feat(sparse): allow MiniCOIL sequence length limit

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Long MiniCOIL inputs currently use the model tokenizer's full context window, so callers cannot reduce sequence length to control memory use. This adds an optional construction-time max_sequence_length for Qdrant/minicoil-v1:

model = SparseTextEmbedding(model_name="Qdrant/minicoil-v1", max_sequence_length=512)
embeddings = list(model.embed(documents))

The limit is applied at tokenizer load, so document embeddings, query embeddings, token counts, and parallel workers use the same setting. Omitting it preserves the existing model limit. A larger value is capped at that model limit; non-positive values and values too small to fit special tokens plus one text token raise ValueError. Failed validation clears the tokenizer and runs before ONNX session startup, so retries cannot bypass the limit. The README documents the option.

Validation:

• pytest -q tests/test_minicoil_sequence_length.py tests/test_sparse_embeddings.py -k 'minicoil or sequence_limit': 18 passed, 24 deselected.
• Ruff 0.3.4 (the repository pre-commit version): ruff check and ruff format --check passed for both changed Python files.
• With the real Qdrant/minicoil-v1 model, a 16-token cap produced 16 counted tokens and successful document/query embeddings; a 3-token cap also produced successful document/query embeddings.
• The full model suite was not run locally.

Fixes #544

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

MiniCOIL adds an optional max_sequence_length setting. It validates the value and checks that it allows at least one text token alongside special tokens. Tokenization uses the smaller of the configured value and tokenizer limit. The setting is passed to parallel workers. Tests cover validation, truncation, token counts, and worker arguments. The README adds a MiniCOIL example.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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Merge Risk | ⚪ Minimal · up to a90ad

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a90ad

MiniCOIL applies the optional token limit across the supported embedding paths, while leaving existing behavior unchanged when it is omitted. No concrete merge-blocking issue was identified.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 37937

The new length limit is enforced during normal operation without an identified expansion of access or privileges. Simultaneous first-use calls could briefly observe the original limit instead; whether applications support that usage remains unconfirmed.

Retained concerns

• Low · reliability · inferred: The new cap is applied after the tokenizer becomes visible to consumers. During simultaneous first use of one instance, a token-count or embedding operation could observe the original model limit rather than the configured smaller limit. This conditionally weakens resource containment for untrusted text, but supported concurrent usage and attacker reachability are not established. Normal eager initialization and separate worker instances avoid this shared-initialization scenario.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated scope is an embedding instance and its separately initialized workers. The conditional cap bypass requires overlapping first-use operations on one instance and can expose the existing model limit, not a newly enlarged limit. Any downstream tenant, service, or environment exposure depends on deployment arrangements not supplied here.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The new configuration is validated before base construction and applied to the tokenizer loaded from the existing model directory. The diff does not add credentials, identities, network destinations, model paths, or privileged loading arguments; it changes tokenization policy and initialization order.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Sequential recovery preserves the cap: invalid tokenizer configuration is discarded, and a later ONNX session-loading failure leaves the already configured tokenizer available for retry. Concurrent initialization lacks an equivalent atomic publication boundary. Tests inspect cap enforcement and worker arguments but do not exercise concurrent initialization, injected session failures, or real spawned workers.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — If concurrent first use is supported, serialize initialization or publish tokenizer state only after validation and truncation are complete. Otherwise, explicitly require initialization before sharing an instance across concurrent callers.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 21.43% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 14 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding a sequence-length limit for MiniCOIL.
Description check		The description directly explains the MiniCOIL sequence-length option, validation behavior, affected paths, documentation, and validation results.
Linked Issues check		Issue #544 requests native control of MiniCOIL input sequence length. MiniCOIL adds max_sequence_length and applies it during tokenizer loading. The setting applies to document embeddings, query e…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes remain within Issue #544. The README documents the new MiniCOIL option. The tests verify the requested sequence-limit behavior and its supported execution paths. The tokenizer-loading chan…

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Review comments at @fastembed/sparse/minicoil.py:
- Around line 182-185: Clear self.tokenizer before raising when the
minimum-length check finds max_sequence_length too small, so later calls re-run
validation instead of using a cached tokenizer with its model-level truncation
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