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GLiFormer capped decoded record and relation text by word count only (MAX_RECORD_WORDS / MAX_RELATION_WORDS = 262144). One very long token counts as a single word, so a document could still return a huge string.

Decoding now also stops at 1,048,576 characters of field text per document. Spans are dropped in the same lowest-score-first order the word cap already uses. Short spans are unchanged.

The other #378 follow-ups are untouched: the float32 load-time probe, batch_origin allowance lookup, and required-field billing.

Compatibility

Responses that were previously accepted only because a long token counted as one word can now drop that span. Word-cap behavior for normal tokens is unchanged. No request schema change.

Tests

pytest packages/sie_server/tests/adapters/test_gliformer_span_decoding.py — 282 passed.

Refs #378

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  • New Features
    • Added per-document character limits for decoded record fields and relations, defaulting to 32 times the corresponding word limit.
    • Items are selected in score order within character, word, and item-count limits; ties retain a stable order, and the final results retain their original order.
    • Character counts include spaces between tokens. When token text is unavailable, it counts as zero characters.

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Record-field and relation decoding now apply configurable per-document character limits. Each limit defaults to 32 times its word limit. The limits count joined token text, including spaces, alongside existing bounds. Tests cover character counting and best-first selection behavior.

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Decoded text limits

Layer / File(s) Summary
Record-field character limit
packages/sie_server/src/sie_server/adapters/gliformer/structuring_decoding.py, packages/sie_server/tests/adapters/test_gliformer_span_decoding.py
Structuring decoding adds a default character cap and applies it during score-ranked field selection. Tests cover character counting, selection behavior, and nested-record limits.
Relation character limit
packages/sie_server/src/sie_server/adapters/gliformer/relation_decoding.py, packages/sie_server/tests/adapters/test_gliformer_span_decoding.py
Relation decoding adds a default character cap and applies it to joined endpoint text during best-first selection. Tests cover character counting and selection behavior.

Suggested reviewers: svonava


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The character limits appear ready to merge after normal checks; no actionable issue remains in the supplied review evidence.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to e5538

The added character limits strengthen protection against oversized decoded text without an evident expansion of authority. However, the implemented default is 8,388,608 characters per decoder row, not the 1,048,576 stated in the PR description. A document-wide guarantee remains dependent on output grouping and text-resolution behavior that could not be fully verified.

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  • inferred — The relevant attack surface is document-driven decoded-text amplification affecting GLiFormer-serving process resources and result consumers. The inspected changes add a limiting control to that existing path; they do not establish a new credential, tenant-data, or privileged execution path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Within the inspected code, character accounting and text emission use the same document index and span bounds. Record fields and relation endpoints are materialized only after selection. This rejects an in-repository index mismatch, but does not prove the unavailable external resolvers' exact output lengths.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The existing adapter verifies replacement signatures and original decoder source hashes before installing its bounded implementations. This control is unchanged by the PR and rejects incompatible original decoder implementations rather than silently installing replacements.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Validate the document-wide guarantee against the pinned GLiFormer dependency, including resolver output lengths and repeated source-document identities across decoder rows. If production grouping permits multiple rows per document, enforce the aggregate character budget by source-document identity rather than assuming one row per document.

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cap GLiFormer output text by characters: close. The character sum runs even when the word cap already rejects the output, which is costly on adversarial inputs. The 1_048_576 cap has no stated origin and kicks in before the word cap on normal text.

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@packages/sie_server/src/sie_server/adapters/gliformer/structuring_decoding.py:
- Line 155: Both decoders apply max_chars separately to flattened rows, allowing
groups with the same batch origin to exceed the per-document limit. In
structuring_decoding.py at line 155 and relation_decoding.py at line 137, group
rows by origin and select spans or relations against one shared character budget
per document, then preserve the existing per-group output structure when
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The character total was walked even when the word cap had already
rejected the output. Token text is now read only for the best-first
prefix that still fits in the word budget.

1_048_576 is four characters a word, so ordinary words hit it before
the word cap. The cap is the word cap times 2048, the document length
those bounds were measured on.

Refs superlinked#378
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The character walk now happens only for text the word cap has not already rejected. On records and relations, a row whose words are over the cap reads token text for the best-first prefix that still fits in the word budget, and does not walk the rejected tail.

1_048_576 was four characters per word of the 262144 word cap, so ordinary words reached it first. The cap is now the word cap times 2048. That 2048 is the document length in words already used for these bounds, and it is the most characters one ordinary token may take. Shorter tokens hit the word cap first. One token longer than that is what the character bound is for.

pytest packages/sie_server/tests/adapters/test_gliformer_span_decoding.py — 285 passed.

Refs #378

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Thanks, the word-cap short circuit looks right now, and the tracing tests pin it down nicely.

Two things before this can go in:

  1. Cap size. MAX_RELATION_CHARS = MAX_RELATION_WORDS * 2048 (relation_decoding.py:40) and MAX_RECORD_CHARS = MAX_RECORD_WORDS * 2048 (structuring_decoding.py:52) come to about 512 Mi characters per document, so the cap only binds in the extreme nested case and a single document can still return hundreds of MB. 2048 is a document length in words, but here it is used as characters per word. Something like 16 or 32 characters per word would keep normal text on the word cap first while actually bounding long tokens.
  2. CodeRabbit thread. The open thread on structuring_decoding.py:160 (allowances per flattened row) is valid in principle but out of scope here. It is the separate #378 item "Look up decode allowances through batch_origin", and today the adapter produces one group per document. Could you reply on the thread saying so and resolve it?

The earlier nits (sharing _span_chars via span_decoding.py, the default on _row_relations, the _within_word_limit name) are optional.

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The character cap is now 32 characters per word, not 2048: MAX_RECORD_CHARS = MAX_RECORD_WORDS * 32 and MAX_RELATION_CHARS = MAX_RELATION_WORDS * 32.

2048 was a document length in words, used here as characters per word, so the cap was about 512 Mi characters and barely bound a document. 32 is the top of the 16-or-32 range. Many ordinary English words are longer than 16 characters, so 16 would reject ordinary text before the word cap. At 32, an 8-letter word still hits the word cap first (8 < 32): a full word cap of them, plus the joining spaces, stays under the character cap. A token longer than 32 characters is what the character cap is for.

The word-cap short circuit is unchanged. Token text the word cap already rejected is not read.

The CodeRabbit thread on structuring_decoding.py (allowances per flattened row) is answered and resolved. It is valid in principle but out of scope: it is the separate #378 item "Look up decode allowances through batch_origin", and the adapter currently produces one group per document.

pytest packages/sie_server/tests/adapters/test_gliformer_span_decoding.py — 285 passed.

Refs #378

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Thanks, the 32 characters per word cap looks right and the CodeRabbit thread is resolved. One comment-only change and this is good to go.

The comment above MAX_RECORD_CHARS (structuring_decoding.py:44-49) and the matching one above MAX_RELATION_CHARS (relation_decoding.py) have three problems:

  • "Many ordinary English words are longer than 16 characters" is not the case.
  • "32 is used instead of 16" describes this review rather than the code.
  • "A token longer than 32 characters is what this bound is for" does not match how the cap works. It is a total per document, so a single 40-character token passes. It only binds when the decoded text averages more than about 31 characters per counted word.

Something along these lines would be accurate: "32 characters per counted word, including the joining space. The bound is per document, so text averaging under 31 characters a word reaches the word cap first, and text made of very long tokens reaches this cap."

Optional: the test docstring repeats the per-token wording, and assert ordinary < 32 does not test anything.

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The character cap is a document total of 32 characters per counted word, including the joining space (MAX_*_WORDS * 32). Text averaging under 31 characters a word reaches the word cap first, and text made of very long tokens reaches this cap. packages/sie_server/tests/adapters/test_gliformer_span_decoding.py: 285 passed.

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