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fix(vacuum): bound isolated graph references and preserve export kernels - #6080

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Summary

Fixes #6076 and supersedes #6079, retaining its module-local NumPy buffer-device fix and CPU-before-fold export ordering.

This addresses both excessive vacuum-reference allocation and a CUDA-target DPA4 export regression introduced by moving the eager fold to CPU.

Changes

  • Evaluate DPA4/DPA4C isolated references using one node per type and two masked guard edges, instead of sizing a dense neighbor list from get_nnei(). DPA4C's [999999] graph sentinel must not become almost one million padded neighbors per type.
  • Introduce an explicit supports_graph_vacuum() capability. DPA4/DPA4C opt in; legacy DPA1/DPA2 reference semantics and explicit graph-disable routing remain unchanged. Preserve type, charge and native-spin conditioning.
  • During export, temporarily reconstruct only descriptors requiring references on the CPU with reference kernels. Fold under torch.no_grad(), retaining bias/reference tables on the original fittings, then restore deployment descriptors and their optimized bindings before fake tracing. Runtime graph-disable state and environment settings are restored, including failure paths.
  • Retain fix(pt_expt): fold vacuum reference on CPU tracing device (#6076) #6079's device-selection fix for NumPy buffer assignments, including newly materialized nonpersistent reference tables.

Simply moving a CUDA-bound float32 DPA4 model to CPU does not unbind its CUDA-only operators. Conversely, disabling deployment kernels throughout tracing would silently lose acceleration. The scoped reference-descriptor context avoids both problems without reconstructing the whole folded model or losing vacuum_table through serialization.

Regression coverage

  • Allocation guards prohibit querying dense capacity or calling the dense adapter for graph references, including sentinel values 999999 and 1999999.
  • Float32/float64 DPA4/DPA4C, charge/native-spin combinations, empty/masked edges, and nonzero learned conditioning.
  • Nonzero-mean DPA1 legacy reference energies and disabled graph lowering.
  • Export order, CUDA-only operator dispatch without a CPU implementation, preservation of the optimized operator in fake tracing, fparam/aparam reference tables, restoration after failures, and no-reference fast exit.

Validation

  • 40 passed: new graph-reference tests, new export-reference tests, and common wrapper tests, using current Python source and a freshly rebuilt CPU PyTorch extension (MPI disabled because this host lacks MPI headers; TensorFlow build disabled).
  • 44 passed: graph-reference tests plus existing dpmodel vacuum and capability coverage.
  • 36 passed: broader export/kernel-policy/vacuum suite, including actual CPU .pt2/.pte compilation, fparam .pt2, and archive reserialization/refreezing. This run used the existing installed CPU native library with current Python source.
  • Additional independent checks covered mixed DPA4+DPA4C linear and native-spin models, nonpersistent tables and restoration of original descriptor objects.
  • Repository-wide Ruff check/format and git diff --check passed.

Memory sanity check

An untrained default-size DPA4C descriptor with the bundled 89-element OMat24 type map, float64 and charge/native-spin conditioning, retained its actual get_nnei() == 999999. Vacuum evaluation produced finite (89, 207) output in approximately 0.01–0.03 s, with about 34 MiB incremental process peak RSS. This is a CPU sanity check, not a benchmark of the reporter's pretrained checkpoint or a directly comparable speedup claim.

Not verified

  • Real CUDA kernel execution and CUDA-target AOT compilation on GPU hardware.
  • Full large pretrained-checkpoint GPU/host peak-memory benchmarking.

The CPU dispatch regression uses an operator without a CPU implementation and checks fake-trace preservation; it is not presented as a GPU integration test.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Vacuum-reference evaluation now supports graph-based DPA4 and DPA4C models, including when dense neighbor capacity is unavailable. Descriptors without graph-based vacuum support continue to use dense evaluation.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved consistency of vacuum-reference folding during model export, including preserving model settings and keeping folding on the CPU.
    • Corrected buffer assignment so arrays follow the model’s device when possible, rather than always using the default device.

cmpatter and others added 2 commits October 15, 2026 17:04
Freezing with vacuum_ref ran fold_vacuum_reference before moving the
model to the CPU tracing device, so vacuum_descriptor could OOM on CUDA.
Moving to CPU first avoids that allocation on the GPU.

fold_vacuum_reference replaces bias_atom_e (and may set vacuum_table)
through numpy assignment. dpmodel_setattr previously always placed those
buffers on env.DEVICE, so a fold after Module.to("cpu") pulled tensors
back to CUDA and broke FakeTensor tracing. Place new buffers on the
module's current device instead.
Compute graph-native isolated references without dense sel padding.
Keep legacy descriptor reference semantics behind an explicit capability.
Fold on CPU reference descriptors without autograd, restoring deployment
kernels and retaining fitting reference tables before fake tracing.

Add allocation, conditioning, dispatch, export-order and restoration tests.
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Graph-capable descriptors evaluate vacuum references through isolated graph nodes. Other descriptors use dense evaluation. Export moves the model to CPU before vacuum-reference folding and temporarily installs CPU reference descriptors. NumPy buffer assignments use the module’s device.

Changes: Vacuum reference evaluation and folding

Layer / File(s) Summary
Graph vacuum evaluation
deepmd/dpmodel/atomic_model/dp_atomic_model.py, deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/*.py, source/tests/common/dpmodel/test_vacuum_descriptor_graph.py, source/tests/pt_expt/model/test_legacy_vacuum_ref.py
BD adds a graph-vacuum capability hook, and DPA4 and DPA4C opt in. DPAtomicModel.vacuum_descriptor uses isolated graph nodes when graph lowering and descriptor support are enabled. Unsupported descriptors use the dense path. Tests cover graph and dense evaluation, vacuum conditions, gradients, and folding equivalence.
Module-device buffer assignment
deepmd/pt_expt/common.py, source/tests/pt_expt/utils/test_common.py
NumPy arrays assigned as buffers use the device of an existing same-name buffer, the first parameter, or the first non-null buffer, falling back to env.DEVICE. Tests check device selection and tensor values.
CPU vacuum-reference folding
deepmd/pt_expt/utils/serialization.py, source/tests/pt_expt/model/test_dpa4_vacuum_ref.py, source/tests/pt_expt/utils/test_serialization_vacuum_ref.py
Export moves the model to CPU before folding and temporarily installs CPU reference descriptors. The context restores descriptors, device, and environment state. Tests cover export, restoration after failures, preserved graph-lowering settings, and CPU residency.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Export as _trace_and_export_impl
  participant Context as _cpu_reference_descriptors
  participant Model as DPAtomicModel
  Export->>Model: Move model to CPU
  Export->>Context: Install CPU reference descriptors
  Export->>Model: Fold vacuum reference without gradients
  Context->>Model: Restore original descriptors and device state
  Export->>Model: Continue tracing
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Linked Issues check Passed The PR meets the coding requirements in [#6076]. DPAtomicModel.vacuum_descriptor() uses bounded graph inputs for graph-capable DPA4 and DPA4C descriptors, so it does not allocate from get_nnei(). …
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes remain within [#6076]. The graph-vacuum capability and bounded-reference tests address excessive vacuum allocation. The CPU reference-descriptor context, NumPy buffer-device selection, and…
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The PR meets the coding requirements in [#6076]. DPAtomicModel.vacuum_descriptor() uses bounded graph inputs for graph-capable DPA4 and DPA4C descriptors, so it does not allocate from get_nnei(). The export path moves the model to CPU before folding and folds under torch.no_grad() with temporary reference descriptors. The context restores descriptors, bindings, device state, and environment settings on success and failure. Tests cover sentinel allocation guards, conditioning, CPU residency, CUDA-only dispatch, graph-route preservation, and restoration. Real CUDA execution and large-checkpoint memory use remain unverified, as stated in the PR description.

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The changes remain within [#6076]. The graph-vacuum capability and bounded-reference tests address excessive vacuum allocation. The CPU reference-descriptor context, NumPy buffer-device selection, and export tests address CPU folding and device consistency. Legacy graph-disable behavior and reference semantics are covered as compatibility support. No unrelated change is demonstrated.

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Reviewed the exact head and the complete vacuum-reference/export diff. The bounded graph path prevents sentinel-sized allocations, preserves legacy dense semantics, and restores deployment bindings after CPU reference folding. Targeted coverage and required checks are green with CUDA labels skipped; I found no blocking issue.

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Thanks for the fix — the graph-vacuum routing and the CPU-fold ordering both look correct to me, and the regression tests genuinely exercise the previously untested paths. One blocking issue on test tolerances (inline), plus two non-blocking nits.

Note on scope: GPU-side execution is unverified (CUDA CI jobs are skipped), as you already called out in the PR description — fine for this PR, but worth tracking.

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Use precision-specific dense/graph comparison tolerances without loosening
float32 checks. Cover new buffers inheriting parameter or buffer devices
with CPU/meta distinctions, and document export test parametrizations.

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Incremental review of 1cfa25a → fd0a9cd:

  • Only three test files changed. Both float64 comparison sites now use 1e-12; the float32 checks were not loosened.
  • The new parameter/buffer cases distinguish module residency (meta) from the process default (cpu), covering both additional device-selection branches. The requested parametrization explanations are also present.
  • Local validation: parsed the changed tests and relevant unchanged helper, executed the exact precision-selection assignments, and checked the exact device helper with two namespace doubles. I did not run the added PyTorch tests or numerical descriptor comparisons locally.

No new issue found in this bounded delta. At the CI check, six Python shards and two C++ jobs had passed, with the remaining tests still running; docs/pre-commit passed and actual CUDA jobs were skipped. Wanghan's prior-head changes-requested review remains for their follow-up; this comment does not change that review or resolve its threads.

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Preserve the bounded, capability-gated graph vacuum route while retaining
upstream analytical bridging and node-gate handling. Remove an unsupported
redundant compute_precision keyword from the float32 export test fixture.

Validation: 63 focused tests and repository-wide Ruff checks pass with a
fresh CPU native extension. Bridged DPA4/DPA4C probes cover 16 reference
cases and 48 before/after-fold comparisons at 1e-12 tolerance.

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- Line 437: Update forward_atomic_graph so it appends vacuum frames only when
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Comment thread deepmd/dpmodel/atomic_model/dp_atomic_model.py
Append isolated reference frames only for descriptors that opt into graph
vacuum evaluation. DPA1 and DPA2 now use the same differentiable dense
reference in graph inference and folding; DPA4/C keep the shared graph call.

Cover nonzero normalization, unconditioned and fparam/aparam folding, and
parameter-gradient parity. Eight regressions fail numerically before the
fix; 80 related tests pass afterward, with two GPU tests skipped.
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All three threads from my earlier review are addressed and verified at the current head: fd0a9cd splits the tolerances per precision (float64 now compared at 1e-12) and adds the _module_buffer_device branch coverage with the meta-device canary; 8ac623c keeps the dense vacuum reference for legacy graph descriptors, exactly as the earlier thread suggested. The added tests fail on the pre-fix code and pass at head. CI is genuinely green (54 pass; the 4 skips are release- and GPU-gated, matching the profile of recently merged PRs). Approving.

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[BUG][pt_expt][DPA4C] Freezing with vacuum_ref=True causes CUDA OOM during vacuum-reference folding

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