# Ruvector Tiny Dancer Core

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Production-grade AI agent routing system with FastGRNN neural inference for **70-85% LLM cost reduction**.

## 🚀 Introduction

**The Problem**: AI applications often send every request to expensive, powerful models, even when simpler models could handle the task. This wastes money and resources.

**The Solution**: Tiny Dancer acts as a smart traffic controller for your AI requests. It quickly analyzes each request and decides whether to route it to a fast, cheap model or a powerful, expensive one.

**How It Works**:
1. You send a request with potential responses (candidates)
2. Tiny Dancer scores each candidate in microseconds
3. High-confidence candidates go to lightweight models (fast & cheap)
4. Low-confidence candidates go to powerful models (accurate but expensive)

**The Result**: Save 70-85% on AI costs while maintaining quality.

**Real-World Example**: Instead of sending 100 memory items to GPT-4 for evaluation, Tiny Dancer filters them down to the top 3-5 in microseconds, then sends only those to the expensive model.

## ✨ Features

- ⚡ **Sub-millisecond Latency**: 144ns feature extraction, 7.5µs model inference
- 💰 **70-85% Cost Reduction**: Intelligent routing to appropriately-sized models
- 🧠 **FastGRNN Architecture**: <1MB models with 80-90% sparsity
- 🔒 **Circuit Breaker**: Graceful degradation with automatic recovery
- 📊 **Uncertainty Quantification**: Conformal prediction for reliable routing
- 🗄️ **AgentDB Integration**: Persistent SQLite storage with WAL mode
- 🎯 **Multi-Signal Scoring**: Semantic similarity, recency, frequency, success rate
- 🔧 **Model Optimization**: INT8 quantization, magnitude pruning

## 📊 Benchmark Results

```
Feature Extraction:
  10 candidates:   1.73µs  (173ns per candidate)
  50 candidates:   9.44µs  (189ns per candidate)
  100 candidates:  18.48µs (185ns per candidate)

Model Inference:
  Single:          7.50µs
  Batch 10:        74.94µs  (7.49µs per item)
  Batch 100:       735.45µs (7.35µs per item)

Complete Routing:
  10 candidates:   8.83µs
  50 candidates:   48.23µs
  100 candidates:  92.86µs
```

## 🚀 Quick Start

### Installation

Add to your `Cargo.toml`:

```toml
[dependencies]
ruvector-tiny-dancer-core = "0.1.1"
```

### Basic Usage

```rust
use ruvector_tiny_dancer_core::{
    Router,
    types::{RouterConfig, RoutingRequest, Candidate},
};
use std::collections::HashMap;

// Create router
let config = RouterConfig {
    model_path: "./models/fastgrnn.safetensors".to_string(),
    confidence_threshold: 0.85,
    max_uncertainty: 0.15,
    enable_circuit_breaker: true,
    ..Default::default()
};

let router = Router::new(config)?;

// Prepare candidates
let candidates = vec![
    Candidate {
        id: "candidate-1".to_string(),
        embedding: vec![0.5; 384],
        metadata: HashMap::new(),
        created_at: chrono::Utc::now().timestamp(),
        access_count: 10,
        success_rate: 0.95,
    },
];

// Route request
let request = RoutingRequest {
    query_embedding: vec![0.5; 384],
    candidates,
    metadata: None,
};

let response = router.route(request)?;

// Process decisions
for decision in response.decisions {
    println!("Candidate: {}", decision.candidate_id);
    println!("Confidence: {:.2}", decision.confidence);
    println!("Use lightweight: {}", decision.use_lightweight);
    println!("Inference time: {}µs", response.inference_time_us);
}
```

## 📚 Tutorials

### Tutorial 1: Basic Routing

```rust
use ruvector_tiny_dancer_core::{Router, types::*};

fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    // Create default router
    let router = Router::default()?;

    // Create a simple request
    let request = RoutingRequest {
        query_embedding: vec![0.9; 384],
        candidates: vec![
            Candidate {
                id: "high-quality".to_string(),
                embedding: vec![0.85; 384],
                metadata: Default::default(),
                created_at: chrono::Utc::now().timestamp(),
                access_count: 100,
                success_rate: 0.98,
            }
        ],
        metadata: None,
    };

    // Route and inspect results
    let response = router.route(request)?;
    let decision = &response.decisions[0];

    if decision.use_lightweight {
        println!("✅ High confidence - route to lightweight model");
    } else {
        println!("⚠️ Low confidence - route to powerful model");
    }

    Ok(())
}
```

### Tutorial 2: Feature Engineering

```rust
use ruvector_tiny_dancer_core::feature_engineering::{FeatureEngineer, FeatureConfig};

fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    // Custom feature weights
    let config = FeatureConfig {
        similarity_weight: 0.5,  // Prioritize semantic similarity
        recency_weight: 0.3,     // Recent items are important
        frequency_weight: 0.1,
        success_weight: 0.05,
        metadata_weight: 0.05,
        recency_decay: 0.001,
    };

    let engineer = FeatureEngineer::with_config(config);

    // Extract features
    let query = vec![0.5; 384];
    let candidate = Candidate { /* ... */ };
    let features = engineer.extract_features(&query, &candidate, None)?;

    println!("Semantic similarity: {:.4}", features.semantic_similarity);
    println!("Recency score: {:.4}", features.recency_score);
    println!("Combined score: {:.4}",
        features.features.iter().sum::<f32>());

    Ok(())
}
```

### Tutorial 3: Circuit Breaker

```rust
use ruvector_tiny_dancer_core::Router;

fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let router = Router::default()?;

    // Check circuit breaker status
    match router.circuit_breaker_status() {
        Some(true) => {
            println!("✅ Circuit closed - system healthy");
            // Normal routing
        }
        Some(false) => {
            println!("⚠️ Circuit open - using fallback");
            // Route to default powerful model
        }
        None => {
            println!("Circuit breaker disabled");
        }
    }

    Ok(())
}
```

### Tutorial 4: Model Optimization

```rust
use ruvector_tiny_dancer_core::model::{FastGRNN, FastGRNNConfig};

fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    // Create model
    let config = FastGRNNConfig {
        input_dim: 5,
        hidden_dim: 8,
        output_dim: 1,
        ..Default::default()
    };

    let mut model = FastGRNN::new(config)?;

    println!("Original size: {} bytes", model.size_bytes());

    // Apply quantization
    model.quantize()?;
    println!("After quantization: {} bytes", model.size_bytes());

    // Apply pruning
    model.prune(0.9)?;  // 90% sparsity
    println!("After pruning: {} bytes", model.size_bytes());

    Ok(())
}
```

### Tutorial 5: SQLite Storage

```rust
use ruvector_tiny_dancer_core::storage::Storage;

fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    // Create storage
    let storage = Storage::new("./routing.db")?;

    // Insert candidate
    let candidate = Candidate { /* ... */ };
    storage.insert_candidate(&candidate)?;

    // Query candidates
    let candidates = storage.query_candidates(50)?;
    println!("Retrieved {} candidates", candidates.len());

    // Record routing
    storage.record_routing(
        "candidate-1",
        &vec![0.5; 384],
        0.92,      // confidence
        true,      // use_lightweight
        0.08,      // uncertainty
        8_500,     // inference_time_us
    )?;

    // Get statistics
    let stats = storage.get_statistics()?;
    println!("Total routes: {}", stats.total_routes);
    println!("Lightweight: {}", stats.lightweight_routes);
    println!("Avg inference: {:.2}µs", stats.avg_inference_time_us);

    Ok(())
}
```

## 🎯 Advanced Usage

### Hot Model Reloading

```rust
// Reload model without downtime
router.reload_model()?;
```

### Custom Configuration

```rust
let config = RouterConfig {
    model_path: "./models/custom.safetensors".to_string(),
    confidence_threshold: 0.90,  // Higher threshold
    max_uncertainty: 0.10,       // Lower tolerance
    enable_circuit_breaker: true,
    circuit_breaker_threshold: 3, // Faster circuit opening
    enable_quantization: true,
    database_path: Some("./data/routing.db".to_string()),
};
```

### Batch Processing

```rust
let inputs = vec![
    vec![0.5; 5],
    vec![0.3; 5],
    vec![0.8; 5],
];

let scores = model.forward_batch(&inputs)?;
// Process 3 inputs in ~22µs total
```

## 📈 Performance Optimization

### SIMD Acceleration

Feature extraction uses `simsimd` for hardware-accelerated similarity:
- Cosine similarity: **144ns** (384-dim vectors)
- Batch processing: **Linear scaling** with candidate count

### Zero-Copy Operations

- Memory-mapped models with `memmap2`
- Zero-allocation inference paths
- Efficient buffer reuse

### Parallel Processing

- Rayon-based parallel feature extraction
- Batch inference for multiple candidates
- Concurrent storage operations with WAL

## 🔧 Configuration

| Parameter | Default | Description |
|-----------|---------|-------------|
| `confidence_threshold` | 0.85 | Minimum confidence for lightweight routing |
| `max_uncertainty` | 0.15 | Maximum uncertainty tolerance |
| `circuit_breaker_threshold` | 5 | Failures before circuit opens |
| `recency_decay` | 0.001 | Exponential decay rate for recency |

## 📊 Cost Analysis

For 10,000 daily queries at $0.02 per query:

| Scenario | Reduction | Daily Savings | Annual Savings |
|----------|-----------|---------------|----------------|
| Conservative | 70% | $132 | $48,240 |
| Aggressive | 85% | $164 | $59,876 |

**Break-even**: ~2 months with typical engineering costs

## 🔗 Related Projects

- **WASM**: [ruvector-tiny-dancer-wasm](../ruvector-tiny-dancer-wasm) - Browser/edge deployment
- **Node.js**: [ruvector-tiny-dancer-node](../ruvector-tiny-dancer-node) - TypeScript bindings
- **Ruvector**: [ruvector-core](../ruvector-core) - Vector database

## 📚 Resources

- **Documentation**: [docs.rs/ruvector-tiny-dancer-core](https://docs.rs/ruvector-tiny-dancer-core)
- **GitHub**: [github.com/ruvnet/ruvector](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruvector)
- **Website**: [ruv.io](https://ruv.io)
- **Examples**: [github.com/ruvnet/ruvector/tree/main/examples](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruvector/tree/main/examples)

## 🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](../../CONTRIBUTING.md) for guidelines.

## 📄 License

MIT License - see [LICENSE](../../LICENSE) for details.

## 🙏 Acknowledgments

- FastGRNN architecture inspired by Microsoft Research
- RouteLLM for routing methodology
- Cloudflare Workers for WASM deployment patterns

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