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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: deltacert
+Version: 1.1.0
+Summary: Calibrated divergence certification for LLM serving systems
+License-Expression: Apache-2.0
+Requires-Python: >=3.9
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+License-File: LICENSE
+Requires-Dist: numpy
+Requires-Dist: torch>=2.0
+Requires-Dist: transformers>=4.38
+Requires-Dist: accelerate>=0.30
+Requires-Dist: cryptography>=42.0
+Provides-Extra: bnb
+Requires-Dist: bitsandbytes>=0.43; extra == "bnb"
+Provides-Extra: peft
+Requires-Dist: peft>=0.9; extra == "peft"
+Provides-Extra: vllm
+Requires-Dist: vllm>=0.4; extra == "vllm"
+Provides-Extra: gptq
+Requires-Dist: gptqmodel>=1.0; extra == "gptq"
+Requires-Dist: optimum>=1.20; extra == "gptq"
+Provides-Extra: validation
+Requires-Dist: datasets>=2.20; extra == "validation"
+Requires-Dist: lm-eval>=0.4; extra == "validation"
+Requires-Dist: matplotlib; extra == "validation"
+Requires-Dist: human-eval>=1.0; extra == "validation"
+Dynamic: license-file
+
+# DeltaCert
+
+**Certify any change to your LLM serving stack — quantization, engine upgrades, batch size, model updates — with a mathematical bound, before you deploy.**
+
+[PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/deltacert/) · [SPEC.md](SPEC.md) · [LICENSE](LICENSE)
+
+```bash
+pip install deltacert
+```
+
+---
+
+## The catch
+
+Standard benchmarks said this 4-bit quantized model was fine:
+
+| Config | Short eval said | d_COMM | safe_until_token | failure_after_token | Verdict |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Llama-3.1-8B fp16 → nf4 | GSM8K 5-shot exact-match +1.0% (looks safe) | 0.00 | 31 | 14 | **unsafe** |
+
+GSM8K said +1.0% — looks safe. DeltaCert flagged it unsafe. The generated text actually forks from the fp16 model at **token 14**, on long-form coding generations, well before the math bound (token 31) would even flag it. Same nf4 config, three independent signals, one real finding: a standard short-form benchmark missed a regression that shows up on longer generations.
+
+Reproduce it yourself:
+
+```bash
+deltacert generate-cases --model meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct --output cases.jsonl
+deltacert certify --model meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct --quantization int4 \
+    --checks trajectory --trajectory-cases cases.jsonl
+```
+
+Every number above traces to a real certificate in `validation_results/`; every row in the table below reproduces with one script.
+
+## The proof
+
+Seven real flagship tests, each a full before/after comparison on a real model, real GPU, real downstream benchmark:
+
+| Change | Business gain | d_COMM | Downstream effect | Verdict |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Llama-3.1-8B batch=1 → batch=64 | 64 concurrent requests, same GPU | 6.21 | GSM8K -1.0 pt | ✅ Safe |
+| vLLM 0.8.5 → vLLM 0.9.0 | take the upgrade same-week, not months later | 16.09 | GSM8K -1.0 pt | ✅ Safe |
+| KV cache default → fp8 (vLLM native) | 2x concurrent capacity | 4.83 | GSM8K -1.0 pt | ✅ Safe |
+| gpt-4o-mini pinned snapshot → current alias | same-day provider-drift check | 6.65 | canary acc +0.0 pt | ✅ Safe |
+| Standard decode → speculative decode (k=5) | claimed ~2x throughput | 15.38 | GSM8K +0.0 pt, **measured 0.28x** (slower) | ✅ Safe on quality, not on speed |
+| Llama-3.1-8B fp16 → nf4 (W4) | +60% VRAM reduction | 0.00 | forks at token 14 on long generations | ❌ Unsafe |
+| Llama-3.1-8B fp16 → GPTQ int4 | +75% VRAM reduction | 1.16 | GSM8K -8.0 pts | ❌ Unsafe |
+
+Five safe, two unsafe. A tool that only ever says "safe" isn't measuring anything — the two unsafe rows above are DeltaCert doing its job.
+
+## How it works
+
+DeltaCert compares output distributions before and after a change. From the cosine similarity `c` between two runs, it computes:
+
+```
+Δ = 4c√(1-c²)        (commutator magnitude)
+d = -log(Δ/2)        (algebraic distance)
+divergence_bound = 2·exp(-d)
+```
+
+`d` is an algebraic distance; `2e⁻ᵈ` is the certified bound on output divergence — deterministic, minutes to compute, checkable at every token position, no eval harness or labeled data required.
+
+> **"Certified" throughout this document means:** measured against a calibrated threshold with a stated bound — not a guarantee of downstream quality.
+
+- **Full derivation, clamp behavior, per-method calibration (with sample sizes disclosed), and the top-k logprobs caveat:** see `SPEC.md`.
+- **This README asserts. The spec defends. Nothing here is a proof.**
+
+## Getting started
+
+```bash
+pip install deltacert
+
+deltacert certify --model meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct --quantization int8
+```
+
+That uses DeltaCert's shipped reference calibration (from the 7-test suite above). For a threshold tuned to **your own model and workload**, run the sweep yourself:
+
+```bash
+deltacert capture --model your-model --output baseline.npz
+deltacert capture --model your-model --quantization int8 --output candidate.npz
+deltacert calibrate --baseline baseline.npz --candidates candidate.npz \
+    --names int8 --downstream-file your_evals.json
+```
+
+`deltacert certify` always tells you when it's using the shipped calibration instead of your own.
+
+## Integrations
+
+- **vLLM plugin** — official `vllm.general_plugins` entry point, already wired in this package. Opt-in only: complete no-op unless `DELTACERT_ENFORCE=1` is set, so `pip install deltacert` is safe in a shared image; when enabled, a serving engine refuses to start on an uncertified change.
+- **CI/CD gate** — `python -m deltacert.integrations.cicd_hook --cert ./cert.json` exits 1 (blocks the pipeline) if not certified, 0 if certified. Works with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or any CI that checks exit codes.
+- **HuggingFace auto-wiring** — `from deltacert.integrations.hf_integration import auto_certify` picks the right collectors for you from what's active in your config (quantization, LoRA, prefix cache) instead of calling `certify_system()` with raw parameters yourself.
+
+## Verifying a certificate
+
+Optional — certificates work unsigned; signing adds tamper-evidence for sharing certs across teams or with auditors.
+
+```bash
+deltacert keygen --private-key mykey.pem --public-key mykey.pub
+deltacert sign --cert cert.json --key-file mykey.pem
+deltacert verify --cert cert.json --key-file mykey.pub
+```
+
+`verify` exits 0 if the signature is valid, 1 if the certificate was modified after signing or signed by a different key. Every certificate also carries a `validation_status` field (`flagship_validated` vs `implemented_pending_validation`) — signed as part of the payload, so a signature can never make an unvalidated collector's result look more trustworthy than it is.
+
+Keep your private key secret — never commit it, never share it. Only the public key is meant to be distributed.
+
+All 13 reference certificates in `validation_results/` are signed with Threvo's key (`deltacert-public.pem`, committed in this repo). Don't take our numbers on faith — check them yourself:
+
+```bash
+deltacert verify --cert validation_results/weight_quant/cert_nf4.json --key-file deltacert-public.pem
+```
+
+## What it certifies
+
+DeltaCert ships all 20 collectors described in the design — the code is real, tested, and doesn't get deleted just because a given check hasn't been run in a full end-to-end validation yet. Only 7 have real flagship validation results behind them so far (the table above); the rest are working code with the same math, not yet run through that process.
+
+| # | Check | CLI-drivable | Status |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| 1 | `weight_quant` | ✅ | ✅ validated |
+| 2 | `kv_cache_quant` | ✅ | ✅ validated |
+| 3 | `batch_divergence` | ✅ (needs vLLM) | ✅ validated |
+| 4 | `spec_decoding` | ✅ (needs vLLM) | ✅ validated |
+| 5 | `engine_swap` | ✅ | ✅ validated |
+| 6 | `provider_drift` | ✅ | ✅ validated |
+| 7 | `trajectory` | ✅ | ✅ validated |
+| 8 | `activation_quant` | ✅ | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 9 | `prefix_cache` | ✅ | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 10 | `lora` | ✅ | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 11 | `model_swap` | ✅ | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 12 | `prompt_swap` | ✅ | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 13 | `sparse_attention` | Python API only | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 14 | `moe_token_dropping` | Python API only | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 15 | `neuron_skipping` | Python API only | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 16 | `allreduce_tp` | Python API only | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 17 | `alltoall_ep` | Python API only | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 18 | `pipeline_parallel` | Python API only | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 19 | `kv_transfer` | Python API only | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 20 | `gradient_compress` | Python API only | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+
+"Python API only" means the check needs code you supply (a custom `compress_fn`, attention mask, etc.) — the CLI can't conjure that for you; see `import deltacert as dc; dc.certify_system(...)`.
+
+## Limitations (stated up front, not discovered by you later)
+
+- The 7 validated results above all use one model family (Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct) plus one hosted API (gpt-4o-mini). Cross-model generalization isn't proven yet.
+- Per-method calibration (e.g. the bnb/GPTQ thresholds) is an initial calibration from n=5 configs on one model — not a settled constant. Run `deltacert calibrate` on your own model/workload rather than trusting the shipped default for anything production-critical.
+- The provider_drift result above is a same-day proxy (pinned snapshot vs. current alias), not the real weekly-cadence drift measurement, which needs two runs across real time.
+- `d_comm` is a reliable within-method damage indicator but is not directly comparable across different compression methods — see `SPEC.md` for the bnb-vs-GPTQ false-negative this caused and how it's handled.
+
+## Roadmap
+
+- More models, more downstream tasks — firming up per-method calibration beyond n=5
+- Full validation pass on the remaining 13 collectors
+- Real weekly-cadence provider_drift run (beyond the same-day proxy)
+
+## Citation
+
+If you use DeltaCert, cite it as:
+
+```bibtex
+@software{deltacert2026,
+  title  = {DeltaCert: Calibrated Divergence Certification for LLM Serving Systems},
+  author = {Shorya},
+  year   = {2026},
+  url    = {https://pypi.org/project/deltacert/}
+}
+```
+
+## License
+
+Apache-2.0. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).
+
+## Contact
+
+- Issues and questions: open a GitHub issue
+- Full validation data: `validation_results/` in this repo

deltacert-1.1.0/README.md

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+# DeltaCert
+
+**Certify any change to your LLM serving stack — quantization, engine upgrades, batch size, model updates — with a mathematical bound, before you deploy.**
+
+[PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/deltacert/) · [SPEC.md](SPEC.md) · [LICENSE](LICENSE)
+
+```bash
+pip install deltacert
+```
+
+---
+
+## The catch
+
+Standard benchmarks said this 4-bit quantized model was fine:
+
+| Config | Short eval said | d_COMM | safe_until_token | failure_after_token | Verdict |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Llama-3.1-8B fp16 → nf4 | GSM8K 5-shot exact-match +1.0% (looks safe) | 0.00 | 31 | 14 | **unsafe** |
+
+GSM8K said +1.0% — looks safe. DeltaCert flagged it unsafe. The generated text actually forks from the fp16 model at **token 14**, on long-form coding generations, well before the math bound (token 31) would even flag it. Same nf4 config, three independent signals, one real finding: a standard short-form benchmark missed a regression that shows up on longer generations.
+
+Reproduce it yourself:
+
+```bash
+deltacert generate-cases --model meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct --output cases.jsonl
+deltacert certify --model meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct --quantization int4 \
+    --checks trajectory --trajectory-cases cases.jsonl
+```
+
+Every number above traces to a real certificate in `validation_results/`; every row in the table below reproduces with one script.
+
+## The proof
+
+Seven real flagship tests, each a full before/after comparison on a real model, real GPU, real downstream benchmark:
+
+| Change | Business gain | d_COMM | Downstream effect | Verdict |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Llama-3.1-8B batch=1 → batch=64 | 64 concurrent requests, same GPU | 6.21 | GSM8K -1.0 pt | ✅ Safe |
+| vLLM 0.8.5 → vLLM 0.9.0 | take the upgrade same-week, not months later | 16.09 | GSM8K -1.0 pt | ✅ Safe |
+| KV cache default → fp8 (vLLM native) | 2x concurrent capacity | 4.83 | GSM8K -1.0 pt | ✅ Safe |
+| gpt-4o-mini pinned snapshot → current alias | same-day provider-drift check | 6.65 | canary acc +0.0 pt | ✅ Safe |
+| Standard decode → speculative decode (k=5) | claimed ~2x throughput | 15.38 | GSM8K +0.0 pt, **measured 0.28x** (slower) | ✅ Safe on quality, not on speed |
+| Llama-3.1-8B fp16 → nf4 (W4) | +60% VRAM reduction | 0.00 | forks at token 14 on long generations | ❌ Unsafe |
+| Llama-3.1-8B fp16 → GPTQ int4 | +75% VRAM reduction | 1.16 | GSM8K -8.0 pts | ❌ Unsafe |
+
+Five safe, two unsafe. A tool that only ever says "safe" isn't measuring anything — the two unsafe rows above are DeltaCert doing its job.
+
+## How it works
+
+DeltaCert compares output distributions before and after a change. From the cosine similarity `c` between two runs, it computes:
+
+```
+Δ = 4c√(1-c²)        (commutator magnitude)
+d = -log(Δ/2)        (algebraic distance)
+divergence_bound = 2·exp(-d)
+```
+
+`d` is an algebraic distance; `2e⁻ᵈ` is the certified bound on output divergence — deterministic, minutes to compute, checkable at every token position, no eval harness or labeled data required.
+
+> **"Certified" throughout this document means:** measured against a calibrated threshold with a stated bound — not a guarantee of downstream quality.
+
+- **Full derivation, clamp behavior, per-method calibration (with sample sizes disclosed), and the top-k logprobs caveat:** see `SPEC.md`.
+- **This README asserts. The spec defends. Nothing here is a proof.**
+
+## Getting started
+
+```bash
+pip install deltacert
+
+deltacert certify --model meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct --quantization int8
+```
+
+That uses DeltaCert's shipped reference calibration (from the 7-test suite above). For a threshold tuned to **your own model and workload**, run the sweep yourself:
+
+```bash
+deltacert capture --model your-model --output baseline.npz
+deltacert capture --model your-model --quantization int8 --output candidate.npz
+deltacert calibrate --baseline baseline.npz --candidates candidate.npz \
+    --names int8 --downstream-file your_evals.json
+```
+
+`deltacert certify` always tells you when it's using the shipped calibration instead of your own.
+
+## Integrations
+
+- **vLLM plugin** — official `vllm.general_plugins` entry point, already wired in this package. Opt-in only: complete no-op unless `DELTACERT_ENFORCE=1` is set, so `pip install deltacert` is safe in a shared image; when enabled, a serving engine refuses to start on an uncertified change.
+- **CI/CD gate** — `python -m deltacert.integrations.cicd_hook --cert ./cert.json` exits 1 (blocks the pipeline) if not certified, 0 if certified. Works with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or any CI that checks exit codes.
+- **HuggingFace auto-wiring** — `from deltacert.integrations.hf_integration import auto_certify` picks the right collectors for you from what's active in your config (quantization, LoRA, prefix cache) instead of calling `certify_system()` with raw parameters yourself.
+
+## Verifying a certificate
+
+Optional — certificates work unsigned; signing adds tamper-evidence for sharing certs across teams or with auditors.
+
+```bash
+deltacert keygen --private-key mykey.pem --public-key mykey.pub
+deltacert sign --cert cert.json --key-file mykey.pem
+deltacert verify --cert cert.json --key-file mykey.pub
+```
+
+`verify` exits 0 if the signature is valid, 1 if the certificate was modified after signing or signed by a different key. Every certificate also carries a `validation_status` field (`flagship_validated` vs `implemented_pending_validation`) — signed as part of the payload, so a signature can never make an unvalidated collector's result look more trustworthy than it is.
+
+Keep your private key secret — never commit it, never share it. Only the public key is meant to be distributed.
+
+All 13 reference certificates in `validation_results/` are signed with Threvo's key (`deltacert-public.pem`, committed in this repo). Don't take our numbers on faith — check them yourself:
+
+```bash
+deltacert verify --cert validation_results/weight_quant/cert_nf4.json --key-file deltacert-public.pem
+```
+
+## What it certifies
+
+DeltaCert ships all 20 collectors described in the design — the code is real, tested, and doesn't get deleted just because a given check hasn't been run in a full end-to-end validation yet. Only 7 have real flagship validation results behind them so far (the table above); the rest are working code with the same math, not yet run through that process.
+
+| # | Check | CLI-drivable | Status |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| 1 | `weight_quant` | ✅ | ✅ validated |
+| 2 | `kv_cache_quant` | ✅ | ✅ validated |
+| 3 | `batch_divergence` | ✅ (needs vLLM) | ✅ validated |
+| 4 | `spec_decoding` | ✅ (needs vLLM) | ✅ validated |
+| 5 | `engine_swap` | ✅ | ✅ validated |
+| 6 | `provider_drift` | ✅ | ✅ validated |
+| 7 | `trajectory` | ✅ | ✅ validated |
+| 8 | `activation_quant` | ✅ | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 9 | `prefix_cache` | ✅ | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 10 | `lora` | ✅ | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 11 | `model_swap` | ✅ | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 12 | `prompt_swap` | ✅ | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 13 | `sparse_attention` | Python API only | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 14 | `moe_token_dropping` | Python API only | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 15 | `neuron_skipping` | Python API only | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 16 | `allreduce_tp` | Python API only | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 17 | `alltoall_ep` | Python API only | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 18 | `pipeline_parallel` | Python API only | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 19 | `kv_transfer` | Python API only | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+| 20 | `gradient_compress` | Python API only | 🔬 code exists, not yet validated |
+
+"Python API only" means the check needs code you supply (a custom `compress_fn`, attention mask, etc.) — the CLI can't conjure that for you; see `import deltacert as dc; dc.certify_system(...)`.
+
+## Limitations (stated up front, not discovered by you later)
+
+- The 7 validated results above all use one model family (Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct) plus one hosted API (gpt-4o-mini). Cross-model generalization isn't proven yet.
+- Per-method calibration (e.g. the bnb/GPTQ thresholds) is an initial calibration from n=5 configs on one model — not a settled constant. Run `deltacert calibrate` on your own model/workload rather than trusting the shipped default for anything production-critical.
+- The provider_drift result above is a same-day proxy (pinned snapshot vs. current alias), not the real weekly-cadence drift measurement, which needs two runs across real time.
+- `d_comm` is a reliable within-method damage indicator but is not directly comparable across different compression methods — see `SPEC.md` for the bnb-vs-GPTQ false-negative this caused and how it's handled.
+
+## Roadmap
+
+- More models, more downstream tasks — firming up per-method calibration beyond n=5
+- Full validation pass on the remaining 13 collectors
+- Real weekly-cadence provider_drift run (beyond the same-day proxy)
+
+## Citation
+
+If you use DeltaCert, cite it as:
+
+```bibtex
+@software{deltacert2026,
+  title  = {DeltaCert: Calibrated Divergence Certification for LLM Serving Systems},
+  author = {Shorya},
+  year   = {2026},
+  url    = {https://pypi.org/project/deltacert/}
+}
+```
+
+## License
+
+Apache-2.0. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).
+
+## Contact
+
+- Issues and questions: open a GitHub issue
+- Full validation data: `validation_results/` in this repo