feat(bridging): analytical short-range bridging for DPA4 and DPA4C

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Summary

Add analytical short-range zone bridging to DPA4C and revise DPA4/SeZM bridging so that close pairs are handled by an analytical repulsion while the learned descriptor and readout are protected from unsupported short-range inputs.

The changes connect the bridging window to training-frame selection, support the analytical term in DPA4C's fused CPU/CUDA deployment paths, and add the NLH analytical potential and the MPtraj isolated-atom energy preset.

This PR is independent of the CUDA build-time optimization in #6044 and does not include private scripts or documentation.

Motivation

Adding a repulsive pair energy alone does not constrain how a learned model responds to extremely short distances. The descriptor can still extrapolate outside its training range, and the resulting learned contribution can oppose the analytical wall or propagate the close pair's features into neighboring atoms.

The bridging window therefore coordinates three parts of the calculation: the distance seen by the learned descriptor, the amplitude of its messages/readout, and the frames retained for training. The analytical pair term remains a separate contribution to the total energy.

Configuration and shared representation

Bridging is opt-in through model.bridging_method, accepting "zbl" or "nlh". For example, add the following model options to an otherwise complete DPA4 input:

{
  "model": {
    "type": "dpa4",
    "bridging_method": "zbl"
  }
}

For DPA4C, the same option is set on a standard energy model whose descriptor has "type": "dpa4c". Complete inputs are provided in examples/water/dpa4/input-zbl.json and examples/water/dpa4c/input-zbl.json.

The concise configuration expands through one shared normalizer into a linear_ener composition with weights: "sum": the learned model plus an inner_potential model. Explicit compositions use the same window resolution and model-option routing.

By default, each pair's inner and outer radii are respectively 0.26 and 0.80 times the sum of its elements' covalent radii. bridging_fraction_inner and bridging_fraction_outer adjust those fractions. Supplying both bridging_r_inner and bridging_r_outer instead selects a common absolute window in angstroms. Element names and the requirement that the window fit inside the neighbor cutoff are validated.

The bridging radii control the protection of the learned model. They do not define a switch that removes the analytical term at the bridging outer radius: the analytical pair energy is added for pairs inside the interaction cutoff.

Model behavior

DPA4 / SeZM

• Replace the source-message gate with a leave-one-out product of pair-switch amplitudes and fold it into the edge envelope. An atom in a frozen close pair is suppressed in messages to its other neighbors, while the two atoms of that pair can still see one another at the protected distance.
• Add a fitting/readout gate that fades the learned atomic energy to the bias of its type. Preserve that reference when folding vacuum_ref during freezing, rather than fading the energy to an unrelated zero.
• Use a C3-continuous distance clamp. Its freeze point is r_inner + 0.4 * (r_outer - r_inner), just below the midpoint used by the training-frame filter; the clamp rejoins the true distance at the outer radius.
• Keep the PT and shared dpmodel implementations aligned and carry the gates through the PT-expt graph and accelerated paths.

DPA4C

• Compute the pair-muting switch from the true separation. Inside the inner radius, the pair no longer contributes to either atom's learned descriptor, leaving its direct interaction to the analytical potential.
• Couple that amplitude switch to a smooth radial-distance clamp: the descriptor distance is held at the window midpoint below the inner radius and returns to the true distance at the outer radius.
• Preserve the compact canonical graph representation when compressing the composed model. The fused CPU and CUDA descriptor kernels evaluate the analytical pair term in their existing neighbor traversal, with the associated force/virial contributions.
• Carry the implementation through compressed, canonical, and graph-lower routes, including native spin, charge-state conditioning, and ghost/communication inputs. The analytical term depends on separation, not spin, so magnetic-force contributions remain those of the learned model.

The DPA4 and DPA4C clamps deliberately implement different descriptor mechanisms; their shared window parameters do not imply identical clamp formulas.

Analytical potentials and reference energies

• ZBL: retain the screened nuclear-repulsion option.
• NLH: add the Nordlund–Lehtola–Hobler functional form using a bundled, symmetric per-element-pair coefficient table shared by the backend-independent model and fused deployment paths. The bundled coefficients are this project's own refit, not the coefficients published by the original authors; source and model documentation record the reference-data provenance, attribution, and fit-specific choices. Pairs beyond the reference data's uranium coverage use ZBL-based coefficients.
• MPtraj output bias: add preset_out_bias: {"energy": "mptraj"} with 89 isolated-atom reference energies, using the final VASP free energy TOTEN in eV, and document it alongside the existing named tables.

This PR does not claim that NLH improves trained-model accuracy over ZBL; that requires a separate comparison.

Training, statistics, and fine-tuning

• Derive the training-frame exclusion threshold from the midpoint of each element pair's bridging window. A bridged model must leave training_data.min_pair_dist unset so that two independently configured thresholds cannot disagree.
• Evaluate pair clearance per batch with a bounded slab scan, rather than constructing a full pair-distance matrix. Integrate the selection with the NumPy and LMDB data paths and retain consistent frame slicing for labels and auxiliary inputs.
• In distributed training, agree over a CPU/Gloo process group whether every rank has valid training frames before advancing the step. This keeps ranks in lockstep when a local batch is filtered out.
• Apply the same model-derived filter to data statistics and dp change-bias. Validation batches remain unfiltered.
• Evaluate the vacuum descriptor on the graph route and preserve the preset/readout reference through model composition and freezing.
• Support fine-tuning between plain and bridged models while locating the same learned descriptor/fitting parameters across the composition boundary.

As documented, set-by-statistic still fits the bias to raw labels. change-by-statistic uses the complete model prediction, including the analytical pair contribution, when computing the residual bias correction.

Bridging is not a substitute for short-range training data: retained labels should reach into the transition window. Enabling it on an existing unbridged model changes the descriptor and summed energy, so fine-tuning is required.

Serialization and compatibility

• Unbridged descriptor records remain unaffected by the bridging-specific version check.
• Bridged DPA4 checkpoints and portable records older than format version 1.3 are rejected consistently by PT and PT-expt. Their weights were trained with the preceding clamp/message/readout semantics and cannot be reinterpreted as the revised model.
• Legacy absolute-radius option names are normalized to the common window representation.
• Plain/bridged fine-tuning, composition capabilities, type-map changes, and graph-route vacuum references are covered by the accompanying changes and tests.

Breaking changes for PT users

• A positive training_data.min_pair_dist is rejected on bridged models. Remove it: the frame-filter threshold is derived from the bridging window.
• The default window changes from the common absolute radii 0.5/0.8 Å to pair-dependent fractions 0.26/0.80 of the covalent-radius sum. Set both bridging_r_inner and bridging_r_outer to retain an absolute window. A half-specified radius pair is rejected even when bridging is disabled; remove both unused keys from an unbridged input.
• atom_exclude_types masks only the excluded atom's output; its partner retains its own half of the analytical pair energy. Use pair_exclude_types when the pair interaction itself must be removed.
• DeepSpin (the virtual-atom spin scheme) no longer supports bridging. Use the native-spin scheme for bridged DPA4/SeZM or DPA4C models; native-spin bridging remains supported.

Tests and verification

The commit adds or updates coverage for:

• shared configuration expansion, pair-dependent windows, clamp/switch boundaries, analytical potentials, and node/readout gates;
• PT/dpmodel DPA4 parity, native-spin bridging, vacuum-reference freezing, and plain/bridged fine-tuning;
• DPA4C's analytical-only close-pair limit, force finite differences, serialization, isolated-atom references, and native-spin behavior;
• compressed DPA4C CPU/CUDA and canonical/graph-lower parity, including energy, force, virial, and export routes;
• pair-clearance filtering under periodic boundaries, padded atoms, NumPy/LMDB storage, statistics, and distributed training.

Scoped local regression checks pass on CPU (83 tests and 6 subtests), including legacy checkpoint rejection, plain-to-bridged fine-tuning, portable round-trips, and PT/PT-expt bridging parity. Eight focused tests pass on an NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU, exercising the fused fitting gate and DPA4C energy-force route; the operator-unavailable scenario skips its two fused tests. The fused gate checks cover tanh/silu, zero/one/intermediate gate values, descriptor and gate gradients, and vacuum references before and after folding. Repository Ruff, scoped pre-commit, and diff checks pass. Hosted full-suite results remain reported by the PR checks; no performance improvement is claimed.

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• New Features

  • Added DPA4C zone bridging with ZBL and NLH potentials, pair-specific transition windows, and compressed inference support.
  • Added covalent- or absolute-scale bridging windows to DPA4 and SeZM, with learned energies fading toward their reference values.
  • Training can filter frames by pair clearance, including thresholds derived from bridging windows. Added the MPtraj reference-energy preset.
  • Added fitting-statistics recomputation and fine-tuning between plain and bridged models.

• Compatibility

  • DeepSpin (virtual-atom) spin models do not support analytical bridging; native-spin bridging remains supported. Hybrid descriptors reject bridged child descriptors.

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This pull request adds pair-contact-scaled bridging windows and readout gates to DPA4, DPA4C, and SeZM. It extends ZBL and NLH potential support, including compressed DPA4C paths, and replaces minimum-distance frame checks with pair-margin filtering for training and statistics.

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Bridging, analytical potentials, and pair-margin filtering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pair-relative descriptor windows and readout gates deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/*, deepmd/pt/model/descriptor/*, deepmd/dpmodel/fitting/*, deepmd/pt/model/task/*, deepmd/dpmodel/atomic_model/*, deepmd/utils/bridging.py, deepmd/utils/element_radii.py	DPA4, DPA4C, and SeZM use fractional pair-contact windows with covalent or absolute scaling. Edge caches fold leave-one-out gates into edge envelopes and retain per-node gates for fitting networks. Serialization and model construction handle the window settings.
Analytical potentials and compressed DPA4C paths deepmd/dpmodel/atomic_model/inner_potential.py, deepmd/pt/model/model/sezm_model.py, deepmd/pt_expt/kernels/dpa4c/*, deepmd/pt_expt/model/*, source/op/pt/dpa4c/*	Pair tables support ZBL and NLH. Compressed DPA4C operators accept contact radii, window bounds, and optional pair tables; backward paths include pair energies and gradients.
Pair-margin filtering and supporting integration deepmd/dpmodel/utils/*, deepmd/utils/data.py, deepmd/utils/model_stat.py, deepmd/pt/train/training.py, deepmd/pt_expt/train/training.py, deepmd/utils/argcheck.py, doc/model/*, examples/water/*	Data requirements derive dimensionless pair margins from absolute or covalent thresholds. Training and statistics filter frames using the derived margins. Configuration, documentation, examples, and tests cover these paths.

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Create the Gloo validity group on every rank in lockstep.

dist.new_group is a collective call. Every rank must call it in the same order. _validity_group() runs lazily, on the first all_ranks_have_valid_frames call. Every rank reaches that call together inside _next_training_batch, so the creation order holds today. A later caller that runs on a subset of ranks can deadlock. A safer design creates the group eagerly in Trainer.__init__ when has_min_pair_filter and distributed training are both active.

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Coverage: reviewed the complete change inventory and traced the configuration/window expansion, DPA4/SeZM clamp/message/readout gates, vacuum-reference handling, model composition, DPA4C compressed/canonical integration, native-spin/exclusion behavior, analytical potential tables, serialization and fine-tuning, and training/statistics/NumPy/LMDB filtering. The fused-path review covered all nine changed C++/CUDA implementation files, including ABI argument ordering, CPU/GPU chain rules, energy/force accumulation, padding, masking and tiled offsets. Relevant new tests and prior comments were checked; already reported valid issues were not duplicated.

Verification: exact-source-derived focused reproductions confirmed the missing-type-map failure and the distributed NumPy retry-budget failure. The legacy fine-tuning finding is supported by the state-copy → version restoration → portable serialization → deserialization call chain. These are not end-to-end package test runs; no local deepmd/PyTorch build or numerical suite was run, and no repository code was changed.

Exact-head CI: the returned GitHub Actions workflows are successful. The CUDA run https://github.com/deepmodeling/deepmd-kit/actions/runs/37272448034 includes actual DPA4C CUDA/bridging tests and C++/LAMMPS execution; the Python CUDA job reports 13939 passed and 8682 skipped. That does not establish execution of every CPU fused path. ReadTheDocs remains a failing external status (https://app.readthedocs.org/projects/deepmd/builds/34938506/); its cause was not diagnosed here.

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Reviewed delta: 5138623 → d26b037

The three P2 findings from my prior review are addressed in this head:

• DeepmdData retains the supplied model type map when optional type_map.raw is absent, while the mandatory-map check remains enforced.
• The pt_expt frame filter uses the local reader pass length rather than the distributed optimizer epoch length. NumPy readers retain the full replicated pass; LMDB reports the consumed pass's length, including across a prefetch boundary where the next pass has a different batch count.
• Plain DPA4/SeZM 1.2 states migrate to 1.3 without changing their forward semantics. PT fine-tuning loads and migrates the pretrained model before copying its state into the bridged target, so the portable record receives the current version. The migration does not silently upgrade old bridged 1.2 records.

Reviewed the implementation and added regressions for those paths, the dependency-pin cleanup, and the integration with merged master. The already-reviewed upstream #6047/#6019 changes were separated from this delta. No new substantive source defect found.

Verification: focused executions of extracted exact-head source passed for constructor map retention/mandatory-map rejection, two-frame filter retries at world sizes 1/2/4, iterator pass-length bookkeeping across 5→4→6 prefetch boundaries, and both backend migration functions (including legacy spin migration once and old bridged non-upgrade). These probes use isolated surrounding dependencies; they are not full package, LMDB multiprocessing, PyTorch, model-training, or numerical/GPU test runs. The fine-tune state-copy chain was traced in source, and the new end-to-end regression was inspected but not executed locally.

At this check, exact-head pre-commit, CodeQL, Build C++, Build C library, and PyPI-build workflows pass. Python, C++, and the actual CUDA test run remain in progress (CUDA: https://github.com/deepmodeling/deepmd-kit/actions/runs/37577325964). ReadTheDocs still fails: https://app.readthedocs.org/projects/deepmd/builds/34985320/. CodeRabbit's green status accompanies an explicit skipped-incremental-review message, so it is not evidence of fresh coverage. This follow-up records resolution of the source findings, not completion of pending CI.

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[njzjz-bot]

Agent: dot
Reviewed commit: d26b037

One new P2 regression was exposed by the now-completed Python CI: retaining the supplied model type map changes the reader's type count for the supported TensorFlow virtual-spin dataset layout. The inline finding traces the failing existing test to the added constructor assignment.

Verification: ran the exact parent/head DeepmdData constructor and type-count/natoms-vector methods, with filesystem/loading surroundings isolated and the repository's actual model_spin/type.raw input. Parent produces [48, 48, 16, 16, 16]; this head produces [48, 48, 16, 16]. The Test Python (9, 3.10) job reports the corresponding setup error in source/tests/tf/test_init_frz_model_spin.py::TestInitFrzModelR::test_single_frame: a (4,) natoms vector is fed to a (5,) placeholder. That job reports 1,067 passed, 223 skipped and one error: https://github.com/deepmodeling/deepmd-kit/actions/runs/37577087250/job/112648288869. The CI merge-ref tree was verified identical to this head. No full TensorFlow/package or GPU tests were run locally.

This is a new compatibility regression in the latest fix; it does not reopen the three separately addressed findings in my previous review. C++ and actual CUDA test workflows are still running. No code changes or CI actions were performed.

[njzjz-bot]

Agent: dot

Reviewed delta d26b037 → eabafee. The virtual-spin type-count finding in review5438809427 is addressed. DeepmdData stores model element names separately for pair-margin thresholds while restoring the numeric reader type domain. Existing model_spin input again produces [48,48,16,16,16], including its unnamed virtual type; covalent filtering without optional type_map.raw still receives model names and unused named elements.

Exact parent/head constructor and natoms-method probes reproduced the four-entry failure and confirmed the repaired vector. Additional source probes cover reordered maps, dataset-only names, missing maps with unused elements, mixed remapping/-1 padding, absolute unnamed types, and rejection of missing/incomplete covalent maps or mandatory/incompatible maps. No new substantive delta defect found; the three earlier findings remain resolved.

These isolated probes use the real fixture/methods with filesystem/radius surroundings isolated, not full TensorFlow/package training. Author-reported full spin train/freeze and107tests/20subtests were not rerun locally. Pre-commit/CodeQL/C++ and C-library builds/PyPI-build checks pass; Python shard9, C++ tests and actual CUDA run37717016447 remain running, while a separate green trigger skipped GPU jobs. RTD still fails. This records source resolution, not completed hosted validation. No code fixes or CI actions were performed.

[njzjz-bot]

Agent: dot

CI follow-up for unchanged eabafee: the previously failing Python shard 9 now passed, and its log explicitly shows source/tests/tf/test_init_frz_model_spin.py passing. The main group reports 1,044 passed / 202 skipped, followed by 14 passing secondary tests. This confirms the specific virtual-spin regression gate in hosted execution, beyond the source probes in review5450887269.

Job: https://github.com/deepmodeling/deepmd-kit/actions/runs/37716106253/job/113112808657

The full Python workflow and actual CUDA suites are still running; this is not an all-CI or GPU completion claim. No workflow action was taken.

[njzjz-bot]

Agent: dot

Actual CUDA run37717016447 has now completed successfully for eabafee: https://github.com/deepmodeling/deepmd-kit/actions/runs/37717016447 . Both GPU jobs executed; this is not the separate skipped trigger run.

Python CUDA job113115701940 reports 14,016 passed / 8,708 skipped. The log shows the DPA4C CUDA descriptor and bridging suites executing, and test_init_frz_model_spin.py passing. C++ CUDA job113115702274 passed all4 CTests, then285 LAMMPS tests /18 skipped and8 further tests. The aggregate succeeded at08:14:21 UTC.

Together with the completed CPU Python/C++ workflows, this provides hosted execution evidence for the reviewed repair. Skipped cases and the separate documentation/coverage checks retain their own status; no claim of universal coverage or merge approval is made. No workflow activation, rerun, code change or merge action was performed by this review.

[wanghan-iapcm]

Reviewed at eabafee4. What I checked: the four fix commits each against their parent with the head tests kept (spin env_protection routing: 3 failed pre-fix, 28 passed at head; the three regressions fixed in the d26b037 merge: element names without type_map.raw, filter retry bound, 1.2 plain records upgraded, each with a committed test failing pre-fix and passing at head, the real one being test_finetune -k legacy_plain_finetune; virtual spin types: 2 failed pre-fix, 6 passed at head). The 0b30af1 CUDA contact-radius read cannot be verified here (no GPU), and since the out-of-bounds read's result is discarded by the following continue, the new padding-type test most likely passes pre-fix as well; CI's CUDA job passed at head. Numerically, dpmodel and pt_expt agree on a bridged DPA4C model to 9e-13 eV across ZBL absolute, ZBL covalent and NLH; beyond the outer radius the bridged energy minus the plain twin equals an independent minimum-image ZBL double loop to 7e-14, open and periodic. Serialization versions are bumped with compatibility paths; the example is registered in test_examples.py; no array-API violations in the new dpmodel code. C++/CUDA/LAMMPS kernels were reviewed statically only: same series, same row index, V/2 per directed edge, same window formulas and chain rule as dpmodel.

Blocking, inline: a pre-PR bridged pt checkpoint at record version 1.2 loads silently through the state-dict path and is then refused on serialize/deserialize (sezm.py). Two non-blocking inline notes on tests.

One request for the PR description: several behaviour changes in the stable pt backend are not listed there. An explicit min_pair_dist on a bridged model is now a ValueError although the base docs and example set it; the default window moved from 0.5/0.8 A absolute to 0.26/0.80 covalent, and a single radius now raises even on an unbridged config; atom-excluded pairs now keep V/2 on the partner; and deepspin plus bridging is refused where it was previously supported (about 150 lines of tests removed). A short "breaking changes for pt users" paragraph would cover them.

CI: 59 checks, 56 pass, 2 skipping (release jobs), 1 fail (readthedocs, a toolchain error shared by every open PR). The CUDA and C++ jobs ran and passed on this head. All 13 threads resolved.

[OutisLi]

The review fixes are published in d3b3b66, following independent review and focused CPU/GPU validation.

The PR description now includes a "Breaking changes for PT users" section covering the positive min_pair_dist conflict, the absolute-to-covalent default-window change and paired-radius requirement, the retained partner half-energy under atom exclusions, and the removal of DeepSpin bridging support. It explicitly distinguishes the virtual-atom scheme from supported native-spin bridging and explains the consistent checkpoint/portable-record rejection policy. The original preparation-only validation note has also been replaced with the completed local checks.

Validation: 83 CPU tests and 6 subtests, plus 8 actual GPU tests, passed; the operator-unavailable scenario skips the two fused tests. Repository Ruff, scoped pre-commit, and diff checks pass. The new head's hosted CI is separate from these local results.

[wanghan-iapcm]

The three threads from the previous review are addressed. Pre-1.3 bridged states are now refused on the load_state_dict route in both pt and pt_expt/dpmodel, and I confirmed the new regression tests fail with the previous sezm.py/dpa4.py restored and pass at this head. The fused DPA4C route test is gated on the operator. The fused node_gate path now has fused-vs-portable tests covering outputs, closed-gate references and gradients, which ran on CUDA CI.

Two non-blocking notes inline.

[wanghan-iapcm]

Non-blocking. The check now reads the receiving descriptor's bridging_f_inner. A state_dict carries no trace of whether it was bridged, because plain and bridged SeZM states have identical keys. As a result, a plain pre-1.3 checkpoint loaded directly into a bridged model is refused, e.g. dp --pt train bridged.json --init-model plain.pt or --init-frz-model. The error reads "This bridged DPA4 record was written at format version 1.2 ... its weights were trained under a different function of the geometry. Retrain the bridged model." That diagnosis is wrong for this case: the weights were never bridged, and --finetune from the same checkpoint works, because the pretrained wrapper upgrades the plain state to 1.3 first.

Refusing is a reasonable conservative choice. Could the message instead say that a state older than 1.3 cannot be loaded into a bridged descriptor, and point plain checkpoints to --finetune?

The docstrings should match too:

• _migrate_variables, here and in deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/dpa4.py, still says an unbridged 1.2 state "adopts the current record version ... so later fine-tuning can enable the current window".
• check_bridging_record_version in deepmd/utils/bridging.py says "An unbridged record of any version is unaffected", and documents config as the record's constructor arguments.

A small test that loads a plain 1.2 state into a bridged model via load_state_dict would pin the intended contract.

[wanghan-iapcm]

Nit: please add trailing comments to the new parametrize lines, e.g. # activation_function and # vacuum reference: none / passed per call / folded into the bias. The same applies to the version parametrize in source/tests/pt_expt/model/test_zbl_bridging.py:497, e.g. # stored descriptor version; None = untagged checkpoint.