GPU-Accelerated Image Generation with LangChain4j

A production-ready demonstration of GPU-accelerated AI inference using LangChain4j with ONNX Runtime and CUDA, deployed to Azure Container Apps with GPU support.

🚀 Features

GPU-Accelerated Inference: CUDA 12.2 with ONNX Runtime for high-performance AI
Stable Diffusion Image Generation: Powered by Oracle's SD4J (Stable Diffusion for Java) 🎉
- Complete CLIP tokenizer, U-Net, VAE decoder, and scheduler implementation
- Multiple scheduler algorithms (LMS, Euler Ancestral)
- Optional NSFW safety checker
- Generate high-quality cartoon-style images from text prompts
Text Embeddings: Semantic similarity with All-MiniLM-L6-v2 model via LangChain4j
Modern Stack: Java 21 virtual threads, Spring Boot 3.2.5, LangChain4j 0.34.0, SD4J
Cloud-Ready: Containerized with Docker, deployable to Azure Container Apps
Interactive UI: Web-based interface with real-time metrics
Production-Grade: Health checks, graceful shutdown, monitoring endpoints

🎨 Example Output

📖 Complete Setup Guide

👉 See SETUP.md for detailed step-by-step installation instructions, including:

Prerequisites and build tools installation
Model downloads and directory structure
ONNX Runtime Extensions build process
Local development and Azure deployment
Comprehensive troubleshooting guide

🏗️ Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Web UI │
│ (HTML + Tailwind CSS + JavaScript) │
└──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┘
│ REST API
┌──────────────────────▼──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Spring Boot Controller │
│ (ImageController.java) │
└──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┘
│
┌──────────────────────▼──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ LangChain4j GPU Service │
│ (LangChain4jGpuService.java) │
└──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┘
│
┌──────────────────────▼──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ONNX Runtime (GPU) │
│ • Stable Diffusion v1.5 (Image Gen) │
│ • All-MiniLM-L6-v2 (Embeddings) │
└──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┘
│
┌──────────────────────▼──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ NVIDIA CUDA 12.2 │
│ (GPU Acceleration Layer) │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

🔧 Prerequisites

Local Development

Java 21 LTS (with --enable-preview flag)
Maven 3.9+
NVIDIA GPU with CUDA 12.2+ support
CUDA Toolkit 12.2
Docker (optional, for containerization)
Git

Azure Deployment

Azure CLI (Install)
Azure Subscription with GPU quota enabled
Docker for building images

🚀 Quick Start

📘 For detailed setup instructions, see SETUP.md

1. Clone Repository

git clone https://github.com/your-org/gpuonazure.git
cd gpuonazure

2. Install Build Tools

# Linux
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y cmake build-essential
# macOS
brew install cmake

3. Download Models

./download-missing-models.sh

Downloads Stable Diffusion v1.5 models (~5.2 GB):

Text Encoder, U-Net, VAE Decoder

4. Build ONNX Runtime Extensions

./download-ortextensions.sh

Builds libortextensions.so (~3 MB, required for CLIP tokenizer).

5. Run Application

mvn spring-boot:run

6. Access Web UI

Open browser: http://localhost:8080

🎨 Generate your first image!

🔨 Local Development

📘 For troubleshooting and advanced configuration, see SETUP.md

Running with Maven

mvn spring-boot:run

Running with Docker

# Build image
docker build -t gpu-langchain4j-demo:latest .# Run with GPU (if CUDA available)
docker run --gpus all -p 8080:8080 \
-v $(pwd)/models:/app/models \
gpu-langchain4j-demo:latest

Configuration

Edit src/main/resources/application.yml:

gpu:
langchain4j:
gpu:
enabled: true # Set to false for CPU-only modedevice-id: 0model:
dir: ./models

Health Check

curl http://localhost:8080/actuator/health

Expected Response:

{
"status": "UP",
"gpuAvailable": false,
"modelsLoaded": true,
"stableDiffusion": "Ready (SD4J)"
}

☁️ Azure Deployment

🎯 Quick Deploy (Automated)

Deploy to Azure Container Apps with GPU in one command:

./deploy-azure-aca.sh

This script will:

✅ Create Azure Container Registry
✅ Build and push Docker image (~5GB)
✅ Create Container Apps Environment with GPU
✅ Deploy application
✅ Output application URL

Total time: 15-20 minutes

⚙️ Configuration

Customize deployment with environment variables:

export RESOURCE_GROUP="gpu-demo-rg"export LOCATION="eastus"export ACR_NAME="gpudemoregistry"export GPU_PROFILE="NC8as_T4_v3"# or NC24ads_A100_v4
./deploy-azure-aca.sh

GPU Options:

NC8as_T4_v3 - NVIDIA T4 (16GB), $0.526/hour
NC24ads_A100_v4 - NVIDIA A100 (80GB), $3.672/hour

📖 Complete Guide

For detailed instructions, see:

AZURE-DEPLOYMENT-GUIDE.md - Complete deployment guide
AZURE-QUICK-REFERENCE.md - Quick reference commands

🧪 Test Deployment

# Get application URL
APP_URL=$(az containerapp show --name gpu-langchain4j-demo --resource-group gpu-demo-rg --query properties.configuration.ingress.fqdn -o tsv)# Health check
curl https://$APP_URL/actuator/health
# Generate test image
curl -X POST https://$APP_URL/api/langchain4j/image \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"prompt": "sunset over mountains", "style": "CLASSIC"}' \
--output test-azure.png

🗑️ Cleanup

az group delete --name gpu-demo-rg --yes

📚 API Documentation

Base URL

http://localhost:8080/api/langchain4j

Endpoints

1. Generate Image

POST/image

Generate a cartoon-style image from text prompt using Stable Diffusion.

Request:

{
"prompt": "A friendly robot helping with Azure deployment",
"style": "HAPPY"
}

Response:image/png (binary)

cURL Example:

curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/api/langchain4j/image \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"prompt":"A friendly robot at a computer","style":"CLASSIC"}' \
--output generated-image.png

2. Compare Embeddings

POST/embeddings

Compare semantic similarity between two text snippets.

Request:

{
"text1": "Azure Container Apps",
"text2": "Cloud container platform"
}

Response:

{
"text1": "Azure Container Apps",
"text2": "Cloud container platform",
"similarity": 0.8532,
"processingTimeMs": 45
}

cURL Example:

curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/api/langchain4j/embeddings \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "text1": "GPU acceleration", "text2": "CUDA processing" }'

3. Health Check

GET/health

Get system health and GPU status.

Response:

{
"status": "UP",
"gpuAvailable": true,
"modelsLoaded": true,
"timestamp": "2025-09-29T12:00:00Z"
}

4. List Models

GET/models

Get information about loaded models.

Response:

{
"models": {
"stableDiffusion": {
"name": "Stable Diffusion v1.5",
"path": "/app/models/stable-diffusion/model.onnx",
"available": true,
"sizeBytes": 3442332160
},
"allMiniLmL6V2": {
"name": "All-MiniLM-L6-v2",
"path": "/app/models/all-MiniLM-L6-v2/model.onnx",
"available": true,
"sizeBytes": 90000000
}
},
"gpuAvailable": true,
"modelsLoaded": true
}

⚙️ Configuration

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
`GPU_LANGCHAIN4J_GPU_ENABLED`	`true`	Enable GPU acceleration
`GPU_LANGCHAIN4J_GPU_DEVICE_ID`	`0`	CUDA device ID
`GPU_LANGCHAIN4J_MODEL_DIR`	`./models`	Model directory path
`JAVA_OPTS`	`-Xmx8g -XX:+UseZGC`	JVM options
`SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE`	`default`	Spring profile

GPU Configuration

gpu:
langchain4j:
gpu:
enabled: truedevice-id: 0inter-op-threads: 4intra-op-threads: 8

Model Configuration

gpu:
langchain4j:
model:
dir: /app/modelsdownload:
enabled: trueazure-storage-account: mystorageaccountazure-storage-container: onnx-models

🐛 Troubleshooting

📘 For comprehensive troubleshooting, see SETUP.md

Common Issues

1. libortextensions.so not found

Error:Failed to load library ./libortextensions.so

Solution:

# Build the library (takes ~10 minutes)
./download-ortextensions.sh

2. Models Not Found

Error:Stable Diffusion model not found

Solution:

# Download models and organize structure
./download-missing-models.sh
# Verify structure
ls -R models/stable-diffusion/

3. Out of Memory

Error:OutOfMemoryError during generation

Solution:

# Increase JVM heap (requires 6-8GB for CPU mode)export JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx8g -XX:+UseZGC"
mvn spring-boot:run

4. Slow Image Generation

CPU Mode Expected Times:

First generation: ~60 seconds (model loading)
Subsequent: ~30-45 seconds per image

Optimization:

# Reduce inference steps for faster generationgpu:
langchain4j:
inference-steps: 20# Default 40

Logs

# Application logs
mvn spring-boot:run --debug
# Azure Container Apps logs
az containerapp logs show --name gpu-langchain4j-app \
--resource-group gpu-langchain4j-rg --follow

📊 Performance

Benchmarks (T4 GPU)

Operation	Average Time	Throughput
Image Generation (512x512)	2.3s	~0.43 img/s
Text Embedding (single)	15ms	~66 req/s
Text Embedding (batch of 10)	45ms	~222 req/s

Benchmarks (A100 GPU)

Operation	Average Time	Throughput
Image Generation (512x512)	0.8s	~1.25 img/s
Text Embedding (single)	8ms	~125 req/s
Text Embedding (batch of 10)	25ms	~400 req/s

🔒 Security

HTTPS: Enabled by default in Azure Container Apps
CORS: Configured for web UI access
Secrets: Use Azure Key Vault for sensitive configuration
Authentication: Add Azure AD authentication for production

📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see LICENSE file.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions welcome! Please read CONTRIBUTING.md first.

Fork the repository
Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing)
Commit changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
Push to branch (git push origin feature/amazing)
Open a Pull Request

📧 Support

Issues: GitHub Issues
Discussions: GitHub Discussions
Email: support@example.com

🙏 Acknowledgments

LangChain4j - Java AI framework
ONNX Runtime - Cross-platform inference engine
Stable Diffusion - Image generation model
Sentence Transformers - Text embeddings

🗺️ Roadmap

Add more ONNX models (BERT, GPT, etc.)
Implement model quantization for faster inference
Add batch processing endpoints
Support for multi-GPU deployment
Implement caching layer with Redis
Add Prometheus metrics export
Create Helm chart for Kubernetes deployment

Made with ❤️ using Java 21, Spring Boot, LangChain4j, and Azure

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GPU-Accelerated Image Generation with LangChain4j

🚀 Features

🎨 Example Output

📖 Complete Setup Guide

📋 Table of Contents

🏗️ Architecture

🔧 Prerequisites

Local Development

Azure Deployment

🚀 Quick Start

1. Clone Repository

2. Install Build Tools

3. Download Models

4. Build ONNX Runtime Extensions

5. Run Application

6. Access Web UI

🔨 Local Development

Running with Maven

Running with Docker

Configuration

Health Check

☁️ Azure Deployment

🎯 Quick Deploy (Automated)

⚙️ Configuration

📖 Complete Guide

🧪 Test Deployment

🗑️ Cleanup

📚 API Documentation

Base URL

Endpoints

1. Generate Image

2. Compare Embeddings

3. Health Check

4. List Models

⚙️ Configuration

Environment Variables

GPU Configuration

Model Configuration

🐛 Troubleshooting

Common Issues

1. libortextensions.so not found

2. Models Not Found

3. Out of Memory

4. Slow Image Generation

Logs

📊 Performance

Benchmarks (T4 GPU)

Benchmarks (A100 GPU)

🔒 Security

📝 License

🤝 Contributing

📧 Support

🙏 Acknowledgments

🗺️ Roadmap

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