chore(retrieval): swap rank-bm25 for bm25s in BEIR harness, drop dead prod dep - #26
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… prod dep Lexical parity on scifact 300/25: NDCG 0.8025 -> 0.7905, recall 0.84 unchanged, top-1 agreement 23/25. Lexical p50 1.34ms -> 0.11ms. rank-bm25 had zero production usage (prod lexical is Postgres ts_rank); bm25s moves to dev extras for the benchmark harness only.
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rank-bm25 had zero production usage (prod lexical is Postgres ts_rank) and is unmaintained since 2021. This swaps the BEIR harness to maintained bm25s and removes the dead prod dep.
Parity gate (scifact 300/25, before -> after):
Changes:
Note: prior results.json lexical columns are now non-comparable history; future runs anchor to 0.7905.
Verification: 177/177 pytest pass, ruff + compileall clean.