Folds a haversine distance kernel into the categorical-mode weighting so a
nearer neighbour counts for more — applied ONLY to the components that showed
a clear distance signal in the corpus pre-check (age band, wall + floor
construction, glazing: homes built/retrofitted together cluster). Roof
construction showed no decay and is excluded; heating keeps its coherent
donor. Predictor stays pure: weights come from target.coordinates vs each
Comparable.coordinates (resolved at the boundary); geo is OFF when the target
has no coords, neutral for a neighbour with none.
Scale chosen on the harness: _GEO_SCALE_KM=0.1 is the gate-safe optimum
(0.05 lifts the corpus more but regresses fixture floor_construction).
Corpus (150pc/514, geo off->on): age 0.564->0.572, age_pm1 0.841->0.847,
wall 0.902->0.912, floor_con 0.786->0.796, glazing 0.667->0.673; roof
unchanged. Fixture: glazing 0.5278->0.5833 (floor ratcheted), all else held.
Refactored recency into a reusable _recency_weights vector composed via
_combine, so similarity/recency/geo factors multiply uniformly. Fixture ships
a committed _coordinates.json (OGL OS OpenData; build script carries it from
the corpus sidecar on rebuild) so the gate exercises geo without S3.
This is the per-component method applied to geography ([[feedback_per_component_best_method]]).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The committed gate needs frozen, reproducible data without dumping real UK
addresses into the repo. Add:
- harness anonymise_payload + stable_hash: hash street address + cert number
into opaque, dedup-stable tokens; blank secondary address lines + post_town;
keep postcode + all component/lodged fields (gov data is OGL). Unit-tested.
- scripts/build_epc_prediction_fixture.py: curate qualifying postcodes (>=1
SAP 10.2 target + >=2 distinct addresses) from the local scratch corpus,
anonymise, freeze under tests/fixtures/epc_prediction/.
- The frozen fixture: 15 postcodes / 280 certs / 36 SAP-10.2 targets.
Verified no plaintext address_line_1 and post_town all blank.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
