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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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011hcFjNDmHXZF8URGLku5zZ
2026-09-07 23:41:03 +02:00

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//! `Member::with_prior` / `with_drift_scale` — competitor configuration.
//!
//! Both were previously consumed only on the branch that *creates* a
//! competitor, so configuration supplied for a key the history already knew was
//! dropped with no error. `with_prior` had no coverage in this directory at
//! all, which is how that survived.
use smallvec::smallvec;
use trueskill_tt::{
ConvergenceOptions, Event, Gaussian, History, InferenceError, Member, Outcome, Team,
};
const CONVERGENCE: ConvergenceOptions = ConvergenceOptions {
max_iter: 2_000,
epsilon: 1e-12,
alpha: 1.0,
};
fn history() -> History {
History::builder()
.mu(25.0)
.sigma(25.0 / 3.0)
.beta(25.0 / 6.0)
.p_draw(0.0)
.convergence(CONVERGENCE)
.build()
}
/// One event, optionally configuring `a`.
fn bout(
a: &'static str,
b: &'static str,
time: i64,
prior: Option<Gaussian>,
scale: Option<f64>,
) -> Event<i64, &'static str> {
let mut member = Member::new(a);
if let Some(p) = prior {
member = member.with_prior(p);
}
if let Some(s) = scale {
member = member.with_drift_scale(s);
}
Event {
time,
teams: smallvec![
Team::with_members([member]),
Team::with_members([Member::new(b)]),
],
outcome: Outcome::winner(0, 2),
}
}
fn skill_of(h: &History, key: &str) -> Gaussian {
h.current_skill(&key).expect("key in history")
}
/// Baseline: the mechanism works at all on a competitor's first appearance.
#[test]
fn a_prior_applies_to_a_new_competitor() {
let seeded = Gaussian::from_ms(40.0, 1.0);
let mut with = history();
with.add_events(vec![bout("a", "b", 0, Some(seeded), None)])
.unwrap();
let _ = with.converge().unwrap();
let mut without = history();
without
.add_events(vec![bout("a", "b", 0, None, None)])
.unwrap();
let _ = without.converge().unwrap();
assert!(
(skill_of(&with, "a").mu() - skill_of(&without, "a").mu()).abs() > 1.0,
"a seeded prior should move the fit"
);
}
/// The defect in #10: a prior supplied for a competitor the history already
/// knows was silently discarded, and the caller got output computed from the
/// default prior with no indication anything had been dropped.
#[test]
fn a_prior_applies_to_a_competitor_the_history_already_knows() {
let seeded = Gaussian::from_ms(40.0, 1.0);
let mut late = history();
late.add_events(vec![bout("a", "b", 0, None, None)])
.unwrap();
// "a" now exists. Configuring it here used to do nothing whatsoever.
late.add_events(vec![bout("a", "b", 1, Some(seeded), None)])
.unwrap();
let _ = late.converge().unwrap();
let mut never = history();
never
.add_events(vec![
bout("a", "b", 0, None, None),
bout("a", "b", 1, None, None),
])
.unwrap();
let _ = never.converge().unwrap();
assert!(
(skill_of(&late, "a").mu() - skill_of(&never, "a").mu()).abs() > 1.0,
"a late prior must not be silently dropped: {} vs {}",
skill_of(&late, "a").mu(),
skill_of(&never, "a").mu()
);
}
/// Configuration is competitor-scoped, not event-scoped, and `converge` refits
/// from competitor state — so seeding late reaches the same fit as seeding from
/// the start. This is the documented scope, asserted rather than assumed.
#[test]
fn a_prior_is_whole_history_scoped_not_per_event() {
let seeded = Gaussian::from_ms(40.0, 1.0);
let mut late = history();
late.add_events(vec![bout("a", "b", 0, None, None)])
.unwrap();
late.add_events(vec![bout("a", "b", 1, Some(seeded), None)])
.unwrap();
let _ = late.converge().unwrap();
let mut early = history();
early
.add_events(vec![
bout("a", "b", 0, Some(seeded), None),
bout("a", "b", 1, Some(seeded), None),
])
.unwrap();
let _ = early.converge().unwrap();
let (l, e) = (skill_of(&late, "a"), skill_of(&early, "a"));
assert!(
(l.mu() - e.mu()).abs() < 1e-9 && (l.sigma() - e.sigma()).abs() < 1e-9,
"late seeding should refit the whole history: {l:?} vs {e:?}"
);
}
#[test]
fn repeating_the_same_prior_is_inert() {
let seeded = Gaussian::from_ms(40.0, 1.0);
let mut once = history();
once.add_events(vec![
bout("a", "b", 0, Some(seeded), None),
bout("a", "b", 1, None, None),
])
.unwrap();
let _ = once.converge().unwrap();
let mut every_time = history();
every_time
.add_events(vec![
bout("a", "b", 0, Some(seeded), None),
bout("a", "b", 1, Some(seeded), None),
])
.unwrap();
let _ = every_time.converge().unwrap();
let (o, e) = (skill_of(&once, "a"), skill_of(&every_time, "a"));
assert!(
(o.mu() - e.mu()).abs() < 1e-12 && (o.sigma() - e.sigma()).abs() < 1e-12,
"declaring the same prior repeatedly changed the fit: {o:?} vs {e:?}"
);
}
/// Events within a batch have no order, so two different values for one
/// competitor have no well-defined winner. Rejecting is what keeps the answer
/// independent of iteration order.
#[test]
fn a_batch_declaring_two_different_priors_is_rejected() {
let mut h = history();
let err = h
.add_events(vec![
bout("a", "b", 0, Some(Gaussian::from_ms(40.0, 1.0)), None),
bout("a", "b", 1, Some(Gaussian::from_ms(10.0, 1.0)), None),
])
.expect_err("two different priors for one competitor in one batch");
assert!(
matches!(
err,
InferenceError::ConflictingCompetitorConfig { field: "prior", .. }
),
"got {err:?}"
);
}
/// A member setting only `drift_scale` must not also assert the default prior,
/// or it would silently undo a prior seeded earlier. This is why the collected
/// configuration tracks each field separately rather than a merged `Rating`.
#[test]
fn setting_one_field_late_leaves_the_other_alone() {
let seeded = Gaussian::from_ms(40.0, 1.0);
let mut h = history();
h.add_events(vec![bout("a", "b", 0, Some(seeded), None)])
.unwrap();
// Only the scale this time — the prior above must survive.
h.add_events(vec![bout("a", "b", 1, None, Some(0.5))])
.unwrap();
let _ = h.converge().unwrap();
let mut both_upfront = history();
both_upfront
.add_events(vec![
bout("a", "b", 0, Some(seeded), Some(0.5)),
bout("a", "b", 1, None, None),
])
.unwrap();
let _ = both_upfront.converge().unwrap();
let (a, b) = (skill_of(&h, "a"), skill_of(&both_upfront, "a"));
assert!(
(a.mu() - b.mu()).abs() < 1e-9 && (a.sigma() - b.sigma()).abs() < 1e-9,
"setting drift_scale late clobbered the earlier prior: {a:?} vs {b:?}"
);
}