refactor!: remove the factor-graph surface nothing used, add try_winner

Two decisions taken before cutting 0.5.0.

#42 — the `Schedule` trait was public API the engine never called. Its
only call site was `Game::custom`, itself `#[doc(hidden)]`, and
`EpsilonOrMax` was never constructed anywhere. Removing that surface
showed the problem was larger than the issue described: with `custom`
gone, the compiler found `Factor`, `BuiltinFactor`, `RankDiffFactor` and
`TeamSumFactor` all dead too.

`Game::run_chain` drives a local `DiffFactor` enum and bypasses the
whole T1 abstraction — it has done since it was written. So this is not
just an unused extension point but the machinery it was built on, and
`CLAUDE.md` was documenting it as live architecture.

Removed: `graph` module, `Schedule`, `EpsilonOrMax`, `ScheduleReport`,
`Game::custom`, `Factor`, `BuiltinFactor`, `RankDiffFactor`,
`TeamSumFactor`. `TruncFactor`, `MarginFactor`, `VarStore` and `VarId`
stay — inference uses those. The measurement behind choosing removal
over wiring is in #42: the within-game loop converges in 1 to 8
iterations against a cap of 30, so a `Residual` schedule has no headroom
to reclaim, and `Damped` already shipped as `ConvergenceOptions::alpha`.

#20 — `Outcome::winner` panicking on an out-of-range index. Kept, and
the reasoning is now on the method. It is the only constructor here that
validates, which looks inconsistent until you try deferring like its
siblings: `winner(5, 2)` produces ranks `[1, 1]`, an all-tied draw that
ingestion accepts without complaint when `p_draw > 0`. Asking "team 5
won" and silently getting "everyone drew" is the exact failure this
crate keeps removing, so the check belongs where the mistake is.

Adds `Outcome::try_winner` for indices that are computed or parsed
rather than written literally, following the `new`/`try_new` convention.
That is additive; the panicking form stays because every call site in
this repo, its tests and its README passes literals, where a `?` would
be noise.

BREAKING CHANGE: the `graph` module and everything it exported are
removed, as are `Game::custom` and `ScheduleReport`.

Closes #42. Closes #20.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011hcFjNDmHXZF8URGLku5zZ
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2026-09-08 02:14:43 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 7cf45db5cf
commit 633a503900
11 changed files with 57 additions and 469 deletions
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@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ pub struct VarStore {
}
impl VarStore {
/// Test-only: inference allocates its store through `ScratchArena`.
#[cfg(test)]
#[must_use]
pub fn new() -> Self {
Self::default()
@@ -29,16 +31,13 @@ impl VarStore {
self.marginals.clear();
}
/// Test-only, as `new`.
#[cfg(test)]
#[must_use]
pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
self.marginals.len()
}
#[must_use]
pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
self.marginals.is_empty()
}
pub fn alloc(&mut self, init: Gaussian) -> VarId {
let id = VarId(self.marginals.len() as u32);
self.marginals.push(init);
@@ -55,58 +54,7 @@ impl VarStore {
}
}
/// A factor in the EP graph.
///
/// Factors hold their own outgoing messages and propagate them by reading
/// connected variable marginals from a `VarStore` and writing back updated
/// marginals.
pub trait Factor: Send + Sync {
/// Update outgoing messages and write back to the var store.
///
/// Returns the max delta `(|Δmu|, |Δsigma|)` across writes this
/// propagation. Used by the `Schedule` to detect convergence.
fn propagate(&mut self, vars: &mut VarStore) -> (f64, f64);
/// Optional log-evidence contribution. Default 0.0 (no contribution).
fn log_evidence(&self, _vars: &VarStore) -> f64 {
0.0
}
}
/// Enum dispatcher for the built-in factor types.
///
/// Using an enum instead of `Box<dyn Factor>` keeps factor data inline and
/// avoids virtual-call overhead in the hot inference loop.
#[derive(Debug)]
pub enum BuiltinFactor {
TeamSum(team_sum::TeamSumFactor),
RankDiff(rank_diff::RankDiffFactor),
Trunc(trunc::TruncFactor),
Margin(margin::MarginFactor),
}
impl Factor for BuiltinFactor {
fn propagate(&mut self, vars: &mut VarStore) -> (f64, f64) {
match self {
Self::TeamSum(f) => f.propagate(vars),
Self::RankDiff(f) => f.propagate(vars),
Self::Trunc(f) => f.propagate(vars),
Self::Margin(f) => f.propagate(vars),
}
}
fn log_evidence(&self, vars: &VarStore) -> f64 {
match self {
Self::Trunc(f) => f.log_evidence(vars),
Self::Margin(f) => f.log_evidence(vars),
Self::TeamSum(_) | Self::RankDiff(_) => 0.0,
}
}
}
pub mod margin;
pub mod rank_diff;
pub mod team_sum;
pub mod trunc;
#[cfg(test)]
@@ -153,20 +101,4 @@ mod tests {
assert_eq!(store.len(), 0);
assert_eq!(store.marginals.capacity(), cap);
}
#[test]
fn builtin_factor_dispatches_to_margin() {
use super::margin::MarginFactor;
let mut vars = VarStore::new();
let diff = vars.alloc(Gaussian::from_ms(0.0, 6.0));
let mut f = BuiltinFactor::Margin(MarginFactor::new(diff, 5.0, 1.0));
f.propagate(&mut vars);
let result = vars.get(diff);
assert!((result.mu() - 4.864864864864865).abs() < 1e-12);
let logz = f.log_evidence(&vars);
assert!((logz - (-3.062235327364623)).abs() < 1e-10);
}
}