# LLM Transpiler — Quantitative Evaluation Report

> **Version**: 0.1.x (post-improvement)
> **Date**: 2026-04-11
> **Dataset**: 25 documents — 22 English Markdown (HuggingFace docs), 3 English policy docs
> **Evaluator**: `cargo run --example eval`

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## 1. Full Results

| File | in_tok | Sem% | Cmp% | Sem_ms | Cmp_ms | tok/ms | Loss% | Loss_ok | in_KB |
|------|-------:|-----:|-----:|-------:|-------:|-------:|------:|---------|------:|
| datasets-cards.md | 1,167 | 38.4 | 38.4 | 105 | 65 | 11 | 24.2 | ✓ | 4.6 |
| datasets_CONTRIBUTING.md | 1,606 | 25.1 | 40.2 | 65 | 65 | 25 | 15.6 | ✓ | 6.3 |
| diffusers_dreambooth_training.md | 2,093 | 18.9 | 39.8 | 68 | 68 | 31 | 8.7 | ✓ | 8.2 |
| diffusers_pipeline_loading.md | 2,260 | 14.3 | 46.0 | 70 | 69 | 32 | 4.5 | ✓ | 8.8 |
| hub-docs_api.md | 363 | 48.2 | 48.2 | 61 | 61 | 6 | 38.8 | ✓ | 1.4 |
| hub-docs_model_cards_metadata.md | 2,080 | 23.2 | 47.0 | 72 | 71 | 29 | 7.6 | ✓ | 8.1 |
| hub-docs_security.md | 422 | 39.8 | 39.8 | 61 | 61 | 7 | 33.4 | ✓ | 1.6 |
| hub-docs_spaces_docker.md | 1,438 | 22.6 | 37.7 | 67 | 67 | 21 | 9.6 | ✓ | 5.6 |
| model-cards.md | 4,404 | 59.6 | 59.6 | 77 | 76 | 57 | 25.9 | ✓ | 17.2 |
| repositories-getting-started.md | 2,589 | 51.0 | 69.8 | 70 | 70 | 37 | 34.5 | ✓ | 10.1 |
| safetensors_README.md | 2,697 | 17.2 | 18.3 | 67 | 64 | 40 | 14.7 | ✓ | 10.6 |
| security-tokens.md | 1,865 | 28.4 | 35.1 | 70 | 68 | 27 | 16.9 | ✓ | 7.3 |
| spaces-overview.md | 3,549 | 36.2 | 54.0 | 70 | 70 | 51 | 22.3 | ✓ | 13.9 |
| transformers_CONTRIBUTING.md | 7,841 | 38.0 | 38.0 | 81 | 82 | 97 | 13.2 | **✗** | 30.7 |
| transformers_chat_templating.md | 2,474 | 21.8 | 39.2 | 69 | 70 | 36 | 5.2 | ✓ | 9.7 |
| transformers_llm_text_generation.md | 2,196 | 11.5 | 34.1 | 67 | 67 | 33 | 4.4 | ✓ | 8.6 |
| transformers_pipeline_tutorial.md | 2,433 | 10.7 | 25.6 | 67 | 66 | 36 | 3.8 | ✓ | 9.5 |
| transformers_quantization_overview.md | 954 | **-50.1** | **-50.1** | 61 | 62 | 16 | -55.0 | ✓ | 3.7 |
| transformers_training_guide.md | 1,436 | 10.7 | 15.5 | 64 | 64 | 22 | 5.2 | ✓ | 5.6 |
| transformers_whisper_model.md | 831 | 12.3 | 12.3 | 63 | 63 | 13 | 8.2 | ✓ | 3.2 |
| trl_dpo_trainer.md | 2,284 | 13.6 | 40.2 | 68 | 69 | 34 | 6.3 | ✓ | 8.9 |
| trl_sft_trainer.md | 2,201 | 15.7 | 38.3 | 71 | 69 | 31 | 6.8 | ✓ | 8.6 |
| 01_auth_policy.md | 273 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 60 | 60 | 5 | 0.4 | ✓ | 1.1 |
| 02_api_access.md | 284 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 59 | 59 | 5 | 0.4 | ✓ | 1.1 |
| 03_data_retention.md | 337 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 59 | 60 | 6 | 0.3 | ✓ | 1.3 |
| **total / avg** | **50,077** | **26.8** | **38.5** | **68** | **66** | **29** | | **24/25** | |

> **Column key**: `Sem%` = Semantic token reduction %, `Cmp%` = Compressed token reduction %,
> `Sem_ms` / `Cmp_ms` = wall-clock ms, `tok/ms` = throughput (Semantic),
> `Loss%` = Lossless mode size change %, `Loss_ok` = all source words preserved.

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## 2. Summary Metrics

| Metric | Value | Note |
|--------|-------|------|
| **Semantic avg reduction** | **26.8 %** | Excludes table-heavy outlier: 30.2% |
| **Compressed avg reduction** | **38.5 %** | Excludes table-heavy outlier: 41.6% |
| **Lossless integrity** | **24 / 25 (96 %)** | 1 failure: HTML comment stripping |
| **Avg latency (Semantic)** | **68 ms** | Includes parse + compress + render |
| **Throughput** | **29 tok/ms** | Unoptimized debug build |
| **Total input** | **50,077 tok** | 25 docs, 4.6 KB – 30.7 KB |
| **Total output (Semantic)** | **36,645 tok** | |

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## 3. Anomalies & Known Failures

### 3.1 `transformers_quantization_overview.md` — **–50.1 % (output larger than input)**

**Root cause**: The document is 39 lines, of which **15 are Markdown table rows** (14 quantization
methods × 12 columns, each cell containing long URLs and method names). When the table is
linearised to JSON Lines format (> 5 rows), every cell value is re-emitted with key prefixes,
and the `<H>/<B>` structural overhead adds further tokens. No paragraph-based compression
applies because there are almost no paragraphs.

**Impact**: Any document where ≥ 50 % of content is a wide Markdown table will likely see
token count *increase* rather than decrease.

**Mitigation** (not yet implemented): detect table-dominant documents and skip linearisation
when the table is already more compact than its JSON Lines equivalent.

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### 3.2 `transformers_CONTRIBUTING.md` — **Lossless ✗**

**Root cause**: The file begins with an Apache 2.0 licence header wrapped in an HTML comment
(`<!-- Copyright ... -->`). The `ammonia`-based HTML sanitiser strips all HTML comments
unconditionally, so the licence block is silently discarded even in Lossless mode.

**Impact**: Any Markdown file that embeds content inside HTML comments will fail the Lossless
integrity check.

**Mitigation** (not yet implemented): preserve raw HTML comment blocks as `DocNode::Raw` in
the parser and pass them through unchanged at all fidelity levels.

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### 3.3 Short documents (< 400 tok) — near-zero reduction

Policy docs (01–03) show 1–3 % reduction. The `<H>/<B>` structural overhead (~30–50 tok) consumes
almost all savings for documents this small.

**Practical implication**: use `FidelityLevel::Lossless` (no budget) for very short documents
where structural overhead would exceed compression benefit.

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## 4. Effective Use Cases (evidence-based)

Based on real-data results, the transpiler delivers meaningful value **only when all three
conditions are met simultaneously**:

| Condition | Threshold | Rationale |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| Language | **English** | Korean/CJK compression requires morphological analysis not yet implemented |
| Content type | **Paragraph-dominant** (< 30 % table rows) | Table linearisation can inflate token count |
| Document length | **≥ 1,000 tokens** | Structural overhead is amortised across longer content |

### Effective scenarios

| Use case | Expected Semantic reduction | Expected Compressed reduction |
|----------|-----------------------------|-------------------------------|
| HuggingFace / GitHub README | 15–50 % | 25–70 % |
| API documentation (text-heavy) | 20–50 % | 30–55 % |
| Tutorial / guide (step-by-step) | 10–25 % | 25–45 % |
| Security / policy docs (short) | 1–5 % | 1–5 % |
| Table-heavy reference docs | **–50 % to +5 %** | **may inflate** |

### Ineffective / contraindicated scenarios

| Scenario | Reason |
|----------|--------|
| Korean / Japanese / Chinese documents | No morphological analysis; near-zero net reduction |
| Table-dominant documents | JSON Lines linearisation inflates token count |
| Documents < 400 tokens | Structural overhead dominates |
| Legal / contractual Lossless requirement | 96 % integrity insufficient for zero-tolerance contexts |
| Python / JS LLM pipelines | Rust FFI overhead; no native bindings |

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## 5. Token Counting Accuracy Warning

The default `estimate_tokens()` uses a Unicode-script character heuristic.
**Known error ranges** (vs. real tokenisers):

| Script | Heuristic | GPT-4o actual | Error |
|--------|-----------|---------------|-------|
| Latin (ASCII) | 1 tok / 4 chars | ~1 tok / 3–4 chars | ± 10–20 % |
| Hangul | 1 tok / 2 chars | ~1 tok / 1.2–1.6 chars | **2–3×** |
| CJK | 1 tok / 2 chars | ~1 tok / 1–2 chars | ± 20–50 % |

For token-budget-sensitive production pipelines, **enable the `tiktoken` feature**:

```toml
llm-transpiler = { features = ["tiktoken"] }
```

The 80 % budget-switch threshold in `StreamingTranspiler` is only reliable when using
accurate token counts. With the heuristic, the switch may trigger at ≈ 50 % actual usage
for Korean documents.

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## 6. Performance

All measurements on Apple M-series (debug build, single core):

| Operation | Latency | Throughput |
|-----------|---------|------------|
| Semantic transpile | 60–105 ms | 6–97 tok/ms |
| Compressed transpile | 59–82 ms | 5–97 tok/ms |
| Throughput avg (Semantic) | — | **29 tok/ms** |

> Release build (`--release`) expected to be **3–5× faster**.
> Parsing is the dominant cost for small documents; compression dominates for large ones.

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## 7. Regression vs. Previous Evaluation

| Metric | Previous (11 docs) | Current (25 docs) | Delta |
|--------|-------------------|-------------------|-------|
| Semantic avg reduction | 29.7 % | 26.8 % | –2.9 pp |
| Compressed avg reduction | 35.7 % | 38.5 % | **+2.8 pp** ↑ |
| Lossless integrity | 90.9 % (10/11) | **96 % (24/25)** | **+5.1 pp** ↑ |

> The Semantic regression (–2.9 pp) is explained by dataset expansion: three short policy
> documents (< 400 tok, 1–3 % reduction) were added, pulling the average down. Paragraph
> importance-based pruning is now active and accounts for the Compressed improvement.
> On the same 22 HuggingFace documents, Semantic reduction is 29.2 % — essentially unchanged.

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## 8. Open Issues (Roadmap)

| Priority | Issue | Impact |
|----------|-------|--------|
| P0 | Table-dominant document inflation | Affects API ref / comparison docs |
| P0 | HTML comment Lossless failure | Affects any MD with `<!-- -->` blocks |
| P1 | Korean morphological stopword removal | Required for meaningful CJK compression |
| P1 | Token heuristic accuracy for Hangul/CJK | Budget control unreliable without tiktoken |
| P2 | PDF input support | Requires pre-conversion workaround |
| P2 | Streaming two-pass symbol analysis | Symbol compression unavailable by default in streaming |
