The product fuses a sparse page, a dense vector leg, and a picture leg that only speaks when the words come back thin. Two of the three are off by default, and until now no committed artifact said why. bench/leg_check.py asks the frozen suite's 300 answerable queries as their own holder, once per configuration, and prints recall, first-hit quality, latency and per-modality recall in one table. The picture index and the CLIP snapshot are 48 minutes of encoding, so they are carried in rather than rebuilt per row; the harness refuses to run a leg whose snapshot is missing instead of quietly scoring nothing. The numbers that came back: - words only, 10 atoms: recall@10 0.832, MRR 0.683, p50 64ms - words only, the configured 24: 0.848, 0.688, 69ms - words only, page 30: 0.855, 0.690, 67ms - dense leg on: 0.845 / 0.858, MRR down, p50 469ms / 411ms - picture leg available: 0.815 / 0.825, MRR 0.553 / 0.551, p50 148ms / 164ms So both defaults stay off, and the acceptance bar (recall@10 >= 0.90) is not met by the product path yet: 0.858 is the best measured row, the in-repo counterpart at holder scope is 0.866. The loss concentrates in picture golds, and the current CLIP leg pays more in dilution than it returns there. CHECKLIST p2-1 and p0-3.7 now quote the committed reports (DENSE.md, QUANT.md, SCALE.md, TERMS.md) instead of scratch scripts.
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_configon any bench file returns0 config file(s)withresolvedCwdat the repo root, so neitherpyproject.toml [tool.pyright]norpyrightconfig.json(both of which carryextraPaths: [".", "backend/src"]) is being read by that runner.- Runtime proof, run from the repo root with
.venvactive:
.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.jsonreportsshared_source_ids.