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+ # generated traces are large; small committed samples live in traces/samples/
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+ traces/*.jsonl
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+ traces/*.catalog.json
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+ traces/*.meta.json
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+ !traces/samples/**
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+
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+ # generated results, except the committed report + charts
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+ results/**/events_*.jsonl
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+ results/**/windows_*.csv
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+ results/**/all_windows.csv
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+ results/*.log
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+
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+ __pycache__/
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+ *.py[cod]
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+ .pytest_cache/
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+ .venv/
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+ venv/
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+ .streamlit/
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+ *.tmp
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+
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+ # React/Vite frontend: source is tracked, build output and deps are not
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+ web_adval/node_modules/
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+ web_adval/dist/
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+
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+ # Python package build artifacts
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+ dist/
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+ *.egg-info/
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+
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+ # credentials: the DSN belongs here, never in a tracked file
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+ .env
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+ .env.*
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+ !.env.example
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+
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+ # local convenience launcher, not a documented entry point
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+ run_dashboards.py
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+ MIT License
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+ Copyright (c) 2026 Manaal
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+ Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
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+ of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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+ in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
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+ to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
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+ copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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+ furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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+ The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
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+ copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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+ THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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+ IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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+ FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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+ AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
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+ LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
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+ OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
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+ Metadata-Version: 2.5
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+ Name: advalcache
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+ Version: 0.1.0
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+ Summary: AdVal adaptive in-memory cache SDK — value-scored, freshness-aware, zero dependencies.
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+ Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/mdtahseen7/VH26-PRESTORA
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+ Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/mdtahseen7/VH26-PRESTORA
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+ Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/mdtahseen7/VH26-PRESTORA/issues
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+ Author-email: Md Tahseen <mdtahseen7378@gmail.com>
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+ License: MIT
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+ License-File: LICENSE
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+ Keywords: adaptive,cache,caching,django,fastapi,in-memory,sdk
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+ Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
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+ Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
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+ Classifier: Typing :: Typed
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+ Requires-Python: >=3.10
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+ Provides-Extra: all
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+ Requires-Dist: django>=3.2; extra == 'all'
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+ Requires-Dist: fastapi>=0.100.0; extra == 'all'
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+ Requires-Dist: sqlalchemy>=1.4; extra == 'all'
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+ Requires-Dist: uvicorn>=0.20.0; extra == 'all'
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+ Provides-Extra: dev
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+ Requires-Dist: fastapi>=0.100.0; extra == 'dev'
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+ Requires-Dist: httpx>=0.24; extra == 'dev'
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+ Requires-Dist: pytest-asyncio>=0.23; extra == 'dev'
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+ Requires-Dist: pytest>=9.0; extra == 'dev'
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+ Provides-Extra: django
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+ Requires-Dist: django>=3.2; extra == 'django'
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+ Provides-Extra: fastapi
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+ Requires-Dist: fastapi>=0.100.0; extra == 'fastapi'
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+ Requires-Dist: uvicorn>=0.20.0; extra == 'fastapi'
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+ Provides-Extra: redis
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+ Requires-Dist: redis>=4.0; extra == 'redis'
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+ Provides-Extra: sqlalchemy
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+ Requires-Dist: sqlalchemy>=1.4; extra == 'sqlalchemy'
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+
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+ # AdVal-Cache
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+
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+ **A cache that knows the difference between a $0.31 recommendation vector and a stock
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+ ticker that is worthless two seconds after you store it.**
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+
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+ LRU asks *when did you last touch this*. LFU asks *how often*. Neither asks the only
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+ question a bill cares about: **what does losing this actually cost me?** In a real
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+ service that answer spans four orders of magnitude — a free 4 MB product image against
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+ a ten-second, fifty-cent ML inference. AdVal-Cache computes a per-object **value
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+ score** from access pattern, resource footprint, regeneration cost *and* data
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+ volatility, then decides retain / evict / **refresh** / **decline** — and separately
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+ decides, in dollars, when buying more cache capacity is worth the rent.
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+
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+ ## Quickstart
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+
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+ ```powershell
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+ python -m venv venv; venv\Scripts\activate; pip install -r requirements.txt
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+ python -m benchmarks.run_all --seed 42 # 80 cells in ~4 min -> results/report.md
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+ streamlit run dashboard/app.py # playback dashboard
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+ ```
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+
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+ Everything is a deterministic simulation: no network, no Redis, no Docker, CPU only.
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+ Same seed ⇒ byte-identical traces, results and charts.
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+
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+ ## Results
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+
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+ 60 simulated minutes per scenario, seed 42. The problem statement's baselines are LRU, LFU
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+ and GDS; exact GDSF ships alongside because it is stronger than the brief requires (D29).
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+
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+ **AdVal is cheaper *and* fresher than the best baseline in 8 of 8 cells.**
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+
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+ | scenario / profile | best baseline | baseline $ | **AdVal $** | saving | baseline fresh | **AdVal fresh** | pre-D31 base $ | pre-D31 AdVal $ |
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+ |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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+ | chaos / compute_heavy_rec | gds | 2854.48 | **2816.52** | **1.3%** | 66.2% | **78.5%** | 98.91 | 124.13 |
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+ | chaos / read_heavy_api | gds | 1086.05 | **986.37** | **9.2%** | 64.2% | **74.2%** | 98.91 | 117.41 |
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+ | gradual_shift / compute_heavy_rec | gds | 3034.96 | **2989.81** | **1.5%** | 67.1% | **80.2%** | 98.91 | 124.51 |
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+ | gradual_shift / read_heavy_api | gds | 1046.89 | **923.08** | **11.8%** | 64.7% | **77.7%** | 98.91 | 123.12 |
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+ | steady / compute_heavy_rec | gds | 4275.14 | **4235.45** | **0.9%** | 59.7% | **73.1%** | 98.91 | 122.15 |
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+ | steady / read_heavy_api | gdsf_exact | 1282.12 | **1142.86** | **10.9%** | 57.9% | **70.8%** | 100.01 | 120.88 |
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+ | viral_spike / compute_heavy_rec | gds | 4850.61 | **4802.40** | **1.0%** | 60.2% | **72.6%** | 98.91 | 124.59 |
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+ | viral_spike / read_heavy_api | gds | 1877.68 | **1755.22** | **6.5%** | 47.1% | **56.0%** | 98.91 | 120.20 |
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+
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+ ### Read the last two columns before you believe the first ones
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+
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+ The cost model used to bill compute and memory and **nothing at all for serving a customer
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+ stale data**. Nobody decided that; it is what you get by leaving wrong answers unpriced,
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+ and it meant a cache-freshness system was scored on everything except the thing it does —
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+ `gds` won on cost by serving 75,526 wrong answers an hour for free.
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+
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+ D31 fixes it on a principle rather than a knob: **a stale hit is not a hit, it is a miss
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+ you failed to notice**, so it is charged the `regen_usd` of the very object it displaced.
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+ The price is read per object out of the catalog, billed by the simulator so every policy
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+ pays the same for the same event, and measured at $0.0077–$0.186 per stale serve. That is
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+ 7–170x the ~0.11 cent break-even, which is why the ranking flips.
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+
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+ **On the old model `gds` is still cheaper** — that is the `pre-D31` pair above, kept in
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+ `summary.csv` as `total_usd_compute_only` in every run, and
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+ `python -m benchmarks.run_all --stale-mult 0` reproduces it exactly (a test asserts it).
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+ The honest caveat: at the shipped price the staleness bill is ~10x compute plus memory, so
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+ the ranking now rests mostly on this one priced assumption. The full flat-price sweep,
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+ including where AdVal loses, is in `results/dominance.md`.
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+
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+ Savings are 6.5–11.8% on `read_heavy_api` and only 0.9–1.5% on `compute_heavy_rec`, where
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+ slow-changing `ml_result` objects dominate the staleness bill for every arm alike.
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+
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+ ### The four answers that assume nothing
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+
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+ Separately from the cost model, `results/dominance.md`:
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+
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+ 1. **Nothing in the study is both cheaper and fresher than AdVal** — 16/16 arm-cells, on
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+ either cost model.
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+ 2. **Capacity cannot buy freshness.** `gds` serves 75,526 stale responses at 100 MB and
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+ 75,526 at 500 MB while its hit rate climbs 81.6% → 93.9%. AdVal at 100 MB is cheaper
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+ *and* 12.2 pp fresher than `gds` at 500 MB.
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+ 3. **The flat-price sweep**: above ~0.11 cents per stale response AdVal is cheapest in all
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+ 8 cells, to 4.6–45 cents where LRU takes over. Both bounds published.
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+ 4. **At 50–60 MB, where memory is actually scarce**, AdVal is cheaper *and* fresher at
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+ equal capacity even with staleness free.
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+
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+ Against LRU and LFU, AdVal is 92–99% cheaper on either model. It still loses on tail
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+ latency — 158 ms p95 against 55 ms — because refreshing on read is not free. Full tables,
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+ timelines, the ablation ladder and an auto-generated "where this result is weakest"
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+ section: **`results/report.md`**.
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+
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+ ## The score
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+
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+ ```
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+ score(i) = hotness(i) × pain(i) × freshness(i) / size_units(i)
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+ ```
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+
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+ - **hotness** — LRFU decayed counter `c ← 1 + c·e^(−λΔt)`, λ = 0.001 (half-life ≈ 693 s);
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+ recency at short lags, frequency at long ones, one number.
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+ - **pain** — regeneration latency and regeneration dollars, each normalised against the
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+ catalog's p99 so neither drowns the other. ~200× spread across object classes.
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+ - **freshness** — `exp(−(now − last_sync) / change_interval)`, which for a Poisson
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+ mutation process is exactly *P(the cached copy is still valid)*. Multiplying a value
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+ by a probability gives an expected value, which is the right thing to rank by.
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+ Exactly `1.0` for immutable objects and anything slower than 1800 s.
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+ - **size_units** — `log1p(bytes / 1 KB)`, so 5 MB is penalised ~12× rather than ~5000×.
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+ Large objects must justify themselves; they are not banned.
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+
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+ Two runtime loops keep it from being a set of hardcoded constants:
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+
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+ - **The cache A/B tests its own brain.** Every 5000 requests it shadow-replays the
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+ window it just served through five candidate weight vectors, seeded from a snapshot
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+ of its real state, and adopts whichever delivered the most value. `steady` picks
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+ `freq_heavy`; `chaos` picks `fresh_heavy`. Nobody told it which signal matters.
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+ - **Capacity is a dollar decision that checks itself.** A shadow zone measures the
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+ marginal dollars the next slice of memory would have saved; the controller acts,
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+ waits five windows, and reverts the change if realised spend per request did not fall
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+ by more than the rent it took on. From a badly-sized 30 MB cache it cuts cost 72–84%.
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+
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+ `ARCHITECTURE.md` has the decision-engine diagram and the full justification.
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+
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+ ## Repo layout
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+
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+ ```
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+ models.py THE CONTRACT: Request, CatalogEntry, object classes, ops, constants
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+ proxy/ FastAPI reverse proxy sidecar · live cache engine · traffic generator
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+ database/ Neon PostgreSQL client · schema · real-world dataset ingestion pipeline
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+ cache/ base (interface, sampling, event sink) · lru · lfu · gdsf · adaptive · controller
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+ generator/ catalog · popularity modes · scenario engine · trace writer · validator
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+ sim/ simulator (replay + window aggregation) · metrics (the only cost model)
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+ benchmarks/ run_all (the 80-cell matrix) · report (tables, charts, honest caveats)
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+ dashboard/app.py Streamlit control center: batch replay scrubber & live dynamic proxy mode
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+ web_adval/ React/Vite standalone web control UI mounted on proxy port 8000
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+ traces/ trace samples & Postgres query trace generator
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+ tests/ unit & integration tests: core, live cache, and proxy API
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+ results/ event logs, window CSVs, summary.csv, report.md, charts/
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## Verify it yourself
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+
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+ ```powershell
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+ python -m generator.validate --minutes 60 --seed 42 # 9 workload checks, ~6 s
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+ python -m pytest -q # 63 tests, ~8 s
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+ python -m benchmarks.run_all --seed 42 # 80 cells, ~4 min
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+ ```
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+
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+ `generator/validate.py` is the workload referee: it asserts the arrival-rate curve
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+ matches the scenario spec within 4σ on all four scenarios, that the top-10 popular keys
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+ genuinely rotate during `gradual_shift` (0 shared keys), that the reuse working set is
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+ **4.05× cache capacity** (a cache that never fills has no story), that `static_asset` is
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+ 99.4% of bytes but only 30.1% of requests, and that seed 42 reproduces byte-identical
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+ files. A cache benchmark is only as honest as its workload.
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+
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+ ## Reading the docs
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+
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+ | file | what is in it |
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+ |---|---|
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+ | `ARCHITECTURE.md` | decision-engine diagram, every term of the score justified, the two adaptive loops |
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+ | `results/report.md` | generated results: headline tables, charts, ablation, capacity fairness, weaknesses |
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+ | `DECISIONS.md` | **22 numbered assumptions and corrections**, including two places the problem statement's own numbers disagree, three bugs that only a benchmark could have caught, and one metric that was measuring the wrong thing |
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+ | `DEMO.md` | the scripted 5-minute walkthrough, with fallbacks |
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+ | `FORMATS.md` | every on-disk schema: catalog, trace, change stream, event log, window CSV |
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+ | `PROGRESS.md` | phase-by-phase build log with the ACCEPT evidence for each |
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+ # AdVal-Cache
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+
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+ **A cache that knows the difference between a $0.31 recommendation vector and a stock
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+ ticker that is worthless two seconds after you store it.**
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+
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+ LRU asks *when did you last touch this*. LFU asks *how often*. Neither asks the only
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+ question a bill cares about: **what does losing this actually cost me?** In a real
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+ service that answer spans four orders of magnitude — a free 4 MB product image against
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+ a ten-second, fifty-cent ML inference. AdVal-Cache computes a per-object **value
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+ score** from access pattern, resource footprint, regeneration cost *and* data
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+ volatility, then decides retain / evict / **refresh** / **decline** — and separately
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+ decides, in dollars, when buying more cache capacity is worth the rent.
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+
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+ ## Quickstart
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+
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+ ```powershell
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+ python -m venv venv; venv\Scripts\activate; pip install -r requirements.txt
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+ python -m benchmarks.run_all --seed 42 # 80 cells in ~4 min -> results/report.md
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+ streamlit run dashboard/app.py # playback dashboard
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+ ```
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+
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+ Everything is a deterministic simulation: no network, no Redis, no Docker, CPU only.
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+ Same seed ⇒ byte-identical traces, results and charts.
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+
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+ ## Results
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+
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+ 60 simulated minutes per scenario, seed 42. The problem statement's baselines are LRU, LFU
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+ and GDS; exact GDSF ships alongside because it is stronger than the brief requires (D29).
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+
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+ **AdVal is cheaper *and* fresher than the best baseline in 8 of 8 cells.**
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+
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+ | scenario / profile | best baseline | baseline $ | **AdVal $** | saving | baseline fresh | **AdVal fresh** | pre-D31 base $ | pre-D31 AdVal $ |
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+ |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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+ | chaos / compute_heavy_rec | gds | 2854.48 | **2816.52** | **1.3%** | 66.2% | **78.5%** | 98.91 | 124.13 |
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+ | chaos / read_heavy_api | gds | 1086.05 | **986.37** | **9.2%** | 64.2% | **74.2%** | 98.91 | 117.41 |
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+ | gradual_shift / compute_heavy_rec | gds | 3034.96 | **2989.81** | **1.5%** | 67.1% | **80.2%** | 98.91 | 124.51 |
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+ | gradual_shift / read_heavy_api | gds | 1046.89 | **923.08** | **11.8%** | 64.7% | **77.7%** | 98.91 | 123.12 |
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+ | steady / compute_heavy_rec | gds | 4275.14 | **4235.45** | **0.9%** | 59.7% | **73.1%** | 98.91 | 122.15 |
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+ | steady / read_heavy_api | gdsf_exact | 1282.12 | **1142.86** | **10.9%** | 57.9% | **70.8%** | 100.01 | 120.88 |
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+ | viral_spike / compute_heavy_rec | gds | 4850.61 | **4802.40** | **1.0%** | 60.2% | **72.6%** | 98.91 | 124.59 |
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+ | viral_spike / read_heavy_api | gds | 1877.68 | **1755.22** | **6.5%** | 47.1% | **56.0%** | 98.91 | 120.20 |
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+
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+ ### Read the last two columns before you believe the first ones
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+
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+ The cost model used to bill compute and memory and **nothing at all for serving a customer
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+ stale data**. Nobody decided that; it is what you get by leaving wrong answers unpriced,
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+ and it meant a cache-freshness system was scored on everything except the thing it does —
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+ `gds` won on cost by serving 75,526 wrong answers an hour for free.
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+
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+ D31 fixes it on a principle rather than a knob: **a stale hit is not a hit, it is a miss
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+ you failed to notice**, so it is charged the `regen_usd` of the very object it displaced.
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+ The price is read per object out of the catalog, billed by the simulator so every policy
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+ pays the same for the same event, and measured at $0.0077–$0.186 per stale serve. That is
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+ 7–170x the ~0.11 cent break-even, which is why the ranking flips.
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+
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+ **On the old model `gds` is still cheaper** — that is the `pre-D31` pair above, kept in
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+ `summary.csv` as `total_usd_compute_only` in every run, and
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+ `python -m benchmarks.run_all --stale-mult 0` reproduces it exactly (a test asserts it).
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+ The honest caveat: at the shipped price the staleness bill is ~10x compute plus memory, so
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+ the ranking now rests mostly on this one priced assumption. The full flat-price sweep,
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+ including where AdVal loses, is in `results/dominance.md`.
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+
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+ Savings are 6.5–11.8% on `read_heavy_api` and only 0.9–1.5% on `compute_heavy_rec`, where
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+ slow-changing `ml_result` objects dominate the staleness bill for every arm alike.
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+
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+ ### The four answers that assume nothing
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+
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+ Separately from the cost model, `results/dominance.md`:
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+
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+ 1. **Nothing in the study is both cheaper and fresher than AdVal** — 16/16 arm-cells, on
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+ either cost model.
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+ 2. **Capacity cannot buy freshness.** `gds` serves 75,526 stale responses at 100 MB and
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+ 75,526 at 500 MB while its hit rate climbs 81.6% → 93.9%. AdVal at 100 MB is cheaper
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+ *and* 12.2 pp fresher than `gds` at 500 MB.
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+ 3. **The flat-price sweep**: above ~0.11 cents per stale response AdVal is cheapest in all
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+ 8 cells, to 4.6–45 cents where LRU takes over. Both bounds published.
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+ 4. **At 50–60 MB, where memory is actually scarce**, AdVal is cheaper *and* fresher at
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+ equal capacity even with staleness free.
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+
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+ Against LRU and LFU, AdVal is 92–99% cheaper on either model. It still loses on tail
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+ latency — 158 ms p95 against 55 ms — because refreshing on read is not free. Full tables,
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+ timelines, the ablation ladder and an auto-generated "where this result is weakest"
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+ section: **`results/report.md`**.
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+
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+ ## The score
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+
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+ ```
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+ score(i) = hotness(i) × pain(i) × freshness(i) / size_units(i)
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+ ```
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+
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+ - **hotness** — LRFU decayed counter `c ← 1 + c·e^(−λΔt)`, λ = 0.001 (half-life ≈ 693 s);
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+ recency at short lags, frequency at long ones, one number.
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+ - **pain** — regeneration latency and regeneration dollars, each normalised against the
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+ catalog's p99 so neither drowns the other. ~200× spread across object classes.
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+ - **freshness** — `exp(−(now − last_sync) / change_interval)`, which for a Poisson
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+ mutation process is exactly *P(the cached copy is still valid)*. Multiplying a value
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+ by a probability gives an expected value, which is the right thing to rank by.
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+ Exactly `1.0` for immutable objects and anything slower than 1800 s.
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+ - **size_units** — `log1p(bytes / 1 KB)`, so 5 MB is penalised ~12× rather than ~5000×.
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+ Large objects must justify themselves; they are not banned.
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+
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+ Two runtime loops keep it from being a set of hardcoded constants:
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+
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+ - **The cache A/B tests its own brain.** Every 5000 requests it shadow-replays the
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+ window it just served through five candidate weight vectors, seeded from a snapshot
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+ of its real state, and adopts whichever delivered the most value. `steady` picks
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+ `freq_heavy`; `chaos` picks `fresh_heavy`. Nobody told it which signal matters.
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+ - **Capacity is a dollar decision that checks itself.** A shadow zone measures the
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+ marginal dollars the next slice of memory would have saved; the controller acts,
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+ waits five windows, and reverts the change if realised spend per request did not fall
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+ by more than the rent it took on. From a badly-sized 30 MB cache it cuts cost 72–84%.
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+
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+ `ARCHITECTURE.md` has the decision-engine diagram and the full justification.
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+
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+ ## Repo layout
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+
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+ ```
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+ models.py THE CONTRACT: Request, CatalogEntry, object classes, ops, constants
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+ proxy/ FastAPI reverse proxy sidecar · live cache engine · traffic generator
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+ database/ Neon PostgreSQL client · schema · real-world dataset ingestion pipeline
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+ cache/ base (interface, sampling, event sink) · lru · lfu · gdsf · adaptive · controller
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+ generator/ catalog · popularity modes · scenario engine · trace writer · validator
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+ sim/ simulator (replay + window aggregation) · metrics (the only cost model)
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+ benchmarks/ run_all (the 80-cell matrix) · report (tables, charts, honest caveats)
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+ dashboard/app.py Streamlit control center: batch replay scrubber & live dynamic proxy mode
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+ web_adval/ React/Vite standalone web control UI mounted on proxy port 8000
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+ traces/ trace samples & Postgres query trace generator
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+ tests/ unit & integration tests: core, live cache, and proxy API
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+ results/ event logs, window CSVs, summary.csv, report.md, charts/
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## Verify it yourself
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+
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+ ```powershell
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+ python -m generator.validate --minutes 60 --seed 42 # 9 workload checks, ~6 s
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+ python -m pytest -q # 63 tests, ~8 s
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+ python -m benchmarks.run_all --seed 42 # 80 cells, ~4 min
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+ ```
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+
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+ `generator/validate.py` is the workload referee: it asserts the arrival-rate curve
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+ matches the scenario spec within 4σ on all four scenarios, that the top-10 popular keys
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+ genuinely rotate during `gradual_shift` (0 shared keys), that the reuse working set is
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+ **4.05× cache capacity** (a cache that never fills has no story), that `static_asset` is
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+ 99.4% of bytes but only 30.1% of requests, and that seed 42 reproduces byte-identical
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+ files. A cache benchmark is only as honest as its workload.
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+ ## Reading the docs
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+ | `ARCHITECTURE.md` | decision-engine diagram, every term of the score justified, the two adaptive loops |
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+ | `results/report.md` | generated results: headline tables, charts, ablation, capacity fairness, weaknesses |
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+ | `DECISIONS.md` | **22 numbered assumptions and corrections**, including two places the problem statement's own numbers disagree, three bugs that only a benchmark could have caught, and one metric that was measuring the wrong thing |
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+ | `DEMO.md` | the scripted 5-minute walkthrough, with fallbacks |
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+ | `FORMATS.md` | every on-disk schema: catalog, trace, change stream, event log, window CSV |
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+ | `PROGRESS.md` | phase-by-phase build log with the ACCEPT evidence for each |