ml: Panic rather than return error on tensor allocation failure

FromFloatSlice and FromIntSlice return an error if the shape doesn't
match the passed data or if memory can't be allocated. Since these
are inputs, the memory being allocated is system memory rather than VRAM.

In many cases, the caller can't really handle the error and panics.

Empty and Zeros directly panic if they can't allocate memory.

This makes things consistent by panicing for the first two cases,
removing a fair amount of error handling code. This is also consistent
with how Go typically handles these situations.

kvcache/causal.go

@@ -211,10 +211,9 @@ func (c *Causal) StartForward(ctx ml.Context, batch input.Batch, reserve bool) e
 		c.curCellRange.max = len(c.cells) - 1
 	}
 
-	var err error
-	c.curMask, err = c.buildMask(ctx)
+	c.curMask = c.buildMask(ctx)
 
-	return err
+	return nil
 }
 
 func newRange() cellRange {
@@ -297,7 +296,7 @@ func roundUp(length, pad int) int {
 // Builds a mask of history x batch indicating whether for each token in the batch the
 // token in the history should apply. This is based on both the sequence and causality (the
 // position of the history is not ahead of the token in the batch).
-func (c *Causal) buildMask(ctx ml.Context) (ml.Tensor, error) {
+func (c *Causal) buildMask(ctx ml.Context) ml.Tensor {
 	// Align and pad the two dimensions as required by the backend
 	batchSize := roundUp(c.curBatchSize, c.config.MaskBatchPadding)
 
@@ -325,10 +324,7 @@ func (c *Causal) buildMask(ctx ml.Context) (ml.Tensor, error) {
 		mask[i] = float32(math.Inf(-1))
 	}
 
-	maskTensor, err := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(mask, length, batchSize)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
+	maskTensor := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(mask, length, batchSize)
 
 	if c.config.MaskDType != ml.DTypeF32 {
 		out := ctx.Input().Empty(c.config.MaskDType, maskTensor.Shape()...)
@@ -336,7 +332,7 @@ func (c *Causal) buildMask(ctx ml.Context) (ml.Tensor, error) {
 		maskTensor = out
 	}
 
-	return maskTensor, nil
+	return maskTensor
 }
 
 func (c *Causal) moveCells(ctx ml.Context, src, dst, length int) {
@@ -491,12 +487,7 @@ func (c *Causal) SetCausal(ctx ml.Context, opts CausalOptions) {
 	if !slices.Equal(c.opts.Except, opts.Except) {
 		c.opts = opts
 		if ctx != nil {
-			var err error
-			c.curMask, err = c.buildMask(ctx)
-			if err != nil {
-				// This error should never occur because we have previously built a mask with the same shape
-				panic(fmt.Errorf("SetCausal: %w", err))
-			}
+			c.curMask = c.buildMask(ctx)
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -652,10 +643,7 @@ func (c *Causal) shift(seq int, beginIndex, offset int32) error {
 		}
 	}
 
-	kShift, err := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(offsets, len(offsets))
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
+	kShift := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(offsets, len(offsets))
 
 	for i, key := range c.keys {
 		if key == nil {

kvcache/causal_test.go

@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ func testCache(t *testing.T, backend ml.Backend, cache Cache, tests []testCase)
 			}
 
 			cache.SetLayer(0)
-			tensor, _ := context.FromFloatSlice(test.in, test.inShape...)
+			tensor := context.FromFloatSlice(test.in, test.inShape...)
 			cache.Put(context, tensor, tensor)
 
 			out, _, mask := cache.Get(context)
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ func TestCanResume(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	cache.SetLayer(0)
-	tensor, _ := context.FromFloatSlice([]float32{1, 2, 3, 4}, 1, 1, 4)
+	tensor := context.FromFloatSlice([]float32{1, 2, 3, 4}, 1, 1, 4)
 	cache.Put(context, tensor, tensor)
 
 	// with window size 4, nothing has slid out of the window yet
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ func TestCanResume(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	cache.SetLayer(0)
-	tensor, _ = context.FromFloatSlice([]float32{5, 6}, 1, 1, 2)
+	tensor = context.FromFloatSlice([]float32{5, 6}, 1, 1, 2)
 	cache.Put(context, tensor, tensor)
 
 	// only the latest position has overlapping windows
@@ -470,24 +470,24 @@ func (c *testContext) Zeros(dtype ml.DType, shape ...int) ml.Tensor {
 	return c.Empty(dtype, shape...)
 }
 
-func (c *testContext) FromFloatSlice(s []float32, shape ...int) (ml.Tensor, error) {
+func (c *testContext) FromFloatSlice(s []float32, shape ...int) ml.Tensor {
 	t := c.Empty(ml.DTypeF32, shape...).(*testTensor)
 
 	copy(t.data, s)
 
-	return t, nil
+	return t
 }
 
-func (c *testContext) FromIntSlice(s []int32, shape ...int) (ml.Tensor, error) {
+func (c *testContext) FromIntSlice(s []int32, shape ...int) ml.Tensor {
 	f := make([]float32, len(s))
 	for i := range f {
 		f[i] = float32(s[i])
 	}
 
-	out, _ := c.FromFloatSlice(f, shape...)
+	out := c.FromFloatSlice(f, shape...)
 	out.(*testTensor).dtype = ml.DTypeI32
 
-	return out, nil
+	return out
 }
 
 func (c *testContext) Arange(start, stop, step float32, dtype ml.DType) ml.Tensor {
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ func (c *testContext) Arange(start, stop, step float32, dtype ml.DType) ml.Tenso
 		s = append(s, i)
 	}
 
-	out, _ := c.FromFloatSlice(s, len(s))
+	out := c.FromFloatSlice(s, len(s))
 	out.(*testTensor).dtype = dtype
 	return out
 }

ml/backend.go

@@ -171,8 +171,8 @@ func NewBackend(modelPath string, params BackendParams) (Backend, error) {
 type Context interface {
 	Empty(dtype DType, shape ...int) Tensor
 	Zeros(dtype DType, shape ...int) Tensor
-	FromFloatSlice(s []float32, shape ...int) (Tensor, error)
-	FromIntSlice(s []int32, shape ...int) (Tensor, error)
+	FromFloatSlice(s []float32, shape ...int) Tensor
+	FromIntSlice(s []int32, shape ...int) Tensor
 
 	// Arange creates a 1D tensor with values within an interval (start, stop] increased by step.
 	Arange(start, stop, step float32, dtype DType) Tensor

ml/backend/ggml/ggml.go

@@ -729,11 +729,11 @@ func (c *Context) Zeros(dtype ml.DType, shape ...int) ml.Tensor {
 	return t
 }
 
-func checkShape[S ~[]E, E any](s S, shape ...int) error {
+func checkShape[S ~[]E, E any](s S, shape ...int) {
 	n := len(s)
 
 	if n == 0 {
-		return nil
+		return
 	}
 
 	for _, v := range shape {
@@ -741,16 +741,12 @@ func checkShape[S ~[]E, E any](s S, shape ...int) error {
 	}
 
 	if n != 1 {
-		return fmt.Errorf("invalid shape: %v", shape)
+		panic(fmt.Errorf("invalid shape: %v", shape))
 	}
-
-	return nil
 }
 
-func (c *Context) FromFloatSlice(s []float32, shape ...int) (ml.Tensor, error) {
-	if err := checkShape(s, shape...); err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
+func (c *Context) FromFloatSlice(s []float32, shape ...int) ml.Tensor {
+	checkShape(s, shape...)
 
 	t := c.newTensor(ml.DTypeF32, shape)
 
@@ -758,13 +754,11 @@ func (c *Context) FromFloatSlice(s []float32, shape ...int) (ml.Tensor, error) {
 		C.ggml_backend_tensor_set(t.(*Tensor).t, unsafe.Pointer(&s[0]), 0, C.ggml_nbytes(t.(*Tensor).t))
 	}
 
-	return t, nil
+	return t
 }
 
-func (c *Context) FromIntSlice(s []int32, shape ...int) (ml.Tensor, error) {
-	if err := checkShape(s, shape...); err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
+func (c *Context) FromIntSlice(s []int32, shape ...int) ml.Tensor {
+	checkShape(s, shape...)
 
 	t := c.newTensor(ml.DTypeI32, shape)
 
@@ -772,7 +766,7 @@ func (c *Context) FromIntSlice(s []int32, shape ...int) (ml.Tensor, error) {
 		C.ggml_backend_tensor_set(t.(*Tensor).t, unsafe.Pointer(&s[0]), 0, C.ggml_nbytes(t.(*Tensor).t))
 	}
 
-	return t, nil
+	return t
 }
 
 func (c Context) Arange(start, stop, step float32, dtype ml.DType) ml.Tensor {
@@ -790,12 +784,7 @@ func (c Context) Arange(start, stop, step float32, dtype ml.DType) ml.Tensor {
 			arange = append(arange, int32(i))
 		}
 
-		t, err := c.Input().FromIntSlice(arange, len(arange))
-		if err != nil {
-			panic(err)
-		}
-
-		return t
+		return c.Input().FromIntSlice(arange, len(arange))
 	default:
 		panic("unsupported dtype for arange")
 	}

model/model.go

@@ -287,11 +287,7 @@ func Forward(ctx ml.Context, m Model, inputs []int32, batch input.Batch) (ml.Ten
 		return nil, errors.New("batch size cannot be less than 1")
 	}
 
-	var err error
-	batch.Inputs, err = ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(inputs, len(inputs))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
+	batch.Inputs = ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(inputs, len(inputs))
 
 	cache := m.Config().Cache
 	if cache != nil {

model/models/gemma2/model.go

@@ -175,15 +175,8 @@ func (l *Layer) Forward(ctx ml.Context, hiddenState, positionIDs, outputs ml.Ten
 }
 
 func (m *Model) Forward(ctx ml.Context, batch input.Batch) (ml.Tensor, error) {
-	positions, err := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Positions, len(batch.Positions))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	outputs, err := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Outputs, len(batch.Outputs))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
+	positions := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Positions, len(batch.Positions))
+	outputs := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Outputs, len(batch.Outputs))
 
 	hiddenState := m.TokenEmbedding.Forward(ctx, batch.Inputs)
 	hiddenState = hiddenState.Scale(ctx, math.Sqrt(float64(m.Options.hiddenSize)))

model/models/gemma3/model.go

@@ -101,14 +101,11 @@ func (m *Model) EncodeMultimodal(ctx ml.Context, multimodalData []byte) ([]input
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	pixelValues, err := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(f32s,
+	pixelValues := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(f32s,
 		m.ImageProcessor.imageSize,
 		m.ImageProcessor.imageSize,
 		m.ImageProcessor.numChannels,
 	)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
 
 	visionOutputs := m.VisionModel.Forward(ctx, pixelValues)
 	visionOutputs = m.MultiModalProjector.Forward(ctx, visionOutputs, m.imageSize, m.patchSize, m.VisionModel.eps)
@@ -144,15 +141,8 @@ func (m *Model) PostTokenize(inputs []input.Input) ([]input.Input, error) {
 }
 
 func (m *Model) Forward(ctx ml.Context, batch input.Batch) (ml.Tensor, error) {
-	positions, err := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Positions, len(batch.Positions))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	outputs, err := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Outputs, len(batch.Outputs))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
+	positions := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Positions, len(batch.Positions))
+	outputs := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Outputs, len(batch.Outputs))
 
 	return m.TextModel.Forward(ctx, batch.Inputs, positions, outputs, batch, m.Cache), nil
 }

model/models/llama/model.go

@@ -142,10 +142,7 @@ func (l *Layer) Forward(ctx ml.Context, hiddenState, positions, outputs ml.Tenso
 }
 
 func (m *Model) Forward(ctx ml.Context, batch input.Batch) (ml.Tensor, error) {
-	positions, err := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Positions, len(batch.Positions))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
+	positions := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Positions, len(batch.Positions))
 
 	hiddenState := m.TokenEmbedding.Forward(ctx, batch.Inputs)
 
@@ -154,10 +151,7 @@ func (m *Model) Forward(ctx ml.Context, batch input.Batch) (ml.Tensor, error) {
 
 		var outputs ml.Tensor
 		if i == len(m.Layers)-1 {
-			outputs, err = ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Outputs, len(batch.Outputs))
-			if err != nil {
-				return nil, err
-			}
+			outputs = ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Outputs, len(batch.Outputs))
 		}
 
 		hiddenState = layer.Forward(ctx, hiddenState, positions, outputs, m.Cache, m.Options)

model/models/llama4/model.go

@@ -77,10 +77,7 @@ func (m *Model) EncodeMultimodal(ctx ml.Context, multimodalData []byte) ([]input
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	tilesLocal, err := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(pixelsLocal, size.X, size.Y, m.numChannels)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
+	tilesLocal := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(pixelsLocal, size.X, size.Y, m.numChannels)
 
 	ratioW, ratioH := size.X/m.imageSize, size.Y/m.imageSize
 
@@ -91,11 +88,7 @@ func (m *Model) EncodeMultimodal(ctx ml.Context, multimodalData []byte) ([]input
 	pixelValues := tilesLocal
 
 	if len(pixelsGlobal) > 0 {
-		tilesGlobal, err := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(pixelsGlobal, m.imageSize, m.imageSize, m.numChannels)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-
+		tilesGlobal := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(pixelsGlobal, m.imageSize, m.imageSize, m.numChannels)
 		pixelValues = pixelValues.Concat(ctx, tilesGlobal, 3)
 	}
 
@@ -182,15 +175,8 @@ func (m *Model) PostTokenize(inputs []input.Input) ([]input.Input, error) {
 }
 
 func (m *Model) Forward(ctx ml.Context, batch input.Batch) (ml.Tensor, error) {
-	positions, err := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Positions, len(batch.Positions))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	outputs, err := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Outputs, len(batch.Outputs))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
+	positions := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Positions, len(batch.Positions))
+	outputs := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Outputs, len(batch.Outputs))
 
 	return m.TextModel.Forward(ctx, batch.Inputs, positions, outputs, batch, m.Cache), nil
 }

model/models/llama4/model_text.go

@@ -223,11 +223,7 @@ func (m *TextModel) Forward(ctx ml.Context, inputs, positions, outputs ml.Tensor
 			scales[i] = float32(math.Log(math.Floor(((float64(p)+1.0)/float64(m.attentionFloorScale))+1.0))*m.attentionScale + 1.0)
 		}
 
-		var err error
-		attentionScales, err = ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(scales, 1, 1, len(scales))
-		if err != nil {
-			panic(err)
-		}
+		attentionScales = ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(scales, 1, 1, len(scales))
 	}
 
 	for i, layer := range m.Layers {

model/models/llama4/model_vision.go

@@ -245,10 +245,7 @@ func (m *VisionModel) rotaryEmbedding(ctx ml.Context) (ml.Tensor, ml.Tensor) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	ropeFreqs, err := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(freqs, freqDim/2, numPatches, 2)
-	if err != nil {
-		panic(err)
-	}
+	ropeFreqs := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(freqs, freqDim/2, numPatches, 2)
 
 	ropeFreqs = ropeFreqs.Permute(ctx, 0, 2, 1, 3).Contiguous(ctx)
 	ropeFreqs = ropeFreqs.Reshape(ctx, freqDim, 1, numPatches)

model/models/mistral3/model.go

@@ -114,10 +114,7 @@ func (m *Model) EncodeMultimodal(ctx ml.Context, multimodalData []byte) ([]input
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	pixelValues, err := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(f32s, size.X, size.Y, m.ImageProcessor.numChannels)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
+	pixelValues := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(f32s, size.X, size.Y, m.ImageProcessor.numChannels)
 
 	visionOutputs := m.VisionModel.Forward(ctx, pixelValues)
 	features, size := m.MultiModalProjector.Forward(ctx, visionOutputs, size)
@@ -161,15 +158,8 @@ func (m *Model) PostTokenize(inputs []input.Input) ([]input.Input, error) {
 }
 
 func (m *Model) Forward(ctx ml.Context, batch input.Batch) (ml.Tensor, error) {
-	positions, err := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Positions, len(batch.Positions))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	outputs, err := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Outputs, len(batch.Outputs))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
+	positions := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Positions, len(batch.Positions))
+	outputs := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Outputs, len(batch.Outputs))
 
 	return m.TextModel.Forward(ctx, batch.Inputs, positions, outputs, batch, m.Cache), nil
 }

model/models/mistral3/model_vision.go

@@ -110,15 +110,8 @@ func (m *VisionModel) positionalEmbedding(ctx ml.Context, positionIDs ml.Tensor)
 		}
 	}
 
-	h, err := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(frequenciesHeight, maxPatchesPerSide, frequencies/2)
-	if err != nil {
-		panic(err)
-	}
-
-	w, err := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(frequenciesWidth, maxPatchesPerSide, frequencies/2)
-	if err != nil {
-		panic(err)
-	}
+	h := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(frequenciesHeight, maxPatchesPerSide, frequencies/2)
+	w := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(frequenciesWidth, maxPatchesPerSide, frequencies/2)
 
 	h = h.Permute(ctx, 1, 0, 2, 3).Contiguous(ctx)
 	w = w.Permute(ctx, 1, 0, 2, 3).Contiguous(ctx)
@@ -151,10 +144,7 @@ func (m *VisionModel) Forward(ctx ml.Context, pixelValues ml.Tensor) ml.Tensor {
 		}
 	}
 
-	positionIDs, err := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(positions, len(positions))
-	if err != nil {
-		panic(err)
-	}
+	positionIDs := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(positions, len(positions))
 
 	positionEmbedding := m.positionalEmbedding(ctx, positionIDs)
 	cos, sin := positionEmbedding.Cos(ctx), positionEmbedding.Sin(ctx)

model/models/mllama/model.go

@@ -80,15 +80,8 @@ func (m *Model) EncodeMultimodal(ctx ml.Context, multimodalData []byte) ([]input
 		f32s = f32s[:m.imageSize*m.imageSize*m.numChannels*m.maxNumTiles]
 	}
 
-	pixelValues, err := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(f32s, m.imageSize, m.imageSize, m.numChannels, m.maxNumTiles)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	aspectRatio, err := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice([]int32{int32(ratio.rank)}, 1)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
+	pixelValues := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(f32s, m.imageSize, m.imageSize, m.numChannels, m.maxNumTiles)
+	aspectRatio := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice([]int32{int32(ratio.rank)}, 1)
 
 	positionIDs := ctx.Arange(0, 1601, 1, ml.DTypeI32)
 	crossAttentionStates := m.VisionModel.Forward(ctx, pixelValues, positionIDs, aspectRatio)
@@ -113,15 +106,8 @@ func (m *Model) Forward(ctx ml.Context, batch input.Batch) (ml.Tensor, error) {
 		crossAttentionStates = batch.Multimodal[len(batch.Multimodal)-1].Multimodal[0].Tensor
 	}
 
-	positions, err := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Positions, len(batch.Positions))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	outputs, err := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Outputs, len(batch.Outputs))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
+	positions := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Positions, len(batch.Positions))
+	outputs := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Outputs, len(batch.Outputs))
 
 	// TODO: attention mask, cross attention mask
 	return m.TextModel.Forward(ctx, batch.Inputs, positions, outputs, crossAttentionStates, nil, m.Cache.(*kvcache.WrapperCache)), nil

model/models/qwen2/model.go

@@ -100,10 +100,7 @@ type Model struct {
 
 // Forward implements model.Model.
 func (m Model) Forward(ctx ml.Context, batch input.Batch) (ml.Tensor, error) {
-	positions, err := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Positions, len(batch.Positions))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
+	positions := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Positions, len(batch.Positions))
 
 	hiddenStates := m.TokenEmbedding.Forward(ctx, batch.Inputs)
 
@@ -112,10 +109,7 @@ func (m Model) Forward(ctx ml.Context, batch input.Batch) (ml.Tensor, error) {
 
 		var outputs ml.Tensor
 		if i == len(m.Layers)-1 {
-			outputs, err = ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Outputs, len(batch.Outputs))
-			if err != nil {
-				return nil, err
-			}
+			outputs = ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Outputs, len(batch.Outputs))
 		}
 
 		hiddenStates = layer.Forward(ctx, hiddenStates, positions, outputs, m.Cache, &m.Options)

model/models/qwen25vl/model.go

@@ -69,10 +69,7 @@ func (m *Model) PixelValues(ctx ml.Context, multimodalData []byte) (ml.Tensor, *
 		m.ImageProcessor.patchSize * m.ImageProcessor.patchSize
 	numPatches := grid.Temporal * grid.Height * grid.Width
 
-	pixelValues, err := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(f32s, patchDim, numPatches)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to create tensor from image: %w", err)
-	}
+	pixelValues := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(f32s, patchDim, numPatches)
 
 	return pixelValues, grid, nil
 }
@@ -142,15 +139,8 @@ func (m *Model) PostTokenize(inputs []input.Input) ([]input.Input, error) {
 }
 
 func (m *Model) Forward(ctx ml.Context, batch input.Batch) (ml.Tensor, error) {
-	positions, err := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Positions, len(batch.Positions))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	outputs, err := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Outputs, len(batch.Outputs))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
+	positions := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Positions, len(batch.Positions))
+	outputs := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Outputs, len(batch.Outputs))
 
 	return m.TextModel.Forward(ctx, batch.Inputs, positions, outputs, batch, m.Cache)
 }

model/models/qwen25vl/model_vision.go

 package qwen25vl
 
 import (
-	"fmt"
 	"math"
 	"slices"
 
@@ -44,10 +43,8 @@ func blockDiagonalMask(ctx ml.Context, seqLength int, bounds []int, numHeads int
 		}
 	}
 
-	mask, err := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(flat, seqLength, seqLength)
-	if err != nil {
-		panic(err)
-	}
+	mask := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(flat, seqLength, seqLength)
+
 	// Reshape to match [seqLength, seqLength, 1] for broadcasting
 	mask = mask.Reshape(ctx, seqLength, seqLength, 1)
 
@@ -303,10 +300,7 @@ func (m *VisionModel) WindowIndex(ctx ml.Context, grid *Grid) (ml.Tensor, []int)
 		}
 	}
 
-	t, err := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(index, len(index))
-	if err != nil {
-		panic(err)
-	}
+	t := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(index, len(index))
 
 	return t, bounds
 }
@@ -326,10 +320,7 @@ func (m *VisionModel) PositionalEmbedding(ctx ml.Context, grid *Grid) ml.Tensor
 			freqVals[i*freq+j] = float32(i) / float32(math.Pow(theta, float64(j*2)/float64(dim)))
 		}
 	}
-	freqs, err := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(freqVals, freq, maxGridSize)
-	if err != nil {
-		panic(fmt.Errorf("failed to create tensor from frequencies: %w", err))
-	}
+	freqs := ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(freqVals, freq, maxGridSize)
 
 	// Create position coordinates (y,x pairs) for the grid
 	// In PyTorch: Equivalent to generating position ids with torch.arange()
@@ -339,10 +330,7 @@ func (m *VisionModel) PositionalEmbedding(ctx ml.Context, grid *Grid) ml.Tensor
 			coords = append(coords, int32(y), int32(x))
 		}
 	}
-	pos, err := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(coords, 2, grid.Width, grid.Height)
-	if err != nil {
-		panic(fmt.Errorf("failed to create tensor from positions: %w", err))
-	}
+	pos := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(coords, 2, grid.Width, grid.Height)
 
 	// Reshape and permute positions to match spatial merging pattern
 	pos = pos.Reshape(ctx, 2, grid.Width, merge, grid.Height/merge)

model/models/qwen3/model.go

@@ -156,10 +156,7 @@ type Model struct {
 
 // Forward implements model.Model.
 func (m *Model) Forward(ctx ml.Context, batch input.Batch) (ml.Tensor, error) {
-	positions, err := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Positions, len(batch.Positions))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
+	positions := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Positions, len(batch.Positions))
 
 	hiddenStates := m.TokenEmbedding.Forward(ctx, batch.Inputs)
 
@@ -168,10 +165,7 @@ func (m *Model) Forward(ctx ml.Context, batch input.Batch) (ml.Tensor, error) {
 
 		var outputs ml.Tensor
 		if i == len(m.Layers)-1 {
-			outputs, err = ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Outputs, len(batch.Outputs))
-			if err != nil {
-				return nil, err
-			}
+			outputs = ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Outputs, len(batch.Outputs))
 		}
 
 		hiddenStates = layer.Forward(ctx, hiddenStates, positions, outputs, m.Cache, m.Options)

runner/ollamarunner/multimodal.go

@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ func (m multimodalStore) getTensor(backend ml.Backend, ctx ml.Context, in ml.Ten
 	for i, t := range entry.mm {
 		if in == t.Tensor {
 			if !reserve {
-				return ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(entry.data[i], t.Tensor.Shape()...)
+				return ctx.Input().FromFloatSlice(entry.data[i], t.Tensor.Shape()...), nil
 			} else {
 				return ctx.Input().Empty(t.Tensor.DType(), t.Tensor.Shape()...), nil
 			}

runner/ollamarunner/runner.go

@@ -808,10 +808,7 @@ func (s *Server) reserveWorstCaseGraph() error {
 		batch.Outputs[i] = int32(i)
 	}
 
-	batch.Inputs, err = ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batchInputs, len(batchInputs))
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
+	batch.Inputs = ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batchInputs, len(batchInputs))
 
 	cache := s.model.Config().Cache
 	if cache != nil {
@@ -876,7 +873,8 @@ func (s *Server) load(
 	parallel int,
 	kvCacheType string,
 	kvSize int,
-	multiUserCache bool) {
+	multiUserCache bool,
+) {
 	err := s.initModel(mpath, params, lpath, parallel, kvCacheType, kvSize, multiUserCache)
 	if err != nil {
 		panic(err)