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A third review upheld six findings.

- std's f64 parse stops adding exponent digits once the exponent reaches
  0x10000, so a literal whose exponent offsets about 655,000 zeros was judged
  wrong both ways: exactly 1 refused, 10^309 accepted. The Rust reader now
  decides the range rule on the digits, as the referee does: the significant
  digits and the decimal exponent, with saturating exponent arithmetic, against
  the 309 digits of 2^1024 − 2^970. The limit is one constant, RANGE_LIMIT, and
  a test derives it in decimal from 2^1024 and 2^970 and checks it against
  std's parse where that parse is exact.
- The referee passed a zero-padded exponent of over 4300 digits to int(),
  which Python refuses; it now converts only the significant exponent digits.
- quantum-sim §8, the CHANGELOG and SPEC §5 now list both directions of the
  range change: numbers at or above the limit that earlier builds let through
  are refused, numbers below it that some builds refused are accepted. §2 says
  the rule is decided on the digits, at any length.
- The corpus README and the wasip2 job comment were stale.

The corpus holds both long literals and the padded exponent: an accept file
(exactly 1 and exactly 10, written long) and a reject file (10^309).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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quantum-conformance

Statevector-equivalence for both capabilities of the quantum-sim extension (../extensions/quantum-sim.md): given the same WQC circuit, a conforming sink MUST reconstruct the identical fixed-point statevector — hash equality, no tolerance.

Provenance. Generated here by wai_quantum_vectors from circuits authored in code. No media.

Four trees, each a pinned corpus:

tree capability what
vectors/ + expected_hashes.json wai.quantum.circuit (WQC1) bell, ghz3, qft3 and qft5, frozen as they were first written, then qft5_x22, dyadic_ladder and qft8_ones
v2/vectors/ + v2/expected_hashes.json wai.quantum.circuit2 (WQC2) the same seven circuits; each entry names its capability
reject/ + reject/reject.json both payloads a conforming reader refuses, each with the class it is refused as: malformed, contract or invalid (extension §2)
accept/ + accept/accept.json both payloads a conforming reader accepts, at the edges of the same rules, each with how it reads: capability, n_qubits, op count, circuit hash and measurement (extension §2)

An entry with no capability is a wai.quantum.circuit vector. The trees are the one reference all three surfaces are checked against, rather than being checked against each other.

Native

cargo build --release --no-default-features --features quantum --bin wai_quantum_vectors
./target/release/wai_quantum_vectors verify wai/quantum-conformance

WASI (the edge)

Same binary, same source, different architecture:

cargo build --release --target wasm32-wasip2 --no-default-features --features quantum \
  --bin wai_quantum_vectors
wasmtime run --dir wai/quantum-conformance::/corpus \
  target/wasm32-wasip2/release/wai_quantum_vectors.wasm verify /corpus

CI runs this leg as a debug build, so integer overflow panics instead of wrapping (wai-conformance.yml, job quantum-wasip2, which also runs the crate's bit_identity tests and the circuit core's unit tests under wasmtime).

Browser

node wai/quantum-conformance/browser_verify.mjs [path/to/quantum-ml/pkg] [module file]

Drives the deployed wasm-bindgen bundle in headless Chromium: the sink opens every file of both vector trees to its manifest entry, refuses every reject file with its listed class and reads every accept file as listed (the two 255-qubit accept files only to the simulate stage: the sink simulates on construction, so they are checked to be read, not compared), and the IDE builds its catalog circuits in each gateset to the matching manifest. It is run by hand, before the website deploys a bundle. Note that the IDE's statevector_hash_hex() is empty until run() is called — the circuit is built eagerly, the state is not.

Referee

python3 -I wai/quantum-conformance/tools/referee.py wai/quantum-conformance

A second implementation of the extension in Python, integers only, sharing no code with the Rust reference. It derives both phase tables (circuit/1 by its recurrence, circuit2 by an interval-certified procedure) and requires their literal values and digests, and the extension's Appendix B to state the same; rebuilds every vector file byte for byte and recomputes every manifest entry; refuses every reject file with its listed class and by the rule its name states; accepts every accept file and reads it as listed; and requires dyadic_ladder to change its statevector hash under every ±1 change of every phase-table entry, in both tables. CI runs it on Linux (wai-conformance.yml, job independent-verifiers).

Scope

The corpus pins the container, the reader's refusals, the fixed-point arithmetic and both phase tables, where hash equality is the right bar. What it covers, and where it stops:

  • Every phase-table entry. Under either table, a change of ±1 to either component of any P(1..32), with H following re P(3), changes dyadic_ladder's statevector hash; the referee checks this on every run. A change of ±1 to H alone changes the hash of every vector that applies H.
  • The four original vectors see no P(k). They run the QFT from |0…0⟩, where every controlled phase acts on zero amplitudes, so no change to a P(k) entry moves their hashes except through H, which follows re P(3); the three vectors after them are there for that.
  • One control at most. No vector applies a gate with more than one control. Such gates appear in the reject tree, and in the accept tree as circuit/1's repeated control.
  • One measurement. The shot sampler is pinned by bell's measurement alone.

The floating-point layers (quantum_source, quantum_channel) are held to exact IEEE-754 bits by unit tests instead, since they have no WQC circuit to pin — see entropy_is_bit_identical_across_architectures.