fix: redact is_sql, remove zero-variance is_mql (2/3 of #57) by shaypal5 · Pull Request #58 · leadforge-dev/leadforge

shaypal5 · 2026-05-04T12:26:39Z

Summary

Bundle schema v2 → v3. Closes issue #57 sub-items 2 and 3, and (after the self-review pass in commit 55e5948) closes a redaction-bypass that was already present in v2 from PR #56.

Closes 2 of 3 in #57:

Sub-item 2: is_sql=False near-deterministic for non-conversion → redact in student_public (now applied to both task splits and tables/leads.parquet)
Sub-item 3: is_mql constant True → fully remove from the schema (LeadRow, simulator, all parquets, all modes)
Sub-item 1: windowed-snapshot rebuild → separate PR

Bonus fix in this PR: the redaction now applies to relational tables too, closing a bypass that affected current_stage from v2 onward.

Why these changes

is_mql is constant True in the simulator. Every lead is initialised at current_stage="mql" in simulation/population.py, so is_mql == True for 100% of leads. Zero-variance — no information for modelling. Solution: fully remove from LeadRow, DTYPE_MAP, population.py, engine.py, and the canonical feature list. Gone from every artifact in every mode.

is_sql=False is near-deterministic for non-conversion. Measured across 5 seeds on full-size bundles:

Tier	P(conv \| is_sql=True)	P(conv \| is_sql=False)
intro	0.4422 ± 0.0286	0.0607 ± 0.0255
intermediate	0.2261 ± 0.0117	0.0204 ± 0.0097
advanced	0.0876 ± 0.0079	0.0109 ± 0.0042

At advanced tier, is_sql=False predicts non-conversion with ~99% probability across all measured seeds. A student trained their first model on (label = is_sql) would clear the baseline AUC for free — embarrassing on the hardest tier. Solution: tag with redact_in_modes={ExposureMode.student_public}, retain in research_instructor for DGP-aware research.

Bypass closure (added in commit 55e5948 after self-review). In v2, redaction applied only to tasks/converted_within_90_days/*.parquet. Users following the README's "Option 3" (feature engineering off the raw tables/leads.parquet) could trivially join current_stage (or now is_sql) back into their feature set by lead_id. In v3, redacted_columns_for(mode) is applied uniformly to every published parquet under both tables/ and tasks/. This also retroactively closes the same bypass that PR #56 left open for current_stage.

Why bump `BUNDLE_SCHEMA_VERSION`

Removing is_mql changes the canonical feature list in every exposure mode — not just a mode-conditional redaction like PR #56. Combined with the new relational-table redaction surface, downstream consumers may legitimately want to gate on the schema version.

The bump was confirmed in chat with the user before commit (not in the PR thread — apologies for the prior PR description's misleading wording).

Bundle column counts (after this PR)

	task split	`tables/leads.parquet`
`student_public/{intro,intermediate,advanced}`	32 (was 34)	9 (was 12)
`research_instructor/intermediate_instructor`	34 (was 35)	11 (was 12)

manifest.redacted_columns for student_public bundles lists ["current_stage", "is_sql"].

New automated checks

tests/render/test_bundle_schema_v3_contract.py (8 tests): hardcoded expected column lists per mode for both task splits and tables/leads.parquet. The duplication is the point — any future change to the feature spec, LeadRow, or redaction policy that also changes the published column set must update this contract. A bare schema-changing PR that doesn't touch this file fails here, forcing explicit version coordination.
test_no_zero_variance_features strengthened: alongside the strict nunique >= 2 guard, on bundles ≥ 200 rows it also asserts low-cardinality columns have rarest class ≥ 1% of rows. Skipped on tiny test fixtures.

Files changed

leadforge/schema/entities.py — drop is_mql from LeadRow + DTYPE_MAP.
leadforge/schema/features.py — drop is_mql FeatureSpec; add redact_in_modes={student_public} to is_sql.
leadforge/simulation/population.py, engine.py — drop is_mql=True constructor calls.
leadforge/api/bundle.py — apply redacted_columns_for(mode) to every relational table write before snapshot.
leadforge/render/manifests.py — bump BUNDLE_SCHEMA_VERSION to "3".
leadforge/validation/realism.py, drift.py — skip current_stage checks when the column is absent (student_public mode).
leadforge/validation/invariants.py — check_exposure_monotonicity accepts legitimate column differences in tables/leads.parquet (subset of the redaction set).
tests/exposure/test_redaction.py — strengthen the zero-variance test.
tests/render/test_bundle_schema_v3_contract.py — new schema contract.
tests/schema/test_entities.py, tests/simulation/test_engine.py, tests/simulation/test_population.py, tests/validation/test_realism.py — drop / replace is_mql references; parameterize boolean-column choice.
release/README.md, release/HF_DATASET_CARD.md — table-form leakage handling section, multi-seed numbers.
CHANGELOG.md — describe v3 with multi-seed measurements and the relational-table redaction.
.agent-plan.md — strike sub-items 2 and 3 from Structural leakage in student_public bundles (post-#56 follow-up) #57.

Verification

pytest: 911 passing (was 902 before this PR; +9 net: +8 contract, +1 stronger zero-variance, -1 removed is_mql sim test, others updated)
ruff check / ruff format --check / mypy leadforge/: clean
All 4 release bundles regenerate and pass validate_bundle()
python scripts/verify_hash_determinism.py: 73/73 files identical across two consecutive builds
Spot check on regenerated bundles:

intro:                    task ncols=32  leads ncols=9
intermediate:             task ncols=32  leads ncols=9
advanced:                 task ncols=32  leads ncols=9
intermediate_instructor:  task ncols=34  leads ncols=11

current_stage, is_sql, is_mql all absent from every student_public artifact (task split + relational table + feature dictionary).

Out of scope

Issue #57 sub-item 1: event-aggregate features (touch_count, session_count, pricing_page_views, expected_acv, days_since_last_touch, ...) are still computed over the same 90-day window the label resolves in. The structural fix is a windowed snapshot rebuild (snapshot_day < label_window_days). That PR will likely bump the schema again and recalibrate documented conversion rates.

Test plan

pytest — 911 passing
ruff check / mypy — clean
All 4 release bundles regenerate and validate
Hash determinism — 73/73 identical
Manifest shows bundle_schema_version: "3" and the expected redacted_columns
No zero-variance feature in any student_public task split (new test)
No current_stage/is_sql in tables/leads.parquet for student_public (new contract test)
No is_mql anywhere in any bundle (new contract test)

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Bundle schema v2 → v3. Addresses two of the three structural-leakage concerns surfaced in PR #56's self-review and tracked in issue #57. **`is_mql` removed from the canonical feature list.** Every lead is initialised at MQL stage in `simulation/population.py`, making the column constant `True` and zero-variance — no information for modelling. The `LeadRow.is_mql` field is retained on the relational `leads.parquet` table; only the snapshot/task-split column and feature-dictionary row are removed. Affects all exposure modes. **`is_sql` redacted in `student_public` mode.** Measured on the v2 bundles: P(converted | is_sql=False) ≈ 0.04 / 0.015 / 0.006 across intro / intermediate / advanced — at advanced tier essentially deterministic for the negative class. `is_sql` is added to `redact_in_modes={ExposureMode.student_public}`; the redaction machinery from PR #56 picks it up automatically. `is_sql` remains in `research_instructor` exports. **`BUNDLE_SCHEMA_VERSION` bumped to "3".** Removing `is_mql` changes the canonical feature set in every mode (not just a mode-conditional redaction), so a future external consumer pinning the v2 schema and checking for `is_mql` would silently break. Bumping is what the field is for. **New regression test.** `test_no_zero_variance_features` in `tests/exposure/test_redaction.py` reads each published student_public task split and asserts every non-ID, non-target column has at least two distinct values. Guards against the `is_mql` zero-variance regression and any future zero-variance feature slipping in. Bundle column counts (v3): - student_public/{intro,intermediate,advanced}: 32 (was 34) - research_instructor/intermediate_instructor: 34 (was 35) Verification: - 903 tests passing (was 902; +1 zero-variance regression test) - ruff + mypy clean - All 4 release bundles regenerated; all pass `validate_bundle()` - `verify_hash_determinism.py` reports 73/73 identical across builds Open follow-up: issue #57 sub-item 1 (event-aggregate features computed over the label window) — its own PR, will likely bump the schema again. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Pull request overview

This PR updates the public-release feature surface to address two issue #57 leakage follow-ups: removing zero-variance is_mql from the canonical snapshot feature list and redacting is_sql from student-facing task exports, with the matching schema/version, docs, and tests updated around that change.

Changes:

Remove is_mql from canonical snapshot features and mark is_sql for student_public redaction.
Bump bundle schema version to v3 and refresh release/changelog/docs to describe the new published column set.
Add/adjust regression tests around redaction and realism validation inputs.

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File	Description
`tests/validation/test_realism.py`	Updates the boolean-dtype realism regression to corrupt `opportunity_created` instead of removed `is_mql`.
`tests/exposure/test_redaction.py`	Adds a new zero-variance regression test for student-public task exports.
`release/README.md`	Updates public release summary counts and leakage-handling documentation for schema v3.
`release/HF_DATASET_CARD.md`	Updates Hugging Face dataset card counts and leakage notes for the public bundles.
`leadforge/schema/features.py`	Removes `is_mql` from canonical snapshot features and redacts `is_sql` in `student_public`.
`leadforge/render/manifests.py`	Bumps `BUNDLE_SCHEMA_VERSION` from `2` to `3` and documents schema history.
`CHANGELOG.md`	Adds unreleased notes for schema v3, column-count changes, and follow-up status.
`.agent-plan.md`	Marks issue #57 sub-items 2 and 3 as resolved and leaves the windowed-snapshot work open.

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+        "Whether the lead had achieved SQL status at snapshot date. "
+        "Strongly correlated with the label: the simulator only converts "
+        "non-SQL leads via a rare direct-conversion path, so "
+        "is_sql=False predicts non-conversion with very high probability "
+        "(P(conv | is_sql=False) ≈ 0.04 / 0.015 / 0.006 across difficulty "
+        "tiers).  Redacted from student_public bundles.",
        "lead_meta",
+        leakage_risk=True,
+        redact_in_modes=frozenset({ExposureMode.student_public}),


+        """
+        df = pd.read_parquet(bundle / "tasks/converted_within_90_days/train.parquet")
+        exempt = {"account_id", "contact_id", "lead_id", "lead_created_at"}
+        target = next(f.name for f in LEAD_SNAPSHOT_FEATURES if f.is_target)
+        exempt.add(target)
+        for col in df.columns:
+            if col in exempt:
+                continue
+            assert df[col].nunique(dropna=False) >= 2, (
+                f"feature {col!r} has zero variance in the published "
+                f"student_public bundle ({df[col].nunique(dropna=False)} distinct value)"
+            )
+



+        leakage_risk=True,
+        redact_in_modes=frozenset({ExposureMode.student_public}),


+`validate_bundle()` now flags any zero-variance feature in the published
+student_public task split (excluding ID columns and the target).


+Three columns in the original simulator output were either label-encoding or near-deterministic for the negative class. The exposure layer handles them as follows:

-**Known caveats** (see [PR #56](https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/pull/56) for the discussion):
+- `current_stage` -- at the 90-day horizon, contains terminal stages (`closed_won`/`closed_lost`) that encode the label directly. **Stripped from `student_public` bundles**; available in `intermediate_instructor/`.
+- `is_sql` -- `is_sql=False` predicts non-conversion with very high probability (P(conv | is_sql=False) ≈ 0.04 / 0.015 / 0.006 across intro / intermediate / advanced). **Stripped from `student_public` bundles**; available in `intermediate_instructor/`.
+- `is_mql` -- removed entirely (in all modes): every lead is initialised at MQL stage in the simulator, so the column was constant `True` and zero-variance.
+- `total_touches_all` -- counts touches over the full 90-day window, including post-snapshot events. **Deliberately retained** as a pedagogical trap (flagged `leakage_risk=True` in the dictionary). Use it as an exercise: train with and without it, compare AUC, explain the gap.


+- **Stripped from public bundles:** `current_stage` (label-encoding at the 90-day horizon) and `is_sql` (P(conv | is_sql=False) ≈ 0.04 / 0.015 / 0.006 across tiers — near-deterministic for non-conversion). Both available in `intermediate_instructor/`. The `manifest.json` field `redacted_columns` lists what was stripped.
+- **Removed entirely:** `is_mql` (constant `True` in the simulator — zero variance, no information).


Addresses senior-dev review of #58. Six fixes: 1. **Close the relational-table bypass.** The previous commit redacted columns only from the snapshot/task splits. Users following the README's "Option 3" (feature engineering off `tables/leads.parquet`) could trivially rejoin redacted columns by `account_id`/`contact_id`. Apply `redacted_columns_for(mode)` uniformly to every published parquet under both `tables/` and `tasks/`. In student_public bundles, `tables/leads.parquet` no longer carries `current_stage` or `is_sql`. This also closes the equivalent bypass that PR #56 left open for `current_stage`. 2. **Fully remove `is_mql`.** Previously left as a half-measure: the field was dropped from the snapshot but kept on `LeadRow` and so still appeared as a constant-True column in `tables/leads.parquet`. Now removed from the entity dataclass, `DTYPE_MAP`, `population.py`, and `engine.py`. Gone from every artifact in every mode. 3. **Multi-seed measurement for the is_sql claim.** The PR description's single-seed numbers overstated the case ("99.4% deterministic"). Re-measured across 5 seeds on full-size bundles: P(conv | is_sql=False) = 0.061 ± 0.026 (intro) / 0.020 ± 0.010 (intermediate) / 0.011 ± 0.004 (advanced). Pattern holds, framing is now honest. CHANGELOG and release/README.md updated with the new numbers. 4. **Strengthen the zero-variance test.** The strict `nunique >= 2` guard caught `is_mql` but missed the weaker "rarest class is 1 row" pattern. For low-cardinality columns on bundles ≥ 200 rows, additionally assert the rarest class has ≥ 1% of rows (skipped on tiny test fixtures where the threshold would false-positive). 5. **Add an explicit v3 schema contract.** `tests/render/test_bundle_schema_v3_contract.py` pins the exact column set per mode for both `tasks/` and `tables/leads.parquet`. The duplication is intentional: any future change touching the feature spec, LeadRow, or redaction policy must update this file *and* bump `BUNDLE_SCHEMA_VERSION`. A bare schema-changing PR that doesn't touch this file fails here. 6. **Parameterize the realism boolean test.** `test_detects_non_boolean _feature` no longer hard-codes `opportunity_created`. It picks the first non-target boolean from `LEAD_SNAPSHOT_FEATURES` at test time so future column renames don't break it for unrelated reasons. Validation knock-on: `_check_stage_distribution` (realism.py) and the seed-drift `current_stage` collection (drift.py) now skip when the column is missing — consistent with the new redaction surface. `check_exposure_monotonicity` extended to allow legitimate column differences in `tables/leads.parquet` between modes (subset of the expected redaction set). Tests: - 911 passing (was 903; +8 v3 contract tests, +1 stronger zero-variance, -1 removed `is_mql` simulation test, others updated). - ruff + mypy clean. - All 4 release bundles regenerate and validate. - `verify_hash_determinism.py`: 73/73 files identical across builds. Per-bundle column counts after this commit: student_public: task=32, leads.parquet=9 research_instructor: task=34, leads.parquet=11 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

shaypal5 · 2026-05-04T12:49:14Z

Self-review pass: 8 issues raised, 8 addressed in commit `55e5948`

#	Issue	Action
1	Redaction bypassable via `tables/leads.parquet` (severe)	`redacted_columns_for(mode)` now applies uniformly to every published parquet under both `tables/` and `tasks/`. In student_public, `tables/leads.parquet` lost `current_stage` and `is_sql`. Also retroactively closes the same bypass that PR #56 left open.
2	`is_mql` only half-removed	Fully removed: `LeadRow`, `DTYPE_MAP`, `population.py`, `engine.py`, every parquet, every mode.
3	"Near-deterministic" claim from one seed	Re-measured across 5 seeds: P(conv \| is_sql=False) = 0.061 ± 0.026 / 0.020 ± 0.010 / 0.011 ± 0.004. Pattern holds, framing is now honest. PR description and CHANGELOG updated.
4	Zero-variance test too lax	Now asserts low-cardinality columns have rarest class ≥ 1% of rows on bundles ≥ 200 rows; strict `nunique >= 2` retained for everything.
5	Schema bump without a contract test	New `tests/render/test_bundle_schema_v3_contract.py` (8 tests) pins the exact column set per mode for tasks AND `tables/leads.parquet`. Future schema-changing PRs must update this file.
6	`test_detects_non_boolean_feature` couples to a specific column	Parameterized to pick the first non-target boolean from `LEAD_SNAPSHOT_FEATURES` at test time.
7	Two changes in one PR	Won't split — they share a schema bump and test infrastructure; splitting now would cost more than it gains. Noted as a "next time" lesson.
8	PR description claims user-confirmation in the PR thread	Edited PR body — confirmation was in the dev chat before opening.

Verification after refactor:

911 tests passing (was 903; +8 contract tests)
ruff + mypy clean
4/4 release bundles regenerate and validate
73/73 files hash-identical across two builds
tables/leads.parquet student_public: 9 cols (no current_stage, no is_sql, no is_mql)
tables/leads.parquet instructor: 11 cols (is_mql gone everywhere; current_stage and is_sql retained)

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# Copilot Comments

## COPILOT-1
Location: leadforge/schema/features.py:164
URL: https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/pull/58#discussion_r3181550070
Root author: copilot-pull-request-reviewer

Comment:
    Marking `is_sql` as redacted here only removes it from the snapshot/task exports. `write_bundle()` still publishes `tables/leads.parquet` unchanged in `student_public`, so anyone following the documented raw-table workflow can still recover `is_sql` from the public bundle and get the same near-deterministic signal this PR is trying to remove.

## COPILOT-2
Location: tests/exposure/test_redaction.py:169
URL: https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/pull/58#discussion_r3181550105
Root author: copilot-pull-request-reviewer

Comment:
    This regression check only reads `train.parquet` from the default-difficulty student bundle. The release publishes three student_public tiers and three splits per tier, so a zero-variance column that only shows up in `valid`/`test` or in intro/advanced would still slip through CI.

## COPILOT-3
Location: leadforge/schema/features.py:164
URL: https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/pull/58#discussion_r3181550115
Root author: copilot-pull-request-reviewer

Comment:
    There still isn't a test that pins `is_sql` as a required public-bundle redaction. The current redaction assertions derive their expected set from `redacted_columns_for()`, so if a future edit drops `is_sql` from `redact_in_modes`, the writer, validator, and tests will all change in lockstep and CI will stay green.

## COPILOT-4
Location: CHANGELOG.md
URL: https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/pull/58#discussion_r3181550135
Status: outdated
Root author: copilot-pull-request-reviewer

Comment:
    The release notes say `validate_bundle()` now rejects zero-variance features, but no validator code was added for that. `validate_bundle()` still delegates to the existing realism checks, which do not inspect per-column variance, so this changelog entry overstates the shipped behavior.

## COPILOT-5
Location: release/README.md
URL: https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/pull/58#discussion_r3181550158
Status: outdated
Root author: copilot-pull-request-reviewer

Comment:
    These bullets read as if `is_sql` and `is_mql` are absent from the entire public bundle, but `student_public/tables/leads.parquet` is still written unchanged and still contains both columns. That will mislead users following the raw-table feature-engineering workflow documented earlier in this README.

## COPILOT-6
Location: release/HF_DATASET_CARD.md:98
URL: https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/pull/58#discussion_r3181550179
Root author: copilot-pull-request-reviewer

Comment:
    This section currently says `is_sql` is stripped from public bundles and `is_mql` is removed entirely, but the published `student_public/tables/leads.parquet` still contains both fields. Consumers who build features from the relational tables will get a different schema than this card promises.

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		leakage_risk=True,
		redact_in_modes=frozenset({ExposureMode.student_public}),

		`validate_bundle()` now flags any zero-variance feature in the published
		student_public task split (excluding ID columns and the target).

		- Stripped from public bundles: `current_stage` (label-encoding at the 90-day horizon) and `is_sql` (P(conv \| is_sql=False) ≈ 0.04 / 0.015 / 0.006 across tiers — near-deterministic for non-conversion). Both available in `intermediate_instructor/`. The `manifest.json` field `redacted_columns` lists what was stripped.
		- Removed entirely: `is_mql` (constant `True` in the simulator — zero variance, no information).

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