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Update token-counting and context overflow API surface
This is mostly to align with webmachinelearning/writing-assistance-apis#31: * Use TooManyTokensError when appropriate, instead of a "QuotaExceededError" DOMException. * Rename tokensLeft/tokensSoFar to tokensAvailable/tokenCount. * Rename countPromptTokens() to countTokens(). * Remove maxTokens. * Rename "contextoverflow" to "overflow", since the vocabulary "context" is not used elsewhere in the API and there's only one relevant type of overflow for the session.
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The system prompt is special, in that the language model will not respond to it, and it will be preserved even if the context window otherwise overflows due to too many calls to `prompt()`.
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If the system prompt is too large (see [below](#tokenization-context-window-length-limits-and-overflow)), then the promise will be rejected with a `"QuotaExceededError"` `DOMException`.
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If the system prompt is too large, then the promise will be rejected with a `TooManyTokens` exception. See [below](#tokenization-context-window-length-limits-and-overflow) for more details on token counting and this new exception type.
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### N-shot prompting
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Some details on error cases:
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* Using both `systemPrompt` and a `{ role: "system" }` prompt in `initialPrompts`, or using multiple `{ role: "system" }` prompts, or placing the `{ role: "system" }` prompt anywhere besides at the 0th position in `initialPrompts`, will reject with a `TypeError`.
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* If the combined token length of all the initial prompts (including the separate `systemPrompt`, if provided) is too large, then the promise will be rejected with a `"QuotaExceededError"` `DOMException`.
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* If the combined token length of all the initial prompts (including the separate `systemPrompt`, if provided) is too large, then the promise will be rejected with a [`TooManyTokens` exception](#tokenization-context-window-length-limits-and-overflow).
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### Customizing the role per prompt
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A given language model session will have a maximum number of tokens it can process. Developers can check their current usage and progress toward that limit by using the following properties on the session object:
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```js
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console.log(`${session.tokensSoFar}/${session.maxTokens} (${session.tokensLeft} left)`);
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console.log(`${session.tokenCount} tokens used. ${session.tokensAvailable} tokens still left.`);
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To know how many tokens a string will consume, without actually processing it, developers can use the `countPromptTokens()` method:
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To know how many tokens a string will consume, without actually processing it, developers can use the `countTokens()` method:
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```js
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const numTokens = await session.countPromptTokens(promptString);
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const numTokens = await session.countTokens(promptString);
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Some notes on this API:
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* We do not expose the actual tokenization to developers since that would make it too easy to depend on model-specific details.
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* Implementations must include in their count any control tokens that will be necessary to process the prompt, e.g. ones indicating the start or end of the input.
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* The counting process can be aborted by passing an `AbortSignal`, i.e. `session.countPromptTokens(promptString, { signal })`.
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* The counting process can be aborted by passing an `AbortSignal`, i.e. `session.countTokens(promptString, { signal })`.
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It's possible to send a prompt that causes the context window to overflow. That is, consider a case where `session.countPromptTokens(promptString) > session.tokensLeft` before calling `session.prompt(promptString)`, and then the web developer calls `session.prompt(promptString)` anyway. In such cases, the initial portions of the conversation with the language model will be removed, one prompt/response pair at a time, until enough tokens are available to process the new prompt. The exception is the [system prompt](#system-prompts), which is never removed. If it's not possible to remove enough tokens from the conversation history to process the new prompt, then the `prompt()` or `promptStreaming()` call will fail with an `"QuotaExceededError"` `DOMException` and nothing will be removed.
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It's possible to send a prompt that causes the context window to overflow. That is, consider a case where `session.countTokens(promptString) > session.tokensAvailable` before calling `session.prompt(promptString)`, and then the web developer calls `session.prompt(promptString)` anyway. In such cases, the initial portions of the conversation with the language model will be removed, one prompt/response pair at a time, until enough tokens are available to process the new prompt. The exception is the [system prompt](#system-prompts), which is never removed.
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Such overflows can be detected by listening for the `"contextoverflow"` event on the session:
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Such overflows can be detected by listening for the `"overflow"` event on the session:
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session.addEventListener("contextoverflow", () => {
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session.addEventListener("overflow", () => {
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console.log("Context overflow!");
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If it's not possible to remove enough tokens from the conversation history to process the new prompt, then the `prompt()` or `promptStreaming()` call will fail with a `TooManyTokens` exception and nothing will be removed. A `TooManyTokens` exception is a new type of exception, which subclasses `DOMException`, and adds the following additional properties:
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* `tokenCount`: how many tokens the input consists of
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* `tokensAvailable`: how many tokens were available (which will be less than `tokenCount`, and equal to the value of `session.tokensAvailable` at the time of the call)
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### Multilingual content and expected languages
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The default behavior for a language model session assumes that the input languages are unknown. In this case, implementations will use whatever "base" capabilities they have available for the language model, and might throw `"NotSupportedError"` `DOMException`s if they encounter languages they don't support.
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Finally, note that there is a sort of precedent in the (never-shipped) [`FetchObserver` design](https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/447#issuecomment-281731850).
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### Too-large inputs
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## Detailed design
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### Full API surface in Web IDL
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```webidl
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// Shared self.ai APIs
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partial interface WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope {
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[Replaceable, SecureContext] readonly attribute AI ai;
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// Shared self.ai APIs:
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// See https://webmachinelearning.github.io/writing-assistance-apis/#shared-ai-api for most of them.
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interface AI {
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partial interface AI {
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readonly attribute AILanguageModelFactory languageModel;
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interface AICreateMonitor : EventTarget {
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// https://github.com/webmachinelearning/prompt-api/issues/4
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callback AICreateMonitorCallback = undefined (AICreateMonitor monitor);
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enum AIAvailability { "unavailable", "downloadable", "downloading", "available" };
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readonly attribute unsigned long long maxTokens;
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readonly attribute unsigned long long tokensSoFar;
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readonly attribute unsigned long long tokensLeft;
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Promise<unsigned long long> countTokens(AILanguageModelPromptInput input, optional AILanguageModelPromptOptions options = {});
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readonly attribute unsigned long long tokensAvailable;
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readonly attribute unsigned long long tokenCount;
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undefined destroy();

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