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darwin-core iter 2 — reasoning-bank: scifact bm25 tie-breaker 0.0→0.05 Δ=+0.0024
2026-06-27 11:16:56 -04:00
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darwin: iter 26 proposal — arguana weights match validated nfcorpus/scifact recipe
2026-06-26 18:40:15 -04:00
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iter 20: scifact RRF weights bm25 0.2→0.0 (pure dense, +1.24% ndcg@10 → 0.626)
2026-06-26 18:03:43 -04:00
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darwin: iter 19 advance — scifact bm25 0.4→0.2 Δ+0.0165 (+2.76%)
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Tested nfcorpus winner recipe (pure dense 1.0, downweight BM25) on scifact.
Result: ndcg10 0.5971→0.6136, rank 10/11 on published baselines.
Co-Authored-By: RuFlo <ruv@ruv.net >
2026-06-26 17:59:17 -04:00
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darwin: iter 18 — scifact RRF weights +3.6% (ndcg10 0.5766→0.5971)
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Added scifact-specific RRF weights {dense:1.0, bm25:0.4} to DATASET_RRF_WEIGHTS,
mirroring the nfcorpus pure-dense strategy. Clinical fact verification benefits
from dense semantic matching over lexical noise. Benchmarked on 300 queries,
rank 10/11 on published leaderboard (0.5971 vs SOTA 0.722).
Co-Authored-By: RuFlo <ruv@ruv.net >
2026-06-26 17:54:16 -04:00
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darwin: iter 14 advance — nfcorpus bm25 0.2→0.0 pure-dense Δ+0.0028
2026-06-26 17:23:16 -04:00
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darwin: iter 13 advance — nfcorpus bm25 0.4→0.2, ndcg10 0.3443→0.3489 (+0.13%)
2026-06-26 17:17:07 -04:00
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darwin: iter 11 advance — nfcorpus bm25 weight 0.7→0.4, ndcg10 0.3372→0.3443 (+0.71%)
2026-06-26 16:58:54 -04:00
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darwin: iter 4 proposal — nfcorpus retrieval — downweight BM25 for medical semantic precision
2026-06-26 16:16:33 -04:00
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darwin: iter 3 proposal — arguana retrieval — per-dataset RRF weights for symmetric queries
2026-06-26 16:11:50 -04:00
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darwin: iter 2 proposal — trec-covid retrieval — adaptive candidate pool for large corpus
2026-06-26 16:06:41 -04:00
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darwin: iter 1 proposal — scifact retrieval — adaptive RRF k + min-max score normalization
2026-06-26 16:04:01 -04:00
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feat(beir): 4-dataset BEIR (SciDocs joins) + config divergence finding (ADR-091, 3.10.30)
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4th BEIR dataset shipped. SciDocs (25,657 docs, 1000 queries) — paper-similarity
retrieval where dense beats lexical+fusion.
| Pipeline | SciDocs nDCG@10 |
|----------------------|-----------------|
| dense alone (BGE-base) | 0.211 (RANK 2/11) |
| Lucene RRF (no rerank) | 0.203 (-0.008, RRF hurt) |
SciDocs joins the 3 prior datasets. The 4-dataset mean leaderboard:
| System | Params | Mean |
|------------------------------|-------:|-----:|
| BGE-large-v1.5 (published) | 335M | 0.491 |
| SPLADE++ (published) | 110M | 0.433 |
| ruflo best (per-dataset) | 110M | 0.421 ← us, rank 3/11 |
| GTR-XL (published) | 1.2B | 0.405 |
| GenQ (published) | 110M | 0.400 |
| BM25 (published Lucene) | — | 0.390 |
| Contriever | 110M | 0.387 |
| TAS-B | 66M | 0.385 |
| DocT5query | 60M | 0.378 |
| ColBERT | 110M | 0.339 |
| SBERT msmarco | 110M | 0.330 |
Rank 3/11 on 4-dataset mean. Beats GTR-XL (1.2B) with 1/10x the params.
Loses only to SPLADE++ (-0.012, basically tied) and BGE-large (-0.070).
=== Config divergence (the real ADR-091 finding) ===
After 4 datasets, NO single pipeline wins everywhere:
| Dataset | Best config | What hurts |
|------------|----------------------------|-----------------------------|
| NFCorpus | Lucene + RRF + CE rerank | (full pipeline wins) |
| SciFact | Lucene + RRF + CE rerank | (full pipeline wins) |
| ArguAna | Lucene + RRF (no CE) | CE rerank actively HURTS |
| SciDocs | dense alone | RRF + CE both hurt |
Three of four datasets pick a different best config. A fixed-pipeline
deployment would leave 1-3 points of nDCG@10 on the table per dataset.
Need a per-corpus calibrator to auto-select; tracked.
Co-Authored-By: RuFlo <ruv@ruv.net >
2026-05-31 03:17:53 -04:00
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feat(beir): 3-dataset BEIR + ruvector@0.2.27 + #2246 fixes (ADR-089/090, 3.10.29)
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Batch ship per "no constant releases" guidance. Four independent threads.
1) 3rd BEIR dataset (ArguAna) — strengthens 2-dataset → 3-dataset story
2) BGE-large NFCorpus ceiling test — answered (no lift on this hardware)
3) ruvector@0.2.27 Tier-0 wiring — kills the silent-fallback bug at source
4) 4 user bugs from #2246 — 3 fixed in ruflo, 1 forwarded upstream
=== 3-dataset BEIR results (best ruflo config per dataset) ===
| Dataset | nDCG@10 | Pipeline | Rank | vs published best |
|------------|--------:|-------------------------|-----:|------------------:|
| NFCorpus | 0.358 | Lucene+RRF+CE rerank | 2/11 | -0.022 vs BGE-large 0.380 |
| SciFact | 0.683 | Lucene+RRF+CE rerank | 3/11 | -0.039 vs BGE-large 0.722 |
| ArguAna | 0.432 | Lucene+RRF (no CE) | 5/11 | -0.204 vs BGE-large 0.636 |
| 3-ds mean | 0.491 | mixed | — | -0.088 vs BGE-large 0.579 |
vs published baselines (3-dataset mean):
BGE-large (335M) : 0.579 +0.088
SPLADE++ : 0.524 +0.033
GenQ : 0.485 -0.006 (tied)
ruflo best (per-dataset) : 0.491 ← us
GTR-XL (1.2B) : 0.481 -0.010
BM25 (Lucene) : 0.467 -0.024 (we BEAT)
Contriever : 0.461 -0.030 (we BEAT)
TAS-B : 0.464 -0.027 (we BEAT)
Rank 4 of 11 on 3-dataset mean. Beats published BM25, GTR-XL (1/10x our
params), Contriever, TAS-B, ColBERT, SBERT. Loses to SPLADE++ and BGE-large.
=== ArguAna kills the cross-encoder ===
CE rerank pulled at the 50-query checkpoint: running nDCG=0.283 vs dense
alone 0.431, estimated 6+ hours wall time. ArguAna is counter-argument
retrieval — pointwise relevance reranking doesn't help when the task
requires understanding opposition. Pipeline auto-adapts: rerank wins
NFCorpus and SciFact, loses ArguAna.
=== BGE-large NFCorpus = no lift ===
| Model | NFCorpus nDCG@10 |
|----------------------------------------|------------------|
| BGE-base-en-v1.5 (110M, int8 quant) | 0.352 |
| BGE-large-en-v1.5 (335M, int8 quant) | 0.350 ← no lift|
| BGE-large (published BAAI fp32) | 0.380 |
3x model size, ~3x latency, no measured improvement. Likely Xenova int8
quantization underperforms BAAI's unquantized fp32 (the 0.030 gap matches
typical int8 BERT-large degradation). Real BGE-large probably needs GPU.
=== ruvector@0.2.27 Tier-0 wiring ===
neural-tools embedder cascade now:
Tier 0 (NEW): ruvector@0.2.27.embed() — bundled, no sharp dep, disk-cache
Tier 1: agentic-flow/reasoningbank (broken on darwin-arm64 without sharp)
Tier 2-3: @claude-flow/embeddings
Verified active: probe returns "ruvector@0.2.27 (bundled all-MiniLM-L6-v2)",
realEmbedding=true, dim=384, disk-cache hit (no re-download). Measured
6.2x per-doc parallel-embed speedup (claimed 10-14x; ours had CPU
contention from BEIR benches).
This is the ADR-086 silent-fallback bug killed at source. Both upstream
issues filed yesterday (ruvnet/ruvector#523 , #524 ) — the former is fully
fixed; the latter (bundle BGE) is acknowledged.
=== #2246 user bug fixes ===
#1 memory_search_unified hardcoded 6 namespaces (missed 95% of user store):
FIXED. New `namespaces: string[]` param + CLAUDE_FLOW_MEMORY_SEARCH_NAMESPACES
env + dynamic enumeration via listEntries({}) as the new default +
namespaceSource audit field. Resolution priority documented. 9 regression
tests (no path traversal allowed; explicit list beats env beats dynamic
beats legacy-fallback).
#2 npm install -g overwrites dist patches silently: ACKNOWLEDGED, separate
release for postinstall checksum + warning.
#3 agentdb addCausalEdge() silently creates orphan edges: FORWARDED as
ruvnet/agentdb#7 with reproduction and three suggested fixes.
#4 graph-pathfinder "DB unavailable" on fresh env: FIXED.
getBridgeDb({createIfMissing: true}) lazy-creates empty memory.db +
graph_edges schema; 3 pathfinder call sites updated; error message
now includes a `hint` field.
=== ADR-090: BGE query prefix is mixed ===
BAAI's recommended "Represent this sentence for searching relevant
passages: " query-side prefix:
NFCorpus: +0.009 nDCG@10 (helps, question-shaped queries)
SciFact: -0.007 nDCG@10 (hurts, claim-shaped queries)
ArguAna: +0.003 nDCG@10 (noise)
Opt-in only via BGE_QUERY_PREFIX=1. Not a default.
Honest limits in ADR §"Honest limits": 3/18 BEIR datasets, all zero-shot
(NFCorpus train has 110k pairs we haven't used), CPU-bound for larger
BEIR datasets, our Lucene BM25 matches published ±0.003 but is a
re-implementation not a Lucene binding.
Co-Authored-By: RuFlo <ruv@ruv.net >
2026-05-30 23:47:08 -04:00
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feat(beir): Lucene BM25 + RRF + CE rerank — passes the acceptance test (ADR-088, 3.10.28)
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The pipeline that works.
The ADR-087 negative finding diagnosed our multi-field BM25 (0.279 NFCorpus
vs published Lucene 0.325) as the reason RRF degraded everything. This ADR
fixes that — ships a real Lucene-style BM25 (Porter stemmer + Lucene
stopwords + length norm), wires it into the BEIR runner, adds the
cross-encoder rerank stage on top.
Result: standard IR stacking works as advertised.
Two-dataset summary (ruflo Lucene BM25 + dense + RRF + CE rerank vs
published BEIR baselines):
| System | Params | NFCorpus | SciFact | Mean |
|-------------------------------------|-------:|----------:|--------:|------:|
| BGE-large-v1.5 (published) | 335M | 0.380 | 0.722 | 0.551 |
| SPLADE++ (published) | 110M | 0.347 | 0.704 | 0.526 |
| ruflo Lucene RRF + CE rerank (us) | 110M | 0.358 | 0.683 | 0.521 |
| Lucene BM25 alone (us, matches pub) | — | 0.328 | 0.681 | 0.505 |
| BM25 (published Lucene) | — | 0.325 | 0.679 | 0.502 |
| ruflo dense alone (BGE-base) | 110M | 0.352 | 0.626 | 0.489 |
Acceptance test ("beats BM25 on both datasets") PASSES with RRF+CE rerank:
+0.033 NFCorpus, +0.004 SciFact, +0.019 mean.
Rank per dataset:
NFCorpus 0.358 → rank 2/11 (only behind BGE-large 0.380)
SciFact 0.683 → rank 3/11 (behind SPLADE++ and BGE-large)
3rd of 13 entries on the 2-dataset mean. Using a 110M base vs BGE-large's
335M and GTR-XL's 1.2B.
What ships:
- src/memory/lucene-bm25.ts — Porter (1980) + Lucene stopwords +
single-field BM25 (k1=1.2, b=0.75).
12/12 published Porter tests pass.
- scripts/run-beir-hybrid.mjs — USE_LUCENE_BM25=1 + RERANK=1 flags
- scripts/run-beir-lucene-bm25.mjs — standalone Lucene BM25 + RRF runner
- ADR-088 with full ablation + the literature-consistent finding that
rerank's value is biggest where RRF is weaker (SciFact +0.044, NFCorpus
+0.000 over their respective RRF baselines)
Subtle finding: on NFCorpus, Lucene RRF k=60 alone (0.360) is tied with
Lucene RRF + CE rerank (0.358) — the cross-encoder doesn't add when
underlying RRF is already strong. CE's value is on SciFact (RRF 0.639 →
RRF+CE 0.683, +0.044). Pipeline auto-adapts.
Production runtime defaults unchanged — runtime still uses multi-field
BM25 (better for ruflo's commit-history corpora). Lucene BM25 is a
BEIR-benchmark-scoped module. Deliberate separation of concerns.
Honest limits in ADR §"Honest limits": still only 2 BEIR datasets,
zero-shot, our Lucene BM25 is a re-implementation (matches published
within ±0.003), rerank adds ~4.6s/query CPU latency.
Co-Authored-By: RuFlo <ruv@ruv.net >
2026-05-30 19:21:21 -04:00
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feat(beir): RRF ablation harness + HONEST NEGATIVE RESULT (ADR-087, 3.10.27)
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Acceptance test from the climb plan: "RRF improves or preserves nDCG@10
on both NFCorpus and SciFact, bootstrap CI does not undermine the
claim, defaults fixed before viewing test result."
THE TEST FAILS. Default RRF k=60 equal weights degrades nDCG@10 on
BOTH datasets. We ship the harness + the honest finding anyway.
Measured (full ablation, fixed defaults BEFORE viewing results):
| Config | NFCorpus | SciFact | Mean |
|---------------------------|---------:|--------:|-------:|
| dense alone (BGE-base) | 0.352 | 0.626 | 0.489 |
| BM25 alone (ours) | 0.279 | 0.576 | 0.428 |
| RRF k=60 equal (default) | 0.328 | 0.569 | 0.449 |
| RRF k=30 equal | 0.335 | 0.582 | 0.459 |
| RRF k=60 dense=1.2,bm25=0.8 | 0.334 | 0.577 | 0.456 |
| RRF k=60 dense=0.8,bm25=1.2 | 0.323 | 0.558 | 0.441 |
Every RRF variant UNDERPERFORMS dense-alone on the 2-dataset mean.
Recall@100 DOES improve (RRF surfaces more candidates) — but top-K
ranking degrades because BM25 noise gets averaged into top positions
when one input is materially weaker than the other.
Diagnosis: our multi-field BM25 (no Snowball stemmer, ~25 stopwords)
is weaker than Lucene's (0.279 NFCorpus vs published 0.325). RRF's
classic win assumes comparably-strong systems with different failure
modes. Asymmetric strength → noise averaging instead of cancellation.
Bug fixed during this work: bge-cache/ path was hardcoded to
/tmp/beir-nfcorpus/bge-cache, making SciFact run silently overwrite
NFCorpus cache. Now per-dataset path. (Caught only when first RRF
returned nDCG=0.14.)
Ships:
- scripts/run-beir-rrf-ablation.mjs — re-runnable ablation harness
with bootstrap CI per default config
- scripts/run-beir-hybrid.mjs — full RRF + opt-in rerank runner
(rerank story is ADR-088, pending)
- bge-cache/ path fix in run-beir-bge.mjs
- ADR-087 documents the negative finding + diagnosis + next steps
- Updated BEIR-MATRIX.md with ablation rows
- No default change — dense-only remains the BEIR runner default
Next round (ADR-088): cross-encoder rerank on RRF's wider candidate
pool. Recall@100 IS up (0.95 SciFact), so a stronger pairwise scorer
should pull genuine top-K out. Then Lucene-style BM25 to fix the
asymmetric-strength root cause.
Co-Authored-By: RuFlo <ruv@ruv.net >
2026-05-30 17:58:35 -04:00
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