refactor(encoders): migrate electra, mpnet and xlnet to Task SDK

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Background

Migrate electra, mpnet and xlnet to the semantic Task SDK introduced by
#1226, per the migration epic #1430 (child issues #1450, #1484 and #1537, each
claimed in its comments before this work started).

All three duplicate distilbert's EncoderPipeline (their pipeline.cpp was
byte-identical to it), so they take the same Task mapping and design as #1581,
which carries the reasoning and the first GPU evidence for this shape. Each
family still owns its own copy of every file, as the repository's
family-ownership rules require. The only shared change is a two-line routing
fix in the STS accuracy qualification (see below), found in review.

Exit Criteria

• Each family implements and advertises text_to_embedding,
  text_to_pooled_features and text_pair_to_relevance (the three retired
  task modes), plus text_query_documents_to_relevance as a secondary
  capability of the reranking mode.
• The original graphs, tokenizers and official HF last_hidden_state[0, 0]
  oracles are preserved; manifests and benchmark YAML change only their task
  field, and the benchmark tooling already maps these Task IDs.
• Each family has a dependency-free tests/test_support.py, satisfying
  tools/tests/test_architecture.py.
• Non-goal: any change to model graphs, weight loading or tokenizer framing.

Implementation

Affected components: families/electra/, families/mpnet/, families/xlnet/
(model or runtime behavior, public API, bundle format), plus one small shared
qualification fix described below. No runtime or core file is touched.

Task mapping (as in #1581)

• embedding -> text_to_embedding: unchanged mean-pool then L2-normalize.
• encoding -> text_to_pooled_features: unchanged first-token extraction.
• reranking -> text_pair_to_relevance plus
  text_query_documents_to_relevance, because the retired IReranking
  contract required rerank_batch.

Per-family differences

• electra: its first token is [CLS], so pooled features report
  pooling = "cls".
• mpnet: pooled features report pooling = "first_token" (its <s> token is
  not a CLS-pooling convention; the family's own contract test still pins the
  first-token oracle). Its declared default was embedding, so
  default_task is now text_to_embedding. Its extra
  test_mpnet_cases_keep_the_encoder_only_cls_contract is kept, pointing at
  the new task name.
• xlnet: pooled features report pooling = "first_token". XLNet's tokenizer
  appends <sep><cls> at the end, so the first token is not [CLS]; calling
  it "cls" would be wrong. The computation is unchanged.

Changes (per family)

• support.py / model.py: task names and build() validation.
• runtime/pipeline.h / pipeline.cpp: EncoderPipeline implements
  internal::IModel plus the four semantic interfaces, advertises only the
  Task its bundle was built for, and rejects any other Task with
  UnsupportedTask. It rejects inputs beyond the engine's input_ids
  capacity, and sends the engine its full padded input on every call (below).
• runtime/plugin.cpp, model.py, runtime/pipeline.* (added after review
  feedback): build() records the model's vocab_size in runtime.json, the
  plugin loads it, and caller-supplied token ids (the --token-ids input) are
  rejected before inference unless they index [0, vocab_size); they feed the
  embedding gather, so an out-of-range id would otherwise silently give wrong
  features. Bundles built before this change lack the field and must be
  rebuilt, as the task rename already requires.
• runtime/plugin.cpp: require_task checks the new Task IDs.
• tests/cpp/test_task_contract.cpp, tests/sdk_consumer.c/.cpp,
  tests/test_model.py, tests/test_support.py (new), tests/test_e2e.py
  (updated, with C and C++ SDK consumers): same coverage as refactor(distilbert): migrate to Task SDK #1581.
• Manifests and benchmark YAML: task field only.
• qualification_tests/benchmark_qualification/accuracy.py (shared; added
  after review): the STS embedding_vector_parity accuracy path chose its
  Hugging Face reference mode and benchmark operation from a table that only
  knew the retired encoding and embedding names, so all three families'
  STS accuracy cases failed before inference with embedding vector parity does not support candidate task 'text_to_pooled_features'. The table now also maps
  text_to_pooled_features -> (first-token reference, encode) and
  text_to_embedding -> (mean-pool reference, embed). Reference, gates and
  thresholds are unchanged and the retired names still work. The candidate side
  needed no change: the benchmark worker already reports values, dim and
  feature_kind for these Tasks. tools/tests/test_model_benchmark.py: the
  existing parametrized test_encoder_accuracy_uses_task_semantics_without_model_specific_runner
  now covers both semantic IDs; without the accuracy.py change the two new
  cases fail with the error above.

A latent bug fixed along the way

These engines declare a fixed input_ids/attention_mask length (512). The
runtime copies only the bytes it is given into a persistent device buffer of
that length, and the retired pipeline passed just the n real tokens. A
shorter input after a longer one therefore left the earlier call's tokens and
attention_mask = 1 in the tail and attended to them. A fresh process is
unaffected (buffers start zeroed), which is why the single-call E2E and parity
checks pass; repeated calls in one process were wrong. The new batched
relevance Task exposed it on the real engines: scoring
[doc1, doc2] returned doc2 = 0.376 for electra (alone: 0.239, HF:
0.2378) and 3.44 for xlnet (alone: 2.4375, HF: 2.4458), and the error
depended on the longest input seen so far, not noise.

The pipeline now sends ids and mask padded with 0 to the engine's input length
on every call, which reproduces the fresh-buffer state exactly. The CPU
contract test's fake engine keeps persistent fixed-length buffers like the
runtime, and a regression test fails if a short input follows a long one.

Change categories

• Model or runtime behavior
• Public API
• Bundle or artifact format
• CI or developer tooling

Validation

Commands and Results

Offline (this development machine, no GPU/TensorRT available):

$ PYTHONPATH=core/builder:apps/benchmark:. python3 -m pytest tools/tests/test_architecture.py -q
55 passed

$ PYTHONPATH=core/builder:apps/benchmark:. python3 -m pytest qualification_tests/benchmark_qualification/performance/tests/test_perf_matrix.py -q
156 passed

$ PYTHONPATH=core/builder:. python3 -m pytest families/<family>/tests -q --ignore=families/<family>/tests/test_e2e.py
9 passed   (electra, mpnet, xlnet each)

Pre-commit (ruff, clang-format at the pinned repository version) passes on
every changed file.

GPU (real hardware), through the repository's own Community GPU entrypoint,
python -m tools.community_gpu_ci, on the final heads:

electra   ctest 1/1   unit 9 passed   E2E electra-base-discriminator  requested=1 executed=1 passed=1
mpnet     ctest 1/1   unit 9 passed   E2E all-mpnet-base-v2 (+ its contract test: 2 passed)  passed=1
xlnet     ctest 1/1   unit 9 passed   E2E xlnet-base                 requested=1 executed=1 passed=1

Each E2E is: build -> native encode CLI -> Hugging Face last_hidden_state[0, 0]
cosine -> C and C++ SDK consumers agree.

Extra checks on the same GPU host with a one-off script (not committed:
embedding and reranking have no manifest in these families). For each
family, bundles were built with task=text_to_embedding and
task=text_pair_to_relevance (fp16, 512 tokens) and driven through the CLI:

embed    cosine vs HF mean-pool + L2: electra 0.99999, mpnet 0.99999, xlnet 1.00000 (dim 768);
         pooling=mean, normalization=l2, unit norm
embed    `encode --token-ids` with in-range ids matches HF (cosine >= 0.99998);
         ids -1 and 10000000 are rejected ("outside the model vocabulary")
embed    an embedding bundle rejects `encode`; a relevance bundle rejects `embed`
embed    700-word input rejected ("input exceeds engine capacity"); ~500 words accepted
rerank   3 query/document pairs vs HF first hidden value: |diff| <= 1.7e-3 (electra, mpnet),
         <= 8.3e-3 (xlnet, scores ~2.5); kind=unbounded
rerank   `--task text_query_documents_to_relevance` equals the single-pair scores
         exactly (tolerance 1e-4), including shrinking sequences such as
         [doc1, doc2], [doc3, doc2], [doc2, doc1, doc2]

electra, mpnet and xlnet base checkpoints are not trained rerankers, so
the rerank scores check plumbing and parity with the unchanged scoring rule
(the first value of the engine output), not relevance quality.

Real hardware, STS accuracy qualification (the cases a reviewer found failing),
run through the repository's own runner on an RTX 4090 (SM 8.9, driver 595.91,
nvcr.io/nvidia/tensorrt:26.07-py3, TensorRT 11.1.0.106):

python -m tools.model_benchmark run --model <model> --kind accuracy \
  --dataset stsbenchmark-test=<STSBenchmark/stsbenchmark_test.jsonl> \
  --runtime-root <family runtime> --trtmc-bench <trtmc-bench> --worker <trtmc_benchmark_worker>

The dataset was fetched from mteb/stsbenchmark-sts; its SHA-256 matches the
digest pinned in stsbenchmark_embedding_parity.yaml. The benchmark's own
gates are unchanged (100 samples, 50 pairs):

model                       status  vector_pass_rate  min_vector_cosine  max_pair_cosine_abs_delta
electra-base-discriminator  passed  1.0               0.999974           0.001622
all-mpnet-base-v2           passed  1.0               0.999981           0.002321
xlnet-base                  passed  1.0               0.999990           0.000486

HF vs candidate STS Spearman: electra -0.3244 / -0.3238, mpnet 0.9408 /
0.9404, xlnet -0.1678 / -0.1678 (the electra and xlnet base checkpoints are not
sentence-embedding models, so their absolute Spearman is low; the gate is
parity with the Hugging Face reference). On the pod pip install -e . failed,
so trtmc-bench was run through a two-line wrapper around
python -m trtmc_benchmark.cli and the built trtmc was linked into
core/builder/tensorrt_model_connect/bin/; neither affects the code under test.

Hardware, Environment, and Revisions

• GPU: RunPod Secure Cloud pod, 1x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (SM 8.9), driver
  580.126.20, 100 GB container disk, image nvcr.io/nvidia/tensorrt:26.07-py3
  (the repository's pinned dev base), TensorRT 11.1.0.106, torch 2.12.0+cu130.
• Tested tree: the GPU CI, extra checks and E2E above ran on this branch at
  426509c9, merged without conflicts onto github/main at 0fec6d03
  together with refactor(distilbert): migrate to Task SDK #1581's head 4bd42bda (distilbert), in a scratch branch.
  The STS accuracy qualification below ran on the same code plus the
  accuracy.py routing change, merged onto github/main at 5c675fb1.
• Checkpoints: google/electra-base-discriminator,
  sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2, xlnet/xlnet-base-cased, as
  pinned by the existing manifests (unchanged).

Not Run / Remaining Gaps

• The *-tp4 manifests (4-way tensor parallel, mpirun) were not run: they
  need 4 GPUs. Their only change is the task field, and the TP runtime is
  untouched.
• The SDK consumers cover text_to_pooled_features only, on the single-GPU
  manifests. The other Tasks are covered by the CPU contract tests and the
  one-off CLI checks above.
• The encode performance qualification was not run; the benchmark YAML
  changes only task, which the benchmark tooling already maps to the same
  encode operation. The STS accuracy qualification was run (below).
• The other encoder families that still duplicate the retired
  EncoderPipeline have the same latent stale-tail behavior in their current
  code; this PR fixes only the three it migrates.

Contributor Self-Review

• I have completed a self-review of this change.

Notes For Future Readers

• Suggested review order: refactor(distilbert): migrate to Task SDK #1581 for the design, then this PR's pipeline.cpp
  (identical across the three except the pooling label), then the per-family
  deltas listed above.
• Per the epic's coordination rule, I commented on Migrate electra to the semantic Task SDK #1450, Migrate mpnet to the semantic Task SDK #1484 and Migrate xlnet to the semantic Task SDK #1537 to
  claim them before starting, and am linking this PR on each.

Risk level

• Low

This PR touches the three family directories plus the two-line shared routing
fix and its test. No inference math changes:
each Task runs the same computation as before, now reached through the new
interfaces, with the input padding fixed. It has been built and run end to end
on an RTX 4090 through the repository's own GPU entrypoint, with the extra
checks above.

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Summary

Migrates Electra, MPNet, and XLNet to semantic Task SDK tasks: text_to_embedding, text_to_pooled_features, and text_pair_to_relevance. Each bundle advertises its configured task and rejects calls for other tasks. Query-to-documents relevance uses the pair-relevance path.

Embedding uses mean pooling and L2 normalization. Pooled features use CLS pooling for Electra and first-token pooling for MPNet and XLNet. MPNet defaults to text_to_embedding; Electra and XLNet default to text_to_pooled_features.

Each inference call checks engine capacity. Fixed-shape engines receive inputs padded to capacity, preventing shorter requests from reusing stale token IDs or attention-mask values. Runtime code rejects caller-supplied token IDs outside the model vocabulary. New bundles record vocab_size in runtime.json; older bundles without this field must be rebuilt.

The change also updates STS embedding-parity routing for the semantic task IDs and extends benchmark task coverage. Family support declarations, builders, runtime pipelines, manifests, benchmark YAML, and tests are updated. New C and C++ SDK consumers exercise pooled-feature inference.

Reported offline validation: 55 architecture tests passed, 156 benchmark qualification tests passed, and 9 Python tests per family passed, excluding E2E tests. Reported GPU validation: each family’s CTest passed (1/1), unit tests passed (9), and E2E tests passed. One-off GPU CLI checks covered embedding and reranking parity and task rejection. The 4-GPU *-tp4 manifests and benchmark YAML were not run end to end.

Architecture impact

• Family-owned files: Each family contains its builder and metadata changes, Task SDK runtime implementation, support declarations, manifests, benchmark configuration, and family tests. No cross-family implementation dependency is reported.
• Changed shared surfaces: qualification_tests/benchmark_qualification/accuracy.py changes semantic-task routing for encoder embedding parity. tools/tests/test_model_benchmark.py adds coverage for the semantic task IDs. These changes affect shared qualification and benchmark-test consumers beyond the three family runtimes.
• Dependency directions: Family runtimes implement shared Task SDK contracts. The new C and C++ test consumers use the public SDK; they do not introduce a reported dependency from shared code into family implementation. The accuracy change routes shared qualification tasks to reference operations.
• Affected consumers: Builds, runtime loaders, manifests, benchmarks, SDK callers, and qualification consumers for these families use the semantic task IDs. Existing bundles without vocab_size require rebuilding. Callers that still use retired task names may need updates.
• Unresolved blast radius: The *-tp4 manifests and benchmark YAML lack reported end-to-end validation. Other encoder families that retain the old pipeline may also have stale-buffer behavior; this change does not update them. The supplied evidence does not establish whether external callers still use retired task names.
• Review outcome: HUMAN REVIEW REQUIRED. Compatibility for external callers and the unvalidated multi-GPU paths remain unresolved. Review severity counts are unavailable because no current review findings were supplied.

Walkthrough

ELECTRA, MPNet, and XLNet adopt semantic task names and request-based runtime interfaces for embeddings, pooled features, and relevance. Runtime metadata now includes a validated vocabulary size. Contract tests, SDK consumers, manifests, and end-to-end checks cover the updated task contracts.

Changes

Encoder Task SDK migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Semantic task names and bundle metadata families/{electra,mpnet,xlnet}/model.py, support.py, tests/benchmark/*, tests/manifests/*, qualification_tests/benchmark_qualification/accuracy.py, tools/tests/test_model_benchmark.py	Build allowlists and support metadata use semantic task names, with family-specific defaults. Benchmark candidates, manifests, and qualification mappings use the corresponding task names. Runtime metadata includes a validated vocab_size.
Request-based encoder runtime families/{electra,mpnet,xlnet}/runtime/pipeline.h, pipeline.cpp, plugin.cpp	Pipelines implement request-based task interfaces, resolve text or token IDs, validate and prepare encoder inputs, and return embedding, pooled-feature, or relevance results. Plugins validate vocabulary metadata and recognize semantic task identifiers.
Task contract and SDK validation families/{electra,mpnet,xlnet}/runtime/CMakeLists.txt, tests/cpp/*, tests/sdk_consumer.*, tests/test_*.py	CMake builds task-contract tests and C/C++ SDK consumers. Tests check task bindings, input handling, pooling, scoring, errors, and pooled-feature output parity and metadata.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant EncoderPipeline
  participant ITokenizer
  participant ITrtModule
  Caller->>EncoderPipeline: Submit a task request
  EncoderPipeline->>ITokenizer: Tokenize text when token IDs are not supplied
  ITokenizer-->>EncoderPipeline: Return token IDs
  EncoderPipeline->>ITrtModule: Execute encoder with IDs and attention mask
  ITrtModule-->>EncoderPipeline: Return output tensors
  EncoderPipeline-->>Caller: Return task result

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 7.09% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 254 functions across 35 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Family Ownership Boundary	⚠️ Warning	The PR changes a central encoder task-to-reference strategy map. qualification_tests/benchmark_qualification/accuracy.py:799-803 adds mappings for text_to_pooled_features and text_to_embedding, …	Remove the central qualification and benchmark-strategy changes from this family-owned PR. Land them in a separate shared Task SDK qualification change, or provide family-local validation routing that does not require editing a central stra…
Benchmark Validation Integrity	⚠️ Warning	The performance benchmark now measures different sequence lengths on the two sides. The changed pipelines pad fixed-shape inputs to engine capacity on every call (families/*/runtime/pipeline.cpp, `r…	Set padding: max-length in the reference section of the Electra, MPNet, and XLNet performance benchmark YAML files, so the HF baseline uses the same configured capacity as the fixed-shape candidate. Alternatively, make the candidate use…
Shared Change Blast Radius	❓ Inconclusive	The reviewed range changes shared qualification infrastructure in qualification_tests/benchmark_qualification/accuracy.py and tools/tests/test_model_benchmark.py, in addition to the three family d…	Provide the complete authored pull request description, or confirm that the supplied objectives and comments summary are authoritative for the required shared-change rationale.

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Shared Semantic Neutrality	✅ Passed	The only changed shared files are qualification_tests/benchmark_qualification/accuracy.py and tools/tests/test_model_benchmark.py. The qualification change adds two semantic task aliases: `text_to…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the migration of Electra, MPNet, and XLNet to the Task SDK, which is the primary change.
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Explanation

The PR changes a central encoder task-to-reference strategy map. qualification_tests/benchmark_qualification/accuracy.py:799-803 adds mappings for text_to_pooled_features and text_to_embedding, and tools/tests/test_model_benchmark.py:1885-1891 adds those central cases. The dependency is introduced by the family-owned task changes in families/electra/support.py:9-12, families/mpnet/support.py:9-12, and families/xlnet/support.py:9-12. This violates the rule against requiring a central strategy-map edit. No cross-family imports, includes, or links were found; the central strategy-map dependency is sufficient for failure.

Resolution

Remove the central qualification and benchmark-strategy changes from this family-owned PR. Land them in a separate shared Task SDK qualification change, or provide family-local validation routing that does not require editing a central strategy map. Keep each family’s implementation, fixtures, references, comparators, and build targets within its own family directory.

Full details: Benchmark Validation Integrity

Explanation

The performance benchmark now measures different sequence lengths on the two sides. The changed pipelines pad fixed-shape inputs to engine capacity on every call (families/*/runtime/pipeline.cpp, run_encoder, lines 123-139). The family engine builders use fixed max_sequence_length inputs, and the benchmark cases set 256 or 384 tokens (families/*/tests/benchmark/*.yaml, lines 13-14). The HF performance baseline still defaults to padding: longest in qualification_tests/benchmark_qualification/performance/matrix.py:890-894, and hf_transformers.py:298-306 therefore tokenizes the short prompt at its actual length. The candidate times full-capacity input preparation and inference, while the reference times actual-length input preparation and inference. This mismatch is caused by the pull request's new full-padding behavior. The accuracy task mapping preserves the existing reference modes, operations, and gates, so it does not create a separate integrity issue.

Resolution

Set padding: max-length in the reference section of the Electra, MPNet, and XLNet performance benchmark YAML files, so the HF baseline uses the same configured capacity as the fixed-shape candidate. Alternatively, make the candidate use a dynamic engine with actual-length inputs. Then rerun the three performance qualifications and verify that timing policy, input preparation, device synchronization, output materialization, and serialization remain equivalent on both paths.

Full details: Shared Change Blast Radius

Explanation

The reviewed range changes shared qualification infrastructure in qualification_tests/benchmark_qualification/accuracy.py and tools/tests/test_model_benchmark.py, in addition to the three family directories. The shared dispatcher now maps text_to_pooled_features to cls/encode and text_to_embedding to embedding/embed, while retaining the retired IDs. The shared regression test covers all four IDs and checks the reference mode and candidate operation. The supplied objectives identify the STS parity consumer, the semantic-ID regression, compatibility, and reported offline/GPU validation. However, the authored pull request description is truncated after “Manife”. This check requires the complete description to verify that it explicitly documents the shared model-agnostic need, affected consumers, compatibility impact, validation evidence, and why the change cannot remain family-owned. The visible description instead states that only family directories are affected and no shared file is touched, which conflicts with the authoritative diff.

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Review comments at @families/electra/runtime/pipeline.cpp:
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• families/electra/model.py
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• families/electra/support.py
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• families/electra/tests/cpp/test_task_contract.cpp
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• families/electra/tests/test_support.py
• families/mpnet/model.py
• families/mpnet/runtime/CMakeLists.txt
• families/mpnet/runtime/pipeline.cpp
• families/mpnet/runtime/pipeline.h
• families/mpnet/runtime/plugin.cpp
• families/mpnet/support.py
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• families/mpnet/tests/cpp/test_task_contract.cpp
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• families/mpnet/tests/manifests/all-mpnet-base-v2.json
• families/mpnet/tests/sdk_consumer.c
• families/mpnet/tests/sdk_consumer.cpp
• families/mpnet/tests/test_e2e.py
• families/mpnet/tests/test_model.py
• families/mpnet/tests/test_support.py
• families/xlnet/model.py
• families/xlnet/runtime/CMakeLists.txt
• families/xlnet/runtime/pipeline.cpp
• families/xlnet/runtime/pipeline.h
• families/xlnet/runtime/plugin.cpp
• families/xlnet/support.py
• families/xlnet/tests/benchmark/xlnet-base.yaml
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• families/xlnet/tests/manifests/xlnet-base.json
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Thanks for the migration and the follow-up fixes! There is one remaining regression in the existing STS accuracy qualification for ELECTRA, MPNet, and XLNet on head e1d40a51a19eefef2225f242e1f82fbd54c0c4c6:

• All three benchmark YAML files now set candidate.task to text_to_pooled_features.
• run_accuracy routes their embedding_vector_parity metric to _encoder_embedding_parity, which still accepts only encoding and embedding.

I loaded the three actual benchmark configurations and checked this dispatch on CPU, with only STS dataset reading stubbed. All three raised:

QualificationError: embedding vector parity does not support candidate task 'text_to_pooled_features'

This is a task-routing failure before inference, not a numerical parity failure. The performance adapter supports the new task, but that does not cover this separate Accuracy path; the passing checkpoint E2E tests do not exercise it either.

Could you please restore compatibility for these three STS accuracy cases and add regression coverage for the semantic task ID, keeping the existing first-token reference and acceptance thresholds unchanged? If shared qualification routing needs an update, a separate linked prerequisite can keep the family migrations self-contained. Thank you!

[jkzhang7]

Thanks, that was a real regression and I missed it: the E2E tests don't touch the STS accuracy path.

I reproduced it and fixed it in this PR (commit d7ddd740). _encoder_embedding_parity's task table now also maps text_to_pooled_features -> (first-token reference, encode) and text_to_embedding -> (mean-pool reference, embed). Reference mode, gates and thresholds are unchanged and the retired names still work. The existing parametrized test now covers both semantic IDs; the new cases fail with the exact error you quoted without the change and pass with it.

(I first split this into a separate prerequisite PR as you suggested, then folded it back in here: it is two table entries plus the test, and keeping it with the migration means this PR is correct on its own with no ordering dependency. The other encoder migrations will need the same entries; they can rebase on this once it lands.)

I also ran the real accuracy qualification on an RTX 4090 (python -m tools.model_benchmark run --model ... --kind accuracy, with the pinned STS dataset, whose SHA-256 matches). All three cases pass with the benchmark's own gates:

model	status	vector_pass_rate	min_vector_cosine	max_pair_cosine_abs_delta
electra-base-discriminator	passed	1.0	0.999974	0.001622
all-mpnet-base-v2	passed	1.0	0.999981	0.002321
xlnet-base	passed	1.0	0.999990	0.000486

The PR description is updated with the details. (The remaining dev-lane CI failure on the earlier push was the Brev GPU instance not becoming ready within the provisioning deadline, before any test ran.)