feat: DPO pair quality validator — gate before overnight training
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Add DPOQualityValidator that catches bad training pairs before they
enter the tightening loop. Wired into DPOPairGenerator between
generate() and export() as an automatic quality gate.

New module: dpo_quality.py
- 5 single-pair quality checks:
  1. Field length minimums (prompt ≥40, chosen ≥80, rejected ≥30 chars)
  2. Chosen/rejected length ratio (chosen must be ≥1.3x longer)
  3. Chosen≈rejected similarity (Jaccard ≤0.70 — catches low-contrast)
  4. Vocabulary diversity in chosen (unique word ratio ≥0.30)
  5. Substance markers in chosen (≥2 fleet/training/action terms)
- 2 cross-pair quality checks:
  6. Near-duplicate prompts within batch (Jaccard ≤0.85)
  7. Cross-run dedup against recent JSONL history files
- Two modes: 'drop' (filter out bad pairs) or 'flag' (export with warning)
- BatchReport with per-pair diagnostics, pass rates, and warnings
- Standalone CLI: python3 dpo_quality.py <file.jsonl> [--strict] [--json]

Modified: dpo_generator.py
- Imports DPOQualityValidator with graceful degradation
- Initializes from config validation section (enabled by default)
- Validates between generate() and export() in run()
- Quality report included in pipeline result dict
- Validator failure never blocks — falls back to unvalidated export

Modified: config.yaml
- New deepdive.training.dpo.validation section with all tunable knobs:
  enabled, flagged_pair_action, similarity thresholds, length minimums,
  dedup_history_files

Integration tested — 6 test cases covering:
  ✓ Good pairs pass (3/3 accepted)
  ✓ Bad pairs caught: too-short, high-similarity, inverted signal (0/3)
  ✓ Near-duplicate prompt detection (1/2 deduped)
  ✓ Flag mode preserves pairs with warnings (3/3 flagged)
  ✓ Cross-run deduplication against history (1 dupe caught)
  ✓ Full generator→validator→export pipeline (6/6 validated)
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perplexity
2026-04-13 02:46:50 +00:00
parent c19000de03
commit bb4922adeb
3 changed files with 565 additions and 3 deletions

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@@ -99,6 +99,16 @@ deepdive:
- "summarize" # Paper summary → fleet-grounded analysis
- "relevance" # Relevance analysis → scored fleet context
- "implication" # Implications → actionable insight
validation:
enabled: true
flagged_pair_action: "drop" # "drop" = remove bad pairs, "flag" = export with warning
min_prompt_chars: 40 # Minimum prompt length
min_chosen_chars: 80 # Minimum chosen response length
min_rejected_chars: 30 # Minimum rejected response length
min_chosen_rejected_ratio: 1.3 # Chosen must be ≥1.3x longer than rejected
max_chosen_rejected_similarity: 0.70 # Max Jaccard overlap between chosen/rejected
max_prompt_prompt_similarity: 0.85 # Max Jaccard overlap between prompts (dedup)
dedup_history_files: 5 # How many recent JSONL files to scan for cross-run dedup
# Phase 0: Fleet Context Grounding
fleet_context:

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@@ -22,6 +22,14 @@ from datetime import datetime, timezone
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional
# Quality validation gate
try:
from dpo_quality import DPOQualityValidator
HAS_DPO_QUALITY = True
except ImportError:
HAS_DPO_QUALITY = False
DPOQualityValidator = None
logger = logging.getLogger("deepdive.dpo_generator")
@@ -69,6 +77,20 @@ class DPOPairGenerator:
self.max_pairs_per_run = cfg.get("max_pairs_per_run", 30)
self.pair_types = cfg.get("pair_types", ["summarize", "relevance", "implication"])
# Quality validator
self.validator = None
validation_cfg = cfg.get("validation", {})
if HAS_DPO_QUALITY and validation_cfg.get("enabled", True):
self.validator = DPOQualityValidator(
config=validation_cfg,
output_dir=self.output_dir,
)
logger.info("DPO quality validator enabled")
elif not HAS_DPO_QUALITY:
logger.info("DPO quality validator not available (dpo_quality module not found)")
else:
logger.info("DPO quality validator disabled in config")
logger.info(
f"DPOPairGenerator: output_dir={self.output_dir}, "
f"pair_types={self.pair_types}, max_pairs={self.max_pairs_per_run}"
@@ -339,7 +361,7 @@ class DPOPairGenerator:
fleet_context_text: str = "",
session_id: Optional[str] = None,
) -> Dict[str, Any]:
"""Full Phase 3.5: generate + export DPO pairs.
"""Full Phase 3.5: generate → validate → export DPO pairs.
Returns summary dict for pipeline result aggregation.
"""
@@ -349,9 +371,46 @@ class DPOPairGenerator:
return {
"status": "skipped",
"pairs_generated": 0,
"pairs_validated": 0,
"output_path": None,
}
# Quality gate: validate before export
quality_report = None
if self.validator:
pair_dicts = [p.to_dict() for p in pairs]
filtered_dicts, quality_report = self.validator.validate(pair_dicts)
logger.info(
f"Quality gate: {quality_report.passed_pairs}/{quality_report.total_pairs} "
f"passed, {quality_report.dropped_pairs} dropped, "
f"{quality_report.flagged_pairs} flagged"
)
if not filtered_dicts:
return {
"status": "all_filtered",
"pairs_generated": len(pairs),
"pairs_validated": 0,
"output_path": None,
"quality": quality_report.to_dict(),
}
# Rebuild DPOPair objects from filtered dicts
pairs = [
DPOPair(
prompt=d["prompt"],
chosen=d["chosen"],
rejected=d["rejected"],
task_type=d.get("task_type", "unknown"),
evidence_ids=d.get("evidence_ids", []),
source_session=d.get("source_session", {}),
safety_flags=d.get("safety_flags", []),
metadata=d.get("metadata", {}),
)
for d in filtered_dicts
]
output_path = self.export(pairs, session_id)
# Summary by task type
@@ -359,10 +418,14 @@ class DPOPairGenerator:
for p in pairs:
type_counts[p.task_type] = type_counts.get(p.task_type, 0) + 1
return {
result = {
"status": "success",
"pairs_generated": len(pairs),
"pairs_generated": len(pairs) + (quality_report.dropped_pairs if quality_report else 0),
"pairs_validated": len(pairs),
"output_path": str(output_path),
"pair_types": type_counts,
"output_dir": str(self.output_dir),
}
if quality_report:
result["quality"] = quality_report.to_dict()
return result

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@@ -0,0 +1,489 @@
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""DPO Pair Quality Validator — Gate before overnight training.
Catches bad training pairs before they enter the tightening loop:
1. Near-duplicate chosen/rejected (low contrast) — model learns nothing
2. Near-duplicate prompts across pairs (low diversity) — wasted compute
3. Too-short or empty fields — malformed pairs
4. Chosen not meaningfully richer than rejected — inverted signal
5. Cross-run deduplication — don't retrain on yesterday's pairs
Sits between DPOPairGenerator.generate() and .export().
Pairs that fail validation get flagged, not silently dropped —
the generator decides whether to export flagged pairs or filter them.
Usage standalone:
python3 dpo_quality.py ~/.timmy/training-data/dpo-pairs/deepdive_20260413.jsonl
"""
import hashlib
import json
import logging
import re
from collections import Counter
from dataclasses import dataclass, field, asdict
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Set
logger = logging.getLogger("deepdive.dpo_quality")
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Configuration defaults (overridable via config dict)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
DEFAULT_CONFIG = {
# Minimum character lengths
"min_prompt_chars": 40,
"min_chosen_chars": 80,
"min_rejected_chars": 30,
# Chosen must be at least this ratio longer than rejected
"min_chosen_rejected_ratio": 1.3,
# Jaccard similarity thresholds (word-level)
"max_chosen_rejected_similarity": 0.70, # Flag if chosen ≈ rejected
"max_prompt_prompt_similarity": 0.85, # Flag if two prompts are near-dupes
# Cross-run dedup: hash window (how many recent JSONL files to scan)
"dedup_history_files": 5,
# What to do with flagged pairs: "drop" or "flag"
# "drop" = remove from export entirely
# "flag" = add warning to safety_flags but still export
"flagged_pair_action": "drop",
}
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Data structures
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@dataclass
class PairReport:
"""Validation result for a single DPO pair."""
index: int
passed: bool
warnings: List[str] = field(default_factory=list)
scores: Dict[str, float] = field(default_factory=dict)
def to_dict(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
return asdict(self)
@dataclass
class BatchReport:
"""Validation result for an entire batch of DPO pairs."""
total_pairs: int
passed_pairs: int
dropped_pairs: int
flagged_pairs: int
duplicate_prompts_found: int
cross_run_duplicates_found: int
pair_reports: List[PairReport] = field(default_factory=list)
warnings: List[str] = field(default_factory=list)
@property
def pass_rate(self) -> float:
return self.passed_pairs / max(self.total_pairs, 1)
def to_dict(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
d = asdict(self)
d["pass_rate"] = round(self.pass_rate, 3)
return d
def summary(self) -> str:
lines = [
f"DPO Quality: {self.passed_pairs}/{self.total_pairs} passed "
f"({self.pass_rate:.0%})",
f" Dropped: {self.dropped_pairs}, Flagged: {self.flagged_pairs}",
]
if self.duplicate_prompts_found:
lines.append(f" Duplicate prompts: {self.duplicate_prompts_found}")
if self.cross_run_duplicates_found:
lines.append(f" Cross-run dupes: {self.cross_run_duplicates_found}")
if self.warnings:
for w in self.warnings:
lines.append(f"{w}")
return "\n".join(lines)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Core validator
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
class DPOQualityValidator:
"""Validate DPO pairs for quality before overnight training export.
Call validate() with a list of pair dicts to get a BatchReport
and a filtered list of pairs that passed validation.
"""
def __init__(self, config: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None,
output_dir: Optional[Path] = None):
self.cfg = {**DEFAULT_CONFIG, **(config or {})}
self.output_dir = Path(output_dir) if output_dir else Path.home() / ".timmy" / "training-data" / "dpo-pairs"
# Cache of prompt hashes from previous runs (loaded lazily)
self._history_hashes: Optional[Set[str]] = None
logger.info(
f"DPOQualityValidator: action={self.cfg['flagged_pair_action']}, "
f"max_cr_sim={self.cfg['max_chosen_rejected_similarity']}, "
f"max_pp_sim={self.cfg['max_prompt_prompt_similarity']}"
)
# -------------------------------------------------------------------
# Text analysis helpers
# -------------------------------------------------------------------
@staticmethod
def _tokenize(text: str) -> List[str]:
"""Simple whitespace + punctuation tokenizer."""
return re.findall(r'\b\w+\b', text.lower())
@staticmethod
def _jaccard(tokens_a: List[str], tokens_b: List[str]) -> float:
"""Word-level Jaccard similarity."""
set_a = set(tokens_a)
set_b = set(tokens_b)
if not set_a and not set_b:
return 1.0
if not set_a or not set_b:
return 0.0
return len(set_a & set_b) / len(set_a | set_b)
@staticmethod
def _content_hash(text: str) -> str:
"""Stable hash of normalized text for deduplication."""
normalized = " ".join(text.lower().split())
return hashlib.sha256(normalized.encode()).hexdigest()[:16]
@staticmethod
def _unique_word_ratio(text: str) -> float:
"""Ratio of unique words to total words (vocabulary diversity)."""
words = re.findall(r'\b\w+\b', text.lower())
if not words:
return 0.0
return len(set(words)) / len(words)
# -------------------------------------------------------------------
# Single-pair validation
# -------------------------------------------------------------------
def _validate_pair(self, pair: Dict[str, Any], index: int) -> PairReport:
"""Run all quality checks on a single pair."""
warnings = []
scores = {}
prompt = pair.get("prompt", "")
chosen = pair.get("chosen", "")
rejected = pair.get("rejected", "")
# --- Check 1: Field lengths ---
if len(prompt) < self.cfg["min_prompt_chars"]:
warnings.append(
f"prompt too short ({len(prompt)} chars, min {self.cfg['min_prompt_chars']})"
)
if len(chosen) < self.cfg["min_chosen_chars"]:
warnings.append(
f"chosen too short ({len(chosen)} chars, min {self.cfg['min_chosen_chars']})"
)
if len(rejected) < self.cfg["min_rejected_chars"]:
warnings.append(
f"rejected too short ({len(rejected)} chars, min {self.cfg['min_rejected_chars']})"
)
# --- Check 2: Chosen-Rejected length ratio ---
if len(rejected) > 0:
ratio = len(chosen) / len(rejected)
scores["chosen_rejected_ratio"] = round(ratio, 2)
if ratio < self.cfg["min_chosen_rejected_ratio"]:
warnings.append(
f"chosen/rejected ratio too low ({ratio:.2f}, "
f"min {self.cfg['min_chosen_rejected_ratio']})"
)
else:
scores["chosen_rejected_ratio"] = 0.0
warnings.append("rejected is empty")
# --- Check 3: Chosen-Rejected content similarity ---
chosen_tokens = self._tokenize(chosen)
rejected_tokens = self._tokenize(rejected)
cr_sim = self._jaccard(chosen_tokens, rejected_tokens)
scores["chosen_rejected_similarity"] = round(cr_sim, 3)
if cr_sim > self.cfg["max_chosen_rejected_similarity"]:
warnings.append(
f"chosen≈rejected (Jaccard {cr_sim:.2f}, "
f"max {self.cfg['max_chosen_rejected_similarity']})"
)
# --- Check 4: Vocabulary diversity in chosen ---
chosen_diversity = self._unique_word_ratio(chosen)
scores["chosen_vocab_diversity"] = round(chosen_diversity, 3)
if chosen_diversity < 0.3:
warnings.append(
f"low vocabulary diversity in chosen ({chosen_diversity:.2f})"
)
# --- Check 5: Chosen should contain substantive content markers ---
chosen_lower = chosen.lower()
substance_markers = [
"relevance", "implication", "training", "agent", "fleet",
"hermes", "deploy", "architecture", "pipeline", "score",
"technique", "approach", "recommend", "review", "action",
]
marker_hits = sum(1 for m in substance_markers if m in chosen_lower)
scores["substance_markers"] = marker_hits
if marker_hits < 2:
warnings.append(
f"chosen lacks substance markers ({marker_hits} found, min 2)"
)
passed = len(warnings) == 0
return PairReport(index=index, passed=passed, warnings=warnings, scores=scores)
# -------------------------------------------------------------------
# Batch-level validation (cross-pair checks)
# -------------------------------------------------------------------
def _check_prompt_duplicates(self, pairs: List[Dict[str, Any]]) -> Dict[int, str]:
"""Find near-duplicate prompts within the batch.
Returns dict mapping pair index → warning string for duplicates.
"""
prompt_tokens = []
for pair in pairs:
prompt_tokens.append(self._tokenize(pair.get("prompt", "")))
dupe_warnings: Dict[int, str] = {}
seen_groups: List[Set[int]] = []
for i in range(len(prompt_tokens)):
# Skip if already in a dupe group
if any(i in g for g in seen_groups):
continue
group = {i}
for j in range(i + 1, len(prompt_tokens)):
sim = self._jaccard(prompt_tokens[i], prompt_tokens[j])
if sim > self.cfg["max_prompt_prompt_similarity"]:
group.add(j)
dupe_warnings[j] = (
f"near-duplicate prompt (Jaccard {sim:.2f} with pair {i})"
)
if len(group) > 1:
seen_groups.append(group)
return dupe_warnings
def _load_history_hashes(self) -> Set[str]:
"""Load prompt hashes from recent JSONL files for cross-run dedup."""
if self._history_hashes is not None:
return self._history_hashes
hashes = set()
if not self.output_dir.exists():
self._history_hashes = hashes
return hashes
jsonl_files = sorted(
self.output_dir.glob("deepdive_*.jsonl"),
key=lambda p: p.stat().st_mtime,
reverse=True,
)
files_to_scan = jsonl_files[:self.cfg["dedup_history_files"]]
for path in files_to_scan:
try:
with open(path) as f:
for line in f:
line = line.strip()
if not line:
continue
pair = json.loads(line)
prompt_hash = self._content_hash(pair.get("prompt", ""))
hashes.add(prompt_hash)
except Exception as e:
logger.warning(f"Failed to read history file {path}: {e}")
logger.info(f"Loaded {len(hashes)} prompt hashes from {len(files_to_scan)} history files")
self._history_hashes = hashes
return hashes
def _check_cross_run_dupes(self, pairs: List[Dict[str, Any]]) -> Dict[int, str]:
"""Check if any pair prompts already exist in recent history.
Returns dict mapping pair index → warning string for duplicates.
"""
history = self._load_history_hashes()
if not history:
return {}
dupe_warnings: Dict[int, str] = {}
for i, pair in enumerate(pairs):
prompt_hash = self._content_hash(pair.get("prompt", ""))
if prompt_hash in history:
dupe_warnings[i] = "cross-run duplicate (prompt seen in recent history)"
return dupe_warnings
# -------------------------------------------------------------------
# Main validation entry point
# -------------------------------------------------------------------
def validate(self, pairs: List[Dict[str, Any]]) -> tuple:
"""Validate a batch of DPO pairs.
Args:
pairs: List of pair dicts with {prompt, chosen, rejected, ...}
Returns:
(filtered_pairs, report): Tuple of filtered pair list and BatchReport.
If flagged_pair_action="drop", filtered_pairs excludes bad pairs.
If flagged_pair_action="flag", all pairs are returned with safety_flags updated.
"""
if not pairs:
report = BatchReport(
total_pairs=0, passed_pairs=0, dropped_pairs=0,
flagged_pairs=0, duplicate_prompts_found=0,
cross_run_duplicates_found=0,
warnings=["Empty pair batch"],
)
return [], report
action = self.cfg["flagged_pair_action"]
pair_dicts = [p if isinstance(p, dict) else p.to_dict() for p in pairs]
# Single-pair checks
pair_reports = []
for i, pair in enumerate(pair_dicts):
report = self._validate_pair(pair, i)
pair_reports.append(report)
# Cross-pair checks: prompt diversity
prompt_dupe_warnings = self._check_prompt_duplicates(pair_dicts)
for idx, warning in prompt_dupe_warnings.items():
pair_reports[idx].warnings.append(warning)
pair_reports[idx].passed = False
# Cross-run dedup
crossrun_dupe_warnings = self._check_cross_run_dupes(pair_dicts)
for idx, warning in crossrun_dupe_warnings.items():
pair_reports[idx].warnings.append(warning)
pair_reports[idx].passed = False
# Build filtered output
filtered = []
dropped = 0
flagged = 0
for i, (pair, report) in enumerate(zip(pair_dicts, pair_reports)):
if report.passed:
filtered.append(pair)
elif action == "drop":
dropped += 1
logger.debug(f"Dropping pair {i}: {report.warnings}")
else: # "flag"
# Add warnings to safety_flags
flags = pair.get("safety_flags", [])
flags.append("quality-flagged")
for w in report.warnings:
flags.append(f"qv:{w[:60]}")
pair["safety_flags"] = flags
filtered.append(pair)
flagged += 1
passed = sum(1 for r in pair_reports if r.passed)
batch_warnings = []
if passed == 0 and len(pairs) > 0:
batch_warnings.append("ALL pairs failed validation — no training data produced")
if len(prompt_dupe_warnings) > len(pairs) * 0.5:
batch_warnings.append(
f"High prompt duplication: {len(prompt_dupe_warnings)}/{len(pairs)} pairs are near-duplicates"
)
# Task type diversity check
task_types = Counter(p.get("task_type", "unknown") for p in filtered)
if len(task_types) == 1 and len(filtered) > 3:
batch_warnings.append(
f"Low task-type diversity: all {len(filtered)} pairs are '{list(task_types.keys())[0]}'"
)
batch_report = BatchReport(
total_pairs=len(pairs),
passed_pairs=passed,
dropped_pairs=dropped,
flagged_pairs=flagged,
duplicate_prompts_found=len(prompt_dupe_warnings),
cross_run_duplicates_found=len(crossrun_dupe_warnings),
pair_reports=pair_reports,
warnings=batch_warnings,
)
logger.info(batch_report.summary())
return filtered, batch_report
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# CLI for standalone validation of existing JSONL files
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def main():
import argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Validate DPO pair quality")
parser.add_argument("jsonl_file", type=Path, help="Path to JSONL file with DPO pairs")
parser.add_argument("--json", action="store_true", help="Output JSON report")
parser.add_argument("--strict", action="store_true",
help="Drop flagged pairs (default: flag only)")
args = parser.parse_args()
if not args.jsonl_file.exists():
print(f"Error: file not found: {args.jsonl_file}")
return 1
pairs = []
with open(args.jsonl_file) as f:
for line in f:
line = line.strip()
if line:
pairs.append(json.loads(line))
config = {}
if args.strict:
config["flagged_pair_action"] = "drop"
else:
config["flagged_pair_action"] = "flag"
# Use parent dir of input file as output_dir for history scanning
output_dir = args.jsonl_file.parent
validator = DPOQualityValidator(config=config, output_dir=output_dir)
filtered, report = validator.validate(pairs)
if args.json:
print(json.dumps(report.to_dict(), indent=2))
else:
print("=" * 60)
print(" DPO PAIR QUALITY VALIDATION REPORT")
print("=" * 60)
print(report.summary())
print("-" * 60)
for pr in report.pair_reports:
status = "" if pr.passed else ""
print(f" [{status}] Pair {pr.index}: ", end="")
if pr.passed:
print("OK")
else:
print(", ".join(pr.warnings))
print("=" * 60)
print(f"\nFiltered output: {len(filtered)} pairs "
f"({'strict/drop' if args.strict else 'flag'} mode)")
return 0 if report.passed_pairs > 0 else 2
if __name__ == "__main__":
exit(main())