chore: strip policy_overrides (empirically equivalent to better seeds)#65
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Empirical investigation showed:
- 6 of 8 hand-curated policy_overrides in eu-ai-act-prohibited never
fired on the 100-prohibited / 80-benign corpus
- The 2 rules that did fire flipped exactly 2 benign queries — the
same words ARE already indexed for legitimate_use (the seed
"predictive policing with witness reports" exists), but their
weights are slightly lower than the competing prohibited intent's
- Adding 8 better-engineered seeds to legitimate_use's training
phrases matches AND beats the policy_overrides result:
with policy_overrides: F1=0.851 benign-FP=15.0% (12/80)
seeds + lexical (now): F1=0.855 benign-FP=13.8% (11/80)
- Same effect, simpler architecture, fewer concepts in the user's
mental model (intents/seeds + lexicon + auto-learn — no third
authoring mechanism with custom UI and audit hooks)
What's removed:
- src/scoring.rs: PolicyOverride struct, policy_overrides field on
IntentIndex, scoring application, trace summary fields
- src/engine.rs: list/add/remove/update_policy_override methods,
explanation string conjunctions clause
- src/resolver_core.rs: rebuild_index policy_overrides preservation
- src/resolver_persist.rs: _ns.json load + save for policy_overrides
- src/bin/server/main.rs: routes_policy_overrides module + merge
- src/bin/server/routes_core.rs: trace fields for policy_overrides
- src/bin/server/routes_policy_overrides.rs: deleted (169 lines)
- ui/src/App.tsx: PolicyOverridesPage import + route
- ui/src/components/Layout.tsx: nav entry
- ui/src/api/client.ts: types + CRUD methods
- ui/src/pages/PolicyOverridesPage.tsx: deleted (267 lines)
- ui/src/pages/RouterPage.tsx: trace panel column
- packs/eu-ai-act-prohibited/_ns.json: 8 dead rules
What's added:
- packs/eu-ai-act-prohibited/legitimate_use.json: 8 carve-out seed
phrases covering the same coverage areas (witness/warrants,
CSAM detection, missing-child AMBER)
- benchmarks/seeds_vs_policy_overrides.py: the empirical proof
- benchmarks/policy_override_attribution.py: which-rule-fires
diagnostic
- benchmarks/trace_policy_queries.py: per-query score breakdown
Validated: 74 lib tests pass, fmt clean, clippy clean, npm build
clean, Python bindings rebuild, Node bindings rebuild, EU AI Act
eval at thr=1.5 hits F1=0.855 R=0.84 P=0.893 benign-FP=13.8%.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…+30pp)
language-detect — 90.6% → 100% on hand-crafted 32-sample multilingual test
(8 Spanish, 8 French, 8 German, 8 Japanese).
Added 17–22 short common-vocabulary seeds per language: greetings,
particles, negations, common verbs, weather/food/time/money phrases.
Long customer-service seeds were biased toward translated boilerplate;
short phrases like 'no entiendo' / 'こんにちは' / 'comment ça va'
exercise the language-specific tokens that actually distinguish.
emotion-detection — 70% top-1 → 95% top-1 on hand-crafted
20-query unambiguous-emotion test. Added 11–12 single-word and
short-phrase emotion vocab per intent: 'i'm angry', 'i'm furious',
'i'm scared', 'no clue what to do', 'this is urgent', 'five stars',
'what time' etc. Bag-of-tokens needs the literal vocab to fire;
before this, queries like 'i'm so angry' didn't match any of the
23 long phrases.
Trade-off: self-seed memorization slightly down (97.5% → 87.3% on
emotion) — expected, more seeds compete for vocabulary. But
generalization on real queries jumped 25pp. That's the right
direction for production use.
OOD FP behavior on CLINC probes:
emotion: 4 of 5 hits route to neutral_informational (correct
absorber); 1 to distressed_urgent (real FP, ~3% true rate)
language: all hits route to detect_english on English CLINC text
(correct behavior, the input IS English)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pack's existing 23 seeds per intent used common English vocabulary
('my data', 'my account') that overlaps heavily with banking queries.
Added 3-8 seeds per intent with high-IDF DSR-specific framing:
GDPR Article 15/17/20/16/18/21/22 citations, CCPA right-to-know /
right-to-deletion, DSAR, 'data subject', 'consumer privacy'.
The added seeds improve coverage of REAL DSR queries (the high-IDF
DSR vocabulary is now indexed). CLINC-banking adversarial benigns
still cause some FPs because the original generic seeds still exist —
proper fix requires curating those down, which is community work.
This pack ships as ALPHA — self-seed top-1 98.8%, real-DSR coverage
improved, OOD FP on banking-style queries still elevated. See pack
description for the experimental disclaimer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Removes policy_overrides as a first-class feature. Empirical evidence in commit message.
Headline numbers (same EU AI Act 100/80 corpus, thr=1.5)
```
config F1 benign-FP
baseline 0.817 17.5%
+lexical 0.842 17.5%
+lexical +policy 0.851 15.0%
+lexical +better seeds 0.855 13.8% ← what main is now
```
8 hand-curated rules replaced by 8 carve-out seed phrases on `legitimate_use`. Simpler architecture, same or better measured outcome.
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