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Scope

This PR has been narrowed back to production-generic retrieval improvements.

The LoCoMo/benchmark-tuned extractor work has been removed from this PR branch and preserved on:

  • benchmark/locomo10-tuned-extractors

That benchmark branch is for comparison and optimization work only and is not intended to merge to main.

Production Changes Remaining

  • Refines current-state classification so temporal comparison quantity questions are not treated as current-state lookups.
  • Expands query keyword matching with light normalized verb variants.
  • Improves subject-aware ranking for temporal/event queries by keeping stronger event anchors and penalizing planning-like future memories when the query asks for completed temporal endpoints.
  • Adds query-aware temporal endpoint evidence to tiered retrieval formatting.
  • Updates deterministic tests around the remaining generic retrieval behavior.

Explicitly Removed From This PR

  • LOCOMO_TUNED_EXTRACTION_ENABLED
  • locomoTunedExtractionEnabled runtime config plumbing
  • LoCoMo-tuned supplemental extractor modules
  • LoCoMo-specific supplemental extractor tests
  • .env.example benchmark-tuned flag documentation

Validation

  • npm test -> 119 files, 1169 tests passed
  • dotenv -e .env.test -- npx tsc --noEmit -> passed
  • dotenv -e .env.test -- npm run build -> passed
  • dotenv -e .env.test -- npm run check:openapi -> passed
  • sh .husky/pre-commit / fallow audit -> passed, no issues

Notes

Fallow passes standalone and during the final commit after clearing git's commit-time index env for the hook process. The hook itself was restored before push; no hook changes are part of this PR.

ethanj added 4 commits April 27, 2026 11:13
- add deterministic supplemental evidence extractors for visual, school, competition, and affect facts
- improve temporal packaging/ranking helpers and timeline suppression
- add supplemental extraction and iterative retrieval coverage for recovered LoCoMo10 failure cases
@ethanj ethanj changed the title Temporal slice recovery follow-up Recover LoCoMo10 temporal and overlap slices Apr 29, 2026
ethanj and others added 2 commits April 29, 2026 07:18
- add query-aware answer-detail and shared-overlap evidence blocks
- refine temporal endpoint evidence formatting for duration questions
- add supplemental and visual extraction coverage for targeted slices
…comoTunedExtractionEnabled

Production engine no longer fires the LoCoMo10-shaped extractors by default.

Five of the six supplemental sources in mergeSupplementalFacts are narrow
LoCoMo-shaped patterns (shared dessert/movie/car-work overlap, beach-walk-
from-photo-tags, sunset-painting subject, dance-crew competition phrasing,
elementary-school co-attendance, pet-affect inventory). They were
observed-fitted from specific LoCoMo10 failures and don't generalize to
arbitrary user memory conversations. Shipping them as unconditional
production behavior leaks benchmark-tuning into the engine.

This commit gates exactly those 5 sources behind a single startup-loaded
feature flag, default off in production. The pre-existing quickExtractFacts
supplemental path stays unconditional — it was already on origin/main and
is not benchmark-shaped.

Threading (no singleton reads in extraction.ts):

- src/config.ts: locomoTunedExtractionEnabled added to RuntimeConfig with
  full docstring; env-driven init (LOCOMO_TUNED_EXTRACTION_ENABLED, default
  false); appended to INTERNAL_POLICY_CONFIG_FIELDS so benchmark runs can
  flip it per-request via the request-body config_override field on ingest
  without restarting the core. Mirrors the precedent set by
  observationDateExtractionEnabled.

- src/services/memory-service-types.ts: added to IngestRuntimeConfig.

- src/services/consensus-extraction.ts: added to ConsensusExtractionConfig;
  surfaced from buildExtractionOptions; widened the runMultipleExtractions
  Pick subset.

- src/services/observation-date-extraction.ts: added optional field to
  ExtractionOptions with a docstring tying it to mergeSupplementalFacts.

- src/services/extraction.ts:324: passes the option through to
  mergeSupplementalFacts via the new options arg, never touching the
  config singleton.

- src/services/supplemental-extraction.ts: new SupplementalExtractionOptions
  interface; mergeSupplementalFacts takes it as a required third arg.
  quickExtractFacts stays unconditionally first in the spread; the 5
  LoCoMo-tuned extractors gate on options.locomoTunedExtractionEnabled.

Tests (no env stubbing — flag flows through threaded options):

- src/services/__tests__/supplemental-extraction.test.ts: every existing
  case updated to pass { locomoTunedExtractionEnabled: true } so the
  existing assertions about LoCoMo-shaped facts still hold (otherwise
  default-off would correctly break them). Three new cases under a
  "locomoTunedExtractionEnabled gate" describe block:
  - flag off + LoCoMo-shape input → no LoCoMo-tuned facts appear
  - flag off + pure quickExtractFacts input → quickExtractFacts still
    fires (production-safety regression guard)
  - flag on + LoCoMo-shape input → existing facts appear (parity check)

- src/services/__tests__/consensus-extraction-runtime-config.test.ts:
  three new threading cases with vi.mock-spied extractors. Asserts the
  flag arrives in ExtractionOptions for all three extraction backends:
  extractFacts (true), chunkedExtractFacts (false), cachedExtractFacts
  (true). Existing chunked/cached/extract assertions updated to include
  locomoTunedExtractionEnabled: false in their toHaveBeenCalledWith
  matchers since buildExtractionOptions now surfaces both fields.

Operator-facing:

- .env.example: documents LOCOMO_TUNED_EXTRACTION_ENABLED under "Internal
  retrieval tuning" alongside observationDateExtractionEnabled, with
  rationale, default state, and the per-request override path
  (config_override field on ingest; AtomicBench wraps via
  EVAL_CONFIG_OVERRIDE_JSON).

Behavioral guarantees:

- Flag unset (production default): mergeSupplementalFacts only runs
  quickExtractFacts. No regression below origin/main.
- Flag true (benchmark reproduction): all 6 supplemental sources fire,
  matching the prior PR #1 HEAD behavior byte-for-byte.
- Per-request override: setting config_override.locomoTunedExtractionEnabled
  on a single ingest call flips the flag for that call without process
  restart.

Manual validation (the husky pre-commit fallow hook fails creating a
temporary worktree under git-commit's index lock — fallow's check
itself is green when run standalone via `sh .husky/pre-commit`. Bypassing
the broken hook invocation, NOT a failing gate. Issue is tracked
separately):

- npx tsc --noEmit: clean
- npm test: 1199/1199 across 121 test files
- npx fallow audit --base=origin/main: ✓ No issues in 33 changed files
- sh .husky/pre-commit: ✓ No issues in 33 changed files
- Single mergeSupplementalFacts call site in src/ confirmed via grep;
  no other code path bypasses the gate.

This unblocks the engine-quality validation experiment: re-ingest LoCoMo10
with the flag off, score against that scope, and the F1 delta vs the
existing flag-on 0.6684 baseline is exactly the LoCoMo-extractor
contribution. That number — not the 0.6684 — is the apples-to-apples
engine-quality comparison against mem0's 0.6755.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@ethanj ethanj marked this pull request as ready for review May 1, 2026 07:10
@ethanj ethanj requested a review from moralespanitz May 1, 2026 07:31
@ethanj ethanj marked this pull request as draft May 1, 2026 16:45
- preserve the full benchmark-specific core state on benchmark/locomo10-tuned-extractors
- remove the LoCoMo-tuned extractor flag and runtime config plumbing from this PR branch
- remove LoCoMo-specific supplemental extractors and tests from the production-targeted diff
- keep the remaining generic temporal retrieval and ranking improvements
@ethanj ethanj changed the title Recover LoCoMo10 temporal and overlap slices Improve generic temporal retrieval evidence May 1, 2026
@ethanj ethanj marked this pull request as ready for review May 1, 2026 17:58
@ethanj ethanj merged commit feb218a into main May 3, 2026
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@ethanj ethanj deleted the feature/temporal-slice-recovery branch May 3, 2026 06:17
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