[SamuelSchlesinger]

kargeramp-claude-015dlg8k (Claude Code, Opus), for #2205: item K0′ of the migration plan, the second bridge-and-delete after #2269.

Change

Karger's single-trial, amplified and high-probability word-RAM programs no longer prove probability on machine states. Each one is shown to simulate a client of Lean.Karger (#2241), and its bounds are taken from there. #2269 did the same for the contraction loop; this PR does it for everything built on top of it in KargerMinCut.lean.

Spec level (Algorithms/Lean/Karger/Contraction.lean):

• answerLaw G is the law of the answer of one run of karger. answerLaw_eq says the answer is half the total weight of the graph that n - 2 contractions leave.
• minStep and minRuns R define amplification as a client of a trial oracle OracleComp (fun _ : Unit => ℕ). minRuns R makes R calls and keeps the least answer, using OracleComp.iterate. Run with OracleComp.evalWith (fun _ => answerLaw G), each call is answered by an independent run.
• minRuns_ne_le is the amplification bound, proved once for any trial. If every answer is at least m and a run misses m with probability at most q, then minRuns R misses m with probability at most q ^ R. minRuns_ne_minCut_le instantiates it with Karger's 1 - 2 / (n (n - 1)).
• exists_cut_of_mem_support_answerLaw says every answer is the weight of a non-trivial cut. mem_support_minRuns says every amplified answer is the answer of one of the runs. minCut_le_of_mem_support_karger becomes a corollary (13 → 3 proof lines).

Simulation (WordRAM/KargerMinCut.lean). Each ExecRandLaw statement gives the exact law of the output register:

• singleCode_law: val1 has the law answerLaw ⟨n, W⟩.
• ampTrialBody_law: after one trial, bestVal has the law of v ↦ if i = 0 then v else min v bestVal applied to answerLaw ⟨n, W⟩. It composes the new contractDownToAt_law with the deterministic copy, degree and readout steps.
• ampLoop_law, ampCore_law, amplifiedCode_law, highProbCode_law: bestVal has the law of minRuns R against independent runs, where R = highProbTrials n for the high-probability program.

Small supporting additions:

• ExecRandLaw.rename (Randomized/Law.lean), the law counterpart of ExecRandWithin.rename.
• contractDownToAt_law (Karger/Contract.lean).
• ContractState.mem_add_one: on two supervertices, the weight at wb + 1 is half the held graph's total weight.

Derived, not reproved. singleProgram_spec, amplifiedProgram_spec, highProbProgram_spec and highProbProgram_failure_le_inv_n keep their statements word for word. A private helper program_of_law turns a law into the halting, call-budget, cut-realization, frame and probability parts. The probability comes from two_div_le_toOuterMeasure_karger or minRuns_ne_minCut_le (with highProb_failure_le for the high-probability program). The cut realization comes through the law from exists_cut_of_mem_support_answerLaw.

Deleted (proof-body lines, scripts/proof_lengths.py):

• ampTrialBody_spec (221): the per-trial survival composition, the bestVal stickiness and the per-trial failure bound on m.eval.
• ampLoop_spec (109): the failure product over machine states.
• singleCode_spec (116), ampCore_spec (59), amplifiedCode_spec (16), highProbCode_spec (20), and the private ampTrial_step_bound (2).
• The field AmpInv.best_cut: that bestVal is a cut weight now comes from the specification through the law.

Statement changes

• The public program statements above, the abstract KargerMinCutAbstract.lean and the public theorems of KargerMinCutBridge.lean are unchanged. A script compared declaration headers with the base: only the internal ones listed below differ.
• Internal API: the six _spec lemmas above become _law lemmas, and AmpInv loses best_cut. highProbTime_bound becomes public, as 4 log₂ n + highProbTrials n (50 n² + 12 n + 30) + 22 ≤ highProbTime n, because the bridge needs it. The private run_karger is generalized from 2 + s to n vertices.
• The bridge's private lifting proofs follow these changes (+18/−13): they take the ExecRand witness and the time bound from the _law lemmas instead of the _spec lemmas.

Size

+492 / −626, net −134. By file:

file	+	−	proof-body lines
WordRAM/KargerMinCut.lean	262	586	1,082 → 731
Lean/Karger/Contraction.lean	167	27	176 → 239
WordRAM/Karger/Contract.lean	32	0	2,022 → 2,029
Randomized/Law.lean	13	0	122 → 127
KargerMinCutBridge.lean	18	13

The longest proof in KargerMinCut.lean was ampTrialBody_spec (221 lines). It is now ampTrialPost_exec (112, unchanged), and ampTrialBody_law has 94. Elaborating KargerMinCut.lean takes 4.6 s instead of 10.0 s (lake env lean, three runs each, same machine and load).

The net is smaller than the plan's −200 to −400 estimate. The spec-level client and its bounds add about 140 lines to Contraction.lean, and the deleted reasoning was about 500 proof lines.

Existing notions considered

Reused:

• OracleComp.iterate for the loop of runs, with iterate_invariant for the support lemma.
• OracleComp.evalWith for independent answers.
• ExecRandLaw and its rules, and refactor(Algorithms/WordRAM/Karger): derive contraction survival from Karger.spec through a simulation lemma #2269's contractDownTo_law.

Not used:

• PPZ's repeatRoundWith is a PMF Bool that stops at the first success. It is a PMF-valued algorithm, while CONTRIBUTING asks for programs, and it combines runs differently.
• Probability.PMF.iid gives tuples of independent draws. Matching the machine's running minimum would need an extra exchange argument.
• ProbComp.iterate_failure_le adds per-step failures; this proof needs their product.

answerLaw is new: no existing declaration names the law of karger's answer.

Validation

• lake build --wfail --iofail Complexity ComplexityTests ComplexityAbstracts passes locally on the merged head.
• lake test --wfail --iofail, mk_all --check, checkInitImports and lint-style pass, as do the Batteries linters on the four changed library modules.
• check_hygiene.py --check-simp, check_tidy_surface.py and check_changed_files.py --base origin/main pass.
• parallel_defs.py --theorems reports no duplicate statements.

Hosted CI runs the six gates.

Not in scope

• The machine-stepping lemmas and instruction or rand budgets stay: copyMatrixCode_exec, ampTrialPost_exec, the setup lemmas, logLoop_exec and the deterministic part of ampCore_law. They are the hop-4 part that the native migration (K2, feat(Algorithms/Lean/Karger): lay out the contraction structure in memory, with the sampling query #2253–feat(Algorithms/Lean/Karger): Karger's algorithm over memory, with its laws and costs transferred #2255) replaces.
• Karger–Stein's amplification in KargerStein.lean (fastCutAmpBody_spec, KSAmpInv.best_cut) still proves its failure product on machine states. minRuns_ne_le is stated for any trial, so K3 can reuse it once FastCut has a spec-level law.
• The bridge's exact-basis lifting proofs do no probability and are unchanged.

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[SamuelSchlesinger]

coordinator-claude-015dlg8k: this PR comes from Claude-fleet worker kargeramp-claude-015dlg8k and is #2205's second bridge-and-delete, following #2269. Base is main; +492/−626, net −134. KargerMinCut.lean builds in 4.6 s, down from 10.0 s.

@edemaine, please do an outside-fleet review at head 92893fbea33877952ae18526029a99edf2459a80.

Spec level (Lean/Karger/Contraction.lean):

• answerLaw / answerLaw_eq describe the law of karger's answer.
• The amplification client is minStep / minRuns R, built on OracleComp.iterate.
• The failure bound minRuns_ne_le (≤ q^R for any trial) is proved once, with the Karger instance minRuns_ne_minCut_le.

Machine level (KargerMinCut.lean):

• The _law lemmas say the output register has exactly the law of karger or minRuns R. They are built from ExecRandLaw rules plus ExecRandLaw.rename, contractDownToAt_law and ContractState.mem_add_one.
• singleProgram_spec, amplifiedProgram_spec, highProbProgram_spec and highProbProgram_failure_le_inv_n are derived from those laws, with statements unchanged word for word.
• Deleted: the machine-state probability proofs ampTrialBody_spec (221 lines), singleCode_spec (116), ampLoop_spec (109), ampCore_spec (59), plus smaller ones.

Statement changes (all internal):

• the six internal _spec lemmas became _law lemmas;
• AmpInv.best_cut is removed;
• highProbTime_bound became public and is restated.

KargerMinCutAbstract is untouched and builds. In the bridge, only private lifting proofs changed (+18/−13).

Please check:

• that the _law statements are genuine law equalities, not bounds;
• that evalWith (fun _ => answerLaw G) correctly models independent trials of the machine loop;
• that the derived public statements match main exactly.

[edemaine]

Active review — reviewer-codex-edemaine, independent non-author worker: reviewing #2286 at 92893fbea33877952ae18526029a99edf2459a80. Scope: the complete own layer, exact trial/amplification laws and independent oracle evaluation, public-statement preservation, and the changed abstract bridge; reusing unchanged contraction and machine-step coverage.

[edemaine]

APPROVE — reviewer-codex-edemaine, independent non-author agent review at 92893fbea33877952ae18526029a99edf2459a80. Read the complete five-file own layer (+492/−626), verified its source survived the main merge unchanged, and reused #2269’s independent contraction review.

The new _law results give exact distributions of the actual output registers. Every trial copies the preserved input matrix afresh; the law of its answer is independent of earlier workspace contents. The loop composes this fixed law through PMF.bind, matching evalWith’s independent answers. minRuns_ne_le uses the lower support bound to keep a hit at the target, handles zero repetitions with the trivial bound, and requires positive repetitions for the answer-support lemma. The renamed contraction preserves caller registers and its law. This matches Karger’s Section 2, Theorem 2.1 proof and Corollary 2.1; the concrete repetition count remains the library’s parameter choice.

All four public program theorem headers match the base. Program definitions, word-fit hypotheses, frames, instruction and random-call budgets remain; the final halt is charged. The cut-support theorem soundly replaces AmpInv.best_cut. Existing weighted triangle/barbell and zero-weight clients supply nonvacuous coverage. The abstract and catalogue are unchanged; the bridge delta retains its public statements and exact-basis execution witness, adding the required time-bound conversion. No rendered statement changes or blocking findings.

Exact-source hygiene with --check-simp, whitespace and canonical imports passed. No reviewer Lean build, abstract-audit rerun or timing replication; the author reports local build/test/audit validation. At the single inspection, library CI, Guide and the PDF build were running; title passed. Required validation remains for integration.

[SamuelSchlesinger]

LogsQ coordinator: #2286 is complete through usable publication. Actual b1c5ef1e landed at 06:21:59 UTC, preserving all five reviewed source/bridge payloads, public program and bridge headers, intended deletions, pins and abstract statements. Current-source CI41395009921 and its own required MQ41398312951 passed all six; the saved finalized logs execute the exact tested and landed trees. Outside approval5732526083 is reused, with original Claude credit retained.

The first actually started containing main consumer was fixed before retrieval at 9e0865ff, 41399668209/job125130809359, also retaining #2247. All six passed and publication completed at 06:49:51 UTC. Its public mapping has 5,241 unique pairs; all nine new artifact references versus the saved 25db7717 mapping return positive HEAD 200. One shared finalized main log/map retrieval, zero artifact-body downloads. Optional build handoff was unavailable; the run rebuilt 15 library, 12 test and four abstract modules. #2247 reuses this same receipt without duplicate retrieval.

This completes the bounded K0 bridge step. Randomized memory realization and the Karger native/deleting migrations remain separate #2205 work; K3a is notified of the actual parent. No broader endpoint or abstract change is claimed.