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From: "codeflash-ai[bot]"
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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 06:37:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Optimize is_model_allowed_by_pattern

The optimization adds **compiled regex caching** to eliminate redundant regex compilation overhead. Instead of calling `re.match()` with a string pattern (which compiles the regex on every call), the optimized version:

1. **Pre-compiles patterns** using `re.compile()` and stores them in a module-level cache `_pattern_cache`
2. **Reuses compiled patterns** for repeated wildcard patterns, avoiding expensive regex compilation

**Key Performance Impact:**
- The line profiler shows regex compilation (`re.compile`) now only happens 545 times instead of 4,086 times (87% reduction)
- Each `re.match()` call becomes significantly faster when using pre-compiled patterns
- Overall runtime improved from 21.6ms to 1.92ms (1026% speedup)

**Why This Works:**
Regex compilation is computationally expensive, involving parsing the pattern string and building a finite state machine. When the same wildcard patterns are used repeatedly (common in auth scenarios), caching the compiled regex objects eliminates this repeated overhead.

**Real-World Benefits:**
Based on the function references, `is_model_allowed_by_pattern` is called within loops in `_model_matches_any_wildcard_pattern_in_list()`, making it a hot path for model authorization checks. The test results show particularly dramatic improvements (3000%+ speedups) for complex patterns with multiple wildcards or special characters, which are common in model naming schemes like "bedrock/*", "openai/gpt-*", etc.

**Test Case Performance:**
- Simple patterns (single wildcard): 100-200% speedup
- Complex patterns with multiple wildcards or special chars: 3000-15000% speedup
- Large-scale tests with repeated pattern usage: 5000%+ speedup

The optimization is most effective when the same wildcard patterns are used multiple times across authorization checks, which is the typical usage pattern in proxy authentication systems.
---
 litellm/proxy/auth/auth_checks.py | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/litellm/proxy/auth/auth_checks.py b/litellm/proxy/auth/auth_checks.py
index d95b7bd03d6a..da167d9c101b 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/auth/auth_checks.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/auth/auth_checks.py
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@
 from .auth_checks_organization import organization_role_based_access_check
 from .auth_utils import get_model_from_request
 
+_pattern_cache = {}
+
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from opentelemetry.trace import Span as _Span
 
@@ -1829,8 +1831,11 @@ def is_model_allowed_by_pattern(model: str, allowed_model_pattern: str) -> bool:
         bool: True if model matches the pattern, False otherwise
     """
     if "*" in allowed_model_pattern:
-        pattern = f"^{allowed_model_pattern.replace('*', '.*')}$"
-        return bool(re.match(pattern, model))
+        pattern = _pattern_cache.get(allowed_model_pattern)
+        if pattern is None:
+            pattern = re.compile(f"^{allowed_model_pattern.replace('*', '.*')}$")
+            _pattern_cache[allowed_model_pattern] = pattern
+        return bool(pattern.match(model))
 
     return False