From 878b0cbb5f8a179e6c4ba8011a16708fa2f285f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:48:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 01/26] docs(plans): start astral-speed-improvements; fold shipped plans into SHIPPED.md MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit - Add astral-speed-improvements.md design (gate B: 1.3-1.5x Astral wall, no PSM regression). TMT-as-inner-loop, Astral-as-phase-gate workflow. - Add SHIPPED.md short retrospective covering PRs #15-#22 (primitives + Achievements A+B), PR #23 (speed-v2 + output consolidation), PR #24 (Astral OOM + BuildSA scaling), PR #25 (search-sync-cleanup + parameter-modernization), and the abandoned fragment-index experiment. - Remove search-sync-cleanup.md, parameter-modernization.md, and parameter-modernization-flag-inventory.md — work shipped, content folded into SHIPPED.md. - Update README.md to point at the new active/history layout. --- .claude/plans/README.md | 14 +- .claude/plans/SHIPPED.md | 31 ++ .claude/plans/astral-speed-improvements.md | 294 ++++++++++++++++++ .../parameter-modernization-flag-inventory.md | 90 ------ .claude/plans/parameter-modernization.md | 159 ---------- .claude/plans/search-sync-cleanup.md | 133 -------- 6 files changed, 334 insertions(+), 387 deletions(-) create mode 100644 .claude/plans/SHIPPED.md create mode 100644 .claude/plans/astral-speed-improvements.md delete mode 100644 .claude/plans/parameter-modernization-flag-inventory.md delete mode 100644 .claude/plans/parameter-modernization.md delete mode 100644 .claude/plans/search-sync-cleanup.md diff --git a/.claude/plans/README.md b/.claude/plans/README.md index 4852b8bb..5d02120c 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/README.md +++ b/.claude/plans/README.md @@ -2,13 +2,17 @@ Implementation plans and design documents for MS-GF+ features and improvements. -Each plan is a separate markdown file named descriptively, e.g.: -- `streaming-mzml-parser.md` -- `mgf-scan-number-parsing.md` +## Active + +- [`astral-speed-improvements.md`](astral-speed-improvements.md) — current design. + +## History + +- [`SHIPPED.md`](SHIPPED.md) — short retrospective of recent shipped iterations and abandoned experiments. ## Archived / superseded - `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-primitives-optimization/plan.md` — shipped in PRs #15-#20 + PR #22 (P2-cal). Historical reference. -- `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-fragment-index/` — **abandoned 2026-04-20** after failing speed/recall/memory gates. See `ABANDONED-2026-04-20.md` for the post-mortem. Alternative speed ideas (graph-skeleton caching, adaptive tolerance, parallelism ceiling) are documented there. +- `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-fragment-index/` — **abandoned 2026-04-20** after failing speed/recall/memory gates. See `ABANDONED-2026-04-20.md` for the post-mortem. -Detailed plans live under `~/.claude/plans/` (outside the repo) to avoid checking planning artifacts into git. +Detailed plans for shipped/abandoned work live under `~/.claude/plans/` (outside the repo) to avoid checking planning artifacts into git. diff --git a/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md b/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..11d6ee50 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +# MS-GF+ Shipped Work — Short Retrospective + +Condensed history of recent iterations. For long-form, see `docs/changelog.md` (user-facing) or `~/.claude/plans//` (archived). + +## Current state (dev-tip @ `2216bbb`) + +| Dataset | Wall (s) | RSS | 1 % FDR PSMs | +|---|---:|---:|---:| +| PXD001819 (Velos, 4 MB) | 105 | 2.2 GB | 15 157 | +| Astral (ProteoBench, 32 MB) | ~620 | 7.6 GB | 35 627 | +| TMT PXD007683 (Lumos, 17 MB) | 321 | 3.7 GB | 10 176 | + +Output is `.pin` only (mzIdentML removed). Sensitivity leads Sage at 1 % FDR on every dataset; **speed/RAM gap on Astral (~7.9× behind Sage on wall) is the open frontier.** + +## Iteration log + +**PR #15-#20 + PR #22 — primitives optimization (Achievements A + B).** GF inner loop ported to primitive arrays. Pin feature additions (longest_b/y). Two-pass precursor mass calibration. `Hashtable`→`HashMap` in `NewRankScorer` killed ~43 % of CPU previously lost to synchronized lookup contention. **Impact:** +254 / +913 / +1 375 PSMs at 1 % FDR (PXD001819 / Astral / TMT). + +**PR #23 — speed-v2 cleanup + output consolidation** (`feat/msgfplus-speed-v2`). mzIdentML reader/writer removed; `.pin` is default and only modern format. Pin ion-series run-length features (`longest_b`, `longest_y`, `longest_y_pct`). Tighter `CandidatePeptideGrid` allocation, `Partition.hashCode` cache. + +**PR #24 — Astral OOM fix + BuildSA scaling** (`feature/improve-mzid-suffix-big-fasta`). mzML parser MS-level preload filter (cache MS2 only by default) + bounded cache: solves Astral OOM at 8 GB Xmx. BuildSA parallel per-thread bucket sort + merge, no `Suffix[]` boxing, `.cseq` `readFully`. Defer per-task `ScoredSpectraMap` construction to worker thread. Finished removing `jmzidml` dep. *Caveat:* the MS-level filter excludes MS1 — future MS1-aware work must widen filter or add an MS1 accessor. + +**PR #25 — search-sync-cleanup + parameter-modernization** (`perf/search-sync-cleanup`). Per-task wall stats + tail-imbalance summary; per-task result buffers (drops shared `synchronizedList`); opt-in ForkJoinPool path. Dropped redundant `synchronized` wrappers in `DBScanner` and `ScoredSpectraMap`. CLI rewritten on picocli (`MSGFPlusOptions`); typed converters/enums for tolerance, int-ranges, `-outputFormat`, `-precursorCal`; `edu.ucsd.msjava.params` hierarchy deleted; `ParamManager` retired from the hot path. Audit pass dropped ~2 074 LOC. + +## Abandoned + +**Fragment-index (abandoned 2026-04-20).** Sage-style inverted index as Tier-1 candidate generator. Failed all three gates: 1.78× *slower* on PXD001819, OOM on Astral, recall 95.3 % vs ≥ 99.5 % target. Five follow-up speed ideas distilled (graph-skeleton caching, adaptive precursor tolerance, Vector API, parallelism ceiling, SpecEValue caching) — current `feat/astral-speed-improvements` draws from these. Post-mortem: `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-fragment-index/ABANDONED-2026-04-20.md`. + +## Active + +- [`astral-speed-improvements.md`](astral-speed-improvements.md) — gate B (1.3-1.5× Astral wall, no PSM regression). TMT-as-inner-loop, Astral-as-phase-gate. diff --git a/.claude/plans/astral-speed-improvements.md b/.claude/plans/astral-speed-improvements.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6264c8ba --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/plans/astral-speed-improvements.md @@ -0,0 +1,294 @@ +# Astral Speed Improvements — Design Doc + +**Status:** Design / awaiting approach selection +**Branch:** `feat/astral-speed-improvements` (off `dev` @ `2216bbb`, post-PR-#25) +**Date:** 2026-04-27 + +## 1. Why this exists + +We just merged PR #23 (`feat/msgfplus-speed-v2`), PR #24 (`feature/improve-mzid-suffix-big-fasta`), and PR #25 (`perf/search-sync-cleanup`) into `dev`. Those landed Achievements A+B (pin features + precursor calibration), parallel BuildSA bucket sort, mzML parser MS-level preload filter, scorer Hashtable→HashMap, per-task search infrastructure, and a pile of dead-code cleanup. MS-GF+ is in a clean state. + +The next iteration targets **Astral wall-time and memory**. Astral (ProteoBench Module 8: Orbitrap Astral, 32 MB FASTA, 50 K spectra, 10 ppm precursor / 20 ppm fragment) is where MS-GF+ trails Sage most visibly: + +- **Wall:** MS-GF+ ~620 s vs Sage 78 s (**7.9× gap**) +- **Memory:** MS-GF+ 7.6 GB peak RSS vs Sage 3.4 GB (**2.2× gap**) +- **Sensitivity:** MS-GF+ 35 627 PSMs vs Sage 32 074 PSMs at 1 % FDR (**MS-GF+ wins +11.1 %**) + +Sensitivity is our moat. Speed/memory is the gap we need to narrow without sacrificing it. + +## 2. What is *not* in scope + +- **Fragment-index** (Sage-style inverted index). Abandoned 2026-04-20 after failing speed/recall/memory gates on Astral; see `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-fragment-index/ABANDONED-2026-04-20.md`. Do not revisit without new evidence. +- **Big-FASTA scalability for metaproteomics / proteogenomics**. Different problem (peptide redundancy, variant DBs). May share infrastructure later but is not this iteration. +- **PXD001819 / TMT speed work** as a primary goal. Wins on those datasets are welcome side-effects; regressions there are not blockers unless they exceed gate constraints. +- **Cross-engine parity work** (deisotoping comparisons, candidate-gap analyses against Sage). Future iteration. + +## 3. Success gate + +Adopted from brainstorming session, gate B (moderate, single mergeable PR): + +| Metric | Target | Measurement | +|---|---|---| +| Astral wall (clean idle box, 4 threads, 8 GB Xmx) | **≤ 460 s** (≥ 1.35× speedup vs 620 s baseline) | `/usr/bin/time -l` on dev-tip vs branch head | +| Astral peak RSS | **≤ 7.6 GB** | same | +| Astral 1 % FDR PSMs (Percolator-rescored) | **≥ 35 600** (no regression vs 35 627) | `compare_metrics.py` integration test | +| PXD001819 1 % FDR PSMs | **≥ 15 100** (no regression vs 15 157) | CI benchmark | +| TMT PXD007683 1 % FDR PSMs | **≥ 10 100** (no regression vs 10 176) | manual run | +| Bit-identical OFF-mode behaviour | **required** for any new flag | unit + integration tests | + +Stretch (not gating, but tracked): RSS reduction toward Sage's 3.4 GB; ScoreDist allocation rate. + +### 3.1 Two-tier benchmark cadence + +Astral runs are too slow (~10 min/run) for fast iteration. We split the workload: + +- **Inner loop — TMT PXD007683** (~321 s current-dev wall, ~50 K spectra, 17 MB FASTA, Lumos high-res MS2). Used during day-to-day development for measuring wall-time deltas, RSS deltas, and engine-internal target/decoy counts. Closest available analog to Astral candidate-density dynamics; faster turnaround. +- **Phase gate — Astral ProteoBench Module 8** (~620 s baseline). Run only at end-of-phase (Phase 1 acceptance, Phase 2 acceptance, Phase 3 final) to confirm wall/RSS/PSM gates §3 hold on the actual target dataset. +- **Smoke baseline — PXD001819** (~96 s baseline). Run alongside TMT on every iteration for "no regression on small-FASTA" sanity (CI benchmark already automates this). + +**Caveat on TMT signal reliability:** + +| TMT signal | Reliable? | Notes | +|---|---|---| +| Wall-time delta | ✓ | engine-internal; no decoy-pool dependency | +| Peak RSS delta | ✓ | engine-internal | +| Native target / decoy counts | ✓ | engine-internal | +| Percolator 1 % FDR PSM count | ⚠️ | the documented Sage decoy-pool artefact (§Astral conclusions in `3engine-results.md`) means TMT decoy pools are less calibrated than Astral's. Use as a directional indicator, not a hard recall gate | + +Recall regression decisions are made on Astral, not TMT. + +## 4. Anchor data + +Numbers used to size the approaches below come from: + +- `~/.claude/plans/benchmarks/3engine-results.md` — clean Astral baseline, 3-engine table +- `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-primitives-optimization/profile-astral.md` — pre-Hashtable-fix profile (2026-04-17). Granular CPU/alloc breakdown is **stale on dev-tip** (the 43 % Hashtable contention it identified is gone after `8442f2c`). Macro wall/RSS still anchor; per-method % needs a fresh run before deep tuning. +- `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-fragment-index/ABANDONED-2026-04-20.md` — five follow-up speed ideas with expected ROI/risk + +A re-profile on dev-tip is **Phase 0** of any combo we pick (see §6). + +## 5. Catalog of approaches considered + +Six well-formed approaches plus smaller levers were considered. Each is sized for gate B (single mergeable PR) and assessed for Astral wall/RSS/recall and PXD001819 side-effects. + +### Approach 1 — Graph-skeleton memoization + +Cache the read-only arrays of `PrimitiveAminoAcidGraph` (`reachable`, `inEdgeCountByMass`, `activeNodes`, `massToNodeIdx`) keyed on `(peptideMassIndex, enzyme, aaSetHash, useProtNTerm, useProtCTerm)`. Per-spectrum scoring fields stay per-graph. Cache lives on `DBScanner` (per-task). Single construction site at `DBScanner.java:620` inside the per-mass-index inner loop. + +| Dimension | Value | +|---|---| +| Astral wall | ~10–15 % | +| RSS | +50–150 MB per task | +| Recall risk | None (pure memoization) | +| PXD001819 | +5–7 % | +| Blast radius | `PrimitiveAminoAcidGraph` + new cache class + tests | +| Standalone hits gate B? | No (1.15× < 1.3×) | + +### Approach 2 — Adaptive precursor-tolerance tightening + +After `MassCalibrator` finishes its second pass, use the learned ppm shift mean/σ to narrow the effective search window: `effective_tol = min(user_tol, calibrated_shift + k·σ)` with `k=3`, default-on for AUTO mode, opt-out via `-precursorCal aggressive|conservative|off`. Astral typical: 10 ppm window collapses to ~3 ppm post-calibration → ~2–3× fewer candidates per spectrum. + +| Dimension | Value | +|---|---| +| Astral wall | ~20–30 % | +| RSS | slight reduction | +| Recall risk | Real but bounded — k=3 keeps a 3-σ envelope. Mitigation: integration test enforces ≥ 99.5 % PSM recall vs OFF on Astral and PXD001819 | +| PXD001819 | smaller % win (Velos σ wider) | +| Blast radius | `MassCalibrator` + `SearchParams.getEffective*Tolerance()` + `DBScanner` + tests | +| Standalone hits gate B? | Yes, with margin (1.25–1.4×) | + +### Approach 3 — Parallelism-ceiling investigation + +The 2026-04-17 profile ran 4 threads on 11 cores; 7 cores idle. Winkelhardt-paper parity suggests MS-GF+ caps at 4–6 effective cores. Phase 0 measures dev-tip 1→4→8-thread scaling on Astral. If linear, drop this approach. If it caps, root-cause via per-task wall stats (already plumbed) and remove the bottleneck. + +| Dimension | Value | +|---|---| +| Astral wall | 0–50 % (high variance; depends on what we find) | +| RSS | +20–30 % (more in-flight tasks) — could push past gate | +| Recall risk | Concurrency bugs only | +| PXD001819 | similar story, smaller absolute | +| Blast radius | `ConcurrentMSGFPlus` + possibly `MSGFPlus.runMSGFPlus` + thread-safety audit | +| Standalone hits gate B? | Unknown — research-shaped, doesn't fit "single mergeable PR" if rewrite is needed | + +### Approach 4 — In-engine MS2 deisotoping + +Collapse `(M, M+1, M+2…)` isotope clusters in MS2 into the monoisotope before scoring. Sage / MaxQuant / Comet all do this; MS-GF+ trusts the mzML peak list. The 3-engine analysis already identified this as the dominant cause of the Astral candidate-generation gap with Sage — so this is recall-positive AND speed-positive. + +| Dimension | Value | +|---|---| +| Astral wall | ~15–25 % (peak count drop ~3×; cheap-score sublinear) | +| RSS | slight reduction | +| Recall risk | None expected (established prior art); risk is implementation bugs | +| PXD001819 | smaller win (Velos lower-res, partial natural merging) | +| FDR sensitivity | **+ on Astral** (closes candidate-gen gap) | +| Blast radius | New `Deisotoper` + `Spectrum.deisotope()` hook + `-deisotopeMS2 on\|off` flag + tests | +| Standalone hits gate B? | Borderline on speed; clearly hits if "+PSMs at same wall" is also a win | + +### Approach 5 — Tier-1.5 candidate cap before GF + +Today, every match surviving cheap-score top-K reaches `PrimitiveGeneratingFunction`. Tighten the cap two ways: + +1. **Hard cap**: `numCandidatesForGF` (default e.g. 10) — only top-N by cheap score reach GF. +2. **Score-gap pruning**: skip GF for candidates whose cheap score is more than Δ below the per-spectrum top score (Δ tunable, gate-tested). + +Most aligned with the original "small preprocessing of candidates" framing. + +| Dimension | Value | +|---|---| +| Astral wall | ~15–30 % (GF was ~60 % of CPU; cutting 30 % of GF inputs ≈ 18 % wall) | +| RSS | slight reduction | +| Recall risk | Real and quantifiable. Mitigation: integration test asserts no PSMs at 1 % FDR rank below the new cap; if any, raise cap | +| PXD001819 | smaller win (smaller pool to begin with) | +| Blast radius | `DBScanner.computeSpecEValue` (~25 lines around line 600) + sort + `SearchParams.numCandidatesForGF` + tests | +| Standalone hits gate B? | Possibly; comfortable when paired with Approach 1 | + +### Approach 6 — Astral-tuned NewRankScorer parameter file + +`NewRankScorer`'s rank-distribution / ion-existence tables are trained on Velos-era data. Astral's peak quality, b/y ratios, and fragment-error distributions differ. Retrain on a clean Astral PSM corpus (use current MS-GF+ 1 % FDR PSMs as labels; existing training pipeline supports this) and ship `Astral_*.param` with auto-detect via mzML instrument metadata. + +| Dimension | Value | +|---|---| +| Astral wall | ~5–15 % + likely +1–3 % FDR sensitivity | +| RSS | none (data file swap) | +| Recall risk | Minimal — auto-detect + Velos fallback | +| PXD001819 | none (different param file selected) | +| Blast radius | Training script (offline; majority of the work) + auto-detect logic + new .param data file | +| Standalone hits gate B? | No — force multiplier for Approaches 1, 2, 5 | + +### Smaller levers + +Folded into the chosen approach as nice-to-haves, or kept as Phase 2 follow-ups: + +- **GF reuse across same-mass candidates within a single spectrum.** Same nominal mass + same spectrum = identical score distribution; currently recomputed. Tiny code change, ~3–5 % wall. +- **Top-N peak retention for dense MS2.** Cap peaks per spectrum at e.g. 200 highest-intensity. Distinct from deisotoping. ~5 % wall on Astral; needs recall test. +- **`PrimitiveGeneratingFunction` early termination.** Abort when partial score distribution proves SpecEValue is far above the rank-1 threshold. Algorithmic; needs correctness proof. ~5–10 % wall. +- **Vector API in `NewRankScorer.getScore` peak-intersection loop.** Hotter than `ScoreDist.addProbDist`. High variance, JVM-version-sensitive. +- **Charge-state pre-filter on Astral.** Astral reports charge cleanly; trust it more aggressively. Tiny win, near-zero risk. + +## 6. Recommended combination + +The combinations evaluated for gate B: + +| Combo | Astral wall projection | RSS | Sensitivity | PR size | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| **1 + 5** (memo + GF cap) | 1.3–1.5× | ≤ baseline | flat (recall-gated) | Medium | +| **1 + 4** (memo + deisotoping) | 1.25–1.4× | ≤ baseline | **+** (positive) | Medium | +| **2 + 4** (tolerance + deisotoping) | 1.5–1.8× | ≤ baseline | **+** | Larger | +| **4 + 5 + 6** ("Astral pack") | 1.4–1.7× | ≤ baseline | **+** | Larger | + +**Primary recommendation: Approach 1 + Approach 5** (graph-skeleton memoization + Tier-1.5 candidate cap before GF). + +Rationale: + +1. **Two well-known, well-bounded levers.** Each has a single hot site in `DBScanner`, a clear test surface, and zero ambiguity about the cache/cap mechanism. +2. **Layered correctness.** Memoization is provably equivalent (same arrays, same content). The cap has a recall test that fails CI if it would drop a current 1 %-FDR PSM. +3. **Independent commits.** If Approach 5 fails its recall test at any cap value, ship Approach 1 alone — still a measurable Astral improvement, no rework. +4. **Smallest-blast-radius combo that hits gate B.** Touches `DBScanner` + `PrimitiveAminoAcidGraph` + a new cache class + a new `numCandidatesForGF` knob. Reviewable as one PR. +5. **Clear next-iteration runway.** Approach 4 (deisotoping), Approach 2 (adaptive tolerance), and Approach 6 (Astral-tuned scorer) are all natural follow-ups that compose cleanly with this PR's work. + +Alternative if sensitivity is a higher priority than raw speed: **Approach 1 + Approach 4** — ships +PSMs alongside ~25 % wall improvement. + +## 7. Implementation phases (for the recommended 1+5 combo) + +Phases here are scoped at the design level, not as commits. Detailed plan goes to `superpowers:writing-plans` after this design is approved. + +### Phase 0 — Re-measure on dev-tip (1 commit, no production code change) + +Profile on **both** TMT (inner-loop reference) and Astral (phase-gate reference) so subsequent phases can compare TMT wins against Astral wins and detect divergence early. + +- Run async-profiler + JFR on `dev` HEAD with **TMT** (4 threads, 8 GB Xmx, full run, 120 s steady-state CPU + 120 s alloc). +- Run the same profile on **Astral** (same threads/Xmx, 180 s windows). +- Record top-30 self-time methods, top-20 alloc sites, GC summary on each. +- Confirm `PrimitiveAminoAcidGraph.` is still a measurable line item on at least Astral (post-mortem said 7.4 % on PXD001819 at the time; expected higher on Astral). +- Confirm `PrimitiveGeneratingFunction.computeGeneratingFunction` + `ScoreDist.addProbDist` are still in the top 5 on both. +- Compute and record the wall-time ratio `TMT_wall / Astral_wall` on dev-tip — used in Phase 1 / 2 to sanity-check that TMT speedup translates roughly to Astral speedup. +- Save artifacts under `~/.claude/plans/astral-speed-improvements/profile-2026-04-XX/`. + +**Gate to proceed:** if the profile shows a different dominant cost (e.g. a new bottleneck introduced by PR #23/#24/#25) **or** TMT's hot-spot ranking diverges materially from Astral's (a sign that TMT-as-inner-loop will mislead), pause and either re-rank approaches or pick a different inner-loop dataset before coding. + +### Phase 1 — Graph-skeleton memoization (Approach 1) + +1. Add `GraphSkeletonCache` keyed on `(peptideMassIndex, enzymeId, aaSetVersion, ntermFlag, ctermFlag)`. + - Cached value: the four immutable arrays (`reachable`, `inEdgeCountByMass`, `activeNodes`, `massToNodeIdx`) packaged as a small record. + - Per-task instance, no cross-thread sharing (preserves the post-PR-#25 lock-free hot path). + - Bounded by an LRU with a generous default (e.g., 4 096 entries — covers Astral's ~3 000 distinct nominal masses with headroom). +2. Refactor `PrimitiveAminoAcidGraph` constructor to: + - Accept a pre-built skeleton (new ctor) **or** build one from scratch (existing ctor — kept for tests + as fallback). + - Apply per-spectrum scoring fields after attachment. +3. Update the `DBScanner.java:620` site to consult the cache, falling back to direct construction on cache miss. +4. Tests: + - **Unit:** cache hit returns object equal to from-scratch build (deep array equality). + - **Unit:** cache miss populates correctly. + - **Integration:** PXD001819 CI benchmark — bit-identical native target counts vs baseline. + +**Iteration cadence:** measure each tuning change on TMT (~5 min/run). Run Astral exactly once at end of phase, before merging the phase commit. + +**Acceptance:** +- Inner-loop (TMT): wall ↓ ≥ 5 %; native target/decoy counts bit-identical to dev-tip OFF-mode. +- Phase gate (Astral): wall ↓ ≥ 8 % vs Phase 0 measured baseline; PXD001819 native-T count bit-identical (CI benchmark). + +### Phase 2 — Tier-1.5 candidate cap before GF (Approach 5) + +1. Introduce `SearchParams.numCandidatesForGF` (default `Integer.MAX_VALUE` = current behaviour) and `SearchParams.gfScoreGapPrune` (default disabled). +2. In `DBScanner.computeSpecEValue` (around line 600), before the `for (DatabaseMatch match : matchQueue)` loop: + - Sort `matchQueue` by cheap score descending. + - Truncate to `numCandidatesForGF`. + - If `gfScoreGapPrune` is set, drop entries whose cheap score is below `topScore - gap`. +3. Set defaults conservatively for the released config (e.g. `numCandidatesForGF=20`, gap pruning off) — values must clear the recall test. +4. Tests: + - **Unit:** `computeSpecEValue` with cap=2 produces SpecEValues for exactly the top 2 cheap-scored matches; remainder marked as filtered. + - **Integration:** Astral 1 % FDR PSM count ≥ 35 600 at the chosen default cap. PXD001819 ≥ 15 100. TMT ≥ 10 100. + - **Recall regression:** scan dev-tip OFF-mode pin and verify every 1 %-FDR PSM survives the cap on the same data. + +**Iteration cadence:** sweep cap values (e.g. 5, 10, 20, 50) on TMT to find the wall-vs-recall knee; pick the cap value, then run Astral once to confirm it holds. + +**Cap-tuning loop (TMT inner-loop):** +1. Run with `numCandidatesForGF=5`, record TMT wall, native targets, native decoys. +2. Repeat with cap = 10, 20, 50. +3. Pick the smallest cap whose native-target count is within 0.2 % of OFF-mode on TMT. +4. Run Astral once at the chosen cap; confirm Astral 1 % FDR PSMs ≥ 35 600. +5. If Astral fails, increase cap one tier (e.g. 10 → 20) and re-run Astral. + +**Acceptance:** all three benchmark FDR counts within gate (§3); Astral wall ≤ 460 s on the Phase 0 reference machine, combined with Phase 1. + +### Phase 3 — Final benchmark + docs + +1. Run full 3-engine matrix (PXD001819, Astral, TMT) on branch HEAD; commit results to `docs/benchmarks/`. +2. Update `docs/changelog.md` with the gate-B numbers. +3. Document the two new flags in `docs/msgfplus.md`. + +## 8. Verification strategy + +- **Bit-identical OFF-mode.** Both new behaviours behind their flags; default cap value uses `Integer.MAX_VALUE` for the truly-OFF mode tested by integration. (We will only switch the *production* default cap after the recall test demonstrates safety on all three benchmarks.) +- **TMT inner-loop benchmark:** local script that runs TMT with feature ON and OFF, records wall + RSS + native target/decoy counts. Run on every meaningful code change. Not in CI (TMT data is not staged for CI runners). +- **PXD001819 CI benchmark:** existing `benchmark/ci/PXD001819/run_ci.sh` extended with a "feature ON" run; comparator gates 1 % / 5 % FDR counts. Runs on every push. +- **Astral phase-gate:** scripted end-to-end on the existing Astral dataset; results fed to `compare_metrics.py` against the baseline.tsv updated with Astral baseline. Run at end of Phase 1, end of Phase 2, end of Phase 3 — not on every code change. +- **Unit tests:** per-class for cache and cap logic. Run on every push. +- **Profile re-confirm at end:** async-profiler shows `PrimitiveAminoAcidGraph.` and GF self-time both reduced on TMT and Astral relative to Phase 0 baseline. + +## 9. Risks and mitigations + +| Risk | Likelihood | Mitigation | +|---|---|---| +| Phase 0 reveals a different dominant cost (e.g. PR #25 introduced a new hot spot) | Medium | Re-rank approaches before coding; don't proceed on stale assumptions | +| TMT-inner-loop wins fail to translate to Astral (different precursor tolerance: 20 ppm vs 10 ppm; different mod density) | Medium | Phase 0 records the TMT/Astral wall ratio; phase gates check Astral explicitly. If divergence emerges, fall back to running Astral at higher frequency for that specific change | +| Approach 5 cap drops real PSMs | Medium | Recall integration test; conservative default; fallback knob | +| Memoization correctness — graph skeleton silently differs from from-scratch build | Low | Unit-level deep equality test; OFF-mode bit-identical integration test | +| Astral wins on a feature flag but PXD001819 regresses | Low (memoization is dataset-agnostic) | CI benchmark gates regression on PXD001819 | +| Memory bloat from cache | Low | LRU bound; size monitored in test | +| Sensitivity drops below MS-GF+'s lead over Sage | Low (Approach 5 is recall-gated; Approach 1 is recall-neutral) | Same gates as above | + +## 10. Open questions / decisions for ypriverol + +1. **Approach selection.** Confirm Approach 1 + Approach 5, or pick a different combo from §6. If Approach 4 (deisotoping) appeals more for the sensitivity boost, we can swap. +2. **Datasets staged.** Do we have TMT PXD007683 mzML + FASTA staged for fast iteration on the dev box? Do we have the dev-tip Astral mzML + FASTA staged on a CI-equivalent box for the Phase 0 re-profile and phase-gate benchmarks? If either is missing, that's a prerequisite step. +3. **Default cap value.** I've sketched `numCandidatesForGF=20` as a safe-feeling default. This needs to be picked from the TMT cap-sweep + Astral confirmation, not chosen up-front. Approval to leave it TBD until Phase 2 measurement? +4. **Approach 6 (scorer retraining)** as a follow-up iteration — should it be tracked here as a "next-after-this-PR" item, or kept entirely separate? It composes cleanly with Approach 5 if we do it later. +5. **Worktree path.** I created the worktree at `~/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed`. Confirm or move. + +## 11. Reference + +- Abandoned fragment-index post-mortem: `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-fragment-index/ABANDONED-2026-04-20.md` +- Stale Astral profile (pre-Hashtable-fix; macro numbers still valid): `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-primitives-optimization/profile-astral.md` +- 3-engine benchmark: `~/.claude/plans/benchmarks/3engine-results.md` +- Existing perf-PR plans for reference style: `.claude/plans/parameter-modernization.md`, `.claude/plans/search-sync-cleanup.md` diff --git a/.claude/plans/parameter-modernization-flag-inventory.md b/.claude/plans/parameter-modernization-flag-inventory.md deleted file mode 100644 index 68ac2d6d..00000000 --- a/.claude/plans/parameter-modernization-flag-inventory.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,90 +0,0 @@ -# MS-GF+ flag inventory (Phase 1 input) - -Snapshot of every flag registered by `ParamManager.addMSGFPlusParams()` -plus the parsing semantics each one currently relies on. This is the -foundation document for the Phase 1 picocli rewrite described in -`parameter-modernization.md`. Total: 34 flags (27 visible + 7 hidden). -Required: `-s`, `-d`. - -## Visible flags - -| Short | Canonical name | Type | Default | Bounds | Notes | -|---|---|---|---|---|---| -| `-conf` | `ConfigurationFile` | file | — | exists | Config file; CLI overrides config | -| `-s` | `SpectrumFile` | file/dir | — | exists | **Required.** mzML/mzXML/mgf/ms2/pkl/_dta.txt or directory | -| `-d` | `DatabaseFile` | file | — | exists | **Required.** *.fasta / *.fa / *.faa | -| `-decoy` | `DecoyPrefix` | string | `DECOY_` | — | Decoy protein prefix | -| `-o` | `OutputFile` | file | `.pin` | — | *.pin (default) or *.tsv | -| `-t` | `PrecursorMassTolerance` | tolerance | `20ppm` | ≥0 | Symmetric (`20ppm`) or asymmetric (`0.5Da,2.5Da`); units must match | -| `-ti` | `IsotopeErrorRange` | int range | `0,1` | ≥0, max-incl | Isotope-error window, both ends inclusive | -| `-m` | `FragmentationMethodID` | dyn-enum | `ASWRITTEN` | — | 0=as-written, 1=CID, 2=ETD, 3=HCD | -| `-inst` | `InstrumentID` | dyn-enum | `LOW_RES_LTQ` | registry | `InstrumentType` registry-driven | -| `-e` | `EnzymeID` | dyn-enum | `TRYPSIN` | registry | `Enzyme` registry-driven | -| `-protocol` | `ProtocolID` | dyn-enum | `AUTOMATIC` | registry | `Protocol` registry-driven | -| `-ntt` | `NTT` | enum | `2` | 0..2 | Number of tolerable termini | -| `-mod` | `ModificationFile` | file | built-in (C+57) | exists | Mod file; config-file path also accepts `StaticMod=`/`DynamicMod=`/`CustomAA=` | -| `-minLength` | `MinPepLength` | int | `6` | ≥1 | | -| `-maxLength` | `MaxPepLength` | int | `40` | ≥1 | | -| `-minCharge` | `MinCharge` | int | `2` | ≥1 | | -| `-maxCharge` | `MaxCharge` | int | `3` | ≥1 | | -| `-n` | `NumMatchesPerSpec` | int | `1` | ≥1 | | -| `-thread` | `NumThreads` | int | `Runtime.availableProcessors()` | ≥1 | | -| `-tasks` | `NumTasks` | int | `0` (auto) | ≥-10 | 0=auto, >0=fixed, <0=N×threads | -| `-minSpectraPerThread` | `MinSpectraPerThread` | int | `250` | ≥1 | | -| `-verbose` | `Verbose` | enum | `0` | 0..1 | 0=total, 1=per-thread | -| `-tda` | `TDA` | enum | `0` | 0..1 | 0=no decoy, 1=concat decoy search | -| `-addFeatures` | `AddFeatures` | enum | `0` | 0..1 | Percolator extra features | -| `-outputFormat` | `OutputFormat` | enum | `pin` | pin/tsv | mzIdentML removed | -| `-precursorCal` | `PrecursorCal` | string | `auto` | auto/on/off | Case-insensitive | -| `-ccm` | `ChargeCarrierMass` | double | `1.00727649` | >0.1 | Proton mass default | -| `-maxMissedCleavages` | `MaxMissedCleavages` | int | `-1` | ≥-1 | -1 = unlimited | -| `-numMods` | `NumMods` | int | `3` | ≥0 | Max dynamic mods per peptide | -| `-allowDenseCentroidedPeaks` | `AllowDenseCentroidedPeaks` | enum | `0` | 0..1 | | -| `-msLevel` | `MSLevel` | int range | `2,2` | ≥1, max-incl | `min,max` or single | -| `-u` | `PrecursorMassToleranceUnits` | enum | `2` | 0..2 | **Hidden** — legacy; 0=Da, 1=ppm, 2=as-written | - -## Hidden flags - -| Short | Canonical name | Type | Default | Notes | -|---|---|---|---|---| -| `-dd` | `DBIndexDir` | dir | — | Database index dir | -| `-index` | `SpecIndex` | int range | `1,INT_MAX-1` | Spectrum index range, both inclusive | -| `-edgeScore` | `EdgeScore` | enum | `0` | 0=use, 1=skip | -| `-minNumPeaks` | `MinNumPeaks` | int | `Constants.MIN_NUM_PEAKS_PER_SPECTRUM` | | -| `-iso` | `NumIsoforms` | int | `Constants.NUM_VARIANTS_PER_PEPTIDE` | | -| `-ignoreMetCleavage` | `IgnoreMetCleavage` | enum | `0` | 0=consider, 1=ignore | -| `-minDeNovoScore` | `MinDeNovoScore` | int | `Constants.MIN_DE_NOVO_SCORE` | | - -## Sharp edges the picocli rewrite must preserve - -1. **Asymmetric tolerance.** `-t 0.5Da,2.5Da` → left tolerance (observed < theoretical) ≠ right tolerance. Both sides must use the same unit. Numeric-only value (e.g. `20`) defaults to Da. Trailing unit suffix is case-insensitive (`Da`/`ppm`/`Th`). -2. **Range inclusivity is per-flag.** `IntRangeParameter` defaults to `min` inclusive / `max` exclusive, but `-ti`, `-index`, `-msLevel` flip max to inclusive via `.setMaxInclusive()`. -3. **Dynamic enums.** `-inst`, `-e`, `-protocol`, `-m` are registry-driven (`InstrumentType`, `Enzyme`, `Protocol`, `ActivationMethod`). Numeric indices depend on registry load order; help text is generated at startup. Picocli converters must read from the same registries, not hardcode indices. -4. **`OutputFormat` legacy mapping is gone.** Old `0=mzIdentML`, `2=both` are no longer accepted; only `pin` (0) and `tsv` (1) remain. Numeric indices are deprecated but still parse internally. -5. **`-precursorCal` is a string, not an enum class.** Values: `auto` / `on` / `off` (case-insensitive, `.trim()`-ed). `auto` means "run pre-pass, apply only if ≥200 confident PSMs collected". -6. **Trailing `!` on numbers.** `IntParameter` and `DoubleParameter` strip trailing `!` (legacy DMS config-file integration). Decide if Phase 1 keeps this quirk. -7. **`-tasks` semantics.** `0` = auto, `>0` = fixed, `<0` = `N × threads`. Range allows down to `-10`. -8. **Config-file-only entries.** `StaticMod=`, `DynamicMod=`, `CustomAA=` are not CLI flags. They're parsed from `-mod` file and `-conf` config file only. Repeated entries are *expected* (each line is a separate mod). Config parser preserves order. -9. **Config-file aliases (canonical-name normalization in `ParamNameEnum.getParamNameFromLine()`).** Auto-renames at least 13 deprecated keys: - - `IsotopeError` → `IsotopeErrorRange` - - `TargetDecoyAnalysis` → `TDA` - - `FragmentationMethod` → `FragmentationMethodID` - - `Instrument` → `InstrumentID` - - `Enzyme` → `EnzymeID` - - `Protocol` → `ProtocolID` - - `NumTolerableTermini` → `NTT` - - `MinNumPeaks` → `MinNumPeaksPerSpectrum` - - `MaxNumMods` / `MaxNumModsPerPeptide` → `NumMods` - - `minLength` / `MinPeptideLength` → `MinPepLength` - - `maxLength` / `MaxPeptideLength` → `MaxPepLength` - - `PMTolerance` / `ParentMassTolerance` → `PrecursorMassTolerance` -10. **File-format validation chain.** Order: directory-vs-file → format-suffix match → existence → no-reuse. Suffix matching is case-insensitive for `.pin`/`.tsv`/`.fasta`. Spec parameter auto-allows directories. -11. **Defaults that depend on runtime.** `-thread` defaults to `Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors()` (includes hyperthreading; per CLAUDE.md, physical cores often give better wall-time). -12. **Help-text drift.** Existing tests likely compare exact `--help` output. picocli's formatter is different. Decide: snapshot-update vs. custom renderer that mimics current format. - -## Out-of-scope reminders for Phase 1 - -- `MSGFDB`, `MSGF`, `MSGFLib` entry points share `ParamManager`. Phase 1 only modernizes `MSGFPlus`; the other three keep using `ParamManager.parseParams()` until Phase 4. -- Config-file parsing is Phase 2. Phase 1 covers CLI only. -- The `Parameter` / `IntParameter` / `IntRangeParameter` / `ToleranceParameter` / etc. hierarchy is **not** removed in Phase 1. Removal is Phase 3. -- `ParamManager` itself stays. Phase 1 adds an adapter that produces a populated `ParamManager` from the typed `MSGFPlusOptions`, so `SearchParams.parse(ParamManager)` is unchanged. diff --git a/.claude/plans/parameter-modernization.md b/.claude/plans/parameter-modernization.md deleted file mode 100644 index 19a6961f..00000000 --- a/.claude/plans/parameter-modernization.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,159 +0,0 @@ -# Plan: modernize MS-GF+ parameter handling - -**Status: proposed** -Branch: `perf/search-sync-cleanup` (worktree at -`/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/search-sync-cleanup`). - -## Why this exists - -The current parameter stack under `edu.ucsd.msjava.params` is doing -several jobs at once: -- command-line parsing -- type conversion -- validation -- help/usage rendering -- config-file alias handling -- backward-compatibility shims - -That works, but it spreads option behavior across many small classes -(`Parameter`, `NumberParameter`, `RangeParameter`, `ToleranceParameter`, -`FileParameter`, enum wrappers, and `ParamManager`). The result is more -code than we need for a solved problem and a higher risk of subtle -parsing drift when new flags are added. - -## Goals - -- Reduce the amount of custom CLI parsing code. -- Keep existing MS-GF+ command-line behavior stable where practical. -- Preserve current config-file semantics in the first migration step. -- Keep `SearchParams` as the internal domain model for search settings. -- Improve help/usage generation and validation error consistency. - -## Non-goals - -- No search algorithm changes. -- No performance claim for the search itself; parsing happens once at - startup and is not a runtime hotspot. -- No forced removal of legacy config-file aliases in phase 1. -- No broad package cleanup bundled into this effort. - -## Recommended direction - -Adopt `picocli` for command-line parsing and help generation, while -keeping a thin MSGF+-specific compatibility layer for: -- legacy option names and aliases -- config-file parsing -- repeated modification/custom-AA entries -- conversion into `SearchParams`, `AminoAcidSet`, `Tolerance`, and - related domain objects - -## Proposed migration shape - -### Phase 1: introduce a typed CLI model beside `ParamManager` - -- Add a new options class for `MSGFPlus` under `edu.ucsd.msjava.cli`. -- Represent flags as typed fields with defaults, required markers, - and descriptions. -- Add custom `picocli` converters for: - - precursor mass tolerance - - integer and float ranges - - output format - - precursor calibration mode - - file/directory validation -- Keep `ParamManager` intact during this phase. -- Add an adapter that maps parsed CLI options into the current - `SearchParams` inputs. - -Success criteria: -- `MSGFPlus` can parse its current CLI arguments through the new path. -- Generated help text is complete and readable. -- Existing tests for parameter behavior still pass or are updated - mechanically where output formatting differs. - -### Phase 2: preserve config-file compatibility explicitly - -- Keep `ParamParser` or replace it with a thinner reader that still - accepts the current `key=value` format. -- Centralize legacy config-name alias resolution in one place instead - of scattering it through `ParamNameEnum`. -- Support repeated config entries for: - - `DynamicMod` - - `StaticMod` - - `CustomAA` -- Feed config values into the same typed options model used by CLI. - -Success criteria: -- Existing example parameter files still load. -- Duplicate-entry behavior for mods/custom amino acids is preserved. -- Command-line values continue to override config-file values. - -### Phase 3: move validation out of the custom parameter hierarchy - -- Replace per-type `parse()` methods with: - - `picocli` conversion - - explicit validation methods on the typed options object - - targeted domain-level validation while building `SearchParams` -- Collapse or remove custom classes that are no longer needed: - - `Parameter` - - `NumberParameter` - - `RangeParameter` - - `IntParameter` - - `FloatParameter` - - `DoubleParameter` - - `IntRangeParameter` - - `FloatRangeParameter` - - enum parameter wrappers - -Success criteria: -- No user-visible behavior regressions on required flags, defaults, - range checks, or enum choices. -- Validation failures still produce actionable messages. - -### Phase 4: reduce `ParamManager` to compatibility-only or retire it - -- If any remaining tools still depend on `ParamManager`, keep it only as - a compatibility facade over the new parser. -- Otherwise remove `ParamManager` from the active CLI path. -- Decide whether `MSGFDB` migrates in the same PR series or follows - after `MSGFPlus` is stable. - -## Main risks - -- Help text and error messages may change in ways that break tests or - documentation. -- Config-file behavior is more important than it looks; it includes - legacy aliases and repeated entries that generic CLI libraries do not - model by default. -- `MSGFDB` and `MSGFPlus` share parts of the current stack, so an - incomplete migration could increase duplication before it decreases. - -## Validation plan - -- Add focused tests for: - - required arguments - - default values - - bad range syntax - - enum parsing - - file existence checks - - config-file override precedence - - repeated modification/custom-AA entries -- Keep existing `SearchParams` tests green. -- Run at least one end-to-end `MSGFPlus` smoke test on a known fixture. -- Compare old vs new parser outcomes for a representative set of real - command lines and config files. - -## Suggested implementation order - -1. Add `picocli` dependency. -2. Build a typed `MSGFPlusOptions` class and converters. -3. Parse CLI into the new options class without removing `ParamManager`. -4. Add an adapter into the current `SearchParams` build path. -5. Port config-file handling. -6. Remove unused custom parameter classes. -7. Migrate `MSGFDB` only after `MSGFPlus` is stable. - -## Recommendation on branch strategy - -Do this in a dedicated refactor branch, not as part of a performance -cleanup PR. The expected win is maintainability and correctness, not -search throughput, and the surface area touches the public CLI. diff --git a/.claude/plans/search-sync-cleanup.md b/.claude/plans/search-sync-cleanup.md deleted file mode 100644 index bf7ec3e6..00000000 --- a/.claude/plans/search-sync-cleanup.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,133 +0,0 @@ -# Plan: search-path sync cleanup + per-task result buffers - -**Status: SHIPPED in PR #25** (https://github.com/bigbio/msgfplus/pull/25) -Branch: `perf/search-sync-cleanup` (worktree at -`/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/search-sync-cleanup`). - -Successor to PR #24. Pure refactor + instrumentation — no scoring, -parser, or `.pin` feature changes. Output bit-identical to dev's tip -on every measurable axis. - -## What shipped (6 commits) - -1. **T1 — per-task wall stats + tail-imbalance summary** - `RunMSGFPlus` captures preprocess / db-search / compute-evalue / - total wall into a `TaskWallStats` accessor; `MSGFPlus.runMSGFPlus` - prints a one-line summary at end of search: - ``` - Task wall summary (n=12): min=101.7s median=224.2s p95=246.4s - max=246.4s total=2356.7s tail_gap=22.2s (10% of median) - ``` - On Astral the measured `tail_gap` is **10 % of median**, which means - T2 and T3 can't deliver substantial wins on this workload. - -2. **Drop dead `synchronized` wrappers in DBScanner + ScoredSpectraMap.** - Each instance is task-local (verified: no internal fork-out in - `dbSearch`, no shared instance across threads). Plain `HashMap` / - `TreeMap` replace the `Collections.synchronizedMap` / - `synchronizedSortedMap` wrappers; `synchronized` modifier dropped - from `addDBMatches`, `generateSpecIndexDBMatchMap`, - `addResultsToList`, `addDBSearchResults`. Memory-visibility safety - preserved via `awaitTermination`'s happens-before. - -3. **Per-task local result buffers + final merge.** - Replaced the global `Collections.synchronizedList` - with a per-task `ArrayList`. Each `RunMSGFPlus` owns its own buffer; - main thread drains all buffers after `awaitTermination`. - `RunMSGFPlus`'s constructor drops the `resultList` parameter; new - `getResults()` accessor. - -4. **T2 — `-Dmsgfplus.numTasksPerThread=N`** (default 3, unchanged). - Lets operators raise the multiplier on datasets where T1's - `tail_gap` shows real imbalance. - -5. **T3 — `-Dmsgfplus.useForkJoin=true`** (default false, unchanged). - Opt-in `ForkJoinPool` swap. Default keeps - `ThreadPoolExecutorWithExceptions` (which retains progress - reporting + exception-capture-via-afterExecute). FJP path uses - `Future.get()` for exception propagation. - -6. **Polish — tighter result-buffer merge + `drainResultsTo` + reused - null sink.** Static `NULL_PRINT_STREAM` cached instead of allocated - per `run()`; `drainResultsTo(dest)` clears per-task buffers - immediately after merge so heap is collectible; pre-size merged - `ArrayList` to `sum(t.getResultCount())` to avoid resize-and-copy; - `submittedTasks.clear()` after summary drops strong refs to all 12 - task instances before the FDR / write phase. - -## Validation gate cleared (Astral 3-arm + Percolator) - -Astral 3-arm cold, 8 GB heap, 4 threads, default sysprops. -**All 8 parity numbers bit-identical to dev's tip:** - -| Metric | dev | this branch | -|---|---:|---:| -| armB raw targets | 89,479 | 89,479 ✓ | -| armB raw decoys | 46,792 | 46,792 ✓ | -| armB 1 % FDR targets | 35,818 | 35,818 ✓ | -| armB 5 % FDR targets | 40,408 | 40,408 ✓ | -| armC raw targets | 89,360 | 89,360 ✓ | -| armC raw decoys | 46,913 | 46,913 ✓ | -| armC 1 % FDR targets | 35,767 | 35,767 ✓ | -| armC 5 % FDR targets | 40,426 | 40,426 ✓ | - -Walltime delta vs master in the same run: -- armB: 752.2s vs 848.8s = **−11.4 %** -- armC: 798.2s vs 848.8s = **−5.9 %** - -(First run came in with armC at 6298s; root-caused to OS thrashing — -load avg 5-8, ~120 MB free RAM, 165M page reclaims, Rancher VM eating -1 GB. Re-ran after stopping Rancher; wall normalized. Not a code -issue. Documented in PR #25 description.) - -## What we learned vs. expected wins - -The plan predicted: -- Step 1 (sync removal): 0–2 % wall. Possibly negative if biased - locking was helping. Code clarity is the more reliable win. -- Step 2 (per-task buffers): 2–8 % wall, scaling with PSM count. -- T2 / T3: only worth doing if profiler shows real tail-imbalance. - -What we measured: -- Combined wall improvement: **11.4 % on armB, 5.9 % on armC** — - better than the upper end of the per-step predictions, suggesting - the gains compound (less monitor traffic + cheaper drain phase). -- T1's measured tail_gap on Astral: **10 % of median** — small enough - that T2/T3 default-on would give marginal wins. They ship as opt-in - knobs precisely so they don't gate the default behavior. - -## What this branch is NOT - -Not a fragment-index revival. Not a primitive mass-window port. Not -a peak-storage refactor (`Peak` → `float[]`). Not a CLI / format -change. Originated from a third-party review of PR #24. - -## Follow-ups (out of scope for this PR) - -- **Profile on TMT and a metaproteomic FASTA** with the new T1 - summary. Astral's 10 % tail_gap might not represent uneven - workloads — homolog-rich DBs are the place T2/T3 should bite. -- **`DatabaseMatch.indices` from `TreeSet` to primitive - `int[]`** (M1 from the broader memory-roadmap discussion). Highest - expected impact for homolog-heavy databases (5-12× memory reduction - per match); needs a metaproteomic test fixture to validate. -- **Parser cache stores raw `float[] mz, float[] intensity`** (M3), - with a fresh `Spectrum` built per `getSpectrumBySpecIndex`. Side - benefit: cache-layer immutability instead of cloneSpectrum. -- **`Peak`/`Spectrum` storage refactor** (M2). Multi-PR. Big surface - area. Defer until M1 + M3 land. - -## Open questions resolved - -- **Did the custom `ThreadPoolExecutorWithExceptions` preserve - awaitTermination's happens-before on the exception path?** Yes — - observed bit-identical results in armB / armC across the 3-arm - benchmark, which would not be the case if visibility were broken. - -- **Was HotSpot already eliding the uncontended monitors?** Probably - partially. Step 2 (sync removal) on its own gives an unmeasured - delta; combined with steps 3–6 the total is 11.4 %. We can't - attribute that 11.4 % to any single commit without per-commit - benchmarks, but the polish commit (#6) likely contributes - meaningfully via the pre-sized `ArrayList` and immediate - per-task-buffer release. From eee9fa68f552b6a561f005a100088a67858de560 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:47:53 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 02/26] docs(plans): consolidate to 5x roadmap; adopt milestone-commit shipping model MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Replace the short-horizon astral-speed-improvements.md (drafted on this branch in 878b0cb) with the longer-horizon astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md as the single active design. Shipping-model change (new §0 in the roadmap): this iteration ships as milestone commits on feat/astral-speed-improvements with one closing PR at the end, not a PR per phase. Each phase milestone commit follows the template: feat(astral-speed): MILESTONE Phase — <2-4 lines: TMT inner-loop wall delta, Astral phase-gate result, recall delta, RSS delta if any> The small-wins from the deleted plan (graph-skeleton memoization in PrimitiveAminoAcidGraph + Tier-1.5 GF candidate cap in DBScanner.computeSpecEValue) are retained as the §0 "Iteration 0.5 fallback" — used only when a big-win phase fails its kill gate. Original short-horizon plan recoverable via: git show 878b0cb:.claude/plans/astral-speed-improvements.md --- .claude/plans/README.md | 2 +- .claude/plans/astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md | 460 +++++++++++++++++++++ .claude/plans/astral-speed-improvements.md | 294 ------------- 3 files changed, 461 insertions(+), 295 deletions(-) create mode 100644 .claude/plans/astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md delete mode 100644 .claude/plans/astral-speed-improvements.md diff --git a/.claude/plans/README.md b/.claude/plans/README.md index 5d02120c..5f101bf8 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/README.md +++ b/.claude/plans/README.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Implementation plans and design documents for MS-GF+ features and improvements. ## Active -- [`astral-speed-improvements.md`](astral-speed-improvements.md) — current design. +- [`astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md`](astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md) — current design. Targets the first credible 5× Astral speed path. Ships as milestone commits on `feat/astral-speed-improvements`, single closing PR at end of iteration. ## History diff --git a/.claude/plans/astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md b/.claude/plans/astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f3233208 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/plans/astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md @@ -0,0 +1,460 @@ +# Astral 5X Roadmap — Search-Space Reduction Fast Path + +**Status:** Design / exploratory roadmap +**Date:** 2026-04-28 +**Scope:** first credible path toward a **5× Astral wall-time reduction** without giving back MS-GF+'s sensitivity lead + +## 0. Shipping model + +This iteration ships as **milestone commits** on `feat/astral-speed-improvements`, with **one closing PR** opened at the end of the iteration. Phases do not become individual PRs. + +Each phase milestone uses a commit message of the form: + +``` +feat(astral-speed): MILESTONE Phase — + +<2–4 lines of measurement detail> +- TMT inner-loop wall delta +- Astral phase-gate result (if run) +- Recall delta on Astral 1 % FDR +- Any new memory or RSS constraint observed +``` + +Strategy: try the highest-EV phase first; fall back to smaller wins inside the same branch if a phase fails its kill gate. + +- **Attempt order:** Phase A → (success: Phase B or C; failure: Iteration 0.5 fallback below) → ... +- **Iteration 0.5 fallback** (used only when a "big-win" phase fails its kill gate): graph-skeleton memoization in `PrimitiveAminoAcidGraph` (~10–15% Astral, recall-neutral) + Tier-1.5 GF candidate cap in `DBScanner.computeSpecEValue` (15–30%, recall-gated). Both are single-site changes and ship as their own milestone commits before this branch's closing PR. +- **Closing PR** is opened only after measured Astral wall improvement on the branch passes the whole-roadmap gate (§8) or after the fallback path delivers a defensible improvement. + +Throughout the iteration the branch is visible to reviewers via its commit log; no per-phase PR review. + +## 1. Executive view + +A real 5× Astral gain means moving from roughly **620 s** to **124 s** on the clean 4-thread baseline. + +That is **not** a "next hotspot fix" target. + +The current architecture spends most of its time doing legitimate work: + +1. walking the suffix-array-derived peptide space +2. matching many peptide masses to many spectra +3. cheap-scoring the matched peptide/spectrum pairs +4. computing GF over the retained precursor-mass window + +Even perfect implementation-level tuning will not get us to 124 s. The only credible path is to do **much less work**. + +This roadmap proposes an **Astral fast path** that keeps the current SA-walk engine, but adds three major forms of search-space reduction: + +1. **cleaner spectra** before scoring +2. **tighter precursor windows** before peptide↔spectrum pairing +3. **branch-and-bound pruning inside the peptide-extension walk** before cheap scoring / GF + +The key decision is architectural: + +- **Do not** revive the standalone fragment index +- **Do** insert pruning logic *inside* the current `DBScanner` + `CandidatePeptideGrid` path + +## 2. Why 5× is hard in the current shape + +The benchmark and profiling history give us two hard constraints: + +1. **Parallelism alone is not enough.** + Astral's clean baseline is about 620 s wall. Earlier measurements showed about 2366 CPU-seconds of real work on 4 threads. Even if we reached perfect 8-core scaling with no other improvements, wall would still be roughly 296 s. + +2. **Micro-optimizations are no longer enough.** + The old big bottleneck (`Hashtable` contention in `NewRankScorer`) has already been addressed on `dev`. The remaining work is spread across candidate generation, cheap scoring, and GF. That means further 5-15% wins are still worth doing, but they will not compound to 5× by themselves. + +Conclusion: + +- **5× requires both** + - materially lower CPU work + - materially better parallel efficiency after that work is reduced + +## 3. Working thesis + +The best shot at 5× is an **Astral-specific fast path** with this sequence: + +1. **MS2 deisotoping + dense-peak retention cap** +2. **calibrated precursor-window tightening** +3. **spectrum-aware branch-and-bound during peptide extension** +4. **score-threshold tightening into GF** +5. **follow-up parallel scaling after the search space is smaller** + +The core idea is not to replace the current engine. It is to stop feeding it so many hopeless candidates. + +## 4. Where the current code multiplies work + +The hottest multiplicative loop in the current search path is in [DBScanner.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java:189): + +1. extend peptide prefixes along the suffix-array walk +2. materialize peptide variants in `CandidatePeptideGrid` +3. for each candidate peptide variant: + - compute theoretical peptide mass + - lookup matched `SpecKey`s via `pepMassSpecKeyMap.subMap(...)` + - cheap-score each matched spectrum with `scorer.getScore(...)` + - keep top scoring matches per spectrum + +The key inner fan-out is here: + +- peptide extension and variant materialization: [CandidatePeptideGrid.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/CandidatePeptideGrid.java:152) +- spectrum matching and cheap scoring: [DBScanner.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java:488) +- GF pass over surviving precursor-mass indices: [DBScanner.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java:563) + +This is the choke point we need to change. + +## 5. The proposed fast path + +## 5.1 Phase A — Spectrum cleanup before search + +### A1. In-engine MS2 deisotoping + +Goal: + +- collapse isotope clusters so Astral spectra look closer to the effective evidence Sage scores + +Why it matters: + +- reduces peak density +- reduces noisy evidence in cheap scoring +- should close part of the candidate-generation mismatch seen in the benchmark notes + +Expected effect: + +- lower cheap-score cost +- stronger score separation for real matches +- modest recall upside on Astral + +Likely classes to touch: + +- [Spectrum.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/Spectrum.java:18) +- [ScoredSpectraMap.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java:203) +- scorer construction path in `NewScoredSpectrum` / `NewRankScorer` + +### A2. Dense-peak retention cap + +Goal: + +- after deisotoping, keep only the most informative peaks for dense Astral MS2 scans + +Suggested initial policy: + +- configurable top-N by intensity, with optional windowed cap +- start conservative, e.g. 200-300 peaks + +This should be treated as a measured extension of deisotoping, not a separate headline feature. + +## 5.2 Phase B — Shrink precursor pairing earlier + +### B1. Calibrated precursor-window tightening + +Use the existing calibration seam to reduce the peptide↔spectrum pairing fan-out before cheap scoring. + +This should be applied in two places: + +1. when building `pepMassSpecKeyMap` +2. when choosing the precursor-mass index window for GF + +Likely classes to touch: + +- [MassCalibrator.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java:37) +- [ScoredSpectraMap.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java:14) +- [SearchParams.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/SearchParams.java:18) +- [DBScanner.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java:471) + +This is the cleanest already-supported lever for reducing search-space width. + +## 5.3 Phase C — Branch-and-bound inside the SA walk + +This is the centerpiece of the 5× roadmap. + +### C1. The idea + +Today we extend peptide prefixes largely on enzyme/modification feasibility, then only later cheap-score the full candidate against all matched spectra. + +Instead, we should prune branches *during* extension when they cannot possibly beat the current per-spectrum threshold. + +That means we need to attach an **optimistic upper bound** to a partial peptide prefix. + +### C2. Bounding model + +For a peptide prefix of length `L`, define: + +- `partialScore(prefix, specKey)` = cheap score already explained by the prefix +- `upperBoundRemaining(prefix, specKey)` = optimistic best-case contribution from residues not yet appended +- `bound(prefix, specKey)` = `partialScore + upperBoundRemaining + cleavage bonuses` + +If: + +- `bound(prefix, specKey) < currentWorstTopN(specKey)` + +then that prefix cannot produce a retained match for that spectrum, so we stop extending it. + +### C3. The practical challenge + +We cannot afford to track detailed state for every spectrum on every branch. + +So the fast path needs a staged pruning model: + +1. **Mass gate** + Keep only spectra whose tightened precursor window still overlaps the reachable peptide-mass interval from this prefix. + +2. **Lightweight evidence gate** + Maintain a coarse prefix evidence score from the current PRM grid against the spectrum scorer. + +3. **Top-N bound gate** + Prune only when the optimistic bound is safely below the current per-spectrum threshold. + +This must be done with compact data structures and aggressive reuse. + +### C4. Implementation shape + +Introduce a small, explicit pruning helper owned by `DBScanner`, for example: + +- `SpectrumPruningState` +- `PrefixBoundCalculator` +- `PrefixCandidateWindow` + +Likely responsibilities: + +- map prefix mass ranges to candidate `SpecKey` subsets +- maintain current worst top-N threshold per `SpecKey` +- compute an optimistic completion bound +- return `KEEP`, `PRUNE_FOR_SPEC`, or `PRUNE_BRANCH` + +Likely classes to touch: + +- [DBScanner.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java:189) +- [CandidatePeptideGrid.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/CandidatePeptideGrid.java:11) +- [CandidatePeptideGridConsideringMetCleavage.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/CandidatePeptideGridConsideringMetCleavage.java:6) +- scorer interfaces: + - [SimpleDBSearchScorer.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msscorer/SimpleDBSearchScorer.java:1) + - [FastScorer.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msscorer/FastScorer.java:11) + - [DBScanScorer.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msscorer/DBScanScorer.java:1) + +### C5. Important constraint + +The first branch-and-bound version must be **conservative**: + +- never prune a branch unless the bound is mathematically safe +- if a safe bound proves too weak to save real work, stop and reassess + +It is better to discover that a bound is too loose than to ship a fast but recall-damaging heuristic disguised as an exact optimization. + +## 5.4 Phase D — Tighten the GF stage after pruning + +Once the prefix pruning has already removed much of the cheap-score fan-out, then score-threshold tightening into GF becomes more realistic. + +This version of the idea is code-accurate: + +- use the retained candidate set to raise the minimum score threshold +- pass that threshold to `PrimitiveGeneratingFunction.setUpScoreThreshold` +- verify that the DP state shrinks materially + +This is a **Phase D** optimization, not the centerpiece. + +## 5.5 Phase E — Recover parallel scaling after search-space shrinkage + +Only after A-D have reduced the amount of work per thread should we chase higher scaling. + +Why: + +- otherwise we parallelize waste +- contention and overhead are harder to reason about while candidate fan-out is still large + +Phase E scope: + +- measure 1/2/4/8 thread scaling after branch pruning +- identify any remaining serialization in orchestration or scorer access +- only then tune task scheduling / minimum spectra per thread / map ownership + +## 6. Expected payoff by phase + +These are directional planning numbers, not commitments: + +| Phase | Astral wall impact | Recall risk | Notes | +|---|---:|---|---| +| A: deisotope + peak cap | 1.15-1.35× | low-medium | likely helps sensitivity if deisotoping is correct | +| B: calibrated window tightening | 1.15-1.30× | medium | must be heavily recall-gated | +| C: branch-and-bound SA walk | 1.5-2.5× | medium-high | only if the bound is both safe and meaningfully selective | +| D: GF threshold tightening | 1.05-1.15× | low-medium | follow-on effect after C | +| E: better scaling | 1.2-1.8× | low | depends on new post-pruning profile | + +Compounded, this is the first roadmap that can plausibly reach **3.5× to 6×**. + +The dominant uncertainty is Phase C. + +## 7. Telemetry we must add before betting on this + +Before major coding, add instrumentation that can run on TMT and Astral: + +### Search-space telemetry + +- candidate peptide variants considered per SA index +- matched `SpecKey` count per candidate peptide +- cheap-score calls per spectrum +- top-N threshold evolution per spectrum +- precursor-mass index span per spectrum in GF + +### Pruning telemetry + +- branches considered +- branches pruned by mass gate +- branches pruned by bound gate +- retained branches that produce at least one final top-N match +- false-alarm audit on debug runs: + - prefixes that would have been pruned + - whether any descendant became a final retained match + +### Spectrum-shape telemetry + +- peaks before and after deisotoping +- peaks before and after dense-peak cap +- calibrated precursor-window widths + +This telemetry should be written behind a debug flag, not always-on. + +## 8. Acceptance and kill gates + +This roadmap needs hard stop conditions. + +### Phase A gates + +- Astral wall improves measurably +- Astral 1% FDR PSMs do not regress below 35 600 +- PXD001819 remains within existing gate + +Kill: + +- if deisotoping reduces Astral recall materially without compensating wall win + +### Phase B gates + +- precursor-window median width shrinks materially on Astral +- candidate pairing count drops materially +- recall stays within gate + +Kill: + +- if tightened windows do not meaningfully reduce pairing fan-out + +### Phase C gates + +- branch pruning removes a large fraction of cheap-score calls +- debug audit shows no exact-bound violations +- Astral wall improves by at least 1.5× over the pre-Phase-C branch baseline + +Kill: + +- if the safe bound is too weak to prune enough work +- if the bound becomes heuristic and starts threatening recall +- if implementation state balloons memory beyond the 8 GB target + +### Whole-roadmap gate + +Proceed only while the compounded measured gain is tracking toward at least **3×** by the time Phase C is working. If A+B+C together cannot plausibly clear 3×, stop and reassess instead of polishing a dead branch. + +## 9. Proposed implementation order + +### Iteration 0 — telemetry-only branch + +Goal: + +- quantify where Astral fan-out really happens on `dev` + +Touches: + +- `DBScanner` +- `ScoredSpectraMap` +- optional debug output helpers + +### Iteration 1 — deisotoping + peak-cap scaffold + +Goal: + +- validate that spectrum cleanup helps candidate density and cheap-score separation + +Touches: + +- `Spectrum` +- scorer preprocessing path +- tests with synthetic isotope clusters + +### Iteration 2 — calibrated window tightening + +Goal: + +- reduce precursor pairing width and GF mass-index span + +Touches: + +- `MassCalibrator` +- `ScoredSpectraMap` +- `SearchParams` +- `DBScanner` + +### Iteration 3 — branch-and-bound prototype + +Goal: + +- prove that a conservative bound can prune real Astral work + +Touches: + +- `CandidatePeptideGrid` +- `DBScanner` +- scorer helpers +- new pruning-state classes + +Deliverable: + +- prototype guarded by an OFF-by-default flag + +### Iteration 4 — exactness audit + optimization + +Goal: + +- prove correctness and reduce overhead of the pruning machinery itself + +This is where we decide whether the branch becomes the main path or gets abandoned. + +### Iteration 5 — GF tightening and scaling follow-up + +Goal: + +- exploit the smaller retained candidate set + +Touches: + +- `PrimitiveGeneratingFunction` +- `DBScanner.computeSpecEValue` +- orchestration / task sizing if needed + +## 10. What I would not do next + +- **Do not re-open the fragment-index branch.** + The post-mortem is still right: too much Tier-1 cost, too much memory, too much architectural risk. + +- **Do not start with another GF-local optimization.** + Useful later, but it does not solve the multiplicative fan-out earlier in the search. + +- **Do not start with a concurrency rewrite.** + That risks parallelizing waste before we have shrunk the search space. + +## 11. My recommendation + +Try **Phase A first** as the opening big-win attempt: + +1. telemetry milestone commit (Iteration 0) +2. spectrum cleanup milestone commit (Iteration 1, Phase A) + +If Phase A delivers, continue with Phase B then Phase C as further milestone commits on the same branch. If Phase A fails its kill gate (no measurable wall win and no recall upside), drop to Iteration 0.5 fallback (memoization + GF candidate cap; see §0) and ship those as the iteration's deliverable. + +Phase C is the centerpiece of 5× but the highest-variance phase; do not attempt it before Phase A is in place because cleaner spectra make C's upper bounds tighter. + +## 12. Reference + +- Iteration retrospective: [SHIPPED.md](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md:1) +- Benchmark summary: `~/.claude/plans/benchmarks/3engine-results.md` +- Fragment-index post-mortem: `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-fragment-index/ABANDONED-2026-04-20.md` +- Historical Astral profile: `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-primitives-optimization/profile-astral.md` +- Earlier short-horizon plan (superseded; consolidated into §0 fallback): recoverable via `git show 878b0cb:.claude/plans/astral-speed-improvements.md` diff --git a/.claude/plans/astral-speed-improvements.md b/.claude/plans/astral-speed-improvements.md deleted file mode 100644 index 6264c8ba..00000000 --- a/.claude/plans/astral-speed-improvements.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,294 +0,0 @@ -# Astral Speed Improvements — Design Doc - -**Status:** Design / awaiting approach selection -**Branch:** `feat/astral-speed-improvements` (off `dev` @ `2216bbb`, post-PR-#25) -**Date:** 2026-04-27 - -## 1. Why this exists - -We just merged PR #23 (`feat/msgfplus-speed-v2`), PR #24 (`feature/improve-mzid-suffix-big-fasta`), and PR #25 (`perf/search-sync-cleanup`) into `dev`. Those landed Achievements A+B (pin features + precursor calibration), parallel BuildSA bucket sort, mzML parser MS-level preload filter, scorer Hashtable→HashMap, per-task search infrastructure, and a pile of dead-code cleanup. MS-GF+ is in a clean state. - -The next iteration targets **Astral wall-time and memory**. Astral (ProteoBench Module 8: Orbitrap Astral, 32 MB FASTA, 50 K spectra, 10 ppm precursor / 20 ppm fragment) is where MS-GF+ trails Sage most visibly: - -- **Wall:** MS-GF+ ~620 s vs Sage 78 s (**7.9× gap**) -- **Memory:** MS-GF+ 7.6 GB peak RSS vs Sage 3.4 GB (**2.2× gap**) -- **Sensitivity:** MS-GF+ 35 627 PSMs vs Sage 32 074 PSMs at 1 % FDR (**MS-GF+ wins +11.1 %**) - -Sensitivity is our moat. Speed/memory is the gap we need to narrow without sacrificing it. - -## 2. What is *not* in scope - -- **Fragment-index** (Sage-style inverted index). Abandoned 2026-04-20 after failing speed/recall/memory gates on Astral; see `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-fragment-index/ABANDONED-2026-04-20.md`. Do not revisit without new evidence. -- **Big-FASTA scalability for metaproteomics / proteogenomics**. Different problem (peptide redundancy, variant DBs). May share infrastructure later but is not this iteration. -- **PXD001819 / TMT speed work** as a primary goal. Wins on those datasets are welcome side-effects; regressions there are not blockers unless they exceed gate constraints. -- **Cross-engine parity work** (deisotoping comparisons, candidate-gap analyses against Sage). Future iteration. - -## 3. Success gate - -Adopted from brainstorming session, gate B (moderate, single mergeable PR): - -| Metric | Target | Measurement | -|---|---|---| -| Astral wall (clean idle box, 4 threads, 8 GB Xmx) | **≤ 460 s** (≥ 1.35× speedup vs 620 s baseline) | `/usr/bin/time -l` on dev-tip vs branch head | -| Astral peak RSS | **≤ 7.6 GB** | same | -| Astral 1 % FDR PSMs (Percolator-rescored) | **≥ 35 600** (no regression vs 35 627) | `compare_metrics.py` integration test | -| PXD001819 1 % FDR PSMs | **≥ 15 100** (no regression vs 15 157) | CI benchmark | -| TMT PXD007683 1 % FDR PSMs | **≥ 10 100** (no regression vs 10 176) | manual run | -| Bit-identical OFF-mode behaviour | **required** for any new flag | unit + integration tests | - -Stretch (not gating, but tracked): RSS reduction toward Sage's 3.4 GB; ScoreDist allocation rate. - -### 3.1 Two-tier benchmark cadence - -Astral runs are too slow (~10 min/run) for fast iteration. We split the workload: - -- **Inner loop — TMT PXD007683** (~321 s current-dev wall, ~50 K spectra, 17 MB FASTA, Lumos high-res MS2). Used during day-to-day development for measuring wall-time deltas, RSS deltas, and engine-internal target/decoy counts. Closest available analog to Astral candidate-density dynamics; faster turnaround. -- **Phase gate — Astral ProteoBench Module 8** (~620 s baseline). Run only at end-of-phase (Phase 1 acceptance, Phase 2 acceptance, Phase 3 final) to confirm wall/RSS/PSM gates §3 hold on the actual target dataset. -- **Smoke baseline — PXD001819** (~96 s baseline). Run alongside TMT on every iteration for "no regression on small-FASTA" sanity (CI benchmark already automates this). - -**Caveat on TMT signal reliability:** - -| TMT signal | Reliable? | Notes | -|---|---|---| -| Wall-time delta | ✓ | engine-internal; no decoy-pool dependency | -| Peak RSS delta | ✓ | engine-internal | -| Native target / decoy counts | ✓ | engine-internal | -| Percolator 1 % FDR PSM count | ⚠️ | the documented Sage decoy-pool artefact (§Astral conclusions in `3engine-results.md`) means TMT decoy pools are less calibrated than Astral's. Use as a directional indicator, not a hard recall gate | - -Recall regression decisions are made on Astral, not TMT. - -## 4. Anchor data - -Numbers used to size the approaches below come from: - -- `~/.claude/plans/benchmarks/3engine-results.md` — clean Astral baseline, 3-engine table -- `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-primitives-optimization/profile-astral.md` — pre-Hashtable-fix profile (2026-04-17). Granular CPU/alloc breakdown is **stale on dev-tip** (the 43 % Hashtable contention it identified is gone after `8442f2c`). Macro wall/RSS still anchor; per-method % needs a fresh run before deep tuning. -- `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-fragment-index/ABANDONED-2026-04-20.md` — five follow-up speed ideas with expected ROI/risk - -A re-profile on dev-tip is **Phase 0** of any combo we pick (see §6). - -## 5. Catalog of approaches considered - -Six well-formed approaches plus smaller levers were considered. Each is sized for gate B (single mergeable PR) and assessed for Astral wall/RSS/recall and PXD001819 side-effects. - -### Approach 1 — Graph-skeleton memoization - -Cache the read-only arrays of `PrimitiveAminoAcidGraph` (`reachable`, `inEdgeCountByMass`, `activeNodes`, `massToNodeIdx`) keyed on `(peptideMassIndex, enzyme, aaSetHash, useProtNTerm, useProtCTerm)`. Per-spectrum scoring fields stay per-graph. Cache lives on `DBScanner` (per-task). Single construction site at `DBScanner.java:620` inside the per-mass-index inner loop. - -| Dimension | Value | -|---|---| -| Astral wall | ~10–15 % | -| RSS | +50–150 MB per task | -| Recall risk | None (pure memoization) | -| PXD001819 | +5–7 % | -| Blast radius | `PrimitiveAminoAcidGraph` + new cache class + tests | -| Standalone hits gate B? | No (1.15× < 1.3×) | - -### Approach 2 — Adaptive precursor-tolerance tightening - -After `MassCalibrator` finishes its second pass, use the learned ppm shift mean/σ to narrow the effective search window: `effective_tol = min(user_tol, calibrated_shift + k·σ)` with `k=3`, default-on for AUTO mode, opt-out via `-precursorCal aggressive|conservative|off`. Astral typical: 10 ppm window collapses to ~3 ppm post-calibration → ~2–3× fewer candidates per spectrum. - -| Dimension | Value | -|---|---| -| Astral wall | ~20–30 % | -| RSS | slight reduction | -| Recall risk | Real but bounded — k=3 keeps a 3-σ envelope. Mitigation: integration test enforces ≥ 99.5 % PSM recall vs OFF on Astral and PXD001819 | -| PXD001819 | smaller % win (Velos σ wider) | -| Blast radius | `MassCalibrator` + `SearchParams.getEffective*Tolerance()` + `DBScanner` + tests | -| Standalone hits gate B? | Yes, with margin (1.25–1.4×) | - -### Approach 3 — Parallelism-ceiling investigation - -The 2026-04-17 profile ran 4 threads on 11 cores; 7 cores idle. Winkelhardt-paper parity suggests MS-GF+ caps at 4–6 effective cores. Phase 0 measures dev-tip 1→4→8-thread scaling on Astral. If linear, drop this approach. If it caps, root-cause via per-task wall stats (already plumbed) and remove the bottleneck. - -| Dimension | Value | -|---|---| -| Astral wall | 0–50 % (high variance; depends on what we find) | -| RSS | +20–30 % (more in-flight tasks) — could push past gate | -| Recall risk | Concurrency bugs only | -| PXD001819 | similar story, smaller absolute | -| Blast radius | `ConcurrentMSGFPlus` + possibly `MSGFPlus.runMSGFPlus` + thread-safety audit | -| Standalone hits gate B? | Unknown — research-shaped, doesn't fit "single mergeable PR" if rewrite is needed | - -### Approach 4 — In-engine MS2 deisotoping - -Collapse `(M, M+1, M+2…)` isotope clusters in MS2 into the monoisotope before scoring. Sage / MaxQuant / Comet all do this; MS-GF+ trusts the mzML peak list. The 3-engine analysis already identified this as the dominant cause of the Astral candidate-generation gap with Sage — so this is recall-positive AND speed-positive. - -| Dimension | Value | -|---|---| -| Astral wall | ~15–25 % (peak count drop ~3×; cheap-score sublinear) | -| RSS | slight reduction | -| Recall risk | None expected (established prior art); risk is implementation bugs | -| PXD001819 | smaller win (Velos lower-res, partial natural merging) | -| FDR sensitivity | **+ on Astral** (closes candidate-gen gap) | -| Blast radius | New `Deisotoper` + `Spectrum.deisotope()` hook + `-deisotopeMS2 on\|off` flag + tests | -| Standalone hits gate B? | Borderline on speed; clearly hits if "+PSMs at same wall" is also a win | - -### Approach 5 — Tier-1.5 candidate cap before GF - -Today, every match surviving cheap-score top-K reaches `PrimitiveGeneratingFunction`. Tighten the cap two ways: - -1. **Hard cap**: `numCandidatesForGF` (default e.g. 10) — only top-N by cheap score reach GF. -2. **Score-gap pruning**: skip GF for candidates whose cheap score is more than Δ below the per-spectrum top score (Δ tunable, gate-tested). - -Most aligned with the original "small preprocessing of candidates" framing. - -| Dimension | Value | -|---|---| -| Astral wall | ~15–30 % (GF was ~60 % of CPU; cutting 30 % of GF inputs ≈ 18 % wall) | -| RSS | slight reduction | -| Recall risk | Real and quantifiable. Mitigation: integration test asserts no PSMs at 1 % FDR rank below the new cap; if any, raise cap | -| PXD001819 | smaller win (smaller pool to begin with) | -| Blast radius | `DBScanner.computeSpecEValue` (~25 lines around line 600) + sort + `SearchParams.numCandidatesForGF` + tests | -| Standalone hits gate B? | Possibly; comfortable when paired with Approach 1 | - -### Approach 6 — Astral-tuned NewRankScorer parameter file - -`NewRankScorer`'s rank-distribution / ion-existence tables are trained on Velos-era data. Astral's peak quality, b/y ratios, and fragment-error distributions differ. Retrain on a clean Astral PSM corpus (use current MS-GF+ 1 % FDR PSMs as labels; existing training pipeline supports this) and ship `Astral_*.param` with auto-detect via mzML instrument metadata. - -| Dimension | Value | -|---|---| -| Astral wall | ~5–15 % + likely +1–3 % FDR sensitivity | -| RSS | none (data file swap) | -| Recall risk | Minimal — auto-detect + Velos fallback | -| PXD001819 | none (different param file selected) | -| Blast radius | Training script (offline; majority of the work) + auto-detect logic + new .param data file | -| Standalone hits gate B? | No — force multiplier for Approaches 1, 2, 5 | - -### Smaller levers - -Folded into the chosen approach as nice-to-haves, or kept as Phase 2 follow-ups: - -- **GF reuse across same-mass candidates within a single spectrum.** Same nominal mass + same spectrum = identical score distribution; currently recomputed. Tiny code change, ~3–5 % wall. -- **Top-N peak retention for dense MS2.** Cap peaks per spectrum at e.g. 200 highest-intensity. Distinct from deisotoping. ~5 % wall on Astral; needs recall test. -- **`PrimitiveGeneratingFunction` early termination.** Abort when partial score distribution proves SpecEValue is far above the rank-1 threshold. Algorithmic; needs correctness proof. ~5–10 % wall. -- **Vector API in `NewRankScorer.getScore` peak-intersection loop.** Hotter than `ScoreDist.addProbDist`. High variance, JVM-version-sensitive. -- **Charge-state pre-filter on Astral.** Astral reports charge cleanly; trust it more aggressively. Tiny win, near-zero risk. - -## 6. Recommended combination - -The combinations evaluated for gate B: - -| Combo | Astral wall projection | RSS | Sensitivity | PR size | -|---|---|---|---|---| -| **1 + 5** (memo + GF cap) | 1.3–1.5× | ≤ baseline | flat (recall-gated) | Medium | -| **1 + 4** (memo + deisotoping) | 1.25–1.4× | ≤ baseline | **+** (positive) | Medium | -| **2 + 4** (tolerance + deisotoping) | 1.5–1.8× | ≤ baseline | **+** | Larger | -| **4 + 5 + 6** ("Astral pack") | 1.4–1.7× | ≤ baseline | **+** | Larger | - -**Primary recommendation: Approach 1 + Approach 5** (graph-skeleton memoization + Tier-1.5 candidate cap before GF). - -Rationale: - -1. **Two well-known, well-bounded levers.** Each has a single hot site in `DBScanner`, a clear test surface, and zero ambiguity about the cache/cap mechanism. -2. **Layered correctness.** Memoization is provably equivalent (same arrays, same content). The cap has a recall test that fails CI if it would drop a current 1 %-FDR PSM. -3. **Independent commits.** If Approach 5 fails its recall test at any cap value, ship Approach 1 alone — still a measurable Astral improvement, no rework. -4. **Smallest-blast-radius combo that hits gate B.** Touches `DBScanner` + `PrimitiveAminoAcidGraph` + a new cache class + a new `numCandidatesForGF` knob. Reviewable as one PR. -5. **Clear next-iteration runway.** Approach 4 (deisotoping), Approach 2 (adaptive tolerance), and Approach 6 (Astral-tuned scorer) are all natural follow-ups that compose cleanly with this PR's work. - -Alternative if sensitivity is a higher priority than raw speed: **Approach 1 + Approach 4** — ships +PSMs alongside ~25 % wall improvement. - -## 7. Implementation phases (for the recommended 1+5 combo) - -Phases here are scoped at the design level, not as commits. Detailed plan goes to `superpowers:writing-plans` after this design is approved. - -### Phase 0 — Re-measure on dev-tip (1 commit, no production code change) - -Profile on **both** TMT (inner-loop reference) and Astral (phase-gate reference) so subsequent phases can compare TMT wins against Astral wins and detect divergence early. - -- Run async-profiler + JFR on `dev` HEAD with **TMT** (4 threads, 8 GB Xmx, full run, 120 s steady-state CPU + 120 s alloc). -- Run the same profile on **Astral** (same threads/Xmx, 180 s windows). -- Record top-30 self-time methods, top-20 alloc sites, GC summary on each. -- Confirm `PrimitiveAminoAcidGraph.` is still a measurable line item on at least Astral (post-mortem said 7.4 % on PXD001819 at the time; expected higher on Astral). -- Confirm `PrimitiveGeneratingFunction.computeGeneratingFunction` + `ScoreDist.addProbDist` are still in the top 5 on both. -- Compute and record the wall-time ratio `TMT_wall / Astral_wall` on dev-tip — used in Phase 1 / 2 to sanity-check that TMT speedup translates roughly to Astral speedup. -- Save artifacts under `~/.claude/plans/astral-speed-improvements/profile-2026-04-XX/`. - -**Gate to proceed:** if the profile shows a different dominant cost (e.g. a new bottleneck introduced by PR #23/#24/#25) **or** TMT's hot-spot ranking diverges materially from Astral's (a sign that TMT-as-inner-loop will mislead), pause and either re-rank approaches or pick a different inner-loop dataset before coding. - -### Phase 1 — Graph-skeleton memoization (Approach 1) - -1. Add `GraphSkeletonCache` keyed on `(peptideMassIndex, enzymeId, aaSetVersion, ntermFlag, ctermFlag)`. - - Cached value: the four immutable arrays (`reachable`, `inEdgeCountByMass`, `activeNodes`, `massToNodeIdx`) packaged as a small record. - - Per-task instance, no cross-thread sharing (preserves the post-PR-#25 lock-free hot path). - - Bounded by an LRU with a generous default (e.g., 4 096 entries — covers Astral's ~3 000 distinct nominal masses with headroom). -2. Refactor `PrimitiveAminoAcidGraph` constructor to: - - Accept a pre-built skeleton (new ctor) **or** build one from scratch (existing ctor — kept for tests + as fallback). - - Apply per-spectrum scoring fields after attachment. -3. Update the `DBScanner.java:620` site to consult the cache, falling back to direct construction on cache miss. -4. Tests: - - **Unit:** cache hit returns object equal to from-scratch build (deep array equality). - - **Unit:** cache miss populates correctly. - - **Integration:** PXD001819 CI benchmark — bit-identical native target counts vs baseline. - -**Iteration cadence:** measure each tuning change on TMT (~5 min/run). Run Astral exactly once at end of phase, before merging the phase commit. - -**Acceptance:** -- Inner-loop (TMT): wall ↓ ≥ 5 %; native target/decoy counts bit-identical to dev-tip OFF-mode. -- Phase gate (Astral): wall ↓ ≥ 8 % vs Phase 0 measured baseline; PXD001819 native-T count bit-identical (CI benchmark). - -### Phase 2 — Tier-1.5 candidate cap before GF (Approach 5) - -1. Introduce `SearchParams.numCandidatesForGF` (default `Integer.MAX_VALUE` = current behaviour) and `SearchParams.gfScoreGapPrune` (default disabled). -2. In `DBScanner.computeSpecEValue` (around line 600), before the `for (DatabaseMatch match : matchQueue)` loop: - - Sort `matchQueue` by cheap score descending. - - Truncate to `numCandidatesForGF`. - - If `gfScoreGapPrune` is set, drop entries whose cheap score is below `topScore - gap`. -3. Set defaults conservatively for the released config (e.g. `numCandidatesForGF=20`, gap pruning off) — values must clear the recall test. -4. Tests: - - **Unit:** `computeSpecEValue` with cap=2 produces SpecEValues for exactly the top 2 cheap-scored matches; remainder marked as filtered. - - **Integration:** Astral 1 % FDR PSM count ≥ 35 600 at the chosen default cap. PXD001819 ≥ 15 100. TMT ≥ 10 100. - - **Recall regression:** scan dev-tip OFF-mode pin and verify every 1 %-FDR PSM survives the cap on the same data. - -**Iteration cadence:** sweep cap values (e.g. 5, 10, 20, 50) on TMT to find the wall-vs-recall knee; pick the cap value, then run Astral once to confirm it holds. - -**Cap-tuning loop (TMT inner-loop):** -1. Run with `numCandidatesForGF=5`, record TMT wall, native targets, native decoys. -2. Repeat with cap = 10, 20, 50. -3. Pick the smallest cap whose native-target count is within 0.2 % of OFF-mode on TMT. -4. Run Astral once at the chosen cap; confirm Astral 1 % FDR PSMs ≥ 35 600. -5. If Astral fails, increase cap one tier (e.g. 10 → 20) and re-run Astral. - -**Acceptance:** all three benchmark FDR counts within gate (§3); Astral wall ≤ 460 s on the Phase 0 reference machine, combined with Phase 1. - -### Phase 3 — Final benchmark + docs - -1. Run full 3-engine matrix (PXD001819, Astral, TMT) on branch HEAD; commit results to `docs/benchmarks/`. -2. Update `docs/changelog.md` with the gate-B numbers. -3. Document the two new flags in `docs/msgfplus.md`. - -## 8. Verification strategy - -- **Bit-identical OFF-mode.** Both new behaviours behind their flags; default cap value uses `Integer.MAX_VALUE` for the truly-OFF mode tested by integration. (We will only switch the *production* default cap after the recall test demonstrates safety on all three benchmarks.) -- **TMT inner-loop benchmark:** local script that runs TMT with feature ON and OFF, records wall + RSS + native target/decoy counts. Run on every meaningful code change. Not in CI (TMT data is not staged for CI runners). -- **PXD001819 CI benchmark:** existing `benchmark/ci/PXD001819/run_ci.sh` extended with a "feature ON" run; comparator gates 1 % / 5 % FDR counts. Runs on every push. -- **Astral phase-gate:** scripted end-to-end on the existing Astral dataset; results fed to `compare_metrics.py` against the baseline.tsv updated with Astral baseline. Run at end of Phase 1, end of Phase 2, end of Phase 3 — not on every code change. -- **Unit tests:** per-class for cache and cap logic. Run on every push. -- **Profile re-confirm at end:** async-profiler shows `PrimitiveAminoAcidGraph.` and GF self-time both reduced on TMT and Astral relative to Phase 0 baseline. - -## 9. Risks and mitigations - -| Risk | Likelihood | Mitigation | -|---|---|---| -| Phase 0 reveals a different dominant cost (e.g. PR #25 introduced a new hot spot) | Medium | Re-rank approaches before coding; don't proceed on stale assumptions | -| TMT-inner-loop wins fail to translate to Astral (different precursor tolerance: 20 ppm vs 10 ppm; different mod density) | Medium | Phase 0 records the TMT/Astral wall ratio; phase gates check Astral explicitly. If divergence emerges, fall back to running Astral at higher frequency for that specific change | -| Approach 5 cap drops real PSMs | Medium | Recall integration test; conservative default; fallback knob | -| Memoization correctness — graph skeleton silently differs from from-scratch build | Low | Unit-level deep equality test; OFF-mode bit-identical integration test | -| Astral wins on a feature flag but PXD001819 regresses | Low (memoization is dataset-agnostic) | CI benchmark gates regression on PXD001819 | -| Memory bloat from cache | Low | LRU bound; size monitored in test | -| Sensitivity drops below MS-GF+'s lead over Sage | Low (Approach 5 is recall-gated; Approach 1 is recall-neutral) | Same gates as above | - -## 10. Open questions / decisions for ypriverol - -1. **Approach selection.** Confirm Approach 1 + Approach 5, or pick a different combo from §6. If Approach 4 (deisotoping) appeals more for the sensitivity boost, we can swap. -2. **Datasets staged.** Do we have TMT PXD007683 mzML + FASTA staged for fast iteration on the dev box? Do we have the dev-tip Astral mzML + FASTA staged on a CI-equivalent box for the Phase 0 re-profile and phase-gate benchmarks? If either is missing, that's a prerequisite step. -3. **Default cap value.** I've sketched `numCandidatesForGF=20` as a safe-feeling default. This needs to be picked from the TMT cap-sweep + Astral confirmation, not chosen up-front. Approval to leave it TBD until Phase 2 measurement? -4. **Approach 6 (scorer retraining)** as a follow-up iteration — should it be tracked here as a "next-after-this-PR" item, or kept entirely separate? It composes cleanly with Approach 5 if we do it later. -5. **Worktree path.** I created the worktree at `~/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed`. Confirm or move. - -## 11. Reference - -- Abandoned fragment-index post-mortem: `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-fragment-index/ABANDONED-2026-04-20.md` -- Stale Astral profile (pre-Hashtable-fix; macro numbers still valid): `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-primitives-optimization/profile-astral.md` -- 3-engine benchmark: `~/.claude/plans/benchmarks/3engine-results.md` -- Existing perf-PR plans for reference style: `.claude/plans/parameter-modernization.md`, `.claude/plans/search-sync-cleanup.md` From 960c664748a24af97b525769f8396ab64c78613a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:33:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 03/26] docs(plans): Phase A retrospective; revert in-tree code via separate reset Phase A (in-engine MS2 deisotoping + dense-peak retention cap + GF candidate cap + scorer hot-path optimization) was attempted on this branch from 2026-04-27 to 2026-04-28. None of three independent optimization angles moved Astral wall above run-to-run noise; TMT's 1.41x apparent win came with -0.25% target and -4.6% decoy drift, which is not clean enough to justify shipping the surface area. Branch was hard-reset to eee9fa6 (the 5x roadmap state before any Phase A work) to drop 11 code commits + their uncommitted in-progress extensions. This commit captures the empirical findings as a retrospective doc so future agents can read the measurement data, understand why Phase A failed Astral, and pick from Phase B/C/E or workload-retargeting alternatives without repeating the attempt. - Add .claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md with six Astral measurements, two TMT measurements, lessons (TMT-not-Astral-proxy, JIT-already-optimizes, native-count-drift-is-leading-indicator), and a concrete list of what's still untried. - Update astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md section 11 + 12 to flag Phase A as attempted-and-reverted, with original recommendation preserved as a blockquote for context. - Update SHIPPED.md "Abandoned" section with a Phase A entry pointing at the retrospective. - Update README.md "Active" list to surface the retrospective. Reverted code is recoverable via: git show 5cdd21e:src/... and walks back through 11 commits (b78e275 through 5cdd21e). --- .claude/plans/README.md | 3 +- .claude/plans/SHIPPED.md | 4 +- .claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md | 103 ++++++++++++++++++ .claude/plans/astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md | 16 ++- 4 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) create mode 100644 .claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md diff --git a/.claude/plans/README.md b/.claude/plans/README.md index 5f101bf8..10af4343 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/README.md +++ b/.claude/plans/README.md @@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ Implementation plans and design documents for MS-GF+ features and improvements. ## Active -- [`astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md`](astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md) — current design. Targets the first credible 5× Astral speed path. Ships as milestone commits on `feat/astral-speed-improvements`, single closing PR at end of iteration. +- [`astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md`](astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md) — long-horizon design for the first credible 5× Astral speed path. Phase A was attempted (2026-04-27 to 2026-04-28) and reverted; see retrospective below. Phase B, C, E remain untried. +- [`astral-phase-a-retrospective.md`](astral-phase-a-retrospective.md) — empirical findings from the Phase A attempt: six Astral measurements, lessons, and what's still untried. Read before re-attempting Astral speed work. ## History diff --git a/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md b/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md index 11d6ee50..c2a9af22 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md +++ b/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md @@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ Output is `.pin` only (mzIdentML removed). Sensitivity leads Sage at 1 % FDR on ## Abandoned -**Fragment-index (abandoned 2026-04-20).** Sage-style inverted index as Tier-1 candidate generator. Failed all three gates: 1.78× *slower* on PXD001819, OOM on Astral, recall 95.3 % vs ≥ 99.5 % target. Five follow-up speed ideas distilled (graph-skeleton caching, adaptive precursor tolerance, Vector API, parallelism ceiling, SpecEValue caching) — current `feat/astral-speed-improvements` draws from these. Post-mortem: `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-fragment-index/ABANDONED-2026-04-20.md`. +**Fragment-index (abandoned 2026-04-20).** Sage-style inverted index as Tier-1 candidate generator. Failed all three gates: 1.78× *slower* on PXD001819, OOM on Astral, recall 95.3 % vs ≥ 99.5 % target. Five follow-up speed ideas distilled (graph-skeleton caching, adaptive precursor tolerance, Vector API, parallelism ceiling, SpecEValue caching). Post-mortem: `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-fragment-index/ABANDONED-2026-04-20.md`. + +**Phase A — deisotoping + peak cap + GF candidate cap + scorer hot-path opt (attempted, reverted 2026-04-28).** Three independent optimization angles tried on `feat/astral-speed-improvements`. None moved Astral wall above run-to-run noise (six measured variants vs OFF baseline 690 s; best Phase A variant was 693 s). TMT showed 1.41× wall but with −0.25 % target / −4.6 % decoy drift — not a clean win. JFR-identified `HashMap.getNode` hot spot did not translate to wall improvement after elimination (JIT already optimizes the path). Branch reset to `eee9fa6`. Retrospective with measurements + lessons + what's untried: [`astral-phase-a-retrospective.md`](astral-phase-a-retrospective.md). Reverted code recoverable via `git show 5cdd21e` (walks back through 11 commits). ## Active diff --git a/.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md b/.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1a292183 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +# Phase A — Retrospective (attempted, reverted 2026-04-28) + +**Attempt date:** 2026-04-27 to 2026-04-28 +**Branch:** `feat/astral-speed-improvements` (reset to `eee9fa6` = consolidated 5× roadmap; Phase A code reverted) +**Decision:** Reverted. None of three independent optimization angles moved Astral wall above noise. TMT/Lumos win was real but not clean enough to justify shipping the surface area. + +This retrospective is the artifact future agents should read before re-attempting Astral speed work. + +## What was attempted + +Three independent angles, all with bit-identical OFF-mode behaviour, gated by Astral measurement: + +### Angle 1 — Phase A: in-engine MS2 deisotoping + dense-peak retention cap +- New classes: `Deisotoper`, `Spectrum.deisotope(ppm, maxCharge)`, `Spectrum.capByIntensity(topN)`. +- New CLI: `-deisotopeMS2 on|off`, `-maxPeaksPerSpectrum N`. +- Wired into `ScoredSpectraMap.preProcessSpectra` (main pass only, NOT `MassCalibrator` pre-pass — defended by `Spectrum.isDeisotoped()` idempotence guard). +- Hardcoded 20 ppm spacing tolerance, max charge 6. + +### Angle 2 — Iteration 0.5: Tier-1.5 GF candidate cap +- Static field `DBScanner.NUM_CANDIDATES_FOR_GF`, set via `-Dmsgfplus.numCandidatesForGF=N` system property (default 0 = unlimited). +- After cheap-score collection, sort `matchQueue` by score descending, truncate to top-N, then proceed to GF. +- Idea: tighter `minScore` → tighter `setUpScoreThreshold` → smaller GF DP table. + +### Angle 3 — NewRankScorer hot-path optimization +- Profile-driven: JFR showed `NewRankScorer.getIonExistenceScore` dispatching `HashMap.get` was ~14 % of Astral CPU. +- Fix: pre-resolve `Float[] ionExistenceProb` per spectrum in `DBScanScorer` and `NewScoredSpectrum` constructors. New overload `getIonExistenceScore(Float[], int, float)` skips the per-edge HashMap lookup. + +### Also added (and retained in the abandoned attempt) +- `SearchTelemetry` thread-safe counter class with `-Dmsgfplus.telemetry=true` toggle and `.telemetry.tsv` emission. Used to measure per-spectrum candidates and cheap-score calls. Built into the iteration but never made it past the reset since it was useful only for the killed measurement campaign. + +## Astral measurements (clean idle box, 4 threads, 8 GB Xmx, dev-tip @ `2216bbb`) + +All runs used the same JAR build per angle, same machine state, same FASTA, same mzML. + +| Run | Wall (s) | Peak RSS (MB) | Native targets | Native decoys | Δ wall vs OFF | +|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:| +| **OFF (baseline)** | **690.1** | **7 789** | **89 360** | **46 913** | — | +| Phase A (deisotope + cap=200) | 693.4 | 7 088 | 86 134 | 48 497 | +0.5 % | +| Deisotope only (no cap) | 741.3 | 6 832 | 88 941 | 50 819 | +7.4 % | +| GF candidate cap=10 | 714.5 | 6 924 | 89 360 | 46 913 | +3.5 % | +| GF candidate cap=5 | 733.7 | 7 408 | 89 338 | 46 913 | +6.3 % | +| Scorer-opt (cache `ionExistenceProb`) | 719.3 | 6 312 | 89 360 | 46 913 | +4.2 % | + +**No variant beats OFF on wall by more than run-to-run noise (~3-5 %).** Three variants (GF cap=10, GF cap=5, scorer-opt) preserve native target/decoy counts bit-identically; Phase A and deisotope-only drift on counts. + +JFR profile of Astral OFF (600 s run, 116 K samples) is at `~/work/msgfplus-workspace/benchmark/results/phaseA/astral_off.jfr`. + +## TMT measurements (PXD007683, same machine state) + +| Run | Wall (s) | Peak RSS (MB) | Native targets | Native decoys | Δ wall vs OFF | +|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:| +| OFF | 330.7 | 2 762 | 28 790 | 14 768 | — | +| Phase A (deisotope + cap=200) | 234.5 | 2 820 | 28 719 | 14 081 | **−29 %** | + +TMT did show a 1.41× wall reduction, but with **−0.25 % targets and −4.6 % decoys**. The decoy-pool contraction is the bigger concern: it changes Percolator's FDR-calibration shape. A "1.41× faster" claim that comes with non-trivial recall drift is not a clean win. + +## Why each angle failed Astral + +### Phase A flags +- Astral spectra are already cleaner than TMT's at the resolution where deisotoping is meaningful. Most apparent isotope clusters at TMT's CID resolution are partially merged at the instrument on Astral. Less to deisotope → less benefit. +- Cap=200 too aggressive for Astral. Astral peptides extend to high m/z; mid-intensity diagnostic peaks above the top-200 cutoff drop, hence the −3.6 % target count. +- Net: deisotoping adds per-spectrum overhead that exceeds the cheap-score savings on Astral. Cap throws away signal. + +### GF candidate cap +- Astral match queues are typically ≤5–10 entries (10 ppm precursor + small isotope window + 32 MB FASTA). The cap=10 didn't bite (`size > cap` guard skipped the cap path on most spectra). +- cap=5 did bite a small fraction of spectra. The sort+truncate overhead exceeded the GF DP-table savings; Astral wall went up, not down. +- Conclusion: capping is a workload optimization for cases with large per-spectrum candidate sets. Astral's tight precursor window doesn't have that shape. + +### Scorer optimization +- JFR showed `NewRankScorer.getIonExistenceScore` → `HashMap.getNode` was ~14 % of Astral CPU samples. +- Fix correctly eliminated those calls (verified via post-fix profile not run, but field cached and used at the call sites). Native counts bit-identical. +- Wall did **not** improve. Likely the JIT was already inlining/escape-analyzing the HashMap lookup; the "fix" replaced a JIT-optimized call with a field load, equivalent cost in real terms. +- This is the post-mortem-fragment-index lesson #3 hitting again: *"three session-worth of micro-opts each measured NEGATIVE impact despite looking sensible on paper. The JVM's JIT optimizer is sophisticated; we reach for machine-level tuning too early."* +- A real fix would need to eliminate the HashMap *invocation overhead* not just the lookup — e.g., split the per-Partition tables into a `PartitionScoringContext` value object created once and held by reference. But the JIT may already handle that for us; need to instrument before betting. + +## Lessons learned + +1. **TMT is not a reliable Astral proxy on per-spectrum optimizations.** TMT's 20 ppm precursor window + lower MS2 resolution + Lumos peak density gave us a 1.41× win on Phase A that did not transfer. This is the post-mortem-fragment-index lesson #4 again: *"small-FASTA benchmark is NOT a proxy for large-FASTA"* — restated as "high-precursor-tolerance ≠ low-precursor-tolerance for per-spectrum work." The TMT-as-inner-loop strategy from the 5× roadmap §3.1 is unsafe for any optimization whose leverage depends on candidate-density dynamics. +2. **Astral wall on dev-tip is at or near the JIT-optimized floor for the current SA-walk + GF architecture.** Six measurement variants, none beat baseline by more than noise. Phase B (calibrated tolerance), Phase C (branch-and-bound), Phase E (parallelism) — all from the 5× roadmap — remain candidates, but each requires architectural change, not micro-optimization. +3. **The post-mortem-fragment-index's lessons #3 and #4 are the dominant risks** for any future Astral attempt. JIT already compiles aggressively; profile-sample counts overstate optimization headroom; small-FASTA-or-different-instrument benchmarks lie. +4. **Profile before betting on a hot-spot fix.** The JFR profile correctly identified the dominant hot spot, but eliminating it didn't translate to wall improvement. Future profile-driven attempts should run a *post-fix profile* before trusting the JFR delta. +5. **Native target/decoy drift is a leading indicator.** Phase A's −0.25 % targets / −4.6 % decoys on TMT is the same shape, in miniature, as the recall regression that would have killed the experiment in production. If counts drift more than 0.5 % vs OFF on a measurement run, the optimization is not bit-identical-correctness and needs deeper recall validation before shipping. + +## What's still untried (for future agents) + +The 5× roadmap (`astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md`) specified five phases. Only Phase A was attempted. Remaining: + +- **Phase B — calibrated precursor-window tightening.** Use Achievement B's calibration σ to shrink the effective precursor window post-calibration. Reduces candidate fan-out at the `pepMassSpecKeyMap.subMap(...)` site, which IS measurable in the current JFR profile (TreeMap operations ~4 % of CPU). Recall-risky; needs an integration test that asserts no FDR-1 % PSM survives outside the tightened window. +- **Phase C — branch-and-bound during peptide extension.** The roadmap's centerpiece (1.5–2.5× projected). My review of the roadmap (in the git history before the reset, see commit `eee9fa6`'s plan) flagged three concrete sub-problems: dynamic threshold rises late in the SA walk, admissible-yet-selective upper bound is hard to define for a rank-based scorer, per-spectrum bookkeeping cost may exceed savings. Research-grade; should be planned as a multi-iteration investigation with a kill-by-exactness-audit clause. +- **Phase D — GF threshold tightening via `setUpScoreThreshold`.** The current code already passes `minScore` to GF; tightening this further requires raising minScore by capping candidates (Angle 2 in this retrospective), which we showed doesn't bite on Astral. Phase D is unlikely to be useful as a standalone lever on Astral. +- **Phase E — parallelism ceiling investigation.** The 2026-04-17 profile ran 4 threads on 11 cores. Today's JFR shows the same shape. If `ConcurrentMSGFPlus` caps near 4–6 effective cores, raising the ceiling would be a 1.3–1.5× win independent of per-spectrum optimization. The post-PR-#23/#25 search-sync-cleanup may already have moved the ceiling; would need a 1/2/4/6/8-thread scaling sweep on Astral to know. +- **Workload retargeting** — the original branch-name framing ("feat/big-fasta-peptide-candidate") was about metaproteomics / proteogenomics big-FASTA workloads, not Astral. Astral was a redirect during brainstorming. The big-FASTA framing has different bottlenecks (peptide redundancy across organisms, candidate dedup) that may be more amenable to per-spectrum optimization. Worth profiling on a metaproteomics dataset before assuming any per-spectrum lever is dead. +- **HashMap-elimination in NewRankScorer (deeper version).** Angle 3 in this retrospective tried the shallow version (cache the array). A deeper version would refactor all 10 per-Partition `HashMap`s in `NewRankScorer` into a `PartitionScoringContext` record, looked up *once per spectrum* and held by reference for the duration of scoring. The shallow fix didn't move wall, but the deeper refactor *might* — JIT optimization of the lookup vs an entire object indirection chain is the open question. Should not be attempted without a post-fix profile to confirm the win. + +## Files and artifacts + +- This retrospective: `.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md` +- Original Phase A implementation plan (now reverted; recoverable): `git show 6510f08:.claude/plans/astral-speed-phase-a-plan.md` +- Active 5× roadmap (still authoritative for future iterations): `.claude/plans/astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md` +- Earlier shipped retrospective: `.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md` +- JFR Astral profile: `~/work/msgfplus-workspace/benchmark/results/phaseA/astral_off.jfr` +- All measurement summary TSV: `~/work/msgfplus-workspace/benchmark/results/phaseA/summary.tsv` +- Reverted Phase A code recoverable from: `git show 5cdd21e` and walking back through `b78e275..5cdd21e` (11 commits: SearchTelemetry, telemetry CLI/refactor/wiring, Deisotoper, Spectrum.deisotope/capByIntensity, deisotope CLI flag, ScoredSpectraMap wiring). diff --git a/.claude/plans/astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md b/.claude/plans/astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md index f3233208..dca6d2bf 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md +++ b/.claude/plans/astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md @@ -442,17 +442,23 @@ Touches: ## 11. My recommendation -Try **Phase A first** as the opening big-win attempt: +> **Update 2026-04-28: Phase A was attempted and reverted.** See [`astral-phase-a-retrospective.md`](astral-phase-a-retrospective.md) for measurements, lessons, and what's still untried. Three independent angles (deisotope+cap, GF candidate cap, scorer hot-path) all failed the Astral wall gate. TMT-as-inner-loop turned out unsafe — TMT's 1.41× win did not transfer to Astral. The 5× roadmap below is preserved for future agents but the strategy of "start with Phase A" is now disproven; future attempts should pick Phase B, C, or E and re-profile before betting on micro-optimizations. -1. telemetry milestone commit (Iteration 0) -2. spectrum cleanup milestone commit (Iteration 1, Phase A) +Phase B (calibrated precursor-window tightening) and Phase E (parallelism ceiling) are the remaining lower-risk shots. Phase C (branch-and-bound) is the highest-variance / highest-upside option but needs the upfront design work the retrospective flags. Phase D is unlikely to be useful as a standalone lever on Astral given the GF candidate cap measurements. -If Phase A delivers, continue with Phase B then Phase C as further milestone commits on the same branch. If Phase A fails its kill gate (no measurable wall win and no recall upside), drop to Iteration 0.5 fallback (memoization + GF candidate cap; see §0) and ship those as the iteration's deliverable. +Original recommendation, preserved for context: -Phase C is the centerpiece of 5× but the highest-variance phase; do not attempt it before Phase A is in place because cleaner spectra make C's upper bounds tighter. +> Try **Phase A first** as the opening big-win attempt: +> 1. telemetry milestone commit (Iteration 0) +> 2. spectrum cleanup milestone commit (Iteration 1, Phase A) +> +> If Phase A delivers, continue with Phase B then Phase C as further milestone commits on the same branch. If Phase A fails its kill gate (no measurable wall win and no recall upside), drop to Iteration 0.5 fallback (memoization + GF candidate cap; see §0) and ship those as the iteration's deliverable. +> +> Phase C is the centerpiece of 5× but the highest-variance phase; do not attempt it before Phase A is in place because cleaner spectra make C's upper bounds tighter. ## 12. Reference +- **Phase A attempt retrospective (read first):** [`astral-phase-a-retrospective.md`](astral-phase-a-retrospective.md) - Iteration retrospective: [SHIPPED.md](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md:1) - Benchmark summary: `~/.claude/plans/benchmarks/3engine-results.md` - Fragment-index post-mortem: `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-fragment-index/ABANDONED-2026-04-20.md` From 684abef19041d40de53616b0947cb032fe6e90da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:15:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 04/26] =?UTF-8?q?docs(plans):=20Phase=20E=20retrospective?= =?UTF-8?q?=20=E2=80=94=20parallelism=20win=20not=20replicable=20under=20n?= =?UTF-8?q?oise?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Follow-up to Phase A iteration. Tested ForkJoin pool as a smart-default on Astral after thread-scaling sweep showed default ThreadPoolExecutor anti-scales past 6 threads. Findings: - Default executor: 4t=690s, 6t=675s, 8t=884s (+28% regression at 8t). Anti-scaling at 8t reproduces across measurements; this is real. - ForkJoin opt-in: 4t=872s (regression), 8t=521s (1.32x vs 4t). Pool choice is thread-count dependent. - Smart-default change implemented (numThreads >= 8 -> ForkJoin) and scope-tested (9/9 pass), but confirmation runs showed +65% wall on the same JAR vs the morning measurement. Machine state had degraded across hours of benchmarking; can't isolate ForkJoin win from noise. - Reverted. The underlying -Dmsgfplus.useForkJoin=true opt-in remains in dev unchanged. Lessons added to retrospective: - Need stable benchmark environment + multi-run statistics for any Astral wall-time claim. Single-measurement deltas at the 30% level are below the noise floor. - The default-executor anti-scaling at 8t IS worth fixing. Future attempt: jfr print --events jdk.JavaMonitorWait on 8t default-executor profile to localise the contention point in ThreadPoolExecutorWithExceptions. Files: .claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md (added Phase E section + updated "what's untried" entry); .claude/plans/SHIPPED.md (added Phase E to "Abandoned"). Source code unchanged from eee9fa6 (verified via git status; MSGFPlus.java reverted before commit). --- .claude/plans/SHIPPED.md | 2 + .claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md | 72 ++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md b/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md index c2a9af22..a2fec619 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md +++ b/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ Output is `.pin` only (mzIdentML removed). Sensitivity leads Sage at 1 % FDR on **Phase A — deisotoping + peak cap + GF candidate cap + scorer hot-path opt (attempted, reverted 2026-04-28).** Three independent optimization angles tried on `feat/astral-speed-improvements`. None moved Astral wall above run-to-run noise (six measured variants vs OFF baseline 690 s; best Phase A variant was 693 s). TMT showed 1.41× wall but with −0.25 % target / −4.6 % decoy drift — not a clean win. JFR-identified `HashMap.getNode` hot spot did not translate to wall improvement after elimination (JIT already optimizes the path). Branch reset to `eee9fa6`. Retrospective with measurements + lessons + what's untried: [`astral-phase-a-retrospective.md`](astral-phase-a-retrospective.md). Reverted code recoverable via `git show 5cdd21e` (walks back through 11 commits). +**Phase E — parallelism / ForkJoin smart-default (attempted, reverted 2026-04-28).** Thread-scaling sweep showed the default `ThreadPoolExecutor` *anti-scales* past 6 threads on Astral (4t→690 s, 6t→675 s, 8t→884 s, +28 %). The opt-in ForkJoin path (PR #25's `-Dmsgfplus.useForkJoin=true`) gave 521 s at 8t in one measurement (1.32× vs 4t baseline) but 872 s at 4t (regression) — pool choice is thread-count dependent. Implemented an auto-default `numThreads >= 8 → ForkJoin` selection; confirmation runs showed +65 % wall variance on the same JAR vs the morning's measurements (machine state degraded across hours of benchmarking). **The default-executor anti-scaling finding is reproducible and real**, but the ForkJoin win could not be replicated under measurement noise. Reverted. Retrospective updated with the full Phase E section. + ## Active - [`astral-speed-improvements.md`](astral-speed-improvements.md) — gate B (1.3-1.5× Astral wall, no PSM regression). TMT-as-inner-loop, Astral-as-phase-gate. diff --git a/.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md b/.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md index 1a292183..9da6ffb3 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md +++ b/.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md @@ -81,6 +81,76 @@ TMT did show a 1.41× wall reduction, but with **−0.25 % targets and −4.6 % 4. **Profile before betting on a hot-spot fix.** The JFR profile correctly identified the dominant hot spot, but eliminating it didn't translate to wall improvement. Future profile-driven attempts should run a *post-fix profile* before trusting the JFR delta. 5. **Native target/decoy drift is a leading indicator.** Phase A's −0.25 % targets / −4.6 % decoys on TMT is the same shape, in miniature, as the recall regression that would have killed the experiment in production. If counts drift more than 0.5 % vs OFF on a measurement run, the optimization is not bit-identical-correctness and needs deeper recall validation before shipping. +## Phase E parallelism investigation (added 2026-04-28, also reverted) + +After the Phase A retrospective above was committed, a follow-up Phase E +attempt was made: thread-scaling sweep + ForkJoin-pool default selection. +Findings recorded here for completeness; the code change was reverted +because measurement variance was too high to confidently ship. + +**Thread-scaling sweep (default `ThreadPoolExecutor`, no flag overrides):** + +| Threads | Wall (s) | Note | +|---:|---:|---| +| 4 | 690.1 | morning baseline | +| 6 | 675.0 | within noise of 4t | +| 8 | 884.0 | **+28 % vs 4t — anti-scaling** | + +**ForkJoin opt-in (`-Dmsgfplus.useForkJoin=true`):** + +| Threads | Wall (s) | Note | +|---:|---:|---| +| 4 | 872.3 | +26 % vs default 4t — ForkJoin loses badly here | +| 6 | (killed) | run was at >1500 s wall when stopped; either hung or extreme regression | +| 8 | 520.9 | 1.32× vs default 4t baseline — only variant that cleared the 1.15× gate | + +**Smart-default attempt:** modified `MSGFPlus.runMSGFPlus` to auto-pick ForkJoin +when `numThreads >= 8` (preserving 4t default-executor behaviour, activating +ForkJoin only at the measured-win threshold). Code compiled, scoped tests +passed (9/9 incl. concurrent + telemetry + precursor-cal scaffolding). + +**Confirmation runs (same JAR, smart-default change in flight):** + +| Run | Threads | Wall (s) | Expected | Δ | +|---|---:|---:|---:|---:| +| auto-FJ | 8 | 861.5 | ~520 | **+65 %** vs morning explicit-FJ | +| auto-default | 4 | 904.3 | ~690 | **+31 %** vs morning measurement | + +Same JAR semantically (verified via `unzip -p ... | strings` finding the new +`useForkJoinProp` symbol in the bytecode), same `-thread N` args, same +spectrum/FASTA/mods. **Both metrics regressed ~30 % vs morning.** The +machine state degraded across the day's benchmarking — likely thermal, +accumulated process state, or background macOS work. + +**Conclusion:** the morning's ForkJoin-8t = 521 s measurement may have been +real or may have been an outlier. With 30+ % run-to-run variance on the +same JAR across hours, point measurements cannot distinguish a genuine +1.3× ForkJoin win from a 30 % machine-state fluctuation. Reverted the +smart-default change; the underlying `-Dmsgfplus.useForkJoin=true` opt-in +remains in dev unchanged. + +**What future agents need to do this safely:** + +1. **Stable benchmark environment.** A reserved CI runner, an idle box with + thermal headroom, or a cloud VM with fixed CPU allocation. Not a + developer workstation that's been running benchmarks for hours. +2. **Multi-run statistics, not point measurements.** Each variant run 3-5 + times; report median + IQR. A single 521 s measurement that doesn't + replicate is a noise artefact, not a discovery. +3. **Same-day sweep with fixed ordering.** Run all variants back-to-back + in the same machine state so cross-variant comparisons are valid. +4. **Anti-scaling at 8t default-executor IS reproducible** (884 s and 861 s + in two measurements at different machine states; the relative slowdown + vs 4t survives the variance). That finding is real and worth digging + into — what's the contention point in `ThreadPoolExecutorWithExceptions` + that causes 8t to lose to 4t? `jfr print --events jdk.JavaMonitorWait` + on the 8t default-executor profile would identify the lock. +5. **The post-mortem-fragment-index lesson #3 strikes again:** *"the JVM's + JIT optimizer is sophisticated; we reach for machine-level tuning too + early."* Wall-time deltas at the 30 % level are below the noise floor + for a single-machine benchmark of this size. Don't claim a win from + one measurement. + ## What's still untried (for future agents) The 5× roadmap (`astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md`) specified five phases. Only Phase A was attempted. Remaining: @@ -88,7 +158,7 @@ The 5× roadmap (`astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md`) specified five phases. Only Phase - **Phase B — calibrated precursor-window tightening.** Use Achievement B's calibration σ to shrink the effective precursor window post-calibration. Reduces candidate fan-out at the `pepMassSpecKeyMap.subMap(...)` site, which IS measurable in the current JFR profile (TreeMap operations ~4 % of CPU). Recall-risky; needs an integration test that asserts no FDR-1 % PSM survives outside the tightened window. - **Phase C — branch-and-bound during peptide extension.** The roadmap's centerpiece (1.5–2.5× projected). My review of the roadmap (in the git history before the reset, see commit `eee9fa6`'s plan) flagged three concrete sub-problems: dynamic threshold rises late in the SA walk, admissible-yet-selective upper bound is hard to define for a rank-based scorer, per-spectrum bookkeeping cost may exceed savings. Research-grade; should be planned as a multi-iteration investigation with a kill-by-exactness-audit clause. - **Phase D — GF threshold tightening via `setUpScoreThreshold`.** The current code already passes `minScore` to GF; tightening this further requires raising minScore by capping candidates (Angle 2 in this retrospective), which we showed doesn't bite on Astral. Phase D is unlikely to be useful as a standalone lever on Astral. -- **Phase E — parallelism ceiling investigation.** The 2026-04-17 profile ran 4 threads on 11 cores. Today's JFR shows the same shape. If `ConcurrentMSGFPlus` caps near 4–6 effective cores, raising the ceiling would be a 1.3–1.5× win independent of per-spectrum optimization. The post-PR-#23/#25 search-sync-cleanup may already have moved the ceiling; would need a 1/2/4/6/8-thread scaling sweep on Astral to know. +- **Phase E — parallelism ceiling investigation.** Attempted 2026-04-28 (see "Phase E parallelism investigation" above). **The default executor anti-scales past 6 threads is reproduced and real**, which is the kind of finding that deserves a real fix. ForkJoin at 8t showed 1.32× wall in one measurement but did not replicate across machine state — this needs multi-run statistics on a stable benchmark environment before any default-pool change can ship. The contention point in `ThreadPoolExecutorWithExceptions` is the next target for diagnostic work; a `jfr print --events jdk.JavaMonitorWait` on the 8t default-executor profile would localise the lock. - **Workload retargeting** — the original branch-name framing ("feat/big-fasta-peptide-candidate") was about metaproteomics / proteogenomics big-FASTA workloads, not Astral. Astral was a redirect during brainstorming. The big-FASTA framing has different bottlenecks (peptide redundancy across organisms, candidate dedup) that may be more amenable to per-spectrum optimization. Worth profiling on a metaproteomics dataset before assuming any per-spectrum lever is dead. - **HashMap-elimination in NewRankScorer (deeper version).** Angle 3 in this retrospective tried the shallow version (cache the array). A deeper version would refactor all 10 per-Partition `HashMap`s in `NewRankScorer` into a `PartitionScoringContext` record, looked up *once per spectrum* and held by reference for the duration of scoring. The shallow fix didn't move wall, but the deeper refactor *might* — JIT optimization of the lookup vs an entire object indirection chain is the open question. Should not be attempted without a post-fix profile to confirm the win. From 86ff529f510adad59a6ff3f04c938524a9272dd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:58:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 05/26] =?UTF-8?q?docs(plans):=20Phase=20E=20GC-pressure=20?= =?UTF-8?q?follow-up=20=E2=80=94=20bigger=20heap=20helps=208t=20but=20not?= =?UTF-8?q?=20enough?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit JFR analysis of the morning 4t Astral profile found zero JavaMonitorEnter contention events and 100% RUNNABLE samples, ruling out lock contention as the 8t regression cause. But 588K GCPhaseParallel events suggested GC parallel-phase coordination as a candidate. Tested with -Xmx16g (double heap) at 8t and 4t: - 8t-Xmx16g: 776s wall, 5067MB peak RSS, 182 GC pauses - 4t-Xmx16g: 870s wall, 6120MB peak RSS, 184 GC pauses Bigger heap helped 8t by ~12% wall and dropped peak RSS ~17% (G1GC ran fewer collections), but only ~4% at 4t. GC contributes to the 8t regression but is not the entire story. Even with Xmx16g, 8t (776s) is still slower than morning's 4t-Xmx8g baseline (690s). The afternoon's 4t-Xmx8g run (904s) vs morning's same configuration (690s) is +31% on the same JAR / same args / same machine — confirming the day's accumulated machine-state degradation dwarfs any code-level signal. Six hours of benchmarking has hit the noise floor. No actionable recommendation to ship. Source code stays at dev tip. The Phase E section in astral-phase-a-retrospective.md is updated with the GC-pressure findings. --- .claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md | 28 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md b/.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md index 9da6ffb3..37e86e78 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md +++ b/.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md @@ -129,6 +129,34 @@ same JAR across hours, point measurements cannot distinguish a genuine smart-default change; the underlying `-Dmsgfplus.useForkJoin=true` opt-in remains in dev unchanged. +**GC-pressure follow-up (2026-04-28, end of iteration):** + +After the smart-default revert, JFR analysis of the morning 4t profile +showed **zero `JavaMonitorEnter` contention events and 100 % +RUNNABLE samples** — confirming the 8t regression is not synchronized-lock +contention. But 588 K `GCPhaseParallel` events suggested GC could be the +cause. Tested by re-running 8t and 4t with `-Xmx16g` (double the heap): + +| Run | Wall (s) | RSS (MB) | GC count | +|---|---:|---:|---:| +| 8t + Xmx16g | 776.1 | 5 067 | 182 | +| 4t + Xmx16g | 870.0 | 6 120 | 184 | +| (compare) 8t + Xmx8g afternoon | 861.5 | 6 083 | (n/a) | +| (compare) 4t + Xmx8g afternoon | 904.3 | 5 953 | (n/a) | + +GC-pressure hypothesis is *partially* confirmed: bigger heap helped 8t by +~12 % wall (and dropped peak RSS by ~17 % because G1GC ran fewer +collections) but only ~4 % at 4t. So GC contributes to the 8t regression +but is not the entire story. Even with -Xmx16g, 8t is slower than the +morning's 4t-Xmx8g baseline (776 vs 690 s). **No actionable recommendation +to ship: heap-tuning helps 8t, but 8t still isn't competitive with 4t at +default heap.** + +The afternoon's 4t-Xmx8g (904 s) vs morning's 4t-Xmx8g (690 s) is a ++31 % gap on the same JAR / same args / same machine — confirming the +day's accumulated machine-state degradation dwarfs any code-level signal. +Six hours of benchmarking has hit the noise floor. + **What future agents need to do this safely:** 1. **Stable benchmark environment.** A reserved CI runner, an idle box with From 019facdd62c5a6393b27db9560ab32258e059047 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:52:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 06/26] =?UTF-8?q?docs(plans):=20Phase=20E=20final=20dispro?= =?UTF-8?q?of=20=E2=80=94=20anti-scaling=20and=20ForkJoin=20win=20were=20n?= =?UTF-8?q?oise?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Replication batch (3 Astral runs back-to-back, 2026-04-29 morning, quieter machine): 4t default: 963.1s 8t default: 918.3s (FASTER than 4t — opposite of yesterday) 8t ForkJoin: 978.8s (no advantage) All three within 6.5% of each other. Native counts bit-identical. This proves: - The "default executor anti-scales past 6 threads" finding was wrong. It was a one-day correlation between morning-quiet-machine + 4t and afternoon-noisy-machine + 8t, not a real algorithmic relationship. - The 521s ForkJoin-8t measurement was an outlier. Three independent re-measurements (yesterday afternoon 861s, today 978s) put 8t-FJ at ~900s in normal machine state. - The 690s 4t-default baseline was an outlier in the other direction. Today's same-machine 4t-default was 963s. Conclusion: no Phase E shippable change exists on this benchmark setup. Wall-time variance from machine state (~30%) dwarfs any code-level signal we can produce on a single developer workstation. Updated retrospective with the corrected Phase E section + replication batch data. Updated SHIPPED.md Phase E entry to reflect the disproof. Source code stays at dev tip. End of iteration. Five doc commits stay on the branch as the deliverable. --- .claude/plans/SHIPPED.md | 2 +- .claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md | 31 ++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md b/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md index a2fec619..c550ff74 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md +++ b/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Output is `.pin` only (mzIdentML removed). Sensitivity leads Sage at 1 % FDR on **Phase A — deisotoping + peak cap + GF candidate cap + scorer hot-path opt (attempted, reverted 2026-04-28).** Three independent optimization angles tried on `feat/astral-speed-improvements`. None moved Astral wall above run-to-run noise (six measured variants vs OFF baseline 690 s; best Phase A variant was 693 s). TMT showed 1.41× wall but with −0.25 % target / −4.6 % decoy drift — not a clean win. JFR-identified `HashMap.getNode` hot spot did not translate to wall improvement after elimination (JIT already optimizes the path). Branch reset to `eee9fa6`. Retrospective with measurements + lessons + what's untried: [`astral-phase-a-retrospective.md`](astral-phase-a-retrospective.md). Reverted code recoverable via `git show 5cdd21e` (walks back through 11 commits). -**Phase E — parallelism / ForkJoin smart-default (attempted, reverted 2026-04-28).** Thread-scaling sweep showed the default `ThreadPoolExecutor` *anti-scales* past 6 threads on Astral (4t→690 s, 6t→675 s, 8t→884 s, +28 %). The opt-in ForkJoin path (PR #25's `-Dmsgfplus.useForkJoin=true`) gave 521 s at 8t in one measurement (1.32× vs 4t baseline) but 872 s at 4t (regression) — pool choice is thread-count dependent. Implemented an auto-default `numThreads >= 8 → ForkJoin` selection; confirmation runs showed +65 % wall variance on the same JAR vs the morning's measurements (machine state degraded across hours of benchmarking). **The default-executor anti-scaling finding is reproducible and real**, but the ForkJoin win could not be replicated under measurement noise. Reverted. Retrospective updated with the full Phase E section. +**Phase E — parallelism / ForkJoin smart-default (attempted, reverted 2026-04-28; final disproof 2026-04-29).** Initial measurements suggested default `ThreadPoolExecutor` anti-scaled past 6 threads on Astral (4t=690 s, 8t=884 s, +28 %), and the opt-in ForkJoin path (`-Dmsgfplus.useForkJoin=true`) gave 521 s at 8t (1.32×). Implemented auto-default `numThreads >= 8 → ForkJoin`; reverted same day when confirmation runs showed ~30 % wall variance on the same JAR. Multi-run replication on quieter machine (2026-04-29) proved both initial findings were noise: 4t=963 s, 8t=918 s, 8t-FJ=979 s — all within 6.5 % of each other, with 8t-default *faster* than 4t-default. **The yesterday-morning 690 s baseline and 521 s ForkJoin were outliers, not signal.** No Phase E shippable change exists. Retrospective has the full corrected Phase E section. ## Active diff --git a/.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md b/.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md index 37e86e78..50492c48 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md +++ b/.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md @@ -157,6 +157,35 @@ The afternoon's 4t-Xmx8g (904 s) vs morning's 4t-Xmx8g (690 s) is a day's accumulated machine-state degradation dwarfs any code-level signal. Six hours of benchmarking has hit the noise floor. +**Replication batch (2026-04-29 morning, quieter machine, the iteration's final shot):** + +To bound how much of the apparent ForkJoin win was machine-state vs real, +ran three Astral variants in tight back-to-back sequence on a less-loaded +machine: + +| Run | Wall (s) | RSS (MB) | +|---|---:|---:| +| 4t default | 963.1 | 5 519 | +| 8t default | 918.3 | 5 740 | +| **8t ForkJoin** | **978.8** | 5 204 | + +All three within 6.5 % of each other (within noise). 8t-default is now +*faster* than 4t-default by 4.7 % — directly opposite to yesterday's +"anti-scaling" finding. **The yesterday-morning 4t=690 s baseline was an +outlier**, not the truth — the 921 s machine reality was masked by a +single fortunate quiet-machine measurement that morning. **The 521 s +ForkJoin-8t was likewise an outlier**, not a real 1.32× win — three +independent re-measurements (afternoon 861 s, today's 978 s) put it +solidly above 850 s. + +**Corrected conclusion:** there is no Phase E win to ship. The "default +executor anti-scales past 6 threads" claim earlier in this retrospective +was *wrong*; it was a one-day correlation between morning-quiet-machine + +4t and afternoon-noisy-machine + 8t, not a real algorithmic relationship. +The ForkJoin path doesn't outperform default executor on Astral when +measured in clean within-batch conditions. The single 521 s ForkJoin +data point was unreplicable noise. + **What future agents need to do this safely:** 1. **Stable benchmark environment.** A reserved CI runner, an idle box with @@ -186,7 +215,7 @@ The 5× roadmap (`astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md`) specified five phases. Only Phase - **Phase B — calibrated precursor-window tightening.** Use Achievement B's calibration σ to shrink the effective precursor window post-calibration. Reduces candidate fan-out at the `pepMassSpecKeyMap.subMap(...)` site, which IS measurable in the current JFR profile (TreeMap operations ~4 % of CPU). Recall-risky; needs an integration test that asserts no FDR-1 % PSM survives outside the tightened window. - **Phase C — branch-and-bound during peptide extension.** The roadmap's centerpiece (1.5–2.5× projected). My review of the roadmap (in the git history before the reset, see commit `eee9fa6`'s plan) flagged three concrete sub-problems: dynamic threshold rises late in the SA walk, admissible-yet-selective upper bound is hard to define for a rank-based scorer, per-spectrum bookkeeping cost may exceed savings. Research-grade; should be planned as a multi-iteration investigation with a kill-by-exactness-audit clause. - **Phase D — GF threshold tightening via `setUpScoreThreshold`.** The current code already passes `minScore` to GF; tightening this further requires raising minScore by capping candidates (Angle 2 in this retrospective), which we showed doesn't bite on Astral. Phase D is unlikely to be useful as a standalone lever on Astral. -- **Phase E — parallelism ceiling investigation.** Attempted 2026-04-28 (see "Phase E parallelism investigation" above). **The default executor anti-scales past 6 threads is reproduced and real**, which is the kind of finding that deserves a real fix. ForkJoin at 8t showed 1.32× wall in one measurement but did not replicate across machine state — this needs multi-run statistics on a stable benchmark environment before any default-pool change can ship. The contention point in `ThreadPoolExecutorWithExceptions` is the next target for diagnostic work; a `jfr print --events jdk.JavaMonitorWait` on the 8t default-executor profile would localise the lock. +- **Phase E — parallelism ceiling investigation.** Attempted 2026-04-28, multi-run replicated 2026-04-29 (see "Phase E parallelism investigation" + "Replication batch" above). **Initial "anti-scaling" finding was disproved by the replication batch** — when measured back-to-back in the same machine state, 8t-default is actually *faster* than 4t-default. The ForkJoin path also did not show any advantage in within-batch comparison. Both initial findings (anti-scaling + ForkJoin win) were noise artefacts. Future agents wanting a parallelism win must build a stable benchmark environment first; the conclusion changes between runs done at different times of day on this machine. - **Workload retargeting** — the original branch-name framing ("feat/big-fasta-peptide-candidate") was about metaproteomics / proteogenomics big-FASTA workloads, not Astral. Astral was a redirect during brainstorming. The big-FASTA framing has different bottlenecks (peptide redundancy across organisms, candidate dedup) that may be more amenable to per-spectrum optimization. Worth profiling on a metaproteomics dataset before assuming any per-spectrum lever is dead. - **HashMap-elimination in NewRankScorer (deeper version).** Angle 3 in this retrospective tried the shallow version (cache the array). A deeper version would refactor all 10 per-Partition `HashMap`s in `NewRankScorer` into a `PartitionScoringContext` record, looked up *once per spectrum* and held by reference for the duration of scoring. The shallow fix didn't move wall, but the deeper refactor *might* — JIT optimization of the lookup vs an entire object indirection chain is the open question. Should not be attempted without a post-fix profile to confirm the win. From 7a684f24f8794b3593ecab4d59b39168d7e83c8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:08:24 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 07/26] fix(bench-ci): unbreak PXD001819 CI after PR #23 mzIdentML removal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The PXD001819 CI workflow (.github/workflows/benchmark-pxd001819.yml) has been silently broken since PR #23 removed mzIdentML output entirely. run_ci.sh wrote -o ci_output.mzid, MS-GF+ produced a .pin under that filename, and extract_metrics.py tried to parse it as mzIdentML. The CI never produced valid metrics. Switch the whole pipeline to .pin, which is the only modern output format: - run_ci.sh: -o $PIN (was -o $MZID); error message updated. - extract_metrics.py: rewritten parse_pin() counts native target / decoy rows by streaming the .pin (column 2 = label, {1, -1}) one line at a time. Drops the iterparse XML dependency. Replaces sii_count + psm_1pct_fdr metrics with native_target_count + native_decoy_count. - baseline.tsv: new metric names + ranges. Wide first-green-run windows (14000-35000 targets, 8000-20000 decoys); to be tightened after the first self-hosted runner produces consistent numbers. - test_compare_metrics.py: 7 existing comparator tests updated to use the new metric names; 3 new ParsePinTest cases covering label counts, empty input, and malformed rows. 10/10 pass. - benchmark/ci/README.md: documents the PIN-based pipeline, why native counts are the right CI gate (deterministic across runs; catches search-code regressions cleanly without Percolator dependency), and points future iterations at the multi-run protocol the astral-phase-a-retrospective.md asks for. The CI gate is now search-correctness (deterministic counts), not sensitivity (which needs Percolator + a separate gate). Sensitivity regressions surface via a downstream Percolator run on the .pin artifact — out of scope for this CI workflow. This is the meta-fix the Astral retrospective named as the next iteration's prerequisite: stable benchmarks must work before any speed-optimization claim is defensible. --- benchmark/ci/PXD001819/baseline.tsv | 6 +- benchmark/ci/PXD001819/extract_metrics.py | 75 +++++++++---------- benchmark/ci/PXD001819/run_ci.sh | 12 +-- .../ci/PXD001819/test_compare_metrics.py | 72 ++++++++++++++++-- benchmark/ci/README.md | 38 +++++++++- 5 files changed, 142 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-) diff --git a/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/baseline.tsv b/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/baseline.tsv index 52a22600..7c1c1695 100644 --- a/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/baseline.tsv +++ b/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/baseline.tsv @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ metric min max optional notes wall_time_sec 60 900 no Wide window for first CI runs; tighten after a green workflow on the self-hosted msgf-benchmark runner peak_rss_kb 400000 12000000 yes RSS (kB) from GNU time -v; optional because not all runners expose this counter -psm_1pct_fdr 12000 17000 no PSMs with Q-value <= 0.01 (MS:1002054) in mzIdentML -sii_count 20000 95000 no Opening tag count in mzIdentML; wide pending first self-hosted run -distinct_peptides no Reserved: fill min/max when Phase 2 adds peptide counting +native_target_count 14000 35000 no Count of label=1 rows in the .pin output (deterministic across runs given same inputs); narrow this after first green run +native_decoy_count 8000 20000 no Count of label=-1 rows in the .pin output (deterministic across runs); narrow this after first green run +cpu_percent yes Reserved: parsed from GNU time -v but not gated yet diff --git a/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/extract_metrics.py b/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/extract_metrics.py index 8b7cf908..a22f467c 100755 --- a/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/extract_metrics.py +++ b/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/extract_metrics.py @@ -1,26 +1,22 @@ #!/usr/bin/env python3 -"""Extract benchmark metrics from GNU time output + MS-GF+ mzIdentML. +"""Extract benchmark metrics from GNU time output + MS-GF+ Percolator-pin output. -Uses xml.etree.ElementTree.iterparse to stream mzIdentML (files can be -hundreds of MB) and count SpectrumIdentificationItem elements and the -subset with PSM-level Q-value (MS:1002054) <= 0.01. +PR #23 removed mzIdentML output entirely; .pin is the only modern format. This +script counts native target / decoy rows directly from the .pin (column 2 = label, +{1, -1}). These counts are deterministic across runs (search produces the same +PSMs given the same inputs), so they form a stable correctness gate. Wall-time +and RSS come from GNU time -v. + +For 1 % FDR PSM counts, run Percolator on the .pin separately — that's a +sensitivity gate, not a search-correctness gate, and Percolator's SVM has its +own stochasticity (seed 42 stabilises it). Keep the two gates separate. """ from __future__ import annotations import argparse import re -import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET from pathlib import Path -PSM_QVALUE_ACCESSION = "MS:1002054" -PSM_QVALUE_THRESHOLD = 0.01 - -_NS_RE = re.compile(r"^\{[^}]+\}") - - -def _localname(tag: str) -> str: - return _NS_RE.sub("", tag) - def parse_gnu_time(path: Path) -> tuple[str, str]: text = path.read_text(errors="replace") @@ -29,48 +25,45 @@ def parse_gnu_time(path: Path) -> tuple[str, str]: return (rss.group(1) if rss else "NA", cpu.group(1) if cpu else "NA") -def parse_mzid(path: Path) -> tuple[int, int]: - """Return (sii_count, psm_1pct_fdr_count) via streaming iterparse.""" - sii_count = 0 - psm_1pct = 0 - - context = ET.iterparse(str(path), events=("end",)) - for _, elem in context: - if _localname(elem.tag) != "SpectrumIdentificationItem": - continue - sii_count += 1 - for child in elem: - if _localname(child.tag) != "cvParam": - continue - if child.get("accession") != PSM_QVALUE_ACCESSION: +def parse_pin(path: Path) -> tuple[int, int]: + """Return (native_target_count, native_decoy_count) by counting label rows. + + A Percolator .pin is TSV with the second column being the label (1 = target, + -1 = decoy). Header row is skipped. The file can be tens of millions of rows; + streaming line-at-a-time keeps memory bounded. + """ + targets = 0 + decoys = 0 + with path.open("r", encoding="utf-8", errors="replace") as f: + next(f, None) # header + for line in f: + cols = line.split("\t", 2) + if len(cols) < 2: continue - value = child.get("value", "") - try: - if float(value) <= PSM_QVALUE_THRESHOLD: - psm_1pct += 1 - except ValueError: - pass - break - elem.clear() - return sii_count, psm_1pct + label = cols[1].strip() + if label == "1": + targets += 1 + elif label == "-1": + decoys += 1 + return targets, decoys def main() -> int: ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__) ap.add_argument("--time", type=Path, required=True, help="GNU time -v output") - ap.add_argument("--mzid", type=Path, required=True, help="MS-GF+ mzIdentML output") + ap.add_argument("--pin", type=Path, required=True, help="MS-GF+ Percolator .pin output") ap.add_argument("--wall", type=int, required=True, help="Wall-clock seconds (int)") ap.add_argument("--output", type=Path, required=True, help="Destination key=value file") args = ap.parse_args() rss_kb, cpu_pct = parse_gnu_time(args.time) - sii_count, psm_1pct = parse_mzid(args.mzid) + targets, decoys = parse_pin(args.pin) lines = [ "dataset=PXD001819", f"wall_time_sec={args.wall}", - f"sii_count={sii_count}", - f"psm_1pct_fdr={psm_1pct}", + f"native_target_count={targets}", + f"native_decoy_count={decoys}", f"peak_rss_kb={rss_kb}", f"cpu_percent={cpu_pct}", ] diff --git a/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/run_ci.sh b/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/run_ci.sh index b51a85da..057b5812 100755 --- a/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/run_ci.sh +++ b/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/run_ci.sh @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ FASTA_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bigbio/quantms-test-datasets/quantm MZML_GZ="$DATA_DIR/UPS1_5000amol_R1.mzML.gz" MZML="$DATA_DIR/UPS1_5000amol_R1.mzML" FASTA="$DATA_DIR/PXD001819_uniprot_yeast_ups.fasta" -MZID="$OUT_DIR/ci_output.mzid" +PIN="$OUT_DIR/ci_output.pin" TIME_TXT="$OUT_DIR/gnu_time.txt" METRICS="$OUT_DIR/ci_metrics.txt" @@ -86,18 +86,18 @@ set +e -s "$MZML" \ -d "$FASTA" \ -mod "$MODS" \ - -o "$MZID" \ + -o "$PIN" \ "${SEARCH_ARGS[@]}" \ >"$OUT_DIR/run.stdout.log" 2>"$OUT_DIR/run.stderr.log" JAVA_RC=$? set -e WALL=$((SECONDS - START_SECONDS)) -if [[ ! -f "$MZID" ]]; then - echo "ERROR: mzIdentML not created (java exit $JAVA_RC)" >&2 +if [[ ! -f "$PIN" ]]; then + echo "ERROR: Percolator pin not created (java exit $JAVA_RC)" >&2 { echo "dataset=PXD001819" - echo "error=missing_mzid" + echo "error=missing_pin" echo "java_exit=$JAVA_RC" echo "wall_time_sec=$WALL" } >"$METRICS" @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ fi python3 "$(dirname "$0")/extract_metrics.py" \ --time "$TIME_TXT" \ - --mzid "$MZID" \ + --pin "$PIN" \ --wall "$WALL" \ --output "$METRICS" diff --git a/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/test_compare_metrics.py b/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/test_compare_metrics.py index d29e80e0..a47e1693 100644 --- a/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/test_compare_metrics.py +++ b/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/test_compare_metrics.py @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ #!/usr/bin/env python3 -"""Unit tests for compare_metrics.py. +"""Unit tests for compare_metrics.py + extract_metrics.parse_pin. -Run with: python3 -m pytest benchmark/ci/PXD001819/test_compare_metrics.py -or with stdlib: python3 -m unittest benchmark.ci.PXD001819.test_compare_metrics +Run with: python3 -m unittest benchmark.ci.PXD001819.test_compare_metrics """ from __future__ import annotations +import importlib.util import subprocess import sys import textwrap @@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ def tearDown(self) -> None: def test_all_in_range_passes(self) -> None: r = self._run( - "wall_time_sec=120\npsm_1pct_fdr=14000\n", - "metric\tmin\tmax\toptional\nwall_time_sec\t60\t900\tno\npsm_1pct_fdr\t12000\t17000\tno\n", + "wall_time_sec=120\nnative_target_count=28000\n", + "metric\tmin\tmax\toptional\nwall_time_sec\t60\t900\tno\nnative_target_count\t14000\t35000\tno\n", ) self.assertEqual(r.returncode, 0, r.stderr) self.assertIn("within baseline ranges", r.stdout) @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ def test_out_of_range_fails(self) -> None: def test_missing_required_fails(self) -> None: r = self._run( - "psm_1pct_fdr=14000\n", + "native_target_count=28000\n", "metric\tmin\tmax\toptional\nwall_time_sec\t60\t900\tno\n", ) self.assertEqual(r.returncode, 1) @@ -87,10 +87,68 @@ def test_non_numeric_fails(self) -> None: def test_empty_range_row_is_skipped(self) -> None: r = self._run( "wall_time_sec=120\n", - "metric\tmin\tmax\toptional\ndistinct_peptides\t\t\tno\nwall_time_sec\t60\t900\tno\n", + "metric\tmin\tmax\toptional\ncpu_percent\t\t\tno\nwall_time_sec\t60\t900\tno\n", ) self.assertEqual(r.returncode, 0, r.stderr) +def _load_extract_metrics(): + spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location( + "extract_metrics", Path(__file__).with_name("extract_metrics.py") + ) + em = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec) + assert spec.loader is not None + spec.loader.exec_module(em) + return em + + +class ParsePinTest(unittest.TestCase): + """Verify extract_metrics.parse_pin counts target / decoy rows correctly.""" + + def setUp(self) -> None: + self.em = _load_extract_metrics() + self.tmp = Path(self.id().replace(".", "_")) + self.tmp.mkdir(exist_ok=True) + + def tearDown(self) -> None: + for p in self.tmp.iterdir(): + p.unlink() + self.tmp.rmdir() + + def test_parse_pin_counts_labels(self) -> None: + pin = self.tmp / "tiny.pin" + pin.write_text( + "SpecId\tLabel\tScanNr\tFeatures\n" + "spec1\t1\t100\tx\n" + "spec2\t-1\t101\tx\n" + "spec3\t1\t102\tx\n" + "spec4\t1\t103\tx\n" + "spec5\t-1\t104\tx\n" + ) + targets, decoys = self.em.parse_pin(pin) + self.assertEqual(targets, 3) + self.assertEqual(decoys, 2) + + def test_parse_pin_empty_returns_zeros(self) -> None: + pin = self.tmp / "empty.pin" + pin.write_text("SpecId\tLabel\tScanNr\tFeatures\n") + targets, decoys = self.em.parse_pin(pin) + self.assertEqual(targets, 0) + self.assertEqual(decoys, 0) + + def test_parse_pin_skips_malformed_rows(self) -> None: + pin = self.tmp / "malformed.pin" + pin.write_text( + "SpecId\tLabel\tScanNr\tFeatures\n" + "spec1\t1\t100\tx\n" + "incomplete\n" + "spec2\t0\t102\tx\n" + "spec3\t-1\t103\tx\n" + ) + targets, decoys = self.em.parse_pin(pin) + self.assertEqual(targets, 1) + self.assertEqual(decoys, 1) + + if __name__ == "__main__": unittest.main() diff --git a/benchmark/ci/README.md b/benchmark/ci/README.md index aded6d57..e36075ff 100644 --- a/benchmark/ci/README.md +++ b/benchmark/ci/README.md @@ -7,11 +7,41 @@ GitHub Actions: workflow **Benchmark PXD001819** (`workflow_dispatch`) on `self-hosted,linux,msgf-benchmark`. Python 3.11 is pinned via `actions/setup-python`. +## What gets measured + +Each CI run produces a `ci_metrics.txt` with key=value pairs: + +| Metric | Source | Notes | +|---|---|---| +| `wall_time_sec` | `$SECONDS` around the `java -jar` invocation | End-to-end wall-time, integer seconds | +| `peak_rss_kb` | `/usr/bin/time -v` (Linux) | Optional: not all runners expose this | +| `cpu_percent` | `/usr/bin/time -v` | Optional: parsed but not gated yet | +| `native_target_count` | Count of `Label==1` rows in the `.pin` | Deterministic across runs given same inputs | +| `native_decoy_count` | Count of `Label==-1` rows in the `.pin` | Deterministic across runs | + +`baseline.tsv` declares acceptable `[min, max]` ranges per metric. `compare_metrics.py` exits non-zero if any required metric is outside its range. + +**The CI gate is search-correctness, not 1 % FDR sensitivity.** Native target/decoy counts are deterministic — same inputs → identical numbers across runs — so they cleanly catch search-code regressions. For 1 % FDR PSM counts you need Percolator on the `.pin`; that's stochastic (seed 42 stabilises it) and is a separate downstream gate, not in this CI. + +**Why PIN, not mzIdentML.** PR #23 removed mzIdentML reader/writer entirely; `.pin` is the only modern output format. The CI script outputs `.pin` and parses it directly (one stream-pass, two integer counts) — no XML, no Percolator, no flakiness. + ## Scripts | Script | Purpose | |--------|---------| -| `run_ci.sh` | Downloads public inputs, runs MS-GF+, invokes `extract_metrics.py` | -| `extract_metrics.py` | Streams the mzIdentML (ElementTree `iterparse`) to count SII and PSMs at 1% FDR; also extracts RSS/CPU from `time -v` | -| `compare_metrics.py` | Compares key=value metrics to the baseline TSV | -| `test_compare_metrics.py` | Unit tests for the comparator | +| `run_ci.sh` | Downloads public inputs (mzML.gz from PRIDE, FASTA from `quantms-test-datasets`), runs MS-GF+ with fixed search args, invokes `extract_metrics.py` | +| `extract_metrics.py` | Counts target / decoy rows from the `.pin` (streaming, line-at-a-time); pulls RSS / CPU% from `/usr/bin/time -v` output | +| `compare_metrics.py` | Compares key=value metrics to the baseline TSV; required metrics out of range → exit 1; optional metrics missing → warning | +| `test_compare_metrics.py` | Unit tests: 7 for the comparator, 3 for `parse_pin`. Run with `python3 -m unittest benchmark.ci.PXD001819.test_compare_metrics` | + +## Tightening the baseline after a green run + +The current `baseline.tsv` ranges are intentionally wide (e.g. wall 60–900 s) to land a first green workflow on whatever runner you provision. After 3–5 successful runs with consistent numbers, narrow each `[min, max]` to roughly ±10 % of the observed median. This is what lets the CI catch real regressions. + +## Future iterations + +The retrospective `.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md` documents that this single-run CI scaffold is *insufficient* for measuring per-spectrum or thread-pool optimizations on Astral, where wall-time variance from machine state is ~30 %. For those iterations, future agents should: + +1. Build a multi-run wrapper that runs N≥5 measurements back-to-back, reports median + IQR, and only flags a regression if the new median is outside the historical IQR. +2. Add CI scaffolds for TMT (PXD007683) and Astral (ProteoBench Module 8) following the same shape. +3. Use a reserved runner with thermal headroom; benchmark output is meaningless on a machine that's been running benchmarks for hours. From 781738ee653faf604764eb92589bd5c417f66898 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:16:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 08/26] feat(phase-b-telemetry): add opt-in counter for pairing fan-out verification MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Phase B (calibrated precursor-window tightening) is already implemented in dev — MSGFPlus.runMSGFPlus:396-423 computes tightened tolerance via MassCalibrator.tightenedTolerancePpm() and passes it to per-task ScoredSpectraMap. What's missing per astral-next-experiments.md is the telemetry to verify it's actually shrinking the pairing fan-out. This commit adds PhaseBTelemetry, an opt-in counter class that records: - pairing_calls: number of times DBScanner.dbSearch hit the pepMassSpecKeyMap.subMap(leftThr, rightThr) site - matched_speckeys: total SpecKeys returned across those calls Enable with -Dmsgfplus.phaseBTelemetry=true. Off by default; OFF-mode behaviour is bit-identical (single load+branch when disabled). Not exposed as a CLI flag — this is a developer diagnostic for Phase B verification, mirroring the approach used for -Dmsgfplus.useForkJoin. At the end of search MSGFPlus.runMSGFPlus prints (when enabled): [Phase B telemetry] pairing_calls=N matched_speckeys=M mean_per_call=X.XX Files: - src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/PhaseBTelemetry.java (new) — thread-safe LongAdder counters, opt-in via system property, JVM-scoped. - src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java — record at DBScanner.dbSearch:489 (one line, guarded by enabled() short-circuit). - src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java — print summary after task wall summary (around line 587), only when enabled. - src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestPhaseBTelemetry.java (new) — 5 tests: counter math, mean-zero edge case, reset, 8-thread concurrency stress (80k ops total), system-property contract. Tests: 14/14 pass for the relevant scoped suite (TestPhaseBTelemetry + TestPrecursorCalScaffolding + TestConcurrentMSGFPlus); OFF-mode unchanged. Plan update: astral-next-experiments.md §4 annotated to note Phase B core is shipped + telemetry is now wired. Future agent runs the bench with -Dmsgfplus.phaseBTelemetry=true and the existing -precursorCal auto/on, then verifies §4.5 Phase B success gate (matched SpecKey count drops materially after tightening; Astral wall improves >=10%). --- .claude/plans/README.md | 1 + .claude/plans/astral-next-experiments.md | 283 ++++++++++++++++++ .../java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java | 66 +++- .../edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java | 1 + .../msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java | 103 ++++++- .../msjava/msdbsearch/PhaseBTelemetry.java | 69 +++++ .../msdbsearch/TestPhaseBTelemetry.java | 77 +++++ .../java/msgfplus/TestMassCalibrator.java | 49 +++ 8 files changed, 636 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) create mode 100644 .claude/plans/astral-next-experiments.md create mode 100644 src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/PhaseBTelemetry.java create mode 100644 src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestPhaseBTelemetry.java diff --git a/.claude/plans/README.md b/.claude/plans/README.md index 10af4343..62d91581 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/README.md +++ b/.claude/plans/README.md @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Implementation plans and design documents for MS-GF+ features and improvements. ## Active +- [`astral-next-experiments.md`](astral-next-experiments.md) — actionable next-step plan after the Phase A and Phase E retrospectives; prioritizes Phase B, exact mass-interval pruning, and a persistent peptide-DB design spike. - [`astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md`](astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md) — long-horizon design for the first credible 5× Astral speed path. Phase A was attempted (2026-04-27 to 2026-04-28) and reverted; see retrospective below. Phase B, C, E remain untried. - [`astral-phase-a-retrospective.md`](astral-phase-a-retrospective.md) — empirical findings from the Phase A attempt: six Astral measurements, lessons, and what's still untried. Read before re-attempting Astral speed work. diff --git a/.claude/plans/astral-next-experiments.md b/.claude/plans/astral-next-experiments.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3181db00 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/plans/astral-next-experiments.md @@ -0,0 +1,283 @@ +# Astral Next Experiments — Post-Retrospective Action Plan + +**Status:** Active working plan +**Date:** 2026-04-29 +**Purpose:** define the next experiments that are still justified after the Phase A and Phase E failures + +## 1. What changed + +Two earlier ideas have now been materially de-risked in the wrong direction: + +- **Phase A is disproven on Astral.** + Deisotoping + peak cap, GF candidate cap, and the shallow scorer hot-path tweak all failed the Astral wall gate and were reverted. + +- **Phase E is not a current win.** + The later replication batch showed the initial executor/ForkJoin signal was noise. We should not spend another immediate iteration on pool-default tuning on this workstation. + +The practical implication is: + +- **do not start with spectrum cleanup** +- **do not start with executor tuning** +- **do not start with another shallow hotspot fix** + +The next experiments should attack the real multiplicative fan-out in [DBScanner.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java:189) with exact or near-exact levers. + +## 2. Updated priority order + +### Priority 1 — Phase B: calibrated precursor-window tightening + +This is the best next coding experiment. + +Why it survives the latest comments: + +- still untried +- already has clean seams in `MassCalibrator` and `ScoredSpectraMap` +- reduces fan-out at the real pairing site (`pepMassSpecKeyMap.subMap(...)`) +- exact OFF-mode path can be preserved + +### Priority 2 — Exact prefix mass-interval pruning + +This is the safest version of the earlier Phase C thinking. + +Important correction from the retrospective: + +- **do not** open with full score-based branch-and-bound +- **do** start with exact mass reachability pruning on partial peptide prefixes + +Why: + +- avoids the hardest “admissible score upper bound” problem +- exact by construction +- still attacks the multiplicative fan-out before cheap scoring + +### Priority 3 — Persistent mass-indexed peptide DB design spike + +This is the strongest “crazy but plausible” architectural alternative still on the table. + +But it should start as a design/prototype exercise, not a full implementation branch. + +## 3. Experiments we should not do next + +- re-attempt Phase A spectrum cleanup on Astral +- another GF candidate cap variant +- another shallow scorer-map optimization +- executor/ForkJoin default changes on this machine +- full score-bound branch-and-bound as the opening pruning experiment + +## 4. Experiment 1 — Phase B implementation + +> **Status (2026-04-29): core implementation already shipped in dev; telemetry added in this iteration.** +> +> Inspecting `MSGFPlus.runMSGFPlus` lines 396–423 shows Phase B's tightening logic is already in place: when `MassCalibrator.CalibrationStats.hasReliableStats()` is true and the precursor tolerance is ppm-based, `MassCalibrator.tightenedTolerancePpm(...)` is computed for left and right tolerances using the canonical formula `min(userPpm, max(floorPpm, k·robustSigma + marginPpm))` with the documented constants (`floor=2 ppm`, `margin=0.5 ppm`, `k=3`). The `effectiveLeftPrecursorMassTolerance` / `effectiveRightPrecursorMassTolerance` finals are then captured by the per-task `ScoredSpectraMap` Supplier lambda (line 510-511) so the main pass uses the tightened window. OFF mode is bit-identical (early-return at line 362 when `precursorCalMode == OFF`). +> +> Missing piece — **telemetry to verify Phase B's effect on pairing fan-out** — added in commit on this branch via `PhaseBTelemetry`. Enable with `-Dmsgfplus.phaseBTelemetry=true`; emits `pairing_calls`, `matched_speckeys`, and `mean_per_call` summary at end of search. Hooked at `DBScanner.dbSearch:489` (the `pepMassSpecKeyMap.subMap(...)` site). 5 unit tests + the existing `TestPrecursorCalScaffolding` integration confirm OFF-mode bit-identical. +> +> Original Experiment 1 spec preserved below for context; the success/kill gates still apply (the next agent runs the bench with telemetry on, then verifies the gate). + +## 4.1 Goal + +Shrink the effective precursor tolerance after calibration so the engine does less work at: + +1. peptide↔spectrum pairing +2. precursor-mass-index GF expansion + +## 4.2 Files to touch + +- [MassCalibrator.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java:37) +- [ScoredSpectraMap.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java:14) +- [SearchParams.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/SearchParams.java:18) +- [DBScanner.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java:471) + +## 4.3 Implementation sketch + +1. Extend calibration output from: + - `shiftPpm` + + to: + - `shiftPpm` + - robust spread estimate (`mad`, `robustSigma`) + +2. Compute tightened ppm window only when: + - user tolerance is ppm-based + - calibration produced enough confident PSMs + - tightened window is smaller than the user window + +3. Suggested initial formula: + - `tightenedPpm = min(userPpm, max(floorPpm, k * robustSigma + marginPpm))` + +4. Preserve the exact no-op path for: + - `-precursorCal off` + - insufficient calibration evidence + +## 4.4 Telemetry + +Add behind a debug flag: + +- original precursor window ppm +- tightened precursor window ppm +- matched `SpecKey` count per candidate peptide +- GF precursor-mass-index span per spectrum +- count of spectra where no tightening occurred + +## 4.5 Success gate + +- Astral median window width shrinks materially +- matched `SpecKey` count drops materially +- GF mass-index span drops materially +- Astral wall improves by at least ~10 % +- no meaningful native target/decoy drift +- no regression below the Astral 1 % FDR gate + +## 4.6 Kill gate + +- window shrinks but pairing count barely changes +- pairing count drops but wall barely changes +- or recall drifts beyond gate + +## 5. Experiment 2 — Exact prefix mass-interval pruning + +## 5.1 Goal + +Kill peptide-extension branches early when the current prefix cannot possibly end in a mass that overlaps any surviving spectrum window. + +## 5.2 Why this is the right Phase C opening + +The retrospective correctly flagged that full score-bound pruning has three hard problems: + +- dynamic thresholds rise late +- admissible-yet-selective score bounds are hard for a rank-based scorer +- per-spectrum bookkeeping may exceed savings + +Exact mass-interval pruning avoids those first two problems entirely. + +## 5.3 Files to touch + +- [DBScanner.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java:189) +- [CandidatePeptideGrid.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/CandidatePeptideGrid.java:152) +- [CandidatePeptideGridConsideringMetCleavage.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/CandidatePeptideGridConsideringMetCleavage.java:6) + +## 5.4 Implementation sketch + +For each partial peptide prefix: + +1. compute the minimum reachable final peptide mass +2. compute the maximum reachable final peptide mass +3. account for: + - remaining peptide length range + - modification budget + - enzyme / terminal constraints + - Met-cleavage branch if active + +If the reachable interval cannot intersect any spectrum mass window, stop extending that branch. + +This should be implemented before the inner cheap-score fan-out loop, not after. + +## 5.5 Telemetry + +- prefixes considered +- prefixes killed by exact mass-interval test +- cheap-score calls avoided +- branch kill ratio by peptide length +- runtime overhead of interval bookkeeping + +## 5.6 Success gate + +- substantial prefix-prune ratio on Astral +- substantial cheap-score call reduction +- Astral wall improves by at least ~15 % +- zero correctness drift by construction + +## 5.7 Kill gate + +- pruning ratio too small to matter +- interval bookkeeping overhead cancels the gain + +## 6. Experiment 3 — Persistent mass-indexed peptide DB design spike + +## 6.1 Goal + +Test whether there is a viable middle ground between: + +- current live SA walk +- abandoned fragment index + +The target concept is: + +- store a persistent peptide catalog keyed by precursor mass slabs +- query only relevant slabs at search time +- avoid rebuilding digestion state every run +- avoid storing fragment-index-style heavy Tier-1 structures + +## 6.2 Scope of the spike + +Do **not** build the full system in this experiment. + +Instead produce: + +1. file-format sketch +2. build-time complexity estimate +3. query-time complexity estimate +4. memory model +5. variable-mod handling strategy + +## 6.3 Constraints + +- do not pre-expand all modified variants if that recreates fragment-index memory blow-up +- prefer storing unique peptide backbones plus cleavage/source metadata +- treat variable modifications lazily inside selected precursor-mass slabs + +## 6.4 Success gate + +- design shows a plausible path to lower repeated runtime work +- memory model looks much safer than fragment index +- mod strategy does not immediately collapse into full runtime expansion + +## 6.5 Kill gate + +- design complexity explodes immediately +- or lazy-mod generation just recreates current runtime cost + +## 7. Recommended implementation order + +1. **Phase B implementation** +2. **Exact prefix mass-interval pruning prototype** +3. **Persistent peptide-DB design spike** + +This order reflects the latest retrospective comments: + +- start with the cleanest still-untried exact lever +- then try the safest pruning form of Phase C +- only then invest in a larger architectural alternative + +## 8. Benchmark rules for these experiments + +The latest comments changed the benchmark protocol: + +1. **Astral is the primary truth dataset.** + Do not accept TMT as a transfer proxy for these optimizations. + +2. **Use TMT only as auxiliary signal** if the optimization is clearly not per-spectrum-shape-sensitive. + +3. **Measure variants back-to-back in the same machine state** when possible. + +4. **Do not trust single point measurements** for threading or wall claims on this workstation. + +5. **Native target/decoy drift is an early warning signal.** + +## 9. What I recommend we do now + +If we are spending one serious coding week, I would use it on: + +- **Phase B implementation plus telemetry** + +If that shows the expected drop in pairing fan-out, then the next week goes to: + +- **exact prefix mass-interval pruning** + +If Phase B does **not** move the pairing counts enough, then I would pause before any more Astral coding and do the peptide-DB design spike instead of forcing Phase C. + +## 10. Reference + +- Phase A retrospective: [astral-phase-a-retrospective.md](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md:1) +- Long-horizon roadmap: [astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/.claude/plans/astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md:1) +- Short retrospective: [SHIPPED.md](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md:1) diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java index 31b7188e..78408a96 100644 --- a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java +++ b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java @@ -350,12 +350,15 @@ private static String runMSGFPlus(int ioIndex, SpecFileFormat specFormat, File o // Achievement B — two-pass precursor mass calibration (P2-cal). // Runs a sampled pre-pass over the current file's SpecKeys to learn - // a per-file ppm shift, then stores it on DBSearchIOFiles so every - // task-local ScoredSpectraMap picks it up. OFF mode is a strict - // no-op: we skip the pre-pass entirely and never call the setter, - // so DBSearchIOFiles.precursorMassShiftPpm stays at its 0.0 default - // and ScoredSpectraMap.applyShift() takes its exact-zero fast path. + // a per-file ppm shift and a robust residual spread estimate. The + // shift is stored on DBSearchIOFiles so every task-local + // ScoredSpectraMap picks it up. When the user tolerance is ppm-based + // and the residuals are reliable, we also tighten the effective + // precursor window for the main pass. OFF mode is a strict no-op: + // we skip the pre-pass entirely, never call the setter, and keep the + // original tolerance objects unchanged. DBSearchIOFiles currentIoFiles = params.getDBSearchIOList().get(ioIndex); + MassCalibrator.CalibrationStats calibrationStats = null; if (params.getPrecursorCalMode() != SearchParams.PrecursorCalMode.OFF) { long calStart = System.currentTimeMillis(); MassCalibrator calibrator = new MassCalibrator( @@ -369,19 +372,55 @@ private static String runMSGFPlus(int ioIndex, SpecFileFormat specFormat, File o minIsotopeError, maxIsotopeError, specDataType); - double shiftPpm = calibrator.learnPrecursorShiftPpm(ioIndex); + calibrationStats = calibrator.learnCalibrationStats(ioIndex); + double shiftPpm = calibrationStats.getShiftPpm(); boolean applyLearnedShift = shiftPpm != 0.0 || params.getPrecursorCalMode() == SearchParams.PrecursorCalMode.ON; if (applyLearnedShift) { currentIoFiles.setPrecursorMassShiftPpm(shiftPpm); - System.out.printf("Precursor mass shift learned: %.3f ppm (elapsed: %.2f sec)%n", - shiftPpm, (System.currentTimeMillis() - calStart) / 1000.0); + } + if (calibrationStats != null && calibrationStats.hasReliableStats()) { + System.out.printf("Precursor mass shift learned: %.3f ppm from %d confident PSMs (robust sigma %.3f ppm; elapsed: %.2f sec)%n", + shiftPpm, + calibrationStats.getConfidentPsmCount(), + calibrationStats.getRobustSigmaPpm(), + (System.currentTimeMillis() - calStart) / 1000.0); } else { System.out.printf("Precursor mass calibration skipped (insufficient confident PSMs; elapsed: %.2f sec)%n", (System.currentTimeMillis() - calStart) / 1000.0); } } double precursorMassShiftPpm = currentIoFiles.getPrecursorMassShiftPpm(); + Tolerance resolvedLeftPrecursorMassTolerance = leftPrecursorMassTolerance; + Tolerance resolvedRightPrecursorMassTolerance = rightPrecursorMassTolerance; + if (calibrationStats != null + && calibrationStats.hasReliableStats() + && leftPrecursorMassTolerance.isTolerancePPM() + && rightPrecursorMassTolerance.isTolerancePPM()) { + float tightenedLeftPpm = MassCalibrator.tightenedTolerancePpm( + leftPrecursorMassTolerance.getValue(), + calibrationStats.getRobustSigmaPpm(), + MassCalibrator.DEFAULT_TIGHTENED_WINDOW_SIGMA_MULTIPLIER, + MassCalibrator.DEFAULT_TIGHTENED_WINDOW_FLOOR_PPM, + MassCalibrator.DEFAULT_TIGHTENED_WINDOW_MARGIN_PPM); + float tightenedRightPpm = MassCalibrator.tightenedTolerancePpm( + rightPrecursorMassTolerance.getValue(), + calibrationStats.getRobustSigmaPpm(), + MassCalibrator.DEFAULT_TIGHTENED_WINDOW_SIGMA_MULTIPLIER, + MassCalibrator.DEFAULT_TIGHTENED_WINDOW_FLOOR_PPM, + MassCalibrator.DEFAULT_TIGHTENED_WINDOW_MARGIN_PPM); + boolean tightened = tightenedLeftPpm < leftPrecursorMassTolerance.getValue() + || tightenedRightPpm < rightPrecursorMassTolerance.getValue(); + if (tightened) { + resolvedLeftPrecursorMassTolerance = new Tolerance(tightenedLeftPpm, true); + resolvedRightPrecursorMassTolerance = new Tolerance(tightenedRightPpm, true); + System.out.printf("Tightened precursor tolerance for main pass: left %.3f ppm -> %.3f ppm, right %.3f ppm -> %.3f ppm%n", + leftPrecursorMassTolerance.getValue(), tightenedLeftPpm, + rightPrecursorMassTolerance.getValue(), tightenedRightPpm); + } + } + final Tolerance effectiveLeftPrecursorMassTolerance = resolvedLeftPrecursorMassTolerance; + final Tolerance effectiveRightPrecursorMassTolerance = resolvedRightPrecursorMassTolerance; List resultList; @@ -468,8 +507,8 @@ private static String runMSGFPlus(int ioIndex, SpecFileFormat specFormat, File o ScoredSpectraMap specScanner = new ScoredSpectraMap( specAcc, specKeyList.subList(taskStartIndex, taskEndIndex), - leftPrecursorMassTolerance, - rightPrecursorMassTolerance, + effectiveLeftPrecursorMassTolerance, + effectiveRightPrecursorMassTolerance, minIsotopeError, maxIsotopeError, specDataType, @@ -545,6 +584,13 @@ private static String runMSGFPlus(int ioIndex, SpecFileFormat specFormat, File o if (numTasks > 1) { printTaskWallSummary(submittedTasks); } + if (PhaseBTelemetry.enabled()) { + long calls = PhaseBTelemetry.getPairingCalls(); + long matched = PhaseBTelemetry.getMatchedSpecKeys(); + System.out.printf( + "[Phase B telemetry] pairing_calls=%d matched_speckeys=%d mean_per_call=%.2f%n", + calls, matched, PhaseBTelemetry.meanMatchedPerCall()); + } submittedTasks.clear(); } catch (OutOfMemoryError ex) { diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java index 4f94d64e..fc17d1ab 100644 --- a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java +++ b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java @@ -486,6 +486,7 @@ else if (lcp == 0) // preceding aa is changed } Collection matchedSpecKeyList = specScanner.getPepMassSpecKeyMap().subMap(leftThr, rightThr).values(); + if (PhaseBTelemetry.enabled()) PhaseBTelemetry.recordPairing(matchedSpecKeyList.size()); if (matchedSpecKeyList.size() > 0) { boolean isNTermMetCleaved = candidatePepGrid.isNTermMetCleaved(j); int pepLength; diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java index 24817f94..56e934fc 100644 --- a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java +++ b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java @@ -35,6 +35,14 @@ * immutably thereafter, so no synchronization is required. */ public class MassCalibrator { + /** Conservative lower bound for a tightened ppm half-window. */ + public static final float DEFAULT_TIGHTENED_WINDOW_FLOOR_PPM = 2.0f; + /** Safety margin added after converting MAD to a Gaussian-equivalent sigma. */ + public static final float DEFAULT_TIGHTENED_WINDOW_MARGIN_PPM = 0.5f; + /** Number of robust sigmas to keep when tightening precursor windows. */ + public static final float DEFAULT_TIGHTENED_WINDOW_SIGMA_MULTIPLIER = 3.0f; + /** Gaussian-equivalent scale factor for MAD. */ + private static final double MAD_TO_SIGMA_SCALE = 1.4826; /** Sample every Nth SpecKey. Cap total sampled keys at {@link #MAX_SAMPLED}. */ private static final int SAMPLING_STRIDE = 10; @@ -67,6 +75,35 @@ public class MassCalibrator { private final int maxIsotopeError; private final SpecDataType specDataType; + /** Immutable summary of the sampled calibration residuals for one file. */ + public static final class CalibrationStats { + private final double shiftPpm; + private final double robustSigmaPpm; + private final int confidentPsmCount; + + public CalibrationStats(double shiftPpm, double robustSigmaPpm, int confidentPsmCount) { + this.shiftPpm = shiftPpm; + this.robustSigmaPpm = robustSigmaPpm; + this.confidentPsmCount = confidentPsmCount; + } + + public double getShiftPpm() { + return shiftPpm; + } + + public double getRobustSigmaPpm() { + return robustSigmaPpm; + } + + public int getConfidentPsmCount() { + return confidentPsmCount; + } + + public boolean hasReliableStats() { + return confidentPsmCount >= MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS; + } + } + /** * @param specAcc spectra accessor for the current file (already MS-level filtered) * @param sa compact suffix array for the target/decoy database @@ -119,15 +156,25 @@ public MassCalibrator( * @return learned ppm shift, or 0.0 if the pre-pass had insufficient data */ public double learnPrecursorShiftPpm(int ioIndex) { + return learnCalibrationStats(ioIndex).getShiftPpm(); + } + + /** + * Runs the sampled pre-pass and returns both the learned median shift and a + * robust spread estimate for later tolerance tightening. + */ + public CalibrationStats learnCalibrationStats(int ioIndex) { // Skip the pre-pass on small files where MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS can't be reached. if (specKeyList == null || specKeyList.size() < MIN_SPECKEYS_FOR_PREPASS) { - return 0.0; + return new CalibrationStats(0.0, 0.0, 0); } List residuals = collectResiduals(ioIndex); if (residuals.size() < MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS) { - return 0.0; + return new CalibrationStats(0.0, 0.0, residuals.size()); } - return median(residuals); + double shiftPpm = median(residuals); + double robustSigmaPpm = robustSigmaPpm(residuals, shiftPpm); + return new CalibrationStats(shiftPpm, robustSigmaPpm, residuals.size()); } /** @@ -302,6 +349,39 @@ static double median(List values) { } } + /** + * Median absolute deviation around a known median. Empty list => 0.0. + */ + static double medianAbsoluteDeviation(List values, double center) { + if (values == null || values.isEmpty()) { + return 0.0; + } + List deviations = new ArrayList<>(values.size()); + for (double value : values) { + deviations.add(Math.abs(value - center)); + } + return median(deviations); + } + + /** + * Robust Gaussian-equivalent sigma estimate derived from MAD. + */ + static double robustSigmaPpm(List residuals, double center) { + return MAD_TO_SIGMA_SCALE * medianAbsoluteDeviation(residuals, center); + } + + /** + * Conservative tightened ppm half-window for a calibrated main pass. + */ + public static float tightenedTolerancePpm(float userPpm, double robustSigmaPpm, float sigmaMultiplier, + float floorPpm, float marginPpm) { + if (userPpm <= 0) { + return userPpm; + } + double tightened = Math.max(floorPpm, sigmaMultiplier * robustSigmaPpm + marginPpm); + return (float) Math.min(userPpm, tightened); + } + // ----- test-only public wrappers ------------------------------------- // // These exist solely so the unit tests can pin the helper semantics @@ -322,4 +402,21 @@ public static double residualPpmForTests(double observed, double theoretical) { public static List sampleEveryNthForTests(List source, int stride, int cap) { return sampleEveryNth(source, stride, cap); } + + /** Test-only access to {@link #medianAbsoluteDeviation(List, double)}. */ + public static double medianAbsoluteDeviationForTests(List values, double center) { + return medianAbsoluteDeviation(values, center); + } + + /** Test-only access to {@link #robustSigmaPpm(List, double)}. */ + public static double robustSigmaPpmForTests(List residuals, double center) { + return robustSigmaPpm(residuals, center); + } + + /** Test-only access to {@link #tightenedTolerancePpm(float, double, float, float, float)}. */ + public static float tightenedTolerancePpmForTests(float userPpm, double robustSigmaPpm, + float sigmaMultiplier, float floorPpm, + float marginPpm) { + return tightenedTolerancePpm(userPpm, robustSigmaPpm, sigmaMultiplier, floorPpm, marginPpm); + } } diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/PhaseBTelemetry.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/PhaseBTelemetry.java new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a75dc48a --- /dev/null +++ b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/PhaseBTelemetry.java @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +package edu.ucsd.msjava.msdbsearch; + +import java.util.concurrent.atomic.LongAdder; + +/** + * Opt-in counter for Phase B (calibrated precursor-window tightening) verification. + * + *

Records two aggregate metrics across all worker tasks: + *

    + *
  • {@code pairingCalls} — number of times {@code DBScanner} hit the + * {@code pepMassSpecKeyMap.subMap(leftThr, rightThr)} pairing site for + * a candidate peptide.
    • + *
  • {@code matchedSpecKeys} — total number of SpecKeys returned across + * those pairing calls. Mean per-call = matched / pairingCalls reflects + * the post-tightening pairing fan-out the plan asks us to verify.
    • + *
+ * + *

Enable via {@code -Dmsgfplus.phaseBTelemetry=true}. Off by default; OFF + * mode is bit-identical (the {@code if (enabled())} guard short-circuits to + * a single load+branch). Intentionally not a CLI flag: this is a developer + * diagnostic for the Phase B retrospective, not a user feature. + * + *

Designed to live one-instance-per-JVM since each {@code java -jar + * MSGFPlus.jar} invocation is its own process. Tests should call + * {@link #reset()} between cases. + */ +public final class PhaseBTelemetry { + + static final String SYSTEM_PROPERTY = "msgfplus.phaseBTelemetry"; + + private static final boolean ENABLED = + Boolean.parseBoolean(System.getProperty(SYSTEM_PROPERTY, "false")); + + private static final LongAdder pairingCalls = new LongAdder(); + private static final LongAdder matchedSpecKeys = new LongAdder(); + + private PhaseBTelemetry() {} + + public static boolean enabled() { + return ENABLED; + } + + /** Records one pairing call and the size of its result set. */ + public static void recordPairing(int matched) { + pairingCalls.increment(); + matchedSpecKeys.add(matched); + } + + public static long getPairingCalls() { + return pairingCalls.sum(); + } + + public static long getMatchedSpecKeys() { + return matchedSpecKeys.sum(); + } + + /** Mean matched SpecKeys per pairing call, or 0.0 if no calls recorded. */ + public static double meanMatchedPerCall() { + long calls = pairingCalls.sum(); + if (calls == 0) return 0.0; + return (double) matchedSpecKeys.sum() / calls; + } + + /** Tests should call this between cases since the counters are static. */ + public static void reset() { + pairingCalls.reset(); + matchedSpecKeys.reset(); + } +} diff --git a/src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestPhaseBTelemetry.java b/src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestPhaseBTelemetry.java new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e735b611 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestPhaseBTelemetry.java @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +package edu.ucsd.msjava.msdbsearch; + +import org.junit.Before; +import org.junit.Test; + +import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals; +import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue; + +public class TestPhaseBTelemetry { + + @Before + public void resetCounters() { + PhaseBTelemetry.reset(); + } + + @Test + public void countsPairingCallsAndMatchedKeys() { + PhaseBTelemetry.recordPairing(3); + PhaseBTelemetry.recordPairing(5); + PhaseBTelemetry.recordPairing(0); // zero-matched calls still count + + assertEquals(3L, PhaseBTelemetry.getPairingCalls()); + assertEquals(8L, PhaseBTelemetry.getMatchedSpecKeys()); + assertEquals(8.0 / 3.0, PhaseBTelemetry.meanMatchedPerCall(), 1e-9); + } + + @Test + public void meanIsZeroWhenNoCallsRecorded() { + assertEquals(0.0, PhaseBTelemetry.meanMatchedPerCall(), 0.0); + } + + @Test + public void resetClearsCounters() { + PhaseBTelemetry.recordPairing(7); + PhaseBTelemetry.reset(); + + assertEquals(0L, PhaseBTelemetry.getPairingCalls()); + assertEquals(0L, PhaseBTelemetry.getMatchedSpecKeys()); + assertEquals(0.0, PhaseBTelemetry.meanMatchedPerCall(), 0.0); + } + + @Test + public void countersAreThreadSafe() throws InterruptedException { + final int threads = 8; + final int perThread = 10_000; + Thread[] workers = new Thread[threads]; + for (int i = 0; i < threads; i++) { + workers[i] = new Thread(() -> { + for (int j = 0; j < perThread; j++) { + PhaseBTelemetry.recordPairing(2); + } + }); + } + for (Thread w : workers) w.start(); + for (Thread w : workers) w.join(); + + assertEquals((long) threads * perThread, PhaseBTelemetry.getPairingCalls()); + assertEquals((long) threads * perThread * 2, PhaseBTelemetry.getMatchedSpecKeys()); + } + + @Test + public void enabledIsControlledBySystemProperty() { + // The static ENABLED is captured at class-load time. We can't reliably + // toggle it after the fact in a single JVM, but we can at least verify + // the contract: when the property is unset (the test default), the + // method returns false. This is the no-op invariant the recordPairing + // call site relies on for OFF-mode bit-identical behaviour. + assertEquals("PhaseBTelemetry should be disabled when -Dmsgfplus.phaseBTelemetry is unset", + Boolean.parseBoolean(System.getProperty(PhaseBTelemetry.SYSTEM_PROPERTY, "false")), + PhaseBTelemetry.enabled()); + // Sanity: the SYSTEM_PROPERTY constant is the documented name. + assertEquals("msgfplus.phaseBTelemetry", PhaseBTelemetry.SYSTEM_PROPERTY); + // Sanity: after enabling, recordPairing still works (purely additive). + PhaseBTelemetry.recordPairing(1); + assertTrue(PhaseBTelemetry.getPairingCalls() >= 1); + } +} diff --git a/src/test/java/msgfplus/TestMassCalibrator.java b/src/test/java/msgfplus/TestMassCalibrator.java index 8e779226..04be4709 100644 --- a/src/test/java/msgfplus/TestMassCalibrator.java +++ b/src/test/java/msgfplus/TestMassCalibrator.java @@ -69,6 +69,55 @@ public void medianSingleElement() { 1e-12); } + @Test + public void medianAbsoluteDeviationUsesProvidedCenter() { + List values = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList(1.0, 2.0, 4.0, 7.0)); + // Deviations from center=3 are [2,1,1,4] -> sorted [1,1,2,4] -> median 1.5 + Assert.assertEquals(1.5, + MassCalibrator.medianAbsoluteDeviationForTests(values, 3.0), + 1e-12); + } + + @Test + public void robustSigmaPpmScalesMad() { + List residuals = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList(9.0, 10.0, 11.0)); + // center=10, MAD=1 -> robust sigma = 1.4826 + Assert.assertEquals(1.4826, + MassCalibrator.robustSigmaPpmForTests(residuals, 10.0), + 1e-6); + } + + @Test + public void tightenedTolerancePpmRespectsUserUpperBound() { + float tightened = MassCalibrator.tightenedTolerancePpmForTests( + 10.0f, 0.2, 3.0f, 2.0f, 0.5f); + // k*sigma + margin = 1.1, floor dominates -> 2.0 ppm + Assert.assertEquals(2.0f, tightened, 1e-6f); + } + + @Test + public void tightenedTolerancePpmDoesNotExpandAlreadyTightWindow() { + float tightened = MassCalibrator.tightenedTolerancePpmForTests( + 1.5f, 0.2, 3.0f, 2.0f, 0.5f); + Assert.assertEquals(1.5f, tightened, 1e-6f); + } + + @Test + public void tightenedTolerancePpmTracksRobustSigmaWhenLargerThanFloor() { + float tightened = MassCalibrator.tightenedTolerancePpmForTests( + 12.0f, 1.0, 3.0f, 2.0f, 0.5f); + Assert.assertEquals(3.5f, tightened, 1e-6f); + } + + @Test + public void calibrationStatsCanBeReliableWithZeroShift() { + MassCalibrator.CalibrationStats stats = new MassCalibrator.CalibrationStats(0.0, 0.8, 250); + Assert.assertTrue(stats.hasReliableStats()); + Assert.assertEquals(0.0, stats.getShiftPpm(), 0.0); + Assert.assertEquals(0.8, stats.getRobustSigmaPpm(), 1e-12); + Assert.assertEquals(250, stats.getConfidentPsmCount()); + } + // ---- residualPpm() sign convention ---------------------------------- @Test From 05ec0661af4347daef1efa6611eb265192d33a18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:50:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 09/26] fix(calibrator): isolate pre-pass at iso=[0,0] + outlier-filter residuals MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Two bugs in MassCalibrator surfaced under Phase B telemetry: 1. The pre-pass propagated the user's -ti window (e.g. -1,2 on Astral) to the pre-pass DBScanner. Spectra whose precursor was selected as the M+1 or M+2 isotope produced 500-1000 ppm "residuals" (the 1.003 Da isotope shift on a 2 kDa peptide). These contaminated the median + MAD aggregation. Astral measured sigma=1166 ppm — useless for any tightening decision. Fix: hard-code the pre-pass to iso=[0,0]. The pre-pass exists to LEARN the shift, not to find every match; clean monoisotopic matches are what makes the residual distribution meaningful. 2. As belt-and-suspenders, residuals beyond +/-50 ppm are now rejected in extractResiduals(). Any modern instrument's true mass accuracy is well under 50 ppm; values above are almost always isotope-shift or charge-state mistakes. New constant MAX_REASONABLE_RESIDUAL_PPM=50. Drop the now-unused minIsotopeError / maxIsotopeError fields and constructor parameters from MassCalibrator. The single caller (MSGFPlus.runMSGFPlus) is updated. Verified on remote pride-linux-vm.ebi.ac.uk (Astral ProteoBench Module 8): Before fix: Precursor mass shift 1.398 ppm from 371 PSMs (sigma 1166 ppm) After fix: Precursor mass shift 0.978 ppm from 393 PSMs (sigma 3.987 ppm) The shift values are similar; the sigma is the dramatic signal that the residual distribution is now clean. 0.978 ppm is the typical Astral instrument bias; 3.987 ppm is the true post-calibration spread (still wider than expected; might reflect long-peptide tail). OFF-mode (precursorCal=off) is bit-identical to dev-tip on three back-to-back Astral runs (548/560/551s wall, all 89479/46792 native counts). 32/32 scoped tests pass (TestMassCalibrator, TestPhaseBTelemetry, TestPrecursorCalScaffolding). NOTE: this commit only fixes the calibrator's correctness. Phase B tightening still does not fire on Astral because the tightening formula k=3 * sigma + margin = 12.46 ppm exceeds the 10 ppm user window. Tuning k or rethinking the formula is a separate decision; see retrospective for the next-iteration discussion. --- .../java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java | 2 - .../msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java | 42 ++++++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java index 78408a96..a7b3823e 100644 --- a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java +++ b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java @@ -369,8 +369,6 @@ private static String runMSGFPlus(int ioIndex, SpecFileFormat specFormat, File o specKeyList, leftPrecursorMassTolerance, rightPrecursorMassTolerance, - minIsotopeError, - maxIsotopeError, specDataType); calibrationStats = calibrator.learnCalibrationStats(ioIndex); double shiftPpm = calibrationStats.getShiftPpm(); diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java index 56e934fc..86db8c7e 100644 --- a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java +++ b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java @@ -43,6 +43,17 @@ public class MassCalibrator { public static final float DEFAULT_TIGHTENED_WINDOW_SIGMA_MULTIPLIER = 3.0f; /** Gaussian-equivalent scale factor for MAD. */ private static final double MAD_TO_SIGMA_SCALE = 1.4826; + /** + * Reject residuals whose magnitude exceeds this threshold. A genuine mass-accuracy + * residual on any modern instrument is well under 50 ppm; values above this almost + * always come from isotope-error matches (e.g. M+1 isotope at +1.003 Da on a 2 kDa + * peptide = ~500 ppm residual) admitted by a wide {@code -ti} window. Filtering + * before computing median + MAD prevents these outliers from contaminating the + * robust spread estimate. Empirically the residual distribution drops off well + * before this floor; isotope-shift contamination clusters near integer multiples + * of (1.003 / mass) ppm. + */ + static final double MAX_REASONABLE_RESIDUAL_PPM = 50.0; /** Sample every Nth SpecKey. Cap total sampled keys at {@link #MAX_SAMPLED}. */ private static final int SAMPLING_STRIDE = 10; @@ -71,8 +82,6 @@ public class MassCalibrator { private final List specKeyList; private final Tolerance leftPrecursorMassTolerance; private final Tolerance rightPrecursorMassTolerance; - private final int minIsotopeError; - private final int maxIsotopeError; private final SpecDataType specDataType; /** Immutable summary of the sampled calibration residuals for one file. */ @@ -114,9 +123,12 @@ public boolean hasReliableStats() { * {@value #MAX_SAMPLED}. * @param leftPrecursorMassTolerance main-pass left tolerance (reused for the pre-pass) * @param rightPrecursorMassTolerance main-pass right tolerance (reused for the pre-pass) - * @param minIsotopeError main-pass min isotope error - * @param maxIsotopeError main-pass max isotope error * @param specDataType scoring metadata (activation, instrument, enzyme, protocol) + * + * Note: the user's {@code -ti} isotope-error window is intentionally NOT + * propagated to the pre-pass. The pre-pass is fixed to isotope error 0 to + * prevent isotope-shift contamination of the residual distribution. + * See {@link #collectResiduals(int)}. */ public MassCalibrator( SpectraAccessor specAcc, @@ -126,8 +138,6 @@ public MassCalibrator( List specKeyList, Tolerance leftPrecursorMassTolerance, Tolerance rightPrecursorMassTolerance, - int minIsotopeError, - int maxIsotopeError, SpecDataType specDataType ) { this.specAcc = specAcc; @@ -137,8 +147,6 @@ public MassCalibrator( this.specKeyList = specKeyList; this.leftPrecursorMassTolerance = leftPrecursorMassTolerance; this.rightPrecursorMassTolerance = rightPrecursorMassTolerance; - this.minIsotopeError = minIsotopeError; - this.maxIsotopeError = maxIsotopeError; this.specDataType = specDataType; } @@ -192,6 +200,12 @@ List collectResiduals(int ioIndex) { return Collections.emptyList(); } + // Force isotope error to 0 for the pre-pass: residuals are only meaningful + // when the matched peptide's monoisotopic mass equals the observed precursor's + // monoisotopic mass. With the user's wider -ti window (e.g. -1,2 on Astral), + // PSMs whose precursor is the M+1 or M+2 isotope inject ~500 / ~1000 ppm + // residuals into the pre-pass, contaminating median + MAD. Restricting the + // pre-pass to isotope error 0 keeps the residual distribution clean. // numPeptidesPerSpec = 1 keeps the pre-pass tiny and fast. precursorMassShiftPpm = 0.0 // because the whole point of the pre-pass is to LEARN the shift. ScoredSpectraMap prePassMap = new ScoredSpectraMap( @@ -199,8 +213,8 @@ List collectResiduals(int ioIndex) { sampled, leftPrecursorMassTolerance, rightPrecursorMassTolerance, - minIsotopeError, - maxIsotopeError, + 0, // pre-pass minIsotopeError (overrides user's -ti to keep residuals clean) + 0, // pre-pass maxIsotopeError specDataType, false, // storeRankScorer not needed for pre-pass false @@ -281,7 +295,13 @@ private List extractResiduals( if (theoreticalPeptideMass <= 0) { continue; } - residuals.add(residualPpm(observedPeptideMass, theoreticalPeptideMass)); + double residual = residualPpm(observedPeptideMass, theoreticalPeptideMass); + // Reject isotope-error contamination before robust-stats aggregation. + // See MAX_REASONABLE_RESIDUAL_PPM doc. + if (Math.abs(residual) > MAX_REASONABLE_RESIDUAL_PPM) { + continue; + } + residuals.add(residual); } return residuals; } From 7c027f8e202f8137c954c5f408bd4eed519b2c88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:32:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 10/26] feat(phase-b): expose tightening formula constants as system properties Phase B's tightening formula min(userPpm, max(floorPpm, k*sigma + marginPpm)) previously used hard-coded MassCalibrator.DEFAULT_TIGHTENED_WINDOW_* constants (k=3, floor=2 ppm, margin=0.5 ppm). Surface them as system properties so falsification sweeps can vary k without recompiling: -Dmsgfplus.tighteningSigmaMultiplier= (default 3.0) -Dmsgfplus.tighteningFloorPpm= (default 2.0) -Dmsgfplus.tighteningMarginPpm= (default 0.5) Defaults unchanged; OFF-mode and PrecursorCal=AUTO production behaviour is bit-identical when no override is set. Verified on remote pride-linux-vm.ebi.ac.uk Astral ProteoBench Module 8 with the new -Dmsgfplus.tighteningSigmaMultiplier=2 override: | Run | Wall | Targets | Decoys | mean_per_call | |--------------------|-------|---------|--------|---------------| | OFF (baseline) | 538s | 89479 | 46792 | 0.77 | | AUTO @ k=2 rep1 | 537s | 89453 | 46685 | 0.63 | | AUTO @ k=2 rep2 | 531s | 89453 | 46685 | 0.63 | Tightening fires for the first time on Astral (10.000 ppm -> 8.474 ppm). Pairing fan-out drops 18% (mean_per_call 0.77 -> 0.63). matched_speckeys drops 15.4%. Native counts shift slightly (-26 targets, -107 decoys = -0.03% / -0.23%, within noise). Wall delta: 0 +/- 2% (within machine noise floor of three OFF replicates 538/560/551). Conclusion: Phase B's cheap-score-pairing reduction does NOT translate to Astral wall savings. The bottleneck is downstream of pairing (GF / scoring). Phase B remains a valid lever for workloads where calibrated sigma is small relative to user tolerance (typical of older / drifted instruments) but is not the next Astral wall lever. Next step: stratification analysis (Plan B) to determine whether a cleaner subset of Astral pre-pass PSMs has materially tighter sigma. If yes -> calibrator quality improves for workloads where Phase B DOES pay off, even if Astral itself doesn't benefit. If no -> Phase B is at its theoretical ceiling. --- .../java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java | 22 ++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java index a7b3823e..887e450a 100644 --- a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java +++ b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java @@ -395,18 +395,28 @@ private static String runMSGFPlus(int ioIndex, SpecFileFormat specFormat, File o && calibrationStats.hasReliableStats() && leftPrecursorMassTolerance.isTolerancePPM() && rightPrecursorMassTolerance.isTolerancePPM()) { + // Tightening formula constants are configurable via system properties for + // falsification sweeps (e.g. -Dmsgfplus.tighteningSigmaMultiplier=2 to test + // whether a 2-sigma envelope buys real wall improvement on Astral). Defaults + // match MassCalibrator.DEFAULT_TIGHTENED_WINDOW_*. Production OFF-mode + // semantics are unchanged. + float sigmaMultiplier = Float.parseFloat(System.getProperty( + "msgfplus.tighteningSigmaMultiplier", + String.valueOf(MassCalibrator.DEFAULT_TIGHTENED_WINDOW_SIGMA_MULTIPLIER))); + float floorPpm = Float.parseFloat(System.getProperty( + "msgfplus.tighteningFloorPpm", + String.valueOf(MassCalibrator.DEFAULT_TIGHTENED_WINDOW_FLOOR_PPM))); + float marginPpm = Float.parseFloat(System.getProperty( + "msgfplus.tighteningMarginPpm", + String.valueOf(MassCalibrator.DEFAULT_TIGHTENED_WINDOW_MARGIN_PPM))); float tightenedLeftPpm = MassCalibrator.tightenedTolerancePpm( leftPrecursorMassTolerance.getValue(), calibrationStats.getRobustSigmaPpm(), - MassCalibrator.DEFAULT_TIGHTENED_WINDOW_SIGMA_MULTIPLIER, - MassCalibrator.DEFAULT_TIGHTENED_WINDOW_FLOOR_PPM, - MassCalibrator.DEFAULT_TIGHTENED_WINDOW_MARGIN_PPM); + sigmaMultiplier, floorPpm, marginPpm); float tightenedRightPpm = MassCalibrator.tightenedTolerancePpm( rightPrecursorMassTolerance.getValue(), calibrationStats.getRobustSigmaPpm(), - MassCalibrator.DEFAULT_TIGHTENED_WINDOW_SIGMA_MULTIPLIER, - MassCalibrator.DEFAULT_TIGHTENED_WINDOW_FLOOR_PPM, - MassCalibrator.DEFAULT_TIGHTENED_WINDOW_MARGIN_PPM); + sigmaMultiplier, floorPpm, marginPpm); boolean tightened = tightenedLeftPpm < leftPrecursorMassTolerance.getValue() || tightenedRightPpm < rightPrecursorMassTolerance.getValue(); if (tightened) { From aac389c00b304164458f8fb0ee8d210d456e5e30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:48:00 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 11/26] feat(calibrator): stratify residuals by spec_eValue, keep top MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Plan B (post-falsification): the previous calibrator returned all 393 SpecEValue<=1e-6 PSMs to the median+MAD aggregator. Per-PSM stratification analysis (using the calibrationDebugTsv emitter) on Astral revealed: Stratum | n | sigma (ppm) -----------------------------|-----|------------ All confident PSMs | 393 | 3.987 Charge=2 only | 355 | 2.923 Mass < 1 kDa | 289 | 2.470 TOP 50% by spec_eValue | 196 | 0.951 TOP 200 by spec_eValue | 200 | 0.994 The "best half by spec_eValue" axis is the dominant explanatory variable — 4x tighter sigma. The worst-half PSMs (eValue near the 1e-6 threshold) contribute residual scatter, not real instrument-bias signal. Fix: extractResiduals now collects (residual, spec_eValue) pairs, sorts by spec_eValue ascending (most confident first), and keeps the top MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS (200) for the median+MAD aggregation. The absolute-residual filter (|residual| > 50 ppm) stays as belt-and-suspenders. Astral measurement on remote pride-linux-vm.ebi.ac.uk (5 OFF replicates + 3 stratified-AUTO replicates): Run | Wall | Sigma | Window | Targets | Decoys | T/D ----------------------|-------|-----------|----------------|---------|--------|------ OFF baseline (median) | 551 s | - | 10 ppm | 89479 | 46792 | 1.91 AUTO stratified | 494 s | 0.994 ppm | 10 -> 3.48 ppm | 89580 | 45292 | 1.98 Median wall: -10.4% (gate was >=10%, hit) Targets: +101 (+0.11%, NOT a regression) Decoys: -1500 (-3.2%, FDR-favorable) T/D ratio: +3.6% (the tighter window rejects more decoys than targets) Reproducibility: 3 stratified reps bit-identical on native counts; wall variance +/-1.2% across reps. Phase B is now demonstrably alive on Astral when the calibrator's residual subset is clean. The previous "Phase B does nothing on Astral" finding was a calibrator-quality issue, not a Phase B logic issue. Also keeps the calibration-debug-TSV emitter (-Dmsgfplus.calibrationDebugTsv=) committed for future stratification work on other workloads. 32/32 scoped tests pass. --- .../msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java | 45 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java index 86db8c7e..3aa030cf 100644 --- a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java +++ b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java @@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ public class MassCalibrator { * of (1.003 / mass) ppm. */ static final double MAX_REASONABLE_RESIDUAL_PPM = 50.0; + /** When set, write a per-PSM diagnostic TSV (residual, charge, peptide mass / length / sequence, + * spec-eValue) for offline stratification analysis. Empty / unset = no emission. */ + static final String DEBUG_TSV_PROPERTY = "msgfplus.calibrationDebugTsv"; /** Sample every Nth SpecKey. Cap total sampled keys at {@link #MAX_SAMPLED}. */ private static final int SAMPLING_STRIDE = 10; @@ -261,6 +264,28 @@ private List extractResiduals( return residuals; } + // Optional per-PSM debug TSV for offline stratification analysis. + // Emitted only when -Dmsgfplus.calibrationDebugTsv= is set. + String debugPath = System.getProperty(DEBUG_TSV_PROPERTY); + java.io.PrintWriter debug = null; + if (debugPath != null && !debugPath.isEmpty()) { + try { + debug = new java.io.PrintWriter(new java.io.BufferedWriter(new java.io.FileWriter(debugPath))); + debug.println("residual_ppm\tcharge\ttheo_peptide_mass\tpeptide_length\tspec_evalue\tpep_seq"); + } catch (java.io.IOException e) { + System.err.println("WARNING: calibration debug TSV write failed: " + e.getMessage()); + debug = null; + } + } + + // Collect (residual, eValue) pairs so we can keep the cleanest subset + // by spec_eValue. Stratification on a 393-PSM Astral pre-pass showed + // sigma drops 4x (3.99 -> 0.99 ppm) when restricted to the top-200 + // most confident PSMs. Worst-half PSMs add residual scatter without + // adding signal — they get filtered out post-collection. + List residualWithEval = new ArrayList<>(); + + try { for (Map.Entry> entry : specIndexDBMatchMap.entrySet()) { PriorityQueue queue = entry.getValue(); if (queue == null || queue.isEmpty()) { @@ -301,7 +326,25 @@ private List extractResiduals( if (Math.abs(residual) > MAX_REASONABLE_RESIDUAL_PPM) { continue; } - residuals.add(residual); + residualWithEval.add(new double[]{residual, top.getSpecEValue()}); + if (debug != null) { + debug.printf("%.4f\t%d\t%.4f\t%d\t%.3e\t%s%n", + residual, charge, theoreticalPeptideMass, top.getLength(), + top.getSpecEValue(), top.getPepSeq() == null ? "" : top.getPepSeq()); + } + } + } finally { + if (debug != null) debug.close(); + } + + // Keep the top MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS by spec_eValue (lowest eValue = + // most confident). On Astral this drops sigma from ~4 ppm to ~1 ppm + // because the worst-half PSMs (eValue near the 1e-6 threshold) are + // dominated by residual scatter, not real instrument bias. + residualWithEval.sort((a, b) -> Double.compare(a[1], b[1])); + int keepN = Math.min(residualWithEval.size(), MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS); + for (int i = 0; i < keepN; i++) { + residuals.add(residualWithEval.get(i)[0]); } return residuals; } From f1a6e6281e794e3caed523e16f3f4ea49dd0737a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:49:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 12/26] docs(plans): record Phase B Astral win after stratification fix Phase B with the stratified calibrator (top-200 by spec_eValue) delivers -10.4% Astral wall (median 551 -> 494s across 5 OFF + 3 AUTO reps), +0.11% targets, -3.2% decoys, T/D ratio 1.91 -> 1.98 (sensitivity- favorable). Plan section 4 annotated; SHIPPED.md "Active" section documents the win + the four enabling commits (telemetry, calibrator iso=0, configurable formula constants, stratification). --- .claude/plans/astral-next-experiments.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/.claude/plans/astral-next-experiments.md b/.claude/plans/astral-next-experiments.md index 3181db00..4bd88ebb 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/astral-next-experiments.md +++ b/.claude/plans/astral-next-experiments.md @@ -1,9 +1,11 @@ # Astral Next Experiments — Post-Retrospective Action Plan -**Status:** Active working plan +**Status:** Active working plan — Experiment 1 (Phase B) NOW WORKING after stratification fix **Date:** 2026-04-29 **Purpose:** define the next experiments that are still justified after the Phase A and Phase E failures +> **Update (2026-04-29 13:30): Phase B is alive on Astral.** After the calibrator iso=0 fix (`05ec066`), the configurable formula constants (`7c027f8`), and the spec_eValue stratification (`aac389c`), the AUTO-mode stratified calibrator delivers **−10.4 % Astral wall** (median 551 → 494 s across 5 OFF + 3 AUTO replicates), with **+0.11 % targets** and **−3.2 % decoys** (T/D ratio 1.91 → 1.98 — sensitivity-favorable, not a regression). Tightening fires aggressively: 10 ppm → 3.48 ppm. mean_per_call: 0.77 → 0.26 (−66 % fan-out). All 3 stratified-AUTO reps are bit-identical on native counts; wall variance ±1.2 % across reps. The previous "Phase B doesn't move Astral wall" finding was correct *for the unstratified calibrator* — once sigma is genuinely 1 ppm (not 4 ppm), the formula's `3·σ + 0.5` envelope fits well inside the 10 ppm Astral window and the cheap-score reduction is large enough to translate to wall. + ## 1. What changed Two earlier ideas have now been materially de-risked in the wrong direction: From 8070e790c5cb7fdc74aa03070759bacda5ea9da3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:51:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 13/26] docs(plans): SHIPPED.md Active section reflects Phase B win The previous SHIPPED.md still listed astral-speed-improvements.md as the Active doc; that file was deleted during a prior reset. Replace with the actual Active state: Phase B shipped with 4 enabling commits on feat/astral-speed-improvements, the Astral measurement table, and pointers to next-experiments.md and astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md. --- .claude/plans/SHIPPED.md | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md b/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md index c550ff74..e5d04fd9 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md +++ b/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md @@ -32,4 +32,25 @@ Output is `.pin` only (mzIdentML removed). Sensitivity leads Sage at 1 % FDR on ## Active -- [`astral-speed-improvements.md`](astral-speed-improvements.md) — gate B (1.3-1.5× Astral wall, no PSM regression). TMT-as-inner-loop, Astral-as-phase-gate. +**Phase B (calibrated precursor-window tightening) — shipped on `feat/astral-speed-improvements` 2026-04-29.** Four enabling commits: + +- `781738e` opt-in `PhaseBTelemetry` counter (pairing fan-out verification via `-Dmsgfplus.phaseBTelemetry=true`) +- `05ec066` calibrator pre-pass uses iso=[0,0] (rejects isotope-error contamination); +50 ppm outlier filter +- `7c027f8` Phase B formula constants exposed as system properties (`-Dmsgfplus.tighteningSigmaMultiplier=` etc.) +- `aac389c` stratify residuals by spec_eValue, keep top MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS — drops Astral sigma 4× (3.99 → 0.99 ppm) + +Astral measurements on `pride-linux-vm.ebi.ac.uk` (5 OFF + 3 AUTO replicates): + +| Metric | OFF (median) | AUTO stratified | +|---|---:|---:| +| Wall | 551 s | **494 s (−10.4 %)** | +| Tightening | — | 10 ppm → 3.48 ppm | +| mean_per_call | 0.77 | 0.26 (−66 %) | +| Native targets | 89 479 | 89 580 (+0.11 %) | +| Native decoys | 46 792 | 45 292 (−3.2 %) | +| T/D ratio | 1.91 | 1.98 (sensitivity-favorable) | + +OFF-mode (`-precursorCal off`) is bit-identical to dev-tip. Tunable per-workload via `-Dmsgfplus.tighteningSigmaMultiplier=` (default 3.0; k=2 was tested as falsification before stratification fix). + +- [`astral-next-experiments.md`](astral-next-experiments.md) — Phase B status notes; Experiment 2 (mass-interval pruning) still untried. +- [`astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md`](astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md) — long-horizon roadmap; Phase B now shipped. From d85399bde81ae1b5a0b981c808df4c6820a0a467 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:55:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 14/26] docs(plans): three-dataset Phase B validation table in SHIPPED.md Replace Astral-only result table with three-dataset comparison after remote validation on TMT (PXD007683 Lumos) and PXD001819 (Velos): Workload | Window | Sigma | Tightened | Wall | Targets | T/D ----------|--------|--------|--------------|--------|---------|------ Astral | 10 ppm | 0.99 | -> 3.48 ppm | -10.4% | +0.11% | +3.6% TMT | 20 ppm | 2.05 | -> 6.67 ppm | -18.0% | -2.05% | +1.3% PXD001819 | 5 ppm | 2.15 | no-tighten | ~0% | +0.17% | +0.5% Pattern: Phase B wins when calibrated sigma is materially smaller than user window (Astral, TMT); safely no-ops when sigma is comparable to window (PXD001819). TMT -2.05% target drift is a known yellow flag for broader rollout; mitigations (instrument-aware k, stricter stratification) noted in the doc but out of scope for this commit. --- .claude/plans/SHIPPED.md | 15 +++++++-------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md b/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md index e5d04fd9..77f0f36b 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md +++ b/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md @@ -41,14 +41,13 @@ Output is `.pin` only (mzIdentML removed). Sensitivity leads Sage at 1 % FDR on Astral measurements on `pride-linux-vm.ebi.ac.uk` (5 OFF + 3 AUTO replicates): -| Metric | OFF (median) | AUTO stratified | -|---|---:|---:| -| Wall | 551 s | **494 s (−10.4 %)** | -| Tightening | — | 10 ppm → 3.48 ppm | -| mean_per_call | 0.77 | 0.26 (−66 %) | -| Native targets | 89 479 | 89 580 (+0.11 %) | -| Native decoys | 46 792 | 45 292 (−3.2 %) | -| T/D ratio | 1.91 | 1.98 (sensitivity-favorable) | +| Workload | Window | Sigma | Tightened | Wall Δ | Targets Δ | T/D Δ | +|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:| +| **Astral** (ProteoBench Module 8) | 10 ppm | 0.99 ppm | → 3.48 ppm | **−10.4 %** | +0.11 % | +3.6 % ✓ | +| **TMT** (PXD007683, Lumos) | 20 ppm | 2.05 ppm | → 6.67 ppm | **−18.0 %** | −2.05 % ⚠ | +1.3 % ✓ | +| **PXD001819** (Velos) | 5 ppm | 2.15 ppm | safely no-tighten | ~0 % | +0.17 % | +0.5 % ✓ | + +Pattern: Phase B wins when calibrated sigma is materially smaller than the user's precursor window; safely no-ops otherwise. TMT's −2.05 % target drift is a known yellow flag — Lumos's wider residual tails are not fully covered by 3-σ. Mitigations for Phase B's broader rollout: instrument-aware k (e.g., k=4 for Lumos) or stricter stratification (top-100 by spec_eValue). T/D ratio still favors target on all three workloads. OFF-mode (`-precursorCal off`) is bit-identical to dev-tip. Tunable per-workload via `-Dmsgfplus.tighteningSigmaMultiplier=` (default 3.0; k=2 was tested as falsification before stratification fix). From 957a6e90f172c843243b24c69d0414fd01984727 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:01:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 15/26] =?UTF-8?q?docs(plans):=20Experiment=202=20design=20?= =?UTF-8?q?=E2=80=94=20exact=20prefix=20mass-interval=20pruning?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit After Phase B's three-dataset validation (Astral -10.4%, TMT -18.0%, PXD001819 safe no-op), the next-experiments plan §5 calls for exact prefix mass-interval pruning. This commit writes the design before any code change so the implementation has a clear contract: - Hook: between addResidue (extends prefix) and the variant-mass-fetch loop in DBScanner.dbSearch (around line 412) - Bound: [prefixMinMass + R_min * minAaMass, prefixMaxMass + R_max * (maxAaMass + maxResidueModMass) + maxFixedTermModMass] - Intersection test: pepMassSpecKeyMap.subMap(...) widened by max precursor tolerance; if empty, branch is dead -> break - Telemetry-first: implement prune-counter only at Checkpoint 1, run on Astral, decide based on prune rate before adding the break - Exact-by-construction: no recall risk, only bookkeeping-vs-savings trade-off Acceptance: prune rate >=5%, Astral wall -5% vs Phase B baseline, native counts bit-identical. Kill: prune rate <1%, or wall flat despite pruning, or correctness drift. Composes with Phase B (commit aac389c): Phase B reduced matched_speckeys per pairing call; Experiment 2 reduces the number of pairing calls. Different attack surfaces; should stack. --- .../experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md | 135 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 135 insertions(+) create mode 100644 .claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md diff --git a/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md b/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e4daba6d --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md @@ -0,0 +1,135 @@ +# Experiment 2 — Exact Prefix Mass-Interval Pruning + +**Status:** Design draft, not yet implemented +**Date:** 2026-04-29 +**Context:** Phase B (commits `aac389c` and earlier) shipped −10.4 % Astral wall via calibrated precursor-window tightening. Plan §5 names this as the natural next attack — exact-by-construction pruning that attacks SA-walk fan-out *before* Phase B's pairing fan-out reduction kicks in. The two compose: Phase B reduces matched_speckeys per pairing call; Experiment 2 reduces the number of pairing calls. + +## 1. Goal + +For a partial peptide prefix of length `L` (currently being extended by `DBScanner.dbSearch`), compute the interval `[minMass, maxMass]` of all final-peptide masses reachable by extending this prefix. If the interval cannot intersect any spectrum's precursor-mass window, the entire branch is dead — stop extending. + +Exact by construction: the bound is the actual reachable interval, not a heuristic upper score bound. No recall risk. Skips peptide variants that would produce zero matches. + +## 2. Where the code lives + +The SA walk happens inside `DBScanner.dbSearch(...)` ([src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java:189](../../src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java)). The relevant inner loop is around lines 370–490: + +```java +// Loop iterates over residues in the SA walk +for (...) { + // 1. Extend prefix by one residue: + candidatePepGrid.addResidue(peptideLengthIndex, residue); // line 389 + + if (peptideLengthIndex < minPeptideLength) continue; // line 412 + + // 2. For each variant in the grid, look up matching SpecKeys: + for (int j = 0; j < candidatePepGrid.size(); j++) { + float theoPeptideMass = candidatePepGrid.getPeptideMass(j); // line 466 + // ... compute tolerance window, subMap query, cheap-score loop + // (PhaseBTelemetry.recordPairing(matchedSpecKeyList.size()) hook here) + } +} +``` + +The pruning hook goes **between extending the prefix and entering the variant loop** — i.e., right after `addResidue` succeeds and before line 412's `continue` / line 466's variant loop. + +## 3. Bound construction + +For a prefix of length `L` with current variant masses `{m_1, ..., m_k}` (one per modification variant in the grid): + +``` +prefixMinMass = min(m_i) +prefixMaxMass = max(m_i) +``` + +Remaining residues can be at most `R_max = maxPeptideLength - L` and at least `R_min = max(0, minPeptideLength - L)`. Each remaining residue adds an amino-acid mass; with modifications, the maximum addition per residue is `maxAaMass + maxModMass` and the minimum is `minAaMass`. + +``` +reachableMin = prefixMinMass + R_min * minAaMass +reachableMax = prefixMaxMass + R_max * (maxAaMass + maxResidueModMass) + maxFixedTermModMass +``` + +Two simplifications keep the bound construction cheap: + +1. Cache `minAaMass`, `maxAaMass`, `maxResidueModMass`, `maxFixedTermModMass` as fields of `DBScanner` at construction time (once per task). +2. If the grid maintains `getMinPeptideMass()` / `getMaxPeptideMass()` accessors that scan the variants array, that's `O(numVariants)` per call (~tens of variants). Pre-cached if hot. + +## 4. Intersection test with spectrum windows + +`specScanner.getPepMassSpecKeyMap()` is a `TreeMap` keyed on peptide mass. Each spectrum has tolerance windows `[leftThr, rightThr]` around its precursor peptide mass. + +For the pruning test we need: *"does any spectrum's window touch the reachable interval `[reachableMin, reachableMax]`?"* + +Two equivalent formulations: +- **Per-spectrum view**: for each SpecKey with peptide mass `p`, its window is `[p - tolDaLeft(p), p + tolDaRight(p)]`. Branch is alive iff `[reachableMin, reachableMax] ∩ [p - tolDaLeft(p), p + tolDaRight(p)] ≠ ∅` for some SpecKey. +- **Aggregate view**: precompute the *expanded* TreeMap key = `p` (unchanged) but query with widened bounds: `pepMassSpecKeyMap.subMap(reachableMin - maxToleranceDa, reachableMax + maxToleranceDa)`. If empty, branch is dead. + +The aggregate view is `O(log N)` in TreeMap size; the per-spectrum view would be `O(N)`. Use aggregate. + +`maxToleranceDa` can be precomputed at task start using the post-Phase-B effective tolerance and the largest peptide mass we'd query at: `effectiveLeftPrecursorMassTolerance.getToleranceAsDa(maxPeptideMass)` plus the right-tolerance equivalent. + +## 5. Where the bound is most effective + +The pruning saves work proportional to how often it fires. Heuristic estimate: + +- Long-peptide branches: when `prefixMass` is already large and the remaining-residue reach can't bring it down enough to touch any spectrum. Bound is loose for short prefixes (lots of headroom) but tight for prefixes near `maxPeptideLength` where there's little room to add mass. +- Off-mass branches: when the prefix's accumulated mass is in a "gap" of the spectrum mass distribution. With Astral's ~50 K spectra spanning ~4 kDa, the spectrum mass distribution is dense; gaps narrow. + +**Decision:** instrument the prune rate via a counter (similar to `PhaseBTelemetry`) before optimizing. If pruning fires < 1 % of pairing-call sites, the bookkeeping cost wins. If it fires > 5 %, we have a real lever. + +## 6. Implementation checkpoints + +Bounded scope, in order: + +### Checkpoint 1 — instrument first + +Add `Experiment2Telemetry` (mirrors `PhaseBTelemetry`): +- `prefixesEvaluated` — how many prefix-extension steps reach the pruning hook +- `prefixesPruned` — how many were eliminated by the mass-interval test +- `pruneRatio` printed at end of search + +Implement WITHOUT actually pruning (just compute the bound, count would-be prunes). Run once on Astral with Phase B AUTO. Decide whether to proceed based on the rate. + +### Checkpoint 2 — minimal pruning + +If Checkpoint 1 shows ≥ 5 % prune rate, add the actual `break` statement in the SA walk when the bound test fails. Re-measure on Astral OFF + AUTO; verify no recall regression (target/decoy counts bit-identical to Phase B baseline). + +### Checkpoint 3 — sharpening + +Tighten the bound by: +- Per-residue mod-mass cap (some residues admit specific mods; the global `maxResidueModMass` overestimates) +- Cleavage-site constraints (if the next residue isn't cleavable for the enzyme, `R_min` floor rises) + +Only pursue if Checkpoint 2 shows wall improvement but the prune ratio is below the theoretical maximum. + +## 7. Acceptance / kill gates (from plan §5.6 / §5.7) + +**Acceptance:** +- Astral prune rate ≥ 5 % (Checkpoint 1 telemetry) +- Astral wall improves ≥ 5 % vs Phase B baseline (Checkpoint 2 wall) +- Native target counts bit-identical (exact-by-construction) + +**Kill:** +- Prune rate < 1 % (bookkeeping > savings) +- Or prune rate adequate but wall doesn't move (downstream still bottleneck) +- Or correctness drift (target/decoy counts differ from Phase B baseline) + +## 8. Files to touch + +- `src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java` — pruning hook in dbSearch loop; cached aa-mass bounds +- `src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/CandidatePeptideGrid.java` — `getMinPeptideMass()` / `getMaxPeptideMass()` if not already exposed +- `src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/CandidatePeptideGridConsideringMetCleavage.java` — same accessor in the Met-cleavage variant +- `src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/Experiment2Telemetry.java` (new) — `LongAdder` counters +- Tests: scoped unit + integration verifying OFF-mode bit-identical + +## 9. Why this is safe to ship as-designed + +The bound is **exact-by-construction**: a peptide whose final mass falls outside `[reachableMin, reachableMax]` cannot be the result of extending this prefix. This is mathematically certain, not a probabilistic argument. So the only failure mode is "bound is correct but bookkeeping cost > savings," which the Checkpoint 1 telemetry catches before any production code path changes. + +This is the property that makes Experiment 2 distinct from Phase A's deisotoping (which trades correctness for speed) and Phase B's tightening (which trades a small recall risk via 3-σ envelope for speed). Experiment 2 is purely a work-elimination optimization. + +## 10. Reference + +- Plan: [`astral-next-experiments.md`](astral-next-experiments.md) §5 +- Phase B (the lever this composes with): [`SHIPPED.md`](SHIPPED.md) +- Long-horizon roadmap: [`astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md`](astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md) From 4241fbba256348fb3a6243a0be7ee7cff470e4d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:50:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 16/26] feat(experiment-2): mass-interval pruning scaffold (off by default; Checkpoint 1+2 measured) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Plan-§5 exact prefix mass-interval pruning: at every SA-walk residue extension in DBScanner.dbSearch, compute the reachable final-peptide- mass interval and ask whether any spectrum window in pepMassSpecKeyMap can intersect it. If not, the branch is dead. The bound is exact by construction: reachableMin = prefixMinMass + R_min * minAaMassBound reachableMax = prefixMaxMass + R_max * maxAaMassBound where R_min / R_max are the residue counts implied by minPeptideLength / maxPeptideLength, and minAaMassBound / maxAaMassBound are cached from aaSet.getAllAminoAcidArr() at DBScanner construction (every aa+mod variant in the set, so any future residue's mass is bounded). Two opt-in flags: -Dmsgfplus.experiment2Telemetry=true -> count would-be prunes -Dmsgfplus.experiment2Pruning=true -> actually break out of SA walk Default OFF -> the bound is not computed, OFF-mode bit-identical to dev-tip. Enabled as a developer diagnostic, mirroring PhaseBTelemetry and -Dmsgfplus.useForkJoin patterns. Not exposed as CLI flags. Astral measurements on remote pride-linux-vm.ebi.ac.uk: Run | Wall | Targets | Decoys | E2 prune -----------------------------|-------|---------|--------|--------- Phase B baseline (3 reps) | 494s | 89580 | 45292 | n/a OFF baseline (5 reps median) | 551s | 89479 | 46792 | n/a phaseB + E2 telemetry only | 571s | 89580 | 45292 | 12.22% phaseB + E2 pruning ON | 549s | 89580* | 45292* | 1.84% OFF + E2 pruning ON | 611s | 89479* | 46792* | 1.76% (* = bit-identical to baseline -> exact-by-construction validated) Verdict per plan §7 acceptance gates: - Native target/decoy bit-identical: PASS (exact) - Astral prune rate >= 5%: PASS (12.22% Checkpoint 1, 1.84% with break) - Astral wall improves >= 5%: FAIL (regresses +11% in both Phase-B+E2-prune and OFF+E2-prune cases) The bookkeeping cost (~40 ns per prefix evaluation, ~1.4B evaluations on Astral = ~55s) exceeds the savings from skipping doomed branches. Pure cheap-score-loop savings are ~1-2s (the pruned pairings had zero matches anyway -- mean_per_call near zero for those). The +55s gap is the pure overhead. Checkpoint 3 path forward (left as follow-on, NOT in this commit): - Cache globalMinSpecMass / globalMaxSpecMass once per task; short-circuit the bound test for prefixes whose reachable interval falls outside the global range -> avoids the TreeMap.subMap call (~150ns) on most prefix evaluations. - Skip bound evaluation when peptideLengthIndex < minPeptideLength + N (N TBD); the prune-rate-by-length distribution would tell us where short-prefix evaluations are dead weight vs useful. - Avoid per-prefix grid scan for prefix min/max mass; cache incrementally as variants are added. Code stays in dev as opt-in scaffolding. Phase B remains the iteration's shippable Astral wall lever (-10.4% measured median). Files: - src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/Experiment2Telemetry.java (new) - src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java (cached aa-mass bounds + bound-test hook) - src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java (telemetry summary) - src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestExperiment2Telemetry.java (5 tests) --- .../java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java | 7 ++ .../edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java | 61 +++++++++++++ .../msdbsearch/Experiment2Telemetry.java | 86 +++++++++++++++++++ .../msdbsearch/TestExperiment2Telemetry.java | 70 +++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 224 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/Experiment2Telemetry.java create mode 100644 src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestExperiment2Telemetry.java diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java index 887e450a..fc226c8d 100644 --- a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java +++ b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java @@ -599,6 +599,13 @@ private static String runMSGFPlus(int ioIndex, SpecFileFormat specFormat, File o "[Phase B telemetry] pairing_calls=%d matched_speckeys=%d mean_per_call=%.2f%n", calls, matched, PhaseBTelemetry.meanMatchedPerCall()); } + if (Experiment2Telemetry.enabled()) { + long evaluated = Experiment2Telemetry.getPrefixesEvaluated(); + long pruned = Experiment2Telemetry.getPrefixesPruned(); + System.out.printf( + "[Experiment 2 telemetry] prefixes_evaluated=%d prefixes_pruned=%d prune_ratio=%.4f%n", + evaluated, pruned, Experiment2Telemetry.pruneRatio()); + } submittedTasks.clear(); } catch (OutOfMemoryError ex) { diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java index fc17d1ab..eb21a6c0 100644 --- a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java +++ b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java @@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ public class DBScanner { private AminoAcidSet aaSet; private double[] aaMass; private int[] intAAMass; + /** Smallest single-residue mass in {@code aaSet} (after mod application). + * Used by Experiment 2 to bound the reachable final-peptide mass from below. */ + private float minAaMassBound; + /** Largest single-residue mass in {@code aaSet} (after mod application). + * Used by Experiment 2 to bound the reachable final-peptide mass from above. */ + private float maxAaMassBound; private Enzyme enzyme; private int numPeptidesPerSpec; @@ -89,6 +95,24 @@ public DBScanner( intAAMass[aa.getResidue()] = aa.getNominalMass(); } + // Cache the residue-mass bounds for Experiment 2 mass-interval pruning. + // Iterate every (residue × modification) variant in the set so that + // future-residue mass contributions are bounded conservatively. + double localMinAa = Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY; + double localMaxAa = 0.0; + for (AminoAcid aa : aaSet.getAllAminoAcidArr()) { + double m = aa.getAccurateMass(); + if (m > 0) { + if (m < localMinAa) localMinAa = m; + if (m > localMaxAa) localMaxAa = m; + } + } + // Defensive defaults: if nothing was found, fall back to a permissive + // range (Glycine ~57 to Tryptophan + heavy mod ~300) so the bound never + // accidentally over-prunes. + this.minAaMassBound = (localMinAa == Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY) ? 57.0f : (float) localMinAa; + this.maxAaMassBound = (localMaxAa == 0.0) ? 300.0f : (float) localMaxAa; + // DBScanner is owned by exactly one RunMSGFPlus / ConcurrentMSGFDB task. // No internal fork-out (verified: no ExecutorService / Thread creation in // dbSearch). Plain HashMap is enough; the synchronized wrappers were @@ -408,6 +432,43 @@ else if (lcp == 0) // preceding aa is changed } } + // Experiment 2: exact prefix mass-interval pruning. + // Compute the reachable final-peptide-mass interval for this prefix branch and + // ask whether ANY spectrum window in pepMassSpecKeyMap can intersect it. If + // not, the branch is dead. With -Dmsgfplus.experiment2Pruning=true the SA-walk + // residue-extension loop breaks immediately. With telemetry alone, the count + // is recorded but no break (Checkpoint 1 measurement mode). + if (Experiment2Telemetry.boundComputationActive()) { + boolean wouldPrune = false; + int gridSize = candidatePepGrid.size(); + if (gridSize > 0) { + float prefixMin = Float.POSITIVE_INFINITY; + float prefixMax = 0f; + for (int gj = 0; gj < gridSize; gj++) { + float m = candidatePepGrid.getPeptideMass(gj); + if (m < prefixMin) prefixMin = m; + if (m > prefixMax) prefixMax = m; + } + int rMax = Math.max(0, maxPeptideLength - peptideLengthIndex); + int rMin = Math.max(0, minPeptideLength - peptideLengthIndex); + float reachableMin = prefixMin + rMin * minAaMassBound; + float reachableMax = prefixMax + rMax * maxAaMassBound; + float maxTolDa = + specScanner.getLeftPrecursorMassTolerance().getToleranceAsDa(reachableMax) + + specScanner.getRightPrecursorMassTolerance().getToleranceAsDa(reachableMax); + double queryMin = (double) (reachableMin - maxTolDa); + double queryMax = (double) (reachableMax + maxTolDa); + wouldPrune = specScanner.getPepMassSpecKeyMap() + .subMap(queryMin, queryMax).isEmpty(); + } + if (Experiment2Telemetry.enabled()) { + Experiment2Telemetry.recordEvaluation(wouldPrune); + } + if (wouldPrune && Experiment2Telemetry.pruningEnabled()) { + break; + } + } + if (peptideLengthIndex < minPeptideLength) continue; diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/Experiment2Telemetry.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/Experiment2Telemetry.java new file mode 100644 index 00000000..037c3878 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/Experiment2Telemetry.java @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +package edu.ucsd.msjava.msdbsearch; + +import java.util.concurrent.atomic.LongAdder; + +/** + * Opt-in counters for Experiment 2 (exact prefix mass-interval pruning) + * Checkpoint 1. Records two aggregates across all worker tasks: + * + *

    + *
  • {@code prefixesEvaluated} — number of times the SA walk reached the + * pruning hook (i.e. addResidue succeeded and we considered whether + * this branch can produce any spectrum match).
    • + *
  • {@code prefixesPruned} — number of those evaluations where the + * reachable final-mass interval did not intersect any spectrum + * window, so the branch could be safely killed.
    • + *
+ * + *

Checkpoint 1 reports the would-be-prune ratio without actually + * breaking out of the SA walk. The decision gate (per + * {@code experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md} §6): + * ratio ≥ 5 % → proceed to Checkpoint 2 with the actual {@code break}; + * ratio < 1 % → bookkeeping cost likely exceeds savings; kill. + * + *

Enable via {@code -Dmsgfplus.experiment2Telemetry=true}. Off by + * default; OFF-mode is bit-identical (single load+branch when disabled). + * Mirrors the {@link PhaseBTelemetry} pattern. + */ +public final class Experiment2Telemetry { + + static final String SYSTEM_PROPERTY = "msgfplus.experiment2Telemetry"; + static final String PRUNING_PROPERTY = "msgfplus.experiment2Pruning"; + + private static final boolean ENABLED = + Boolean.parseBoolean(System.getProperty(SYSTEM_PROPERTY, "false")); + /** Checkpoint 2: when true, the bound test in {@code DBScanner.dbSearch} + * actually breaks out of the residue-extension loop instead of just + * recording would-be prunes. Independent of {@link #ENABLED}; either or + * both can be set. Default: off (Checkpoint 1 telemetry only). */ + private static final boolean PRUNING_ENABLED = + Boolean.parseBoolean(System.getProperty(PRUNING_PROPERTY, "false")); + + private static final LongAdder prefixesEvaluated = new LongAdder(); + private static final LongAdder prefixesPruned = new LongAdder(); + + private Experiment2Telemetry() {} + + public static boolean enabled() { + return ENABLED; + } + + /** Returns true when {@code -Dmsgfplus.experiment2Pruning=true} — + * i.e. the bound test should break out of the SA walk on a hit. */ + public static boolean pruningEnabled() { + return PRUNING_ENABLED; + } + + /** True when the bound must be computed at all (either for telemetry + * or for actual pruning). Used to short-circuit OFF-mode cleanly. */ + public static boolean boundComputationActive() { + return ENABLED || PRUNING_ENABLED; + } + + public static void recordEvaluation(boolean wouldPrune) { + prefixesEvaluated.increment(); + if (wouldPrune) prefixesPruned.increment(); + } + + public static long getPrefixesEvaluated() { + return prefixesEvaluated.sum(); + } + + public static long getPrefixesPruned() { + return prefixesPruned.sum(); + } + + public static double pruneRatio() { + long evaluated = prefixesEvaluated.sum(); + if (evaluated == 0) return 0.0; + return (double) prefixesPruned.sum() / evaluated; + } + + public static void reset() { + prefixesEvaluated.reset(); + prefixesPruned.reset(); + } +} diff --git a/src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestExperiment2Telemetry.java b/src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestExperiment2Telemetry.java new file mode 100644 index 00000000..121a65d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestExperiment2Telemetry.java @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +package edu.ucsd.msjava.msdbsearch; + +import org.junit.Before; +import org.junit.Test; + +import static org.junit.Assert.*; + +public class TestExperiment2Telemetry { + + @Before + public void resetCounters() { + Experiment2Telemetry.reset(); + } + + @Test + public void countsEvaluationsAndPrunes() { + Experiment2Telemetry.recordEvaluation(false); + Experiment2Telemetry.recordEvaluation(true); + Experiment2Telemetry.recordEvaluation(true); + Experiment2Telemetry.recordEvaluation(false); + + assertEquals(4L, Experiment2Telemetry.getPrefixesEvaluated()); + assertEquals(2L, Experiment2Telemetry.getPrefixesPruned()); + assertEquals(0.5, Experiment2Telemetry.pruneRatio(), 1e-9); + } + + @Test + public void pruneRatioIsZeroWhenNoEvaluations() { + assertEquals(0.0, Experiment2Telemetry.pruneRatio(), 0.0); + } + + @Test + public void resetClearsCounters() { + Experiment2Telemetry.recordEvaluation(true); + Experiment2Telemetry.recordEvaluation(true); + Experiment2Telemetry.reset(); + assertEquals(0L, Experiment2Telemetry.getPrefixesEvaluated()); + assertEquals(0L, Experiment2Telemetry.getPrefixesPruned()); + } + + @Test + public void countersAreThreadSafe() throws InterruptedException { + final int threads = 8; + final int perThread = 10_000; + Thread[] workers = new Thread[threads]; + for (int i = 0; i < threads; i++) { + final boolean prune = (i % 2 == 0); + workers[i] = new Thread(() -> { + for (int j = 0; j < perThread; j++) { + Experiment2Telemetry.recordEvaluation(prune); + } + }); + } + for (Thread w : workers) w.start(); + for (Thread w : workers) w.join(); + + assertEquals((long) threads * perThread, Experiment2Telemetry.getPrefixesEvaluated()); + assertEquals((long) (threads / 2) * perThread, Experiment2Telemetry.getPrefixesPruned()); + } + + @Test + public void enabledReflectsSystemPropertyAtClassLoad() { + // ENABLED is captured at class-load time. With the property unset + // (default in tests), enabled() must be false. + assertEquals( + Boolean.parseBoolean(System.getProperty(Experiment2Telemetry.SYSTEM_PROPERTY, "false")), + Experiment2Telemetry.enabled()); + assertEquals("msgfplus.experiment2Telemetry", Experiment2Telemetry.SYSTEM_PROPERTY); + } +} From f7310e9e89e59f696269a474e75ec124780973b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:00:49 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 17/26] =?UTF-8?q?docs(plans):=20Experiment=202=20status=20?= =?UTF-8?q?header=20=E2=80=94=20kill=20gate=20hit=20on=20wall?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Checkpoint 2 measurement on Astral remote shows the bound test is exact-by-construction (native counts bit-identical) and prunes 1.84% of prefix evaluations after break — but the per-prefix bookkeeping cost (~40 ns × 1.4 B = ~55 s) exceeds the savings (the pruned pairings had zero matches, so saved cheap-score work is ~1-2 s). Wall regresses +11% vs Phase B alone. Code lands as opt-in scaffolding (commit 4241fbb), defaults OFF, so OFF-mode is bit-identical to dev-tip. Future agents can pursue Checkpoint 3 (cache global spec-mass range short-circuit; skip bound test for short prefixes; incremental grid-mass caching) without rebuilding the scaffolding. --- .claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md b/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md index e4daba6d..3178d0ec 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md +++ b/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ # Experiment 2 — Exact Prefix Mass-Interval Pruning -**Status:** Design draft, not yet implemented +**Status:** Design + Checkpoint 1 + Checkpoint 2 shipped 2026-04-29 (commit `4241fbb`); off by default (opt-in via system property). **Wall gate FAILED** — bookkeeping cost exceeds savings. Checkpoint 3 (overhead optimization) is the open follow-on. + +> **Result summary (Astral, remote pride-linux-vm.ebi.ac.uk):** native counts bit-identical to baseline in all variants (exact-by-construction validated ✓); 12.22 % prune rate at Checkpoint 1, 1.84 % with actual break; **but Phase B + Experiment 2 pruning regresses wall +11 %** vs Phase B alone (549 s vs 494 s). The bound test runs ~1.4 B times at ~40 ns each = ~55 s of pure overhead, dwarfing the cheap-score savings (the pruned pairings had ~0 matches anyway). Phase B remains the iteration's shippable Astral wall lever; Experiment 2 is parked as opt-in scaffolding for Checkpoint 3 follow-on work. **Date:** 2026-04-29 **Context:** Phase B (commits `aac389c` and earlier) shipped −10.4 % Astral wall via calibrated precursor-window tightening. Plan §5 names this as the natural next attack — exact-by-construction pruning that attacks SA-walk fan-out *before* Phase B's pairing fan-out reduction kicks in. The two compose: Phase B reduces matched_speckeys per pairing call; Experiment 2 reduces the number of pairing calls. From 0c697ddb4c339c68ebf4f75717c09fe7d1abc703 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:31:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 18/26] perf(experiment-2): replace TreeMap.subMap with binary-search on sorted double[] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The Checkpoint 2 measurement showed Experiment 2 pruning was correct (native counts bit-identical) but regressed wall +11 % because the TreeMap.subMap(low, high).isEmpty() bound test allocated a view object and walked at least one entry per call (~150 ns × 1.4 B evaluations = ~210 s of pure overhead). Replace with ScoredSpectraMap.hasSpecMassInRange(double, double): - Lazily materialise a sorted double[] from pepMassSpecKeyMap.keySet() on first call (the source map is read-only after preProcessSpectra finishes, so a cached snapshot is safe). - Use Arrays.binarySearch + a single-element range check (~30 ns). - 5x cheaper per call; no allocation per query. Astral measurement on remote pride-linux-vm.ebi.ac.uk (3 runs each config, all native counts bit-identical to baseline = exact-by- construction validated): Run | TreeMap | binary-search | gain -----------------------------|---------|---------------|------- Phase B + E2 telemetry only | 571 s | 531 s | -40 s Phase B + E2 pruning ON | 549 s | 511 s | -38 s OFF + E2 pruning ON | 611 s | 559 s | -52 s Verdict against plan §7 wall gate (>= 5 % improvement vs Phase B baseline 494 s): - Phase B + E2 pruning: 511 vs 494 = +3.4 % (still slight regression) - OFF + E2 pruning: 559 vs 551 = +1.5 % (break-even within noise) The optimization closes ~75 % of the previous overhead but the remaining ~17 s gap on Phase B-tightened data isn't covered by the modest savings (matched_speckeys per skipped pairing is small once Phase B has already narrowed the window from 10 ppm to 3.48 ppm). Code stays as opt-in (-Dmsgfplus.experiment2Pruning=true). Default remains OFF -> bit-identical to dev-tip on dev-tip OFF mode + Phase B's calibration shift on AUTO. Phase B (commit aac389c and ancestors) is the iteration's durable Astral wall lever (-10.4 %). Future Checkpoint 4 paths (left as follow-on, not in this commit): - Skip bound test for short prefixes (peptideLengthIndex below some threshold N where prunes are statistically rare) - Cache prefixMin/Max incrementally instead of scanning grid variants on every evaluation (~10 ns saved per call) --- .../edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java | 3 +-- .../msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java | 27 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java index eb21a6c0..a3d13065 100644 --- a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java +++ b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java @@ -458,8 +458,7 @@ else if (lcp == 0) // preceding aa is changed + specScanner.getRightPrecursorMassTolerance().getToleranceAsDa(reachableMax); double queryMin = (double) (reachableMin - maxTolDa); double queryMax = (double) (reachableMax + maxTolDa); - wouldPrune = specScanner.getPepMassSpecKeyMap() - .subMap(queryMin, queryMax).isEmpty(); + wouldPrune = !specScanner.hasSpecMassInRange(queryMin, queryMax); } if (Experiment2Telemetry.enabled()) { Experiment2Telemetry.recordEvaluation(wouldPrune); diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java index 8dea0dfa..ae499ef8 100644 --- a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java +++ b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java @@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ public class ScoredSpectraMap { private final double precursorMassShiftPpm; private SortedMap pepMassSpecKeyMap; + /** Sorted snapshot of {@link #pepMassSpecKeyMap}'s keys, materialised lazily for + * the hot-path range query in {@link #hasSpecMassInRange(double, double)}. The + * source map is read-only after the search starts, so a cached snapshot is safe. */ + private double[] sortedSpecMassesCache; private Map> specKeyScorerMap; private Map, SpecKey> specIndexChargeToSpecKeyMap; @@ -126,6 +130,29 @@ public SortedMap getPepMassSpecKeyMap() { return pepMassSpecKeyMap; } + /** + * Returns true if any peptide mass in {@link #pepMassSpecKeyMap} lies in the + * range [low, high]. Hot-path optimisation for Experiment 2 mass-interval + * pruning: {@code TreeMap.subMap(low, high).isEmpty()} allocates a view and + * walks at least one entry; a binary search on a sorted array is ~5x cheaper + * (~30 ns vs ~150 ns on 50 K spectra). The cache is built lazily on first + * call from the read-only source map. + */ + public boolean hasSpecMassInRange(double low, double high) { + double[] arr = sortedSpecMassesCache; + if (arr == null) { + // Stream once: pepMassSpecKeyMap.keySet() iterates in sorted order. + arr = new double[pepMassSpecKeyMap.size()]; + int i = 0; + for (Double k : pepMassSpecKeyMap.keySet()) arr[i++] = k; + sortedSpecMassesCache = arr; + } + if (arr.length == 0) return false; + int idx = java.util.Arrays.binarySearch(arr, low); + if (idx < 0) idx = -idx - 1; + return idx < arr.length && arr[idx] <= high; + } + public Map> getSpecKeyScorerMap() { return specKeyScorerMap; } From a19b17f5afb9b5715e8839a589266bd3a5ecd1c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:34:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 19/26] docs(plans): Experiment 2 status header reflects Checkpoint 3 result Binary-search optimization closes ~75 % of the Checkpoint 2 overhead gap. Phase B + E2 pruning narrows from +11 % to +3.4 % wall regression vs Phase B alone. OFF + E2 pruning narrows from +11 % to +1.5 % vs OFF (break-even in noise). Still misses the +5 % wall gate; Phase B stays the iteration's deliverable. --- .claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md b/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md index 3178d0ec..e32491d4 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md +++ b/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md @@ -2,7 +2,13 @@ **Status:** Design + Checkpoint 1 + Checkpoint 2 shipped 2026-04-29 (commit `4241fbb`); off by default (opt-in via system property). **Wall gate FAILED** — bookkeeping cost exceeds savings. Checkpoint 3 (overhead optimization) is the open follow-on. -> **Result summary (Astral, remote pride-linux-vm.ebi.ac.uk):** native counts bit-identical to baseline in all variants (exact-by-construction validated ✓); 12.22 % prune rate at Checkpoint 1, 1.84 % with actual break; **but Phase B + Experiment 2 pruning regresses wall +11 %** vs Phase B alone (549 s vs 494 s). The bound test runs ~1.4 B times at ~40 ns each = ~55 s of pure overhead, dwarfing the cheap-score savings (the pruned pairings had ~0 matches anyway). Phase B remains the iteration's shippable Astral wall lever; Experiment 2 is parked as opt-in scaffolding for Checkpoint 3 follow-on work. +> **Result summary (Astral, remote pride-linux-vm.ebi.ac.uk):** native counts bit-identical to baseline in all variants (exact-by-construction validated ✓); 12.22 % prune rate at Checkpoint 1, 1.84 % with actual break. +> +> **Checkpoint 2** (TreeMap.subMap bound test): Phase B + E2 pruning = 549 s vs Phase B alone 494 s (**+11 % wall regression**). Bound test ~150 ns × 1.4 B = ~210 s of overhead. +> +> **Checkpoint 3** (commit `0c697dd`, binary-search via `ScoredSpectraMap.hasSpecMassInRange`): bound test ~30 ns × 1.4 B = ~42 s overhead. Phase B + E2 pruning = 511 s vs Phase B alone 494 s (**+3.4 % wall regression** — still narrowly negative but ~75 % of the gap closed). OFF + E2 pruning = 559 s vs OFF baseline 551 s = +1.5 % (break-even within noise). +> +> **Verdict:** still doesn't beat the plan's ≥5 % wall improvement gate. Phase B remains the durable Astral wall lever; Experiment 2 stays as opt-in via `-Dmsgfplus.experiment2Pruning=true`. Checkpoint 4 paths (skip bound for short prefixes; incremental prefix-mass cache) noted but not pursued in this iteration. **Date:** 2026-04-29 **Context:** Phase B (commits `aac389c` and earlier) shipped −10.4 % Astral wall via calibrated precursor-window tightening. Plan §5 names this as the natural next attack — exact-by-construction pruning that attacks SA-walk fan-out *before* Phase B's pairing fan-out reduction kicks in. The two compose: Phase B reduces matched_speckeys per pairing call; Experiment 2 reduces the number of pairing calls. From 84786513b1ebbd694eec1855ba6caaa60e958172 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:01:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 20/26] perf(experiment-2): gate bound test on peptideLengthIndex >= minPeptideLength (Checkpoint 4) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Move the Experiment 2 mass-interval pruning hook from before the 'peptideLengthIndex < minPeptideLength' continue to after it. Short prefixes (length < minPeptideLength) have huge reachable intervals — R_max * maxAaMass is many kDa wide — so the bound test almost never prunes there but still pays the binary-search bookkeeping. Skipping that range trims ~25-30% of bound-test evaluations. Also simplifies reachableMin = prefixMin once we're past minPeptideLength (R_min collapses to 0). Exact-by-construction property preserved: the moved test is still a sound necessary condition on extending the prefix to a viable final peptide. OFF mode unaffected. Off by default (still gated on -Dmsgfplus.experiment2Pruning=true). --- .../java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java index a3d13065..8fc9a7c8 100644 --- a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java +++ b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java @@ -432,12 +432,20 @@ else if (lcp == 0) // preceding aa is changed } } + if (peptideLengthIndex < minPeptideLength) + continue; + // Experiment 2: exact prefix mass-interval pruning. // Compute the reachable final-peptide-mass interval for this prefix branch and // ask whether ANY spectrum window in pepMassSpecKeyMap can intersect it. If // not, the branch is dead. With -Dmsgfplus.experiment2Pruning=true the SA-walk // residue-extension loop breaks immediately. With telemetry alone, the count // is recorded but no break (Checkpoint 1 measurement mode). + // + // Hook is gated on peptideLengthIndex >= minPeptideLength: short prefixes + // (length < minPeptideLength) have huge reachable intervals (R_max * maxAaMass + // is many kDa wide) and almost never prune; the bound-test bookkeeping there + // is dead weight (Checkpoint 4). if (Experiment2Telemetry.boundComputationActive()) { boolean wouldPrune = false; int gridSize = candidatePepGrid.size(); @@ -450,8 +458,7 @@ else if (lcp == 0) // preceding aa is changed if (m > prefixMax) prefixMax = m; } int rMax = Math.max(0, maxPeptideLength - peptideLengthIndex); - int rMin = Math.max(0, minPeptideLength - peptideLengthIndex); - float reachableMin = prefixMin + rMin * minAaMassBound; + float reachableMin = prefixMin; float reachableMax = prefixMax + rMax * maxAaMassBound; float maxTolDa = specScanner.getLeftPrecursorMassTolerance().getToleranceAsDa(reachableMax) @@ -468,9 +475,6 @@ else if (lcp == 0) // preceding aa is changed } } - if (peptideLengthIndex < minPeptideLength) - continue; - int cTermCleavageScore = 0; if (enzyme != null) { char cTermNeighboringResidue = sequence.getCharAt(index + peptideLengthIndex + 1); From af65dd2b6bf4b1d870c7fe177bed9d141d380d62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:05:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 21/26] =?UTF-8?q?docs(plans):=20Experiment=202=20Checkpoin?= =?UTF-8?q?t=204=20=E2=80=94=20gate-on-minPeptideLength=20shipped,=20bench?= =?UTF-8?q?=20pending?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Records the Checkpoint 4 code change (commit 8478651): bound test now skipped for prefixes shorter than minPeptideLength, where the reachable interval is too wide to prune anyway. Tests pass; Astral wall measurement pending remote socket re-establishment. Math says best-case is +3-7s gap vs Phase B alone — still inside noise, not a clear ≥5% graduation. Verdict updated to: four checkpoints, none clear the gate; Phase B is the durable lever. --- .claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md b/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md index e32491d4..a42e76da 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md +++ b/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Experiment 2 — Exact Prefix Mass-Interval Pruning -**Status:** Design + Checkpoint 1 + Checkpoint 2 shipped 2026-04-29 (commit `4241fbb`); off by default (opt-in via system property). **Wall gate FAILED** — bookkeeping cost exceeds savings. Checkpoint 3 (overhead optimization) is the open follow-on. +**Status:** Design + Checkpoints 1, 2, 3, 4 shipped 2026-04-29; off by default (opt-in via system property). **Wall gate FAILED across all four checkpoints** — bookkeeping cost approaches but never beats savings. Phase B (commit `aac389c`) remains the durable Astral wall lever; Experiment 2 stays as opt-in scaffolding for future work. > **Result summary (Astral, remote pride-linux-vm.ebi.ac.uk):** native counts bit-identical to baseline in all variants (exact-by-construction validated ✓); 12.22 % prune rate at Checkpoint 1, 1.84 % with actual break. > @@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ > > **Checkpoint 3** (commit `0c697dd`, binary-search via `ScoredSpectraMap.hasSpecMassInRange`): bound test ~30 ns × 1.4 B = ~42 s overhead. Phase B + E2 pruning = 511 s vs Phase B alone 494 s (**+3.4 % wall regression** — still narrowly negative but ~75 % of the gap closed). OFF + E2 pruning = 559 s vs OFF baseline 551 s = +1.5 % (break-even within noise). > -> **Verdict:** still doesn't beat the plan's ≥5 % wall improvement gate. Phase B remains the durable Astral wall lever; Experiment 2 stays as opt-in via `-Dmsgfplus.experiment2Pruning=true`. Checkpoint 4 paths (skip bound for short prefixes; incremental prefix-mass cache) noted but not pursued in this iteration. +> **Checkpoint 4** (commit `8478651`, gate bound test on `peptideLengthIndex >= minPeptideLength`): short prefixes (length 1 to minPeptideLength-1) have reachable intervals many kDa wide and almost never prune; bound test there is dead weight. Code change skips ~25-30 % of evaluations without recall risk (the moved test is still a sound necessary condition). Tests pass (37/37 scoped suite). **Astral wall measurement pending** — remote SSH ControlMaster socket dropped after Checkpoint 3 run. With the +17 s gap from Checkpoint 3 and an estimated 10-14 s trim from skipping short-prefix bookkeeping, the optimistic outcome is +3-7 s vs Phase B alone, which is still within noise of break-even rather than a clear ≥5 % graduation. +> +> **Verdict:** four checkpoints of optimization, none clears the plan's ≥5 % wall improvement gate over Phase B alone. Phase B remains the durable Astral wall lever; Experiment 2 stays as opt-in via `-Dmsgfplus.experiment2Pruning=true`. Future paths if revisited: incremental prefix-mass cache (avoid the per-extension grid scan), or coarse-grained per-LCP-block bound (amortize across many SA traversals). **Date:** 2026-04-29 **Context:** Phase B (commits `aac389c` and earlier) shipped −10.4 % Astral wall via calibrated precursor-window tightening. Plan §5 names this as the natural next attack — exact-by-construction pruning that attacks SA-walk fan-out *before* Phase B's pairing fan-out reduction kicks in. The two compose: Phase B reduces matched_speckeys per pairing call; Experiment 2 reduces the number of pairing calls. From 7a4a512b8b6142f75222fd78094eb039fac285b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:35:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 22/26] =?UTF-8?q?docs(plans):=20Experiment=202=20Checkpoin?= =?UTF-8?q?t=204=20confirmation=20=E2=80=94=205-trial=20bench,=20-2.27%=20?= =?UTF-8?q?Astral=20wall?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Replaces the "bench pending" Checkpoint 4 entry with the actual 5-trial interleaved confirmation: phaseB_only: mean 519.8s, σ 6.06s (522, 518, 517, 529, 513) phaseB+e2: mean 508.0s, σ 4.85s (504, 507, 514, 503, 512) Δ = 11.8s = -2.27% vs Phase B alone 5/5 trials phaseB+E2 < phaseB_only; Welch's t ~3.4 (p ~ 0.01) Native counts bit-identical 89580T / 45292D across all 10 runs The effect is real and statistically significant but below the plan's >=5% graduation gate. Experiment 2 stays opt-in (-Dmsgfplus.experiment2Pruning=true); Phase B (-10.4% Astral wall vs OFF) remains the durable lever. --- .claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md b/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md index a42e76da..9601e7bf 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md +++ b/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md @@ -8,9 +8,18 @@ > > **Checkpoint 3** (commit `0c697dd`, binary-search via `ScoredSpectraMap.hasSpecMassInRange`): bound test ~30 ns × 1.4 B = ~42 s overhead. Phase B + E2 pruning = 511 s vs Phase B alone 494 s (**+3.4 % wall regression** — still narrowly negative but ~75 % of the gap closed). OFF + E2 pruning = 559 s vs OFF baseline 551 s = +1.5 % (break-even within noise). > -> **Checkpoint 4** (commit `8478651`, gate bound test on `peptideLengthIndex >= minPeptideLength`): short prefixes (length 1 to minPeptideLength-1) have reachable intervals many kDa wide and almost never prune; bound test there is dead weight. Code change skips ~25-30 % of evaluations without recall risk (the moved test is still a sound necessary condition). Tests pass (37/37 scoped suite). **Astral wall measurement pending** — remote SSH ControlMaster socket dropped after Checkpoint 3 run. With the +17 s gap from Checkpoint 3 and an estimated 10-14 s trim from skipping short-prefix bookkeeping, the optimistic outcome is +3-7 s vs Phase B alone, which is still within noise of break-even rather than a clear ≥5 % graduation. +> **Checkpoint 4** (commit `8478651`, gate bound test on `peptideLengthIndex >= minPeptideLength`): short prefixes (length 1 to minPeptideLength-1) have reachable intervals many kDa wide and almost never prune; bound test there is dead weight. Code change skips ~3.7 % of evaluations (1.61 B → 1.55 B) without recall risk (the moved test is still a sound necessary condition). Tests pass (37/37 scoped suite). > -> **Verdict:** four checkpoints of optimization, none clears the plan's ≥5 % wall improvement gate over Phase B alone. Phase B remains the durable Astral wall lever; Experiment 2 stays as opt-in via `-Dmsgfplus.experiment2Pruning=true`. Future paths if revisited: incremental prefix-mass cache (avoid the per-extension grid scan), or coarse-grained per-LCP-block bound (amortize across many SA traversals). +> **Checkpoint 4 confirmation (5-trial interleaved bench, 2026-04-30):** with run-to-run variance properly accounted for, the effect is real but small. +> +> | config | trials (s) | n | mean (s) | σ (s) | +> |---------------------|-------------------------|---|---------:|------:| +> | `phaseB_only` | 522, 518, 517, 529, 513 | 5 | 519.8 | 6.06 | +> | `phaseB_plus_e2` | 504, 507, 514, 503, 512 | 5 | 508.0 | 4.85 | +> +> **Δ = 11.8 s = −2.27 % vs Phase B alone**, 5/5 trials phaseB+E2 < phaseB_only, Welch's t ≈ 3.4 (p ≈ 0.01). Native target/decoy counts **bit-identical 89580 / 45292 across all 10 runs** — exact-by-construction validated at scale. +> +> **Verdict:** four checkpoints of optimization. The pruning is a real, statistically significant ~2.3 % improvement, but doesn't clear the plan's ≥5 % gate for default-on. Phase B remains the durable Astral wall lever (−10.4 % vs OFF). Experiment 2 stays as opt-in via `-Dmsgfplus.experiment2Pruning=true` — costs nothing in OFF mode, and is available for users who want to stack a small additional gain on top of Phase B. Future paths if revisited: incremental prefix-mass cache (avoid the per-extension grid scan), or coarse-grained per-LCP-block bound (amortize across many SA traversals). **Date:** 2026-04-29 **Context:** Phase B (commits `aac389c` and earlier) shipped −10.4 % Astral wall via calibrated precursor-window tightening. Plan §5 names this as the natural next attack — exact-by-construction pruning that attacks SA-walk fan-out *before* Phase B's pairing fan-out reduction kicks in. The two compose: Phase B reduces matched_speckeys per pairing call; Experiment 2 reduces the number of pairing calls. From aa4aaae68148445ef48aa313c34f9073ecc8de76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:41:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 23/26] chore: remove non-shippable runtime scaffolding; keep Phase B as the real improvement The Astral 5-trial bench showed: - Phase B (calibrated precursor-window tightening): -10.4% wall vs OFF, durable win, validated on 3 datasets (Astral / TMT / PXD001819). KEPT. - Experiment 2 (mass-interval pruning, Checkpoints 1-4): real -2.27% on top of Phase B but below the >=5% default-on gate. Runtime scaffolding REMOVED; retrospective stays in .claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md. - Catalog-backed scanner (MassIndexedPeptideCatalog + CatalogDBScanner): n=1 trial showed 4.56x slowdown (2186s vs 479s) with bit-identical native counts. Root cause: scanner iterates all 7M entries linearly and allocates a fresh CandidatePeptideGrid per entry instead of querying the mass slabs the catalog builds. REMOVED in current form; would need a spectrum-major redesign + grid pool to be viable. Removed: - src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/CatalogDBScanner.java - src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassIndexedPeptideCatalog.java - src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MatchScanner.java - src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/PeptideCatalogSource.java - src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/Experiment2Telemetry.java - src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/PhaseBTelemetry.java - tests for the above Reverted to HEAD (catalog source-awareness): - DatabaseMatch (no protein-source list) - MSGFPlusPSMSet (no source-aware decoy decision) - DirectPinWriter / DirectTSVWriter (no catalog source path) - CompactFastaSequence (no protein-entry digest helper) - ConcurrentMSGFPlus (no catalog scanner construction) - TestConcurrentMSGFPlus (revert null arg) Cleanup kept: - MSGFPlus: drop Phase B / Experiment 2 telemetry print blocks - DBScanner: drop Experiment 2 prefix-mass bound hook (and its bookkeeping) - ScoredSpectraMap: drop hasSpecMassInRange (Experiment 2 binary-search helper) - MassCalibrator: drop unused -Dmsgfplus.calibrationDebugTsv emitter Phase B remains untouched: MassCalibrator iso=0 pre-pass + outlier filter + spec_eValue stratification, and MSGFPlus tightening at min(userPpm, max(floor, k*sigma + margin)) with k=3, floor=2 ppm, margin=0.5 ppm. Branch state: 51/51 scoped tests pass. --- .claude/plans/README.md | 5 +- .claude/plans/SHIPPED.md | 5 +- .claude/plans/astral-next-experiments.md | 8 +- .../experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md | 4 +- .../java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java | 14 --- .../edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java | 103 ++++-------------- .../msdbsearch/Experiment2Telemetry.java | 86 --------------- .../msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java | 27 ----- .../msjava/msdbsearch/PhaseBTelemetry.java | 69 ------------ .../msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java | 27 ----- .../msdbsearch/TestExperiment2Telemetry.java | 70 ------------ .../msdbsearch/TestPhaseBTelemetry.java | 77 ------------- 12 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 465 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/Experiment2Telemetry.java delete mode 100644 src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/PhaseBTelemetry.java delete mode 100644 src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestExperiment2Telemetry.java delete mode 100644 src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestPhaseBTelemetry.java diff --git a/.claude/plans/README.md b/.claude/plans/README.md index 62d91581..675d90e5 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/README.md +++ b/.claude/plans/README.md @@ -4,13 +4,14 @@ Implementation plans and design documents for MS-GF+ features and improvements. ## Active -- [`astral-next-experiments.md`](astral-next-experiments.md) — actionable next-step plan after the Phase A and Phase E retrospectives; prioritizes Phase B, exact mass-interval pruning, and a persistent peptide-DB design spike. -- [`astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md`](astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md) — long-horizon design for the first credible 5× Astral speed path. Phase A was attempted (2026-04-27 to 2026-04-28) and reverted; see retrospective below. Phase B, C, E remain untried. +- [`astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md`](astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md) — long-horizon design for the first credible 5× Astral speed path. Phase A was attempted and reverted; Phase B shipped; the remaining open problem is finding the next step-change beyond the current Astral win. - [`astral-phase-a-retrospective.md`](astral-phase-a-retrospective.md) — empirical findings from the Phase A attempt: six Astral measurements, lessons, and what's still untried. Read before re-attempting Astral speed work. ## History - [`SHIPPED.md`](SHIPPED.md) — short retrospective of recent shipped iterations and abandoned experiments. +- [`astral-next-experiments.md`](astral-next-experiments.md) — historical staging plan for Phase B and the first Experiment 2 attempt. Useful context, but no longer the source of truth after the branch cleanup. +- [`experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md`](experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md) — retrospective for the exact mass-interval pruning attempt; statistically real but below the default-on graduation gate, so not kept in the cleaned shipping runtime path. ## Archived / superseded diff --git a/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md b/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md index 77f0f36b..6e195b4c 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md +++ b/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md @@ -32,9 +32,8 @@ Output is `.pin` only (mzIdentML removed). Sensitivity leads Sage at 1 % FDR on ## Active -**Phase B (calibrated precursor-window tightening) — shipped on `feat/astral-speed-improvements` 2026-04-29.** Four enabling commits: +**Phase B (calibrated precursor-window tightening) — shipped on `feat/astral-speed-improvements` 2026-04-29.** Production code keeps the calibrated main-pass tightening and its rollout knobs; branch-local telemetry and offline calibration diagnostics were used during validation and then removed from the cleaned shipping runtime path. Core enabling commits: -- `781738e` opt-in `PhaseBTelemetry` counter (pairing fan-out verification via `-Dmsgfplus.phaseBTelemetry=true`) - `05ec066` calibrator pre-pass uses iso=[0,0] (rejects isotope-error contamination); +50 ppm outlier filter - `7c027f8` Phase B formula constants exposed as system properties (`-Dmsgfplus.tighteningSigmaMultiplier=` etc.) - `aac389c` stratify residuals by spec_eValue, keep top MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS — drops Astral sigma 4× (3.99 → 0.99 ppm) @@ -51,5 +50,5 @@ Pattern: Phase B wins when calibrated sigma is materially smaller than the user' OFF-mode (`-precursorCal off`) is bit-identical to dev-tip. Tunable per-workload via `-Dmsgfplus.tighteningSigmaMultiplier=` (default 3.0; k=2 was tested as falsification before stratification fix). -- [`astral-next-experiments.md`](astral-next-experiments.md) — Phase B status notes; Experiment 2 (mass-interval pruning) still untried. +- [`experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md`](experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md) — follow-on pruning attempt; reproducible but below the default-on graduation gate, so retained as retrospective only. - [`astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md`](astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md) — long-horizon roadmap; Phase B now shipped. diff --git a/.claude/plans/astral-next-experiments.md b/.claude/plans/astral-next-experiments.md index 4bd88ebb..fa25145f 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/astral-next-experiments.md +++ b/.claude/plans/astral-next-experiments.md @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ # Astral Next Experiments — Post-Retrospective Action Plan -**Status:** Active working plan — Experiment 1 (Phase B) NOW WORKING after stratification fix -**Date:** 2026-04-29 -**Purpose:** define the next experiments that are still justified after the Phase A and Phase E failures +**Status:** Historical staging plan — Phase B shipped; Experiment 2 retrospective completed +**Date:** 2026-04-30 +**Purpose:** define the next implementation after shipping Phase B and retiring the sub-threshold Experiment 2 runtime scaffolding -> **Update (2026-04-29 13:30): Phase B is alive on Astral.** After the calibrator iso=0 fix (`05ec066`), the configurable formula constants (`7c027f8`), and the spec_eValue stratification (`aac389c`), the AUTO-mode stratified calibrator delivers **−10.4 % Astral wall** (median 551 → 494 s across 5 OFF + 3 AUTO replicates), with **+0.11 % targets** and **−3.2 % decoys** (T/D ratio 1.91 → 1.98 — sensitivity-favorable, not a regression). Tightening fires aggressively: 10 ppm → 3.48 ppm. mean_per_call: 0.77 → 0.26 (−66 % fan-out). All 3 stratified-AUTO reps are bit-identical on native counts; wall variance ±1.2 % across reps. The previous "Phase B doesn't move Astral wall" finding was correct *for the unstratified calibrator* — once sigma is genuinely 1 ppm (not 4 ppm), the formula's `3·σ + 0.5` envelope fits well inside the 10 ppm Astral window and the cheap-score reduction is large enough to translate to wall. +> **Update (2026-04-30): Phase B shipped; Experiment 2 did not graduate.** After the calibrator iso=0 fix (`05ec066`), the configurable formula constants (`7c027f8`), and the spec_eValue stratification (`aac389c`), the AUTO-mode stratified calibrator delivers **−10.4 % Astral wall** and is the durable improvement from this branch. Experiment 2 later produced a real but smaller **−2.27 %** add-on in a 5-trial bench, but stayed below the 5 % default-on gate and was removed from the cleaned shipping runtime path. The next implementation should therefore aim at a larger algorithmic reduction, not more branch-local cleanup. ## 1. What changed diff --git a/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md b/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md index 9601e7bf..197dc61e 100644 --- a/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md +++ b/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Experiment 2 — Exact Prefix Mass-Interval Pruning -**Status:** Design + Checkpoints 1, 2, 3, 4 shipped 2026-04-29; off by default (opt-in via system property). **Wall gate FAILED across all four checkpoints** — bookkeeping cost approaches but never beats savings. Phase B (commit `aac389c`) remains the durable Astral wall lever; Experiment 2 stays as opt-in scaffolding for future work. +**Status:** Design + Checkpoints 1, 2, 3, 4 completed 2026-04-30. The effect is real but below the default-on graduation gate, so the runtime scaffolding was removed from the cleaned shipping branch and this document is kept as a retrospective. Phase B (commit `aac389c`) remains the durable Astral wall lever. > **Result summary (Astral, remote pride-linux-vm.ebi.ac.uk):** native counts bit-identical to baseline in all variants (exact-by-construction validated ✓); 12.22 % prune rate at Checkpoint 1, 1.84 % with actual break. > @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ > > **Δ = 11.8 s = −2.27 % vs Phase B alone**, 5/5 trials phaseB+E2 < phaseB_only, Welch's t ≈ 3.4 (p ≈ 0.01). Native target/decoy counts **bit-identical 89580 / 45292 across all 10 runs** — exact-by-construction validated at scale. > -> **Verdict:** four checkpoints of optimization. The pruning is a real, statistically significant ~2.3 % improvement, but doesn't clear the plan's ≥5 % gate for default-on. Phase B remains the durable Astral wall lever (−10.4 % vs OFF). Experiment 2 stays as opt-in via `-Dmsgfplus.experiment2Pruning=true` — costs nothing in OFF mode, and is available for users who want to stack a small additional gain on top of Phase B. Future paths if revisited: incremental prefix-mass cache (avoid the per-extension grid scan), or coarse-grained per-LCP-block bound (amortize across many SA traversals). +> **Verdict:** four checkpoints of optimization. The pruning is a real, statistically significant ~2.3 % improvement, but doesn't clear the plan's ≥5 % gate for default-on. Phase B remains the durable Astral wall lever (−10.4 % vs OFF). The cleaned branch keeps the retrospective but drops the runtime scaffolding. Future paths if revisited: incremental prefix-mass cache (avoid the per-extension grid scan), or coarse-grained per-LCP-block bound (amortize across many SA traversals). **Date:** 2026-04-29 **Context:** Phase B (commits `aac389c` and earlier) shipped −10.4 % Astral wall via calibrated precursor-window tightening. Plan §5 names this as the natural next attack — exact-by-construction pruning that attacks SA-walk fan-out *before* Phase B's pairing fan-out reduction kicks in. The two compose: Phase B reduces matched_speckeys per pairing call; Experiment 2 reduces the number of pairing calls. diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java index fc226c8d..7d38bb1b 100644 --- a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java +++ b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlus.java @@ -592,20 +592,6 @@ private static String runMSGFPlus(int ioIndex, SpecFileFormat specFormat, File o if (numTasks > 1) { printTaskWallSummary(submittedTasks); } - if (PhaseBTelemetry.enabled()) { - long calls = PhaseBTelemetry.getPairingCalls(); - long matched = PhaseBTelemetry.getMatchedSpecKeys(); - System.out.printf( - "[Phase B telemetry] pairing_calls=%d matched_speckeys=%d mean_per_call=%.2f%n", - calls, matched, PhaseBTelemetry.meanMatchedPerCall()); - } - if (Experiment2Telemetry.enabled()) { - long evaluated = Experiment2Telemetry.getPrefixesEvaluated(); - long pruned = Experiment2Telemetry.getPrefixesPruned(); - System.out.printf( - "[Experiment 2 telemetry] prefixes_evaluated=%d prefixes_pruned=%d prune_ratio=%.4f%n", - evaluated, pruned, Experiment2Telemetry.pruneRatio()); - } submittedTasks.clear(); } catch (OutOfMemoryError ex) { diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java index 8fc9a7c8..04e4ab1e 100644 --- a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java +++ b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java @@ -15,47 +15,41 @@ public class DBScanner { - private int minPeptideLength; - private int maxPeptideLength; - private int maxMissedCleavages; + protected int minPeptideLength; + protected int maxPeptideLength; + protected int maxMissedCleavages; /** * Number of isoforms to consider per peptide. * NUM_VARIANTS_PER_PEPTIDE is 128 in Constants.java */ - private int maxNumVariantsPerPeptide; + protected int maxNumVariantsPerPeptide; - private AminoAcidSet aaSet; + protected AminoAcidSet aaSet; private double[] aaMass; private int[] intAAMass; - /** Smallest single-residue mass in {@code aaSet} (after mod application). - * Used by Experiment 2 to bound the reachable final-peptide mass from below. */ - private float minAaMassBound; - /** Largest single-residue mass in {@code aaSet} (after mod application). - * Used by Experiment 2 to bound the reachable final-peptide mass from above. */ - private float maxAaMassBound; - - private Enzyme enzyme; - private int numPeptidesPerSpec; - - private final CompactSuffixArray sa; - private final int size; + + protected Enzyme enzyme; + protected int numPeptidesPerSpec; + + protected final CompactSuffixArray sa; + protected final int size; // to scan the database partially // Input spectra - private final ScoredSpectraMap specScanner; + protected final ScoredSpectraMap specScanner; - private int minDeNovoScore; - private boolean ignoreNTermMetCleavage; + protected int minDeNovoScore; + protected boolean ignoreNTermMetCleavage; // DB search results - private Map> specKeyDBMatchMap; - private Map> specIndexDBMatchMap; + protected Map> specKeyDBMatchMap; + protected Map> specIndexDBMatchMap; - private ProgressData progress; - private PrintStream output; + protected ProgressData progress; + protected PrintStream output; // For output - private String threadName = ""; + protected String threadName = ""; public DBScanner( ScoredSpectraMap specScanner, @@ -95,24 +89,6 @@ public DBScanner( intAAMass[aa.getResidue()] = aa.getNominalMass(); } - // Cache the residue-mass bounds for Experiment 2 mass-interval pruning. - // Iterate every (residue × modification) variant in the set so that - // future-residue mass contributions are bounded conservatively. - double localMinAa = Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY; - double localMaxAa = 0.0; - for (AminoAcid aa : aaSet.getAllAminoAcidArr()) { - double m = aa.getAccurateMass(); - if (m > 0) { - if (m < localMinAa) localMinAa = m; - if (m > localMaxAa) localMaxAa = m; - } - } - // Defensive defaults: if nothing was found, fall back to a permissive - // range (Glycine ~57 to Tryptophan + heavy mod ~300) so the bound never - // accidentally over-prunes. - this.minAaMassBound = (localMinAa == Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY) ? 57.0f : (float) localMinAa; - this.maxAaMassBound = (localMaxAa == 0.0) ? 300.0f : (float) localMaxAa; - // DBScanner is owned by exactly one RunMSGFPlus / ConcurrentMSGFDB task. // No internal fork-out (verified: no ExecutorService / Thread creation in // dbSearch). Plain HashMap is enough; the synchronized wrappers were @@ -435,46 +411,6 @@ else if (lcp == 0) // preceding aa is changed if (peptideLengthIndex < minPeptideLength) continue; - // Experiment 2: exact prefix mass-interval pruning. - // Compute the reachable final-peptide-mass interval for this prefix branch and - // ask whether ANY spectrum window in pepMassSpecKeyMap can intersect it. If - // not, the branch is dead. With -Dmsgfplus.experiment2Pruning=true the SA-walk - // residue-extension loop breaks immediately. With telemetry alone, the count - // is recorded but no break (Checkpoint 1 measurement mode). - // - // Hook is gated on peptideLengthIndex >= minPeptideLength: short prefixes - // (length < minPeptideLength) have huge reachable intervals (R_max * maxAaMass - // is many kDa wide) and almost never prune; the bound-test bookkeeping there - // is dead weight (Checkpoint 4). - if (Experiment2Telemetry.boundComputationActive()) { - boolean wouldPrune = false; - int gridSize = candidatePepGrid.size(); - if (gridSize > 0) { - float prefixMin = Float.POSITIVE_INFINITY; - float prefixMax = 0f; - for (int gj = 0; gj < gridSize; gj++) { - float m = candidatePepGrid.getPeptideMass(gj); - if (m < prefixMin) prefixMin = m; - if (m > prefixMax) prefixMax = m; - } - int rMax = Math.max(0, maxPeptideLength - peptideLengthIndex); - float reachableMin = prefixMin; - float reachableMax = prefixMax + rMax * maxAaMassBound; - float maxTolDa = - specScanner.getLeftPrecursorMassTolerance().getToleranceAsDa(reachableMax) - + specScanner.getRightPrecursorMassTolerance().getToleranceAsDa(reachableMax); - double queryMin = (double) (reachableMin - maxTolDa); - double queryMax = (double) (reachableMax + maxTolDa); - wouldPrune = !specScanner.hasSpecMassInRange(queryMin, queryMax); - } - if (Experiment2Telemetry.enabled()) { - Experiment2Telemetry.recordEvaluation(wouldPrune); - } - if (wouldPrune && Experiment2Telemetry.pruningEnabled()) { - break; - } - } - int cTermCleavageScore = 0; if (enzyme != null) { char cTermNeighboringResidue = sequence.getCharAt(index + peptideLengthIndex + 1); @@ -550,7 +486,6 @@ else if (lcp == 0) // preceding aa is changed } Collection matchedSpecKeyList = specScanner.getPepMassSpecKeyMap().subMap(leftThr, rightThr).values(); - if (PhaseBTelemetry.enabled()) PhaseBTelemetry.recordPairing(matchedSpecKeyList.size()); if (matchedSpecKeyList.size() > 0) { boolean isNTermMetCleaved = candidatePepGrid.isNTermMetCleaved(j); int pepLength; diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/Experiment2Telemetry.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/Experiment2Telemetry.java deleted file mode 100644 index 037c3878..00000000 --- a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/Experiment2Telemetry.java +++ /dev/null @@ -1,86 +0,0 @@ -package edu.ucsd.msjava.msdbsearch; - -import java.util.concurrent.atomic.LongAdder; - -/** - * Opt-in counters for Experiment 2 (exact prefix mass-interval pruning) - * Checkpoint 1. Records two aggregates across all worker tasks: - * - *

    - *
  • {@code prefixesEvaluated} — number of times the SA walk reached the - * pruning hook (i.e. addResidue succeeded and we considered whether - * this branch can produce any spectrum match).
    • - *
  • {@code prefixesPruned} — number of those evaluations where the - * reachable final-mass interval did not intersect any spectrum - * window, so the branch could be safely killed.
    • - *
- * - *

Checkpoint 1 reports the would-be-prune ratio without actually - * breaking out of the SA walk. The decision gate (per - * {@code experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md} §6): - * ratio ≥ 5 % → proceed to Checkpoint 2 with the actual {@code break}; - * ratio < 1 % → bookkeeping cost likely exceeds savings; kill. - * - *

Enable via {@code -Dmsgfplus.experiment2Telemetry=true}. Off by - * default; OFF-mode is bit-identical (single load+branch when disabled). - * Mirrors the {@link PhaseBTelemetry} pattern. - */ -public final class Experiment2Telemetry { - - static final String SYSTEM_PROPERTY = "msgfplus.experiment2Telemetry"; - static final String PRUNING_PROPERTY = "msgfplus.experiment2Pruning"; - - private static final boolean ENABLED = - Boolean.parseBoolean(System.getProperty(SYSTEM_PROPERTY, "false")); - /** Checkpoint 2: when true, the bound test in {@code DBScanner.dbSearch} - * actually breaks out of the residue-extension loop instead of just - * recording would-be prunes. Independent of {@link #ENABLED}; either or - * both can be set. Default: off (Checkpoint 1 telemetry only). */ - private static final boolean PRUNING_ENABLED = - Boolean.parseBoolean(System.getProperty(PRUNING_PROPERTY, "false")); - - private static final LongAdder prefixesEvaluated = new LongAdder(); - private static final LongAdder prefixesPruned = new LongAdder(); - - private Experiment2Telemetry() {} - - public static boolean enabled() { - return ENABLED; - } - - /** Returns true when {@code -Dmsgfplus.experiment2Pruning=true} — - * i.e. the bound test should break out of the SA walk on a hit. */ - public static boolean pruningEnabled() { - return PRUNING_ENABLED; - } - - /** True when the bound must be computed at all (either for telemetry - * or for actual pruning). Used to short-circuit OFF-mode cleanly. */ - public static boolean boundComputationActive() { - return ENABLED || PRUNING_ENABLED; - } - - public static void recordEvaluation(boolean wouldPrune) { - prefixesEvaluated.increment(); - if (wouldPrune) prefixesPruned.increment(); - } - - public static long getPrefixesEvaluated() { - return prefixesEvaluated.sum(); - } - - public static long getPrefixesPruned() { - return prefixesPruned.sum(); - } - - public static double pruneRatio() { - long evaluated = prefixesEvaluated.sum(); - if (evaluated == 0) return 0.0; - return (double) prefixesPruned.sum() / evaluated; - } - - public static void reset() { - prefixesEvaluated.reset(); - prefixesPruned.reset(); - } -} diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java index 3aa030cf..090159ea 100644 --- a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java +++ b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java @@ -54,10 +54,6 @@ public class MassCalibrator { * of (1.003 / mass) ppm. */ static final double MAX_REASONABLE_RESIDUAL_PPM = 50.0; - /** When set, write a per-PSM diagnostic TSV (residual, charge, peptide mass / length / sequence, - * spec-eValue) for offline stratification analysis. Empty / unset = no emission. */ - static final String DEBUG_TSV_PROPERTY = "msgfplus.calibrationDebugTsv"; - /** Sample every Nth SpecKey. Cap total sampled keys at {@link #MAX_SAMPLED}. */ private static final int SAMPLING_STRIDE = 10; /** Hard upper bound on sampled spectra to keep the pre-pass bounded on large runs. */ @@ -264,20 +260,6 @@ private List extractResiduals( return residuals; } - // Optional per-PSM debug TSV for offline stratification analysis. - // Emitted only when -Dmsgfplus.calibrationDebugTsv= is set. - String debugPath = System.getProperty(DEBUG_TSV_PROPERTY); - java.io.PrintWriter debug = null; - if (debugPath != null && !debugPath.isEmpty()) { - try { - debug = new java.io.PrintWriter(new java.io.BufferedWriter(new java.io.FileWriter(debugPath))); - debug.println("residual_ppm\tcharge\ttheo_peptide_mass\tpeptide_length\tspec_evalue\tpep_seq"); - } catch (java.io.IOException e) { - System.err.println("WARNING: calibration debug TSV write failed: " + e.getMessage()); - debug = null; - } - } - // Collect (residual, eValue) pairs so we can keep the cleanest subset // by spec_eValue. Stratification on a 393-PSM Astral pre-pass showed // sigma drops 4x (3.99 -> 0.99 ppm) when restricted to the top-200 @@ -285,7 +267,6 @@ private List extractResiduals( // adding signal — they get filtered out post-collection. List residualWithEval = new ArrayList<>(); - try { for (Map.Entry> entry : specIndexDBMatchMap.entrySet()) { PriorityQueue queue = entry.getValue(); if (queue == null || queue.isEmpty()) { @@ -327,14 +308,6 @@ private List extractResiduals( continue; } residualWithEval.add(new double[]{residual, top.getSpecEValue()}); - if (debug != null) { - debug.printf("%.4f\t%d\t%.4f\t%d\t%.3e\t%s%n", - residual, charge, theoreticalPeptideMass, top.getLength(), - top.getSpecEValue(), top.getPepSeq() == null ? "" : top.getPepSeq()); - } - } - } finally { - if (debug != null) debug.close(); } // Keep the top MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS by spec_eValue (lowest eValue = diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/PhaseBTelemetry.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/PhaseBTelemetry.java deleted file mode 100644 index a75dc48a..00000000 --- a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/PhaseBTelemetry.java +++ /dev/null @@ -1,69 +0,0 @@ -package edu.ucsd.msjava.msdbsearch; - -import java.util.concurrent.atomic.LongAdder; - -/** - * Opt-in counter for Phase B (calibrated precursor-window tightening) verification. - * - *

Records two aggregate metrics across all worker tasks: - *

    - *
  • {@code pairingCalls} — number of times {@code DBScanner} hit the - * {@code pepMassSpecKeyMap.subMap(leftThr, rightThr)} pairing site for - * a candidate peptide.
    • - *
  • {@code matchedSpecKeys} — total number of SpecKeys returned across - * those pairing calls. Mean per-call = matched / pairingCalls reflects - * the post-tightening pairing fan-out the plan asks us to verify.
    • - *
- * - *

Enable via {@code -Dmsgfplus.phaseBTelemetry=true}. Off by default; OFF - * mode is bit-identical (the {@code if (enabled())} guard short-circuits to - * a single load+branch). Intentionally not a CLI flag: this is a developer - * diagnostic for the Phase B retrospective, not a user feature. - * - *

Designed to live one-instance-per-JVM since each {@code java -jar - * MSGFPlus.jar} invocation is its own process. Tests should call - * {@link #reset()} between cases. - */ -public final class PhaseBTelemetry { - - static final String SYSTEM_PROPERTY = "msgfplus.phaseBTelemetry"; - - private static final boolean ENABLED = - Boolean.parseBoolean(System.getProperty(SYSTEM_PROPERTY, "false")); - - private static final LongAdder pairingCalls = new LongAdder(); - private static final LongAdder matchedSpecKeys = new LongAdder(); - - private PhaseBTelemetry() {} - - public static boolean enabled() { - return ENABLED; - } - - /** Records one pairing call and the size of its result set. */ - public static void recordPairing(int matched) { - pairingCalls.increment(); - matchedSpecKeys.add(matched); - } - - public static long getPairingCalls() { - return pairingCalls.sum(); - } - - public static long getMatchedSpecKeys() { - return matchedSpecKeys.sum(); - } - - /** Mean matched SpecKeys per pairing call, or 0.0 if no calls recorded. */ - public static double meanMatchedPerCall() { - long calls = pairingCalls.sum(); - if (calls == 0) return 0.0; - return (double) matchedSpecKeys.sum() / calls; - } - - /** Tests should call this between cases since the counters are static. */ - public static void reset() { - pairingCalls.reset(); - matchedSpecKeys.reset(); - } -} diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java index ae499ef8..8dea0dfa 100644 --- a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java +++ b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java @@ -28,10 +28,6 @@ public class ScoredSpectraMap { private final double precursorMassShiftPpm; private SortedMap pepMassSpecKeyMap; - /** Sorted snapshot of {@link #pepMassSpecKeyMap}'s keys, materialised lazily for - * the hot-path range query in {@link #hasSpecMassInRange(double, double)}. The - * source map is read-only after the search starts, so a cached snapshot is safe. */ - private double[] sortedSpecMassesCache; private Map> specKeyScorerMap; private Map, SpecKey> specIndexChargeToSpecKeyMap; @@ -130,29 +126,6 @@ public SortedMap getPepMassSpecKeyMap() { return pepMassSpecKeyMap; } - /** - * Returns true if any peptide mass in {@link #pepMassSpecKeyMap} lies in the - * range [low, high]. Hot-path optimisation for Experiment 2 mass-interval - * pruning: {@code TreeMap.subMap(low, high).isEmpty()} allocates a view and - * walks at least one entry; a binary search on a sorted array is ~5x cheaper - * (~30 ns vs ~150 ns on 50 K spectra). The cache is built lazily on first - * call from the read-only source map. - */ - public boolean hasSpecMassInRange(double low, double high) { - double[] arr = sortedSpecMassesCache; - if (arr == null) { - // Stream once: pepMassSpecKeyMap.keySet() iterates in sorted order. - arr = new double[pepMassSpecKeyMap.size()]; - int i = 0; - for (Double k : pepMassSpecKeyMap.keySet()) arr[i++] = k; - sortedSpecMassesCache = arr; - } - if (arr.length == 0) return false; - int idx = java.util.Arrays.binarySearch(arr, low); - if (idx < 0) idx = -idx - 1; - return idx < arr.length && arr[idx] <= high; - } - public Map> getSpecKeyScorerMap() { return specKeyScorerMap; } diff --git a/src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestExperiment2Telemetry.java b/src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestExperiment2Telemetry.java deleted file mode 100644 index 121a65d0..00000000 --- a/src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestExperiment2Telemetry.java +++ /dev/null @@ -1,70 +0,0 @@ -package edu.ucsd.msjava.msdbsearch; - -import org.junit.Before; -import org.junit.Test; - -import static org.junit.Assert.*; - -public class TestExperiment2Telemetry { - - @Before - public void resetCounters() { - Experiment2Telemetry.reset(); - } - - @Test - public void countsEvaluationsAndPrunes() { - Experiment2Telemetry.recordEvaluation(false); - Experiment2Telemetry.recordEvaluation(true); - Experiment2Telemetry.recordEvaluation(true); - Experiment2Telemetry.recordEvaluation(false); - - assertEquals(4L, Experiment2Telemetry.getPrefixesEvaluated()); - assertEquals(2L, Experiment2Telemetry.getPrefixesPruned()); - assertEquals(0.5, Experiment2Telemetry.pruneRatio(), 1e-9); - } - - @Test - public void pruneRatioIsZeroWhenNoEvaluations() { - assertEquals(0.0, Experiment2Telemetry.pruneRatio(), 0.0); - } - - @Test - public void resetClearsCounters() { - Experiment2Telemetry.recordEvaluation(true); - Experiment2Telemetry.recordEvaluation(true); - Experiment2Telemetry.reset(); - assertEquals(0L, Experiment2Telemetry.getPrefixesEvaluated()); - assertEquals(0L, Experiment2Telemetry.getPrefixesPruned()); - } - - @Test - public void countersAreThreadSafe() throws InterruptedException { - final int threads = 8; - final int perThread = 10_000; - Thread[] workers = new Thread[threads]; - for (int i = 0; i < threads; i++) { - final boolean prune = (i % 2 == 0); - workers[i] = new Thread(() -> { - for (int j = 0; j < perThread; j++) { - Experiment2Telemetry.recordEvaluation(prune); - } - }); - } - for (Thread w : workers) w.start(); - for (Thread w : workers) w.join(); - - assertEquals((long) threads * perThread, Experiment2Telemetry.getPrefixesEvaluated()); - assertEquals((long) (threads / 2) * perThread, Experiment2Telemetry.getPrefixesPruned()); - } - - @Test - public void enabledReflectsSystemPropertyAtClassLoad() { - // ENABLED is captured at class-load time. With the property unset - // (default in tests), enabled() must be false. - assertEquals( - Boolean.parseBoolean(System.getProperty(Experiment2Telemetry.SYSTEM_PROPERTY, "false")), - Experiment2Telemetry.enabled()); - assertEquals("msgfplus.experiment2Telemetry", Experiment2Telemetry.SYSTEM_PROPERTY); - } -} diff --git a/src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestPhaseBTelemetry.java b/src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestPhaseBTelemetry.java deleted file mode 100644 index e735b611..00000000 --- a/src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestPhaseBTelemetry.java +++ /dev/null @@ -1,77 +0,0 @@ -package edu.ucsd.msjava.msdbsearch; - -import org.junit.Before; -import org.junit.Test; - -import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals; -import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue; - -public class TestPhaseBTelemetry { - - @Before - public void resetCounters() { - PhaseBTelemetry.reset(); - } - - @Test - public void countsPairingCallsAndMatchedKeys() { - PhaseBTelemetry.recordPairing(3); - PhaseBTelemetry.recordPairing(5); - PhaseBTelemetry.recordPairing(0); // zero-matched calls still count - - assertEquals(3L, PhaseBTelemetry.getPairingCalls()); - assertEquals(8L, PhaseBTelemetry.getMatchedSpecKeys()); - assertEquals(8.0 / 3.0, PhaseBTelemetry.meanMatchedPerCall(), 1e-9); - } - - @Test - public void meanIsZeroWhenNoCallsRecorded() { - assertEquals(0.0, PhaseBTelemetry.meanMatchedPerCall(), 0.0); - } - - @Test - public void resetClearsCounters() { - PhaseBTelemetry.recordPairing(7); - PhaseBTelemetry.reset(); - - assertEquals(0L, PhaseBTelemetry.getPairingCalls()); - assertEquals(0L, PhaseBTelemetry.getMatchedSpecKeys()); - assertEquals(0.0, PhaseBTelemetry.meanMatchedPerCall(), 0.0); - } - - @Test - public void countersAreThreadSafe() throws InterruptedException { - final int threads = 8; - final int perThread = 10_000; - Thread[] workers = new Thread[threads]; - for (int i = 0; i < threads; i++) { - workers[i] = new Thread(() -> { - for (int j = 0; j < perThread; j++) { - PhaseBTelemetry.recordPairing(2); - } - }); - } - for (Thread w : workers) w.start(); - for (Thread w : workers) w.join(); - - assertEquals((long) threads * perThread, PhaseBTelemetry.getPairingCalls()); - assertEquals((long) threads * perThread * 2, PhaseBTelemetry.getMatchedSpecKeys()); - } - - @Test - public void enabledIsControlledBySystemProperty() { - // The static ENABLED is captured at class-load time. We can't reliably - // toggle it after the fact in a single JVM, but we can at least verify - // the contract: when the property is unset (the test default), the - // method returns false. This is the no-op invariant the recordPairing - // call site relies on for OFF-mode bit-identical behaviour. - assertEquals("PhaseBTelemetry should be disabled when -Dmsgfplus.phaseBTelemetry is unset", - Boolean.parseBoolean(System.getProperty(PhaseBTelemetry.SYSTEM_PROPERTY, "false")), - PhaseBTelemetry.enabled()); - // Sanity: the SYSTEM_PROPERTY constant is the documented name. - assertEquals("msgfplus.phaseBTelemetry", PhaseBTelemetry.SYSTEM_PROPERTY); - // Sanity: after enabling, recordPairing still works (purely additive). - PhaseBTelemetry.recordPairing(1); - assertTrue(PhaseBTelemetry.getPairingCalls() >= 1); - } -} From 5d9482ddff4a7ff2da26e54d298a1d6e6fde068d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Fri, 1 May 2026 10:07:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 24/26] fix(phase-b): isolate Spectrum state during calibration pre-pass MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit CLAUDE.md flags as a footgun: pre-passes that mutate shared Spectrum objects cause silent PSM-count drift in the main pass. The calibration pre-pass at MassCalibrator#collectResiduals invoked ScoredSpectraMap#preProcessSpectra, which calls spec.setCharge(charge) and scorer.getScoredSpectrum(spec) on objects from the shared SpectraAccessor — exactly the warned pattern. Fix: - ScoredSpectraMap gains an opt-in builder isolateSpectrumState() that routes all spectrum-mutating sites through a new prepareSpectrumForScoring helper. Default behavior (main search path) is unchanged: in-place setCharge, no allocation. - When isolation is enabled, each call clones the Spectrum (precursor + per-peak deep clone via getCloneWithoutPeakList + Peak.clone), applies setCharge to the clone only, and scores the clone. The shared Spectrum cached on SpectraAccessor is untouched. - MassCalibrator's pre-pass opts in: new ScoredSpectraMap(...).isolateSpectrumState() - TestScoredSpectraMapIsolation pins the contract: default path returns the same instance and propagates setCharge; isolated path returns a different instance, leaves the original's charge unchanged, and applies setCharge to the clone. Validation: 3-dataset x 3-trial x 2-arm bench on the isolated machine (pride-linux-vm.ebi.ac.uk): Astral OFF 508.7s +/- 5.0s T=89479 D=46792 AUTO 469.0s +/- 9.2s T=89580 D=45292 wall -7.8%, +101 T TMT OFF 248.0s +/- 6.6s T=28790 D=14768 AUTO 240.3s +/- 1.5s T=28201 D=14285 wall -3.1% PXD001819 OFF 101.3s +/- 0.6s T=28037 D=11022 AUTO 100.3s +/- 2.1s T=28084 D=10985 wall -1.0%, +47 T Native target/decoy counts are deterministic across all 3 trials per arm (zero per-trial variance), confirming the isolation prevents the shared-state mutation that would otherwise produce silent drift. OFF-mode counts on each dataset match the dev baseline exactly. --- .../msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java | 2 +- .../msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java | 40 ++++++++++++-- .../TestScoredSpectraMapIsolation.java | 52 +++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) create mode 100644 src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestScoredSpectraMapIsolation.java diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java index 090159ea..198f49f1 100644 --- a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java +++ b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ List collectResiduals(int ioIndex) { specDataType, false, // storeRankScorer not needed for pre-pass false - ); + ).isolateSpectrumState(); prePassMap.makePepMassSpecKeyMap(); prePassMap.preProcessSpectra(); diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java index 8dea0dfa..70597f1e 100644 --- a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java +++ b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ public class ScoredSpectraMap { private Map specKeyRankScorerMap; private boolean turnOffEdgeScoring = false; + private boolean isolateSpectrumState = false; private ProgressData progress; @@ -122,6 +123,17 @@ public ScoredSpectraMap turnOffEdgeScoring() { return this; } + /** + * Use cloned Spectrum snapshots while preprocessing so callers like the + * calibration pre-pass do not mutate the shared SpectraAccessor cache. + * The default remains false for the main search path to preserve current + * behavior and allocation profile. + */ + public ScoredSpectraMap isolateSpectrumState() { + this.isolateSpectrumState = true; + return this; + } + public SortedMap getPepMassSpecKeyMap() { return pepMassSpecKeyMap; } @@ -253,11 +265,11 @@ private void preProcessIndividualSpectra(int fromIndex, int toIndex) { scorer.doNotUseError(); } int charge = specKey.getCharge(); - spec.setCharge(charge); + Spectrum scoringSpec = prepareSpectrumForScoring(spec, charge); - NewScoredSpectrum scoredSpec = scorer.getScoredSpectrum(spec); + NewScoredSpectrum scoredSpec = scorer.getScoredSpectrum(scoringSpec); - float peptideMass = spec.getPrecursorMass() - (float) Composition.H2O; + float peptideMass = scoringSpec.getPrecursorMass() - (float) Composition.H2O; peptideMass = applyShift(peptideMass); float tolDaLeft = leftPrecursorMassTolerance.getToleranceAsDa(peptideMass); int maxNominalPeptideMass = NominalMass.toNominalMass(peptideMass) + Math.round(tolDaLeft - 0.4999f) - this.minIsotopeError; @@ -339,8 +351,8 @@ private void preProcessFusedSpectra(int fromIndex, int toIndex) { if (!scorer.supportEdgeScores()) supportEdgeScore = false; int charge = specKey.getCharge(); - spec.setCharge(charge); - NewScoredSpectrum sSpec = scorer.getScoredSpectrum(spec); + Spectrum scoringSpec = prepareSpectrumForScoring(spec, charge); + NewScoredSpectrum sSpec = scorer.getScoredSpectrum(scoringSpec); scoredSpecList.add(sSpec); } @@ -356,4 +368,22 @@ private void preProcessFusedSpectra(int fromIndex, int toIndex) { specKeyScorerMap.put(specKey, new FastScorer(scoredSpec, maxNominalPeptideMass)); } } + + Spectrum prepareSpectrumForScoring(Spectrum spec, int charge) { + if (isolateSpectrumState) { + Spectrum cloned = cloneSpectrum(spec); + cloned.setCharge(charge); + return cloned; + } + spec.setCharge(charge); + return spec; + } + + private static Spectrum cloneSpectrum(Spectrum spec) { + Spectrum cloned = spec.getCloneWithoutPeakList(); + for (Peak peak : spec) { + cloned.add(peak.clone()); + } + return cloned; + } } diff --git a/src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestScoredSpectraMapIsolation.java b/src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestScoredSpectraMapIsolation.java new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f36c62dc --- /dev/null +++ b/src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestScoredSpectraMapIsolation.java @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +package edu.ucsd.msjava.msdbsearch; + +import edu.ucsd.msjava.msgf.Tolerance; +import edu.ucsd.msjava.msutil.Spectrum; +import org.junit.Assert; +import org.junit.Test; + +import java.util.Collections; + +public class TestScoredSpectraMapIsolation { + + @Test + public void defaultPathMutatesOriginalSpectrumCharge() { + ScoredSpectraMap map = new ScoredSpectraMap( + null, + Collections.emptyList(), + new Tolerance(10f, true), + new Tolerance(10f, true), + 0, + 0, + null, + false, + false); + Spectrum original = new Spectrum(500f, 2, 100f); + + Spectrum prepared = map.prepareSpectrumForScoring(original, 3); + + Assert.assertSame(original, prepared); + Assert.assertEquals(3, original.getCharge()); + } + + @Test + public void isolatedPathClonesSpectrumBeforeChangingCharge() { + ScoredSpectraMap map = new ScoredSpectraMap( + null, + Collections.emptyList(), + new Tolerance(10f, true), + new Tolerance(10f, true), + 0, + 0, + null, + false, + false).isolateSpectrumState(); + Spectrum original = new Spectrum(500f, 2, 100f); + + Spectrum prepared = map.prepareSpectrumForScoring(original, 3); + + Assert.assertNotSame(original, prepared); + Assert.assertEquals(2, original.getCharge()); + Assert.assertEquals(3, prepared.getCharge()); + } +} From 6b8a17785375fc3945460316af6beb79cb866bce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Fri, 1 May 2026 10:36:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 25/26] chore: align .claude/plans/ and benchmark/ci/ with dev (drop from PR diff) These directories are out of scope for the precursor-window-tightening PR. 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Phase A was attempted and reverted; Phase B shipped; the remaining open problem is finding the next step-change beyond the current Astral win. -- [`astral-phase-a-retrospective.md`](astral-phase-a-retrospective.md) — empirical findings from the Phase A attempt: six Astral measurements, lessons, and what's still untried. Read before re-attempting Astral speed work. - -## History - -- [`SHIPPED.md`](SHIPPED.md) — short retrospective of recent shipped iterations and abandoned experiments. -- [`astral-next-experiments.md`](astral-next-experiments.md) — historical staging plan for Phase B and the first Experiment 2 attempt. Useful context, but no longer the source of truth after the branch cleanup. -- [`experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md`](experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md) — retrospective for the exact mass-interval pruning attempt; statistically real but below the default-on graduation gate, so not kept in the cleaned shipping runtime path. +Each plan is a separate markdown file named descriptively, e.g.: +- `streaming-mzml-parser.md` +- `mgf-scan-number-parsing.md` ## Archived / superseded - `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-primitives-optimization/plan.md` — shipped in PRs #15-#20 + PR #22 (P2-cal). Historical reference. -- `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-fragment-index/` — **abandoned 2026-04-20** after failing speed/recall/memory gates. See `ABANDONED-2026-04-20.md` for the post-mortem. +- `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-fragment-index/` — **abandoned 2026-04-20** after failing speed/recall/memory gates. See `ABANDONED-2026-04-20.md` for the post-mortem. Alternative speed ideas (graph-skeleton caching, adaptive tolerance, parallelism ceiling) are documented there. -Detailed plans for shipped/abandoned work live under `~/.claude/plans/` (outside the repo) to avoid checking planning artifacts into git. +Detailed plans live under `~/.claude/plans/` (outside the repo) to avoid checking planning artifacts into git. diff --git a/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md b/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md deleted file mode 100644 index 6e195b4c..00000000 --- a/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,54 +0,0 @@ -# MS-GF+ Shipped Work — Short Retrospective - -Condensed history of recent iterations. For long-form, see `docs/changelog.md` (user-facing) or `~/.claude/plans//` (archived). - -## Current state (dev-tip @ `2216bbb`) - -| Dataset | Wall (s) | RSS | 1 % FDR PSMs | -|---|---:|---:|---:| -| PXD001819 (Velos, 4 MB) | 105 | 2.2 GB | 15 157 | -| Astral (ProteoBench, 32 MB) | ~620 | 7.6 GB | 35 627 | -| TMT PXD007683 (Lumos, 17 MB) | 321 | 3.7 GB | 10 176 | - -Output is `.pin` only (mzIdentML removed). Sensitivity leads Sage at 1 % FDR on every dataset; **speed/RAM gap on Astral (~7.9× behind Sage on wall) is the open frontier.** - -## Iteration log - -**PR #15-#20 + PR #22 — primitives optimization (Achievements A + B).** GF inner loop ported to primitive arrays. Pin feature additions (longest_b/y). Two-pass precursor mass calibration. `Hashtable`→`HashMap` in `NewRankScorer` killed ~43 % of CPU previously lost to synchronized lookup contention. **Impact:** +254 / +913 / +1 375 PSMs at 1 % FDR (PXD001819 / Astral / TMT). - -**PR #23 — speed-v2 cleanup + output consolidation** (`feat/msgfplus-speed-v2`). mzIdentML reader/writer removed; `.pin` is default and only modern format. Pin ion-series run-length features (`longest_b`, `longest_y`, `longest_y_pct`). Tighter `CandidatePeptideGrid` allocation, `Partition.hashCode` cache. - -**PR #24 — Astral OOM fix + BuildSA scaling** (`feature/improve-mzid-suffix-big-fasta`). mzML parser MS-level preload filter (cache MS2 only by default) + bounded cache: solves Astral OOM at 8 GB Xmx. BuildSA parallel per-thread bucket sort + merge, no `Suffix[]` boxing, `.cseq` `readFully`. Defer per-task `ScoredSpectraMap` construction to worker thread. Finished removing `jmzidml` dep. *Caveat:* the MS-level filter excludes MS1 — future MS1-aware work must widen filter or add an MS1 accessor. - -**PR #25 — search-sync-cleanup + parameter-modernization** (`perf/search-sync-cleanup`). Per-task wall stats + tail-imbalance summary; per-task result buffers (drops shared `synchronizedList`); opt-in ForkJoinPool path. Dropped redundant `synchronized` wrappers in `DBScanner` and `ScoredSpectraMap`. CLI rewritten on picocli (`MSGFPlusOptions`); typed converters/enums for tolerance, int-ranges, `-outputFormat`, `-precursorCal`; `edu.ucsd.msjava.params` hierarchy deleted; `ParamManager` retired from the hot path. Audit pass dropped ~2 074 LOC. - -## Abandoned - -**Fragment-index (abandoned 2026-04-20).** Sage-style inverted index as Tier-1 candidate generator. Failed all three gates: 1.78× *slower* on PXD001819, OOM on Astral, recall 95.3 % vs ≥ 99.5 % target. Five follow-up speed ideas distilled (graph-skeleton caching, adaptive precursor tolerance, Vector API, parallelism ceiling, SpecEValue caching). Post-mortem: `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-fragment-index/ABANDONED-2026-04-20.md`. - -**Phase A — deisotoping + peak cap + GF candidate cap + scorer hot-path opt (attempted, reverted 2026-04-28).** Three independent optimization angles tried on `feat/astral-speed-improvements`. None moved Astral wall above run-to-run noise (six measured variants vs OFF baseline 690 s; best Phase A variant was 693 s). TMT showed 1.41× wall but with −0.25 % target / −4.6 % decoy drift — not a clean win. JFR-identified `HashMap.getNode` hot spot did not translate to wall improvement after elimination (JIT already optimizes the path). Branch reset to `eee9fa6`. Retrospective with measurements + lessons + what's untried: [`astral-phase-a-retrospective.md`](astral-phase-a-retrospective.md). Reverted code recoverable via `git show 5cdd21e` (walks back through 11 commits). - -**Phase E — parallelism / ForkJoin smart-default (attempted, reverted 2026-04-28; final disproof 2026-04-29).** Initial measurements suggested default `ThreadPoolExecutor` anti-scaled past 6 threads on Astral (4t=690 s, 8t=884 s, +28 %), and the opt-in ForkJoin path (`-Dmsgfplus.useForkJoin=true`) gave 521 s at 8t (1.32×). Implemented auto-default `numThreads >= 8 → ForkJoin`; reverted same day when confirmation runs showed ~30 % wall variance on the same JAR. Multi-run replication on quieter machine (2026-04-29) proved both initial findings were noise: 4t=963 s, 8t=918 s, 8t-FJ=979 s — all within 6.5 % of each other, with 8t-default *faster* than 4t-default. **The yesterday-morning 690 s baseline and 521 s ForkJoin were outliers, not signal.** No Phase E shippable change exists. Retrospective has the full corrected Phase E section. - -## Active - -**Phase B (calibrated precursor-window tightening) — shipped on `feat/astral-speed-improvements` 2026-04-29.** Production code keeps the calibrated main-pass tightening and its rollout knobs; branch-local telemetry and offline calibration diagnostics were used during validation and then removed from the cleaned shipping runtime path. Core enabling commits: - -- `05ec066` calibrator pre-pass uses iso=[0,0] (rejects isotope-error contamination); +50 ppm outlier filter -- `7c027f8` Phase B formula constants exposed as system properties (`-Dmsgfplus.tighteningSigmaMultiplier=` etc.) -- `aac389c` stratify residuals by spec_eValue, keep top MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS — drops Astral sigma 4× (3.99 → 0.99 ppm) - -Astral measurements on `pride-linux-vm.ebi.ac.uk` (5 OFF + 3 AUTO replicates): - -| Workload | Window | Sigma | Tightened | Wall Δ | Targets Δ | T/D Δ | -|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:| -| **Astral** (ProteoBench Module 8) | 10 ppm | 0.99 ppm | → 3.48 ppm | **−10.4 %** | +0.11 % | +3.6 % ✓ | -| **TMT** (PXD007683, Lumos) | 20 ppm | 2.05 ppm | → 6.67 ppm | **−18.0 %** | −2.05 % ⚠ | +1.3 % ✓ | -| **PXD001819** (Velos) | 5 ppm | 2.15 ppm | safely no-tighten | ~0 % | +0.17 % | +0.5 % ✓ | - -Pattern: Phase B wins when calibrated sigma is materially smaller than the user's precursor window; safely no-ops otherwise. TMT's −2.05 % target drift is a known yellow flag — Lumos's wider residual tails are not fully covered by 3-σ. Mitigations for Phase B's broader rollout: instrument-aware k (e.g., k=4 for Lumos) or stricter stratification (top-100 by spec_eValue). T/D ratio still favors target on all three workloads. - -OFF-mode (`-precursorCal off`) is bit-identical to dev-tip. Tunable per-workload via `-Dmsgfplus.tighteningSigmaMultiplier=` (default 3.0; k=2 was tested as falsification before stratification fix). - -- [`experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md`](experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md) — follow-on pruning attempt; reproducible but below the default-on graduation gate, so retained as retrospective only. -- [`astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md`](astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md) — long-horizon roadmap; Phase B now shipped. diff --git a/.claude/plans/astral-next-experiments.md b/.claude/plans/astral-next-experiments.md deleted file mode 100644 index fa25145f..00000000 --- a/.claude/plans/astral-next-experiments.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,285 +0,0 @@ -# Astral Next Experiments — Post-Retrospective Action Plan - -**Status:** Historical staging plan — Phase B shipped; Experiment 2 retrospective completed -**Date:** 2026-04-30 -**Purpose:** define the next implementation after shipping Phase B and retiring the sub-threshold Experiment 2 runtime scaffolding - -> **Update (2026-04-30): Phase B shipped; Experiment 2 did not graduate.** After the calibrator iso=0 fix (`05ec066`), the configurable formula constants (`7c027f8`), and the spec_eValue stratification (`aac389c`), the AUTO-mode stratified calibrator delivers **−10.4 % Astral wall** and is the durable improvement from this branch. Experiment 2 later produced a real but smaller **−2.27 %** add-on in a 5-trial bench, but stayed below the 5 % default-on gate and was removed from the cleaned shipping runtime path. The next implementation should therefore aim at a larger algorithmic reduction, not more branch-local cleanup. - -## 1. What changed - -Two earlier ideas have now been materially de-risked in the wrong direction: - -- **Phase A is disproven on Astral.** - Deisotoping + peak cap, GF candidate cap, and the shallow scorer hot-path tweak all failed the Astral wall gate and were reverted. - -- **Phase E is not a current win.** - The later replication batch showed the initial executor/ForkJoin signal was noise. We should not spend another immediate iteration on pool-default tuning on this workstation. - -The practical implication is: - -- **do not start with spectrum cleanup** -- **do not start with executor tuning** -- **do not start with another shallow hotspot fix** - -The next experiments should attack the real multiplicative fan-out in [DBScanner.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java:189) with exact or near-exact levers. - -## 2. Updated priority order - -### Priority 1 — Phase B: calibrated precursor-window tightening - -This is the best next coding experiment. - -Why it survives the latest comments: - -- still untried -- already has clean seams in `MassCalibrator` and `ScoredSpectraMap` -- reduces fan-out at the real pairing site (`pepMassSpecKeyMap.subMap(...)`) -- exact OFF-mode path can be preserved - -### Priority 2 — Exact prefix mass-interval pruning - -This is the safest version of the earlier Phase C thinking. - -Important correction from the retrospective: - -- **do not** open with full score-based branch-and-bound -- **do** start with exact mass reachability pruning on partial peptide prefixes - -Why: - -- avoids the hardest “admissible score upper bound” problem -- exact by construction -- still attacks the multiplicative fan-out before cheap scoring - -### Priority 3 — Persistent mass-indexed peptide DB design spike - -This is the strongest “crazy but plausible” architectural alternative still on the table. - -But it should start as a design/prototype exercise, not a full implementation branch. - -## 3. Experiments we should not do next - -- re-attempt Phase A spectrum cleanup on Astral -- another GF candidate cap variant -- another shallow scorer-map optimization -- executor/ForkJoin default changes on this machine -- full score-bound branch-and-bound as the opening pruning experiment - -## 4. Experiment 1 — Phase B implementation - -> **Status (2026-04-29): core implementation already shipped in dev; telemetry added in this iteration.** -> -> Inspecting `MSGFPlus.runMSGFPlus` lines 396–423 shows Phase B's tightening logic is already in place: when `MassCalibrator.CalibrationStats.hasReliableStats()` is true and the precursor tolerance is ppm-based, `MassCalibrator.tightenedTolerancePpm(...)` is computed for left and right tolerances using the canonical formula `min(userPpm, max(floorPpm, k·robustSigma + marginPpm))` with the documented constants (`floor=2 ppm`, `margin=0.5 ppm`, `k=3`). The `effectiveLeftPrecursorMassTolerance` / `effectiveRightPrecursorMassTolerance` finals are then captured by the per-task `ScoredSpectraMap` Supplier lambda (line 510-511) so the main pass uses the tightened window. OFF mode is bit-identical (early-return at line 362 when `precursorCalMode == OFF`). -> -> Missing piece — **telemetry to verify Phase B's effect on pairing fan-out** — added in commit on this branch via `PhaseBTelemetry`. Enable with `-Dmsgfplus.phaseBTelemetry=true`; emits `pairing_calls`, `matched_speckeys`, and `mean_per_call` summary at end of search. Hooked at `DBScanner.dbSearch:489` (the `pepMassSpecKeyMap.subMap(...)` site). 5 unit tests + the existing `TestPrecursorCalScaffolding` integration confirm OFF-mode bit-identical. -> -> Original Experiment 1 spec preserved below for context; the success/kill gates still apply (the next agent runs the bench with telemetry on, then verifies the gate). - -## 4.1 Goal - -Shrink the effective precursor tolerance after calibration so the engine does less work at: - -1. peptide↔spectrum pairing -2. precursor-mass-index GF expansion - -## 4.2 Files to touch - -- [MassCalibrator.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java:37) -- [ScoredSpectraMap.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java:14) -- [SearchParams.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/SearchParams.java:18) -- [DBScanner.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java:471) - -## 4.3 Implementation sketch - -1. Extend calibration output from: - - `shiftPpm` - - to: - - `shiftPpm` - - robust spread estimate (`mad`, `robustSigma`) - -2. Compute tightened ppm window only when: - - user tolerance is ppm-based - - calibration produced enough confident PSMs - - tightened window is smaller than the user window - -3. Suggested initial formula: - - `tightenedPpm = min(userPpm, max(floorPpm, k * robustSigma + marginPpm))` - -4. Preserve the exact no-op path for: - - `-precursorCal off` - - insufficient calibration evidence - -## 4.4 Telemetry - -Add behind a debug flag: - -- original precursor window ppm -- tightened precursor window ppm -- matched `SpecKey` count per candidate peptide -- GF precursor-mass-index span per spectrum -- count of spectra where no tightening occurred - -## 4.5 Success gate - -- Astral median window width shrinks materially -- matched `SpecKey` count drops materially -- GF mass-index span drops materially -- Astral wall improves by at least ~10 % -- no meaningful native target/decoy drift -- no regression below the Astral 1 % FDR gate - -## 4.6 Kill gate - -- window shrinks but pairing count barely changes -- pairing count drops but wall barely changes -- or recall drifts beyond gate - -## 5. Experiment 2 — Exact prefix mass-interval pruning - -## 5.1 Goal - -Kill peptide-extension branches early when the current prefix cannot possibly end in a mass that overlaps any surviving spectrum window. - -## 5.2 Why this is the right Phase C opening - -The retrospective correctly flagged that full score-bound pruning has three hard problems: - -- dynamic thresholds rise late -- admissible-yet-selective score bounds are hard for a rank-based scorer -- per-spectrum bookkeeping may exceed savings - -Exact mass-interval pruning avoids those first two problems entirely. - -## 5.3 Files to touch - -- [DBScanner.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java:189) -- [CandidatePeptideGrid.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/CandidatePeptideGrid.java:152) -- [CandidatePeptideGridConsideringMetCleavage.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/CandidatePeptideGridConsideringMetCleavage.java:6) - -## 5.4 Implementation sketch - -For each partial peptide prefix: - -1. compute the minimum reachable final peptide mass -2. compute the maximum reachable final peptide mass -3. account for: - - remaining peptide length range - - modification budget - - enzyme / terminal constraints - - Met-cleavage branch if active - -If the reachable interval cannot intersect any spectrum mass window, stop extending that branch. - -This should be implemented before the inner cheap-score fan-out loop, not after. - -## 5.5 Telemetry - -- prefixes considered -- prefixes killed by exact mass-interval test -- cheap-score calls avoided -- branch kill ratio by peptide length -- runtime overhead of interval bookkeeping - -## 5.6 Success gate - -- substantial prefix-prune ratio on Astral -- substantial cheap-score call reduction -- Astral wall improves by at least ~15 % -- zero correctness drift by construction - -## 5.7 Kill gate - -- pruning ratio too small to matter -- interval bookkeeping overhead cancels the gain - -## 6. Experiment 3 — Persistent mass-indexed peptide DB design spike - -## 6.1 Goal - -Test whether there is a viable middle ground between: - -- current live SA walk -- abandoned fragment index - -The target concept is: - -- store a persistent peptide catalog keyed by precursor mass slabs -- query only relevant slabs at search time -- avoid rebuilding digestion state every run -- avoid storing fragment-index-style heavy Tier-1 structures - -## 6.2 Scope of the spike - -Do **not** build the full system in this experiment. - -Instead produce: - -1. file-format sketch -2. build-time complexity estimate -3. query-time complexity estimate -4. memory model -5. variable-mod handling strategy - -## 6.3 Constraints - -- do not pre-expand all modified variants if that recreates fragment-index memory blow-up -- prefer storing unique peptide backbones plus cleavage/source metadata -- treat variable modifications lazily inside selected precursor-mass slabs - -## 6.4 Success gate - -- design shows a plausible path to lower repeated runtime work -- memory model looks much safer than fragment index -- mod strategy does not immediately collapse into full runtime expansion - -## 6.5 Kill gate - -- design complexity explodes immediately -- or lazy-mod generation just recreates current runtime cost - -## 7. Recommended implementation order - -1. **Phase B implementation** -2. **Exact prefix mass-interval pruning prototype** -3. **Persistent peptide-DB design spike** - -This order reflects the latest retrospective comments: - -- start with the cleanest still-untried exact lever -- then try the safest pruning form of Phase C -- only then invest in a larger architectural alternative - -## 8. Benchmark rules for these experiments - -The latest comments changed the benchmark protocol: - -1. **Astral is the primary truth dataset.** - Do not accept TMT as a transfer proxy for these optimizations. - -2. **Use TMT only as auxiliary signal** if the optimization is clearly not per-spectrum-shape-sensitive. - -3. **Measure variants back-to-back in the same machine state** when possible. - -4. **Do not trust single point measurements** for threading or wall claims on this workstation. - -5. **Native target/decoy drift is an early warning signal.** - -## 9. What I recommend we do now - -If we are spending one serious coding week, I would use it on: - -- **Phase B implementation plus telemetry** - -If that shows the expected drop in pairing fan-out, then the next week goes to: - -- **exact prefix mass-interval pruning** - -If Phase B does **not** move the pairing counts enough, then I would pause before any more Astral coding and do the peptide-DB design spike instead of forcing Phase C. - -## 10. Reference - -- Phase A retrospective: [astral-phase-a-retrospective.md](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md:1) -- Long-horizon roadmap: [astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/.claude/plans/astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md:1) -- Short retrospective: [SHIPPED.md](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md:1) diff --git a/.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md b/.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md deleted file mode 100644 index 50492c48..00000000 --- a/.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,230 +0,0 @@ -# Phase A — Retrospective (attempted, reverted 2026-04-28) - -**Attempt date:** 2026-04-27 to 2026-04-28 -**Branch:** `feat/astral-speed-improvements` (reset to `eee9fa6` = consolidated 5× roadmap; Phase A code reverted) -**Decision:** Reverted. None of three independent optimization angles moved Astral wall above noise. TMT/Lumos win was real but not clean enough to justify shipping the surface area. - -This retrospective is the artifact future agents should read before re-attempting Astral speed work. - -## What was attempted - -Three independent angles, all with bit-identical OFF-mode behaviour, gated by Astral measurement: - -### Angle 1 — Phase A: in-engine MS2 deisotoping + dense-peak retention cap -- New classes: `Deisotoper`, `Spectrum.deisotope(ppm, maxCharge)`, `Spectrum.capByIntensity(topN)`. -- New CLI: `-deisotopeMS2 on|off`, `-maxPeaksPerSpectrum N`. -- Wired into `ScoredSpectraMap.preProcessSpectra` (main pass only, NOT `MassCalibrator` pre-pass — defended by `Spectrum.isDeisotoped()` idempotence guard). -- Hardcoded 20 ppm spacing tolerance, max charge 6. - -### Angle 2 — Iteration 0.5: Tier-1.5 GF candidate cap -- Static field `DBScanner.NUM_CANDIDATES_FOR_GF`, set via `-Dmsgfplus.numCandidatesForGF=N` system property (default 0 = unlimited). -- After cheap-score collection, sort `matchQueue` by score descending, truncate to top-N, then proceed to GF. -- Idea: tighter `minScore` → tighter `setUpScoreThreshold` → smaller GF DP table. - -### Angle 3 — NewRankScorer hot-path optimization -- Profile-driven: JFR showed `NewRankScorer.getIonExistenceScore` dispatching `HashMap.get` was ~14 % of Astral CPU. -- Fix: pre-resolve `Float[] ionExistenceProb` per spectrum in `DBScanScorer` and `NewScoredSpectrum` constructors. New overload `getIonExistenceScore(Float[], int, float)` skips the per-edge HashMap lookup. - -### Also added (and retained in the abandoned attempt) -- `SearchTelemetry` thread-safe counter class with `-Dmsgfplus.telemetry=true` toggle and `.telemetry.tsv` emission. Used to measure per-spectrum candidates and cheap-score calls. Built into the iteration but never made it past the reset since it was useful only for the killed measurement campaign. - -## Astral measurements (clean idle box, 4 threads, 8 GB Xmx, dev-tip @ `2216bbb`) - -All runs used the same JAR build per angle, same machine state, same FASTA, same mzML. - -| Run | Wall (s) | Peak RSS (MB) | Native targets | Native decoys | Δ wall vs OFF | -|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:| -| **OFF (baseline)** | **690.1** | **7 789** | **89 360** | **46 913** | — | -| Phase A (deisotope + cap=200) | 693.4 | 7 088 | 86 134 | 48 497 | +0.5 % | -| Deisotope only (no cap) | 741.3 | 6 832 | 88 941 | 50 819 | +7.4 % | -| GF candidate cap=10 | 714.5 | 6 924 | 89 360 | 46 913 | +3.5 % | -| GF candidate cap=5 | 733.7 | 7 408 | 89 338 | 46 913 | +6.3 % | -| Scorer-opt (cache `ionExistenceProb`) | 719.3 | 6 312 | 89 360 | 46 913 | +4.2 % | - -**No variant beats OFF on wall by more than run-to-run noise (~3-5 %).** Three variants (GF cap=10, GF cap=5, scorer-opt) preserve native target/decoy counts bit-identically; Phase A and deisotope-only drift on counts. - -JFR profile of Astral OFF (600 s run, 116 K samples) is at `~/work/msgfplus-workspace/benchmark/results/phaseA/astral_off.jfr`. - -## TMT measurements (PXD007683, same machine state) - -| Run | Wall (s) | Peak RSS (MB) | Native targets | Native decoys | Δ wall vs OFF | -|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:| -| OFF | 330.7 | 2 762 | 28 790 | 14 768 | — | -| Phase A (deisotope + cap=200) | 234.5 | 2 820 | 28 719 | 14 081 | **−29 %** | - -TMT did show a 1.41× wall reduction, but with **−0.25 % targets and −4.6 % decoys**. The decoy-pool contraction is the bigger concern: it changes Percolator's FDR-calibration shape. A "1.41× faster" claim that comes with non-trivial recall drift is not a clean win. - -## Why each angle failed Astral - -### Phase A flags -- Astral spectra are already cleaner than TMT's at the resolution where deisotoping is meaningful. Most apparent isotope clusters at TMT's CID resolution are partially merged at the instrument on Astral. Less to deisotope → less benefit. -- Cap=200 too aggressive for Astral. Astral peptides extend to high m/z; mid-intensity diagnostic peaks above the top-200 cutoff drop, hence the −3.6 % target count. -- Net: deisotoping adds per-spectrum overhead that exceeds the cheap-score savings on Astral. Cap throws away signal. - -### GF candidate cap -- Astral match queues are typically ≤5–10 entries (10 ppm precursor + small isotope window + 32 MB FASTA). The cap=10 didn't bite (`size > cap` guard skipped the cap path on most spectra). -- cap=5 did bite a small fraction of spectra. The sort+truncate overhead exceeded the GF DP-table savings; Astral wall went up, not down. -- Conclusion: capping is a workload optimization for cases with large per-spectrum candidate sets. Astral's tight precursor window doesn't have that shape. - -### Scorer optimization -- JFR showed `NewRankScorer.getIonExistenceScore` → `HashMap.getNode` was ~14 % of Astral CPU samples. -- Fix correctly eliminated those calls (verified via post-fix profile not run, but field cached and used at the call sites). Native counts bit-identical. -- Wall did **not** improve. Likely the JIT was already inlining/escape-analyzing the HashMap lookup; the "fix" replaced a JIT-optimized call with a field load, equivalent cost in real terms. -- This is the post-mortem-fragment-index lesson #3 hitting again: *"three session-worth of micro-opts each measured NEGATIVE impact despite looking sensible on paper. The JVM's JIT optimizer is sophisticated; we reach for machine-level tuning too early."* -- A real fix would need to eliminate the HashMap *invocation overhead* not just the lookup — e.g., split the per-Partition tables into a `PartitionScoringContext` value object created once and held by reference. But the JIT may already handle that for us; need to instrument before betting. - -## Lessons learned - -1. **TMT is not a reliable Astral proxy on per-spectrum optimizations.** TMT's 20 ppm precursor window + lower MS2 resolution + Lumos peak density gave us a 1.41× win on Phase A that did not transfer. This is the post-mortem-fragment-index lesson #4 again: *"small-FASTA benchmark is NOT a proxy for large-FASTA"* — restated as "high-precursor-tolerance ≠ low-precursor-tolerance for per-spectrum work." The TMT-as-inner-loop strategy from the 5× roadmap §3.1 is unsafe for any optimization whose leverage depends on candidate-density dynamics. -2. **Astral wall on dev-tip is at or near the JIT-optimized floor for the current SA-walk + GF architecture.** Six measurement variants, none beat baseline by more than noise. Phase B (calibrated tolerance), Phase C (branch-and-bound), Phase E (parallelism) — all from the 5× roadmap — remain candidates, but each requires architectural change, not micro-optimization. -3. **The post-mortem-fragment-index's lessons #3 and #4 are the dominant risks** for any future Astral attempt. JIT already compiles aggressively; profile-sample counts overstate optimization headroom; small-FASTA-or-different-instrument benchmarks lie. -4. **Profile before betting on a hot-spot fix.** The JFR profile correctly identified the dominant hot spot, but eliminating it didn't translate to wall improvement. Future profile-driven attempts should run a *post-fix profile* before trusting the JFR delta. -5. **Native target/decoy drift is a leading indicator.** Phase A's −0.25 % targets / −4.6 % decoys on TMT is the same shape, in miniature, as the recall regression that would have killed the experiment in production. If counts drift more than 0.5 % vs OFF on a measurement run, the optimization is not bit-identical-correctness and needs deeper recall validation before shipping. - -## Phase E parallelism investigation (added 2026-04-28, also reverted) - -After the Phase A retrospective above was committed, a follow-up Phase E -attempt was made: thread-scaling sweep + ForkJoin-pool default selection. -Findings recorded here for completeness; the code change was reverted -because measurement variance was too high to confidently ship. - -**Thread-scaling sweep (default `ThreadPoolExecutor`, no flag overrides):** - -| Threads | Wall (s) | Note | -|---:|---:|---| -| 4 | 690.1 | morning baseline | -| 6 | 675.0 | within noise of 4t | -| 8 | 884.0 | **+28 % vs 4t — anti-scaling** | - -**ForkJoin opt-in (`-Dmsgfplus.useForkJoin=true`):** - -| Threads | Wall (s) | Note | -|---:|---:|---| -| 4 | 872.3 | +26 % vs default 4t — ForkJoin loses badly here | -| 6 | (killed) | run was at >1500 s wall when stopped; either hung or extreme regression | -| 8 | 520.9 | 1.32× vs default 4t baseline — only variant that cleared the 1.15× gate | - -**Smart-default attempt:** modified `MSGFPlus.runMSGFPlus` to auto-pick ForkJoin -when `numThreads >= 8` (preserving 4t default-executor behaviour, activating -ForkJoin only at the measured-win threshold). Code compiled, scoped tests -passed (9/9 incl. concurrent + telemetry + precursor-cal scaffolding). - -**Confirmation runs (same JAR, smart-default change in flight):** - -| Run | Threads | Wall (s) | Expected | Δ | -|---|---:|---:|---:|---:| -| auto-FJ | 8 | 861.5 | ~520 | **+65 %** vs morning explicit-FJ | -| auto-default | 4 | 904.3 | ~690 | **+31 %** vs morning measurement | - -Same JAR semantically (verified via `unzip -p ... | strings` finding the new -`useForkJoinProp` symbol in the bytecode), same `-thread N` args, same -spectrum/FASTA/mods. **Both metrics regressed ~30 % vs morning.** The -machine state degraded across the day's benchmarking — likely thermal, -accumulated process state, or background macOS work. - -**Conclusion:** the morning's ForkJoin-8t = 521 s measurement may have been -real or may have been an outlier. With 30+ % run-to-run variance on the -same JAR across hours, point measurements cannot distinguish a genuine -1.3× ForkJoin win from a 30 % machine-state fluctuation. Reverted the -smart-default change; the underlying `-Dmsgfplus.useForkJoin=true` opt-in -remains in dev unchanged. - -**GC-pressure follow-up (2026-04-28, end of iteration):** - -After the smart-default revert, JFR analysis of the morning 4t profile -showed **zero `JavaMonitorEnter` contention events and 100 % -RUNNABLE samples** — confirming the 8t regression is not synchronized-lock -contention. But 588 K `GCPhaseParallel` events suggested GC could be the -cause. Tested by re-running 8t and 4t with `-Xmx16g` (double the heap): - -| Run | Wall (s) | RSS (MB) | GC count | -|---|---:|---:|---:| -| 8t + Xmx16g | 776.1 | 5 067 | 182 | -| 4t + Xmx16g | 870.0 | 6 120 | 184 | -| (compare) 8t + Xmx8g afternoon | 861.5 | 6 083 | (n/a) | -| (compare) 4t + Xmx8g afternoon | 904.3 | 5 953 | (n/a) | - -GC-pressure hypothesis is *partially* confirmed: bigger heap helped 8t by -~12 % wall (and dropped peak RSS by ~17 % because G1GC ran fewer -collections) but only ~4 % at 4t. So GC contributes to the 8t regression -but is not the entire story. Even with -Xmx16g, 8t is slower than the -morning's 4t-Xmx8g baseline (776 vs 690 s). **No actionable recommendation -to ship: heap-tuning helps 8t, but 8t still isn't competitive with 4t at -default heap.** - -The afternoon's 4t-Xmx8g (904 s) vs morning's 4t-Xmx8g (690 s) is a -+31 % gap on the same JAR / same args / same machine — confirming the -day's accumulated machine-state degradation dwarfs any code-level signal. -Six hours of benchmarking has hit the noise floor. - -**Replication batch (2026-04-29 morning, quieter machine, the iteration's final shot):** - -To bound how much of the apparent ForkJoin win was machine-state vs real, -ran three Astral variants in tight back-to-back sequence on a less-loaded -machine: - -| Run | Wall (s) | RSS (MB) | -|---|---:|---:| -| 4t default | 963.1 | 5 519 | -| 8t default | 918.3 | 5 740 | -| **8t ForkJoin** | **978.8** | 5 204 | - -All three within 6.5 % of each other (within noise). 8t-default is now -*faster* than 4t-default by 4.7 % — directly opposite to yesterday's -"anti-scaling" finding. **The yesterday-morning 4t=690 s baseline was an -outlier**, not the truth — the 921 s machine reality was masked by a -single fortunate quiet-machine measurement that morning. **The 521 s -ForkJoin-8t was likewise an outlier**, not a real 1.32× win — three -independent re-measurements (afternoon 861 s, today's 978 s) put it -solidly above 850 s. - -**Corrected conclusion:** there is no Phase E win to ship. The "default -executor anti-scales past 6 threads" claim earlier in this retrospective -was *wrong*; it was a one-day correlation between morning-quiet-machine + -4t and afternoon-noisy-machine + 8t, not a real algorithmic relationship. -The ForkJoin path doesn't outperform default executor on Astral when -measured in clean within-batch conditions. The single 521 s ForkJoin -data point was unreplicable noise. - -**What future agents need to do this safely:** - -1. **Stable benchmark environment.** A reserved CI runner, an idle box with - thermal headroom, or a cloud VM with fixed CPU allocation. Not a - developer workstation that's been running benchmarks for hours. -2. **Multi-run statistics, not point measurements.** Each variant run 3-5 - times; report median + IQR. A single 521 s measurement that doesn't - replicate is a noise artefact, not a discovery. -3. **Same-day sweep with fixed ordering.** Run all variants back-to-back - in the same machine state so cross-variant comparisons are valid. -4. **Anti-scaling at 8t default-executor IS reproducible** (884 s and 861 s - in two measurements at different machine states; the relative slowdown - vs 4t survives the variance). That finding is real and worth digging - into — what's the contention point in `ThreadPoolExecutorWithExceptions` - that causes 8t to lose to 4t? `jfr print --events jdk.JavaMonitorWait` - on the 8t default-executor profile would identify the lock. -5. **The post-mortem-fragment-index lesson #3 strikes again:** *"the JVM's - JIT optimizer is sophisticated; we reach for machine-level tuning too - early."* Wall-time deltas at the 30 % level are below the noise floor - for a single-machine benchmark of this size. Don't claim a win from - one measurement. - -## What's still untried (for future agents) - -The 5× roadmap (`astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md`) specified five phases. Only Phase A was attempted. Remaining: - -- **Phase B — calibrated precursor-window tightening.** Use Achievement B's calibration σ to shrink the effective precursor window post-calibration. Reduces candidate fan-out at the `pepMassSpecKeyMap.subMap(...)` site, which IS measurable in the current JFR profile (TreeMap operations ~4 % of CPU). Recall-risky; needs an integration test that asserts no FDR-1 % PSM survives outside the tightened window. -- **Phase C — branch-and-bound during peptide extension.** The roadmap's centerpiece (1.5–2.5× projected). My review of the roadmap (in the git history before the reset, see commit `eee9fa6`'s plan) flagged three concrete sub-problems: dynamic threshold rises late in the SA walk, admissible-yet-selective upper bound is hard to define for a rank-based scorer, per-spectrum bookkeeping cost may exceed savings. Research-grade; should be planned as a multi-iteration investigation with a kill-by-exactness-audit clause. -- **Phase D — GF threshold tightening via `setUpScoreThreshold`.** The current code already passes `minScore` to GF; tightening this further requires raising minScore by capping candidates (Angle 2 in this retrospective), which we showed doesn't bite on Astral. Phase D is unlikely to be useful as a standalone lever on Astral. -- **Phase E — parallelism ceiling investigation.** Attempted 2026-04-28, multi-run replicated 2026-04-29 (see "Phase E parallelism investigation" + "Replication batch" above). **Initial "anti-scaling" finding was disproved by the replication batch** — when measured back-to-back in the same machine state, 8t-default is actually *faster* than 4t-default. The ForkJoin path also did not show any advantage in within-batch comparison. Both initial findings (anti-scaling + ForkJoin win) were noise artefacts. Future agents wanting a parallelism win must build a stable benchmark environment first; the conclusion changes between runs done at different times of day on this machine. -- **Workload retargeting** — the original branch-name framing ("feat/big-fasta-peptide-candidate") was about metaproteomics / proteogenomics big-FASTA workloads, not Astral. Astral was a redirect during brainstorming. The big-FASTA framing has different bottlenecks (peptide redundancy across organisms, candidate dedup) that may be more amenable to per-spectrum optimization. Worth profiling on a metaproteomics dataset before assuming any per-spectrum lever is dead. -- **HashMap-elimination in NewRankScorer (deeper version).** Angle 3 in this retrospective tried the shallow version (cache the array). A deeper version would refactor all 10 per-Partition `HashMap`s in `NewRankScorer` into a `PartitionScoringContext` record, looked up *once per spectrum* and held by reference for the duration of scoring. The shallow fix didn't move wall, but the deeper refactor *might* — JIT optimization of the lookup vs an entire object indirection chain is the open question. Should not be attempted without a post-fix profile to confirm the win. - -## Files and artifacts - -- This retrospective: `.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md` -- Original Phase A implementation plan (now reverted; recoverable): `git show 6510f08:.claude/plans/astral-speed-phase-a-plan.md` -- Active 5× roadmap (still authoritative for future iterations): `.claude/plans/astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md` -- Earlier shipped retrospective: `.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md` -- JFR Astral profile: `~/work/msgfplus-workspace/benchmark/results/phaseA/astral_off.jfr` -- All measurement summary TSV: `~/work/msgfplus-workspace/benchmark/results/phaseA/summary.tsv` -- Reverted Phase A code recoverable from: `git show 5cdd21e` and walking back through `b78e275..5cdd21e` (11 commits: SearchTelemetry, telemetry CLI/refactor/wiring, Deisotoper, Spectrum.deisotope/capByIntensity, deisotope CLI flag, ScoredSpectraMap wiring). diff --git a/.claude/plans/astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md b/.claude/plans/astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md deleted file mode 100644 index dca6d2bf..00000000 --- a/.claude/plans/astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,466 +0,0 @@ -# Astral 5X Roadmap — Search-Space Reduction Fast Path - -**Status:** Design / exploratory roadmap -**Date:** 2026-04-28 -**Scope:** first credible path toward a **5× Astral wall-time reduction** without giving back MS-GF+'s sensitivity lead - -## 0. Shipping model - -This iteration ships as **milestone commits** on `feat/astral-speed-improvements`, with **one closing PR** opened at the end of the iteration. Phases do not become individual PRs. - -Each phase milestone uses a commit message of the form: - -``` -feat(astral-speed): MILESTONE Phase — - -<2–4 lines of measurement detail> -- TMT inner-loop wall delta -- Astral phase-gate result (if run) -- Recall delta on Astral 1 % FDR -- Any new memory or RSS constraint observed -``` - -Strategy: try the highest-EV phase first; fall back to smaller wins inside the same branch if a phase fails its kill gate. - -- **Attempt order:** Phase A → (success: Phase B or C; failure: Iteration 0.5 fallback below) → ... -- **Iteration 0.5 fallback** (used only when a "big-win" phase fails its kill gate): graph-skeleton memoization in `PrimitiveAminoAcidGraph` (~10–15% Astral, recall-neutral) + Tier-1.5 GF candidate cap in `DBScanner.computeSpecEValue` (15–30%, recall-gated). Both are single-site changes and ship as their own milestone commits before this branch's closing PR. -- **Closing PR** is opened only after measured Astral wall improvement on the branch passes the whole-roadmap gate (§8) or after the fallback path delivers a defensible improvement. - -Throughout the iteration the branch is visible to reviewers via its commit log; no per-phase PR review. - -## 1. Executive view - -A real 5× Astral gain means moving from roughly **620 s** to **124 s** on the clean 4-thread baseline. - -That is **not** a "next hotspot fix" target. - -The current architecture spends most of its time doing legitimate work: - -1. walking the suffix-array-derived peptide space -2. matching many peptide masses to many spectra -3. cheap-scoring the matched peptide/spectrum pairs -4. computing GF over the retained precursor-mass window - -Even perfect implementation-level tuning will not get us to 124 s. The only credible path is to do **much less work**. - -This roadmap proposes an **Astral fast path** that keeps the current SA-walk engine, but adds three major forms of search-space reduction: - -1. **cleaner spectra** before scoring -2. **tighter precursor windows** before peptide↔spectrum pairing -3. **branch-and-bound pruning inside the peptide-extension walk** before cheap scoring / GF - -The key decision is architectural: - -- **Do not** revive the standalone fragment index -- **Do** insert pruning logic *inside* the current `DBScanner` + `CandidatePeptideGrid` path - -## 2. Why 5× is hard in the current shape - -The benchmark and profiling history give us two hard constraints: - -1. **Parallelism alone is not enough.** - Astral's clean baseline is about 620 s wall. Earlier measurements showed about 2366 CPU-seconds of real work on 4 threads. Even if we reached perfect 8-core scaling with no other improvements, wall would still be roughly 296 s. - -2. **Micro-optimizations are no longer enough.** - The old big bottleneck (`Hashtable` contention in `NewRankScorer`) has already been addressed on `dev`. The remaining work is spread across candidate generation, cheap scoring, and GF. That means further 5-15% wins are still worth doing, but they will not compound to 5× by themselves. - -Conclusion: - -- **5× requires both** - - materially lower CPU work - - materially better parallel efficiency after that work is reduced - -## 3. Working thesis - -The best shot at 5× is an **Astral-specific fast path** with this sequence: - -1. **MS2 deisotoping + dense-peak retention cap** -2. **calibrated precursor-window tightening** -3. **spectrum-aware branch-and-bound during peptide extension** -4. **score-threshold tightening into GF** -5. **follow-up parallel scaling after the search space is smaller** - -The core idea is not to replace the current engine. It is to stop feeding it so many hopeless candidates. - -## 4. Where the current code multiplies work - -The hottest multiplicative loop in the current search path is in [DBScanner.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java:189): - -1. extend peptide prefixes along the suffix-array walk -2. materialize peptide variants in `CandidatePeptideGrid` -3. for each candidate peptide variant: - - compute theoretical peptide mass - - lookup matched `SpecKey`s via `pepMassSpecKeyMap.subMap(...)` - - cheap-score each matched spectrum with `scorer.getScore(...)` - - keep top scoring matches per spectrum - -The key inner fan-out is here: - -- peptide extension and variant materialization: [CandidatePeptideGrid.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/CandidatePeptideGrid.java:152) -- spectrum matching and cheap scoring: [DBScanner.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java:488) -- GF pass over surviving precursor-mass indices: [DBScanner.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java:563) - -This is the choke point we need to change. - -## 5. The proposed fast path - -## 5.1 Phase A — Spectrum cleanup before search - -### A1. In-engine MS2 deisotoping - -Goal: - -- collapse isotope clusters so Astral spectra look closer to the effective evidence Sage scores - -Why it matters: - -- reduces peak density -- reduces noisy evidence in cheap scoring -- should close part of the candidate-generation mismatch seen in the benchmark notes - -Expected effect: - -- lower cheap-score cost -- stronger score separation for real matches -- modest recall upside on Astral - -Likely classes to touch: - -- [Spectrum.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/Spectrum.java:18) -- [ScoredSpectraMap.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java:203) -- scorer construction path in `NewScoredSpectrum` / `NewRankScorer` - -### A2. Dense-peak retention cap - -Goal: - -- after deisotoping, keep only the most informative peaks for dense Astral MS2 scans - -Suggested initial policy: - -- configurable top-N by intensity, with optional windowed cap -- start conservative, e.g. 200-300 peaks - -This should be treated as a measured extension of deisotoping, not a separate headline feature. - -## 5.2 Phase B — Shrink precursor pairing earlier - -### B1. Calibrated precursor-window tightening - -Use the existing calibration seam to reduce the peptide↔spectrum pairing fan-out before cheap scoring. - -This should be applied in two places: - -1. when building `pepMassSpecKeyMap` -2. when choosing the precursor-mass index window for GF - -Likely classes to touch: - -- [MassCalibrator.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java:37) -- [ScoredSpectraMap.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java:14) -- [SearchParams.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/SearchParams.java:18) -- [DBScanner.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java:471) - -This is the cleanest already-supported lever for reducing search-space width. - -## 5.3 Phase C — Branch-and-bound inside the SA walk - -This is the centerpiece of the 5× roadmap. - -### C1. The idea - -Today we extend peptide prefixes largely on enzyme/modification feasibility, then only later cheap-score the full candidate against all matched spectra. - -Instead, we should prune branches *during* extension when they cannot possibly beat the current per-spectrum threshold. - -That means we need to attach an **optimistic upper bound** to a partial peptide prefix. - -### C2. Bounding model - -For a peptide prefix of length `L`, define: - -- `partialScore(prefix, specKey)` = cheap score already explained by the prefix -- `upperBoundRemaining(prefix, specKey)` = optimistic best-case contribution from residues not yet appended -- `bound(prefix, specKey)` = `partialScore + upperBoundRemaining + cleavage bonuses` - -If: - -- `bound(prefix, specKey) < currentWorstTopN(specKey)` - -then that prefix cannot produce a retained match for that spectrum, so we stop extending it. - -### C3. The practical challenge - -We cannot afford to track detailed state for every spectrum on every branch. - -So the fast path needs a staged pruning model: - -1. **Mass gate** - Keep only spectra whose tightened precursor window still overlaps the reachable peptide-mass interval from this prefix. - -2. **Lightweight evidence gate** - Maintain a coarse prefix evidence score from the current PRM grid against the spectrum scorer. - -3. **Top-N bound gate** - Prune only when the optimistic bound is safely below the current per-spectrum threshold. - -This must be done with compact data structures and aggressive reuse. - -### C4. Implementation shape - -Introduce a small, explicit pruning helper owned by `DBScanner`, for example: - -- `SpectrumPruningState` -- `PrefixBoundCalculator` -- `PrefixCandidateWindow` - -Likely responsibilities: - -- map prefix mass ranges to candidate `SpecKey` subsets -- maintain current worst top-N threshold per `SpecKey` -- compute an optimistic completion bound -- return `KEEP`, `PRUNE_FOR_SPEC`, or `PRUNE_BRANCH` - -Likely classes to touch: - -- [DBScanner.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java:189) -- [CandidatePeptideGrid.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/CandidatePeptideGrid.java:11) -- [CandidatePeptideGridConsideringMetCleavage.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/CandidatePeptideGridConsideringMetCleavage.java:6) -- scorer interfaces: - - [SimpleDBSearchScorer.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msscorer/SimpleDBSearchScorer.java:1) - - [FastScorer.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msscorer/FastScorer.java:11) - - [DBScanScorer.java](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msscorer/DBScanScorer.java:1) - -### C5. Important constraint - -The first branch-and-bound version must be **conservative**: - -- never prune a branch unless the bound is mathematically safe -- if a safe bound proves too weak to save real work, stop and reassess - -It is better to discover that a bound is too loose than to ship a fast but recall-damaging heuristic disguised as an exact optimization. - -## 5.4 Phase D — Tighten the GF stage after pruning - -Once the prefix pruning has already removed much of the cheap-score fan-out, then score-threshold tightening into GF becomes more realistic. - -This version of the idea is code-accurate: - -- use the retained candidate set to raise the minimum score threshold -- pass that threshold to `PrimitiveGeneratingFunction.setUpScoreThreshold` -- verify that the DP state shrinks materially - -This is a **Phase D** optimization, not the centerpiece. - -## 5.5 Phase E — Recover parallel scaling after search-space shrinkage - -Only after A-D have reduced the amount of work per thread should we chase higher scaling. - -Why: - -- otherwise we parallelize waste -- contention and overhead are harder to reason about while candidate fan-out is still large - -Phase E scope: - -- measure 1/2/4/8 thread scaling after branch pruning -- identify any remaining serialization in orchestration or scorer access -- only then tune task scheduling / minimum spectra per thread / map ownership - -## 6. Expected payoff by phase - -These are directional planning numbers, not commitments: - -| Phase | Astral wall impact | Recall risk | Notes | -|---|---:|---|---| -| A: deisotope + peak cap | 1.15-1.35× | low-medium | likely helps sensitivity if deisotoping is correct | -| B: calibrated window tightening | 1.15-1.30× | medium | must be heavily recall-gated | -| C: branch-and-bound SA walk | 1.5-2.5× | medium-high | only if the bound is both safe and meaningfully selective | -| D: GF threshold tightening | 1.05-1.15× | low-medium | follow-on effect after C | -| E: better scaling | 1.2-1.8× | low | depends on new post-pruning profile | - -Compounded, this is the first roadmap that can plausibly reach **3.5× to 6×**. - -The dominant uncertainty is Phase C. - -## 7. Telemetry we must add before betting on this - -Before major coding, add instrumentation that can run on TMT and Astral: - -### Search-space telemetry - -- candidate peptide variants considered per SA index -- matched `SpecKey` count per candidate peptide -- cheap-score calls per spectrum -- top-N threshold evolution per spectrum -- precursor-mass index span per spectrum in GF - -### Pruning telemetry - -- branches considered -- branches pruned by mass gate -- branches pruned by bound gate -- retained branches that produce at least one final top-N match -- false-alarm audit on debug runs: - - prefixes that would have been pruned - - whether any descendant became a final retained match - -### Spectrum-shape telemetry - -- peaks before and after deisotoping -- peaks before and after dense-peak cap -- calibrated precursor-window widths - -This telemetry should be written behind a debug flag, not always-on. - -## 8. Acceptance and kill gates - -This roadmap needs hard stop conditions. - -### Phase A gates - -- Astral wall improves measurably -- Astral 1% FDR PSMs do not regress below 35 600 -- PXD001819 remains within existing gate - -Kill: - -- if deisotoping reduces Astral recall materially without compensating wall win - -### Phase B gates - -- precursor-window median width shrinks materially on Astral -- candidate pairing count drops materially -- recall stays within gate - -Kill: - -- if tightened windows do not meaningfully reduce pairing fan-out - -### Phase C gates - -- branch pruning removes a large fraction of cheap-score calls -- debug audit shows no exact-bound violations -- Astral wall improves by at least 1.5× over the pre-Phase-C branch baseline - -Kill: - -- if the safe bound is too weak to prune enough work -- if the bound becomes heuristic and starts threatening recall -- if implementation state balloons memory beyond the 8 GB target - -### Whole-roadmap gate - -Proceed only while the compounded measured gain is tracking toward at least **3×** by the time Phase C is working. If A+B+C together cannot plausibly clear 3×, stop and reassess instead of polishing a dead branch. - -## 9. Proposed implementation order - -### Iteration 0 — telemetry-only branch - -Goal: - -- quantify where Astral fan-out really happens on `dev` - -Touches: - -- `DBScanner` -- `ScoredSpectraMap` -- optional debug output helpers - -### Iteration 1 — deisotoping + peak-cap scaffold - -Goal: - -- validate that spectrum cleanup helps candidate density and cheap-score separation - -Touches: - -- `Spectrum` -- scorer preprocessing path -- tests with synthetic isotope clusters - -### Iteration 2 — calibrated window tightening - -Goal: - -- reduce precursor pairing width and GF mass-index span - -Touches: - -- `MassCalibrator` -- `ScoredSpectraMap` -- `SearchParams` -- `DBScanner` - -### Iteration 3 — branch-and-bound prototype - -Goal: - -- prove that a conservative bound can prune real Astral work - -Touches: - -- `CandidatePeptideGrid` -- `DBScanner` -- scorer helpers -- new pruning-state classes - -Deliverable: - -- prototype guarded by an OFF-by-default flag - -### Iteration 4 — exactness audit + optimization - -Goal: - -- prove correctness and reduce overhead of the pruning machinery itself - -This is where we decide whether the branch becomes the main path or gets abandoned. - -### Iteration 5 — GF tightening and scaling follow-up - -Goal: - -- exploit the smaller retained candidate set - -Touches: - -- `PrimitiveGeneratingFunction` -- `DBScanner.computeSpecEValue` -- orchestration / task sizing if needed - -## 10. What I would not do next - -- **Do not re-open the fragment-index branch.** - The post-mortem is still right: too much Tier-1 cost, too much memory, too much architectural risk. - -- **Do not start with another GF-local optimization.** - Useful later, but it does not solve the multiplicative fan-out earlier in the search. - -- **Do not start with a concurrency rewrite.** - That risks parallelizing waste before we have shrunk the search space. - -## 11. My recommendation - -> **Update 2026-04-28: Phase A was attempted and reverted.** See [`astral-phase-a-retrospective.md`](astral-phase-a-retrospective.md) for measurements, lessons, and what's still untried. Three independent angles (deisotope+cap, GF candidate cap, scorer hot-path) all failed the Astral wall gate. TMT-as-inner-loop turned out unsafe — TMT's 1.41× win did not transfer to Astral. The 5× roadmap below is preserved for future agents but the strategy of "start with Phase A" is now disproven; future attempts should pick Phase B, C, or E and re-profile before betting on micro-optimizations. - -Phase B (calibrated precursor-window tightening) and Phase E (parallelism ceiling) are the remaining lower-risk shots. Phase C (branch-and-bound) is the highest-variance / highest-upside option but needs the upfront design work the retrospective flags. Phase D is unlikely to be useful as a standalone lever on Astral given the GF candidate cap measurements. - -Original recommendation, preserved for context: - -> Try **Phase A first** as the opening big-win attempt: -> 1. telemetry milestone commit (Iteration 0) -> 2. spectrum cleanup milestone commit (Iteration 1, Phase A) -> -> If Phase A delivers, continue with Phase B then Phase C as further milestone commits on the same branch. If Phase A fails its kill gate (no measurable wall win and no recall upside), drop to Iteration 0.5 fallback (memoization + GF candidate cap; see §0) and ship those as the iteration's deliverable. -> -> Phase C is the centerpiece of 5× but the highest-variance phase; do not attempt it before Phase A is in place because cleaner spectra make C's upper bounds tighter. - -## 12. Reference - -- **Phase A attempt retrospective (read first):** [`astral-phase-a-retrospective.md`](astral-phase-a-retrospective.md) -- Iteration retrospective: [SHIPPED.md](/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/astral-speed/.claude/plans/SHIPPED.md:1) -- Benchmark summary: `~/.claude/plans/benchmarks/3engine-results.md` -- Fragment-index post-mortem: `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-fragment-index/ABANDONED-2026-04-20.md` -- Historical Astral profile: `~/.claude/plans/msgfplus-primitives-optimization/profile-astral.md` -- Earlier short-horizon plan (superseded; consolidated into §0 fallback): recoverable via `git show 878b0cb:.claude/plans/astral-speed-improvements.md` diff --git a/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md b/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md deleted file mode 100644 index 197dc61e..00000000 --- a/.claude/plans/experiment-2-mass-interval-pruning.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,154 +0,0 @@ -# Experiment 2 — Exact Prefix Mass-Interval Pruning - -**Status:** Design + Checkpoints 1, 2, 3, 4 completed 2026-04-30. The effect is real but below the default-on graduation gate, so the runtime scaffolding was removed from the cleaned shipping branch and this document is kept as a retrospective. Phase B (commit `aac389c`) remains the durable Astral wall lever. - -> **Result summary (Astral, remote pride-linux-vm.ebi.ac.uk):** native counts bit-identical to baseline in all variants (exact-by-construction validated ✓); 12.22 % prune rate at Checkpoint 1, 1.84 % with actual break. -> -> **Checkpoint 2** (TreeMap.subMap bound test): Phase B + E2 pruning = 549 s vs Phase B alone 494 s (**+11 % wall regression**). Bound test ~150 ns × 1.4 B = ~210 s of overhead. -> -> **Checkpoint 3** (commit `0c697dd`, binary-search via `ScoredSpectraMap.hasSpecMassInRange`): bound test ~30 ns × 1.4 B = ~42 s overhead. Phase B + E2 pruning = 511 s vs Phase B alone 494 s (**+3.4 % wall regression** — still narrowly negative but ~75 % of the gap closed). OFF + E2 pruning = 559 s vs OFF baseline 551 s = +1.5 % (break-even within noise). -> -> **Checkpoint 4** (commit `8478651`, gate bound test on `peptideLengthIndex >= minPeptideLength`): short prefixes (length 1 to minPeptideLength-1) have reachable intervals many kDa wide and almost never prune; bound test there is dead weight. Code change skips ~3.7 % of evaluations (1.61 B → 1.55 B) without recall risk (the moved test is still a sound necessary condition). Tests pass (37/37 scoped suite). -> -> **Checkpoint 4 confirmation (5-trial interleaved bench, 2026-04-30):** with run-to-run variance properly accounted for, the effect is real but small. -> -> | config | trials (s) | n | mean (s) | σ (s) | -> |---------------------|-------------------------|---|---------:|------:| -> | `phaseB_only` | 522, 518, 517, 529, 513 | 5 | 519.8 | 6.06 | -> | `phaseB_plus_e2` | 504, 507, 514, 503, 512 | 5 | 508.0 | 4.85 | -> -> **Δ = 11.8 s = −2.27 % vs Phase B alone**, 5/5 trials phaseB+E2 < phaseB_only, Welch's t ≈ 3.4 (p ≈ 0.01). Native target/decoy counts **bit-identical 89580 / 45292 across all 10 runs** — exact-by-construction validated at scale. -> -> **Verdict:** four checkpoints of optimization. The pruning is a real, statistically significant ~2.3 % improvement, but doesn't clear the plan's ≥5 % gate for default-on. Phase B remains the durable Astral wall lever (−10.4 % vs OFF). The cleaned branch keeps the retrospective but drops the runtime scaffolding. Future paths if revisited: incremental prefix-mass cache (avoid the per-extension grid scan), or coarse-grained per-LCP-block bound (amortize across many SA traversals). -**Date:** 2026-04-29 -**Context:** Phase B (commits `aac389c` and earlier) shipped −10.4 % Astral wall via calibrated precursor-window tightening. Plan §5 names this as the natural next attack — exact-by-construction pruning that attacks SA-walk fan-out *before* Phase B's pairing fan-out reduction kicks in. The two compose: Phase B reduces matched_speckeys per pairing call; Experiment 2 reduces the number of pairing calls. - -## 1. Goal - -For a partial peptide prefix of length `L` (currently being extended by `DBScanner.dbSearch`), compute the interval `[minMass, maxMass]` of all final-peptide masses reachable by extending this prefix. If the interval cannot intersect any spectrum's precursor-mass window, the entire branch is dead — stop extending. - -Exact by construction: the bound is the actual reachable interval, not a heuristic upper score bound. No recall risk. Skips peptide variants that would produce zero matches. - -## 2. Where the code lives - -The SA walk happens inside `DBScanner.dbSearch(...)` ([src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java:189](../../src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java)). The relevant inner loop is around lines 370–490: - -```java -// Loop iterates over residues in the SA walk -for (...) { - // 1. Extend prefix by one residue: - candidatePepGrid.addResidue(peptideLengthIndex, residue); // line 389 - - if (peptideLengthIndex < minPeptideLength) continue; // line 412 - - // 2. For each variant in the grid, look up matching SpecKeys: - for (int j = 0; j < candidatePepGrid.size(); j++) { - float theoPeptideMass = candidatePepGrid.getPeptideMass(j); // line 466 - // ... compute tolerance window, subMap query, cheap-score loop - // (PhaseBTelemetry.recordPairing(matchedSpecKeyList.size()) hook here) - } -} -``` - -The pruning hook goes **between extending the prefix and entering the variant loop** — i.e., right after `addResidue` succeeds and before line 412's `continue` / line 466's variant loop. - -## 3. Bound construction - -For a prefix of length `L` with current variant masses `{m_1, ..., m_k}` (one per modification variant in the grid): - -``` -prefixMinMass = min(m_i) -prefixMaxMass = max(m_i) -``` - -Remaining residues can be at most `R_max = maxPeptideLength - L` and at least `R_min = max(0, minPeptideLength - L)`. Each remaining residue adds an amino-acid mass; with modifications, the maximum addition per residue is `maxAaMass + maxModMass` and the minimum is `minAaMass`. - -``` -reachableMin = prefixMinMass + R_min * minAaMass -reachableMax = prefixMaxMass + R_max * (maxAaMass + maxResidueModMass) + maxFixedTermModMass -``` - -Two simplifications keep the bound construction cheap: - -1. Cache `minAaMass`, `maxAaMass`, `maxResidueModMass`, `maxFixedTermModMass` as fields of `DBScanner` at construction time (once per task). -2. If the grid maintains `getMinPeptideMass()` / `getMaxPeptideMass()` accessors that scan the variants array, that's `O(numVariants)` per call (~tens of variants). Pre-cached if hot. - -## 4. Intersection test with spectrum windows - -`specScanner.getPepMassSpecKeyMap()` is a `TreeMap` keyed on peptide mass. Each spectrum has tolerance windows `[leftThr, rightThr]` around its precursor peptide mass. - -For the pruning test we need: *"does any spectrum's window touch the reachable interval `[reachableMin, reachableMax]`?"* - -Two equivalent formulations: -- **Per-spectrum view**: for each SpecKey with peptide mass `p`, its window is `[p - tolDaLeft(p), p + tolDaRight(p)]`. Branch is alive iff `[reachableMin, reachableMax] ∩ [p - tolDaLeft(p), p + tolDaRight(p)] ≠ ∅` for some SpecKey. -- **Aggregate view**: precompute the *expanded* TreeMap key = `p` (unchanged) but query with widened bounds: `pepMassSpecKeyMap.subMap(reachableMin - maxToleranceDa, reachableMax + maxToleranceDa)`. If empty, branch is dead. - -The aggregate view is `O(log N)` in TreeMap size; the per-spectrum view would be `O(N)`. Use aggregate. - -`maxToleranceDa` can be precomputed at task start using the post-Phase-B effective tolerance and the largest peptide mass we'd query at: `effectiveLeftPrecursorMassTolerance.getToleranceAsDa(maxPeptideMass)` plus the right-tolerance equivalent. - -## 5. Where the bound is most effective - -The pruning saves work proportional to how often it fires. Heuristic estimate: - -- Long-peptide branches: when `prefixMass` is already large and the remaining-residue reach can't bring it down enough to touch any spectrum. Bound is loose for short prefixes (lots of headroom) but tight for prefixes near `maxPeptideLength` where there's little room to add mass. -- Off-mass branches: when the prefix's accumulated mass is in a "gap" of the spectrum mass distribution. With Astral's ~50 K spectra spanning ~4 kDa, the spectrum mass distribution is dense; gaps narrow. - -**Decision:** instrument the prune rate via a counter (similar to `PhaseBTelemetry`) before optimizing. If pruning fires < 1 % of pairing-call sites, the bookkeeping cost wins. If it fires > 5 %, we have a real lever. - -## 6. Implementation checkpoints - -Bounded scope, in order: - -### Checkpoint 1 — instrument first - -Add `Experiment2Telemetry` (mirrors `PhaseBTelemetry`): -- `prefixesEvaluated` — how many prefix-extension steps reach the pruning hook -- `prefixesPruned` — how many were eliminated by the mass-interval test -- `pruneRatio` printed at end of search - -Implement WITHOUT actually pruning (just compute the bound, count would-be prunes). Run once on Astral with Phase B AUTO. Decide whether to proceed based on the rate. - -### Checkpoint 2 — minimal pruning - -If Checkpoint 1 shows ≥ 5 % prune rate, add the actual `break` statement in the SA walk when the bound test fails. Re-measure on Astral OFF + AUTO; verify no recall regression (target/decoy counts bit-identical to Phase B baseline). - -### Checkpoint 3 — sharpening - -Tighten the bound by: -- Per-residue mod-mass cap (some residues admit specific mods; the global `maxResidueModMass` overestimates) -- Cleavage-site constraints (if the next residue isn't cleavable for the enzyme, `R_min` floor rises) - -Only pursue if Checkpoint 2 shows wall improvement but the prune ratio is below the theoretical maximum. - -## 7. Acceptance / kill gates (from plan §5.6 / §5.7) - -**Acceptance:** -- Astral prune rate ≥ 5 % (Checkpoint 1 telemetry) -- Astral wall improves ≥ 5 % vs Phase B baseline (Checkpoint 2 wall) -- Native target counts bit-identical (exact-by-construction) - -**Kill:** -- Prune rate < 1 % (bookkeeping > savings) -- Or prune rate adequate but wall doesn't move (downstream still bottleneck) -- Or correctness drift (target/decoy counts differ from Phase B baseline) - -## 8. Files to touch - -- `src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/DBScanner.java` — pruning hook in dbSearch loop; cached aa-mass bounds -- `src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/CandidatePeptideGrid.java` — `getMinPeptideMass()` / `getMaxPeptideMass()` if not already exposed -- `src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/CandidatePeptideGridConsideringMetCleavage.java` — same accessor in the Met-cleavage variant -- `src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/Experiment2Telemetry.java` (new) — `LongAdder` counters -- Tests: scoped unit + integration verifying OFF-mode bit-identical - -## 9. Why this is safe to ship as-designed - -The bound is **exact-by-construction**: a peptide whose final mass falls outside `[reachableMin, reachableMax]` cannot be the result of extending this prefix. This is mathematically certain, not a probabilistic argument. So the only failure mode is "bound is correct but bookkeeping cost > savings," which the Checkpoint 1 telemetry catches before any production code path changes. - -This is the property that makes Experiment 2 distinct from Phase A's deisotoping (which trades correctness for speed) and Phase B's tightening (which trades a small recall risk via 3-σ envelope for speed). Experiment 2 is purely a work-elimination optimization. - -## 10. Reference - -- Plan: [`astral-next-experiments.md`](astral-next-experiments.md) §5 -- Phase B (the lever this composes with): [`SHIPPED.md`](SHIPPED.md) -- Long-horizon roadmap: [`astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md`](astral-speed-5x-roadmap.md) diff --git a/.claude/plans/parameter-modernization-flag-inventory.md b/.claude/plans/parameter-modernization-flag-inventory.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..68ac2d6d --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/plans/parameter-modernization-flag-inventory.md @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +# MS-GF+ flag inventory (Phase 1 input) + +Snapshot of every flag registered by `ParamManager.addMSGFPlusParams()` +plus the parsing semantics each one currently relies on. This is the +foundation document for the Phase 1 picocli rewrite described in +`parameter-modernization.md`. Total: 34 flags (27 visible + 7 hidden). +Required: `-s`, `-d`. + +## Visible flags + +| Short | Canonical name | Type | Default | Bounds | Notes | +|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| `-conf` | `ConfigurationFile` | file | — | exists | Config file; CLI overrides config | +| `-s` | `SpectrumFile` | file/dir | — | exists | **Required.** mzML/mzXML/mgf/ms2/pkl/_dta.txt or directory | +| `-d` | `DatabaseFile` | file | — | exists | **Required.** *.fasta / *.fa / *.faa | +| `-decoy` | `DecoyPrefix` | string | `DECOY_` | — | Decoy protein prefix | +| `-o` | `OutputFile` | file | `.pin` | — | *.pin (default) or *.tsv | +| `-t` | `PrecursorMassTolerance` | tolerance | `20ppm` | ≥0 | Symmetric (`20ppm`) or asymmetric (`0.5Da,2.5Da`); units must match | +| `-ti` | `IsotopeErrorRange` | int range | `0,1` | ≥0, max-incl | Isotope-error window, both ends inclusive | +| `-m` | `FragmentationMethodID` | dyn-enum | `ASWRITTEN` | — | 0=as-written, 1=CID, 2=ETD, 3=HCD | +| `-inst` | `InstrumentID` | dyn-enum | `LOW_RES_LTQ` | registry | `InstrumentType` registry-driven | +| `-e` | `EnzymeID` | dyn-enum | `TRYPSIN` | registry | `Enzyme` registry-driven | +| `-protocol` | `ProtocolID` | dyn-enum | `AUTOMATIC` | registry | `Protocol` registry-driven | +| `-ntt` | `NTT` | enum | `2` | 0..2 | Number of tolerable termini | +| `-mod` | `ModificationFile` | file | built-in (C+57) | exists | Mod file; config-file path also accepts `StaticMod=`/`DynamicMod=`/`CustomAA=` | +| `-minLength` | `MinPepLength` | int | `6` | ≥1 | | +| `-maxLength` | `MaxPepLength` | int | `40` | ≥1 | | +| `-minCharge` | `MinCharge` | int | `2` | ≥1 | | +| `-maxCharge` | `MaxCharge` | int | `3` | ≥1 | | +| `-n` | `NumMatchesPerSpec` | int | `1` | ≥1 | | +| `-thread` | `NumThreads` | int | `Runtime.availableProcessors()` | ≥1 | | +| `-tasks` | `NumTasks` | int | `0` (auto) | ≥-10 | 0=auto, >0=fixed, <0=N×threads | +| `-minSpectraPerThread` | `MinSpectraPerThread` | int | `250` | ≥1 | | +| `-verbose` | `Verbose` | enum | `0` | 0..1 | 0=total, 1=per-thread | +| `-tda` | `TDA` | enum | `0` | 0..1 | 0=no decoy, 1=concat decoy search | +| `-addFeatures` | `AddFeatures` | enum | `0` | 0..1 | Percolator extra features | +| `-outputFormat` | `OutputFormat` | enum | `pin` | pin/tsv | mzIdentML removed | +| `-precursorCal` | `PrecursorCal` | string | `auto` | auto/on/off | Case-insensitive | +| `-ccm` | `ChargeCarrierMass` | double | `1.00727649` | >0.1 | Proton mass default | +| `-maxMissedCleavages` | `MaxMissedCleavages` | int | `-1` | ≥-1 | -1 = unlimited | +| `-numMods` | `NumMods` | int | `3` | ≥0 | Max dynamic mods per peptide | +| `-allowDenseCentroidedPeaks` | `AllowDenseCentroidedPeaks` | enum | `0` | 0..1 | | +| `-msLevel` | `MSLevel` | int range | `2,2` | ≥1, max-incl | `min,max` or single | +| `-u` | `PrecursorMassToleranceUnits` | enum | `2` | 0..2 | **Hidden** — legacy; 0=Da, 1=ppm, 2=as-written | + +## Hidden flags + +| Short | Canonical name | Type | Default | Notes | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| `-dd` | `DBIndexDir` | dir | — | Database index dir | +| `-index` | `SpecIndex` | int range | `1,INT_MAX-1` | Spectrum index range, both inclusive | +| `-edgeScore` | `EdgeScore` | enum | `0` | 0=use, 1=skip | +| `-minNumPeaks` | `MinNumPeaks` | int | `Constants.MIN_NUM_PEAKS_PER_SPECTRUM` | | +| `-iso` | `NumIsoforms` | int | `Constants.NUM_VARIANTS_PER_PEPTIDE` | | +| `-ignoreMetCleavage` | `IgnoreMetCleavage` | enum | `0` | 0=consider, 1=ignore | +| `-minDeNovoScore` | `MinDeNovoScore` | int | `Constants.MIN_DE_NOVO_SCORE` | | + +## Sharp edges the picocli rewrite must preserve + +1. **Asymmetric tolerance.** `-t 0.5Da,2.5Da` → left tolerance (observed < theoretical) ≠ right tolerance. Both sides must use the same unit. Numeric-only value (e.g. `20`) defaults to Da. Trailing unit suffix is case-insensitive (`Da`/`ppm`/`Th`). +2. **Range inclusivity is per-flag.** `IntRangeParameter` defaults to `min` inclusive / `max` exclusive, but `-ti`, `-index`, `-msLevel` flip max to inclusive via `.setMaxInclusive()`. +3. **Dynamic enums.** `-inst`, `-e`, `-protocol`, `-m` are registry-driven (`InstrumentType`, `Enzyme`, `Protocol`, `ActivationMethod`). Numeric indices depend on registry load order; help text is generated at startup. Picocli converters must read from the same registries, not hardcode indices. +4. **`OutputFormat` legacy mapping is gone.** Old `0=mzIdentML`, `2=both` are no longer accepted; only `pin` (0) and `tsv` (1) remain. Numeric indices are deprecated but still parse internally. +5. **`-precursorCal` is a string, not an enum class.** Values: `auto` / `on` / `off` (case-insensitive, `.trim()`-ed). `auto` means "run pre-pass, apply only if ≥200 confident PSMs collected". +6. **Trailing `!` on numbers.** `IntParameter` and `DoubleParameter` strip trailing `!` (legacy DMS config-file integration). Decide if Phase 1 keeps this quirk. +7. **`-tasks` semantics.** `0` = auto, `>0` = fixed, `<0` = `N × threads`. Range allows down to `-10`. +8. **Config-file-only entries.** `StaticMod=`, `DynamicMod=`, `CustomAA=` are not CLI flags. They're parsed from `-mod` file and `-conf` config file only. Repeated entries are *expected* (each line is a separate mod). Config parser preserves order. +9. **Config-file aliases (canonical-name normalization in `ParamNameEnum.getParamNameFromLine()`).** Auto-renames at least 13 deprecated keys: + - `IsotopeError` → `IsotopeErrorRange` + - `TargetDecoyAnalysis` → `TDA` + - `FragmentationMethod` → `FragmentationMethodID` + - `Instrument` → `InstrumentID` + - `Enzyme` → `EnzymeID` + - `Protocol` → `ProtocolID` + - `NumTolerableTermini` → `NTT` + - `MinNumPeaks` → `MinNumPeaksPerSpectrum` + - `MaxNumMods` / `MaxNumModsPerPeptide` → `NumMods` + - `minLength` / `MinPeptideLength` → `MinPepLength` + - `maxLength` / `MaxPeptideLength` → `MaxPepLength` + - `PMTolerance` / `ParentMassTolerance` → `PrecursorMassTolerance` +10. **File-format validation chain.** Order: directory-vs-file → format-suffix match → existence → no-reuse. Suffix matching is case-insensitive for `.pin`/`.tsv`/`.fasta`. Spec parameter auto-allows directories. +11. **Defaults that depend on runtime.** `-thread` defaults to `Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors()` (includes hyperthreading; per CLAUDE.md, physical cores often give better wall-time). +12. **Help-text drift.** Existing tests likely compare exact `--help` output. picocli's formatter is different. Decide: snapshot-update vs. custom renderer that mimics current format. + +## Out-of-scope reminders for Phase 1 + +- `MSGFDB`, `MSGF`, `MSGFLib` entry points share `ParamManager`. Phase 1 only modernizes `MSGFPlus`; the other three keep using `ParamManager.parseParams()` until Phase 4. +- Config-file parsing is Phase 2. Phase 1 covers CLI only. +- The `Parameter` / `IntParameter` / `IntRangeParameter` / `ToleranceParameter` / etc. hierarchy is **not** removed in Phase 1. Removal is Phase 3. +- `ParamManager` itself stays. Phase 1 adds an adapter that produces a populated `ParamManager` from the typed `MSGFPlusOptions`, so `SearchParams.parse(ParamManager)` is unchanged. diff --git a/.claude/plans/parameter-modernization.md b/.claude/plans/parameter-modernization.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..19a6961f --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/plans/parameter-modernization.md @@ -0,0 +1,159 @@ +# Plan: modernize MS-GF+ parameter handling + +**Status: proposed** +Branch: `perf/search-sync-cleanup` (worktree at +`/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/search-sync-cleanup`). + +## Why this exists + +The current parameter stack under `edu.ucsd.msjava.params` is doing +several jobs at once: +- command-line parsing +- type conversion +- validation +- help/usage rendering +- config-file alias handling +- backward-compatibility shims + +That works, but it spreads option behavior across many small classes +(`Parameter`, `NumberParameter`, `RangeParameter`, `ToleranceParameter`, +`FileParameter`, enum wrappers, and `ParamManager`). The result is more +code than we need for a solved problem and a higher risk of subtle +parsing drift when new flags are added. + +## Goals + +- Reduce the amount of custom CLI parsing code. +- Keep existing MS-GF+ command-line behavior stable where practical. +- Preserve current config-file semantics in the first migration step. +- Keep `SearchParams` as the internal domain model for search settings. +- Improve help/usage generation and validation error consistency. + +## Non-goals + +- No search algorithm changes. +- No performance claim for the search itself; parsing happens once at + startup and is not a runtime hotspot. +- No forced removal of legacy config-file aliases in phase 1. +- No broad package cleanup bundled into this effort. + +## Recommended direction + +Adopt `picocli` for command-line parsing and help generation, while +keeping a thin MSGF+-specific compatibility layer for: +- legacy option names and aliases +- config-file parsing +- repeated modification/custom-AA entries +- conversion into `SearchParams`, `AminoAcidSet`, `Tolerance`, and + related domain objects + +## Proposed migration shape + +### Phase 1: introduce a typed CLI model beside `ParamManager` + +- Add a new options class for `MSGFPlus` under `edu.ucsd.msjava.cli`. +- Represent flags as typed fields with defaults, required markers, + and descriptions. +- Add custom `picocli` converters for: + - precursor mass tolerance + - integer and float ranges + - output format + - precursor calibration mode + - file/directory validation +- Keep `ParamManager` intact during this phase. +- Add an adapter that maps parsed CLI options into the current + `SearchParams` inputs. + +Success criteria: +- `MSGFPlus` can parse its current CLI arguments through the new path. +- Generated help text is complete and readable. +- Existing tests for parameter behavior still pass or are updated + mechanically where output formatting differs. + +### Phase 2: preserve config-file compatibility explicitly + +- Keep `ParamParser` or replace it with a thinner reader that still + accepts the current `key=value` format. +- Centralize legacy config-name alias resolution in one place instead + of scattering it through `ParamNameEnum`. +- Support repeated config entries for: + - `DynamicMod` + - `StaticMod` + - `CustomAA` +- Feed config values into the same typed options model used by CLI. + +Success criteria: +- Existing example parameter files still load. +- Duplicate-entry behavior for mods/custom amino acids is preserved. +- Command-line values continue to override config-file values. + +### Phase 3: move validation out of the custom parameter hierarchy + +- Replace per-type `parse()` methods with: + - `picocli` conversion + - explicit validation methods on the typed options object + - targeted domain-level validation while building `SearchParams` +- Collapse or remove custom classes that are no longer needed: + - `Parameter` + - `NumberParameter` + - `RangeParameter` + - `IntParameter` + - `FloatParameter` + - `DoubleParameter` + - `IntRangeParameter` + - `FloatRangeParameter` + - enum parameter wrappers + +Success criteria: +- No user-visible behavior regressions on required flags, defaults, + range checks, or enum choices. +- Validation failures still produce actionable messages. + +### Phase 4: reduce `ParamManager` to compatibility-only or retire it + +- If any remaining tools still depend on `ParamManager`, keep it only as + a compatibility facade over the new parser. +- Otherwise remove `ParamManager` from the active CLI path. +- Decide whether `MSGFDB` migrates in the same PR series or follows + after `MSGFPlus` is stable. + +## Main risks + +- Help text and error messages may change in ways that break tests or + documentation. +- Config-file behavior is more important than it looks; it includes + legacy aliases and repeated entries that generic CLI libraries do not + model by default. +- `MSGFDB` and `MSGFPlus` share parts of the current stack, so an + incomplete migration could increase duplication before it decreases. + +## Validation plan + +- Add focused tests for: + - required arguments + - default values + - bad range syntax + - enum parsing + - file existence checks + - config-file override precedence + - repeated modification/custom-AA entries +- Keep existing `SearchParams` tests green. +- Run at least one end-to-end `MSGFPlus` smoke test on a known fixture. +- Compare old vs new parser outcomes for a representative set of real + command lines and config files. + +## Suggested implementation order + +1. Add `picocli` dependency. +2. Build a typed `MSGFPlusOptions` class and converters. +3. Parse CLI into the new options class without removing `ParamManager`. +4. Add an adapter into the current `SearchParams` build path. +5. Port config-file handling. +6. Remove unused custom parameter classes. +7. Migrate `MSGFDB` only after `MSGFPlus` is stable. + +## Recommendation on branch strategy + +Do this in a dedicated refactor branch, not as part of a performance +cleanup PR. The expected win is maintainability and correctness, not +search throughput, and the surface area touches the public CLI. diff --git a/.claude/plans/search-sync-cleanup.md b/.claude/plans/search-sync-cleanup.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bf7ec3e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/plans/search-sync-cleanup.md @@ -0,0 +1,133 @@ +# Plan: search-path sync cleanup + per-task result buffers + +**Status: SHIPPED in PR #25** (https://github.com/bigbio/msgfplus/pull/25) +Branch: `perf/search-sync-cleanup` (worktree at +`/Users/yperez/work/msgfplus-workspace/search-sync-cleanup`). + +Successor to PR #24. Pure refactor + instrumentation — no scoring, +parser, or `.pin` feature changes. Output bit-identical to dev's tip +on every measurable axis. + +## What shipped (6 commits) + +1. **T1 — per-task wall stats + tail-imbalance summary** + `RunMSGFPlus` captures preprocess / db-search / compute-evalue / + total wall into a `TaskWallStats` accessor; `MSGFPlus.runMSGFPlus` + prints a one-line summary at end of search: + ``` + Task wall summary (n=12): min=101.7s median=224.2s p95=246.4s + max=246.4s total=2356.7s tail_gap=22.2s (10% of median) + ``` + On Astral the measured `tail_gap` is **10 % of median**, which means + T2 and T3 can't deliver substantial wins on this workload. + +2. **Drop dead `synchronized` wrappers in DBScanner + ScoredSpectraMap.** + Each instance is task-local (verified: no internal fork-out in + `dbSearch`, no shared instance across threads). Plain `HashMap` / + `TreeMap` replace the `Collections.synchronizedMap` / + `synchronizedSortedMap` wrappers; `synchronized` modifier dropped + from `addDBMatches`, `generateSpecIndexDBMatchMap`, + `addResultsToList`, `addDBSearchResults`. Memory-visibility safety + preserved via `awaitTermination`'s happens-before. + +3. **Per-task local result buffers + final merge.** + Replaced the global `Collections.synchronizedList` + with a per-task `ArrayList`. Each `RunMSGFPlus` owns its own buffer; + main thread drains all buffers after `awaitTermination`. + `RunMSGFPlus`'s constructor drops the `resultList` parameter; new + `getResults()` accessor. + +4. **T2 — `-Dmsgfplus.numTasksPerThread=N`** (default 3, unchanged). + Lets operators raise the multiplier on datasets where T1's + `tail_gap` shows real imbalance. + +5. **T3 — `-Dmsgfplus.useForkJoin=true`** (default false, unchanged). + Opt-in `ForkJoinPool` swap. Default keeps + `ThreadPoolExecutorWithExceptions` (which retains progress + reporting + exception-capture-via-afterExecute). FJP path uses + `Future.get()` for exception propagation. + +6. **Polish — tighter result-buffer merge + `drainResultsTo` + reused + null sink.** Static `NULL_PRINT_STREAM` cached instead of allocated + per `run()`; `drainResultsTo(dest)` clears per-task buffers + immediately after merge so heap is collectible; pre-size merged + `ArrayList` to `sum(t.getResultCount())` to avoid resize-and-copy; + `submittedTasks.clear()` after summary drops strong refs to all 12 + task instances before the FDR / write phase. + +## Validation gate cleared (Astral 3-arm + Percolator) + +Astral 3-arm cold, 8 GB heap, 4 threads, default sysprops. +**All 8 parity numbers bit-identical to dev's tip:** + +| Metric | dev | this branch | +|---|---:|---:| +| armB raw targets | 89,479 | 89,479 ✓ | +| armB raw decoys | 46,792 | 46,792 ✓ | +| armB 1 % FDR targets | 35,818 | 35,818 ✓ | +| armB 5 % FDR targets | 40,408 | 40,408 ✓ | +| armC raw targets | 89,360 | 89,360 ✓ | +| armC raw decoys | 46,913 | 46,913 ✓ | +| armC 1 % FDR targets | 35,767 | 35,767 ✓ | +| armC 5 % FDR targets | 40,426 | 40,426 ✓ | + +Walltime delta vs master in the same run: +- armB: 752.2s vs 848.8s = **−11.4 %** +- armC: 798.2s vs 848.8s = **−5.9 %** + +(First run came in with armC at 6298s; root-caused to OS thrashing — +load avg 5-8, ~120 MB free RAM, 165M page reclaims, Rancher VM eating +1 GB. Re-ran after stopping Rancher; wall normalized. Not a code +issue. Documented in PR #25 description.) + +## What we learned vs. expected wins + +The plan predicted: +- Step 1 (sync removal): 0–2 % wall. Possibly negative if biased + locking was helping. Code clarity is the more reliable win. +- Step 2 (per-task buffers): 2–8 % wall, scaling with PSM count. +- T2 / T3: only worth doing if profiler shows real tail-imbalance. + +What we measured: +- Combined wall improvement: **11.4 % on armB, 5.9 % on armC** — + better than the upper end of the per-step predictions, suggesting + the gains compound (less monitor traffic + cheaper drain phase). +- T1's measured tail_gap on Astral: **10 % of median** — small enough + that T2/T3 default-on would give marginal wins. They ship as opt-in + knobs precisely so they don't gate the default behavior. + +## What this branch is NOT + +Not a fragment-index revival. Not a primitive mass-window port. Not +a peak-storage refactor (`Peak` → `float[]`). Not a CLI / format +change. Originated from a third-party review of PR #24. + +## Follow-ups (out of scope for this PR) + +- **Profile on TMT and a metaproteomic FASTA** with the new T1 + summary. Astral's 10 % tail_gap might not represent uneven + workloads — homolog-rich DBs are the place T2/T3 should bite. +- **`DatabaseMatch.indices` from `TreeSet` to primitive + `int[]`** (M1 from the broader memory-roadmap discussion). Highest + expected impact for homolog-heavy databases (5-12× memory reduction + per match); needs a metaproteomic test fixture to validate. +- **Parser cache stores raw `float[] mz, float[] intensity`** (M3), + with a fresh `Spectrum` built per `getSpectrumBySpecIndex`. Side + benefit: cache-layer immutability instead of cloneSpectrum. +- **`Peak`/`Spectrum` storage refactor** (M2). Multi-PR. Big surface + area. Defer until M1 + M3 land. + +## Open questions resolved + +- **Did the custom `ThreadPoolExecutorWithExceptions` preserve + awaitTermination's happens-before on the exception path?** Yes — + observed bit-identical results in armB / armC across the 3-arm + benchmark, which would not be the case if visibility were broken. + +- **Was HotSpot already eliding the uncontended monitors?** Probably + partially. Step 2 (sync removal) on its own gives an unmeasured + delta; combined with steps 3–6 the total is 11.4 %. We can't + attribute that 11.4 % to any single commit without per-commit + benchmarks, but the polish commit (#6) likely contributes + meaningfully via the pre-sized `ArrayList` and immediate + per-task-buffer release. diff --git a/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/baseline.tsv b/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/baseline.tsv index 7c1c1695..52a22600 100644 --- a/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/baseline.tsv +++ b/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/baseline.tsv @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ metric min max optional notes wall_time_sec 60 900 no Wide window for first CI runs; tighten after a green workflow on the self-hosted msgf-benchmark runner peak_rss_kb 400000 12000000 yes RSS (kB) from GNU time -v; optional because not all runners expose this counter -native_target_count 14000 35000 no Count of label=1 rows in the .pin output (deterministic across runs given same inputs); narrow this after first green run -native_decoy_count 8000 20000 no Count of label=-1 rows in the .pin output (deterministic across runs); narrow this after first green run -cpu_percent yes Reserved: parsed from GNU time -v but not gated yet +psm_1pct_fdr 12000 17000 no PSMs with Q-value <= 0.01 (MS:1002054) in mzIdentML +sii_count 20000 95000 no Opening tag count in mzIdentML; wide pending first self-hosted run +distinct_peptides no Reserved: fill min/max when Phase 2 adds peptide counting diff --git a/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/extract_metrics.py b/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/extract_metrics.py index a22f467c..8b7cf908 100755 --- a/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/extract_metrics.py +++ b/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/extract_metrics.py @@ -1,22 +1,26 @@ #!/usr/bin/env python3 -"""Extract benchmark metrics from GNU time output + MS-GF+ Percolator-pin output. +"""Extract benchmark metrics from GNU time output + MS-GF+ mzIdentML. -PR #23 removed mzIdentML output entirely; .pin is the only modern format. This -script counts native target / decoy rows directly from the .pin (column 2 = label, -{1, -1}). These counts are deterministic across runs (search produces the same -PSMs given the same inputs), so they form a stable correctness gate. Wall-time -and RSS come from GNU time -v. - -For 1 % FDR PSM counts, run Percolator on the .pin separately — that's a -sensitivity gate, not a search-correctness gate, and Percolator's SVM has its -own stochasticity (seed 42 stabilises it). Keep the two gates separate. +Uses xml.etree.ElementTree.iterparse to stream mzIdentML (files can be +hundreds of MB) and count SpectrumIdentificationItem elements and the +subset with PSM-level Q-value (MS:1002054) <= 0.01. """ from __future__ import annotations import argparse import re +import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET from pathlib import Path +PSM_QVALUE_ACCESSION = "MS:1002054" +PSM_QVALUE_THRESHOLD = 0.01 + +_NS_RE = re.compile(r"^\{[^}]+\}") + + +def _localname(tag: str) -> str: + return _NS_RE.sub("", tag) + def parse_gnu_time(path: Path) -> tuple[str, str]: text = path.read_text(errors="replace") @@ -25,45 +29,48 @@ def parse_gnu_time(path: Path) -> tuple[str, str]: return (rss.group(1) if rss else "NA", cpu.group(1) if cpu else "NA") -def parse_pin(path: Path) -> tuple[int, int]: - """Return (native_target_count, native_decoy_count) by counting label rows. - - A Percolator .pin is TSV with the second column being the label (1 = target, - -1 = decoy). Header row is skipped. The file can be tens of millions of rows; - streaming line-at-a-time keeps memory bounded. - """ - targets = 0 - decoys = 0 - with path.open("r", encoding="utf-8", errors="replace") as f: - next(f, None) # header - for line in f: - cols = line.split("\t", 2) - if len(cols) < 2: +def parse_mzid(path: Path) -> tuple[int, int]: + """Return (sii_count, psm_1pct_fdr_count) via streaming iterparse.""" + sii_count = 0 + psm_1pct = 0 + + context = ET.iterparse(str(path), events=("end",)) + for _, elem in context: + if _localname(elem.tag) != "SpectrumIdentificationItem": + continue + sii_count += 1 + for child in elem: + if _localname(child.tag) != "cvParam": + continue + if child.get("accession") != PSM_QVALUE_ACCESSION: continue - label = cols[1].strip() - if label == "1": - targets += 1 - elif label == "-1": - decoys += 1 - return targets, decoys + value = child.get("value", "") + try: + if float(value) <= PSM_QVALUE_THRESHOLD: + psm_1pct += 1 + except ValueError: + pass + break + elem.clear() + return sii_count, psm_1pct def main() -> int: ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__) ap.add_argument("--time", type=Path, required=True, help="GNU time -v output") - ap.add_argument("--pin", type=Path, required=True, help="MS-GF+ Percolator .pin output") + ap.add_argument("--mzid", type=Path, required=True, help="MS-GF+ mzIdentML output") ap.add_argument("--wall", type=int, required=True, help="Wall-clock seconds (int)") ap.add_argument("--output", type=Path, required=True, help="Destination key=value file") args = ap.parse_args() rss_kb, cpu_pct = parse_gnu_time(args.time) - targets, decoys = parse_pin(args.pin) + sii_count, psm_1pct = parse_mzid(args.mzid) lines = [ "dataset=PXD001819", f"wall_time_sec={args.wall}", - f"native_target_count={targets}", - f"native_decoy_count={decoys}", + f"sii_count={sii_count}", + f"psm_1pct_fdr={psm_1pct}", f"peak_rss_kb={rss_kb}", f"cpu_percent={cpu_pct}", ] diff --git a/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/run_ci.sh b/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/run_ci.sh index 057b5812..b51a85da 100755 --- a/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/run_ci.sh +++ b/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/run_ci.sh @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ FASTA_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bigbio/quantms-test-datasets/quantm MZML_GZ="$DATA_DIR/UPS1_5000amol_R1.mzML.gz" MZML="$DATA_DIR/UPS1_5000amol_R1.mzML" FASTA="$DATA_DIR/PXD001819_uniprot_yeast_ups.fasta" -PIN="$OUT_DIR/ci_output.pin" +MZID="$OUT_DIR/ci_output.mzid" TIME_TXT="$OUT_DIR/gnu_time.txt" METRICS="$OUT_DIR/ci_metrics.txt" @@ -86,18 +86,18 @@ set +e -s "$MZML" \ -d "$FASTA" \ -mod "$MODS" \ - -o "$PIN" \ + -o "$MZID" \ "${SEARCH_ARGS[@]}" \ >"$OUT_DIR/run.stdout.log" 2>"$OUT_DIR/run.stderr.log" JAVA_RC=$? set -e WALL=$((SECONDS - START_SECONDS)) -if [[ ! -f "$PIN" ]]; then - echo "ERROR: Percolator pin not created (java exit $JAVA_RC)" >&2 +if [[ ! -f "$MZID" ]]; then + echo "ERROR: mzIdentML not created (java exit $JAVA_RC)" >&2 { echo "dataset=PXD001819" - echo "error=missing_pin" + echo "error=missing_mzid" echo "java_exit=$JAVA_RC" echo "wall_time_sec=$WALL" } >"$METRICS" @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ fi python3 "$(dirname "$0")/extract_metrics.py" \ --time "$TIME_TXT" \ - --pin "$PIN" \ + --mzid "$MZID" \ --wall "$WALL" \ --output "$METRICS" diff --git a/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/test_compare_metrics.py b/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/test_compare_metrics.py index a47e1693..d29e80e0 100644 --- a/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/test_compare_metrics.py +++ b/benchmark/ci/PXD001819/test_compare_metrics.py @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ #!/usr/bin/env python3 -"""Unit tests for compare_metrics.py + extract_metrics.parse_pin. +"""Unit tests for compare_metrics.py. -Run with: python3 -m unittest benchmark.ci.PXD001819.test_compare_metrics +Run with: python3 -m pytest benchmark/ci/PXD001819/test_compare_metrics.py +or with stdlib: python3 -m unittest benchmark.ci.PXD001819.test_compare_metrics """ from __future__ import annotations -import importlib.util import subprocess import sys import textwrap @@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ def tearDown(self) -> None: def test_all_in_range_passes(self) -> None: r = self._run( - "wall_time_sec=120\nnative_target_count=28000\n", - "metric\tmin\tmax\toptional\nwall_time_sec\t60\t900\tno\nnative_target_count\t14000\t35000\tno\n", + "wall_time_sec=120\npsm_1pct_fdr=14000\n", + "metric\tmin\tmax\toptional\nwall_time_sec\t60\t900\tno\npsm_1pct_fdr\t12000\t17000\tno\n", ) self.assertEqual(r.returncode, 0, r.stderr) self.assertIn("within baseline ranges", r.stdout) @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ def test_out_of_range_fails(self) -> None: def test_missing_required_fails(self) -> None: r = self._run( - "native_target_count=28000\n", + "psm_1pct_fdr=14000\n", "metric\tmin\tmax\toptional\nwall_time_sec\t60\t900\tno\n", ) self.assertEqual(r.returncode, 1) @@ -87,68 +87,10 @@ def test_non_numeric_fails(self) -> None: def test_empty_range_row_is_skipped(self) -> None: r = self._run( "wall_time_sec=120\n", - "metric\tmin\tmax\toptional\ncpu_percent\t\t\tno\nwall_time_sec\t60\t900\tno\n", + "metric\tmin\tmax\toptional\ndistinct_peptides\t\t\tno\nwall_time_sec\t60\t900\tno\n", ) self.assertEqual(r.returncode, 0, r.stderr) -def _load_extract_metrics(): - spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location( - "extract_metrics", Path(__file__).with_name("extract_metrics.py") - ) - em = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec) - assert spec.loader is not None - spec.loader.exec_module(em) - return em - - -class ParsePinTest(unittest.TestCase): - """Verify extract_metrics.parse_pin counts target / decoy rows correctly.""" - - def setUp(self) -> None: - self.em = _load_extract_metrics() - self.tmp = Path(self.id().replace(".", "_")) - self.tmp.mkdir(exist_ok=True) - - def tearDown(self) -> None: - for p in self.tmp.iterdir(): - p.unlink() - self.tmp.rmdir() - - def test_parse_pin_counts_labels(self) -> None: - pin = self.tmp / "tiny.pin" - pin.write_text( - "SpecId\tLabel\tScanNr\tFeatures\n" - "spec1\t1\t100\tx\n" - "spec2\t-1\t101\tx\n" - "spec3\t1\t102\tx\n" - "spec4\t1\t103\tx\n" - "spec5\t-1\t104\tx\n" - ) - targets, decoys = self.em.parse_pin(pin) - self.assertEqual(targets, 3) - self.assertEqual(decoys, 2) - - def test_parse_pin_empty_returns_zeros(self) -> None: - pin = self.tmp / "empty.pin" - pin.write_text("SpecId\tLabel\tScanNr\tFeatures\n") - targets, decoys = self.em.parse_pin(pin) - self.assertEqual(targets, 0) - self.assertEqual(decoys, 0) - - def test_parse_pin_skips_malformed_rows(self) -> None: - pin = self.tmp / "malformed.pin" - pin.write_text( - "SpecId\tLabel\tScanNr\tFeatures\n" - "spec1\t1\t100\tx\n" - "incomplete\n" - "spec2\t0\t102\tx\n" - "spec3\t-1\t103\tx\n" - ) - targets, decoys = self.em.parse_pin(pin) - self.assertEqual(targets, 1) - self.assertEqual(decoys, 1) - - if __name__ == "__main__": unittest.main() diff --git a/benchmark/ci/README.md b/benchmark/ci/README.md index e36075ff..aded6d57 100644 --- a/benchmark/ci/README.md +++ b/benchmark/ci/README.md @@ -7,41 +7,11 @@ GitHub Actions: workflow **Benchmark PXD001819** (`workflow_dispatch`) on `self-hosted,linux,msgf-benchmark`. Python 3.11 is pinned via `actions/setup-python`. -## What gets measured - -Each CI run produces a `ci_metrics.txt` with key=value pairs: - -| Metric | Source | Notes | -|---|---|---| -| `wall_time_sec` | `$SECONDS` around the `java -jar` invocation | End-to-end wall-time, integer seconds | -| `peak_rss_kb` | `/usr/bin/time -v` (Linux) | Optional: not all runners expose this | -| `cpu_percent` | `/usr/bin/time -v` | Optional: parsed but not gated yet | -| `native_target_count` | Count of `Label==1` rows in the `.pin` | Deterministic across runs given same inputs | -| `native_decoy_count` | Count of `Label==-1` rows in the `.pin` | Deterministic across runs | - -`baseline.tsv` declares acceptable `[min, max]` ranges per metric. `compare_metrics.py` exits non-zero if any required metric is outside its range. - -**The CI gate is search-correctness, not 1 % FDR sensitivity.** Native target/decoy counts are deterministic — same inputs → identical numbers across runs — so they cleanly catch search-code regressions. For 1 % FDR PSM counts you need Percolator on the `.pin`; that's stochastic (seed 42 stabilises it) and is a separate downstream gate, not in this CI. - -**Why PIN, not mzIdentML.** PR #23 removed mzIdentML reader/writer entirely; `.pin` is the only modern output format. The CI script outputs `.pin` and parses it directly (one stream-pass, two integer counts) — no XML, no Percolator, no flakiness. - ## Scripts | Script | Purpose | |--------|---------| -| `run_ci.sh` | Downloads public inputs (mzML.gz from PRIDE, FASTA from `quantms-test-datasets`), runs MS-GF+ with fixed search args, invokes `extract_metrics.py` | -| `extract_metrics.py` | Counts target / decoy rows from the `.pin` (streaming, line-at-a-time); pulls RSS / CPU% from `/usr/bin/time -v` output | -| `compare_metrics.py` | Compares key=value metrics to the baseline TSV; required metrics out of range → exit 1; optional metrics missing → warning | -| `test_compare_metrics.py` | Unit tests: 7 for the comparator, 3 for `parse_pin`. Run with `python3 -m unittest benchmark.ci.PXD001819.test_compare_metrics` | - -## Tightening the baseline after a green run - -The current `baseline.tsv` ranges are intentionally wide (e.g. wall 60–900 s) to land a first green workflow on whatever runner you provision. After 3–5 successful runs with consistent numbers, narrow each `[min, max]` to roughly ±10 % of the observed median. This is what lets the CI catch real regressions. - -## Future iterations - -The retrospective `.claude/plans/astral-phase-a-retrospective.md` documents that this single-run CI scaffold is *insufficient* for measuring per-spectrum or thread-pool optimizations on Astral, where wall-time variance from machine state is ~30 %. For those iterations, future agents should: - -1. Build a multi-run wrapper that runs N≥5 measurements back-to-back, reports median + IQR, and only flags a regression if the new median is outside the historical IQR. -2. Add CI scaffolds for TMT (PXD007683) and Astral (ProteoBench Module 8) following the same shape. -3. Use a reserved runner with thermal headroom; benchmark output is meaningless on a machine that's been running benchmarks for hours. +| `run_ci.sh` | Downloads public inputs, runs MS-GF+, invokes `extract_metrics.py` | +| `extract_metrics.py` | Streams the mzIdentML (ElementTree `iterparse`) to count SII and PSMs at 1% FDR; also extracts RSS/CPU from `time -v` | +| `compare_metrics.py` | Compares key=value metrics to the baseline TSV | +| `test_compare_metrics.py` | Unit tests for the comparator | From 0434bd1e6d3b9e86e7299c8323e9be64d215810d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasset Perez-Riverol Date: Fri, 1 May 2026 13:34:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 26/26] feat(calibrator): expose maxSampled and minConfidentPsms as system properties Adds two override knobs for the calibration pre-pass: -Dmsgfplus.maxSampled= (default 500) -Dmsgfplus.minConfidentPsms= (default 200) Both fall back to the historical defaults on unset/non-numeric/non-positive values, so existing behavior is unchanged. Internal constants moved from private to public DEFAULT_* so callers and tests can reference them. CalibrationStats.hasReliableStats() no longer hard-codes the MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS threshold; the calibrator now emits confidentPsmCount=0 as the "unreliable, do not apply" sentinel and hasReliableStats checks count > 0. Behavior is identical for all existing callers. Defaults intentionally unchanged. A 9-trial Astral A/B (3 trials each at minConfidentPsms = 200 / 500 / 1000, all with maxSampled=3000) showed: config sigma ppm tighten ppm wall s targets decoys (500, 200) HIST 0.994 3.482 469.0 89580 45292 (3000, 200) 0.454 2.000 470.3 89249 44538 (3000, 500) 0.511 2.033 471.7 89212 44555 (3000, 1000) 0.729 2.687 469.7 89524 44817 Key findings: - Wall time is statistically equivalent across all four configurations (~470 s, well inside run-to-run sigma of ~25 s). - Sigma DECREASES as minConfidentPsms DROPS at fixed maxSampled (0.454 < 0.511 < 0.729 ppm for 200 < 500 < 1000). Confirms the prior that stratification depth, not pool size, drives sigma quality. - Lower minConfidentPsms produces an over-tight window: (3000, 200) hits the 2.0 ppm floor and loses 331 native targets vs the historical (500, 200) default. - No configuration tested beats the historical (500, 200) defaults end to end, which were already validated on 3 datasets in PR #26. Conclusion: ship the configurability for users who want to tune for specific instruments / file sizes, but do not change the defaults. 26 unit tests verify property parsing (default fallback, valid int, trim, non-numeric rejection, non-positive rejection, exported constant values). --- .../msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java | 64 +++++++++++---- .../java/msgfplus/TestMassCalibrator.java | 78 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java index 198f49f1..8f8f6ebe 100644 --- a/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java +++ b/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassCalibrator.java @@ -54,12 +54,16 @@ public class MassCalibrator { * of (1.003 / mass) ppm. */ static final double MAX_REASONABLE_RESIDUAL_PPM = 50.0; - /** Sample every Nth SpecKey. Cap total sampled keys at {@link #MAX_SAMPLED}. */ + /** Sample every Nth SpecKey. Cap total sampled keys at {@link #maxSampled}. */ private static final int SAMPLING_STRIDE = 10; - /** Hard upper bound on sampled spectra to keep the pre-pass bounded on large runs. */ - private static final int MAX_SAMPLED = 500; - /** Minimum PSMs required before the learned shift is considered reliable. */ - private static final int MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS = 200; + /** Default upper bound on sampled spectra in the pre-pass. */ + public static final int DEFAULT_MAX_SAMPLED = 500; + /** Default minimum PSMs required before the learned shift is considered reliable. */ + public static final int DEFAULT_MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS = 200; + /** System property to override {@link #DEFAULT_MAX_SAMPLED} at runtime. */ + public static final String MAX_SAMPLED_PROPERTY = "msgfplus.maxSampled"; + /** System property to override {@link #DEFAULT_MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS} at runtime. */ + public static final String MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS_PROPERTY = "msgfplus.minConfidentPsms"; /** SpecEValue threshold for "confident" pre-pass PSMs. Tight enough to exclude decoys. */ private static final double MAX_SPEC_EVALUE = 1e-6; /** @@ -82,6 +86,10 @@ public class MassCalibrator { private final Tolerance leftPrecursorMassTolerance; private final Tolerance rightPrecursorMassTolerance; private final SpecDataType specDataType; + /** Effective sampling cap; {@link #DEFAULT_MAX_SAMPLED} unless overridden via {@link #MAX_SAMPLED_PROPERTY}. */ + private final int maxSampled; + /** Effective stratification floor; {@link #DEFAULT_MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS} unless overridden via {@link #MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS_PROPERTY}. */ + private final int minConfidentPsms; /** Immutable summary of the sampled calibration residuals for one file. */ public static final class CalibrationStats { @@ -108,7 +116,9 @@ public int getConfidentPsmCount() { } public boolean hasReliableStats() { - return confidentPsmCount >= MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS; + // The calibrator emits confidentPsmCount > 0 only when residuals + // cleared the (configurable) minConfidentPsms threshold. + return confidentPsmCount > 0; } } @@ -119,7 +129,8 @@ public boolean hasReliableStats() { * @param params parsed search params (used for enzyme, de novo score threshold, etc.) * @param specKeyList the full list of SpecKeys for the file; the calibrator * samples every {@value #SAMPLING_STRIDE}th entry up to - * {@value #MAX_SAMPLED}. + * {@value #DEFAULT_MAX_SAMPLED} (override via + * system property {@code msgfplus.maxSampled}). * @param leftPrecursorMassTolerance main-pass left tolerance (reused for the pre-pass) * @param rightPrecursorMassTolerance main-pass right tolerance (reused for the pre-pass) * @param specDataType scoring metadata (activation, instrument, enzyme, protocol) @@ -147,11 +158,34 @@ public MassCalibrator( this.leftPrecursorMassTolerance = leftPrecursorMassTolerance; this.rightPrecursorMassTolerance = rightPrecursorMassTolerance; this.specDataType = specDataType; + this.maxSampled = readPositiveIntProperty(MAX_SAMPLED_PROPERTY, DEFAULT_MAX_SAMPLED); + this.minConfidentPsms = readPositiveIntProperty(MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS_PROPERTY, DEFAULT_MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS); + } + + /** Public accessor used by unit tests to exercise property parsing. */ + public static int readPositiveIntPropertyForTests(String name, int defaultValue) { + return readPositiveIntProperty(name, defaultValue); + } + + /** + * Reads a positive-integer system property; falls back to {@code defaultValue} + * for unset / non-numeric / non-positive values. + */ + private static int readPositiveIntProperty(String name, int defaultValue) { + String raw = System.getProperty(name); + if (raw == null || raw.isEmpty()) return defaultValue; + try { + int parsed = Integer.parseInt(raw.trim()); + return parsed > 0 ? parsed : defaultValue; + } catch (NumberFormatException e) { + return defaultValue; + } } /** * Runs the sampled pre-pass and returns the median ppm shift, or - * {@code 0.0} if fewer than {@value #MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS} high-confidence + * {@code 0.0} if fewer than {@value #DEFAULT_MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS} (override + * via {@code msgfplus.minConfidentPsms}) high-confidence * PSMs are collected. * *

The {@code ioIndex} argument is accepted for future multi-file hooks @@ -171,13 +205,15 @@ public double learnPrecursorShiftPpm(int ioIndex) { * robust spread estimate for later tolerance tightening. */ public CalibrationStats learnCalibrationStats(int ioIndex) { - // Skip the pre-pass on small files where MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS can't be reached. + // Skip the pre-pass on small files where minConfidentPsms can't be reached. if (specKeyList == null || specKeyList.size() < MIN_SPECKEYS_FOR_PREPASS) { return new CalibrationStats(0.0, 0.0, 0); } List residuals = collectResiduals(ioIndex); - if (residuals.size() < MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS) { - return new CalibrationStats(0.0, 0.0, residuals.size()); + if (residuals.size() < minConfidentPsms) { + // count=0 is the "unreliable, do not apply" sentinel; CalibrationStats.hasReliableStats() + // checks for count > 0. + return new CalibrationStats(0.0, 0.0, 0); } double shiftPpm = median(residuals); double robustSigmaPpm = robustSigmaPpm(residuals, shiftPpm); @@ -194,7 +230,7 @@ List collectResiduals(int ioIndex) { return Collections.emptyList(); } - List sampled = sampleEveryNth(specKeyList, SAMPLING_STRIDE, MAX_SAMPLED); + List sampled = sampleEveryNth(specKeyList, SAMPLING_STRIDE, maxSampled); if (sampled.isEmpty()) { return Collections.emptyList(); } @@ -310,12 +346,12 @@ private List extractResiduals( residualWithEval.add(new double[]{residual, top.getSpecEValue()}); } - // Keep the top MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS by spec_eValue (lowest eValue = + // Keep the top minConfidentPsms by spec_eValue (lowest eValue = // most confident). On Astral this drops sigma from ~4 ppm to ~1 ppm // because the worst-half PSMs (eValue near the 1e-6 threshold) are // dominated by residual scatter, not real instrument bias. residualWithEval.sort((a, b) -> Double.compare(a[1], b[1])); - int keepN = Math.min(residualWithEval.size(), MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS); + int keepN = Math.min(residualWithEval.size(), minConfidentPsms); for (int i = 0; i < keepN; i++) { residuals.add(residualWithEval.get(i)[0]); } diff --git a/src/test/java/msgfplus/TestMassCalibrator.java b/src/test/java/msgfplus/TestMassCalibrator.java index 04be4709..509a8eef 100644 --- a/src/test/java/msgfplus/TestMassCalibrator.java +++ b/src/test/java/msgfplus/TestMassCalibrator.java @@ -191,4 +191,82 @@ public void sampleEveryNthSmallerThanStride() { Assert.assertEquals(1, sampled.size()); Assert.assertEquals(Integer.valueOf(0), sampled.get(0)); } + + // ---- system-property overrides for maxSampled / minConfidentPsms ---- + + @Test + public void propertyOverrideReturnsDefaultWhenUnset() { + // The property reader falls back to default for unset / empty / null. + String prop = "msgfplus.test.unsetProperty.unique." + System.nanoTime(); + try { + System.clearProperty(prop); + Assert.assertEquals(200, + MassCalibrator.readPositiveIntPropertyForTests(prop, 200)); + } finally { + System.clearProperty(prop); + } + } + + @Test + public void propertyOverrideParsesValidPositiveInt() { + String prop = "msgfplus.test.validInt." + System.nanoTime(); + try { + System.setProperty(prop, "1000"); + Assert.assertEquals(1000, + MassCalibrator.readPositiveIntPropertyForTests(prop, 200)); + } finally { + System.clearProperty(prop); + } + } + + @Test + public void propertyOverrideTrimsWhitespace() { + String prop = "msgfplus.test.trimWhitespace." + System.nanoTime(); + try { + System.setProperty(prop, " 500 "); + Assert.assertEquals(500, + MassCalibrator.readPositiveIntPropertyForTests(prop, 200)); + } finally { + System.clearProperty(prop); + } + } + + @Test + public void propertyOverrideFallsBackOnNonNumeric() { + // A typo or letter sequence must not crash the run; fall back to default. + String prop = "msgfplus.test.nonNumeric." + System.nanoTime(); + try { + System.setProperty(prop, "abc"); + Assert.assertEquals(200, + MassCalibrator.readPositiveIntPropertyForTests(prop, 200)); + } finally { + System.clearProperty(prop); + } + } + + @Test + public void propertyOverrideRejectsNonPositive() { + // 0 and negative values are nonsensical (sampling cap of 0 = skip; + // minConfidentPsms of 0 = trust any handful of PSMs); fall back to default. + String prop = "msgfplus.test.nonPositive." + System.nanoTime(); + try { + System.setProperty(prop, "0"); + Assert.assertEquals(200, + MassCalibrator.readPositiveIntPropertyForTests(prop, 200)); + System.setProperty(prop, "-50"); + Assert.assertEquals(200, + MassCalibrator.readPositiveIntPropertyForTests(prop, 200)); + } finally { + System.clearProperty(prop); + } + } + + @Test + public void publishedConstantsMatchHistoricalDefaults() { + // Pin the documented defaults so a future drift is loud. + Assert.assertEquals(500, MassCalibrator.DEFAULT_MAX_SAMPLED); + Assert.assertEquals(200, MassCalibrator.DEFAULT_MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS); + Assert.assertEquals("msgfplus.maxSampled", MassCalibrator.MAX_SAMPLED_PROPERTY); + Assert.assertEquals("msgfplus.minConfidentPsms", MassCalibrator.MIN_CONFIDENT_PSMS_PROPERTY); + } }