Bit-pack Milnor basis elements into a u64 - #280
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR replaces heap-backed Milnor p-parts with bounded packed values while preserving basis order, but a wasm32 deserialization path can accept malformed profile lengths and valid high-degree inputs still have an unresolved coproduct-capacity overflow risk. These issues could cause incorrect algebra results, so they should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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In `@ext/crates/algebra/src/algebra/milnor_algebra.rs`:
- Around line 2348-2377: Strengthen basis_is_derived_at_p2 by asserting the
expected canonical ordering independently of ppart_table(t), using the element
names or excess ordering produced by the previously stored basis path. Keep the
existing field-consistency checks, but construct expected values from fixed
ordering data so reordering ppart_table entries causes the test to fail.
- Around line 799-821: In ext/crates/algebra/src/algebra/milnor_algebra.rs lines
799-821, update the P^ parsing closure to use checked exponentiation for entry,
reject it against PPart::max_entry(t - 1) before calculating degree, then use
checked multiplication for the degree and reject overflow or values above
PPart::MAX_DEGREE. In ext/crates/algebra/src/algebra/milnor_algebra.rs lines
1199-1212, move the x > PPart::max_entry(0) validation in try_beps_pn before
computing degree.
- Around line 1159-1172: Update generate_basis_2 so the derived basis preserves
the historical unsorted ppart_table order used by stable p = 2 index mappings.
Remove the excess-based sorting from this method while retaining table
construction and extension behavior, ensuring basis_element_from_index remains
compatible with existing saved resolutions and magic().
- Around line 182-195: Prevent oversized profiles from producing invalid packed
signatures: update MilnorSubalgebra::new, from_bytes, and SubalgebraIterator to
enforce PPart::MAX_LEN, and ensure packed_signature rejects or safely handles
indices at or beyond that bound before calling PPart::width or PPart::shift.
Preserve valid signature packing for indices below PPart::MAX_LEN.
In `@ext/src/nassau.rs`:
- Around line 103-119: Update packed_signature to detect when any signature
entry has bits outside its field mask and return no-match for the entire
signature instead of truncating or leaking those bits; ensure signature_mask
propagates this result as an empty iterator. Add a regression test covering an
oversized entry in a narrow field and verify it matches no basis elements.
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Thanks — four of the five were real, and three were genuine panics reachable from entry points documented as total. Fixed in Fixed — exponent validation ordering. Both sites panicked, not merely truncated. Confirmed with tests before fixing:
Fixed — signature masks past Fixed at the packing boundary rather than by bounding profile length in three constructors, since that's where the assumption lives and it keeps The regression test checks the packed mask against the per-entry comparison it replaced, over every element up to degree 60, for profiles narrower than their fields, wider than their fields, and longer than a p-part can be. Fixed — test strengthening. Fair point, and it applies to the order rather than the derivation. Added Declining — "preserve the stable Verified rather than argued: dumping every basis element in index order at both the base commit and this branch gives identical output for all 4156 elements in degrees I'd also flag that the suggested fix — removing the excess sort from Separately, Generated by Claude Code |
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…o it PR SpectralSequences#280 replaces `Vec<PPartEntry>` exponent sequences with `PPart(u64)`: one word, Copy + Hash, trailing zeros unrepresented so the packed value is a canonical key. MAX_DEGREE 2045 (vs the 1536 the old hand-rolled packing in this branch assumed), MAX_LEN 10. PR SpectralSequences#280 does not touch milnor_gpu.rs, so the GPU integration is all here. Conflicts (4, one hunk each): * Cargo.toml, mod.rs -- both sides only add entries; took both. * milnor_algebra.rs -- this branch's `MilnorHashMap` hand-rolled a u64 packing (degree <= 1536). PR SpectralSequences#280 supersedes it with `PPart`, so that block goes and the plain `HashMap<MilnorBasisElement, V>` alias stands. Our `SeqnoTables` sits in the same hunk and is kept. * nassau.rs `signature_mask` -- COMBINED, not picked. PR SpectralSequences#280 computes the mask once per sweep (`packed_signature`, `op.bits() & mask == value`); this branch added `take_while(gen_deg < max_gen_degree)`. The latter is not optional: it exists so a reader ignores generators of the current internal degree, which another thread may be adding concurrently. Dropping it would be a race. Port: * `admissible_matrices`, `AdmissibleMatrix::new`, `seqno`, `cold_count`, `resident_info`, `record_r_use`, `ppart_degree` take `PPart` by value. * Cache keys `Vec<PPartEntry>` -> `PPart` in `COLD_COUNT`, `RESIDENT_HOST.index` and `R_STATS`: no allocation per lookup and one hasher round instead of a pointer chase, in the pair pre-pass measured at up to 8.4 s per call. * The multiplier's assembly loop builds by index (`set(n, ..)`) instead of `push`/`pop`. The trailing-zero trim is gone: the packed form does not represent trailing zeros, which is what makes it canonical. * `basis_element_from_index` returns owned values now (PR SpectralSequences#280 derives the p=2 basis rather than storing it), so the cached `terms` vector owns them. Validation: 75/75 algebra tests pass, including every GPU correctness test. Soak: 0 correctness mismatches, 1666 launches in 60 s against 915 before the merge (+82%); bench warm-up 96.9 s -> 86.9 s. CI gate (fmt + both clippy configs) clean. Kernel throughput is unchanged (7.60-7.64e9 pairs/s vs 7.61e9) and registers are still 78 -- expected, this is the host port only. The kernel win needs phase B: `working` (16 x u32) and `term_local` (16 x u16) are ~24 of those 78 registers, and 78 -> ~54 moves occupancy 37.5% -> 62.5%. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SmhK9czwJj2dZeemDhXtBf
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In `@ext/crates/algebra/src/algebra/milnor_rank.rs`:
- Around line 115-122: Update PPartRanker::new to reject max_degree values
greater than PPart::MAX_DEGREE divided by the prime q before allocating counts,
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| /// Unlike the exponent sequence of a basis element (see [`PPart`]), these are *exponents* of | ||
| /// the profile function and use [`PPartEntry::MAX`] to mean infinity, so they stay unpacked. |
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| /// Unlike the exponent sequence of a basis element (see [`PPart`]), these are *exponents* of | |
| /// the profile function and use [`PPartEntry::MAX`] to mean infinity, so they stay unpacked. | |
| /// We need to allow Infinity here so we don't bitpack. |
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| /// The number of entries that can be stored. This equals `fp`'s `MAX_MULTINOMIAL_LEN`, which | ||
| /// already bounds the length of the $\xi$-degree table, so it is not a new restriction. |
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| /// The number of entries that can be stored. This equals `fp`'s `MAX_MULTINOMIAL_LEN`, which | |
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| /// The number of entries that can be stored. This equals `fp`'s `MAX_MULTINOMIAL_LEN`. |
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| /// The raw packed value. Two exponent sequences are equal exactly when their bits are, so this | ||
| /// is a complete hash key, and it can be compared against a packed mask in one operation (see | ||
| /// `MilnorSubalgebra::packed_signature` in `ext`). |
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| /// The raw packed value. Two exponent sequences are equal exactly when their bits are, so this | |
| /// is a complete hash key, and it can be compared against a packed mask in one operation (see | |
| /// `MilnorSubalgebra::packed_signature` in `ext`). | |
| /// The raw packed value. Can be used as a hash key. |
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| /// The layout is not uniform, so this is a complete key but not a balanced one: entry `i` sits | ||
| /// at [`Self::shift`]`(i)`, putting `r_1` in the low bits, and `r_1` correlates strongly with | ||
| /// internal degree. Taking this value modulo a small number therefore partitions by `r_1` | ||
| /// rather than evenly — callers that shard or bucket on it must mix the bits first. |
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| /// at [`Self::shift`]`(i)`, putting `r_1` in the low bits, and `r_1` correlates strongly with | |
| /// internal degree. Taking this value modulo a small number therefore partitions by `r_1` | |
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| /// Masking the index keeps the table lookups in range without a branch. Entries in | ||
| /// `MAX_LEN..TABLE_LEN` have width 0 and so read as zero, which is the right answer; an index | ||
| /// at or beyond `TABLE_LEN` would silently wrap, which is why this is private and | ||
| /// `debug_assert`ed. Callers in the multiplier are all bounded by `MAX_LEN`. |
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| /// at or beyond `TABLE_LEN` would silently wrap, which is why this is private and | |
| /// `debug_assert`ed. Callers in the multiplier are all bounded by `MAX_LEN`. |
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| /// If `i >= MAX_LEN`, or `v` does not fit in entry `i`. Both are unreachable for elements of | ||
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1965-1971: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftPrevent overflow in the coproduct capacity calculation.
PPartEntryisu32, solen *= i + 1performsu32arithmetic. At degree 2025,[317, 105, 44, 20, 9, 4, 2]is valid and produces 4,778,109,000 terms. This multiplication can panic in debug builds or wrap in release builds before the cast tousize. Use checkedusizearithmetic and a bounded failure path for coproducts that cannot be materialized.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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ebefore converting the degree.For
e = u32::MAXandx = 0, theu32sum casts to-1. The upper-bound check accepts it, andcompute_basis(-1)reaches negative indexing or allocation arithmetic. Use checked arithmetic, reject results abovePPart::MAX_DEGREE, then cast toi32.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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800-847: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winReject unrepresentable and duplicate Q indices.
The parser builds the
u32Q-part withacc + (1 << q). Aqvalue of 32 or greater can panic during the shift, or map to the wrong bit without overflow checks. Duplicate indices such asQ_0 Q_0also produce2, which representsQ_1rather than twoQ_0factors. Reject out-of-range and duplicate indices, and combine validated bits with bitwise OR.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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multiplication, use checked multiplication, and provide a bounded failure path
when capacity overflows or cannot be materialized. Preserve normal capacity
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- Around line 1205-1213: Update try_beps_pn to compute q * x + e with checked
u32 arithmetic, returning None when the multiplication or addition overflows.
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The p-part of a Milnor basis element was a `Vec<u32>`, costing a heap
allocation and a pointer chase per element. At p = 2 the internal degree of
P(R) is sum_i r_i (2^i - 1) with non-negative terms, so r_i <= deg/(2^i - 1);
sizing each field by that bound packs the whole exponent sequence into 64 bits
for every degree up to 2045. At odd primes the same bound applies divided by
q = 2(p-1), so one layout serves every prime.
`MilnorBasisElement` is now 16 bytes, `Copy`, and entirely inline. Measured
over degrees 0..=300 at p = 2, `basis_table` drops from 252 MiB in 5,036,688
allocations to 77 MiB in none.
Three things fall out of the packing:
- The packed value is a canonical key, so the hand-rolled `MilnorHashMap`
specialization for `not(odd-primes)` is gone; a plain `HashMap` now hashes a
single word on every path. That code also assumed a degree bound of 1536
without enforcing it. `compute_basis` now asserts the bound up front, which
is what lets everything downstream skip range checks.
- Trailing zeros are not represented, so the "pop trailing zeros" loops after
building a product disappear.
- `PPartMultiplier` no longer borrows its inputs, so its lifetime parameter is
gone, and `PPartAllocation` loses the buffer it existed to recycle.
In `ext`, `MilnorSubalgebra`'s signature test becomes one masked comparison on
the packed word instead of a loop over entries, with the mask hoisted out of
`signature_mask`'s inner loop.
Two behaviour changes worth noting:
- `basis_element_from_string("P0")` and `("Sq0")` now return the identity
rather than `None`. P(0) is the identity, and `AdemAlgebra::try_beps_pn`
already special-cases `x == 0` this way; the old `None` came from `vec![0]`
and `vec![]` hashing differently, an artifact of the representation.
- `increment_p_part` now carries before incrementing. The old order
transiently stored `max[i] + 1`, which need not fit a field whose width is
exactly saturated by `max[i]`. The enumeration is unchanged.
The observation that every Milnor exponent sequence up to degree 512 fits in 64
bits is due to Lixiong Wu; this implementation works out the widths, finds that
the same layout holds all the way to degree 2045, and carries it through the
algebra.
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The first packing pass regressed `milnor_ppart` by up to 8% at odd primes and mod 4, because assembling the answer went from a memcpy plus a vectorized add to a per-entry read-modify-write through the checked `PPart::set`, and because `PPart::get`'s range branch landed in `update`'s inner loop. Two changes, both confined to the kernel: - Assemble the answer in a plain `u64` and store it once. Entries are written in increasing index order into a value that starts at zero, so a shift and an `or` suffice; the range checks become debug assertions backed by `compute_basis`'s degree gate. - Pad the layout tables to 16 entries so the private `PPart::entry` can mask its index rather than branch on it. Padded entries have width zero and so read as zero, which is the answer `get` would have returned anyway. The public `get` keeps its explicit check, since callers outside the multiplier index it with a q-part-derived length that is not bounded by `MAX_LEN`. This recovers the regression (`ppart_4/a` and `ppart_3/a` back to baseline, `ppart_4/b` -8%) and improves the Nassau regime further. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XK8YCdHkCqUV9YM7D957hV
`basis_table` held a `MilnorBasisElement` per basis element. At p = 2 with unstable support off, that element is exactly `from_p(ppart_table[t][i], t)` -- the p-part again, with a q-part that is always zero and a degree that is the index. It was a redundant copy. Deriving it on demand costs nothing now that `MilnorBasisElement` is `Copy` and 16 bytes: `basis_element_from_index` returns by value and builds it in registers rather than handing out a reference into a table. The multiply family takes the element by value for the same reason. The table is still built at odd primes, where the q-part varies within a degree, and when unstable support is on, where the basis is re-sorted by excess. Neither is a re-wrapping of `ppart_table`. Measured over degrees 0..=250 at p = 2 (1,958,958 elements), RSS growth from `compute_basis` drops 125.0 MB -> 95.0 MB, i.e. 66.9 -> 50.8 bytes per element. Projected to degree 500 that is 5.24 GB -> 3.95 GB. Unlike the ranker, this needs no basis renumbering and costs nothing at lookup time. A test verifies the derivation matches what the table used to hold, for every element, so the redundancy is asserted rather than assumed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XK8YCdHkCqUV9YM7D957hV
`try_beps_pn` computed `q * x + e` before bounds-checking `x`, so a large `x` overflowed on the way to the check that would have rejected it; it now computes in `i64` and narrows once the bound has ruled the wide cases out. The coproduct sized its result buffer with a product that can exceed `u32`. The `P^s_t` parser gains one guard, because packing the entry and computing the basis both assert their range where an unpacked p-part simply stored the value. Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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113-117: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReject profiles beyond the packed layout.
A profile of length 11 reaches
PPart::shift(10) == 64. Longer profiles can index past the layout tables.from_bytesaccepts these profiles, so loading incompatible or corrupt saved data can panic during signature matching.Enforce
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113-117: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winReject signature entries that exceed their packed field.
An entry can spill into a later constrained field. For
profile = [1, 1]andsignature = [2048, 0], the first entry sets bit 11, which is the second field. The packed comparison can then match unrelated operators instead of returning no matches.Reject an entry when it exceeds
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In `@ext/crates/algebra/src/algebra/milnor_algebra.rs`:
- Around line 780-793: Update the degree calculation in the generator
construction flow to use the zero-based P-part position t - 1, matching the
field set by PPart::set and the bound checked by PPart::max_entry. Preserve the
existing validation and return behavior after ensuring t has been validated
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In `@ext/src/nassau.rs`:
- Around line 113-117: Enforce PPart::MAX_LEN whenever profiles are created or
decoded, including the from_bytes path, and reject any profile longer than the
packed layout before signature matching can iterate it. Preserve existing
handling for valid-length profiles and avoid indexing PPart::shift beyond the
supported layout.
- Around line 113-117: Validate each signature entry against PPart::max_entry(i)
before packing in the signature_mask logic; if any entry exceeds its field
limit, return an empty iterator. Preserve the existing profile width and
mask/value construction for valid entries.
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Matching a signature against a packed p-part reads a fixed bit range per entry, which the per-entry comparison it replaced did not. An entry wider than its field shifted into the next one, so an oversized signature could compare equal to an unrelated element. Nothing has such a signature, so `packed_signature` now reports it as unsatisfiable and `signature_mask` yields nothing, which is what the per-entry test did. The mask is now also compiled once per call rather than once per generator, as its comment already claimed. A profile longer than `PPart::MAX_LEN` indexes past the layout tables the same way. `from_bytes` is the only place a profile comes from outside data, so bound it there instead of on every read. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XK8YCdHkCqUV9YM7D957hV
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* Bit-pack Milnor basis elements into a u64
The p-part of a Milnor basis element was a `Vec<u32>`, costing a heap
allocation and a pointer chase per element. At p = 2 the internal degree of
P(R) is sum_i r_i (2^i - 1) with non-negative terms, so r_i <= deg/(2^i - 1);
sizing each field by that bound packs the whole exponent sequence into 64 bits
for every degree up to 2045. At odd primes the same bound applies divided by
q = 2(p-1), so one layout serves every prime.
`MilnorBasisElement` is now 16 bytes, `Copy`, and entirely inline. Measured
over degrees 0..=300 at p = 2, `basis_table` drops from 252 MiB in 5,036,688
allocations to 77 MiB in none.
Three things fall out of the packing:
- The packed value is a canonical key, so the hand-rolled `MilnorHashMap`
specialization for `not(odd-primes)` is gone; a plain `HashMap` now hashes a
single word on every path. That code also assumed a degree bound of 1536
without enforcing it. `compute_basis` now asserts the bound up front, which
is what lets everything downstream skip range checks.
- Trailing zeros are not represented, so the "pop trailing zeros" loops after
building a product disappear.
- `PPartMultiplier` no longer borrows its inputs, so its lifetime parameter is
gone, and `PPartAllocation` loses the buffer it existed to recycle.
In `ext`, `MilnorSubalgebra`'s signature test becomes one masked comparison on
the packed word instead of a loop over entries, with the mask hoisted out of
`signature_mask`'s inner loop.
Two behaviour changes worth noting:
- `basis_element_from_string("P0")` and `("Sq0")` now return the identity
rather than `None`. P(0) is the identity, and `AdemAlgebra::try_beps_pn`
already special-cases `x == 0` this way; the old `None` came from `vec![0]`
and `vec![]` hashing differently, an artifact of the representation.
- `increment_p_part` now carries before incrementing. The old order
transiently stored `max[i] + 1`, which need not fit a field whose width is
exactly saturated by `max[i]`. The enumeration is unchanged.
The observation that every Milnor exponent sequence up to degree 512 fits in 64
bits is due to Lixiong Wu; this implementation works out the widths, finds that
the same layout holds all the way to degree 2045, and carries it through the
algebra.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XK8YCdHkCqUV9YM7D957hV
* Cut per-entry overhead out of the Milnor multiplier
The first packing pass regressed `milnor_ppart` by up to 8% at odd primes and
mod 4, because assembling the answer went from a memcpy plus a vectorized add
to a per-entry read-modify-write through the checked `PPart::set`, and because
`PPart::get`'s range branch landed in `update`'s inner loop.
Two changes, both confined to the kernel:
- Assemble the answer in a plain `u64` and store it once. Entries are written
in increasing index order into a value that starts at zero, so a shift and
an `or` suffice; the range checks become debug assertions backed by
`compute_basis`'s degree gate.
- Pad the layout tables to 16 entries so the private `PPart::entry` can mask
its index rather than branch on it. Padded entries have width zero and so
read as zero, which is the answer `get` would have returned anyway. The
public `get` keeps its explicit check, since callers outside the multiplier
index it with a q-part-derived length that is not bounded by `MAX_LEN`.
This recovers the regression (`ppart_4/a` and `ppart_3/a` back to baseline,
`ppart_4/b` -8%) and improves the Nassau regime further.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XK8YCdHkCqUV9YM7D957hV
* Derive the p=2 Milnor basis instead of storing it
`basis_table` held a `MilnorBasisElement` per basis element. At p = 2 with
unstable support off, that element is exactly
`from_p(ppart_table[t][i], t)` -- the p-part again, with a q-part that is
always zero and a degree that is the index. It was a redundant copy.
Deriving it on demand costs nothing now that `MilnorBasisElement` is `Copy`
and 16 bytes: `basis_element_from_index` returns by value and builds it in
registers rather than handing out a reference into a table. The multiply
family takes the element by value for the same reason.
The table is still built at odd primes, where the q-part varies within a
degree, and when unstable support is on, where the basis is re-sorted by
excess. Neither is a re-wrapping of `ppart_table`.
Measured over degrees 0..=250 at p = 2 (1,958,958 elements), RSS growth from
`compute_basis` drops 125.0 MB -> 95.0 MB, i.e. 66.9 -> 50.8 bytes per element.
Projected to degree 500 that is 5.24 GB -> 3.95 GB. Unlike the ranker, this
needs no basis renumbering and costs nothing at lookup time.
A test verifies the derivation matches what the table used to hold, for every
element, so the redundancy is asserted rather than assumed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XK8YCdHkCqUV9YM7D957hV
* Fix arithmetic overflows in try_beps_pn and the coproduct capacity
`try_beps_pn` computed `q * x + e` before bounds-checking `x`, so a large `x`
overflowed on the way to the check that would have rejected it; it now computes
in `i64` and narrows once the bound has ruled the wide cases out. The coproduct
sized its result buffer with a product that can exceed `u32`.
The `P^s_t` parser gains one guard, because packing the entry and computing the
basis both assert their range where an unpacked p-part simply stored the value.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Polish comments
* Small tweaks
* Remove legacy type alias
* Bound the signature data the packed p-part can represent
Matching a signature against a packed p-part reads a fixed bit range per
entry, which the per-entry comparison it replaced did not.
An entry wider than its field shifted into the next one, so an oversized
signature could compare equal to an unrelated element. Nothing has such a
signature, so `packed_signature` now reports it as unsatisfiable and
`signature_mask` yields nothing, which is what the per-entry test did.
The mask is now also compiled once per call rather than once per
generator, as its comment already claimed.
A profile longer than `PPart::MAX_LEN` indexes past the layout tables the
same way. `from_bytes` is the only place a profile comes from outside
data, so bound it there instead of on every read.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XK8YCdHkCqUV9YM7D957hV
* Bound the decoded profile length before it is narrowed
`as usize` truncates where `usize` is 32 bits, which `ext` is compiled
for via `web_ext/sseq_gui`. A stored length of 2^32 + n then passed the
bound as n, so the check it was added to could be walked straight past.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XK8YCdHkCqUV9YM7D957hV
* Iterate the first row of the multiplier matrix
Nightly clippy's `needless_range_loop` now fires on the loop variable
indexing `M[0]`, failing the lint job. The loop above indexes a
different row each time, so it is left as it is.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XK8YCdHkCqUV9YM7D957hV
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* Bit-pack Milnor basis elements into a u64
The p-part of a Milnor basis element was a `Vec<u32>`, costing a heap
allocation and a pointer chase per element. At p = 2 the internal degree of
P(R) is sum_i r_i (2^i - 1) with non-negative terms, so r_i <= deg/(2^i - 1);
sizing each field by that bound packs the whole exponent sequence into 64 bits
for every degree up to 2045. At odd primes the same bound applies divided by
q = 2(p-1), so one layout serves every prime.
`MilnorBasisElement` is now 16 bytes, `Copy`, and entirely inline. Measured
over degrees 0..=300 at p = 2, `basis_table` drops from 252 MiB in 5,036,688
allocations to 77 MiB in none.
Three things fall out of the packing:
- The packed value is a canonical key, so the hand-rolled `MilnorHashMap`
specialization for `not(odd-primes)` is gone; a plain `HashMap` now hashes a
single word on every path. That code also assumed a degree bound of 1536
without enforcing it. `compute_basis` now asserts the bound up front, which
is what lets everything downstream skip range checks.
- Trailing zeros are not represented, so the "pop trailing zeros" loops after
building a product disappear.
- `PPartMultiplier` no longer borrows its inputs, so its lifetime parameter is
gone, and `PPartAllocation` loses the buffer it existed to recycle.
In `ext`, `MilnorSubalgebra`'s signature test becomes one masked comparison on
the packed word instead of a loop over entries, with the mask hoisted out of
`signature_mask`'s inner loop.
Two behaviour changes worth noting:
- `basis_element_from_string("P0")` and `("Sq0")` now return the identity
rather than `None`. P(0) is the identity, and `AdemAlgebra::try_beps_pn`
already special-cases `x == 0` this way; the old `None` came from `vec![0]`
and `vec![]` hashing differently, an artifact of the representation.
- `increment_p_part` now carries before incrementing. The old order
transiently stored `max[i] + 1`, which need not fit a field whose width is
exactly saturated by `max[i]`. The enumeration is unchanged.
The observation that every Milnor exponent sequence up to degree 512 fits in 64
bits is due to Lixiong Wu; this implementation works out the widths, finds that
the same layout holds all the way to degree 2045, and carries it through the
algebra.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XK8YCdHkCqUV9YM7D957hV
* Cut per-entry overhead out of the Milnor multiplier
The first packing pass regressed `milnor_ppart` by up to 8% at odd primes and
mod 4, because assembling the answer went from a memcpy plus a vectorized add
to a per-entry read-modify-write through the checked `PPart::set`, and because
`PPart::get`'s range branch landed in `update`'s inner loop.
Two changes, both confined to the kernel:
- Assemble the answer in a plain `u64` and store it once. Entries are written
in increasing index order into a value that starts at zero, so a shift and
an `or` suffice; the range checks become debug assertions backed by
`compute_basis`'s degree gate.
- Pad the layout tables to 16 entries so the private `PPart::entry` can mask
its index rather than branch on it. Padded entries have width zero and so
read as zero, which is the answer `get` would have returned anyway. The
public `get` keeps its explicit check, since callers outside the multiplier
index it with a q-part-derived length that is not bounded by `MAX_LEN`.
This recovers the regression (`ppart_4/a` and `ppart_3/a` back to baseline,
`ppart_4/b` -8%) and improves the Nassau regime further.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XK8YCdHkCqUV9YM7D957hV
* Derive the p=2 Milnor basis instead of storing it
`basis_table` held a `MilnorBasisElement` per basis element. At p = 2 with
unstable support off, that element is exactly
`from_p(ppart_table[t][i], t)` -- the p-part again, with a q-part that is
always zero and a degree that is the index. It was a redundant copy.
Deriving it on demand costs nothing now that `MilnorBasisElement` is `Copy`
and 16 bytes: `basis_element_from_index` returns by value and builds it in
registers rather than handing out a reference into a table. The multiply
family takes the element by value for the same reason.
The table is still built at odd primes, where the q-part varies within a
degree, and when unstable support is on, where the basis is re-sorted by
excess. Neither is a re-wrapping of `ppart_table`.
Measured over degrees 0..=250 at p = 2 (1,958,958 elements), RSS growth from
`compute_basis` drops 125.0 MB -> 95.0 MB, i.e. 66.9 -> 50.8 bytes per element.
Projected to degree 500 that is 5.24 GB -> 3.95 GB. Unlike the ranker, this
needs no basis renumbering and costs nothing at lookup time.
A test verifies the derivation matches what the table used to hold, for every
element, so the redundancy is asserted rather than assumed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XK8YCdHkCqUV9YM7D957hV
* Fix arithmetic overflows in try_beps_pn and the coproduct capacity
`try_beps_pn` computed `q * x + e` before bounds-checking `x`, so a large `x`
overflowed on the way to the check that would have rejected it; it now computes
in `i64` and narrows once the bound has ruled the wide cases out. The coproduct
sized its result buffer with a product that can exceed `u32`.
The `P^s_t` parser gains one guard, because packing the entry and computing the
basis both assert their range where an unpacked p-part simply stored the value.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Polish comments
* Small tweaks
* Remove legacy type alias
* Bound the signature data the packed p-part can represent
Matching a signature against a packed p-part reads a fixed bit range per
entry, which the per-entry comparison it replaced did not.
An entry wider than its field shifted into the next one, so an oversized
signature could compare equal to an unrelated element. Nothing has such a
signature, so `packed_signature` now reports it as unsatisfiable and
`signature_mask` yields nothing, which is what the per-entry test did.
The mask is now also compiled once per call rather than once per
generator, as its comment already claimed.
A profile longer than `PPart::MAX_LEN` indexes past the layout tables the
same way. `from_bytes` is the only place a profile comes from outside
data, so bound it there instead of on every read.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XK8YCdHkCqUV9YM7D957hV
* Bound the decoded profile length before it is narrowed
`as usize` truncates where `usize` is 32 bits, which `ext` is compiled
for via `web_ext/sseq_gui`. A stored length of 2^32 + n then passed the
bound as n, so the check it was added to could be walked straight past.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XK8YCdHkCqUV9YM7D957hV
* Iterate the first row of the multiplier matrix
Nightly clippy's `needless_range_loop` now fires on the loop variable
indexing `M[0]`, failing the lint job. The loop above indexes a
different row each time, so it is left as it is.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XK8YCdHkCqUV9YM7D957hV
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Foundation layer for computing the C-motivic Adams E₂ by deformation: the coefficient ring and the product engine, with no wiring into the resolution engine yet — the mod-τ reduction that the engine resolves comes in a follow-up. - `tau`: F₂[τ] as a small homogeneous scalar (`Tau`). Every structure constant in the motivic world is a single power of τ, so a coefficient is a one-integer valuation rather than a polynomial. - `milnor`: `MotivicMilnorAlgebra` = A_C as a free F₂[τ]-module on the Milnor basis Q(E)P(R). The product is computed two ways — a duality oracle (dualize the coproduct ψ) and the closed-form Kong–Lin Theorem 5.1 (arXiv:2411.12890, ρ = 0) — and the fast path is validated exhaustively against the oracle. It is intentionally not an `Algebra`: that trait is over F_p, and this is the F₂[τ] engine the deformation lift builds on. Built against the bit-packed classical Milnor basis (SpectralSequences#280), so the two classical cross-check tests share one `classical_mul` helper plus the paper/`PPart` index conversions rather than each carrying its own, and `Monomial` is a named type rather than `(u32, Vec<u32>)` spelled out 19 times. Tests: rewrite_tau identities, product associativity, weight-homogeneity, and closed-form-vs-duality agreement over a range. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…₂[τ] (#266) * motivic: A_C, the C-motivic Steenrod algebra engine over F₂[τ] Foundation layer for computing the C-motivic Adams E₂ by deformation: the coefficient ring and the product engine, with no wiring into the resolution engine yet — the mod-τ reduction that the engine resolves comes in a follow-up. - `tau`: F₂[τ] as a small homogeneous scalar (`Tau`). Every structure constant in the motivic world is a single power of τ, so a coefficient is a one-integer valuation rather than a polynomial. - `milnor`: `MotivicMilnorAlgebra` = A_C as a free F₂[τ]-module on the Milnor basis Q(E)P(R). The product is computed two ways — a duality oracle (dualize the coproduct ψ) and the closed-form Kong–Lin Theorem 5.1 (arXiv:2411.12890, ρ = 0) — and the fast path is validated exhaustively against the oracle. It is intentionally not an `Algebra`: that trait is over F_p, and this is the F₂[τ] engine the deformation lift builds on. Built against the bit-packed classical Milnor basis (#280), so the two classical cross-check tests share one `classical_mul` helper plus the paper/`PPart` index conversions rather than each carrying its own, and `Monomial` is a named type rather than `(u32, Vec<u32>)` spelled out 19 times. Tests: rewrite_tau identities, product associativity, weight-homogeneity, and closed-form-vs-duality agreement over a range. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: add a criterion bench for the C-motivic engine Three groups, from the kernel outwards: a single `multiply_closed`, a whole `fill_block` (the batch unit a resolution asks for, with throughput in structure constants), and `enum_basis`. The GPU handoff note calls `multiply_closed` the arithmetic bottleneck of the deformation pipeline, and the review raises the cost of the `BTreeMap` behind `DualElement`; neither had a number attached. This is the measurement both need, and it replaces the ad-hoc `PRODUCT_NANOS` counter that used to stand in for it. Baseline on this machine (mean): motivic_product/xi_small 1.40 µs motivic_product/xi_medium 11.44 µs motivic_product/xi_large 417.44 µs motivic_product/q_small 0.68 µs motivic_product/q_medium 2.40 µs motivic_product/q_large 15.41 µs motivic_block/12 348.69 µs motivic_block/16 2.09 ms motivic_block/20 10.36 ms motivic_basis/20 2.04 µs motivic_basis/30 7.13 µs motivic_basis/40 14.87 µs Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F25ZVbsP7ULg41iY3MP6FX * motivic: rework the monomial and coefficient representation Four steps on one arc, two of them answering review comments. Named fields first — "Could we switch from `(u32, Vec<u32>)` to a struct with named fields? Would be clearer what they mean." `Monomial { q_part, p_part }`, field names matching `MilnorBasisElement`'s. The derived `Ord` is lexicographic in that field order, exactly the tuple ordering the per-degree bases were already sorted and binary-searched by, so indexing is unchanged. Then the xi exponents become the classical bit-packed `PPart`, making `Monomial` `Copy` and 12 bytes with no heap. Kong–Lin index from ξ₀ = 1, so their `R[0]` is identically zero for every monomial and carries no information; dropping it is what lets the motivic exponent sequence *be* a classical one, with `from_paper`/`paper_p_part` converting at the two boundaries where the paper's indexing is the natural one. Then linear combinations, twice reviewed — "this `BTreeMap` is probably really bad for performance" and "should be consistent with how we handle linear combinations of milnor basis elements in the normal steenrod algebra". `SparseSum<K>` is a `Vec<(K, Tau)>` kept sorted by key, so equality stays canonical and lookup stays logarithmic. Worth recording that its measured effect was a wash — not what the review, or I, expected. Finally the allocation traffic, from a pprof profile of `motivic_block/20` rather than a guess: a quarter of it was walking `Vec<Vec<u32>>`. The candidate column lists become `Columns` — every column end to end in one allocation with an offset table, iterated as `&[u32]` — and `NB` drops from 64 to 32. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * algebra: extract next_disjoint from the Milnor multiplier `PPartMultiplier::next_val` steps to the next entry value that keeps the Milnor coefficient non-zero, rather than testing candidates and discarding them. At p = 2 (and not mod 4) that is one branch-free expression, and it is reusable: the motivic closed-form product needs the same predicate on its anti-diagonals, where it is currently a filter over precomputed candidates. Testing it against brute force turned up a precondition the original code satisfied implicitly and never stated: `k` must already be disjoint from `sum`. The increment may carry through `k`'s own bits but not through `sum`'s, so an overlapping `k` can come back *smaller* -- `next_disjoint(2, 2)` is 1, not 4. Every caller walks a matrix whose anti-diagonal entries are pairwise disjoint, so it holds, but it is now documented and `debug_assert`ed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F25ZVbsP7ULg41iY3MP6FX * motivic: address the review comments on the tau and coefficient code `Tau::pow` and `Tau::shift` had no callers outside their own test, so the question of whether `0^0` should be `1` goes away with them. The `get` closure in `c_coeff` captured nothing and becomes a free function, and its Euclidean division by a power of two becomes the arithmetic shift it compiles to. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: drop the tau coefficient, which the weight already determines Everything the engine computes is bidegree-homogeneous and tau has bidegree (0, -1), so the topological degree is additive and the whole tau power lands in the weight: the coefficient of a term z in a product a*b can only be tau^(w_z - w_a - w_b). Nothing was free to store. So a `SparseSum` becomes a mod-2 set of keys and `product_indexed` returns bare indices. A caller that wants a coefficient asks `Grading::tau_exponent` for it. `Grading` names which of the two dual weight conventions is in play — A_C weights a basis element by the negative of the monomial it pairs with — because the exponent formula is the same on both sides once each is asked for its own weight, and a bare sign is not. `rewrite_tau` still counts the exponent it always did; `mul_monomials` now debug-asserts that it agrees with what the weights dictate, which is the invariant that licenses not keeping it. This is a wash for speed: `motivic_basis`, which the change cannot touch, moved 4% on its own, and every other group moved less than that. The point is the smaller representation — a cached structure constant halves from 16 bytes to 8 — and one less thing to thread through the resolution. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: give the A_C reading of a monomial its own type A_C and A_** are indexed by the same (E, R) data, so `Monomial` could not say which of the two it meant — and `DualElement` was the return type of both `dual_mul`, where it is an element of the dual algebra, and `multiply`, where it is not. The `Grading` enum existed only to supply, by hand and at every call, the fact that the type had lost. `Dual<Monomial>` carries it instead. `Bigraded::bidegree` reports each type's own weight, and a single `tau_exponent` reads whichever the values it is given belong to, so the convention is no longer something a caller chooses — it follows from what they are holding. Mixing the two in one call is a type error; reinterpreting a value from one side as the other now requires writing `Dual(..)` or `.0`, which is where such a conversion should be visible. The `debug_assert` on the exponent stays as the backstop for that deliberate case. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: trim the engine after the tau removal Docs first: three of them still described the F_2[tau] coefficient that no longer exists, and both module headers had grown into essays that restated each other and the items below them. CLAUDE.md wants one line and the explanation on the item, so the algebra presentation moved to `Monomial`, the duality argument to `multiply` (which also stops calling the closed form future work, since it has been implemented for a while), and the weight convention to `Dual`. `SparseSum::len` and `iter` had no callers — `iter` was a second spelling of the `IntoIterator` impl next to it. `xi_gen(i)` was `xi_pow_elt(i, 1)` written out, `new()` was the derived `Default` written out, and `antipode` iterated set bits by hand where the rest of the file uses `BitflagIterator`. `on_y` bounded a loop over an `[u32; NB]` by `u32::BITS`, which only works because the two constants happen to be equal; `nb_covers_antidiagonals` now pins the bound `NB` actually needs, and its doc names the constants rather than quoting a number that would go stale. `basis_element_from_string` had no test — its round trip lives in the follow-up that consumes it, so it would have shipped unexercised. Brought down. `product_indexed_with` likewise comes from the follow-up, where copying the index list per cache hit showed up as real cost. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: speed up the closed-form product Two changes to the same hot path, each measured on its own. `enum_y` is the innermost loop — a flamegraph puts essentially all leaf time under it — and its three loops indexed `acc.or[i + j]` and `acc.sum[i + j]` by computed index. The anti-diagonal offset defeats bounds-check elision, so every iteration paid for checks and would not vectorise. Iterating the slices instead, through a paired `Acc::place`/`unplace` that also absorbs the apply/undo bodies written out four times. The block registry then took a write lock on `RwLock<FxHashMap<(i32, i32), _>>` for every new degree pair, which is the one thing its own doc claimed the design avoids. `once` has this container already: `MultiIndexed<2, V>` is a wait-free sparse map from integer coordinates, and `try_insert` gives the racing-insert loser its value back to drop. Since `get` borrows from `&self`, the `Arc` around each block goes too — `block` returns `&ProductBlock`. motivic_block/12 285 µs -> 247 -> 230 µs -18.7% motivic_block/16 1.79 ms -> 1.57 -> 1.52 ms -15.2% motivic_block/20 8.98 ms -> 7.64 -> 7.16 ms -20.3% motivic_product/xi/large 399 µs -> 308 µs -22.6% motivic_product/q/large 14.2 µs -> 11.4 µs -20.4% `motivic_basis`, which neither change can touch, moved -1% to +0.5% and is the control. The same zip rewrite in `enum_x` measures neutral — X enumeration is not the bottleneck — so it is left indexed rather than changed for symmetry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: bound the Y walk by the degree equation instead of testing it at the leaf `on_y` rejected a complete Y matrix when Σ(E₁) + 2Σ(S′) ≠ Σ(S(Y)). That target depends only on X, so it is known before the Y walk starts — and measuring the rejection showed the walk was building 1,361,550 complete Y matrices to accept 6, with 1,304,502 of them (96%) dying on that one scalar equation. Each candidate column now carries its unweighted sum, so `ClosedY` can hold the suffix bounds on what the remaining columns can still contribute and stop a branch as soon as the target is out of reach. On the a=[8,4,2,1] b=[4,2,1,1] product: Y matrices reaching on_y 1,361,550 -> 57,048 (24x fewer) rejected by the equation 1,304,502 -> 0 (subsumed by the bound) which is a 3.2x wall-clock win on the degree-138 product (10.96s -> 3.46s), and on the bench: motivic_product/xi/large -40% motivic_product/q/large -28% motivic_block/20 7.38 ms -> 5.60 ms The small cases regress 12-19%: the bounds cost a pass over the candidate lists per X matrix, which a product with a handful of columns cannot amortise. Left alone, since the shapes that regress are microseconds and the ones that gain are the ones that make large computations infeasible. Note the `motivic_basis` control also drifted +12% across this measurement, so treat anything under that as noise; the large-case wins are well clear of it. The leaf test stays as the statement of the condition, now unreachable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: cut the Y walk on the square-free condition, and skip infeasible X earlier Two more prunes of the same kind as the degree-equation bound, found by counting what the walk rejects rather than by guessing. `on_y` rejected a complete `Y` when `E₂ + T(Y)` was not square-free. Anti-diagonal sums only grow, so a diagonal that has already overflowed its cap never recovers — testing it as each column is placed cuts the subtree instead of rediscovering the failure at every leaf below it. On a=[8,4,2,1] b=[4,2,1,1] the leaves reaching `on_y` fall from 57,048 to 12, of which 6 are kept; `c_coeff`, which had been rejecting 88% of survivors, is left rejecting 6. `on_x` then built the whole `Y` candidate list before discovering the degree equation was out of reach. The window is decidable from the column targets alone — a column of weighted sum `w` has plain sum between `w.count_ones()` and `w` — so that test moves ahead of the candidate lists. degree 98 product 41.3 ms -> 13.0 ms degree 138 product 3.46 s -> 646 ms motivic_block/20 5.60 ms -> 3.14 ms Two things I tried that measured worse and are not here: carrying the same feasibility bound incrementally through the `X` walk (the popcount floor is too loose to fire — it cut 1.4% of X for a 11% slowdown), and reusing the `Y` candidate vector and accumulator across `X` matrices (threading the scratch costs more than the small `Vec` it saves). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: compute the mod-tau product directly instead of filtering the full one The deformation pipeline resolves over `A_C/τ`, not `A_C` — the follow-up's `CTauAlgebra` asks for the full `F_2[τ]` product and keeps the terms of τ-valuation 0. That pays for the whole enumeration to discard nearly all of it. Mod τ the constraint is much tighter, and it is a constraint on the *walk*, not the output: a term carries `τ^{Σ(S′)}`, so keeping only `τ⁰` forces `S′ = 0`, i.e. `S(X) = R₁` exactly rather than `≤`. That is the classical admissible-matrix condition. `multiply_closed_mod_tau` enforces it during the `X` walk, cutting a branch as soon as the remaining columns cannot fill a row. a=[8,4,2,1]·[4,2,1,1] 12.6 ms -> 56.7 µs 222x a=[16,8,2,1]·[8,4,2,1] 676 ms -> 172 µs 3922x which puts the mod-τ product about 115x the classical Milnor product on the same inputs, rather than the ~500,000x the full `A_C` product costs. `test_mod_tau_matches_the_filtered_product` pins the equivalence to filtering `multiply_closed` by `tau_exponent == 0`, which is the whole licence for constraining the walk up front. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: trim the comments before merge The module doc was six lines restating what `multiply_closed` and `Monomial` already say; per CLAUDE.md it is one line and the facts move to the items. The conjugate generators are a fact about `Monomial`, and the Kong–Lin citation belongs with the theorem it implements. Also drop a test comment that restated its own degree bounds, so the two cannot drift. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F25ZVbsP7ULg41iY3MP6FX * motivic: drop the basis-element string API `basis_element_from_string` existed so `.json` module descriptors could be written over the algebra, which is a concern of the layer above; nothing here called it, as its own test admitted. `MilnorAlgebra` already parses the same shape, so the mod-tau layer can take it from there rather than from a second parser kept alive by a round-trip test. `basis_element_to_string` took `(degree, idx)` to match a trait this type deliberately does not implement. It becomes `Display` on `Dual<Monomial>`, which is the type that actually has something to print. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F25ZVbsP7ULg41iY3MP6FX * motivic: fix a compute_basis race, and build the slack table only for mod-tau compute_basis read the basis length outside the write lock and then pushed, so two threads reaching an uncached degree together (fill_block runs the block walk in parallel) could both fill the same degrees. The vec ends up longer than it should be and basis[t] stops holding degree t, which then feeds wrong structure constants into every cached product above it. OnceVec::extend re-reads the length under the lock, which is what the classical algebra already uses. The added test fails against the previous code ("degree 11 misaligned after concurrent first use") and passes now. The negative-degree guard keeps the old no-op behaviour, since the loop bound tolerated a negative degree but `degree as usize` would not. Separately, row_slack is read only by the mod-tau prune, so the general product was allocating and filling (l + 1) * NB entries on every call and never reading them. It moves into row_slack_table, built only for that walk. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013ePtYD7Bt4iPeCtmqtqvZE --------- Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…₂[τ] (#266) * motivic: A_C, the C-motivic Steenrod algebra engine over F₂[τ] Foundation layer for computing the C-motivic Adams E₂ by deformation: the coefficient ring and the product engine, with no wiring into the resolution engine yet — the mod-τ reduction that the engine resolves comes in a follow-up. - `tau`: F₂[τ] as a small homogeneous scalar (`Tau`). Every structure constant in the motivic world is a single power of τ, so a coefficient is a one-integer valuation rather than a polynomial. - `milnor`: `MotivicMilnorAlgebra` = A_C as a free F₂[τ]-module on the Milnor basis Q(E)P(R). The product is computed two ways — a duality oracle (dualize the coproduct ψ) and the closed-form Kong–Lin Theorem 5.1 (arXiv:2411.12890, ρ = 0) — and the fast path is validated exhaustively against the oracle. It is intentionally not an `Algebra`: that trait is over F_p, and this is the F₂[τ] engine the deformation lift builds on. Built against the bit-packed classical Milnor basis (#280), so the two classical cross-check tests share one `classical_mul` helper plus the paper/`PPart` index conversions rather than each carrying its own, and `Monomial` is a named type rather than `(u32, Vec<u32>)` spelled out 19 times. Tests: rewrite_tau identities, product associativity, weight-homogeneity, and closed-form-vs-duality agreement over a range. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: add a criterion bench for the C-motivic engine Three groups, from the kernel outwards: a single `multiply_closed`, a whole `fill_block` (the batch unit a resolution asks for, with throughput in structure constants), and `enum_basis`. The GPU handoff note calls `multiply_closed` the arithmetic bottleneck of the deformation pipeline, and the review raises the cost of the `BTreeMap` behind `DualElement`; neither had a number attached. This is the measurement both need, and it replaces the ad-hoc `PRODUCT_NANOS` counter that used to stand in for it. Baseline on this machine (mean): motivic_product/xi_small 1.40 µs motivic_product/xi_medium 11.44 µs motivic_product/xi_large 417.44 µs motivic_product/q_small 0.68 µs motivic_product/q_medium 2.40 µs motivic_product/q_large 15.41 µs motivic_block/12 348.69 µs motivic_block/16 2.09 ms motivic_block/20 10.36 ms motivic_basis/20 2.04 µs motivic_basis/30 7.13 µs motivic_basis/40 14.87 µs Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F25ZVbsP7ULg41iY3MP6FX * motivic: rework the monomial and coefficient representation Four steps on one arc, two of them answering review comments. Named fields first — "Could we switch from `(u32, Vec<u32>)` to a struct with named fields? Would be clearer what they mean." `Monomial { q_part, p_part }`, field names matching `MilnorBasisElement`'s. The derived `Ord` is lexicographic in that field order, exactly the tuple ordering the per-degree bases were already sorted and binary-searched by, so indexing is unchanged. Then the xi exponents become the classical bit-packed `PPart`, making `Monomial` `Copy` and 12 bytes with no heap. Kong–Lin index from ξ₀ = 1, so their `R[0]` is identically zero for every monomial and carries no information; dropping it is what lets the motivic exponent sequence *be* a classical one, with `from_paper`/`paper_p_part` converting at the two boundaries where the paper's indexing is the natural one. Then linear combinations, twice reviewed — "this `BTreeMap` is probably really bad for performance" and "should be consistent with how we handle linear combinations of milnor basis elements in the normal steenrod algebra". `SparseSum<K>` is a `Vec<(K, Tau)>` kept sorted by key, so equality stays canonical and lookup stays logarithmic. Worth recording that its measured effect was a wash — not what the review, or I, expected. Finally the allocation traffic, from a pprof profile of `motivic_block/20` rather than a guess: a quarter of it was walking `Vec<Vec<u32>>`. The candidate column lists become `Columns` — every column end to end in one allocation with an offset table, iterated as `&[u32]` — and `NB` drops from 64 to 32. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * algebra: extract next_disjoint from the Milnor multiplier `PPartMultiplier::next_val` steps to the next entry value that keeps the Milnor coefficient non-zero, rather than testing candidates and discarding them. At p = 2 (and not mod 4) that is one branch-free expression, and it is reusable: the motivic closed-form product needs the same predicate on its anti-diagonals, where it is currently a filter over precomputed candidates. Testing it against brute force turned up a precondition the original code satisfied implicitly and never stated: `k` must already be disjoint from `sum`. The increment may carry through `k`'s own bits but not through `sum`'s, so an overlapping `k` can come back *smaller* -- `next_disjoint(2, 2)` is 1, not 4. Every caller walks a matrix whose anti-diagonal entries are pairwise disjoint, so it holds, but it is now documented and `debug_assert`ed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F25ZVbsP7ULg41iY3MP6FX * motivic: address the review comments on the tau and coefficient code `Tau::pow` and `Tau::shift` had no callers outside their own test, so the question of whether `0^0` should be `1` goes away with them. The `get` closure in `c_coeff` captured nothing and becomes a free function, and its Euclidean division by a power of two becomes the arithmetic shift it compiles to. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: drop the tau coefficient, which the weight already determines Everything the engine computes is bidegree-homogeneous and tau has bidegree (0, -1), so the topological degree is additive and the whole tau power lands in the weight: the coefficient of a term z in a product a*b can only be tau^(w_z - w_a - w_b). Nothing was free to store. So a `SparseSum` becomes a mod-2 set of keys and `product_indexed` returns bare indices. A caller that wants a coefficient asks `Grading::tau_exponent` for it. `Grading` names which of the two dual weight conventions is in play — A_C weights a basis element by the negative of the monomial it pairs with — because the exponent formula is the same on both sides once each is asked for its own weight, and a bare sign is not. `rewrite_tau` still counts the exponent it always did; `mul_monomials` now debug-asserts that it agrees with what the weights dictate, which is the invariant that licenses not keeping it. This is a wash for speed: `motivic_basis`, which the change cannot touch, moved 4% on its own, and every other group moved less than that. The point is the smaller representation — a cached structure constant halves from 16 bytes to 8 — and one less thing to thread through the resolution. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: give the A_C reading of a monomial its own type A_C and A_** are indexed by the same (E, R) data, so `Monomial` could not say which of the two it meant — and `DualElement` was the return type of both `dual_mul`, where it is an element of the dual algebra, and `multiply`, where it is not. The `Grading` enum existed only to supply, by hand and at every call, the fact that the type had lost. `Dual<Monomial>` carries it instead. `Bigraded::bidegree` reports each type's own weight, and a single `tau_exponent` reads whichever the values it is given belong to, so the convention is no longer something a caller chooses — it follows from what they are holding. Mixing the two in one call is a type error; reinterpreting a value from one side as the other now requires writing `Dual(..)` or `.0`, which is where such a conversion should be visible. The `debug_assert` on the exponent stays as the backstop for that deliberate case. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: trim the engine after the tau removal Docs first: three of them still described the F_2[tau] coefficient that no longer exists, and both module headers had grown into essays that restated each other and the items below them. CLAUDE.md wants one line and the explanation on the item, so the algebra presentation moved to `Monomial`, the duality argument to `multiply` (which also stops calling the closed form future work, since it has been implemented for a while), and the weight convention to `Dual`. `SparseSum::len` and `iter` had no callers — `iter` was a second spelling of the `IntoIterator` impl next to it. `xi_gen(i)` was `xi_pow_elt(i, 1)` written out, `new()` was the derived `Default` written out, and `antipode` iterated set bits by hand where the rest of the file uses `BitflagIterator`. `on_y` bounded a loop over an `[u32; NB]` by `u32::BITS`, which only works because the two constants happen to be equal; `nb_covers_antidiagonals` now pins the bound `NB` actually needs, and its doc names the constants rather than quoting a number that would go stale. `basis_element_from_string` had no test — its round trip lives in the follow-up that consumes it, so it would have shipped unexercised. Brought down. `product_indexed_with` likewise comes from the follow-up, where copying the index list per cache hit showed up as real cost. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: speed up the closed-form product Two changes to the same hot path, each measured on its own. `enum_y` is the innermost loop — a flamegraph puts essentially all leaf time under it — and its three loops indexed `acc.or[i + j]` and `acc.sum[i + j]` by computed index. The anti-diagonal offset defeats bounds-check elision, so every iteration paid for checks and would not vectorise. Iterating the slices instead, through a paired `Acc::place`/`unplace` that also absorbs the apply/undo bodies written out four times. The block registry then took a write lock on `RwLock<FxHashMap<(i32, i32), _>>` for every new degree pair, which is the one thing its own doc claimed the design avoids. `once` has this container already: `MultiIndexed<2, V>` is a wait-free sparse map from integer coordinates, and `try_insert` gives the racing-insert loser its value back to drop. Since `get` borrows from `&self`, the `Arc` around each block goes too — `block` returns `&ProductBlock`. motivic_block/12 285 µs -> 247 -> 230 µs -18.7% motivic_block/16 1.79 ms -> 1.57 -> 1.52 ms -15.2% motivic_block/20 8.98 ms -> 7.64 -> 7.16 ms -20.3% motivic_product/xi/large 399 µs -> 308 µs -22.6% motivic_product/q/large 14.2 µs -> 11.4 µs -20.4% `motivic_basis`, which neither change can touch, moved -1% to +0.5% and is the control. The same zip rewrite in `enum_x` measures neutral — X enumeration is not the bottleneck — so it is left indexed rather than changed for symmetry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: bound the Y walk by the degree equation instead of testing it at the leaf `on_y` rejected a complete Y matrix when Σ(E₁) + 2Σ(S′) ≠ Σ(S(Y)). That target depends only on X, so it is known before the Y walk starts — and measuring the rejection showed the walk was building 1,361,550 complete Y matrices to accept 6, with 1,304,502 of them (96%) dying on that one scalar equation. Each candidate column now carries its unweighted sum, so `ClosedY` can hold the suffix bounds on what the remaining columns can still contribute and stop a branch as soon as the target is out of reach. On the a=[8,4,2,1] b=[4,2,1,1] product: Y matrices reaching on_y 1,361,550 -> 57,048 (24x fewer) rejected by the equation 1,304,502 -> 0 (subsumed by the bound) which is a 3.2x wall-clock win on the degree-138 product (10.96s -> 3.46s), and on the bench: motivic_product/xi/large -40% motivic_product/q/large -28% motivic_block/20 7.38 ms -> 5.60 ms The small cases regress 12-19%: the bounds cost a pass over the candidate lists per X matrix, which a product with a handful of columns cannot amortise. Left alone, since the shapes that regress are microseconds and the ones that gain are the ones that make large computations infeasible. Note the `motivic_basis` control also drifted +12% across this measurement, so treat anything under that as noise; the large-case wins are well clear of it. The leaf test stays as the statement of the condition, now unreachable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: cut the Y walk on the square-free condition, and skip infeasible X earlier Two more prunes of the same kind as the degree-equation bound, found by counting what the walk rejects rather than by guessing. `on_y` rejected a complete `Y` when `E₂ + T(Y)` was not square-free. Anti-diagonal sums only grow, so a diagonal that has already overflowed its cap never recovers — testing it as each column is placed cuts the subtree instead of rediscovering the failure at every leaf below it. On a=[8,4,2,1] b=[4,2,1,1] the leaves reaching `on_y` fall from 57,048 to 12, of which 6 are kept; `c_coeff`, which had been rejecting 88% of survivors, is left rejecting 6. `on_x` then built the whole `Y` candidate list before discovering the degree equation was out of reach. The window is decidable from the column targets alone — a column of weighted sum `w` has plain sum between `w.count_ones()` and `w` — so that test moves ahead of the candidate lists. degree 98 product 41.3 ms -> 13.0 ms degree 138 product 3.46 s -> 646 ms motivic_block/20 5.60 ms -> 3.14 ms Two things I tried that measured worse and are not here: carrying the same feasibility bound incrementally through the `X` walk (the popcount floor is too loose to fire — it cut 1.4% of X for a 11% slowdown), and reusing the `Y` candidate vector and accumulator across `X` matrices (threading the scratch costs more than the small `Vec` it saves). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: compute the mod-tau product directly instead of filtering the full one The deformation pipeline resolves over `A_C/τ`, not `A_C` — the follow-up's `CTauAlgebra` asks for the full `F_2[τ]` product and keeps the terms of τ-valuation 0. That pays for the whole enumeration to discard nearly all of it. Mod τ the constraint is much tighter, and it is a constraint on the *walk*, not the output: a term carries `τ^{Σ(S′)}`, so keeping only `τ⁰` forces `S′ = 0`, i.e. `S(X) = R₁` exactly rather than `≤`. That is the classical admissible-matrix condition. `multiply_closed_mod_tau` enforces it during the `X` walk, cutting a branch as soon as the remaining columns cannot fill a row. a=[8,4,2,1]·[4,2,1,1] 12.6 ms -> 56.7 µs 222x a=[16,8,2,1]·[8,4,2,1] 676 ms -> 172 µs 3922x which puts the mod-τ product about 115x the classical Milnor product on the same inputs, rather than the ~500,000x the full `A_C` product costs. `test_mod_tau_matches_the_filtered_product` pins the equivalence to filtering `multiply_closed` by `tau_exponent == 0`, which is the whole licence for constraining the walk up front. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: trim the comments before merge The module doc was six lines restating what `multiply_closed` and `Monomial` already say; per CLAUDE.md it is one line and the facts move to the items. The conjugate generators are a fact about `Monomial`, and the Kong–Lin citation belongs with the theorem it implements. Also drop a test comment that restated its own degree bounds, so the two cannot drift. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F25ZVbsP7ULg41iY3MP6FX * motivic: drop the basis-element string API `basis_element_from_string` existed so `.json` module descriptors could be written over the algebra, which is a concern of the layer above; nothing here called it, as its own test admitted. `MilnorAlgebra` already parses the same shape, so the mod-tau layer can take it from there rather than from a second parser kept alive by a round-trip test. `basis_element_to_string` took `(degree, idx)` to match a trait this type deliberately does not implement. It becomes `Display` on `Dual<Monomial>`, which is the type that actually has something to print. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F25ZVbsP7ULg41iY3MP6FX * motivic: fix a compute_basis race, and build the slack table only for mod-tau compute_basis read the basis length outside the write lock and then pushed, so two threads reaching an uncached degree together (fill_block runs the block walk in parallel) could both fill the same degrees. The vec ends up longer than it should be and basis[t] stops holding degree t, which then feeds wrong structure constants into every cached product above it. OnceVec::extend re-reads the length under the lock, which is what the classical algebra already uses. The added test fails against the previous code ("degree 11 misaligned after concurrent first use") and passes now. The negative-degree guard keeps the old no-op behaviour, since the loop bound tolerated a negative degree but `degree as usize` would not. Separately, row_slack is read only by the mod-tau prune, so the general product was allocating and filling (l + 1) * NB entries on every call and never reading them. It moves into row_slack_table, built only for that walk. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013ePtYD7Bt4iPeCtmqtqvZE --------- Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The p-part of a Milnor basis element was a
Vec<u32>, costing a heap allocation and a pointer chase per element. Atp = 2the internal degree ofP(R)issum_i r_i (2^i - 1)with non-negative terms, sor_i <= deg / (2^i - 1); sizing each field by that bound packs the whole exponent sequence into 64 bits for every degree up to 2045. At odd primes the same bound applies divided byq = 2(p-1), so one layout serves every prime.MilnorBasisElementis now 16 bytes,Copy, and entirely inline.The observation that every exponent sequence up to degree 512 fits in 64 bits is due to Lixiong Wu. This PR works out the widths, finds the same layout holds all the way to degree 2045, and carries it through the algebra.
Results
Memory, measured as RSS growth from
compute_basis,p = 2:0..=250Two things get it there. Packing removes the per-element allocation and the
Vecheader. Separately,basis_tableturns out to be redundant atp = 2:basis_table[t][i]is exactlyfrom_p(ppart_table[t][i], t), so it is dropped and derived on demand, which is free now that the type fits in registers. The table is still built at odd primes, where the q-part varies within a degree, and when unstable support is on, where the basis is re-sorted by excess.The basis index order is unchanged — verified element-by-element against the base commit, identical for all 4156 elements in degrees
0..=60— so saved resolutions stay valid. A test pins the first nine degrees to fixed element names to keep it that way.Speed, on
nassau_milnor(the bench documented as capturing Nassau's regime), mostly improved — the largest movements wereop8xel8-20%,op24xel16-11%,op20xel24-10%. Note that this machine's run-to-run noise onmilnor_ppartreached 6%, so treat small movements there as unresolved.Fallout worth reviewing
Three things follow from the packing rather than being incidental:
compute_basisassertsmax_degree <= 2045up front, which is what lets everything downstream assume entries fit. The previous hand-rolled packing inMilnorHashMap::codeassumed 1536 without checking.MilnorHashMapspecialization is gone. The packed value is a canonical key, so thenot(odd-primes)fork is unnecessary; a plainHashMapnow hashes a single word on every path.PPartMultiplierno longer borrows its inputs, so its lifetime parameter is gone, andPPartAllocationloses the buffer it existed to recycle. The multiply family takesMilnorBasisElementby value.In
ext,MilnorSubalgebra's signature test becomes one masked comparison on the packed word instead of a loop over entries, with the mask hoisted out ofsignature_mask's inner loop.Two behaviour changes
basis_element_from_string("P0")and("Sq0")now return the identity rather thanNone.P(0)is the identity, andAdemAlgebra::try_beps_pnalready special-casesx == 0this way; the oldNonecame fromvec[0]andvec[]hashing differently, an artifact of the representation. The test is updated.increment_p_partcarries before incrementing. The old order transiently storedmax[i] + 1, which need not fit a field whose width is exactly saturated bymax[i]. The enumeration is unchanged.Input validation
The last commit fixes three paths that computed with unvalidated input before checking it against the packing bounds, so the intermediate arithmetic went wrong first — an out-of-bounds index into the xi-degree table, two integer overflows, and a shift by 64. All are reachable from entry points documented as total (
basis_element_from_string) or non-panicking (try_beps_pn), pluspacked_signature, which had assumed a bound on profile length that nothing enforces. Thanks to CodeRabbit for catching these.PPartRanker (opt-in, not wired in)
One commit adds an arithmetic alternative to the basis index map, behind the off-by-default
milnor-rankfeature. It is not hooked intobasis_element_to_indexeven when enabled — it is there so the design and its measurements survive.It is worth having eventually because the two strategies scale in opposite directions: a lookup probes only its own degree's map, and once that leaves cache (37 MB in degree 500) every probe misses to DRAM, whereas the ranker's table is ~43 KB for all degrees. Measured at
p = 2: 0.43x at degree 120, 0.85x at 400, 2.09x at 500. Adopting it would renumber the basis in colex order and so invalidate saved resolutions, which is a separate decision — hence inert for now. The commit message records the full measurement, including anunrankthat was tried and rejected.Reviewers can ignore this commit entirely without affecting the rest; nothing in the default build compiles it.
Testing
just test,just lintandjust docsall reproduced locally and pass, including the--no-default-featuresand--all-featuresconfigurations and rustdoc under-D warnings. 64 tests by default, 69 with--features milnor-rank.New tests cover the layout invariant (widths against the xi-degrees, so changing
MAX_DEGREEwithoutWIDTHSfails loudly), packing faithfulness over every basis element up to degree 120 atp = 2and 200 atp = 3, the odometer's saturated-field case, thebasis_tablederivation and index order, the rejected overflow inputs, and the packed signature mask against the per-entry comparison it replaced.One pre-existing failure is unrelated:
save_load_resolution::test_tempdir_lockexpects a permission error and does not get one when the suite runs as root. It fails identically onmaster.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
https://claude.ai/code/session_01XK8YCdHkCqUV9YM7D957hV
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