# Enron Emails Benchmark A retrieval-only benchmark for evaluating LEANN search on the Enron email corpus. It mirrors the structure and CLI of the existing FinanceBench and LAION benches, using stage-based evaluation focused on Recall@3. - Dataset: Enron email CSV (e.g., Kaggle wcukierski/enron-email-dataset) for passages - Queries: corbt/enron_emails_sample_questions (filtered for realistic questions) - Metric: Recall@3 vs FAISS Flat baseline ## Layout benchmarks/enron_emails/ - setup_enron_emails.py: Prepare passages, build LEANN index, build FAISS baseline - evaluate_enron_emails.py: Evaluate retrieval recall (Stage 2) - data/: Generated passages, queries, embeddings-related files - baseline/: FAISS Flat baseline files ## Quickstart 1) Prepare the data and index cd benchmarks/enron_emails python setup_enron_emails.py --data-dir data Notes: - If `--emails-csv` is omitted, the script attempts to download from Kaggle dataset `wcukierski/enron-email-dataset` using Kaggle API (requires `KAGGLE_USERNAME` and `KAGGLE_KEY`). Alternatively, pass a local path to `--emails-csv`. Notes: - The script parses emails, chunks header/body into passages, builds a compact LEANN index, and then builds a FAISS Flat baseline from the same passages and embedding model. - Optionally, it will also create evaluation queries from HuggingFace dataset `corbt/enron_emails_sample_questions`. 2) Run recall evaluation (Stage 2) python evaluate_enron_emails.py --index data/enron_index_hnsw.leann --stage 2 3) Complexity sweep (Stage 3) python evaluate_enron_emails.py --index data/enron_index_hnsw.leann --stage 3 --target-recall 0.90 --max-queries 200 Stage 3 uses binary search over complexity to find the minimal value achieving the target Recall@3 (assumes recall is non-decreasing with complexity). The search expands the upper bound as needed and snaps complexity to multiples of 8. 4) Index comparison (Stage 4) python evaluate_enron_emails.py --index data/enron_index_hnsw.leann --stage 4 --max-queries 100 --output results.json Notes: - Minimal CLI: you can run from repo root with only `--index`, defaults match financebench/laion patterns: - `--stage` defaults to `all` (runs 2, 3, 4) - `--baseline-dir` defaults to `baseline` - `--queries` defaults to `data/evaluation_queries.jsonl` (or falls back to the index directory) - Fail-fast behavior: no silent fallbacks. If compact index cannot run with recompute, it errors out. 4) Index comparison (Stage 4) python evaluate_enron_emails.py --index data/enron_index_hnsw.leann --stage 4 --max-queries 100 --output results.json Optional flags: - --queries data/evaluation_queries.jsonl (custom queries file) - --baseline-dir baseline (where FAISS baseline lives) - --complexity 64 (LEANN complexity parameter) ## Files Produced - data/enron_passages_preview.jsonl: Small preview of passages used (for inspection) - data/enron_index_hnsw.leann.*: LEANN index files - baseline/faiss_flat.index + baseline/metadata.pkl: FAISS baseline with passage IDs - data/evaluation_queries.jsonl: Query file (id + query; includes GT IDs for reference) ## Notes - We only evaluate retrieval Recall@3 (no generation). This matches the other benches’ style and stage flow. - The emails CSV must contain a column named "message" (raw RFC822 email) and a column named "file" for source identifier. Message-ID headers are parsed as canonical message IDs when present. ## Stages Summary - Stage 2 (Recall@3): - Compares LEANN vs FAISS Flat baseline on Recall@3. - Compact index runs with `recompute_embeddings=True`. - Stage 3 (Binary Search for Complexity): - Builds a non-compact index (`_noncompact.leann`) and runs binary search with `recompute_embeddings=False` to find the minimal complexity achieving target Recall@3 (default 90%). - Stage 4 (Index Comparison): - Reports .index-only sizes for compact vs non-compact. - Measures timings on 100 queries by default: non-compact (no recompute) vs compact (with recompute). - Fails fast if compact recompute cannot run. - If `--complexity` is not provided, the script tries to use the best complexity from Stage 3: - First from the current run (when running `--stage all`), otherwise - From `enron_stage3_results.json` saved next to the index during the last Stage 3 run. - If neither exists, Stage 4 will error and ask you to run Stage 3 or pass `--complexity`. ## Example Results These are sample results obtained on a subset of Enron data using all-mpnet-base-v2. - Stage 3 (Binary Search): - Minimal complexity achieving 90% Recall@3: 88 - Sampled points: - C=8 → 59.9% Recall@3 - C=72 → 89.4% Recall@3 - C=88 → 90.2% Recall@3 - C=96 → 90.7% Recall@3 - C=112 → 91.1% Recall@3 - C=136 → 91.3% Recall@3 - C=256 → 92.0% Recall@3 - Stage 4 (Index Sizes, .index only): - Compact: ~2.17 MB - Non-compact: ~82.03 MB - Storage saving by compact: ~97.35% - Stage 4 (Timing, 100 queries, complexity=88): - Non-compact (no recompute): ~0.0074 s avg per query - Compact (with recompute): ~1.947 s avg per query - Speed ratio (non-compact/compact): ~0.0038x Full JSON output for Stage 4 is saved by the script (see `--output`), e.g.: `benchmarks/enron_emails/results_enron_stage4.json`.