feat: allow drift to vary per competitor via Member::with_drift_scale

Drift was a property of the History, so every competitor drifted at the
same rate and a fixed reference point could not share a graph with moving
competitors. A bot at a known strength, a rating floor, a course
difficulty — all of them drifted along with the players.

Member::with_drift_scale(s) multiplies the drift *variance* a competitor
accumulates, so s is in the same units as gamma: ConstantDrift(g) at
scale s behaves exactly as ConstantDrift(g * s) would for that competitor.
A scalar rather than a per-competitor Drift keeps History's single D type
parameter untouched and stays Copy. 0.0 pins a competitor still.

The scale lives on Rating, beside the drift it scales, and is applied
only through Rating::drift_variance_delta / drift_variance_for_elapsed.
Making those the sole entry points means a caller cannot reach the raw
drift and silently skip a competitor's scale — the filtered pass was
exactly that bug during development, caught because its test was written
before the wiring.

Like with_prior, the scale is competitor configuration captured at first
appearance rather than a per-event override; a competitor that is static
is static, and a scale that changed between events would make the skill
trajectory hard to interpret. Member's docs claimed prior was a per-event
override, which the code has never done — corrected here.

A negative scale is rejected rather than squared into its absolute value,
and a non-finite one rejected outright, both as InvalidParameter.

None means 1.0, so no existing call site changes and no existing fit
moves. Adding a public field to Member does break struct-literal
construction downstream.

Closes #34

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014b6wy2q8rnFK8U8GPJVQNU
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 1a88678384
commit 617bc07f6f
7 changed files with 541 additions and 11 deletions
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@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ pub struct Rating<T: Time = i64, D: Drift<T> = ConstantDrift> {
pub(crate) prior: Gaussian,
pub(crate) beta: f64,
pub(crate) drift: D,
/// Multiplier on the drift *variance* this competitor accumulates; 1.0 is
/// the neutral default. Set per competitor via `Member::with_drift_scale`.
pub(crate) drift_scale: f64,
pub(crate) _time: PhantomData<T>,
}
@@ -25,10 +28,21 @@ impl<T: Time, D: Drift<T>> Rating<T, D> {
prior,
beta,
drift,
drift_scale: 1.0,
_time: PhantomData,
}
}
/// Scale how fast this competitor drifts, relative to `drift`.
///
/// Multiplies the drift *variance*, so the scale is in the same units as
/// `gamma`. `0.0` pins the competitor still.
#[must_use]
pub fn with_drift_scale(mut self, drift_scale: f64) -> Self {
self.drift_scale = drift_scale;
self
}
/// The configured prior skill estimate.
#[must_use]
pub fn prior(&self) -> Gaussian {
@@ -47,6 +61,28 @@ impl<T: Time, D: Drift<T>> Rating<T, D> {
self.drift
}
/// This competitor's multiplier on the drift variance; 1.0 is neutral.
#[must_use]
pub fn drift_scale(&self) -> f64 {
self.drift_scale
}
/// Drift variance accumulated over `from -> to`, scaled for this competitor.
///
/// The single place the scale is applied for a `Time`-typed span. Callers
/// must go through this rather than `self.drift` directly, so a competitor's
/// scale cannot be silently skipped.
pub(crate) fn drift_variance_delta(&self, from: &T, to: &T) -> f64 {
self.drift.variance_delta(from, to) * self.drift_scale * self.drift_scale
}
/// Drift variance for a cached elapsed count, scaled for this competitor.
///
/// The counterpart of `drift_variance_delta` for the cached-elapsed paths.
pub(crate) fn drift_variance_for_elapsed(&self, elapsed: i64) -> f64 {
self.drift.variance_for_elapsed(elapsed) * self.drift_scale * self.drift_scale
}
pub(crate) fn performance(&self) -> Gaussian {
self.prior.forget(self.beta.powi(2))
}
@@ -58,6 +94,7 @@ impl Default for Rating<i64, ConstantDrift> {
prior: Gaussian::default(),
beta: BETA,
drift: ConstantDrift(GAMMA),
drift_scale: 1.0,
_time: PhantomData,
}
}