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jeffy 发布本地预训练文本分类器,无需 GPU

Show HN: Local pretrained classifiers, GPU not needed

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Show HN 项目 jeffy 发布 13 个可在本地 CPU 运行的预训练文本分类器,无需 GPU,通过 uvx 安装后启动本地 HTTP API 即可调用。

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Pretrained text classifiers you can run and retrain on CPU.

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Try it

Install uv, then:

uvx --python 3.12 \
  --from "jeffy-classify @ git+https://github.com/nicobrenner/jeffy.git@v0.1.0-alpha.7" \
  jeffy-serve

Open http://localhost:8400, pick a classifier, and paste one of these:

Classifier Try this text
banking77 I was charged twice for the same transaction
sms_spam WINNER! You have been selected for a free cruise. Reply YES to claim.
ag_news The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points on Wednesday

Jeffy Playground

Pretrained capabilities

13 classifiers ship with the package. Weights are logistic regression coefficients (derived model parameters, not copies of training data). Source datasets and licenses are documented in ATTRIBUTION.md.

Task What it does Classes Test Acc Test F1
sms_spam SMS spam detection 2 99.1% 98.0%
dbpedia Wikipedia article category 14 96.0% 95.9%
imdb Movie review sentiment (long text) 2 94.8% 94.8%
banking77 Banking customer intent 77 94.3% 94.3%
ag_news News topic (world/sports/business/tech) 4 90.5% 90.5%
sst2 Movie review sentiment 2 90.1% 90.1%
clinc_oos Voice assistant intent + out-of-scope 151 88.4% 92.1%
massive_intent Smart home voice commands 60 88.1% 86.4%
tweet_eval_offensive Offensive language 2 81.0% 74.8%
tweet_eval_emotion Tweet emotion 4 78.1% 74.7%
emotion Text emotion (6 emotions) 6 75.5% 67.8%
tweet_eval_sentiment Tweet sentiment (3-way) 3 66.2% 65.7%
snli Natural language inference 3 65.6% 65.2%

Test accuracy on held-out splits. Details in data/eval_results/benchmark.json.

Weaknesses: SNLI (65.6%) and tweet_eval_sentiment (66.2%) are below what task-specific models achieve. Emotion (75.5%) has limited class coverage. Probabilities are uncalibrated.

Train a custom classifier

uvx --python 3.12 \
  --from "jeffy-classify @ git+https://github.com/nicobrenner/jeffy.git@v0.1.0-alpha.7" \
  jeffy-train --example --save-dir my_models
Loaded 24 examples from reviews.csv
Training 'reviews': 24 examples, 2 classes
  Split: 19 train, 5 test
  Test accuracy: 100.0%
Saved to my_models/reviews/

--example uses a bundled 24-row product review CSV. To bring your own:

uvx --python 3.12 \
  --from "jeffy-classify @ git+https://github.com/nicobrenner/jeffy.git@v0.1.0-alpha.7" \
  jeffy-train --input your_data.csv --text-col text --label-col label \
  --task-id your_task --save-dir my_models

Supports .csv, .tsv, and .jsonl.

Serve a custom model

JEFFY_PACK_DIR=my_models uvx --python 3.12 \
  --from "jeffy-classify @ git+https://github.com/nicobrenner/jeffy.git@v0.1.0-alpha.7" \
  jeffy-serve
curl -s -X POST http://localhost:8400/v1/predict \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text": "The battery life is amazing", "task": "reviews"}'
# → {"label": "positive", "confidence": 0.87, ...}

Install from source

git clone https://github.com/nicobrenner/jeffy.git
cd jeffy

# With uv (recommended)
uv venv && uv pip install -e .

# Or with pip
python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .

The first prediction downloads the shared encoder (bge-large-en-v1.5, ~1.2 GB, cached afterward).

API

Python

from jeffy.engine import Engine

engine = Engine()
engine.load()

# List available classifiers
for name, cap in engine.capabilities.items():
    print(f"{name}: {cap.description} ({cap.n_classes} classes)")

# Classify text
result = engine.predict("banking77", "I was charged twice for the same transaction")
print(result["label"])          # "transaction_charged_twice"
print(result["confidence"])     # 0.999
print(result["probabilities"])  # {"transaction_charged_twice": 0.999, ...}

SDK walkthrough

SDK walkthrough

HTTP

# Banking intent
curl -s -X POST http://localhost:8400/v1/predict \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text": "I was charged twice for the same transaction", "task": "banking77"}'
# → {"label": "transaction_charged_twice", "confidence": 0.999, ...}

# Spam detection
curl -s -X POST http://localhost:8400/v1/predict \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text": "WINNER! You have been selected for a free cruise. Reply YES to claim.", "task": "sms_spam"}'
# → {"label": "spam", "confidence": 0.91, ...}

# News topic
curl -s -X POST http://localhost:8400/v1/predict \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text": "The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points on Wednesday", "task": "ag_news"}'
# → {"label": "Business", "confidence": 0.86, ...}

List capabilities

curl -s http://localhost:8400/v1/capabilities | python3 -c "
import json, sys
for c in json.load(sys.stdin)['capabilities']:
    print(f\"{c['task_id']:25s} {c['n_classes']:3d} classes  {c['test_accuracy']:.1%}  {c['name']}\")"

Per-capability metadata

Each shipped classifier has a manifest.json with label names, source dataset, HuggingFace path, stated license, encoder identity, training/test counts, and integrity hashes.

curl -s http://localhost:8400/v1/capabilities/banking77 | python3 -m json.tool

Train from Python

from jeffy.train import train_classifier

clf = train_classifier(
    texts=["great product!", "terrible service", "fast shipping", "broken on arrival"],
    labels=["positive", "negative", "positive", "negative"],
    task_id="my_reviews",
)

result = clf.predict("the quality exceeded my expectations")
print(result["label"])  # "positive"

clf.save("my_models")

Tuning options

Parameter Default Description
C 0.01 How aggressively the model fits your data. Low (0.001) = conservative, keeps predictions closer to "I'm not sure." High (1.0) = trusts individual training examples more. If the model is great on training data but bad on new data (overfitting), lower C.
test_size 0.2 What fraction of your data to hold back for testing. With 100 examples at 0.2, it trains on 80 and tests on 20. Set to 0 to train on everything (useful when you have very little data and will test manually).
cv_folds 3 Cross-validation: splits your training data into 3 parts, trains on 2 and tests on 1, rotates three times, averages the scores. Gives a more reliable accuracy estimate than a single split. Set to 0 to skip (faster, less reliable estimate).

Start with the defaults. With <50 examples per class, expect noisy estimates.

Reproduce the evaluation

# Install with build dependencies
uv pip install -e ".[build]"
# or: pip install -e ".[build]"

# Retrain all 13 heads from source datasets (~40 min, downloads ~5 GB)
jeffy-build --out data/model_pack

# Evaluate on held-out test sets with tuned baselines
jeffy-evaluate --baselines --latency --device cpu

Evaluation notes

  • SST-2: Evaluated on validation split (official test labels are not public).
  • SMS Spam: Random split (test_size=0.2, seed=42); no standard benchmark split.
  • SNLI: Input encoded as premise [SEP] hypothesis. Label -1 filtered.
  • CLINC-OOS: 151 classes including out-of-scope. In-scope accuracy 96.5%, OOS detection 51.7%.
  • MASSIVE: English only (config en).

Deployment

Component Size Required for
Jeffy package (wheel) 1.5 MB Always (includes all 13 heads)
Encoder (bge-large-en-v1.5) ~1.2 GB Inference (downloaded on first use)
datasets package ~100 MB Retraining from HuggingFace only

Runtime memory: ~2 GB (encoder loaded once, shared across all heads).

Latency (CPU, single example, Linux aarch64):

Stage p50 Notes
Embedding 50–80 ms Dominates; varies with input length
Classifier <1 ms Negligible
Total 50–80 ms End-to-end

Model security

Bundled pretrained artifacts use numpy .npz format (portable, no pickle). Custom-trained models also save a joblib pickle backup. Only load custom pickle artifacts from trusted sources. Each artifact's manifest.json includes integrity hashes verified on load.

Provenance and licensing

Jeffy code is MIT-licensed. Head artifacts are derived from public datasets; redistribution permissions have not been independently verified for all sources. See ATTRIBUTION.md for per-dataset license status.

Dataset Stated license
banking77, massive_intent, sms_spam CC BY 4.0
clinc_oos CC BY 3.0
dbpedia CC BY-SA 3.0
snli CC BY-SA 4.0
ag_news, imdb Academic / non-commercial
sst2 Stanford academic license
emotion Academic
tweet_eval_* Twitter TOS / academic

The encoder (bge-large-en-v1.5) is MIT-licensed.

Tested

Verified with clean-environment wheel and sdist install on Linux aarch64, Python 3.12, scikit-learn 1.9+, sentence-transformers 6.1+, numpy 2.5+. Pretrained artifacts use numpy .npz format, avoiding sklearn version coupling.

What's not included

  • No zero-shot / general classification. Each task needs a trained head. Unknown tasks return an error.
  • No LLM fallback. This release is pure embedding + classifier.
  • No automatic task routing. You must specify which classifier to use.

Roadmap

Status Milestone
Available Pretrained classifier library, SDK/API, playground, custom training from CSV/JSONL
Next Landing page, PyPI release
Planned Broader classifier catalog, released in verified batches
Planned Automatic routing among supported classifiers
Planned Optional local/API LLM fallback for unsupported tasks
Planned Non-text classifiers (game state, sensor data, structured features)
Exploring Assisted labeling, retraining from corrections, classifier sharing

Suggestions for datasets, capabilities, or workflows are welcome as issues.

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