feat(bet1): productionize reuse-under-drift + validate on a real learned-GNN trajectory (ADR-202 WIN) (#537)

* docs(bet1): pre-register reuse-under-drift gate on real GNN trajectory

Productionize BET 1 (ADR-200 WIN under synthetic drift) by wiring
re-weight + periodic-rebuild into the ruvector-diskann loop behind a
feature flag, validated on a REAL contrastive-link-prediction embedding
trajectory on ogbn-arxiv (ADR-200 next-step #4).

Gate frozen before any contender run (prove-not-hype): WIN = ReweightOnly
within 2% recall@10 of AlwaysRebuild + Periodic{k} within 1% at <=50%
cumulative rebuild cost; KILL = no transfer from synthetic to real drift.
Minimum-drift precondition (>=15% top-10 churn) guards against a vacuous
pass. Self-contained off main; independent of PR #535. Outcome -> ADR-202.

Linked: ruvnet/RuVector#534

* feat(diskann): M0 — reuse-under-drift policy module behind feature flag

DriftingIndex wraps a VamanaGraph and owns only the rebuild decision
(RebuildPolicy: AlwaysRebuild / ReweightOnly / Periodic{k}); the consumer
owns the drifting vectors and passes snapshots to on_metric_update + search.
Native reuse hook: greedy_search takes vectors externally, so adapt-to-drift
recomputes only distances. Feature-gated (reuse-under-drift, default off) —
default build byte-identical. 5 unit tests green (cadence + search).

Refs ruvnet/RuVector#534

* feat(bet1): M1-M3 real-trajectory validation harness

examples/diskann_real_trajectory.rs: generates a REAL learned-GNN metric
trajectory via contrastive link-prediction (InfoNCE over ogbn-arxiv
citations, ruvector-gnn Optimizer + info_nce_loss, embeddings on the unit
sphere so cosine==dot and L2 ranking agrees), then drives the diskann
reuse policy (DriftingIndex) through all four contenders step-by-step.

Result (n=20k, gradual trajectory to 67% churn):
- WIN. Reuse holds within 2% recall@10 of full rebuild up to 40% top-10
  churn (>= ADR-200's synthetic ~36% regime) -- transfer confirmed on real
  learned drift. Stale control collapses 92%->33% (teeth).
- Periodic recovers the high-churn tail: P k=4 = 98.7% (gap -0.01%) at 24%
  of rebuild cost, evals 1.00x B. ADR-200 hybrid reproduced on real drift.
- Honest caveat: pure reuse past the ceiling decays (-4.73% over the whole
  overdriven trajectory, 1.05x evals); the shippable periodic policy does not.

Refs ruvnet/RuVector#534

* style(bet1): rustfmt the reuse module + trajectory harness

* docs(adr): ADR-202 — reuse-under-drift WIN on a real learned-GNN trajectory

Outcome ADR for BET 1 productionization (closes ADR-200 next-step #4).
Fixed-topology reuse + periodic rebuild, validated on a real contrastive-
link-prediction trajectory over ogbn-arxiv (not synthetic A(t)).

WIN at n=20k AND n=50k: pure reuse holds within 2% recall@10 of full
rebuild up to a 40% top-10 churn ceiling (identical at both scales, >=
ADR-200's synthetic ~36%); Periodic{k:4} recovers the high-churn tail to
within 0.01% (20k) / above rebuild (50k) at 20-24% of rebuild cost, equal
per-query work. Stale control collapses (teeth). Honest caveat: pure reuse
past the ceiling decays -- the shippable policy is periodic, not never.

Refs ruvnet/RuVector#534

* docs(bet1): record WIN outcome pointer to ADR-202 in pre-registration

* docs(bet1): pre-register sampled-recall trigger gate + force_rebuild plumbing

Pre-register (frozen before any run) the ADR-200 next-step #2 bet: does a
sampled-recall rebuild trigger beat fixed Periodic{k} under VARIABLE-RATE
drift, and beat the Frobenius monitor ADR-200 found wanting? Honest test =
the (rebuilds, recall) Pareto frontier; WIN = trigger >=25% fewer rebuilds
at matched recall with probe cost counted; KILL = no frontier dominance.

Plumbing (allowed pre-freeze): DriftingIndex::force_rebuild + harness.

Refs ruvnet/RuVector#534

* fix(bet1): trigger harness — Adam + enforced churn precondition (first run was VOID)

The first variable-rate run was VOID (0% churn): plain SGD at lr 0.002-0.03
on unit-normalized embeddings doesn't move them. Switched to Adam (real
motion in bursts), n=20k for edge density, and ENFORCED the >=15% churn
precondition (abort before rendering a verdict) so a no-drift trajectory
can't masquerade as a result. Gate criteria unchanged.

Result (n=20k, bursty trajectory, per-step Δchurn ~45 burst / ~2 calm,
89% end churn): WIN. Recall{floor=0.95} = 97.2% @ 7 rebuilds beats
Periodic{k=2} (96.8% @ 12) on BOTH axes; probe cost ~1s vs ~73s rebuild
time saved (trap passed); beats best Frobenius (97.3% @ 9) on rebuilds.

Refs ruvnet/RuVector#534

* feat(bet1): productionize RecallTrigger (WIN) + ADR-202 addendum

The sampled-recall trigger WON (ADR-200 next-step #2): under bursty drift it
uses ~42% fewer rebuilds than fixed Periodic{k} at matched recall, beats the
Frobenius monitor ADR-200 found wanting, and passes the probe-cost trap
(~1s probe vs ~73s rebuild saved). Productionized as RecallTrigger in
ruvector_diskann::reuse (DriftingIndex in ReweightOnly mode + a probe-driven
force_rebuild); its knob 'floor' IS the recall SLA, unlike k/tau. 8 reuse
tests (incl. holds-under-no-drift + fires-then-recovers). ADR-202 addendum
records the result; pre-registration carries the WIN outcome pointer.

Refs ruvnet/RuVector#534

* docs(bet1): pre-register objective-dependence check + nodeclass trajectory

Frozen-before-run generality check of ADR-202's 40% holding ceiling: does
it generalize beyond contrastive link-prediction to a DIFFERENT learned
objective? Adds a node-classification trajectory (real arxiv 40-class
labels, CE on a linear head, embeddings as params) selectable via an
'objective=nodeclass' arg to the existing harness — same contenders + 2%
gate, only the objective changes. CONFIRM = holding ceiling >=30% churn +
periodic recovers; CAVEAT = <20% or materially different (reportable).

Refs ruvnet/RuVector#534

* docs(bet1): objective-dependence CONFIRMED + class-collapse degeneracy caveat

Node-classification trajectory (2nd objective) holds reuse within 2% of
rebuild up to a 54% churn ceiling (>= link-pred's 40%) -> the ADR-202
holding-ceiling result GENERALIZES across two learned objectives; the
objective-dependence caveat is resolved.

Honest finding (reported, not buried): past ~60% churn node-class CE
collapses embeddings into ~40 class blobs where recall@10 is ill-posed
(intra-blob near-ties) and the FULL-REBUILD baseline itself destabilizes
(B swings 55-96%). The trajectory-wide 'reuse > rebuild +4.3%' is a
benchmark-degeneracy artifact (ADR-200's t=0.25 dip amplified), NOT a
genuine superiority claim. Operational conclusion unaffected (reuse+periodic
never worse). ADR-202 addendum + next-step #5 (collapse-aware metric).

Refs ruvnet/RuVector#534

Cargo.lock

@@ -9221,6 +9221,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rand_distr 0.4.3",
  "rayon",
  "ruvector-core 2.2.3",
+ "ruvector-diskann",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "tempfile",

crates/ruvector-diskann/Cargo.toml

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ description = "DiskANN/Vamana — SSD-friendly approximate nearest neighbor sear
 default = []
 gpu = []  # Feature flag for GPU acceleration (CUDA/Metal stubs)
 simd = ["simsimd"]
+# BET 1 (ADR-200): fixed-topology reuse + periodic rebuild under metric drift.
+reuse-under-drift = []
 
 [dependencies]
 memmap2 = { workspace = true }

crates/ruvector-diskann/src/lib.rs

@@ -15,7 +15,12 @@ pub mod error;
 pub mod graph;
 pub mod index;
 pub mod pq;
+/// Fixed-topology reuse + periodic rebuild under metric drift (BET 1, ADR-200).
+#[cfg(feature = "reuse-under-drift")]
+pub mod reuse;
 
 pub use error::{DiskAnnError, Result};
 pub use index::{DiskAnnConfig, DiskAnnIndex};
 pub use pq::ProductQuantizer;
+#[cfg(feature = "reuse-under-drift")]
+pub use reuse::{DriftingIndex, RebuildPolicy, RecallTrigger};

crates/ruvector-diskann/src/reuse.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,448 @@
+//! Fixed-topology reuse under metric drift + periodic rebuild (BET 1, ADR-200).
+//!
+//! A self-learning system (e.g. `ruvector-gnn`) continuously re-estimates node
+//! embeddings, so the effective L2 metric over those embeddings **drifts**. The
+//! textbook remedy is a full [`VamanaGraph`] rebuild on every update — superlinear,
+//! minutes-to-hours at corpus scale. ADR-200 showed (under synthetic drift, on this
+//! exact production index) that the navigation topology can be **reused**: build the
+//! graph once on `E₀`, then search the *drifted* vectors against it, recomputing only
+//! distances. Recall stays within 2% of a full rebuild at ~10³–10⁴× lower update cost,
+//! with a periodic rebuild recovering the residual gap under heavy drift.
+//!
+//! This module wires that policy into the production loop. The reuse hook is native:
+//! [`VamanaGraph`] stores only topology (`neighbors` + `medoid`) and
+//! [`VamanaGraph::greedy_search`] takes the vectors externally — so the consumer (the
+//! GNN) owns and mutates the embeddings, and the index only decides *when* to rebuild.
+//!
+//! Feature-gated behind `reuse-under-drift` (default off) — the shipping build is
+//! unaffected. See `docs/plans/bet1-productionize/PRE-REGISTRATION.md`.
+
+use crate::distance::FlatVectors;
+use crate::error::Result;
+use crate::graph::VamanaGraph;
+
+/// When to spend a full [`VamanaGraph`] rebuild as the metric drifts.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub enum RebuildPolicy {
+    /// Rebuild on every metric update — the incumbent remedy. Highest recall, full
+    /// rebuild cost every step. The baseline `B` of ADR-200.
+    AlwaysRebuild,
+    /// Never rebuild — reuse the `E₀` topology, recompute distances under the drifted
+    /// vectors. Zero rebuild cost. The bet `A` of ADR-200; decays under heavy
+    /// accumulated drift (why [`Periodic`](RebuildPolicy::Periodic) exists).
+    ReweightOnly,
+    /// Reuse every step, full rebuild every `k` updates — the shippable hybrid. ADR-200
+    /// found `Periodic{k:4}` recovered to within 0.3% of `AlwaysRebuild` at 25% of its
+    /// cost. `k == 0` is treated as [`ReweightOnly`](RebuildPolicy::ReweightOnly).
+    Periodic {
+        /// Rebuild cadence: rebuild when `step % k == 0`.
+        k: usize,
+    },
+}
+
+impl RebuildPolicy {
+    /// Whether the policy rebuilds at update number `step` (1-based: the first
+    /// `on_metric_update` is step 1).
+    fn rebuilds_at(self, step: usize) -> bool {
+        match self {
+            RebuildPolicy::AlwaysRebuild => true,
+            RebuildPolicy::ReweightOnly => false,
+            RebuildPolicy::Periodic { k } => k > 0 && step % k == 0,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// A Vamana index that adapts to a drifting metric by reusing its navigation topology,
+/// rebuilding only as dictated by its [`RebuildPolicy`].
+///
+/// The index does **not** own the vectors — the consumer owns the embedding store and
+/// passes the current snapshot to [`on_metric_update`](DriftingIndex::on_metric_update)
+/// and [`search`](DriftingIndex::search). This keeps the dependency direction clean: the
+/// index knows nothing about *what* drives the drift.
+pub struct DriftingIndex {
+    graph: VamanaGraph,
+    policy: RebuildPolicy,
+    // Build parameters, retained to reconstruct the graph on rebuild.
+    n: usize,
+    max_degree: usize,
+    build_beam: usize,
+    alpha: f32,
+    // Telemetry.
+    step: usize,
+    rebuilds: usize,
+}
+
+impl DriftingIndex {
+    /// Build the initial topology on `vectors` (the `E₀` snapshot) under `policy`.
+    ///
+    /// `max_degree`, `build_beam`, `alpha` are the Vamana build parameters (production
+    /// defaults: 32 / 64 / 1.2), reused on every subsequent rebuild.
+    pub fn build(
+        vectors: &FlatVectors,
+        policy: RebuildPolicy,
+        max_degree: usize,
+        build_beam: usize,
+        alpha: f32,
+    ) -> Result<Self> {
+        let n = vectors.len();
+        let graph = build_graph(vectors, n, max_degree, build_beam, alpha)?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            graph,
+            policy,
+            n,
+            max_degree,
+            build_beam,
+            alpha,
+            step: 0,
+            rebuilds: 0,
+        })
+    }
+
+    /// Signal that the metric drifted (the consumer wrote a new embedding snapshot).
+    ///
+    /// Rebuilds the topology on `vectors` iff the policy dictates it at this step;
+    /// otherwise the existing topology is retained (pure re-weight). Returns whether a
+    /// rebuild happened, so the caller can account for cost.
+    ///
+    /// `vectors` must contain the same number of points as the original build (drift
+    /// changes vector *values*, not membership; insert/delete is out of scope for the
+    /// reuse model). Returns [`DiskAnnError::DimensionMismatch`](crate::DiskAnnError) if
+    /// the count changed.
+    pub fn on_metric_update(&mut self, vectors: &FlatVectors) -> Result<bool> {
+        self.step += 1;
+        if !self.policy.rebuilds_at(self.step) {
+            return Ok(false);
+        }
+        debug_assert_eq!(
+            vectors.len(),
+            self.n,
+            "reuse model assumes fixed membership; point count changed"
+        );
+        self.graph = build_graph(
+            vectors,
+            self.n,
+            self.max_degree,
+            self.build_beam,
+            self.alpha,
+        )?;
+        self.rebuilds += 1;
+        Ok(true)
+    }
+
+    /// Search the current topology against `vectors` (the live, possibly-drifted
+    /// snapshot), returning candidate ids and the visited count (distance-evals proxy).
+    ///
+    /// Callers typically re-rank the candidates by exact distance to the query under the
+    /// current metric and take the top-k.
+    pub fn search(
+        &self,
+        vectors: &FlatVectors,
+        query: &[f32],
+        beam_width: usize,
+    ) -> (Vec<u32>, usize) {
+        self.graph.greedy_search(vectors, query, beam_width)
+    }
+
+    /// Force a topology rebuild on `vectors`, bypassing the policy. The primitive an
+    /// externally-driven trigger (e.g. a sampled-recall monitor) is built on: the caller
+    /// owns the rebuild *signal*, the index owns the rebuild *mechanism*. Counts toward
+    /// `rebuilds()` but does not advance the update `step`.
+    pub fn force_rebuild(&mut self, vectors: &FlatVectors) -> Result<()> {
+        debug_assert_eq!(vectors.len(), self.n, "force_rebuild: point count changed");
+        self.graph = build_graph(
+            vectors,
+            self.n,
+            self.max_degree,
+            self.build_beam,
+            self.alpha,
+        )?;
+        self.rebuilds += 1;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    /// The configured rebuild policy.
+    pub fn policy(&self) -> RebuildPolicy {
+        self.policy
+    }
+
+    /// Number of metric updates seen so far.
+    pub fn step(&self) -> usize {
+        self.step
+    }
+
+    /// Number of full rebuilds performed (the cost the reuse policy is trying to avoid).
+    pub fn rebuilds(&self) -> usize {
+        self.rebuilds
+    }
+
+    /// Borrow the underlying topology (e.g. for inspection or persistence).
+    pub fn graph(&self) -> &VamanaGraph {
+        &self.graph
+    }
+}
+
+fn build_graph(
+    vectors: &FlatVectors,
+    n: usize,
+    max_degree: usize,
+    build_beam: usize,
+    alpha: f32,
+) -> Result<VamanaGraph> {
+    let mut graph = VamanaGraph::new(n, max_degree, build_beam, alpha);
+    graph.build(vectors)?;
+    Ok(graph)
+}
+
+/// Exact top-`k` neighbours of point `q` under L2 on `vectors` (brute force, excludes `q`).
+fn brute_force_topk(vectors: &FlatVectors, q: usize, k: usize) -> Vec<u32> {
+    let qv = vectors.get(q);
+    let mut scored: Vec<(f32, u32)> = (0..vectors.len())
+        .filter(|&i| i != q)
+        .map(|i| (crate::distance::l2_squared(vectors.get(i), qv), i as u32))
+        .collect();
+    scored.sort_by(|a, b| a.0.total_cmp(&b.0));
+    scored.into_iter().take(k).map(|(_, i)| i).collect()
+}
+
+/// A drift-adaptive index whose rebuilds are driven by a **sampled-recall probe** instead of
+/// a fixed cadence: on each metric update it estimates live recall@k on a small held-out
+/// probe set and rebuilds only when that estimate falls below `floor`.
+///
+/// Under *bursty* drift this beats fixed [`Periodic`](RebuildPolicy::Periodic) — it spends
+/// rebuilds where the drift actually is, skipping calm stretches (ADR-202 addendum:
+/// validated WIN, ~42% fewer rebuilds than periodic at matched recall, and beats the
+/// Frobenius-norm monitor ADR-200 found wanting). The knob `floor` *is* the recall SLA
+/// (e.g. 0.95 = "keep recall ≥ 95%"), unlike `k`/`τ` which are indirect proxies.
+///
+/// **Cost:** the probe costs `probe_queries.len() × n` distance-evals per update — ~1–2
+/// orders of magnitude below a rebuild — the price of measuring recall directly. Wraps a
+/// [`DriftingIndex`] in `ReweightOnly` mode and drives [`force_rebuild`](DriftingIndex::force_rebuild).
+pub struct RecallTrigger {
+    index: DriftingIndex,
+    probe_queries: Vec<u32>,
+    k: usize,
+    floor: f32,
+    search_beam: usize,
+}
+
+impl RecallTrigger {
+    /// Build the trigger on `vectors` (the `E₀` snapshot). `probe_queries` is a small, fixed
+    /// held-out set of point indices used to estimate recall; `floor` is the recall target.
+    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
+    pub fn build(
+        vectors: &FlatVectors,
+        probe_queries: Vec<u32>,
+        k: usize,
+        floor: f32,
+        search_beam: usize,
+        max_degree: usize,
+        build_beam: usize,
+        alpha: f32,
+    ) -> Result<Self> {
+        let index = DriftingIndex::build(
+            vectors,
+            RebuildPolicy::ReweightOnly,
+            max_degree,
+            build_beam,
+            alpha,
+        )?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            index,
+            probe_queries,
+            k,
+            floor,
+            search_beam,
+        })
+    }
+
+    /// Probe-estimated recall@k of the current topology against exact neighbours under
+    /// `vectors` (mean over the probe set). 1.0 if the probe set is empty.
+    pub fn probe_recall(&self, vectors: &FlatVectors) -> f32 {
+        if self.probe_queries.is_empty() {
+            return 1.0;
+        }
+        let mut sum = 0.0f32;
+        for &q in &self.probe_queries {
+            let qi = q as usize;
+            let truth = brute_force_topk(vectors, qi, self.k);
+            let qv = vectors.get(qi);
+            let (cands, _) = self.index.search(vectors, qv, self.search_beam);
+            let mut scored: Vec<(f32, u32)> = cands
+                .iter()
+                .map(|&c| (crate::distance::l2_squared(vectors.get(c as usize), qv), c))
+                .collect();
+            scored.sort_by(|a, b| a.0.total_cmp(&b.0));
+            let hits = scored
+                .into_iter()
+                .filter(|&(_, c)| c as usize != qi)
+                .take(self.k)
+                .filter(|(_, c)| truth.contains(c))
+                .count();
+            sum += hits as f32 / self.k.max(1) as f32;
+        }
+        sum / self.probe_queries.len() as f32
+    }
+
+    /// React to a metric update: rebuild on `vectors` iff the probe recall is below `floor`.
+    /// Returns whether a rebuild happened.
+    pub fn on_metric_update(&mut self, vectors: &FlatVectors) -> Result<bool> {
+        if self.probe_recall(vectors) < self.floor {
+            self.index.force_rebuild(vectors)?;
+            Ok(true)
+        } else {
+            Ok(false)
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Search the current topology against `vectors`.
+    pub fn search(
+        &self,
+        vectors: &FlatVectors,
+        query: &[f32],
+        beam_width: usize,
+    ) -> (Vec<u32>, usize) {
+        self.index.search(vectors, query, beam_width)
+    }
+
+    /// Number of rebuilds the trigger has fired.
+    pub fn rebuilds(&self) -> usize {
+        self.index.rebuilds()
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    /// Deterministic clustered points so the graph is non-trivial.
+    fn fixture(n: usize, dim: usize) -> FlatVectors {
+        let mut f = FlatVectors::with_capacity(dim, n);
+        for i in 0..n {
+            let v: Vec<f32> = (0..dim)
+                .map(|d| ((i * 31 + d * 7) % 97) as f32 / 97.0)
+                .collect();
+            f.push(&v);
+        }
+        f
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn reweight_only_never_rebuilds() {
+        let v = fixture(64, 8);
+        let mut idx = DriftingIndex::build(&v, RebuildPolicy::ReweightOnly, 16, 32, 1.2).unwrap();
+        for _ in 0..10 {
+            assert!(!idx.on_metric_update(&v).unwrap());
+        }
+        assert_eq!(idx.rebuilds(), 0);
+        assert_eq!(idx.step(), 10);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn always_rebuild_rebuilds_every_step() {
+        let v = fixture(64, 8);
+        let mut idx = DriftingIndex::build(&v, RebuildPolicy::AlwaysRebuild, 16, 32, 1.2).unwrap();
+        for _ in 0..10 {
+            assert!(idx.on_metric_update(&v).unwrap());
+        }
+        assert_eq!(idx.rebuilds(), 10);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn periodic_rebuilds_on_cadence() {
+        let v = fixture(64, 8);
+        let mut idx =
+            DriftingIndex::build(&v, RebuildPolicy::Periodic { k: 4 }, 16, 32, 1.2).unwrap();
+        let did: Vec<bool> = (0..12).map(|_| idx.on_metric_update(&v).unwrap()).collect();
+        // steps 1..=12, rebuild at 4, 8, 12
+        assert_eq!(
+            did,
+            vec![false, false, false, true, false, false, false, true, false, false, false, true]
+        );
+        assert_eq!(idx.rebuilds(), 3);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn periodic_k0_is_reweight_only() {
+        let v = fixture(32, 8);
+        let mut idx =
+            DriftingIndex::build(&v, RebuildPolicy::Periodic { k: 0 }, 16, 32, 1.2).unwrap();
+        for _ in 0..5 {
+            assert!(!idx.on_metric_update(&v).unwrap());
+        }
+        assert_eq!(idx.rebuilds(), 0);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn force_rebuild_counts_but_does_not_advance_step() {
+        let v = fixture(64, 8);
+        let mut idx = DriftingIndex::build(&v, RebuildPolicy::ReweightOnly, 16, 32, 1.2).unwrap();
+        idx.on_metric_update(&v).unwrap(); // step 1, no rebuild
+        idx.force_rebuild(&v).unwrap(); // external trigger fires
+        idx.force_rebuild(&v).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            idx.step(),
+            1,
+            "force_rebuild must not advance the update step"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            idx.rebuilds(),
+            2,
+            "force_rebuild must count toward rebuilds"
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// A geometrically distinct fixture so swapping it in collapses the E0 graph's recall.
+    fn fixture_b(n: usize, dim: usize) -> FlatVectors {
+        let mut f = FlatVectors::with_capacity(dim, n);
+        for i in 0..n {
+            let v: Vec<f32> = (0..dim)
+                .map(|d| (((n - i) * 53 + d * 17) % 89) as f32 / 89.0)
+                .collect();
+            f.push(&v);
+        }
+        f
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn recall_trigger_holds_under_no_drift() {
+        let v = fixture(128, 8);
+        let probes: Vec<u32> = (0..16).collect();
+        let mut t = RecallTrigger::build(&v, probes, 5, 0.9, 32, 16, 32, 1.2).unwrap();
+        // same vectors → the index searches what it was built on → recall ~1.0 → no rebuild
+        assert!(t.probe_recall(&v) >= 0.9);
+        assert!(!t.on_metric_update(&v).unwrap());
+        assert_eq!(t.rebuilds(), 0);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn recall_trigger_fires_then_recovers_under_drift() {
+        let v = fixture(128, 8);
+        let probes: Vec<u32> = (0..16).collect();
+        let mut t = RecallTrigger::build(&v, probes, 5, 0.9, 32, 16, 32, 1.2).unwrap();
+        // swap in a geometrically different vector set: recall collapses → trigger fires
+        let vb = fixture_b(128, 8);
+        assert!(
+            t.probe_recall(&vb) < 0.9,
+            "drift should drop probe recall below floor"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            t.on_metric_update(&vb).unwrap(),
+            "trigger must fire on the drift"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(t.rebuilds(), 1);
+        // after rebuilding on vb, recall is restored → a second update does not re-fire
+        assert!(!t.on_metric_update(&vb).unwrap());
+        assert_eq!(t.rebuilds(), 1);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn search_returns_self_as_nearest() {
+        let v = fixture(128, 8);
+        let idx = DriftingIndex::build(&v, RebuildPolicy::ReweightOnly, 16, 32, 1.2).unwrap();
+        // Query with point 5's own vector; it should be among the nearest candidates.
+        let q = v.get(5).to_vec();
+        let (cands, visited) = idx.search(&v, &q, 16);
+        assert!(visited > 0);
+        assert!(cands.contains(&5), "self should be retrieved: {cands:?}");
+    }
+}

crates/ruvector-gnn/Cargo.toml

@@ -55,6 +55,13 @@ cold-tier = ["mmap"]  # Hyperbatch training for graphs exceeding RAM
 criterion = { workspace = true }
 proptest = { workspace = true }
 tempfile = "3.10"
+# BET 1 productionize (ADR-200): the real-trajectory validation harness drives the
+# diskann reuse policy. See docs/plans/bet1-productionize/PRE-REGISTRATION.md.
+ruvector-diskann = { path = "../ruvector-diskann", features = ["reuse-under-drift"] }
+
+[[example]]
+name = "diskann_real_trajectory"
+path = "examples/diskann_real_trajectory.rs"
 
 [lib]
 crate-type = ["rlib"]

crates/ruvector-gnn/examples/diskann_real_trajectory.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,626 @@
+//! BET 1 productionize (ADR-200 next-step #4): validate fixed-topology reuse +
+//! periodic rebuild on a **real learned-GNN embedding trajectory** — not a synthetic
+//! `A(t)` transform. The trajectory is produced by contrastive link-prediction
+//! (InfoNCE over the ogbn-arxiv citation graph) using `ruvector-gnn`'s own optimizer
+//! and loss; the index is the shipping `ruvector-diskann` Vamana, driven through its
+//! `reuse-under-drift` policy (`DriftingIndex`).
+//!
+//! Gate (frozen, pre-registered): docs/plans/bet1-productionize/PRE-REGISTRATION.md.
+//!   WIN  = ReweightOnly within 2% recall@10 of AlwaysRebuild, and some Periodic{k}
+//!          within 1% at <= 50% cumulative rebuild cost.
+//!   KILL = ReweightOnly collapses early AND no Periodic{k} recovers within gate.
+//!   Precondition (teeth): the trajectory must induce >= 15% top-10 churn E0->ET,
+//!   and the Stale control must degrade materially.
+//!
+//! Run: cargo run --release -p ruvector-gnn --example diskann_real_trajectory -- [N] [EPOCHS]
+
+use ndarray::Array2;
+use rand::{rngs::StdRng, Rng, SeedableRng};
+use ruvector_diskann::distance::{l2_squared, FlatVectors};
+use ruvector_diskann::{DriftingIndex, RebuildPolicy};
+use ruvector_gnn::training::{info_nce_loss, Optimizer, OptimizerType};
+use std::time::Instant;
+
+const DIM: usize = 128;
+const R: usize = 32; // Vamana max out-degree (production default)
+const BUILD_BEAM: usize = 64;
+const SEARCH_BEAM: usize = 64;
+const ALPHA: f32 = 1.2;
+const K: usize = 10; // recall@K
+
+// ---------- data loading ----------
+
+fn read_features(path: &str, n: usize) -> Vec<Vec<f32>> {
+    let txt = std::fs::read_to_string(path).expect("read features csv");
+    txt.lines()
+        .take(n)
+        .map(|line| {
+            line.split(',')
+                .map(|s| s.trim().parse::<f32>().unwrap())
+                .collect()
+        })
+        .collect()
+}
+
+/// Citation edges with both endpoints inside the n-node slice (self-loops dropped).
+fn read_edges(path: &str, n: usize) -> Vec<(usize, usize)> {
+    let txt = std::fs::read_to_string(path).expect("read edge csv");
+    let mut edges = Vec::new();
+    for line in txt.lines() {
+        let mut it = line.split(',');
+        if let (Some(a), Some(b)) = (it.next(), it.next()) {
+            if let (Ok(a), Ok(b)) = (a.trim().parse::<usize>(), b.trim().parse::<usize>()) {
+                if a < n && b < n && a != b {
+                    edges.push((a, b));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    edges
+}
+
+// ---------- embedding helpers ----------
+
+fn normalize_row(v: &mut [f32]) {
+    let norm = v.iter().map(|x| x * x).sum::<f32>().sqrt().max(1e-12);
+    for x in v.iter_mut() {
+        *x /= norm;
+    }
+}
+
+fn matrix_from_features(feats: &[Vec<f32>]) -> Array2<f32> {
+    let n = feats.len();
+    let mut m = Array2::<f32>::zeros((n, DIM));
+    for (i, f) in feats.iter().enumerate() {
+        let mut row = f.clone();
+        normalize_row(&mut row);
+        for d in 0..DIM {
+            m[[i, d]] = row[d];
+        }
+    }
+    m
+}
+
+fn to_flat(emb: &Array2<f32>) -> FlatVectors {
+    let n = emb.nrows();
+    let mut f = FlatVectors::with_capacity(DIM, n);
+    let mut buf = vec![0.0f32; DIM];
+    for i in 0..n {
+        for d in 0..DIM {
+            buf[d] = emb[[i, d]];
+        }
+        f.push(&buf);
+    }
+    f
+}
+
+fn dot(a: &[f32], b: &[f32]) -> f32 {
+    a.iter().zip(b).map(|(x, y)| x * y).sum()
+}
+
+/// Exact top-k under the L2 metric on `emb` (the index's metric), excluding `q` itself.
+fn brute_topk(emb: &Array2<f32>, q: usize, k: usize) -> Vec<u32> {
+    let n = emb.nrows();
+    let qv = emb.row(q);
+    let qs = qv.as_slice().unwrap();
+    let mut scored: Vec<(f32, u32)> = (0..n)
+        .filter(|&i| i != q)
+        .map(|i| (l2_squared(emb.row(i).as_slice().unwrap(), qs), i as u32))
+        .collect();
+    scored.sort_by(|a, b| a.0.total_cmp(&b.0));
+    scored.into_iter().take(k).map(|(_, i)| i).collect()
+}
+
+fn recall(got: &[u32], truth: &[u32]) -> f64 {
+    if truth.is_empty() {
+        return 1.0;
+    }
+    let hits = got.iter().filter(|g| truth.contains(g)).count();
+    hits as f64 / truth.len() as f64
+}
+
+/// Graph search over `flat`/`emb` then exact re-rank by L2 to the query; returns
+/// (top-k ids, distance-evals proxy = nodes visited during the greedy walk).
+fn search_topk(
+    idx: &DriftingIndex,
+    emb: &Array2<f32>,
+    flat: &FlatVectors,
+    q: usize,
+) -> (Vec<u32>, usize) {
+    let qs = emb.row(q).as_slice().unwrap().to_vec();
+    let (cands, visited) = idx.search(flat, &qs, SEARCH_BEAM);
+    let mut scored: Vec<(f32, u32)> = cands
+        .iter()
+        .map(|&c| (l2_squared(emb.row(c as usize).as_slice().unwrap(), &qs), c))
+        .collect();
+    scored.sort_by(|a, b| a.0.total_cmp(&b.0));
+    let ids = scored
+        .into_iter()
+        .filter(|&(_, c)| c as usize != q)
+        .take(K)
+        .map(|(_, c)| c)
+        .collect();
+    (ids, visited)
+}
+
+// ---------- trajectory generation: contrastive link-prediction (InfoNCE) ----------
+
+struct Trajectory {
+    snapshots: Vec<Array2<f32>>, // E0 .. ET (E0 = normalized raw features)
+    loss_curve: Vec<f32>,
+}
+
+#[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
+fn train_trajectory(
+    e0: Array2<f32>,
+    edges: &[(usize, usize)],
+    n: usize,
+    epochs: usize,
+    snap_every: usize,
+    batch: usize,
+    n_neg: usize,
+    tau: f32,
+    lr: f32,
+    seed: u64,
+) -> Trajectory {
+    let mut emb = e0.clone();
+    let mut opt = Optimizer::new(OptimizerType::Adam {
+        learning_rate: lr,
+        beta1: 0.9,
+        beta2: 0.999,
+        epsilon: 1e-8,
+    });
+    let mut rng = StdRng::seed_from_u64(seed);
+
+    let mut snapshots = vec![emb.clone()];
+    let mut loss_curve = Vec::with_capacity(epochs);
+
+    for _epoch in 0..epochs {
+        let mut grad = Array2::<f32>::zeros((n, DIM));
+        let mut loss_acc = 0.0f32;
+        let mut count = 0usize;
+
+        for _ in 0..batch {
+            let (a, p) = edges[rng.gen_range(0..edges.len())];
+            let negs: Vec<usize> = (0..n_neg)
+                .map(|_| {
+                    let mut j = rng.gen_range(0..n);
+                    while j == a {
+                        j = rng.gen_range(0..n);
+                    }
+                    j
+                })
+                .collect();
+
+            let av: Vec<f32> = emb.row(a).to_vec();
+            let pv: Vec<f32> = emb.row(p).to_vec();
+            // scores / tau over {p} u negs (cosine == dot on the unit sphere)
+            let s_p = dot(&av, &pv) / tau;
+            let mut s_neg = Vec::with_capacity(n_neg);
+            for &j in &negs {
+                s_neg.push(dot(&av, emb.row(j).as_slice().unwrap()) / tau);
+            }
+            // softmax over [s_p, s_neg...]
+            let m = s_neg.iter().cloned().fold(s_p, f32::max);
+            let mut z = (s_p - m).exp();
+            for &s in &s_neg {
+                z += (s - m).exp();
+            }
+            let sm_p = (s_p - m).exp() / z;
+
+            // reported loss via the repo primitive (faithful to the pre-registration):
+            // on normalized vectors info_nce_loss's cosine == our dot scores.
+            let neg_vecs: Vec<Vec<f32>> = negs.iter().map(|&j| emb.row(j).to_vec()).collect();
+            let neg_refs: Vec<&[f32]> = neg_vecs.iter().map(|v| v.as_slice()).collect();
+            loss_acc += info_nce_loss(&av, &[&pv], &neg_refs, tau);
+            count += 1;
+
+            // grads: dL/da = (1/tau)[ (sm_p-1) p + sum_j sm_j neg_j ]
+            //        dL/dp = (1/tau)(sm_p-1) a ; dL/dneg_j = (1/tau) sm_j a
+            let inv_tau = 1.0 / tau;
+            for d in 0..DIM {
+                grad[[a, d]] += inv_tau * (sm_p - 1.0) * pv[d];
+                grad[[p, d]] += inv_tau * (sm_p - 1.0) * av[d];
+            }
+            for (jdx, &j) in negs.iter().enumerate() {
+                let sm_j = (s_neg[jdx] - m).exp() / z;
+                for d in 0..DIM {
+                    grad[[a, d]] += inv_tau * sm_j * emb[[j, d]];
+                    grad[[j, d]] += inv_tau * sm_j * av[d];
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        // average over the mini-batch for a stable step scale
+        grad.mapv_inplace(|g| g / batch as f32);
+        opt.step(&mut emb, &grad).expect("optimizer step");
+        // retraction back onto the unit sphere (keeps cosine == dot)
+        for i in 0..n {
+            let mut row = emb.row(i).to_vec();
+            normalize_row(&mut row);
+            for d in 0..DIM {
+                emb[[i, d]] = row[d];
+            }
+        }
+
+        loss_curve.push(loss_acc / count.max(1) as f32);
+        if (_epoch + 1) % snap_every == 0 {
+            snapshots.push(emb.clone());
+        }
+    }
+    if (epochs % snap_every) != 0 {
+        snapshots.push(emb.clone()); // ensure ET is captured
+    }
+    Trajectory {
+        snapshots,
+        loss_curve,
+    }
+}
+
+// ---------- node-classification trajectory (the ADR-202 generality check) ----------
+
+fn read_labels(path: &str, n: usize) -> Vec<usize> {
+    let txt = std::fs::read_to_string(path).expect("read labels csv");
+    txt.lines()
+        .take(n)
+        .map(|l| l.trim().parse::<usize>().unwrap())
+        .collect()
+}
+
+/// Drift the embeddings by supervised node classification: a linear head `W` (d×C) maps each
+/// embedding to class logits; cross-entropy trains both `W` and the embeddings, pulling each
+/// node toward its class region. A genuinely different drift geometry from link-prediction.
+#[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
+fn train_nodeclass_trajectory(
+    e0: Array2<f32>,
+    labels: &[usize],
+    n_cls: usize,
+    n: usize,
+    epochs: usize,
+    snap_every: usize,
+    lr: f32,
+    seed: u64,
+) -> Trajectory {
+    let mut emb = e0.clone();
+    let mut w = Array2::<f32>::zeros((DIM, n_cls)); // classifier head
+    {
+        // small random init so logits aren't degenerate
+        let mut rng = StdRng::seed_from_u64(seed);
+        for v in w.iter_mut() {
+            *v = (rng.gen_range(0..2000) as f32 / 1000.0 - 1.0) * 0.01;
+        }
+    }
+    let mut opt_e = Optimizer::new(OptimizerType::Adam {
+        learning_rate: lr,
+        beta1: 0.9,
+        beta2: 0.999,
+        epsilon: 1e-8,
+    });
+    let mut opt_w = Optimizer::new(OptimizerType::Adam {
+        learning_rate: lr,
+        beta1: 0.9,
+        beta2: 0.999,
+        epsilon: 1e-8,
+    });
+
+    let mut snapshots = vec![emb.clone()];
+    let mut loss_curve = Vec::with_capacity(epochs);
+
+    for _epoch in 0..epochs {
+        let mut grad_e = Array2::<f32>::zeros((n, DIM));
+        let mut grad_w = Array2::<f32>::zeros((DIM, n_cls));
+        let mut loss_acc = 0.0f32;
+        for i in 0..n {
+            // logits = emb_i · W
+            let mut logits = vec![0.0f32; n_cls];
+            for c in 0..n_cls {
+                let mut s = 0.0f32;
+                for d in 0..DIM {
+                    s += emb[[i, d]] * w[[d, c]];
+                }
+                logits[c] = s;
+            }
+            let m = logits.iter().cloned().fold(f32::MIN, f32::max);
+            let mut z = 0.0f32;
+            for c in 0..n_cls {
+                logits[c] = (logits[c] - m).exp();
+                z += logits[c];
+            }
+            let y = labels[i];
+            loss_acc += -(logits[y] / z).max(1e-12).ln();
+            // dL/dlogit_c = softmax_c - [c==y]
+            for c in 0..n_cls {
+                let g = logits[c] / z - if c == y { 1.0 } else { 0.0 };
+                for d in 0..DIM {
+                    grad_e[[i, d]] += g * w[[d, c]];
+                    grad_w[[d, c]] += g * emb[[i, d]];
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        grad_e.mapv_inplace(|g| g / n as f32);
+        grad_w.mapv_inplace(|g| g / n as f32);
+        opt_e.step(&mut emb, &grad_e).expect("step e");
+        opt_w.step(&mut w, &grad_w).expect("step w");
+        for i in 0..n {
+            let mut row = emb.row(i).to_vec();
+            normalize_row(&mut row);
+            for d in 0..DIM {
+                emb[[i, d]] = row[d];
+            }
+        }
+        loss_curve.push(loss_acc / n as f32);
+        if (_epoch + 1) % snap_every == 0 {
+            snapshots.push(emb.clone());
+        }
+    }
+    if epochs % snap_every != 0 {
+        snapshots.push(emb.clone());
+    }
+    Trajectory {
+        snapshots,
+        loss_curve,
+    }
+}
+
+// ---------- contenders ----------
+
+fn build_index(emb: &Array2<f32>, policy: RebuildPolicy) -> DriftingIndex {
+    let flat = to_flat(emb);
+    DriftingIndex::build(&flat, policy, R, BUILD_BEAM, ALPHA).expect("build")
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    // Args: N  EPOCHS  LR  SNAP_EVERY. The trajectory must be *gradual* (the premise is
+    // a GNN that *continuously* re-estimates relevance), so lr/snap are chosen for a
+    // smooth churn ramp, not a single violent jump — set before reading the verdict.
+    let args: Vec<String> = std::env::args().collect();
+    let n: usize = args.get(1).and_then(|s| s.parse().ok()).unwrap_or(20_000);
+    let epochs: usize = args.get(2).and_then(|s| s.parse().ok()).unwrap_or(60);
+    let lr: f32 = args.get(3).and_then(|s| s.parse().ok()).unwrap_or(0.01);
+    let snap_every: usize = args.get(4).and_then(|s| s.parse().ok()).unwrap_or(3);
+    // objective: "linkpred" (default, contrastive citation link-prediction) or "nodeclass"
+    // (supervised CE on the 40 real arxiv subject labels) — the generality check of ADR-202.
+    let objective = args
+        .get(5)
+        .map(|s| s.as_str())
+        .unwrap_or("linkpred")
+        .to_string();
+
+    let feat_path = "target/m1-data/node-feat-100k.csv";
+    let edge_path = "target/m1-data/arxiv/raw/edge.csv";
+
+    eprintln!("[traj] loading arxiv slice n={n} ...");
+    let feats = read_features(feat_path, n);
+    let n = feats.len();
+    let edges = read_edges(edge_path, n);
+    eprintln!(
+        "[traj] {} intra-slice citation edges; dim={DIM}",
+        edges.len()
+    );
+    assert!(!edges.is_empty(), "no edges in slice; increase N");
+
+    let e0 = matrix_from_features(&feats);
+
+    // ---- M1: generate the real learned trajectory (objective selectable) ----
+    let t0 = Instant::now();
+    let traj = if objective == "nodeclass" {
+        let labels = read_labels("target/m1-data/node-label.csv", n);
+        let n_cls = labels.iter().copied().max().unwrap_or(0) + 1;
+        eprintln!("[traj] objective=nodeclass; {n_cls} classes");
+        train_nodeclass_trajectory(e0, &labels, n_cls, n, epochs, snap_every, lr, 1234)
+    } else {
+        eprintln!("[traj] objective=linkpred");
+        train_trajectory(
+            e0, &edges, n, epochs, snap_every, /*batch*/ 2048, /*n_neg*/ 64,
+            /*tau*/ 0.1, lr, /*seed*/ 1234,
+        )
+    };
+    let n_snap = traj.snapshots.len();
+    eprintln!(
+        "[traj] trained {epochs} epochs in {:.1}s; {n_snap} snapshots; loss {:.3} -> {:.3}",
+        t0.elapsed().as_secs_f64(),
+        traj.loss_curve.first().copied().unwrap_or(0.0),
+        traj.loss_curve.last().copied().unwrap_or(0.0),
+    );
+
+    // query set + per-snapshot ground truth (brute force under E_t)
+    let mut qrng = StdRng::seed_from_u64(999);
+    let n_queries = 200.min(n);
+    let queries: Vec<usize> = (0..n_queries).map(|_| qrng.gen_range(0..n)).collect();
+    let truth_per_step: Vec<Vec<Vec<u32>>> = traj
+        .snapshots
+        .iter()
+        .map(|e| queries.iter().map(|&q| brute_topk(e, q, K)).collect())
+        .collect();
+
+    // ---- precondition (teeth): top-10 churn E0 -> ET ----
+    let churn_total: f64 = queries
+        .iter()
+        .enumerate()
+        .map(|(qi, _)| 1.0 - recall(&truth_per_step[n_snap - 1][qi], &truth_per_step[0][qi]))
+        .sum::<f64>()
+        / n_queries as f64;
+    println!(
+        "\n=== PRECONDITION: top-{K} churn E0->ET = {:.1}% (gate: >= 15%) ===",
+        churn_total * 100.0
+    );
+    if churn_total < 0.15 {
+        println!("!! trajectory too gentle (churn < 15%) — escalate epochs/lr before treating any result as valid.");
+    }
+
+    // ---- M2/M3: contenders over the trajectory ----
+    let policies: Vec<(&str, RebuildPolicy)> = vec![
+        ("B always", RebuildPolicy::AlwaysRebuild),
+        ("A reuse", RebuildPolicy::ReweightOnly),
+        ("P k=2", RebuildPolicy::Periodic { k: 2 }),
+        ("P k=4", RebuildPolicy::Periodic { k: 4 }),
+        ("P k=8", RebuildPolicy::Periodic { k: 8 }),
+    ];
+
+    // one DriftingIndex per policy, all built on E0
+    let mut indices: Vec<DriftingIndex> = policies
+        .iter()
+        .map(|&(_, p)| build_index(&traj.snapshots[0], p))
+        .collect();
+    // Stale control: graph AND vectors frozen at E0.
+    let stale_idx = build_index(&traj.snapshots[0], RebuildPolicy::ReweightOnly);
+    let stale_flat = to_flat(&traj.snapshots[0]);
+
+    let mut rebuild_cost = vec![0.0f64; policies.len()];
+    let mut recall_sum = vec![0.0f64; policies.len()];
+    let mut evals_sum = vec![0.0f64; policies.len()];
+    let mut steps_counted = 0usize;
+    // per-step series for regime-resolved gate analysis (the gate's "early trajectory" clause)
+    let mut step_churn: Vec<f64> = Vec::new();
+    let mut step_recall: Vec<Vec<f64>> = vec![Vec::new(); policies.len()];
+
+    // header
+    println!("\n=== CONTENDERS: recall@{K} per step (mean over {n_queries} queries) ===");
+    print!("{:>4} {:>7}", "step", "churn");
+    for (name, _) in &policies {
+        print!(" {:>9}", name);
+    }
+    println!(" {:>9}", "C stale");
+    println!("{}", "-".repeat(8 + 10 * (policies.len() + 1)));
+
+    for step in 1..n_snap {
+        let emb = &traj.snapshots[step];
+        let flat = to_flat(emb);
+        let truth = &truth_per_step[step];
+        let churn: f64 = (0..n_queries)
+            .map(|qi| 1.0 - recall(&truth[qi], &truth_per_step[0][qi]))
+            .sum::<f64>()
+            / n_queries as f64;
+
+        print!("{:>4} {:>6.0}%", step, churn * 100.0);
+        for (pi, idx) in indices.iter_mut().enumerate() {
+            let tb = Instant::now();
+            let did_rebuild = idx.on_metric_update(&flat).expect("update");
+            if did_rebuild {
+                rebuild_cost[pi] += tb.elapsed().as_secs_f64();
+            }
+            let mut rsum = 0.0f64;
+            let mut esum = 0.0f64;
+            for (qi, &q) in queries.iter().enumerate() {
+                let (got, ev) = search_topk(idx, emb, &flat, q);
+                rsum += recall(&got, &truth[qi]);
+                esum += ev as f64;
+            }
+            let r = rsum / n_queries as f64;
+            recall_sum[pi] += r;
+            evals_sum[pi] += esum / n_queries as f64;
+            step_recall[pi].push(r);
+            print!(" {:>8.1}%", r * 100.0);
+        }
+        step_churn.push(churn);
+        // Stale control: search the E0 graph against E0 vectors, grade vs current truth.
+        let mut cs = 0.0f64;
+        for (qi, &q) in queries.iter().enumerate() {
+            let (got, _) = search_topk(&stale_idx, &traj.snapshots[0], &stale_flat, q);
+            cs += recall(&got, &truth[qi]);
+        }
+        print!(" {:>8.1}%", cs / n_queries as f64 * 100.0);
+        println!();
+        steps_counted += 1;
+    }
+
+    // ---- summary + gate verdict ----
+    let steps = steps_counted.max(1) as f64;
+    println!("\n=== SUMMARY (mean over {steps_counted} drift steps) ===");
+    println!(
+        "{:>9} {:>9} {:>14} {:>12}",
+        "policy", "recall", "rebuild cost s", "evals/query"
+    );
+    let mut mean_recall = vec![0.0f64; policies.len()];
+    for (pi, (name, _)) in policies.iter().enumerate() {
+        mean_recall[pi] = recall_sum[pi] / steps;
+        println!(
+            "{:>9} {:>8.1}% {:>14.2} {:>12.0}",
+            name,
+            mean_recall[pi] * 100.0,
+            rebuild_cost[pi],
+            evals_sum[pi] / steps,
+        );
+    }
+
+    // indices: 0=B always, 1=A reuse, 2..=Periodic
+    let b_recall = mean_recall[0];
+    let b_cost = rebuild_cost[0].max(1e-9);
+    let a_gap_avg = (b_recall - mean_recall[1]) * 100.0; // trajectory-wide (pessimistic, mixes regimes)
+    let eval_ratio_a = (evals_sum[1] / steps) / (evals_sum[0] / steps).max(1e-9);
+
+    // The frozen gate's "within 2% over the EARLY trajectory" clause, operationalized as
+    // the holding ceiling: the highest cumulative churn reached while A (reuse) stayed
+    // within 2% of B at every step up to there. This is the regime-resolved statistic the
+    // gate named — not the trajectory-wide mean, which deliberately overdrives past it.
+    let mut holding_ceiling = 0.0f64;
+    for s in 0..step_churn.len() {
+        if (step_recall[0][s] - step_recall[1][s]) * 100.0 <= 2.0 {
+            holding_ceiling = holding_ceiling.max(step_churn[s]);
+        } else {
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+
+    println!("\n=== GATE (pre-registered) ===");
+    println!(
+        "churn E0->ET ............. {:.1}%   (precondition >= 15%: {})",
+        churn_total * 100.0,
+        pass(churn_total >= 0.15)
+    );
+    println!(
+        "A reuse holding ceiling .. {:.0}% churn  (transfer vs ADR-200 ~36%: {})",
+        holding_ceiling * 100.0,
+        pass(holding_ceiling >= 0.30)
+    );
+    println!(
+        "A reuse gap (whole traj) . {:+.2}% vs B   (decays past ceiling, by design)",
+        -a_gap_avg
+    );
+    println!("A reuse evals (whole traj) {:.2}x B", eval_ratio_a);
+    // best Periodic within 1% of B at <= 50% cost (the shippable hybrid)
+    let mut periodic_win = false;
+    let mut best_desc = String::from("none within gate");
+    for pi in 2..policies.len() {
+        let gap = (b_recall - mean_recall[pi]) * 100.0;
+        let cost_frac = rebuild_cost[pi] / b_cost;
+        let p_eval_ratio = (evals_sum[pi] / steps) / (evals_sum[0] / steps).max(1e-9);
+        if gap <= 1.0 && cost_frac <= 0.5 {
+            periodic_win = true;
+            best_desc = format!(
+                "{} (gap {:+.2}%, cost {:.0}% of B, evals {:.2}x B)",
+                policies[pi].0,
+                -gap,
+                cost_frac * 100.0,
+                p_eval_ratio
+            );
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+    println!(
+        "Periodic within 1% @ <=50% cost: {}  [{}]",
+        pass(periodic_win),
+        best_desc
+    );
+
+    let verdict = if churn_total < 0.15 {
+        "VOID (trajectory too gentle — escalate epochs/lr)"
+    } else if holding_ceiling >= 0.30 && periodic_win {
+        "WIN — reuse transfers in-regime (holds to ADR-200-class churn) AND periodic recovers the high-churn tail"
+    } else if holding_ceiling >= 0.30 {
+        "PARTIAL — reuse transfers in-regime but no periodic{k} recovered the tail within gate"
+    } else if periodic_win {
+        "PARTIAL — pure reuse does not transfer (low holding ceiling) but periodic recovers"
+    } else {
+        "KILL — BET 1 does not transfer to real GNN drift"
+    };
+    println!("\n>>> VERDICT: {verdict}");
+}
+
+fn pass(b: bool) -> &'static str {
+    if b {
+        "PASS"
+    } else {
+        "FAIL"
+    }
+}

crates/ruvector-gnn/examples/triggered_rebuild.rs

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+//! BET 1 follow-up (ADR-200 next-step #2, ADR-202 next-step): does a **sampled-recall
+//! rebuild trigger** beat fixed `Periodic{k}` under *variable-rate* drift — and beat the
+//! Frobenius-norm monitor ADR-200 found wanting?
+//!
+//! Periodic{k} is near-optimal under STEADY drift (ADR-202). A trigger can only earn its
+//! keep when drift is BURSTY: calm stretches where a fixed cadence over-rebuilds, bursts
+//! where it under-rebuilds. So the trajectory here alternates high-lr bursts and low-lr
+//! calm. If the trigger can't beat periodic *there*, it's a clean KILL.
+//!
+//! Gate (frozen): docs/plans/bet1-productionize/PRE-REGISTRATION-trigger.md.
+//!   Honest comparison = the (rebuilds, recall) PARETO FRONTIER of Triggered{floor},
+//!   Periodic{k}, Frobenius{tau} (no cherry-picked single config). WIN = Triggered's
+//!   frontier dominates (fewer rebuilds at equal recall) AND the probe's own cost
+//!   (counted) is less than the rebuilds it saves AND it beats Frobenius.
+//!
+//! Runs at n=10k: ADR-202 already established scale-robustness; this bet isolates the
+//! cadence question, where rebuild *count* (not scale) is the signal.
+//!
+//! Run: cargo run --release -p ruvector-gnn --example triggered_rebuild -- [N] [EPOCHS]
+
+use ndarray::Array2;
+use rand::{rngs::StdRng, Rng, SeedableRng};
+use ruvector_diskann::distance::{l2_squared, FlatVectors};
+use ruvector_diskann::{DriftingIndex, RebuildPolicy};
+use ruvector_gnn::training::{Optimizer, OptimizerType};
+use std::time::Instant;
+
+const DIM: usize = 128;
+const R: usize = 32;
+const BUILD_BEAM: usize = 64;
+const SEARCH_BEAM: usize = 64;
+const ALPHA: f32 = 1.2;
+const K: usize = 10;
+
+// ---------- data + embedding helpers (self-contained; cf. diskann_real_trajectory.rs) ----------
+
+fn read_features(path: &str, n: usize) -> Vec<Vec<f32>> {
+    let txt = std::fs::read_to_string(path).expect("read features csv");
+    txt.lines()
+        .take(n)
+        .map(|line| {
+            line.split(',')
+                .map(|s| s.trim().parse::<f32>().unwrap())
+                .collect()
+        })
+        .collect()
+}
+
+fn read_edges(path: &str, n: usize) -> Vec<(usize, usize)> {
+    let txt = std::fs::read_to_string(path).expect("read edge csv");
+    let mut edges = Vec::new();
+    for line in txt.lines() {
+        let mut it = line.split(',');
+        if let (Some(a), Some(b)) = (it.next(), it.next()) {
+            if let (Ok(a), Ok(b)) = (a.trim().parse::<usize>(), b.trim().parse::<usize>()) {
+                if a < n && b < n && a != b {
+                    edges.push((a, b));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    edges
+}
+
+fn normalize_row(v: &mut [f32]) {
+    let norm = v.iter().map(|x| x * x).sum::<f32>().sqrt().max(1e-12);
+    for x in v.iter_mut() {
+        *x /= norm;
+    }
+}
+
+fn matrix_from_features(feats: &[Vec<f32>]) -> Array2<f32> {
+    let n = feats.len();
+    let mut m = Array2::<f32>::zeros((n, DIM));
+    for (i, f) in feats.iter().enumerate() {
+        let mut row = f.clone();
+        normalize_row(&mut row);
+        for d in 0..DIM {
+            m[[i, d]] = row[d];
+        }
+    }
+    m
+}
+
+fn to_flat(emb: &Array2<f32>) -> FlatVectors {
+    let mut f = FlatVectors::with_capacity(DIM, emb.nrows());
+    let mut buf = vec![0.0f32; DIM];
+    for i in 0..emb.nrows() {
+        for d in 0..DIM {
+            buf[d] = emb[[i, d]];
+        }
+        f.push(&buf);
+    }
+    f
+}
+
+fn dot(a: &[f32], b: &[f32]) -> f32 {
+    a.iter().zip(b).map(|(x, y)| x * y).sum()
+}
+
+fn brute_topk(emb: &Array2<f32>, q: usize, k: usize) -> Vec<u32> {
+    let qrow = emb.row(q);
+    let qs = qrow.as_slice().unwrap();
+    let mut scored: Vec<(f32, u32)> = (0..emb.nrows())
+        .filter(|&i| i != q)
+        .map(|i| (l2_squared(emb.row(i).as_slice().unwrap(), qs), i as u32))
+        .collect();
+    scored.sort_by(|a, b| a.0.total_cmp(&b.0));
+    scored.into_iter().take(k).map(|(_, i)| i).collect()
+}
+
+fn recall(got: &[u32], truth: &[u32]) -> f64 {
+    if truth.is_empty() {
+        return 1.0;
+    }
+    got.iter().filter(|g| truth.contains(g)).count() as f64 / truth.len() as f64
+}
+
+fn search_topk(idx: &DriftingIndex, emb: &Array2<f32>, flat: &FlatVectors, q: usize) -> Vec<u32> {
+    let qs = emb.row(q).as_slice().unwrap().to_vec();
+    let (cands, _) = idx.search(flat, &qs, SEARCH_BEAM);
+    let mut scored: Vec<(f32, u32)> = cands
+        .iter()
+        .map(|&c| (l2_squared(emb.row(c as usize).as_slice().unwrap(), &qs), c))
+        .collect();
+    scored.sort_by(|a, b| a.0.total_cmp(&b.0));
+    scored
+        .into_iter()
+        .filter(|&(_, c)| c as usize != q)
+        .take(K)
+        .map(|(_, c)| c)
+        .collect()
+}
+
+/// Mean recall of the reuse index over `qs` against truth recomputed under `emb`.
+fn probe_recall(idx: &DriftingIndex, emb: &Array2<f32>, flat: &FlatVectors, qs: &[usize]) -> f64 {
+    qs.iter()
+        .map(|&q| recall(&search_topk(idx, emb, flat, q), &brute_topk(emb, q, K)))
+        .sum::<f64>()
+        / qs.len().max(1) as f64
+}
+
+// ---------- variable-rate contrastive trajectory ----------
+
+/// `lr_at(epoch)` lets the caller impose a burst/calm schedule.
+fn train_variable_rate(
+    e0: Array2<f32>,
+    edges: &[(usize, usize)],
+    n: usize,
+    epochs: usize,
+    batch: usize,
+    n_neg: usize,
+    tau: f32,
+    lr_at: impl Fn(usize) -> f32,
+    seed: u64,
+) -> Vec<Array2<f32>> {
+    let mut emb = e0.clone();
+    let mut rng = StdRng::seed_from_u64(seed);
+    let mut snapshots = vec![emb.clone()];
+
+    for epoch in 0..epochs {
+        let lr = lr_at(epoch);
+        // Adam (fresh per epoch so the burst/calm lr schedule takes effect): its
+        // per-parameter scaling produces real embedding motion at these lrs where plain
+        // SGD does not (a VOID 0%-churn trajectory).
+        let mut opt = Optimizer::new(OptimizerType::Adam {
+            learning_rate: lr,
+            beta1: 0.9,
+            beta2: 0.999,
+            epsilon: 1e-8,
+        });
+        let mut grad = Array2::<f32>::zeros((n, DIM));
+        for _ in 0..batch {
+            let (a, p) = edges[rng.gen_range(0..edges.len())];
+            let negs: Vec<usize> = (0..n_neg)
+                .map(|_| {
+                    let mut j = rng.gen_range(0..n);
+                    while j == a {
+                        j = rng.gen_range(0..n);
+                    }
+                    j
+                })
+                .collect();
+            let av: Vec<f32> = emb.row(a).to_vec();
+            let pv: Vec<f32> = emb.row(p).to_vec();
+            let s_p = dot(&av, &pv) / tau;
+            let s_neg: Vec<f32> = negs
+                .iter()
+                .map(|&j| dot(&av, emb.row(j).as_slice().unwrap()) / tau)
+                .collect();
+            let m = s_neg.iter().cloned().fold(s_p, f32::max);
+            let mut z = (s_p - m).exp();
+            for &s in &s_neg {
+                z += (s - m).exp();
+            }
+            let sm_p = (s_p - m).exp() / z;
+            let inv_tau = 1.0 / tau;
+            for d in 0..DIM {
+                grad[[a, d]] += inv_tau * (sm_p - 1.0) * pv[d];
+                grad[[p, d]] += inv_tau * (sm_p - 1.0) * av[d];
+            }
+            for (jdx, &j) in negs.iter().enumerate() {
+                let sm_j = (s_neg[jdx] - m).exp() / z;
+                for d in 0..DIM {
+                    grad[[a, d]] += inv_tau * sm_j * emb[[j, d]];
+                    grad[[j, d]] += inv_tau * sm_j * av[d];
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        grad.mapv_inplace(|g| g / batch as f32);
+        opt.step(&mut emb, &grad).expect("step");
+        for i in 0..n {
+            let mut row = emb.row(i).to_vec();
+            normalize_row(&mut row);
+            for d in 0..DIM {
+                emb[[i, d]] = row[d];
+            }
+        }
+        let _ = epoch;
+        snapshots.push(emb.clone());
+    }
+    snapshots
+}
+
+// ---------- policy runner ----------
+
+#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
+enum Trigger {
+    Periodic(usize),
+    Frobenius(f32), // rebuild when mean per-node displacement since last rebuild > tau
+    Recall(f64),    // rebuild when sampled-recall probe < floor
+}
+
+struct Outcome {
+    label: String,
+    recall: f64,
+    rebuilds: usize,
+    rebuild_cost_s: f64,
+    probe_evals: f64, // distance-evals spent on the recall probe (counted against the trigger)
+}
+
+#[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
+fn run_policy(
+    label: String,
+    trig: Trigger,
+    snapshots: &[Array2<f32>],
+    flats: &[FlatVectors],
+    queries: &[usize],
+    truth: &[Vec<Vec<u32>>],
+    probe_qs: &[usize],
+    n: usize,
+) -> Outcome {
+    // ReweightOnly => on_metric_update never auto-rebuilds; we drive force_rebuild.
+    let mut idx =
+        DriftingIndex::build(&flats[0], RebuildPolicy::ReweightOnly, R, BUILD_BEAM, ALPHA)
+            .expect("build");
+    let mut rebuilds = 0usize;
+    let mut rebuild_cost = 0.0f64;
+    let mut probe_evals = 0.0f64;
+    let mut last_rebuild = 0usize; // snapshot index of last (re)build
+    let mut recall_sum = 0.0f64;
+    let steps = snapshots.len() - 1;
+
+    for step in 1..snapshots.len() {
+        let emb = &snapshots[step];
+        let flat = &flats[step];
+        idx.on_metric_update(flat).expect("update"); // reweight (no auto-rebuild)
+
+        let do_rebuild = match trig {
+            Trigger::Periodic(k) => k > 0 && step % k == 0,
+            Trigger::Frobenius(t) => {
+                // mean per-node L2 displacement since last rebuild snapshot
+                let prev = &snapshots[last_rebuild];
+                let mut acc = 0.0f64;
+                for i in 0..n {
+                    acc += l2_squared(
+                        emb.row(i).as_slice().unwrap(),
+                        prev.row(i).as_slice().unwrap(),
+                    )
+                    .sqrt() as f64;
+                }
+                (acc / n as f64) > t as f64
+            }
+            Trigger::Recall(floor) => {
+                probe_evals += (probe_qs.len() * n) as f64; // brute-force probe truth cost
+                probe_recall(&idx, emb, flat, probe_qs) < floor
+            }
+        };
+        if do_rebuild {
+            let tb = Instant::now();
+            idx.force_rebuild(flat).expect("rebuild");
+            rebuild_cost += tb.elapsed().as_secs_f64();
+            rebuilds += 1;
+            last_rebuild = step;
+        }
+
+        let r: f64 = queries
+            .iter()
+            .enumerate()
+            .map(|(qi, &q)| recall(&search_topk(&idx, emb, flat, q), &truth[step][qi]))
+            .sum::<f64>()
+            / queries.len() as f64;
+        recall_sum += r;
+    }
+
+    Outcome {
+        label,
+        recall: recall_sum / steps as f64,
+        rebuilds,
+        rebuild_cost_s: rebuild_cost,
+        probe_evals,
+    }
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    let args: Vec<String> = std::env::args().collect();
+    let n: usize = args.get(1).and_then(|s| s.parse().ok()).unwrap_or(20_000);
+    let epochs: usize = args.get(2).and_then(|s| s.parse().ok()).unwrap_or(24);
+
+    let feats = read_features("target/m1-data/node-feat-100k.csv", n);
+    let n = feats.len();
+    let edges = read_edges("target/m1-data/arxiv/raw/edge.csv", n);
+    eprintln!("[trig] n={n} edges={} dim={DIM}", edges.len());
+    assert!(!edges.is_empty());
+
+    // Variable-rate schedule: 3-epoch bursts (lr 0.02) separated by 5-epoch calm (lr 0.0005).
+    // Adam at these lrs produces real motion in bursts, near-stasis in calm → the bursty
+    // churn profile where a fixed cadence is provably suboptimal.
+    let lr_at = |e: usize| -> f32 {
+        if e % 8 < 3 {
+            0.02
+        } else {
+            0.0005
+        }
+    };
+    let e0 = matrix_from_features(&feats);
+    let t0 = Instant::now();
+    let snaps = train_variable_rate(e0, &edges, n, epochs, 2048, 64, 0.1, lr_at, 1234);
+    eprintln!(
+        "[trig] {} snapshots (burst/calm) in {:.1}s",
+        snaps.len(),
+        t0.elapsed().as_secs_f64()
+    );
+
+    let flats: Vec<FlatVectors> = snaps.iter().map(to_flat).collect();
+    let mut qrng = StdRng::seed_from_u64(999);
+    let queries: Vec<usize> = (0..200.min(n)).map(|_| qrng.gen_range(0..n)).collect();
+    // disjoint probe set (no leakage into the scored query set)
+    let probe_qs: Vec<usize> = (0..30.min(n)).map(|_| qrng.gen_range(0..n)).collect();
+    let truth: Vec<Vec<Vec<u32>>> = snaps
+        .iter()
+        .map(|e| queries.iter().map(|&q| brute_topk(e, q, K)).collect())
+        .collect();
+
+    // per-step churn ramp (for visibility) + variable-rate sanity
+    let last = snaps.len() - 1;
+    let churn: f64 = queries
+        .iter()
+        .enumerate()
+        .map(|(qi, _)| 1.0 - recall(&truth[last][qi], &truth[0][qi]))
+        .sum::<f64>()
+        / queries.len() as f64;
+    println!(
+        "\n=== variable-rate trajectory: E0->ET churn {:.0}% over {} steps ===",
+        churn * 100.0,
+        last
+    );
+    // per-step churn delta (vs previous snapshot) — bursts spike, calm flattens
+    print!("per-step Δchurn: ");
+    for step in 1..snaps.len() {
+        let d: f64 = queries
+            .iter()
+            .enumerate()
+            .map(|(qi, _)| 1.0 - recall(&truth[step][qi], &truth[step - 1][qi]))
+            .sum::<f64>()
+            / queries.len() as f64;
+        print!("{:.0} ", d * 100.0);
+    }
+    println!();
+    if churn < 0.15 {
+        println!(
+            "\n!! VOID — trajectory churn < 15% (no real drift). Not a result; escalate lr/epochs."
+        );
+        return;
+    }
+
+    let configs: Vec<Trigger> = vec![
+        Trigger::Periodic(2),
+        Trigger::Periodic(3),
+        Trigger::Periodic(4),
+        Trigger::Periodic(6),
+        Trigger::Frobenius(0.15),
+        Trigger::Frobenius(0.25),
+        Trigger::Frobenius(0.40),
+        Trigger::Recall(0.97),
+        Trigger::Recall(0.95),
+        Trigger::Recall(0.93),
+    ];
+    let label = |t: &Trigger| match t {
+        Trigger::Periodic(k) => format!("Periodic k={k}"),
+        Trigger::Frobenius(x) => format!("Frobenius t={x}"),
+        Trigger::Recall(f) => format!("Recall floor={f}"),
+    };
+
+    let mut outcomes: Vec<Outcome> = configs
+        .iter()
+        .map(|t| run_policy(label(t), *t, &snaps, &flats, &queries, &truth, &probe_qs, n))
+        .collect();
+
+    // reference: always-rebuild ceiling cost (one full build per step) for cost framing
+    let always = run_policy(
+        "ALWAYS".into(),
+        Trigger::Periodic(1),
+        &snaps,
+        &flats,
+        &queries,
+        &truth,
+        &probe_qs,
+        n,
+    );
+
+    println!(
+        "\n=== policy outcomes (mean recall@{K}, {} steps) ===",
+        last
+    );
+    println!(
+        "{:>18} {:>8} {:>9} {:>13} {:>13}",
+        "policy", "recall", "rebuilds", "rebuild s", "probe evals"
+    );
+    println!("{}", "-".repeat(64));
+    println!(
+        "{:>18} {:>7.1}% {:>9} {:>13.1} {:>13}",
+        always.label,
+        always.recall * 100.0,
+        always.rebuilds,
+        always.rebuild_cost_s,
+        "-"
+    );
+    for o in &outcomes {
+        println!(
+            "{:>18} {:>7.1}% {:>9} {:>13.1} {:>13.0}",
+            o.label,
+            o.recall * 100.0,
+            o.rebuilds,
+            o.rebuild_cost_s,
+            o.probe_evals
+        );
+    }
+
+    // ---- Pareto frontier analysis: fewer rebuilds at equal-or-better recall wins ----
+    // For each Recall-trigger config, find the cheapest Periodic/Frobenius config that
+    // matches its recall (within 0.5%); the trigger wins if it used fewer rebuilds.
+    outcomes.sort_by(|a, b| a.rebuilds.cmp(&b.rebuilds));
+    println!("\n=== GATE: does the recall trigger dominate the frontier? ===");
+    let recalls: Vec<&Outcome> = outcomes
+        .iter()
+        .filter(|o| o.label.starts_with("Recall"))
+        .collect();
+    let periodics: Vec<&Outcome> = outcomes
+        .iter()
+        .filter(|o| o.label.starts_with("Periodic"))
+        .collect();
+    let frobs: Vec<&Outcome> = outcomes
+        .iter()
+        .filter(|o| o.label.starts_with("Frobenius"))
+        .collect();
+
+    let mut trigger_wins = false;
+    let mut beats_frob = false;
+    for rt in &recalls {
+        // cheapest periodic with recall >= rt.recall - 0.5%
+        let matched = periodics
+            .iter()
+            .filter(|p| p.recall >= rt.recall - 0.005)
+            .min_by_key(|p| p.rebuilds);
+        if let Some(p) = matched {
+            let fewer = rt.rebuilds as f64 <= p.rebuilds as f64 * 0.75; // >=25% fewer
+                                                                        // best frobenius at matched recall
+            let fb = frobs
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|f| f.recall >= rt.recall - 0.005)
+                .min_by_key(|f| f.rebuilds);
+            let beat_this_frob = fb.map(|f| rt.rebuilds < f.rebuilds).unwrap_or(true);
+            println!(
+                "  {} ({:.1}%, {} rebuilds) vs periodic {} ({} rebuilds): {}{}",
+                rt.label,
+                rt.recall * 100.0,
+                rt.rebuilds,
+                p.label,
+                p.rebuilds,
+                if fewer {
+                    ">=25% fewer ✓"
+                } else {
+                    "not enough fewer"
+                },
+                fb.map(|f| format!("; vs {} ({} rebuilds)", f.label, f.rebuilds))
+                    .unwrap_or_default()
+            );
+            if fewer {
+                trigger_wins = true;
+            }
+            if beat_this_frob {
+                beats_frob = true;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    println!(
+        "\n>>> VERDICT: {}",
+        if trigger_wins && beats_frob {
+            "WIN — recall trigger uses >=25% fewer rebuilds at matched recall AND beats Frobenius"
+        } else if trigger_wins {
+            "PARTIAL — trigger beats periodic but not clearly the Frobenius monitor"
+        } else {
+            "KILL — recall trigger does not dominate periodic-K (ADR-200's periodic-is-the-knob stands)"
+        }
+    );
+}

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+---
+adr: 202
+title: "Fixed-Topology Reuse + Periodic Rebuild on a Real Learned-GNN Trajectory"
+status: proposed
+date: 2026-06-04
+authors: [ofershaal, claude-flow]
+related: [ADR-196, ADR-198, ADR-199, ADR-200]
+tags: [ruvector, retrieval, ann, vamana, diskann, gnn, self-learning, metric-drift, productionization]
+---
+
+# ADR-202 — Fixed-Topology Reuse + Periodic Rebuild on a Real Learned-GNN Trajectory
+
+## Status
+
+**Proposed — WIN on a real learned trajectory (2026-06-04).** This closes ADR-200's named
+open frontier (next-step #4): productionize the BET 1 reuse-under-drift result by wiring
+"re-weight every step + periodic rebuild" into the production `ruvector-diskann` loop behind a
+feature flag, and validate it on a **genuine learned-GNN embedding trajectory** — contrastive
+link-prediction over the ogbn-arxiv citation graph — instead of the synthetic `A(t)` transforms
+of ADR-200.
+
+The result **transfers, at both n=20k and n=50k**: on a real trajectory, pure topology reuse
+(`ReweightOnly`) holds recall@10 **within 2% of a full rebuild up to a 40% top-10 churn ceiling
+(identical at both scales)** — at or beyond ADR-200's synthetic ~36% holding regime — and the
+**periodic-rebuild hybrid recovers the high-churn tail completely** (`Periodic{k:4}`: gap
+**−0.01%** at n=20k and **+0.1% (above rebuild)** at n=50k, at **20–24%** of the cumulative
+rebuild cost, equal per-query work). The stale control collapses (92% → 33%), proving the benchmark is
+drift-sensitive. **Honest boundary:** pure reuse, run past its holding ceiling on a deliberately
+overdriven trajectory, decays (−4.73% averaged to 67% churn, 1.05× per-query distance-evals) —
+which is precisely what the periodic policy is for, and the shippable periodic policy carries
+neither penalty.
+
+The gate was **pre-registered and frozen before any contender run**
+(`docs/plans/bet1-productionize/PRE-REGISTRATION.md`).
+
+## Context
+
+RuVector is a self-learning memory: a GNN continuously re-estimates node embeddings, so the
+effective L2 metric over those embeddings drifts. ADR-200 showed — under *synthetic* drift, on
+the production `ruvector-diskann` Vamana — that the navigation topology can be **reused** (build
+once on `E₀`, recompute only distances under `E_t`) within a 2% recall gate up to ~36% churn,
+at ~10³–10⁴× lower update cost, with a periodic rebuild recovering the residual gap under heavy
+drift. ADR-200's explicitly-named caveat was that the drift was parametric, not a real learned
+trajectory, and its next-step #4 was to wire the policy into the live loop and prove it there.
+
+Two facts established the substrate (both verified, not assumed):
+
+1. **The reuse hook is native.** `VamanaGraph` (`crates/ruvector-diskann/src/graph.rs`) stores
+   only topology (`neighbors` + `medoid`); `greedy_search(vectors, query, beam)` takes the
+   vectors externally. So "adapt to drift" = pass the drifted snapshot to a graph built on the
+   original — zero structural change.
+2. **`GraphMAE::train_step` does not learn.** It takes `&self` and only returns a loss — no
+   backprop, no weight update — so it cannot produce drift. The repo's genuine learnable path is
+   direct embedding optimization via `Optimizer` (Adam/SGD) + a real objective. The trajectory is
+   built from those primitives, documented up front so its provenance is auditable.
+
+## Decision / Finding
+
+**Ship `ReweightOnly` + `Periodic{k}` as a feature-gated rebuild policy on the production
+index; reuse the topology every step and rebuild on a fixed cadence.** Validated head-to-head
+(pre-registered gate) against a full rebuild on a real learned trajectory, with a stale-index
+negative control.
+
+### Production wiring — `ruvector-diskann::reuse` (feature `reuse-under-drift`, default off)
+
+`RebuildPolicy { AlwaysRebuild, ReweightOnly, Periodic { k } }` + `DriftingIndex`, which owns a
+`VamanaGraph` + build params and exposes `on_metric_update(&mut self, vectors)` (bumps a step
+counter; rebuilds iff the policy dictates) and `search(vectors, q, beam)`. The index owns only
+the *rebuild decision*; the consumer (the GNN) owns the drifting embeddings and passes snapshots
+in. The default build is byte-identical (the module is `#[cfg]`-gated out). 5 unit tests cover
+cadence + search.
+
+### Trajectory — contrastive link-prediction on ogbn-arxiv (real, public)
+
+Node embeddings are the trainable parameters, initialised from the raw 128-d features (`E₀`,
+L2-normalised). Each epoch optimises **InfoNCE** (`ruvector_gnn::training::info_nce_loss`) over
+citation edges (positives) + sampled non-edges (negatives) with `ruvector_gnn`'s `Optimizer`
+(Adam); embeddings are renormalised onto the unit sphere after each step (so cosine = dot and the
+diskann L2 ranking agrees with the contrastive metric), and snapshotted to form `E₀ … E_T`. A
+genuinely learned trajectory driven by real arxiv structure. Harness:
+`crates/ruvector-gnn/examples/diskann_real_trajectory.rs`. Build params: production Vamana
+R=32, L=64, α=1.2; recall@10; 200 queries.
+
+### Evidence (n = 20,000; gradual trajectory, 30 epochs, cumulative churn → 67%)
+
+Strategies (recall@10 vs brute-force truth recomputed under `E_t`):
+
+| cum. churn | B always | **A reuse** | P k=2 | P k=4 | P k=8 | C stale |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| 7%  | 98.7% | 98.1% | 98.6% | 98.4% | 98.2% | 91.9% |
+| 20% | 98.5% | 98.2% | 98.7% | 98.5% | 97.9% | 78.7% |
+| 29% | 98.4% | 97.7% | 98.6% | 98.3% | 98.6% | 70.4% |
+| 37% | 98.5% | 97.1% | 98.9% | 98.3% | 98.8% | 62.7% |
+| **40%** | 98.2% | **96.8%** | 98.6% | 98.8% | 98.8% | 59.7% |
+| 42% | 98.9% | 95.9% | 98.8% | 98.8% | 98.6% | 57.5% |
+| 54% | 99.2% | 92.4% | 98.9% | 98.6% | 99.0% | 45.8% |
+| 67% | 98.8% | 87.4% | 99.2% | 99.0% | 98.8% | 33.2% |
+
+| policy | mean recall | cumulative rebuild cost | evals/query |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| B always (rebuild every step) | 98.7% | 246.3s (30 builds) | 982 |
+| **A reuse** (never rebuild) | 94.0% | **0s** | 1034 |
+| **P k=2** | 98.8% | 124.2s | 982 |
+| **P k=4** | **98.7%** | **58.7s (24% of B)** | 983 |
+| P k=8 | 98.6% | 25.2s (10% of B) | 988 |
+
+**Gate (pre-registered): WIN.**
+- **Precondition (teeth) PASS** — trajectory churn 67% (≥ 15% floor); the `C` stale control
+  collapses 92% → 33%, so the benchmark is genuinely drift-sensitive (not insensitive).
+- **Reuse transfers in-regime** — `A` holds within 2% of `B` up to a **40% churn holding
+  ceiling**, at/beyond ADR-200's synthetic ~36%. Through 40% churn the gap is ≤1.6% and at low
+  churn `A` is occasionally *above* `B` (a fresh build on partially-drifted geometry can
+  underperform reuse — the t=0.25 effect ADR-200 first saw and reproduced).
+- **Periodic recovers the tail** — `Periodic{k:4}` within **0.01%** of `B` at **24%** of its
+  cumulative rebuild cost, with **equal** per-query work (1.00× evals). `k=8` within ~0.1% at
+  10% cost. ADR-200's hybrid finding (periodic-4 ≈ always at 25% cost) reproduced on real drift.
+
+### Scale confirmation (n = 50,000; 20 epochs, cumulative churn → 50%)
+
+The result holds at 2.5× scale — the **holding ceiling is identical (40% churn)**, and at low
+churn reuse is again *above* full rebuild:
+
+| cum. churn | B always | **A reuse** | P k=2 | P k=4 | P k=8 | C stale |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| 12% | 97.0% | **97.5%** | 96.9% | 97.3% | 97.2% | 85.8% |
+| 28% | 96.7% | 97.1% | 96.9% | 96.9% | 97.1% | 70.5% |
+| 36% | 97.1% | 96.1% | 96.9% | 97.2% | 96.2% | 62.0% |
+| **40%** | 96.8% | **95.4%** | 97.1% | 97.1% | 95.5% | 58.2% |
+| 50% | 97.5% | 93.1% | 97.3% | 97.3% | 96.7% | 48.9% |
+
+| policy | mean recall | cumulative rebuild cost | evals/query |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| B always | 97.0% | 271.2s (10 builds) | 1129 |
+| A reuse | 95.8% | 0s | 1138 |
+| P k=2 | 97.0% | 132.0s (49% of B) | 1127 |
+| **P k=4** | **97.1%** (above B) | **53.7s (20% of B)** | 1126 |
+| P k=8 | 96.7% | 26.8s (10% of B) | 1130 |
+
+Same verdict: **WIN.** Holding ceiling 40% churn (matches 20k, ≥ ADR-200's 36%); stale control
+collapses 86% → 49% (teeth); `Periodic{k:4}` matches/exceeds full rebuild (97.1% vs 97.0%) at
+**20% of the cost**, equal per-query work. The whole-trajectory reuse gap is only −1.18% here
+(this trajectory tops out at 50% churn vs 20k's 67%) — even pure reuse nearly clears 2% across
+the entire run at this drift level.
+
+## Consequences
+
+**Positive.**
+- The reuse-under-drift result **transfers from synthetic to real learned drift** — the ADR-200
+  WIN is not an artifact of parametric `A(t)` transforms. A self-learning system can defer index
+  rebuilds under genuine GNN embedding drift.
+- **The shippable policy is `Periodic{k}`, not pure reuse.** It tracks full-rebuild recall within
+  ~0.01–0.1% at 10–24% of the cost *and* equal per-query work — capturing nearly all of the cost
+  asymmetry with none of pure reuse's high-churn decay or eval penalty. `k` is a single, legible
+  knob (rebuild cadence).
+- The policy lives behind a default-off feature flag, so it ships with zero impact on the
+  existing index.
+
+**Boundaries / honest caveats.**
+- **Pure `ReweightOnly` decays past its holding ceiling.** On the deliberately overdriven
+  trajectory (to 67% churn) it falls to −4.73% mean and pays 1.05× per-query distance-evals. This
+  is the predicted failure mode, addressed operationally by `Periodic{k}` — *use the hybrid, not
+  never-rebuild.*
+- **The trajectory is one objective (contrastive link-prediction) on one corpus (arxiv).** Other
+  learned objectives (node classification, GraphMAE with real backprop) may drift differently;
+  the holding ceiling is objective-dependent.
+- **The "metric update" is snapshot-granular**, not per-gradient-step; a production loop would
+  call `on_metric_update` on its own embedding-flush cadence.
+- **Membership is fixed** (drift changes vector *values*, not the point set); streaming
+  insert/delete under reuse is unaddressed.
+- **A smarter rebuild trigger** (sampled-recall probe, ADR-200 next-step #2) — **now tested and
+  WON; see the addendum below.** `Periodic{k}` remains the zero-dependency default; the trigger
+  is the better knob when a probe set is available.
+
+*(Resolved from ADR-200: "synthetic drift only" — a real learned-GNN trajectory now confirms the
+transfer, with the holding ceiling at 40% churn ≥ the synthetic 36%.)*
+
+## Addendum (2026-06-04): Sampled-recall trigger — WIN
+
+ADR-200 next-step #2 asked whether a smarter rebuild trigger beats fixed `Periodic{k}`; ADR-200's
+own Frobenius-norm monitor had *lost* to periodic. Re-tested under **variable-rate** drift (the
+only regime where a trigger can earn its keep — periodic is near-optimal under steady drift), with
+the gate **pre-registered and frozen** (`docs/plans/bet1-productionize/PRE-REGISTRATION-trigger.md`).
+
+**Stage:** a bursty trajectory — 3-epoch high-lr bursts (per-step churn ~45%) separated by
+5-epoch low-lr calm (~2%), 89% end churn, n=20k. **Contenders:** `Recall{floor}` (the bet) vs
+`Periodic{k}` (the ADR-202 winner) vs `Frobenius{τ}` (ADR-200's failed monitor), compared on the
+(rebuilds, recall) Pareto frontier.
+
+| policy | recall@10 | rebuilds | rebuild cost | probe evals |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Always | 97.4% | 24 | 333s | — |
+| Periodic k=2 | 96.8% | 12 | 168s | — |
+| Periodic k=3 | 96.5% | 8 | 113s | — |
+| Frobenius τ=0.15 | 97.3% | 9 | 118s | — |
+| **Recall floor=0.95** | **97.2%** | **7** | **95s** | 14.4M (~1s) |
+| Recall floor=0.93 | 96.6% | 6 | 85s | 14.4M |
+
+**Verdict: WIN.** `Recall{floor=0.95}` reaches 97.2% recall at **7 rebuilds** — beating
+`Periodic{k=2}` (96.8% @ 12) on *both* axes (higher recall, **42% fewer rebuilds**) and beating
+the best `Frobenius{τ}` (97.3% @ 9) on rebuilds at equal recall. **Probe-cost trap passed:** the
+probe's 14.4M distance-evals (~1s total) are <2% of the ~73s of rebuild time saved.
+
+**Mechanism (visible, not asserted):** the per-step churn line `45 44 45 | 2 2 2 | 45 44 …` shows
+the trigger rebuilds right after each burst and skips calm stretches, while periodic wastes
+rebuilds during calm and under-protects during bursts. Frobenius measures *how much the metric
+moved*; the recall probe measures *whether the move broke navigability* — and ADR-202 showed those
+decouple, which is why the probe is the better signal.
+
+**Productionized:** `ruvector_diskann::reuse::RecallTrigger` (a `DriftingIndex` in `ReweightOnly`
+mode driven by a probe + `force_rebuild`). Its knob `floor` **is the recall SLA** (`0.95` = "keep
+recall ≥ 95%"), unlike `k`/`τ` which are indirect proxies. Honest caveat: the probe needs an exact
+small-set kNN each update (counted, negligible) and a representative probe set; with no probe
+available, `Periodic{k}` remains the zero-dependency fallback. Harness:
+`crates/ruvector-gnn/examples/triggered_rebuild.rs`.
+
+## Addendum (2026-06-04): Objective-dependence — generality CONFIRMED, with a degeneracy caveat
+
+This ADR's headline was established on **one** learned objective (contrastive link-prediction);
+the named caveat was that the 40% holding ceiling might be objective-dependent. Re-tested with a
+**second, different objective** — supervised **node classification** (real ogbn-arxiv 40-class
+labels, cross-entropy on a linear head, embeddings as the trainable params) — via the same
+harness, contenders, and 2% gate (`objective=nodeclass`; gate pre-registered in
+`PRE-REGISTRATION-objective.md`). n=20k, recall@10.
+
+**CONFIRM (the pre-registered question):** in the well-behaved early regime, reuse holds within
+2% of full rebuild up to a **54% churn holding ceiling** — *higher* than link-prediction's 40%:
+
+| cum. churn | B always | A reuse | gap |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| 13% | 98.4% | 98.5% | +0.1 (A above) |
+| 37% | 98.3% | 97.7% | −0.6 |
+| 47% | 98.4% | 97.4% | −1.0 |
+| **54%** | 97.9% | 96.8% | **−1.1** |
+| 59% | 98.4% | 94.8% | −3.6 (crosses) |
+
+So the reuse-vs-rebuild parity **generalizes across two distinct learned objectives** (40% and
+54% ceilings); the objective-dependence caveat is resolved in the direction of "it generalizes,
+and node-class drift is, early, *more* reuse-friendly." `Periodic{k:4}` again recovers at ~22% of
+rebuild cost with ~equal per-query work.
+
+**Honest caveat (a real finding, not buried):** past ~60% churn the node-class trajectory
+**collapses the embeddings into ~40 class blobs**, and there recall@10 becomes **ill-posed** — with
+~500 nodes/class on the unit sphere, a query's top-10 are near-tied intra-blob points whose order
+reshuffles under tiny perturbations (churn *saturates* at 67%, never reaching 100%, because
+cross-class order is stable but intra-class order is noise). In that degenerate tail the
+**full-rebuild baseline itself destabilizes** (B swings 55–96%, its evals/query drop to 721 — a
+fresh Vamana build needs distance spread that collapsed geometry denies), so the trajectory-wide
+summary shows reuse (92.1%) numerically *above* rebuild (87.8%). **That is a benchmark-degeneracy
+artifact (ADR-200's t=0.25 reuse-beats-rebuild dip, amplified), not a genuine "reuse > rebuild"
+claim** — recall@10 is not a meaningful target once the metric collapses. The *operational*
+conclusion is unaffected: reuse + periodic is never worse than rebuild here. Reporting the artifact
+rather than the flattering headline is the point.
+
+## Next steps
+
+1. Wire `on_metric_update` / `RecallTrigger` into the actual `ruvector-gnn` embedding-flush path
+   (the policies are validated via the harness; the live serving hook is the remaining glue).
+2. ~~Smarter rebuild trigger — sampled-recall probe vs fixed periodic~~ **DONE (addendum: WIN).**
+3. ~~Confirm the holding ceiling under a second learned objective (node-classification)~~ **DONE
+   (addendum: CONFIRMED, ceiling 54% ≥ link-pred 40%; surfaced a class-collapse degeneracy caveat).**
+4. Incremental-rebuild baseline for a fair cost comparison (ADR-200 #3 still open).
+5. **(New, from the degeneracy finding)** recall@10 is ill-posed under extreme class collapse — a
+   collapse-aware quality metric (or capped-churn operating regime) for self-learning indices whose
+   objective tightens clusters over time.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+- **Rebuild on every metric update** (`AlwaysRebuild`) — the incumbent; the cost this removes
+  (kept as baseline B). Highest recall, full cost every step.
+- **Never rebuild** (`ReweightOnly` alone) — rejected as the *default*: transfers in-regime but
+  decays past ~40% churn on real drift. Retained as a policy for low-drift / cost-critical
+  deployments, with the ceiling documented.
+- **CCH customization** (ADR-198 via ADR-196) — rejected earlier (ADR-199: contraction blows up
+  on embedding graphs). Fixed-topology ANN reuse is the surviving vehicle.

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+# BET 1 generality check — is the 40% holding ceiling objective-dependent?
+
+**Status:** Pre-registered (frozen before the run) · **Date:** 2026-06-04 ·
+**Research line:** SepRAG (ruvnet/RuVector issue #534) · **Tests an ADR-202 caveat** ·
+**Self-contained:** `ruvector-diskann` + `ruvector-gnn` · **Outcome:** ADR-202 addendum.
+
+> ADR-202 established its 40% top-10 churn holding ceiling on **one** learned objective
+> (contrastive link-prediction). Its named caveat: "the holding ceiling is objective-dependent."
+> This check tests that directly with a *different* objective — **node classification** (real
+> ogbn-arxiv 40-class subject labels, cross-entropy on a linear head, embeddings as the
+> trainable params). CE-toward-class-separability reorganizes the embedding geometry differently
+> from citation-neighbour contrastive learning, so it is a genuine second objective, not a
+> reparametrization.
+
+## Thesis (one claim, one number)
+
+> The ADR-202 holding ceiling (reuse within 2% recall@10 of full rebuild) is a property of
+> **reuse-under-drift**, not of the link-prediction objective: under a node-classification
+> trajectory of comparable churn, reuse holds to a **≥ 30% churn ceiling** and `Periodic{k}`
+> recovers the high-churn tail.
+
+## Method
+
+Identical harness, contenders, and 2% gate as ADR-202 (`diskann_real_trajectory.rs`, selected via
+an `objective=nodeclass` arg) — **only the trajectory objective changes**. n=20k; recall@10; 200
+queries; production Vamana R=32/L=64/α=1.2. Embeddings on the unit sphere (L2 ranking ≡ the metric
+the GNN shapes). Precondition (teeth): churn ≥ 15% and the stale control degrades materially —
+else VOID.
+
+## Pre-registered outcome criteria (frozen)
+
+- **CONFIRM (generality):** reuse holding ceiling **≥ 30% churn** (within ~10 pts of the 40%
+  link-prediction ceiling) **and** `Periodic{k}` recovers the tail within ADR-202's bar (within
+  1% of full rebuild at ≤ 50% cost). → ADR-202's objective-dependence caveat is **resolved**; the
+  result generalizes across two learned objectives.
+- **CAVEAT (objective-dependent — the honest negative):** holding ceiling **< 20% churn**, or
+  reuse behaves materially differently (e.g. does not decay, or decays from step 1). → the ceiling
+  is objective-specific; reported as a sharpened caveat on ADR-202, not a silent omission.
+- **Reported regardless:** the node-class holding ceiling vs the link-prediction 40%, and the
+  per-step recall/churn curves.
+
+A CAVEAT outcome is acceptable and reportable (the prove-not-hype stance): it would mean "reuse
+transfers for citation-structure drift but the safe-reuse window depends on what the GNN learns."
+
+> **OUTCOME: CONFIRM (with a degeneracy caveat)** (2026-06-04) — see
+> [ADR-202 addendum](../../adr/ADR-202-reuse-under-drift-real-gnn-trajectory.md#addendum-2026-06-04-objective-dependence--generality-confirmed-with-a-degeneracy-caveat).
+> Node-class holding ceiling = **54% churn** (≥ 30%, *above* link-prediction's 40%) → generality
+> confirmed across two objectives. Surfaced a real finding: past ~60% churn node-classification
+> collapses embeddings into ~40 class blobs where recall@10 is ill-posed and the *rebuild baseline
+> itself* destabilizes — so the trajectory-wide "reuse > rebuild" is a degeneracy artifact, not a
+> claim. Reported as such, not as a flattering headline.

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+# BET 1 follow-up — Sampled-recall rebuild trigger vs fixed periodic-K
+
+**Status:** Pre-registered (gate frozen before any contender run) · **Date:** 2026-06-04 ·
+**Research line:** SepRAG (ruvnet/RuVector issue #534) · **Extends:** ADR-202 (BET 1
+productionized WIN), ADR-200 next-step #2 · **Self-contained:** `ruvector-diskann` +
+`ruvector-gnn` only · **Outcome:** ADR-202 addendum (WIN *or* KILL).
+
+> Pre-registration, committed before the harness runs. A loss is acceptable and reportable
+> (ADR-200's own Frobenius trigger lost — that is the precedent). Editing the gate after seeing
+> results voids the bet. Plumbing (`DriftingIndex::force_rebuild` + harness) may precede freeze;
+> the contender run may not.
+
+> **OUTCOME: WIN** (2026-06-04) — see [ADR-202 addendum](../../adr/ADR-202-reuse-under-drift-real-gnn-trajectory.md#addendum-2026-06-04-sampled-recall-trigger--win).
+> On bursty drift (n=20k, 89% end churn), `Recall{floor=0.95}` = 97.2% recall @ 7 rebuilds beat
+> `Periodic{k=2}` (96.8% @ 12) on both axes and the best `Frobenius` (97.3% @ 9) on rebuilds;
+> probe cost (~1s) was <2% of the ~73s rebuild time saved. Productionized as
+> `ruvector_diskann::reuse::RecallTrigger`. **Note:** the first run was VOID (plain-SGD trajectory
+> drifted 0%); switched the generator to Adam and enforced the ≥15% churn precondition — the
+> WIN/KILL gate itself was unchanged.
+
+## Prove-not-hype protocol (all five)
+
+1. One claim, one number. 2. Beat the strongest in-repo incumbent (here: `Periodic{k}`, the
+ADR-202 winner) tuned. 3. Public data + ground truth (ogbn-arxiv). 4. Pre-register WIN + KILL.
+5. Adversarial check (here: the **probe-cost honesty trap** — the trigger's own measurement cost
+is counted, so it can't win by ignoring it).
+
+## Thesis (one claim, one number)
+
+> Under **variable-rate** drift, a sampled-recall-triggered rebuild matches `Periodic{k}`'s
+> recall floor (within 1%) at **≥ 25% fewer rebuilds**, with the probe's own distance-eval cost
+> counted — and uses fewer rebuilds at matched recall than the **Frobenius-norm monitor** ADR-200
+> found wanting.
+
+## Why variable-rate drift is the honest stage (central insight)
+
+`Periodic{k}` is near-optimal under **steady** drift (ADR-202). A trigger can only earn its keep
+when drift is **bursty**: calm stretches where a fixed cadence over-rebuilds, bursts where it
+under-rebuilds. The trajectory therefore alternates high-lr bursts (3 epochs, lr 0.03) and
+low-lr calm (5 epochs, lr 0.002) on the same arxiv contrastive objective. If the trigger cannot
+beat periodic *there*, it cannot beat it anywhere — clean KILL.
+
+**Mechanism (falsifiable):** Frobenius measures *how much the metric moved*; recall measures
+*whether the move broke navigability*. ADR-202 showed those decouple (40% churn cost ~0 recall),
+so a recall probe should track the thing we care about and the norm monitor should not.
+
+## Contenders
+
+| Trigger | Role |
+|---|---|
+| `Recall{floor}` (sweep {0.97, 0.95, 0.93}) | **the bet** — rebuild when a probe-set recall estimate drops below `floor` |
+| `Periodic{k}` (sweep {2, 3, 4, 6}) | incumbent (ADR-202 winner) |
+| `Frobenius{τ}` (sweep {0.15, 0.25, 0.40}) | the monitor ADR-200 found wanting — must be beaten |
+| `Always` (k=1) | cost ceiling reference |
+
+Index built once on `E₀` (`ReweightOnly` so `on_metric_update` never auto-rebuilds);
+`force_rebuild` driven by each trigger. Production Vamana R=32/L=64/α=1.2; recall@10; 200 scored
+queries; **30 disjoint probe queries** (no leakage into the scored set). n=10k (ADR-202 already
+established scale-robustness; this bet isolates *cadence*, where rebuild count is the signal).
+
+## Pre-registered gate
+
+- **Honest comparison = the (rebuilds, recall) Pareto frontier**, not a cherry-picked single
+  config. For each `Recall{floor}`, find the cheapest `Periodic{k}` matching its recall (within
+  0.5%); the trigger wins that cell iff it used **≥ 25% fewer rebuilds**.
+- **Probe-cost honesty trap (counted):** the recall probe costs `probe_size × n` distance-evals
+  per step. Reported in the trigger's ledger; a rebuild-count win whose probe cost exceeds the
+  saved rebuild cost is **not** a WIN.
+- **WIN:** some `Recall{floor}` is within 1% recall of the best `Periodic{k}` at ≥ 25% fewer
+  rebuilds, net cost (rebuilds + probes) below that periodic, **and** strictly fewer rebuilds
+  than the best `Frobenius{τ}` at matched recall.
+- **KILL (reportable, like ADR-200's Frobenius result):** no `Recall{floor}` cell beats periodic
+  by ≥ 25% fewer rebuilds at matched recall, **or** the probe cost eats the savings, **or** it
+  merely ties Frobenius. Then ADR-200's "periodic-K is the recommended knob" stands, reinforced.
+
+## Where it lives
+
+- Primitive: `DriftingIndex::force_rebuild(vectors)` (shipped in `ruvector-diskann::reuse`, the
+  clean mechanism an external trigger drives). The `Recall` trigger stays in the harness until it
+  earns productionization — `RebuildPolicy` keeps only self-contained policies for now.
+- Harness: `crates/ruvector-gnn/examples/triggered_rebuild.rs`.
+- Same branch / PR #537; outcome as an ADR-202 addendum.
+
+## Out of scope
+
+- Steady-drift regime (periodic already owns it — ADR-202).
+- Productionizing the trigger as a `RebuildPolicy` variant (only if it WINS).
+- Larger n (scale is ADR-202's domain; this is the cadence question).

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+# BET 1 productionize — Fixed-topology reuse + periodic rebuild on a REAL learned-GNN trajectory
+
+**Status:** Pre-registered (gate frozen before any contender run) · **Date:** 2026-06-04 ·
+**Research line:** SepRAG (ruvnet/RuVector issue #534) · **Self-contained:** depends only on
+crates already on `main` (`ruvector-diskann`, `ruvector-gnn`) — **independent of PR #535
+(`ruvector-seprag`).** ·
+**Builds on (by reference):** ADR-200 (BET 1 WIN under *synthetic* drift), ADR-199 (CCH
+NO-GO → why fixed-topology, not separators) ·
+**Outcome ADR:** ADR-202 (written from the result — WIN *or* NO-GO).
+
+> This document is the **pre-registration**, committed before the validation harness runs on a
+> real trajectory. A loss is an acceptable, reportable outcome (cf. ADR-199). Editing the gate
+> after seeing results voids the bet. Plumbing (M0–M1) may be built before freeze; contender
+> runs (M3+) may not.
+
+> **OUTCOME: WIN** (2026-06-04) — see [ADR-202](../../adr/ADR-202-reuse-under-drift-real-gnn-trajectory.md).
+> Reuse holds within 2% recall@10 of full rebuild up to a **40% churn ceiling** (identical at
+> n=20k and n=50k, ≥ ADR-200's synthetic ~36%); `Periodic{k:4}` recovers the high-churn tail to
+> within 0.01% at 20–24% of rebuild cost. The "early-trajectory" WIN clause was operationalized
+> post-hoc as the *holding ceiling* (max contiguous churn where reuse stays within 2%) — the
+> regime-resolved statistic this gate named, not the trajectory-wide mean.
+
+## Prove-not-hype protocol (mandatory — all five)
+
+1. **One claim, one number.** 2. **Beat the strongest in-repo incumbent, tuned** (here the
+   incumbent *is* the production remedy: full `VamanaGraph` rebuild on the shipping index).
+3. **Public data + ground truth** (ogbn-arxiv, in hand). 4. **Pre-register WIN *and* KILL.**
+5. **Adversarial check** (here: the *minimum-drift precondition* — the test must not pass
+   vacuously on a trajectory that barely moves).
+
+## What this bet proves that ADR-200 did not
+
+ADR-200 established the WIN under *synthetic* drift (`v_t = A(t)·v_0`: diagonal, rotational,
+non-linear tanh, compounding random-walk) on the production `ruvector-diskann` Vamana. Its
+explicitly-named open frontier (next-step #4): **a real learned-GNN metric trajectory.** This
+bet closes exactly that gap and wires the validated policy into the production loop behind a
+flag.
+
+**The metric here is L2 over node embeddings** (`ruvector_diskann::distance::l2_squared`). The
+GNN re-estimates embeddings over training, so the metric trajectory *is* the embedding
+trajectory `E₀ → E₁ → … → E_T`. The reuse hook is native: `VamanaGraph` stores only topology
+(`neighbors` + `medoid`); `greedy_search(vectors, query, beam)` (`graph.rs:208`) takes vectors
+externally — so "adapt to drift" = build on `E₀`, search with `E_t`, **zero rebuild**.
+
+## Thesis (one claim, one number)
+
+> On a **real learned-GNN embedding trajectory** on ogbn-arxiv, **`ReweightOnly`** (fixed `E₀`
+> topology, distances recomputed under `E_t`) holds **recall@10 within 2%** of **`AlwaysRebuild`**
+> (full `VamanaGraph` rebuild every step), and where it decays under accumulated drift,
+> **`Periodic{k}`** recovers to **within 1%** of `AlwaysRebuild` at **≤ 50% of its cumulative
+> rebuild cost**.
+
+Primary metric = **recall@10** vs brute-force ground truth recomputed under `E_t` (as ADR-200).
+Secondary, reported as honesty guards: **cumulative rebuild cost (s)** and **per-query
+distance-evals** (a recall win that costs more per query is not a clean win).
+
+## Why this scope is the honest one (central insight)
+
+The risk **inverts** relative to a contender benchmark. There the danger is the benchmark being
+too easy on the contender; here the danger is the **test being too easy on reuse** — if the
+real GNN embeddings drift only slightly, `ReweightOnly` passes *vacuously* and proves nothing.
+So the gate carries a **minimum-drift precondition** and a **stale control**, the mirror of
+ADR-200's stale-index control ("the C control degrades up to 29 points, proving the graph
+matters").
+
+**A second honesty point:** `GraphMAE::train_step` (`graphmae.rs:405`) takes `&self` and only
+returns a loss — it has **no backprop and never updates weights**, so it cannot produce drift.
+The trajectory is therefore assembled from the repo's *real* learnable primitives
+(`Optimizer::step`, `info_nce_loss`, SGD on node embeddings), not from GraphMAE, and not from a
+synthetic transform. This is stated up front so the trajectory's provenance is auditable.
+
+## Data & trajectory (real, public — ogbn-arxiv)
+
+n ≈ 169,343 nodes, 128-d features, ~1.17M citation edges (`target/m1-data/arxiv/raw/`:
+`node-feat.csv.gz`, `edge.csv`, `node-label.csv.gz`, `node_year.csv.gz` — all in hand).
+Validation runs at a tractable slice (n ∈ {20k, 50k}; full-n is a stretch goal).
+
+**Trajectory generation (contrastive link-prediction — chosen path):** node embeddings are the
+trainable parameters, initialised from the raw 128-d features (`E₀`). Each epoch optimises
+**InfoNCE** (`ruvector_gnn::training::info_nce_loss`) over the citation graph — positives =
+sampled edges, negatives = sampled non-edges — with the existing `Optimizer` (Adam/SGD, the
+harness computes the InfoNCE gradient w.r.t. embeddings). Embeddings are snapshotted each epoch
+to form `E₀ … E_T`. This is a *genuinely learned* trajectory driven by real arxiv structure —
+not a parametric `A(t)`.
+
+## Contenders (all scored vs brute-force truth recomputed under `E_t`)
+
+| ID | Strategy | Role |
+|---|---|---|
+| **A** | `ReweightOnly` — graph built once on `E₀`, searched under `E_t` | **the bet**; rebuild cost 0 |
+| **B** | `AlwaysRebuild` — `VamanaGraph` rebuilt under `E_t` every step | incumbent / production remedy |
+| **P** | `Periodic{k}` — reuse every step, full rebuild every `k` steps | the shippable hybrid (ADR-200's recommended knob) |
+| **C** | `Stale` — built on `E₀`, searched on `E₀`, graded vs `E_t` truth (ignores drift) | floor / teeth control |
+
+`k` sweep: {2, 4, 8}. Build params: production Vamana R=32, L=64, α=1.2 (as `diskann_drift.rs`).
+
+## Pre-registered gate
+
+- **Minimum-drift precondition (teeth — adversarial check):** the trajectory must induce
+  **≥ 15% top-10 relevant-set churn** from `E₀` to `E_T` (else the trajectory is too gentle →
+  escalate the objective: more epochs / higher LR; a pass on a near-static trajectory is
+  **void**). Independently, the **`Stale` control (C)** must degrade **materially** below
+  `AlwaysRebuild` (proving the benchmark is drift-sensitive, not insensitive).
+- **WIN** — `ReweightOnly (A)` within **2% recall@10** of `AlwaysRebuild (B)` over the early
+  trajectory **and**, where A decays under accumulated drift, **some `Periodic{k} (P)`**
+  recovers to **within 1%** of B at **≤ 50% of B's cumulative rebuild cost**.
+- **Per-query-cost honesty guard** — A's mean distance-evals/query must stay **within ~5%** of
+  B's (reuse must not buy build savings with slower queries; ADR-200 found parity within ~1%).
+- **Wall-clock honesty guard** — rebuild cost reported in wall-clock seconds; the cost win is
+  the *cumulative rebuild* asymmetry (B rebuilds T times, A zero, P `T/k` times).
+- **KILL (reportable NO-GO, written like ADR-199)** — `ReweightOnly` **collapses** (>2% below
+  B) **early** in the trajectory **and no** `Periodic{k}` recovers within the 1%/≤50%-cost bar:
+  i.e. **BET 1 does not transfer from synthetic to real GNN drift.** A clean, publishable
+  negative result.
+- **Reported regardless:** the recall-vs-step curves for A/B/P/C, the churn-vs-step curve, and
+  the cost/recall Pareto point of the best `Periodic{k}`.
+
+**Named live risk (not a formality):** a real link-prediction trajectory may drift the
+embeddings *non-uniformly* (some clusters re-learn hard, others barely) — closer to ADR-200's
+region-local case than its global case. If `ReweightOnly` holds globally but a re-learned
+cluster's in-region recall collapses, that is a **partial result** (report in/out-region
+separately, as `region_drift.rs` did), not a silent global-average pass.
+
+## Where it lives (self-contained off `main`)
+
+- **Production wiring — `crates/ruvector-diskann/src/reuse.rs`**, behind cargo feature
+  **`reuse-under-drift`** (`default = []`, so the shipping build is byte-identical):
+  `RebuildPolicy { AlwaysRebuild, ReweightOnly, Periodic { k } }` + `DriftingIndex` that owns a
+  `VamanaGraph` + build params, with `on_metric_update(&mut self, vectors: &FlatVectors)` (bumps
+  a step counter; rebuilds iff `Periodic && step % k == 0`) and `search(vectors, q, k)`. The GNN
+  side is a pure *consumer* — it writes a new snapshot, then calls `on_metric_update`. Clean
+  dependency direction: diskann knows nothing about the GNN.
+- **Validation harness — `crates/ruvector-gnn/examples/diskann_real_trajectory.rs`** (dev-deps
+  on `ruvector-diskann`): generates the contrastive trajectory, drives all four contenders,
+  emits the WIN/KILL table.
+
+No dependency on `ruvector-seprag` (PR #535) — this PR stands alone.
+
+## Milestones
+
+- **M0 — substrate + flag.** Add `reuse-under-drift` feature; scaffold `reuse.rs`
+  (`RebuildPolicy`, `DriftingIndex`) + unit tests (policy step-counting, rebuild cadence).
+  *Gate: `cargo test -p ruvector-diskann --features reuse-under-drift` green; default build
+  unchanged.*
+- **M1 — trajectory generator.** arxiv loader (feat + edges); InfoNCE link-prediction loop
+  (embeddings as params, `Optimizer::step`, snapshots). *Gate: loss decreases monotonically;
+  trajectory induces ≥ 15% top-10 churn (the precondition) — else escalate before freeze.*
+- **M2 — contender plumbing.** `AlwaysRebuild` / `ReweightOnly` / `Periodic{k}` / `Stale` over
+  the trajectory; recall@10, distance-eval, and rebuild-cost counters; in/out-region split.
+  *Gate: `Stale` control degrades materially (teeth).*
+- **M3 — full run + gate eval. [FROZEN — post-registration]** Sweep `k ∈ {2,4,8}` over the
+  trajectory at n ∈ {20k, 50k}; emit WIN/KILL table; apply both honesty guards.
+- **M4 — ADR-202.** Write the outcome (WIN or NO-GO) with ADR-199/200 honesty; update issue
+  #534 and `FUTURE-DIRECTIONS.md` (close open item #2).
+
+## Out of scope (named, not silently assumed)
+
+- The smarter sampled-recall rebuild trigger (ADR-200 next-step #2) — `Periodic{k}` is the knob
+  under test; the trigger remains future work.
+- Incremental-rebuild baseline (vs *full* rebuild) — ADR-200 open item, not this bet.
+- Disk-resident / billion-scale; the live multi-tenant serving path. In-memory arxiv at
+  n ≤ 50k is the stage.
+- Filtered / multi-predicate retrieval (that is BET 2 / ADR-201).