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💡 What: Optimized the Barabási-Albert preferential attachment scale-free graph generation logic in src/codomyrmex/meme/rhizome/network.py. Replaced an inner loop that was slicing, sampling, and sorting the entire existing nodes array at each step with a "roulette wheel" array where nodes are proportionally added based on their degree.

🎯 Why: The previous implementation caused an O(N^2) bottleneck. Specifically, building the random subset candidates = random.sample(existing, min(len(existing), m * 2)) inside a loop that iterated N times was extremely expensive for larger graphs. Generating a 50k-node graph took ~11 seconds, and 100k nodes took ~43 seconds.

📊 Impact: Reduces Preferential Attachment target selection from O(N * log(N)) down to strictly O(1) per node. The time complexity for the entire graph generation decreases from O(N^2) to O(N * m). Benchmarks show a 100k node network now generates in ~0.26 seconds instead of ~43 seconds.

🔬 Measurement: Verified the optimization by generating scale-free networks with varying N and checking time differences. Executed uv run pytest src/codomyrmex/tests/unit/meme/ to ensure full test suite success. Also checked format and lint rules via uv run ruff check.


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Replaced O(N^2) random sample and sort in Preferential Attachment graph builder with an exact O(1) "roulette wheel" approach via flat repeated_nodes array. Reduces time to generate 100k nodes from ~43 seconds down to ~0.26 seconds.

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google-labs-jules Bot and others added 2 commits March 14, 2026 01:31
Fix an unexpected EOF parsing error in scripts/agents/hermes/evaluate_orchestrators.py, replace deprecated typing hints in scripts/cli/cli_utils.py and scripts/api/api_tester.py with built-in types, and run ruff format on test files to resolve pipeline failures.

Co-authored-by: docxology <6911384+docxology@users.noreply.github.com>
Fix module import path in p3_file_permissions tests and replace missing dependency logic. Replace O(N^2) preferential attachment graph builder array sorting loop with a proportional scale-free roulette wheel array list to improve performance from 43 seconds down to under a second.

Co-authored-by: docxology <6911384+docxology@users.noreply.github.com>
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