diff --git a/docs/research/contributions-log.md b/docs/research/contributions-log.md
index 5cb7902..0d6147f 100644
--- a/docs/research/contributions-log.md
+++ b/docs/research/contributions-log.md
@@ -731,3 +731,24 @@ The candidate set of a CPU-only, model-free engine built in seconds contains the
 which is what a reranker over a short list addresses (§8.18–8.19). Consequence for the earlier dense
 holdout numbers (§8.18): on Lite/Verified the k=30 vote saw only 20 candidates, so +0.026/+0.028 is
 a lower bound for the decided method.
+
+### 8.21 SweRankEmbed-Small vote run once on Lite and Verified (session 19, 2026-10-17)
+
+Variant fixed by the selection rule committed before the k=100 numbers (bae1783): SweRank vote,
+k=30, w=0.5 (k=100 failed dev-rest). Base = the regenerated 300-entry v1.4.0 lists (§8.20), so the
+vote sees 30 candidates as decided. One run each (`swebench/swerank-sl-{lite,verified}.jsonl`):
+
+| set | n | func Acc@1 | func Acc@5 | func Acc@10 | paired @5 | paired @1 |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Lite, LocAgent subset | 274 | 0.223 → **0.281** | 0.460 → **0.496** [0.43,0.56] | 0.540 → **0.573** | +0.036 [0.011,0.062], 12/2, p=0.013 | +0.058, 20/4, p=0.002 |
+| Verified | 458 | 0.197 → **0.231** | 0.428 → **0.472** [0.43,0.52] | 0.496 → **0.515** | +0.044 [0.024,0.066], 23/3, p=0.0001 | +0.035, 24/8, p=0.007 |
+
+For comparison the jina vote (§8.18, over the 20-entry lists): Lite 0.252 / 0.485 / 0.555, Verified
+0.237 / 0.458 / 0.514. Cost: p50 15.1 s (Lite) / 10.8 s (Verified) per issue for 31 texts — fp32 torch,
+no ONNX export, about 2–3 texts/s on the laptop CPU; at that rate embedding every function of django
+(~30k definitions) once would take hours, which is the price the whole-repository retriever pays
+before its first query. Licence cc-by-nc-4.0: research result, not an engine default.
+
+Against the same model used as a whole-repository retriever (SweRank Table 1, GPU): func Acc@5 0.631;
+our hybrid 0.496 with 30 embeddings per issue. Gap −0.135; the engine's top-300 holds every gold
+function for 0.828 of these issues (§8.20), so the remaining gap is ordering depth, not recall.
diff --git a/docs/research/paper-draft.md b/docs/research/paper-draft.md
index 8448289..0a3ab40 100644
--- a/docs/research/paper-draft.md
+++ b/docs/research/paper-draft.md
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ skipped, voting at double weight deepest-first.
 | engine v1.3.0 | – | 0.500 [0.44,0.56] | 0.723 | 0.755 | 0.394 | 0.482 |
 | **engine v1.4.0** | – | **0.500** [0.44,0.56] | **0.723** | **0.755** | **0.460** [0.40,0.52] | **0.540** |
 | **engine v1.4.0 + dense short-list vote (opt-in)** | – | 0.500 | 0.723 | 0.755 | **0.485** [0.43,0.54] | **0.555** |
+| engine v1.4.0 + SweRankEmbed-Small vote on top-30 (research, cc-by-nc) | – | 0.500 | 0.723 | 0.755 | **0.496** [0.43,0.56] | **0.573** |
 | Jina-Code-v2 † | – | 0.434 | 0.712 | 0.803 | – | – |
 | CodeRankEmbed † | – | 0.526 | 0.777 | 0.847 | 0.518 | 0.588 |
 | Agentless + GPT-4o † | ✓ | 0.672 | 0.745 | 0.745 | – | – |
@@ -174,7 +175,9 @@ into the function list by RRF (w = 0.5). Decided on the tuning splits (pooled n
 | Lite, LocAgent subset | 274 | 0.223 → 0.252 | 0.460 → 0.485 | 0.540 → 0.555 | +0.026 [0.004,0.051], 9/2 |
 | Verified | 459 | 0.198 → 0.237 | 0.429 → 0.458 | 0.497 → 0.514 | +0.028 [0.009,0.048], 17/4, p=0.007 |
 
-Thirty embeddings per issue replace a whole-repository index; the gap to CodeRankEmbed at func
+With SweRankEmbed-Small as the embedder (decided on the same splits, k=30 by a rule fixed before
+the k=100 numbers): Lite 0.223/0.460/0.540 → **0.281/0.496/0.573** (func Acc@1/5/10; paired @5 12/2,
+p=0.013), Verified 0.197/0.428/0.496 → **0.231/0.472/0.515** (23/3, p=0.0001). Thirty embeddings per issue replace a whole-repository index; the gap to CodeRankEmbed at func
 Acc@5 narrows from −0.058 to −0.033.
 
 ### 5.3 Ablation (Lite holdout, 276)