removed bleu-score package and wrote my own that

didn't have a bug in it (issue with saving "constructor" as a key of a normal object)

package.json

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
         "test": "node --experimental-vm-modules node_modules/jest/bin/jest.js"
     },
     "dependencies": {
-        "bleu-score": "^1.0.4",
         "cors": "^2.8.5",
         "dotenv": "^16.3.1",
         "express": "^4.18.2",

src/utils/bleu.js

@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+/*
+ * Calculates BLEU score between a reference and candidate sentence.
+ * Reference and candidate should be token arrays (e.g. split by whitespace).
+ * We compute modified n-gram precisions for n=1..4, geometric mean, with smoothing (optional).
+ * We include the brevity penalty.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Extracts n-grams from a sequence of tokens.
+ * @param {string[]} tokens - Array of tokens.
+ * @param {number} n - Size of the n-gram.
+ * @returns {Object} Map from n-gram string to its count.
+ */
+function getNGramCounts(tokens, n) {
+    const counts = Object.create(null);
+    for (let i = 0; i + n <= tokens.length; i++) {
+        const gram = tokens.slice(i, i + n).join(" ");
+        counts[gram] = (counts[gram] || 0) + 1;
+    }
+    return counts;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Computes modified precision for a given n.
+ * @param {string[]} reference - Reference token array.
+ * @param {string[]} candidate - Candidate token array.
+ * @param {number} n - n-gram order.
+ * @returns {number} Modified n-gram precision.
+ */
+function modifiedPrecision(reference, candidate, n) {
+    const refCounts = getNGramCounts(reference, n);
+    const candCounts = getNGramCounts(candidate, n);
+    let matchCount = 0;
+    let totalCount = 0;
+
+    for (const gram in candCounts) {
+        const countCand = candCounts[gram];
+        const countRef = refCounts[gram] || 0;
+        matchCount += Math.min(countCand, countRef);
+        totalCount += countCand;
+    }
+
+    // Avoid division by zero
+    return totalCount === 0 ? 0 : matchCount / totalCount;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Computes brevity penalty.
+ * @param {number} refLength - Length of reference sentence.
+ * @param {number} candLength - Length of candidate sentence.
+ * @returns {number} Brevity penalty.
+ */
+function brevityPenalty(refLength, candLength) {
+    if (candLength > refLength) {
+        return 1;
+    }
+    if (candLength === 0) {
+        return 0;
+    }
+    return Math.exp(1 - refLength / candLength);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Computes BLEU score.
+ * @param {string} refSentence - Reference sentence.
+ * @param {string} candSentence - Candidate sentence.
+ * @param {number} maxN - Maximum n-gram order (default=4).
+ * @param {boolean} smooth - Whether to apply smoothing (default=false).
+ * @returns {number} BLEU score between 0 and 1.
+ */
+export function bleu(refSentence, candSentence, maxN = 4, smooth = false) {
+    const reference = refSentence.trim().split(/\s+/);
+    const candidate = candSentence.trim().split(/\s+/);
+    const refLen = reference.length;
+    const candLen = candidate.length;
+
+    // count how many times we've hit a zero count so far
+    const precisions = [];
+    for (let n = 1; n <= maxN; n++) {
+        let p = modifiedPrecision(reference, candidate, n);
+        if (p === 0 && smooth) {
+            p = 1 / Math.pow(candLen, n);
+        }
+        precisions.push(p);
+    }
+
+    // Compute geometric mean of precisions
+    // if any precision is zero (and no smoothing), BLEU=0
+    if (precisions.some((p) => p === 0)) {
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+    const logPrecisionSum =
+        precisions.map((p) => Math.log(p)).reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0) / maxN;
+    const geoMean = Math.exp(logPrecisionSum);
+
+    const bp = brevityPenalty(refLen, candLen);
+    return bp * geoMean;
+}
+
+// Example usage:
+
+if (process.argv[1] === import.meta.filename) {
+    const test_pairs = [
+        // ["the cat is on the mat", "the cat is on the mat"],
+        // ["the cat is on the mat", "the the the the the the the"],
+        // ["the cat is on the mat", "the cat on the mat"],
+        // ["the cat is on the mat", "the cat is on the"],
+        // ["the cat is on the mat", "foo bar baz qux"],
+        // [
+        //     "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog",
+        //     "The quick brown dog jumps over the lazy fox",
+        // ],
+        [
+            "This could be `static` to prevent any funkiness, i.e. attempting to use class state during the constructor or similar.",
+            "This could be `static` to prevent any funkiness, i.e. attempting to use class state during the constructor or similar.",
+        ],
+    ];
+
+    for (const [reference, candidate] of test_pairs) {
+        const score = bleu(reference, candidate, 4);
+        console.log(`reference: ${reference}`);
+        console.log(`candidate: ${candidate}`);
+        console.log(`BLEU score: ${score.toFixed(4)}`);
+    }
+}

src/utils/process_data.js

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import fs from "fs";
 import { getProjectPath } from "../utils/paths.js";
-import { bleu } from "bleu-score";
-
+import { bleu } from "../utils/bleu.js";
 
 function buildReferenceMap(dataset_path) {
     const referenceMap = {};