I have exported a Pytorch model into a CoreML mlpackage file and imported the model file into my iOS project. The model is a Music Source Separation model - running prediction on audio-spectrogram blocks and returning separated audio source spectrograms.
Model produces correct results vs. desktop+GPU+Python but the inference on iPhone 15 Pro Max is really, really slow. Using Xcode model Performance tool I can see that the inference isn't automatically managed between compute units - all of it runs on CPU. The Performance tool notation hints all that ops should be supported by both the GPU and Neural Engine.
One thing to note, that when initializing the model with MLModelConfiguration option .cpuAndGPU or .cpuAndNeuralEngine there is an error in Xcode console:
`Error(s) occurred compiling MIL to BNNS graph:
[CreateBnnsGraphProgramFromMIL]: Failed to determine convolution kernel at location at /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/2E3C4AFF-1FA4-4C95-AAE4-ECEBC0FB0BF9/mymss.app/mymss.mlmodelc/model.mil:2453:12
@ CreateBnnsGraphProgramFromMIL`
Before going back hammering the model in Python, are there any tips/strategies I could try in CoreMLTools export phase or in configuring the model for prediction on iOS?
My export toolchain is currently Linux with CoreMLTools v8.1, export target iOS16.
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I have rewatched WWDC22 a few times , but still not getting full understanding how to get .mlmodel model file type from components .
Example with banana ripeness is cool , but what need to be added to actually have output of .mlmodel , is somewhere full sample code for this type of modular project ?
Code is from [https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10019)
import CoreImage
import CreateMLComponents
struct ImageRegressor {
static let trainingDataURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: "~/Desktop/bananas")
static let parametersURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: "~/Desktop/parameters")
static func train() async throws -> some Transformer<CIImage, Float> {
let estimator = ImageFeaturePrint()
.appending(LinearRegressor())
// File name example: banana-5.jpg
let data = try AnnotatedFiles(labeledByNamesAt: trainingDataURL, separator: "-", index: 1, type: .image)
.mapFeatures(ImageReader.read)
.mapAnnotations({ Float($0)! })
let (training, validation) = data.randomSplit(by: 0.8)
let transformer = try await estimator.fitted(to: training, validateOn: validation)
try estimator.write(transformer, to: parametersURL)
return transformer
}
}
I have tried to run it in Mac OS command line type app, Swift-UI but most what I had as output was .pkg with
"pipeline.json,
parameters,
optimizer.json,
optimizer"
Hi, i just wanna ask, Is it possible to run YOLOv3 on visionOS using the main camera to detect objects and show bounding boxes with labels in real-time? I’m wondering if camera access and custom models work for this, or if there’s a better way. Any tips?
Hi everyone,
I’m an AI engineer working on autonomous AI agents and exploring ways to integrate them into the Apple ecosystem, especially via Siri and Apple Intelligence.
I was impressed by Apple’s integration of ChatGPT and its privacy-first design, but I’m curious to know:
• Are there plans to support third-party LLMs?
• Could Siri or Apple Intelligence call external AI agents or allow extensions to plug in alternative models for reasoning, scheduling, or proactive suggestions?
I’m particularly interested in building event-driven, voice-triggered workflows where Apple Intelligence could act as a front-end for more complex autonomous systems (possibly local or cloud-based).
This kind of extensibility would open up incredible opportunities for personalized, privacy-friendly use cases — while aligning with Apple’s system architecture.
Is anything like this on the roadmap? Or is there a suggested way to prototype such integrations today?
Thanks in advance for any thoughts or pointers!
Topic:
Machine Learning & AI
SubTopic:
Apple Intelligence
Tags:
SiriKit
Machine Learning
Apple Intelligence
Hello folks! Taking a look at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundationmodels it’s not clear how to use another models there.
Do anyone knows if it’s possible use one trained model from outside (imported) here in foundation models framework?
Thanks!
I couldn't find information about this in the documentation. Could someone clarify if this API is available and how to access it?
How do I test the new RecognizeDocumentRequest API. Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-GCNsXdKzM
I am running Xcode Beta, however I only have one primary device that I cannot install beta software on.
Please provide a strategy for testing. Will simulator work?
The new capability is critical to my application, just what I need for structuring document scans and extraction.
Thank you.
Are there any details available on how Xcode 26 connects to third party model providers? For example, can Xcode only use OpenAI compatible API endpoints?
I'm seeing this error a lot in my console log of my iPhone 15 Pro (Apple Intelligence enabled):
com.apple.modelcatalog.catalog sync: connection error during call: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service named com.apple.modelcatalog.catalog was invalidated: failed at lookup with error 159 - Sandbox restriction." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.modelcatalog.catalog was invalidated: failed at lookup with error 159 - Sandbox restriction.} reached max num connection attempts: 1
Are there entitlements / permissions I need to enable in Xcode that I forgot to do?
Code example
Here's how I'm initializing the language model session:
private func setupLanguageModelSession() {
if #available(iOS 26.0, *) {
let instructions = """
my instructions
"""
do {
languageModelSession = try LanguageModelSession(instructions: instructions)
print("Foundation Models language model session initialized")
} catch {
print("Error creating language model session: \(error)")
languageModelSession = nil
}
} else {
print("Device does not support Foundation Models (requires iOS 26.0+)")
languageModelSession = nil
}
}
Is there anywhere we can reference error codes? I'm getting this error: "The operation couldn’t be completed. (FoundationModels.LanguageModelSession.GenerationError error 4.)" and I have no idea of what it means or what to attempt to fix.
Topic:
Machine Learning & AI
SubTopic:
Foundation Models
Tags:
Machine Learning
Create ML
Apple Intelligence
Has Apple made any commitment to versioning the Foundation Models on device? What if you build a feature that works great on 26.0 but they change the model or guardrails in 26.1 and it breaks your feature, is your only recourse filing Feedback or pulling the feature from the app? Will there be a way to specify a model version like in all of the server based LLM provider APIs? If not, sounds risky to build on.
was that Spokane, Washington my fresh my fresh basket and they’re using a expired Wi-Fi certification domain through godaddy.com that expire April 30, 2020 I have a complete information on it if anybody needs me to forward it or wants to examine it their selves but be wary when you connected to the Wi-Fi over at my fresh basket at in Spokane, Washington
v3 was released 2 years ago but developers are unable to convert models created with Keras v3 to CoreML
Hello,
I posted an issue on the coremltools GitHub about my Core ML models not performing as well on iOS 17 vs iOS 16 but I'm posting it here just in case.
TL;DR
The same model on the same device/chip performs far slower (doesn't use the Neural Engine) on iOS 17 compared to iOS 16.
Longer description
The following screenshots show the performance of the same model (a PyTorch computer vision model) on an iPhone SE 3rd gen and iPhone 13 Pro (both use the A15 Bionic).
iOS 16 - iPhone SE 3rd Gen (A15 Bioinc)
iOS 16 uses the ANE and results in fast prediction, load and compilation times.
iOS 17 - iPhone 13 Pro (A15 Bionic)
iOS 17 doesn't seem to use the ANE, thus the prediction, load and compilation times are all slower.
Code To Reproduce
The following is my code I'm using to export my PyTorch vision model (using coremltools).
I've used the same code for the past few months with sensational results on iOS 16.
# Convert to Core ML using the Unified Conversion API
coreml_model = ct.convert(
model=traced_model,
inputs=[image_input],
outputs=[ct.TensorType(name="output")],
classifier_config=ct.ClassifierConfig(class_names),
convert_to="neuralnetwork",
# compute_precision=ct.precision.FLOAT16,
compute_units=ct.ComputeUnit.ALL
)
System environment:
Xcode version: 15.0
coremltools version: 7.0.0
OS (e.g. MacOS version or Linux type): Linux Ubuntu 20.04 (for exporting), macOS 13.6 (for testing on Xcode)
Any other relevant version information (e.g. PyTorch or TensorFlow version): PyTorch 2.0
Additional context
This happens across "neuralnetwork" and "mlprogram" type models, neither use the ANE on iOS 17 but both use the ANE on iOS 16
If anyone has a similar experience, I'd love to hear more.
Otherwise, if I'm doing something wrong for the exporting of models for iOS 17+, please let me know.
Thank you!
I'm trying to use the Spatial model to perform Object Tracking on a .usdz file that I create.
After loading the file, which I can view correctly in the console, I start the training.
Initially, I notice that the disk usage on my PC increases. After several GB, the usage stops, but the training progress remains for hours at 0.00% with the message "About 8hr."
How can I understand what the issue is? Has anyone else experienced the same problem?
Thanks
Diego
Hi,
I have been trying to integrate a CoreML model into Xcode. The model was made using tensorflow layers. I have included both the model info and a link to the app repository. I am mainly just really confused on why its not working. It seems to only be printing the result for case 1 (there are 4 cases labled, case 0, case 1, case 2, and case 3).
If someone could help work me through this error that would be great!
here is the link to the repository: https://github.com/ShivenKhurana1/Detect-to-Protect-App
this file with the model code is called SecondView.swift
and here is the model info:
Input: conv2d_input-> image (color 224x224)
Output: Identity -> MultiArray (Float32 1x4)
I have a MacBook Pro M3 Pro with 18GB of RAM and was following the instructions to fine tune the foundational model given here: https://developer.apple.com/apple-intelligence/foundation-models-adapter/
However, while following the code sample in the example Jupyter notebook, my Mac hangs on the second code cell. Specifically:
from examples.generate import generate_content, GenerationConfiguration
from examples.data import Message
output = generate_content(
[[
Message.from_system("A conversation between a user and a helpful assistant. Taking the role as a play writer assistant for a kids' play."),
Message.from_user("Write a script about penguins.")
]],
GenerationConfiguration(temperature=0.0, max_new_tokens=128)
)
output[0].response
After some debugging, I was getting the following error:
RuntimeError: MPS backend out of memory (MPS allocated: 22.64 GB, other allocations: 5.78 MB, max allowed: 22.64 GB). Tried to allocate 52.00 MB on private pool. Use PYTORCH_MPS_HIGH_WATERMARK_RATIO=0.0 to disable upper limit for memory allocations (may cause system failure).
So is my machine not capable enough to adapter train Apple's Foundation Model? And if so, what's the recommended spec and could this be specified somewhere? Thanks!
When using Foundation Models, is it possible to ask the model to produce output in a specific language, apart from giving an instruction like "Provide answers in ." ? (I tried that and it kind of worked, but it seems fragile.)
I haven't noticed an API to do so and have a use-case where the output should be in a user-selectable language that is not the current system language.
I have a fairly basic prompt I've created that parses a list of locations out of a string. I've then created a tool, which for these locations, finds their latitude/longitude on a map and populates that in the response.
However, I cannot get the language model session to see/use my tool.
I have code like this passing the tool to my prompt:
class Parser {
func populate(locations: String, latitude: Double, longitude: Double) async {
let findLatLonTool = FindLatLonTool(latitude: latitude, longitude: longitude)
let session = LanguageModelSession(tools: [findLatLonTool]) {
"""
A prompt that populates a model with a list of locations.
"""
"""
Use the findLatLon tool to populate the latitude and longitude for the name of each location.
"""
}
let stream = session.streamResponse(to: "Parse these locations: \(locations)", generating: ParsedLocations.self)
let locationsModel = LocationsModels();
do {
for try await partialParsedLocations in stream {
locationsModel.parsedLocations = partialParsedLocations.content
}
} catch {
print("Error parsing")
}
}
}
And then the tool that looks something like this:
import Foundation
import FoundationModels
import MapKit
struct FindLatLonTool: Tool {
typealias Output = GeneratedContent
let name = "findLatLon"
let description = "Find the latitude / longitude of a location for a place name."
let latitude: Double
let longitude: Double
@Generable
struct Arguments {
@Guide(description: "This is the location name to look up.")
let locationName: String
}
func call(arguments: Arguments) async throws -> GeneratedContent {
let request = MKLocalSearch.Request()
request.naturalLanguageQuery = arguments.locationName
request.region = MKCoordinateRegion(
center: CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: latitude, longitude: longitude),
latitudinalMeters: 1_000_000,
longitudinalMeters: 1_000_000
)
let search = MKLocalSearch(request: request)
let coordinate = try await search.start().mapItems.first?.location.coordinate
if let coordinate = coordinate {
return GeneratedContent(
LatLonModel(latitude: coordinate.latitude, longitude: coordinate.longitude)
)
}
return GeneratedContent("Location was not found - no latitude / longitude is available.")
}
}
But trying a bunch of different prompts has not triggered the tool - instead, what appear to be totally random locations are filled in my resulting model and at no point does a breakpoint hit my tool code.
Has anybody successfully gotten a tool to be called?
I just recently updated to iOS 26 beta (23A5336a) to test an app I am developing
I running an MLModel loaded from a .mlmodelc file.
On the current iOS version 18.6.2 the model is running as expected with no issues.
However on iOS 26 I am now getting error when trying to perform an inference to the model where I pass a camera frame into it.
Below is the error I am seeing when I attempt to run an inference.
at the bottom it says "Failed with status=0x1d : statusType=0x9: Program Inference error status=-1 Unable to compute the prediction using a neural network model. It can be an invalid input data or broken/unsupported model " does this indicate I need to convert my model or something? I don't understand since it runs as normal on iOS 18.
Any help getting this to run again would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
processRequest:model:qos:qIndex:modelStringID:options:returnValue:error:: Could not process request ret=0x1d lModel=_ANEModel: { modelURL=file:///var/containers/Bundle/Application/04F01BF5-D48B-44EC-A5F6-3C7389CF4856/RizzCanvas.app/faceParsing.mlmodelc/ : sourceURL=(null) : UUID=46228BFC-19B0-45BF-B18D-4A2942EEC144 : key={"isegment":0,"inputs":{"input":{"shape":[512,512,1,3,1]}},"outputs":{"var_633":{"shape":[512,512,1,19,1]},"94_argmax_out_value":{"shape":[512,512,1,1,1]},"argmax_out":{"shape":[512,512,1,1,1]},"var_637":{"shape":[512,512,1,19,1]}}} : identifierSource=1 : cacheURLIdentifier=01EF2D3DDB9BA8FD1FDE18C7CCDABA1D78C6BD02DC421D37D4E4A9D34B9F8181_93D03B87030C23427646D13E326EC55368695C3F61B2D32264CFC33E02FFD9FF : string_id=0x00000000 : program=_ANEProgramForEvaluation: { programHandle=259022032430 : intermediateBufferHandle=13949 : queueDepth=127 } : state=3 :
[Espresso::ANERuntimeEngine::__forward_segment 0] evaluate[RealTime]WithModel returned 0; code=8 err=Error Domain=com.apple.appleneuralengine Code=8 "processRequest:model:qos:qIndex:modelStringID:options:returnValue:error:: ANEProgramProcessRequestDirect() Failed with status=0x1d : statusType=0x9: Program Inference error" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=processRequest:model:qos:qIndex:modelStringID:options:returnValue:error:: ANEProgramProcessRequestDirect() Failed with status=0x1d : statusType=0x9: Program Inference error}
[Espresso::handle_ex_plan] exception=Espresso exception: "Generic error": ANEF error: /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/04F01BF5-D48B-44EC-A5F6-3C7389CF4856/RizzCanvas.app/faceParsing.mlmodelc/model.espresso.net, processRequest:model:qos:qIndex:modelStringID:options:returnValue:error:: ANEProgramProcessRequestDirect() Failed with status=0x1d : statusType=0x9: Program Inference error status=-1
Unable to compute the prediction using a neural network model. It can be an invalid input data or broken/unsupported model (error code: -1).
Error Domain=com.apple.Vision Code=3 "The VNCoreMLTransform request failed" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=The VNCoreMLTransform request failed, NSUnderlyingError=0x114d92940 {Error Domain=com.apple.CoreML Code=0 "Unable to compute the prediction using a neural network model. It can be an invalid input data or broken/unsupported model (error code: -1)." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Unable to compute the prediction using a neural network model. It can be an invalid input data or broken/unsupported model (error code: -1).}}}