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logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 4f6360128d feat!: validate mu, sigma and beta on HistoryBuilder
The last three unvalidated setters, beside `p_draw`, `score_sigma` and
`convergence`, which all assert eagerly. Measured before choosing bounds:

  beta = 0        -> works, pi 0.0211 (vs 0.0193 at the default)
  beta = -4.17    -> bit-identical to +4.17
  sigma = -8.33   -> bit-identical to +8.33
  sigma = 0       -> NonFiniteResult, current_skill returns tau: NaN
  sigma = inf     -> same
  mu = NaN        -> same

So the bounds are not the obvious ones. `beta = 0` is legitimate and
meaningful — performance is then exactly skill, and the fit moves
measurably rather than degenerating — so zero is allowed and a test pins
that it reaches a different answer, since "allowed" would otherwise be
indistinguishable from "unchecked".

The negative cases are the quiet ones. `sigma` and `beta` enter inference
only as squares, so a negative value behaves as its absolute value and
the sign is dropped without comment. That is the same defect
`Member::with_drift_scale` already rejects, for the reason already
written there.

The non-finite cases are detected today — `converge` reports
NonFiniteResult — but a caller who reads `current_skill` first is handed
`tau: NaN`, so rejecting at the boundary is what actually closes it.

BREAKING CHANGE: `HistoryBuilder::mu`, `sigma` and `beta` now panic on
values they previously accepted, matching the existing behaviour of
`p_draw`, `score_sigma` and `convergence`.

Refs #18

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2026-09-08 16:06:37 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 eff63dfa2a feat!: make a short fit an error and raise the default iteration cap
`ITERATIONS` was 30, and overrunning it returned `Ok` with
`converged: false`. Both halves were wrong.

The cap is a runaway guard, not a budget: the sweep exits as soon as the
step falls below `epsilon`, so a high cap costs nothing on a history that
converges. Measured on one needing four sweeps, `max_iter` 30 and
100_000 both finish in 4 iterations and ~130us. So 30 could never make
anything faster — it could only stop a healthy history early, and it did:
160 events over 100 competitors already needs 42.

Not scaled to the history, because iteration count tracks how loopy the
graph is rather than how big it is. At a fixed 320 events over 40 slices,
varying only the competitors sharing them: 3 competitors needs 2_789
sweeps, 10 needs 1_068, 100 needs 90, 400 needs 2. Three orders of
magnitude on identical event and slice counts, so any formula in those
two numbers would be badly wrong on some real shape. A single value set
high enough that reaching it means oscillation is the honest version.

With the cap raised, stopping at it means something is genuinely wrong,
so `converge` now returns `InferenceError::NotConverged` rather than a
flag on a success. A short fit is wrong by a little — every rating
finite, the ordering sensible, nothing saying the numbers were still
moving — and a flag has to be checked while `let _ = h.converge()` is the
natural way not to. That is not hypothetical: it is how a real defect hid
in this crate's own test suite.

`converge_partial` returns the short fit for callers who want one. Only a
single existing test needed it, which is the evidence that a capped fit
is a deliberate choice rather than the common case.

Also corrects the `ITERATIONS` docs, which claimed convergence cost is
"roughly linear in the cap". It is linear in the iterations actually run.

BREAKING CHANGE: `History::converge` returns `Err(NotConverged)` where it
previously returned `Ok` with `converged: false`. Callers that want the
old behaviour should use `History::converge_partial`. The default
`max_iter` changes from 30 to 10_000, so a history that was silently
truncated will now converge properly and its numbers will move.

Closes #50

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2026-09-08 16:04:22 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 7c6965c6a9 Merge branch 'fix/ingestion-shape'
Reject malformed events at the ingestion boundary, add
EventBuilder::members, and record the rayon opt-in deviation.

Closes #5
Closes #37

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2026-09-08 15:53:13 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 911b48faba feat: add EventBuilder::members for per-member configuration
`EventBuilder` could set weights and nothing else, so `prior` and
`drift_scale` were reachable only through the typed
`Event`/`Team`/`Member` shape plus `add_events`. Which ingestion route a
competitor arrived through decided whether it could be configured.

`members(...)` takes `Member` values directly, so `Member`'s own builder
expresses everything. `team(...)` stays the common case.

One escape hatch rather than `priors` and `drift_scales` setters beside
`weights`, as the issue suggested and then argued against itself: a
parallel array per field means a parallel length check per field, and
each one is a new way to get the lengths wrong. `Member` already has a
builder; this just lets the fluent path reach it.

`record_winner`/`record_draw` are deliberately left alone. They are the
two-argument convenience path, and extending them would be a breaking
signature change. The issue's reason for wanting them extended has also
weakened: it said a competitor arriving through them was "permanently
stuck on the history defaults", and since 8c087ad that is no longer true
— a later `add_events` carrying the `Member` refits the whole history.
Measured, late configuration through that route reaches mu 40.000000000,
identical to configuring from the start.

Refs #37

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2026-09-08 12:32:00 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 f57784c141 docs: record the rayon opt-in deviation in spec section 6
Issue #5 asked for a decision, not an implementation: either flip rayon
to default-on, or record why the spec was deviated from and close.

Opt-in stands. The measured speedups are 1.0x realistic / 1.3x
pathological (#4), so default-on would cost every downstream user a
thread pool and a dependency for approximately nothing.

The condition the decision was waiting on cannot be met: #5 was blocked
on re-measuring after cross-slice dirty-bit skipping landed, and #4 was
closed by removing the inert slices_skipped field rather than by
implementing it. There is no forthcoming measurement to wait for.

Also corrects the spec's own reasoning. It cited an unsafe concurrent
write through SkillStore as a cost of going default-on; the crate is
forbid(unsafe_code) and the compute/apply split avoids that entirely.
The case for opt-in is the measurements, not a safety argument.

Closes #5

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2026-09-08 12:29:40 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 8e4d6a637d fix: reject malformed events at the ingestion boundary
A one-team event reached `run_chain`, which builds one diff link per
adjacent pair of teams, leaving it to index `links[1..]` on an empty
vector. That panicked with "range start index 1 out of range for slice
of length 0" — from `History::add_events`, in a release build, through
entirely safe API.

An empty team was the quieter half of the same gap. It contributes no
performance, so a malformed event converged and handed back a finite,
plausible-looking posterior for whoever it was matched against. That is
this crate's characteristic defect: a public surface reporting a
constant that looks like an answer.

A non-finite score was the third. `converge` did report NonFiniteResult,
so it was detected — but a caller reading `current_skill` before
converging was handed `tau: NaN` with nothing to say so.

`NotEnoughTeams` and `EmptyTeam` already existed. They were checked on
the prediction paths and nowhere else, which is exactly why ingestion
could still manufacture the states they describe. The checks go in
`add_events_with_prior` alongside the tie check, for the same reason
that one is there: every ingestion route lands on it, so `record_winner`,
`record_draw` and `EventBuilder` inherit them rather than each needing
their own.

Also corrects documentation that had been stating the opposite of the
code since 8c087ad in 0.4.0. README.md and the `with_prior` /
`with_drift_scale` doc comments all still said competitor configuration
was "captured at first appearance" and had "no effect" on a known key.
It now applies whenever supplied and refits the whole history. A reader
would have concluded late configuration was impossible and built a
workaround for a limitation that does not exist. CI compiles README code
blocks but not prose, which is why it survived three releases.

The comment in tests/degenerate_inputs.rs claiming a one-team event was
"rejected for an unrelated reason" was wrong when written — it panicked.

Refs #18, #26

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2026-09-08 12:29:14 +02:00
logaritmisk 82eff740b6 chore: Release trueskill-tt version 0.7.0 v0.7.0 2026-09-08 10:27:21 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 c1b1c6c7d7 Merge branch 'feat/joint-handle'
Factorise the joint once with History::joint, so a batch of queries pays
the O(n^3) Cholesky once rather than once per question.

Closes #51

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2026-09-08 10:24:09 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 1bb6bb31d8 feat: factorise the joint once with History::joint
`posterior_of`, `posterior_of_at` and `expected_variance_reduction` each
built the joint precision matrix, factorised it, asked one question and
threw it away. The factorisation is O(n^3) in the history's appearances
and depends only on the fit, so a caller asking about every pair in a
standings table, every cell in a grid, or every candidate in an
active-learning sweep paid for the same factorisation once per question.

`History::joint()` returns a `Joint` handle that pays it once. Measured
on 1976 appearances, 90 queries: 68.4s one-shot against 745ms factorise
plus 93ms of queries — 81.6x, with bit-identical answers. Per query,
Criterion at 480 appearances: 9.0ms one-shot against 48us cached, 187x.

The handle borrows the history, which is what makes it correct with no
invalidation logic: the borrow checker forbids adding events or refitting
while it is alive, so there is no window in which the factorisation could
describe a fit that no longer exists. It also makes the lifetime of the
n^2 factor explicit rather than parking it in the history forever — at
4000 appearances that is 128MB, which is not something to cache silently.

Every question the joint answers turns out to be a bilinear form,

    c^T A^-1 a = (L^-1 c) . (L^-1 a)

so no caller ever needs L^-1 c itself. Replacing the general solve with a
forward substitution drops the back substitution as wasted work, halving
a query, and removes a failure mode: a variance as `c . (A^-1 c)` is a
difference of products that can round negative, where `|L^-1 c|^2` is a
sum of squares and cannot.

The one-shot calls are unchanged in cost and now delegate to the handle,
so the two paths cannot drift apart. tests/joint_handle.rs asserts they
agree bit for bit, including at pinned times, under UnknownKeys::Prior,
and across candidate matchups.

Refs #51

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2026-09-08 07:53:51 +02:00
logaritmisk b113385c6f chore: Release trueskill-tt version 0.6.0 v0.6.0 2026-09-08 06:46:36 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 f345e7690e fix!: make the joint span slices, not just the latest one
`posterior_of` shipped in 0.5.0 reading a single slice. Measured against
a real Through-Time history that answers almost nothing: ustat's round
fit is 76 per-day slices whose last one holds a solo round, so 0 of 55
pair differences resolved and the single node that did was degenerate —
a one-competitor slice has no correlation to account for and returns the
marginal unchanged.

That was my mistake, and the fixture chose it. I validated against
single-slice histories, which is exactly the shape that cannot reveal
the problem. In a library whose premise is skill over time, competitors
are read at *their own* last appearance and those are different slices
by construction.

The joint is now time-expanded: one variable per appearance, linked by
the prior on a first appearance, the drift between consecutive ones, and
the within-slice event contrasts. Consecutive appearances with no drift
between them are the same variable rather than two joined by an infinite
precision, which keeps the matrix positive-definite when a competitor is
pinned with `drift_scale = 0`.

`posterior_of` now reads each competitor at their own latest appearance,
which is where `current_skill` reads them, so the two agree about which
posterior they describe. Adds `posterior_of_at(time, terms)` for a
comparison anchored to a moment, matching `learning_curve`'s reading.

Validated against a hand-written exact posterior for a two-competitor,
two-slice history — the precision matrix is spelled out in the test
rather than obtained from the crate, so it is an independent check
rather than a restatement. Also pinned: competitors last seen in
different slices now compare at all, means still agree with the
marginals, zero drift makes slice layout irrelevant, and more drift
widens a comparison across time.

BREAKING CHANGE: `posterior_of` and `expected_variance_reduction` now
consider the whole history rather than its latest slice, so results
change for any multi-slice history. `JointUnavailable` is now returned
when *any* slice holds ranked events, not just the last.

Refs #46, #47

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2026-09-08 06:04:41 +02:00
logaritmisk d9e85cda1d chore: Release trueskill-tt version 0.5.0 v0.5.0 2026-09-08 02:16:55 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 633a503900 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.

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2026-09-08 02:14:43 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 7cf45db5cf feat: add expected_variance_reduction for scored active learning
#49: `expected_information_gain` enumerates discrete outcomes, so a
consumer recording continuous scores cannot ask which matchup to run
next. The issue flagged this as possibly a research question, since
"expected variance reduction under EP may not have a clean closed form
even for Gaussian likelihoods".

It does. Observing a scored event is a rank-one update to the precision
matrix, so Sherman-Morrison gives

    reduction = (c^T L^-1 a)^2 / (v + a^T L^-1 a)

for target functional c and matchup contrast a. Verified against an
actual refit on four candidate matchups: agreement to 1e-9 relative.

Two consequences worth stating.

There is no expectation to take. The expression depends on which matchup
is played but not on how it turns out, because for a Gaussian likelihood
the posterior variance update is data-independent. Pinned by
`the_outcome_does_not_change_the_reduction`, which refits with scores of
(3, 1), (100, -50) and (0, 0) and gets the same answer. The name keeps
the term the active-learning literature uses; no averaging happens.

It is also far cheaper than its ranked counterpart — one linear solve
rather than a full inference pass per possible outcome — because
`c^T L^-1 a` and `a^T L^-1 a` share the same solve.

`target` is deliberately the same linear-functional shape as
`posterior_of`, as the issue proposed, so the two share a concept rather
than inventing two.

The load-bearing test is the refit comparison. An acquisition function
is the archetype of a surface that returns finite, plausible, monotone
numbers while being wrong, and then quietly selects worse matchups
forever; ranking behaviour alone would not catch that.

Closes #49

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2026-09-08 02:08:32 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 c866210c65 feat: add History::predict_margin for scored matchups
#48: every predict_* answers "who wins", and a consumer recording scores
never asks that. It wants the interval on the result, and having none it
hand-fitted a noise law whose fitted node weight came out at 0.0 — so
the quoted sigma was 5.83 whether the competitor had forty rounds or
none, against real residual spreads of 5.8 and 12.44.

`predict_margin` composes the three things that make a scored result
uncertain: the joint posterior over the competitors, their per-event
performance noise, and the observation noise on the score. It widens as
the model knows less — measured, sigma 2.48 against an opponent with
forty rounds, 3.38 against one seen once, wider still against one never
seen — which is the property the hand-fitted law lost.

It is a margin, not a score, and that is not a shortcut. Scored
ingestion reduces every event to `score_a - score_b` before inference,
so the absolute level is discarded: shifting every score in a history by
+100 or -1000 produces a bit-identical fit, verified. There is no
information from which to predict what a competitor will *score*.
Returning one would be a number derived entirely from the prior, which
is exactly the plausible constant this crate keeps finding and removing.

`posterior_of` now honours `UnknownKeys::Prior`, which gives #48 its
second requirement — "I have never seen this competitor, here is the
prior-informed answer". An unseen competitor shares no event with the
slice, so it is independent by construction and its variance is additive
rather than part of the solve.

Worth recording for expectations: for a *margin* the joint buys little
over adding marginals (2.4798 against 2.5112 here), because a margin is
a difference and differences are where the loopy underestimate and the
ignored correlation cancel. The gain here is having a predictive
distribution at all. `posterior_of`'s correlation handling earns its
keep on sums and single nodes instead — see tests/additive_model.rs.

Closes #48

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2026-09-08 02:02:15 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 1f791bcddd test: pin what an additive model does to combined uncertainty
Investigating #47 needed a reproduction of the reporter's structure: a
joint player/layout model where every observation measures a sum of
nodes against a reference, so the data pins differences and leaves the
overall level to the prior.

The result corrects #46's framing as well as answering #47. Combining
marginals is wrong in opposite directions depending on the combination,
and the unsafe direction is not the one either issue assumed:

    combination            exact   adding marginals
    p0 + h0 (a round)     4.0850   0.8041   0.20x   OVERconfident
    p0 - p1 (rank two)    0.8741   0.8592   0.98x   about right
    h0 - h1               0.7119   0.7057   0.99x   about right

#46 assumed every published figure was too wide and that this was "at
least the safe direction". That holds for differences. For sums it
reverses: adding marginals is five times too narrow, which publishes a
claim the data does not support.

For a single node the exact marginal is ~5x wider than message passing
reports, because the level it shares with its partners is pinned only by
the prior. That is the honest posterior for a weakly identified
parameter, not a defect — and it is why #47's node "should be
publishable" intuition and its posterior sigma disagree.

Refs #46, #47

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2026-09-08 01:52:39 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 c52e2550af feat: add History::posterior_of for a linear combination of competitors
#46: every accessor returns a per-competitor marginal, and almost
nothing a consumer publishes is one competitor. Combining marginals
assumes independence, and competitors are correlated through every event
they share.

`posterior_of(&[(a, 1.0), (b, -1.0)])` returns the posterior of that
combination with the correlation intact. Validated against the exact
linear-Gaussian posterior on both a tree and a loopy fixture, for
differences and for single competitors: agreement to 1e-9 relative in
every case.

The investigation that preceded this is why it is not a covariance
accessor. Marginals from loopy message passing are about half the true
width, and ignoring correlation overstates a difference — the two errors
partially cancel, leaving 1.327x rather than 2.646x. Bolting true
correlations onto the existing marginals would have given 0.765 against
a true 1.524, which is overconfident: the direction the reporter
specifically called unsafe. Rebuilding the joint from the factor
structure fixes both at once, and a single-competitor query now returns
the exact marginal rather than the narrow one.

The precision matrix depends only on structure — who played whom, with
what weights and what noise — not on the observed outcomes, and the
means were already exact. So only the second moment is reconstructed.

Known limits, all deliberate and documented on the method:

- Latest slice only. A functional spanning times, such as "current
  versus career", needs the time-expanded joint and is not covered.
- Scored events only. A ranked outcome's truncation is EP-approximated
  and its converged factors are not retained after inference, so ranked
  slices return `JointUnavailable` rather than a plausible wrong number.
- Dense Cholesky, O(n^3) per query in the slice's competitor count:
  38.8us at 50, 5.66ms at 400, 49.1ms at 800. Fine for the sizes this
  serves today; caching the factorization per slice would make repeat
  queries O(n^2), and sparsity is the next step after that.

Refs #46, #47, #48

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2026-09-08 01:46:35 +02:00
logaritmisk 4924bc8b57 style: use arrays rather than vec! in the calibration fixture
clippy::useless_vec. Pushed broken because the verification chain used
`if ... then echo` blocks that report status without gating the `&&`
that follows — the same shape of mistake as e1bddf2, where a grep
succeeded on the error text. Both times the check printed FAIL and the
push went ahead.

The reliable form is a single fail-fast chain:

    just lint && just test && just determinism && cargo test --doc

so nothing runs after the first failure.
2026-09-08 01:39:21 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 36eacf5f67 test: calibrate the marginals against the exact posterior
Investigation for #46 and #47, before touching either.

A scored history is linear-Gaussian, so its true joint posterior has a
closed form and the crate can be checked against ground truth. Measured
on five competitors:

                    means      marginal sd (crate / exact)
    tree (star)     exact      1.000
    loopy (robin)   exact      0.502

On a tree the crate is exact in both. With cycles the means stay exact —
the standard Gaussian-BP result, and the property ratings rely on —
while marginal variances come out about half the true width.

That is the opposite direction from what #47 reports, so whatever is
happening in that consumer's model, the crate being conservative is not
it.

It also means #46 cannot be implemented as an added covariance accessor.
The exact correlation between two nodes here is +0.857, so ignoring it
overstates the width of a difference — but the too-narrow marginals
partially cancel that, leaving 1.327x rather than 2.646x. Adding true
correlations to these marginals without correcting them would give 0.765
against a true 1.524: overconfident, which is the direction the reporter
specifically called unsafe.

Pins the two real invariants (exactness on a tree, exact means with
cycles) and deliberately only records the variance gap, since closing it
is what #46 proposes.

Also records the working rules this project has converged on: investigate
before implementing, fix the root issue, and scout crates.io on measured
accuracy rather than adoption.

Refs #46, #47

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2026-09-08 01:38:46 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 71554fd944 feat: add UnknownKeys::Prior, and explain why there is no Skip
#44's third ask was an opt-in mode so a caller with partially-known
teams need not pre-filter. The requested shape was `Skip` — drop unknown
members. Measured, that is the wrong mode to build.

A team's performance is the *sum* of its members, so dropping one drops
its variance too. On a two-member team with one unknown:

    SKIP  (drop the member)  : performance sigma 2.37
    PRIOR (member at prior)  : performance sigma 6.53   (2.76x wider)

Skipping makes the model *more* certain because it knows *less*, which
is backwards. `Prior` is also the answer the model already gives for a
competitor it knows about but has no evidence for — measured, such a
competitor sits at sigma 4.99 against the prior's 6.0 — so it
corresponds to a state the model can actually be in. Skipping does not.

So the enum is `Reject` (default, unchanged) and `Prior`, and it is
`#[non_exhaustive]` in case a real use for skipping turns up later.

Placed on `HistoryBuilder` rather than per-call. Neither consumer wants
it to vary between queries: one scores thousands of candidate matchups
in a loop, the other's headline feature is predicting a competitor
nobody has faced. That makes it a property of how the model is being
used, and keeps five prediction signatures unchanged.

This also gives #48 the semantics it asked for — "I have never seen this
competitor, here is the prior-informed answer" — which it needs for
predicting a course nobody has played.

`an_unknown_member_widens_its_team_rather_than_narrowing_it` pins the
property that ruled `Skip` out, so a future convenience cannot quietly
reintroduce it.

Closes #44. Refs #48

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2026-09-08 01:28:49 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 2cf21a753d docs: record that the event log is the source of truth, and why
#45 asked whether a fitted `History` can be persisted, and noted that
the absence of `serde` "reads as an omission rather than a decision,
which invites exactly this issue from every consumer in turn". Fair.

Documents the decision on `History` along with the reasoning that makes
it one: `converge` reaches a fixed point determined by the events,
ratings and configuration alone, so a snapshot would carry no
information the event log does not — it would cache the computation,
never the answer.

It also bounds what a snapshot could buy, since that is the question a
consumer actually has. Re-converging an unchanged history costs one
iteration, measured at 0.91 ms against 365 ms cold on 2 000 events, so
it would make a cold restart cheap and do nothing for appends. Appending
one event moves its participants more than a sigma across their whole
history, so that re-convergence is real work rather than repeated work.

Closes #45

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logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 35d7512557 fix(test): the ingestion-order property was comparing two truncated fits
`ingestion_order_does_not_change_the_answer` failed with a 1.2e-6 gap in
mu and read as a violation of the invariant. It was not. Both sides ran
`max_iter: 200` against `epsilon: 1e-10`, and the batched side stopped
at the cap with a step of 3.4e-9 — so the test compared two fits that
had not converged and attributed the difference to ingestion order.

Raised to 20_000, at which both converge and the property holds. Runtime
is unchanged at 0.05s, because converging is what the iterations were
for.

The test now asserts `report.converged` on both sides before comparing.
That is the part worth keeping: any test that compares two fits for
equality is measuring truncation unless it first establishes that both
reached a fixed point. `ingestion_equivalence.rs` already did this;
`properties.rs` did not.

Found because c12bc83 made `ConvergenceReport` `#[must_use]`, which is
the same failure #50 describes — a short fit is wrong by a little and
looks entirely plausible. The blanket `let _ =` that commit applied to
78 call sites was too blunt here: binding the report to `_` silenced the
one signal that would have caught this, in a test whose whole purpose is
to compare two fits.

Refs #50

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logaritmisk e1bddf2474 style: factor the event-pair type out of the reconvergence fixture
clippy's `type_complexity` fires on the tuple-of-vectors return. Caught
after pushing, because the verification chain used `&&` between `just
lint` and a `grep` that succeeded on the error text — so a failing lint
reported success. The gate has to be on the command, not on whether the
output matched.
2026-09-08 01:18:59 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 5d36fa1008 test: pin that re-convergence is path-independent
Answering #45 — can a fitted `History` be persisted — needed to know
whether `converge` reaches a fixed point determined by the events alone,
or one that depends on the message state it started from. It is the
former, and that is worth a test rather than a comment.

`tests/ingestion_equivalence.rs` varies how events are batched but
converges only at the end. These converge *between* batches, which is
the path a caller takes when it fits, serves, then ingests more.

Measured divergence from a single fit over the same events: 6.2e-13 for
an append strictly later than every existing slice, 8.9e-11 for one
interleaved with them. Both at the convergence tolerance. The design
question guessed the interleaved case might be weaker; it is not, and
the reason is that Through Time revises the past on every converge
anyway, so doing it in two steps is not a special case.

Also pins that re-converging an unchanged history costs one iteration.
Measured on a 2000-event fixture that is 0.91ms against 365ms cold — the
fact that makes a restored snapshot worth having at all.

Refs #45

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logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 c12bc830a5 feat!: name the unknown key, expose tail probabilities, flag short fits
Three issues from two downstream consumers, all small, all sharing a
theme: the crate had the information and would not hand it over.

#44 — `UnknownKey { team: 0, member: 0 }` did not say which key. A
consumer upgrading 0.1.2 -> 0.4.1 had every one of 5591 predictions
return this error, fell back to a neutral 0.5, and lost its entire
metadata model for a day. Nothing crashed and nothing logged; it was
found by sweeping an unrelated parameter and noticing the output did not
move. The 0.4.0 change that made unknown keys an error was right — the
error was just too anonymous to act on. It now carries the key's `Debug`
rendering, and its `Display` says what to do about it. The precondition
is documented on every prediction entry point, which the reporter said
would alone have saved the day.

#43 — `cdf` was `pub(crate)`, so a consumer asking "is this competitor
below the cutoff" approximated it with a `mu + z * sigma` band and had no
way to say what confidence any `z` bought. Adds
`Gaussian::probability_below` / `probability_above`. The second is
separate on purpose: `1 - cdf` collapses to exactly zero past ~8.3
sigma, and a stopping rule is evaluated precisely there. Both route
through the survival function added in 0.4.1, so this is visibility
rather than new numerics.

#50 — `ConvergenceReport` was not `#[must_use]`, so the one signal that
a fit stopped short was trivially discarded. It now is, and that
immediately found 78 sites doing exactly that — including this crate's
own ATP example, which was capped at 10 sweeps when the history needs
30. The example now reads the report and says so.

`ITERATIONS = 30` is documented as the floor it is, with the three
measurements to hand: 400 events over 100 competitors already stops
there at ~7e-3 against a 1e-6 tolerance, the ATP example needs 30 at a
much looser one, and a consumer's 2000-node model needs 76 to 161.

BREAKING CHANGE: `InferenceError::UnknownKey` gains a `key` field, and
the prediction methods now require `K: Debug` in order to fill it.

Closes #43, #50. Refs #44 — its third ask, an opt-in `UnknownKeys::Skip`
mode, is a live API question and deliberately not answered here.

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2026-09-07 23:41:03 +02:00
logaritmisk 901f60972e chore: Release trueskill-tt version 0.4.2 v0.4.2 2026-09-07 22:46:54 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 8116fd081f test: localise the erfc_inv tail residual to the caller's argument
Scouting crates.io for a more accurate `erfc` than `libm` turned up a
1.16e-12 relative error in `erfc_inv` at `p_draw = 0.999999`, measured
against a 70-digit `decimal` reference. It looked like too few Newton
steps. It is not: adding a fourth changed nothing.

The error is in forming the argument. `1.0 - 0.999999` is
`1.0000000000287557e-06` — 0.999999 is not representable, and
subtracting from one cancels, leaving 2.9e-11 of relative error before
`erfc_inv` is entered. Given an exactly-representable argument it
returns 1.8e-16. So the routine was never the problem, and the extra
iteration has been reverted rather than shipped as a fix for a defect
that was not there.

`puruspe::inverfc` returns the identical wrong value for the identical
reason, which is what makes the shared upstream cause obvious.

Adds a test that separates the two, and corrects a quantile constant in
`erfc_inv_matches_known_quantiles` that was recalled rather than
computed: `Phi^-1(0.9999995)` is 4.89163847569859, not
4.891638475699099. The others were checked against the same reference
and were right.

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2026-09-07 22:43:50 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 17d072b2ae fix: route every transcendental through libm, and combine sigmas with hypot
Follow-on from #41, which added `libm` for `erfc`. Surveying what else
the dependency offers: its unique surface over `std` is `erf`/`erfc`,
`lgamma`/`tgamma` and Bessel functions, and only the first was ever
needed. But the survey found something better than another special
function.

`std`'s `exp` and `ln` delegate to the *system* math library. IEEE 754
specifies the basic operations and `sqrt` exactly and says nothing about
transcendentals, so those differ per platform. Measured here over 200k
inputs:

    exp: 19425/200000 differ from libm (worst 1 ulp)
    log:  9932/200000 differ

Inference is an iterative fixed point, so a one-ULP difference can change
an iteration count and move the answer by more than one ULP. Routing
every transcendental through `libm` makes a fit reproducible across
platforms — a stronger guarantee than `tests/determinism.rs`, which only
covers thread counts.

It costs nothing. `Batch::iteration` measured -2.7% [-5.7%, -0.3%] with
the whole set swapped, and not one golden moved.

Also switches the two places that combined sigmas as
`sqrt(a^2 + b^2)` to `hypot`. Squaring overflows to infinity above
~1.3e154 and flushes to zero below ~1.5e-154 — measured, the naive form
returns `inf` where `hypot` returns 1.41e160 — and `Gaussian`'s
constructors are public, so a caller can reach both ends.

Deliberately not done: rewriting the KL divergence's `ln` of a ratio via
`ln_1p`. The cancellation is real as the ratio approaches one, but
measured absolute error is at most ~1e-11 in a quantity of order 0.4
nats, so it changes nothing.

The invariant is recorded in `CLAUDE.md` and on `erfc`'s own docs, since
nothing enforces it mechanically.

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2026-09-07 22:33:30 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 3dd659307a fix: replace the erfc approximation with libm, for free
#41 asked whether the Numerical Recipes `erfcc` approximation — 1.2e-7
relative, and the binding accuracy constraint on the whole crate — was
worth replacing, given it sits in the inference hot loop. It is, and it
costs nothing.

Measured, against an independent incomplete-gamma reference:

    range        previous (NR)        libm
    [-3, 0]            7.95e-8     2.15e-14
    [0, 0.5]           8.69e-8     4.70e-14
    [0.5, 2]           9.38e-8     1.24e-12
    [2, 6]             1.04e-7     5.20e-14
    [6, 26]            1.07e-7     1.75e-13

    erfc(0)          1.00000003          1.0  (exactly)
    |erfc(z)+erfc(-z)-2|  6.00e-8     2.22e-16

Performance, on `benches/batch.rs`: change [-3.34% +2.26%], p = 0.89 —
no change detected.

That result is counterintuitive, because libm's erfc is 1.65x slower
when swept uniformly over [-2.5, 2.5]. The sweep was the wrong input
distribution. Capturing the arguments inference actually passes:

    |x|<0.5    96.16%
    0.5-0.84    2.05%
    0.84-1.25   1.24%
    1.25-2      0.54%
    2-6         0.00%

98% fall below 0.84375, which is exactly where FDLIBM skips the
exponential entirely — while the NR form always pays for one. On the
real trace libm is the faster of the two (3.23 vs 3.78 ns/call).

An ad-hoc `Instant` harness reported a 16% end-to-end speedup; that was
an artifact of its own setup allocating and leaking per run, and
criterion's verdict of "no change" is the one to believe.

What it bought:

- `compute_margin` against exact quantiles: 8.4e-8 -> 1.7e-16.
- `cdf(mu, mu, sigma)` is now exactly 0.5; it was 1.5e-8 out.
- `sf + cdf` sums to one within a ULP, from 3e-8.
- `erfcx`'s two branches now agree to round-off across the crossover
  rather than to 1e-7, so the log-space evidence path and the linear one
  are consistent.
- Ten test tolerances tightened from 1e-6 to 1e-13..1e-15, and the
  prediction floor is now the integrator's rather than `cdf`'s.

Five goldens moved, by 2.4e-9 to 6e-7 — the magnitude of the removed
error, and `test_env_ttt`'s mu still rounds to the same six decimals.
Re-recorded with more digits so future drift stays visible. Verified as
movement toward truth per the goldens policy: every value now derives
from a primitive checked against an independent reference and satisfying
the exact identities, which the previous one did not.

Adds `libm` — zero transitive dependencies, rust-lang maintained.

Closes #41

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logaritmisk 7e289ee834 chore: Release trueskill-tt version 0.4.1 v0.4.1 2026-09-07 21:49:05 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 564969ee5d test: pin quality()'s N-group closed form, closing the README cross-check
The scan for precision defects found none in `quality()` — but it did
find that N identical teams have an exact closed form, which is a much
stronger regression net than the single two-team golden that was there.

For two identical single-player teams quality is
`sqrt(2b^2 / (2b^2 + s1^2 + s2^2))`. With the conventional parameters
that ratio is exactly 1/5, and the N-group generalisation is
`(1/5)^((n-1)/2)` — one factor per adjacent pair. Measured across
n = 2..10 the implementation matches to 1e-9, so the determinant path
that #9 rebuilt is correct over the whole range, not just at n = 2.

The n=3 and n=5 values (0.200 and 0.040) are also what the `trueskill`
Python package produces for the same configuration, which is the
cross-implementation check the README Todo has been asking for since
the redesign. Asserted separately as literals so a change to the
closed-form reasoning cannot silently carry them along.

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2026-09-07 21:46:46 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 683813ec10 fix: correct erfc_inv's sign error and keep evidence in log space
A systematic scan for precision defects, following the tail-precision
work in 7341669. Three findings; the first is a correctness bug in a
released version.

1. `erfc_inv`'s initial guess had the wrong sign. Numerical Recipes'
   `inverfc` uses -0.70711 as the leading coefficient; this used
   +FRAC_1_SQRT_2. Since `rational - t` is negative, that put Newton on
   the mirror image of the root, and three fixed iterations could not
   cross back. Measured against exact standard-normal quantiles:

       p_draw   old rel err   new rel err
       0.50        1.46e-7       8.40e-8
       0.90        1.02e-1       8.63e-9
       0.95        3.06e-1       1.91e-8
       0.99        8.05e-1       5.89e-9

   `compute_margin` inherited it, so the draw margin was wrong for any
   `p_draw` above about 0.6 and *non-monotone* above 0.9 — it ran
   0.674, 1.476, 0.503, 0.982 as p_draw went 0.5, 0.9, 0.99, 0.999. A
   history configured for a 0.99 draw rate was being fitted at 0.385.
   Note it was slightly wrong everywhere, not only in the tail.

2. `MarginFactor` computed a density and clamped it. `pdf` underflows
   past ~38 sigma, so `ln` of the clamped zero reported -708 nats
   however far out the score actually was: 4292 nats adrift at 100
   sigma, and unbounded beyond. This is the same defect as the one
   fixed in `TruncFactor`, one file over, on the scored-outcome path.

3. `TruncFactor` still bottomed out past ~38 sigma even after 7341669
   removed the cancellation, because the linear probability itself
   underflows there.

2 and 3 are fixed the same way: factors cache a *log* evidence, built
from new `ln_pdf`, `ln_sf` and `ln_interval` helpers that factor the
shared exponential out analytically via the `erfcx` added earlier.
Nothing underflows, at any separation.

One golden moved. `test_1vs1vs1` runs at `p_draw = 0.5`, so it goes
through `compute_margin`; its 1e-6-place values shifted. Verified as
movement *toward* analytic truth by comparing both the old and new
inverse against exact quantiles, per the goldens policy in CLAUDE.md —
not re-baselined on faith.

Two test tolerances are asserted at 1e-6 rather than tighter because
above x = 2 `erfcx` uses a continued fraction accurate to ~1e-15 while
`erfc` carries ~1e-7, so the log path is the more accurate of the two
and they part company at `erfc`'s error. That floor is tracked in #41.

Refs #41

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logaritmisk 2a48d10aa9 chore: Release trueskill-tt version 0.4.0 v0.4.0 2026-09-07 15:49:12 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 d4f91fd221 fix: reject convergence options that silently disable inference
`Game::ranked` and `Game::scored` validated `p_draw` and `score_sigma`
but never `convergence`. `ConvergenceOptions` has public fields and
`GameOptions` carries one, so a caller could hand the engine a set that
`HistoryBuilder`'s eager asserts never saw. Past that, the only guard
was a `debug_assert!`, which is gone in the profile users ship.

An `alpha` of zero is the bad case, and it fails silently rather than
loudly. Measured in release before the fix:

    likelihoods: [[Gaussian { pi: 0.0, tau: 0.0 }],
                  [Gaussian { pi: 0.0, tau: 0.0 }]]

Every EP update unapplied, every likelihood uninformative, inference
returning the priors it was given — and an `OwnedGame` that looks
entirely ordinary to the caller. `HistoryBuilder::convergence` already
documents exactly this hazard; the `Game` constructors just did not
share the check.

Adds `ConvergenceOptions::validate`, called by both constructors.
Rejects `alpha` outside `(0.0, 1.0]` and negative `epsilon`; NaN fails
both comparisons and is rejected too.

`tests/validation.rs` states the release-mode guarantee for the whole
public surface, not just this hole, and CI already runs the suite in
release. Probing the other conditions #18 lists found five of eight
already enforced — ties without a draw probability, per-event score
sigma, weight/team dimensions, draw-probability range, score-sigma
range — so this closes the remaining gap rather than the whole issue.
The engine keeps its `debug_assert!`s as invariant documentation.

Refs #18

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2026-09-07 15:48:31 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 8c087ad015 fix!: apply competitor configuration whenever it is supplied
`Member::with_prior` and `with_drift_scale` were consumed only on the
branch that *creates* a competitor — `priors.remove` sat inside
`if !self.agents.contains(..)`. Supplying either for a key the history
already knew did nothing at all: no error, no warning, and output
computed from the default prior. A prior applied on a competitor's very
first event and was silently discarded ever after.

Configuration now applies whenever supplied. Two details this forced:

Configuration is tracked per *field* rather than as a merged `Rating`.
A member setting only `drift_scale` must not also assert the default
prior, or it would silently undo a prior seeded on an earlier event.

Slice state has to be refreshed. `drift_scale` is re-derived on every
forward pass, but a prior is written into the competitor's earliest
slice once, at ingestion, and `iteration` refreshes only slices after
the first. Without the refresh a late prior would reach the drift terms
and nothing else — a subtler version of the drop being fixed. This was
caught by a test, not by reading the code.

Conflicting values for one competitor within a single batch are now
`ConflictingCompetitorConfig` rather than resolved by iteration order.
Events in a batch are unordered, so "last one wins" would make the
result depend on traversal — and `tests/ingestion_equivalence.rs` exists
to rule exactly that out. Repeating the same value stays inert, which is
the shape callers get when configuration is a property of the domain.

That invariant turned out to be tested only for *unconfigured*
competitors: every helper in that file built members with `Member::new`.
Extended to cover configured ones, including a check that configuration
changes the fit at all, so the order tests cannot pass vacuously.

`with_prior` had no coverage under `tests/` whatsoever, which is how
this survived. Adds `tests/competitor_config.rs`.

`drift_scale_is_ignored_after_first_appearance` asserted the old
behaviour and now asserts the new one. It was written as a deliberate
change-detector — "moving the capture would be a visible break, not a
silent one" — so it inverted rather than being deleted.

Also removes `InferenceError::ConvergenceFailed` and `NegativePrecision`,
which no code path ever constructed: public variants advertising failure
modes no caller could observe. Partial #20 — its other items were
already resolved, except `Outcome::winner` still panicking.

BREAKING CHANGE: `prior` and `drift_scale` now take effect for
competitors the history already knows, where they were previously
ignored; a batch supplying conflicting values for one competitor is now
an error. `InferenceError::ConvergenceFailed` and
`InferenceError::NegativePrecision` are removed.

Closes #10. Refs #20.

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2026-09-07 15:42:31 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 7341669d1a fix: stop destroying tail precision in evidence and truncation
`erfc` is sound — it holds ~1e-7 *relative* accuracy down to 1e-296 with
no tail degradation. Three expressions built on it threw that away by
subtracting quantities that both approach the same value.

1. `cavity_evidence` computed `1.0 - cdf(margin, ..)`, which is
   algebraically `sf(margin, ..)` and numerically a catastrophe: 7%
   error by eight sigma, and exactly zero past ~8.3, where the true
   probability is 1e-19 and perfectly representable. Clamped, that
   reached `log_evidence` as ln(f64::MIN_POSITIVE) = -708 whatever the
   truth was — off by 665 nats at nine sigma.

   `1 - cdf` is smallest precisely when the result contradicts the
   prior, so the model-comparison number was worst for upsets: the
   observation it exists to notice. Adds `sf`, the survival function,
   computed without the subtraction. The tie branch picks whichever tail
   keeps both of its terms small, for the same reason.

2. `v_w` computed the inverse Mills ratio as `pdf(-a) / cdf(-a)`. Both
   underflow together past about 39 sigma, giving `0 / 0` and putting
   NaN straight into the posterior. Adds `erfcx`, so the shared
   `exp(-alpha^2 / 2)` cancels analytically instead of being evaluated
   twice and divided.

3. With that fixed, `w = v * (v - alpha)` became the next casualty: `v`
   tends to `alpha`, so the gap lost every digit and drove `w` above 1,
   making `sqrt(1 - w)` NaN at alpha = 1e6. The gap now comes from its
   asymptotic series, which forms no difference at all. The tie branch
   had the same defect one expression over — `v * v - u` with both terms
   at 1e18 returned w = -128 — and a far-tail window is
   indistinguishable from a half-line, so it shares the asymptotic.

No public signature changes, and no existing golden moved: every one of
these only alters regions the old code got wrong. The two identity tests
are asserted at 1e-6 rather than tighter because `erfc` is not exactly
antisymmetric — `erfc(z) + erfc(-z)` differs from 2 by ~3e-8, and
`erfc(0)` returns 1.00000003. That floor is tracked separately.

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logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 2fff745c3b feat: let observers be shared, boxed, or borrowed
`History` takes its observer by value and never hands it back, so a
caller who wanted to read what an observer recorded had no way to keep a
handle to it. The natural spelling did not compile:

    let recorder = Arc::new(Recorder::default());
    History::builder().observer(Arc::clone(&recorder))
    // error[E0277]: `Arc<Recorder>: Observer<i64>` is not satisfied

The workaround was for every observer to wrap each of its own fields in
an `Arc` and derive `Clone` — one allocation and one lock per field, a
pattern each implementor had to rediscover, and nothing documenting it.

Adds blanket `Observer` impls for `Arc<O>`, `Box<O>` and `&O`. All are
`?Sized`, so `Arc<dyn Observer<T>>` and `Box<dyn Observer<T>>` work too
and an observer can be chosen at runtime. Also adds
`History::observer()` and `into_observer()`, so a non-shared observer's
state can be inspected in place or reclaimed after `converge` without
needing interior mutability at all.

`tests/observer.rs` is simplified to the shared spelling, so the
recommended pattern is the one demonstrated rather than the workaround.

Closes #40

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2026-09-07 15:13:28 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 3c2f9ac64c feat: add expected information gain for active matchup selection
`quality()` answers "is this matchup fair". Callers picking which
comparison to run next need "is this matchup informative", and the two
coincide only for two evenly matched competitors. Without a principled
alternative, downstream code was reaching for hand-rolled heuristics
like `quality * sigma_a^2 * sigma_b^2`, which double-counts uncertainty:
the two factors are not independent.

Adds `expected_information_gain`, the outcome-weighted divergence
between current beliefs and the beliefs each result would produce:

    EIG = SUM P(outcome) * KL(posterior_after(outcome) || prior)

Available standalone over `Rating`s, and as
`History::expected_information_gain` using current skills and the
history's own beta, drift and p_draw — so the outcomes it weighs are the
ones that would actually be fitted.

This is the mutual information between the outcome and the skills, which
gives an analytic ceiling: gain cannot exceed the entropy of the thing
being observed, so at most `ln k` nats for k outcomes. That bound is the
sharpest test available, because an acquisition function is unusually
exposed to returning finite, plausible, monotone numbers while being
wrong — it would simply select slightly worse matchups forever. A
prototype of this returned 4.77 nats from a sign error while passing
every monotonicity check; `never_exceeds_the_entropy_of_the_outcome`
catches that class unconditionally.

Measured against the ceiling the values are meaningful rather than
vacuous: 0.382 nats for an even matchup between diffuse priors against
an 0.693 ceiling, falling to 0.013 for a lopsided one and 0.000 for a
hopeless one.

`disagrees_with_the_quality_times_variance_heuristic` pins down that
this is not a monotone transform of the heuristic it replaces — the two
rank a lopsided matchup and a confident even one in opposite orders — so
a later "simplification" cannot quietly revert to it.

Cost is one inference pass per possible outcome, documented on the
public API alongside the shortlist-then-score pattern, so callers do not
discover it in production.

Also folds the duplicated key-gathering in `predict_quality` and
`performances` into one validated `member_skills`.

Refs #39

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2026-09-07 15:08:12 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 507894dae7 refactor!: close the remaining API gaps from #21
Three unrelated small defects, all requiring signature changes:

- `Game::one_v_one` hardcoded `GameOptions::default()`, so a 1v1 could
  never set `p_draw` or convergence options — and a drawn 1v1 was
  therefore unreachable through it, since the default `p_draw` is zero.
  It now takes `&GameOptions` like every other constructor.

- `Observer::on_batch_processed` was declared on the trait and never
  called from anywhere: implementors wired up a callback that could not
  fire. It is now called after each slice sweep, and renamed
  `on_slice_processed` to match the vocabulary the codebase adopted in
  T2 — the unit of work is a `TimeSlice`, not a batch. A slice is swept
  once travelling backward and once forward, so a multi-slice history
  fires it twice per slice per iteration; the doc comment says so.

- `pub mod factors` sat beside `pub(crate) mod factor`, two module paths
  differing by one character with only one of them importable. The
  public facade is now `graph`.

Tests cover each as a behaviour rather than a compile check: a drawn 1v1
succeeds only when p_draw is supplied, and the observer tests fail if
any callback stops firing.

BREAKING CHANGE: `Game::one_v_one` takes a fourth `&GameOptions`
argument; `Observer::on_batch_processed` is renamed
`on_slice_processed`; the `factors` module is renamed `graph`.

Closes #21

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2026-09-07 14:57:39 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 bb2a845882 feat!: N-team outcome prediction with draw mass, replacing the 2-team panic
`predict_outcome` asserted `teams.len() == 2` and returned `[p, 1 - p]`,
allocating no probability to a draw even with `p_draw > 0`. For a
draw-enabled model the numbers were simply wrong, at any team count.

It now returns `Result<Prediction, InferenceError>` and supports N teams.

Two algorithms, both deterministic:

- Who finishes first. Performances are independent Gaussians, so this
  separates into a one-dimensional integral per team rather than a
  multivariate orthant probability. Adaptive Gauss-Kronrod evaluates it
  to ~1e-15, matching the exact two-team closed form.
- A specific finishing order. The factor graph only constrains
  rank-adjacent teams, so a full order is a chain of local constraints,
  not a general orthant integral. That chain collapses into a sequential
  recursion over cumulative integrals: O(teams * grid) per order.

Fixed-node Gauss-Hermite is the obvious tool for the first and is a trap:
when a rival's sigma is small the CDF product becomes a step narrower
than the node spacing, and the nodes step over it. Measured 4.4e-4 off
the closed form on a mildly skewed matchup and 1.7e-2 on a small-sigma
one, while still returning something that looks like a probability.
Adaptive refinement is what makes that case safe, and
`win_probabilities_survive_a_rival_with_a_tiny_sigma` pins it down.

The acceptance test is an identity rather than a golden: the outcome
space is exhaustive and disjoint, so the probabilities sum to one. Any
drift is integration error and nothing else. Gauss-Hermite failed it at
4.4e-4; this holds to ~1e-9.

Also from #21: unknown keys are now reported rather than dropped, so a
team of strangers can no longer produce a confident-looking prediction.
`predict_quality` returns `Result` for the same reason.

BREAKING CHANGE: `predict_outcome` returns `Result<Prediction, _>`
instead of `Vec<f64>`; `predict_quality` returns `Result<f64, _>`.

Refs #21, #39

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2026-09-07 14:55:11 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 87fca8dcca docs: correct drifted documentation and compile the README in CI
Four README code blocks no longer compiled: `Player` was renamed `Rating`
in T2, the `Drift` trait gained a `T: Time` parameter and a second method,
and two blocks were missing imports outright. The `Rating` example needed
more than a rename — with the binding unused, `T` is ambiguous because
`ConstantDrift` implements `Drift<T>` for every `T`, so it now carries an
explicit annotation.

Nothing compiled those blocks. `src/lib.rs` gains a `cfg(doctest)` struct
carrying `#[doc = include_str!("../README.md")]`, which turns every `rust`
block into a doctest without displacing the curated crate docs as the
front page. Verified it bites: reintroducing `Player` fails the build with
E0432 rather than shipping. Illustrative blocks are fenced `text` — note
that a bare fence defaults to `rust` under rustdoc, which is how the
`variance_delta = elapsed * γ²` formula became a compile error.

Prose fixes: README claimed `Gaussian::forget` takes a square root (it
works in variance space) and pointed at a `.gamma()` builder method that
does not exist. CLAUDE.md's data-flow diagram spliced the public ingestion
shape into the internal one — `Team` is not in that chain — listed
`cdf()`/`erfc()` as public when they are `pub(crate)` and private, and
called `SkillStore` public when only `CompetitorStore` escapes the crate.

Rustdoc fixes: `EventBuilder::scores_with_sigma` claimed a debug-assert
that `Outcome::scores_with_sigma` never had and whose own docs contradict;
rejection happens at ingestion as `InvalidParameter`. `event.rs` described
`add_events_with_prior` as replaced when it is still the ingestion
chokepoint. `factors.rs` advertised `Game::custom` without noting it is
`#[doc(hidden)]`. Internal T2/T4 milestone labels are dropped from public
items; the ones in the private `time_slice` module are left alone.

Closes #35

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2026-09-01 19:30:32 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 ef62b57a08 fix(release): skip the changelog hook during a dry run
`just release-plan` is documented as a preview that writes nothing, but
cargo-release runs pre-release hooks during a dry run too. The hook wrote
CHANGELOG.md and `git add`ed it, so the clean-tree check in `just release`
then refused to run — the repo's own two-step release workflow could not
be followed as written.

Guard the hook on DRY_RUN, which cargo-release 1.1.5 exports to the hook
environment (verified by dumping `env` from a throwaway hook; it also sets
CRATE_NAME, PREV_VERSION and NEW_VERSION). The clean-tree check itself is
left alone: it is load-bearing, because publishing is irreversible.

Closes #36

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2026-09-01 19:26:22 +02:00
logaritmisk b2a7ade10c chore: Release trueskill-tt version 0.3.0 v0.3.0 2026-09-01 06:34:31 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 617bc07f6f feat: allow drift to vary per competitor via Member::with_drift_scale
Drift was a property of the History, so every competitor drifted at the
same rate and a fixed reference point could not share a graph with moving
competitors. A bot at a known strength, a rating floor, a course
difficulty — all of them drifted along with the players.

Member::with_drift_scale(s) multiplies the drift *variance* a competitor
accumulates, so s is in the same units as gamma: ConstantDrift(g) at
scale s behaves exactly as ConstantDrift(g * s) would for that competitor.
A scalar rather than a per-competitor Drift keeps History's single D type
parameter untouched and stays Copy. 0.0 pins a competitor still.

The scale lives on Rating, beside the drift it scales, and is applied
only through Rating::drift_variance_delta / drift_variance_for_elapsed.
Making those the sole entry points means a caller cannot reach the raw
drift and silently skip a competitor's scale — the filtered pass was
exactly that bug during development, caught because its test was written
before the wiring.

Like with_prior, the scale is competitor configuration captured at first
appearance rather than a per-event override; a competitor that is static
is static, and a scale that changed between events would make the skill
trajectory hard to interpret. Member's docs claimed prior was a per-event
override, which the code has never done — corrected here.

A negative scale is rejected rather than squared into its absolute value,
and a non-finite one rejected outright, both as InvalidParameter.

None means 1.0, so no existing call site changes and no existing fit
moves. Adding a public field to Member does break struct-literal
construction downstream.

Closes #34

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2026-09-01 06:29:02 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 1a88678384 refactor!: remove ConvergenceReport::slices_skipped
Closes #33. The field was public, hardcoded to 0 at both construction sites,
and had no route to ever being non-zero.

It was added in T3 as the reporting surface for dirty-bit slice skipping. That
feature is #4, closed as unworkable — the ceiling measured at ~6% against a
projected 5-50x, on top of three independent soundness blockers. #32, which
reattributed the cost to ingestion, is closed too: the re-convergence is
necessary work rather than waste, because appending one event genuinely moves
the involved competitors ~1.2 sigma across their whole history. Nothing left
would ever populate it.

This is the same defect class as #19, where this arc started: a public surface
that looks implemented, reports a plausible value, and is inert. A caller
reading `slices_skipped: 0` reasonably concludes "no slices were skipped this
run", not "this feature does not exist".

Removed rather than documented as reserved. Its only value was as a hook for a
plan that no longer exists, and keeping it preserves the shape of that plan.
Breaking, but ConvergenceReport is returned rather than constructed by callers,
so the only breakage is code reading a constant zero.

Also added a test asserting every remaining field carries real information —
iterations non-zero, final_step finite, log_evidence a finite negative log
probability, and per_iteration_time holding one duration per iteration.
Mutation-proved: pinning per_iteration_time to an empty SmallVec fails it. The
next always-constant member now has to survive an assertion rather than just a
reviewer's attention, which is the actual lesson of #19 and #33.

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2026-08-28 08:07:41 +02:00
logaritmisk 5f46296671 chore: ignore proptest regression seed files
proptest writes tests/*.proptest-regressions when a property fails, seeding a
replay of that exact case. Useful locally; noise in the repo when the failure
came from a deliberate mutation rather than a real defect.
2026-08-27 18:06:26 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 2745fbb622 test: add property-based tests, a shared finiteness helper, and boundary inputs
Most of what remained on #26.

**Property tests (`tests/properties.rs`, proptest as a dev-dependency).** Four
invariants over generated 1v1 schedules rather than hand-written fixtures,
which is where this crate's shipped defects actually hid — a linear evidence
product that underflowed only past ~1000 teams, and a batching path no golden
exercised because every golden ingests in one call:

- converged posteriors are always finite with positive sigma
- log-evidence, batch and filtered, is finite and never above zero
- filtered evidence is invariant to whether `converge` has run
- one-at-a-time ingestion reaches the same fixed point as batched

The invariance property was mutation-proved: making `filtered_step` read
`skill.forward` instead of the carried message fails it with
`-1.1038430064192069 -> -1.1135747072822761`.

**Shared finiteness helper (`tests/common/mod.rs`).** `assert_finite` was local
to `degenerate_inputs.rs`. It now also rejects a non-positive sigma, which the
old version let through — `Gaussian::sigma` reports a non-positive precision as
improper rather than trapping, so a collapsed posterior would have passed a
finite-only check.

**Boundary inputs.** Zero and negative weights, out-of-order timestamps, and
extreme beta/sigma combinations. Worth recording that zero weight reaches
`(m - performance.exclude(..)) * (1.0 / w)` — a division by zero — and the
posterior comes out finite anyway; the test pins that rather than asserting
what ought to happen. The weight tests `expect()` the commit rather than
returning early on error, because an early return would have made them vacuous
the moment validation changed. I checked that specifically by turning the
return into a failure and confirming it did not fire.

Not done, and left on #26: benchmark regression gating. Nothing fails on a
regression today; making it fail needs a threshold chosen against how noisy the
shared runner is, which is a policy call rather than a mechanical one.

60 test binaries, up from 56. MSRV 1.85 verified with proptest in the graph.

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logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 6d2573b92e perf: make the per-slice SkillStore compact instead of dense
Closes #17. Each `TimeSlice` owned a `Vec<Skill>` indexed by the GLOBAL
`Index.0`, so a slice's footprint was O(largest index it touches) rather than
O(competitors in it). Two competitors at 19998/19999 reserved 20,000 slots per
slice; the same games between indices 0 and 1 reserved two.

The store is now a compact `Vec<Skill>` plus a `HashMap<Index, u32>` slot map
and a parallel `Vec<Index>` for iteration. The hash is paid once at ingestion:
each event's `Item` caches its slot, and the convergence loop reaches skills
through `at`/`at_mut` by slot, so no hashing enters the hot path — which is the
property the dense layout existed to provide.

Measured on the issue's own workload (200 slices, one 1v1 each, 20,000-key
roster, release, peak RSS):

    indices 0 / 1          52 MB  ->  5.55 MB
    indices 19998 / 19999  309 MB ->  8.39 MB

The 257 MB gap is now 2.8 MB, and that residual is CompetitorStore, which is
also dense over the global index but is a single store for the whole history
rather than one per slice — so it does not multiply. Left alone deliberately.

Benchmarks, against the pre-change code:

    Batch::iteration        +2.4%   (regressed)
    history_converge x3     -18.8%, -21.6%, -21.7%  (improved)

The three convergence benchmarks are the realistic workload and they gain
~20% from the better locality of a compact store. The micro-benchmark loses
2.4% because `Item` grew eight bytes for the cached slot; `agent` cannot be
dropped to compensate, since `within_prior` still needs the global index to
reach the competitor's rating. I judged 2.4% on one micro-benchmark an
acceptable price for ~20% on the real ones plus the memory fix, but it is a
regression against #17's stated "no regression" criterion, so it is called out
rather than buried.

The regression test asserts on a new test-only `allocated_slots()`, not on
`len()`. That distinction is load-bearing: the old dense store reported the
true competitor count from `len()` while allocating max_index+1 slots, so a
test written against `len()` would have passed on the defect. Mutation-proved
by re-adding the dense padding, which fails it.

One coupling is now pinned by a debug_assert: `filtered_step` clones events
whose `Item`s carry slots resolved against the REAL store, so its scratch store
must assign identical slots. It does, because `iter()` yields slot order and
`insert` allocates in call order — but that is an invariant across two types,
so it is asserted rather than left to be rediscovered.

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2026-08-27 18:01:29 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 1ac3b21db5 fix: enforce EventBuilder weight/team length in release
Part of #18. `EventBuilder::weights` guarded the length match with a
`debug_assert!`, so release builds accepted a mismatch, silently dropped the
weights, and ingested the event anyway. That is the exact shape #18 is about:
validation that exists only where it is least needed.

The setters return `Self` to keep the chain fluent, so they cannot return a
`Result`. The builder now records the first failure and `commit` returns it as
`MismatchedShape`. The weights are not applied on mismatch either, so a
partially-weighted team cannot reach the history by another route.

Two tests in tests/degenerate_inputs.rs, whose CI job runs in release — which
is the only place the old behaviour differed.

The second test needed strengthening before it was worth anything. As first
written it committed a ONE-team event, which ingestion rejects for an unrelated
reason, so it passed under a mutation that disabled the whole check. It now
uses two teams, so ingestion would otherwise succeed and the assertion is
actually load-bearing. Both tests were then mutation-proved together: disabling
the error path in `commit` fails both in release.

#18 stays open. The remaining debug_asserts live in `ranked_with_arena` and
`scored_with_arena`, and promoting those means threading `Result` up through
`Event::compute`, `TimeSlice::iteration`, `log_evidence` and `filtered_step` —
which lands on the public API as `log_evidence() -> Result<f64>` and
`filtered_learning_curve() -> Result<...>`. That is a trade-off about what the
query API should look like, not a mechanical change, so it is not mine to
decide.

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2026-08-27 17:53:37 +02:00
logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 4e043364fd perf: stop cloning inference inputs in OwnedGame and ingestion
The last two items on #23.

`OwnedGame::new` and `new_scored` cloned the whole team structure to hand one
copy to `Game` and keep another. But `Game` takes the teams by value and is
dropped at the end of the constructor, so the vec can simply be taken back out
of it — the clone existed only because nobody looked at the lifetime.

`add_events_with_prior` deep-cloned each event's composition, results and
weights when chunking events into per-timestamp groups. Nothing reads those
three after the chunking loop (the agent-collection pass and the tie pre-check
both run before it), so the elements are now moved out with `mem::take`.

That soundness argument rests entirely on `o` being a permutation: visiting an
index twice would take an already-emptied vec and silently produce an event
with no teams rather than failing. Since that would be invisible, there is now
a debug_assert checking the permutation property directly, next to the comment
explaining why the code depends on it.

Verified on 1.85.0 as well as the local toolchain — an MSRV break in this
change would otherwise only surface in CI.

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2026-08-27 17:50:39 +02:00