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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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//! Forward-only (filtering) estimates: what the model knew at the time,
//! as opposed to the smoothed posteriors `learning_curve` reports.
use smallvec::smallvec;
use trueskill_tt::{ConvergenceOptions, Event, History, Member, Outcome, Team};
/// `games` one-on-one matches at successive times, won by "a" every time,
/// built with the given convergence options.
fn repeated_winner_with(games: i64, convergence: ConvergenceOptions) -> History {
let mut history = History::builder().convergence(convergence).build();
for time in 1..=games {
history
.add_events([Event {
time,
teams: smallvec![
Team::with_members([Member::new("a")]),
Team::with_members([Member::new("b")]),
],
outcome: Outcome::winner(0, 2),
}])
.unwrap();
}
history
}
/// `games` one-on-one matches at successive times, won by "a" every time.
///
/// This is the fixture from issue #19, where `online(true)` reported
/// `games * ln(0.5)`.
fn repeated_winner(games: i64) -> History {
repeated_winner_with(games, ConvergenceOptions::default())
}
/// The default 30-iteration cap leaves a residual around 1e-6, which would
/// swamp these comparisons. Drive both sides well past the fixed point.
fn tight() -> ConvergenceOptions {
ConvergenceOptions {
max_iter: 2_000,
epsilon: 1e-12,
..ConvergenceOptions::default()
}
}
#[test]
fn filtered_evidence_sits_between_coin_flip_and_batch() {
let mut history = repeated_winner(5);
let _ = history.converge().unwrap();
let coin_flip = 5.0 * 0.5f64.ln();
let batch = history.log_evidence();
let filtered = history.filtered_log_evidence();
assert!(
filtered > coin_flip,
"filtered evidence {filtered} is at or below {coin_flip}, the all-coin-flip \
value the inert online flag reported; game one is a coin flip but games two \
through five are not"
);
assert!(
filtered < batch,
"filtered evidence {filtered} is not below the smoothed {batch}; filtering \
scores each game on strictly less information than smoothing does"
);
}
#[test]
fn filtered_first_point_is_less_certain_than_smoothed() {
let mut history = repeated_winner(12);
let _ = history.converge().unwrap();
let smoothed = history.learning_curve("a");
let filtered = history.filtered_learning_curve("a");
assert_eq!(
smoothed.len(),
filtered.len(),
"both curves must cover the same time points"
);
let (smoothed_time, first_smoothed) = smoothed[0];
let (filtered_time, first_filtered) = filtered[0];
assert_eq!(smoothed_time, filtered_time);
assert!(
first_filtered.sigma() > first_smoothed.sigma(),
"filtered sigma {} at the first point is not above smoothed {}; the smoother \
collapses uncertainty before the first round is drawn, which is the whole \
reason this method exists",
first_filtered.sigma(),
first_smoothed.sigma()
);
assert!(
first_filtered.sigma() < trueskill_tt::SIGMA,
"filtered sigma {} at the first point is not below the prior {}; one game was \
played, so some uncertainty must have been resolved",
first_filtered.sigma(),
trueskill_tt::SIGMA
);
for pair in filtered.windows(2) {
assert!(
pair[1].1.mu() > pair[0].1.mu(),
"filtered mu must climb at every step for a competitor who wins every \
game: t={} mu={} then t={} mu={}",
pair[0].0,
pair[0].1.mu(),
pair[1].0,
pair[1].1.mu()
);
}
}
#[test]
fn filtered_curves_plural_agrees_with_singular() {
let mut history = repeated_winner(4);
let _ = history.converge().unwrap();
let curves = history.filtered_learning_curves();
assert_eq!(
curves["b"],
history.filtered_learning_curve("b"),
"the plural form must agree with the singular for the same key"
);
}
#[test]
fn filtered_evidence_is_invariant_to_convergence() {
let mut history = repeated_winner_with(6, tight());
let before = history.filtered_log_evidence();
let report = history.converge().unwrap();
assert!(
report.converged,
"fixture must converge: {:?}",
report.final_step
);
let after = history.filtered_log_evidence();
assert!(
(before - after).abs() < 1e-8,
"filtered evidence moved across converge(): {before} -> {after}. The pass must \
carry its own forward messages; anything reading skill.forward shows exactly \
this drift, because converge() contaminates it with backward information."
);
}
#[test]
fn single_slice_filtered_matches_smoothed() {
let mut history = History::builder().convergence(tight()).build();
history
.add_events([
Event {
time: 1,
teams: smallvec![
Team::with_members([Member::new("a")]),
Team::with_members([Member::new("b")]),
],
outcome: Outcome::winner(0, 2),
},
Event {
time: 1,
teams: smallvec![
Team::with_members([Member::new("c")]),
Team::with_members([Member::new("d")]),
],
outcome: Outcome::winner(0, 2),
},
])
.unwrap();
let _ = history.converge().unwrap();
let smoothed = history.learning_curve("a");
let filtered = history.filtered_learning_curve("a");
assert_eq!(smoothed.len(), 1);
assert_eq!(filtered.len(), 1);
assert!(
(smoothed[0].1.mu() - filtered[0].1.mu()).abs() < 1e-8
&& (smoothed[0].1.sigma() - filtered[0].1.sigma()).abs() < 1e-8,
"one slice has no future to propagate back, so filtered and smoothed must \
agree: smoothed mu={} sigma={}, filtered mu={} sigma={}",
smoothed[0].1.mu(),
smoothed[0].1.sigma(),
filtered[0].1.mu(),
filtered[0].1.sigma()
);
}
#[test]
fn filtered_curves_do_not_depend_on_ingestion_order() {
let events = |time: i64, winner: &'static str, loser: &'static str| Event {
time,
teams: smallvec![
Team::with_members([Member::new(winner)]),
Team::with_members([Member::new(loser)]),
],
outcome: Outcome::winner(0, 2),
};
let all = vec![
events(1, "a", "b"),
events(1, "c", "d"),
events(1, "a", "c"),
events(1, "b", "d"),
events(2, "a", "d"),
events(2, "b", "c"),
events(2, "a", "b"),
];
let mut batched = History::builder().convergence(tight()).build();
batched.add_events(all.clone()).unwrap();
let _ = batched.converge().unwrap();
let mut incremental = History::builder().convergence(tight()).build();
for event in all {
incremental.add_events([event]).unwrap();
}
let _ = incremental.converge().unwrap();
let from_batched = batched.filtered_learning_curve("a");
let from_incremental = incremental.filtered_learning_curve("a");
assert_eq!(from_batched.len(), from_incremental.len());
for ((time_b, gaussian_b), (time_i, gaussian_i)) in
from_batched.iter().zip(from_incremental.iter())
{
assert_eq!(time_b, time_i);
assert!(
(gaussian_b.mu() - gaussian_i.mu()).abs() < 1e-8
&& (gaussian_b.sigma() - gaussian_i.sigma()).abs() < 1e-8,
"at t={time_b}: batched mu={} sigma={}, incremental mu={} sigma={}",
gaussian_b.mu(),
gaussian_b.sigma(),
gaussian_i.mu(),
gaussian_i.sigma()
);
}
}