✨ Add individual Qiskit passes to the RL predictor

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Description

Expands the RL action space with focused Qiskit pass actions:

• layout: TrivialLayout and ElidePermutations;
• routing: SabreSwap, BasicSwap, and LookaheadSwap; and
• optimization: RemoveIdentityEquivalent and Optimize1qGatesSimpleCommutation.

ElidePermutations runs with a trivial layout in one action so its virtual output permutation is retained in the canonical TranspileLayout. LookaheadSwap uses a bounded search depth and width. SabreSwap participates in the existing stochastic-action wrapper and retains the best of 20 scored attempts by default.

The existing OptimizeCliffords action now runs CollectCliffords first and decomposes the resulting clifford instructions, making it effective on ordinary Clifford gates while keeping later actions interoperable.

Adding these actions changes the action-space size and later numeric indices. Existing RL models must be retrained, and code that persists or selects actions by numeric index must be updated.

This stacked PR depends on #757 and #758.

The paper prototype's two IBM AI routing actions are not included. The currently published IBM transpiler packages pin networkx==2.8.5, which conflicts with MQT Bench's networkx>=2.8.8, and the transpiler package imports Qiskit modules removed from the Qiskit version resolved by this stack. This PR deliberately does not add resolver overrides, vendored compatibility code, or an unreleased dependency.

Validation

• focused mapping, routing, and optimization invariant tests
• isolated constructor and layout-composition smoke with the minimum supported Qiskit 1.3.3
• uvx nox -s lint

Part of #675

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• New Features

  • Expanded Qiskit reinforcement-learning action support with additional layout, routing, and optimization strategies.
  • Added circuit-aware availability checks for routing actions, including directional gate compatibility.
  • Improved Clifford optimization by collecting and decomposing Clifford operations around optimization.

• Documentation

  • Updated the changelog and upgrade guide with the expanded action space and migration guidance for existing models.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for permutation elimination, Clifford cancellation, and directional gate routing.

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The PR expands the Qiskit RL action space with layout, routing, and optimization passes. It adds circuit-aware action availability checks, updates Clifford processing, registers routing actions, and adds tests and upgrade documentation.

Changes

Qiskit RL actions

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Qiskit action definitions and execution src/mqt/predictor/rl/actions/qiskit_actions.py	Adds layout, routing, and optimization actions. OptimizeCliffords collects Clifford gates first, and custom Clifford gates are decomposed after execution.
Circuit-aware availability and registration src/mqt/predictor/rl/actions/registry.py, src/mqt/predictor/rl/actions/qiskit_actions.py, src/mqt/predictor/rl/predictorenv.py, tests/compilation/test_predictor_rl.py	Registers routing actions and validates GateDirection against the current circuit and device coupling map.
Behavior validation and upgrade guidance tests/compilation/test_integration_further_SDKs.py, UPGRADING.md, CHANGELOG.md	Tests ElidePermutations, OptimizeCliffords, and GateDirection. Documents new actions, changed action indices, and required model retraining.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1545b

The PR is mergeable with owner awareness: the upgrade notes should document when GateDirection is available, and targeted tests should explicitly verify that the intended actions are selected and valid; otherwise users may be misled and regressions could be missed.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PredictorEnv
  participant ActionAvailability
  participant QuantumCircuit
  participant Target
  PredictorEnv->>ActionAvailability: check Qiskit action
  ActionAvailability->>QuantumCircuit: inspect two-qubit instructions
  ActionAvailability->>Target: inspect coupling map
  ActionAvailability-->>PredictorEnv: return action availability

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Clifford gates gather, then unwind
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In `@tests/compilation/test_integration_further_SDKs.py`:
- Around line 173-177: Update tests/compilation/test_integration_further_SDKs.py
lines 173-177 to require the ElidePermutations action to be found, available,
and executed before setup; update lines 320-325 to require OptimizeCliffords to
be found and available before asserting its result. Use the existing action
lookup and validation mechanisms, preserving the intended result assertions.

In `@UPGRADING.md`:
- Around line 11-17: Update the RL action-space list in UPGRADING.md to state
that the GateDirection routing action is available only when two-qubit
interactions are adjacent, while preserving the existing action descriptions.

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Make targeted action tests fail when their action is missing or invalid.

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• tests/compilation/test_integration_further_SDKs.py#L173-L177: require the ElidePermutations action to be available and executed.
• tests/compilation/test_integration_further_SDKs.py#L320-L325: require the OptimizeCliffords action to be found, validate availability, and then assert the result.

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In `@tests/compilation/test_integration_further_SDKs.py` around lines 173 - 177,
Update tests/compilation/test_integration_further_SDKs.py lines 173-177 to
require the ElidePermutations action to be found, available, and executed before
setup; update lines 320-325 to require OptimizeCliffords to be found and
available before asserting its result. Use the existing action lookup and
validation mechanisms, preserving the intended result assertions.