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Previously stemmed query terms folded all stem variants into a single BM25 leaf, and their combined document frequency (dt) was double-counted when a doc was indexed under several variants
(marked TODO: scoring for stemming in search.cc). This PR replaces that with the industry-standard split: a stemmed query term expands to a union of up to three independent BM25 leaves
that are SUMMED
, each carrying its own IDF and its own term frequency F:

  1. Exact surface term — the query word as typed.
  2. Stem root literal — e.g. run for query running, scored as its own leaf when present and distinct from the query word.
  3. Stem inflection group — all variants sharing the stem root; F sums per-doc frequencies, but dt is the distinct doc count (a doc holding several inflections counts once).

Because the exact word is also a parent of its own stem, it contributes to both leaf 1 and leaf 3 — a deliberate exact-match boost so running (TF 1) outranks runs runs runs (TF 3).
The split is applied identically on both scoring paths (in-iterator and extra-step).

Changes by file

Distinct-doc counting (shared helper)

  • src/indexes/text/posting.cc / posting.h — new CountDistinctKeys(span<KeyIterator>): k-way merge over key-sorted iterators that counts a key present in multiple iterators once.
    Used by both scoring paths to compute the stem-inflection leaf's dt consistently.

In-iterator path (pure-text queries)

  • src/indexes/text.ccTermPredicate::BuildTextIterator now computes three separate dt values (exact / root / stem-inflection), the root via TryAddWordKeyIterator (extended with
    an out_doc_count), and the inflection group's distinct dt via CountDistinctKeys.
  • src/indexes/text/term.cc / term.hTermIterator takes stem_num_doc_contain_term, root_num_doc_contain_term, and has_root; precomputes idf_stem_ and idf_root_ alongside
    idf_. GetScore() now partitions positioned iterators by index into exact / root / stem TFs and sums up to three ScoreLeaf calls (each only when its TF > 0) instead of a single summed-F
    leaf.

Extra-step path (combined text + numeric/tag/negate queries)

  • src/query/search.ccResolvedLeaf is refactored from flat postings/num_doc_contain_term/term_weight into a vector of TermGroups (1 for a plain term, up to 3 for a stemmed
    term), each with its own postings and precomputed IDF. ResolveLeaves builds the exact / root-literal / inflection groups (distinct dt via CountDistinctKeys); ScoreNode sums each
    group's ScoreLeaf, fetching doc_len once, and returns nullopt only when no group matches. Removes the old double-counting TODO.

Tests

  • integration/test_scoring.py (+126) — new stemming index INDEX_STEM (7 run-family docs) with Redis-verified STEM_RUNNING_SCORES, plus INDEX_STEM_MIX (same docs + numeric rank
  • tag cat) to exercise the extra-step path. Group 15 covers pure-text stemming; Group 16 covers combined AND / OR / tag queries and asserts both paths produce identical per-leaf scores.
  • testing/text_test.cc (+75) — new StemScoringTest fixture driving the in-iterator path: pins the three-leaf oracle values (d1 running 1.450833, d3 run 0.980829, d2 runs
    0.470004) and covers the has_original_ == false path (stem-only match when the exact word is absent).
  • testing/search_test.cc (+65) — BuildTextTagSchema gains a no_stem flag; adds extra-step tests pinning the same oracle values, verifying $weight scales the whole expansion, and
    that the recompute path (SingleDocumentScorer) matches the shard-side extra-step path on a stemmed query.

Notes

  • The two paths may still be exercised independently, so tests pin the same oracle values on both to guard against divergence in the stem split.
  • Oracle scores are verified against the Redis 8.6 baseline / industry-standard reference; behavior is documented in docs/redis_stemming_scoring.md.

boda26 and others added 30 commits June 4, 2026 23:36
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* Adding scorer and withscores argument to ft.search command

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* Adding scorer field to ft.aggregate

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* Addressing comments around score and distance distinction

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* Add scoring input data structures (reference-only)

Introduce src/indexes/scoring/scoring_stats.h defining the input data
contract for full-text scoring algorithms. Provided as a reference for
developers working on the BM25STD / TFIDF scoring implementation
(design/scoring_design.md §9.4); not yet wired into any build target
or call site.

  ScoringStats   - common per-(term, doc) inputs shared by every
                   scoring algorithm: total_docs (N), doc_id,
                   document_score, term, num_doc_contain_term (dt),
                   term_frequency. Virtual destructor allows
                   polymorphic ownership through a base pointer.
  Bm25StdStats   - adds avg_doc_len and doc_len for BM25STD's
                   length-normalization term.
  TfidfStats     - adds norm (max term frequency in the doc, §3.4)
                   and a non-owning absl::Span<const uint32_t> of
                   term positions for SLOP (§3.5).

Query-tree weights (leaf =>{$weight:N} and group weights) are
intentionally not included; they belong to the query tree and are
passed separately to the scorer during recursion.

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* BM25STD scorer and scoring session

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* fix format and minor AI comments

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* create Copy() in ScoringStats to let ScoringSession own its own copy

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* change term to std::string

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* changing variables to double; rebase with main

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* restore rax.h

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* reduce lines of comments; fix makefile list number

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* refactor test and IsInf; fix format

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* Substitute Stats with score to reduce memory cost in doc_score_ map

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* add pre-compute for text scoring

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* fix data race

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* move doc_len/norm storage from IndexKeyInfo to TextIndexSchema

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* Scoring - Updating the core text search to support scoring. WIP

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* WIP - more plumbing

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* text iterator wire up

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* substitute full sort with partial sort with limit for non-vector path

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* change per_key_scoring_info to flat_hash_map; bm25std_scorer inline fast path and leaf coefficients for more efficient compute

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* remove redundant scoring context; add controlled switch for iterator-scoring

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* fix format

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* expose per-key FlatPositionMap lookup on postings; refactor scoring to use InternedStringPtr instead of int doc_id

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* implement GetScorer

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* Wired up predicate tree with scorer in ScoreTextQuery; added unit tests for text scoring

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* refactor scoring to use recursive tree walk approach; avoiding scoring on AND group not satisfying all conditions

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* refactor scorer type and leaf input

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* add integration tests for scoring

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* precompute idf calculation

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* substitute full sort with partial sort with limit

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* making tf available in postings to avoid expensive pointer chasing from memory at const absl::btree_map<Key, FlatPositionMap*>* key_map_

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* remove Materialize() in scoring by using BorrowedInternedStringPtr with casting

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* move sorting to TrimResults

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* cleanup unused code

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* cleanup 2

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* revert unmeaningful change in vector_base.cc

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* add some comments

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* enable scoring to run test workflows on PR

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* enable scoring to run test workflows on PR

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* resolve stem variant postings to fix test failures

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* fix aggregate tests

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* fix format and spellcheck

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* removing content from websites for time being (#15)

* cleanup code

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* fix resort to happen only in CME

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* add test_scoring_cluster integration tests

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* include weight in proto to enable weight in cluster mode

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* address some comments

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* address comments: add unit tests to restore weight tests; combine sort logic

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* adding switch for scoring

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* Use in-iterator scoring for pure text and extra-step scoring for combined; correctly populate total doc count for in-iterator scoring

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* fix mixed or ignores outer weight; explicit has_non_text_predicate

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* fix format

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* Score numeric/tag leaves with their weight in ScoreNode

* Recompute scores for mutated documents during content fetch

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* Addressing comments and rebasing

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* numeric and tag BM25STD scoring

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* address comments

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* implement matchall scoring

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* fix format

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* hybrid text vector scoring and sortby vector score

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* fix cluster-mode hybrid text vector search; add more test in cluster mode scoring

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* fix WITHSORTEDKEYS to emit in output; fix a naming collision issue

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Stemmed BM25 scoring now separates exact, stem-root, and inflection leaves. Stem metadata tracks distinct document counts. Field-scoped lookup and recompute paths use the grouped scoring model. Tests cover scoring, indexing, deletion, and field behavior.

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Stemmed BM25 scoring

Layer / File(s) Summary
Stem metadata and document counts
src/indexes/text/rax_wrapper.h, src/indexes/text/text_index.*, src/indexes/text/textinfocmd.cc, testing/text_index_schema_test.cc
Stem roots store parent words and distinct document counts. Commit and deletion paths maintain these counts. Retrieval exposes the count for scoring.
Per-leaf iterator scoring
src/indexes/text/text.cc, src/indexes/text/term.*
Term iterators receive separate exact, root, and stem document counts. BM25 scoring computes and sums separate leaf scores.
Grouped query scoring
src/query/search.cc, src/indexes/text/posting.cc, src/indexes/tag.h
Stemmed terms resolve into exact, root, and inflection groups. Each group uses its own field mask and posting lookup.
Validation coverage
integration/test_scoring.py, testing/search_test.cc, testing/text_test.cc
Tests cover three-leaf scores, weighting, alternate scoring paths, field scoping, stemmed indexes, expansion behavior, and distinct-document count updates.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ResolveLeaves
  participant TextIndexSchema
  participant TermGroup
  participant ScoreNode
  participant Postings
  ResolveLeaves->>TextIndexSchema: retrieve stem variants and distinct document count
  ResolveLeaves->>TermGroup: create exact, root, and inflection groups
  ScoreNode->>TermGroup: read group field mask and posting data
  ScoreNode->>Postings: look up posting with the group field mask
  Postings-->>ScoreNode: return eligible posting
  ScoreNode-->>ResolveLeaves: sum group BM25 scores
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- Around line 115-116: Update the ContainsKey declarations and definitions so
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Comment thread src/indexes/tag.h
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bool ContainsKey(absl::string_view value, const InternedStringPtr &key) const
ABSL_NO_THREAD_SAFETY_ANALYSIS;

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Define or remove the owning-pointer overload.

src/indexes/tag.cc defines only the BorrowedInternedStringPtr overload. The current scoring caller uses that overload under the reader lock. A future call with const InternedStringPtr& can fail at link time because the declared overload has no definition.

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In `@src/indexes/tag.h` around lines 115 - 116, Update the ContainsKey
declarations and definitions so the const InternedStringPtr& overload is either
implemented in tag.cc with behavior matching the BorrowedInternedStringPtr
overload, or removed from tag.h if it is not required. Keep the existing
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Can you fix this? Don't see it use anywhere?

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Comment thread src/query/search.cc
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Comment thread testing/text_test.cc
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TEST_F(StemScoringTest, ThreeLeafScoresMatchStandard) {
auto [schema, text] = MakeStemIndex();
AddRecordAndCommitKey(text.get(), StringInternStore::Intern("d1"), "running",
schema);
AddRecordAndCommitKey(text.get(), StringInternStore::Intern("d2"), "runs",
schema);
AddRecordAndCommitKey(text.get(), StringInternStore::Intern("d3"), "run",
schema);

auto iter = BuildScoredStemQuery(schema, text.get(), "running");
absl::flat_hash_map<std::string, float> scores;
while (!iter->DoneKeys()) {
scores[std::string(iter->CurrentKey()->Str())] = iter->GetScore();
iter->NextKey();
}

ASSERT_EQ(scores.size(), 3u);
// d1 "running": exact leaf (idf 0.98) + stem leaf (idf 0.47, dt=2 distinct).
EXPECT_NEAR(scores["d1"], 1.450833f, 1e-3f);
// d3 "run": scored only on the stem root literal leaf (its own idf 0.98).
EXPECT_NEAR(scores["d3"], 0.980829f, 1e-3f);
// d2 "runs": scored only on the stem inflection leaf.
EXPECT_NEAR(scores["d2"], 0.470004f, 1e-3f);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Add an overlapping-inflections regression case.

This corpus puts running and runs in different documents. A summed posting count also produces dt == 2, so this test does not validate CountDistinctKeys.

Add a document that contains both inflections and a second nonmatching document. Assert that the inflection leaf uses dt == 1.

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RetriggerConfidence Score: 5/5

No blocking failure remains.

What we checked:

  • The RESP Python repro script was run to create a stemmed index, add a document with multiple inflections, replace it, delete it, and query running with BM25 scores; the run halted due to ConnectionRefusedError when connecting to 127.0.0.1:6379, so no indexed query behavior was observed. T-Rex
  • Code review confirmed where index bookkeeping and query scoring live in the codebase, showing how distinct_docs is updated on commit and how deletions decrement stems, with scoring consuming the index data. T-Rex
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Summary

This change improves stemming relevance by scoring exact terms, stem roots, and inflection groups independently while maintaining their document-frequency statistics as records change.

No blocking product failure was demonstrated.

T-Rex validation blocked

A live stemming-score lifecycle check could not connect to the required Valkey service at 127.0.0.1:6379; the connection was refused before index creation, so add, replacement, deletion, and score-query behavior could not be observed.

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There is a field mask bug on extra-step path in current code. The fix is in prefix scoring PR #1350, so merging that first might help.

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--- c=500 connections --- (rps higher=better, p50 ms lower=better)
  scenario             baseline rps(p50)    candidate rps(p50)      rps Δ%    p50 Δ%
  fanout 1 unstemmed   45482 (11.63)        44588 (11.96)             -1.3%      +3.1%
  fanout 1 stemmed     37500 (14.66)        35034 (15.68)             -5.6%      +6.8%
  fanout 2             40846 (13.22)        38290 (14.34)             -6.7%      +8.2%
  fanout 4             41164 (13.15)        36057 (15.16)            -12.1%     +14.9%
  fanout 6             39277 (13.58)        32301 (17.04)            -17.6%     +25.2%
  fanout 8             37652 (14.31)        27656 (20.08)            -26.4%     +40.5%
  fanout 8 VERBATIM    67773 (7.21)         66800 (7.26)              -1.1%      +1.2%
  fanout 8 nostem idx  66973 (7.12)         66680 (7.15)              -0.1%      +0.9%
  fanout 8 explicit OR 23100 (24.62)        22559 (25.15)             -2.3%      +2.3%
  stem base form       38443 (14.23)        27573 (20.01)            -27.6%     +40.7%
  stem long form       38303 (14.14)        27555 (20.27)            -27.5%     +43.2%
  2 stems (AND)        18401 (31.58)        12322 (47.74)            -33.9%     +51.0%
  2 stems (OR)         13094 (44.96)        9728 (59.78)             -24.6%     +32.9%
  stem+num+tag         27978 (20.32)        21409 (26.42)            -22.7%     +30.4%
  stem miss            77303 (6.00)         77277 (6.10)              -0.4%      +1.6%

Perf test results against the current main (with base scoring). Fanout-x means x words in the index are stemmed to the same root, so searching one term would resulting in going through all of them and calculate the stem root score. As fanout number increases, the performance difference also increases.

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Benchmark shows CountDistinctKeys was the major perf regression. I pushed a new commit, incrementing distinct docs at ingestion, so search can get them in O(1) time. The new benchmark results confirmed that perf regression is gone, and is aligned with the nostem version.

scenario             baseline rps(p50)    candidate rps(p50)      rps Δ%    p50 Δ%
  fanout 1 unstemmed   38523 (13.74)        38754 (13.54)             +2.5%      -1.0%
  fanout 1 stemmed     33013 (16.58)        31938 (16.98)             -2.2%      +2.7%
  fanout 2             34774 (15.35)        33797 (15.91)             -2.7%      +3.2%
  fanout 4             35049 (15.26)        35186 (15.62)             +0.3%      +2.5%
  fanout 6             35147 (15.65)        33960 (15.83)             -1.9%      +1.3%
  fanout 8             33204 (16.48)        32610 (16.40)             +0.3%      -0.7%
  fanout 8 VERBATIM    59565 (8.02)         59952 (8.02)              +1.9%      -0.4%
  fanout 8 nostem idx  61439 (8.06)         60476 (8.03)              -0.8%      -0.4%
  fanout 8 explicit OR 19483 (28.94)        20271 (28.72)             +3.5%      -0.8%
  fanout 8 OR VERBATIM 19042 (28.83)        19411 (28.64)             +2.3%      -0.4%
  stem base form       29506 (18.29)        29098 (18.96)             -0.5%      +3.7%
  stem long form       33170 (16.30)        32787 (16.45)             -2.1%      +0.1%
  2 stems (AND)        15345 (37.50)        15430 (37.12)             +0.6%      -1.6%
  2 stems (OR)         10382 (55.42)        10604 (55.87)             +3.2%      -0.8%
  stem+num+tag         22995 (25.53)        22232 (25.79)             -3.4%      +1.5%
  stem miss            67595 (6.95)         66421 (7.19)              -1.9%      +2.9%

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Hi @boda26 👋 — flagging this as a P1 launch blocker for valkey-search 1.3 RC1. We're cutting the release branch the morning of Sept 14 (RC1 lands Sept 15), so all P1s need to be merged before then.

First-pass reviewer: @chinguyen21 — if your first-pass review is already done, please ignore this message; otherwise, please prioritize getting this PR reviewed.

Second-pass reviewer: @BCathcart — please take a look/followup with the final review and merge once everything looks good.

If anything is blocking merge (open changes, CI, design questions), drop a note here so we can unblock quickly. Board: #1346. Thanks so much! 🙏

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Benchmark shows CountDistinctKeys was the major perf regression. I pushed a new commit, incrementing distinct docs at ingestion, so search can get them in O(1) time. The new benchmark results confirmed that perf regression is gone, and is aligned with the nostem version.

Awesome work, I was anticipating an optimization phase around stemming after the initial results but looks like you've already completely eliminated it!

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LGTM, just need some minimal fixes to get it merged

uint64_t stem_enabled_mask, bool lock_needed, uint32_t *out_distinct_docs) {
// Stem the search term
std::string stemmed(search_term);
lexer_.StemWordInPlace(stemmed, lexer_.GetStemmer());

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Should we need min_stem_size_ here similar to what you added in the ingestion above?

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Also add a test would be good

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// Deletion must undo exactly the one increment the document made.
TEST_F(TextIndexSchemaTest, StemDistinctDocsDecrementsOnDelete) {

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This is good test for the single decrement for a two-inflection doc. Could you add: two docs under one root, overwrite one with a different inflection (count stays 2), then with an unrelated word (drops to 1)?

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// against that value's posting bag. Lock-free like GetValue, relying on the
// read-side invariant that the index is not mutated while the time-sliced
// mutex is held in read mode.
bool ContainsKey(absl::string_view value, const InternedStringPtr &key) const

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Should delete this

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🟠 Major · Make term frequency field-scoped before BM25 scoring. · search.cc:926-940

src/query/search.cc:926-940
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Make term frequency field-scoped before BM25 scoring.

LookupKey(key, group.field_mask) only gates admission. PostingValue::tf remains the total frequency across all text fields. Therefore, a document containing term in both the queried and an unqueried field is admitted, but ScoreNode passes both fields' occurrences as BM25 F. This can inflate the score and change ranking. The equivalent TermIterator::GetScore path has the same issue because GetTermFrequency() also returns the total frequency.

Preserve the field mask through frequency extraction. Add and use a field-scoped term-frequency operation at the posting/scoring boundary in both paths. Changing only LookupKey admission does not fix this. Add a mixed-field regression test. This is separate from stem document-frequency handling.

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In `@src/query/search.cc` around lines 926 - 940, Make term-frequency extraction
field-scoped, not just admission-scoped: add a posting/scoring-boundary
operation that computes frequency using the requested field mask, then use it in
both the shown leaf scoring path and the equivalent TermIterator::GetScore path
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🟡 Minor · Use the effective field mask for position filtering. · term.cc:260-269

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use the effective field mask for position filtering.

InsertValidKeyIterator admits stem-root iterators with stem_field_mask_, but InsertValidPositionIterator filters their positions with query_field_mask_. When both masks include different fields, a NOSTEM position can pass after a stem-enabled position admits the key. ProximityIterator only intersects the reported field masks and does not reapply stem eligibility, so a phrase or proximity query can return a false match.

Store the effective mask with each position iterator. Use the query mask for the original iterator and the stem mask for stem/root iterators when filtering positions.

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In `@src/indexes/text/term.cc` around lines 260 - 269, The position filtering in
TermIterator::InsertValidPositionIterator must use each iterator’s effective
field mask: query_field_mask_ for the original iterator and stem_field_mask_ for
stem/root iterators. Store that mask alongside each position iterator and apply
it while advancing invalid positions, preserving the existing insertion behavior
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In `@src/indexes/text/term.cc`:
- Around line 260-269: The position filtering in
TermIterator::InsertValidPositionIterator must use each iterator’s effective
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