Pruning a coherent sweep #
Deleting transitions, rather than arbitrary inputs, preserves the rectangular structure needed for weighted peeling. A nested reveal order is essential here: a splice inherits each transition from one of its two parents. The resulting error is the weight of inputs using a deleted transition, which can be bounded by a union bound on transition tails.
A splice in a nested coherent sweep inherits each entire transition from a parent.
Delete any collection of transitions. Accepted inputs are exactly the surviving paths.
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Lost probability or weight is at most the sum of the individual transition tails.
Approximate pruning bound. Retained transitions pay the frontier cost; discarded inputs pay their actual absolute weight. No independence assumption is required.
Unequal error budgets on the two prediction classes are added before normalization.
Pruned prediction bound. D b counts the retained transitions for output b,
and lost b counts the discarded inputs. Their contribution to agreement has the factor
1/(2 |domain|), so discarding probability mass δ costs at most δ/2.