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Fixes issues #16#18 from the autoresearch log.

#16 — Taylor-model coverage was not queryable

numeric_ball was the only per-function coverage flag exposed, and it is not the flag governing validated bounds. It is accurate on its own terms — probed at registration by actually calling the ball method — but ball arithmetic is pointwise, whereas a Taylor model additionally needs a per-function rule with a rigorous Lagrange remainder (13 unary elementary functions). Hence numeric_ball: true for erf, digamma, bessel_j0 and 7 others whose bound_on_box raises E-VALIDATED-001. The boundary was enforced correctly but undiscoverable, so a planning loop could not choose a certifiable route — it cost the run an entire designed workload (Bessel Turán-type inequalities).

Adds a per-primitive taylor_model flag and bounds_supported(expr) (with .blocker, .functions, .detail, so a substitution can be planned in one round).

Neither is a list. Both are derived by running the Taylor evaluator on a probe expression and testing for Unsupported, so adding a rule in taylor.rs flips the flag on the next call and the two cannot drift — a second hand-maintained table was the one outcome worth avoiding here. DomainViolation deliberately does not count: a bad box (log on [-2,-1]) is not an unsupported function, and conflating them would send a planner off a good route. Guard tests re-derive the bit by calling bound_on_box on every primitive and fail if they ever disagree.

Kept separate from certifiable(), which answers "will this produce a Lean certificate?" — a rigorous enclosure and a Lean proof term are different currencies.

#18 — the "hang near 1e12" was a non-terminating loop

The issue's hypothesis (exact rational arithmetic) was wrong, and profiling found the real cause: in extremum_search, a sub-box bisected to the width floor was pushed back onto the active list, immediately re-selected as argmin with nothing changed, and spun — without incrementing subdivisions, so max_subdivisions could never stop it. It triggers once the absolute tol becomes unreachable, which is exactly why three extra digits flipped 0.08 s into an unbounded hang.

Floor-width boxes are now retired from the active list, their keys still folded into the final bound, so every iteration makes progress and the bound stays sound.

N/D before after
636/1000 undecided 0.05 s true 0.33 s
636619772/10⁹ undecided 0.08 s true 0.40 s
636619772368/10¹² >300 s, killed true 0.43 s
6366197723675813/10¹⁶ true 0.46 s

Cost is now flat in the size of the constant.

#17 — inequalities tight at an endpoint

Two causes. tol was also the wrong stopping rule — on [0.01, 1.5] the true minimum of Cusa–Huygens is 1.7e-13, so the search met 1e-9 and stopped converged, not budget-limited. And where the margin genuinely vanishes, no subdivision can help, so the box is split into series-proved collars plus branch-and-bound in the middle.

Soundness of the collar argument: coefficients count as zero only via exact symbolic substitution (never a numeric enclosure proving a value is zero), the tail is a Lagrange remainder over a rigorous enclosure, and analyticity is certified by requiring every derivative to enclose over the box. Join points round into the collars, closing a sub-ulp gap the first draft had.

Cusa–Huygens, Mitrinović–Adamović, Wilker, Huygens and Jordan now prove on [0, 1.5]. Interior tightness stays undecided (the expansion is at an endpoint), as does any case where the leading coefficient's enclosure straddles zero — abandoned rather than guessed.

Verification

Independent of the agents that produced the work:

  • 100-case adversarial sweep, truth computed at 60 dps with mpmath entirely outside Alkahest: 36 true, 24 false, 40 undecided, 0 wrong verdicts.
  • The four classical inequalities re-derived in multiplied-through form (true min = 0.0, i.e. genuinely endpoint-tight) — all true.
  • Controls that must not be true: x³ − x²/1000 (negative only on (0, 1e-3)) and 1000·sin x − 700x → both false.
  • pytest tests/ 2996 passed / 61 skipped / 0 failed · cargo test --workspace --release 2045 passed / 0 failed · cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets -D warnings, ruff all clean.

Follow-up noted, not fixed

alkahest-core/src/ball/mod.rs:1023 holds a third hand-written function list; it omits bessel_j0/bessel_j1 although ArbBall::bessel_jn exists and the registry advertises them, so interval-mode evaluation refuses them. Honest refusal, same discoverability shape as #16, roughly a one-line fix — left out of scope deliberately.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added bounds_supported() to report whether validated bounds support an expression, including blockers and details.
    • Added taylor_model capability information to primitive reports.
    • Improved validated handling of endpoint-tight inequalities and sign-directed refinement.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented non-terminating subdivision when requested precision cannot be reached.
    • Added rigorous endpoint certificates while preserving undecided results for ambiguous interior cases.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded guidance for bounds support, Taylor-model coverage, capability reporting, and validated-bound limitations.

non-terminating search

Issues #16, #17 and #18 from the autoresearch log.

#16 — `numeric_ball` was the only per-function coverage flag exposed, and
it is not the flag that governs validated bounds. It is accurate on its
own terms (probed at registration by actually calling the ball method),
but ball arithmetic is pointwise, while a Taylor model additionally needs
a per-function rule with a rigorous Lagrange remainder — 13 unary
elementary functions. So `numeric_ball: true` for erf, digamma, bessel_j0
and 7 others whose `bound_on_box` raises E-VALIDATED-001. The boundary was
enforced correctly but not queryable, so a loop could not choose a
certifiable route; it cost an entire designed workload.

Adds a per-primitive `taylor_model` flag and `bounds_supported(expr)`.
Neither is a list: both are derived by *running* the Taylor evaluator on a
probe expression and testing for `Unsupported`, so adding a rule flips the
flag on the next call and the two cannot drift. `DomainViolation` is
deliberately not counted — a bad box is not an unsupported function.
Guard tests re-derive the bit by calling `bound_on_box` on every primitive
and fail if they ever disagree.

#18 — the reported "hang on coefficients near 1e12" was not rational
arithmetic, as the issue guessed. It was a non-terminating loop in
`extremum_search`: a sub-box bisected to the width floor was pushed back,
immediately re-selected as argmin with nothing changed, and spun without
incrementing `subdivisions`, so `max_subdivisions` could not stop it. It
triggers when the absolute `tol` becomes unreachable, which is why three
extra digits flipped 0.08s into a hang. Floor-width boxes are now retired
from the active list with their keys folded into the final bound, so every
iteration makes progress and the bound stays sound. Cost is now flat in
the size of the constant: 1e12 goes from >300s (killed) to 0.43s, and 1e16
costs the same.

#17 — inequalities that are tight at an endpoint. Two causes: `tol` was
also the wrong stopping rule (the search met it and stopped while the true
minimum was 1.7e-13), and where the margin genuinely vanishes no
subdivision can help. `verified_sign` now re-runs with the sign as the
goal, and splits the box into series-proved collars plus branch-and-bound
in the middle. Coefficients count as zero only via exact symbolic
substitution, never a numeric enclosure; the tail is a Lagrange remainder
over a rigorous enclosure; analyticity is certified by requiring every
derivative to enclose. Join points round *into* the collars so no sub-ulp
gap can open between collar and middle.

Cusa-Huygens, Mitrinovic-Adamovic, Wilker, Huygens and Jordan now prove on
[0, 1.5]. Interior tightness stays undecided — the expansion is at an
endpoint and does not apply — as does any case where the leading
coefficient straddles zero.

Verified independently of the agents that wrote it: 100-case adversarial
sweep with truth at 60 dps outside Alkahest, 0 wrong verdicts; the four
classical inequalities re-derived in multiplied-through form; and the #18
rows timed directly.

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The validated bounds engine now handles endpoint-tight inequalities and retires irreducible boxes. Taylor-model support is derived from evaluator probes. Python exposes bounds_supported(expr) and BoundsSupport, with updated capability metadata, bindings, tests, and documentation.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Endpoint-aware bounds and search termination
alkahest-core/src/validated/bounds.rs, tests/test_validated_bounds.py, CHANGELOG.md, docs/mdbook/src/validated-bounds.md
verified_sign uses sign-directed refinement and endpoint Taylor certificates. Width-floor boxes are retired and included in final bounds. Tests cover endpoint-tight inequalities, undecided interior zeros, strict predicates, and termination.
Evaluator-derived Taylor-model support
alkahest-core/src/primitive/*, alkahest-core/src/lib.rs, CHANGELOG.md
Taylor-model refusal, blocker, and support helpers probe the validated evaluator. The TAYLOR_MODEL capability and coverage reports use evaluator-derived results while preserving numeric_ball coverage.
Python bounds-support API and contract
alkahest-py/src/lib.rs, python/alkahest/__init__.py, python/alkahest/_types.pyi, tests/test_taylor_model_coverage.py, tests/test_agent_contract.py, alkahest-skill/alkahest.md, docs/features.md
Python exposes BoundsSupport and bounds_supported(expr). Capability mappings include taylor_model. Tests validate blockers, supported expressions, domain and arity cases, exports, and serialization. Documentation describes the new query and capability distinction.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c318a

The PR improves validated inequality search and Taylor-model capability, but the regression test for the former hang may exercise a neighboring constant rather than the exact large-constant case, and endpoint expansions can add substantial bounded work for some undecided inputs. It is mergeable with explicit owner awareness, with the regression test needing an exact constant before it can reliably guard the fix.

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  bound_on_box-->>verified_sign: rigorous active and retired bounds
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alkahest-core/src/validated/bounds.rs (2)

2595-2615: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for the strict-predicate branch inside endpoint_series_verdict.

x*x on [0, 1] with SignPredicate::Positive is already refuted by violates_at_some_sample: the degenerate box at x = 0 encloses [0, 0], and hi <= 0 returns Verdict::False before endpoint_series_verdict runs. So this test does not exercise the new strict && j >= 1 branch at Line 1818.

Add a case whose exact zero is not hit by centre, endpoint, or corner sampling, so the strict branch is the only path that can produce False.

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In `@alkahest-core/src/validated/bounds.rs` around lines 2595 - 2615, Add a test
alongside strict_positivity_is_false_where_the_function_vanishes_exactly using
an expression and bounds whose interior exact zero is missed by center,
endpoint, and corner sampling, ensuring violates_at_some_sample does not refute
it first. Assert SignPredicate::Positive returns Verdict::False through
endpoint_series_verdict’s strict && j >= 1 branch, while preserving the existing
nonnegative coverage.

1637-1647: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider reducing the enclosure budget used by the endpoint expansion.

expand_at_endpoint calls bound_on_fboxes once per derivative, for k in 0..=m, with m up to 20. Each call runs a full branch-and-bound with opts.max_subdivisions. Line 1804 and Line 1805 run the expansion at both endpoints, so a single verified_sign call can add up to 42 full branch-and-bound passes on top of the initial bound_on_box, the sample scan, and sign_targeted_bound. This only happens on the Undecided path, so it is bounded, but it raises worst-case latency for callers that scan many expressions.

Only the k == m call needs a tight enclosure for sup|g^{(m)}|. The lower-order calls are used only as an analyticity certificate, so they can run with a much smaller max_subdivisions.

♻️ Proposed budget reduction for the analyticity probes
     let interval = vec![(var, ilo.clone(), ihi.clone())];
+    // The k < m calls only certify analyticity, so they do not need a tight
+    // enclosure; only the k == m call feeds the Lagrange remainder.
+    let probe_opts = BoundOptions {
+        max_subdivisions: opts.max_subdivisions.min(16),
+        ..*opts
+    };
     let mut sup_m = None;
     for (k, &d) in derivs.iter().enumerate().take(m + 1) {
-        let r = bound_on_fboxes(d, pool, &interval, opts).ok()?;
+        let call_opts = if k == m { opts } else { &probe_opts };
+        let r = bound_on_fboxes(d, pool, &interval, call_opts).ok()?;
         if !is_finite(r.enclosure()) {
             return None;
         }

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In `@alkahest-core/src/validated/bounds.rs` around lines 1637 - 1647, In
expand_at_endpoint, reduce the bound_on_fboxes budget for derivative probes with
k less than m, since they only certify analyticity; retain the full
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In `@alkahest-skill/alkahest.md`:
- Around line 484-502: Update the bounds_supported description to state that it
evaluates a probe box with the Taylor evaluator rather than running a bound on
the caller-provided box, and spell out the final error code as E-VALIDATED-004.

In `@tests/test_validated_bounds.py`:
- Around line 584-588: Update the test’s n construction near pool.symbol("x") to
derive the value from the exact decimal digits rather than multiplying a binary
float and truncating with int(); ensure the 12-digit case deterministically
produces 636619772368 and remains aligned with the adjacent Jordan tests.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@alkahest-core/src/validated/bounds.rs`:
- Around line 2595-2615: Add a test alongside
strict_positivity_is_false_where_the_function_vanishes_exactly using an
expression and bounds whose interior exact zero is missed by center, endpoint,
and corner sampling, ensuring violates_at_some_sample does not refute it first.
Assert SignPredicate::Positive returns Verdict::False through
endpoint_series_verdict’s strict && j >= 1 branch, while preserving the existing
nonnegative coverage.
- Around line 1637-1647: In expand_at_endpoint, reduce the bound_on_fboxes
budget for derivative probes with k less than m, since they only certify
analyticity; retain the full opts.max_subdivisions budget for the k == m call
used to compute sup_m. Apply the same reduced-probe behavior to both endpoint
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Comment on lines +484 to +502
**Check that route before you build the workload: `ak.bounds_supported(expr)`.** The
validated-bounds entry points (`bound_on_box`, `verified_integral`,
`verified_no_roots`, `verified_sign`) reach the elementary fragment only — `sin`, `cos`,
`tan`, `exp`, `log`, `sqrt`, `abs`, the inverse-trig and hyperbolic functions — and
refuse everything else with `E-VALIDATED-001`. Every special function is outside it:
`erf`, `bessel_j0/j1`, `digamma`, `lambert_w`, `gamma`, the elliptic integrals,
`floor`/`ceil`, and the two-argument `atan2`. **`capabilities()["primitives"][i]`
carries this as `taylor_model`; do not read `numeric_ball` as the coverage flag** — it
is pointwise ball arithmetic, it is `True` for `erf` and `bessel_j0`, and it says
nothing about whether a bound can be certified. `bounds_supported` answers for a whole
expression without running anything, and names the blocking functions:

```python
answer = ak.bounds_supported(ak.bessel_j0(x) * x)
bool(answer), answer.functions # (False, ['bessel_j0'])
```

A `True` means "not `E-VALIDATED-001`"; a bad box can still refuse with
`E-VALIDATED-003` (domain violation) or `-004` (non-finite enclosure).

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the preflight description and error code.

bounds_supported runs the Taylor evaluator on a probe box. It does not run a bound on the caller-provided box. Replace “without running anything” with that distinction. Spell E-VALIDATED-004 in full.

Proposed fix
- expression without running anything, and names the blocking functions:
+ expression without running a bound on the caller-provided box, and names the blocking functions:
@@
- `E-VALIDATED-003` (domain violation) or `-004` (non-finite enclosure).
+ `E-VALIDATED-003` (domain violation) or `E-VALIDATED-004` (non-finite enclosure).
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**Check that route before you build the workload: `ak.bounds_supported(expr)`.** The
validated-bounds entry points (`bound_on_box`, `verified_integral`,
`verified_no_roots`, `verified_sign`) reach the elementary fragment only — `sin`, `cos`,
`tan`, `exp`, `log`, `sqrt`, `abs`, the inverse-trig and hyperbolic functions — and
refuse everything else with `E-VALIDATED-001`. Every special function is outside it:
`erf`, `bessel_j0/j1`, `digamma`, `lambert_w`, `gamma`, the elliptic integrals,
`floor`/`ceil`, and the two-argument `atan2`. **`capabilities()["primitives"][i]`
carries this as `taylor_model`; do not read `numeric_ball` as the coverage flag** — it
is pointwise ball arithmetic, it is `True` for `erf` and `bessel_j0`, and it says
nothing about whether a bound can be certified. `bounds_supported` answers for a whole
expression without running anything, and names the blocking functions:
```python
answer = ak.bounds_supported(ak.bessel_j0(x) * x)
bool(answer), answer.functions # (False, ['bessel_j0'])
```
A `True` means "not `E-VALIDATED-001`"; a bad box can still refuse with
`E-VALIDATED-003` (domain violation) or `-004` (non-finite enclosure).
**Check that route before you build the workload: `ak.bounds_supported(expr)`.** The
validated-bounds entry points (`bound_on_box`, `verified_integral`,
`verified_no_roots`, `verified_sign`) reach the elementary fragment only — `sin`, `cos`,
`tan`, `exp`, `log`, `sqrt`, `abs`, the inverse-trig and hyperbolic functions — and
refuse everything else with `E-VALIDATED-001`. Every special function is outside it:
`erf`, `bessel_j0/j1`, `digamma`, `lambert_w`, `gamma`, the elliptic integrals,
`floor`/`ceil`, and the two-argument `atan2`. **`capabilities()["primitives"][i]`
carries this as `taylor_model`; do not read `numeric_ball` as the coverage flag** — it
is pointwise ball arithmetic, it is `True` for `erf` and `bessel_j0`, and it says
nothing about whether a bound can be certified. `bounds_supported` answers for a whole
expression without running a bound on the caller-provided box, and names the blocking functions:
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Taylor evaluator rather than running a bound on the caller-provided box, and
spell out the final error code as E-VALIDATED-004.

Comment on lines +584 to +588
d = 10**digits
n = int(0.636619772368 * d)
pool = ak.ExprPool()
x = pool.symbol("x")
f = ak.sin(x) * pool.integer(d) - pool.integer(n) * x

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Compute n exactly instead of truncating a binary float product.

0.636619772368 is not exactly representable as a float. 0.636619772368 * 10**12 can land just below 636619772368.0, and int() truncates toward zero, so the 12-digit case may build 636619772367 instead of the 636619772368 used by the adjacent Jordan tests. The test still passes either way, because it only asserts the verdict string and the elapsed time. That is the problem: the regression case can stop reproducing the original hang without any test failure.

Derive n from the exact decimal digits.

🐛 Proposed fix for the constant construction
     import time
+    from decimal import Decimal
 
     d = 10**digits
-    n = int(0.636619772368 * d)
+    n = int(Decimal("0.636619772368") * d)
     pool = ak.ExprPool()
     x = pool.symbol("x")
     f = ak.sin(x) * pool.integer(d) - pool.integer(n) * x
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d = 10**digits
n = int(0.636619772368 * d)
pool = ak.ExprPool()
x = pool.symbol("x")
f = ak.sin(x) * pool.integer(d) - pool.integer(n) * x
from decimal import Decimal
d = 10**digits
n = int(Decimal("0.636619772368") * d)
pool = ak.ExprPool()
x = pool.symbol("x")
f = ak.sin(x) * pool.integer(d) - pool.integer(n) * x
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minimal, and validate.

In `@tests/test_validated_bounds.py` around lines 584 - 588, Update the test’s n
construction near pool.symbol("x") to derive the value from the exact decimal
digits rather than multiplying a binary float and truncating with int(); ensure
the 12-digit case deterministically produces 636619772368 and remains aligned
with the adjacent Jordan tests.

AregGevorgyan and others added 2 commits August 14, 2026 22:10
CodSpeed caught a real regression: test_series_sin_order12 9.9ms ->
20.6ms. `probe_caps` asked the Taylor evaluator whether each primitive
has a rule, and `register()` calls `probe_caps` for every primitive, so
every registry construction paid it — and `default_registry()` is rebuilt
on hot paths like `diff` and `series`. Measured locally: ~30% steady
state (0.31 -> 0.40 ms) plus ~4 ms on the first construction in a
process, which is what the instruction-counting run amplified to 2x.

The bit is now resolved in the three places capabilities are *read*
(`capabilities`, `coverage_report`, `iter`), which is rare, instead of
once per primitive per registry build. Steady state is back to 0.30 ms
and the first call drops 4.20 -> 1.46 ms.

No behaviour change: the flag is still derived by running the evaluator,
never listed, and still reports exactly the 13 supported primitives. The
guard tests that cross-check it against `bound_on_box` are unchanged and
still pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The 2026-08-14 nightly was the first to run the sanitizer shards against
the parallel code. `tsan` passed — that shard has never seen rayon or
dashmap before, so this is the first real evidence there. `asan` and
`lsan` both failed, and both are mine.

asan: `AddressSanitizer: stack-overflow ... T1601` — a rayon worker, not
the main thread, and not corruption. `simplify::dispatch`'s stack
governor refills at 512 KiB, ASan's instrumented frames are much fatter
than the uninstrumented ones that margin was tuned against, and rayon
workers start from 2 MiB rather than the main thread's 8 MiB. The tsan
shard already sets RUST_MIN_STACK for exactly this; I added
`--features parallel` to asan without carrying it over. Now set.

lsan: `franel_order_two_is_reachable_at_default_bounds` breached its 10 s
wall-clock bound in a debug build under LeakSanitizer, where the whole
lib suite takes ~23 minutes — while the thing the bound guards, the
Z[n][k] gcd, was healthy. A timing assertion that fails for the
instrumentation rather than the regression is a flaky test, so it now
runs only when `debug_assertions` is off. The correctness assertions —
order 2 at the default bounds, and that the recurrence annihilates the
sum — run in every configuration, which is what the test is really for.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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AregGevorgyan merged commit c5e8665 into main Aug 14, 2026
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AregGevorgyan deleted the fix/autoresearch-issues-16-18 branch August 14, 2026 22:26
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