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+ Metadata-Version: 2.4
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+ Name: jev-ultralightspeed
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+ Version: 0.1.0
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+ Summary: A pile of text, one question about each: bulk classification with TypeSafe's Jev at 16x the throughput and 41% less money, same accuracy.
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+ Author-email: Alex Kwon <ask@collapseindex.org>
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+ License: Apache-2.0
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+ Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/collapseindex/jev-ultralightspeed
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+ Project-URL: Source, https://github.com/collapseindex/jev-ultralightspeed
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+ Keywords: jev,typesafe,llm,classification,throughput,batching
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+ Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
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+ Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
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+ Requires-Python: >=3.10
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+ License-File: LICENSE
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+ Provides-Extra: fast
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+ Requires-Dist: httpx[http2]>=0.27; extra == "fast"
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+ Provides-Extra: dev
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+ Requires-Dist: pytest>=8; extra == "dev"
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+ Requires-Dist: httpx[http2]>=0.27; extra == "dev"
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+ Dynamic: license-file
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+
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+ # jev-ultralightspeed
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+
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+ **v0.1.0** · Apache-2.0 · no required dependencies
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+
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+ <img src="docs/infographic.png" alt="Faster, cheaper, same accuracy: hundreds of items a second against dozens, with agreement against human labels unchanged" width="100%" />
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+
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+ **You have a pile of text and one question about each.** Fifty thousand support tickets to triage.
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+ A quarter of reviews to sort by sentiment. A month of logs to flag. A column to backfill on a table
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+ you already have. This answers the question for all of them, with
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+ [TypeSafe's Jev](https://typesafe.ai), in the time it takes to get a coffee.
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from jev_ultralightspeed import classify
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+ answers = classify(tickets, "Does this message need a human to act on it today?")
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+ urgent = [a.item for a in answers if a.yes]
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+ ```
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+
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+ **15.9x the throughput of one request per item, 41% less money, and the same accuracy.** Measured
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+ over 30,000 judgements against human labels, in one run, with a script in this repository.
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+
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+ **Not for one item at a time.** If somebody is waiting on the answer, call the API directly: packing
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+ makes a single item slower, not faster. This is for a queue.
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+
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+ Not affiliated with TypeSafe; the hedgehog is a parody and belongs to nobody.
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+
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+ ## The benchmark
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+
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+ 30,000 judgements over the 1,347 completions in
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+ [dinostomp's](https://github.com/collapseindex/dinostomp) `xstest-refusal` pod, labelled
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+ compliance, refusal or partial by two human annotators, each completion seen about 22 times. Two
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+ arms, identical but for the shape of the requests. This is not Jev against another model: it is
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+ **jev-1.13.0 against itself**, same question, same items, same criteria.
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+
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+ | | regular jev | jev + ultralightspeed |
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+ | --- | ---: | ---: |
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+ | throughput | 41.1 items/s | **653.4 items/s** |
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+ | wall clock | 12 min 11 s | **46 seconds** |
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+ | requests | 30,000 | 942 |
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+ | cost | $0.729 | **$0.430** |
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+ | agreement with the human labels | 89.3% (89.0 to 89.7) | **89.2% (88.9 to 89.6)** |
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+ | same answer across an item's repeats | 99.6% | 98.0% |
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+ | failed | 0 | 0 |
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+ | retried | 1 | 63 |
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+
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+ **15.9x the throughput, 41% less money, and the accuracy is the same**: 89.3% against 89.2%, with
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+ 30,000 judgements behind each figure and the intervals sitting on top of each other.
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install "jev-ultralightspeed[fast]"
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+ git clone https://github.com/collapseindex/dinostomp.git ../dinostomp
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+ TYPESAFE_API_KEY=... python bench_eval.py # about 13 minutes, about $1.20
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+ ```
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+ Three things in that table are worth reading twice.
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+ **The baseline is not slow.** It is one item per request with the same eight requests in flight, so
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+ the 15.9x is against a client that is already parallel. Against an actual sequential loop it is far
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+ larger and far less interesting.
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+
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+ **Sixty-three retries, and nothing failed.** Packing 32 deep with 8 in flight does hit transient
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+ limits at volume. The client backs off and sends them again, which is why this arm came in at 653
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+ items/s rather than the 800 it reaches on short bursts. Retries are counted in `usage.retries`, so
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+ this is a number rather than an absence of complaints.
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+
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+ **Aggregate accuracy is identical; individual answers are slightly less repeatable.** Ask about the
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+ same completion 22 times and the unpacked client gives the same label 99.6% of the time, the packed
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+ one 98.0%. So pack freely when you want the total, and keep the pack size fixed when you are
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+ comparing item by item across runs.
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+
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+ Shorter items do better than this on every axis, because the per-item text is a smaller share of
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+ each request: a million synthetic support messages (138 tokens each) ran at 1,135 items/s, 14.7
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+ minutes and $4.99 for the lot, over 31,400 requests with nothing retried. `soak.py --items 1000000`
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+ reproduces that, and it is a different corpus, so it is a footnote here rather than a headline.
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+
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+ ## How
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+
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+ Nothing clever. Four things the obvious loop does not do, in order of how much they gave:
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+
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+ 1. **Pack.** Several items go in one request as `item_1..item_N`, each with its own question that
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+ names the item it judges. One round trip covers thirty-two items, and the shared overhead is paid
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+ once instead of thirty-two times. This is where both the speed and the token saving come from.
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+ 2. **Parallel.** Several packed requests in flight, under a sliding-window limiter set below
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+ TypeSafe's published 1,200 requests a minute.
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+ 3. **One connection, kept open, multiplexed.** With httpx and h2 installed, every request in flight
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+ shares a single HTTP/2 connection on one event loop, which measured about twice a thread per
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+ connection on HTTP/1.1; keeping it open between calls rather than rebuilding it per batch was
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+ worth another 2.5x. The transport idea is lifted from
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+ [browser-use/jev-ultrafast](https://github.com/browser-use/jev-ultrafast), who got there first.
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+ 4. **Never ask twice.** Identical text within a batch is asked once; a bounded cache keyed by model,
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+ question and text answers repeats for free.
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+
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+ ## Install
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install "jev-ultralightspeed[fast] @ git+https://github.com/collapseindex/jev-ultralightspeed"
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+ export TYPESAFE_API_KEY=...
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+ ```
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+
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+ The `[fast]` extra pulls in httpx and h2, which measured about twice the standard library path.
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+ Without it the client still works on the standard library alone:
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install "git+https://github.com/collapseindex/jev-ultralightspeed"
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+ ```
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+
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+ Not on PyPI yet.
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+
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+ ## Use
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from jev_ultralightspeed import Client
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+
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+ client = Client(pack=8, workers=8) # the defaults are pack=8, workers=4
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+ client.warm() # open the connections before the work arrives
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+ answers = client.classify(
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+ messages,
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+ "Does this message need a human to act on it today?",
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+ criteria={"true": "something is broken or costing money right now",
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+ "false": "a question or a thank-you that can wait"},
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+ on_progress=lambda done, total: print(f"{done}/{total}", end="\r"),
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+ )
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+
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+ for answer in answers:
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+ print(answer.label, round(answer.p, 2), answer.item[:60])
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+
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+ print(client.usage) # 256 items in 1.16s (221.1/s, 32 requests, 156 tokens/item, $0.00166)
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+ ```
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+
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+ Pick-one questions work the same way:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ answers = classify(tickets, "Which team should handle this?", options={
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+ "billing": "payments, invoices, refunds",
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+ "technical": "errors, outages, integrations",
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+ "account": "logins, passwords, security",
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+ })
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+ ```
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+
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+ Every answer carries `item`, `label`, `p`, `distribution`, `confidence` and `kind`, and comes back in
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+ the order you passed the items in, however the requests were shuffled to get there.
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+
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+ ### Knobs
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+
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+ | argument | default | what it does |
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+ | --- | --- | --- |
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+ | `pack` | 8 | items per request. Higher is faster and cheaper, and slower per request. On short items: pack 8 does 320 items/s, pack 32 does 1,130. |
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+ | `workers` | 4 | requests in flight. |
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+ | `transport` | `auto` | `http2` when httpx is installed, otherwise `threads`. |
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+ | `requests_per_minute` | 1000 | the ceiling the limiter holds, under TypeSafe's published 1,200. |
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+ | `cache` | True | answer repeats from memory, keyed by model, question and text. |
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+ | `model` | `jev-latest` | passed straight through. |
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+ | `url` | the Jev endpoint | point it at a gateway or a mock. |
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+
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+ ## What it does not do
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+
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+ - **It does not change your question.** The only difference between a packed question and a single
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+ one is the sentence naming which item to judge. There is no bitstring trick and no compressed
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+ output format, because Jev returns a structured probability per question rather than generated
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+ text: the output is already about twenty tokens per request.
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+ - **It does not cache across processes.** The cache lives in the client, in memory, bounded at
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+ 10,000 entries.
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+ - **It does not hide failures.** Retries cover 429, 500, 502, 503, 504 and 529 with backoff; anything
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+ else is raised with what the API said.
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+ - **It is not an eval harness.** It makes a judge fast, not trustworthy. See Related below.
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+
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+ ## Development
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install pytest
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+ python -m pytest tests -q # 21 tests, no network, no key needed
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+ TYPESAFE_API_KEY=... python bench_eval.py # the table above, ~13 min, ~$1.20
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+ TYPESAFE_API_KEY=... python bench.py --items 256 # pack and concurrency sweep, ~5 cents
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+ TYPESAFE_API_KEY=... python soak.py --items 100000 # sustained load, ~50 cents
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+ ```
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+ The tests replace the one method that talks to the API, so the packing, the deduplication, the cache,
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+ the ordering, the limiter and the error paths are all checked offline.
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+
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+ ## Related
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+ Three tools, one workflow, all Apache-2.0:
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+ Costs are input tokens at TypeSafe's published $0.042 per million for jev-1.13.0, which is the only
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+ rate they list; output tokens are counted but not priced. Every dollar figure here was checked
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+ against the account balance after the run.
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+
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+ - **[dinostomp](https://github.com/collapseindex/dinostomp)** is the harness the benchmark above was
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+ measured against: pods of labelled items, pre-registered thresholds, a checks registry and a
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+ findings ledger. It is where you go when the question is whether a judge is any good, not how
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+ fast it runs. The 1,347 labelled completions in the table are one of its audit pods.
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+ - **[jev-builder](https://collapseindex.github.io/jev-builder/)** writes the request in the first
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+ place: paste your text, describe the question, and get something you can paste here.
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+ - **jev-ultralightspeed**, this repository, is for when the question already works and there are a
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+ million rows waiting.
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+
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+ If any of it saves you an afternoon, [sponsorship](https://github.com/sponsors/collapseindex) keeps
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+ it maintained. Not required, and nothing here is gated.
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+
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+ ## Security
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+
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+ The key comes from your environment, goes to one endpoint and is never logged, printed, put in an
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+ exception or written to disk. What the library sends, what it keeps in memory, and what it does not
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+ protect you from: [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md).
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+
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+ ## Contributing
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+
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+ Issues and pull requests are welcome. The rules that matter: no required dependencies, never log the
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+ key, and a performance claim needs a measurement rather than an opinion about how HTTP works. See
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+ [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).
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+
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+ ## License
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+
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+ [Apache-2.0](LICENSE). Not affiliated with TypeSafe.
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+ # jev-ultralightspeed
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+
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+ **v0.1.0** · Apache-2.0 · no required dependencies
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+
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+ <img src="docs/infographic.png" alt="Faster, cheaper, same accuracy: hundreds of items a second against dozens, with agreement against human labels unchanged" width="100%" />
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+
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+ **You have a pile of text and one question about each.** Fifty thousand support tickets to triage.
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+ A quarter of reviews to sort by sentiment. A month of logs to flag. A column to backfill on a table
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+ you already have. This answers the question for all of them, with
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+ [TypeSafe's Jev](https://typesafe.ai), in the time it takes to get a coffee.
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from jev_ultralightspeed import classify
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+
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+ answers = classify(tickets, "Does this message need a human to act on it today?")
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+ urgent = [a.item for a in answers if a.yes]
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+ ```
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+
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+ **15.9x the throughput of one request per item, 41% less money, and the same accuracy.** Measured
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+ over 30,000 judgements against human labels, in one run, with a script in this repository.
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+
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+ **Not for one item at a time.** If somebody is waiting on the answer, call the API directly: packing
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+ makes a single item slower, not faster. This is for a queue.
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+ Not affiliated with TypeSafe; the hedgehog is a parody and belongs to nobody.
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+
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+ ## The benchmark
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+ 30,000 judgements over the 1,347 completions in
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+ [dinostomp's](https://github.com/collapseindex/dinostomp) `xstest-refusal` pod, labelled
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+ compliance, refusal or partial by two human annotators, each completion seen about 22 times. Two
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+ arms, identical but for the shape of the requests. This is not Jev against another model: it is
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+ **jev-1.13.0 against itself**, same question, same items, same criteria.
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+ | | regular jev | jev + ultralightspeed |
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+ | --- | ---: | ---: |
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+ | throughput | 41.1 items/s | **653.4 items/s** |
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+ | wall clock | 12 min 11 s | **46 seconds** |
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+ | requests | 30,000 | 942 |
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+ | cost | $0.729 | **$0.430** |
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+ | agreement with the human labels | 89.3% (89.0 to 89.7) | **89.2% (88.9 to 89.6)** |
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+ | same answer across an item's repeats | 99.6% | 98.0% |
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+ | failed | 0 | 0 |
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+ | retried | 1 | 63 |
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+
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+ **15.9x the throughput, 41% less money, and the accuracy is the same**: 89.3% against 89.2%, with
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+ 30,000 judgements behind each figure and the intervals sitting on top of each other.
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install "jev-ultralightspeed[fast]"
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+ git clone https://github.com/collapseindex/dinostomp.git ../dinostomp
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+ TYPESAFE_API_KEY=... python bench_eval.py # about 13 minutes, about $1.20
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+ ```
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+
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+ Three things in that table are worth reading twice.
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+ **The baseline is not slow.** It is one item per request with the same eight requests in flight, so
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+ the 15.9x is against a client that is already parallel. Against an actual sequential loop it is far
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+ larger and far less interesting.
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+ **Sixty-three retries, and nothing failed.** Packing 32 deep with 8 in flight does hit transient
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+ limits at volume. The client backs off and sends them again, which is why this arm came in at 653
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+ items/s rather than the 800 it reaches on short bursts. Retries are counted in `usage.retries`, so
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+ this is a number rather than an absence of complaints.
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+ **Aggregate accuracy is identical; individual answers are slightly less repeatable.** Ask about the
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+ same completion 22 times and the unpacked client gives the same label 99.6% of the time, the packed
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+ one 98.0%. So pack freely when you want the total, and keep the pack size fixed when you are
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+ comparing item by item across runs.
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+ Shorter items do better than this on every axis, because the per-item text is a smaller share of
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+ each request: a million synthetic support messages (138 tokens each) ran at 1,135 items/s, 14.7
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+ minutes and $4.99 for the lot, over 31,400 requests with nothing retried. `soak.py --items 1000000`
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+ reproduces that, and it is a different corpus, so it is a footnote here rather than a headline.
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+
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+ ## How
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+ Nothing clever. Four things the obvious loop does not do, in order of how much they gave:
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+ 1. **Pack.** Several items go in one request as `item_1..item_N`, each with its own question that
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+ names the item it judges. One round trip covers thirty-two items, and the shared overhead is paid
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+ once instead of thirty-two times. This is where both the speed and the token saving come from.
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+ 2. **Parallel.** Several packed requests in flight, under a sliding-window limiter set below
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+ TypeSafe's published 1,200 requests a minute.
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+ 3. **One connection, kept open, multiplexed.** With httpx and h2 installed, every request in flight
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+ shares a single HTTP/2 connection on one event loop, which measured about twice a thread per
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+ connection on HTTP/1.1; keeping it open between calls rather than rebuilding it per batch was
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+ worth another 2.5x. The transport idea is lifted from
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+ [browser-use/jev-ultrafast](https://github.com/browser-use/jev-ultrafast), who got there first.
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+ 4. **Never ask twice.** Identical text within a batch is asked once; a bounded cache keyed by model,
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+ question and text answers repeats for free.
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+
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+ ## Install
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install "jev-ultralightspeed[fast] @ git+https://github.com/collapseindex/jev-ultralightspeed"
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+ export TYPESAFE_API_KEY=...
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+ ```
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+ The `[fast]` extra pulls in httpx and h2, which measured about twice the standard library path.
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+ Without it the client still works on the standard library alone:
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install "git+https://github.com/collapseindex/jev-ultralightspeed"
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+ ```
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+ Not on PyPI yet.
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+
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+ ## Use
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from jev_ultralightspeed import Client
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+ client = Client(pack=8, workers=8) # the defaults are pack=8, workers=4
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+ client.warm() # open the connections before the work arrives
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+ answers = client.classify(
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+ messages,
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+ "Does this message need a human to act on it today?",
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+ criteria={"true": "something is broken or costing money right now",
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+ "false": "a question or a thank-you that can wait"},
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+ on_progress=lambda done, total: print(f"{done}/{total}", end="\r"),
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+ )
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+
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+ for answer in answers:
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+ print(answer.label, round(answer.p, 2), answer.item[:60])
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+ print(client.usage) # 256 items in 1.16s (221.1/s, 32 requests, 156 tokens/item, $0.00166)
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+ ```
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+ Pick-one questions work the same way:
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+ ```python
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+ answers = classify(tickets, "Which team should handle this?", options={
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+ "billing": "payments, invoices, refunds",
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+ "technical": "errors, outages, integrations",
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+ "account": "logins, passwords, security",
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+ })
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+ ```
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+ Every answer carries `item`, `label`, `p`, `distribution`, `confidence` and `kind`, and comes back in
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+ the order you passed the items in, however the requests were shuffled to get there.
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+
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+ ### Knobs
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+
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+ | argument | default | what it does |
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+ | --- | --- | --- |
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+ | `pack` | 8 | items per request. Higher is faster and cheaper, and slower per request. On short items: pack 8 does 320 items/s, pack 32 does 1,130. |
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+ | `workers` | 4 | requests in flight. |
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+ | `transport` | `auto` | `http2` when httpx is installed, otherwise `threads`. |
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+ | `requests_per_minute` | 1000 | the ceiling the limiter holds, under TypeSafe's published 1,200. |
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+ | `cache` | True | answer repeats from memory, keyed by model, question and text. |
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+ | `model` | `jev-latest` | passed straight through. |
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+ | `url` | the Jev endpoint | point it at a gateway or a mock. |
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+
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+ ## What it does not do
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+
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+ - **It does not change your question.** The only difference between a packed question and a single
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+ one is the sentence naming which item to judge. There is no bitstring trick and no compressed
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+ output format, because Jev returns a structured probability per question rather than generated
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+ text: the output is already about twenty tokens per request.
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+ - **It does not cache across processes.** The cache lives in the client, in memory, bounded at
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+ 10,000 entries.
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+ - **It does not hide failures.** Retries cover 429, 500, 502, 503, 504 and 529 with backoff; anything
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+ else is raised with what the API said.
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+ - **It is not an eval harness.** It makes a judge fast, not trustworthy. See Related below.
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+
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+ ## Development
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install pytest
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+ python -m pytest tests -q # 21 tests, no network, no key needed
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+
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+ TYPESAFE_API_KEY=... python bench_eval.py # the table above, ~13 min, ~$1.20
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+ TYPESAFE_API_KEY=... python bench.py --items 256 # pack and concurrency sweep, ~5 cents
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+ TYPESAFE_API_KEY=... python soak.py --items 100000 # sustained load, ~50 cents
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+ ```
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+
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+ The tests replace the one method that talks to the API, so the packing, the deduplication, the cache,
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+ the ordering, the limiter and the error paths are all checked offline.
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+
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+ ## Related
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+
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+ Three tools, one workflow, all Apache-2.0:
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+ Costs are input tokens at TypeSafe's published $0.042 per million for jev-1.13.0, which is the only
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+ rate they list; output tokens are counted but not priced. Every dollar figure here was checked
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+ against the account balance after the run.
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+
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+ - **[dinostomp](https://github.com/collapseindex/dinostomp)** is the harness the benchmark above was
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+ measured against: pods of labelled items, pre-registered thresholds, a checks registry and a
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+ findings ledger. It is where you go when the question is whether a judge is any good, not how
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+ fast it runs. The 1,347 labelled completions in the table are one of its audit pods.
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+ - **[jev-builder](https://collapseindex.github.io/jev-builder/)** writes the request in the first
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+ place: paste your text, describe the question, and get something you can paste here.
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+ - **jev-ultralightspeed**, this repository, is for when the question already works and there are a
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+ million rows waiting.
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+
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+ If any of it saves you an afternoon, [sponsorship](https://github.com/sponsors/collapseindex) keeps
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+ it maintained. Not required, and nothing here is gated.
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+
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+ ## Security
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+
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+ The key comes from your environment, goes to one endpoint and is never logged, printed, put in an
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+ exception or written to disk. What the library sends, what it keeps in memory, and what it does not
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+ protect you from: [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md).
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+
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+ ## Contributing
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+
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+ Issues and pull requests are welcome. The rules that matter: no required dependencies, never log the
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+ key, and a performance claim needs a measurement rather than an opinion about how HTTP works. See
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+ [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).
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+
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+ ## License
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+
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+ [Apache-2.0](LICENSE). Not affiliated with TypeSafe.