feat(agent): MemoryConfig::float16 stores half-precision embeddings
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The setting was persisted in /meta and otherwise ignored: embeddings
were always written as f32. It now does what it says.

clawhdf5-format:
- `DatasetBuilder::with_f16_data` writes IEEE binary16 (numpy float16),
  rounding to nearest-even, and `make_f16_type`.
- `clawhdf5_format::float16` holds the f32 <-> f16 conversions, the one
  implementation the writer, the reader and the agent all use. Checked
  against the `half` crate on 16.7M f32 values and round-trips all 65536
  half values; the h5py interop tests confirm the rounding matches
  numpy's bit for bit (4020 values incl. ties, subnormals, overflow).
- Reading little-endian float16 as f32 has a fast path.

clawhdf5-agent:
- A float16 store writes /memory/embeddings as half precision, and
  `MemoryCache::half_precision` rounds each embedding as it enters the
  cache (save, update, WAL replay, and on load of a store still f32 on
  disk), so memory and file agree bit for bit and a store searches the
  same before and after a reopen (tested).
- Values beyond +-65504 are refused with the new
  `MemoryError::InvalidEntry` rather than stored as infinity, on every
  save path; batches are all or nothing, and a rejected ephemeral entry
  stays in the ephemeral tier. Breaking for exhaustive matches.
- CLI: `create --float16`. Off by default.

Measured on tank, 384-dim, six runs alternating order, medians
(search_harness --float16-study --full): at 100K the file goes from
154.0 to 80.8 MiB (-48%), checkpoint 752 -> 512 ms, open 300 -> 252 ms;
vector recall@10 against an exact scan and hybrid_search latency do not
change. At 10K open is 3 ms slower. Also a test that h5py opens a whole
agent store, f32 and float16, and decodes every dataset.

Docs: README, BENCHMARKS.md ("float16 embedding storage"), CHANGELOG
(including the h5py interop fixes in the previous commit), CLAUDE.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
osobh
2026-09-24 12:00:38 -05:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent 5e4aa1c6bf
commit d0db83812b
18 changed files with 1111 additions and 43 deletions
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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
//! In-memory cache for memory entries, sessions, and knowledge graph.
use crate::vector_search;
use clawhdf5_format::float16::round_to_f16;
/// Every entry's embedding, in one contiguous `[N x dim]` buffer.
///
@@ -149,6 +150,11 @@ pub struct MemoryCache {
pub norms: Vec<f32>,
/// Hebbian activation weights (default 1.0 per entry).
pub activation_weights: Vec<f32>,
/// Round every embedding to IEEE half precision as it enters the cache,
/// so the cache holds exactly what a `float16` store writes to disk. Set
/// it with [`MemoryCache::set_half_precision`], which also rounds the
/// rows already held.
pub half_precision: bool,
}
impl MemoryCache {
@@ -164,9 +170,44 @@ impl MemoryCache {
embedding_dim,
norms: Vec::new(),
activation_weights: Vec::new(),
half_precision: false,
}
}
/// Switch half-precision rounding on or off. Turning it on rounds every
/// embedding already held (and recomputes norms where one changed) —
/// e.g. a `float16` store whose last checkpoint predates half-precision
/// storage and so is still `f32` on disk.
pub fn set_half_precision(&mut self, on: bool) {
self.half_precision = on;
if !on {
return;
}
for i in 0..self.embeddings.len() {
let row = &self.embeddings[i];
if row
.iter()
.all(|&v| round_to_f16(v).to_bits() == v.to_bits())
{
continue;
}
let rounded: Vec<f32> = row.iter().map(|&v| round_to_f16(v)).collect();
self.norms[i] = vector_search::compute_norm(&rounded);
self.embeddings.set(i, &rounded);
}
}
/// The embedding as the cache will hold it: rounded to half precision
/// when [`Self::half_precision`] is on, otherwise unchanged.
fn stored_form(&self, mut embedding: Vec<f32>) -> Vec<f32> {
if self.half_precision {
for v in &mut embedding {
*v = round_to_f16(*v);
}
}
embedding
}
/// Kept for callers that used to have to re-flatten after a bulk load.
/// The buffer is always flat now, so there is nothing to rebuild.
#[deprecated(note = "embeddings are stored flat; this is a no-op")]
@@ -202,6 +243,7 @@ impl MemoryCache {
tags: String,
) -> usize {
let idx = self.chunks.len();
let embedding = self.stored_form(embedding);
let norm = vector_search::compute_norm(&embedding);
self.chunks.push(chunk);
self.embeddings.push(&embedding);
@@ -240,6 +282,7 @@ impl MemoryCache {
session_id: String,
) {
if idx < self.chunks.len() {
let embedding = self.stored_form(embedding);
let norm = vector_search::compute_norm(&embedding);
self.chunks[idx] = chunk;
self.embeddings.set(idx, &embedding);
@@ -439,4 +482,60 @@ mod tests {
.reset_from(2, vec![vec![1.0, 2.0], vec![3.0, 4.0]]);
assert_eq!(cache.embeddings.as_flat(), vec![1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0]);
}
#[test]
fn set_half_precision_rounds_existing_rows_and_their_norms() {
// A store with float16 set whose checkpoint is still f32 on disk
// loads full-precision rows; switching rounding on must bring them to
// exactly what the next checkpoint will write.
let mut cache = MemoryCache::new(3);
cache.push(
"a".into(),
vec![0.1, 0.2, 0.3],
"c".into(),
0.0,
"s".into(),
"".into(),
);
cache.push(
"b".into(),
vec![0.5, 0.25, 1.0],
"c".into(),
0.0,
"s".into(),
"".into(),
);
let exact_norm = cache.norms[0];
cache.set_half_precision(true);
let row0: Vec<f32> = [0.1f32, 0.2, 0.3]
.iter()
.map(|&v| round_to_f16(v))
.collect();
assert_eq!(&cache.embeddings[0], row0.as_slice());
assert_eq!(cache.norms[0], vector_search::compute_norm(&row0));
assert_ne!(cache.norms[0], exact_norm);
// Already representable: untouched.
assert_eq!(&cache.embeddings[1], &[0.5, 0.25, 1.0]);
// New rows are rounded as they arrive, and updates too.
cache.push(
"c".into(),
vec![0.1, 0.0, 0.0],
"c".into(),
0.0,
"s".into(),
"".into(),
);
assert_eq!(cache.embeddings[2][0], round_to_f16(0.1));
cache.update(
2,
"c".into(),
vec![0.3, 0.0, 0.0],
"c".into(),
0.0,
"s".into(),
);
assert_eq!(cache.embeddings[2][0], round_to_f16(0.3));
}
}
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@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
use cache::MemoryCache;
#[cfg(feature = "hnsw")]
use clawhdf5_ann::{DistanceMetric, HnswIndex, Storage};
use clawhdf5_format::float16::round_to_f16;
use ephemeral::{EphemeralConfig, EphemeralStore};
// EphemeralEntry and EphemeralStats are part of the crate public API via
@@ -83,6 +84,9 @@ pub enum MemoryError {
NotFound(String),
/// Another `HDF5Memory` (in this or another process) has the store open.
Locked(String),
/// A record the store cannot hold as given, e.g. an embedding value
/// outside the half-precision range of a `float16` store.
InvalidEntry(String),
}
impl std::fmt::Display for MemoryError {
@@ -93,6 +97,7 @@ impl std::fmt::Display for MemoryError {
MemoryError::Schema(e) => write!(f, "schema error: {e}"),
MemoryError::NotFound(e) => write!(f, "not found: {e}"),
MemoryError::Locked(e) => write!(f, "store is locked: {e}"),
MemoryError::InvalidEntry(e) => write!(f, "invalid entry: {e}"),
}
}
}
@@ -124,6 +129,12 @@ pub struct MemoryConfig {
pub embedding_dim: usize,
pub chunk_size: usize,
pub overlap: usize,
/// Store embeddings as IEEE half precision (numpy `float16`): half the
/// bytes of the embeddings dataset on disk. Every embedding is rounded to
/// the nearest half as it enters the store, in memory as well as on disk,
/// so search results are the same before and after a reopen. Values must
/// lie within ±65504; a save outside that is `MemoryError::InvalidEntry`.
/// Fixed when the store is created (persisted in `/meta`).
pub float16: bool,
pub compression: bool,
pub compression_level: u32,
@@ -317,7 +328,8 @@ impl HDF5Memory {
/// Create a new HDF5 memory file with the given configuration.
pub fn create(config: MemoryConfig) -> Result<Self> {
let lock = store_lock::StoreLock::acquire(&config.path)?;
let cache = MemoryCache::new(config.embedding_dim);
let mut cache = MemoryCache::new(config.embedding_dim);
cache.set_half_precision(config.float16);
let sessions = SessionCache::new();
let knowledge = KnowledgeCache::new();
@@ -1070,7 +1082,29 @@ impl HDF5Memory {
/// Upsert: if an active entry with the same tags (key) exists, update it in-place.
/// Otherwise append a new entry. Use this for key-based memory stores where
/// the same key should not create duplicates.
/// A `float16` store holds embeddings as IEEE half precision, which has no
/// finite value beyond ±65504. Refuse such an embedding rather than
/// silently store infinity. (Values that are already infinite or NaN are
/// stored as they are, as in an `f32` store.)
fn check_embedding(&self, embedding: &[f32]) -> Result<()> {
if !self.config.float16 {
return Ok(());
}
let overflow = embedding
.iter()
.enumerate()
.find(|&(_, &v)| v.is_finite() && round_to_f16(v).is_infinite());
match overflow {
None => Ok(()),
Some((i, v)) => Err(MemoryError::InvalidEntry(format!(
"embedding[{i}] = {v} is outside the half-precision range (±65504) \
of this float16 store"
))),
}
}
pub fn save_or_update(&mut self, entry: MemoryEntry) -> Result<usize> {
self.check_embedding(&entry.embedding)?;
if let Some(existing_idx) = self.cache.find_by_tags(&entry.tags) {
if let Some(ref mut w) = self.wal {
let wal_entry = wal::WalEntry {
@@ -1126,6 +1160,7 @@ impl HDF5Memory {
impl AgentMemory for HDF5Memory {
fn save(&mut self, entry: MemoryEntry) -> Result<usize> {
self.check_embedding(&entry.embedding)?;
if let Some(ref mut w) = self.wal {
let wal_entry = wal::WalEntry {
entry_type: wal::WalEntryType::Save,
@@ -1167,6 +1202,10 @@ impl AgentMemory for HDF5Memory {
}
fn save_batch(&mut self, entries: Vec<MemoryEntry>) -> Result<Vec<usize>> {
// All or nothing: check every entry before storing any.
for entry in &entries {
self.check_embedding(&entry.embedding)?;
}
let mut indices = Vec::with_capacity(entries.len());
for entry in entries {
let idx = self.cache.push(
@@ -1327,6 +1366,9 @@ impl HDF5Memory {
})?;
let view = memory_strategy::CacheStoreView::new(&self.cache, &self.knowledge);
let output = strat.evaluate(&exchange, &view);
for e in &output.entries {
self.check_embedding(&e.embedding)?;
}
for e in &output.entries {
self.cache.push(
e.chunk.clone(),
@@ -1411,6 +1453,16 @@ impl HDF5Memory {
let mut promoted = 0;
for key in candidates {
// Check before taking, so a rejected entry stays in the ephemeral
// tier rather than being lost.
if let Some(emb) = self
.ephemeral
.as_ref()
.and_then(|s| s.get_entry(&key))
.and_then(|e| e.embedding.as_deref())
{
self.check_embedding(emb)?;
}
let entry = match self
.ephemeral
.as_mut()
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@@ -159,20 +159,27 @@ fn build_memory_group(
// chunks: fixed-length string array
write_string_dataset(&mut group, "chunks", &cache.chunks);
// embeddings: f32 [N x D]
// embeddings: [N x D], f32 — or IEEE half precision for a `float16`
// store. The cache already holds half-rounded values then, so this
// conversion is exact and a reopened store sees the same numbers.
let n = cache.embeddings.len() as u64;
let d = cache.embedding_dim as u64;
let flat = cache.flat_embeddings();
{
let ds = group
.create_dataset("embeddings")
.with_f32_data(flat)
.with_shape(&[n, d]);
let ds = group.create_dataset("embeddings");
let elem_bytes: u64 = if config.float16 {
ds.with_f16_data(flat);
2
} else {
ds.with_f32_data(flat);
4
};
ds.with_shape(&[n, d]);
// Chunk size tuning: target ~256KB per chunk for optimal I/O
if n > 0 && d > 0 {
let target_chunk_bytes: u64 = 256 * 1024;
let rows_per_chunk = (target_chunk_bytes / (d * 4)).max(1).min(n);
let rows_per_chunk = (target_chunk_bytes / (d * elem_bytes)).max(1).min(n);
ds.with_chunks(&[rows_per_chunk, d]);
// Compression. Shuffle is applied automatically (auto-shuffle
@@ -513,7 +520,16 @@ pub fn validate_and_load(
};
// Load /memory group
let memory_cache = load_memory_group(file, embedding_dim)?;
let mut memory_cache = load_memory_group(file, embedding_dim)?;
// A float16 store's cache holds half-rounded embeddings. Embeddings read
// from an f16 dataset already are; a float16 store whose last checkpoint
// predates half-precision storage is still f32 on disk and is rounded
// here.
if config.float16 && embeddings_are_f16(file) {
memory_cache.half_precision = true;
} else {
memory_cache.set_half_precision(config.float16);
}
// Load /sessions group
let session_cache = load_sessions_group(file)?;
@@ -756,6 +772,13 @@ fn read_string_dataset_from_group(
.map_err(|e| MemoryError::Hdf5(format!("cannot read strings from {name}: {e}")))
}
/// Whether `/memory/embeddings` is stored as IEEE half precision.
fn embeddings_are_f16(file: &clawhdf5::File) -> bool {
file.dataset("memory/embeddings")
.and_then(|ds| ds.dtype())
.is_ok_and(|dt| matches!(dt, clawhdf5::DType::Other(ref s) if s == "float16"))
}
fn read_f32_dataset(group: &clawhdf5::Group<'_>, name: &str) -> Result<Vec<f32>, MemoryError> {
let ds = group
.dataset(name)
@@ -0,0 +1,208 @@
//! `MemoryConfig::float16`: embeddings stored as IEEE half precision.
//!
//! The setting used to be recorded in `/meta` and otherwise ignored — the
//! embeddings dataset was always `f32`. These tests pin what it now does: the
//! dataset is `float16`, the in-memory cache holds exactly the values the file
//! holds (so search results survive a reopen bit for bit), and a value half
//! precision cannot represent is refused rather than stored as infinity.
use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
use clawhdf5_agent::{AgentMemory, HDF5Memory, MemoryConfig, MemoryEntry, MemoryError};
use clawhdf5_format::float16::round_to_f16;
use tempfile::TempDir;
const DIM: usize = 64;
/// Deterministic, embedding-like unit vectors.
fn embedding(seed: u64) -> Vec<f32> {
let mut x = seed.wrapping_mul(0x9E37_79B9_7F4A_7C15) | 1;
let v: Vec<f32> = (0..DIM)
.map(|_| {
x ^= x << 13;
x ^= x >> 7;
x ^= x << 17;
(x >> 40) as f32 / (1u64 << 24) as f32 - 0.5
})
.collect();
let norm = v.iter().map(|a| a * a).sum::<f32>().sqrt();
v.iter().map(|a| a / norm).collect()
}
fn entry(i: u64) -> MemoryEntry {
MemoryEntry {
chunk: format!("memory number {i} about topic {}", i % 7),
embedding: embedding(i),
source_channel: "test".into(),
timestamp: i as f64,
session_id: "s".into(),
tags: format!("t{i}"),
}
}
fn config(dir: &TempDir, name: &str, float16: bool) -> MemoryConfig {
let mut c = MemoryConfig::new(dir.path().join(name), "agent", DIM);
c.float16 = float16;
c
}
fn embeddings_dtype_and_values(path: &Path) -> (String, Vec<f32>) {
let file = clawhdf5::File::open(path).unwrap();
let ds = file.dataset("memory/embeddings").unwrap();
(format!("{:?}", ds.dtype().unwrap()), ds.read_f32().unwrap())
}
fn search_bits(m: &mut HDF5Memory, q: u64) -> Vec<(usize, u32)> {
m.hybrid_search(&embedding(q), "memory topic 3", 0.4, 0.6, 10)
.iter()
.map(|r| (r.index, r.score.to_bits()))
.collect()
}
#[test]
fn float16_store_writes_half_precision_and_reopens_identically() {
let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
// Two identical stores. Search is not read-only (it boosts the Hebbian
// activation of what it returns, and checkpoints persist that), so each
// is queried exactly once: one live, one after a checkpoint and reopen.
let live_cfg = config(&dir, "live.h5", true);
let cfg = config(&dir, "f16.h5", true);
let path: PathBuf = cfg.path.clone();
let mut live = HDF5Memory::create(live_cfg).unwrap();
live.save_batch((0..200).map(entry).collect()).unwrap();
let mut m = HDF5Memory::create(cfg).unwrap();
m.save_batch((0..200).map(entry).collect()).unwrap();
drop(m);
// On disk: a genuine float16 dataset holding the rounded inputs.
let (dtype, values) = embeddings_dtype_and_values(&path);
assert_eq!(dtype, "Other(\"float16\")");
let expected: Vec<u32> = (0..200)
.flat_map(|i| embedding(i).into_iter().map(|v| round_to_f16(v).to_bits()))
.collect();
let got: Vec<u32> = values.iter().map(|v| v.to_bits()).collect();
assert_eq!(got, expected);
// Reopened, the store answers exactly as the live one does: the cache
// held the half-rounded values before the checkpoint.
let mut reopened = HDF5Memory::open(&path).unwrap();
for q in 0..5 {
assert_eq!(
search_bits(&mut live, 1000 + q),
search_bits(&mut reopened, 1000 + q),
"query {q}"
);
}
}
#[test]
fn float16_halves_the_embeddings_on_disk() {
let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
let mut sizes = Vec::new();
for float16 in [false, true] {
let cfg = config(&dir, &format!("s{float16}.h5"), float16);
let path = cfg.path.clone();
let mut m = HDF5Memory::create(cfg).unwrap();
m.save_batch((0..2000).map(entry).collect()).unwrap();
drop(m);
sizes.push(std::fs::metadata(&path).unwrap().len());
}
let embedding_bytes_f32 = (2000 * DIM * 4) as u64;
let saved = sizes[0] - sizes[1];
// Half of the f32 embeddings, give or take metadata and alignment.
assert!(
saved.abs_diff(embedding_bytes_f32 / 2) < 16 * 1024,
"f32 {} B, f16 {} B, saved {saved} B, expected ~{} B",
sizes[0],
sizes[1],
embedding_bytes_f32 / 2
);
}
#[test]
fn f32_store_is_unchanged() {
let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
let cfg = config(&dir, "f32.h5", false);
let path = cfg.path.clone();
let mut m = HDF5Memory::create(cfg).unwrap();
m.save_batch((0..50).map(entry).collect()).unwrap();
drop(m);
let (dtype, values) = embeddings_dtype_and_values(&path);
assert_eq!(dtype, "F32");
let expected: Vec<f32> = (0..50).flat_map(embedding).collect();
assert_eq!(values, expected);
}
#[test]
fn out_of_range_values_are_refused_not_stored_as_infinity() {
let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
let mut cfg = config(&dir, "range.h5", true);
cfg.wal_enabled = true;
let path = cfg.path.clone();
let mut m = HDF5Memory::create(cfg).unwrap();
m.save(entry(1)).unwrap();
let mut bad = entry(2);
bad.embedding[5] = 70_000.0;
match m.save(bad.clone()) {
Err(MemoryError::InvalidEntry(msg)) => assert!(msg.contains("embedding[5]"), "{msg}"),
other => panic!("expected InvalidEntry, got {other:?}"),
}
assert!(matches!(
m.save_or_update(bad.clone()),
Err(MemoryError::InvalidEntry(_))
));
// A batch is all or nothing.
assert!(matches!(
m.save_batch(vec![entry(3), bad.clone(), entry(4)]),
Err(MemoryError::InvalidEntry(_))
));
assert_eq!(m.count(), 1);
// The largest finite half, and values that round down to it, are fine.
let mut edge = entry(5);
edge.embedding[0] = 65504.0;
edge.embedding[1] = -65519.0;
m.save(edge).unwrap();
assert_eq!(m.count(), 2);
drop(m);
// Nothing rejected reached the WAL or the file.
let m = HDF5Memory::open(&path).unwrap();
assert_eq!(m.count(), 2);
// An f32 store takes the same value as it always did.
let mut m32 = HDF5Memory::create(config(&dir, "range32.h5", false)).unwrap();
m32.save(bad).unwrap();
}
#[test]
fn wal_replay_rounds_like_a_live_save() {
let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
let mut cfg = config(&dir, "wal.h5", true);
cfg.wal_enabled = true;
cfg.wal_max_entries = 10_000; // keep everything in the WAL
let path = cfg.path.clone();
let mut m = HDF5Memory::create(cfg).unwrap();
for i in 0..30 {
m.save(entry(i)).unwrap();
}
let live = search_bits(&mut m, 77);
// Crash image: the .h5 is still the empty checkpoint; everything is in
// the WAL, which holds the caller's f32 values.
let crash = TempDir::new().unwrap();
let image = crash.path().join("image.h5");
std::fs::copy(&path, &image).unwrap();
std::fs::copy(
path.with_extension("h5.wal"),
image.with_extension("h5.wal"),
)
.unwrap();
drop(m);
let mut recovered = HDF5Memory::open(&image).unwrap();
assert_eq!(recovered.count(), 30);
assert_eq!(search_bits(&mut recovered, 77), live);
}
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
//! An agent store is a standard HDF5 file: h5py can open it and read every
//! dataset.
//!
//! It could not: the float datatype's sign-bit position was hard-coded for
//! f64, so every f32 dataset (embeddings, norms, activation weights) made
//! libhdf5 refuse the file with "sign bit position out of bounds".
use std::process::Command;
use clawhdf5_agent::{AgentMemory, HDF5Memory, MemoryConfig, MemoryEntry};
fn python() -> String {
std::env::var("CLAWHDF5_PYTHON").unwrap_or_else(|_| "python3".to_string())
}
fn h5py_available() -> bool {
Command::new(python())
.args(["-c", "import h5py"])
.output()
.map(|o| o.status.success())
.unwrap_or(false)
}
#[test]
fn h5py_reads_every_dataset_of_an_agent_store() {
if !h5py_available() {
assert!(
std::env::var("CLAWHDF5_REQUIRE_INTEROP").as_deref() != Ok("1"),
"CLAWHDF5_REQUIRE_INTEROP=1 but python3 with h5py is not available"
);
eprintln!("SKIP: python3 with h5py not available");
return;
}
let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
for float16 in [false, true] {
let path = dir.path().join(format!("store_{float16}.h5"));
let mut cfg = MemoryConfig::new(path.clone(), "agent", 8);
cfg.float16 = float16;
let mut m = HDF5Memory::create(cfg).unwrap();
// save_batch checkpoints, so the records are in the .h5, not the WAL.
m.save_batch(
(0..20)
.map(|i| MemoryEntry {
chunk: format!("memory {i}"),
embedding: (0..8).map(|j| ((i * 8 + j) as f32).sin()).collect(),
source_channel: "test".into(),
timestamp: i as f64,
session_id: "s".into(),
tags: String::new(),
})
.collect(),
)
.unwrap();
drop(m);
// Exact expected values, as bits: numpy's sin need not match Rust's
// to the last place.
let bits = (0..160)
.map(|k| (k as f32).sin().to_bits().to_string())
.collect::<Vec<_>>()
.join(",");
let script = format!(
r#"
import h5py, numpy as np
want = np.float16 if {py_bool} else np.float32
with h5py.File("{path}", "r") as f:
names = []
f.visititems(lambda n, o: names.append(n) if isinstance(o, h5py.Dataset) else None)
for n in names:
f[n][()] # every dataset must decode
e = f["memory/embeddings"]
assert e.dtype == want, e.dtype
assert e.shape == (20, 8), e.shape
ref = np.array([{bits}], dtype=np.uint32).view(np.float32).astype(want).reshape(20, 8)
assert (e[()] == ref).all()
assert f["memory/norms"].dtype == np.float32
print(len(names))
"#,
py_bool = if float16 { "True" } else { "False" },
path = path.display()
);
let out = Command::new(python())
.args(["-c", &script])
.output()
.unwrap();
assert!(
out.status.success(),
"float16={float16}: {}",
String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stderr)
);
let n: usize = String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stdout).trim().parse().unwrap();
assert!(n >= 10, "only {n} datasets");
}
}
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
//! cargo run --release -p clawhdf5-bench --bin search_harness -- --full # + 100K
//! cargo run --release -p clawhdf5-bench --bin search_harness -- --json out.json
//! cargo run --release -p clawhdf5-bench --bin search_harness -- --ann-only --uniform
//! cargo run --release -p clawhdf5-bench --bin search_harness -- --float16-study --full
//! ```
use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
@@ -88,6 +89,9 @@ static UNIFORM: std::sync::atomic::AtomicBool = std::sync::atomic::AtomicBool::n
/// the memory) instead of f32, to price the recall it costs.
static INT8: std::sync::atomic::AtomicBool = std::sync::atomic::AtomicBool::new(false);
/// `--f16-first`: in `--float16-study`, run the float16 store first.
static F16_FIRST: std::sync::atomic::AtomicBool = std::sync::atomic::AtomicBool::new(false);
/// `--rerank`: re-score the candidate pool against the exact vectors before
/// taking the top K.
static RERANK: std::sync::atomic::AtomicBool = std::sync::atomic::AtomicBool::new(false);
@@ -483,6 +487,148 @@ fn bench_end_to_end(n: usize, json: &mut Vec<serde_json::Value>) {
}));
}
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// float16 study: what does half-precision embedding storage cost?
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
/// `--float16-study`: the same data in an `f32` store and a `float16` store.
/// Reports file size, checkpoint and open time, vector-search recall@10
/// against an exact scan of the *original* f32 vectors, how often the two
/// stores return the same top 10, and `hybrid_search` latency. Hebbian
/// boosting is off, so every query sees the same store.
fn float16_study(n: usize) {
let data = make_dataset(n, 0xF16 ^ n as u64);
let mut rng = Rng(11);
let query_texts: Vec<String> = data
.query_cluster
.iter()
.enumerate()
.map(|(i, c)| text_for(*c, i, &mut rng))
.collect();
// Exact top K by cosine (the vectors are unit length) on the f32 inputs.
let exact: Vec<Vec<usize>> = data
.queries
.iter()
.map(|q| {
let mut scored: Vec<(usize, f32)> = data
.vectors
.iter()
.enumerate()
.map(|(i, v)| (i, v.iter().zip(q).map(|(a, b)| a * b).sum()))
.collect();
scored.sort_by(|a, b| b.1.total_cmp(&a.1).then(a.0.cmp(&b.0)));
scored.into_iter().take(K).map(|(i, _)| i).collect()
})
.collect();
let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
let mut per_variant: Vec<(bool, Vec<Vec<usize>>)> = Vec::new();
// `--f16-first` swaps the order, to check the numbers do not depend on
// which store runs first (page cache, allocator, CPU frequency).
let order = if F16_FIRST.load(std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed) {
[true, false]
} else {
[false, true]
};
for float16 in order {
let path = dir.path().join(format!("f16study_{float16}.h5"));
let mut rng = Rng(3);
let entries: Vec<MemoryEntry> = data
.vectors
.iter()
.enumerate()
.map(|(i, v)| MemoryEntry {
chunk: text_for(data.cluster_of[i], i, &mut rng),
embedding: v.clone(),
source_channel: "bench".into(),
timestamp: i as f64,
session_id: format!("s{}", i % 50),
tags: format!("t{i}"),
})
.collect();
let mut config = MemoryConfig::new(path.clone(), "bench", DIM);
config.float16 = float16;
config.hebbian_boost = 0.0;
let mut mem = HDF5Memory::create(config).unwrap();
mem.save_batch(entries).unwrap();
// Build the indexes, then time a checkpoint that writes everything.
std::hint::black_box(mem.hybrid_search(&data.queries[0], "", 1.0, 0.0, K));
let t = Instant::now();
mem.flush_wal().unwrap();
let checkpoint = t.elapsed();
drop(mem);
let file_bytes = std::fs::metadata(&path).unwrap().len();
// Median of three opens.
let mut opens: Vec<Duration> = (0..3)
.map(|_| {
let t = Instant::now();
let m = HDF5Memory::open(&path).unwrap();
let d = t.elapsed();
drop(m);
d
})
.collect();
opens.sort();
let mut mem = HDF5Memory::open(&path).unwrap();
// Vector-only search: empty text, all weight on the vector stage.
let results: Vec<Vec<usize>> = data
.queries
.iter()
.map(|q| {
mem.hybrid_search(q, "", 1.0, 0.0, K)
.iter()
.map(|r| r.index)
.collect()
})
.collect();
let hits: usize = results
.iter()
.zip(&exact)
.map(|(got, want)| got.iter().filter(|i| want.contains(i)).count())
.sum();
let recall = hits as f64 / (K * data.queries.len()) as f64;
let latency = summarize(
(0..N_QUERIES)
.map(|i| {
let t = Instant::now();
std::hint::black_box(mem.hybrid_search(
&data.queries[i],
&query_texts[i],
0.4,
0.6,
K,
));
t.elapsed()
})
.collect(),
);
let overlap = match per_variant.first() {
Some((_, other)) => {
let same: usize = results
.iter()
.zip(other)
.map(|(a, b)| a.iter().filter(|i| b.contains(i)).count())
.sum();
format!("{:.4}", same as f64 / (K * data.queries.len()) as f64)
}
None => "—".into(),
};
println!(
"| {n} | {} | {:.1} | {:.0} | {:.1} | {recall:.4} | {overlap} | {:.3} |",
if float16 { "float16" } else { "f32" },
mib(file_bytes),
millis(checkpoint),
millis(opens[1]),
millis(latency.p50),
);
per_variant.push((float16, results));
}
}
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Fusion study: does capping the keyword candidate pool change the ranking?
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -642,6 +788,24 @@ fn main() {
}
return;
}
if args.iter().any(|a| a == "--f16-first") {
F16_FIRST.store(true, std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed);
}
if args.iter().any(|a| a == "--float16-study") {
println!("## float16 embedding storage ({DIM}-dim, int8 index, Hebbian boost off)\n");
println!(
"| N | embeddings | file MiB | checkpoint ms | open ms | recall@10 | top-10 overlap with the other | hybrid p50 ms |"
);
println!("|---:|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|");
for &n in if full {
&[1_000, 10_000, 100_000][..]
} else {
&[1_000, 10_000][..]
} {
float16_study(n);
}
return;
}
if args.iter().any(|a| a == "--int8") {
INT8.store(true, std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed);
println!("(int8-quantised index vectors)");
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@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ enum Commands {
/// Accepted for compatibility; int8 is now the default
#[arg(long, hide = true, conflicts_with = "f32_index")]
quantized_index: bool,
/// Store embeddings on disk as IEEE half precision (float16): half
/// the bytes, about three significant digits; values must lie within
/// ±65504
#[arg(long)]
float16: bool,
},
/// Save a memory entry (reads JSON from stdin or --json)
Save {
@@ -102,9 +107,11 @@ fn run(cli: Cli) -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
wal,
f32_index,
quantized_index: _,
float16,
} => {
let mut config = MemoryConfig::new(cli.path.clone(), &agent_id, dim);
config.wal_enabled = wal;
config.float16 = float16;
// Only ever switch *off* the library default: assigning the flag
// outright would force every CLI-created store back to f32 unless
// the caller knew to ask for int8.
@@ -120,6 +127,7 @@ fn run(cli: Cli) -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
"embedding_dim": dim,
"wal_enabled": wal,
"quantized_index": config_quantized,
"float16": float16,
"count": mem.count(),
});
println!("{}", serde_json::to_string_pretty(&j)?);
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@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ libaec-sys = { path = "../libaec-sys", version = "0.1", optional = true }
pco = { version = "1.0", optional = true }
[dev-dependencies]
half = { workspace = true }
serde_json = "1"
criterion = { workspace = true }
clawhdf5-derive = { path = "../clawhdf5-derive", version = "2.7.0" }
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@@ -1076,6 +1076,21 @@ pub fn read_as_f32(raw: &[u8], datatype: &Datatype) -> Result<Vec<f32>, FormatEr
) {
return Ok(native_le_to_vec::<f32>(raw, count));
}
// Little-endian half precision (numpy float16): widen directly.
if matches!(
datatype,
Datatype::FloatingPoint {
size: 2,
byte_order: DatatypeByteOrder::LittleEndian,
..
}
) {
let (halves, _) = raw[..count * 2].as_chunks::<2>();
return Ok(halves
.iter()
.map(|&b| f16_bits_to_f32(u16::from_le_bytes(b)))
.collect());
}
let order = get_byte_order(datatype);
let mut result = Vec::with_capacity(count);
@@ -1622,36 +1637,7 @@ fn read_f16_bytes(bytes: &[u8], order: &DatatypeByteOrder) -> f32 {
f16_bits_to_f32(u16::from_le_bytes(buf))
}
/// Convert the bit pattern of an IEEE-754 half (binary16) to an `f32`.
fn f16_bits_to_f32(h: u16) -> f32 {
let h = h as u32;
let sign = (h & 0x8000) << 16;
let exp = (h >> 10) & 0x1f;
let mant = h & 0x3ff;
let bits = if exp == 0 {
if mant == 0 {
sign // signed zero
} else {
// Subnormal: normalize into an f32 normal.
let mut e: i32 = -1;
let mut m = mant;
loop {
e += 1;
m <<= 1;
if m & 0x400 != 0 {
break;
}
}
let m = m & 0x3ff;
sign | (((127 - 15 - e) as u32) << 23) | (m << 13)
}
} else if exp == 0x1f {
sign | 0x7f80_0000 | (mant << 13) // inf / NaN
} else {
sign | ((exp + (127 - 15)) << 23) | (mant << 13)
};
f32::from_bits(bits)
}
use crate::float16::f16_bits_to_f32;
fn read_f32_bytes(bytes: &[u8], order: &DatatypeByteOrder) -> f32 {
let mut buf = [0u8; 4];
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@@ -829,8 +829,12 @@ mod tests {
// The HDF5 library rejects a float whose sign position is not inside
// its precision; this was hard-coded to 63, so every f32 we wrote was
// unreadable by h5py. Byte 2 of the message is the sign position.
use crate::type_builders::{make_f32_type, make_f64_type};
for (dt, sign) in [(make_f32_type(), 31), (make_f64_type(), 63)] {
use crate::type_builders::{make_f16_type, make_f32_type, make_f64_type};
for (dt, sign) in [
(make_f16_type(), 15),
(make_f32_type(), 31),
(make_f64_type(), 63),
] {
let bytes = dt.serialize();
assert_eq!(bytes[2], sign, "{dt:?}");
let (parsed, _) = Datatype::parse(&bytes).unwrap();
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@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
//! IEEE-754 half precision (binary16) conversions.
//!
//! Pure integer bit manipulation, so it works under `no_std` and needs no
//! `libm`. The writer ([`crate::type_builders::DatasetBuilder::with_f16_data`]),
//! the reader and `clawhdf5-agent`'s half-precision embedding store all use
//! these two functions, so a value rounded in memory is bit-for-bit the value
//! that reads back from the file.
/// Largest finite half-precision value. Anything larger in magnitude rounds
/// to infinity.
pub const F16_MAX: f32 = 65504.0;
/// Convert an `f32` to the bit pattern of the nearest half-precision value,
/// rounding ties to even (the IEEE default, and what numpy and the `half`
/// crate do).
///
/// Values beyond ±[`F16_MAX`] become ±infinity, values too small for a
/// subnormal become signed zero, and NaN stays NaN (quiet, payload
/// truncated).
pub fn f32_to_f16_bits(value: f32) -> u16 {
let x = value.to_bits();
let sign = (x >> 16) & 0x8000;
let exp = x & 0x7F80_0000;
let man = x & 0x007F_FFFF;
// Infinity and NaN.
if exp == 0x7F80_0000 {
let quiet_nan = if man == 0 { 0 } else { 0x0200 };
return (sign | 0x7C00 | quiet_nan | (man >> 13)) as u16;
}
let half_exp = ((exp >> 23) as i32) - 127 + 15;
// Too large: infinity.
if half_exp >= 0x1F {
return (sign | 0x7C00) as u16;
}
// Subnormal half, or zero.
if half_exp <= 0 {
if 14 - half_exp > 24 {
return sign as u16;
}
let man = man | 0x0080_0000; // implicit leading bit
let shift = (14 - half_exp) as u32;
let mut half_man = man >> shift;
let round_bit = 1u32 << (shift - 1);
// Round half to even: up if above half, or exactly half and odd.
if (man & round_bit) != 0 && (man & (3 * round_bit - 1)) != 0 {
half_man += 1;
}
return (sign | half_man) as u16;
}
// Normal half. A mantissa carry correctly rolls into the exponent (and
// from the largest finite value into infinity).
let half = sign | ((half_exp as u32) << 10) | (man >> 13);
let round_bit = 0x0000_1000;
if (man & round_bit) != 0 && (man & (3 * round_bit - 1)) != 0 {
(half + 1) as u16
} else {
half as u16
}
}
/// Convert the bit pattern of a half-precision value to `f32` (exact: every
/// half value is representable as an `f32`).
pub fn f16_bits_to_f32(h: u16) -> f32 {
let h = h as u32;
let sign = (h & 0x8000) << 16;
let exp = (h >> 10) & 0x1f;
let mant = h & 0x3ff;
let bits = if exp == 0 {
if mant == 0 {
sign // signed zero
} else {
// Subnormal: normalize into an f32 normal.
let mut e: i32 = -1;
let mut m = mant;
loop {
e += 1;
m <<= 1;
if m & 0x400 != 0 {
break;
}
}
let m = m & 0x3ff;
sign | (((127 - 15 - e) as u32) << 23) | (m << 13)
}
} else if exp == 0x1f {
sign | 0x7f80_0000 | (mant << 13) // inf / NaN
} else {
sign | ((exp + 127 - 15) << 23) | (mant << 13)
};
f32::from_bits(bits)
}
/// Round an `f32` to the nearest half-precision value, returned as `f32`.
pub fn round_to_f16(value: f32) -> f32 {
f16_bits_to_f32(f32_to_f16_bits(value))
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
#[test]
fn every_half_value_round_trips() {
for bits in 0..=u16::MAX {
let v = f16_bits_to_f32(bits);
if v.is_nan() {
assert!(f16_bits_to_f32(f32_to_f16_bits(v)).is_nan(), "{bits:#06x}");
} else {
assert_eq!(f32_to_f16_bits(v), bits, "{bits:#06x} -> {v}");
}
}
}
#[test]
fn matches_the_half_crate() {
// Every 257th f32 bit pattern (~16.7M values) covers every exponent,
// the subnormal range, both signs, ties and the overflow boundary.
let mut bits: u32 = 0;
loop {
let v = f32::from_bits(bits);
let ours = f32_to_f16_bits(v);
let theirs = half::f16::from_f32(v);
if v.is_nan() {
assert!(theirs.is_nan() && f16_bits_to_f32(ours).is_nan());
} else {
assert_eq!(ours, theirs.to_bits(), "{bits:#010x} ({v:e})");
assert_eq!(f16_bits_to_f32(ours).to_bits(), theirs.to_f32().to_bits());
}
match bits.checked_add(257) {
Some(b) => bits = b,
None => break,
}
}
}
#[test]
fn rounds_ties_to_even_and_saturates_to_infinity() {
// 1 + 2^-11 is exactly halfway between 1.0 and the next half (1 + 2^-10).
assert_eq!(round_to_f16(1.0 + 2f32.powi(-11)), 1.0);
assert_eq!(
round_to_f16(1.0 + 3.0 * 2f32.powi(-11)),
1.0 + 2.0 * 2f32.powi(-10)
);
assert_eq!(round_to_f16(F16_MAX), F16_MAX);
assert_eq!(round_to_f16(65520.0), f32::INFINITY); // halfway to 2^16 rounds up
assert_eq!(round_to_f16(-1e9), f32::NEG_INFINITY);
assert_eq!(round_to_f16(1e-9).to_bits(), 0);
assert_eq!(round_to_f16(-1e-9).to_bits(), (-0.0f32).to_bits());
}
}
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@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ pub mod filter_pipeline;
pub mod filters;
mod filters_szip;
pub mod fixed_array;
pub mod float16;
pub mod fractal_heap;
pub mod global_heap;
pub mod group_info;
@@ -56,6 +56,21 @@ pub fn make_f64_type() -> Datatype {
}
}
/// IEEE-754 half precision (binary16), little-endian — numpy's `float16`.
pub fn make_f16_type() -> Datatype {
Datatype::FloatingPoint {
size: 2,
byte_order: DatatypeByteOrder::LittleEndian,
bit_offset: 0,
bit_precision: 16,
exponent_location: 10,
exponent_size: 5,
mantissa_location: 0,
mantissa_size: 10,
exponent_bias: 15,
}
}
pub fn make_f32_type() -> Datatype {
Datatype::FloatingPoint {
size: 4,
@@ -478,6 +493,24 @@ impl DatasetBuilder {
self
}
/// Store `data` as IEEE half precision (numpy `float16`), rounding each
/// value to the nearest half ([`crate::float16::f32_to_f16_bits`]).
/// Half the bytes of [`Self::with_f32_data`], at about three significant
/// decimal digits; values beyond ±65504 become ±infinity. Reading it back
/// with `read_f32` yields the rounded values exactly.
pub fn with_f16_data(&mut self, data: &[f32]) -> &mut Self {
self.datatype = Some(make_f16_type());
let mut b = Vec::with_capacity(data.len() * 2);
for &v in data {
b.extend_from_slice(&crate::float16::f32_to_f16_bits(v).to_le_bytes());
}
self.data = Some(b);
if self.shape.is_none() {
self.shape = Some(vec![data.len() as u64]);
}
self
}
pub fn with_i32_data(&mut self, data: &[i32]) -> &mut Self {
self.datatype = Some(make_i32_type());
let mut b = Vec::with_capacity(data.len() * 4);
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@@ -1388,6 +1388,130 @@ with h5py.File("{path_str}", "w", libver="latest") as f:
}
}
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Half precision (float16) in both directions
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
/// Values that exercise rounding: ties, subnormals, the overflow boundary and
/// ordinary embedding-sized components.
fn f16_probe_values() -> Vec<f32> {
let mut v = vec![
0.0,
-0.0,
1.0,
-1.0,
0.5,
1.0 + 2f32.powi(-11),
1.0 + 3.0 * 2f32.powi(-11),
65504.0,
65519.0,
65520.0,
-70000.0,
6.0e-8,
3.0e-8,
1.0e-9,
1.0e-5,
0.1,
0.333_333,
1234.567,
f32::INFINITY,
f32::NEG_INFINITY,
];
// A deterministic spread of embedding-like values.
let mut x = 0x2545_F491u32;
for _ in 0..4000 {
x ^= x << 13;
x ^= x >> 17;
x ^= x << 5;
v.push((x as f32 / u32::MAX as f32 - 0.5) * 0.4);
}
v
}
#[test]
fn clawhdf5_writes_f16_h5py_reads() {
skip_if_no_python!();
let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
let path = dir.path().join("ours_f16.h5");
let path_str = path.display().to_string();
let values = f16_probe_values();
let mut fb = FileBuilder::new();
fb.create_dataset("plain").with_f16_data(&values);
fb.create_dataset("chunked")
.with_f16_data(&values)
.with_shape(&[values.len() as u64])
.with_chunks(&[512])
.with_deflate(6);
fb.write(&path).unwrap();
// h5py must see a genuine float16 dataset, and our rounding must agree
// with numpy's own float32 -> float16 conversion bit for bit.
let input = values
.iter()
.map(|v| format!("{:?}", v.to_bits()))
.collect::<Vec<_>>()
.join(",");
let script = format!(
r#"
import h5py, numpy as np
src = np.array([{input}], dtype=np.uint32).view(np.float32)
expected = src.astype(np.float16).view(np.uint16)
with h5py.File("{path_str}", "r") as f:
for name in ("plain", "chunked"):
d = f[name]
assert d.dtype == np.float16, (name, d.dtype)
got = d[:].view(np.uint16)
bad = np.nonzero(got != expected)[0]
assert bad.size == 0, (name, bad[:5], got[bad[:5]], expected[bad[:5]])
print("ok")
"#
);
assert_eq!(run_python_output(&script), "ok");
}
#[test]
fn h5py_writes_f16_clawhdf5_reads() {
skip_if_no_python!();
let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
let path = dir.path().join("h5py_f16.h5");
let path_str = path.display().to_string();
let values = f16_probe_values();
let input = values
.iter()
.map(|v| format!("{:?}", v.to_bits()))
.collect::<Vec<_>>()
.join(",");
let script = format!(
r#"
import h5py, numpy as np
src = np.array([{input}], dtype=np.uint32).view(np.float32).astype(np.float16)
with h5py.File("{path_str}", "w") as f:
f.create_dataset("plain", data=src)
f.create_dataset("chunked", data=src, chunks=(512,), compression="gzip", shuffle=True)
f.create_dataset("big_endian", data=src.astype(">f2"))
"#
);
run_python(&script);
let expected: Vec<u32> = values
.iter()
.map(|&v| clawhdf5_format::float16::round_to_f16(v).to_bits())
.collect();
let file = File::open(&path).unwrap();
for name in ["plain", "chunked", "big_endian"] {
let ds = file.dataset(name).unwrap();
assert_eq!(
ds.dtype().unwrap(),
DType::Other("float16".into()),
"{name}"
);
let got: Vec<u32> = ds.read_f32().unwrap().iter().map(|v| v.to_bits()).collect();
assert_eq!(got, expected, "{name}");
}
}
#[test]
fn clawhdf5_writes_f32_h5py_reads() {
// Every f32 dataset used to be unreadable by h5py ("sign bit position out