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Description

  • Preflight and recursively export supported if/else, for, while, and switch regions with Boolean, Uint, and Float expressions, captures, and lexical induction parameters.
  • Import Qiskit logical AND and OR lazily as canonical single-result scf.if, matching OpenQASM short-circuit semantics; bitwise AND and OR remain eager arithmetic.
  • Export only those canonical short-circuit AND/OR result shapes. General Boolean selection, multiple scf.if results, mutable-state joins, and unsupported branch contents are rejected.
  • Keep the generic collector and writer interface frontend-neutral while preserving instruction order, CBit initialization, snapshots, parameter identity, packed registers, affine loop parameters, and nested bit mappings.
  • Construct Qiskit 2.5 public control-flow objects only in the version adapter, after native circuits and every child block have been validated and finalized.
  • Export cleanup-forwarded measurement SSA results as their validated destination Clbit values, so measurement-driven conditions survive cleanup without weakening the same-block and adjacent-store rules.
  • Reject dynamic bounds, loop-carried or unsupported SSA state, stale or ambiguous classical writes, excessive expressions or nesting, and unsupported gates before exposing a partial destination circuit.

Qiskit 2.5 exposes inspection APIs but no corresponding C API constructors. Public Python construction is therefore confined to Qiskit2_5.cpp, while the generic translation model remains free of Python objects. No public C++ or Python API is added.

The thread-safe Qiskit C API initialization fix was merged via #2223 and is part of main. Target capabilities, target mapping, and wide-register OpenQASM compatibility remain outside this review. The narrowed #2177 behavior is folded into this PR; operation reordering remains in #2240.

Closes #2071.

Stack

  1. ✨ Support symbolic Qiskit parameters #2150 — symbolic scalar parameters (merged)
  2. ✨ Import captured Qiskit classical expressions #2175 — captured classical expressions (merged)
  3. ✨ Export structured control flow to Qiskit #2176 — structured-control and forwarded measurement-result export (this PR)
  4. ✨ Preserve Qiskit parameter-vector provenance #2178 — parameter-vector provenance; must be restacked separately after this history rewrite

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  • Release build: passed.
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  • test/python/test_mlir_qiskit_translation.py: 219 passed.
  • uvx nox -s stubs: passed with no generated tracked changes.
  • MLIR documentation and complete Sphinx documentation builds: passed.
  • git diff --check and uvx nox -s lint: passed.

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  • New Features

    • Added Qiskit 2.5 export and import support for structured if, for, while, and switch control flow.
    • Preserved nested branches, loop behavior, classical conditions, captured values, and instruction ordering.
    • Added support for supported Boolean, integer, and floating-point classical expressions.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved validation and clear rejection of unsupported results, undefined classical bits, invalid measurements, and oversized expressions.
  • Documentation

    • Updated export support and validation guidance.
  • Tests

    • Expanded round-trip coverage for control flow, expressions, loops, switches, and edge cases.

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Qiskit export now supports recursive if, for, while, and switch control flow with classical expressions, CBit tracking, shared parameters, deferred construction, validation, documentation, and round-trip tests.

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Structured Qiskit export

Layer / File(s) Summary
Recursive export contract
bindings/mlir/qiskit/QiskitExport.cpp, bindings/mlir/qiskit/QiskitTranslation.h
Export records preserve nested circuits, control-flow metadata, parameters, phases, and validation limits.
Recursive preflight and collection
bindings/mlir/qiskit/QiskitExport.cpp
The exporter validates expressions, CBit initialization, snapshots, loops, switches, returns, resources, and nested operations before emission.
Deferred Qiskit construction
bindings/mlir/qiskit/Qiskit2_5.cpp
The Qiskit 2.5 writer builds classical objects, shares symbols, rebases nested circuits, and replaces placeholders with control-flow operations.
Validation coverage and documented behavior
test/python/test_mlir_qiskit_translation.py, docs/mlir/python_compiler_collection.md, CHANGELOG.md, .agent/plans/qiskit-structured-control-export.md
Tests cover round trips and rejection paths. Documentation and the changelog describe supported constructs and validation stages. The plan records implementation decisions and outcomes.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1ce31

The PR adds structured control-flow export for Qiskit, while multi-block while regions are still rejected only indirectly and updated documentation rendering remains unverified; the change is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up for these bounded risks.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MLIRExporter
  participant NativeCircuitWriter
  participant PythonClassicalBuilder
  participant QiskitControlFlow
  MLIRExporter->>NativeCircuitWriter: emit recursive control-flow blocks
  NativeCircuitWriter->>PythonClassicalBuilder: build typed targets and expressions
  PythonClassicalBuilder->>QiskitControlFlow: provide conditions and loop values
  NativeCircuitWriter->>QiskitControlFlow: replace placeholders with operations
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A rabbit hops through branches bright,
Packs CBits neat for Qiskit’s flight.
Loops keep names and symbols true,
While switch-case paths unfold anew.
Tests thump softly: export’s right!

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❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The implementation meets the export goals but adds public Python-object construction, contrary to #2071’s explicit no-fallback requirement. Remove the Python-object fallback, or update #2071’s accepted implementation direction before merging.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 33.94% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 109 functions across 4 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The code, documentation, changelog, and tests are focused on structured control-flow export and its stated validation requirements.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: exporting structured control flow to Qiskit.
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In @.agent/plans/qiskit-structured-control-export.md:
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In `@bindings/mlir/qiskit/Qiskit2_5.cpp`:
- Around line 2205-2248: Update addControlFlow to validate the number of blocks
required by the control-flow kind before allocating a placeholder or invoking
constructControlFlowOperation; reject empty blocks for IfElse, While, and For,
and reject Switch plans where pending.switchCases.size() exceeds blocks.size(),
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In `@bindings/mlir/qiskit/QiskitExport.cpp`:
- Around line 1873-1884: Update collectWhile to validate that both
loop.getBefore() and loop.getAfter() each contain exactly one block with
llvm::hasSingleElement before calling front(). Reject invalid multi-block
regions through the existing error path, then preserve the current single-block
condition and yield checks.

In `@test/python/test_mlir_qiskit_translation.py`:
- Around line 1714-1724: Strengthen test_bool_uint_and_float_expressions by
extracting the restored if_else condition and comparing it with the original
condition using expr.structurally_equivalent, while retaining the existing
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Taking a look at this now

Align Qiskit logical import with OpenQASM short-circuit SCF and accept only canonical single-result Boolean forms during export.

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Test recursive control flow, canonical short-circuit expressions, and rejection of general or multi-result Boolean selection.

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Map cleanup-forwarded measurement SSA results back to their validated destination Qiskit Clbits.

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Document canonical short-circuit support, validation evidence, and the rebased changelog entry for #2176.

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Hey @simon1hofmann 👋🏼
I pushed a couple of changes to the PR after playing around with a couple of ideas for a while.
Would you mind checking this again?
If it makes sense to you as well, then feel free to merge!

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Hey @simon1hofmann 👋🏼 I pushed a couple of changes to the PR after playing around with a couple of ideas for a while. Would you mind checking this again? If it makes sense to you as well, then feel free to merge!

Looks good to me, thanks for the final touches!
What I don't like about stacks and the repeated force-pushes is that it's quite hard to see the changes without going though the complete PR again..

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Hey @simon1hofmann 👋🏼 I pushed a couple of changes to the PR after playing around with a couple of ideas for a while. Would you mind checking this again? If it makes sense to you as well, then feel free to merge!

Looks good to me, thanks for the final touches!

What I don't like about stacks and the repeated force-pushes is that it's quite hard to see the changes without going though the complete PR again..

Yeah. I also really dislike that. Let's consider whether we want we want to continue using them.

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