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Description

Legalize structured control flow against the selected program capability model using MLIR normalization, bounded static-loop unrolling and dialect conversion.

Compiler-only workstream: main → #2219#2162. This PR no longer depends on the QDMI runtime or adapter stack. It targets Core 4.0, subject to Simon's compiler contract review and current CI. The compiler-only scope is tracked in #2131; it does not depend on QDMI 1.4 or its unresolved metadata contract. #2365 coordinates the separate Core 4.1/QDMI 1.4 adaptation.

Retain the existing prototype's safety limits, explicit linear quantum state and fail-closed unsupported control flow. Mechanical adaptations preserve current placement/decomposition and the canonical pipeline. The current LLVM handles the full-width loop range correctly; the regression checks that the loop and exact trip count survive.

Simon Hofmann's human co-authorship and the existing review history are preserved.

Local validation

  • Independent release build and CTest: 3,889 passed, one existing optional-device skip.
  • MLIR documentation and repository lint passed.
  • Full changed-file C++ lint passed on the final revision.
  • No new Python API is introduced beyond the separately validated ♻️ Define target compilation with payload specifications #2219 foundation.
  • Hosted CI remains a separate final-head gate.

AI-assisted restructuring; human design review remains required.

Outstanding hosted validation

The current macOS upstream-Qiskit job fails against Qiskit 2.6.0.dev0 (095d4bd26cee0bfc0bd362deb8b272c111c63ee2): deferred instruction export reports a one-qubit argument for a zero-qubit instruction. This is not the pinned local test configuration and needs separate triage; no claim of green hosted CI is made. The cancelled earlier aggregate CI check has a replacement run queued.

Compiler acceptance

Preserve control flow supported by the selected target, lower or unroll unsupported forms when feasible within the established safety limits, and reject remaining unsupported programs clearly. Validate representative benchmark programs and ensure the final target-conformance check still holds. No QDMI 1.4 API is required.

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@simon1hofmann simon1hofmann added this to the MLIR Support milestone Aug 19, 2026
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  • New Features

    • Added configurable compiler-target support for conditionals, loops, conditional loops, and multiway branches.
    • Added capability inspection through target properties and support checks.
    • Added constant switch simplification during compilation.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Compilation now rejects unsupported or unsafe control-flow constructs before lowering.
    • Static, unreachable branches are handled correctly.
    • Targets without declared capabilities now fail safely by default.
  • Documentation

    • Added upgrade guidance, compilation documentation, and changelog entries for classical-control support.

Walkthrough

Compiler targets now declare explicit classical-control capabilities through C++ and Python APIs. Target compilation performs fail-closed preflight validation before mutation. Constant qco.index_switch operations canonicalize to selected regions. Tests and documentation cover the new behavior.

Changes

Classical-control compilation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Capability API and storage
mlir/include/mlir/Compiler/Target.h, mlir/lib/Compiler/Target.cpp, bindings/mlir/register_mlir.cpp, bindings/patterns.txt, python/mqt/core/mlir.pyi, mlir/unittests/Compiler/test_compiler_target.cpp, test/python/test_mlir.py
CompilerTarget supports four classical-control capabilities. Constructors accept optional capabilities. Storage validates, sorts, and deduplicates them. C++ and Python accessors expose the canonical values.
Target-compilation preflight
mlir/lib/Compiler/TargetCompilation.cpp, mlir/unittests/Compiler/test_compiler_pipeline.cpp
A preflight pass checks required capabilities before cleanup and lowering. It rejects unsupported control flow, dynamic qubit indices, captured quantum state, and unsupported quantum tensors while following reachable static regions.
Constant index-switch canonicalization
mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/QCO/IR/QCOOps.td, mlir/lib/Dialect/QCO/IR/SCF/IndexSwitchOp.cpp, mlir/unittests/Dialect/QCO/IR/test_qco_ir.cpp
Constant qco.index_switch selectors choose a case or default region. The selected results replace the switch, and the switch is removed.
Documentation and implementation record
docs/mlir/target_compilation.md, UPGRADING.md, CHANGELOG.md, .agent/plans/classical-control-capabilities.md
Documentation describes capability declarations, fail-closed defaults, validation rules, and migration examples. The changelog and implementation plan record the change and validation details.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7201a

The PR adds target classical-control capability checks, but the current head still fails a required lint check and can report a misleading category for dynamic qubit-index diagnostics. These issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant CompilerTarget
  participant TargetCompilationPipeline
  participant VerifyTargetClassicalControlPass
  participant MLIRModule
  Client->>CompilerTarget: create with classical_control
  CompilerTarget->>CompilerTarget: validate and canonicalize capabilities
  Client->>TargetCompilationPipeline: compile MLIRModule
  TargetCompilationPipeline->>VerifyTargetClassicalControlPass: run preflight
  VerifyTargetClassicalControlPass->>MLIRModule: inspect reachable control regions
  VerifyTargetClassicalControlPass->>CompilerTarget: query capability support
  VerifyTargetClassicalControlPass-->>TargetCompilationPipeline: reject with diagnostic or allow lowering
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address #2131 with documented C++ and Python capabilities, fail-closed preflight verification, diagnostics, and comprehensive tests.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The API, verifier, canonicalization, documentation, changelog, upgrade guidance, and tests directly support the classical-control capability objectives.
Title check ✅ Passed The title is concise and relates to the main change: enabling or validating control flow for selected target capabilities. The term “payloads” is less precise than the implementation terminology, but …
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In @.agent/plans/classical-control-capabilities.md:
- Around line 269-274: Update the public enum description to use the API-defined
values Iteration and MultiwayBranch instead of Loop and Switch, while retaining
Conditional and ConditionalLoop and the surrounding capability-list behavior.

In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Around line 36-38: Update the changelog entry to describe preflight as running
at the start of target compilation, before target-mutating passes such as
cleanup, mapping, and synthesis, rather than before target compilation itself.

In `@mlir/lib/Compiler/TargetCompilation.cpp`:
- Around line 225-230: Update the diagnostic in the hasDynamicQubitIndex
handling to describe the inability to lower the affected operation with a
dynamic qubit index, rather than labeling it a classical-control construct.
Preserve the operation name and the “with a dynamic qubit index” wording so the
existing diagnostic assertion continues to pass.
- Around line 91-94: Remove the redundant const qualifier from the by-value Type
parameter of isQubitTensor, and apply the same change to the lambda parameter
near the same code. Preserve the existing type checks and behavior.

In `@mlir/unittests/Compiler/test_compiler_target.cpp`:
- Around line 179-184: Add a narrowly scoped
clang-analyzer-optin.core.EnumCastOutOfRange suppression around the intentional
ClassicalControl value 255 in RejectsUnknownClassicalControlCapability,
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I checked how much #2162 actually depends on the PRs below it. The result is substantially narrower than the current ancestry suggests:

I verified this by cherry-picking #2162's sole commit directly onto #2219 with #2226 and #2227 absent. The reduced tree configured and built successfully, all 10 PayloadControl tests passed, and the complete compiler suite passed 147/147.

The cleaner restack would therefore be main → #2219#2162, while #2226#2227 can remain a separate continuation above #2219. Since #2219 is currently behind and conflicting with main, it should be rebased first; #2162 should then be rebased or cherry-picked directly onto it rather than only changing its GitHub base.

This PR would also be valuable for the Benchpress integration. It gives Benchpress a target/payload-aware path for control flow: supported branches and loops can be preserved, unsupported static constructs can be legalized, and unsupported residual control flow produces deterministic diagnostics. That avoids baking one uniform control-flow capability model into the Benchpress side of the integration.

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I pushed a couple of simplifications here. Let's maybe merge 2219 first, then get this one in shape. Moved it out of draft for now.
@simon1hofmann can you take it from here again?

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Use stock MLIR normalization, bounded static loop unrolling, and dialect conversion to match residual structured control flow to the selected payload specification.

Co-authored-by: Simon Hofmann <simon.t.hofmann@tum.de>

Assisted-by: GPT-5.6 Sol via Codex
QCO modifiers do not implement branch interfaces, so the existing fallback already accepts them.

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Preserve the capability snapshot while distinguishing Core 4.0 compiler review from the separate QDMI 1.4 adaptation.

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Use native static trip counts while retaining literal-bound proofs and full
unroll safety limits. Accept single-case switches with multiway support.
Require structured input at pipeline entry and remove CFG lifting and the
redundant cleanup after control legalization.

Assisted-by: GPT-6 via Codex
Check the supported SCF loop input form at both pass entry points, so
loop legalization can rely on explicit iteration arguments. Keep branch
checks after unrolling and leave the QCO linearity contract unchanged.

Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex
Keep payload-loop unrolling separate from residual control-flow checks
so constant propagation and QCO cleanup can run between them. Leave the
factor-based quantum-loop optimization unchanged.

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Keep the compiler snapshot identifiers beside ProgramCapability and
ProgramConstraint so producers and legalization share their spellings.
Do not depend on the draft QDMI capability API.

Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex
Exercise control-flow rejection with valid quantum inputs and remove unrelated quantum operations from classical fixtures.

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Reject signed step truncation before native unrolling mutates the loop. Preserve safe signed and unsigned narrow-integer loops, and check their observed induction values.

Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex
Check payload depth and a compiler nesting ceiling before moving case regions. Build accepted chains iteratively and retain native multiway switches. Cover expansion boundaries, moved control, state selection, and cumulative loop cloning.

Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex
Reuse the native zero/one-trip utility, apply required C++ initializer style, and replace stale local handoff notes with scoped validation. Keep the switch safety comment purely technical.

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Replace three handwritten positive fixtures with OpenQASM imports and
test a live Qiskit classical switch against selected capabilities.
Keep the focused raw-MLIR safety regressions and production contract
unchanged.

Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex
Move the #2162 reference beside #2219 and describe payload-aware
control-flow legalization in the existing target-compilation entry.

Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex
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Is this one ready for review/finalization?

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Is this one ready for review/finalization?

Yes from my side, addressed all open threads.

Reuse LLVM's state and induction-value remapping for terminator-only
loops within the existing clone budget. Zero-extend unsigned bounds
before checking whether full unrolling is safe.

Add frontend state-permutation and direct induction-value regressions,
and cover unsigned bounds above the signed range of their type.

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Let's get this in so that we are closer to a feature complete pipeline.

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