fix(embedding): apply jina-embeddings-v5's Query/Document retrieval prefixes - #95
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The default model declares `pooling_mode_lasttoken` in 1_Pooling/config.json and its ONNX graph carries a matching lasttoken_squeeze + normalize path, exposed as a second `sentence_embedding` output. Vera reads output 0 (`last_hidden_state`) and mean-pooled it, so every vector the default model produced was pooled a way the model was never trained for. Using the graph's own `sentence_embedding` as the oracle, last-token pooling reproduces it exactly (cos 1.0000 on every probe text) while mean pooling lands at cos 0.59-0.66 and reorders results. `LocalEmbeddingPooling` had no way to express this, which is why the misconfiguration was unreachable by configuration as well as wrong by default. Adding the variant also unblocks evaluating Qwen3-Embedding, F2LLM and C2LLM class models, which all pool the same way. Three details this needs to be correct rather than merely different: - The unpadded token is found by scanning for the highest set position in the attention mask. Counting set bits is right only under right padding. - `defaults_for_source` fell through to `Default`, so correcting jina would have repooled every custom repo too. The generic fallback is now explicit and stays on mean. - Preset identities now carry the pooling mode. Without that, an upgraded install would query mean-pooled rows with last-token vectors instead of reporting a stale index. `vera setup` freezes the resolved model config into ~/.vera/config.json and that copy outranks the preset, so the fix would never have reached an existing install. `repair_stored_defaults` upgrades exactly the old jina preset on load and leaves any customised config alone.
The literal mean|cls|last-token put unescaped pipes inside a table cell, splitting it into extra columns. Every sibling row already uses the <placeholder> form, so this matches the table rather than diverging from it.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds last-token pooling and Jina query/document prefixes for local embeddings. It applies document preprocessing during indexing, repairs legacy configurations at runtime, updates model identities, and exposes the settings through CLI flags and documentation. ChangesEmbedding configuration and preprocessing
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This change adds retrieval prefixes, pooling, and configuration repair behavior, but arbitrary directory models may silently receive Jina-specific settings and explicitly disabled prefixes may be restored, producing incorrect or incompatible embeddings; the document-prefix-only setup path also remains at risk of being ignored. Merge should wait for these configuration and default-behavior issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted. Possibly related issues
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In `@crates/vera-cli/src/helpers.rs`:
- Around line 284-286: Complete document-prefix CLI wiring: update
LocalEmbeddingModelFlags::any_set() in crates/vera-cli/src/helpers.rs (lines
284-286) to consider embedding_document_prefix, and update
apply_local_embedding_env() in crates/vera-cli/src/state.rs (lines 62-69) to
export the saved value through LOCAL_EMBEDDING_DOCUMENT_PREFIX_ENV.
In `@crates/vera-core/src/local_models/mod.rs`:
- Around line 334-339: Update both identity-formatting paths in the local-model
configuration to use Self::prefix_identity for query_prefix and document_prefix
instead of encoding None as "-". Ensure prefix_identity uses the same
normalization as apply_prefix and a length-delimited representation that
distinguishes None from Some("-") and safely handles embedded "|qp=" or "|dp="
delimiters. Add regression coverage for these collision cases.
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P2: When a pre-upgrade user explicitly selected `mean` for Jina, this load path treats that choice as the historical default and replaces it with `Self::jina()` on every load. Conversely, any user who customized an unrelated field keeps stale mean pooling; persist per-field override provenance or use an explicit migration marker instead of inferring intent from the whole config value.</violation>
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P2: When a pre-upgrade user explicitly selected mean for Jina, this load path treats that choice as the historical default and replaces it with Self::jina() on every load. Conversely, any user who customized an unrelated field keeps stale mean pooling; persist per-field override provenance or use an explicit migration marker instead of inferring intent from the whole config value.
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<comment>When a pre-upgrade user explicitly selected `mean` for Jina, this load path treats that choice as the historical default and replaces it with `Self::jina()` on every load. Conversely, any user who customized an unrelated field keeps stale mean pooling; persist per-field override provenance or use an explicit migration marker instead of inferring intent from the whole config value.</comment>
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@@ -59,7 +59,14 @@ pub struct ApiSetupInput {
+ // corrected keeps mean-pooling it indefinitely.
+ config.local_embedding_model = config
+ .local_embedding_model
+ .map(vera_core::local_models::LocalEmbeddingModelConfig::repair_stored_defaults);
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Not changing this, and I want to be explicit about why, because the suggested fix has already caused an outage in this stack.
The ambiguity is real: a user who explicitly chose mean for jina writes a config byte-identical to the legacy default, so intent genuinely cannot be recovered from the value.
But persisting provenance means writing to config.json, and writing to that file on a load path is what broke a released install this morning. repair_stored_defaults originally sat inside load_saved_config, whose result feeds every save helper, so the repaired pooling was persisted as a side effect of unrelated commands, and released vera 1.0.0 then aborted at startup on unknown variant `last-token` for every command, not just embedding ones. Fixed in 6bc9676 by keeping the repair in memory. A persisted marker walks back toward that, and a marker written by a new binary is one more field an old one must tolerate.
The escape hatch already exists without a schema change: VERA_LOCAL_EMBEDDING_POOLING=mean wins over the stored config, since set_env_value skips keys already present in non-force mode.
On the second half, "any user who customized an unrelated field keeps stale mean pooling" is the intended behaviour and is stated in the doc comment: only the exact historical preset tuple is upgraded, anything differing in any field is treated as deliberate. A schema version is the right long-term answer for config migration generally, and I would rather propose it as its own PR than infer it here.
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It compared Proof: deleting Rewritten to compare two custom configs differing in nothing but one prefix, plus explicit I had claimed in the PR description that this test failed if either prefix was dropped. That claim was wrong when I wrote it. The description is corrected.
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The repair ran inside `load_saved_config`, which is also the base of every write: each save helper loads that struct, edits one field and writes the whole thing back. So the repaired `pooling` was persisted to ~/.vera/config.json as a side effect of commands that have nothing to do with embedding models. Config is machine-global, not per-install. Once a new build rewrote "mean" to "last-token", the installed released vera 1.0.0 on the same machine could no longer start at all: Error: failed to parse persistent state: ~/.vera/config.json: unknown variant `last-token`, expected `mean` or `cls` Running one build bricked the other. That also contradicts the claim that the repair happens purely at load time. `load_saved_config` is now a plain read, so what flows into `save_config` is byte-identical to what was on disk, and the repair moves to the two places that consume the model config at runtime: `saved_local_embedding_model` (behind `vera repair`) and the `apply_local_embedding_env` call that seeds the process environment. Both readers still see last-token pooling; the file keeps whatever `vera setup` wrote, and only `vera setup` or `vera repair` change it. The two regression tests redirect VERA_HOME at a temp dir, seed the legacy jina block, and pin both halves: the file is unchanged after a real save cycle, and the runtime readers still yield LastToken. Each was verified by reinjection.
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In `@crates/vera-cli/src/state.rs`:
- Around line 232-237: Update apply_local_embedding_env to set or clear the
model’s document_prefix via set_optional_env_value, alongside query_prefix. Add
VERA_LOCAL_EMBEDDING_DOCUMENT_PREFIX to RESTORED_ENV_KEYS so force mode removes
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100-104: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winExtract the repeated stored-model repair.
Lines 100-104 and 232-237 duplicate the same
Option::mapoperation. Extract one helper for repairing an optionalLocalEmbeddingModelConfigand call it from both paths. This keeps the runtime-repair contract in one place.As per path instructions,
crates/**must avoid duplicated logic and should use extraction.Proposed refactor
+fn repair_local_embedding_model( + model: Option<vera_core::local_models::LocalEmbeddingModelConfig>, +) -> Option<vera_core::local_models::LocalEmbeddingModelConfig> { + model.map(vera_core::local_models::LocalEmbeddingModelConfig::repair_stored_defaults) +} + pub fn saved_local_embedding_model() -> Result<Option<vera_core::local_models::LocalEmbeddingModelConfig>> { - Ok(load_saved_config()?.local_embedding_model.map( - vera_core::local_models::LocalEmbeddingModelConfig::repair_stored_defaults, - )) + Ok(repair_local_embedding_model( + load_saved_config()?.local_embedding_model, + )) } - let local_embedding_model = config - .local_embedding_model - .map(vera_core::local_models::LocalEmbeddingModelConfig::repair_stored_defaults); + let local_embedding_model = repair_local_embedding_model(config.local_embedding_model);Also applies to: 232-237
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The repair had two independent call sites, so a third runtime reader of local_embedding_model could add itself without it and silently reinstate mean-pooling on a last-token model. One private helper makes the repaired value the only one a reader can obtain. The repair still stays out of load_saved_config, which every save helper writes back through.
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Thanks, these were worth the pass. Going through all eight, since several were already addressed in commits pushed after the reviewed revision ( Fixed in this stack
Setup saves the prefix but never exports it (
fn prefix_identity(prefix: Option<&str>) -> String {
match Self::normalize_prefix(prefix) {
Some(value) => format!("{}:{value}", value.len()),
None => "none".to_string(),
}
}Length-delimited, so no value can forge a separator, and One deliberate deviation from the suggestion: Already correct at the reviewed revisionPrefix identity test does not prove what it claims ( Re-index migration note ( Being fixed on the base branch
This originates in #94, so it is being fixed there and will arrive here on the next rebase. Not fixing, with reasonsPrefix applied after the Provenance for the pooling repair ( The reason a marker is the wrong fix here specifically: writing one means writing to The escape hatch already exists and needs no schema change: The scope is also narrower than "any user who customized an unrelated field keeps stale mean pooling" suggests. That is the intended behaviour, stated in the doc comment: only the exact historical preset tuple is upgraded, and anything differing in any field is treated as deliberate. A schema version is the right long-term answer for config migration generally, and I would rather do it as its own PR than infer it here.
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196-203: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winKeep directory models on generic defaults.
from_directoryat Lines 249-253 inheritsSelf::default(). After this change, that default is the Jina preset. A configuration that sets onlyVERA_LOCAL_EMBEDDING_DIRnow usesLastToken,Query:, andDocument:for an arbitrary directory model.Before this change, this path used mean pooling with no prefixes. Initialize directory sources from
generic_defaults()instead. Add a regression test forfrom_directory.Proposed fix
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464-466: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winPreserve an explicit absent prefix during restoration.
An empty prefix environment value and a missing environment key both become
Nonehere. The fallback then restores the Jina default prefix.When
apply_saved_env_forceclears an absent prefix incrates/vera-cli/src/state.rsLines 393-405, a saved current Jina configuration withdocument_prefix = Nonereloads asSome("Document:"). The same problem applies toquery_prefix.Use a tri-state prefix parser. Distinguish a missing key from a present empty value. Export a present empty value for an absent prefix on a saved model. Keep a missing key for the case where no saved model exists. Add an end-to-end regression test for a current Jina configuration with both prefixes absent.
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- Around line 196-203: Update from_directory to initialize directory-based
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- Around line 464-466: Update the prefix restoration flow around
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`from_directory` built its config as `..Self::default()`, and `Default` is `jina()`. Once jina moved to last-token pooling, every model loaded from `--embedding-dir` or `VERA_LOCAL_EMBEDDING_DIR` silently inherited last-token pooling too, even though Vera has no preset for those repos and cannot know how they pool. Vectors pooled the wrong way are not comparable, so the index degrades without any error. `from_huggingface_repo` already routes through `defaults_for_source`, which sends `Directory` to `generic_defaults()` (mean). Route `from_directory` the same way so the two constructors agree.
`model_identity` short-circuits for both `jina()` and `coderankembed()`, but only the jina half was asserted. A regression that dropped CodeRankEmbed from that branch, or dropped pooling from the preset format, would have passed the suite and left CodeRankEmbed indexes silently stale after a pooling change. Assert the exact preset form rather than only that two identities differ: comparing a mutated preset against the original passes on its own once the mutation pushes it into the generic branch, which proves nothing. Verified by reinjection that each assertion fails when the behaviour it covers is broken.
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`repair` sourced its embedding model from `saved_local_embedding_model`, the accessor that applies the in-memory pooling repair, and handed it to `configure_backend`, which persists whatever it is given. A legacy `"pooling": "mean"` config was therefore rewritten as `"last-token"`, and an older Vera on the same machine then aborted on every command because its `FromStr` knows only `mean` and `cls` — the exact brick the in-memory repair was introduced to avoid, surviving in the one command called "repair". Unlike `vera setup`, nobody asked this command to change a pooling mode. Source the raw stored value instead. The corrected pooling still reaches this command's runtime through `apply_saved_env_force`, which repairs on the way to the process environment, and asset prefetching never reads `pooling`, so nothing downstream loses the fix.
…nstants `repair_stored_defaults` built its comparison value with `Self::preset`, which fills `onnx_file`, `tokenizer_file`, `embedding_dim` and `max_length` from the live `EMBEDDING_*` constants. The doc comment above it claimed the value stayed pinned; it was pinned against `generic_defaults()` only, and moved with every constant. That makes the migration silently self-disabling. Raising `EMBEDDING_MAX_LENGTH` from 512 to 8192 for VeraTools#67 gives the comparison value `max_length: 8192`, a real pre-fix `config.json` still carries 512, equality fails, and every pre-fix install stays mean-pooled forever with no error. The same holds for any rename of the preset ONNX or tokenizer file. Move it to a named `legacy_jina_before_pooling_fix` built from frozen literals, and add a tripwire test asserting the live constants still describe that historical file, so the next constant change fails loudly with instructions rather than quietly narrowing the migration to nothing.
`repair_leaves_customised_and_unrelated_configs_alone` customised two fields, pooling and `max_length`. The `max_length` line is what made it pass: drop it, leaving the single-field customisation a user actually produces with `--embedding-pooling mean`, and the test fails, because a mean-pooled default repo with nothing else changed is byte-for-byte the config an older `vera setup` wrote by itself. So the test read as proof that a deliberate pooling choice survives when it proves no such thing. Cover the one-field case explicitly and assert what actually ships: it is repaired. The migration has no field left to tell the two apart, and sparing this user would mean sparing every pre-fix install, so overwriting it is the accepted trade rather than a bug — recorded here so the next reader does not "fix" it. The neighbouring comment now says which case it really covers.
…ange `assert_ne!(jina.model_identity(), mean_pooled.model_identity())` did not test what it looked like. Setting `pooling = Mean` breaks full struct equality with `Self::jina()`, so the clone falls out of the preset branch of `model_identity` and renders through the generic one. The two strings differ because of the branch change, not because pooling is part of the preset identity, and the assertion holds even with pooling removed from that branch. Assert the exact preset form instead, matching `coderank_preset_identity_records_its_pooling`, which was already written this way. Reverting the preset branch to `self.display_name()` now fails this on the identity itself rather than on an adjacent property.
The `set_process_env` safety comment claimed Vera only mutates the process environment during single-threaded CLI startup. This PR's tests call it from libtest's thread pool, so the stated invariant no longer holds as written. Describe the real one: production is single-threaded at that point, and the tests are sound because every test touching those variables holds `VERA_HOME_LOCK` for its whole body. A future test that skips the lock is the actual hazard, so the comment now says so. The `LastToken` doc named Qwen3-Embedding and F2LLM as models requiring it. Both are causal-LM ONNX exports Vera cannot feed at all — measured, Qwen3 declares 59 inputs and F2LLM 3, and both fail the two-input feed — so naming them beside a capability being added reads as a claim that this unblocks them. It does not. Keep the note to jina, and to the `1_Pooling/config.json` value that is the actual source.
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The default model is asymmetric. `config_sentence_transformers.json` declares
`{"query": "Query: ", "document": "Document: "}` and the card states both are
required for the retrieval variant. Vera applied neither, and had no
document-side mechanism to apply the second one with.
Adds `document_prefix` alongside `query_prefix`, plus a `prepare_document_text`
hook on the provider trait defaulting to identity so no other provider changes
behaviour. It is applied at `chunk_to_embedding_text`, the single funnel the
indexing path uses, so a query can never pick it up.
Doing only the query half would have made the two sides asymmetric in a way
the model was not trained for, which is why this was held back from the
pooling fix rather than folded into it.
Prefixes join the text with exactly one space. `query_text` already trimmed
the configured value before testing whether it ended in whitespace, so its
whitespace-preserving branch was unreachable; the shared helper drops it and
says why.
Both prefixes now appear in `model_identity`. They change the embedded text,
so they change the vector space, and an index built without them has to be
detected the same way a pooling change is.
`any_set` gates two things: whether `vera setup` skips the interactive wizard, and whether a non-ONNX backend rejects local embedding flags. The new `--embedding-document-prefix` was added to the flag struct but not to `any_set`, so passing it alone put setup back on the wizard path and dropped the override, and `--api --embedding-document-prefix` was accepted instead of rejected. The regression test walks every flag on its own rather than asserting the one that was missed, so the next flag added is covered too. `prefixes_are_part_of_the_model_identity` did not test what it claimed: both configs it compared were mutated off the jina preset, so they took the custom-config branch of `model_identity` while the preset kept the short form. The identities differed because of the branch, not the prefix. Removing `qp=`/`dp=` from both format strings left the whole suite green. It now compares two custom configs that differ in nothing but a prefix, and checks the preset form names both. docs/models.md gains the Jina prefixes on the row that describes the preset, and a note that identity covers every `--embedding-*` setting, so a pooling or prefix change is understood to need a re-index too.
`vera setup --embedding-document-prefix X` persisted the value to config.json, but `apply_local_embedding_env` exported every other field of the stored model config and skipped `document_prefix`. Since `LocalEmbeddingModelConfig::from_env` is the only reader on the embedding path, the stored value never reached it: the preset's own prefix silently stood in for it on jina, and a custom repo indexed with no document prefix at all. A flag the backend ignores is worse than one that does not exist, since nothing reports the mismatch and the vectors it produces are wrong in a way only a re-index can undo. The new key joins the test guard's restore list so it cannot leak between runs. The `env_override_present` guard is left alone: it gates on repo/dir because those select a model, and applying a saved config's asset fields over a shell-chosen source would mix two models. A prefix selects nothing, and in non-force mode `set_env_value` already lets a shell-set value win per key, exactly as it does for the query prefix.
Both prefixes were encoded into `model_identity` with `unwrap_or("-")`
around bare `|qp=` / `|dp=` separators, which collapsed two distinct
configs onto one identity in two ways.
An unprefixed config and one prefixed with a literal `-` produced the
same string, so the staleness guard did not fire and `vera update`
appended vectors embedded without a prefix to a table embedded with one.
And because the separators are ordinary text inside a prefix value, a
prefix containing `|dp=` moved the field boundary: `qp="a"
dp="b|dp=c"` and `qp="a|dp=b" dp="c"` encoded identically.
Both branches now go through `prefix_identity`, which length-delimits
the value so nothing can forge a boundary and marks the absent case with
a token no encoded value can spell. It shares `normalize_prefix` with
`apply_prefix`, so the identity folds exactly where the embedded text
folds: a whitespace-only prefix is the same model as no prefix, and
`"Ask:"` is the same model as `" Ask: "`. Anything less would demand a
full re-index for input the model never sees differ.
`apply_local_embedding_env` already cleared a stale document prefix
under force; the clearing path just had no test, so an inherited
`VERA_LOCAL_EMBEDDING_DOCUMENT_PREFIX` outliving a stored config that
carries none would have regressed silently.
This stack already forces a one-time re-index for the pooling and prefix
changes. Rewriting how the prefixes are spelled inside the identity
lands within that same invalidation and adds no second re-index on top
of it.
The DynamicProvider arm forwarding prepare_document_text had no test. Dropping it is silent: the trait default returns the text unchanged, so every passage indexed through create_dynamic_provider would embed unprefixed while queries stayed prefixed, with no error, no log, and an unchanged model_identity to keep the staleness guard quiet. No real variant can be built in a unit test - each needs its model on disk and LocalEmbeddingProvider additionally owns an ort::Session - so the enum gains a test-only variant to hold a stub whose hooks are observable. Deleting the method now fails a test and deleting a single arm no longer compiles.
env_override trims and then drops an empty value, so a present-but-empty VERA_LOCAL_EMBEDDING_QUERY_PREFIX or ..._DOCUMENT_PREFIX was indistinguishable from an unset one and both fell back to the preset. The CLI matched it: `vera setup --embedding-query-prefix ""` filtered the flag to None, config.json skipped the key, and defaults_for_source restored jina's prefix on the next run. There was no way to turn jina's prefixes off. Both fields now use env_optional_override, the primitive onnx_data_file already uses, which separates "absent because unset" from "absent because the user said so", and the flags keep an explicit empty so the opt-out reaches config.json and survives the reload. An empty prefix still embeds the text unchanged: normalize_prefix owns that, so apply_prefix and model_identity are untouched.
…ault The fixture's repo was acme/query-prefixed-encoder, which defaults_for_source routes to generic_defaults, whose document_prefix is already None. The closing assert_eq!(model.document_prefix, None) was therefore passing for want of a default to restore, not because the stored config's cleared field held - the one property the test is named for. Its doc comment claimed otherwise. Pointing it at jina's repo gives defaults_for_source a preset that does carry a document prefix, so a restored default now fails the assertion.
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The fixture's doc comment claimed the stored config beat jina's preset for the missing field. It does not: `apply_saved_env_force` always exports a source and an onnx file together, which is exactly the pair `model_source_and_onnx_file_are_set` checks, so `explicit_model_env` is on and `resolve_optional_env_value` returns `None` from its third arm without reading any default. The `None => default` arm is unreachable through this entry point, so no fixture stored in `config.json` can exercise it. That left the assertion resting on a preset it never consulted, and nothing checked the preset still had a document prefix to reinstate. Drop jina's and the old test went green with its premise gone. Assert the preset carries one, so `None` is a declined default rather than an absent one, and pin the pair that sets `explicit_model_env` so the comment cannot drift from the arm actually taken.
build_embedding_text_bounded guarantees its output stays within max_bytes, and the document prefix was added after it, so the text handed to the provider could exceed the budget by the prefix length. The budget exists to keep a passage inside the model's context window, which the prefix also spends. Reserve the overhead before truncating instead. The overhead is measured off the provider's own prepare_document_text, so it stays right for any implementation of the hook, and it floors at one byte because zero means "unbounded" to chunk_to_embedding_text.
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What was wrong
jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano-retrievalis an asymmetric retrieval model:config_sentence_transformers.jsondeclares"prompts": {"query": "Query: ", "document": "Document: "}Query:orDocument:prefix in front of your input as shown above"Vera applied neither.
jina()passedNoneforquery_prefix, and there was no document-side mechanism at all, so the second half could not have been expressed even if someone had noticed.Why this was not folded into #94
Adding only the query prefix makes the two sides asymmetric in a way the model was not trained for, which is plausibly worse than omitting both. The document side needs real plumbing rather than a corrected constant, so it belongs in its own change.
Approach
document_prefixsits alongsidequery_prefix, with aprepare_document_texthook onEmbeddingProviderthat defaults to identity, so no other provider changes behaviour. It is applied insideembed_chunks_concurrent_with_progress_and_cancellation, at thechunk_to_embedding_textcall. That is the single funnel the indexing path uses, and queries do not pass through it, so a query cannot pick up the document prefix by any route.The prefix is applied after chunk truncation, so a large chunk cannot truncate its own prefix away. Room for it is reserved before truncation, so the prefixed passage still honours
max_chunk_bytes:build_embedding_text_boundedenforces that budget itself (chunk_text.rs:119-123), and adding the prefix afterwards broke the postcondition. See thee22e9casection below.Surface matches what already exists for the query side:
--embedding-document-prefix,VERA_LOCAL_EMBEDDING_DOCUMENT_PREFIX, and adocs/models.mdrow.Two things worth flagging
model_identitynow carries both prefixes. They change the embedded text and therefore the vector space, so an index built without them must be detected rather than silently queried, exactly as with pooling. This means another one-time re-index.A dead branch went away.
query_textmappedstr::trimover the prefix and then tested whether it ended in whitespace. After a trim it never can, so the whitespace-preserving arm was unreachable and every prefix already got exactly one space. The sharedapply_prefixhelper keeps that behaviour, drops the unreachable arm, and documents why it is not needed.prefix_joins_with_exactly_one_space_however_it_is_writtenpins it across"Query:","Query: "and" Query: ".Testing
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e22e9ca:cargo test -p vera-core --lib823 passed / 0 failed,cargo test -p vera-cli --bin vera105 passed / 0 failed,cargo fmt --checkclean,cargo clippy -p vera-core --libunchanged at the five pre-existing warnings,cargo build --workspace6 warnings, byte-identical to the set on the parent commit. (An earlier revision of this body quoted 811 and 98; those were counts from a superseded commit and are corrected here.)The test that matters is
indexing_applies_the_document_prefix_and_not_the_query_prefix, because the failure mode for this kind of change is a hook that is defined and never called. It drives the real indexing funnel with a recording provider and asserts the passage is prefixed, is not given the query prefix, and still contains its body. Removing theprepare_document_textcall at the funnel makes it fail with the actual unprefixed chunk text:document_prefix_is_independent_of_query_prefixpins that CodeRankEmbed keeps a query prefix with no document prefix and that an unprefixed model is untouched on both sides.prefixes_are_part_of_the_model_identitywas vacuous as first written, and is fixed in0af5a61. Both configs it compared were mutated off thejina()preset, so both left the short preset branch ofmodel_identitywhilejina()stayed on it. The identities differed because of that branch switch, not because of the prefixes. Deleting|qp={}|dp={}from both format strings left the full suite green. It now compares two custom configs differing in nothing but one prefix, and asserts the preset form containsqp=Query:anddp=Document:; the same deletion now fails it. Details in the comment below.e22e9ca: the prefix has to fit inside the byte budgetRaised by cubic as P2 on the funnel call, declined twice, then fixed, because both declines rested on false premises and the third look found the real one. Recorded in full in the thread.
build_embedding_text_boundeddoes not merely try to stay withinmax_bytes; it clamps unconditionally atchunk_text.rs:119-123and its doc comment states the postcondition. Applyingprepare_document_textafter it broke that by the prefix length. The fix reserves the overhead first, measured offprovider.prepare_document_textrather than off the model config so it is 0 for every provider taking the identity default.The obvious form of that fix is a regression:
chunk_to_embedding_textreads0as unbounded, so a plainsaturating_subwould have turned a prefix at least as long as the budget into no truncation at all.budget_after_prefixfloors at 1, anda_prefix_larger_than_the_budget_still_leaves_a_budgetpins it.Both halves confirmed by reinjection. Restoring the unreserved call:
and dropping the floor:
Worth flagging that the first fixture I wrote did not catch it. With 25-byte content lines the line-boundary cut landed at 187 and the prefix brought it to 197, inside the 200-byte budget, so the test passed against the unfixed code. Short content lines are what make the fixture discriminate.
What I have not measured
Unlike #94, this one has no oracle. The pooling fix could be checked against the graph's own
sentence_embeddingoutput; prefixes have no equivalent ground truth in the artifact. The justification here is the model's declared contract, not a measurement, and I would rather say so plainly than imply a relevance number I did not produce.Also in this PR
0af5a61addsembedding_document_prefixtoLocalEmbeddingModelFlags::any_set(). Omitting itwas a real bug, not tidiness:
any_set()gatesis_bare_interactiveatsetup.rs:52, sovera setup --embedding-document-prefix Xtook the bare-wizard path and discarded the override,and it gates the guard at
setup.rs:81, sovera setup --api --embedding-document-prefix Xwassilently accepted instead of rejected. The regression test walks every flag on its own rather than
just the one that was missing.
Fixes #93
Summary by cubic
Aligns the Jina v5 local embedding preset with the model: queries are prefixed with "Query:", indexed passages with "Document:", and pooling switches from mean to last‑token. Previously both sides were unprefixed and mean‑pooled, mixing vector spaces and degrading retrieval.
Indexing-only document prefixes: adds
document_prefixbesidequery_prefixand a providerprepare_document_texthook; applied after chunk truncation in the single indexing funnel. Other providers keep identity behavior.Defaults and identity: the Jina preset now uses last‑token pooling and carries both prefixes; unknown repos and
--embedding-dirstay on mean.model_identityincludes pooling and both prefixes with length‑delimited fields, removing collisions and detecting stale indexes.CLI/env: adds
--embedding-document-prefix;--embedding-poolingacceptslast-token; an empty prefix disables it and persists across save/reload. The stored document prefix is exported to the environment and a stale one is cleared under force.Backward compatibility: legacy Jina configs are repaired to last‑token in memory only; files are unchanged so older binaries still run.
vera repairpersists the raw stored model instead of the repaired one.Fixes: directory-source defaults are derived from generic (mean) defaults instead of the Jina preset;
--embedding-document-prefixcounts as a local embedding flag; tests pin hook dispatch and identity/staleness behavior.Re-index once if you previously built a Jina index without prefixes or with mean pooling.
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mean,cls, andlast-tokenmodes.Bug Fixes
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