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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 The RISE Project
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+---
+# This workflow is based on: https://github.com/dalf/fasttext-predict/blob/main/.github/workflows/wheels.yml
+name: Build fasttext-predict wheels (riscv64)
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      version:
+        description: 'fasttext-predict version to build (PyPI version, e.g. 0.9.2.4)'
+        required: true
+        default: '0.9.2.4'
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - '.github/workflows/build-fasttext-predict.yml'
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ inputs.version || '0.9.2.4' }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read  # to fetch code (actions/checkout)
+
+env:
+  # `inputs.version` is empty on pull_request events; default to 0.9.2.4 there.
+  FASTTEXT_PREDICT_VERSION: ${{ inputs.version || '0.9.2.4' }}
+  # dalf/fasttext-predict ships no git tags; this is the release commit for
+  # 0.9.2.4 ("Prepapre version 0.9.2.4"), verified byte-identical against the
+  # PyPI sdist. Move together with FASTTEXT_PREDICT_VERSION.
+  FASTTEXT_PREDICT_REF: '93501d1069ecb00758137c19bb27a53ee097a0e4'
+  MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE: quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_39_riscv64
+
+jobs:
+  setup:
+    uses: $/.github/workflows/_setup.yml
+
+  build_wheels:
+    needs: [setup]
+    name: Build fasttext-predict ${{ inputs.version || '0.9.2.4' }} ${{ matrix.python }}-manylinux_riscv64
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-riscv
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        # Per-interpreter (not abi3): the pybind11 extension links the version-specific ABI.
+        python:
+          - "cp312"
+          - "cp313"
+          - "cp314"
+          - "cp314t"
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout fasttext-predict ${{ env.FASTTEXT_PREDICT_VERSION }}
+        uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          repository: dalf/fasttext-predict
+          ref: ${{ env.FASTTEXT_PREDICT_REF }}
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Build wheels
+        uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@1828c10ab37f080699c7b81cea34097c684a7074  # v4.2.0
+        with:
+          output-dir: wheelhouse/
+          only: ${{ matrix.python }}-manylinux_riscv64
+        env:
+          CIBW_MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE: ${{ env.MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE }}
+          # Upstream ships no test suite at all; exercise the predict path with
+          # the README's own language-identification example instead of an
+          # import-only smoke test.
+          CIBW_BEFORE_TEST_LINUX: >-
+            curl -sL -o /tmp/lid.176.ftz https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fasttext/supervised-models/lid.176.ftz
+          CIBW_TEST_COMMAND: >-
+            python -c "import fasttext;
+            assert fasttext.FastText.fasttext.__file__.endswith('.so'), fasttext.FastText.fasttext.__file__;
+            model = fasttext.load_model('/tmp/lid.176.ftz');
+            labels, probs = model.predict('Fondant au chocolat et tarte aux myrtilles');
+            assert labels == ('__label__fr',), labels;
+            assert probs[0] > 0.9, probs;
+            print('fasttext-predict OK')"
+
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          name: fasttext-predict-${{ env.FASTTEXT_PREDICT_VERSION }}-${{ matrix.python }}-manylinux_riscv64
+          path: wheelhouse/*.whl
+          if-no-files-found: error
+
+  publish:
+    name: Publish fasttext-predict ${{ inputs.version || '0.9.2.4' }}
+    needs: [setup, build_wheels]
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+      pull-requests: write
+    uses: $/.github/workflows/_publish-wheel.yml
+    with:
+      artifact-pattern: fasttext-predict-${{ inputs.version || '0.9.2.4' }}-*-manylinux_riscv64