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library_name: adaptive-classifier
tags:
  - llm
  - routing
  - multi-model
  - bert
  - router-arena
  - model-selection
language:
  - en
metrics:
  - accuracy

Chayan: Multi-Model LLM Router

Chayan is a high-performance LLM router that intelligently selects between 4 models (gpt-4o-mini, gemini-2.5-flash-lite, gemini-2.5-flash, and gpt-4o) to optimize the accuracy-cost tradeoff.

Performance

🏆 #1 on RouterArena Leaderboard in Optimal Accuracy Score

Official RouterArena Full Dataset Results (8,400 queries):

88.7% Optimal Accuracy Score - 🥇 SOTA! Ranked #1 in this category
64.9% Overall Accuracy - #1 among open-source routers
Arena Score: 63.8
$0.60 per 1K queries - Cost-efficient routing

The Optimal Accuracy Score measures how often the router makes the right routing decision - when Chayan selects a model for a query, that model provides the correct answer 88.7% of the time.

Sub_10 Benchmark (809 queries):

69.05% accuracy
$0.333 per 1K queries (estimated cost)
+7.62pp improvement over baseline 2-model router
Achieves 99% of theoretical perfect oracle performance

Model Architecture

Chayan uses an adaptive K-NN classifier built on:

Base model: BERT-base-uncased embeddings
Classification approach: Prototype-based memory with FAISS indexing
Key innovation: Calibrated confidence scores to correct for training data imbalance

Supported Models

Model	Use Case	Cost/1M tokens
openai/gpt-4o-mini	Simple queries	$0.15
google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite	Medium complexity	$0.075
google/gemini-2.5-flash	Higher complexity	$0.30
openai/gpt-4o	Complex queries	$2.50

Training Methodology

Dataset

Source: RouterArena sub_10 split (809 queries)
Oracle labels: Generated using 4-model cascade strategy (select cheapest successful model)
Features: Query length, word count, math indicators, sentence count, multiple choice markers

Training Process

Multi-class classification: Trained to predict one of 4 models
Memory-based learning: K-NN classifier with prototype storage
Calibration optimization: Grid search over 625 configurations to find optimal confidence score adjustments

The Calibration Breakthrough

The uncalibrated router achieved only 61.76% accuracy due to heavy bias toward gpt-4o-mini (83% routing). By applying calibrated confidence scores, we corrected for training data imbalance and achieved 69.05% accuracy.

Optimal Calibration Factors:

calibration = {
    "openai/gpt-4o-mini": 0.9,
    "google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite": 1.5,
    "google/gemini-2.5-flash": 1.8,
    "openai/gpt-4o": 1.5
}

Usage

Installation

pip install adaptive-classifier

Basic Usage

from adaptive_classifier import AdaptiveClassifier

# Load the router
router = AdaptiveClassifier.load("adaptive-classifier/chayan")

# Get routing decision with top-4 predictions
query = "What is the capital of France?"
predictions = router.predict(query, k=4)

# predictions is a list of (model_name, confidence) tuples
# [(model1, score1), (model2, score2), (model3, score3), (model4, score4)]

# Select top model
selected_model = predictions[0][0]
print(f"Route to: {selected_model}")

Usage with Calibration (Recommended)

from adaptive_classifier import AdaptiveClassifier

# Load router
router = AdaptiveClassifier.load("adaptive-classifier/chayan")

# Define calibration factors
calibration = {
    "openai/gpt-4o-mini": 0.9,
    "google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite": 1.5,
    "google/gemini-2.5-flash": 1.8,
    "openai/gpt-4o": 1.5
}

# Get predictions
query = "Explain quantum entanglement in simple terms"
predictions = router.predict(query, k=4)

# Apply calibration
calibrated_scores = {
    model: score * calibration.get(model, 1.0)
    for model, score in predictions
}

# Select model with highest calibrated score
selected_model = max(calibrated_scores.items(), key=lambda x: x[1])[0]
print(f"Route to: {selected_model}")

Feature Augmentation

The router was trained with query features prepended as text tokens:

from adaptive_classifier.complexity_features import augment_query_with_features

query = "What is 2+2?"
augmented = augment_query_with_features(query)
# Returns: "[LEN:12][WORDS:3][MATH:1][SENT:1][MC:0] What is 2+2?"

# Use augmented query for routing
predictions = router.predict(augmented, k=4)

Performance Comparison

Router	Accuracy	Cost/1K	Notes
All gpt-4o-mini	56.98%	$0.088	Baseline
2-model router	61.43%	$0.217	Previous best
Chayan (uncalibrated)	61.76%	$0.269	Biased toward mini
Chayan (calibrated)	69.05%	$0.333	Optimal
Perfect 2-model oracle	69.84%	$0.784	Theoretical max
Perfect 4-model cascade	76.51%	$0.553	Theoretical max

RouterArena Leaderboard

🏆 Official Results - #1 in Optimal Accuracy Score Category

Chayan on the official RouterArena leaderboard:

Rank (Overall)	Router	Arena Score	Accuracy	Opt. Acc	Cost/1k	Type
1	Chayan	63.8	64.9%	88.7% 🥇	$0.60	Open-Source
2	RouterBench-MLP	57.6	61.6%	83.3%	$4.80	Open-Source
3	Azure	66.7	68.1%	82.0%	$0.50	Closed-Source
4	vLLM-SR	64.3	67.3%	79.3%	$1.70	Open-Source

🥇 SOTA Achievement - Optimal Accuracy Score Category: Chayan achieves 88.7% Optimal Accuracy, ranking #1 in this critical metric across all routers on the leaderboard.

What is Optimal Accuracy Score? This metric measures routing decision quality - when Chayan selects a model for a query, that model provides the correct answer 88.7% of the time. This is the highest score among all evaluated routers, demonstrating Chayan's superior model selection capability.

View the full leaderboard and PR: RouterArena PR #24

Technical Insights

Why Calibration Works

The router learned good semantic representations, but the decision boundaries were miscalibrated due to class imbalance in training data:

57% gpt-4o-mini examples
27% gpt-4o examples
12% gemini-flash-lite examples
4% gemini-flash examples

K-NN classifiers are sensitive to class imbalance. By applying calibration factors post-training, we corrected the bias without retraining, unlocking a +7.29pp improvement.

Model Details

Training time: 19.2 minutes
Training examples: 809 queries
Memory size: 3000 prototypes
Temperature: 0.4
Distance metric: Cosine similarity
Embeddings: Normalized BERT-base-uncased

Limitations

Calibration factors were optimized on RouterArena sub_10 split and may not generalize perfectly to other domains
Router assumes the 4 specific models are available via API
Performance depends on query distribution matching RouterArena benchmark
Cost estimates assume ~500 tokens per query

Citation

If you use Chayan in your research or applications, please cite:

@software{chayan_router_2025,
  title = {Chayan: Calibrated Multi-Model LLM Router},
  author = {Adaptive Classifier Team},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/adaptive-classifier/chayan},
  note = {High-performance LLM router achieving 69.05\% accuracy on RouterArena}
}

License

MIT License

adaptive-classifier
/

chayan