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ZacharyZhang-NY cf2de313dc Correct the record the second review round measured against
Round 2 found the functional side true and six record/discipline defects.

- D9: the write-path line said "comparison uses secrets.compare_digest" as if
  it covered both tokens. It does not: the operator's plaintext is compared with
  compare_digest (api_auth.py:54, :110), a holder token is SQL equality on its
  sha256 digest (holder_store.verify_token) because no plaintext is stored. The
  boundary is now stated in verify_token's docstring as well as the record.
- D10/D13: three historical numbers were written as if they were current. The
  four-file 59 is pinned to 2ea48d8 (test_trust_quarantine.py was 25 tests there,
  26 from d56996b on), and both 401 gate lines are pinned to the commit they were
  measured on (83dfc14, 89c880f) with the current 406 named next to them.
- D12: the compiler cache-key line overstated one direction. The old key had no
  identity part at all, so whoever compiled first got served to the next caller;
  an empty pack reaching the operator is one direction, not the mechanism.
- D11: the p2-5 acceptance cell's suite count is pinned the same way.
- D14: bench/video_audio_check.py wrote straight into bench/reports/, so a
  reviewer running it in its own worktree would have overwritten frozen
  evidence. It now takes --report/--payload and refuses a destination that
  already holds a frozen report; refuse_frozen_overwrite is tested, along with
  the guards that stop the harness from measuring nothing.

Gates: pytest -q 410 passed; ruff clean; bench.filesize_check OK;
bench.audit --product 33 harness files / 2 reports / 6 set files, clean;
pyright 0 errors on the three touched files; mypy cold cache Success on the same
three.
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bench — the measurement harness

Everything here measures the product as it is. No arm may read a benchmark gold label.

run order

python -m bench.fetch_corpus      # 19 GB of third-party material -> bench/corpus + ~/ely_eye_bench_data
python -m bench.build_sets        # freeze the 6 query sets -> bench/sets/
python -m bench.validate_sets     # schema + gold + scope + modality checks (b-2 gate)
python -m bench.fetch_models      # dense + rerank models used by the ablation arms
python -m bench.ingest_baseline   # the unmodified product ingesting the whole corpus (16 -> 8 workers)
python -m bench.run               # five-arm ablation + latency/scale -> bench/reports/BASELINE.md
python -m pytest bench/tests -q   # metric definitions, hand-computed

bench/runs/ and bench/corpus/ are gitignored; bench/corpus/manifest.jsonl is tracked so the corpus is reproducible from the manifest alone.

the arms (b-3)

arm what it is
bm25_only the product's sparse signal alone
dense_only the product's dense signal alone (product flag is off today)
graph_only the product's graph signal alone — atom.relations is never populated, so it is a constant
no_rerank the product's exact 0.55 / 0.35 / 0.10 fusion
fusion_rerank the same fusion plus a cross-encoder rerank, the upper bound of the current design

python -m bench.run also drives the unmodified RetrievalService.search over the merged database and reports its latency plus how far its top-10 differs from the fast BM25 path.

known environment artifact

pi-lens' pyright reports Import "bench.sets_common" could not be resolved (and the same for bench.metrics, bench.systems, ely_eye.*, cv2, onnxruntime, pypdf.errors) even though every one of those imports works. It is not a repo defect:

  • effective_config on any bench file returns 0 config file(s) with resolvedCwd at the repo root, so neither pyproject.toml [tool.pyright] nor pyrightconfig.json (both of which carry extraPaths: [".", "backend/src"]) is being read by that runner.
  • Runtime proof, run from the repo root with .venv active:
.venv/bin/python -c "import bench.sets_common, bench.metrics, bench.systems, bench.run, bench.ingest_baseline, \
bench.build_mmlongbench, ely_eye.config, ely_eye.db, cv2, onnxruntime, pypdf.errors; print('runtime proof OK')"

Treat that command as the check of record for import health; treat pyright's type findings (it has caught real defects here: an AtomRunner typo, missing strict=True on zip, dict[str, object] over-narrowing) as separate and worth fixing.

The pi-lens mypy cascade also replays stale findings after a fix: it attributes another file's lines to whichever file was edited last (e.g. bench/fetch_models.py:107: "object" has no attribute "encode", where line 107 of that file is a Path call and the quoted text is from bench/systems.py). The check of record is a fresh-cache run, which has passed on every current file:

rm -rf /tmp/mypycache && .venv/bin/python -m mypy --cache-dir /tmp/mypycache bench/   # Success: no issues found
.venv/bin/python -m ruff check bench/                                                  # All checks passed
.venv/bin/python -m pytest bench/tests -q                                              # all green

corpus facts that constrain the numbers

  • 50,789 sources / 5,308 queries (2,928 answerable, 2,380 unanswerable), all third-party.
  • Video-MME ships mp4s for 129 of 900 videos; the set uses those 129 (387 questions).
  • Video-MME has no temporal gold, so its gold region is the whole video — recorded in the set manifest.
  • ScreenSpot-v2 boxes are [x, y, w, h], verified against 755 image headers (xywh in bounds 1271/1272).
  • CodeSearchNet docstrings appear verbatim inside the code, so the query text is stripped before ingest or BM25 gets a free exact match.
  • The product keys a source by {stem[:48]}_{sha256[:16]}, so identical bytes in two sets collapse to one product source; ingest_report.json reports shared_source_ids.