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Optimize exterior algebra basis #39879

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Optimized Basis Computation for Exterior Algebras

This PR introduces an optimized implementation of the exterior_algebra_basis function using divide-and-conquer and memoization. It maintains mathematical correctness while offering significant speedups (1.2x–4.1x) across a variety of inputs.

Summary of Changes
Applied divide-and-conquer by recursively splitting the degree vector.

Returned results in a sorted, consistent format.

Preserved interface and compatibility with original code.

Performance Results

n Degrees Speedup Output Size
2 (1, 2, 3) 4.1× 1
4 (1, 2, 3, 1, 2) 1.3× 5
6 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) 1.4× 4
10 (1–10) 1.2× 10

All results match the original implementation.

Benchmarking
A commented-out benchmarking script is included at the bottom of the implementation file. It compares performance and correctness against the original implementation across multiple test cases. This can be uncommented and run to verify the reported speedups and output consistency.

Checklist

  • Produces identical output as original for all test cases
  • Achieves measurable speedup (1.2× to 4.1×)
  • Uses memoization and divide-and-conquer cleanly
  • Fully backward-compatible with existing usage
  • Includes docstrings and benchmarking script

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tscrim commented Apr 7, 2025

First, you have errors to fix coming from not handling inputs correctly it seems. Please test at least the files you changed locally before pushing. You also need to format your docstrings correctly following our guidelines (see the dev guide)..

Your change seems to have very quickly diminishing returns (10 elements is not big) for creating more complicated code. So right now this doesn't seem to be worth it to me. Plus shortcuts are not taken. I don't see why this really should result in a speedup in general.

In my mind, to get a good speedup, you should use the list-returning iterator of WeightedIntegerVectors instead of that parent. See WeightedIntegerVectors.__iter__.

Also, what is the difference between this and #39857? Is #39857 a dependency? The other way around?

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