# /// script # dependencies = [ # "polars[pyarrow]==1.38.1", # "scikit-learn", # "fasttext-wheel", # "numpy<2", # "sentence-transformers", # "torch", # ] # requires-python = ">=3.10" # /// """ Compare text classification approaches on the FineWeb2 Portuguese dataset. Usage (from repo root): uv run scripts/classify_compare.py Compares: 1. TF-IDF + Logistic Regression (baseline, pure CPU) 2. FastText supervised (default + tuned params) 3. Sentence Transformers (small multilingual) + LogReg 4. Sentence Transformers (larger multilingual) + LogReg 5. Gemma embeddings (local server) + LogReg Prints a final summary table with accuracy, f1, throughput, and projected time to classify 16M rows. """ import json import tempfile import time import urllib.request from dataclasses import dataclass from pathlib import Path import fasttext import numpy import polars from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression from sklearn.metrics import classification_report, f1_score, accuracy_score from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split DATASET_PATH = Path("reference/fineweb2_classification_sample.parquet") EMBEDDING_URL = "http://localhost:8000/v1/embeddings" MAX_CHARS = 800 EMBEDDING_BATCH_SIZE = 100 TEST_SIZE = 0.20 RANDOM_STATE = 42 TARGET_ROWS = 16_000_000 @dataclass class Result: name: str accuracy: float macro_f1: float train_time: float predict_time: float throughput: float # samples/s at inference RESULTS: list[Result] = [] def load_dataset() -> polars.DataFrame: df = polars.read_parquet(DATASET_PATH) df = df.select(["text", "category"]).drop_nulls() print(f"Loaded {len(df)} samples") print(df["category"].value_counts().sort("count", descending=True)) return df def split_data( df: polars.DataFrame, ) -> tuple[list[str], list[str], list[str], list[str]]: texts = df["text"].to_list() labels = df["category"].to_list() return train_test_split( texts, labels, test_size=TEST_SIZE, random_state=RANDOM_STATE, stratify=labels ) def truncate(texts: list[str]) -> list[str]: return [t[:MAX_CHARS].strip() for t in texts] def record( name: str, test_labels: list[str], predictions: list, train_time: float, predict_time: float, n_test: int, ): acc = accuracy_score(y_true=test_labels, y_pred=predictions) f1 = f1_score( y_true=test_labels, y_pred=predictions, average="macro", zero_division=0 ) throughput = n_test / predict_time if predict_time > 0 else 0 RESULTS.append( Result( name=name, accuracy=acc, macro_f1=f1, train_time=train_time, predict_time=predict_time, throughput=throughput, ) ) print( f"\n{classification_report(y_true=test_labels, y_pred=predictions, zero_division=0)}" ) # ─── 1. TF-IDF + LogReg ─── def run_tfidf_logreg( train_texts: list[str], test_texts: list[str], train_labels: list[str], test_labels: list[str], ): print("\n" + "=" * 60) print("TF-IDF + Logistic Regression") print("=" * 60) train_trunc = truncate(train_texts) test_trunc = truncate(test_texts) t0 = time.perf_counter() vectorizer = TfidfVectorizer( max_features=50_000, sublinear_tf=True, ngram_range=(1, 2) ) train_features = vectorizer.fit_transform(train_trunc) classifier = LogisticRegression( max_iter=2000, C=1.0, class_weight="balanced", random_state=RANDOM_STATE ) classifier.fit(X=train_features, y=train_labels) train_time = time.perf_counter() - t0 t0 = time.perf_counter() test_features = vectorizer.transform(test_trunc) predictions = classifier.predict(X=test_features) predict_time = time.perf_counter() - t0 print( f"\nTiming: Train: {train_time:.2f}s | Predict: {predict_time:.4f}s | Throughput: {len(test_texts) / predict_time:.0f} samples/s" ) record( name="TF-IDF + LogReg", test_labels=test_labels, predictions=predictions, train_time=train_time, predict_time=predict_time, n_test=len(test_texts), ) # ─── 2. FastText ─── def write_fasttext_file(texts: list[str], labels: list[str], path: str): with open(path, "w") as f: for text, label in zip(texts, labels): clean_text = text[:MAX_CHARS].replace("\n", " ").replace("\r", " ").strip() f.write(f"__label__{label} {clean_text}\n") def run_fasttext_variants( train_texts: list[str], test_texts: list[str], train_labels: list[str], test_labels: list[str], ): print("\n" + "=" * 60) print("FastText Supervised") print("=" * 60) with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdir: train_path = f"{tmpdir}/train.txt" write_fasttext_file(texts=train_texts, labels=train_labels, path=train_path) configs = [ ( "FastText (default)", dict(epoch=25, lr=0.5, wordNgrams=2, dim=100, loss="softmax"), ), ( "FastText (tuned)", dict(epoch=50, lr=0.3, wordNgrams=3, dim=200, loss="softmax"), ), ] for name, params in configs: print(f"\n--- {name} ---") t0 = time.perf_counter() model = fasttext.train_supervised(input=train_path, verbose=0, **params) train_time = time.perf_counter() - t0 t0 = time.perf_counter() predictions = [] for text in test_texts: clean = text[:MAX_CHARS].replace("\n", " ").replace("\r", " ").strip() pred = model.predict(clean) predictions.append(pred[0][0].replace("__label__", "")) predict_time = time.perf_counter() - t0 print( f"Timing: Train: {train_time:.2f}s | Predict: {predict_time:.4f}s | Throughput: {len(test_texts) / predict_time:.0f} samples/s" ) record( name=name, test_labels=test_labels, predictions=predictions, train_time=train_time, predict_time=predict_time, n_test=len(test_texts), ) # ─── 3. Sentence Transformers + LogReg ─── def get_device() -> str: import torch if torch.backends.mps.is_available(): return "mps" if torch.cuda.is_available(): return "cuda" return "cpu" def run_sentence_transformer( train_texts: list[str], test_texts: list[str], train_labels: list[str], test_labels: list[str], model_name: str, label: str, ): from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer device = get_device() print(f"\n{'=' * 60}") print(f"{label} (device={device})") print(f"{'=' * 60}") train_trunc = truncate(train_texts) test_trunc = truncate(test_texts) model = SentenceTransformer(model_name, device=device) t0 = time.perf_counter() train_embeddings = model.encode(train_trunc, batch_size=256, show_progress_bar=True) embed_train_time = time.perf_counter() - t0 classifier = LogisticRegression( max_iter=2000, C=1.0, class_weight="balanced", random_state=RANDOM_STATE ) t0 = time.perf_counter() classifier.fit(X=train_embeddings, y=train_labels) fit_time = time.perf_counter() - t0 t0 = time.perf_counter() test_embeddings = model.encode(test_trunc, batch_size=256, show_progress_bar=True) embed_test_time = time.perf_counter() - t0 t0 = time.perf_counter() predictions = classifier.predict(X=test_embeddings) classify_time = time.perf_counter() - t0 total_train = embed_train_time + fit_time total_predict = embed_test_time + classify_time print(f"\nTiming:") print( f" Train embed: {embed_train_time:.2f}s | Fit: {fit_time:.2f}s | Total train: {total_train:.2f}s" ) print( f" Test embed: {embed_test_time:.2f}s | Predict: {classify_time:.4f}s | Total test: {total_predict:.2f}s" ) print(f" Throughput (test): {len(test_texts) / total_predict:.0f} samples/s") record( name=label, test_labels=test_labels, predictions=predictions, train_time=total_train, predict_time=total_predict, n_test=len(test_texts), ) # ─── 4. Gemma Embedding (local server) + LogReg ─── def fetch_embeddings(texts: list[str]) -> numpy.ndarray: truncated = truncate(texts) all_embeddings = [] for i in range(0, len(truncated), EMBEDDING_BATCH_SIZE): chunk = truncated[i : i + EMBEDDING_BATCH_SIZE] request = urllib.request.Request( url=EMBEDDING_URL, data=json.dumps( {"input": chunk, "model": "embed", "encoding_format": "float"} ).encode("utf-8"), headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"}, method="POST", ) with urllib.request.urlopen(request) as response: result = json.load(response) sorted_data = sorted(result["data"], key=lambda x: x["index"]) all_embeddings.extend([d["embedding"] for d in sorted_data]) return numpy.array(all_embeddings) def embedding_is_available() -> bool: try: request = urllib.request.Request( url=EMBEDDING_URL, data=json.dumps( {"input": ["test"], "model": "embed", "encoding_format": "float"} ).encode("utf-8"), headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"}, method="POST", ) with urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=5) as response: json.load(response) return True except Exception: return False def run_gemma_logreg( train_texts: list[str], test_texts: list[str], train_labels: list[str], test_labels: list[str], ): print("\n" + "=" * 60) print("Gemma Embedding (local) + LogReg") print("=" * 60) if not embedding_is_available(): print(f"SKIPPED: embedding server not reachable at {EMBEDDING_URL}") return t0 = time.perf_counter() train_embeddings = fetch_embeddings(texts=train_texts) embed_train_time = time.perf_counter() - t0 classifier = LogisticRegression( max_iter=2000, C=1.0, class_weight="balanced", random_state=RANDOM_STATE ) t0 = time.perf_counter() classifier.fit(X=train_embeddings, y=train_labels) fit_time = time.perf_counter() - t0 t0 = time.perf_counter() test_embeddings = fetch_embeddings(texts=test_texts) embed_test_time = time.perf_counter() - t0 t0 = time.perf_counter() predictions = classifier.predict(X=test_embeddings) predict_time = time.perf_counter() - t0 total_train = embed_train_time + fit_time total_predict = embed_test_time + predict_time print(f"\nTiming:") print( f" Train embed: {embed_train_time:.2f}s | Fit: {fit_time:.2f}s | Total train: {total_train:.2f}s" ) print( f" Test embed: {embed_test_time:.2f}s | Predict: {predict_time:.4f}s | Total test: {total_predict:.2f}s" ) print(f" Throughput (test): {len(test_texts) / total_predict:.0f} samples/s") record( name="Gemma Embed + LogReg", test_labels=test_labels, predictions=predictions, train_time=total_train, predict_time=total_predict, n_test=len(test_texts), ) # ─── Summary ─── def print_summary(): print("\n\n") print("=" * 90) print(f"{'SUMMARY':^90}") print("=" * 90) header = f"{'Method':<35} {'Acc':>6} {'F1':>6} {'Train':>8} {'samp/s':>10} {'16M ETA':>12}" print(header) print("-" * 90) for r in sorted(RESULTS, key=lambda x: x.macro_f1, reverse=True): eta_hours = ( TARGET_ROWS / r.throughput / 3600 if r.throughput > 0 else float("inf") ) if eta_hours < 1: eta_str = f"{eta_hours * 60:.0f} min" else: eta_str = f"{eta_hours:.1f} hrs" print( f"{r.name:<35} {r.accuracy:>6.1%} {r.macro_f1:>6.1%} {r.train_time:>7.1f}s {r.throughput:>10,.0f} {eta_str:>12}" ) print("-" * 90) print( f"Target: {TARGET_ROWS:,} rows. ETA = projected inference-only time at test throughput." ) print() def main(): df = load_dataset() train_texts, test_texts, train_labels, test_labels = split_data(df=df) print(f"Train: {len(train_texts)} | Test: {len(test_texts)}") args = dict( train_texts=train_texts, test_texts=test_texts, train_labels=train_labels, test_labels=test_labels, ) # Fast baselines first run_tfidf_logreg(**args) run_fasttext_variants(**args) # Sentence transformers — small to medium, multilingual run_sentence_transformer( **args, model_name="sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2", label="MiniLM-L12 multilingual + LogReg", ) run_sentence_transformer( **args, model_name="sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2", label="MiniLM-L6 (EN-only) + LogReg", ) run_sentence_transformer( **args, model_name="intfloat/multilingual-e5-small", label="E5-small multilingual + LogReg", ) # Gemma (local server) run_gemma_logreg(**args) print_summary() if __name__ == "__main__": main()