Gahow Wang 876d09db83 Add chatbot T_external CDF; overlay on f3a vs agentic ...

User-requested comparison of inter-turn external gap distribution between
the production agentic trace (Qwen3-Coder) and a production chatbot trace
(qwen3-max chat). Both computed as
  T_external = next_turn.start_ms - prev_turn.end_ms
on the same kind of pipeline (raw input + raw output join on request_id,
session structure from the formatted trace's parent_chat_id chains).

The chatbot trace lives as two files on dash0:
  input  : bailian-trace/qwen-trace-260321-260327/qwen3-max-input-032309-032311.jsonl
  output : bailian-trace/qwen-trace-260321-260327/qwen3-max-output-032109-032711.jsonl
The raw input has no session_id (uuid is per-record, user_id has only 4
distinct tenant values for 346 k requests). We recover session structure
from the formatted file (qwen_chat_blksz_64_032309-032311.jsonl, which
groups requests by parent_chat_id), matching each formatted record to a
raw record by (timestamp, output_length) — prompt_token_num is anonymized
to 0 in this trace, so we use generate_token_num as the join key.
End time is derived from time_to_finish_token (ms duration) not the "time"
string field (which is the log-write time, not request completion).

Numbers (chatbot, 42 228 inter-turn gaps over 32 262 multi-turn sessions):
  p25  4.85 s   p50  7.18 s   p75  8.22 s   p90 15.0 s   p99  43 s
  4%  gaps < 1 s   29% < 5 s   78% < 10 s   98% < 30 s

Compare to agentic (same metric, scripts/compute_inter_turn_gap_remote.py):
  p25  0.69 s   p50  1.6  s   p75  8.6  s   p90  44  s   p99 738 s
  39% gaps < 1 s   67% < 5 s   77% < 10 s   87% < 30 s

Distributions differ in shape, not just location:
- Chatbot is tight, unimodal around 5–10 s (human interaction).
- Agentic is bimodal: a sub-second autonomous tool-call mode (39 % < 1 s)
  plus a long-pause tail (13 % > 30 s, p99 = 738 s) for sessions where
  the operator steps away.
- The sub-second tool-call mass is where dispatch coupling lives —
  those turns have W_turn ≫ T_external for any current scheduler.

The earlier "chatbot has T_human ≈ 30 s" hand-wave was wrong empirically.
The right framing for §2.3 is "agentic has a sub-second tool-call mode
that chatbot doesn't", not "chatbot has think-time and agentic doesn't".

Adds:
- scripts/compute_inter_turn_gap_chatbot.py: dash0-side aggregator
  (raw input/output join + formatted alignment by ts + output_length)
- analysis/characterization/data/chatbot_inter_turn_gap.json: CDF cache
- scripts/plot_inter_turn_gap.py: overlays both curves on log-x

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-05-27 14:49:44 +08:00

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