feat(agent): MemoryConfig::float16 stores half-precision embeddings
CI / test-arm64 (pull_request) Successful in 1m19s
CI / test (pull_request) Successful in 4m58s

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
+1
View File
@@ -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" }