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feat(dpa4c): add multi-block attention and compressed deployment - #6127
Add configurable message-passing depth to DPA4C and support compressed deployment of multi-block models.
descriptor.n_blocks defaults to 1. Additional attention blocks read neighboring environments; rcut accepts one value or a non-increasing per-block list. Existing single-block behavior remains the default, and older descriptor records load as one block.
Add two-block Mini, Neo, Air, and Plus presets, with public configuration and deployment documentation.
Extend compressed CUDA inference, the compact canonical graph interface, and Kokkos pair styles to further blocks and per-block cutoffs. Pass halo exchange plans through the Python, C++, and C interfaces.
Support compressed multi-block models with eligible LES/SOG long-range modules. Report unsupported combinations explicitly; automatic ASE freezing retains the documented uncompressed fallback.
Include the accompanying fixes from the source commits for ambiguous LMDB frame-field shapes, multi-task JSON schema generation, and contiguous graph-inference inputs.
The three requested feature commits are preserved as separate cherry-picks. A follow-up fix found during independent review replaces an ambiguous zero-edge reshape with its explicit feature width and extends the existing empty-graph tests in both NumPy and PT-expt.
Validation
Python 3.13 / PyTorch 2.13, CPU:
Scope
Result
Shared and PT-expt DPA4C descriptors, presets, JSON schema
ZBL composition and native-spin behavior selection
24 passed
Ambiguous and undeclared LMDB frame fields
2 passed
Two-block LES/SOG periodic and nonperiodic freeze/reload parity, plus export eligibility
7 passed
Total: 340 passed, 9 skipped. Before the empty-edge fix, the extended regression produced 16 failures and 16 passes; both backends now pass the zero-node and isolated-atom cases.
Seven changed C/C++ interface and communication translation units passed syntax-only compilation with the existing build's compiler flags and this branch's source headers. Repository-wide Ruff and format checks, scoped isort, Markdown/CMake/C++ formatting checks, custom Pylint checks, and the follow-up commit's pre-commit hooks passed.
Verification limits
Python imports were checked against this PR checkout. Tests needing native operators preloaded an existing operator library with matching multi-block/halo/long-range schemas; this was not a fresh build of the PR. The C++ checks did not link or execute a rebuilt library.
GPU execution, a fresh CUDA/Kokkos build, real multi-rank MPI, and end-to-end performance measurements were not rerun in this delivery. The self-send checks exercise halo ordering on one rank and do not establish multi-rank MPI correctness. Performance measurements recorded in the original feature commits were not independently repeated here.
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New Features
DPA4C models support multiple message-passing blocks with configurable, non-increasing cutoffs. Duo presets are available for mini, neo, air, and plus grades.
Multi-rank GPU inference supports halo exchange for models that require it, with API queries to check that requirement.
Compressed CUDA inference supports multi-block DPA4C models, including supported long-range configurations.
Bug Fixes
Improved handling of per-atom data fields when frames have different atom counts.
Compressed export now checks model-format support before proceeding.
A single DPA4C block reduces every edge once with weights that depend on
the distance and the ordered type pair alone, so two neighbors of the same
element at the same distance send the same message whatever their own
environments are. `n_blocks` adds further message-passing blocks that let
the neighbor take part.
Interface. `n_blocks` (default 1) sets the depth, and `rcut` is either one
cutoff for every block or a non-increasing list of one cutoff per block
whose length equals `n_blocks`. deepmd/utils/block_cutoff.py resolves the
two forms and validates them for any descriptor; only DPA4C uses it. The
first cutoff bounds the neighbor graph and the radial representation.
Block. Every block after the first is BlockAttention
(dpa4c_nn/attention.py). Each node forms, from the moments and the
calibrated invariants of the previous block, saturated equivariant keys
on two heads, an encoded state and the neighbor term of a hidden layer.
On every edge the logit of an amplitude channel sums a field of the
neighbor's keys along the reversed bond, the neighbor state, and a hidden
layer of width `channels` that reads the state, every field and the
saturated first-block amplitude together, so the effect of a neighbor
depends on its environment and on the distance jointly. The first-block
amplitude is rescaled by 1 + chi_k tanh(a), which lies in (0, 2), and an
envelope-weighted softmax over the neighbors, with a null mass set by the
center, transports the keys into the non-scalar moments. Every degree is
then reduced again under the normalizers of the first block. Every learned
map reads saturated inputs, every output map starts at zero so the
descriptor starts as its single-block counterpart, and every term
vanishes with a C3 envelope at the cutoff of its block. The readout and
the output width are unchanged, native spin moments keep their
first-block values, and the field gain is the Adam-routed
`adam_field_gain`, registered as a trainable parameter in pt_expt.
Parallel and bridged runs. A block reads features of the edge sources,
so a domain-decomposed graph refreshes their ghost rows through
border_op before every block, and the frozen archive emits the with-comm
program. Under zone bridging the leave-one-out source gate of DPA4,
completed across ranks, removes a frozen atom from every other
environment and from both sums of the softmax.
Compression. The fused kernels cover one block, so compression and
mega_eligible reject `n_blocks` > 1 with an explicit reason, and such a
model deploys as the uncompressed graph archive.
Serialization. The descriptor writes format 3 with `n_blocks` and the
serialized blocks; formats 1 and 2 load as one block. BlockAttention
serializes as version 1.
Presets. dpa4c-{mini,neo,air,plus}-duo-v20260911 are the grades of
v20260911 with `n_blocks: 2` and the default cutoff. Nano has no two-block
grade, since the single-block Mini is more accurate at the same cost.
Results on MatPES R2SCAN (100 epochs, force MAE in meV/A, single block ->
two blocks): Mini 160.9 -> 131.8, Neo 152.7 -> 123.1, Air 143.4 -> 114.1,
Plus 136.2 -> 107.3, with energy MAE 17% to 21% lower. In the uncompressed
graph a two-block grade costs 1.7 to 1.8 times its single-block grade and
is more accurate than the single-block grade one or two steps up. Below
about 0.45 of the covalent bond length an unbridged multi-block model
extrapolates worse than a single block, so the documentation recommends
bridging_method wherever such contacts can occur.
Docs. doc/model/dpa4c.md integrates depth, the presets, compression,
multi-GPU runs and the limitations; the training skill and the ASE note
name the new option and its compression limit.
Fixes found on the way. LmdbDataReader classified a field that no data
requirement declares from the leading axis of one frame, so a frame-level
field as long as that frame's atom count (a two-component homo_energy on
a two-atom frame) was read as per-atom and padded in batches of larger
frames; per_atom_strides now also checks a frame of another atom count
when the dataset holds one. gen_json_schema(multi_task=True) raised
KeyError under dargs 0.5, which describes the values of a repeated
dictionary under items; with_data_groups moves them to
additionalProperties. DeepPot.eval on a graph archive passed broadcast
coordinate views with zero strides to the Warp neighbor search, which
rejects non-contiguous inner strides; _build_eval_graph makes the
coordinates and the cell contiguous first.
Tests cover the identity at initialization, O(3) invariance with three
blocks, the logit and softmax transport against an explicit NumPy
reference, the bounded and saturating factor, the second-shell read, C3
continuity at the block cutoff, spin, the bridging source gate,
serialization and every rcut / n_blocks validation, compression
rejection, the duo presets, and the cross-rank ghost exchange on one rank
against the folded graph, including the with-comm export, and the three
fixes: an undeclared frame field on a mixed 2- and 9-atom store, the
multi-task schema, and broadcast inputs of a graph archive (fails before
the fix, passes after).
…blocks
A DPA4C model of several blocks deployed as the uncompressed graph
archive, which neither the compact canonical operator nor the Kokkos pair
styles served, and its attention blocks read features of the edge
sources, which a domain of a LAMMPS decomposition holds only for the atoms
it owns.
Compression. The fused energy-force operator of the compact canonical
graph evaluates the further BlockAttention blocks
(dpa4c/block_kernel.cuh). The forward scans the edges of every
destination row in panels of 32 or 64 edges, and the backward scans the
source rows, which the canonical graph holds as the reverse bonds, so
every row sum is formed by one CTA in a fixed order and the result is
deterministic. The products are FP32 SIMT GEMMs on lane tiles whose
weights stay resident in shared memory or stream through it in chunks,
with cp.async from sm_80. A CTA scans up to four rows, as many as keep
the grid above the resident CTAs of the device. The node maps share the
GEMM tiles of the fitting operator, which move from graph_fitting.cu to
simt_gemm.cuh. mega_eligible accepts any depth, while the generic
NeighborGraph operators remain single-block (graph_operator_eligible);
the descriptor stores the compressed blocks in an optional buffer, so
payloads compressed before further blocks existed load as one block.
Native spin and zone bridging, with the leave-one-out source gate, take
the same kernels.
Per-block cutoffs. A further block of a smaller cutoff scans a graph of
its own, selected from that of the block before it on the device, so a
block of 6 A after one of 8 A costs what its own cutoff implies. The
operator takes the cutoffs as block_rcut, which defaults to the first
cutoff for every block, as archives frozen without it require.
Halo exchange. Before every further block, the node set of a domain
refreshes its halo rows from their owners through a device-resident
border exchange (border_exchange.{h,cc}: the forward communication of
border_op with the send list on the device; communicator.h shares the
MPI handle with the long-range exchange), and evaluates its owned nodes
alone. The rows that read no halo row are scanned while the exchange runs
on a high-priority side stream. The compact lower of such a model reads
the border plan (BorderPlan, a plan without swaps for frames held whole),
and the C API passes it as DP_HaloExchange to
DP_DPA4ComputeCanonicalGraphGPU and DP_DPA4SpinComputeCanonicalGraphGPU;
DP_DeepPotCanonicalGraphRequiresHalo and
DP_DeepSpinCanonicalGraphRequiresHalo report whether a model reads it.
The API version stays 31. deepmd/kk and dpa4spin/kk build the plan from
the swaps of the LAMMPS communication, and the forces on ghost atoms
return to their owners through the reverse communication. A compressed
multi-block model with a long-range module is refused at freeze time
with an explicit reason, since the compact operators evaluate the blocks
and the long range each but not yet together.
Graph construction. The single-pass compact canonical fill of the Kokkos
pair styles keys up to 24 candidates per lane, which a cutoff of 8 A
needs.
Measured on the RTX PRO 6000 with LAMMPS and Kokkos (BCN diamond of
100,800 atoms, ms per step, single block in parentheses): Mini-duo 18.6
(3.6), Neo-duo 36.1 (5.1), Air-duo 50.3 (7.6), Plus-duo 123.5 (12.5).
Mini-duo takes 23.7 with cutoffs of 8/6 A and 41.3 with 8/8 A. On 1, 2
and 4 GPUs Mini-duo takes 18.8, 9.8 and 5.6 and Plus-duo 124.3, 63.7 and
32.5, with the UCX settings that doc/install/install-lammps.md gives.
Single-block models are unchanged within 1.3%.
Tests cover the further blocks against the uncompressed descriptor on
CUDA, with spin, bridging and per-block cutoffs, the halo exchange with
self, LAMMPS-like and crossing swaps, the graph lower of a multi-block
model and the long-range refusal.
…long range
A compressed DPA4C model of several blocks with a latent-charge long-range
module could not be deployed on a GPU: the fused long-range operator
evaluated a single block, so the export refused the model. A compressed
model of several blocks that the compact canonical operators did not serve
for another reason, such as pair_exclude_types, fell back to the generic
graph lower, whose operators evaluate the uncompressed equations of the
descriptor. The edge scans of the further blocks took their rows per block
and the layout of their edge maps from rules fixed at compile time and
tuned on one device, and the freeze-time measurement of the fitting routes
of such a model timed its whole operator.
Fused operator. dpa4c_canonical_compress_long_range_energy_force takes the
records and cutoffs of the further blocks (blocks, block_rcut) and the
border plan of a domain (halo_send, halo_swaps), whose halo rows travel on
the long-range communicator. The head of the last block is deferred
(BlockHead): the operator keeps the states and transports of that block for
every node, and once every owned row is evaluated it forms the charges, the
long-range sum, the energy fitting and the Jacobian rows over all owned
rows at once; the backward of the last block then runs run by run as
before. The plain operator takes the same launch of the first block and
the same validation of the further blocks (first_block_run,
further_blocks).
Several ranks. Across ranks the latent-charge sum runs on a high-priority
side stream, one per device, once the energy fitting and the charge
backward are enqueued, so that the device evaluates the fitting while the
host exchanges. The long-range gather of positions and charges sends
point-to-point messages between the device buffers of every pair of ranks
in place of MPI_Allgatherv, which Open MPI stages through host memory on
device buffers; buffers staged in pinned host memory keep the collective.
Export. The exportable lower takes the inputs of every combination of a
long-range module and a border plan through an explicit signature each,
in the order coord, communicator, box, halo_send, halo_swaps, which the C++
interface already composes; the C API is unchanged.
Refusal. _canonical_ineligibility names the first condition under which
the compact canonical operators fail a model. On CUDA, the export refuses
a compressed model of several blocks that they do not serve and reports
that condition, and the automatic freeze of the ASE calculator judges the
uncompressed model the same way (compressed_export_unsupported_reason) and
freezes it uncompressed with a warning.
Rows per block. A block of an edge scan of a further block took the most
rows among four, two and one with which the blocks of the whole system
still filled the device. That count ignores how full the panels of a block
are, and at systems of about 600 to 8,000 atoms it was up to a third slower
than the fastest count. A block now takes the count that minimizes a model
of the time of the scan: the waves of the resident blocks of the device
times the panels of a block, rows * degree / Edges and half a panel more,
where a last wave of one block per multiprocessor takes 0.7 of a full wave.
The degree is that of the graph of the block, which only the device holds
inside a captured graph: the edge storage of LAMMPS holds the candidates
within the cutoff and the skin. The host therefore computes the waves of
the three counts from the node count of the whole system and the occupancy
of the kernel, and sizes the grid for the count that the edge storage
implies, an upper bound of the edges. Every block reads the edge count from
the row pointer and compares three products in integers, unless the grid
provides for four rows, which leaves no choice. The model never takes fewer
rows for fewer edges, so the blocks take as many rows as the grid provides
for or more, and those past the rows retire. The choice is a function of
the system and the device, so every run of a tiled system sums its rows in
the same order.
Panel layout. The operand of a scan and the regions after it start on a
whole cycle of the shared-memory banks past the per-edge state of the
panel; the Plus scans ran 3% to 7% slower from a start 16 bytes past a
multiple of 32 bytes, where every backward scan started. The forward panel
no longer holds the entry node of every edge, which only the backward
reads, so the forward of a descriptor of 64 channels and degree three keeps
two blocks on a multiprocessor of 96 KB.
Edge maps. A scan whose edge maps, resident in shared memory, take more
shared memory than their streamed form, and two blocks of which fit a
multiprocessor of 228 KB, is compiled with both layouts. Its first launch
on a device queries the occupancy of each and takes the resident maps
where they keep at least as many blocks on a multiprocessor; both sum in
one order. Below compute capability 8.0, where the copy into shared memory
is not asynchronous, the streamed chunks of 128 columns move through the
registers of the threads as those of 64 columns do.
Fitting routes. The freeze-time measurement of the fitting routes
evaluates a copy of the descriptor without its further blocks, the
operator of the first block. The further blocks take the same time on
every route, so on the whole operator the gains of the routes fell below
the tie of the measurement, which then kept the routes of the rules nearly
everywhere at a much higher cost.
Documentation. The DPA4C guide describes what a user chooses and observes:
the options, the presets with the rough cost of a model with two blocks,
compression and its requirements, the LAMMPS pair styles and launch
settings, and the limitations; the deployment paragraph of the long-range
page and the MPI section of the LAMMPS installation page follow the same
rule. The installation page selects UCX with --mca pml ucx: Open MPI
selects it by itself only on a node with an InfiniBand or RoCE adapter,
and otherwise copies GPU buffers through host memory.
Measured with LAMMPS and Kokkos. Long range on the RTX PRO 6000 (periodic
BCN diamond of 100,800 atoms, ms per step, without, with LES, with SOG):
Mini-duo 18.5, 20.7, 19.3 and Mini 3.6, 5.8, 4.3, so the long range adds the
same to both. On 1, 2 and 4 GPUs Mini-duo with LES takes 20.5, 11.9 and 7.9
and Mini with LES 5.7, 4.8 and 3.9, against 6.0 on four GPUs with the
collective gather on one stream. Edge scans on BCN diamond, both builds on
one device in alternated order, three repeats: on the RTX PRO 6000 the duo
steps at 640 to 6,000 atoms are 1% to 25% shorter (Plus-duo 25% at 1,536
atoms, Air-duo 20%, Neo-duo 14%, Mini-duo 7%), Plus-duo is 2% to 3% shorter
from 8,000 atoms on, Neo-duo at 1,000 atoms 2% longer, and the other points
of Mini-, Neo- and Air-duo lie within 0.6%; on this device every released
grade keeps the layout of its edge maps. On an H20 the Neo and Air scans
take the resident maps, and the Neo-duo and Air-duo steps are 8% to 10%
shorter at 10,296 and 100,800 atoms. On a V100 the forward panel makes the
Air-duo step 7% to 10% shorter and the register staging the Plus-duo step
20% shorter. Fitting routes: the measurement of Plus-duo takes 187 s on the
RTX PRO 6000 instead of 662 s (2,402 s on an H20 and 4,056 s on a V100 on
the whole operator), that of Mini-duo 4 s instead of 24 s, and its tables
match those of the single-block grade of the same widths up to the edges of
a few bands; the Plus-duo step is 1.7% shorter at 896 atoms and within 0.5%
at the six other sizes its table routes away from the rules, from 1,920 to
41,472 atoms, Neo-duo and Air-duo are 0.4% and 0.6% shorter at 14,976
atoms, and the sizes that both tables leave to the rules lie within 0.3%.
Tests cover the compressed further blocks with LES and SOG, periodic and
not, against the uncompressed model, their halo rows with node tiles and
both fitting layouts, the refusal of a long-range module the fused
operator does not evaluate, the refusal of a model the compact canonical
operators do not serve on any device, the ASE fallback for such a model
and the judgment of a case embedding that the export folds. Further tests
check that guard slots of the edge storage, which change the grid of a
launch but not the rows its blocks take, leave every output of a model of
two blocks unchanged, that a system evaluated in tiles of nodes matches the
whole system bit for bit, and that the bench of the fitting routes of a
model of two blocks captures the operator of a descriptor without further
blocks and leaves the model's own.
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DPA4C now supports configurable message-passing blocks with per-block cutoffs, attention, compressed execution, and halo exchange. Canonical inference APIs and LAMMPS integration pass halo plans. The changes also update export eligibility, serialization, reciprocal-graph validation, presets, LMDB field classification, compile options, documentation, and tests.
Changes: DPA4C multi-block execution
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Descriptor blocks and attention deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/dpa4c.py, deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/dpa4c_nn/*, deepmd/utils/block_cutoff.py, deepmd/utils/argcheck.py
DPA4C accepts n_blocks and shared or non-increasing per-block cutoffs. Further blocks update moments through attention and transport. Serialization stores each block’s attention data and advances to version 3.
Compressed reference and fused operators deepmd/pt_expt/kernels/dpa4c/*, deepmd/pt_expt/descriptor/dpa4c.py, deepmd/pt_expt/model/*, deepmd/pt_expt/utils/serialization.py, deepmd/calculator.py
Compressed artifacts include further-block records. Reference and fused paths support block evaluation, source gates, and border plans. Export checks report unsupported configurations, and canonical tracing accepts optional border inputs.
CUDA block kernels and border exchange source/op/pt/dpa4c/*, source/op/pt/border_exchange.*, source/op/pt/communicator.h, source/op/pt/CMakeLists.txt
CUDA execution evaluates further blocks over owned rows, refreshes halo rows, and accumulates halo contributions. Bridged multi-block evaluation also handles source-gate force and virial terms.
Canonical APIs and runtime wiring source/api_c/*, source/api_cc/*, source/lmp/*, deepmd/pt_expt/infer/deep_eval.py, deepmd/pt_expt/utils/canonical_graph.py
Canonical graph APIs accept DP_HaloExchange and expose halo-requirement queries. Runtime paths build halo plans and validate reciprocal graphs. LAMMPS Kokkos paths pass halo plans to canonical inference.
Duo presets and block configuration are added. Tests cover descriptor, compressed, long-range, and halo behavior. LMDB per-atom classification and PyTorch compile options are also updated.
CUDA fitting GEMM and domain exchange source/op/pt/graph_fitting.cu, source/op/pt/simt_gemm.cuh, source/op/pt/long_range/domain_exchange.cc
The fitting GEMM implementation moves to a shared CUDA header. Long-range domain exchange uses shared communicator helpers and point-to-point transfers for CUDA-aware MPI.
sequenceDiagram
participant LAMMPS
participant DeepPotPTExpt
participant border_exchange
participant dpa4c_canonical_compress_energy_force
LAMMPS->>DeepPotPTExpt: Submit graph, communicator, and halo plan
DeepPotPTExpt->>border_exchange: Convert halo plan to tensors
border_exchange->>dpa4c_canonical_compress_energy_force: Refresh halo feature rows
dpa4c_canonical_compress_energy_force->>dpa4c_canonical_compress_energy_force: Evaluate further blocks on owned rows
dpa4c_canonical_compress_energy_force->>border_exchange: Accumulate halo contributions
border_exchange-->>LAMMPS: Return rank-local outputs
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Minor · Check all alternative-size frames before caching per-atom strides. · lmdb_data.py:2707-2709
deepmd/dpmodel/utils/lmdb_data.py:2707-2709 Minor · Functional Correctness · Poor tradeoff
Check all alternative-size frames before caching per-atom strides.
LmdbDataReader.per_atom_strides checks only the first frame with a different atom count. If that frame lacks an unregistered field, the field stays cached as per-atom. A later frame with that field as frame-level data then fails in decode_lmdb_batch with ValueError. That function's docstring says fields missing from some frames are left out of the batch.
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Review comment at @deepmd/dpmodel/utils/lmdb_data.py around lines 2707 - 2709:
Update LmdbDataReader.per_atom_strides to check every frame with a different
atom count before caching per-atom strides, rather than stopping after the first
alternative-size frame. Ensure a field is cached as per-atom only when it
satisfies the existing checks across all such frames, so decode_lmdb_batch can
omit fields missing from some frames as documented.
5358-5360: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Add a two-rank test for the compressed halo exchange.
The crossing case skips when MPI is enabled (test_dpa4c_cuda.py:5359-5360). Without MPI, the library copies every swap locally, and all swaps address one process. No other test runs the compressed multi-block exchange across ranks. Peer routing and send/receive counts are therefore untested. Add a two-rank case with distinct peers and unequal local and halo counts.
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Add a two-rank test for the compressed multi-block halo exchange that runs with
MPI enabled, rather than relying on the crossing case that skips in that mode.
Use distinct peers and unequal local and halo counts, and verify peer routing
and send/receive counts through the existing distributed test harness.
534-542: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Add a non-null halo plan to a multi-block canonical API test.
Every canonical GPU call in the shared C and C++ helper passes /*halo=*/nullptr, including the halo-node case. No C or C++ test passes a halo plan, so a regression that drops halo forwarding would still pass these tests. Add a multi-block case with a self-send halo plan. Compare energy and force with the folded graph.
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Extend the shared canonical GPU test helper around compute_canonical_graph_gpu
with a multi-block case that passes a valid non-null self-send halo plan instead
of nullptr, and verify its energy and force match the folded-graph result. Use
the existing halo-plan setup and comparison conventions without changing
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Test gap: the test named 'carries_the_spin_moments' checks a generic descriptor change, input width, and symmetries, but does not establish that further-block attention actually uses spin information. An implementation that ignores the spin invariant columns can satisfy all these assertions.
The claimed spin-conditioned message-passing contract can regress without this test failing.
This can occur when: Further-block state encoding drops the spin columns while geometric attention and the existing spin readout continue working.
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Review comments at @deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/dpa4c_nn/attention.py:
- Around line 69-70: Update both soft_saturate and the compressed _soft_saturate
so the squared term remains within the representable range for float16 inputs,
preserving the map’s saturation toward approximately ±knee without overflow or
invalid gradients. Apply the same numerically stable transformation in both
implementations.
Review comments at @deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/dpa4c.py:
- Around line 997-998: In run_further_blocks, reject graphs with ghost rows
(n_local < n_node) when comm_dict is None by raising an error before the further
blocks use unrefreshed source features. Preserve the existing
exchange_ghost_rows refresh when comm_dict is available and allow graphs without
ghost rows to proceed without it.
- Line 311: Move n_blocks to the end of the relevant constructor’s parameter
list, after inner_clamp_scale, preserving the existing positional order of
use_amp and all other parameters. Keep n_blocks available to keyword callers.
Review comments at @deepmd/dpmodel/utils/lmdb_data.py:
- Line 2705: Update stride discovery to obtain a comparison frame from the
cached `_nloc_groups` instead of building a dataset-sized differing-frame index
with `np.flatnonzero`. Preserve the existing behavior when no frame with a
different atom count exists, and use only the selected comparison frame.
- Line 2707: Update per_atom_strides so it classifies fields for other atom
counts without fully decoding an unrelated frame through `self[int(other[0])]`.
Ensure validation failures in those frames do not block batches whose own frames
are valid, while preserving validation of frames in the batch.
Review comments at @deepmd/pt_expt/descriptor/dpa4c.py:
- Line 247: Update the uncompressed fallback in the `call_graph` path to use the
charge and spin state held by the current snapshot after `apply_charge_state`,
when no `charge_spin` argument is supplied. Do not fall back to
`default_chg_spin` or infer an API beyond the state already available in the
descriptor.
Review comments at @deepmd/pt_expt/kernels/dpa4c/canonical.py:
- Around line 137-146: Add an op_available() check to the automatic-compression
preflight so missing compact canonical operators prevent compression and allow
DP(..., freeze=True) to retain the uncompressed model. Keep this check out of
canonical_model_eligible and preserve its existing routing for multi-block
models.
Review comments at @deepmd/utils/block_cutoff.py:
- Around line 58-59: Update the cutoff validation in resolve_block_cutoffs so
every radius must compare greater than zero, rejecting both non-positive values
and NaN while preserving the existing error behavior.
Review comments at @doc/model/dpa4c.md:
- Around line 469-472: Update the CPU pair-style guidance to distinguish models
with and without native spin: retain `deepmd` for models without native spin,
and direct native-spin models to `dpa4spin` with `atom_style spin`, consistent
with the pair-style table. Preserve the note that Kokkos pair styles bring no
speedup on CPU hosts.
- Around line 146-149: Update the compression limitations paragraph to state
that construction raises a ValueError when channels or lmax are outside their
supported sets, rather than claiming those models train and evaluate correctly.
Keep the separate compression limitation for unsupported values clear, including
the radial_modes constraint.
- Around line 533-536: Update the DPA4C export guidance near the DP_CUDA_INFER
note to state that CUDA-host exports of DPA4C graphs and canonical lowers use
level 2 even when DP_CUDA_INFER is set to 0 or 1; align the level table and
speed guidance with this behavior.
Review comments at @skills/deepmd-train/models/dpa4c.md:
- Around line 25-26: Update the duo preset and compression requirements in the
training reference: state that duo presets are compressible under the same
conditions as other presets, while preserving the distinction in compressed-step
cost, and remove the `n_blocks`-must-be-1 restriction. Keep the documented
channel and `lmax` requirements unchanged.
Review comments at @source/api_c/include/c_api.h:
- Line 538: The changed signature of DP_DPA4ComputeCanonicalGraphGPU is
ABI-incompatible, but DP_C_API_VERSION remains 31. Rename the C entry point to
distinguish the new signature, following the existing versioned naming
convention, or bump the API version and document the compatibility break; do not
expose the changed signature under the unchanged API 31 symbol.
Review comments at @source/api_cc/src/commonPTExpt.h:
- Around line 1193-1198: Validate the host swap arrays in halo_tensors before
passing them to halo_swap_table: when nswap is greater than zero, reject any
null sendproc, recvproc, sendnum, recvnum, or firstrecv pointer with the
established error mechanism. Preserve the existing d_sendlist validation and
allow null swap arrays when nswap is zero.
Review comments at @source/op/pt/border_exchange.cc:
- Around line 70-80: Update check_border_plan to validate every send_nodes index
for each swap, requiring it to be nonnegative and strictly less than that swap’s
first_receive. Reject invalid indices before border_exchange can use them, while
preserving the existing swap coverage and send-list length checks.
- Around line 24-26: Update the message-tagging used by border exchange and
gather so concurrent evaluations sharing an MPI_Comm cannot match each other’s
messages. Ensure the tags are safely distinct for each evaluation within MPI’s
supported tag range, and preserve the existing message matching behavior within
an evaluation; locate the affected paths via kBorderTag and kGatherTag.
Review comments at @source/op/pt/dpa4c/graph_compress.cu:
- Around line 2871-2879: Update the further-block backward flow around scan_run
so source-feature cotangents from each edge accumulate at the edge’s source
node, matching the source used by the forward pass. Preserve correct
accumulation for canonical graphs with one-way edges; do not rely on reciprocal
edges.
- Around line 2653-2658: Update further_blocks to ensure each record header
cutoff matches its corresponding block_rcut entry before building the block
graph; reject mismatches, or derive both the header envelope and scanned-edge
cutoff from one shared value so they cannot diverge.
- Around line 3049-3055: Validate the halo plan’s owned count against n_local
immediately after constructing halo in the dpa4c_canonical_compress_energy_force
flow. Reject a mismatch before using halo.owned as the owned-row count,
preserving the existing handling for valid plans.
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Review comments at @deepmd/dpmodel/utils/lmdb_data.py:
- Around line 2707-2709: Update LmdbDataReader.per_atom_strides to check every
frame with a different atom count before caching per-atom strides, rather than
stopping after the first alternative-size frame. Ensure a field is cached as
per-atom only when it satisfies the existing checks across all such frames, so
decode_lmdb_batch can omit fields missing from some frames as documented.
---
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Review comments at @source/api_cc/tests/dpa4c_canonical_test_common.h:
- Around line 534-542: Extend the shared canonical GPU test helper around
compute_canonical_graph_gpu with a multi-block case that passes a valid non-null
self-send halo plan instead of nullptr, and verify its energy and force match
the folded-graph result. Use the existing halo-plan setup and comparison
conventions without changing unrelated calls.
Review comments at @source/tests/pt_expt/descriptor/test_dpa4c_cuda.py:
- Around line 5358-5360: Add a two-rank test for the compressed multi-block halo
exchange that runs with MPI enabled, rather than relying on the crossing case
that skips in that mode. Use distinct peers and unequal local and halo counts,
and verify peer routing and send/receive counts through the existing distributed
test harness.
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Incremental review of the completed Python CI results at this exact head found the test capability mismatch below. The nonperiodic SOG case also fails with a separate AOTInductor generated-C++ error (tmp133 undeclared); that is not explained by this periodic guard finding.
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- Around line 2341-2344: Guard the reciprocal validation in the metadata check
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only once and compare reciprocal entries through a reverse-order index rather
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Incremental review of a31f02c: the legacy C ABI forwarding is now preserved, and the periodic CPU mesh-freeze test guard is present. One new reciprocal-validation regression was reproduced with the exact extracted C++ helper; see inline. This validation used host probes, not a rebuilt DeePMD/CUDA/MPI runtime.
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This PR gives the DPA4C Cartesian descriptor a configurable message-passing depth (descriptor.n_blocks, default 1) with a per-block rcut list, adds the new BlockAttention that rescales first-block amplitudes by an edge-source attention factor, and threads multi-block inference through compressed deployment: new CUDA block kernels, halo/border exchange, the compact canonical C/C++ API, LAMMPS Kokkos pair styles, pt_expt serialization/freeze, two-block presets and docs. It also bundles fixes for LMDB per-atom stride inference, the multi-task JSON schema, contiguous graph inputs, the empty-edge feature width and reciprocal-edge validation. The review covered 79 files, +12778/-1559, plus the follow-up commit 24880f7 that rewrote the reciprocal-image validator (that commit was reviewed separately and its matching logic verified against a reference implementation on ~30k randomized graphs).
One blocking finding: a multi-block DPA4C compressed onto the compact canonical lower is marked as needing a with-comm artifact although the canonical lower does not have a dense with-comm form, so multi-rank inference dispatches the canonical artifact through the dense path instead of the new halo path. Four further non-blocking findings follow: a zero-node crash in the compressed CPU reference, and missing regression coverage for the new halo exchange (C++ and LAMMPS layers separately) and for the trainable registration of the new block weight.
The remaining scored observations (validator cost, infinite displacements, comment wording) are not included here.
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Incremental review of 24880f7 → 27d7c11: the canonical/dense communication capability split, compressed zero-node reshape, and earlier zero-tolerance assertions are addressed in source. The new potential-model MPI regression has an unmatched-collective result-extraction path, detailed inline. This is a test-driver finding, not evidence of a production halo-exchange defect.
Validation was source review plus isolated Python contract/shape probes, not a fresh Torch/CUDA/MPI execution. The exact head currently has no PR test workflow results, so neither these probes nor the author's separately reported device tests establish a full CI pass.
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The five findings from my previous review are addressed at this head, verified in the code rather than from the replies:
The canonical-lower mis-dispatch is fixed: _needs_with_comm_artifact now returns False for every lower kind outside graph/nlist, and DescrptDPA4C.dense_lower_supports_comm() returns False, so neither the compact canonical nor the dense export carries a spurious with-comm artifact; the dense adapter also refuses comm_dict explicitly.
The zero-node reshape(0, -1) crash is fixed by the explicit harmonic_width * HEADS width.
The C/C++ halo path now executes: two-block fixtures, canonical_graph_requires_halo() asserted, and a non-null DP_HaloExchange passed through the device entry, with the missing-plan case expected to throw.
The Kokkos multiblock regressions drive one and two ranks over a neighbor rebuild and compare energies, forces and virials.
adam_field_gain registration is pinned by exact parameter-name, identity and gradient assertions.
The remaining observations from this round are non-blocking and are recorded for a later cleanup rather than blocking this PR: the two-block fixtures rely on _activate_zero_parameters without asserting that the second block changes the numbers; the halo case does not assert the per-atom virial it reads back; the check_reciprocal_nlist call sites are covered only as a free function; a charge-state fold combined with a multi-block canonical archive has no end-to-end fixture; and the backend plugin symbols are still _v2 although both virtual interfaces changed. I am satisfied that none of these leaves the model producing wrong results on the paths this PR adds, and I have separately confirmed the reciprocal-image matching rewrite numerically against a reference implementation.
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New CUDA/MPI qualification failure at merge-queue SHA 3b10d1799a73fa786bba7e7b2a703c34f1329fa2 (PR head a45d16948b155577d9b37325943f18a3be56f04a).
The Kokkos CUDA job successfully builds and reaches the native-spin multiblock regression, but test_multiblock_halo_survives_neighbor_rebuild fails comparing two-rank and single-rank Cartesian forces at step 1: 18/18 components differ, with maximum absolute difference 0.24124318, against rtol=5e-4, atol=2e-7. The session reports 7 passed and 1 failed; the later long-range test invocation is not reached.
The step-0 comparison passes. Both runs use the same initial data/model and nve/kk; atom IDs, step and spins are checked before forces, and forces are gathered in atom-ID order. Neighbor ages [0,1,0,1] and ownership/migration assertions also pass. The first observed divergence is therefore the first reused-list step, before step-2 migration/rebuild, not a failed rebuild assertion.
Please investigate and restore one-/two-rank parity for this native-spin integration case before treating the multiblock Kokkos path as qualified. This is new executing evidence beyond the earlier resolved coverage discussion and is separate from the fixed PyLammps collective-order issue. The snapshot does not record coordinates/velocities, so this establishes end-to-end trajectory/force inequivalence, not a same-coordinate force comparison or a proven halo implementation defect. The production mechanism remains unisolated.
Pin the Kokkos CI build to the official 4 Jul 2026 release while retaining the 2025 baseline for other suites. Use matching C++20 builds, migrate the MPI runner to the low-level Python API, and reject overlapping spatial and spin data masks.
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Re-review at fd18f1c, five commits after my approval at 27d7c11 (the Kokkos LAMMPS pin and mask guard, the Kokkos NVE regression, the low-level MPI accessors, the upstream merge, and the test refactor that is now the base).
The five threads from my earlier review still hold at this head: the canonical lower is excluded from the with-comm artifact and dense_lower_supports_comm() returns False; the zero-edge reshape uses an explicit feature width; the C++ halo test passes a real DP_HaloExchange and asserts canonical_graph_requires_halo(); the Kokkos multiblock tests run one and two ranks; and the adam_field_gain registration is pinned by exact-name assertions.
One blocking finding: the backend plugin virtual interfaces changed again in this PR (the halo parameter on compute_canonical_graph_gpu, and the new canonical_graph_requires_halo() virtual inserted before has_long_range()), but the plugin create symbols are still deepmd_create_deeppot_backend_v2 / deepmd_create_deepspin_backend_v2. A plugin built against the previous interface is therefore accepted at load time and called through a table of another layout. The C API in this same PR handles the equivalent change correctly (DP_C_API_VERSION 31 to 32 plus new ...GPU2 names), so the plugin interface is the omission.
The remaining observations from this round are non-blocking and continue the deferred cleanup list: a charge-state fold combined with a multi-block canonical archive has no end-to-end fixture; the host (non-Kokkos) multi-rank halo assembly is not exercised by any test; the C++ halo test requests and reads back but never compares the per-atom virial; check_reciprocal_nlist is exercised only as a free function; no test combines a host integrator with dpa4spin/kk; the Kokkos multiblock tests use the other rank as the oracle; the two-block fixtures never assert that the second block changes the outputs; multi-block is never evaluated on a single-type system; and the spin cadence regression returns before the per-atom virial is computed.
Require v3 DeepPot and DeepSpin creation and deletion symbols across all backend plugins after the halo virtual-interface changes. Preserve the unchanged v1 interfaces and reject incompatible older plugins at load time.
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The plugin-ABI issue from my previous review is resolved. Commit 427c8be bumps the DeepPot and DeepSpin entry points to deepmd_create/delete_deeppot_backend_v3 and deepmd_create/delete_deepspin_backend_v3, updates all five in-tree plugins (TF, PT, PTExpt, JAX, PD), and leaves the unchanged DeepTensor, dipole, pbtxt and free-error symbols at _v1. No _backend_v2 reference remains anywhere in the tree, DP_C_API_VERSION stays at 32, and a plugin built against the old interface is now refused at load time instead of being called through a vtable that gained canonical_graph_requires_halo() and the halo/world parameters.
The merge of master (ab8c5c1) is a clean automatic merge: its tree is byte-identical to git merge-tree --write-tree 427c8be7e 5485b3ab, so nothing from the branch or from master (#6041, #6046, #6051, #6052, #6040, #6030) was dropped, and the one overlapping hotspot (coupling_record_count in graph_compress_launch.h) keeps master's closed form, which is numerically identical to the replaced loop.
All six earlier review threads are addressed at this head, including the canonical with-comm exclusion, the explicit reshape width on an empty node axis, the executing C/C++ halo suites, the Kokkos two-rank multi-block tests, and the adam_field_gain registration.
The remaining observations are non-blocking and recorded for follow-up rather than as changes requested:
The new argument-combination guards on the compact canonical lower (halo_send xor halo_swaps, the spin communicator/border guard, the border-with-long-range-composition guard, the runtime multi-block ineligibility guard, and the export lower's consistency check) are not exercised by any test; the export lower's check in particular can only be reached by a direct call with mismatched arguments.
The Python wiring that invokes validate_reciprocal_canonical_graph in _prepare_graph_inputs has no assertion: the validator is unit-tested, but nothing would fail if the metadata key or the call itself were wrong, and the only canonical inference test uses a single-block model.
The new halo == nullptr clause in the replay decision should be pinned by a test using a non-null halo with nall_nodes == nloc; the existing halo fixture has nodes > natoms, so it is already eager through the pre-existing extent clause.
The v3 rejection path has no test that loads a plugin exporting only _v2, nor one for the per-candidate fall-through and the final error.
A charge-conditioned multi-block DPA4C on a CPU target cannot be exported through dp --pt-expt freeze --compress/compress: the compression preflight accepts it, and it is then rejected by the fold-versus-with-comm guard after tracing, with no CLI switch to avoid the with-comm artifact (the ASE path passes with_comm=False and is unaffected). Rejecting the combination in the preflight, or documenting it, would make the failure early and honest.
Additional coverage worth adding: the dpmodel comm_dictNotImplementedError hooks, the CPU reference's malformed/multi-rank border-plan rejections, the C++ halo-plan argument validation, the v31 C API forwarding shims, the jax arm of the multi-block BlockAttention equations, and the optional-blocks load path for compressed snapshots written before further blocks existed.
Documentation: the two new CanonicalGraphRequiresHalo queries say @since API version 31 although they first ship in 32, and the API-28-to-30 rename note now sits above the API-32 ...GPU2 entry point rather than the API-31 one it describes. Separately, the public contract in c_api.h says every rank calls the model at every step "a rank without owned nodes included", while a halo model without a long-range module rejects or skips a truly empty rank. The border-plan docstring in serialization.py also describes the send list as CPU-resident although it follows the caller's device.
Nothing here affects a supported path silently; the compressed multi-block feature, its CUDA/C++/LAMMPS deployment path, and the ABI transition are consistent at this head.
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Qualification follow-up to my earlier CUDA/MPI failure report: the previously failing native-spin multiblock neighbor-rebuild regression now passes at head ab8c5c1bd993e1937ae82eb3c54d2a36788608fd.
I inspected the completed Kokkos CUDA job and logs. They identify the tested merge as 0d911cb (ab8c5c1bd993e1937ae82eb3c54d2a36788608fd into 5485b3abccb221a304af5630545e02fd90d272f0). The spin/MPI and multiblock session executes both spin and non-spin test_multiblock_halo_survives_neighbor_rebuild cases and reports 8 passed. The subsequent long-range session also executes and reports 8 passed. These are actual test results, not the separate gate-only CUDA workflow.
This supersedes the earlier qualification failure for the tested current integration. It does not erase the historical failure or establish a general absence of numerical issues. The CUDA C++ and both pt_expt Python shards have also completed successfully; the other Python shard is still running, so the overall CUDA workflow is not yet complete. No new source review or blanket approval is implied.
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Summary
Add configurable message-passing depth to DPA4C and support compressed deployment of multi-block models.
descriptor.n_blocksdefaults to 1. Additional attention blocks read neighboring environments;rcutaccepts one value or a non-increasing per-block list. Existing single-block behavior remains the default, and older descriptor records load as one block.The three requested feature commits are preserved as separate cherry-picks. A follow-up fix found during independent review replaces an ambiguous zero-edge reshape with its explicit feature width and extends the existing empty-graph tests in both NumPy and PT-expt.
Validation
Python 3.13 / PyTorch 2.13, CPU:
Total: 340 passed, 9 skipped. Before the empty-edge fix, the extended regression produced 16 failures and 16 passes; both backends now pass the zero-node and isolated-atom cases.
Seven changed C/C++ interface and communication translation units passed syntax-only compilation with the existing build's compiler flags and this branch's source headers. Repository-wide Ruff and format checks, scoped isort, Markdown/CMake/C++ formatting checks, custom Pylint checks, and the follow-up commit's pre-commit hooks passed.
Verification limits
Python imports were checked against this PR checkout. Tests needing native operators preloaded an existing operator library with matching multi-block/halo/long-range schemas; this was not a fresh build of the PR. The C++ checks did not link or execute a rebuilt library.
GPU execution, a fresh CUDA/Kokkos build, real multi-rank MPI, and end-to-end performance measurements were not rerun in this delivery. The self-send checks exercise halo ordering on one rank and do not establish multi-rank MPI correctness. Performance measurements recorded in the original feature commits were not independently repeated here.
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