Elamur Groupantsalgorithm-exact-cover-tests
The groupant beside algorithms/src/exact_cover/tests.rs in the Mova repository: what the code computes, what it never does, how to go back from its outputs, its invariants, cost and checks.
Facts
Implementation material. A Mova code model describes this code at one source revision: partial models, finite checks and their stated scope. It is not a reviewed general exposition, and its labels are shown as written, never raised.
Components
| component | label | where |
|---|---|---|
| approximant | source derived | Forward |
| ast | partial | syntax.json |
| cost | symbolic unmeasured | Cost |
| descriptant | present | descriptant |
| invariant | source derived | Invariant |
| tests | bounded executed | evidence |
Obernants
The typed relations around the forward model: the behaviour complement (what the code never does), the reverse reconstruction (every input compatible with an output) and specialised views.
| id | type | label | where |
|---|---|---|---|
nonbehavior | behavior_complement | partial source derived | nonbehavior |
preimages | reverse_reconstruction | partial source derived | preimages |
oracle | oracle_relation | partial source derived | oracle |
mutant | counterfactual_relation | partial source derived | mutant |
coverage | coverage_relation | partial source derived | coverage |
Model text
descriptant
algorithm-exact-cover-tests
Original std-only implementation or original independent fixtures. See source citations. Prospective model was saved before implementation in $MOVA_DATA/runs/octopus-wave26-combinatorial-2026-10-30/prospective.md.
Preserve original coordinates, deterministic ties and distinct validation/resource/infeasibility outcomes. Repeated observations constrain this epoch only.
model
algorithm-exact-cover-tests
Domain
Finite fixture/assertion observations; trusted compiler and test runner; passing is not unrestricted equivalence.
Forward
All row-subset families on zero through three columns (278 cases); independent row-subset counting oracle; budget zero/one, 64-bit boundary and duplicate validation.
Invariant
Oracle is independently formulated; compare objective/feasibility plus witness invariants, not exact tie witness except named fixtures.
Cost
O(budgetcolumnsrows) time; O(rows*columns) worst-case branch stack space.
nonbehavior
Type: behavior_complement.
Accepted fixture/output pairs exclude mismatched oracle objectives, invalid witnesses and wrong tested errors. Outside-fixture behavior remains unconstrained.
preimages
Type: reverse_reconstruction.
A pass reconstructs all implementations agreeing on the finite observations, including faulty unseen extensions. A failed assertion reconstructs unequal compared values at that fixture; it does not uniquely identify a source bug.
oracle
Type: oracle_relation.
All row-subset families on zero through three columns (278 cases); independent row-subset counting oracle; budget zero/one, 64-bit boundary and duplicate validation.
mutant
Type: counterfactual_relation.
Compiled production mutant must fail the named budget_ties_and_boundaries assertion; exact restoration followed by positive rerun.
coverage
Type: coverage_relation.
Adding fixtures intersects the passing implementation set; profile repeats constrain profile-dependent bugs without proving universal correctness.
Limits
Partial syntax, no macro expansion/type resolution or full formal proof. No justified generic numerical surrogate for categorical witnesses/errors; supported 1/2/5/10% profiles remain absent, not fabricated. No timing claims. Allocation failure untested.
evidence
Evidence
2026-10-30: All row-subset families on zero through three columns (278 cases); independent row-subset counting oracle; budget zero/one, 64-bit boundary and duplicate validation.
Two debug and two release runs, compiled mutation detected by budget_ties_and_boundaries, restored positive rerun, strict all-target Clippy and twice-identical partial syntax. Logs: $MOVA_DATA/runs/octopus-wave26-combinatorial-2026-10-30. No timing measurement. Allocation failures and defensive i128 overflow unexercised.
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