✨ Extend the QCO DD classical interpreter

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Summary

Extends the QCO DD interpreter on top of #2077 while preserving its sampling, ownership, and error-handling contracts.

• Add concrete QCO and standard SCF interpretation, including scf.while, region-carried values, and non-recursive calls.
• Add the C++-only DDArgumentBindings API for exact-typed scalar entry arguments and dynamic QTensor extents.
• Support wider integers, index values, f64 arithmetic, and static and dynamic one-dimensional scalar memrefs; loads from uninitialized cells fail.
• Support runtime qubit/QTensor allocation and QTensor transport through operations, regions, loops, and calls using shared storage without per-transfer slot copies.
• Preserve higher wires in wider supplied states when runtime allocations append new wires, and reject out-of-range qubit layouts before narrowing.
• Build matrix DD functionality through supported deterministic control flow, prelaying entry-block qubit allocations while rejecting nested qubit and QTensor allocations.
• Keep sampling conservative: only terminal entry-block measurements stored directly into returned output-only CBit registers are deferred; callees, nested regions, QTensor uses, resets, and unknown uses execute per shot.

This is layer 3 of the QCO DD functionality stack, following #1915, #1973, and #2077.

Scope

The containing module must already be verified and pass QCO linearity checks. Functions and supported SCF regions must have single-block bodies, recursive calls are rejected, and loop iterations, executed branches, and calls share one 10,000-step execution budget.

Validation

• Signed rebase onto main at 62cf1554c with Simon's authorship preserved.
• Focused QCO DD tests: 67/67 C++ and 7/7 compiler-to-sampler Python cases passed.
• Complete release build and CTest: 4,126 cases completed without failures (one expected skip).
• Full Python test matrix passed on Python 3.11-3.14: 795 passed / 4 skipped on 3.11-3.13 and 806 passed / 3 skipped on 3.14.
• Repository lint and C++ lint passed with zero clang-format or clang-tidy findings; git diff --check passed.
• Codecov C++ patch coverage is 90.4% against the 90.0% target.
• Compared with 7b3a199f, insertions shrank from 2,073 to 2,024 overall, 1,223 to 1,177 in production, and 850 to 847 in tests.

GPT-5.6 via Codex materially assisted with implementation, testing, review, and stack restructuring under maintainer direction. Maintainer review remains required.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Expanded quantum circuit simulation and sampling support for dynamic qubit allocation, qtensors, memory references, and mid-circuit operations.
  • Added support for richer classical arithmetic, floating-point values, parameter bindings, loops, branching, and non-recursive calls.
  • Enabled runtime gate parameters and broader QCO and SCF control-flow constructs.
  • Improved handling of measurement, reset, and classical registers.

• Documentation

  • Updated the changelog with the new simulation and construction capabilities.

Walkthrough

The QCO decision diagram utilities now support bound parameters, typed classical values, one-dimensional memrefs, dynamic qubits, qtensors, expanded QCO and SCF control flow, non-recursive calls, simulation, and sampling.

Changes

QCO decision diagram execution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bindings API and capability contract mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/QCO/Utils/DDFunctionality.h, CHANGELOG.md	Adds DDBindings and updates the public documentation for bound parameters, qtensors, classical operations, control flow, simulation, and sampling.
Runtime scalar and memref execution mlir/lib/Dialect/QCO/Utils/DDFunctionality.cpp	Replaces integer-only scalar storage with typed values. Adds bound gate parameters, arithmetic and comparison operations, casts, select, shifts, and one-dimensional memref allocation, access, and validation.
QTensor and control-flow execution mlir/lib/Dialect/QCO/Utils/DDFunctionality.cpp	Adds qtensor slot tracking, dynamic qubit allocation, region result binding, QCO and SCF region execution, loop limits, and recursive-call rejection.
Simulation and sampling state preparation mlir/lib/Dialect/QCO/Utils/DDFunctionality.cpp	Shares prepared qubit and tensor state across buildFunctionality, simulate, and sample. Supports dynamic extents and preserves deferred-wire outcomes.
Execution and failure coverage mlir/unittests/Dialect/QCO/Utils/test_dd_functionality.cpp	Adds coverage for bindings, control flow, qtensors, memrefs, calls, allocation, sampling, classical operations, and expected runtime failures.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e05b6

The interpreter adds dynamic tensor inputs and broader state handling; oversized direct C++ tensor extents may consume host memory before capacity checks, and inserting into an occupied tensor slot may omit a live wire from returned results. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up for these bounded risks.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant simulate
  participant prepare
  participant WalkState
  participant DecisionDiagram
  Caller->>simulate: provide input state and DDBindings
  simulate->>prepare: prepare qubit and qtensor arguments
  prepare-->>simulate: return PreparedState
  simulate->>WalkState: execute function body
  WalkState->>DecisionDiagram: apply gates and runtime allocations
  DecisionDiagram-->>simulate: return updated state
  simulate-->>Caller: return simulated VectorDD

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Poem

A rabbit binds a value bright,
Then sends a qubit through the night.
Tensors hop and loops proceed,
Memrefs store each tiny seed,
Decision diagrams bloom with light.

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[burgholzer]

Thanks @simon1hofmann for the work on this. I pushed a couple of simplifications and briefly skimmed through the entire implementation which looks quite reasonable now.
I still have the feeling that we are slightly reinventing the wheel here to some degree as we are building our own interpreter. But this will have to do for the v4.0 milestone. Let's look into potentially improving this as part of v4.1 🙌🏼
Feel free to merge whenever you are also happy with the changes.

[simon1hofmann]

Thanks @simon1hofmann for the work on this. I pushed a couple of simplifications and briefly skimmed through the entire implementation which looks quite reasonable now.
I still have the feeling that we are slightly reinventing the wheel here to some degree as we are building our own interpreter. But this will have to do for the v4.0 milestone. Let's look into potentially improving this as part of v4.1 🙌🏼
Feel free to merge whenever you are also happy with the changes.

Thanks a lot for your work in this 🙏🏻
I pushed some more simplifications, if they make sense, please feel free to merge.

[burgholzer]

Yeah, looks all good! Tagging for auto-merge!