From 907783ef615cdf52b37f38117ef25303da4de622 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Gaskins <danielgaskins99@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:13:03 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Handle strided arrays in Sinter decoding

---
 src/py/tesseract_sinter_compat_test.py | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/tesseract_sinter_compat.pybind.h   | 13 ++++-----
 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/py/tesseract_sinter_compat_test.py b/src/py/tesseract_sinter_compat_test.py
index 1fc3413c..8842e557 100644
--- a/src/py/tesseract_sinter_compat_test.py
+++ b/src/py/tesseract_sinter_compat_test.py
@@ -162,6 +162,44 @@ def test_decode_shots_bit_packed_multi_shot():
     assert np.array_equal(predictions, expected_predictions)
 
 
+def test_decode_shots_bit_packed_with_strided_input():
+    dem = stim.DetectorErrorModel("""
+        error(0.1) D0 D1 L0
+        error(0.1) D8 L1
+        detector D0
+        detector D1
+        detector D2
+        detector D3
+        detector D4
+        detector D5
+        detector D6
+        detector D7
+        detector D8
+    """)
+    compiled_decoder = TesseractSinterDecoder().compile_decoder_for_dem(dem=dem)
+
+    storage = np.zeros((2, 4), dtype=np.uint8)
+    detections = storage[:, ::2]
+    assert not detections.flags.c_contiguous
+    detections[0] = [0b00000011, 0]
+    detections[1] = [0, 0b00000001]
+
+    predictions = compiled_decoder.decode_shots_bit_packed(
+        bit_packed_detection_event_data=detections
+    )
+
+    assert np.array_equal(
+        predictions,
+        np.array(
+            [
+                [0b00000001],
+                [0b00000010],
+            ],
+            dtype=np.uint8,
+        ),
+    )
+
+
 def test_decode_via_files_sanity_check():
     """
     Tests the 'decode_via_files' method by simulating a small circuit and
diff --git a/src/tesseract_sinter_compat.pybind.h b/src/tesseract_sinter_compat.pybind.h
index aecaa6b8..e1fb09a0 100644
--- a/src/tesseract_sinter_compat.pybind.h
+++ b/src/tesseract_sinter_compat.pybind.h
@@ -62,23 +62,20 @@ struct TesseractSinterCompiledDecoder {
         py::array_t<uint8_t>({(py::ssize_t)num_shots, (py::ssize_t)num_observable_bytes});
     auto result_buffer = result_array.mutable_data();
 
-    const uint8_t* detections_data = bit_packed_detection_event_data.data();
-    const size_t detections_stride = bit_packed_detection_event_data.strides(0);
+    auto detections = bit_packed_detection_event_data.unchecked<2>();
 
     // Loop through each shot and decode it with TesseractDecoder.
     for (size_t shot = 0; shot < num_shots; ++shot) {
-      const uint8_t* single_shot_data = detections_data + shot * detections_stride;
-
       // Unpack the shot data into a vector of indices of fired detectors.
-      std::vector<uint64_t> detections;
+      std::vector<uint64_t> fired_detectors;
       for (uint64_t i = 0; i < num_detectors; ++i) {
-        if ((single_shot_data[i / 8] >> (i % 8)) & 1) {
-          detections.push_back(i);
+        if ((detections(shot, i / 8) >> (i % 8)) & 1) {
+          fired_detectors.push_back(i);
         }
       }
 
       // Decode with TesseractDecoder.
-      std::vector<int> predictions = decoder->decode(detections);
+      std::vector<int> predictions = decoder->decode(fired_detectors);
 
       // Store predictions into the output buffer
       uint8_t* single_result_buffer = result_buffer + shot * num_observable_bytes;