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Description

Prevent routing from creating a cyclic SSA dependency through later classical
control. An independent wire can advance past a conditional whose measurement
depends on an unresolved two-qubit gate. Borrowing the conditional's output for
a SWAP can then make the unresolved gate depend on itself.

Updated from main 3f801880a, including #2436 and #2439. The remaining production
change is limited to SWAP endpoints that crossed structured control beyond the
earliest unresolved routing frontier. Keep main's memory-effect-aware sorter
unchanged and remove the mapper's measurement/store adjacency workaround.

Retain the crossed-control mapping regression and move the distinct repeated-store
and whole-register/indexed-load regressions to the sorter tests. No public API,
new dependency, changelog entry, or migration change is needed for this unreleased
v4 correction.

Validation

  • The isolated routing regression aborts on main with cyclic operation dependencies;
    with this fix it passes 25 consecutive repetitions.
  • 96 mapping, 185 QCO utility, and 167 compiler tests passed.
  • A fresh wheel passed 306 Qiskit translation tests, two one-qubit synthesis
    regressions, and all 68 Benchpress integration tests.
  • uvx nox -s lint and uvx nox -s cpp-lint -- upstream/main passed. C++ lint
    checked every line of all three changed C++ files, with zero findings.
  • Runtime validation used 8e7ad2934; the follow-up commit changes only the
    validation record, not code.

Remaining Benchpress gaps

Six of the 31 guarded feed-forward profiles pass the existing integration checks;
25 stop at the strict textual event-order guard. That guard can reject valid
reordering and these failures alone do not prove changed semantics. The old
three-qubit deterministic counterexample now preserves 11 before and after
compilation.

Direct Core diagnostics on all 25 rejected profiles produce valid mapped IR and
preserve their 3,416 conditional counts and comparison/read-epoch multisets.
These structural checks are not equivalence proofs. All 25 then fail native
Qiskit export when a delayed store crosses another measurement or control/modifier
operations.

BV100 still fails native export when measurements are grouped before their
stores. A minimal valid measure; measure; store; store program reproduces this
exporter restriction. #2439 supports intervening quantum operations, not another
measurement. Keep the integration guards and export fallback pending separate
fixes; this PR does not claim to enable the full guarded matrix or pass the full
Benchpress corpus.

Codex assisted with the merge, scope reduction, regressions, validation, and this
description. CI and human-review confirmations remain unchecked.

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Keep routing SWAPs before crossed structured feed-forward, preserve direct
measurement destinations, and retain concrete register-effect order during
topological repair.

Assisted-by: GPT-5.6 Sol via Codex

Signed-off-by: Simon Hofmann <simon.t.hofmann@tum.de>
Keep main’s sorter and delayed-measurement exporter. Retain only the crossed-control routing fix and distinct semantic regressions.

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if (indices.size() == 1) {
return true;
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This is the most trivial fix. The problem is that the SCF op (the IfOp in the added unit-test) depends on the classical outcome of the measurement indirectly via a side-effect chain (thus it is not actually executable).

In the future we should include classical dependencies in the "advancement" logic. I am currently not sure how to best model this.

Comment on lines +1239 to +1263
// Verify side-effect dependencies: Does an operation exist
// which reads this value after write? If so, this is an
// adaptive-profile program.

if (bit.hasOneUse()) {
if (auto store =
dyn_cast<cbit::StoreOp>(*bit.user_begin())) {
return any_of(
store.getReg().getUsers(), [&](Operation* op) {
if (op == store ||
op->getBlock() != store->getBlock() ||
!store->isBeforeInBlock(op)) {
return false;
}
return TypeSwitch<Operation*, bool>(op)
.Case<cbit::LoadOp, cbit::StoreOp>(
[&](auto ls) {
return ls.getIndex() == store.getIndex();
})
.template Case<cbit::ReadOp, cbit::WriteOp>(
[](auto) { return true; })
.Default([](Operation*) { return false; });
});
}
}

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Another example why a linearly-typed cbit dialect would be nice. If we modeled classical registers this way, the getForwardSlice call below could handle all of the above as well!

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved circuit mapping for programs that route qubits before applying later measurement-controlled operations.
    • Preserved correct ordering for repeated classical register writes and indexed reads.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for routed circuits with conditional operations.
    • Added regression tests validating classical operation ordering.

Walkthrough

The mapping pass now detects later classical register access after measurement and preserves ordering around routed SWAPs. New tests cover conditional mapping on a star topology and register dependency repair during topological sorting.

Changes

Mapped classical control

Layer / File(s) Summary
Adaptive mapping ordering
.agent/plans/preserve-mapped-classical-control.md, mlir/lib/Dialect/QCO/Transforms/Mapping/Mapping.cpp
The mapping pass checks later same-register CBit operations after measurement and updates wire advancement behavior.
Mapping regression coverage
mlir/unittests/Dialect/QCO/Transforms/Mapping/test_mapping.cpp
A star-topology test verifies SWAP placement before conditional control, module validity, target executability, and controlled-gate count.
Topological sorting regressions
mlir/unittests/Dialect/QCO/Utils/test_sorting.cpp
Tests verify ordering for repeated register stores and indexed register writes during dependency repair.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 74c6f

Programs that reuse a measurement result while also storing it for later classical control can still be routed in an invalid order, potentially producing non-executable adaptive circuits. This case should be handled and covered before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MappingPass
  participant CBitStore
  participant QCOIf
  MappingPass->>CBitStore: inspect later same-register accesses
  CBitStore-->>MappingPass: return register dependency ordering
  MappingPass->>QCOIf: preserve SWAPs before conditional control
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Classical trails now keep their line
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In `@mlir/lib/Dialect/QCO/Transforms/Mapping/Mapping.cpp`:
- Line 1243: Update the mapping logic around the bit user check to iterate over
all users of bit, inspecting each cbit::StoreOp rather than guarding the
dependency check with bit.hasOneUse(). Preserve detection of register
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// which reads this value after write? If so, this is an
// adaptive-profile program.

if (bit.hasOneUse()) {

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Handle all cbit::StoreOp users of bit.

bit.hasOneUse() skips the register-dependency check when a measurement result has another valid SSA user. cbit::LoadOp reads through store.getReg(), so getForwardSlice(bit, &slice) cannot detect this dependency. The mapper can miss the adaptive dependency and emit an invalid routing order.

Iterate over bit.getUsers() and inspect every cbit::StoreOp. Add a direct GoogleTest with a second SSA use. Require mapping success, successful verify, and target executability.

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In `@mlir/lib/Dialect/QCO/Transforms/Mapping/Mapping.cpp` at line 1243, Update the
mapping logic around the bit user check to iterate over all users of bit,
inspecting each cbit::StoreOp rather than guarding the dependency check with
bit.hasOneUse(). Preserve detection of register dependencies through
store.getReg() even when bit has additional valid SSA users, and add a focused
GoogleTest covering a second SSA use that requires mapping success, verification
success, and executable target output.

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Two reproduced regressions in the current implementation, detailed inline. The existing 96 mapping and 187 QCO utility tests pass; the focused comparisons against main expose the failures.

Comment on lines 1277 to 1280
.template Case<IfOp, IndexSwitchOp, scf::ForOp, scf::WhileOp>(
[&](auto&) {
if (indices.size() == 1) {
return true;
}
if (visited.insert(op).second) {
composites.emplace_back(op, indices);

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[P1] Prevent terminal wires from blocking routing progress

Removing the one-wire fast path can cause an infinite loop. A terminal measurement or sink on q0 blocks an independent one-qubit conditional on q1; lookahead still sees a later CX(q1,q2), but routing repeatedly returns an empty SWAP sequence without advancing. Ensure composite deferral cannot leave routing without progress.

Reproduced with an explicit three-site triangle, ntrials=1, seed=42: measure q0, sink q0, apply X to q1 inside qco.if true, then CX(q1,q2) and final sinks. The variant with only the early sink also hangs. Both inputs verify and finish on main ec799daa0; both exceed a 10-second timeout on 74c6f7435.

Comment on lines +1254 to +1259
.Case<cbit::LoadOp, cbit::StoreOp>(
[&](auto ls) {
return ls.getIndex() == store.getIndex();
})
.template Case<cbit::ReadOp, cbit::WriteOp>(
[](auto) { return true; })

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[P2] Do not treat register overwrites as feed-forward

A later StoreOp or WriteOp does not necessarily consume the measured value. Counting an overwrite as adaptive lets routing place SWAPs after otherwise terminal measurements. Require an actual dependency on subsequent quantum work.

Reproduced on a three-site line with ntrials=1, seed=0: CX(q0,q1), CX(q0,q2), measure/store q0, CX(q1,q2), then measure/store q1 into the same register element, using the same SSA index and returning the register. Main keeps the measurements terminal and the mapped output exports as Base QIR. This PR inserts a SWAP consuming the first measurement's output qubit, and export fails with QIR Base Profile forbids using a qubit after measurement.

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