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The local MMR implementation now matches core tie-breaking and candidate removal order. New utility helpers select the last maximum and perform swap-removal on pending indices. The congruence test covers exact ties for dense DOT, dense EUCLID, and MAX_SIM multivector queries across local, HTTP, and gRPC clients.

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Local MMR tie ordering now matches core behavior and is covered by local, HTTP, and gRPC congruence tests. No merge-blocking risk remains.

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44-46: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a fixture that distinguishes swap removal.

All current fixtures tie points 2 and 3, while point 4 moves into the removed seed position. Both pending orders still select point 3 as the last tied point: stable removal gives [2, 3, 4], and swap removal gives [4, 2, 3].

Add a tie involving points 2 and 4, or a later-round tie. This makes a regression from _swap_remove to stable removal fail the congruence test.

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In `@tests/congruence_tests/test_mmr.py` around lines 44 - 46, Add or adjust the
MMR test fixture in test_mmr.py so points 2 and 4, or a later selection round,
produce a tie that distinguishes stable removal from _swap_remove. Preserve the
existing congruence assertions while ensuring the fixture would fail if removal
regresses to stable ordering.
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In `@tests/congruence_tests/test_mmr.py`:
- Around line 44-46: Add or adjust the MMR test fixture in test_mmr.py so points
2 and 4, or a later selection round, produce a tie that distinguishes stable
removal from _swap_remove. Preserve the existing congruence assertions while
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Local mode ordered MMR results differently from core whenever two
candidates tied exactly, on relevance or on MMR score. The MMR score
itself was already correct; the selection rules around it were not:

* the first point was seeded from `candidate_ids[0]`, i.e. whatever
  `search` happened to return first, instead of the most relevant
  candidate;
* `np.argmax` picked the *first* maximum, while core's `max_by_key`
  returns the *last* one on ties;
* pending candidates were kept in an order-preserving list, while core
  holds them in an `IndexSet` and drops the selected one with
  `swap_remove`, which moves the last candidate into the freed slot and
  therefore changes the order candidates are visited in - and so which
  one wins a tie.

Reproduce the three rules in `_mmr`. The divergence was spotted on a
MAX_SIM multivector field with DOT, but it is specific to neither:
plain dense vectors and EUCLID diverge the same way once an exact tie
is constructed.

The added congruence tests keep relevance scores distinct on purpose:
core orders equally relevant candidates by search order, which is not
stable, so only ties in the MMR score can be asserted on.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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joein force-pushed the fix/local-mmr-tie-order-dev branch from 96526d2 to cd23945 Compare September 3, 2026 17:51
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