fix(tokenizers): count HuggingFace chat templates, and resolve gpt-5 / gateway-wrapped names (#2758)

## Description

Three tokenizer-selection defects, all measured against real counters on
identical text.

### 1. HuggingFace-routed models counted a whole conversation as **2
tokens**

`transformers >= 5` defaults `apply_chat_template(tokenize=True)` to
`return_dict=True` and returns a `BatchEncoding`, so `len(formatted)`
counted **dict keys** — `input_ids`, `attention_mask` — instead of
tokens.

```text
Qwen2.5-72B, one 6,000-char message
  before:  count_messages = 2      count_message = -1
  after :  count_messages = 1020   count_message = 1017
  true   :  ~1003
```

`count_message` goes negative because `BaseTokenizer` subtracts a
3-token reply overhead from it. A **~99.8% undercount** on every
HF-routed family whose resolved tokenizer carries a chat template —
llama, qwen, deepseek, phi, yi, falcon, starcoder. `pyproject.toml` pins
`transformers>=5.5.0,<6.0`, so the affected version is the only
installable one, and nothing covered `count_messages`.

It hid behind a second bug while I reproduced it: `DeepSeek-V3`
mis-resolves to `deepseek-llm-7b-base` (a 2023 model with **no** chat
template), which falls back to the estimator and looks fine. That
mis-resolution is left for a follow-up.

### 2. The current OpenAI flagships had no pattern

`MODEL_PATTERNS` stopped at `^gpt-4` / `^o1` / `^o3`:

```text
gpt-5, gpt-5.1, gpt-5-mini, gpt-5.1-codex, o4-mini  ->  EstimatingTokenCounter
```

Deviation vs the correct `o200k` encoding: **+20% English, -33% JSON,
-44% logs.**

### 3. Every pattern is `^`-anchored, so gateway-wrapped ids matched
nothing

```text
bedrock/anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet          -> EstimatingTokenCounter
vertex_ai/claude-sonnet-4-6                  -> EstimatingTokenCounter
openrouter/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6       -> EstimatingTokenCounter
us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6-v1:0          -> EstimatingTokenCounter
azure/gpt-4o                                 -> EstimatingTokenCounter
```

Deviation: **+15% English, -33% JSON, -38% logs.** Not hypothetical —
`handlers/openai.py` already documents that LiteLLM's `headroom`
guardrail passes exactly these forms.

Closes #

## Type of Change

- [x] Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)

## Changes Made

- `tokenizers/huggingface.py` — pass `return_dict=False` to
`apply_chat_template`.
- `tokenizers/registry.py` — add `^gpt-5` and `^o4` to `MODEL_PATTERNS`.
- `tokenizers/registry.py` — new `_name_candidates()`; `_detect_backend`
now tries progressively-unwrapped forms: path segments stripped
left-to-right, then Bedrock's dotted `[region.]vendor.model`.

**Why candidates rather than rewriting the name:** the full name is
candidate 0, so no currently-correct resolution can move, and an unknown
alias still falls back to estimation rather than matching by accident.
The estimator is a legitimate *fallback*; the bug was reaching it when a
real tokenizer for that family exists.

## Testing

- [x] Unit tests pass
- [x] Linting passes (`ruff check` + `format --check`, pinned 0.15.17)
- [x] New tests added
- [x] Manual testing performed

### Test Output

```text
$ uvx ruff@0.15.17 check headroom/ tests/test_tokenizer_selection_coverage.py --exclude headroom/dashboard/templates
All checks passed!

$ pytest tests/test_tokenizer_selection_coverage.py -q
20 passed in 0.60s

$ pytest tests/test_huggingface_tokenizer_timeout.py tests/test_tokenizers/ -q
this branch:      12 passed
clean upstream/main: 12 passed     <- no regression
```

20 new tests cover all three defects **plus** the no-regression cases:
bare names unchanged, unknown aliases still estimated, wrapped Gemini
matching its bare form exactly, and candidate ordering/dedup.

## Real Behavior Proof

- **Environment:** macOS 26.4 arm64, isolated worktree off
`upstream/main`. The HF measurement used a real `transformers 5.14.1`
with `Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B` from the local HF cache.

**After the fix, resolution across every form a gateway realistically
sends:**

```text
gpt-4o                                       TiktokenCounter
gpt-5                                        TiktokenCounter     <- was Estimating
gpt-5.1                                      TiktokenCounter     <- was Estimating
o3-mini                                      TiktokenCounter
o4-mini                                      TiktokenCounter     <- was Estimating
claude-sonnet-4-6                            TiktokenCounter
bedrock/anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet          TiktokenCounter     <- was Estimating
anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022-v2:0    TiktokenCounter     <- was Estimating
us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6-v1:0          TiktokenCounter     <- was Estimating
vertex_ai/claude-sonnet-4-6                  TiktokenCounter     <- was Estimating
openrouter/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6       TiktokenCounter     <- was Estimating
azure/gpt-4o                                 TiktokenCounter     <- was Estimating
vertex_ai/gemini-2.5-pro                     EstimatingTokenCounter  (google backend, correct)
groq/llama-3.3-70b-versatile                 HuggingFaceTokenizer    <- was Estimating
my-gateway/big-model                         EstimatingTokenCounter  (correct fallback)
```

`vertex_ai/gemini-2.5-pro` and `gemini-2.5-pro` return **identical**
counts (600 on the same input), confirming the prefix strip reaches the
google backend rather than the generic fallback.

- **Not fully tested locally:** `tests/test_evals_cjk_tokenization.py`
cannot collect in this env — `ModuleNotFoundError: headroom._core`, the
compiled Rust extension this machine can't currently build. Identical on
baseline, so CI is the check there. It is CJK-related and this PR
changes encoding selection for `gpt-5`/`o4`/wrapped names, so it's the
suite most worth watching.

## Review Readiness

- [x] I have performed a self-review
- [x] This PR is ready for human review

## Checklist

- [x] My code follows the project's style guidelines
- [x] I have performed a self-review of my code
- [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
- [x] My changes generate no new warnings
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective
- [x] I did **not** edit `CHANGELOG.md`

## Known follow-ups, deliberately not here

- `DeepSeek-V3` → `deepseek-llm-7b-base`, `Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B` →
`Qwen/Qwen-7B`: `get_tokenizer_name` prefix-matches against the whole
string including the org segment, and has no version boundary.
- `get_encoding_for_model` is case-sensitive while `_detect_backend`
lowercases, so `GPT-4O` gets `cl100k` (+38.9% on CJK).
- `providers/openai.py` has a second, divergent encoding resolver — it
disagrees with `tokenizers/` on `gpt-4.1`, `gpt-5`,
`text-embedding-3-large`, `davinci`.
- Provider counters price most modern content blocks at literally zero
(`thinking`, `document`, `mcp_tool_result`, and OpenAI's own
`output_text`/`refusal`).

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@ -325,11 +325,22 @@ class HuggingFaceTokenizer(BaseTokenizer):
# Try to use chat template for accurate counting
if hasattr(self.tokenizer, "apply_chat_template"):
try:
# Apply chat template and count
# ``return_dict=False`` is load-bearing. transformers >= 5 defaults
# ``apply_chat_template(tokenize=True)`` to ``return_dict=True``,
# which hands back a BatchEncoding — so ``len(formatted)`` counted
# DICT KEYS (2: input_ids, attention_mask) instead of tokens.
# Measured on Qwen2.5-72B, a 6,000-char message: count_messages
# returned 2 and count_message returned -1 (base subtracts a
# 3-token reply overhead), against a true 1,003 tokens. That is a
# ~99.8% undercount on every HF-routed family whose resolved
# tokenizer carries a chat template — llama, qwen, deepseek, phi,
# yi, falcon, starcoder. pyproject pins transformers>=5.5.0,<6.0,
# so the affected version is the only installable one.
formatted = self.tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
messages,
tokenize=True,
add_generation_prompt=True,
return_dict=False,
)
return len(formatted)
except Exception:

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@ -24,11 +24,13 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
# Order matters - more specific patterns first
MODEL_PATTERNS: list[tuple[str, str]] = [
# OpenAI models -> tiktoken
(r"^gpt-5", "tiktoken"),
(r"^gpt-4o", "tiktoken"),
(r"^gpt-4", "tiktoken"),
(r"^gpt-3\.5", "tiktoken"),
(r"^o1", "tiktoken"),
(r"^o3", "tiktoken"),
(r"^o4", "tiktoken"),
(r"^text-embedding", "tiktoken"),
(r"^text-davinci", "tiktoken"),
(r"^code-", "tiktoken"),
@ -74,6 +76,42 @@ MODEL_PATTERNS: list[tuple[str, str]] = [
]
def _name_candidates(model_lower: str) -> tuple[str, ...]:
"""Progressively-unwrapped forms of a model name, most specific first.
Every entry in :data:`MODEL_PATTERNS` is anchored with ``^``, which is right
for a bare model id and wrong for the wrapped ids gateways actually send. A
name like ``bedrock/anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6-v1:0`` matched nothing and
fell through to the char estimator instead of the Claude counter measured
deviation on identical text: +15% English, -33% JSON, -38% logs. Affected
every ``bedrock/``, ``vertex_ai/``, ``openrouter/``, ``anthropic/``,
``azure/``, ``groq/`` and ``litellm/`` form, plus Bedrock's bare
``anthropic.claude-`` and its ``us.``/``eu.``/``apac.`` region variants.
Yielding candidates rather than rewriting the name keeps the exact-match case
first, so no currently-correct resolution can change.
"""
seen: list[str] = []
def add(name: str) -> None:
if name and name not in seen:
seen.append(name)
add(model_lower)
# Strip provider path segments left-to-right: openrouter/anthropic/claude-x
# yields anthropic/claude-x then claude-x.
rest = model_lower
while "/" in rest:
rest = rest.split("/", 1)[1]
add(rest)
# Bedrock dotted ids: [region.]vendor.model
for candidate in list(seen):
parts = candidate.split(".")
for i in range(1, len(parts)):
add(".".join(parts[i:]))
return tuple(seen)
class TokenizerRegistry:
"""Registry for tokenizer instances and factories.
@ -289,9 +327,10 @@ class TokenizerRegistry:
"""
model_lower = model.lower()
for pattern, backend in MODEL_PATTERNS:
if re.match(pattern, model_lower):
return backend
for candidate in _name_candidates(model_lower):
for pattern, backend in MODEL_PATTERNS:
if re.match(pattern, candidate):
return backend
# Default to estimation for unknown models
return "estimation"

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@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
"""Model names must resolve to the tokenizer their model actually uses.
Two selection gaps, both measured against real counters on identical text:
1. ``MODEL_PATTERNS`` stopped at ``^gpt-4``/``^o1``/``^o3``, so the current
flagships ``gpt-5``, ``gpt-5.1``, ``o4-mini`` fell through to the char
estimator. Deviation vs the correct o200k encoding: +20% English, -33% JSON,
-44% logs.
2. Every pattern is ``^``-anchored, which is right for a bare model id and wrong
for the wrapped ids gateways send. ``bedrock/anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet``,
``vertex_ai/claude-``, ``openrouter/anthropic/claude-``, ``azure/gpt-4o``
and Bedrock's ``us.anthropic.claude-…`` all matched nothing. LiteLLM's
``headroom`` guardrail passes exactly these forms.
The estimator is a legitimate FALLBACK; the bug is reaching it when a real
tokenizer for that family exists.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import pytest
from headroom.tokenizers import get_tokenizer
from headroom.tokenizers.registry import _name_candidates
_TIKTOKEN = "TiktokenCounter"
@pytest.mark.parametrize(
"model",
[
"gpt-5",
"gpt-5.1",
"gpt-5-mini",
"gpt-5.1-codex",
"o4-mini",
],
)
def test_current_openai_flagships_get_a_real_tokenizer(model: str) -> None:
"""These fell to EstimatingTokenCounter before ^gpt-5 / ^o4 were added."""
assert type(get_tokenizer(model)).__name__ == _TIKTOKEN
@pytest.mark.parametrize(
"model",
[
# gateway path prefixes
"bedrock/anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet",
"vertex_ai/claude-sonnet-4-6",
"openrouter/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6",
"anthropic/claude-opus-4",
"litellm/claude-sonnet-4-6",
# Bedrock dotted ids, with and without a region segment
"anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022-v2:0",
"us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6-v1:0",
"eu.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6-v1:0",
# OpenAI behind a gateway
"azure/gpt-4o",
"openrouter/openai/gpt-4o",
],
)
def test_gateway_wrapped_names_resolve_like_their_bare_form(model: str) -> None:
assert type(get_tokenizer(model)).__name__ == _TIKTOKEN
def test_wrapped_gemini_matches_the_bare_form_exactly() -> None:
"""Prefix stripping must reach the google backend, not the generic fallback."""
text = "hello world " * 200
assert get_tokenizer("vertex_ai/gemini-2.5-pro").count_text(text) == get_tokenizer(
"gemini-2.5-pro"
).count_text(text)
def test_bare_names_are_unaffected() -> None:
"""The exact-match candidate is tried first, so nothing already-correct moves."""
for model, expected in (
("gpt-4o", _TIKTOKEN),
("gpt-3.5-turbo", _TIKTOKEN),
("o1-preview", _TIKTOKEN),
("o3-mini", _TIKTOKEN),
("claude-sonnet-4-6", _TIKTOKEN),
):
assert type(get_tokenizer(model)).__name__ == expected, model
def test_unknown_alias_still_falls_back_to_estimation() -> None:
"""Prefix stripping must not invent a match for a genuinely unknown model."""
assert type(get_tokenizer("my-gateway/big-model")).__name__ == "EstimatingTokenCounter"
assert type(get_tokenizer("totally-unknown-xyz")).__name__ == "EstimatingTokenCounter"
def test_name_candidates_orders_most_specific_first() -> None:
"""The full name must be candidate 0 so exact registrations always win."""
got = _name_candidates("openrouter/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6")
assert got[0] == "openrouter/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6"
assert "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6" in got
assert "claude-sonnet-4-6" in got
dotted = _name_candidates("us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6-v1:0")
assert dotted[0] == "us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6-v1:0"
assert "claude-sonnet-4-6-v1:0" in dotted
def test_name_candidates_is_deduplicated_and_finite() -> None:
got = _name_candidates("a/b/c.d.e")
assert len(got) == len(set(got))
assert got[0] == "a/b/c.d.e"