hermes-agent/skills/mlops/nemo-curator/references/deduplication.md
teknium1 ab0f4126cf fix: restore all removed bundled skills + fix skills sync system
- Restored 21 skills removed in commits 757d012 and 740dd92:
  accelerate, audiocraft, code-review, faiss, flash-attention, gguf,
  grpo-rl-training, guidance, llava, nemo-curator, obliteratus, peft,
  pytorch-fsdp, pytorch-lightning, simpo, slime, stable-diffusion,
  tensorrt-llm, torchtitan, trl-fine-tuning, whisper

- Rewrote sync_skills() with proper update semantics:
  * New skills (not in manifest): copied to user dir
  * Existing skills (in manifest + on disk): updated via hash comparison
  * User-deleted skills (in manifest, not on disk): respected, not re-added
  * Stale manifest entries (removed from bundled): cleaned from manifest

- Added sync_skills() to CLI startup (cmd_chat) and gateway startup
  (start_gateway) — previously only ran during 'hermes update'

- Updated cmd_update output to show new/updated/cleaned counts

- Rewrote tests: 20 tests covering manifest CRUD, dir hashing, fresh
  install, user deletion respect, update detection, stale cleanup, and
  name collision handling

75 bundled skills total. 2002 tests pass.
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# Deduplication Guide
Complete guide to exact, fuzzy, and semantic deduplication.
## Exact deduplication
Remove documents with identical content.
```python
from nemo_curator.modules import ExactDuplicates
# Exact deduplication
exact_dedup = ExactDuplicates(
id_field="id",
text_field="text",
hash_method="md5" # or "sha256"
)
deduped = exact_dedup(dataset)
```
**Performance**: ~16× faster on GPU vs CPU
## Fuzzy deduplication
Remove near-duplicate documents using MinHash + LSH.
```python
from nemo_curator.modules import FuzzyDuplicates
fuzzy_dedup = FuzzyDuplicates(
id_field="id",
text_field="text",
num_hashes=260, # MinHash permutations (more = accurate)
num_buckets=20, # LSH buckets (more = faster, less recall)
hash_method="md5",
jaccard_threshold=0.8 # Similarity threshold
)
deduped = fuzzy_dedup(dataset)
```
**Parameters**:
- `num_hashes`: 128-512 (default 260)
- `num_buckets`: 10-50 (default 20)
- `jaccard_threshold`: 0.7-0.9 (default 0.8)
**Performance**: 16× faster on 8TB dataset (120h → 7.5h)
## Semantic deduplication
Remove semantically similar documents using embeddings.
```python
from nemo_curator.modules import SemanticDuplicates
semantic_dedup = SemanticDuplicates(
id_field="id",
text_field="text",
embedding_model="sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2",
embedding_batch_size=256,
threshold=0.85, # Cosine similarity threshold
device="cuda"
)
deduped = semantic_dedup(dataset)
```
**Models**:
- `all-MiniLM-L6-v2`: Fast, 384 dims
- `all-mpnet-base-v2`: Better quality, 768 dims
- Custom models supported
## Comparison
| Method | Speed | Recall | Use Case |
|--------|-------|--------|----------|
| Exact | Fastest | 100% | Exact matches only |
| Fuzzy | Fast | ~95% | Near-duplicates (recommended) |
| Semantic | Slow | ~90% | Paraphrases, rewrites |
## Best practices
1. **Start with exact dedup** - Remove obvious duplicates
2. **Use fuzzy for large datasets** - Best speed/quality trade-off
3. **Semantic for high-value data** - Expensive but thorough
4. **GPU acceleration required** - 10-16× speedup