• What graph structures produce high-order factors that are difficult for ORBIT?
    BNs produce high-order factors even for basic toy graphs because of the hidden interaction between two variables that share a child. The moralized graph gives the cliques generated by moralization that make the graph highly dense. Current representation of the energy doesn’t solve this problem

  • What is the native maximum factor order of the intended backend? 2

  • If quadratization is required, how many auxiliary variables are introduced?
    Depends on the exact algorithmic optimisation used but an upper bound is k (if is the order of the node), a lower bound is .

  • What bias/coupling dynamic range is available? Check note 5.

  • How large does clamp strength need to be before leakage is negligible? Check note 4. critical strength section.

  • What is the relationship between epsilon smoothing and hardware saturation? using a too small would set the energy level of the state to be too high.

  • How should zero-probability CPTs be represented in energy form? Infinite energy barrier solved via -smoothing

  • Under what conditions does physical clamping match the graph-mutilated intervention reference? never

  • Under what conditions does physical clamping reduce to ordinary conditioning? partially when lambda is finite, but as , it reproduces conditioning perfectly (see Prop. 2).

  • Which queries should be rejected by the compiler because the hardware profile cannot support them faithfully? queries that condition/try to draw causation from an impossible state.

  • Does energy scaling affect the intended probability distribution?

  • When does approximate sampling introduce unacceptable inference error?

  • Which parts of DIRAC are causal-compiler problems versus hardware-compiler problems?

  • Can intervention reference compilation be automated cleanly?

  • Can the hardware dynamically reconfigure arbitrary couplings?

  • If not, how severe is virtual-mutilation leakage?

  • What is the minimal applied demonstrator topic? To be determined.