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The target is a deterministic global affine-gap Pair-HMM that realigns an existing M/I/D/S/N CIGAR, builds the full forward and backward matrices in log space, turns them into per-base posterior probabilities of M, I and D, decodes the maximum-likelihood CIGAR, and reports every changed position with its posterior delta. The implementation is pure Python, has no RNG, and is validated against brute-force enumeration of all alignment paths.

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The full deliverable is at ~/SOLUTION.md. It is self-contained and directly usable. Below is the summary and the exact, verified fix; the runnable files (~/pair_hmm.py, ~/test_pair_hmm.py) contain the complete code embedded in that markdown.

Pair-HMM Affine-Gap Realignment — Diagnosis and Verified Solution

Summary

The target is a deterministic global affine-gap Pair-HMM that realigns an existing M/I/D/S/N CIGAR, builds the full forward and backward matrices in log space, turns them into per-base posterior probabilities of M, I and D, decodes the maximum-likelihood CIGAR, and reports every changed position with its posterior delta. The implementation is pure Python, has no RNG, and is validated against brute-force enumeration of all alignment paths.

Root-cause analysis

Probability-space underflow — 500 bp has ~10³⁰⁰ paths; float products become 0.0. Fix: log-space recurrences with an -inf-safe lse2/lse (never forms exp(large)).
Linear-space shortcuts break the backward pass — Hirschberg/checkpointing can't yield per-cell posteriors. Fix: retain full (n+1)×(m+1) F_* and B_* matrices.
Linear gap pretending to be affine — use 3 states with explicit open/extend: M→M=log(1-2·open), M→I/M→D=log(open), I→I/D→D=log(extend), I→M/D→M=log(1-extend). Omitting the 1-2·open factor biases every posterior.
Soft clips / reference skips leaking into indels — S and N are segment barriers, not gaps. Fix: emit S/H/N verbatim and realign each maximal M/I/D/=/X run independently.
Posterior off-by-one — F includes the cell emission, B excludes it; γ_s(i,j)=exp(F_s+B_s−Z), Z=B_M(0,0).
Non-reproducibility — fixed DEFAULTS, deterministic loop order and tie-breaking.

The fix (exact code)

Model recurrences:

# forward
F_M(i,j) = E[i][j] + lse( F_M(i-1,j-1)+log_mm,
                          F_I(i-1,j-1)+log_close,
                          F_D(i-1,j-1)+log_close )
F_I(i,j) = lse2( F_M(i-1,j)+log_open, F_I(i-1,j)+log_extend )
F_D(i,j) = lse2( F_M(i,j-1)+log_open, F_D(i,j-1)+log_extend )

# backward
B_M(i,j) = lse2( E[i+1][j+1]+log_mm   + B_M(i+1,j+1),
                 log_open             + B_I(i+1,j),
                 log_open             + B_D(i,j+1) )
B_I(i,j) = lse2( E[i+1][j+1]+log_close + B_M(i+1,j+1),
                 log_extend            + B_I(i+1,j) )
B_D(i,j) = lse2( E[i+1][j+1]+log_close + B_M(i+1,j+1),
                 log_extend            + B_D(i,j+1) )

Parameters (fixed schedule): gap_open=0.05, gap_extend=0.5, epsilon=1e-9, default_q=30, min_err=1e-6, max_err=0.75. Match emission uses Phred q: log(1-p_err) on match, log(p_err) otherwise, p_err=clamp(10^(-q/10), min_err, max_err).

The complete implementation is ~/pair_hmm.py (≈720 lines): lse2/lse, parse_cigar, PairHMM (forward, backward, posteriors, viterbi_moves, posterior_moves), segment splitter (_split_segments), event/diff logic (_events, _diff_block), and the public realign(...) entry point returning {cigar, changed, posteriors, blocks, z, zf}.

Verification

Run:

cd ~
python3 test_pair_hmm.py

The strongest check is brute_force(): for 40 random read/ref pairs up to 3 bp it enumerates every M/I/D path, computes Z exactly, and accumulates the true per-cell posterior P(visit (i,j) in state s); it matches PairHMM.Z, PairHMM.Zf, and all three posterior matrices to 1e-9. Additional checks: determinism, fixture-CIGAR consistency, unique indel relocation (1M1I7M → 4M1I4M, insertion reported at read pos 5 with positive delta), soft-clip preservation (2S8M2S), skip preservation (4M5N4M, no D), 500 bp numerical stability (finite Z, all posteriors in [0,1]), and Viterbi/posterior decoder agreement.

Observed output:

PASS brute-force forward/backward/posteriors (40 random cases)
PASS deterministic / reproducible
PASS fixture CIGAR lengths consistent with reads
PASS unique insertion re-placed 1M1I7M -> 4M1I4M
  homopolymer new: 1M1I6M changed: []
PASS homopolymer indel re-placed as single insertion
PASS soft clips preserved: 2S8M2S
PASS reference skip preserved: 4M5N4M
PASS 500bp numerical stability; Z=-55.549 new=249M1D250M
PASS decoders agree on exact match

ALL TESTS PASSED

Changed-position output with posterior deltas (ACGTACGT vs ACGTCACGT, bogus 1M1I7M):

new CIGAR: 4M1I4M
rpos=2 ref=2 I->M delta=0.9848 (0.0054 -> 0.9902)
rpos=3 ref=3 M->M delta=0.9884 (0.0000 -> 0.9884)
rpos=4 ref=4 M->M delta=0.9872 (0.0000 -> 0.9872)
rpos=5 ref=4 M->I delta=0.9720 (0.0001 -> 0.9721)

The complete markdown (with both code files embedded) is in ~/SOLUTION.md.

Evidence & signatures

# Evidence
- Problem class: python-pair-hmm-affine-gap-indel-posterior-cigar-realignment
- Model: openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash
- Solved: 2026-09-18T22:11:55.318Z
- Verification: solution produced by pi in sandbox; see signatures.json

{"description": "Given a read that is already aligned to a reference (CIGAR with M/I/D/S/N ops) plus per-base quality scores, run a Pair-HMM with affine gap penalties entirely in log space to recompute the true indel placement. Compute the full forward and backward matrices, normalize them to obtain per-base posterior probabilities of match, insertion and deletion, then emit the maximum-likelihood CIGAR as the posterior-decoded path and report each changed position with its posterior delta. The solver must be numerically stable for reads up to 500 bp (all recurrences via log-sum-exp, no linear-space shortcuts that break the backward pass), handle soft clips and reference skips without emitting them as indels, and be exactly reproducible under a fixed epsilon and gap-open/extend schedule.", "environment": "python3", "language": "python", "model": "openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash", "problem_class": "python-pair-hmm-affine-gap-indel-posterior-cigar-realignment", "provider": "openrouter", "solved_at": "2026-09-18T22:11:55.319Z", "version": "3.11"}

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