openvinotoolkit · sgonorov · Nov 6, 2025 · Nov 6, 2025
diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -26,44 +26,12 @@ updates:
     versioning-strategy: increase-if-necessary
 
   #
-  # Python dependencies
+  # Python dependencies (UV workspace)
   #
-  - package-ecosystem: "pip"
-    directory: "./tests/python_tests/"
-    schedule:
-      interval: "daily"
-      time: "09:00"
-      timezone: "Europe/Dublin"
-    versioning-strategy: increase-if-necessary
-
-  - package-ecosystem: "pip"
-    directory: "./tools/llm_bench/"
-    schedule:
-      interval: "daily"
-      time: "09:00"
-      timezone: "Europe/Dublin"
-    versioning-strategy: increase-if-necessary
-
-  - package-ecosystem: "pip"
-    directory: "./tools/who_what_benchmark/"
-    schedule:
-      interval: "daily"
-      time: "09:00"
-      timezone: "Europe/Dublin"
-    versioning-strategy: increase-if-necessary
-
-  - package-ecosystem: "pip"
-    directory: "samples/"
-    schedule:
-      interval: "daily"
-      time: "09:00"
-      timezone: "Europe/Dublin"
-    versioning-strategy: increase-if-necessary
-
-  - package-ecosystem: "pip"
+  - package-ecosystem: "uv"
     directory: "/"
     schedule:
       interval: "daily"
       time: "09:00"
       timezone: "Europe/Dublin"
-    versioning-strategy: increase-if-necessary
+    open-pull-requests-limit: 5
diff --git a/.github/workflows/linux.yml b/.github/workflows/linux.yml
@@ -583,13 +583,21 @@ jobs:
           path: ${{ env.INSTALL_DIR }}
           merge-multiple: true
 
+      - name: Setup UV
+        if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v4
+
       - name: Install GenAI Wheels
         if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
         uses: ./src/.github/actions/install_wheel
         with:
           packages: "openvino;openvino_tokenizers[transformers];openvino_genai;whowhatbench"
-          requirements_files: "${{ env.SRC_DIR }}/tests/python_tests/requirements.txt"
           local_wheel_dir: ${{ env.INSTALL_DIR }}/wheels
+
+      - name: Sync dependency groups
+        if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
+        working-directory: ${{ github.workspace }}/src
+        run: uv sync --extra testing-full --no-install-project --prerelease=allow
 
       - name: Tests
         if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
@@ -690,13 +698,23 @@ jobs:
           pigz -dc ${{ env.GENAI_SAMPLES_NAME }} | tar -xf - -C ${{ env.INSTALL_DIR }}
         working-directory: ${{ env.INSTALL_DIR }}
 
+      - name: Setup UV
+        if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v4
+
       - name: Install GenAI wheels
         if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
         uses: ./src/.github/actions/install_wheel
         with:
           packages: "openvino;openvino_tokenizers[transformers];openvino_genai[testing]"
-          requirements_files: "${{ env.SRC_DIR }}/samples/requirements.txt"
           local_wheel_dir: ${{ env.INSTALL_DIR }}/wheels
+
+      - name: Sync dependency groups
+        if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
+        working-directory: ${{ github.workspace }}/src
+        run: |
+          uv sync --extra samples --no-install-project --prerelease=allow
+          uv sync --extra testing-full --no-install-project --prerelease=allow
 
       - name: Setup Node
         if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
@@ -776,12 +794,21 @@ jobs:
       - name: Fix C++ samples permissions
         run: chmod +x ${{ env.INSTALL_DIR }}/samples_bin/*
 
+      - name: Setup UV
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v4
+
       - name: Install GenAI wheels
         uses: ./src/.github/actions/install_wheel
         with:
           packages: "openvino;openvino_tokenizers[transformers];openvino_genai[testing]"
-          requirements_files: "${{ env.SRC_DIR }}/samples/requirements.txt;${{ env.SRC_DIR }}/tools/llm_bench/requirements.txt"
           local_wheel_dir: ${{ env.INSTALL_DIR }}/wheels
+
+      - name: Sync dependency groups
+        working-directory: ${{ github.workspace }}/src
+        run: |
+          uv sync --extra samples --no-install-project --prerelease=allow
+          uv sync --extra testing-full --no-install-project --prerelease=allow
+          uv sync --package llm_bench --prerelease=allow
 
       - name: gtests unit tests
         if: ${{ fromJSON(needs.smart_ci.outputs.affected_components).continuous_batching }}
@@ -919,12 +946,18 @@ jobs:
                 -B ${{ env.BUILD_DIR }}
           cmake --build ${{ env.BUILD_DIR}} --config Release --parallel $(nproc) --target py_openvino_genai --verbose
 
+      - name: Setup UV
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v4
+
       - name: Install dependencies
         uses: ./src/.github/actions/install_wheel
         with:
-          packages: openvino;openvino_tokenizers[transformers]
-          requirements_files: "${{ env.SRC_DIR }}/tests/python_tests/requirements.txt"
+          packages: "openvino;openvino_tokenizers[transformers]"
           local_wheel_dir: ${{ env.INSTALL_DIR }}/wheels
+
+      - name: Sync dependency groups
+        working-directory: ${{ github.workspace }}/src
+        run: uv sync --extra testing-full --no-install-project --prerelease=allow
 
       - name: Run test_llm_pipeline.py when -DENABLE_XGRAMMAR=OFF
         env:

diff --git a/.github/workflows/mac.yml b/.github/workflows/mac.yml
@@ -510,13 +510,21 @@ jobs:
           python-version: ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
           cache: 'pip'
 
+      - name: Setup UV
+        if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v4
+
       - name: Install GenAI Wheels
         if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
         uses: ./src/.github/actions/install_wheel
         with:
           packages: "openvino;openvino_tokenizers[transformers];openvino_genai;whowhatbench"
-          requirements_files: "${{ env.SRC_DIR }}/tests/python_tests/requirements.txt"
           local_wheel_dir: ${{ env.INSTALL_DIR }}/wheels
+
+      - name: Sync dependency groups
+        if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
+        working-directory: ${{ github.workspace }}/src
+        run: uv sync --extra testing-full --no-install-project --prerelease=allow
 
       - name: Tests
         if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
@@ -592,13 +600,23 @@ jobs:
           python-version: ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
           cache: 'pip'
 
+      - name: Setup UV
+        if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v4
+
       - name: Install GenAI wheels
         if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
         uses: ./src/.github/actions/install_wheel
         with:
           packages: "openvino;openvino_tokenizers[transformers];openvino_genai[testing]"
-          requirements_files: "${{ env.SRC_DIR }}/samples/requirements.txt"
           local_wheel_dir: ${{ env.INSTALL_DIR }}/wheels
+
+      - name: Sync dependency groups
+        if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
+        working-directory: ${{ github.workspace }}/src
+        run: |
+          uv sync --extra samples --no-install-project --prerelease=allow
+          uv sync --extra testing-full --no-install-project --prerelease=allow
 
       # transformers >= 4.52 require torch >= 2.6 and raise an error otherwise:
       # ValueError: Due to a serious vulnerability issue in `torch.load`, even with `weights_only=True`, we now require users to upgrade torch to at least v2.6 in order to use the function. This version restriction does not apply when loading files with safetensors.
@@ -684,12 +702,20 @@ jobs:
           python-version: ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
           cache: 'pip'
 
+      - name: Setup UV
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v4
+
       - name: Install GenAI wheels
         uses: ./src/.github/actions/install_wheel
         with:
           packages: "openvino;openvino_tokenizers[transformers];openvino_genai[testing]"
-          requirements_files: "${{ env.SRC_DIR }}/samples/requirements.txt"
           local_wheel_dir: ${{ env.INSTALL_DIR }}/wheels
+
+      - name: Sync dependency groups
+        working-directory: ${{ github.workspace }}/src
+        run: |
+          uv sync --extra samples --no-install-project --prerelease=allow
+          uv sync --extra testing-full --no-install-project --prerelease=allow
 
       - name: gtests unit tests
         run: |

diff --git a/.github/workflows/manylinux_2_28.yml b/.github/workflows/manylinux_2_28.yml
@@ -521,13 +521,21 @@ jobs:
           path: ${{ env.INSTALL_DIR }}
           merge-multiple: true
 
+      - name: Setup UV
+        if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v4
+
       - name: Install GenAI Wheels
         if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
         uses: ./src/.github/actions/install_wheel
         with:
           packages: "openvino;openvino_tokenizers[transformers];openvino_genai;whowhatbench"
-          requirements_files: "${{ env.SRC_DIR }}/tests/python_tests/requirements.txt"
           local_wheel_dir: ${{ env.INSTALL_DIR }}/wheels
+
+      - name: Sync dependency groups
+        if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
+        working-directory: ${{ github.workspace }}/src
+        run: uv sync --extra testing-full --no-install-project --prerelease=allow
 
       - name: Tests
         if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}

diff --git a/.github/workflows/windows.yml b/.github/workflows/windows.yml
@@ -672,13 +672,22 @@ jobs:
           python-version: ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
           cache: 'pip'
 
+      - name: Setup UV
+        if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v4
+
       - name: Install GenAI Wheels
         if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
         uses: ./src/.github/actions/install_wheel
         with:
           packages: "openvino;openvino_tokenizers[transformers];openvino_genai;whowhatbench"
-          requirements_files: "${{ env.SRC_DIR }}/tests/python_tests/requirements.txt"
           local_wheel_dir: ${{ env.INSTALL_DIR }}/wheels
+
+      - name: Sync dependency groups
+        if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
+        working-directory: ${{ github.workspace }}/src
+        shell: bash
+        run: uv sync --extra testing-full --no-install-project --prerelease=allow
 
       - name: Tests
         if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
@@ -771,13 +780,24 @@ jobs:
           python-version: ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
           cache: 'pip'
 
+      - name: Setup UV
+        if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v4
+
       - name: Install GenAI wheels
         if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
         uses: ./src/.github/actions/install_wheel
         with:
           packages: "openvino;openvino_tokenizers[transformers];openvino_genai[testing]"
-          requirements_files: "${{ env.SRC_DIR }}/samples/requirements.txt"
           local_wheel_dir: ${{ env.INSTALL_DIR }}/wheels
+
+      - name: Sync dependency groups
+        if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
+        working-directory: ${{ github.workspace }}/src
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          uv sync --extra samples --no-install-project --prerelease=allow
+          uv sync --extra testing-full --no-install-project --prerelease=allow
 
       - name: Setup NodeJS
         if: ${{ matrix.test.run_condition }}
@@ -850,12 +870,21 @@ jobs:
           python-version: ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
           cache: 'pip'
 
+      - name: Setup UV
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v4
+
       - name: Install GenAI wheels
         uses: ./src/.github/actions/install_wheel
         with:
           packages: "openvino;openvino_tokenizers[transformers];openvino_genai[testing]"
-          requirements_files: "${{ env.SRC_DIR }}/samples/requirements.txt"
           local_wheel_dir: ${{ env.INSTALL_DIR }}/wheels
+
+      - name: Sync dependency groups
+        working-directory: ${{ github.workspace }}/src
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          uv sync --extra samples --no-install-project --prerelease=allow
+          uv sync --extra testing-full --no-install-project --prerelease=allow
 
       - name: gtests unit tests
         run: |

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -71,10 +71,13 @@ Continuous batching functionality is used within OpenVINO Model Server (OVMS) to
 
 ```sh
     # Installing OpenVINO GenAI via pip
-    # export-requirements are not required to run models, only to convert and compress
-    pip install openvino-genai --requirement ./samples/export-requirements.txt --requirement ./samples/deployment-requirements.txt
+    pip install openvino-genai
 
-    # (Optional) Install (TBD) to be able to download models from Model Scope
+    # Or using UV (recommended for development)
+    uv pip install openvino-genai
+
+    # With sample dependencies
+    uv sync --extra samples --extra samples-export
 ```
 
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