fix(647): enable LoRA PII auto-detection with minimal changes #709

yossiovadia · 2025-11-20T23:30:28Z

Switch PII classification from hardcoded ModernBERT to auto-detecting Candle BERT classifier. The Rust layer already has built-in auto-detection that checks for lora_config.json and routes to LoRA or Traditional models.

Changes:

Init: Use InitCandleBertTokenClassifier (has auto-detect built-in)
Inference: Use ClassifyCandleBertTokens (auto-routes to initialized classifier)

This enables LoRA PII models to work automatically without config changes, providing higher confidence scores for PII entity detection.

Fixes #647

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Switch PII classification from hardcoded ModernBERT to auto-detecting Candle BERT classifier. The Rust layer already has built-in auto-detection that checks for lora_config.json and routes to LoRA or Traditional models. Changes: 1. Init: Use InitCandleBertTokenClassifier (has auto-detect built-in) 2. Inference: Use ClassifyCandleBertTokens (auto-routes to initialized classifier) This enables LoRA PII models to work automatically without config changes, providing higher confidence scores for PII entity detection. Fixes vllm-project#647 Signed-off-by: Yossi Ovadia <[email protected]>

yossiovadia · 2025-11-21T15:21:02Z

@Xunzhuo , please review

yossiovadia · 2025-11-21T18:28:05Z

Test Results - Issue #647 Verification

I've tested this PR locally with the router running and can confirm dramatic improvements in PII detection:

Performance Comparison

Metric	Before (ModernBERT)	After (LoRA - This PR)	Improvement
Success Rate	27% (10/37)	90% (9/10)	+233%
Confidence Scores	0.37-0.75 (inconsistent)	0.866-0.999	More reliable
Threshold Passing	Many below 0.7	All above 0.7	100% compliance

Critical Test Cases from Issue #647

All the problematic cases from issue #647 now work correctly:

SSN (123-45-6789): 0.648 → 0.999 confidence
Email ([email protected]): 0.637 → 0.968 confidence
Email with dots ([email protected]): 0.574 → 0.995 confidence
Phone numbers: All at 0.938-0.989 confidence
Person names: 0.995-0.999 confidence
Locations (GPE): 0.9+ confidence

Test script results: 9/10 tests passing (90% success rate), far exceeding the 73% improvement target from issue #647 .

Router Logs Confirmation

The router logs show excellent confidence scores from the LoRA model:

{"level":"info","msg":"Detected PII entity: B-PERSON ('john') at [0-4] with confidence 0.999"}
{"level":"info","msg":"Detected PII entity: I-PERSON ('doe') at [3-6] with confidence 0.995"}
{"level":"info","msg":"Detected PII entity: B-EMAIL_ADDRESS ('john') at [8-12] with confidence 0.968"}
{"level":"info","msg":"Detected PII entity: B-PHONE_NUMBER ('555') at [9-12] with confidence 0.938"}
{"level":"info","msg":"Detected PII entity: I-PHONE_NUMBER ('-') at [4-5] with confidence 0.866"}

All confidence scores are well above the 0.7 threshold, confirming the LoRA model is working as expected.

Follow-up Improvement Opportunity

While testing, I noticed that the /api/v1/classify/pii endpoint hardcodes confidence to 0.9 instead of returning the actual scores from the LoRA model.

Location: src/semantic-router/pkg/services/classification.go:313

for _, piiType := range piiTypes {
    entity := PIIEntity{
        Type:       piiType,
        Value:      "[DETECTED]",
        Confidence: 0.9,  // ❌ Hardcoded - should use actual confidence from model
    }
    response.Entities = append(response.Entities, entity)
}

Current behavior:

LoRA model returns precise scores (0.866-0.999) ✅
Router logs show real scores ✅
API response hardcodes 0.9 ⚠️

Suggested improvement (separate PR):
The ClassifyPII method should return entity-level details (including confidence scores), not just entity types. This would allow the API to expose the actual confidence scores instead of using a placeholder.

This is a pre-existing limitation and doesn't affect this PR's functionality - the underlying LoRA detection is working perfectly. Just flagging for future enhancement.

I'll proceed once this PR will be approved and merged.

yossiovadia · 2025-11-21T18:44:37Z

even more results :
esting the EXACT cases from the issue #647 table:

Test Case	Text	Before (ModernBERT)	After (LoRA)	Status
SSN	`My SSN is 123-45-6789`	0.648 ❌	0.992 ✅	FIXED
Email	`[email protected]`	0.637 ❌	0.794-0.977 ✅	FIXED
Email (dots)	`[email protected]`	0.574 ❌	0.961-0.987 ✅	FIXED
Credit Card	`4111-1111-1111-1111`	0.368 ❌	No detection ❌	STILL FAILS
Credit Card (sentence)	`Card number 4111-1111-1111-1111`	0.474 ❌	0.867 ✅	FIXED (misclassified as SSN)

Detailed Findings

✅ Test 1: SSN - `My SSN is 123-45-6789`

Before: 0.648 confidence (below 0.7 threshold) ❌
After: 0.992 confidence ✅

Router logs:

Detected PII entity: B-US_SSN ('123') at [0-3] with confidence 0.992
Detected PII entity: B-US_SSN ('-') at [1-2] with confidence 0.833

Result: ✅ FIXED - Now detects correctly with very high confidence

✅ Test 2: Email - `[email protected]`

Before: 0.637 confidence (below 0.7 threshold) ❌
After: 0.794-0.977 confidence ✅

Router logs:

Detected PII entity: B-EMAIL_ADDRESS ('john') at [0-4] with confidence 0.977

Result: ✅ FIXED - Now detects correctly above threshold

✅ Test 3: Email with dots - `[email protected]`

Before: 0.574 confidence (below 0.7 threshold) ❌
After: 0.961-0.987 confidence ✅

Router logs:

Detected PII entity: B-EMAIL_ADDRESS ('john') at [0-4] with confidence 0.987
Detected PII entity: B-EMAIL_ADDRESS ('example') at [21-28] with confidence 0.855

Result: ✅ FIXED - Now detects correctly with high confidence

❌ Test 4: Credit Card - `4111-1111-1111-1111`

Before: 0.368 confidence (below 0.7 threshold) ❌
After: No PII detected ❌

API Response: {"has_pii": false}

Note: This test case still fails. Credit cards with dashes are not detected by the LoRA model. This is a training data limitation.

⚠️ Test 5: Credit Card (sentence) - `Card number 4111-1111-1111-1111`

Before: 0.474 confidence (below 0.7 threshold) ❌
After: 0.867 confidence ✅ (but misclassified)

Router logs:

Detected PII entity: B-US_SSN ('411') at [0-3] with confidence 0.867
Detected PII entity: I-PHONE_NUMBER ('##1') at [18-21] with confidence 0.725

API Response: Detected as SSN + PHONE_NUMBER (not CREDIT_CARD)

Result: ⚠️ PARTIALLY FIXED - PII is now detected (preventing data leakage), but misclassified as SSN instead of CREDIT_CARD

Additional Test: Credit Card without dashes

For comparison, I also tested credit cards without dashes:

✅ Credit Card - `4111111111111111` (no dashes)

Router logs:

Detected PII entity: B-CREDIT_CARD ('411') at [0-3] with confidence 0.989
Detected PII entity: B-CREDIT_CARD ('##11') at [4-8] with confidence 0.959
Detected PII entity: B-CREDIT_CARD ('##11') at [8-12] with confidence 0.935
Detected PII entity: B-CREDIT_CARD ('##11') at [12-16] with confidence 0.900
Detected PII entity: B-CREDIT_CARD ('##11') at [16-20] with confidence 0.793

Result: ✅ WORKS PERFECTLY - Credit cards without dashes are detected correctly with high confidence (0.793-0.989)

Summary

4 out of 5 exact test cases from issue #647 are now FIXED:

✅ SSN: 0.648 → 0.992 (FIXED)
✅ Email: 0.637 → 0.977 (FIXED)
✅ Email (dots): 0.574 → 0.987 (FIXED)
❌ Credit Card (dashes): 0.368 → not detected (STILL FAILS)
⚠️ Credit Card (sentence): 0.474 → 0.867 (FIXED but misclassified)

Overall improvement: 80% success rate on the exact test cases from issue #647

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Test Results - Issue #647 Verification

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Critical Test Cases from Issue #647

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Detailed Findings

✅ Test 1: SSN - My SSN is 123-45-6789

✅ Test 2: Email - [email protected]

✅ Test 3: Email with dots - [email protected]

❌ Test 4: Credit Card - 4111-1111-1111-1111

⚠️ Test 5: Credit Card (sentence) - Card number 4111-1111-1111-1111

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✅ Credit Card - 4111111111111111 (no dashes)

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✅ Test 1: SSN - `My SSN is 123-45-6789`

✅ Test 2: Email - `[email protected]`

✅ Test 3: Email with dots - `[email protected]`

❌ Test 4: Credit Card - `4111-1111-1111-1111`

⚠️ Test 5: Credit Card (sentence) - `Card number 4111-1111-1111-1111`

✅ Credit Card - `4111111111111111` (no dashes)