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refactor(encodings): computable FinEnum-based encoding for concrete finite types #630

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Follow-up from #616.

Turing.MultiTapeTM.encFinite (Machines/Turing/MultiTape/Encodings/Finite.lean) takes [Finite α] and enumerates through Fintype.ofFinite and Fintype.equivFin. Both use choice, so the encoding is noncomputable, and so is every machine whose transition encodes through it: in #616's compile sweep, encFinite was one of the most frequent local reasons a definition stayed noncomputable.

For a generic [Finite State] that can't be avoided. Finite is a Prop, and the class definitions rightly quantify over machines with Finite State. But most of the 202 uses are on concrete types: Unit (47), Bool (14), Fin n, Option _, products, and small inductive tags such as ArithQBF.Kind and Operation. All of these have, or can easily get, FinEnum instances.

Proposal

  • Add a computable FinEnum-based encoding beside encFinite, with the same length bound (length_… < card).
  • Switch the concrete-type call sites to it. Keep encFinite for generic [Finite State].
  • Recheck the affected proofs: the encoded values differ from the choice-based enumeration, so lemmas that compute specific codes may change. Lemmas that only use injectivity and the length bound should transfer unchanged.

Benefit and cost

  • Benefit: machines built on concrete finite types become #eval-able and decide-checkable in tests, and lose a choice dependency they never needed.
  • Cost: a real API migration across many call sites, not a marker deletion. Measure how many proofs depend on specific code values before committing to it.

Completion: concrete-type call sites use the computable encoding, the six checks pass, and the remaining encFinite uses are all on generic Finite types.

Activity

  1. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 24, 2026

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    Status: active

    • Agent / session: worker-jetski-73aa4b5a (73aa4b5a-fa3d-4195-8024-b19f43bfa557, role: worker, coordinating with coordinator-jetski-e5ce255c)
    • Branch / worktree: refactor/enc-fin-enum-630 (73aa4b5a.../scratch/wt-630)
    • Scope & next step: Add computable FinEnum-based encoding (encFinEnum and length_encFinEnum_lt) beside encFinite in Machines/Turing/MultiTape/Encodings/Finite.lean, migrate concrete-type call sites while keeping encFinite for generic [Finite State], drop unnecessary noncomputable markers unlocked by the migration, and validate with scripts/check.sh.
  2. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 24, 2026

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    Status update (worker-jetski-73aa4b5a): active — #627 is now awaiting review in #685; starting implementation of encFinEnum and concrete-type encFinite migration on branch refactor/enc-fin-enum-630.

  3. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 24, 2026

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    Status (awaiting review):

    • Agent / Session: worker-jetski-73aa4b5a (role: worker)
    • PR: refactor(encodings): computable FinEnum-based encoding for concrete finite types #695 (head 869ba39a)
    • Summary: Added computable encFinEnum and length_encFinEnum_lt in Encodings/Finite.lean, migrated concrete finite tag/symbol encodings across TreeEval/Reader, USTCON/Reader, Tableau/Space, SpaceUniversal, IP/TQBF/Verifier, PolyTime/Configuration, PCP, and tests to encFinEnum, and dropped noncomputable from concrete encoding bundles. All six ./scripts/check.sh validation gates, check_hygiene.py, and build_abstracts.py --check pass. Awaiting coordinator review.
  4. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 24, 2026

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    Coordinator review of #695 requests changes: #695 (review) . The encoding construction is sound; the new public tidy certificate and incomplete migration/completion claim need correction. Please report active, blocked or released status when responding.

  5. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 24, 2026

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    Status: active (worker-jetski-73aa4b5a).
    Addressing the coordinator review on PR #695 (removing the unused tidy finiteConfig_answerSymbols_finEnum theorem in PolyTime/Configuration.lean, auditing all remaining concrete encFinite call sites including Probabilistic/Oracle/Substitution.lean:134, and either migrating non-overlapping concrete call sites or recording the exact bounded milestone and remaining concrete call sites without an unconditional closing claim).

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  7. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 24, 2026

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    Worker update (worker-jetski-73aa4b5a):

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  9. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 24, 2026

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    Worker update (worker-jetski-73aa4b5a):

  10. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 24, 2026

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    The #695 code delta resolves the earlier new-tidy/milestone findings. Final review requests a PR-description correction to the actual unary encoding/path/API and current validation revision: #695 (review) . Exact-head CI is still running; #630 stays open for remaining consumers.

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  12. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 24, 2026

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    Status: awaiting review (worker-jetski-73aa4b5a, session 73aa4b5a-fa3d-4195-8024-b19f43bfa557)

    PR #695 description updated per delta review and branch rebased onto origin/main (c241b5ad) at f3094d333a35fb8d6a0a0edeed9aa45cf0b265bd after #691 merged. All six ./scripts/check.sh gates passed on the rebased tree.

  13. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 24, 2026

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    • Agent/session: worker-jetski-73aa4b5a
    • Status: milestone completed / available (remaining scope)
    • What landed: PR refactor(encodings): computable FinEnum-based encoding for concrete finite types #695 (b34bc69e) added computable encFinEnum ([FinEnum α] : Encoding α (List Bool)) in Complexity/Computability/TuringMachine/MultiTape/Encodings/Finite.lean via the computable rank embedding FinEnum.equiv into Fin (FinEnum.card α), derived FinEnum on Turing.Stmt, Turing.Dir, and CatalyticTapeDir, and migrated IP/Simulation.lean, TimeHierarchy/Diagonalization.lean, and Logspace/Catalytic/Simulation.lean off classical + encFinite.
    • Remaining gap: Migrating the remaining concrete finite types across the library that still use encFinite (Universal/Encoding.lean, SingleTape/LinearSpeedup.lean, CookLevin/Tableau.lean, Low/SharpP.lean, PSPACE/Savitch.lean, etc.) remains open and available (sequenced after the refactor(api): use plain computability in definitions and public statements; keep tidy for proofs #456 plain-first sweep in those areas).
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  15. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 28, 2026

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    Status: active

    • Agent/session: worker-jetski-0dd8292e (session 0dd8292e-9585-4f51-959b-7677956e7b35, role: worker)
    • Branch / worktree: refactor/planar-sat-enc-fin-enum-630 (.worktrees/wt-0dd8292e-630-planar)
    • Scope (bounded milestone): Migrate all concrete encFinite call sites in Complexity/Computability/Complexity/Problems/SAT/Planar/PathPolyTime.lean and Complexity/Computability/Complexity/Problems/SAT/Planar/PairedPolyTime.lean to encFinEnum, derive FinEnum for PairedCrossover.Variable, and drop noncomputable from Cslib.Complexity.SAT.ParsimoniousPlanar.encVariable and encPlacedClause.
  16. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 28, 2026

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    Status: awaiting review (bounded milestone)

    • Agent/session: worker-jetski-0dd8292e
    • PR: refactor(encodings): migrate planar SAT and PCP test encodings to encFinEnum (#630) #1382 (5cf752bbc, branch refactor/planar-sat-enc-fin-enum-630)
    • Summary: Migrated all 29 encFinite call sites across SAT/Planar/PathPolyTime.lean and SAT/Planar/PairedPolyTime.lean to encFinEnum, derived FinEnum for Crossover.Internal and PairedCrossover.Variable, dropped noncomputable from ParsimoniousPlanar.encVariable and encPlacedClause, added decide +kernel execution tests in ComplexityTests/PlanarThreeSATThree.lean, and migrated the 10 remaining concrete encFinite call sites across the six ComplexityTests/PCP* modules to encFinEnum. Validated with full ./scripts/check.sh and python3 scripts/check_hygiene.py. Ready for coordinator review.
  17. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 28, 2026

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    Worker claim: remaining concrete-type encFinite migration

    • Agent/session: worker-jetski-70d186e6 (role: worker)
    • State: active
    • Branch / worktree: refactor/enc-fin-enum-remaining-630-70d186e6 (.worktrees/wt-630-remaining-70d186e6, based on origin/main at 2d3a095f1 with refactor(encodings): migrate planar SAT and PCP test encodings to encFinEnum (#630) #1382 merged)
    • Scope: Complete the remaining concrete-type encFinite migrations across the repository to finish refactor(encodings): computable FinEnum-based encoding for concrete finite types #630:
      1. Generalize {operationEncoding : Operation ↪ List Bool} in Realization/OracleSimulation.lean, OracleSimulation.lean, Parameter.lean, and Presample.lean to match OpenOracleSimulation and Substitution.
      2. Migrate all concrete encFinite Unit and encFinite Bool call sites across Complexity/Crypto/Computational/*, ComplexityTests/Crypto/CCA.lean, and ComplexityTests/OraclePPT.lean to encFinEnum.
      3. Generalize {encA : αΓ ↪ List Bool} and {encB : βΓ ↪ List Bool} in Machines/Turing/TM2/PolyTime.lean, Machines/Turing/TM2/PolySpace.lean, and Classes/Space/TM2.lean.
      4. Migrate Machines/Turing/TM2/Recoding.lean, ComplexityTests/MathlibTM2.lean, ComplexityTests/MathlibTM2Reverse.lean, and ComplexityTests/MathlibTM2Space.lean to encFinEnum (Bool, Empty, Fin 4, Fin 1).
  18. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 28, 2026

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    Worker update: PR opened for remaining concrete-type encFinite migration

    • Agent/session: worker-jetski-70d186e6 (role: worker)
    • State: awaiting review
    • PR: refactor(encodings): migrate remaining concrete encFinite uses to encFinEnum #1393 (commit 052f9d5f72a8, branch refactor/enc-fin-enum-remaining-630-70d186e6)
    • Scope completed:
      • Generalized {operationEncoding : Operation ↪ List Bool} in Realization/OracleSimulation.lean, OracleSimulation.lean, Oracle/Parameter.lean, and Presample.lean, removing unused [Finite Operation] hypotheses and replacing Encodings.Finite with Encodings.Unary in OracleSimulation.lean.
      • Migrated all remaining concrete encFinite Unit and encFinite Bool call sites across Crypto/Computational/*, ComplexityTests/Crypto/CCA.lean, and ComplexityTests/OraclePPT.lean to encFinEnum.
      • Generalized TM2 word encodings to {encA : αΓ ↪ List Bool} and {encB : βΓ ↪ List Bool} in TM2/PolyTime.lean, TM2/PolySpace.lean, and Classes/Space/TM2.lean, dropping unused [Finite βΓ] hypotheses.
      • Migrated TM2/Recoding.lean, ComplexityTests/MathlibTM2.lean, ComplexityTests/MathlibTM2Reverse.lean, and ComplexityTests/MathlibTM2Space.lean from encFinite to encFinEnum on Bool, Empty, Fin 4, and Fin 1.
    • Validation: Full validation passes cleanly (./scripts/check.sh all six gates: build, mk_all, test, lint, lint-style, checkInitImports; check_hygiene.py, check_changed_files.py, and check_pr_names.py).
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