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Tim Lingo 4eb4c9e287 feat(engram): word-start match primitive + corpus-vocabulary gate on recall
The retrieval match test is a raw substring scan, so a query token matches
anywhere INSIDE a corpus word: "throom" matches "bathroom". Measured over the
38-query gold set on this corpus that is not a rare accident - q28's lexical
leg is 36,954 records of which only 13 contain a query token at a word start
(99.96% mid-word noise), six further queries carry ~20,500 mid-word-only
records each, and the nonsense control q35 returns 7 records ALL of which
match only mid-word.

istr_contains_wordstart() anchors a token to a word start (preceding char not
alphanumeric) while still matching suffixes, so "value" still hits "values".
That empties the lexical leg for gibberish, and the nhits==0 corpus-vocabulary
gate (iteration 6's mechanism, feat/claim24-unfloored-semantic) then makes the
whole query decline rather than let the semantic leg answer it.

Measured vs feat/bm25-lexical-leg on the embedded corpus, 2 runs each,
0 queries of run-to-run drift on both sides:
  net +1 (nonsense:q35), 0 losses, McNemar p=1.0 -> NOT-SHOWN (floor is 6)
  nonsense clean 2/3 -> 3/3; exact_rare 100%, phrase 100%, paraphrase 61.5%,
  associative 66.7%, superseded 2/3 all UNCHANGED
  latency p50 1184 -> 543 ms (0.46x)

Iteration 6 called q35 "a DEFECTIVE CONTROL ... cannot be cleaned without
breaking the lexical leg". It can: the defect was the match primitive, and
cleaning it cost nothing.

Also committed: results-wsclaim24.json + cmp-nogate.json, a measured negative
for bundling the claim-24 unfloored semantic leg on top (gains q14/q25, breaks
q15/q28/q33/q34, net -2) - it independently reproduces iteration 6's q15/q28
losses and shows unflooring REQUIRES the vocabulary gate.

Reproducers: legs.py (leg-level replica, reproduces baseline hit@5 exactly on
all 38 queries), policy2.py, ceiling.py, wb2.py.
2026-08-07 16:58:34 -05:00

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import json,sys,pickle,numpy as np,itertools
sys.path.insert(0,'.')
from policy2 import legs3,outcome,G,NODES,merge
# cache per-query leg id-lists, floored and unfloored
cache={}
for q in G['queries']:
Lf,Sf,Af=legs3(q['query'])
Lu,Su,Au=legs3(q['query'],unfloor=True)
cache[q['id']]=dict(L=Lf,Sf=Sf,A=Af,Su=Su,Au=Au)
pickle.dump(cache,open('ceil.pkl','wb'))
def mrg(pattern,L,S,A,lim=10):
out=[];p={'L':0,'S':0,'A':0};src={'L':L,'S':S,'A':A}
i=0
while len(out)<lim:
prog=False
for ch in pattern:
lst=src[ch]
if p[ch]<len(lst):
x=lst[p[ch]];p[ch]+=1;prog=True
if x not in out: out.append(x)
if len(out)>=lim: return out
if not prog: break
return out
def ev(pattern,unfl):
res={}
for q in G['queries']:
c=cache[q['id']]
S=c['Su'] if unfl else c['Sf']
ids=[NODES[i]['id'] for i in mrg(pattern,c['L'],S,c['A'],10)]
res[q['id']]=outcome(q,ids)
return res
base=ev('LSA',False)
print("baseline",sum(base.values()))
best=[]
pats=['LSA','LAS','SLA','ALS','SAL','ASL','LSSA','LSASA','LSAA','LSSAA','LSAS','SSLA','LLSA','SALSA','LSAAS']
for unfl in (False,True):
for p in pats:
r=ev(p,unfl)
g=sorted(k for k in base if r[k] and not base[k]);l=sorted(k for k in base if base[k] and not r[k])
best.append((len(g)-len(l),p,unfl,g,l))
best.sort(reverse=True)
for n,p,u,g,l in best[:10]:
print("net=%+d pat=%-6s unfloor=%s gains=%s losses=%s"%(n,p,u,g,l))