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lean_ctx/core/
information_bottleneck.rs

1//! QUITO-X–style trade-off: compress by dropping low token-entropy lines while targeting an output/input token ratio.
2//!
3//! Query-conditioned variant (#542, EFF-5): the IB objective is
4//! `min I(T;X) − β·I(T;Y)` — the relevance variable Y (the task/query) must
5//! condition the compression. `compress_ib_with_query` fuses normalized
6//! entropy with an IDF-weighted query-term overlap (the lexical core of
7//! BM25), so two different queries keep different lines from the same file
8//! (QUITO-X EMNLP'25: query-conditioned beats query-agnostic by 20-25%
9//! accuracy at equal rate). Without a query the behavior is byte-identical
10//! to the entropy-only path.
11
12use super::entropy::normalized_token_entropy;
13use super::tokens::count_tokens;
14
15fn flush_omitted(out: &mut Vec<String>, run: &mut usize) {
16    if *run > 0 {
17        out.push(format!("// ... {} low-info lines omitted", *run));
18        *run = 0;
19    }
20}
21
22fn render_ib(lines: &[&str], scores: &[f64], threshold: f64) -> String {
23    debug_assert_eq!(lines.len(), scores.len());
24    let mut out = Vec::new();
25    let mut omit_run = 0usize;
26    for (&line, &score) in lines.iter().zip(scores.iter()) {
27        if score >= threshold {
28            flush_omitted(&mut out, &mut omit_run);
29            out.push(line.to_string());
30        } else {
31            omit_run += 1;
32        }
33    }
34    flush_omitted(&mut out, &mut omit_run);
35    out.join("\n")
36}
37
38/// Compress `text` toward `target_ratio` (output tokens / input tokens) by dropping lines whose
39/// normalized BPE token entropy falls below a dynamically chosen threshold.
40pub fn compress_ib(text: &str, target_ratio: f64) -> String {
41    compress_ib_with_query(text, target_ratio, None)
42}
43
44/// Tokenize for relevance scoring: lowercase alphanumeric runs, length >= 2.
45fn relevance_terms(s: &str) -> Vec<String> {
46    s.to_lowercase()
47        .split(|c: char| !c.is_alphanumeric())
48        .filter(|t| t.len() >= 2)
49        .map(str::to_string)
50        .collect()
51}
52
53/// Per-line I(T;Y) proxy: IDF-weighted overlap between query terms and line
54/// terms, normalized to [0,1] across the document. Deterministic, no model.
55fn query_relevance_scores(lines: &[&str], query: &str) -> Option<Vec<f64>> {
56    let q_terms: std::collections::HashSet<String> = relevance_terms(query).into_iter().collect();
57    if q_terms.is_empty() {
58        return None;
59    }
60
61    let mut df: std::collections::HashMap<&str, usize> = std::collections::HashMap::new();
62    let line_terms: Vec<Vec<String>> = lines.iter().map(|l| relevance_terms(l)).collect();
63    for terms in &line_terms {
64        let unique: std::collections::HashSet<&str> = terms.iter().map(String::as_str).collect();
65        for t in unique {
66            if q_terms.contains(t) {
67                *df.entry(t).or_insert(0) += 1;
68            }
69        }
70    }
71    if df.is_empty() {
72        return None;
73    }
74
75    let n = lines.len() as f64;
76    let raw: Vec<f64> = line_terms
77        .iter()
78        .map(|terms| {
79            let mut seen: std::collections::HashSet<&str> = std::collections::HashSet::new();
80            terms
81                .iter()
82                .filter(|t| q_terms.contains(t.as_str()) && seen.insert(t.as_str()))
83                .map(|t| {
84                    let d = *df.get(t.as_str()).unwrap_or(&1) as f64;
85                    ((n + 1.0) / d).ln()
86                })
87                .sum::<f64>()
88        })
89        .collect();
90
91    let max = raw.iter().copied().fold(0.0_f64, f64::max);
92    if max <= 0.0 {
93        return None;
94    }
95    Some(raw.into_iter().map(|s| s / max).collect())
96}
97
98/// Query-conditioned IB compression (#542). With a query, the keep-score is
99/// `0.5·entropy + 0.5·relevance`; without one (or when the query shares no
100/// terms with the document) this is exactly the entropy-only `compress_ib`.
101pub fn compress_ib_with_query(text: &str, target_ratio: f64, query: Option<&str>) -> String {
102    if text.is_empty() {
103        return String::new();
104    }
105    let input_tokens = count_tokens(text);
106    if input_tokens == 0 {
107        return text.to_string();
108    }
109    let ratio_target = target_ratio.clamp(0.02, 1.0);
110
111    let lines_vec: Vec<&str> = text.lines().collect();
112    let lines: &[&str] = &lines_vec;
113    let entropy_scores: Vec<f64> = lines
114        .iter()
115        .map(|ln| normalized_token_entropy(ln))
116        .collect();
117
118    let scores: Vec<f64> = match query.and_then(|q| query_relevance_scores(lines, q)) {
119        Some(relevance) => entropy_scores
120            .iter()
121            .zip(relevance.iter())
122            .map(|(e, r)| 0.5 * e + 0.5 * r)
123            .collect(),
124        None => entropy_scores,
125    };
126
127    // Higher threshold ⇒ fewer kept lines ⇒ lower output ratio (monotone decreasing in threshold).
128    let mut lo = 0.0_f64;
129    let mut hi = 1.0_f64;
130    let mut best = render_ib(lines, &scores, 0.0);
131    let mut best_diff = f64::INFINITY;
132
133    let mut consider = |thr: f64| {
134        let cand = render_ib(lines, &scores, thr);
135        let r = count_tokens(&cand) as f64 / input_tokens as f64;
136        let diff = (r - ratio_target).abs();
137        if diff < best_diff {
138            best_diff = diff;
139            best = cand;
140        }
141    };
142
143    for _ in 0..26 {
144        let mid = f64::midpoint(lo, hi);
145        let cand = render_ib(lines, &scores, mid);
146        let r = count_tokens(&cand) as f64 / input_tokens as f64;
147        consider(mid);
148        if r > ratio_target {
149            lo = mid;
150        } else {
151            hi = mid;
152        }
153    }
154
155    for thr in [0.0_f64, 1.0_f64, lo, hi, f64::midpoint(lo, hi)] {
156        consider(thr);
157    }
158
159    best
160}
161
162#[cfg(test)]
163mod tests {
164    use super::*;
165
166    #[test]
167    fn empty_and_ratio_one_keeps_content() {
168        assert_eq!(compress_ib("", 0.5), "");
169        let s = "fn main() {\n    println!(\"hi\");\n}\n";
170        let full = compress_ib(s, 1.0);
171        assert!(full.contains("fn main"));
172    }
173
174    #[test]
175    fn strong_compression_drops_redundant_lines() {
176        let mut boring = String::new();
177        for _ in 0..30 {
178            boring.push_str("aaa bbb aaa bbb\n");
179        }
180        boring.push_str("unique_identifier_xyz_quartz\n");
181        let out = compress_ib(&boring, 0.15);
182        assert!(out.contains("low-info lines omitted"));
183        assert!(out.contains("unique_identifier_xyz_quartz"));
184        assert!(count_tokens(&out) < count_tokens(&boring));
185    }
186
187    #[test]
188    fn placeholder_counts_skipped_lines() {
189        let lines: Vec<String> = (0..5).map(|_| "x x x x".into()).collect();
190        let mut text = lines.join("\n");
191        text.push('\n');
192        text.push_str("serde Deserialize TraitBounds\n");
193        let out = compress_ib(&text, 0.25);
194        assert!(out.contains("low-info lines omitted"));
195        assert!(out.contains("serde"));
196    }
197
198    fn two_topic_fixture() -> String {
199        let mut s = String::new();
200        for _ in 0..10 {
201            s.push_str(
202                "fn parse_webhook_event(payload: Json) -> StripeEvent { decode(payload) }\n",
203            );
204        }
205        for _ in 0..10 {
206            s.push_str("fn render_dashboard_chart(data: Series) -> Svg { plot(data) }\n");
207        }
208        s
209    }
210
211    #[test]
212    fn different_queries_keep_different_lines() {
213        let text = two_topic_fixture();
214        let a = compress_ib_with_query(&text, 0.3, Some("stripe webhook event parsing"));
215        let b = compress_ib_with_query(&text, 0.3, Some("dashboard chart rendering svg"));
216        assert_ne!(a, b, "query must condition the kept lines");
217        assert!(a.contains("webhook"), "query-a keeps its topic: {a}");
218        assert!(b.contains("dashboard"), "query-b keeps its topic: {b}");
219    }
220
221    #[test]
222    fn no_query_is_byte_identical_to_entropy_only() {
223        let text = two_topic_fixture();
224        assert_eq!(
225            compress_ib_with_query(&text, 0.3, None),
226            compress_ib(&text, 0.3)
227        );
228        // A query sharing no terms with the document degrades gracefully to
229        // the entropy-only result as well.
230        assert_eq!(
231            compress_ib_with_query(&text, 0.3, Some("zzz qqq vvv")),
232            compress_ib(&text, 0.3)
233        );
234    }
235
236    #[test]
237    fn compression_ratio_invariant_holds_with_query() {
238        let text = two_topic_fixture();
239        let out = compress_ib_with_query(&text, 0.3, Some("stripe webhook"));
240        let ratio = count_tokens(&out) as f64 / count_tokens(&text) as f64;
241        // The 2-topic fixture only has two score levels, so the closest
242        // reachable ratio to 0.3 is "keep one topic" (~0.55). The invariant
243        // is: never blow past the coarsest achievable step.
244        assert!(ratio <= 0.6, "ratio stays near target, got {ratio}");
245        assert!(out.contains("webhook") && !out.contains("dashboard"));
246    }
247}