commonground-score

Pure-Python scoring utilities for Common Ground deliberation evaluations.

API

commonground_score exposes:

• prop_test(successes, trials)
• two_prop_test(s_in, s_out, p_in, p_out)
• comment_stats(votes)
• vote_entropy(votes)
• cluster_separation(votes)
• rating_to_vote(value)
• vote_accuracy(predictions, held_out)
• brier_score(predictions, held_out)
• brier_skill_score(predictions, held_out, reference_predictions=None)
• probability_reward(predictions, held_out)

vote_entropy normalizes agree/disagree/pass entropy to [0, 1]. cluster_separation returns the fraction of faction-vote pairs taking different stances. Together they provide the deterministic panel-disagreement math used by commonground-elicit; missing votes are excluded from both calculations.

brier_score accepts bare point predictions (1, -1, or 0) and probability mappings keyed by agree, disagree, and pass or their numeric equivalents. Valid non-negative finite mappings are normalized before scoring. Invalid or non-normalizable mappings score as the uniform distribution (1/3, 1/3, 1/3) to represent no information. Version 0.4 divides the three-class squared-error sum by two, so the returned score is bounded to [0,1]; callers requiring the unnormalized convention must multiply by two. probability_reward returns 1 - brier_score for a non-empty target set. The environment remains responsible for enforcing its exact response schema before calling this scorer. brier_skill_score returns relative improvement over an explicit reference forecast; when omitted, it uses the three-class uniform forecast. A score of zero equals the reference, one is perfect, and negative values are worse than the reference.

rating_to_vote(value) implements the canonical 0-10 rating conversion used for dataset parity:

signed = (2 * (value - 5)) / 10

Values outside the inclusive 0-10 range, plus non-finite values, map to neutral/pass (0). In-range values below 5 return a negative score, values above 5 return a positive score, and exactly 5 returns 0.

Parity Fixtures

The test suite includes a parity fixture loader for tests/fixtures/parity_*.json. The harness requires fixtures for prop_test, two_prop_test, comment_stats, and rating_to_vote. Fixture files should use:

{"function":"prop_test","cases":[{"args":[2,4],"expected":0.4472135954999579}]}

JSON cannot encode NaN, so NaN arguments are represented as the exact string "NaN" and decoded by the harness before invocation.