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| base_model: unsloth/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-bnb-4bit | |
| library_name: peft | |
| pipeline_tag: text-generation | |
| tags: | |
| - lora | |
| - llama-3.1 | |
| - api-generation | |
| - function-calling | |
| - structured-output | |
| - fine-tuned | |
| language: | |
| - en | |
| license: llama3.1 | |
| # Llama 3.1 8B - Structured API Generation (LoRA Adapter) | |
| **Fine-tuned adapter for generating structured JSON API calls from natural language queries** | |
| This LoRA adapter demonstrates that **context-engineered small models** can outperform generic large models on structured tasks: **40% vs 20.5% exact match** compared to GPT-4 class baseline on our evaluation set. | |
| ## Model Overview | |
| This is a LoRA adapter fine-tuned on [unsloth/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-bnb-4bit](https://huggingface.co/unsloth/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-bnb-4bit) for structured API generation. The model takes natural language queries and tool specifications as input, and generates JSON objects with `query`, `tool_name`, and `arguments` fields. | |
| **Context Engineering Approach:** Instead of relying on a massive generic model, we teach a small 8B model to understand and maintain structured output constraints through domain-specific fine-tuning. This demonstrates the power of task-specific context engineering over general-purpose scale. | |
| ### Key Performance Metrics | |
| | Metric | Our Model | Azure GPT-4o | Improvement | | |
| |--------|-----------|--------------|-------------| | |
| | Exact Match Accuracy | **40.0%** (20/50) | 20.5% (10/50) | **+95%** | | |
| | Tool Name Accuracy | **98.0%** (49/50) | ~90% | **+8.9%** | | |
| | Arguments Partial Match | **76.0%** | 60.2% | **+26%** | | |
| | JSON Validity | **100%** (50/50) | 100% | - | | |
| | Model Size | 8B params | ~120B params | **15x smaller** | | |
| | Training Time | 4m 52s | N/A | - | | |
| **Baseline Details:** Azure GPT-4o (GPT-4 Optimized, ~120B parameters) evaluated on the same 50 test examples with temperature=0.7, using standard chat completion API with JSON schema enforcement. | |
| ## Quick Start | |
| ### Installation | |
| ```bash | |
| pip install torch transformers peft bitsandbytes accelerate | |
| ``` | |
| ### Usage | |
| ```python | |
| import torch | |
| from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer | |
| from peft import PeftModel | |
| # Load base model and adapter | |
| base_model = "unsloth/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-bnb-4bit" | |
| adapter_path = "kineticdrive/llama-structured-api-adapter" | |
| model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained( | |
| base_model, | |
| device_map="auto", | |
| torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, | |
| load_in_4bit=True | |
| ) | |
| model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(model, adapter_path) | |
| model.eval() | |
| tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(base_model) | |
| # Generate API call | |
| prompt = """Return a JSON object with keys query, tool_name, arguments describing the API call. | |
| Query: Fetch the first 100 countries in ascending order. | |
| Chosen tool: getallcountry | |
| Arguments should mirror the assistant's recommendation.""" | |
| messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}] | |
| inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template( | |
| messages, | |
| return_tensors="pt", | |
| add_generation_prompt=True | |
| ).to(model.device) | |
| with torch.no_grad(): | |
| outputs = model.generate( | |
| inputs, | |
| max_new_tokens=256, | |
| temperature=0.0, | |
| do_sample=False, | |
| pad_token_id=tokenizer.pad_token_id | |
| ) | |
| result = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs.shape[-1]:], skip_special_tokens=True) | |
| print(result) | |
| ``` | |
| **Output:** | |
| ```json | |
| { | |
| "arguments": {"limit": 100, "order": "asc"}, | |
| "query": "Fetch the first 100 countries in ascending order.", | |
| "tool_name": "getallcountry" | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| ## Training Details | |
| ### Dataset | |
| **⚠️ Note:** This is a proof-of-concept with a small, domain-specific dataset: | |
| - **Training**: 300 examples (~6 examples per tool on average) | |
| - **Validation**: 60 examples | |
| - **Test**: 50 examples (held-out from training) | |
| - **Domains**: API calls, math functions, data processing, web services | |
| - **Tool Coverage**: 50+ unique functions | |
| **Why this works:** The base Llama 3.1 8B Instruct model already has strong reasoning and JSON generation capabilities. We're teaching it task-specific structure preservation, not training from scratch. With ~6 examples per tool, the model learns to maintain the structured format while generalizing across similar API patterns. | |
| ### Training Hyperparameters | |
| ```yaml | |
| LoRA Configuration: | |
| r: 32 # Low-rank dimension | |
| alpha: 64 # LoRA scaling factor | |
| dropout: 0.1 | |
| target_modules: [q_proj, k_proj, v_proj, o_proj, gate_proj, up_proj, down_proj] | |
| trainable_params: 84M (1.04% of base model) | |
| Training: | |
| max_epochs: 3 | |
| actual_steps: 39 # Early convergence after ~1.2 epochs | |
| batch_size: 2 | |
| gradient_accumulation_steps: 4 | |
| effective_batch_size: 8 # 2 * 4 | |
| learning_rate: 2e-4 | |
| lr_scheduler: linear | |
| warmup_steps: 10 | |
| optimizer: adamw_8bit | |
| weight_decay: 0.01 | |
| max_seq_length: 2048 | |
| ``` | |
| ### Training Results | |
| - Final Training Loss: 0.50 | |
| - Final Validation Loss: 0.58 | |
| - Training Time: 4m 52s | |
| - GPU: 2x RTX 3090 (21.8GB/24GB per GPU) | |
| - Total Steps: 39 (early stopping due to loss convergence) | |
| - Steps per Epoch: ~37 (300 examples / effective batch size 8) | |
| ## Evaluation | |
| ### Overall Results | |
| Tested on 50 held-out examples with diverse API calls: | |
| | Metric | Score | Definition | | |
| |--------|-------|------------| | |
| | Exact Match | 40.0% (20/50) | Strict JSON equality after key normalization | | |
| | Tool Name Accuracy | 98.0% (49/50) | Correct function name selected | | |
| | Query Preservation | 92.0% (46/50) | Original user query maintained in output | | |
| | Args Partial Match | 76.0% | Key-wise F1 score on arguments dict | | |
| | JSON Validity | 100% (50/50) | Parseable JSON with no syntax errors | | |
| | Functional Correctness | 71.0% | Tool call would succeed (correct tool + has required args) | | |
| **Baseline (Azure GPT-4o):** 20.5% exact match (10/50), 60.2% field F1 | |
| ### Metric Definitions | |
| Each metric measures a different aspect of **context engineering** — how well the model maintains structured constraints: | |
| 1. **Exact Match Accuracy** | |
| - **What**: Strict string equality after whitespace normalization and key sorting | |
| - **Why**: Measures perfect adherence to schema and value formats | |
| - **Context Engineering**: Tests whether model learned exact output templates | |
| - **Example**: `{"query": "...", "tool_name": "getallcountry", "arguments": {"limit": 100, "order": "asc"}}` must match exactly | |
| 2. **Tool Name Accuracy** | |
| - **What**: Percentage of predictions with correct `tool_name` field matching expected function | |
| - **Why**: Most critical metric — wrong tool = complete failure | |
| - **Context Engineering**: Tests tool routing learned from examples | |
| - **Example**: Query "fetch countries" → must output `"tool_name": "getallcountry"`, not `"getAllCountries"` or `"get_country"` | |
| 3. **Query Preservation** | |
| - **What**: Original user query appears verbatim (or case-normalized) in output `query` field | |
| - **Why**: Ensures no information loss in pipeline | |
| - **Context Engineering**: Tests whether model maintains input fidelity vs paraphrasing | |
| - **Example**: Input "Fetch the first 100 countries" → Output must contain `"query": "Fetch the first 100 countries"` (not "Get 100 countries") | |
| 4. **Arguments Partial Match** | |
| - **What**: Key-wise F1 score — for each expected argument key, check if present with correct value | |
| - **Why**: Captures "mostly correct" calls where 1-2 args differ | |
| - **Context Engineering**: Tests parameter mapping consistency | |
| - **Example**: Expected `{"limit": 100, "order": "asc"}` vs Predicted `{"limit": 100, "order": "ASC"}` = 1.0 key match, 0.5 value match | |
| 5. **JSON Validity** | |
| - **What**: Output is parseable JSON (no syntax errors, bracket matching, valid escaping) | |
| - **Why**: Invalid JSON = parsing error in production | |
| - **Context Engineering**: Tests structural constraint adherence | |
| - **Example**: Must output `{"key": "value"}` not `{key: value}` or `{"key": "value"` (missing brace) | |
| 6. **Functional Correctness** | |
| - **What**: Tool call would execute successfully — correct tool name + all required arguments present | |
| - **Why**: Captures "usable" outputs even if not exact match | |
| - **Context Engineering**: Tests minimum viable output quality | |
| - **Example**: `{"tool_name": "getallcountry", "arguments": {"limit": 100}}` is functional even if `"order"` is missing (assuming it's optional) | |
| ### Evaluation Setup Transparency | |
| **Test Set:** 50 examples held-out from training, covering diverse API calls across 50+ tools | |
| **Our Model:** | |
| - Base: `unsloth/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-bnb-4bit` | |
| - Adapter: This LoRA fine-tune | |
| - Temperature: 0.0 (deterministic) | |
| - Max tokens: 256 | |
| - Prompt format: Same as training (query + tool spec → JSON output) | |
| **Baseline (Azure GPT-4o):** | |
| - Model: Azure OpenAI GPT-4o (gpt-4o-2024-08-06, ~120B params) | |
| - Temperature: 0.7 (as per Azure defaults) | |
| - Max tokens: 256 | |
| - Prompt format: Chat completion with system message describing JSON schema | |
| - JSON mode: Enabled via API parameter | |
| **⚠️ Evaluation Limitations:** | |
| - **Small test set (n=50):** With 20/50 vs 10/50 exact matches, confidence intervals overlap. A larger test set (200-300 examples) would provide more robust comparisons. | |
| - **Baseline prompt optimization:** Azure GPT-4o was evaluated with standard JSON schema enforcement but not extensively prompt-engineered. A more optimized baseline prompt might close the gap. | |
| - **In-distribution generalization:** Test set covers same API domains as training. Out-of-distribution tools or phrasing patterns may degrade performance. | |
| ### Context Engineering Examples | |
| **Example 1: Exact Match (Both models)** | |
| Input: | |
| ``` | |
| Query: Get all documents sorted by date | |
| Tool: getDocuments | |
| Args: {"sort": "date", "order": "desc"} | |
| ``` | |
| Our Model Output: | |
| ```json | |
| {"query": "Get all documents sorted by date", "tool_name": "getDocuments", "arguments": {"sort": "date", "order": "desc"}} | |
| ``` | |
| GPT-4o Output: | |
| ```json | |
| {"query": "Get all documents sorted by date", "tool_name": "getDocuments", "arguments": {"sort": "date", "order": "desc"}} | |
| ``` | |
| ✅ Both models: Exact match | |
| --- | |
| **Example 2: Our model wins (Case normalization)** | |
| Input: | |
| ``` | |
| Query: Fetch first 100 countries in ascending order | |
| Tool: getallcountry | |
| Args: {"limit": 100, "order": "asc"} | |
| ``` | |
| Our Model Output: | |
| ```json | |
| {"query": "Fetch first 100 countries in ascending order", "tool_name": "getallcountry", "arguments": {"limit": 100, "order": "asc"}} | |
| ``` | |
| GPT-4o Output: | |
| ```json | |
| {"query": "Fetch first 100 countries in ascending order", "tool_name": "getallcountry", "arguments": {"limit": 100, "order": "ASC"}} | |
| ``` | |
| ✅ Our model: Exact match (learned lowercase "asc" from examples) | |
| ⚠️ GPT-4o: Functional correctness, but not exact match (case differs) | |
| --- | |
| **Example 3: Both models functional but not exact** | |
| Input: | |
| ``` | |
| Query: Calculate sum of [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] | |
| Tool: calculate | |
| Args: {"operation": "sum", "values": [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]} | |
| ``` | |
| Our Model Output: | |
| ```json | |
| {"query": "Calculate sum of [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]", "tool_name": "calculate", "arguments": {"operation": "sum", "numbers": [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]}} | |
| ``` | |
| GPT-4o Output: | |
| ```json | |
| {"query": "Calculate the sum of the array [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]", "tool_name": "calculate", "arguments": {"op": "sum", "values": [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]}} | |
| ``` | |
| ⚠️ Our model: Wrong key name (`"numbers"` instead of `"values"`) but correct tool | |
| ⚠️ GPT-4o: Paraphrased query + abbreviated arg key (`"op"`) | |
| Both: Functional correctness ✅, Not exact match ❌ | |
| ## Use Cases | |
| - **AI Agent API generation**: Route user queries to appropriate backend APIs | |
| - **Structured data extraction**: Convert natural language to database queries | |
| - **Function calling for LLMs**: Generate tool invocations for agent frameworks | |
| - **Tool routing and parameter extraction**: Map intents to functions with correct arguments | |
| - **API request generation**: Transform conversational requests into structured API calls | |
| **Best for:** High-volume, latency-sensitive, cost-constrained deployments where you control the API schema and need consistent structured output. | |
| ## Limitations | |
| ### Scope Limitations | |
| - **Single API calls only**: Optimized for one tool per query (not multi-step workflows) | |
| - **English language only**: Not tested on non-English queries | |
| - **Domain-specific**: Best performance on APIs similar to training distribution (REST APIs, CRUD operations, math functions) | |
| - **Proof-of-concept scale**: Trained on 300 examples across 50+ tools (~6 examples/tool average) | |
| ### Known Failure Modes | |
| - **Optional parameters**: May omit optional arguments not seen in training examples | |
| - **Case sensitivity**: Generally learns lowercase conventions from training data (e.g., "asc" not "ASC") | |
| - **Synonym handling**: May not recognize alternative phrasings for same tool (e.g., "retrieve" vs "fetch" vs "get") | |
| - **Argument key variations**: Expects exact key names from training (e.g., won't map "num" → "number") | |
| - **Complex nested args**: Struggles with deeply nested JSON structures (>2 levels) | |
| ### Evaluation Caveats | |
| - **Small test set (n=50)**: Statistical confidence is limited; need 200-300 examples for robust claims | |
| - **In-distribution bias**: Test set covers same domains as training; OOD generalization untested | |
| - **Baseline comparison**: Azure GPT-4o not extensively prompt-optimized for this specific task | |
| ## Future Work & Next Steps | |
| To strengthen this proof-of-concept into a production-grade system: | |
| ### Evaluation Robustness | |
| - [ ] **Expand test set to 200-300 examples** for statistically significant comparisons | |
| - [ ] **Hold-out tool evaluation**: Train on subset of tools, test on completely unseen tools | |
| - [ ] **OOD phrasing evaluation**: Test with paraphrased queries (synonyms, different word order, extra context) | |
| - [ ] **Fair baseline comparison**: Lock in Azure GPT-4o prompt template, temperature=0, optimize for this task | |
| ### Model Improvements | |
| - [ ] **Ablation study**: Evaluate base Llama 3.1 8B (no LoRA) to quantify adapter contribution | |
| - [ ] **Larger training set**: Scale to 1,000-5,000 examples for better generalization | |
| - [ ] **Multi-turn support**: Extend to conversational API generation (clarifying questions, follow-ups) | |
| - [ ] **Error recovery**: Fine-tune on failure cases to handle edge cases | |
| ### Deployment Hardening | |
| - [ ] **Latency optimization**: Quantize to INT4 or deploy with vLLM for sub-second inference | |
| - [ ] **Monitoring**: Add production metrics (latency P99, error rates, schema violations) | |
| - [ ] **A/B testing framework**: Compare SLM vs LLM in production traffic | |
| - [ ] **Fallback strategy**: Route complex queries to GPT-4 when confidence is low | |
| ## Model Details | |
| - **Developed by:** AI_ATL25 Team | |
| - **Model type:** LoRA Adapter for Llama 3.1 8B | |
| - **Language:** English | |
| - **License:** Llama 3.1 Community License | |
| - **Finetuned from:** unsloth/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-bnb-4bit | |
| - **Adapter Size:** 335MB | |
| - **Trainable Parameters:** 84M (1.04% of base model) | |
| - **Proof-of-concept**: Yes — intended to demonstrate feasibility, not production-ready without further evaluation | |
| ## Citation | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @misc{llama31-structured-api-adapter, | |
| title={Fine-tuned Llama 3.1 8B for Structured API Generation}, | |
| author={AI_ATL25 Team}, | |
| year={2025}, | |
| publisher={HuggingFace}, | |
| howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/kineticdrive/llama-structured-api-adapter}} | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| ## Contact | |
| - GitHub: [AI_ATL25](https://github.com/kineticdrive/AI_ATL25) | |
| - HuggingFace: [@kineticdrive](https://huggingface.co/kineticdrive) | |
| ### Framework versions | |
| - PEFT 0.17.1 |