claude-memory-mcp/benchmarks/harness/baselines.py
Viktor Barzin 1cc8a2b378
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research: benchmark hybrid (lexical+dense+graph) recall vs current FTS
Viktor asked to enhance the memory system with 'semantics' — remember concepts
(not just tokens) linked in a graph — and to prove, by benchmarking against the
current system, that it actually improves recall. A multi-phase research workflow
(18 agents) did landscape research, an adversarially-reviewed integration design,
a stratified eval set over the real 5,452-memory corpus, and a head-to-head
prototype-vs-current benchmark.

Result: hybrid (lexical FTS + dense embeddings, RRF-fused) beats FTS on every
overall metric, driven by a robust paraphrase win (recall@10 +0.350). Recommend
adopting lexical+dense; the concept graph is DEFERRED.

Post-run adversarial review correction (applied to all docs before commit): the
prototype's fusion config structurally barred the graph leg from the ranked top-k,
so the 'graph contributes nothing' ablation was a math artifact, NOT an empirical
result — the graph is UNEVALUATED, not disproven (deferred on cost+uncertainty).
Multi-hop deltas are not statistically significant. Glossary in CONTEXT.md; framing
in ADR-0001-0003; findings in ADR-0004-0006 + docs/research/.

Privacy: the corpus/queries/qrels/results are the user's real memories and stay
gitignored (data/, cache/, results/, build_eval_set.py); only harness code,
aggregate numbers, and synthetic examples are committed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-25 17:51:53 +00:00

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"""Reference LEXICAL baseline retrievers that mirror the production system.
These exist so (a) the eval-set author can VERIFY a query's labels and check
that paraphrase queries genuinely defeat lexical matching, and (b) later agents
have an honest "current system" to beat.
`SqliteFtsRetriever` builds an in-memory SQLite FTS5 index over the corpus and
runs the SAME query shape the production local store uses:
words -> '"w1" OR "w2" ...' MATCH, ORDER BY bm25(), importance as tiebreak.
(README "SQLite: FTS5 with BM25".) This is the closest faithful, dependency-free
baseline. The Postgres tsvector path is documented in the README; its ranking
differs (weighted A/B/C/D + importance-first default) but for a quality ceiling
comparison the FTS5/BM25 relevance ordering is the right lexical reference.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import re
import sqlite3
from collections.abc import Sequence
from .types import Memory, MemoryId
# FTS5 reserved-ish tokens; we quote every term anyway, but strip embedded quotes.
_WORD_RE = re.compile(r"[A-Za-z0-9_]+")
class SqliteFtsRetriever:
"""Faithful FTS5/BM25 lexical baseline (mirrors local_store search)."""
name = "sqlite_fts5_bm25"
def __init__(self, sort_by: str = "relevance") -> None:
# "relevance": ORDER BY bm25(), importance DESC (best for quality eval)
# "importance": ORDER BY importance DESC, ... (production default)
self.sort_by = sort_by
self._con: sqlite3.Connection | None = None
def build_index(self, corpus: Sequence[Memory]) -> None:
con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")
con.execute(
"""
CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE memories_fts USING fts5(
content, category, tags, expanded_keywords,
memory_id UNINDEXED, importance UNINDEXED
)
"""
)
con.executemany(
"INSERT INTO memories_fts(content, category, tags, expanded_keywords, memory_id, importance)"
" VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?)",
[
(m.content, m.category, m.tags, m.expanded_keywords, m.id, m.importance)
for m in corpus
],
)
con.commit()
self._con = con
def _fts_query(self, query: str) -> str:
words = _WORD_RE.findall(query.lower())
if not words:
return ""
return " OR ".join(f'"{w}"' for w in words)
def retrieve(self, query: str, k: int) -> list[MemoryId]:
assert self._con is not None, "call build_index first"
match = self._fts_query(query)
if not match:
return []
if self.sort_by == "importance":
order = "importance DESC, bm25(memories_fts)"
else:
order = "bm25(memories_fts), importance DESC"
try:
rows = self._con.execute(
f"SELECT memory_id FROM memories_fts WHERE memories_fts MATCH ? "
f"ORDER BY {order} LIMIT ?",
(match, k),
).fetchall()
except sqlite3.OperationalError:
# mirror production LIKE fallback on FTS syntax errors
like = f"%{query}%"
rows = self._con.execute(
"SELECT memory_id FROM memories_fts WHERE content LIKE ? OR tags LIKE ? "
"ORDER BY importance DESC LIMIT ?",
(like, like, k),
).fetchall()
return [r[0] for r in rows]
def close(self) -> None:
if self._con is not None:
self._con.close()
self._con = None