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Alex a83e1dc0af feat(graphrag): seed the walk from what entities are, and rank with passages and vector hits
Graph retrieval tied plain vector search at best and never beat it. Measured
across five corpora, the bottleneck was seeding, not the graph: the walk
started from nodes whose embeddings were computed from bare entity names, and
a whole question shares almost nothing with a name like "Quill".

Extraction now embeds each node from "name (type): description" and each
relationship as the fact it asserts ("Alder streams_to Quill: ..."), stored on
a new nullable graph_edges.fact_embedding column that ensure_vector_schema adds
in place. Entity names are canonicalised (case, punctuation, word breaks and a
cautious plural) so "VECTOR_STORE" and "vector stores" land on one node. Extraction calls run
concurrently (GRAPHRAG_EXTRACTION_WORKERS, default 8) while embedding and graph
writes stay serial on the task thread, so ordering and idempotency are
unchanged; that measured 8.4x faster with identical output.

Retrieval gains per-source options, stored under retrieval.graph and read live
at query time:

- seed_strategy: start from matching entities (default) or matching
  relationships, which can reach an entity the question never names;
- passage_nodes (on): walk the source's passages alongside entities, with
  PageRank damping 0.5 instead of 0.85;
- blend_vector (on): fuse the graph ranking with the source's vector ranking
  by reciprocal rank.

The defaults are the measured-best configuration. Through GraphRAGRetriever,
the new seeding moved recall@4 from 0.41 to 0.68 on a multi-hop corpus and
from 0.50 to 1.00 on the docs corpus, and regressed none of the corpora
measured. Existing graphs keep name-only embeddings until rebuilt.
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"""The graph retriever's default path, end to end through ``_graph_docs_for_source``.
The shipped defaults — seed from entities, walk the passages, blend with vector
search — are the configuration that measured best, so they are what most graph
sources run. This drives that whole path with a store that returns real values,
and checks each per-source option actually switches its stage off.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
from docsgpt.retriever.graph_rag import GraphRAGRetriever
from docsgpt.storage.db.source_config import RetrievalConfig
TEXTS = {
"c-alder": "Alder streams audit events to Quill.",
"c-quill": "Quill is compacted every six hours.",
}
VECTOR_ONLY = "A passage only plain vector search found."
class _Store:
"""A two-entity chain: the question matches Alder, the answer is on Quill."""
def __init__(self):
self.calls: list[str] = []
def search_nodes_by_embedding(self, source_id, query_embedding, k=10):
return [{"id": "alder", "name": "Alder", "distance": 0.1}]
def get_subgraph(self, source_id, node_ids, hops=1):
return {
"nodes": [{"id": "alder", "doc_freq": 1}, {"id": "quill", "doc_freq": 1}],
"edges": [{"src_node_id": "alder", "dst_node_id": "quill", "weight": 1.0}],
}
def get_chunk_ids_for_nodes(self, source_id, node_ids):
return {"alder": ["c-alder"], "quill": ["c-quill"]}
def chunk_similarities(self, source_id, chunk_ids, query_embedding):
self.calls.append("chunk_similarities")
return {"c-alder": 0.9, "c-quill": 0.2}
def get_chunk_texts(self, source_id, chunk_ids):
return {
c: {"text": TEXTS[c], "metadata": {"title": c}}
for c in chunk_ids
if c in TEXTS
}
def _retriever(per_source=None):
"""A retriever without its constructor (which builds a ClassicRAG)."""
retriever = object.__new__(GraphRAGRetriever)
retriever.chunks = 3
retriever.base_chunks = None
retriever.doc_token_limit = 50000
retriever.vectorstores = ["src"]
retriever.per_source_retrieval = per_source or {}
retriever.vector_calls = 0
def _vector_ranking(source_id, query_embedding):
retriever.vector_calls += 1
return [(VECTOR_ONLY, {"title": "vector"})]
retriever._vector_ranking = _vector_ranking
return retriever
def _texts(docs):
return [doc["text"] for doc in docs]
class TestDefaultPath:
def test_walks_passages_and_blends_in_vector_hits(self):
store = _Store()
retriever = _retriever()
docs = retriever._graph_docs_for_source(store, "src", [0.1, 0.2])
# The answer sits one edge away from the seed: the walk reached it.
assert TEXTS["c-quill"] in _texts(docs)
# A hit only vector search found is blended in, not lost.
assert VECTOR_ONLY in _texts(docs)
assert store.calls == ["chunk_similarities"]
assert retriever.vector_calls == 1
class TestPerSourceOptions:
def test_passage_walk_can_be_switched_off(self):
store = _Store()
retriever = _retriever(
{"src": RetrievalConfig(chunks=3, graph={"passage_nodes": False})}
)
docs = retriever._graph_docs_for_source(store, "src", [0.1, 0.2])
assert "chunk_similarities" not in store.calls
assert TEXTS["c-quill"] in _texts(docs)
def test_vector_blending_can_be_switched_off(self):
store = _Store()
retriever = _retriever(
{"src": RetrievalConfig(chunks=3, graph={"blend_vector": False})}
)
docs = retriever._graph_docs_for_source(store, "src", [0.1, 0.2])
assert retriever.vector_calls == 0
assert VECTOR_ONLY not in _texts(docs)