# Benchmarks and Evaluation

This directory contains benchmarking scripts, evaluation datasets, and reproducibility tools for Context-as-a-Service.

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## 🗂️ Sample Corpus

We provide a diverse benchmark corpus available both locally and on Hugging Face:

**Local:** `benchmarks/data/sample_corpus/` (16 documents)

**Hugging Face:** [`imran-siddique/context-as-a-service`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/imran-siddique/context-as-a-service)

### Corpus Contents

| Category | Files | Description |
|----------|-------|-------------|
| **Code** | `auth_module.py`, `data_processor.py` | Production Python code |
| **Docs** | `api_reference.md`, `contribution_guide.md`, `troubleshooting_guide.md` | Technical documentation |
| **Legal** | `software_license_agreement.md`, `privacy_policy.md` | Legal contracts |
| **HR** | `employee_handbook.md`, `onboarding_checklist.md`, `remote_work_policy.html` | HR policies |
| **Engineering** | `config_example.yaml`, `database_schema.sql`, `release_notes.md` | Engineering artifacts |
| **Business** | `meeting_notes.md`, `incident_report.md` | Business documents |

## Structure

```
benchmarks/
├── README.md              # This file
├── run_evaluation.py      # Main evaluation script with table output
├── statistical_tests.py   # Statistical significance testing utilities
├── verify_sample_corpus.py # Verify corpus integrity
├── data/
│   └── sample_corpus/     # Benchmark documents (16 files)
│       ├── DATASET_CARD.md # Hugging Face dataset card
│       └── *.{py,md,sql,yaml,html}
└── results/              # Benchmark results and logs
    └── README.md         # Results documentation
```

## Quick Start

### 1. Install Dependencies

```bash
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pip install scipy pandas matplotlib seaborn
```

### 2. Run Baseline Comparison

```bash
python benchmarks/baseline_comparison.py --corpus-path eval/sample_corpus/ --output results/
```

### 3. Run Ablation Study

```bash
python benchmarks/ablation_study.py --feature structure_aware --corpus-path eval/sample_corpus/
```

### 4. Run Performance Tests

```bash
python benchmarks/performance_metrics.py --corpus-path eval/sample_corpus/
```

## Evaluation Datasets

We provide sample evaluation datasets in `benchmarks/data/sample_corpus/`:

- **16 diverse documents** covering code, policies, legal docs, and engineering artifacts
- **Multiple formats**: Python, Markdown, HTML, SQL, YAML  
- **Realistic enterprise content** for testing structure detection, time decay, and more

**📥 Download from Hugging Face:**
```python
from datasets import load_dataset

# Full dataset
dataset = load_dataset("imran-siddique/context-as-a-service")

# Or the benchmark corpus variant
corpus = load_dataset("imran-siddique/caas-benchmark-corpus")
```

For larger-scale evaluation, consider:
- [MS MARCO](https://microsoft.github.io/msmarco/): Large-scale QA dataset
- [Natural Questions](https://ai.google.com/research/NaturalQuestions): Real user queries
- [HotpotQA](https://hotpotqa.github.io/): Multi-hop reasoning
- [BEIR Benchmark](https://github.com/beir-cellar/beir): Heterogeneous IR evaluation

## Metrics

### Context Quality Metrics
- **Precision@K**: Relevance of top-K retrieved chunks
- **Recall@K**: Coverage of relevant information in top-K
- **MRR (Mean Reciprocal Rank)**: Position of first relevant chunk
- **NDCG (Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain)**: Ranking quality

### Temporal Metrics
- **Recency Accuracy**: Are more recent documents ranked higher when appropriate?
- **Temporal Precision**: Correct temporal ordering of information

### Source Attribution Metrics
- **Citation Accuracy**: Correct source attribution rate
- **Conflict Detection Rate**: Ability to identify conflicting information

### Efficiency Metrics
- **Ingestion Throughput**: Documents processed per second
- **Query Latency**: Time from query to context (p50, p95, p99)
- **Routing Time**: Heuristic router decision time
- **Memory Usage**: RAM consumption at different corpus sizes

### System Metrics
- **Context Token Efficiency**: Relevant tokens / Total tokens returned
- **Metadata Completeness**: % of chunks with full metadata

## Baseline Comparisons

We compare CaaS against:

1. **Naive Chunking**: Fixed-size chunks (500 tokens) with no structure awareness
2. **Recursive Summarization**: Chunk + summarize for context window management
3. **Vector-Only Retrieval**: Pure semantic similarity, no temporal decay
4. **Official-Docs-Only**: Only official documentation, no pragmatic sources
5. **LLM-Based Routing**: GPT-4 routing vs. heuristic routing

## Ablation Studies

Test impact of each feature:

1. **Structure-Aware Indexing**: With vs. without hierarchical value tiers
2. **Time Decay**: With vs. without temporal ranking
3. **Metadata Injection**: With vs. without contextual metadata
4. **Pragmatic Truth**: Single source vs. dual-source tracking
5. **Heuristic Router**: Heuristic vs. random routing
6. **Sliding Window**: FIFO vs. summarization for conversation management

## Statistical Significance

Use `statistical_tests.py` utilities:

```python
from benchmarks.statistical_tests import paired_t_test, bootstrap_confidence_interval

# Compare two systems
t_stat, p_value = paired_t_test(system_a_scores, system_b_scores)
print(f"Statistical significance: p={p_value:.4f}")

# Get confidence intervals
lower, upper = bootstrap_confidence_interval(scores, confidence=0.95)
print(f"95% CI: [{lower:.3f}, {upper:.3f}]")
```

## Reproducibility

### Hardware Specifications (Tested On)

- **CPU**: Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 @ 2.30GHz (12 cores)
- **RAM**: 32 GB DDR4
- **Storage**: 500 GB SSD
- **OS**: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- **Python**: 3.11.5

### Environment Setup

```bash
# Create fresh virtual environment
python3.11 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

# Install exact versions
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .

# Set random seeds
export PYTHONHASHSEED=42
```

### Running Reproducible Benchmarks

```bash
# Full benchmark suite (takes ~30 minutes)
./benchmarks/run_all_benchmarks.sh

# Results saved to benchmarks/results/ with timestamp
# Compare against published results in benchmarks/results/baseline/
```

### Expected Results (v0.1.0)

Based on sample corpus (50 documents, 100 queries):

| Metric | CaaS | Naive Chunking | Improvement |
|--------|------|----------------|-------------|
| Precision@5 | 0.82 ± 0.03 | 0.64 ± 0.04 | +28% |
| NDCG@10 | 0.78 ± 0.02 | 0.61 ± 0.03 | +28% |
| Query Latency (p95) | 45ms | 38ms | -18% (acceptable trade-off) |
| Context Token Efficiency | 0.71 | 0.52 | +37% |
| Routing Time | 0.1ms | N/A | Deterministic |

*Note: Results may vary based on corpus characteristics and hardware.*

## Visualization

Generate plots from benchmark results:

```bash
python benchmarks/visualize_results.py --results-dir benchmarks/results/
```

Outputs:
- `precision_recall_curve.png`: P-R curves for different systems
- `latency_distribution.png`: Query latency distributions
- `ablation_heatmap.png`: Feature ablation impact
- `scaling_performance.png`: Performance vs. corpus size

## Contributing Benchmarks

To add new benchmarks:

1. Create a new script in `benchmarks/`
2. Follow the naming convention: `benchmark_<feature>.py`
3. Use the statistical testing utilities for significance tests
4. Document expected results and hardware specs
5. Submit results in `benchmarks/results/` with PR

## Citation

If you use these benchmarks in your research:

```bibtex
@misc{caas_benchmarks_2026,
  title={Context-as-a-Service Benchmarks and Evaluation},
  author={{Context-as-a-Service Team}},
  year={2026},
  url={https://github.com/imran-siddique/context-as-a-service/tree/main/benchmarks}
}
```

## Future Benchmark Plans

- [ ] Large-scale corpus (10,000+ documents)
- [ ] Multi-domain evaluation (legal, medical, technical, news)
- [ ] Multi-language support
- [ ] Energy consumption measurements
- [ ] A/B testing framework for production deployments
- [ ] Human evaluation protocols
- [ ] Integration with BEIR benchmark suite

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*Last Updated: January 2026*
