diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0e4036f..dc22f92 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -49,13 +49,14 @@ export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_api_key_here"
 Finally, use vCache in your Python code:
 
 ```python
-from vcache import VCache, VerifiedDecisionPolicy
+from vcache import VCache, VCachePolicy, VerifiedDecisionPolicy
 
 error_rate_bound: int = 0.01
 policy: VCachePolicy = VerifiedDecisionPolicy(delta=error_rate_bound)
-vcache: VCache = VCache(policy)
+vcache: VCache = VCache(policy=policy)
 
 response: str = vcache.infer("Is the sky blue?")
+print(response)
 ```
 
 
diff --git a/benchmarks/ReadMe.md b/benchmarks/ReadMe.md
index 3c9e890..b56712e 100644
--- a/benchmarks/ReadMe.md
+++ b/benchmarks/ReadMe.md
@@ -22,10 +22,10 @@ This directory provides the official benchmarking tools for evaluating the perfo
 
 ## ⚙️ Installation
 
-To enable benchmarking capabilities, install vCache with the `benchmarks` extras:
+To enable benchmarking capabilities, install vCache with the `benchmarks` extras from the project root:
 
 ```bash
-pip install -e .
+pip install -e .[benchmarks]
 ```
 
 
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 1ae8189..d05ea72 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 2.1.3 and should not be changed by hand.
+# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 2.1.2 and should not be changed by hand.
 
 [[package]]
 name = "accelerate"
@@ -32,29 +32,13 @@ test-prod = ["parameterized", "pytest (>=7.2.0,<=8.0.0)", "pytest-order", "pytes
 test-trackers = ["comet-ml", "dvclive", "matplotlib", "mlflow", "tensorboard", "wandb"]
 testing = ["bitsandbytes", "datasets", "diffusers", "evaluate", "parameterized", "pytest (>=7.2.0,<=8.0.0)", "pytest-order", "pytest-subtests", "pytest-xdist", "scikit-learn", "scipy", "timm", "torchdata (>=0.8.0)", "torchpippy (>=0.2.0)", "tqdm", "transformers"]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "adjusttext"
-version = "0.8"
-description = "Iteratively adjust text position in matplotlib plots to minimize overlaps"
-optional = false
-python-versions = "*"
-groups = ["benchmarks"]
-files = [
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-    {file = "adjustText-0.8.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:bb0682bb53abb626d6afc9c1db108ccb67f2c35ddc8d20ac6a802c756c07ee17"},
-]
-
-[package.dependencies]
-matplotlib = "*"
-numpy = "*"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "aiohappyeyeballs"
 version = "2.6.1"
 description = "Happy Eyeballs for asyncio"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.9"
-groups = ["main"]
+groups = ["main", "benchmarks"]
 files = [
     {file = "aiohappyeyeballs-2.6.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:f349ba8f4b75cb25c99c5c2d84e997e485204d2902a9597802b0371f09331fb8"},
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@@ -66,7 +50,7 @@ version = "3.11.18"
 description = "Async http client/server framework (asyncio)"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.9"
-groups = ["main"]
+groups = ["main", "benchmarks"]
 files = [
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@@ -170,7 +154,7 @@ version = "1.3.2"
 description = "aiosignal: a list of registered asynchronous callbacks"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.9"
-groups = ["main"]
+groups = ["main", "benchmarks"]
 files = [
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@@ -263,7 +247,7 @@ version = "4.0.3"
 description = "Timeout context manager for asyncio programs"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
-groups = ["main"]
+groups = ["main", "benchmarks"]
 markers = "python_version == \"3.10\""
 files = [
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@@ -276,7 +260,7 @@ version = "25.3.0"
 description = "Classes Without Boilerplate"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
-groups = ["main"]
+groups = ["main", "benchmarks"]
 files = [
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@@ -411,7 +395,7 @@ version = "2025.4.26"
 description = "Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle."
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.6"
-groups = ["main"]
+groups = ["main", "benchmarks"]
 files = [
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@@ -516,7 +500,7 @@ version = "3.4.1"
 description = "The Real First Universal Charset Detector. Open, modern and actively maintained alternative to Chardet."
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
-groups = ["main"]
+groups = ["main", "benchmarks"]
 files = [
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@@ -722,12 +706,12 @@ version = "0.4.6"
 description = "Cross-platform colored terminal text."
 optional = false
 python-versions = "!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,!=3.3.*,!=3.4.*,!=3.5.*,!=3.6.*,>=2.7"
-groups = ["main", "dev"]
+groups = ["main", "benchmarks", "dev"]
 files = [
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-markers = {main = "platform_system == \"Windows\" or os_name == \"nt\" or sys_platform == \"win32\"", dev = "sys_platform == \"win32\""}
+markers = {main = "platform_system == \"Windows\" or os_name == \"nt\" or sys_platform == \"win32\"", benchmarks = "platform_system == \"Windows\"", dev = "sys_platform == \"win32\""}
 
 [[package]]
 name = "coloredlogs"
@@ -862,7 +846,7 @@ version = "3.6.0"
 description = "HuggingFace community-driven open-source library of datasets"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.9.0"
-groups = ["main"]
+groups = ["benchmarks"]
 files = [
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@@ -923,7 +907,7 @@ version = "0.3.8"
 description = "serialize all of Python"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
-groups = ["main"]
+groups = ["benchmarks"]
 files = [
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@@ -1052,7 +1036,7 @@ version = "3.18.0"
 description = "A platform independent file lock."
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.9"
-groups = ["main", "dev"]
+groups = ["main", "benchmarks", "dev"]
 files = [
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@@ -1167,7 +1151,7 @@ version = "1.6.0"
 description = "A list-like structure which implements collections.abc.MutableSequence"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.9"
-groups = ["main"]
+groups = ["main", "benchmarks"]
 files = [
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@@ -1281,7 +1265,7 @@ version = "2025.3.0"
 description = "File-system specification"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
-groups = ["main"]
+groups = ["main", "benchmarks"]
 files = [
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+    {version = ">=1.33.2,<2.0dev", optional = true, markers = "python_version < \"3.11\" and extra == \"grpc\""},
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 grpcio-status = [
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+    {version = ">=1.33.2,<2.0.dev0", optional = true, markers = "extra == \"grpc\""},
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 proto-plus = [
     {version = ">=1.22.3,<2.0.0"},
@@ -1427,7 +1411,7 @@ description = "Lightweight in-process concurrent programming"
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 python-versions = ">=3.9"
 groups = ["main"]
-markers = "python_version < \"3.14\" and (platform_machine == \"aarch64\" or platform_machine == \"ppc64le\" or platform_machine == \"x86_64\" or platform_machine == \"amd64\" or platform_machine == \"AMD64\" or platform_machine == \"win32\" or platform_machine == \"WIN32\")"
+markers = "(platform_machine == \"aarch64\" or platform_machine == \"ppc64le\" or platform_machine == \"x86_64\" or platform_machine == \"amd64\" or platform_machine == \"AMD64\" or platform_machine == \"win32\" or platform_machine == \"WIN32\") and python_version <= \"3.13\""
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@@ -1718,7 +1702,7 @@ version = "0.30.2"
 description = "Client library to download and publish models, datasets and other repos on the huggingface.co hub"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8.0"
-groups = ["main"]
+groups = ["main", "benchmarks"]
 files = [
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 description = "Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)"
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 python-versions = ">=3.6"
-groups = ["main"]
+groups = ["main", "benchmarks"]
 files = [
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-groups = ["main", "benchmarks"]
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+groups = ["main", "benchmarks", "dev"]
 files = [
     {file = "typing_extensions-4.13.2-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:a439e7c04b49fec3e5d3e2beaa21755cadbbdc391694e28ccdd36ca4a1408f8c"},
     {file = "typing_extensions-4.13.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:e6c81219bd689f51865d9e372991c540bda33a0379d5573cddb9a3a23f7caaef"},
@@ -5837,7 +5661,7 @@ version = "2.4.0"
 description = "HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more."
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.9"
-groups = ["main"]
+groups = ["main", "benchmarks"]
 files = [
     {file = "urllib3-2.4.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:4e16665048960a0900c702d4a66415956a584919c03361cac9f1df5c5dd7e813"},
     {file = "urllib3-2.4.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:414bc6535b787febd7567804cc015fee39daab8ad86268f1310a9250697de466"},
@@ -5883,7 +5707,7 @@ description = "Fast implementation of asyncio event loop on top of libuv"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8.0"
 groups = ["main"]
-markers = "sys_platform != \"win32\" and sys_platform != \"cygwin\" and platform_python_implementation != \"PyPy\""
+markers = "platform_python_implementation != \"PyPy\" and sys_platform != \"win32\" and sys_platform != \"cygwin\""
 files = [
     {file = "uvloop-0.21.0-cp310-cp310-macosx_10_9_universal2.whl", hash = "sha256:ec7e6b09a6fdded42403182ab6b832b71f4edaf7f37a9a0e371a01db5f0cb45f"},
     {file = "uvloop-0.21.0-cp310-cp310-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:196274f2adb9689a289ad7d65700d37df0c0930fd8e4e743fa4834e850d7719d"},
@@ -6225,7 +6049,7 @@ version = "3.5.0"
 description = "Python binding for xxHash"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
-groups = ["main"]
+groups = ["benchmarks"]
 files = [
     {file = "xxhash-3.5.0-cp310-cp310-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:ece616532c499ee9afbb83078b1b952beffef121d989841f7f4b3dc5ac0fd212"},
     {file = "xxhash-3.5.0-cp310-cp310-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl", hash = "sha256:3171f693dbc2cef6477054a665dc255d996646b4023fe56cb4db80e26f4cc520"},
@@ -6358,7 +6182,7 @@ version = "1.20.0"
 description = "Yet another URL library"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.9"
-groups = ["main"]
+groups = ["main", "benchmarks"]
 files = [
     {file = "yarl-1.20.0-cp310-cp310-macosx_10_9_universal2.whl", hash = "sha256:f1f6670b9ae3daedb325fa55fbe31c22c8228f6e0b513772c2e1c623caa6ab22"},
     {file = "yarl-1.20.0-cp310-cp310-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:85a231fa250dfa3308f3c7896cc007a47bc76e9e8e8595c20b7426cac4884c62"},
@@ -6607,4 +6431,4 @@ cffi = ["cffi (>=1.11)"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.1"
 python-versions = ">=3.10,<4.0"
-content-hash = "89c265345738ad4c83192a1bc4a86599658ee6a5a7d34251dd884153f5d04e01"
+content-hash = "f1c6a2c86a646bae6b935c11de9999e3122336b36bec226cb00493857c809538"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 18054f2..c74e7ea 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ dependencies = [
     "langchain-anthropic (>=0.3.12,<0.4.0)",
     "langchain-huggingface (>=0.1.2,<0.2.0)",
     "langchain-google-genai (>=2.1.3,<3.0.0)",
-    "torch (>=2.6.0,<3.0.0)",
     "openai (>=1.75.0,<2.0.0)",
     "faiss-cpu (>=1.10.0,<2.0.0)",
     "hnswlib (>=0.8.0,<0.9.0)",
@@ -21,11 +20,9 @@ dependencies = [
     "sentence-transformers (>=4.1.0,<5.0.0)",
     "accelerate (>=1.6.0,<2.0.0)",
     "typing-extensions (>=4.13.2,<5.0.0)",
-    "torchvision (>=0.22.0,<0.23.0)",
     "statsmodels (>=0.14.4,<0.15.0)",
-    "ijson (>=3.4.0,<4.0.0)",
+    "scipy (>=1.10.0,<1.16.0)",
     "pytest (>=8.3.5,<9.0.0)",
-    "datasets (>=3.6.0,<4.0.0)",
     "pandas (>=2.3.0,<3.0.0)",
 ]
 
@@ -37,11 +34,9 @@ build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"
 
 [tool.poetry.group.benchmarks.dependencies]
 matplotlib = "^3.7.0"
-ijson = "^3.2.0"
-seaborn = "^0.12.0"
-scipy = "^1.10.0"
-adjustText = "^0.8"
 scikit-learn = "^1.2.0"
+torch = "^2.6.0"
+datasets = "^3.6.0"
 
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]
diff --git a/tests/ReadMe.md b/tests/ReadMe.md
index e4c36a1..2eea550 100644
--- a/tests/ReadMe.md
+++ b/tests/ReadMe.md
@@ -19,6 +19,14 @@ Reliable and Efficient Semantic Prompt Caching
 vCache includes both **unit tests** and **integration tests** to ensure correctness and reliability across its modular components.
 
 
+#### Installation
+
+To enable testing capabilities, install vCache with the `benchmarks and dev` extras from the project root:
+
+```bash
+pip install -e .[benchmarks,dev]
+```
+
 
 ### Unit Tests
 
@@ -28,25 +36,25 @@ They are designed to be fast, deterministic, and independent of external service
 #### Running Unit Tests
 
 ```bash
-python -m pytest tests/unit/
+python -m pytest tests/unit 
 ```
 
 
 ### Integration Tests
 
-Integration tests validate the **end-to-end behavior** of vCache by checking how components interact (e.g., LLM inference + vector DB + thresholding policy).  
+Integration tests validate the **end-to-end behavior** of vCache by checking how components interact (e.g., LLM inference + vector database + thresholding policy).  
 They may involve real API calls and require a valid OpenAI key.
 
 #### Running Integration Tests
 
-1. Create a `.env` file and set your OpenAI API key:
+1. Export your OpenAI key:
 
 ```env
-OPENAI_API_KEY=your_key_here
+export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_key_here"
 ```
 
 2. Run the tests using Poetry:
 
 ```bash
-poetry run pytest tests/integration
+python -m pytest tests/integration
 ```