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# Eval Drift — Guardrails and Fix Pattern
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> **Evaluation disclaimer (RAG drift)**
> Drift signals here are measured inside specific RAG pipelines and datasets.
> They are debugging indicators, not proof that a system will stay stable in all real workloads.
---
When evaluation metrics **swing unpredictably** across runs (precision, recall, ΔS, coverage) even though the data and index appear unchanged.
This signals **eval drift**: your evaluation harness is not structurally stable.
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## Open these first
- Recovery overview: [RAG Architecture & Recovery](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/rag-architecture-and-recovery.md)
- Retrieval knobs: [Retrieval Playbook](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/retrieval-playbook.md)
- Eval acceptance rules: [Eval — Quality & Readiness Gates](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/eval/README.md)
- Precision & recall contract: [Eval RAG Precision/Recall](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/eval/eval_rag_precision_recall.md)
- Ordering control: [Bootstrap Ordering](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/bootstrap-ordering.md)
- Pre-deploy safety: [Predeploy Collapse](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/predeploy-collapse.md)
---
## Core acceptance
- ΔS(question, retrieved) ≤ 0.45 across 3 paraphrases
- Coverage ≥ 0.70 per target section
- λ convergent on 2 seeds, stable across runs
- Variance of metrics ≤ 0.05 across replays
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## Typical symptoms → exact fix
| Symptom | Likely cause | Open this |
|---------|--------------|-----------|
| Precision/recall varies ±0.20 each run | eval harness non-deterministic | [Eval Precision/Recall](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/eval/eval_rag_precision_recall.md) |
| Identical queries give different metrics | bootstrap not fenced | [Bootstrap Ordering](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/bootstrap-ordering.md) |
| Eval metrics collapse on fresh deploy | index not fully warmed | [Predeploy Collapse](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/predeploy-collapse.md) |
| Coverage < 0.50 despite gold answers | embedding or chunk drift | [Embedding ≠ Semantic](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/embedding-vs-semantic.md), [Chunking Checklist](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/chunking-checklist.md) |
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## Fix in 60 seconds
1. **Lock seeds**
Fix random seeds at retrieval, reranker, and eval harness layers.
2. **Fence bootstrap**
Require `VECTOR_READY==true` and index hash match before eval begins.
3. **Replay 3 paraphrases**
Eval the same question with 3 paraphrases. Require ΔS variance < 0.05.
4. **Cross-seed check**
Run two seeds. λ must remain convergent across both.
5. **Regression gate**
Ship only if coverage 0.70 and precision/recall stable within 0.05.
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## Copy-paste eval harness snippet
```python
def eval_guardrails(question, retrieved, gold):
ds_qr = deltaS(question, retrieved)
ds_rg = deltaS(retrieved, gold)
assert ds_qr <= 0.45, "ΔS drift detected"
assert coverage(retrieved, gold) >= 0.70, "Coverage too low"
assert lambda_state(retrieved) in {"→","←","<>"} , "λ divergent"
return {
"ΔS_qr": ds_qr,
"ΔS_rg": ds_rg,
"coverage": coverage(retrieved, gold),
"λ": lambda_state(retrieved)
}
````
---
## Diagnostic probes
* **Re-run variance test**: run eval 5 times, log precision/recall. Stddev >0.05 → unstable harness.
* **Anchor comparison**: compare ΔS to gold anchor vs decoy. If both similar, re-embed.
* **Deploy warm-up**: log `VECTOR_READY` and index hash before eval.
---
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