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jordan
8aa1fbb414 vector search: normalize the query, instrument the blob path, expose per-group vector counts
Three real defects, plus a retracted fourth that was a probe artifact.

P3 (fixed) - query/stored normalization asymmetry. The write path L2-normalized
every stored vector; the read path passed the caller's raw query straight to the
index, so the two sides lived in different spaces. With unit v,
d = |q|^2 - 2q.v + 1, so a non-unit query shifted and scaled every distance by
|q|^2. Measured live: 591-1174 against a documented [0,4], and an exact match
scoring |q|^2 - 1 instead of ~0. vector_search_items now normalizes with the
canonical l2_normalize; a zero-norm query (no direction, so nearest-by-cosine is
undefined) is rejected with 400. Ranking is unchanged - |q|^2 and 1 are constant
across candidates - which is why it went unnoticed; what broke was every absolute
use of the number. WIRE-VISIBLE, recorded in CHANGELOG.

P2 (fixed) - the blob path had zero instrumentation. Added per-kind
tidaldb_cluster_blobs_originated/applied/apply_failed totals. Label cardinality
is fixed at 4 by construction via a new BlobKind enum, and BlobRecord::blob_kind
is now the ONE exhaustive match over the variants (kind() derives from it), so a
new variant is a compile error in one place instead of a silent zero in three.
Only the live apply path is counted - boot replay would inflate applied past
originated on every restart.

Coverage gap (fixed) - tidaldb_usearch_vector_count rendered only the metrics
owner's shard group, so on a 3-group node two thirds of the corpus had no
vector-count series at all. Co-located groups now render shard="N"; the owner
stays unlabeled for wire compatibility, so an alert grouped by (shard) buckets
each replica set separately without double-counting.

P1 (RETRACTED) - the "replica-divergent vector index" does not exist. Every probe
wrote through the /sharded/ surface, which hash-partitions and applies to the
owning region's local store with no WAL append, and therefore does not replicate
BY DESIGN (cluster/node.rs:8828-8829). A controlled A/B settled it: on /items plus
/embeddings all 6 entities reach all 3 replicas; on the sharded surface four of six
reach exactly one node. Both are now pinned by tests. See
tmp/vector-search-correctness/diagnosis.md and the k3s-fleet cluster-state.yaml
entry RETRACTED_blob_replication_rf1_2026_08_30.

Pre-work: usearch_index.rs 872 to 503 lines by extracting its tests to a sibling
(the project's existing path-attribute convention), and the three hand-rolled
l2_normalize copies collapsed to one. The two entity copies used a zero threshold
about 2900x looser than the canonical one; normalize_centroid now names the
centroid zero-tolerance policy once, and a test pins the tightened behavior.

Tests: 2107 lib (+5), 8 vector_search e2e (+4, three of which fail without the
P3 fix), 4 cluster_sharding e2e (+2). The heavy multiproc tests in
cluster_sharding are now serialized - four concurrent 3-node clusters made the
pre-existing failover test miss its 10s budget.
2026-08-30 13:57:36 -06:00
jx12n
bb21e69ae6 feat(m12): vector retrieval G1/G2 — recall harness, ANN in RETRIEVE, index tuning
m12p1 (measurement truth): TidalDb::vector_search_items pure k-NN probe +
POST /vector_search (standalone + region node, merge-by-distance) +
tidal-stress --verify-recall (deterministic id-keyed corpus, in-RAM brute-force
cosine oracle, open-loop ramp → recall@k + true p99 + read-knee + JSON/gate exit).
Repaired fabricated p99 columns (mean-as-p99) in social-scale.md / scale.rs.
Verified real: recall@10=0.9997 at 20k/1536-D vs brute-force.

m12p2 (G1 unblock): ANN candidate-gen wired into RETRIEVE — for_you=preference
vector, related=seed embedding (similar_to), graceful scan-fallback. Cached
per-signal-type top-K (signals/ledger/hot_top_k.rs, decay-order-invariant) so
trending serves O(K). related over HTTP (FeedQuery.similar_to). Harness gains
--feed-profile / --seed-preferences. Verified: trending retrieve p99 3.5-7.7ms.

m12p3 (G2): per-query ef_search now honored (RwLock epoch-guard with_expansion,
shared guard for same-ef concurrency) + dimension-aware brute→HNSW crossover
usearch_min_vectors(dim) + memory_usage() + examples/ann_grid_search.rs.
Measured 1536-D/100k clustered: default M=16/ef_c=400/F16/ef_s=200 clears
G1+G2 (recall 0.997, p99 1.4ms); F16 -0.25% vs F32; Int8 rejected (-28%).
Recall corpus is now clustered (Gaussian mixture) in grid + harness.
2026-06-14 11:07:09 -06:00