Commit f830688e9 for llama.cpp

commit f830688e91214cccfa25ed0a2b9a708ee5a855c3
Author: Toby <25832191+aetherbird@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Thu Sep 24 02:57:31 2026 -0400

    model : add Ling 3.0 VL support (#29151)

    * model : fold Ling 3.0 VL into the BailingMoeV3 architecture

    Assisted-by: Scout

    * model : keep shared NORM rope list intact when gating bailingmoe3 on mrope sections

    ---------

    Co-authored-by: aetherbird <aetherbird@users.noreply.github.com>

diff --git a/conversion/__init__.py b/conversion/__init__.py
index f966373f1..85db1d643 100644
--- a/conversion/__init__.py
+++ b/conversion/__init__.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ TEXT_MODEL_MAP: dict[str, str] = {
     "BailingMoeForCausalLM": "bailingmoe",
     "BailingMoeV2ForCausalLM": "bailingmoe",
     "BailingMoeV3ForCausalLM": "bailingmoe3",
+    "BailingMoeV3VLForConditionalGeneration": "bailingmoe3",
     "BambaForCausalLM": "granite",
     "BertForMaskedLM": "bert",
     "BertForSequenceClassification": "bert",
@@ -302,6 +303,7 @@ MMPROJ_MODEL_MAP: dict[str, str] = {
     "Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration": "gemma",
     "Gemma4UnifiedForConditionalGeneration": "gemma",
     "Glm4vForConditionalGeneration": "qwen3vl",
+    "BailingMoeV3VLForConditionalGeneration": "bailingmoe3",
     "Glm4vMoeForConditionalGeneration": "qwen3vl",
     "Glm5vForConditionalGeneration": "kimivl",
     "GlmOcrForConditionalGeneration": "qwen3vl",
diff --git a/conversion/bailingmoe3.py b/conversion/bailingmoe3.py
index 20bba23e5..36b931564 100644
--- a/conversion/bailingmoe3.py
+++ b/conversion/bailingmoe3.py
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ import torch
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from torch import Tensor

-from .base import ModelBase, TextModel, gguf
+from .base import ModelBase, MmprojModel, TextModel, gguf
+
+from .qwen3vl import Qwen3VLVisionModel


 @ModelBase.register("BailingMoeV3ForCausalLM")
@@ -74,7 +76,7 @@ class BailingMoeV3Model(TextModel):

         self.gguf_writer.add_expert_feed_forward_length(self.hparams["moe_intermediate_size"])
         self.gguf_writer.add_expert_shared_feed_forward_length(self.hparams["moe_shared_expert_intermediate_size"])
-        self.gguf_writer.add_expert_shared_count(self.hparams["num_shared_experts"])
+        self.gguf_writer.add_expert_shared_count(self.hparams.get("num_shared_experts", 1))
         self.gguf_writer.add_leading_dense_block_count(self.hparams["first_k_dense_replace"])
         self.gguf_writer.add_expert_weights_scale(self.hparams["routed_scaling_factor"])
         self.gguf_writer.add_expert_weights_norm(self.hparams["norm_topk_prob"])
@@ -191,3 +193,111 @@ class BailingMoeV3Model(TextModel):
             experts = [name for layer in self._experts for name in layer]
             if experts:
                 raise ValueError(f"Unprocessed experts: {experts}")
+
+
+@ModelBase.register("BailingMoeV3VLForConditionalGeneration")
+@ModelBase.example("inclusionAI/Ling-3.0-flash-VL")
+class BailingMoeV3VLModel(BailingMoeV3Model):
+    model_arch = gguf.MODEL_ARCH.BAILINGMOE3
+
+    def index_tensors(self, remote_hf_model_id: str | None = None):
+        # hoist text_config before the shared BailingMoeV3 logic runs:
+        # ModelBase.__init__ calls this with the raw VL config, where the text
+        # dims still live under text_config
+        if "text_config" in self.hparams:
+            self.hparams = {**self.hparams, **self.hparams["text_config"]}
+        return super().index_tensors(remote_hf_model_id=remote_hf_model_id)
+
+    def set_gguf_parameters(self):
+        super().set_gguf_parameters()
+        mrope_section = self.hparams.get("mrope_section")
+        if mrope_section is None:
+            raise ValueError("BailingMoeV3VL requires mrope_section in the config")
+        if sum(mrope_section[:3]) * 2 != self.hparams["qk_rope_head_dim"]:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"mrope_section {mrope_section[:3]} counts rope pairs and must sum to"
+                f" qk_rope_head_dim / 2 = {self.hparams['qk_rope_head_dim'] // 2}"
+            )
+        # mrope_section is [t, h, w]; pad to the 4-wide sections array
+        self.gguf_writer.add_rope_dimension_sections(list(mrope_section[:3]) + [0])
+
+    @classmethod
+    def filter_tensors(cls, item: tuple[str, Callable[[], Tensor]]) -> tuple[str, Callable[[], Tensor]] | None:
+        name, gen = item
+
+        # Skip projector tensors; the vision tower is skipped by TextModel.filter_tensors
+        if name.startswith("linear_proj"):
+            return None
+
+        return super().filter_tensors(item)
+
+
+@ModelBase.register("BailingMoeV3VLForConditionalGeneration")
+@ModelBase.example("inclusionAI/Ling-3.0-flash-VL")
+class BailingMoeV3VLVisionModel(Qwen3VLVisionModel):
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        assert self.hparams_vision is not None
+
+        if self.hparams_vision.get("disable_merger_proj") is not True:
+            raise ValueError("BailingMoeV3VL requires disable_merger_proj=true")
+
+        # out_hidden_size is the vision encoder output (post spatial merge, pre linear_proj)
+        self.image_emb_dim = self.hparams_vision.get("out_hidden_size")
+        if self.image_emb_dim is None:
+            raise ValueError("BailingMoeV3VL vision config requires out_hidden_size")
+
+    def set_gguf_parameters(self):
+        assert self.hparams_vision is not None
+        MmprojModel.set_gguf_parameters(self)  # skip Qwen3VLVisionModel parameters
+        self.gguf_writer.add_clip_projector_type(gguf.VisionProjectorType.LING3VL)
+        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_use_gelu(True)
+
+        merge_size = self.hparams_vision.get("spatial_merge_size")
+        if merge_size is not None:
+            self.gguf_writer.add_vision_spatial_merge_size(int(merge_size))
+
+        rms_norm_eps = self.global_config.get("text_config", {}).get("rms_norm_eps", 1e-6)
+        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_attention_layernorm_eps(rms_norm_eps)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def filter_tensors(cls, item: tuple[str, Callable[[], Tensor]]) -> tuple[str, Callable[[], Tensor]] | None:
+        name, gen = item
+
+        if name.startswith("lm_head."):
+            return None
+
+        if name.startswith("linear_proj"):
+            # top-level projector MLP: linear_proj.0 -> mm.0, linear_proj.2 -> mm.2
+            parts = name.split(".")
+            if len(parts) != 3:
+                raise ValueError(f"Unexpected linear_proj tensor: {name}")
+            idx, suffix = int(parts[1]), parts[2]
+            name = f"mm.{idx}.{suffix}"
+            # the qwen3vl filter keeps only visual.*; skip it for the renamed projector tensors
+            return MmprojModel.filter_tensors((name, gen))
+
+        if name.startswith("model.visual."):
+            name = name.replace("model.visual.", "visual.", 1)
+
+        if not name.startswith("visual."):
+            return None
+
+        return super().filter_tensors((name, gen))
+
+    def modify_tensors(self, data_torch: Tensor, name: str, bid: int | None) -> Iterable[tuple[str, Tensor]]:
+        assert self.hparams_vision is not None
+
+        if name.startswith("mm.0.") or name.startswith("mm.2."):
+            # top-level projector MLP (linear_proj.0 / linear_proj.2, renamed by filter_tensors)
+            yield (name, data_torch)
+            return
+
+        if name == "visual.merger.norm.weight" or name == "visual.merger.norm.bias":
+            # the merger is norm-only for Ling: per-patch LayerNorm before the spatial merge
+            new_name = f"mm.input_norm.{name.split('.')[-1]}"
+            yield (new_name, data_torch)
+            return
+
+        # Ling has no patch bias; the Conv3D split below matches the stock qwen3vl path
+        yield from Qwen3VLVisionModel.modify_tensors(self, data_torch, name, bid)
diff --git a/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py b/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
index 27c83516e..f585adcee 100644
--- a/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
+++ b/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
@@ -650,6 +650,7 @@ class VISION_PROJECTOR_TYPE(IntEnum):
     GEMMA3N   = auto()
     GEMMA3    = auto()
     QWEN3VL   = auto()
+    LING3VL   = auto()
     STEP3VL   = auto()
     COGVLM    = auto()

@@ -1407,6 +1408,7 @@ VISION_PROJECTOR_TYPE_NAMES: dict[VISION_PROJECTOR_TYPE, str] = {
     VISION_PROJECTOR_TYPE.MERGER:    "qwen2vl_merger",
     VISION_PROJECTOR_TYPE.GEMMA3:    "gemma3",
     VISION_PROJECTOR_TYPE.QWEN3VL:   "qwen3vl_merger",
+    VISION_PROJECTOR_TYPE.LING3VL:   "ling3vl",
     VISION_PROJECTOR_TYPE.STEP3VL:   "step3vl",
 }

@@ -5829,6 +5831,7 @@ class VisionProjectorType:
     QWEN25VL = "qwen2.5vl_merger"
     EXAONE4_5 = "exaone4_5"
     QWEN3VL = "qwen3vl_merger"
+    LING3VL = "ling3vl"
     STEP3VL = "step3vl"
     ULTRAVOX = "ultravox"
     INTERNVL = "internvl"
diff --git a/src/llama-model.cpp b/src/llama-model.cpp
index e195f50d0..3801e5cbe 100644
--- a/src/llama-model.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-model.cpp
@@ -2955,7 +2955,6 @@ llama_rope_type llama_model_rope_type(const llama_model * model) {
         case LLM_ARCH_GRANITE_SWA:
         case LLM_ARCH_CHAMELEON:
         case LLM_ARCH_BAILINGMOE:
-        case LLM_ARCH_BAILINGMOE3:
         case LLM_ARCH_NEO_BERT:
         case LLM_ARCH_SMOLLM3:
         case LLM_ARCH_ARCEE:
@@ -2970,6 +2969,10 @@ llama_rope_type llama_model_rope_type(const llama_model * model) {
         case LLM_ARCH_DOTS3NOTE:
         case LLM_ARCH_NANBEIGE:
         case LLM_ARCH_POCKETTTS:
+            return LLAMA_ROPE_TYPE_NORM;
+        case LLM_ARCH_BAILINGMOE3:
+            // VL files carry mrope sections; text-only files keep NORM rope
+            return model->hparams.use_mrope() ? LLAMA_ROPE_TYPE_MROPE : LLAMA_ROPE_TYPE_NORM;
         // HY_V4 rotates consecutive pairs, matching the reference implementation
         case LLM_ARCH_HY_V4:
             return LLAMA_ROPE_TYPE_NORM;
diff --git a/src/models/bailingmoe3.cpp b/src/models/bailingmoe3.cpp
index e208c7d5a..907b25c67 100644
--- a/src/models/bailingmoe3.cpp
+++ b/src/models/bailingmoe3.cpp
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ void llama_model_bailingmoe3::load_arch_hparams(llama_model_loader & ml) {
         hparams.kda_safe_gate = true;
     }
     ml.get_key(LLM_KV_KDA_GATE_LOWER_BOUND,             hparams.kda_gate_lower_bound);
+    ml.get_key_or_arr(LLM_KV_ROPE_DIMENSION_SECTIONS, hparams.rope_sections, 4, false);
     ml.get_key_or_arr(LLM_KV_EXPERT_FEED_FORWARD_LENGTH, hparams.n_ff_exp_arr, hparams.n_layer_all);
     ml.get_key(LLM_KV_EXPERT_SHARED_FEED_FORWARD_LENGTH, hparams.n_ff_shexp, false);
     ml.get_key(LLM_KV_EXPERT_SHARED_COUNT,              hparams.n_expert_shared);
@@ -233,6 +234,10 @@ llama_model_bailingmoe3::graph::graph(const llama_model & model, const llm_graph
     const int64_t d_conv = hparams.ssm_d_conv;
     const int64_t n_seqs = ubatch.n_seqs;
     const int64_t n_seq_tokens = ubatch.n_seq_tokens;
+
+    const bool use_mrope = hparams.use_mrope();
+    int sections[4];
+    std::copy(std::begin(hparams.rope_sections), std::begin(hparams.rope_sections) + 4, sections);
     const int64_t qk_head_dim = hparams.n_embd_head_k_mla();
     const int64_t v_head_dim = hparams.n_embd_head_v_mla();
     const int64_t qk_rope_head_dim = hparams.n_rot();
@@ -326,10 +331,17 @@ llama_model_bailingmoe3::graph::graph(const llama_model & model, const llm_graph
                     ggml_row_size(kv_all->type, kv_lora_rank + qk_rope_head_dim),
                     ggml_row_size(kv_all->type, kv_lora_rank));

-            q_pe = ggml_rope_ext(ctx0, q_pe, inp_pos, nullptr, n_rot, rope_type, n_ctx_orig, freq_base, freq_scale,
-                    ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow);
-            k_pe = ggml_rope_ext(ctx0, k_pe, inp_pos, nullptr, n_rot, rope_type, n_ctx_orig, freq_base, freq_scale,
-                    ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow);
+            if (use_mrope) {
+                q_pe = ggml_rope_multi(ctx0, q_pe, inp_pos, nullptr, n_rot, sections, rope_type,
+                        n_ctx_orig, freq_base, freq_scale, ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow);
+                k_pe = ggml_rope_multi(ctx0, k_pe, inp_pos, nullptr, n_rot, sections, rope_type,
+                        n_ctx_orig, freq_base, freq_scale, ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow);
+            } else {
+                q_pe = ggml_rope_ext(ctx0, q_pe, inp_pos, nullptr, n_rot, rope_type, n_ctx_orig, freq_base, freq_scale,
+                        ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow);
+                k_pe = ggml_rope_ext(ctx0, k_pe, inp_pos, nullptr, n_rot, rope_type, n_ctx_orig, freq_base, freq_scale,
+                        ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow);
+            }
             kv = build_norm(kv, layer.attn_kv_a_norm, nullptr, LLM_NORM_RMS, il);

             q_nope = ggml_permute(ctx0, q_nope, 0, 2, 1, 3);
@@ -482,10 +494,21 @@ llama_model_bailingmoe3::graph_mtp::graph_mtp(const llama_model & model, const l
             ggml_row_size(kv_all->type, kv_lora_rank + qk_rope_head_dim),
             ggml_row_size(kv_all->type, kv_lora_rank));

-    q_pe = ggml_rope_ext(ctx0, q_pe, inp_pos, nullptr, n_rot, rope_type, n_ctx_orig, freq_base, freq_scale,
-            ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow);
-    k_pe = ggml_rope_ext(ctx0, k_pe, inp_pos, nullptr, n_rot, rope_type, n_ctx_orig, freq_base, freq_scale,
-            ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow);
+    const bool use_mrope = hparams.use_mrope();
+    int sections[4];
+    std::copy(std::begin(hparams.rope_sections), std::begin(hparams.rope_sections) + 4, sections);
+
+    if (use_mrope) {
+        q_pe = ggml_rope_multi(ctx0, q_pe, inp_pos, nullptr, n_rot, sections, rope_type,
+                n_ctx_orig, freq_base, freq_scale, ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow);
+        k_pe = ggml_rope_multi(ctx0, k_pe, inp_pos, nullptr, n_rot, sections, rope_type,
+                n_ctx_orig, freq_base, freq_scale, ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow);
+    } else {
+        q_pe = ggml_rope_ext(ctx0, q_pe, inp_pos, nullptr, n_rot, rope_type, n_ctx_orig, freq_base, freq_scale,
+                ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow);
+        k_pe = ggml_rope_ext(ctx0, k_pe, inp_pos, nullptr, n_rot, rope_type, n_ctx_orig, freq_base, freq_scale,
+                ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow);
+    }
     kv = build_norm(kv, layer.attn_kv_a_norm, nullptr, LLM_NORM_RMS, il);

     q_nope = ggml_permute(ctx0, q_nope, 0, 2, 1, 3);
diff --git a/tests/test-llama-archs.cpp b/tests/test-llama-archs.cpp
index 27d00b0df..5a8a196c1 100644
--- a/tests/test-llama-archs.cpp
+++ b/tests/test-llama-archs.cpp
@@ -333,7 +333,13 @@ static gguf_context_ptr get_gguf_ctx(const llm_arch arch, const bool moe) {

     ms.add_kv(LLM_KV_ATTENTION_INDEXER_BLOCK_SIZE,   uint32_t(4));
     ms.add_kv(LLM_KV_ATTENTION_INDEXER_LOCAL_BLOCKS, uint32_t(1));
-    ms.add_kv(LLM_KV_ROPE_DIMENSION_SECTIONS, std::vector<uint32_t>({n_embd_head/4, n_embd_head/4, n_embd_head/4, n_embd_head/4}));
+    // mrope sections count rope pairs; Ling 3.0 VL files carry [t, h, w] sections
+    // summing to n_rot / 2 (n_rot is 64 in this fixture)
+    if (arch == LLM_ARCH_BAILINGMOE3) {
+        ms.add_kv(LLM_KV_ROPE_DIMENSION_SECTIONS, std::vector<uint32_t>({8, 12, 12, 0}));
+    } else {
+        ms.add_kv(LLM_KV_ROPE_DIMENSION_SECTIONS, std::vector<uint32_t>({n_embd_head/4, n_embd_head/4, n_embd_head/4, n_embd_head/4}));
+    }

     if (arch == LLM_ARCH_HY_V4) {
         ms.add_kv(LLM_KV_HYPER_CONNECTION_COUNT,     uint32_t(4));
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/CMakeLists.txt b/tools/mtmd/CMakeLists.txt
index 907468e87..91db32c40 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tools/mtmd/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ add_library(mtmd
             models/qwen2vl.cpp
             models/minimax-m3.cpp
             models/qwen3vl.cpp
+            models/ling3vl.cpp
             models/mimovl.cpp
             models/qwen3a.cpp
             models/mimo-audio.cpp
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/clip-impl.h b/tools/mtmd/clip-impl.h
index 72148a4d9..d18c76bf8 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/clip-impl.h
+++ b/tools/mtmd/clip-impl.h
@@ -450,6 +450,7 @@ enum projector_type {
     PROJECTOR_TYPE_GLM_EDGE,
     PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN2VL,
     PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN3VL,
+    PROJECTOR_TYPE_LING3VL,
     PROJECTOR_TYPE_STEP3VL,
     PROJECTOR_TYPE_GEMMA3,
     PROJECTOR_TYPE_GEMMA3NV,
@@ -516,6 +517,7 @@ static std::map<projector_type, std::string> PROJECTOR_TYPE_NAMES = {
     { PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN2VL,           "qwen2vl_merger"},
     { PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN25VL,          "qwen2.5vl_merger"},
     { PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN3VL,           "qwen3vl_merger"},
+    { PROJECTOR_TYPE_LING3VL,           "ling3vl"},
     { PROJECTOR_TYPE_STEP3VL,           "step3vl"},
     { PROJECTOR_TYPE_GEMMA3,            "gemma3"},
     { PROJECTOR_TYPE_GEMMA3NV,          "gemma3nv"},
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp b/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp
index feceb7ff7..62d146e1d 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp
+++ b/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp
@@ -976,6 +976,10 @@ static std::unique_ptr<clip_graph> clip_get_graph_builder(clip_ctx * ctx, const
             {
                 builder = std::make_unique<clip_graph_qwen3vl>(ctx, img);
             } break;
+        case PROJECTOR_TYPE_LING3VL:
+            {
+                builder = std::make_unique<clip_graph_ling3vl>(ctx, img);
+            } break;
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_EXAONE4_5:
             {
                 builder = std::make_unique<clip_graph_exaone4_5>(ctx, img);
@@ -1661,6 +1665,7 @@ struct clip_model_loader {
                 case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN2VL:
                 case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN25VL:
                 case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN3VL:
+                case PROJECTOR_TYPE_LING3VL:
                     {
                         hparams.n_merge = 2; // default value for Qwen 2 and 2.5
                         hparams.image_resize_algo = RESIZE_ALGO_BICUBIC;
@@ -2488,6 +2493,15 @@ struct clip_model_loader {
                     model.mm_1_w = get_tensor(string_format(TN_LLAVA_PROJ, 2, "weight"));
                     model.mm_1_b = get_tensor(string_format(TN_LLAVA_PROJ, 2, "bias"));
                 } break;
+            case PROJECTOR_TYPE_LING3VL:
+                {
+                    model.mm_input_norm_w = get_tensor(TN_MM_INP_NORM);        // merger.norm
+                    model.mm_input_norm_b = get_tensor(TN_MM_INP_NORM_B);     // merger.norm
+                    model.mm_0_w = get_tensor(string_format(TN_LLAVA_PROJ, 0, "weight"));  // linear_proj.0
+                    model.mm_0_b = get_tensor(string_format(TN_LLAVA_PROJ, 0, "bias"));
+                    model.mm_1_w = get_tensor(string_format(TN_LLAVA_PROJ, 2, "weight"));  // linear_proj.2
+                    model.mm_1_b = get_tensor(string_format(TN_LLAVA_PROJ, 2, "bias"));
+                } break;
             case PROJECTOR_TYPE_MIMOVL:
                 {
                     model.mm_0_w = get_tensor(string_format(TN_LLAVA_PROJ, 0, "weight"));
@@ -4049,6 +4063,7 @@ int clip_n_output_tokens_x(const clip_ctx * ctx, const clip_image_f32 * img) {
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN2VL:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN25VL:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN3VL:
+        case PROJECTOR_TYPE_LING3VL:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_EXAONE4_5:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_MIMOVL:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_GLM4V:
@@ -4075,6 +4090,7 @@ int clip_n_output_tokens_y(const clip_ctx * ctx, const clip_image_f32 * img) {
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN2VL:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN25VL:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN3VL:
+        case PROJECTOR_TYPE_LING3VL:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_EXAONE4_5:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_MIMOVL:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_GLM4V:
@@ -4155,6 +4171,7 @@ int clip_n_output_tokens(const clip_ctx * ctx, const clip_image_f32 * img) {
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN2VL:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN25VL:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN3VL:
+        case PROJECTOR_TYPE_LING3VL:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_EXAONE4_5:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_MIMOVL:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_MINIMAX_M3:
@@ -4795,6 +4812,7 @@ bool clip_encode(struct clip_ctx * ctx, struct clip_encode_params * params) {
             } break;
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN2VL:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN3VL:
+        case PROJECTOR_TYPE_LING3VL:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_GLM4V:
             {
                 const int merge_ratio = hparams.n_merge;
@@ -5959,6 +5977,8 @@ int clip_n_mmproj_embd(const struct clip_ctx * ctx) {
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN3VL:
             // main path + deepstack paths
             return ctx->model.mm_1_b->ne[0] * (1 + ctx->model.n_deepstack_layers);
+        case PROJECTOR_TYPE_LING3VL:
+            return ctx->model.mm_1_b->ne[0];
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_MIMOVL:
             return ctx->model.mm_1_w->ne[1];
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_STEP3VL:
@@ -6052,6 +6072,7 @@ int clip_model_n_temporal_merge(const struct clip_ctx * ctx) {
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN2VL:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN25VL:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN3VL:
+        case PROJECTOR_TYPE_LING3VL:
             return 2;
         default:
             return 1;
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/models/ling3vl.cpp b/tools/mtmd/models/ling3vl.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ef8eb3a83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/mtmd/models/ling3vl.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+#include "models.h"
+
+ggml_cgraph * clip_graph_ling3vl::build() {
+    // same vision tower as qwen3vl, but the merger is norm-only (no fc1/fc2) and
+    // the projector MLP lives at the top level (mm.0 / mm.2)
+    GGML_ASSERT(model.class_embedding == nullptr);
+    GGML_ASSERT(model.mm_input_norm_w != nullptr); // merger norm (pre spatial merge)
+
+    const int batch_size = 1;
+    const int n_pos      = n_patches;
+
+    norm_type norm_t = NORM_TYPE_NORMAL;
+
+    // vision M-RoPE, same layout as qwen3vl: [row, col, row, col] quarters
+    int mrope_sections[4] = {d_head/4, d_head/4, d_head/4, d_head/4};
+
+    ggml_tensor * inp = build_inp_with_temporal_merge();
+
+    // spatial merge
+    {
+        inp = ggml_permute(ctx0, inp, 1, 2, 0, 3);  // [w, h, c, b] -> [c, w, h, b]
+        inp = ggml_cont_4d(
+            ctx0, inp,
+            n_embd * 2, n_patches_x / 2, n_patches_y, batch_size);
+        inp = ggml_reshape_4d(
+            ctx0, inp,
+            n_embd * 2, n_patches_x / 2, 2, batch_size * (n_patches_y / 2));
+        inp = ggml_permute(ctx0, inp, 0, 2, 1, 3);
+        inp = ggml_cont_3d(
+            ctx0, inp,
+            n_embd, n_patches_x * n_patches_y, batch_size);
+    }
+
+    // add patch bias
+    if (model.patch_bias != nullptr) {
+        inp = ggml_add(ctx0, inp, model.patch_bias);
+        cb(inp, "patch_bias", -1);
+    }
+
+    // calculate absolute position embedding and apply
+    ggml_tensor * learned_pos_embd = resize_position_embeddings(GGML_SCALE_MODE_BILINEAR | GGML_SCALE_FLAG_ALIGN_CORNERS);
+    learned_pos_embd = ggml_cont_4d(
+        ctx0, learned_pos_embd,
+        n_embd * 2, n_patches_x / 2, n_patches_y, batch_size);
+    learned_pos_embd = ggml_reshape_4d(
+        ctx0, learned_pos_embd,
+        n_embd * 2, n_patches_x / 2, 2, batch_size * (n_patches_y / 2));
+    learned_pos_embd = ggml_permute(ctx0, learned_pos_embd, 0, 2, 1, 3);
+    learned_pos_embd = ggml_cont_3d(
+        ctx0, learned_pos_embd,
+        n_embd, n_patches_x * n_patches_y, batch_size);
+
+    const int num_position_ids = n_pos * 4; // m-rope requires 4 dim per position
+    ggml_tensor * positions = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx0, GGML_TYPE_I32, num_position_ids);
+    ggml_set_name(positions, "positions");
+    ggml_set_input(positions);
+
+    ggml_tensor * inpL = build_vit(
+        inp, n_pos, norm_t, hparams.ffn_op, learned_pos_embd,
+        [&](ggml_tensor * c, const clip_layer &) {
+            return ggml_rope_multi(
+                ctx0, c, positions, nullptr,
+                d_head/2, mrope_sections, GGML_ROPE_TYPE_VISION, 32768, 10000, 1, 0, 1, 32, 1);
+        });
+
+    // multimodal projection (linear_proj MLP over the merged patches)
+    ggml_tensor * embeddings = inpL;
+
+    // per-patch merger norm, applied post-blocks before the 2x2 merge
+    // (merger.norm, LayerNorm over n_embd)
+    embeddings = build_norm(embeddings, model.mm_input_norm_w, model.mm_input_norm_b, norm_t, eps, -1);
+    cb(embeddings, "merger_norm", -1);
+
+    embeddings = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, embeddings, n_embd * 4, n_pos / 4, batch_size);
+
+    embeddings = build_ffn(embeddings,
+        model.mm_0_w, model.mm_0_b,
+        nullptr, nullptr,
+        model.mm_1_w, model.mm_1_b,
+        ffn_op_type::FFN_GELU, -1);
+
+    // build the graph
+    ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, embeddings);
+
+    return gf;
+}
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/models/models.h b/tools/mtmd/models/models.h
index 5945c6d92..adb5ede30 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/models/models.h
+++ b/tools/mtmd/models/models.h
@@ -50,6 +50,11 @@ struct clip_graph_qwen3vl : clip_graph_qwen2vl {
     ggml_cgraph * build() override;
 };

+struct clip_graph_ling3vl : clip_graph_qwen3vl {
+    clip_graph_ling3vl(clip_ctx * ctx, const clip_image_f32 & img) : clip_graph_qwen3vl(ctx, img) {}
+    ggml_cgraph * build() override;
+};
+
 struct clip_graph_minimax_m3 : clip_graph {
     clip_graph_minimax_m3(clip_ctx * ctx, const clip_image_f32 & img) : clip_graph(ctx, img) {}
     ggml_cgraph * build() override;
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/mtmd.cpp b/tools/mtmd/mtmd.cpp
index 00ecadcf4..2efa4d65d 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/mtmd.cpp
+++ b/tools/mtmd/mtmd.cpp
@@ -694,6 +694,7 @@ struct mtmd_context {
             case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN2VL:
             case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN25VL:
             case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN3VL:
+            case PROJECTOR_TYPE_LING3VL:
             case PROJECTOR_TYPE_MIMOVL:
                 {
                     // <|vision_start|> ... (image embeddings) ... <|vision_end|>