feat: multipliers, apex branch, instrumentation, scaling and robustness families - #48
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…ss families Wave 3 of the resolution order in #43: the five issues Wave 2 unblocked. Closes #13 -- `active_set/multipliers.py`. The map from the direction subproblem's `nu_k` to the problem's `y`, `nu` and `w`, derived rather than guessed. Two blocks match term for term; the conic block does not, because the cone's row is not a row of `G`, and comparing it against the convention gives `w_block = -nu_cone * (1, -u)` at a tangent factor and `w_block = -nu_block` at an apex one. The consequence is worth more than the map. Dual feasibility for the cone is one condition, `w in Q`, and applying it to those two expressions produces exactly the two tests §8.1 distinguishes: at a tangent factor `(1, -u)` is on the boundary of `Q`, so `w in Q` collapses to the *scalar* `nu_cone <= 0`; at an apex factor it does not collapse at all and stays a cone membership. So `dual_cone_violation` does not branch on status -- the branch is in what `w` *is*. Both golden instances of #9 come back exactly, `w = (1, -1, 0)` and `w = (0.5, -0.5)`, from arithmetic that predates the module. Closes #24 -- `solver/apex.py`. §8.1's two named tools, applied where the tangent module refuses to go. The geometry claim underneath: the tangent cone of `Q` at a nonzero boundary point is a half-space -- one linear inequality, which is why eq. (3) is one row of `W_k` -- and at the apex it is `Q` itself, which is not polyhedral and no finite set of rows can express. Dually, the normal cone goes from a ray to `-Q`. That pair of facts is the whole content of "a different tangent and normal geometry". Holding the apex is not a stall: the direction still moves `x` through the null space of `L`, which is a subspace of positive dimension exactly when the covariance is singular -- the same condition that makes the apex reachable. **On eq. (7) the apex can never be released**, and that is a finding rather than a limitation. `t` appears only in the cone's head row and in the objective with coefficient `lam > 0`, so with the factor dropped every row of `W_k` has a zero `t` column, `d_t = -lam/rho < 0`, and a slack direction with a negative head is never in `Q`. Swept over `lam` and `rho` to be sure. An unjustified apex therefore always comes back *blocked*, which is the shape of Risk 1 -- so #39 now has a concrete sighting ahead of #23. Closes #15 -- `solver/instrumentation.py`. Every quantity §11 and §12.3 name, checked field by field against both lists, plus §14's Levels 1 and 2 as opt-in per-iterate assertions. Two design points: "iterations saved by warm starts" is a difference between two solves, so it is a function of two `Metrics` rather than a counter no single solve could fill in; and the direction solve is routed through the recorder, so #12's one-call-one-factorization guarantee and the counter cannot drift -- that number is the baseline #27's whole result is measured against. Closes #33 -- six adversarial families in `experiments/portfolio.py`, each shipping the `diagnose` measurement that shows it is adversarial. Wave 2's box-cap incident is why: a family that quietly stops being pathological tests nothing, so each asserts its own number. `degenerate_optimum` is degenerate by arithmetic -- a cap of exactly `1/n` with a budget of one admits a single point, every bound active, the budget row their sum -- and `many_active_bounds` is deliberately the same size without the dependency, because an active-set method can be correct on one and fail on the other. **#33 immediately found a defect in #12.** `SingularKktError` never fired: LAPACK raises only on an exactly zero pivot, and a genuinely dependent working set gives `1e-18`, returns cleanly, and hands back garbage with a small residual. #12's documented refusal to guess was, in practice, a silent wrong answer on the very family designed to trigger it. Fixed with an explicit rank test on `W`, which is both more direct and cheaper than testing the assembled matrix. Two tests that had been passing through the undetected dependent solve now use rank-deficient instances, and the reason is recorded: a pinned *full-rank* apex block already determines the whole direction, so it is only usable where the apex is reachable -- the same condition. Closes #28 -- `linear_algebra/scaling.py`. Ruiz equilibration with the constraint the cone imposes: one scale per *block*, never per row, because scaling `t` and `Lx` differently changes which points satisfy `||y|| <= t`. Two consequences fall out -- `u` is scale-invariant, so the working set cannot move, and `w in Q` survives unscaling. **This issue's "done when" rests on a false premise, measured.** It expects conditioning to improve on the ill-conditioned-covariance instances. It does not: `cond(Sigma) = 1e10` and the assembled KKT matrix's condition number is about 10, because the tangent representation puts `L` into the system as a single row and one row has no spectrum. Every column maximum of the stacked constraint matrix is exactly 1, so the equilibration correctly returns the identity. That is a result -- §17 asks for "how their geometry differs fundamentally from polyhedral active-set methods", and insensitivity of the KKT system to covariance conditioning is such a difference. Where scaling does pay is unit mismatch, which on re-reading is what §13.3's five targets are about. `badly_scaled` -- weights in basis points, risk in millions, an ordinary modelling slip -- goes from a KKT condition number of `2e14` to about 10. And pre-scaling makes the *reference* solver's answer slightly worse, since Clarabel equilibrates internally; that is recorded too, so #34 does not expect otherwise. 761 tests, 100% coverage of `src/cosa`, every rhiza gate green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds multiplier recovery, apex handling, solver instrumentation, robustness experiment families, KKT rank detection, conic scaling, public exports, documentation, and comprehensive tests. ChangesSolver tooling and robustness
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Some accepted robustness inputs can produce an invalid witness, while several new diagnostics and apex statuses can report incorrect results. These issues should be corrected before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)Apex direction decisionsequenceDiagram
participant ApexDirection
participant KktDirection
participant Multipliers
ApexDirection->>KktDirection: solve with cone factor held at APEX
KktDirection->>Multipliers: recover held multipliers
Multipliers->>ApexDirection: return dual cone violation
ApexDirection->>KktDirection: release factor and solve when normal-cone condition fails
Scaling and KKT conditioningsequenceDiagram
participant Equilibrate
participant ScaledSOCP
participant KktCondition
Equilibrate->>ScaledSOCP: apply variable, row, cone, and objective scales
ScaledSOCP->>KktCondition: assemble scaled KKT matrix
KktCondition->>KktCondition: compute 2-norm condition number
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In `@src/cosa/active_set/multipliers.py`:
- Around line 224-226: Update from_direction validation to also compare
working_set.num_equalities and require direction.layout to equal
RowLayout.for_working_set(working_set) before calling direction.layout.split.
Preserve the existing ProblemError path and message style for mismatched
working-set instances.
In `@src/cosa/experiments/portfolio.py`:
- Line 1133: Update PortfolioInstance to store the portfolio-coordinate mapping
and apply it to the weight slice from badly_scaled before passing it to
MeanStdPortfolio.std for the risk calculation. Ensure solved and witness points
are converted from scaled problem coordinates to fraction weights, including the
weight_unit=1e-4 case.
- Around line 743-744: Update the gap validation near ProblemError so accepted
values do not make the equal-weight witness infeasible: reject any gap greater
than BOX_WIDTH - 1.0 while preserving acceptance of nonnegative values within
that bound.
In `@src/cosa/solver/apex.py`:
- Around line 131-143: Store the dual tolerance on ApexDirection when it is
created, then update ApexDirection.is_blocked to classify violations as blocked
only when they exceed that stored tolerance, matching the decision logic in
apex_direction and keeping __str__ consistent.
In `@src/cosa/solver/instrumentation.py`:
- Around line 239-250: In the tracing setup around the context manager’s yield,
reset tracemalloc’s peak after ensuring tracing is active and before yield self.
Keep the existing started_tracing logic and final peak capture intact, so
_peak_memory reflects only the current solve interval.
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| if working_set.num_inequalities != problem.num_inequalities or working_set.cone != problem.cone: | ||
| raise ProblemError("shape", "the working set and the problem describe different instances") | ||
| active, equality, cones = direction.layout.split(direction.multipliers) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Validate the complete working-set layout before splitting multipliers.
from_direction checks only working_set.num_inequalities and working_set.cone. A public Direction can carry an independently constructed RowLayout with different equality rows or active rows. from_direction then returns incorrectly shaped or incorrectly assigned multipliers, and SOCP.stationarity_residual rejects the equality block only later. Check working_set.num_equalities and require direction.layout == RowLayout.for_working_set(working_set) before splitting.
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In `@src/cosa/active_set/multipliers.py` around lines 224 - 226, Update
from_direction validation to also compare working_set.num_equalities and require
direction.layout to equal RowLayout.for_working_set(working_set) before calling
direction.layout.split. Preserve the existing ProblemError path and message
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| if gap < 0.0: | ||
| raise ProblemError("gap", f"a perturbation is non-negative, found {gap}") |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Keep the documented witness feasible for every accepted gap.
Lines 743-744 accept any nonnegative gap. At the equal-weight witness, the added row evaluates to (1 + gap) / assets, while its bound is BOX_WIDTH / assets. For gap > 0.5, the stored witness violates the returned problem.
Reject gaps above BOX_WIDTH - 1.0, or construct a feasible witness for larger gaps.
Proposed fix
- if gap < 0.0:
- raise ProblemError("gap", f"a perturbation is non-negative, found {gap}")
+ if not 0.0 <= gap <= BOX_WIDTH - 1.0:
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| if gap < 0.0: | |
| raise ProblemError("gap", f"a perturbation is non-negative, found {gap}") | |
| if not 0.0 <= gap <= BOX_WIDTH - 1.0: | |
| raise ProblemError( | |
| "gap", | |
| f"a perturbation is in [0, {BOX_WIDTH - 1.0}], found {gap}", | |
| ) |
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In `@src/cosa/experiments/portfolio.py` around lines 743 - 744, Update the gap
validation near ProblemError so accepted values do not make the equal-weight
witness infeasible: reject any gap greater than BOX_WIDTH - 1.0 while preserving
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| active_rank=int(np.linalg.matrix_rank(rows)) if rows.size else 0, | ||
| independent_rows=int(active.sum()) + problem.num_equalities, | ||
| conic_slack=float(slack[0] - np.linalg.norm(slack[1:])), | ||
| risk=instance.portfolio.std(point[: instance.num_assets]), |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Map scaled coordinates before computing risk.
badly_scaled stores points in rescaled problem coordinates. Line 1133 passes those scaled weight coordinates directly to MeanStdPortfolio.std, which expects fraction weights. With weight_unit=1e-4, the reported risk for a solved or witness point is inflated by 1e4.
Store a portfolio-coordinate mapping on PortfolioInstance, then apply it before this calculation.
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In `@src/cosa/experiments/portfolio.py` at line 1133, Update PortfolioInstance to
store the portfolio-coordinate mapping and apply it to the weight slice from
badly_scaled before passing it to MeanStdPortfolio.std for the risk calculation.
Ensure solved and witness points are converted from scaled problem coordinates
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| @property | ||
| def is_blocked(self) -> bool: | ||
| """Should the apex have been released, but the released direction was infeasible? | ||
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| The Risk 1 case. Distinguishable from the other two outcomes precisely so that it | ||
| can be reported rather than silently absorbed. | ||
| """ | ||
| return not self.released and self.violation > 0.0 | ||
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| def __str__(self) -> str: | ||
| """The outcome and its reason, for a log line or a failure message.""" | ||
| outcome = "released" if self.released else ("blocked" if self.is_blocked else "held") | ||
| return f"apex {outcome}: {self.reason}" |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
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Use the same tolerance for the apex decision and its status.
apex_direction holds the apex when violation <= dual_tolerance, but ApexDirection.is_blocked treats any positive violation as blocked. A violation in the interval (0, dual_tolerance] can therefore produce conflicting outcomes. Store dual_tolerance in ApexDirection and use it in is_blocked.
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In `@src/cosa/solver/apex.py` around lines 131 - 143, Store the dual tolerance on
ApexDirection when it is created, then update ApexDirection.is_blocked to
classify violations as blocked only when they exceed that stored tolerance,
matching the decision logic in apex_direction and keeping __str__ consistent.
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| started_tracing = self._track_memory and not tracemalloc.is_tracing() | ||
| if started_tracing: | ||
| tracemalloc.start() | ||
| start = time.perf_counter() | ||
| try: | ||
| yield self | ||
| finally: | ||
| self._runtime += time.perf_counter() - start | ||
| if self._track_memory: | ||
| self._peak_memory = tracemalloc.get_traced_memory()[1] | ||
| if started_tracing: | ||
| tracemalloc.stop() |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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The tracemalloc.reset_peak function was added in Python 3.9 [1][2][3]. While the tracemalloc module itself was added in Python 3.4, the reset_peak function was introduced later to allow users to reset the recorded peak memory size to the current size without affecting other traces [1][4]. This enhancement was tracked under issue bpo-40630 and merged into the Python 3.9 branch [5][4][6].
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- 1: https://docs.python.org/3/library/tracemalloc.html
- 2: https://docs.python.org/3.9/library/tracemalloc.html
- 3: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Doc/library/tracemalloc.rst
- 4: https://bugs.python.org/issue40630
- 5: GitHub pull request 20545 in python/cpython (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 6: GitHub pull request 20102 in python/cpython (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
Reset tracemalloc's peak before measuring the solve
When self._track_memory is true, get_traced_memory()[1] includes the peak recorded before this block. Reset it after tracing is active and before yield.
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In `@src/cosa/solver/instrumentation.py` around lines 239 - 250, In the tracing
setup around the context manager’s yield, reset tracemalloc’s peak after
ensuring tracing is active and before yield self. Keep the existing
started_tracing logic and final peak capture intact, so _peak_memory reflects
only the current solve interval.
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