🐛 Preserve mapped feed-forward control

[simon1hofmann]

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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.

Defer structured control while earlier wire operations still need routing, but
let it pass terminal sinks and output-only measurements. One measurement
classification follows consecutive measurements, all classical SSA uses, and
the sorter's whole-register effect order to identify later quantum work. Its
worklist uses indexed traversal because new entries can be appended during
inspection.

Keep main's memory-effect-aware sorter unchanged. Mapping regressions cover
crossed control, terminal-wire progress, consecutive measurements, multiple
result users, and register effects. Sorter regressions cover repeated stores and
whole-register writes followed by indexed loads. No public API, new dependency,
changelog entry, or migration change is needed for this unreleased v4 correction.

Validation

• Updated against main 4c5e45855, preserving its target-environment API and
  shared quantum-allocation verification.
• 96 mapping, 192 QCO utility, and 180 compiler tests passed in a fresh release
  build with AppleClang 21, LLVM/MLIR 23.1.0, and ENABLE_IPO=ON.
• Six focused routing regressions passed 25 consecutive repetitions each.
• uvx nox -s lint and uvx nox -s cpp-lint passed. C++ lint checked every line
  of all three changed C++ files with clang-tidy 23 and reported zero findings.
• Python and Benchpress integration tests were not rerun for this update.
  Hosted CI for the updated head is pending.

Previously recorded integration validation

At 8e7ad2934, a fresh wheel passed 306 Qiskit translation tests, two one-qubit
synthesis regressions, and all 68 Benchpress integration tests. The following
Benchpress results were recorded at that revision and were not rerun for this
update.

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. Hosted CI for this update remains pending.

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[MatthiasReumann]

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.

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📝 Summary

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• 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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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
dependencies through store.getReg() even when bit has additional valid SSA
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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.