homemaker-layout/tests/test_fitness_aggregate.py
Claude a76ed3b9b8
Quality aggregation: divide out how many questions a leaf was asked
39.17 left the search's storey choice unexplained and blamed value_rate. It is
not the rate, or not only.

Measured over the twelve baseline runs, value/cost by leaf kind: outside ground
7.40, roof terrace 2.69, room 0.34, circulation 0.02. A terrace returns 2.7x
its cost where a room returns a third of it, so filling upper storeys with
terrace is not the search leaving value on the table -- it is by a wide margin
the most profitable thing the objective offers. 7% of the corpus area produces
32% of its value.

Most of that gap is mean quality: 0.986 for a terrace against 0.223 for a
room. Quality is a PRODUCT of factors and the kinds are not asked the same
number of questions -- an outside leaf is exempt from size, crinkliness and
access, so 3 of 7 factors can ever bite it against a room's 6. Each exemption
is individually right (no programme size target; uncovered outside is lit by
definition; ground-level outside needs no access). The consequence is not: a
leaf exempt from the two harshest factors out-scores one judged on them and
doing well, purely by not being asked, and quality multiplies the value rate.

Stated generally, and this is not about outside space: under a product, adding
any new quality criterion mechanically devalues every leaf it applies to,
including leaves that score 1.0 on it. The objective's scale should not depend
on how many things it measures.

quality_aggregate="geometric_mean" (default OFF, "product" is stock) divides
that out. Computed in log space so six small factors cannot underflow the
product before the root is taken; a zero factor still gives zero, so a fully
buried leaf is worth nothing either way.

Telling "exempt" from "asked and scored 1.0" needs factor_is_asked, which
restates conditions that live inside the quality_* methods. That duplication
can drift, so tests/test_fitness_aggregate.py pins it against every leaf in the
corpus: wherever the predicate says exempt, the factor really is 1.0.

Fail set byte-identical everywhere, and for a stronger reason than 39.13/39.14
had: evaluate_leaf emits each fail from the factor itself before anything is
combined, so no aggregation can move one. Score effect +37% to +169%, reaching
all four programmes where the crinkliness changes reached two; room value/cost
0.34 -> 0.66, circulation 0.02 -> 0.07.

Deliberately not fixed: a terrace still out-earns a room 4:1, which is the
rates (value_supported = value_inside = 300 against costs of 110 and 200), not
the aggregation. That is a design judgement for the programme author, and
39.16 is a standing reminder that "this inherited constant looks wrong" has
been wrong twice already in this section. Left open on ecx with the numbers.

A/B running; verdict to follow.

Refs homemaker-py-ecx.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MJ84Feep79Hhm3E4zZJmnB
2026-09-05 18:57:00 +00:00

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"""`quality_aggregate="geometric_mean"` (homemaker-py-ecx, DESIGN.md §39.18).
Quality is a product over the factors, and leaf kinds face different numbers of
them: a room is judged on size, crinkliness and access, an outside leaf is
exempt from all three. Exemption alone therefore buys a higher quality, and
quality multiplies the value rate. The geometric mean divides that out.
Two invariants matter and both are asserted here:
* the fail set cannot move, because `evaluate_leaf` emits each fail from the
factor itself before anything is combined;
* `factor_is_asked` must agree with the `quality_*` methods -- whenever it says
a factor is exempt, that factor really is exactly 1.0. It is a separate
statement of the same conditions, so it can drift; this pins it.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import copy
import math
from pathlib import Path
import pytest
from homemaker_layout import dom as dom_mod
from homemaker_layout.fitness import Fitness, load_config
EXAMPLES = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / "examples"
PROGRAMMES = ["harbor-house", "maple-court", "health-centre", "programme-house"]
pytestmark = pytest.mark.skipif(not (EXAMPLES / "harbor-house").is_dir(),
reason="examples absent")
def _artefacts():
for name in PROGRAMMES:
d = EXAMPLES / name
if not d.is_dir():
continue
for p in sorted(d.glob("coldstart-500000-s*.dom")) + [d / "init.dom"]:
if p.exists():
yield d, p
def test_exempt_factors_really_are_one():
"""The invariant `factor_is_asked` rests on, checked against every leaf in
the corpus rather than assumed from reading the code."""
checked = 0
for d, p in _artefacts():
conf, cost = load_config(d)
fit = Fitness(conf, cost)
seen = []
orig = Fitness.evaluate_leaf
def ev(self, leaf, G, level_id, groups, fail, _o=orig, _s=seen):
q, f = _o(self, leaf, G, level_id, groups, fail)
_s.append((leaf, dict(f)))
return q, f
Fitness.evaluate_leaf = ev
try:
fit.score_with_fails(dom_mod.load(str(p)))
finally:
Fitness.evaluate_leaf = orig
for leaf, factors in seen:
for name, value in factors.items():
if not fit.factor_is_asked(name, leaf):
assert value == 1.0, (
f"{p.name}: {name} is marked exempt for leaf "
f"{leaf.id!r} ({leaf.type!r}) but scored {value}")
checked += 1
assert checked > 100, "expected plenty of exempt factors to check"
def test_fail_set_is_byte_identical():
for d, p in _artefacts():
root = dom_mod.load(str(p))
c_prod, cost = load_config(d)
c_geo, _ = load_config(d, overrides={"quality_aggregate": "geometric_mean"})
_, f_prod = Fitness(c_prod, cost).score_with_fails(copy.deepcopy(root))
_, f_geo = Fitness(c_geo, cost).score_with_fails(copy.deepcopy(root))
assert f_prod == f_geo, f"{p} changed its fail set under the geometric mean"
def test_geometric_mean_is_the_product_when_every_factor_is_asked():
"""No free lunch: a leaf asked all six should agree with `prod ** (1/6)`."""
fit = Fitness(*load_config(EXAMPLES / "harbor-house"))
leaf = dom_mod.Node(type="r")
factors = {"perpendicular": 0.9, "proportion": 0.8, "size": 0.5,
"width": 0.95, "crinkliness": 0.4, "access": 1.0, "daylight": 1.0}
asked = [v for k, v in factors.items() if fit.factor_is_asked(k, leaf)]
expected = math.prod(asked) ** (1.0 / len(asked))
assert fit._aggregate_geometric(leaf, factors) == pytest.approx(expected)
def test_a_zero_factor_still_makes_the_leaf_worthless():
"""A fully buried leaf is worth nothing under either aggregation -- the
geometric mean must not launder a zero into 0.4-ish."""
fit = Fitness(*load_config(EXAMPLES / "harbor-house"))
leaf = dom_mod.Node(type="r")
factors = {"perpendicular": 1.0, "proportion": 1.0, "size": 1.0,
"width": 1.0, "crinkliness": 0.0, "access": 1.0, "daylight": 1.0}
assert fit._aggregate_geometric(leaf, factors) == 0.0
def test_it_does_not_underflow_where_the_product_would():
"""The point of computing in log space: six small factors multiply to a
denormal, but their geometric mean is an ordinary number."""
fit = Fitness(*load_config(EXAMPLES / "harbor-house"))
leaf = dom_mod.Node(type="r")
tiny = 1e-60
factors = {k: tiny for k in ("perpendicular", "proportion", "size",
"width", "crinkliness", "access")}
factors["daylight"] = 1.0
assert math.prod(factors[k] for k in factors) == 0.0 # product underflows
assert fit._aggregate_geometric(leaf, factors) == pytest.approx(tiny, rel=1e-6)
def test_unknown_aggregate_is_rejected():
conf, cost = load_config(EXAMPLES / "harbor-house",
overrides={"quality_aggregate": "mean"})
with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="unknown quality_aggregate"):
Fitness(conf, cost)