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Frequency lower tail sum: Largest values are selected for a lower-tail request. · case 01

The reduction disagrees with its explicit aggregation oracle.

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ROOT CAUSE

Largest values are selected for a lower-tail request.

VERIFIED REPAIR

Preserve the frequency lower tail sum contract at the identified reduction decision.

Unsuccessful approach: Magnitude ordering moves negative values away from the lower tail.

Case contract

Rows [integer value, nonnegative frequency] expand to a multiset. Sum its smallest min(k,total frequency) observations for nonnegative integer k; zero/empty tail sums to zero.

Why this case matters

Exact bounded examples isolate a reduction defect without floating-point or external-service effects.

1 / The failure

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
from fractions import Fraction
from collections import Counter, defaultdict
import math
import itertools
N = 1
observations = []
def solve(rows, k):
    remaining=k
    out=0
    for x,w in sorted(rows,reverse=True):
        take=min(remaining,w)
        out+=x*take
        remaining-=take
    return out
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('regression 1', solve(*([(2, 1), (2, 1), (9, 3)], 3)), 13)
check('regression 2', solve(*([(8, 2), (1, 3), (4, 2)], 4)), 7)
check('regression 3', solve(*([(2, 3)], 0)), 0)
check('regression 4', solve(*([], 3)), 0)
check('regression 5', solve(*([(9, 0), (2, 1)], 8)), 2)
check('regression 6', solve(*([(-5, 2), (3, 4)], 3)), -7)
check('regression 7', solve(*([(2, 1), (2, 2), (9, 1)], 2)), 4)
check('regression 8', solve(*([(1, 8), (7, 2)], 9)), 15)
check("variable tail mass",solve([(N,3),(N+5,2)],4),4*N+5)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
regression 12713Failed
regression 2247Failed
regression 300Passed
regression 400Passed
regression 522Passed
regression 69-7Failed
regression 7114Failed
regression 82115Failed
variable tail mass149Failed

SHA-256 / f76cceaac6b51da368119c73a167348970cfb22b994026297091f446192b9d73

2 / The unsuccessful fix

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
from fractions import Fraction
from collections import Counter, defaultdict
import math
import itertools
N = 1
observations = []
def solve(rows, k):
    remaining=k
    out=0
    for x,w in sorted(rows,key=lambda r:abs(r[0])):
        take=min(remaining,w)
        out+=x*take
        remaining-=take
    return out
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('regression 1', solve(*([(2, 1), (2, 1), (9, 3)], 3)), 13)
check('regression 2', solve(*([(8, 2), (1, 3), (4, 2)], 4)), 7)
check('regression 3', solve(*([(2, 3)], 0)), 0)
check('regression 4', solve(*([], 3)), 0)
check('regression 5', solve(*([(9, 0), (2, 1)], 8)), 2)
check('regression 6', solve(*([(-5, 2), (3, 4)], 3)), -7)
check('regression 7', solve(*([(2, 1), (2, 2), (9, 1)], 2)), 4)
check('regression 8', solve(*([(1, 8), (7, 2)], 9)), 15)
check("variable tail mass",solve([(N,3),(N+5,2)],4),4*N+5)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
regression 11313Passed
regression 277Passed
regression 300Passed
regression 400Passed
regression 522Passed
regression 69-7Failed
regression 744Passed
regression 81515Passed
variable tail mass99Passed

SHA-256 / 5840bacbdf2edcf89b390749fe6af4175c4f204a7dd53c326679a7c33fd4340f

3 / The verified repair

Exit 0
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
from fractions import Fraction
from collections import Counter, defaultdict
import math
import itertools
N = 1
observations = []
def solve(rows, k):
    remaining=k
    out=0
    for x,w in sorted(rows):
        take=min(remaining,w)
        out+=x*take
        remaining-=take
    return out
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('regression 1', solve(*([(2, 1), (2, 1), (9, 3)], 3)), 13)
check('regression 2', solve(*([(8, 2), (1, 3), (4, 2)], 4)), 7)
check('regression 3', solve(*([(2, 3)], 0)), 0)
check('regression 4', solve(*([], 3)), 0)
check('regression 5', solve(*([(9, 0), (2, 1)], 8)), 2)
check('regression 6', solve(*([(-5, 2), (3, 4)], 3)), -7)
check('regression 7', solve(*([(2, 1), (2, 2), (9, 1)], 2)), 4)
check('regression 8', solve(*([(1, 8), (7, 2)], 9)), 15)
check("variable tail mass",solve([(N,3),(N+5,2)],4),4*N+5)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
regression 11313Passed
regression 277Passed
regression 300Passed
regression 400Passed
regression 522Passed
regression 6-7-7Passed
regression 744Passed
regression 81515Passed
variable tail mass99Passed

SHA-256 / 417ea1a368ee3e5d21cca4194af0275ebd8f4420b8ab532e12385aebec4c9142

Verification & scope

Small offline integer/rational inputs only; no performance, statistical inference, or production-library conformance claim. This reproducer isolates one failure mechanism. Results cover the supplied fixtures. Variants within a family share a test contract and should remain grouped when constructing evaluation splits. Related mechanisms with a shared evaluation_group must also remain together; these controlled models are not independent production incidents.

Observations recorded using Python 3.12.14 at 2026-09-29T14:39:05.329726+00:00.

Case digest / 26ee4f4fb20e8a54befb73469d06a4b1d824230f61b952b32193f274e21145b7