pillar11: upgrade the PSD gate to Cholesky, and pin the pipeline bit-exact - #291
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The truncated battery certified "PSD" with two NECESSARY conditions —
diagonal positivity and Cauchy-Schwarz — neither of which is sufficient. This
adds the sufficient one, using ndarray's existing `hpc::lapack::cholesky`
(ungated, no new dependency, no cross-repo reach: the numerics stay on this
side, jc/sigker are untouched).
Measured first, and the measurement changed the design twice.
1. f32 vs f64 was a non-question. Both report info = 16 on the real Gram, at
every subset size. Precision was never the issue.
2. What the number meant was the issue. The truncated signature is a
15-dimensional feature map (1+2+4+8), so a Gram over N > 15 paths is
rank-deficient BY CONSTRUCTION, and plain Cholesky — which tests positive
DEFINITE — must fail at leading minor 16. Measured exactly at that
boundary:
subset f32 info f64 info
15 0 0
16 16 16
50 16 16
Wiring plain Cholesky would have turned the pillar red for a
mathematically necessary reason. The property wanted is positive
SEMI-definite: Cholesky on a jittered diagonal.
3. The jitter is pinned from a sweep that measured BOTH sides at once. The
real Gram is admitted from 1e-6 upward; a genuinely indefinite Gram is
rejected at every jitter through 1e-1. PSD_JITTER = 1e-4 sits two orders
above the lower edge with three orders of headroom.
The Gram is now materialised once instead of recomputed pairwise — the old
inner loop recomputed both diagonals per pair, O(n^2) kernel calls for O(n)
distinct values — so the gate is also cheaper than what it replaces.
Falsifier pair, both asserted:
can-fire an indefinite 3x3 whose diagonal is positive AND which
satisfies Cauchy-Schwarz for every pair is REJECTED. All three
facts about one matrix, which is what makes the upgrade
non-decorative.
can-be-quiet a real rank-deficient (40-path) Gram is ADMITTED at the same
jitter — a gate that rejected it would be measuring the
feature dimension, not validity.
Bit-exactness, as requested, now a test. The pipeline is bit-identical across
run-to-run, `target-cpu=x86-64-v4` (this repo's default) vs baseline
`x86-64`, and debug vs release — six runs, same signature bits, same kernel
bits, same Cholesky factor bits. So exact values are pinned rather than
tolerances, and any drift in autovectorisation, FMA contraction or evaluation
order surfaces here instead of quietly moving a battery that still reports
green. The test says explicitly what it does NOT prove: a fingerprint shows
the numbers are the SAME, never that they are RIGHT — that is what the PSD,
Cauchy-Schwarz and concentration gates are for.
That test paid for itself immediately: it caught a fabricated constant of
mine from #290. `crates/sigker-parity/tests/w4_depth_infinity_psd.rs`
hardcoded `0x5EED_1111_5164_A7AB` while its comment claimed "same seed as the
truncated battery, so both certify the same pool". The real seed is
`0x0516_DC5A_DD00`; the two batteries were certifying DIFFERENT pools, and
nothing could have noticed, because both sides of every comparison used the
wrong constant consistently. `PILLAR_11_SEED` is `pub` — W4 and the three
probes now import it instead of retyping it, which is the structural fix.
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(exit codes checked directly); fmt clean.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds jittered Cholesky validation for signature-kernel Gram matrices. It caches Gram entries, adds regression tests, registers three diagnostic examples, and aligns a parity test with the shared Pillar 11 seed. ChangesSignature-kernel PSD validation
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| // And the gate itself, on those exact bits. | ||
| assert!(gram_is_psd(&g), "the pinned Gram must pass the PSD gate"); |
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If the Cholesky implementation or floating-point evaluation order changes while the matrix remains positive definite, this assertion still passes because it checks only the Boolean info == 0 result returned by gram_is_psd. Consequently, the test does not enforce its stated guarantee that Cholesky factor bits are pinned or detect the factor drift that the new CI gate is intended to expose; hash and assert the factor bits as psd_bit_exactness.rs already demonstrates.
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In `@src/hpc/pillar/signature.rs`:
- Line 536: Gate the pinned fingerprint assertions in the signature test,
including the checks for sig_fp and the related kernel fingerprint, so they run
only on the measured x86-64 target documented by the test. On other
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| fnv(&mut sig_fp, x.to_bits() as u64); | ||
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Restrict the pinned fingerprints to the measured target, or make the test skip elsewhere.
The pinned values depend on f32 evaluation of signature_d2_deg3 and sigker_hl. Rust does not guarantee identical f32 results across architectures, because FMA contraction and autovectorization differ per backend. The doc comment records six runs on x86-64 only. On another target, such as aarch64 CI, this test fails without any real drift in the signature or kernel.
Gate the pinned assertions on the measured target so a portability difference does not read as a regression.
🧪 Proposed gating of the pinned values
- #[test]
- fn pillar_11_pipeline_is_bit_exact() {
+ // The fingerprints below were measured on x86-64. Re-pin per target before
+ // widening this gate.
+ #[test]
+ #[cfg(target_arch = "x86_64")]
+ fn pillar_11_pipeline_is_bit_exact() {Also applies to: 547-547
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In `@src/hpc/pillar/signature.rs` at line 536, Gate the pinned fingerprint
assertions in the signature test, including the checks for sig_fp and the
related kernel fingerprint, so they run only on the measured x86-64 target
documented by the test. On other architectures, skip these exact-value
assertions while preserving the existing signature and kernel computation
checks.
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Follow-up to #290, which recorded that the truncated battery still certified "PSD" with two necessary conditions — diagonal positivity and Cauchy–Schwarz — while its own indefinite fixture showed only Cholesky rejects the false positive.
Uses ndarray's existing
hpc::lapack::cholesky(ungated, no new dependency). The numerics stay on this side; lance-graph #1114'sjc/sigkersurface is untouched.The measurement changed the design twice
1. f32 vs f64 was a non-question. Both report
info = 16on the real Gram at every subset size.2. What that number meant was the question. The truncated signature is a 15-dimensional feature map (1+2+4+8), so a Gram over N > 15 paths is rank-deficient by construction, and plain Cholesky — which tests positive definite — must fail at leading minor 16. Measured exactly at the boundary:
Wiring plain Cholesky would have turned the pillar red for a mathematically necessary reason. The property wanted is positive semi-definite → Cholesky on a jittered diagonal.
3. The jitter is pinned from a sweep measuring both sides at once. Real Gram admitted from
1e-6up; a genuinely indefinite Gram rejected at every jitter through1e-1.PSD_JITTER = 1e-4— two orders above the lower edge, three orders of headroom above.The Gram is now materialised once rather than recomputed pairwise (the old inner loop recomputed both diagonals per pair — O(n²) kernel calls for O(n) distinct values), so the gate is also cheaper than what it replaces.
Falsifier pair
Bit-exactness as a CI gate
The pipeline is bit-identical across run-to-run,
target-cpu=x86-64-v4(this repo's default) vs baselinex86-64, and debug vs release — six runs, same signature bits, same kernel bits, same Cholesky factor bits. So exact values are pinned rather than tolerances, and drift in autovectorisation, FMA contraction or evaluation order surfaces here instead of quietly moving a battery that still reports green.The test states what it does not prove: a fingerprint shows the numbers are the same, never that they are right — that is what the PSD, Cauchy–Schwarz and concentration gates are for. The two kinds of check are paired deliberately.
It caught a fabricated constant of mine from #290
crates/sigker-parity/tests/w4_depth_infinity_psd.rshardcoded0x5EED_1111_5164_A7ABwhile its comment claimed "same seed as the truncated battery, so both certify the same pool." The real seed is0x0516_DC5A_DD00— the two batteries were certifying different pools, and nothing could have noticed, because both sides of every comparison used the wrong constant consistently.PILLAR_11_SEEDispub; W4 and the three probes now import it instead of retyping it. That is the structural fix, not just the value fix.Verification
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