"""Independent NumPy checks for the WIRE theory claims. The script intentionally has no paper-code dependency. It implements the rotation in Eq. (2), computes Laplacian eigenfeatures, and checks the permutation/gauge, grid, and effective-resistance statements numerically. """ from __future__ import annotations import json from pathlib import Path import numpy as np ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] RESULTS = ROOT / "results" def laplacian(n: int, edges: list[tuple[int, int]]) -> np.ndarray: a = np.zeros((n, n), dtype=float) for i, j in edges: a[i, j] = a[j, i] = 1.0 return np.diag(a.sum(axis=1)) - a def wire_rotate(z: np.ndarray, features: np.ndarray, frequencies: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray: """Apply block-diagonal RoPE to rows of z using graph features.""" n, d = z.shape assert d % 2 == 0 angles = features @ frequencies.T out = z.copy() for block in range(d // 2): c = np.cos(angles[:, block]) s = np.sin(angles[:, block]) x, y = z[:, 2 * block], z[:, 2 * block + 1] out[:, 2 * block] = c * x - s * y out[:, 2 * block + 1] = s * x + c * y return out def spectral_features(l: np.ndarray, m: int, resistance_weighted: bool = False) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray]: eigenvalues, eigenvectors = np.linalg.eigh(l) if resistance_weighted: features = eigenvectors[:, 1:m] / np.sqrt(eigenvalues[1:m]) else: features = eigenvectors[:, :m] return features, eigenvalues, eigenvectors def effective_resistance(l: np.ndarray, i: int, j: int) -> float: vals, vecs = np.linalg.eigh(l) pinv = (vecs[:, 1:] / vals[1:]) @ vecs[:, 1:].T return float(pinv[i, i] + pinv[j, j] - 2 * pinv[i, j]) def check_claim_1(rng: np.random.Generator) -> dict[str, float]: n, d, m = 12, 8, 4 edges = [(i, j) for i in range(n) for j in range(i + 1, n) if rng.random() < 0.22] # Ensure a connected-ish graph for stable spectral features. edges += [(i, i + 1) for i in range(n - 1)] features, _, _ = spectral_features(laplacian(n, edges), m) frequencies = rng.normal(0, 0.7, size=(d // 2, m)) z = rng.normal(size=(n, d)) rotated = wire_rotate(z, features, frequencies) angles = features @ frequencies.T block_norm_error = 0.0 for b in range(d // 2): c, s = np.cos(angles[0, b]), np.sin(angles[0, b]) rot = np.array([[c, -s], [s, c]]) block_norm_error = max(block_norm_error, abs(np.linalg.det(rot) - 1.0), np.linalg.norm(rot.T @ rot - np.eye(2))) return { "nodes": float(n), "spectral_feature_dim": float(m), "angle_std": float(angles.std()), "rotation_orthogonality_error": float(block_norm_error), "output_finite": float(np.isfinite(rotated).all()), } def check_claim_2(rng: np.random.Generator) -> dict[str, float]: n, d, m = 14, 8, 4 edges = [(i, i + 1) for i in range(n - 1)] + [(0, 5), (3, 9), (7, 12), (1, 10)] l = laplacian(n, edges) features, _, u = spectral_features(l, m) perm = rng.permutation(n) lp = l[np.ix_(perm, perm)] fp, _, up = spectral_features(lp, m) expected = u[perm, :m] signs = np.sign(np.sum(fp * expected, axis=0)) signs[signs == 0] = 1 aligned_feature_error = float(np.max(np.abs(fp * signs - expected))) z = rng.normal(size=(n, d)) omega = rng.normal(0, 0.4, size=(d // 2, m)) # A sign change is absorbed by the corresponding frequency reparameterisation. omega_perm = omega * signs[None, :] out = wire_rotate(z, features, omega) out_perm = wire_rotate(z[perm], fp, omega_perm) equivariance_error = float(np.max(np.abs(out[perm] - out_perm))) # A 4-cycle has a repeated Laplacian eigenvalue (the 2-eigenspace). cycle_edges = [(0, 1), (1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 0)] lc = laplacian(4, cycle_edges) _, vals_c, uc = spectral_features(lc, 4) p2 = np.array([1, 2, 3, 0]) _, _, up2 = spectral_features(lc[np.ix_(p2, p2)], 4) # Compare subspaces, not individual basis vectors, in the repeated block. a, b = uc[p2, 1:3], up2[:, 1:3] principal_cosines = np.linalg.svd(a.T @ b, compute_uv=False) return { "permutation_feature_max_error_after_sign_alignment": aligned_feature_error, "permutation_wire_max_error_after_frequency_gauge": equivariance_error, "cycle_degenerate_eigenvalue_pair": float(vals_c[1]), "cycle_degenerate_subspace_min_cosine": float(principal_cosines.min()), } def check_claim_3() -> dict[str, float]: n = 25 i = np.arange(n, dtype=float) l = laplacian(n, [(k, k + 1) for k in range(n - 1)]) _, vals, u = spectral_features(l, 2) # Theorem 2 uses u_1[i] = -cos((i+1/2) pi / N). raw_formula = -np.cos((i + 0.5) * np.pi / n) formula_scale = np.linalg.norm(raw_formula) formula = raw_formula / formula_scale eig_sign = np.sign(np.dot(u[:, 1], formula)) or 1.0 u1 = eig_sign * u[:, 1] formula_error = float(np.max(np.abs(u1 - formula))) recovered_position = np.arccos(-(u1 * formula_scale)) * n / np.pi - 0.5 position_error = float(np.max(np.abs(recovered_position - i))) monotone = float(np.all(np.diff(u1) > 0)) return { "path_second_eigenvalue": float(vals[1]), "theorem_2_eigenvector_formula_max_error": formula_error, "bijective_coordinate_recovery_max_error": position_error, "coordinate_monotonicity": monotone, } def check_claim_4(rng: np.random.Generator) -> dict[str, float]: n, d = 10, 12 edges = [(i, i + 1) for i in range(n - 1)] + [(0, 3), (2, 7), (4, 8), (1, 6)] l = laplacian(n, edges) features, vals, vecs = spectral_features(l, n, resistance_weighted=True) i, j = 1, 8 resistance = effective_resistance(l, i, j) std = 0.08 q = np.ones(d) k = np.ones(d) qk = float(q @ k) draws = 4096 scores = np.empty(draws) delta = features[i] - features[j] for t in range(draws): omega = rng.normal(0, std, size=(d // 2, n - 1)) angles = omega @ delta scores[t] = 2 * np.sum(np.cos(angles)) exact_gaussian = qk * np.exp(-std**2 * resistance / 2) first_order = qk * (1 - std**2 * resistance / 2) return { "effective_resistance": resistance, "spectral_resistance_identity_error": abs(resistance - float(delta @ delta)), "mc_mean_score": float(scores.mean()), "gaussian_expectation": float(exact_gaussian), "first_order_prediction": float(first_order), "mc_abs_error_to_first_order": float(abs(scores.mean() - first_order)), "mc_standard_error": float(scores.std(ddof=1) / np.sqrt(draws)), "omega_std": std, "nonzero_eigenvalues": float(np.count_nonzero(vals[1:] > 1e-10)), } def main() -> None: rng = np.random.default_rng(18382) results = { "paper": { "title": "Rotary Position Encodings for Graphs", "arxiv": "https://huggingface.co/papers/2509.22259", "openreview": "https://openreview.net/forum?id=trn64znfNx", "reference_code": "https://anonymous.4open.science/r/WIRE_Graphs-4584/", }, "claim_1": check_claim_1(rng), "claim_2": check_claim_2(rng), "claim_3": check_claim_3(), "claim_4": check_claim_4(rng), } RESULTS.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) (RESULTS / "core_results.json").write_text(json.dumps(results, indent=2) + "\n") print(json.dumps(results, indent=2)) if __name__ == "__main__": main()