[macqueen09]

Submitted by Hunan University.

Summary

Reduce frozen FP32 SO(2) backward latency by completing all layers for one cohort of at most 8192 edges, then reusing the same bounded scratch for the next cohort. Native GEMM arithmetic and column parallelism are retained. Saved activations and returned gradients keep their full graph extent; only owned scratch is overwritten.

On RTX 5090, the measured full-model energy/force/virial/stress evaluation is 4.350% faster at 1000 atoms and 4.297% faster at 4096 atoms, with lower allocated peaks. All three process pairs improve at each size.

End-to-end results

Baseline: upstream 1f9555e780b4ac1bc90288843eab3b84bde1d6d7; feature qualification: 17819db3, integrated with that baseline. DPA4-Neo OMat24 v20260627, RTX 5090, PyTorch 2.11.0+cu128, Triton 3.6.0, FP32, TF32/AMP off. This follow-up only guards the CPU/optional-dependency import and adds a regression; it leaves the measured CUDA kernels and scheduling unchanged.

Atoms	BASE P50	ECS P50	Paired frame-time reduction	Steady allocated peak BASE → ECS	Full-window allocated peak BASE → ECS	Allocated memory saved
1000	38.7495 ms	37.0682 ms	4.350%	5.464736 → 5.449027 GB	5.464736 → 5.449027 GB	15.709 MB (0.287%)
4096	153.0256 ms	146.4087 ms	4.297%	22.313547 → 22.256559 GB	22.313547 → 22.256559 GB	56.988 MB (0.255%)

Three fresh-process pairs per size, in BASE→ECS / ECS→BASE / BASE→ECS order; 12 warmups and 30 synchronized full-ASE wall-time samples per process. P50 values are medians of process medians; paired changes are geometric means of within-pair ratios. The improvement ranges across pairs are 4.214–4.496% / 4.268–4.324%. GB/MB are decimal. Full-window peaks include first inference under the recorded compiler-cache history; timing excludes compilation. Runtime observations confirm 158002/647170 edges and 20/80 cohorts.

Detailed measurements, input/checkpoint identities, numerical comparisons and reproduction.

Review follow-up and selection

Latest fix: 301dd576.

• Uses the existing DP_TRITON_INFER mechanism; no extra public ECS switch or acceleration level.
• Selection is limited to the validated FP32 two-focus, two-gated-layer Neo layout, with matching dtype/device/contiguity. Parameter gradients, saved-state cotangents, higher derivatives and unsupported layouts retain their existing paths.
• Removed the unused single-cohort operator and threshold. The live runtime traversal preserves dynamic boundary coverage and reuses owned output for a single cohort.
• Production-entry spies cover both PT and PT-expt. Existing-level/default tests verify real constructor selection; allocation-size/identity tests verify bounded scratch and reuse for both sigmoid schedules.
• Restored optional-Triton CPU backward: the dispatcher now checks Triton availability and CUDA input before importing the cohort launcher. CPU/reference differentiation works both with and without Triton.
• Official CPU-traced exports retain native deployable backward. Export-routing regressions pass; the previously reported actual PT freeze/AOTI/load smoke test also passed with bitwise-equal energy, force and virial.
• Only implementation, necessary documentation and regression tests are included in the feature diff; local experiment reports and datasets are excluded.

CPU-only build compatibility review follow-up

Test-only follow-up: cb48ba96; 8 added lines, no production-code changes. The two Fake CUDA contract groups now require torch.backends.cuda.is_built(), as requested in review. Real CPU constructor/configuration tests and optional-Triton differentiation remain enabled.

Build / environment (Triton 3.6.0 installed)	Complete related regression suite
Actual PyTorch 2.11.0+cpu, matching CPU native extension	12 passed, 95 skipped
PyTorch 2.11.0+cu128, CUDA hidden	28 passed, 79 skipped
PyTorch 2.11.0+cu128, RTX 5090	107 passed

The unmodified tests reproduced the same 14 CPU-build failures reported in review; the guarded version has zero failures. CUDA-build coverage remains intact even without a visible GPU. Full-repository Ruff and whitespace checks pass. The end-to-end benefit measurements above are unchanged because this follow-up modifies tests only.

Validation: 107 tests passed

107 regression tests passed on RTX 5090. With CUDA hidden, 28 passed and 79 GPU-dependent tests skipped. Full-repository Ruff check, format check and whitespace checks pass.

Coverage includes:

• Native numerical equality, caller-input ownership, empty/tail/multiple cohorts and dynamic make_fx/compile boundaries at 37/8192/8193/16384/16385 edges.
• Actual ECS entry through both production backends, existing inference levels/defaults, unsupported precision/stride fallbacks, bounded allocation sizes and buffer identities.
• Export fallback and a three-step direct-stack force-loss SGD comparison: losses, gradients and updated weights match the eager reference, with ECS forbidden during training.
• Two fresh-interpreter CPU regression tests, one with Triton imports blocked: E=1/37 and alpha disabled/enabled, registered forward/autograd compared with eager reference, checking output, input gradient and applicable alpha gradient. CPU execution must not import the ECS module. Both tests failed before the fix and pass after it.

DP_TRITON_INFER=2 DP_CUDA_INFER=0 DP_TF32_INFER=0 DP_AMP_INFER=0 \
pytest source/tests/pt_expt/kernels/test_so2_optional_triton.py \
       source/tests/pt_expt/kernels/test_so2_edge_cohort.py \
       source/tests/pt_expt/kernels/test_so2_edge_cohort_contract.py \
       source/tests/pt_expt/kernels/test_so2_edge_cohort_export.py \
       source/tests/pt_expt/kernels/test_so2_workspace.py -q

All tested 1000-atom full-model comparisons pass the unchanged atol=1e-5, rtol=1e-4 criterion. At 4096 atoms, energy/forces/stress pass; default virial differences and BASE/ECS self-repeat controls remain in the linked qualification results. With matched canonical inputs and deterministic compilation, all four full-model outputs are bitwise equal at 4096 atoms. The input-control diagnostic is separate from the performance measurements.

Historical opt-in qualification and multi-model measurements

The following records retain their original revisions, baseline and former opt-in interface. Their default-off and environment-switch descriptions are historical, not the current selection contract.

Submitted by Hunan University.

Revision measured: 98a65e46d0076319f2fcb49ded77e6a93ecab6be integrated with upstream 4e1479d8. Matrix: 27 processes, 23 completed, 4 OOM (Neo4096 TORCH and Pro4096 in all three arms).

Earlier single-process Neo screening

• 1000 atoms: latency 40.817 → 39.470 ms (-3.30%; 1.034× throughput), steady allocated peak 5.464760 → 5.449051 GB (15.709 MB saved), reserved peak 6.090129 → 5.691671 GB.
• 4096 atoms: latency 156.476 → 152.964 ms (-2.24%; 1.023× throughput), steady allocated peak 22.313645 → 22.256657 GB (56.988 MB saved), reserved peak 23.953670 → 23.282582 GB.

N1000 passes against both Torch and BASE. At N4096, energy/forces/stress pass against BASE but virial does not; BASE and ECS also fail their respective repeated-run virial check. Torch N4096 runs out of memory.

Follow-up: six-round stability and default-off validation (2026-10-27)

Same revision 98a65e46, integrated with upstream 4e1479d8, same Neo checkpoint and RTX 5090 setup. At each size, six blocks cover all permutations of BASE / OFF / ECS (36 fresh processes total), with 12 warmups and 60 synchronized end-to-end samples per process. OFF is the integrated PR with DP_SO2_EDGE_COHORT_INFER unset, not a different baseline. Each size stays on one GPU. The process, not each timing sample, is the independent repeat.

Atoms	BASE ms	PR, ECS off ms	PR, ECS on ms	Paired ECS-on latency change vs BASE (95% CI)	Faster blocks
1000	40.4459	40.4491	38.7898	−4.125% [−4.204%, −4.048%]	6/6
4096	156.6777	156.6629	153.2502	−2.185% [−2.246%, −2.135%]	6/6

Times are medians of process medians; paired changes are geometric means of within-block ratios, with block-bootstrap 95% intervals (50,000 resamples). These repeated measurements supplement the earlier single-process screening below.

Atoms	BASE → ECS-on allocated peak GB	Saved MB	BASE → ECS-on reserved peak GB	Saved MB
1000	5.464760 → 5.449051	15.709	6.090129 → 5.691671	398.459
4096	22.313645 → 22.256657	56.988	23.953670 → 23.282582	671.089

Decimal GB/MB. Memory values were identical across all six repeats of each arm; both steady and full-window peaks showed these values with the existing compilation cache.

Default-off overhead: paired OFF/BASE latency changes were −0.001% (95% CI [−0.071%, +0.064%]) at 1000 atoms and −0.002% ([−0.044%, +0.048%]) at 4096 atoms. No stable latency regression was observed; allocated and reserved peaks exactly matched BASE. Runtime guards and generated-wrapper inspection confirmed no ECS calls with the switch unset.

The follow-up regression runs passed 200 tests (BASE: 26; OFF: 87; ECS: 87). N1000 inference agreement passed the unchanged tolerance in all arms; the previously reported N4096 virial variability remains. Short training checks did not enter ECS; full-model FP32 loss and updated parameters passed tolerance, but not all gradients/optimizer moments did, so full training trajectory equivalence is not claimed.

Summary

Adds an opt-in, default-off SO(2) edge-cohort backward for frozen DPA4-Neo inference. Set DP_SO2_EDGE_COHORT_INFER=1 with DP_TRITON_INFER=2 and DP_COMPILE_INFER=1 to enable it. Unsupported layouts and protected gradient paths retain the existing implementation.

Why it saves scratch memory

The native path advances each backward layer across the full edge set. This path completes the backward layers for a cohort of at most 8192 edges before advancing to the next cohort. The temporary g, gz, and sig buffers are reused across cohorts; saved activations and the returned input gradient still span all edges. This is an edge count, not an atom count. It reuses the native GEMM arithmetic and column parallelism, with separate full-graph and scratch strides for partial cohorts. Only owned scratch is overwritten; caller inputs are not mutated.

Small runtime-dispatch correction

The latest revision changes two files (35 insertions / 5 deletions): the public backward dispatcher always enters the opaque runtime operator, and a regression test traces 37 edges and then compiles/runs 37, 8193, and 16385 edges. This prevents a small make_fx/AOT example from fixing the large-input dispatch to the single-cohort trace. It does not change the numerical kernels. The complete feature diff remains two implementation files and one test file; no local benchmark data or experiment documents are included.

Validation setup

Baseline: upstream 4e1479d8a23fcc1c9baf36004d5685898ad421a8. The feature branch retains its original base; results below use its clean local integration into that upstream commit. RTX 5090; PyTorch 2.11.0+cu128; Triton 3.6.0; FP32 with TF32 and AMP disabled; expandable CUDA allocator segments; one CPU intra/inter-op thread.

TORCH = compiled PyTorch without native inference kernels; BASE = upstream native Triton inference; ECS = the updated feature enabled on the same upstream base. Each case uses the same checkpoint, device, and three deterministically perturbed diamond-carbon frames. There is one fresh process per implementation/case, three evaluations per frame for accuracy, eight timing warmups, and 30 synchronized wall-time samples. Timing includes the ASE energy/forces/stress evaluation, not just the SO(2) kernel. These are screening medians, not confidence intervals. Neo runs on GPU 0; Nano/Mini on GPU 1; Pro on GPU 0.

Checkpoints and actual dispatch

Model	Parameters	SHA-256
Mini	654988	13edeea63448c0f8a0b38e08fd8ba196fb1e2fad5f12486b1cd23320829da268
Nano	480268	ded047546c2b44a50e2c850680d77279e2bf3e107c10f1c2fe39a5c344e693f6
Neo	1124910	8d8b2b02b9575cb9e0af420cc1e8b1d9ffcbc04752c2203d29f48ccd0cd5f07d
Pro	22678990	446a6e893101fc52190cfccabb9d2328863d651aca36981fd8d3401c71a61221

Pro's checkpoint metadata uses an older fitting-type alias; the same local load-only compatibility mapping is applied in every arm. Neo's supported narrow layout is the optimization target; Nano, Mini, and Pro are compatibility/fallback checks, not claims of ECS acceleration.

Model	Atoms	Observed runtime cohorts (edges / cap / chunks)
Mini	96	fallback
Mini	4096	fallback
Nano	96	fallback
Nano	4096	fallback
Neo	96	15170 / 8192 / 2
Neo	1000	158002 / 8192 / 20
Neo	4096	647170 / 8192 / 80
Pro	96	fallback
Pro	4096	OOM

End-to-end latency

Negative change means lower latency. Compare BASE and ECS for incremental PR benefit; Torch is an additional reference.

Model	Atoms	Torch ms	BASE ms	ECS ms	ECS vs BASE
Mini	96	12.1395	11.2088	11.0013	-1.85%
Mini	4096	121.8182	60.9331	60.8809	-0.09%
Nano	96	11.1547	10.8338	10.8563	+0.21%
Nano	4096	56.5371	33.7142	33.5977	-0.35%
Neo	96	13.2083	18.2731	16.1760	-11.48%
Neo	1000	88.8057	40.8172	39.4703	-3.30%
Neo	4096	OOM	156.4762	152.9638	-2.24%
Pro	96	126.0326	66.9730	67.0494	+0.11%
Pro	4096	OOM	OOM	OOM	—

Peak GPU memory

Decimal GB (10^9 bytes). Full-window allocated includes the first inference/compile window and timed evaluations. Steady allocated resets the peak after warmup. Reserved measures allocator-held capacity, not live tensors. Caches are shared per model, in TORCH → BASE → ECS order: cold compilation/autotuning can affect full-window peaks, so fallback-model first-window differences are not ECS savings. Use the steady allocated comparison to isolate runtime capacity. OOM runs have no valid steady timing or acceptance comparison.

Model	Atoms	Torch full allocated GB	BASE full allocated GB	ECS full allocated GB	ECS vs BASE
Mini	96	0.4005	0.2863	0.1905	-33.46%
Mini	4096	12.1157	7.4532	7.4532	+0.00%
Nano	96	0.2675	0.2048	0.1042	-49.14%
Nano	4096	6.6781	3.9105	3.9105	+0.00%
Neo	96	1.1185	0.6464	0.5663	-12.39%
Neo	1000	10.3907	5.4648	5.4491	-0.29%
Neo	4096	OOM	22.3136	22.2567	-0.26%
Pro	96	11.4436	5.1397	5.0390	-1.96%
Pro	4096	OOM	OOM	OOM	—

Model	Atoms	BASE steady allocated GB	ECS steady allocated GB	BASE reserved GB	ECS reserved GB
Mini	96	0.1905	0.1905	0.3355	0.2307
Mini	4096	7.4532	7.4532	8.0950	8.0950
Nano	96	0.1042	0.1042	0.2328	0.1279
Nano	4096	3.9105	3.9105	4.1691	4.1691
Neo	96	0.5457	0.5519	0.6942	0.6501
Neo	1000	5.4648	5.4491	6.0901	5.6917
Neo	4096	22.3136	22.2567	23.9537	23.2826
Pro	96	5.0390	5.0390	5.2513	5.1464
Pro	4096	OOM	OOM	OOM	OOM

Numerical consistency

Unchanged acceptance rule: every element must satisfy abs(candidate-reference) <= 1e-5 + 1e-4*abs(reference). The table reports the worst error/tolerance ratio across energy, forces, virial, stress and all same-frame repeat pairs; ≤1 passes. Self-comparisons expose native reduction variability. These test implementation agreement, not physical accuracy against DFT. N1000 is the primary Neo accuracy case; N4096 is also reported without suppressing failures.

Model	Atoms	Comparison	Worst error/tolerance	Result
Mini	96	TORCH vs TORCH	0.615681	PASS
Mini	96	BASE vs BASE	0.695680	PASS
Mini	96	ECS vs ECS	1.337985	FAIL
Mini	96	BASE vs TORCH	0.764672	PASS
Mini	96	ECS vs TORCH	1.427887	FAIL
Mini	96	ECS vs BASE	1.398952	FAIL
Mini	4096	TORCH vs TORCH	8.128800	FAIL
Mini	4096	BASE vs BASE	5.211110	FAIL
Mini	4096	ECS vs ECS	6.999590	FAIL
Mini	4096	BASE vs TORCH	7.803240	FAIL
Mini	4096	ECS vs TORCH	10.276332	FAIL
Mini	4096	ECS vs BASE	7.762472	FAIL
Nano	96	TORCH vs TORCH	5.759477	FAIL
Nano	96	BASE vs BASE	6.251727	FAIL
Nano	96	ECS vs ECS	4.453711	FAIL
Nano	96	BASE vs TORCH	8.291340	FAIL
Nano	96	ECS vs TORCH	8.085204	FAIL
Nano	96	ECS vs BASE	4.721403	FAIL
Nano	4096	TORCH vs TORCH	3.349890	FAIL
Nano	4096	BASE vs BASE	3.316048	FAIL
Nano	4096	ECS vs ECS	1.344817	FAIL
Nano	4096	BASE vs TORCH	3.746734	FAIL
Nano	4096	ECS vs TORCH	2.501009	FAIL
Nano	4096	ECS vs BASE	2.724966	FAIL
Neo	96	TORCH vs TORCH	0.246918	PASS
Neo	96	BASE vs BASE	0.428411	PASS
Neo	96	ECS vs ECS	0.592591	PASS
Neo	96	BASE vs TORCH	0.502854	PASS
Neo	96	ECS vs TORCH	0.493832	PASS
Neo	96	ECS vs BASE	0.589677	PASS
Neo	1000	TORCH vs TORCH	0.300730	PASS
Neo	1000	BASE vs BASE	0.282585	PASS
Neo	1000	ECS vs ECS	0.337024	PASS
Neo	1000	BASE vs TORCH	0.487905	PASS
Neo	1000	ECS vs TORCH	0.493978	PASS
Neo	1000	ECS vs BASE	0.374288	PASS
Neo	4096	BASE vs BASE	2.139025	FAIL
Neo	4096	ECS vs ECS	3.961358	FAIL
Neo	4096	ECS vs BASE	3.444328	FAIL
Pro	96	TORCH vs TORCH	0.179889	PASS
Pro	96	BASE vs BASE	0.214099	PASS
Pro	96	ECS vs ECS	0.184589	PASS
Pro	96	BASE vs TORCH	0.264063	PASS
Pro	96	ECS vs TORCH	0.262394	PASS
Pro	96	ECS vs BASE	0.212429	PASS

Per-output absolute and relative errors

Relative error uses denominator max(abs(reference), 1e-8) and is descriptive, not the acceptance criterion. Energy/virial: eV; force: eV/Å; stress: eV/ų.

Model	Atoms	Comparison	Output	Max absolute error	Max relative error	Error/tolerance
Mini	96	BASE vs TORCH	energy	1.561642e-05	1.793399e-08	0.000179
Mini	96	BASE vs TORCH	forces	9.164459e-06	1.993326e-03	0.764672
Mini	96	BASE vs TORCH	virial	5.954336e-05	2.904747e-04	0.724568
Mini	96	BASE vs TORCH	stress	1.093309e-07	2.743889e-04	0.009074
Mini	96	ECS vs TORCH	energy	1.698732e-05	1.950834e-08	0.000195
Mini	96	ECS vs TORCH	forces	1.014790e-05	2.654609e-03	0.977426
Mini	96	ECS vs TORCH	virial	5.903790e-05	5.724303e-04	1.427887
Mini	96	ECS vs TORCH	stress	1.084028e-07	5.508654e-04	0.008985
Mini	96	ECS vs BASE	energy	1.859665e-05	2.135650e-08	0.000214
Mini	96	ECS vs BASE	forces	7.366963e-06	1.107072e-03	0.623415
Mini	96	ECS vs BASE	virial	4.403243e-05	5.608353e-04	1.398952
Mini	96	ECS vs BASE	stress	8.085039e-08	5.441129e-04	0.006681
Mini	4096	BASE vs TORCH	energy	1.347065e-04	3.625742e-09	0.000036
Mini	4096	BASE vs TORCH	forces	1.293050e-05	4.641266e-01	0.969827
Mini	4096	BASE vs TORCH	virial	1.236864e-03	2.346682e-03	7.803240
Mini	4096	BASE vs TORCH	stress	5.322830e-08	2.122169e-03	0.004394
Mini	4096	ECS vs TORCH	energy	1.285672e-04	3.460671e-09	0.000035
Mini	4096	ECS vs TORCH	forces	1.183595e-05	3.320838e-01	0.905794
Mini	4096	ECS vs TORCH	virial	1.257736e-03	3.090420e-03	10.276332
Mini	4096	ECS vs TORCH	stress	5.412654e-08	2.910563e-03	0.004468
Mini	4096	ECS vs BASE	energy	9.328127e-05	2.510747e-09	0.000025
Mini	4096	ECS vs BASE	forces	8.865208e-06	3.350353e-01	0.678851
Mini	4096	ECS vs BASE	virial	2.497743e-04	2.335810e-03	7.762472
Mini	4096	ECS vs BASE	stress	1.074901e-08	2.323637e-03	0.000927
Nano	96	BASE vs TORCH	energy	1.823902e-05	2.090281e-08	0.000209
Nano	96	BASE vs TORCH	forces	1.206264e-05	4.972439e-03	0.812996
Nano	96	BASE vs TORCH	virial	8.977322e-05	2.564721e-02	8.291340
Nano	96	BASE vs TORCH	stress	1.648376e-07	2.564721e-02	0.016481
Nano	96	ECS vs TORCH	energy	2.533197e-05	2.904281e-08	0.000290
Nano	96	ECS vs TORCH	forces	9.787469e-06	8.827396e-03	0.823692
Nano	96	ECS vs TORCH	virial	8.754131e-05	2.453173e-02	8.085204
Nano	96	ECS vs TORCH	stress	1.607395e-07	2.453173e-02	0.016072
Nano	96	ECS vs BASE	energy	3.272295e-05	3.750210e-08	0.000375
Nano	96	ECS vs BASE	forces	1.116579e-05	5.334655e-03	0.791467
Nano	96	ECS vs BASE	virial	5.137011e-05	2.495454e-02	4.721403
Nano	96	ECS vs BASE	stress	9.432350e-08	2.495454e-02	0.009382
Nano	4096	BASE vs TORCH	energy	4.506111e-04	1.210841e-08	0.000121
Nano	4096	BASE vs TORCH	forces	1.404241e-05	6.769194e-02	1.053942
Nano	4096	BASE vs TORCH	virial	7.144431e-04	4.335409e-04	3.746734
Nano	4096	BASE vs TORCH	stress	3.074598e-08	4.277479e-04	0.003064
Nano	4096	ECS vs TORCH	energy	4.935265e-04	1.326159e-08	0.000133
Nano	4096	ECS vs TORCH	forces	1.448540e-05	4.958943e-02	1.165918
Nano	4096	ECS vs TORCH	virial	7.956436e-04	2.708310e-04	2.501009
Nano	4096	ECS vs TORCH	stress	3.424044e-08	2.595841e-04	0.003414
Nano	4096	ECS vs BASE	energy	1.282692e-04	3.446732e-09	0.000034
Nano	4096	ECS vs BASE	forces	1.408198e-05	5.518264e-02	1.187300
Nano	4096	ECS vs BASE	virial	5.284883e-04	3.152909e-04	2.724966
Nano	4096	ECS vs BASE	stress	2.274344e-08	3.043243e-04	0.002269
Neo	96	BASE vs TORCH	energy	7.748604e-06	8.908634e-09	0.000089
Neo	96	BASE vs TORCH	forces	5.952976e-06	2.230875e-03	0.355487
Neo	96	BASE vs TORCH	virial	4.529947e-05	9.568817e-05	0.502854
Neo	96	BASE vs TORCH	stress	8.317686e-08	9.374343e-05	0.007127
Neo	96	ECS vs TORCH	energy	5.304813e-06	6.098988e-09	0.000061
Neo	96	ECS vs TORCH	forces	5.856414e-06	8.017910e-03	0.373506
Neo	96	ECS vs TORCH	virial	5.094045e-05	9.396938e-05	0.493832
Neo	96	ECS vs TORCH	stress	9.353459e-08	8.864950e-05	0.008014
Neo	96	ECS vs BASE	energy	8.463860e-06	9.730969e-09	0.000097
Neo	96	ECS vs BASE	forces	5.063990e-06	6.448498e-03	0.299279
Neo	96	ECS vs BASE	virial	2.493053e-05	1.122024e-04	0.589677
Neo	96	ECS vs BASE	stress	4.577633e-08	9.504777e-05	0.003926
Neo	1000	BASE vs TORCH	energy	2.640486e-05	2.914324e-09	0.000029
Neo	1000	BASE vs TORCH	forces	7.663981e-06	4.736570e-02	0.487905
Neo	1000	BASE vs TORCH	virial	2.462989e-04	5.002020e-05	0.436885
Neo	1000	BASE vs TORCH	stress	4.341533e-08	4.034755e-05	0.003713
Neo	1000	ECS vs TORCH	energy	1.507998e-05	1.664388e-09	0.000017
Neo	1000	ECS vs TORCH	forces	7.073846e-06	3.928089e-02	0.493978
Neo	1000	ECS vs TORCH	virial	2.700571e-04	4.024785e-05	0.355441
Neo	1000	ECS vs TORCH	stress	4.760321e-08	3.536726e-05	0.004072
Neo	1000	ECS vs BASE	energy	2.437830e-05	2.690958e-09	0.000027
Neo	1000	ECS vs BASE	forces	4.837813e-06	2.716897e-02	0.281892
Neo	1000	ECS vs BASE	virial	5.240005e-05	4.285355e-05	0.374288
Neo	1000	ECS vs BASE	stress	9.236606e-09	3.742531e-05	0.000789
Neo	4096	ECS vs BASE	energy	4.243851e-05	1.143567e-09	0.000011
Neo	4096	ECS vs BASE	forces	5.454211e-06	4.470043e-02	0.387467
Neo	4096	ECS vs BASE	virial	1.621621e-04	5.858780e-04	3.444328
Neo	4096	ECS vs BASE	stress	6.978628e-09	5.731754e-04	0.000596
Pro	96	BASE vs TORCH	energy	5.275011e-06	6.064021e-09	0.000061
Pro	96	BASE vs TORCH	forces	1.805925e-06	1.514653e-03	0.081400
Pro	96	BASE vs TORCH	virial	1.746506e-05	4.815835e-05	0.264063
Pro	96	BASE vs TORCH	stress	3.206857e-08	2.745501e-05	0.002625
Pro	96	ECS vs TORCH	energy	5.066395e-06	5.824201e-09	0.000058
Pro	96	ECS vs TORCH	forces	1.574739e-06	1.860346e-03	0.095593
Pro	96	ECS vs TORCH	virial	1.436145e-05	4.785383e-05	0.262394
Pro	96	ECS vs TORCH	stress	2.636986e-08	2.926973e-05	0.002159
Pro	96	ECS vs BASE	energy	2.890825e-06	3.323221e-09	0.000033
Pro	96	ECS vs BASE	forces	1.152785e-06	6.858512e-04	0.078825
Pro	96	ECS vs BASE	virial	7.182093e-06	3.874143e-05	0.212429
Pro	96	ECS vs BASE	stress	1.318744e-08	2.113096e-05	0.001080

Regression coverage

• 61 focused CUDA tests passed on the feature branch; 61 passed on its latest-master integration.
• New symbolic make_fx → torch.compile test verifies that large runtime inputs keep the opaque cohort route and match the native backward bit-for-bit for the checked operands.
• Existing tests cover cohort boundaries, ownership/non-mutation, unsupported layouts, parameter/saved-output gradient fallback, and higher-order protection.
• Ruff lint/format and git diff whitespace checks pass on the feature branch.

Run the focused suite with the project's PyTorch/CUDA test environment:

pytest source/tests/pt_expt/kernels/test_so2_edge_cohort.py -q

The feature remains default-off. Standalone AOTInductor/C++ deployment is not validated by the online-Python inference tests above. Multi-model failures/OOM and small-input overhead are reported rather than counted as improvements.

Reproducing the model comparison

Use a CUDA build of this revision and the same checkpoint. Run each arm in a fresh process, setting DP_COMPILE_INFER=1, DP_CUDA_INFER=0, DP_TF32_INFER=0, DP_AMP_INFER=0, DP_INTRA_OP_PARALLELISM_THREADS=1, DP_INTER_OP_PARALLELISM_THREADS=1, and PYTORCH_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True before importing DeePMD. Set DP_TRITON_INFER=0 for TORCH, or 2 for BASE/ECS; only ECS sets DP_SO2_EDGE_COHORT_INFER=1.

import numpy as np
import torch
from ase.build import bulk
from deepmd.calculator import DP

torch.set_num_threads(1)
torch.set_float32_matmul_precision('highest')
torch.backends.cuda.matmul.allow_tf32 = False
torch.backends.cudnn.allow_tf32 = False
atoms = bulk('C', 'diamond', a=3.567, cubic=True).repeat((5, 5, 5))
# (2,2,3): 96 atoms; (5,5,5): 1000; (8,8,8): 4096
rng = np.random.default_rng(0)
frames = [atoms.positions + 0.02 * rng.standard_normal(atoms.positions.shape)
          for _ in range(3)]
calc = DP(model='DPA4-Neo-OMat24-v20260627.pt')
def evaluate(pos):
    calc.reset()  # do not benchmark ASE's result cache
    sample = atoms.copy()
    sample.positions = pos
    sample.calc = calc
    forces = sample.get_forces().copy()
    return (sample.get_potential_energy(), forces,
            np.asarray(calc.results['virial']).copy(), sample.get_stress().copy())

Collect three repeats of all three frames for each arm; compare corresponding frames with the tolerance above. For timing, warm up eight evaluations, synchronize CUDA, then time 30 evaluations with synchronization after each. Record torch.cuda.max_memory_allocated() and max_memory_reserved() from before the first evaluation; separately reset peak statistics after warmup and replay 30 evaluations for steady peaks. Raw measurements and checkpoint hashes are retained locally; the tables above are the review evidence, not additional repository files.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Eligible frozen-inference SO(2) workloads can process gradients in cohorts of up to 8,192 edges, reusing temporary workspace while retaining gradients for all edges.
  • The path supports the validated FP32 layout, including zero-edge inputs. Unsupported workloads, training, and higher-order gradients continue to use existing processing.
  • Official exported models retain the native backward path; cohort processing is available through the runtime launcher.
• Documentation
  • Inference documentation describes the supported layout and runtime behavior.

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Adds bounded Triton edge-cohort backward processing for eligible frozen SO(2) inference inputs. The value path selects it when tensor layouts and parameters meet the supported conditions. Other paths retain native backward behavior.

Changes: SO(2) edge-cohort backward

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Stride-aware backward kernels deepmd/pt_expt/kernels/triton/sezm/so2_value_path.py	Backward kernels accept optional saved-activation and output edge strides. Existing call sites pass zero, preserving the existing edge-count stride.
Cohort gradient implementation deepmd/pt_expt/kernels/triton/sezm/so2_edge_cohort.py, source/tests/pt_expt/kernels/test_so2_edge_cohort.py, source/tests/pt_expt/kernels/test_so2_edge_cohort_contract.py	Adds support checks, bounded input-gradient processing, custom input- and alpha-gradient operators, and scratch reuse. Tests compare gradients with native backward and check tracing and scratch allocation behavior.
Inference dispatch and path validation deepmd/pt_expt/kernels/triton/sezm/so2_value_path.py, source/tests/pt_expt/kernels/test_so2_edge_cohort.py, source/tests/pt_expt/kernels/test_so2_edge_cohort_contract.py, source/tests/pt_expt/kernels/test_so2_edge_cohort_export.py, source/tests/pt_expt/kernels/test_so2_optional_triton.py, doc/model/dpa4.md	Selects cohort backward for supported inference inputs. Tests cover backend integration, training and higher-order paths, unsupported layouts, export tracing, and CPU operation when Triton is unavailable. Documentation describes the supported inference path and native export behavior.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MixingStackBackward
  participant SupportsEdgeCohort
  participant CohortBackward
  participant GradientOperators
  MixingStackBackward->>SupportsEdgeCohort: check tensor layouts and inference conditions
  SupportsEdgeCohort->>CohortBackward: select cohort path for supported inputs
  CohortBackward->>GradientOperators: compute input and alpha gradients

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Assert that test_frozen_dispatch enters the cohort path.

operands(37) satisfies the supported layout. The result comparison alone also passes if dispatch remains on _mixing_stack_bwd_op. Spy on ecs.cohort_backward and assert one call.

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+    calls = []
+    original = ecs.cohort_backward
+
+    def spy(*a):
+        calls.append(True)
+        return original(*a)
+
     monkeypatch.setattr(sv, "_EDGE_COHORT_INFER", True)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(ecs, "cohort_backward", spy)
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         actual = sv._mixing_stack_backward(ctx, go, None, None)
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Remove or wire only the unused single-cohort path.

cohort_backward always calls _cohort_input_backward(..., COHORT_EDGES), so remove or intentionally dispatch _single_cohort_input_backward and SINGLE_COHORT_MAX_EDGES. The only test that invokes _single_cohort_input_backward is test_single_cohort_owned_output; its shared alpha-gradient and ownership checks are already covered by test_cohort_matches_native.

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Remove the unused single-cohort path by deleting SINGLE_COHORT_MAX_EDGES,
_single_cohort_input_backward, and the test_single_cohort_owned_output test.
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Summary

This PR adds an opt-in, default-off backward path for the SO(2) gated value path used by DPA4-Neo inference, enabled by DP_SO2_EDGE_COHORT_INFER=1. The problem it targets is scratch memory: the native backward advances every layer across the full edge set, so its temporaries scale with the whole graph. The new implementation completes all layers of one cohort of at most 8192 edges before moving to the next, so the scratch is cohort-sized while the saved activations and the returned input gradient keep full edge extent. To let partial cohorts address full-graph buffers, the three existing Triton backward kernels gain optional runtime stride arguments (saved_edges, output_edges) whose sentinel value 0 reproduces the previous stride exactly. Dispatch is restricted by supports_edge_cohort to the experimentally checked Neo layout, and training, higher-order derivatives and unsupported layouts fall back to the unchanged native implementation.

I checked the address arithmetic independently of the tests rather than only reading it. The cohort launches were simulated against the canonical full-graph launch over cap sizes 64 and 8192 and edge counts 0, 1, 37, 1024, 8193, 16384 and 300000: they resolve to exactly the same elements, with no out-of-bounds access and no stale reads in tail cohorts. The new stride values are widened to int64 before multiplication by ROW, which preserves the offset invariant the kernels document; the only product that could wrap in 32 bits would need roughly 2.2 million edges, and the arithmetic no longer computes it that way. The default path is unchanged, because every in-repo call site passes the sentinel 0 and the stride expression then reduces to n_edge. The remaining observations are non-blocking and concern documentation of the new kernel arguments, an environment-variable spelling that differs from the sibling gates, and test hygiene around the experimental path.

Approving.

[macqueen09]

A brief follow-up on the validation and review notes for 98a65e46 (tested after local integration with upstream 4e1479d8; no new code changes):

• Stable end-to-end benefit: six counterbalanced BASE / ECS-off / ECS-on blocks per size on RTX 5090, with 12 warmups and 60 synchronized timing samples per process. ECS reduced paired latency by 4.125% at 1000 atoms (95% CI: 4.048–4.204%) and 2.185% at 4096 atoms (2.135–2.246%); all six blocks improved at each size. Allocated peaks fell by 15.709 MB / 56.988 MB, respectively.
• Default-off behavior: with the environment variable unset, paired latency changes versus upstream were −0.001% / −0.002%, with both confidence intervals including zero. Allocated and reserved peaks matched upstream, and runtime guards plus generated-wrapper inspection confirmed no ECS calls.
• Regression and accuracy: 200 local regression test executions passed across BASE / OFF / ON. N1000 inference passed the unchanged tolerance. N4096 virial variability, including baseline self-comparisons, remains documented in the PR. Training route guards passed; full-model FP32 loss and updated parameters passed tolerance, but not all gradients/optimizer moments did, so we do not claim complete training-trajectory equivalence.

For the kernel arguments, saved_edges and output_edges specify the edge extents used to address saved activations and output buffers when those differ from the current cohort; sentinel 0 retains the original n_edge stride. DP_SO2_EDGE_COHORT_INFER defaults to off, enables only for 1, and is read at import time, so changing it requires a fresh process/graph.

We have noted the suggestions to add an explicit cohort-call assertion to test_frozen_dispatch and remove the unused single-cohort implementation while preserving the live boundary tests. Those source changes have not been made; the local dispatch checks above are supplementary evidence, not a replacement for the suggested in-repository assertion. The CodeQL import-cycle discussions also remain open: the reverse import is deferred inside the enabled inference path, but that does not remove the static dependency cycle.

The online CUDA test jobs were skipped in the current run; the GPU results above are local measurements. We can make the small source/test follow-ups if you would like them included before merging.

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Thanks for the review and approval! Is there anything else needed from our side before merging?

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Follow-up review at head 98a65e4, the same head as the earlier approval. The kernel address arithmetic and the optional saved_edges / output_edges strides were re-checked and are sound; the comments below are coverage and cleanup items on the experimental edge-cohort path. None of them changes the numerics of the default path.

[OutisLi]

Reviewed 98a65e4. The cohort traversal has a useful, bounded purpose: reuse cohort-sized scratch while preserving full-graph saved activations and returned gradients. I did not find an additional numerical or addressing defect. I am requesting changes for the public selection interface and the outstanding implementation/test cleanup, not reclassifying those as numerical failures.

Before merge:

1. Integrate this optimization into the existing Triton inference selection mechanism rather than adding a separate public DP_SO2_EDGE_COHORT_INFER switch (inline comment). Retain the actual layout, dtype and derivative restrictions; this does not mean enabling an unqualified path unconditionally.
2. Remove the unused single-cohort operator, its unused threshold and its dedicated tests, while retaining boundary coverage of the live runtime-cohort route. I confirmed the production dispatcher always selects _cohort_input_backward; _single_cohort_input_backward has only a test caller. This is the existing cleanup thread, not a new duplicate finding.
3. Close the existing production-dispatch coverage, configuration/default coverage, and scratch-bound coverage gaps. Assert entry into the cohort callable through the production dispatcher and verify that scratch dimensions/reuse remain bounded by the cohort rather than the full edge count. An allocation-size/identity check is sufficient; this does not require a fragile timing benchmark. Configuration tests should exercise the final existing-level selection contract, not merely patch a module boolean or cement the extra switch requested for removal. Numerical equality alone still passes when the native fallback is used.

The author's follow-up explicitly says these source/test changes have not been made. Please complete them rather than treating supplementary local dispatch measurements as committed regression coverage.

Validation: changed-file Ruff and whitespace checks passed. Eight CPU Triton-interpreter cases covering empty/small/tail/multiple cohorts and both sigmoid-recompute schedules agreed with the reference at atol=1e-6, rtol=1e-5, with caller inputs unchanged. The CUDA eligibility check was bypassed only for these CPU interpreter probes; they do not validate CUDA code generation, GPU concurrency, or end-to-end performance. Author-reported GPU results remain separate evidence. The actual hosted CUDA jobs were skipped, and the reported large-system virial limitation remains a qualification caveat.

[macqueen09]

@OutisLi @wanghan-iapcm — addressed the selection, cleanup and regression requests in 17819db3, after a clean merge of upstream master 1f9555e780b4ac1bc90288843eab3b84bde1d6d7. Ready for re-review.

• Removed the separate DP_SO2_EDGE_COHORT_INFER switch. The existing Triton inference selection binds the FP32 value path; only the validated two-focus, two-gated-layer, lmax=3, focus-width=32, alpha-enabled layout can use ECS. Inputs and parameters must have the supported dtype, device and contiguous layout. Parameter-gradient, saved-state and higher-order requests retain the training backward.
• Removed the unused single-cohort operator, unused threshold and their dedicated tests. The live opaque runtime traversal retains 37/8192/8193/16384/16385-edge compiled boundary coverage. A single cohort reuses its owned returned output as the residual, avoiding an extra full-size scratch allocation; multiple cohorts use separate cohort-bounded scratch. Edge partitioning remains inside the opaque operator, so a small tracing example cannot fix the large-input route.
• Added real PT/PT-expt production-call spies, tests of the existing inference levels/default, unsupported parameter precision/strides, and allocation-size/identity assertions for both sigmoid schedules. The scratch tests execute the real Python traversal with fake CUDA inputs and mocked kernel launches; numerical CUDA tests separately validate the arithmetic and input ownership. No fragile timing assertion is used.
• Both official CPU-traced exporters retain the native backward. Routing tests assert that their graphs contain native backward and no cohort operator. A separate real PT freeze/AOTI/load smoke check passes with bitwise-equal energy, force and virial; its generated wrapper has no cohort-operator reference.
• Deferred the reverse module imports to runtime, removing the module-level import dependency. The feature diff against current master contains two implementation files, three regression files and a short documentation update; local experiment scripts/data/reports are excluded.

Validation

105 committed regression cases passed on RTX 5090, including a three-step direct-stack Neo-layout force-loss SGD comparison against the eager reference: losses, all input/parameter gradients and updated weights pass atol=1e-5, rtol=1e-4, with an assertion forbidding ECS during training. With CUDA hidden, 26 CPU contract cases pass and 79 GPU cases skip. Full-repository Ruff check/format and whitespace checks pass. Qualification ran at 20d0fd74; the published head preserves the implementation files and AST-identical tests after the pre-commit import formatting.

DP_TRITON_INFER=2 DP_CUDA_INFER=0 DP_TF32_INFER=0 DP_AMP_INFER=0 \
pytest source/tests/pt_expt/kernels/test_so2_edge_cohort.py \
       source/tests/pt_expt/kernels/test_so2_edge_cohort_contract.py \
       source/tests/pt_expt/kernels/test_so2_edge_cohort_export.py \
       source/tests/pt_expt/kernels/test_so2_workspace.py -q

Current-master measurements

BASE is unmodified upstream 1f9555e7; ECS is this PR integrated with that master. Same Neo OMat24 v20260627 checkpoint, SHA256 8d8b2b02b9575cb9e0af420cc1e8b1d9ffcbc04752c2203d29f48ccd0cd5f07d. RTX 5090 GPU1, PyTorch 2.11.0+cu128, Triton 3.6.0, TF32/AMP off, CUDA inference extensions off. Each run is a fresh process. Compiler caches are isolated by size/arm and reused after the first process; timings exclude compilation. Jobs are serialized on that GPU; other validation used GPU0.

Three deterministically perturbed diamond-carbon frames, three evaluations per frame for accuracy; 12 warmups and 30 synchronized full-ASE wall-time samples per process. The process is the independent repeat. Pairs run BASE→ECS, ECS→BASE, then BASE→ECS. The last pair explicitly confirms the committed revision; earlier screening pairs use the same contiguous-FP32 computation before the final conservative guard tightening. These three pairs provide a repeat/order check, not a new confidence interval.

Atoms	BASE process-P50 median ms	ECS process-P50 median ms	Paired latency change	Pair range	Steady allocated BASE → ECS GB	Saved MB
1000	38.7495	37.0682	-4.350%	-4.496% to -4.214%	5.464736 → 5.449027	15.709
4096	153.0256	146.4087	-4.297%	-4.324% to -4.268%	22.313547 → 22.256559	56.988

Times above are medians of process medians. Paired changes are geometric means of the three within-pair ratios. Decimal GB/MB; allocated and reserved are separate. Runtime observation confirms 158002/647170 edges, cap 8192, and 20/80 cohorts at 1000/4096 atoms. This is an edge count, not an atom count.

Final-source 1000-atom pair: full-window allocated 5.464736 → 5.449027 GB; reserved 5.880414 → 5.712642 GB. Full-window includes first inference with the recorded compilation-cache history; it is not a fully cold-start claim.
Final-source 4096-atom pair: full-window allocated 22.313547 → 22.256559 GB; reserved 23.261610 → 23.261610 GB. Full-window includes first inference with the recorded compilation-cache history; it is not a fully cold-start claim.

Numerical qualification

The elementwise criterion remains abs(candidate-reference) <= 1e-5 + 1e-4*abs(reference), checking all 3×3 repeat pairs for each corresponding frame. Checkpoint and input hashes are verified before comparison. All 1000-atom comparisons pass. At 4096, energy/forces/stress pass, while default-run virial remains a qualification limit; failures are retained below.

Pair	BASE self-repeat virial ratio	ECS self-repeat virial ratio	ECS/BASE virial ratio
r0	2.255157	1.276330	2.681103
r1	3.173911	1.206884	2.110667
r2	0.719704	2.294139	2.260183

An additional 4096-atom isolation pair uses matched canonical edge ordering, deterministic Torch lowering and CUBLAS_WORKSPACE_CONFIG=:4096:8. Both canonical-input hash streams match. Energy, forces, virial and stress are bitwise identical, including every self-repeat and cross-repeat comparison. The unchanged numerical kernels also pass exact native comparisons in the committed empty/tail/multiple-cohort tests. These controls are diagnostic and are not added to production or substituted for the default measurements. No tolerance or precision was relaxed.

To reproduce the online path, set DP_TRITON_INFER=2 DP_COMPILE_INFER=1 DP_CUDA_INFER=0 DP_TF32_INFER=0 DP_AMP_INFER=0 before loading the checkpoint with deepmd.calculator.DP(model=..., freeze=False). Use the same checkpoint, frame seed, process pairs and sampling protocol on the BASE and PR checkouts. Official freeze uses its existing native deployable path; no additional ECS switch is needed. Earlier opt-in/multi-model results remain historical evidence in the PR description, with their original revisions.

[njzjz-bot]

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Incremental review of 98a65e46 → 17819db3bacbdb46da13bdfc6c2254af33f59b01, separating the upstream merge from the six-file feature follow-up and reading the existing review threads first.

The source and committed tests now address the selection/cleanup/coverage requests: the separate public switch is gone; the existing FP32 Triton path selects cohorts only for the supported layout and matching parameter dtype/device/contiguity, after weight-gradient, saved-state and higher-order requests have taken the training path. The dead single-cohort operator/threshold are removed. Owned-output reuse is confined to a single cohort; multiple cohorts retain separate bounded scratch. The production-dispatch spy, both backend consumers, existing-level/default tests, allocation-size/identity checks for both sigmoid schedules, and live 37/8192/8193/16384/16385 tracing boundaries are present. Official CPU-traced exports deliberately retain native backward, with dedicated exporter-boundary regressions. I found no new source defect in this delta.

Independent checks: configured Ruff check/format passed for the inspected Python sources/tests. Thirty-six source-level probes exercised the exact-head dispatch and traversal functions with lightweight tensor/device stand-ins and launch recorders, including parameter fallbacks, derivative routing, scratch identities and final-cohort output offsets. These are control-flow checks, not PyTorch/Triton/CUDA execution. I also verified that the two implementation files match the reported qualification revision 20d0fd74 byte-for-byte and that the three new/updated test files are AST-identical; I did not independently rerun the reported 105 hardware regression cases.

Qualification remains bounded by the reported results: the default 4096-atom ECS/BASE virial ratios are 2.681103, 2.110667 and 2.260183 against a passing threshold of 1. Matched canonical-input/deterministic-compilation equality is useful isolation evidence, not a replacement for those default-path results. At this head, hosted CUDA is green only through its aggregate while both actual CUDA jobs are skipped; Python/C++ qualification is still running. This follow-up records the implemented source/coverage corrections without claiming a full numerical or hardware qualification pass.

[wanghan-iapcm]

One non-blocking finding on the cohort-backward integration: the first-order inference branch now imports a module that hard-requires Triton, which breaks this module's optional-Triton contract for the reference/CPU backward. Details in the inline comment.

[macqueen09]

@OutisLi @wanghan-iapcm — the optional-Triton CPU backward fix and its regression tests are now pushed in 301dd576. The PR description now includes the complete validation summary, reproduction command and end-to-end benefit table.

Measured benefit on RTX 5090: paired frame time drops 4.350% at 1000 atoms and 4.297% at 4096 atoms, with lower allocated peaks by 15.709 MB / 56.988 MB. All three process pairs improve at each size. These retain the previously reported FP32 measurement setup; the latest change only guards CPU imports and adds tests.

Latest validation: 107 tests passed on RTX 5090; CPU-only run: 28 passed, 79 skipped. Coverage includes both production consumers, existing inference levels/defaults, bounded scratch allocation/reuse, dynamic/tail boundaries, protected derivative paths, exporter fallback, short force-loss SGD and the new with/without-Triton CPU forward/backward checks. Ruff and whitespace checks pass.

The earlier selection and cleanup requests are implemented: no separate public ECS switch, no unused single-cohort operator/threshold, and explicit production-dispatch and allocation-contract assertions. The latest CPU compatibility finding is reproduced and fixed, with before/after regression coverage.

@OutisLi could you please re-review the updated implementation and tests for merge? Thank you.

[OutisLi]

Please make the new cohort contract tests compatible with a CPU-only PyTorch build when Triton is installed. I reproduced 14 failures in test_so2_edge_cohort_contract.py with PyTorch 2.11.0+cpu and Triton 3.6.0: Fake CUDA view/slice operations fail with RuntimeError: PyTorch is not linked with support for cuda devices. Hiding CUDA on a CUDA-enabled build does not exercise this configuration. Please guard the affected tests on a CUDA-enabled PyTorch build, or restructure them so their control-flow assertions do not require the CUDA backend. The CPU optional-Triton forward/backward regressions passed in my check.

[wanghan-iapcm]

Re-reviewed at this head. All five earlier threads are addressed: the frozen dispatch is now covered by a spy test, the unused single-cohort operator and its public switch are gone, the cohort-bounded scratch reuse has a test, and the 11-06 finding is fixed in 301dd57 — the CUDA-only launcher is imported only behind SO2_VALUE_PATH_TRITON_AVAILABLE and grad_out.is_cuda, with a subprocess regression test asserting the module never reaches sys.modules on the CPU path.

I re-derived the cohort traversal independently and found no addressing or numeric defect: the saved-activation stride uses the full edge count, the scratch uses the per-cohort count, the result uses the full stride only for the layer-0 write, the tail cohort is self-consistent, and no state accumulates across cohorts. The selection guards, the training/higher-order bypass and the export behaviour all hold.

The remaining items from this round are coverage and documentation, not defects, and I do not consider them blockers: the production-convolution test asserts entry and finiteness rather than a numeric oracle; no test compiles the dispatcher layer itself; the grad_out/z_all dtype and layout guards are never exercised on their false side; the recompute-kernel stride is only numerically covered on GPUs without a fused table entry; sezm_triton::so2_cohort_alpha_bwd references its kernel as an attribute, so the source does not reach the AOTAutograd cache key; and the new contract tests need a guard for CPU-only torch builds that happen to have Triton installed. Worth following up, none of them changes a result on a supported configuration today.

[macqueen09]

@OutisLi — addressed the CPU-only PyTorch build requirement in cb48ba96 with 8 added lines in one test file. Production implementation and kernels are unchanged from the version @wanghan-iapcm approved.

I reproduced the same 14 failures using a real PyTorch 2.11.0+cpu + Triton 3.6.0 environment and matching CPU-built native extension, rather than hiding CUDA on a CUDA-enabled build. The two affected Fake CUDA test groups now require torch.backends.cuda.is_built(). CPU constructor/configuration tests and the optional-Triton forward/backward regressions remain active.

Validation environment	Result
PyTorch 2.11.0+cpu + Triton 3.6.0, complete related suite	12 passed, 95 skipped, 0 failures
PyTorch 2.11.0+cu128 + Triton 3.6.0, CUDA hidden	28 passed, 79 skipped, 0 failures
Same CUDA build, RTX 5090	107 passed

The build guard does not reduce the existing Fake CUDA coverage on CUDA-enabled builds without a visible GPU. Full-repository Ruff check/format and whitespace checks pass.

@wanghan-iapcm — thank you for the independent re-review and approval. I also ran 11 supplementary local probes for the non-blocking coverage observations, without expanding the production patch:

• Both PT/PT-expt value paths: generated-input forward and input gradients agree with an eager stack oracle at the original tolerance.
• Compiled registered stack forward plus its generated autograd backward, E=37/8193: runtime spies confirm ECS entry, and output/input/alpha gradients agree with native.
• Input dtype/layout guard checks: incompatible grad_out/z_all dtypes and noncontiguous saved z_all retain native fallback. The dispatcher normalizes grad_out.contiguous() before selection, so its noncontiguous input correctly becomes eligible after normalization.
• Both forced sigmoid schedules, E=37/8193: cohort backward is bitwise equal to native, explicitly exercising the standalone recompute stride and tail cohort.

The alpha-kernel source/cache-key visibility suggestion remains a separate non-blocking follow-up; this test-only change leaves that mechanism untouched.

The existing RTX 5090 full-model measurements remain 4.350% / 4.297% lower paired frame time at 1000 / 4096 atoms, saving 15.709 / 56.988 MB allocated peak. This revision does not change the measured production code. Details and reproduction remain in the PR description.

@OutisLi could you please re-review this minimal CPU-build compatibility correction? Thank you.

[macqueen09]

pre-commit.ci rerun