"""Held-out perplexity evaluation for causal language models.""" from __future__ import annotations import math from typing import Any import torch import torch.nn.functional as F from torch.utils.data import DataLoader def evaluate_perplexity( model, tokenizer, dataset, text_column: str = "text", max_seq_len: int = 512, batch_size: int = 4, ) -> dict[str, float | int]: """Compute token-weighted NLL and perplexity on a held-out split.""" device = next(model.parameters()).device model.eval() def collate(rows: list[dict[str, Any]]): return tokenizer( [row[text_column] for row in rows], padding=True, truncation=True, max_length=max_seq_len, return_tensors="pt", ) total_nll = 0.0 total_tokens = 0 for batch in DataLoader(dataset, batch_size=batch_size, shuffle=False, collate_fn=collate): input_ids = batch["input_ids"].to(device) attention_mask = batch["attention_mask"].to(device) with torch.no_grad(): logits = model(input_ids=input_ids, attention_mask=attention_mask).logits shift_logits = logits[:, :-1].contiguous() shift_labels = input_ids[:, 1:].contiguous() valid = attention_mask[:, 1:].bool() losses = F.cross_entropy( shift_logits.view(-1, shift_logits.size(-1)), shift_labels.view(-1), reduction="none", ).view_as(shift_labels) total_nll += float(losses[valid].sum().item()) total_tokens += int(valid.sum().item()) mean_nll = total_nll / max(total_tokens, 1) return {"nll": mean_nll, "ppl": math.exp(min(mean_nll, 20.0)), "ppl_tokens": total_tokens}