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osobhandClaude Opus 5 57756e69ec feat(ann): optional int8 storage for the index's vector copy
The HNSW index keeps its own copy of every vector, which at 100K x 384
f32 is ~146 MiB — the largest single item in the 2.43x footprint now
that the agent stores embeddings once. `Storage::Int8` cuts that copy to
a quarter by scaling each row to i8.

The scale is per row, not global. Unit-length rows in d dimensions have
components around 1/sqrt(d), so a fixed [-1, 1] scale spends fewer than
12 of the 255 levels on a 128-dimensional vector; measured against an
exact ranking that gives 0.35 top-10 overlap. Scaling each row by its
own largest component uses the full range and brings it to 0.99.

Quantised distances still cost recall on their own, and `ef` does not
buy it back because the loss is in the distances rather than the graph:
at N=100K recall@10 tops out at 0.967 against f32's 0.9995. Re-scoring a
wider candidate pool against the exact vectors removes the gap
(0.9940 vs 0.9945 at ef=64) for ~13% of query throughput and ~16% of
build time. That is the intended use, so it is what the test asserts —
against ground truth, not against the f32 index, whose own mistakes a
re-scored search is entitled to get right.

Default is unchanged: `Storage::Float32`, chosen by every existing
constructor. Serialized indexes carry f32 vectors and no storage tag, so
a quantised index is rebuilt rather than loaded; `compact()` keeps the
storage it was given.

The harness grows `--int8` and `--rerank` axes, and reports the storage
in each table header.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-19 20:35:24 -07:00
osobhandClaude Opus 5 2e7e0456c1 perf(agent): store embeddings once, not twice
MemoryCache held every embedding in two places: a `Vec<Vec<f32>>` and a
flattened copy for the batched kernels, kept in lock-step on every push,
update and compaction. A store loaded from disk therefore carried the corpus
twice, plus one heap allocation per entry.

A new `cache::Embeddings` owns just the flat `[N x dim]` buffer and indexes
into it, so `embeddings[i]` still reads as a `&[f32]` row. The batch kernels
take a `VectorSet` (implemented for both `Embeddings` and `Vec<Vec<f32>>`)
instead of `&[Vec<f32>]`, so their callers and tests are unchanged. Loading no
longer unflattens what it just read.

100k 384-dim entries, reopened from disk: 505 -> 357 MiB, 3.44x -> 2.43x the
raw vectors. Recall (1.0000 at ef=64) and query latency are unchanged.

Rows are now always exactly `dim` long, shorter ones zero-padded. The old
representation allowed ragged rows, which silently misaligned the flattened
copy — every row after a wrong-length embedding — and `update` carried a
comment about falling back to a rebuild to avoid exactly that. It is now
unrepresentable. A record saved without an embedding holds a zero row and is
told apart by its norm, which is what `total_embeddings` now counts.

Measured with a counting allocator rather than RSS: freeing a structure
returns its pages to the allocator's pool, not the OS, so an RSS reading from
inside the process showed the two representations as identical.

Breaking: MemoryCache::embeddings changes type, embeddings_flat is replaced by
flat_embeddings(), rebuild_flat() is a deprecated no-op.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-19 20:17:55 -07:00
osobhandClaude Opus 5 1e18ff5a86 style(bench): gate the rerank-sweep flag and helper on the embeddings feature
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-19 19:42:05 -07:00
osobhandClaude Opus 5 306a35347c bench: use real session dates, and measure recency discrimination
Two gaps in the LongMemEval harness, both of which had to close before any
recency feature could be judged.

The store was fed a synthetic counter (ts += 1.0 per turn) and the dataset's
own `haystack_dates` were ignored. Session order happened to be chronological,
so ordering was right, but the intervals were fiction — and exponential decay
is a function of the interval, so anything time-aware was being measured
against made-up ages. Dates are now parsed (civil-from-days, pinned against
reference values) and turns are spread over the minutes after their session
start; an unparseable date falls back to position so order still holds.

`newest_gold_first` measures what recall cannot. On a `knowledge-update`
question LongMemEval labels *both* the stale session and the one that
supersedes it as gold, so returning either scores as a hit even though only
one answers the question. The new metric asks whether the newest gold session
outranked the older ones. The current retriever scores 43-45% on it across
every mode — chance — which is the gap a temporal signal is supposed to close.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-19 19:41:44 -07:00
osobhandClaude Opus 5 84a39ef3c5 feat(agent): optional keyword stemming, measured and left off by default
The keyword stage had no stemming, so "training" and "trains" were unrelated
terms. bm25::TokenFilter::Stemmed strips common English inflections (plurals,
-ing/-ed, with consonant un-doubling) from documents and queries alike;
BM25Index::build_with and HDF5Memory::set_token_filter select it, and the
index records which filter built it so a stale one is rebuilt rather than
mixed.

Measured over the full LongMemEval haystack (500 questions, real MiniLM
embeddings) rather than adopted on principle — and it is a trade, not a win:

  BM25 only         Hit@1 53.8%  Hit@5 75.0%  Hit@10 81.6%  MRR 0.6320
  BM25 stemmed      Hit@1 52.0%  Hit@5 77.8%  Hit@10 84.0%  MRR 0.6320
  Hybrid 0.4/0.6    Hit@1 51.6%  Hit@5 81.4%  Hit@10 87.8%  MRR 0.6430
  Hybrid stemmed    Hit@1 50.2%  Hit@5 81.4%  Hit@10 88.2%  MRR 0.6394

Conflation buys depth and costs the top rank: on BM25 alone MRR is unchanged
to four decimal places, the deeper gains exactly offsetting the rank-1 loss.
On the shipping hybrid configuration the vector stage already supplies most of
that recall, so the trade is narrower and slightly negative. Default stays
Plain; Stemmed is there for callers who want Hit@5/@10 over rank-1 precision.

The stemmer is deliberately conservative — it only strips inflections, and
only when the stem stays long enough to be meaningful, since an aggressive one
also conflates unrelated words. Tests pin both the pairs that must meet and
the pairs that must not.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-19 18:20:19 -07:00
osobhandClaude Opus 5 29baabbed2 feat(agent): selectable fusion; adopt the measured 0.4/0.6 default weights
BENCHMARKS.md has recorded since the weight sweep that the 0.7/0.3 default is
strictly dominated by 0.4/0.6 over the full LongMemEval haystack, but the
shipping code never adopted it: unified_search and the OpenClaw backend both
passed 0.7/0.3. Re-running the sweep here (500 questions, real MiniLM
embeddings on a GPU) reproduces it — turn-level Hit@1 51.6% vs 44.2%, Hit@5
81.4% vs 79.2%, Hit@10 87.8% vs 85.8%, MRR 0.6430 vs 0.5856 — so both now use
hybrid::DEFAULT_FUSION, which is that operating point and carries the
reasoning. A unit test pins it.

Fusion is also selectable now. hybrid::Fusion is either Weighted { vector,
keyword } or Rrf { k }; hybrid::fuse applies either to one candidate list per
stage, and merge_vector_keyword / hybrid_search delegate to it, so the public
API is unchanged. New HDF5Memory::hybrid_search_with and
hybrid::hybrid_search_fused take a Fusion. Reciprocal rank fusion was
implemented but reachable only as a free function over a linear scan, so it
had never been compared with the weighted sum on equal terms; it is now a mode
in the LongMemEval bench (measurement to follow).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-19 16:57:51 -07:00
osobhandClaude Fable 5.1 c6a7bbfc67 perf(format): partial selection reads; out-of-range selections are errors
read_raw_data_selection computed which chunks a selection intersects, threw
the answer away, decoded the entire dataset and picked elements out of it —
for contiguous layouts too. A 64x64 window of a 64 MB deflate dataset cost
105 ms, about half a full read; every selection cost the same whatever its
size.

New partial_read module: materialise only the selection's bounding box — the
overlapping rows of a contiguous dataset (straight from the file bytes) or the
overlapping chunks (only those are decompressed) — then run the existing
extractor over that buffer with the selection translated to the box origin, so
extraction semantics are exactly the full-read ones. It declines (falling back
to the old path) for All/None, compact/virtual/storage-less layouts, and boxes
covering more than half the dataset. That window now takes 0.39 ms, one row
2.7 ms, one column 5.2 ms.

Selections are validated against the dataset shape first. They were not: a
hyperslab past an edge came back padded with zeros and a point with an
out-of-range column wrapped into the next row, returning the wrong element
with no error. Now FormatError::SelectionOutOfBounds (also rank mismatch and
overlapping blocks); the facade's fill-aware path validates too.

Tests: equivalence against a reference extraction from a full read over 60
random hyperslabs/point lists per layout (contiguous, chunked, deflate) for
ranks 1-3. New read_harness bench binary with before/after in BENCHMARKS.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
2026-09-19 13:57:14 -07:00
osobhandClaude Fable 5.1 f507803ec1 feat(agent): build the vector index in parallel by default
`parallel` joins the agent's default features, so the HNSW bulk build uses the
thread pool: cold index build at 10K records 1152 -> ~380 ms in a same-moment
A/B (the graph is identical either way). Nothing else on the measured paths
changes — ingest, checkpoint, open and steady-state query times are the same
with the feature on or off. Adds rayon to the default dependency set; opt out
with `--no-default-features --features float16,hnsw`.

Harness: `--e2e-only` runs the end-to-end section without the index
benchmarks. Note for anyone comparing numbers: this machine's absolute timings
drifted ~1.5x over a long session, so only same-moment A/B runs are
comparable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
2026-09-19 13:52:23 -07:00
osobhandClaude Fable 5.1 390a2e3836 perf(agent): unranked BM25 scores and a top-k merge — same rankings, 4-5x faster
Fusion min-max normalises over every keyword match, so hybrid_search asked
BM25 for a ranked list of the whole corpus: a hash insert per posting, then a
sort of every match, then the merge sorted every candidate again to keep k.

- BM25Index::scores returns every match unsorted, accumulated in a dense array
  (contributions are strictly positive, so zero means untouched). search() is
  built on it with the bounded heap.
- merge_vector_keyword partitions out its top k (select_nth) and orders only
  those, with the same score-then-id order.
- Both hybrid paths use scores().

Rankings are identical (equivalence tests for both changes). p50 0.24 -> 0.07
ms (1K), 2.1 -> 0.49 ms (10K), 23 -> 4.65 ms (100K).

The harness gains --fusion-study, which measured the alternative — capping the
keyword pool — and found it changes the top-10 for most queries (overlap
0.83-0.92, different #1 for 10-35%) for only a 2x saving. Not adopted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
2026-09-19 13:27:31 -07:00
osobhandClaude Fable 5.1 0ee698accd perf(agent): persist the vector index graph; incremental catch-up
open() marked the HNSW index dirty, so the first search of every session
rebuilt it from scratch — 36 s at 100K records with the (better, slower)
heuristic build. First query after open is now 1.7 / 15 / 159 ms at
1K / 10K / 100K; what remains is the one-off keyword index build.

- clawhdf5-ann: HnswIndex::graph_to_bytes / from_graph_bytes serialize the
  graph only (levels, tombstones, adjacency as u32, CRC32). The existing HDF5
  serializer embeds a full copy of every vector, which would double a store
  that already holds them. Loading validates everything — counts, levels vs
  layer count, connection limits, every neighbour id and the layer it must
  exist on — so a damaged graph, or a hostile one with a valid checksum, is an
  error rather than an out-of-bounds walk during search.
- clawhdf5-agent: each checkpoint writes the graph to <store>.h5.ann (synced,
  atomic, before the .h5) and records a fresh generation id in /meta. open()
  loads the sidecar only if its generation matches that checkpoint; missing,
  stale, damaged or mismatched sidecars are ignored and the index rebuilt.
  Records appended through WAL replay join the loaded index incrementally; a
  replayed Update or Tombstone invalidates it. snapshot() copies it. Only an
  index that exactly mirrors the cache is saved; otherwise a stale sidecar is
  removed.
- ensure_hnsw_fresh inserts records appended since the last sync instead of
  rebuilding, so save_batch no longer marks the whole index dirty.
- CheckpointMeta { wal_applied, ann_generation } with *_with_meta build/write/
  read functions; the *_with_mark ones delegate.
- Harness reports the one-off cold index build separately from the first query
  after a reopen.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
2026-09-19 08:00:57 -07:00
osobhandClaude Fable 5.1 65d219c409 fix(ann): HNSW neighbour-selection heuristic — recall 0.31 -> 0.98 at 100K
Neighbours were selected as the plain closest-M, for both a new node's links
and back-link pruning. On clustered data every link of a node inside a tight
cluster then goes to that same cluster, so clusters become islands a search
entering elsewhere can never reach: recall@10 was 0.87 / 0.67 / 0.31 at
1K / 10K / 100K (384-dim) and flat in ef. Uniform random data — all the
existing tests used — does not show it.

Implement the HNSW paper's Algorithm 4 with keepPrunedConnections: accept a
candidate only if it is closer to the node than to every neighbour already
accepted, then fill spare slots with the closest rejected ones. Recall@10 at
ef=64 is now 1.00 / 1.00 / 0.98 and rises with ef; uniform data improves
slightly. Build is ~3.5x slower at 10K (extra distance evaluations), to be
recovered by the distance-kernel work. The needless rayon fan-out over <=33
distances in prune_connections is gone.

Tests: a clustered-data recall test for bulk build and incremental insert
(scores 0.43 with the old selection), and a unit test of the selection rule.
Harness gains --uniform and --ann-only; before/after in BENCHMARKS.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
2026-09-19 07:43:41 -07:00
osobhandClaude Fable 5.1 eb99de1020 bench: search harness — HNSW recall vs speed, end-to-end hybrid_search latency
New clawhdf5-bench binary `search_harness`, the measurement baseline for the
search hot-path work. On deterministic clustered 384-dim data it reports HNSW
build time and, per ef, recall@10 against an exact scan, QPS and p50/p99; and
for HDF5Memory: ingest, checkpoint, open, first-query-after-open and
steady-state hybrid_search latency at 1K/10K (and 100K with --full). Optional
JSON output for tracking.

Baseline recorded in BENCHMARKS.md. It shows two problems: HNSW recall@10 does
not respond to ef and falls from 0.87 (1K) to 0.31 (100K) on clustered data,
and end-to-end hybrid_search is ~1000x slower than its vector stage because
every query rebuilds BM25 and rewrites the .h5 file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
2026-09-19 07:33:20 -07:00
osobhandClaude Fable 5.1 a3f7c6fe89 style: cargo fmt --all
Formatting only. cargo fmt --check was already failing on main (accel SIMD
kernels, agent, format, migrate, bench); CI now enforces it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
2026-09-19 05:36:23 -07:00
ClawHDF5 Coding Agent 3c7c229e20 security(agent): gate elevated MemorySource construction behind a distinct API
Two related trust-boundary gaps, both closed:

1. ConsolidationEngine::add_memory took a plain `source: MemorySource`
   parameter, so any caller could claim MemorySource::System/Correction —
   which get elevated importance weighting in score_correction — for
   content whose actual origin the caller doesn't control or hasn't
   verified. Split into add_memory(UntrustedSource) for ordinary
   caller-supplied content (User/Tool/Retrieval only, no elevated variant
   exists to claim) and add_trusted_memory(TrustedSource) for content whose
   elevated trust the caller has independently verified (System/
   Correction). Updated the one production consumer outside this crate
   (clawhdf5-bench's consolidation_efficiency benchmark) and all tests.

2. The provenance/anomaly wiring added in the previous commit introduced
   the same pattern: infer_memory_source mapped source_channel == "system"
   or "correction" straight to the elevated MemorySource variants. Since
   MemoryEntry.source_channel is unvalidated caller-supplied text, this let
   a write dodge check_source_anomaly's User-flood detection by simply
   self-labeling source_channel = "system". infer_memory_source now never
   returns System/Correction — only Tool/Retrieval (recognized channel
   names) or User (everything else, the conservative default).

INT-05
2026-08-17 00:49:34 +00:00
Omar Sobh 1537a9464a bench: sweep the hybrid weights, and correct the recommendation
CI / test (push) Failing after 3s
Tier 4b reported hybrid retrieval at 0.7/0.3 and noted the weights were "the
documented default, not a searched optimum". `--sweep` searches them: 0.0 to 1.0
in 0.1 steps, reusing the one-time embedding table so eleven configurations cost
barely more than three.

The result is not a refinement. 0.7/0.3 is **strictly dominated**:

    vector/keyword   Hit@1   Hit@5  Hit@10     MRR   sHit@5
    0.0 / 1.0        53.8%   75.0%   81.6%  0.6320    93.6%
    0.3 / 0.7        53.2%   78.8%   87.2%  0.6463    96.0%
    0.4 / 0.6        51.6%   81.4%   87.8%  0.6429    96.8%
    0.5 / 0.5        48.2%   81.4%   88.2%  0.6234    97.4%
    0.7 / 0.3        44.4%   79.2%   86.0%  0.5868    95.8%
    1.0 / 0.0        36.0%   71.8%   81.6%  0.5027    94.2%

0.4/0.6 beats 0.7/0.3 on every metric at both granularities — Hit@1 +7.2pp,
Hit@5 +2.2, Hit@10 +1.8, MRR +0.056. No trade is being made; the default simply
sat on the wrong side of the peak. It is now 0.4/0.6, and README's usage snippet
recommends the same.

This corrects a conclusion I published one commit ago. Measuring only 0.7/0.3, I
wrote that fusion "buys deeper recall and pays for it at rank 1" and advised
callers taking a single top hit to prefer BM25. That was an artifact of the bad
weight, not a property of fusion: at 0.3/0.7 hybrid *beats* BM25 on MRR (0.6463
vs 0.6320) and Hit@5 (78.8% vs 75.0%) while giving up 0.6pp of Hit@1. Both
BENCHMARKS.md and README carry the correction rather than a quiet edit, since
the old text told readers to configure their systems a particular way.

The three-mode ablation rows are kept at their original settings — they measure
the shape of each stage in isolation, and the operating point now comes from the
sweep instead.
2026-08-07 11:10:12 -07:00
Omar Sobh 12d9d8462f bench: make the CUDA embedding path discoverable when it is unavailable
CI / test (push) Failing after 2s
The GPU path worked but was effectively hidden. cudarc's build script shells out
to `nvcc`, which ships in /usr/local/cuda/bin — a directory the reference host
had installed but never exported to the login shell, so `--features
embeddings-cuda` failed with a bare "`nvcc --version` failed" panic from a
dependency's build script, and the runtime fallback then reported only
"Embedder: CPU (...)" before spending hours on work a GPU does in minutes.

Two changes, both about making the failure legible rather than changing what the
code does:

  - The CPU fallback now says why it fell back and what that costs, with the
    concrete fix. A run that silently takes two orders of magnitude longer reads
    as a hang, not as a configuration choice.
  - BENCHMARKS.md states the build-time nvcc requirement, where the toolkit
    actually installs, and that a shell file read non-interactively is the place
    to export it — `~/.zshenv` rather than `~/.zshrc`, because build scripts do
    not run in an interactive shell.

Host-side, the reference machine's CUDA exports lived in ~/.bashrc below its
non-interactive guard while the login shell is zsh, so they never applied to
anything. Moved to ~/.zshenv with duplicate-prepend guards; `nvcc --version`
and `cargo build --features embeddings-cuda` now both work over a plain
non-interactive ssh with no manual export.
2026-08-07 08:13:59 -07:00
Omar Sobh c913cd1cbf bench: make the vector stage real, and measure BM25 vs vector vs hybrid (Tier 4b)
CI / test (push) Failing after 2s
Every LongMemEval number this project has published measured BM25 alone. The
bench passed zero-vector embeddings with vector_weight=0.0, so the HNSW/vector
stage — the thing the README credits for retrieval quality — contributed
nothing and was never tested.

An optional `embeddings` feature loads all-MiniLM-L6-v2 via candle and encodes
the corpus for real. It is off by default and nothing in the shipped crates
depends on it, so a project that advertises no heavyweight dependencies keeps
that property; without the feature the bench behaves exactly as before.

Full haystack, n=500, turn-level:

                          Hit@1    Hit@5   Hit@10      MRR
    BM25 only             53.8%    75.0%    81.6%   0.6320
    Vector only           36.0%    71.8%    81.6%   0.5027
    Hybrid 0.7/0.3        44.4%    79.2%    86.0%   0.5868

Session-level, hybrid leads outright: 88.2 / 95.8 / 97.8 / 0.9158.

The hybrid claim holds for depth and not for precision@1. Hybrid is the best
configuration at Hit@5 and Hit@10 at both granularities — turn-level Hit@5 gains
4.2 points over BM25 and 7.4 over vector-only, which is the result that justifies
running two stages at all. But BM25 alone still leads turn-level Hit@1 and MRR,
so fusing buys deeper recall and pays at rank 1. Callers assembling five memories
of context want hybrid; callers taking a single top hit are better served by BM25
today. The 0.7/0.3 weights are the documented default, not a searched optimum.

omni-cortex's four-signal ablation found the same direction independently — there,
adding BM25 to a dense retriever raised nDCG@5 while lowering Hit@1 and MRR. Two
codebases, two fusion schemes, same trade.

Vector-only trailing BM25 at every turn-level cutoff except Hit@10 is stated
plainly rather than buried: LongMemEval questions share heavy vocabulary with
their evidence turns, which is close to the best case for lexical matching, and
MiniLM at 384-d is a small model.

Implementation notes:
  - Texts are deduplicated before encoding. The haystack sessions are drawn from
    a shared pool, so 500 questions x 493.5 turns collapses to 190,015 unique
    strings — the difference between encoding the corpus once and per question.
  - `embeddings-cuda` adds the GPU path, and it is not a convenience: 190k texts
    take ~13 min on an RTX 5060 Ti, while the same work on 8 CPU cores was still
    unfinished after 30 minutes. The device is selected at runtime with a CPU
    fallback, so a machine without CUDA still works.
  - Mean-pooling is masked and the output L2-normalised, which is the published
    recipe for this checkpoint (not the [CLS] pooler).

One measurement wrinkle, recorded rather than smoothed over: on the oracle
variant BM25-only reads 84.2% Hit@5 with real embedding vectors present against
84.4% with zero vectors — one question of 500 changes rank, MRR identical at
0.6597. On the full haystack the two agree exactly. Weight 0.0 evidently does not
make the vector stage bit-for-bit absent from candidate selection on a small
corpus.

Verified on the Linux dev host: 49 groups / 1659 passed / 0 failed, clippy clean
under -D warnings, fmt clean, with and without the feature.
2026-08-07 07:22:20 -07:00
Omar Sobh 7d6e269bf3 bench: run the full longmemeval_s haystack, and measure the variant (Tier 4a)
CI / test (push) Failing after 2s
The harness only ever ran longmemeval_oracle — evidence sessions only, which is
a substantially easier corpus than the dataset LongMemEval results are normally
quoted on. Worse, the variant was a hardcoded "oracle" string in both the report
header and the JSON summary, so pointing it at longmemeval_s would have produced
full-haystack numbers labelled oracle.

DatasetProfile now measures the corpus instead of asserting it: sessions and
turns per question, and evidence-session density (the mean share of a question's
haystack sessions that are answer sessions). The variant label and the
session-level degeneracy warning are both derived from that density, so a
mislabelled input file cannot produce a mislabelled result. Measured: 100.0%
density on the oracle variant, 4.0% on longmemeval_s.

The full haystack, all 500 questions, 47.7 sessions and 493.5 turns each:

                  turn-level   session-level
    Hit@1            53.8%         86.2%
    Hit@5            75.0%         93.6%
    Hit@10           81.6%         96.6%
    MRR             0.6320        0.8948

Turn-level drops 84.4% -> 75.0% against the oracle variant. That 9.4-point gap
is the price of the real haystack and is exactly why oracle-only numbers should
not be presented as LongMemEval results.

Session-level is now reportable. It was retracted before because at 100% evidence
density every returned document is a hit by construction; at 4.0% density a hit
reflects discrimination, so 93.6% is a real measurement rather than a restatement
of the corpus shape. Per-type it also finally separates: single-session-assistant
100.0% Hit@1 against single-session-preference 33.3% — BM25 has nothing to grip
on a preference question whose evidence shares no vocabulary with the query.

The MemX comparison stays withdrawn. Running the full haystack closes the corpus
half of that mismatch but not the granularity half: MemX measures fact-level over
220,349 records, and this harness measures turn- and session-level.

Two smaller fixes found while running it:

  - --limit samples evenly across the file rather than taking a prefix. The
    dataset is ordered by question type, so `--limit 20` returned 20
    single-session-user questions and nothing else while reading like a
    whole-dataset result.
  - abstention_accuracy emits null rather than 0.0 when a corpus poses no
    abstention questions. longmemeval_s has none, and 0.0000 reads as total
    failure at a task that was never asked.

README.md and BENCHMARKS.md now lead with the full-haystack numbers and keep the
oracle figures alongside, labelled as the easier corpus.

Verified on the Linux dev host: 49 groups / 1659 passed / 0 failed, clippy clean
under -D warnings, fmt clean. The full 500-question run takes ~70 s.
2026-08-07 04:53:39 -07:00
Omar Sobh 6f5940d042 docs: retract degenerate LongMemEval session-level numbers and the MemX comparison
CI / test (push) Failing after 4s
A methodology audit found that two benchmark claims published in this repo two
days ago measure the wrong thing. Both are retracted in place rather than
quietly edited, with the reasoning recorded.

1. Session-level LongMemEval recall (100.0% Hit@1/5/10, MRR 1.0000, uniform
   across all six question types) is a degenerate artifact. On the
   longmemeval_oracle variant the ingested haystack for a question is
   essentially only that question's evidence sessions, so every returned
   document belongs to an answer session and session-level hit rate is ~1.0 at
   rank 0 by construction. The uniform 100% across every question type was the
   tell. It measured the shape of the corpus, not the retriever. Only the
   turn-level figure (84.4% Hit@5) carries signal, and it is now the only
   retrieval number cited.

2. The "clawhdf5 outperforms MemX at turn-level retrieval (84.4% vs 51.6%)"
   claim was not like-for-like on two independent axes. Confirmed against
   arxiv:2603.16171: MemX's Hit@5=51.6% / MRR=0.380 is *fact-level*
   granularity over 220,349 fact-level records drawn from 19,195 sessions, and
   the paper explicitly notes fact-level "doubl[es] session-level performance".
   Ours is turn-level on the oracle subset — different granularity, and a
   corpus smaller by orders of magnitude. A higher number on an easier corpus
   at a different granularity is not an outperformance claim.

Also caveats the vector-search "vs MemX" latency ratios, which compare a single
clawhdf5 component (raw vector search) against MemX's end-to-end pipeline
figure (embeddings + FTS5 + four-factor re-ranking). The numbers are real; the
"speedup" framing overstated by an unquantified margin and is now labelled an
order-of-magnitude indication.

Adds an explicit scoring-target declaration to BENCHMARKS.md per arXiv
2605.24060, which found that changing scoring target alone alters nDCG on
83-94% of queries and can reverse system rankings. States dataset variant,
metric (retrieval recall, NOT the official QA-accuracy metric), granularity,
k, and that the vector stage is inert (zero embeddings, vector_weight=0.0).

The harness itself now prints its scoring target, flags the session-level
block as degenerate, warns against the MemX comparison, and emits
dataset_variant/scoring_target/k/session_level_degenerate in its JSON summary,
so the caveats travel with the numbers instead of living only in docs.
2026-08-06 16:43:57 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Sonnet 4.6 d6c4d4f111 feat: implement filter codecs, format write extensions, and MPI-IO VOL
All three SDD plans fully wired and committed to main:

Filter Codecs (FC):
- FC-1: Implement float E-scale in scaleoffset_decompress (value = minval +
  code * 2^E, negative exponents via cast to i32); add two round-trip tests.
- FC-2: filters_szip.rs — feature-gated SZIP decode via libaec FFI; SZIP
  dispatch arm added to decompress_chunk.
- FC-3: libaec-sys workspace crate with pkg-config probe and aec_buffer_decode
  FFI binding; added to workspace members.

Format Write Extensions (FWE):
- FWE-1: GroupBuilder::add_external_link() API; wired through FinishedGroup
  → GrpFlat → file_writer pass 1/2/3 (OH size, layout cursor, final write);
  external_link_write_roundtrip test.
- FWE-2: data_layout_write.rs — serialize_vds_mappings with length_size param
  and version 0/1 (external vs same-file) selection; declared as pub mod.
- FWE-3: with_virtual_sources empty-mapping guard (Important #9) — empty vec
  is silently ignored; vds_empty_mapping_list test updated to assert non-VDS
  layout results.

MPI-IO VOL Backend (MPI):
- MPI-1/2/3: mpi_vol.rs — MpiVol implementing VirtualObjectLayer; root-read
  + broadcast collective read; gather + root-write collective write; feature-
  gated mpi-io feature; wired into clawhdf5-io lib.rs.
- MPI-4: mpi_io_bench binary (h5bench-equivalent MPI-IO throughput bench).

mpi_vol.rs reviewer fixes:
- Doc-comment updated to accurately describe root-read+broadcast pattern
  (not MPI_File_read_at); MpiVol::expected_capabilities() associated fn
  added so tests can verify capabilities without a live MPI universe;
  rank_and_size_stub_values renamed to no_feature_error_contains_feature_name.

Workspace check: zero warnings, 20 test suites pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <[email protected]>
2026-06-30 11:41:41 +00:00
redclawsystems 3f222f6956 Merge pull request 'docs(clawhdf5): document DType variants, fix unresolved doc links' (#17) from sdlc-docs/clawhdf5-types-20260514-165210 into main 2026-05-14 23:54:48 +00:00