layer masks = {internal_layer_expected_kwarg_mapping[k]: v for k, v in masks.items()} return masks def forward( self, input_ids: torch.Tensor, last_hidden_states: torch.Tensor, attention_mask: torch.Tensor | None, position_ids: torch.Tensor | None, mtp_cache: MtpCache | None, labels: torch.LongTensor | None = None, # Control how we sample the new token from each layer do_sample: bool = False, logits_processor: LogitsProcessorList | None = None, full_input_ids: torch.Tensor | None = None, # needed as input for the logits_processor **kwargs, ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]: """ Sample 1 new token for each mtp layers present in this model. Note that the inputs are assumed to be already sliced and correct here, i.e. if the main model just processed inputs corresponding to tokens at positions [N-1, N] in the sequence, then from it you draft a new token for position N+1, and the `input_ids`/`position_ids`/`attention_mask` here are assumed to correspond to data for tokens at positions [N, N+1], i.e. shifted by 1 from the main model, by the newly drafted token. The `last_hidden_states` though will correspond to the same as the main model, i.e. positions [N-1, N] in the sequence length dimension. `full_input_ids` correspond to the full sequence of `input_ids`, which is used in case we have any `logits_processor` as some processors may require to check the length/value of the full previous sequence of ids. """ batch_size = input_ids.shape[0] drafted_logits = [] drafted_tokens = [] loss = None for i, mtp_layer in enumerate(self.layers): # We need to recompute those every layer since they change inputs_embeds = self.embed_tokens(input_ids).to(last_hidden_states.device) position_embeddings = ( self.rotary_emb(inputs_embeds, position_ids=position_ids) if self.rotary_emb is not None else None ) # In full generality, we may need to recompute masks for every layer due to the position offset of each layer masks = self.create_masks_for_mtp_layer(i, inputs_embeds, mtp_cache, position_ids) last_hidden_states = mtp_layer( inputs_embeds, last_hidden_states, position_embeddings=position_embeddings, position_ids=position_ids, past_key_values=mtp_cache, **masks, **kwargs, ) if self.use_shared_post_norm: last_hidden_states = self.shared_post_norm(last_hidden_states) # If we are not computing the loss, only compute logits for the next drafted token to save memory slice_indices = slice(-1, None) if labels is None else slice(None, None) logits = self._project_to_logits(last_hidden_states[:, slice_indices, :]) # Compute loss for current mtp layer if needed if labels is not None: # shift labels according to our current mtp depth shift_labels = nn.functional.pad(labels, (0, i), value=-100)[..., i:].contiguous() loss += self.loss_function( logits, labels, vocab_size=self.config.vocab_size, shift_labels=shift_labels, **kwargs ) # Decode one token next_token_logits = logits[:, -1, :].to(device=input_ids.device) if logits_processor is not None and full_input_ids is not None: next_token_logits = logits_processor(full_input_ids, next_token_logits.to(dtype=torch.float32)) # Append the drafted logits AFTER logits processors if any drafted_logits.append(next_token_logits[:, None, :]) if do_sample: probs = nn.functional.softmax(next_token_logits, dim=-1, dtype=torch.float32) next_mtp_token = torch.multinomial(probs, num_samples=1) else: next_mtp_token = torch.argmax(next_token_logits, dim=-1, keepdim=True) drafted_tokens.append(next_mtp_token) # Roll by 1 and append for next layer input_ids = torch.cat([input_ids[:, 1:], next_mtp_token], dim=-1) attention_mask = torch.cat([attention_mask[:, 1:], attention_mask.new_ones(batch_size, 1)], dim=-1) # type: ignore position_ids = torch.cat([position_ids[:, 1:], position_ids[:, -1:] + 1], dim=-1) # Need to cat ful_ids as well for the processors if full_input_ids is not None: full_input_ids = torch.cat([full_input_ids, next_mtp_token], dim=-1) new_candidate_ids = torch.cat(drafted_tokens, dim=1) candidate_logits = torch.cat(drafted_logits, dim=1) return new_candidate_ids, candidate_logits, loss @classmethod def from_pretrained(cls, main_model: PreTrainedModel, device_map=None, **kwargs) -> MtpModel: pretrained_model_name_or_path = main_model.config.name_or_path num_hidden_layers = main_model.config.get_text_config().num_hidden_layers # Heuristic: the main model should have the mtp layer patterns under `_keys_to_ignore_on_load_unexpected` to avoid # loading them by default, so use it to later load the correct keys from the checkpoints mtp_patterns = main_model._keys_to_ignore_on_load_unexpected.copy() # type: ignore # Due to different released checkpoints, only keep the ones with layer number >= num_hidden_layers - otherwise # mtp layers in a smaller checkpoints could be wrongly added as a 2nd mtp layer of a bigger checkpoint final_mtp_patterns = [] for pattern in mtp_patterns: match_object = re.search(r"\.(\d+)", pattern) if match_object is not None and int(match_object.group(1)) < num_hidden_layers: continue final_mtp_patterns.append(pattern) if len(final_mtp_patterns) == 0: raise ValueError(f"{main_model.__class__.__name__} does not seem to register any known MTP layer patterns") mtp_regex = re.compile("|".join(rf"({pattern})" for pattern in final_mtp_patterns)) # Get the number of layers in the checkpoint num_mtp_layers = main_model.config.get_text_config().num_mtp_layers contexts = cls.get_init_context(main_model.config.dtype, False, False, None) with ContextManagers(contexts): mtp_model = cls(main_model, num_mtp_layers) # Now, let's scan the index to obtain the mtp-specific files and weights checkpoint_files, sharded_metadata = _get_resolved_checkpoint_files( pretrained_model_name_or_path=pretrained_model_name_or_path, variant=None, gguf_file=None, use_safetensors=True, user_agent=None, is_remote_code=False, ) mtp_files = checkpoint_files mtp_weight_map = None # Filter out only the files containing mtp weights if we have sharded checkpoints if sharded_metadata is not None: mtp_weight_map = { k: v for k, v in sharded_metadata["weight_map"].items() if mtp_regex.search(k) is not None } mtp_files = [file for file in checkpoint_files if os.path.basename(file) in mtp_weight_map.values()] # Open the files, get the slices corresponding only to mtp weights, rename them, and load them mtp_state_dict = {} all_pointer = set() is_mps = device_map is not None and any( (d.type if isinstance(d, torch.device) else d) == "mps" for d in device_map.values() ) backend = "pread" if is_mps or sys.platform == "win32" else "mmap" for file in mtp_files: file_pointer = safe_open(file, framework="pt", device="cpu", backend=backend) all_pointer.add(file_pointer) for k in file_pointer.keys(): # It's one of the mtp weights if (mtp_weight_map is not None and k in mtp_weight_map.keys()) or ( mtp_weight_map is None and mtp_regex.search(k) is not None ): mtp_state_dict[k] = file_pointer.get_slice(k) # don't materialize yet # For the correct conversions, we need first the mtp-specific renamings, then the main_model conversions # Note that since the layer numbers are dynamic, we cannot register those conversions - we also add the `mtp_block` # part for all weights since we cannot distinguish easily those that are under the main model's block or not. It will # be removed after for the few that should not have it weight_conversions = [ WeightRenaming( source_patterns=f"layers.{N}.", target_patterns=f"layers.{N - num_hidden_layers}.mtp_block." ) for N in range(num_hidden_layers, num_hidden_layers + num_mtp_layers) ] weight_conversions.extend(get_model_conversion_mapping(mtp_model, add_legacy=False)) weight_conversions.extend(main_model._weight_conversions) # Load the weights loading_info, _ = convert_and_load_state_dict_in_model( model=mtp_model, state_dict=mtp_state_dict, load_config=LoadStateDictConfig( weight_mapping=weight_conversions, device_map=device_map, dtype=main_model.config.dtype ), ) # finally close all opened file pointers for k in all_pointer: k.__exit__(None, None, None) # Maybe remove the shared head/embedding from unexpected mtp_model._adjust_missing_and_unexpected_keys(loading_info) # For MTP, we need to raise if anything is missing, otherwise inference will not make any sense if loading_info.missing_keys: raise RuntimeError( f"The following {cls.__name__} weights are missing from {pretrained_model_name_or_path} " f"(checkpoint keys not matching the conversion mapping?): {sorted(loading_info.missing_keys)}" ) # Retie the embedding/head/rotary with the external main model mtp_model.tie_with_main_model(main_model) log_state_dict_report( model=mtp_model, pretrained_model_name_or_path=pretrained_model_name_or_path, ignore_mismatched_sizes=False, loading_info=loading_info, logger=logger, ) return mtp_model @classmethod def _can_set_attn_implementation(cls) -> bool: # Assume we always can return True @classmethod def _can_set_experts_implementation(cls) -> bool: # Assume we always can return True