Code / experiments/candidate_01/benchmark.py
experiments/candidate_01/benchmark.py
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
# =============================================================================
# Project : localvm-research
# File : experiments/candidate_01/benchmark.py
# Purpose : End-to-end evaluation of the margin-gated deferred-refinement
# runtime vs pure-q4 / pure-q8 baselines
# Author : Simon-Pierre Boucher
# Contact : contact@spboucher.ai
# Created : 2026-08-12
# Modified : 2026-08-12
# Platform : macOS / Apple Silicon (arm64) — MLX / Metal
# License : All rights reserved (research code)
# =============================================================================
"""Candidate-01 benchmark.
Build once (downloads + quantizes):
.venv/bin/python benchmark.py --build
Run:
.venv/bin/python benchmark.py [--per-domain 4] [--max-tokens 128]
[--window 32] [--taus 1.0,2.0]
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import difflib
import json
import sys
import time
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from pathlib import Path
import mlx.core as mx
from mlx_lm import load
REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
sys.path.insert(0, str(REPO_ROOT / "benchmarks"))
sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).parent / "implementation"))
from hardware_manifest import collect_manifest # noqa: E402
from runtime import generate_deferred # noqa: E402
MODELS_DIR = Path(__file__).parent / "implementation" / "models"
HF_MODEL = "mlx-community/Qwen3-1.7B-bf16"
def build() -> None:
from mlx_lm import convert
for bits in (4, 8):
out = MODELS_DIR / f"q{bits}"
if out.exists():
print(f"{out} exists, skipping")
continue
print(f"converting {HF_MODEL} → q{bits} …", flush=True)
convert(HF_MODEL, mlx_path=str(out), quantize=True, q_bits=bits, q_group_size=64)
print("build done")
def dir_weight_bytes(d: Path) -> int:
return sum(f.stat().st_size for f in d.glob("*.safetensors"))
def greedy_baseline(model, tokenizer, prompt_ids, max_tokens):
from mlx_lm.models.cache import make_prompt_cache
cache = make_prompt_cache(model)
tokens = []
inp = mx.array(list(prompt_ids))[None]
t0 = time.perf_counter()
for _ in range(max_tokens):
logits = model(inp, cache=cache)
nxt = int(mx.argmax(logits[0, -1]).item())
if nxt == tokenizer.eos_token_id:
break
tokens.append(nxt)
inp = mx.array([[nxt]])
return tokens, time.perf_counter() - t0
def judge_outputs(outputs_by_config: dict, prompts: list[dict]) -> dict:
"""Quality-level metric: mean per-token logprob of each config's generated
continuation under the bf16 reference model (higher = better). Token-exact
fidelity is incoherent on Metal (1.56%/token prefill/decode flips), so the
judge scores usefulness of the text the system actually produced."""
import gc
gc.collect(); mx.clear_cache()
judge, _ = load(HF_MODEL)
scores = {}
for name, outs in outputs_by_config.items():
vals = []
for p, toks in zip(prompts, outs):
if len(toks) < 2:
continue
full = p["ids"] + list(toks)
logits = judge(mx.array(full)[None])[0]
sel = logits[len(p["ids"]) - 1 : len(full) - 1].astype(mx.float32)
logprobs = sel - mx.logsumexp(sel, axis=-1, keepdims=True)
idx = mx.array(toks)
tok_lp = mx.take_along_axis(logprobs, idx[:, None], axis=-1)
mx.eval(tok_lp)
vals.append(float(mx.mean(tok_lp).item()))
scores[name] = {"mean_logprob_bf16": sum(vals) / len(vals), "n": len(vals)}
del judge
gc.collect(); mx.clear_cache()
return scores
def fidelity(a: list[int], b: list[int]) -> float:
"""Similarity of two token sequences (difflib ratio — robust to length
drift after divergence)."""
if not a and not b:
return 1.0
return difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, a, b).ratio()
def main() -> None:
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
ap.add_argument("--build", action="store_true")
ap.add_argument("--per-domain", type=int, default=4)
ap.add_argument("--max-tokens", type=int, default=128)
ap.add_argument("--window", type=int, default=32)
ap.add_argument("--taus", default="1.0,2.0")
args = ap.parse_args()
if args.build:
build()
return
domains = json.loads((REPO_ROOT / "benchmarks/datasets/eval_prompts.json").read_text())["domains"]
q4_dir, q8_dir = MODELS_DIR / "q4", MODELS_DIR / "q8"
q8_bytes = dir_weight_bytes(q8_dir)
q4_bytes = dir_weight_bytes(q4_dir)
print(f"resident q4: {q4_bytes/1e9:.2f} GB · streamed q8: {q8_bytes/1e9:.2f} GB", flush=True)
base_model, tokenizer = load(str(q4_dir))
verify_model, _ = load(str(q8_dir))
prompts = []
for domain, plist in domains.items():
for prompt in plist[: args.per_domain]:
ids = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
[{"role": "user", "content": prompt}], add_generation_prompt=True)
prompts.append({"domain": domain, "ids": list(ids)})
# baselines
print("baseline: pure q8 greedy …", flush=True)
q8_out, q8_times = [], []
for p in prompts:
toks, dt = greedy_baseline(verify_model, tokenizer, p["ids"], args.max_tokens)
q8_out.append(toks); q8_times.append((len(toks), dt))
print("baseline: pure q4 greedy …", flush=True)
q4_out, q4_times = [], []
for p in prompts:
toks, dt = greedy_baseline(base_model, tokenizer, p["ids"], args.max_tokens)
q4_out.append(toks); q4_times.append((len(toks), dt))
def toks_per_s(times):
n = sum(t for t, _ in times); s = sum(d for _, d in times)
return n / s if s else 0.0
configs = []
for mode in ("margin", "verify-all"):
for tau in ([float(x) for x in args.taus.split(",")] if mode == "margin" else [2.0]):
configs.append({"mode": mode, "tau": tau})
outputs_by_config = {"pure_q4": q4_out, "pure_q8": q8_out}
results = []
for cfg in configs:
print(f"runtime: mode={cfg['mode']} tau={cfg['tau']} W={args.window} …", flush=True)
fid, agg = [], {"tokens": 0, "deferred": 0, "sweeps": 0, "rollbacks": 0,
"sweep_s": 0.0, "gen_s": 0.0, "logical_bytes": 0}
cfg_outputs = []
for p, ref in zip(prompts, q8_out):
toks, st = generate_deferred(
base_model, verify_model, tokenizer, p["ids"],
args.max_tokens, cfg["tau"], args.window, cfg["mode"], q8_bytes)
cfg_outputs.append(toks)
fid.append(fidelity(toks, ref))
agg["tokens"] += st.tokens_out; agg["deferred"] += st.deferred
agg["sweeps"] += st.sweeps; agg["rollbacks"] += st.rollbacks
agg["sweep_s"] += st.sweep_time_s; agg["gen_s"] += st.gen_time_s
agg["logical_bytes"] += st.sweep_logical_bytes
n = max(agg["tokens"], 1)
results.append({
**cfg, "window": args.window,
"fidelity_vs_q8_mean": sum(fid) / len(fid),
"tokens_per_s": n / (agg["gen_s"] + agg["sweep_s"]),
"deferral_rate": agg["deferred"] / n,
"rollback_rate": agg["rollbacks"] / n,
"sweeps_per_100tok": 100 * agg["sweeps"] / n,
"sweep_latency_s_mean": agg["sweep_s"] / max(agg["sweeps"], 1),
"logical_verify_bytes_per_token": agg["logical_bytes"] / n,
"raw": agg,
})
outputs_by_config[f"{cfg['mode']}_tau{cfg['tau']}"] = cfg_outputs
r = results[-1]
print(f" fidelity={r['fidelity_vs_q8_mean']:.4f} tok/s={r['tokens_per_s']:.1f} "
f"defer={r['deferral_rate']:.2f} rollback={r['rollback_rate']:.3f} "
f"MB/token(logical)={r['logical_verify_bytes_per_token']/1e6:.0f}", flush=True)
print("judging outputs with bf16 reference …", flush=True)
quality = judge_outputs(outputs_by_config, prompts)
for name, s in quality.items():
print(f" {name:>18}: mean logprob (bf16 judge) = {s['mean_logprob_bf16']:.4f}", flush=True)
payload = {
"experiment": "candidate_01_deferred_refinement",
"author": "Simon-Pierre Boucher",
"contact": "contact@spboucher.ai",
"manifest": collect_manifest(),
"config": vars(args),
"model": HF_MODEL,
"q4_resident_bytes": q4_bytes, "q8_stream_bytes": q8_bytes,
"baselines": {
"pure_q4": {"tokens_per_s": toks_per_s(q4_times),
"fidelity_vs_q8_mean": sum(fidelity(a, b) for a, b in zip(q4_out, q8_out)) / len(q8_out)},
"pure_q8": {"tokens_per_s": toks_per_s(q8_times), "fidelity_vs_q8_mean": 1.0},
},
"runs": results,
"quality_bf16_judge": quality,
}
ts = datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime("%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ")
out_dir = REPO_ROOT / "results" / "candidate_01" / ts
out_dir.mkdir(parents=True)
(out_dir / "results.json").write_text(json.dumps(payload, indent=2))
print(f"\nwrote {out_dir / 'results.json'}")
print("baselines:", json.dumps(payload["baselines"], indent=1))
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()