Circuit-level anti-checker selection rounds #
This module exposes the exact semantics and size of the fixed-candidate record circuit used by exhaustive approximate-counter minimization.
A fixed-candidate counter input is exactly the row-major encoding of that candidate prepended to the carried labeled prefix.
A fixed-candidate payload contains its input bits followed by the live truth-table label.
A fixed-candidate record emits the counter bits as its key and the labeled candidate as its payload.
Exact cost of one fixed-candidate record: the supplied counter plus the materialized counter input and labeled payload.
The recursive tournament contains exactly one record for every truth-table input.
Parallel candidate evaluation produces the exact recursive record layout expected by the minimum tournament.
Exact parallel-evaluation cost: one fixed-candidate record circuit for each truth-table input.
Exhaustive selection evaluates to the semantic minimum counter record.
Exact exhaustive-selector cost, separating parallel candidate evaluation from the sequential keyed-minimum tournament.
The first arity payload bits are the selected candidate input.
The semantic tournament winner is one of the canonical candidate records.
The winning counter key is no larger than the key of any candidate.
The winning record carries a canonical input minimizing the counter's natural extension estimate.
Circuit evaluation emits a genuine candidate record whose input globally minimizes the natural counter estimate.