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logaritmiskandClaude Opus 5 e72bf3894c refactor!: the joint is reached through Joint, not mirrored on History
`posterior_of`, `posterior_of_at` and `expected_variance_reduction`
existed twice: once on `Joint`, and once on `History` as one-shot
wrappers whose whole body was `self.joint()?.<same>(..)`.

The wrappers re-factorised on every call — their own docs said so,
warning the reader to take a `Joint` instead — and they were what
smuggled the scored-only precondition onto the flat surface. A user
following the quickstart builds a ranked history, sees `posterior_of` in
the method list, and it never works. `h.joint()?.posterior_of(..)` is
one call longer and tells the truth: you need a joint, and a joint needs
a scored history.

That leaves three tiers instead of a flat surface with a hidden
precondition: `History` fits and reads, `predict_*` forecasts, `Joint`
answers exact joint questions.

`predict_margin` was itself calling `self.posterior_of`; it goes through
`self.joint()?` directly now.

The `Joint` methods' docs referred back to the wrappers for their real
content ("Identical to `History::posterior_of`, without re-paying the
factorisation"), so they now carry it: what a linear functional means,
which appearance each competitor is read at, and why
`expected_variance_reduction` belongs on the handle.

`tests/joint_handle.rs` had three tests comparing the wrapper against
the handle. That comparison is gone, but the property behind it is not —
they now compare a *reused* joint against a *fresh* one per question,
which is the actual correctness claim behind caching the factorisation
(#51), without the wrapper in the middle.

Closes #78.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011hcFjNDmHXZF8URGLku5zZ
2026-09-10 06:40:31 +02:00

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//! `History::joint` factorises once and answers many questions.
//!
//! The contract that matters is *identity*: a `Joint` must return exactly what
//! the one-shot call returns, bit for bit. A faster path that quietly disagreed
//! with the slow one would be worse than no fast path — a caller would get
//! different numbers depending on how many questions they happened to ask.
use smallvec::smallvec;
use trueskill_tt::{
ConstantDrift, ConvergenceOptions, Event, History, InferenceError, Member, Outcome, Team,
UnknownKeys,
};
type H = History<i64, ConstantDrift, trueskill_tt::NullObserver, &'static str>;
fn duel(a: &'static str, b: &'static str, t: i64, sa: f64, sb: f64) -> Event<i64, &'static str> {
Event {
time: t,
teams: smallvec![
Team::with_members([Member::new(a)]),
Team::with_members([Member::new(b)]),
],
outcome: Outcome::scores([sa, sb]),
}
}
fn ranked(a: &'static str, b: &'static str, t: i64) -> Event<i64, &'static str> {
Event {
time: t,
teams: smallvec![
Team::with_members([Member::new(a)]),
Team::with_members([Member::new(b)]),
],
outcome: Outcome::winner(0, 2),
}
}
fn history(unknown: UnknownKeys) -> H {
History::builder()
.mu(0.0)
.sigma(6.0)
.beta(1.0)
.score_sigma(2.0)
.drift(ConstantDrift::new(0.5))
.unknown_keys(unknown)
.convergence(ConvergenceOptions {
max_iter: 20_000,
epsilon: 1e-13,
alpha: 1.0,
})
.build()
}
/// Several slices, competitors with different last appearances, so `latest`
/// and `at_slice` both have work to do.
fn fitted(unknown: UnknownKeys) -> H {
let mut h = history(unknown);
h.add_events(vec![
duel("a", "b", 1, 5.0, 2.0),
duel("c", "d", 1, 3.0, 3.5),
duel("a", "c", 2, 6.0, 1.0),
duel("b", "d", 3, 4.0, 3.0),
duel("a", "d", 4, 7.0, 2.0),
duel("b", "c", 5, 2.0, 4.0),
])
.unwrap();
let report = h.converge().unwrap();
assert!(report.converged, "fixture must converge");
h
}
const PAIRS: [(&str, &str); 6] = [
("a", "b"),
("a", "c"),
("a", "d"),
("b", "c"),
("b", "d"),
("c", "d"),
];
/// A joint reused across questions answers exactly what a fresh one per
/// question does. That is the whole correctness claim behind caching the
/// factorisation (#51); it used to be checked against the `History` one-shot
/// wrappers, which were deleted in #78, so it is checked against a fresh
/// factorisation instead — the same comparison, without the wrapper.
#[test]
fn a_reused_joint_answers_exactly_what_a_fresh_one_does() {
let h = fitted(UnknownKeys::Reject);
let joint = h.joint().unwrap();
for (a, b) in PAIRS {
let terms = [(&a, 1.0), (&b, -1.0)];
let one_shot = h.joint().unwrap().posterior_of(&terms).unwrap();
let cached = joint.posterior_of(&terms).unwrap();
assert_eq!(one_shot.mu(), cached.mu(), "{a} - {b}");
assert_eq!(one_shot.variance(), cached.variance(), "{a} - {b}");
}
}
#[test]
fn a_joint_agrees_at_a_pinned_time_too() {
let h = fitted(UnknownKeys::Reject);
let joint = h.joint().unwrap();
for time in 1..=5 {
for (a, b) in PAIRS {
let terms = [(&a, 1.0), (&b, -1.0)];
let one_shot = h.joint().unwrap().posterior_of_at(time, &terms);
let cached = joint.posterior_of_at(time, &terms);
match (one_shot, cached) {
(Ok(x), Ok(y)) => {
assert_eq!(x.mu(), y.mu(), "t={time} {a} - {b}");
assert_eq!(x.variance(), y.variance(), "t={time} {a} - {b}");
}
(Err(x), Err(y)) => assert_eq!(x, y, "t={time} {a} - {b}"),
(x, y) => panic!("t={time} {a} - {b}: disagreed on success: {x:?} vs {y:?}"),
}
}
}
}
#[test]
fn a_joint_scores_candidate_matchups_identically() {
let h = fitted(UnknownKeys::Reject);
let joint = h.joint().unwrap();
let (a, b) = ("a", "b");
let target = [(&a, 1.0), (&b, -1.0)];
for (x, y) in PAIRS {
let teams: [&[&&str]; 2] = [&[&x], &[&y]];
let one_shot = h
.joint()
.unwrap()
.expected_variance_reduction(&teams, &target)
.unwrap();
let cached = joint.expected_variance_reduction(&teams, &target).unwrap();
assert_eq!(one_shot, cached, "{x} vs {y}");
}
}
/// The whole point: a competitor appears once per slice, so the joint is over
/// appearances rather than competitors, and a caller sizing a batch needs to
/// know which.
#[test]
fn variables_counts_appearances_not_competitors() {
let h = fitted(UnknownKeys::Reject);
let joint = h.joint().unwrap();
// Four competitors, twelve appearances across five slices, all with
// positive drift between them, so no two collapse.
assert_eq!(joint.variables(), 12);
}
/// How much the collapse is worth, which is the part a caller has to plan
/// around: a drift-free competitor contributes **one** variable however long
/// the history, so the same events at `gamma = 0` and `gamma > 0` differ by
/// roughly the slice count in problem size — and by its cube in solve time.
///
/// Reported by a consumer as an 8x difference in solve time on a ~2,000-node,
/// 76-slice model (787 ms career against 6,214 ms drifting). This pins the
/// mechanism behind that so a change to the collapse rule cannot quietly
/// remove it.
#[test]
fn drift_free_competitors_shrink_the_joint_by_the_slice_count() {
fn variables(gamma: f64) -> usize {
let mut h = History::builder()
.mu(0.0)
.sigma(6.0)
.beta(1.0)
.score_sigma(2.0)
.drift(ConstantDrift::new(gamma))
.convergence(ConvergenceOptions {
max_iter: 20_000,
epsilon: 1e-13,
alpha: 1.0,
})
.build();
h.add_events(
(1..=10)
.map(|t| duel("a", "b", t, 5.0, 2.0))
.collect::<Vec<_>>(),
)
.unwrap();
let _ = h.converge().unwrap();
h.joint().unwrap().variables()
}
let drifting = variables(0.5);
let career = variables(0.0);
// Two competitors over ten slices: twenty appearances, or two variables.
assert_eq!(drifting, 20);
assert_eq!(career, 2);
assert_eq!(
drifting / career,
10,
"collapse should track the slice count"
);
}
/// With `drift = 0` consecutive appearances are the same latent variable, so
/// the joint is smaller than the appearance count.
#[test]
fn pinned_competitors_collapse_consecutive_appearances() {
let mut h = History::builder()
.mu(0.0)
.sigma(6.0)
.beta(1.0)
.score_sigma(2.0)
.drift(ConstantDrift::new(0.0))
.convergence(ConvergenceOptions {
max_iter: 20_000,
epsilon: 1e-13,
alpha: 1.0,
})
.build();
h.add_events(vec![
duel("a", "b", 1, 5.0, 2.0),
duel("a", "b", 2, 4.0, 3.0),
duel("a", "b", 3, 6.0, 1.0),
])
.unwrap();
assert!(h.converge().unwrap().converged);
assert_eq!(h.joint().unwrap().variables(), 2);
}
#[test]
fn a_ranked_history_has_no_exact_joint() {
let mut h = history(UnknownKeys::Reject);
h.add_events(vec![duel("a", "b", 1, 5.0, 2.0), ranked("a", "b", 2)])
.unwrap();
let _ = h.converge().unwrap();
assert!(matches!(
h.joint().unwrap_err(),
InferenceError::JointUnavailable { .. }
));
}
#[test]
fn an_empty_history_has_no_joint() {
let h = history(UnknownKeys::Reject);
assert!(matches!(
h.joint().unwrap_err(),
InferenceError::JointUnavailable { .. }
));
}
/// Unknown keys are decided per query, not when the joint is factorised — the
/// factorisation does not depend on the question.
#[test]
fn unknown_keys_are_rejected_per_query() {
let h = fitted(UnknownKeys::Reject);
let joint = h.joint().unwrap();
let (a, z) = ("a", "nobody");
assert!(matches!(
joint.posterior_of(&[(&a, 1.0), (&z, -1.0)]).unwrap_err(),
InferenceError::UnknownKey { .. }
));
// The handle is still usable afterwards.
let b = "b";
assert!(joint.posterior_of(&[(&a, 1.0), (&b, -1.0)]).is_ok());
}
/// Under `Prior`, an unseen competitor is independent of everything in the
/// history, and a reused joint must add the same prior variance a fresh one
/// does.
#[test]
fn unseen_competitors_match_a_fresh_factorisation() {
let h = fitted(UnknownKeys::Prior);
let joint = h.joint().unwrap();
let (a, z) = ("a", "nobody");
let terms = [(&a, 1.0), (&z, -1.0)];
let one_shot = h.joint().unwrap().posterior_of(&terms).unwrap();
let cached = joint.posterior_of(&terms).unwrap();
assert_eq!(one_shot.mu(), cached.mu());
assert_eq!(one_shot.variance(), cached.variance());
}
/// A drift too small to represent must collapse, not corrupt the matrix.
///
/// The collapse rule used to fire only at `drift <= 0.0` exactly. Anything
/// smaller-but-positive got an explicit `1.0 / drift` precision, and at
/// `drift = 1e-16` that entry is `1e16` — so `1e16 + 0.28` rounds back to
/// `1e16` and the prior and contrasts are annihilated in the stored `f64`.
///
/// Measured before the fix, at `drift_scale = 1e-10` this returned a variance
/// **12 000x too small** (a 111x overconfident interval) as `Ok`, with a band
/// just above it returning a misleading `JointUnavailable`.
#[test]
fn a_drift_too_small_to_represent_collapses_rather_than_corrupting() {
fn variance(scale: f64) -> f64 {
let mut h: History<i64, ConstantDrift, _, String> = History::builder()
.key_type::<String>()
.mu(0.0)
.sigma(6.0)
.beta(1.0)
.score_sigma(2.0)
.drift(ConstantDrift::new(0.5))
.convergence(ConvergenceOptions {
max_iter: 20_000,
epsilon: 1e-13,
alpha: 1.0,
})
.build();
let mut events = Vec::new();
for t in 0..15i64 {
for k in 0..4usize {
let x = format!("p{}", (t as usize * 4 + k) % 8);
let y = format!("p{}", (t as usize * 4 + k + 3) % 8);
events.push(Event {
time: t,
teams: smallvec![
Team::with_members([Member::new(x).with_drift_scale(scale)]),
Team::with_members([Member::new(y).with_drift_scale(scale)]),
],
outcome: Outcome::scores([3.0, 1.0]),
});
}
}
h.add_events(events).unwrap();
assert!(h.converge().unwrap().converged);
let (a, b) = ("p0".to_string(), "p1".to_string());
let joint = h
.joint()
.expect("a tiny drift must not make the joint unavailable");
let g = joint.posterior_of(&[(&a, 1.0), (&b, -1.0)]).unwrap();
g.sigma() * g.sigma()
}
let collapsed = variance(0.0);
// Below the threshold every scale must reach the collapsed answer exactly,
// and none may error.
for scale in [1e-3, 1e-4, 1e-6, 1e-8, 1e-10, 1e-12] {
let v = variance(scale);
assert_eq!(
v.to_bits(),
collapsed.to_bits(),
"drift_scale {scale:e}: {v} vs collapsed {collapsed}"
);
}
// Above it, real drift is still modelled — otherwise this test would pass
// by collapsing everything.
let drifting = variance(1e-2);
assert!(
(drifting - collapsed).abs() / collapsed > 1e-5,
"a drift of 1e-2 must still move the answer: {drifting} vs {collapsed}"
);
}