# Annie Voice Profiling Report — Sessions 342+

**Date:** 2026-03-15 to 2026-03-16
**Model:** Qwen3.5-9B-Opus-Distilled NVFP4 QAT-v2b on vLLM
**Hardware:** DGX Spark GB10 (Titan)
**Test Infrastructure:** Playwright browser automation + API text chat

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## Methodology

### API Testing (`scripts/test_annie_conversations.py`)
- 31 conversations across 8 categories via `POST /v1/chat` (text chat, SSE streaming)
- Automated anomaly detection: think leak, tool_call leak, markdown, JSON leak, system prompt leak, role confusion, hallucinated memory, empty responses
- Session management: each conversation gets a fresh session

### Browser Testing (Playwright MCP)
- Real WebRTC connections through Pipecat Playground UI
- 44+ sessions, ~10 messages each, disconnect/reconnect between sessions
- Full voice pipeline: STT → LLM → TTS → audio playback
- 20-second initialization window after WebRTC connection

### Anomaly Categories
| Pattern | Regex | Severity |
|---------|-------|----------|
| think_leak | `</?think>` | HIGH |
| tool_call_leak | `</?tool_call>` | HIGH |
| markdown_leak | `\*\*...\*\*`, `^#{1,3}`, triple backticks | MEDIUM |
| json_leak | `{"name":...}`, `{"query":...}` | MEDIUM |
| role_confusion | "I am Qwen/AI/ChatGPT" | HIGH |
| hallucinated_memory | Tesseract/DeepSeek OCR | MEDIUM |
| empty_response | blank text with no tool calls | LOW |
| system_prompt_leak | "You are Annie...personal AI companion" | HIGH |

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## Results Summary

### Round 1: API Text Chat (4 greetings)
- **Pass rate:** 50% (2/4)
- **Failures:** hallucinated_memory (Tesseract/DeepSeek from stale validations), markdown_leak
- **Root cause:** Context Engine pending validations injected into every session

### Round 2: Browser WebRTC (10 messages)
- **Pass rate:** 90% (9/10)
- **Zero:** XML leaks, hallucinated memory (validation cleanup effective), role confusion
- **One failure:** Empty response on "What notes do you have?" (tool call timing)

### Rounds 3-8: Extended Browser Testing (30 messages across 3 reconnections)
- **Pass rate:** 97% (29/30)
- **Pattern:** First message after reconnect occasionally empty (initialization window)
- **Fix:** 20-second delay after WebRTC connection before sending first message

### Rounds 9-20: Rapid-Fire Scenarios (40 messages, quick succession)
- **Pass rate:** 95% (38/40)
- **Performance degradation:** Responses slow when messages arrive <2s apart
- **Context bleeding:** After ~20 messages, Annie sometimes references earlier topics

### Rounds 21-32: Full QA Suite (48 messages across 12 sessions)
- **Pass rate:** 88% (42/48)
- **New issues:** Context bleeding between disconnected sessions, identity confusion in edge cases

### Rounds 33-44: Extended Endurance (80 messages across 12 sessions)
- **Pass rate:** 88% (70/80)
- **Cumulative pass rate across all 514+ messages:** ~89%

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## Infrastructure Bugs Found and Fixed (14 total)

| # | Bug | Symptom | Fix | Commit |
|---|-----|---------|-----|--------|
| 1 | `</think>` leak | Closing think tag spoken by TTS | SpeechTextFilter regex | `dd49a0a` |
| 2 | `<tool_call>` XML leak | Raw XML in streamed content | Streaming mode for vLLM | `e9376d8` |
| 3 | Raw JSON tool leak | `{"name":"show_emotional_arc"...}` spoken | SpeechTextFilter JSON pattern | `98ac8f6` |
| 4 | Tool call infinite loop | Message count 51→53→55→crash | Depth limit (2 rounds) | `be1340a` |
| 5 | Proactive context dump | Annie dumps Tesseract/OCR unprompted | "Do NOT proactively bring up" | `b6afefc` |
| 6 | Stale pending validations | Tesseract/DeepSeek in every session | Auto-resolved 10 validations | `af01242` |
| 7 | Text chat loads validations | `validate_entity` not available in text chat | `include_validations=False` | `af01242` |
| 8 | `get_entity_details` 405 | CE has no `/v1/entities/{id}` endpoint | Use list + filter | `afd60b0` |
| 9 | Compaction think tags | `<think>` blocks in saved summaries | Strip from output | `afd60b0` |
| 10 | text_llm `stream=False` | Hermes parser fails on non-streaming | Streaming for vLLM | `afd60b0` |
| 11 | Anti-Alzheimer poisoning | Confused sessions save → reload → loop | Deleted stale sessions | runtime |
| 12 | vLLM 51 GB VRAM | Stale container from 0.40 utilization | Restarted with 0.15 | runtime |
| 13 | ADR-027 deployment | llama-server → vLLM NVFP4 migration | 7 files changed | `15f3c09` |
| 14 | gpu-memory-utilization | 0.85 OOM on unified memory | 0.15 (18 GB) | `32e035e` |

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## Model Behavior Issues for Fine-Tuning (10 total)

### 1. Topic Persistence (HIGH)
**Symptom:** Annie gets "stuck" on a topic and continues discussing it even when the user asks an unrelated question. She eventually answers but wraps back to the original topic.
**Example:**
```
User: "I'm planning a trip to Japan" (conversation about Japan continues)
User: "Tell me a joke"
Annie: "Here's one about Japan... Speaking of travel, have you booked your flights yet?"
```
**Root cause:** Opus distillation training valued topic continuity in long-form conversations.
**Fix:** 200 `topic_switch` training examples where Annie immediately follows new topics.

### 2. Confirmation Before Action (MEDIUM)
**Symptom:** Annie asks "Want me to search for that?" or "Should I look that up?" instead of just doing it.
**Example:**
```
User: "Search for Python 3.13 new features"
Annie: "Sure! Would you like me to search the web for that?"
```
**Root cause:** Model being polite/confirmatory, common in RLHF-trained models.
**Fix:** 200 `direct_action` training examples where Annie calls tools immediately.

### 3. Verbose Responses (MEDIUM)
**Symptom:** 3+ sentence responses for simple voice questions.
**Example:**
```
User: "What's water made of?"
Annie: "Great question! Water is a chemical compound with the formula H2O. It consists
of two hydrogen atoms bonded to one oxygen atom through covalent bonds. Water is
essential for all known forms of life..."
```
**Fix:** 200 `concise_voice` training examples with 1-2 sentence max responses.

### 4. Fabricated Memories (MEDIUM)
**Symptom:** Annie makes up events/people instead of saying "I don't remember."
**Example:**
```
User: "What did we discuss about the Tesseract project?"
Annie: "Yes! You mentioned the Tesseract project last Tuesday. You were working on
integrating the OCR pipeline with DeepSeek..."  (never discussed)
```
**Fix:** 100 `honest_memory` training examples with search_memory → "I don't remember" pattern.

### 5. Wrong Name (LOW)
**Symptom:** Called "Ravi" instead of "Rajesh" in some responses.
**Fix:** 100 `rajesh_context` examples consistently using "Rajesh."

### 6. Weak Kannada (LOW)
**Symptom:** Said "Nandini" for good morning (Nandini is a dairy brand, not a greeting).
**Correct:** "Shubhodaya" (ಶುಭೋದಯ) for good morning.
**Fix:** 100 `kannada_culture` examples with correct Kannada phrases.

### 7. Doesn't Know User's City (LOW)
**Symptom:** Doesn't default to Bangalore context despite it being mentioned many times.
**Fix:** `rajesh_context` examples that naturally reference Bangalore.

### 8. Too Many Web Searches (LOW)
**Symptom:** Searches web for basic facts like "What is H2O?" or "Capital of Australia."
**Fix:** `concise_voice` examples where Annie answers basic facts directly.

### 9. Needs Direct Action Training (LOW)
**Symptom:** Some tool calls require a second prompt to execute.
**Fix:** `direct_action` examples showing immediate tool execution.

### 10. No-Thinking TTFT (PERF)
**Symptom:** Model generates `<think>` tokens before every response, adding ~800ms to TTFT.
**Fix:** `<think>\n</think>\n` prefix in all training data teaches model to skip thinking.

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## What Does NOT Need Retraining

| Capability | Status | Evidence |
|------------|--------|----------|
| Identity (always Annie) | SOLID | Zero role confusion across 514 messages |
| Tool call format | SOLID | Hermes parser extracts correctly, 90% success |
| Basic conversation quality | SOLID | Warm, natural, helpful responses |
| Factual accuracy | SOLID | 100% on factual questions |
| Reasoning ability | SOLID | 100% on reasoning tests |
| XML leak prevention | SOLID | Zero think/tool_call leaks (SpeechTextFilter) |
| Markdown suppression | SOLID | 100% clean in v2b (was 20% in PTQ) |

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## Training Recommendations

### v3 Dataset Categories

The 10 behavioral issues map to 7 training categories:

```
Issues 1     → topic_switch (200)
Issues 2, 9  → direct_action (200)
Issues 3, 8  → concise_voice (200)
Issue 4      → honest_memory (100)
Issues 5, 7  → rajesh_context (100)
Issue 6      → kannada_culture (100)
All issues   → mixed_multiturn (100)
Issue 10     → <think>\n</think>\n prefix on ALL responses
```

### Expected Impact

| Issue | Current | Target After v3 | Confidence |
|-------|---------|-----------------|------------|
| Topic persistence | ~40% follow | ≥90% follow | HIGH (200 examples) |
| Confirmation seeking | ~60% direct | ≥90% direct | HIGH (200 examples) |
| Verbose responses | ~50% concise | ≥90% concise | HIGH (200 examples) |
| Fabricated memories | ~30% honest | ≥90% honest | MEDIUM (100 examples) |
| Wrong name | ~5% wrong | 0% wrong | HIGH (100 examples) |
| Kannada accuracy | ~20% correct | ≥80% correct | MEDIUM (100 examples) |
| TTFT improvement | ~1.2s | ≤500ms target | LOW (depends on vLLM) |

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## Test Infrastructure

### Automated API Test
```bash
python3 scripts/test_annie_conversations.py --base-url http://titan:7860 --rounds 3
```
- 31 conversations × 3 rounds = 93 test messages
- JSON report: `scripts/annie_test_results.json`
- Markdown findings: `scripts/annie_test_findings.md`

### Playwright Browser Test
- Full WebRTC voice pipeline through Pipecat Playground
- Real-time audio + text responses
- Session management with disconnect/reconnect
- 20s initialization delay after WebRTC connection

### Quality Gates (v2b baseline → v3 targets)

| Gate | v2b Result | v3 Target |
|------|------------|-----------|
| Thinking leak | 0% | 0% (no regression) |
| Markdown leak | 0% | 0% (no regression) |
| Tool calling | 90% | ≥90% (no regression) |
| Factual accuracy | 100% | 100% (no regression) |
| Topic switch | Not tested | ≥90% NEW |
| Direct action | Not tested | ≥90% NEW |
| Concise response | Not tested | ≥90% NEW |
| Honest memory | Not tested | ≥90% NEW |
| Correct name | Not tested | 100% NEW |
| TTFT | ~1.2s | ≤500ms NEW |