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Show HN: Matching Jev on BANKING77 at a thousandth of the cost

Cymetica's Tuatara Vector Model scored 91.79% on the 3,080-message BANKING77 test set, a statistical tie with the pinned jev-1.13.0 model's 92.40% at roughly a thousandth of the cost, according to the company's blog post. The run used all 77 intents as options in a single question and up to 24 retrieved training examples per message; jev-1.13.0 answered 2,846 of 3,080 messages correctly. BANKING77 is PolyAI's public dataset of 13,083 bank messages split into 10,003 training and 3,080 test examples.

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We developed an early vector embedding model at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and extended it called the Tuatara Vector Model. It's a blend and scored against Jev's 3,080 BANKING77 test messages resulting in 91.79% versus 92.40%, a statistical tie with some good cost savings.

As most may know, BANKING77 is a public dataset from PolyAI with 13,083 messages to a bank, each labelled with intents. The split was 10,003 messages for training and 3,080 for testing.

The run used the pinned model jev-1.13.0, all 77 intents as options in a single question, and up to 24 training examples retrieved for each message. Jev got 2,846 of 3,080 right.

Recomputing Jev’s accuracy from the file gives 92.40%, the same figure the experiment reports.

More stats: [https://cymetica.com/blog/matching-jev-on-banking77-at-a-tho...](https://cymetica.com/blog/matching-jev-on-banking77-at-a-thousandth-of-the-cost)

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