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perf(pt): assemble Wigner-D behind a custom op under compile - #6070
Each eval frame assembles the block-diagonal Wigner-D rotation matrices by
scattering the per-degree blocks into a dense (E, D, D) tensor. Traced
through Inductor, those in-place slice assignments functionalize into a
chain of full-size zeros + index_put + add tensors plus a realized
transpose -- five (E, D, D) surfaces combined by one kernel, ~4 GB of HBM
traffic per frame at the SeZM N=4096 workload (E ~ 646k, D = 16).
(The inverse rotation Dt_full is already a transpose view on master since #6001, with the torch-2.11-only materialization gate; this PR does not
change that behavior -- it shares the same exit between the two assembly
routes and adjusts the comments to describe it.)
Change
Assembly behind a custom op (sezm_nn::wigner_d_assemble). The
operator takes the per-degree blocks (plus the polynomial tail when lmax >= 11) and does the eager scatter: one zeros buffer, in-place block
writes. The traced forward takes the op whenever a fake-tensor mode is
active (is_compiling() is not enough -- this module is traced through
make_fx, where the flag stays False; a fake tensor carries its mode, so the
forward probes for it). The eager path is untouched. An exact autograd
formula returns each block its D-slice.
torch >= 2.1 stays importable. The registration API
(torch.library.custom_op / register_fake / register_autograd)
requires torch >= 2.4 while the package declares torch>=2.1.0, and this
module is imported unconditionally through the descriptor chain. The
registration is gated on the API's presence; on a 2.1-2.3 install the
operator stays unregistered and both the eager and the traced route keep
the autograd-through-scatter implementation (a subprocess test reloads the
module with the API hidden and pins import safety, the eager
forward/backward, and the traced fallback).
The time saving is the op: the ~4 GB/frame add-chain disappears (the
compiler-fragment family drops 38.3 -> 25.8 ms of kernel time). Two-state
compiled-eval accuracy at N=4096: energy rel diff 5.8e-10, max force diff
4.8e-6 with max |f| ~ 3.9.
Tests
TestSeZMWignerDAssembleOp in source/tests/pt/model/test_descriptor_sezm_triton.py:
operator vs reference values, gradients, and fp64 gradcheck (pure
PyTorch -- runs in the CPU CI, no CUDA gate);
torch.library.opcheck schema/fake/autograd contract (CPU CI as well);
a make_fx symbolic trace selects the opaque operator, asserted on the
graph code (the fake-mode half of the tracing probe; torch.compile
covers the is_compiling half);
a subprocess reload with the registration API hidden pins the
torch-2.1-2.3 fallback: the module imports, the eager forward/backward
works, and tracing keeps the eager implementation;
compiled-vs-eager values and the inverse-layout policy (CUDA).
source/tests/pt/model/test_descriptor_sezm_triton.py: 44 passed, 1 skipped (pre-existing) on this head.
source/tests/pt/model/test_sezm_model.py::TestSeZMModelCompile: 9 passed on this branch head (RTX 5090, torch 2.12.1), including the eval cache/shape-change, first-frame and force-loss double-backward tests.
The eager path is byte-identical to master.
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Improvements
Wigner-D matrix generation now produces consistent results in eager and compiled execution, including polynomial components.
Gradients are supported across assembled matrices, and inverse-rotation outputs retain their expected behavior.
Scalar-only and empty-edge inputs are handled consistently, improving reliability across a wider range of cases.
Functionalization expands the in-place block scatter into a chain of
full-size zeros/index_put adds plus a realized transpose (~4 GB of HBM
traffic per frame at the SeZM N=4096 workload). A wigner_d_assemble
custom op keeps the eager scatter and hands the graph two contiguous
tensors; the traced assembly takes it whenever a fake-tensor mode is
active, so the eager path is untouched.
The flash and rotation-back kernels already address the rotation
through explicit strides, so the contiguous transpose the assembly
produced was pure storage: one 660 MB copy per frame that existed only
to be read back. The assemble op now returns D_full alone and the
caller hands out a transpose view; consumers read it in place and no
transpose copy ever exists.
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WignerDCalculator.forward collects degree blocks and an optional polynomial block before assembling the dense matrix. During compilation or fake-tensor tracing, it uses the custom operator when registration succeeds. Otherwise, it uses differentiable scatter assembly. Tests cover gradients, tracing, fallback behavior, inverse layout, and edge cases.
Changes: Wigner D block assembly
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Custom block assembly and gradient routing deepmd/pt/model/descriptor/sezm_nn/wignerd.py, source/tests/pt/model/test_descriptor_sezm_triton.py
The custom operator assembles regular blocks and an optional polynomial block. Its backward returns gradients for the input blocks. Tests check assembled values, gradients, gradcheck, fake-tensor behavior, and opcheck.
Forward block collection and assembly deepmd/pt/model/descriptor/sezm_nn/wignerd.py, source/tests/pt/model/test_descriptor_sezm_triton.py
WignerDCalculator.forward collects degree blocks before assembly and selects the custom operator during compilation or fake-tensor tracing when registration succeeds. Tests cover tracing, registration fallback, eager and compiled outputs, inverse layout, lmax=0, and empty quaternion inputs.
The fallback preserves results, but tests can silently miss loss of the optimized assembly route. Mergeable with a follow-up assertion on supported Torch releases; the previous import and CPU-test failures are addressed.
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@OutisLi@wanghan-iapcm@njzjz requesting a review, please. Following the 2026-10-13 discussion we validated the combined stack of our six performance PRs (#6056, #6057, #6060, #6070, #6071, #6072) with a multi-scale gate: diamond + bcc-Cu at ~500 / ~2000 / ~4400 atoms, three columns (pure torch.compile with all custom kernels off / current master / our changes on). All accuracy cells sit within 2.2x the pure baseline's own run-to-run band (criterion: 3x), and no tested atom count regresses in time or memory — full numbers in the PR descriptions. Suggested review order for the six: #6056 -> #6057 -> #6060 (small and self-contained) -> #6070 -> #6071 -> #6072.
This PR reduces the temporary dense-tensor work caused by functionalizing Wigner-D block assembly. It collects the per-degree blocks, performs the scatter behind a custom operator during tracing, and returns the inverse rotation as a transpose view. The backward extracts the corresponding block slices. This is a reasonable optimization boundary; it does not change the rotation formulas.
Requested changes
Please remove the unnecessary tensor retention in the autograd context and consolidate the duplicated assembly/return logic, as detailed inline. The latter should make the inverse-layout compatibility policy explicit and shared rather than bypassing it through an early return. Please also update the comment that still promises two contiguous outputs.
The new operator and dispatch have no dedicated tests added by this PR. Please add focused regression coverage for the behavior being introduced, including its gradients and layout/compatibility policy. I have not reproduced a new Wigner-D numerical or gradient defect in the sampled cases; the PyTorch 2.11 concern below is an unverified compatibility change, not a reproduced runtime failure.
Correct higher-order validation
I am excluding the second-order mismatch from my exploratory raw-FX probe from the findings. That probe traced forward plus a first backward, then differentiated the resulting GraphModule again, without the repository's production graph transformations. PyTorch explicitly does not guarantee that construction: maintainer explanation. It is not evidence that this PR or the baseline training implementation has incorrect second derivatives.
For validation:
Check the operator schema/fake/autograd registration with torch.library.opcheck, and check the mathematical backward with gradcheck/gradgradcheck or an independent block-assembly reference. Use nontrivial inputs and contributions from both D and its transpose.
For standalone higher-order compilation tests, put the forward, first backward, and required second backward inside the function being traced, then compile that function. Do not assume a raw forward-plus-backward FX graph remains correctly differentiable afterwards.
For force-loss training parity, exercise the actual model compilation entry point and its existing transformations, including strip_saved_tensor_detach; compare force-loss gradients for all model parameters against eager execution. Do not replace that pipeline by indiscriminately deleting detach operations.
Cover the zero-degree/empty-edge cases, regular blocks, the polynomial tail, both eager and traced routes, and the intended inverse-layout behavior on supported PyTorch versions. Validate PyTorch 2.11 before removing or bypassing its existing policy.
Checks performed
On this PR head, the seven existing Wigner-D tests pass on CPU. Additional CPU/CUDA checks with FP32/FP64, lmax 0/1/3/6/10/11, empty edges, and the actual custom-op dispatch passed the sampled value/first-derivative/HVP comparisons and opcheck. Ruff, the read-only formatting check, and diff checks pass.
Separately, adding the existing project transformation to the baseline raw-FX probe restores its HVP agreement with eager and with convergent finite differences. The real SeZM test_forward_backward_double_backward_matches_compile also passes on checkout d3b3b66, including force-loss parameter gradients and three optimizer steps. That is a production-path control, not a claim that this PR's complete model suite or every supported PyTorch version was tested. The reported full-model performance gain has not been independently reproduced.
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Please store only the block layout metadata in this context, not the block tensors.
The backward reads each block's width and whether the polynomial tail is present; it never needs the tensor values. ctx.blocks = blocks therefore keeps every activation buffer alive unnecessarily. In a CPU and CUDA weak-reference check with three non-leaf blocks, the direct assembly implementation retained none after forward, while the custom op retained all three even after backward; they were released only when the output was released. This establishes an avoidable lifetime extension, not a measured regression in the full compiled-model benchmark.
A tuple of block widths (or slice bounds), together with the tail metadata, is sufficient. Saving the tensors through a different API would still retain data the backward does not need.
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Please share the assembly implementation and inverse-layout policy between eager and traced execution.
The block-scatter loop here is duplicated in _wigner_d_assemble_impl, and this early return bypasses _materialize_inverse_rotation at the common eager exit. With that flag enabled, eager returns a contiguous inverse but the traced route returns a non-contiguous view. I verified that branch difference on PyTorch 2.13; I have not run PyTorch 2.11 and am not claiming a reproduced 2.11 failure. The opaque operator may eliminate the original compiler problem, but that needs evidence rather than an implicit policy change.
A cleaner structure is one assembly implementation (invoked directly or through the custom op) followed by one inverse-layout/return step, with the genuine lmax=0 case handled explicitly. Either preserve the existing compatibility policy there, or validate the supported 2.11 path and deliberately revise it with a regression test. Please also fix the comment above that still says the graph receives two contiguous tensors.
Thank you for the exceptionally thorough review — and for independently running the value/derivative/HVP comparisons and opcheck before concluding there was no numerical defect; the raw-FX double-differentiation exclusion note is also much appreciated.
All three requested changes are addressed in e98c691:
Tensor retention — _wigner_d_assemble_setup now stores only block_widths (a list of ints) plus the tail metadata; the backward slices the cotangent from those. No block tensor is kept alive (your weak-reference finding was the decisive evidence).
Shared assembly + inverse-layout policy — forward now has one assembly implementation reached directly in eager execution and through the operator under tracing, followed by one shared inverse-layout exit. The traced route no longer bypasses _materialize_inverse_rotation: with the flag set (the PyTorch 2.11 policy), both routes return a contiguous inverse; with it unset, both return the shared-storage view. The genuine lmax == 0 case is handled explicitly at the same exit.
Stale comment — the "two plain contiguous tensors" promise is replaced by the actual one-tensor + shared transpose-view exit description.
New focused test class TestSeZMWignerDAssembleOp covers what you listed: operator vs an independent reference assembly bitwise, with cotangent contributions through both D and its transpose (grads bitwise against the eager implementation), fp64 gradcheck on the operator route, torch.library.opcheck (schema/fake/autograd, including the AOT dynamic dispatch), lmax == 0 and empty-edge cases, and a traced-vs-eager route check asserting the layout policy in both routes (view under the default flag, contiguous with the flag forced on; the cross-route value comparison is at rounding tolerance because the compiled ladder reassociates the degree-block math — the assembly stage itself is asserted bitwise in the reference test).
Validation at the new head: the full test_descriptor_sezm_triton.py passes (41 + 1 pre-existing skip), and the production-path control you referenced — TestSeZMModelCompile::test_forward_backward_double_backward_matches_compile, including force-loss parameter gradients — passes as well.
On the PyTorch 2.11 point: agreed that the operator removes the original reason the flag exists on the traced route (the functionalized slice-assignment graph), but since we cannot verify 2.11 here either, the policy is now preserved verbatim in both routes rather than changed implicitly.
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torch.library.custom_op / register_fake / register_autograd require torch >= 2.4, but the package declares torch>=2.1.0 and this module is imported unconditionally via deepmd.pt.model.descriptor -> sezm -> sezm_nn. On a supported torch 2.1-2.3 install, importing the descriptor package raises AttributeError at import time — the eager fallback never gets a chance to run because registration itself fails. Suggest gating the registration on the torch version (or try/except) with a fall-back to the eager path, or bumping the declared minimum. (The parent commit #6036 fixed this same class of issue for e3nn.)
# O(N) cell-list neighbor list for fast Python/ASE inference; the
The fake_mode disjunct of the tracing probe — the branch the comment says the probe was added for ("this module is traced through make_fx fake tensors, where the flag stays False") — is never exercised by the new tests: the only traced test uses torch.compile, where torch.compiler.is_compiling() is already True and short-circuits the or. Please add a test that traces forward through make_fx/torch.export directly, so both halves of the probe are covered.
Nothing asserts that sezm_nn::wigner_d_assemble is actually inserted into the compiled graph. The traced test only compares forward values, so if the probe silently evaluated to False (tracing the raw scatter as before), every test would still pass while the ~4 GB intermediate regression returns. A graph-node assertion (make_fx inspection, as already done elsewhere in this file) would lock in the PR's core mechanism.
All four new tests are gated on CUDA and Triton, but three of them exercise device-agnostic pure-PyTorch code (the assemble op, fake registration, autograd) and _make_blocks hardcodes device="cuda". They could run in the CPU CI that actually runs on PRs. As it stands — the CUDA workflow requires the Test CUDA label — none of the new tests have executed in CI at this head.
Description accuracy: the "inverse rotation as a view" half of the title/body describes behavior that has been in master since #6001 (Dt_full = D_full.transpose(-1, -2) plus the torch-2.11-only contiguous gate); the net diff vs base in that region is comment reshuffling plus sharing the exit between the two assembly routes. Also the body says "Two commits" while the branch currently has four. Consider rewording so reviewers can see the actual delta vs master.
The operator registration (torch.library.custom_op / register_fake /
register_autograd) requires torch >= 2.4 while the declared minimum is
2.1, and this module is imported unconditionally through the descriptor
chain: on a 2.1-2.3 install the import itself raised AttributeError
before the eager fallback could ever run. The registration is now gated
on the API's presence; without it both the eager and the traced route
keep the autograd-through-scatter implementation, and a subprocess test
reloads the module with the API hidden to pin that behavior.
The make_fx fake-mode half of the tracing probe is now covered (a
symbolic trace selects the opaque operator, asserted on the graph code),
and the two pure-PyTorch operator tests (values/grads/gradcheck and the
opcheck schema/fake/autograd contract) no longer require CUDA, so they
run in the CPU CI.
long-yi-2019
changed the title
perf(pt): assemble Wigner-D behind a custom op; inverse rotation as a view
perf(pt): assemble Wigner-D behind a custom op under compile
Oct 22, 2026
Thank you for the review — both blocking items and the non-blocking items are addressed in c5feab5, and the title/body are rewritten.
torch < 2.4 importability (blocking): the registration is gated on the API's presence (hasattr(torch.library, "custom_op")). Without it the operator stays unregistered and both the eager and the traced route keep the autograd-through-scatter implementation — the module imports cleanly on 2.1-2.3 and the eager fallback finally gets its chance. A subprocess test pins this: it reloads the module with custom_op hidden for exactly the duration of the module's top-level re-execution (restored immediately, so torch's own lazily importing users of the API stay intact — hiding it globally breaks unrelated torch internals), then asserts the operator is unregistered, the eager forward/backward works, and a make_fx trace keeps the eager implementation instead of the operator node. The control (normal reload registers the op) is asserted first.
The fake-mode probe half (blocking): test_make_fx_trace_selects_the_assemble_op traces WignerDCalculator.forward through make_fx with symbolic tracing and asserts on the graph code that sezm_nn.wigner_d_assemble was selected — the make_fx route is exactly the one where is_compiling() stays False and the fake-mode disjunct decides (item 3 folded in: the graph-node assertion locks in the mechanism; a silently false probe would leave every value comparison green while the scatter came back).
CPU CI (non-blocking): the operator values/gradients/gradcheck test and the opcheck schema/fake/autograd test are no longer CUDA-gated (device follows availability), so they run in the CPU CI; the compiled-vs-eager test stays CUDA.
Description accuracy (non-blocking): the title drops the "inverse rotation as a view" half (master behavior since perf(pt): DPA4-family performance optimizations #6001 — the net diff there is sharing the exit between the two assembly routes plus comments, now stated as such in the body) and the body no longer says "Two commits".
Full test_descriptor_sezm_triton.py on this head: 44 passed, 1 pre-existing skip (43 before the two new tests).
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Review comments at @deepmd/pt/model/descriptor/sezm_nn/wignerd.py:
- Around line 78-102: Gate the `_wigner_d_assemble_op` registration block so it
runs only on PyTorch 2.5 or later; PyTorch 2.4 rejects
`_wigner_d_assemble_impl`’s annotations during schema inference. On earlier
versions, leave the operator unregistered so the existing fallback path remains
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On PyTorch 2.4, torch.library.custom_op sends _wigner_d_assemble_impl to schema inference. The postponed annotations are strings, and PyTorch 2.4 rejects list[torch.Tensor] as unsupported. The decorator therefore raises during module import.
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_loss still hardcodes device="cuda" for w2, so the CPU CI run fails.
test_op_matches_reference_with_grads now selects device = "cuda" if _CUDA else "cpu". The docstring says it runs in CPU CI. In _loss, generator is created on dense.device, and w1 uses dense.device. w2 still uses device="cuda". On a CPU-only machine, w2 requests a CUDA tensor with a CPU generator. The call raises, and the test errors out instead of testing the operator.
Use dense.device for w2.
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--- "a/source/tests/pt/model/test_descriptor_sezm_triton.py"+++ "b/source/tests/pt/model/test_descriptor_sezm_triton.py"@@ -2086,9 +2086,9 @@
w1 = torch.randn(
dense.shape, device=dense.device, dtype=dense.dtype, generator=generator
)
w2 = torch.randn(
- dense.shape, device="cuda", dtype=dense.dtype, generator=generator+ dense.shape, device=dense.device, dtype=dense.dtype, generator=generator
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return (dense * w1).sum() + (dense.transpose(-1, -2) * w2).sum()
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Incremental review of e98c691 -> c5feab5. The missing-custom_op production fallback now looks sound, and the new make_fx graph assertion addresses the requested mechanism coverage. This revision is not yet LGTM:
The API-presence guard is insufficient for the current annotations. I independently executed the exact upstream infer_schema functions from PyTorch v2.4.0, v2.5.0 and v2.6.0 against the exact _wigner_d_assemble_impl signature (with lightweight Tensor/type stand-ins, not native Torch). All three reject blocks: list[torch.Tensor]; 2.4 also does not resolve the postponed string annotations. Thus merely changing the gate to >=2.5, as suggested in the existing comment, does not establish compatibility. Please use a schema/annotation representation supported by the selected versions, or retain the scatter fallback throughout the incompatible range, and test actual supported releases.
Independently confirmed the existing CPU-test finding: the exact _loss helper requests w2 on CUDA with a CPU generator when dense.device is CPU. A device-checking allocation double fails at that call. Use dense.device consistently before claiming CPU coverage.
The new unconditionally enabled test_import_and_tracing_fall_back_without_custom_op itself fails on a genuine older supported Torch install: its subprocess first asserts the operator is non-None and then reads torch.library.custom_op. With the API genuinely absent, the newly fixed module deliberately leaves the operator None, so this test aborts before checking fallback. Separate the modern-API emulation control from a real missing-API path, or appropriately gate just the emulation test while retaining genuine old-version coverage.
Validation is bounded exact-source/schema-parser and CPU allocation-double evidence; no local Torch, CUDA, full-model performance or native legacy-version runtime was executed. Existing seven hosted workflows remain action_required, not successful native validation.
The schema inference for list[torch.Tensor] parameters only supports
this signature on later torches still (2.4-2.6 have the custom-op API
but reject this signature outright; 2.1-2.3 lack the API), so the
presence gate alone was insufficient. Registration now runs under a
try/except and any failure keeps the autograd-through-scatter route for
both the eager and the traced call.
The subprocess fallback test covers both incompatible classes with
separate emulations -- the API hidden entirely (2.1-2.3) and the API
replaced by a stub raising the schema-inference error (2.4-2.6) -- with
the registration control asserted only when the API exists, so the test
also holds on a genuinely old install. The CPU-run _loss helper creates
its second weight on the operand's device instead of hardcoding CUDA.
All three items are addressed in 9aeb0b9 (together with both CodeRabbit findings, which matched items 1 and 2).
Registration compatibility. The presence gate is gone; registration runs under a try/except and any failure — the absent API on 2.1-2.3 or the schema-inference rejection of list[torch.Tensor] on 2.4-2.6 that you demonstrated with the exact upstream parsers — keeps the autograd-through-scatter route for both the eager and the traced call. The subprocess test now runs two separate emulations, one per incompatible class: hide deletes torch.library.custom_op for the module's re-execution, reject replaces it with a stub raising the schema error. Both assert the module imports, the operator stays unregistered, the eager forward/backward works, and make_fx tracing keeps the eager implementation.
Honest scope note: I can only run torch 2.12 locally, so the emulations mirror the two failure classes rather than executing real 2.4-2.6 installs; the control assertion (registration succeeds) is now conditional on the API being present, so the test itself would also pass unchanged on a genuinely old install.
_loss device bug. The second weight is created on dense.device like the first; the CPU-run path no longer requests a CUDA generator.
Subprocess control ordering. Restructured as described in item 1 — the emulation test no longer aborts on a genuinely old torch, and the modern-API control runs only when the API exists.
Full test_descriptor_sezm_triton.py at this head: 43 passed, 1 pre-existing skip (the class itself: 6 tests, 6 subtests, both subprocess emulations green).
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- Around line 2272-2274: Update the three operator tests to run only when
wd._wigner_d_assemble_op is registered, rather than assuming
torch.library.custom_op availability means registration succeeded. In the
subprocess control and hide modes, check both API availability and registration
state before asserting or deleting the operator, so fallback emulation runs when
registration is unavailable and hide mode does not delete a missing attribute.
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Scoped follow-up at 9aeb0b9 versus c5feab5. The production registration fallback now addresses my schema-compatibility concern: exact-source registration control replay retained the scatter route for absent API, schema rejection, fake-registration failure and autograd-registration failure, with a successful-registration control. The CPU _loss allocation now consistently uses dense.device.
The claimed genuine-old-Torch test compatibility in the author response is not yet established. I executed the exact new subprocess pre-reload statements with API/registration doubles: with the API absent, hide still raises AttributeError at the unconditional del torch.library.custom_op; with the API present but the operator unavailable, both modes stop at assert wd._wigner_d_assemble_op is not None. The three operator-only tests also remain guarded by API presence instead of successful operator registration. This follows the existing residual finding at #6070 (comment) rather than opening a duplicate inline issue. Please separate the successful-registration control from the fallback cases and gate operator-specific assertions on registration itself.
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The registration guard fixes the earlier import-time issue, but supported fallback paths remain broken. Eager Wigner forward calls torch.compiler.is_compiling before checking operator availability, although PyTorch 2.1–2.2 lack that API. The existing test issue at source/tests/pt/model/test_descriptor_sezm_triton.py:2274 also remains: hide mode deletes an absent API, and API presence is treated as successful registration. Please fix both paths and validate the supported versions; this review used versioned source and controlled API-availability checks, not native legacy-PyTorch runs.
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PyTorch 2.1–2.2 lack torch.compiler.is_compiling. With lmax >= 1, this lookup precedes the operator-availability guard, so an unavailable operator does not reach the eager fallback. Skip tracing detection when the operator is unavailable.
torch 2.1-2.2 lack the callable, so the eager fallback path itself raised
AttributeError before reaching the operator-availability check. Resolve
the callable once at import and treat it as not-compiling when absent.
The operator tests now gate on registration success instead of
torch.library.custom_op presence (2.4-2.6 have the API but reject the
schema), the subprocess hide mode tolerates an already-absent attribute,
and the successful-registration control asserts the parent-observed
state instead of assuming API presence implies registration.
Thank you for catching the production-path break — both items are fixed in 6469631.
1. Eager path on torch 2.1–2.2 (blocking).torch.compiler.is_compiling is now resolved once at import time (_COMPILER_IS_COMPILING = getattr(...)); when the callable is absent the probe contributes False and the fake-tensor disjunct carries the decision alone. The eager Wigner path no longer touches a missing API before checking operator availability.
2. Test gating by registration, not API presence. The three operator tests now skip on _WIGNER_OP_REGISTERED = _wigner_d_assemble_op is not None, so a 2.4–2.6 runner (API present, schema rejected, operator None) skips them instead of calling None. In the subprocess test: hide only deletes the attribute when it exists (an already-absent API is itself the 2.1–2.3 state); reject injects the raising stub regardless and removes it afterwards when it was injected over a missing attribute; and the successful-registration control now asserts the parent-observed registration state, passed as an argument — on a torch whose registration legitimately fails at import, the control asserts the import-time fallback instead of asserting registration.
Validation: TestSeZMWignerDAssembleOp 6 passed + 6 subtests (both subprocess emulations green); full test_descriptor_sezm_triton.py 43 passed + 1 skipped, unchanged from before. As before, the emulations are failure-class mirrors on the installed torch, not native legacy-PyTorch runs.
Assert the operator registers on the pinned Torch releases.
The subprocess control at line 2337 takes its expected registration state from the parent import. A parent import that fails registration makes the control pass. The operator, schema, and make_fx tests skip when registration fails, so on the pinned releases no unskipped check fails if registration regresses. A regression would surface only as a performance change, because the eager fallback computes the same values.
Gate the assertion on Torch 2.10 and later so the 2.1–2.6 fallback emulations stay unaffected:
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registered = wignerd_mod._wigner_d_assemble_op is not None
+ major, minor = (+ int(part) for part in torch.__version__.split("+")[0].split(".")[:2]+ )+ if (major, minor) >= (2, 10):+ self.assertTrue(+ registered,+ "the custom op must register on the pinned torch releases",+ )
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Add an assertion in the test using `wignerd_mod._wigner_d_assemble_op` that the
custom operator registered when running Torch 2.10 or later. Parse the Torch
major and minor version to gate the assertion, leaving the 2.1–2.6 fallback
emulations unaffected.
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Incremental re-review of 9aeb0b9 -> 6469631. The residual compatibility issues from my previous review are addressed: the eager probe no longer assumes torch.compiler.is_compiling exists; operator-only tests gate on successful registration; and the subprocess control handles absent API and present-but-rejected schema without assuming registration or deleting an absent attribute.
Executed the exact extracted compiler/fake-tensor probe over 12 host-double cases and the exact subprocess control/restoration statements over six API/registration/mode cases (reload doubled); all passed. Source LGTM for this bounded repair. These are control-flow checks, not native legacy-PyTorch, full numerical, CUDA or performance validation. The author's 43-pass/one-skip run remains separate evidence. All seven returned current-head Actions workflows require approval; documentation status is failure. No CI action taken.
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Reviewed at 6469631 on top of the changes requested earlier.
Three findings, all on the traced route. The first is blocking: the .pt2 archive that dp freeze produces for a SeZM/DPA4 checkpoint carries a runtime-dispatcher node that the C++ runtime cannot resolve. The other two are about the mechanism this PR adds: neither half of the tracing probe is protected by an assertion that fails if it stops working, so the operator can silently disappear while the suite stays green.
What I could and could not execute is stated in each comment. The operator's own arithmetic, its gradients, the polynomial-block placement and the eager route's equivalence to master all checked out — the assembly itself is not in question here.
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Requesting changes for the three items raised in the earlier review at this commit. Each has an inline thread carrying the detail.
1. Blocking — deepmd/pt/model/descriptor/sezm_nn/wignerd.py:763.torch.library.custom_op("sezm_nn::wigner_d_assemble", ...) is registered at module scope, so the dp freeze make_fx graph captures it and the resulting AOTI archive carries a proxy-executor node for that operator. The C++ AOTIModelPackageLoader then fails at load time with RuntimeError: Could not find schema for sezm_nn::wigner_d_assemble, which makes the exported .pt2 unusable. Guarding the registration and keeping the existing eager path when the operator cannot be lowered closes it without changing any default behaviour.
2 and 3 — the two coverage items on source/tests/pt/model/test_descriptor_sezm_triton.py (threads on lines 2337 and 2212). These are test gaps rather than wrong behaviour; they belong to the same pass.
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Blocking: a .pt2 frozen from a SeZM/DPA4 checkpoint cannot be loaded by the C++ runtime.
The traced branch is selected whenever the module sees a fake tensor. dp freeze for SeZM/DPA4 goes through exactly that path: freeze_sezm_to_pt2 traces with make_fx(tracing_mode="symbolic"), so blocks[0].fake_mode is set and this line routes the dense assembly through sezm_nn::wigner_d_assemble. AOTInductor cannot inline a plain torch.library.custom_op, so it emits a proxy-executor node that is resolved by name through the dispatcher at load time. Nothing registers that operator in the C++ process.
Trigger.dp freeze <sezm_or_dpa4_checkpoint> out.pt2 — deepmd/pt/entrypoints/main.py:480-494 routes every checkpoint whose descriptor type is sezm or dpa4 to freeze_sezm_to_pt2 — then load out.pt2 from LAMMPS via DeepPotPTExpt, or from any Python process that imports only deepmd.pt_expt. Applies to torch >= 2.7, which includes the pinned 2.10.0 (GPU) and 2.11.0 (CPU). The default edge_cartesian=False keeps _need_full_wigner true, so even the small model used by the export test takes this branch.
Call chain.dp freeze -> deepmd/pt/entrypoints/freeze_pt2.py:1042forward_common_lower_exportable -> deepmd/pt/model/model/sezm_model.py:2501-2514 symbolic make_fx -> deepmd/pt/model/descriptor/sezm_nn/edge_cache.py:699wigner_calc(edge_quat) -> the fake-mode probe at wignerd.py:746-747 -> this line -> torch.export keeps the node -> freeze_pt2.py:1079aoti_compile_and_package -> source/api_cc/src/DeepPotPTExpt.cc:301AOTIModelPackageLoader raises RuntimeError: Could not find schema for sezm_nn::wigner_d_assemble.
Consequence. Every .pt2 frozen from a default SeZM/DPA4 checkpoint is unusable in the deployment runtime the archive exists for, and nothing fails at freeze time. source/tests/pt/model/test_sezm_export.py loads the archive in-process, where importing deepmd has already registered the operator, so the suite stays green.
Evidence boundary. Reproduced here: the module at this head traces into a sezm_nn.wigner_d_assemble node under symbolic make_fx; the exported graph packages into a .pt2 whose wrapper carries the proxy-executor node; loading that archive through AOTIModelPackageLoader in a fresh process that has not imported deepmd fails with the error above, and succeeds once the module is imported. The full freeze_sezm_to_pt2 on a real checkpoint was not executed here (no checkpoint or GPU available).
Related.deepmd/pt_expt/kernels/triton/sezm/so2_rotation.py:43-52 states this constraint explicitly and is why the SeZM graph operators there use torch.library.triton_op: a custom_op is "opaque to the compiler, hence emitted as a runtime dispatcher call that the C++ .pt2 runtime cannot resolve", whereas a triton_op lets Inductor bake the cubin into the package.
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A registration regression would report as skipped, not failed.
The expected state is read from the same module-level flag that the three operator tests use as a skip gate. If registration ever regresses on the pinned torch — 2.10.0 on the GPU job, 2.11.0 on the CPU job, both of which accept the schema today — this line passes the observed False into the child, the child's control asserts _wigner_d_assemble_op is None, and the operator tests skip instead of failing. The suite stays green while the traced route silently reverts to the scatter the PR exists to remove.
Trigger. Any change that makes torch.library.custom_op(...), register_fake or register_autograd raise for sezm_nn::wigner_d_assemble on a torch release that supports the schema; the failure is swallowed at wignerd.py:112-113 and :148-149.
Call chain. Test-module import -> the registration handlers set the operator to None -> _WIGNER_OP_REGISTERED = False (test:70) -> test:2104, :2176, :2207 skip -> this line carries False into the child -> the child asserts is None -> green.
Consequence. A silent loss of the custom assembly operator on a supported torch. The compiled SeZM path falls back to the raw scatter, reintroducing the intermediate traffic this PR removes and likely OOM at large edge counts, with no failing test to show it.
Evidence boundary. Read from the sources and test bodies at this head. Registration was confirmed to succeed on the locally installed torch 2.10.0; the suite itself was not run.
The child's control is meant to describe the environment, not to absorb a regression: on a torch known to accept the schema, the fact that registration succeeded is itself assertable.
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The is_compiling() half of the probe has no assertion that can fail.
The docstring here says torch.compile covers the is_compiling half, but the compile test it points at (test_traced_matches_eager_and_layout_policy) only compares values and contiguity. Both routes compute identical values — the operator wraps the very same _wigner_d_assemble_impl — so a probe that silently evaluated false would still pass every existing assertion. The graph-node assertion at line 2235 pins only the fake-mode half.
Trigger.torch.compiler.is_compiling renamed or moved (the import-time getattr then yields None and compiling becomes permanently False), or a refactor that drops the compiling or term. Reached on any torch.compile run, which is the production inference configuration for these models.
Call chain.test:2362 -> torch.compile(calc.forward) -> the probe at wignerd.py:737-747 -> the branch at wignerd.py:763-775; the assertions at test:2376-2378 compare values only, and :2401-2408 compares contiguity only.
Consequence. The saving this PR is built around — roughly 4 GB of HBM traffic and 852 MB of peak allocation at the documented workload — can disappear on the compile path with a green test suite. Correctness is unaffected.
Evidence boundary. Read from the test and module at this head. Measured here that under torch.compile on torch 2.10 is_compiling() is true while the fake-mode disjunct is false, so this branch is the sole selector rather than a redundant guard; the CUDA-gated compile test itself was not executed.
An assertion that the operator node is present in the compiled or exported graph would pin this half the way line 2235 pins the other.
AOTInductor lowers a plain custom_op to a proxy-executor node that the
C++ package loader resolves by name, and nothing registers
sezm_nn::wigner_d_assemble there, so a .pt2 frozen through the traced
branch failed to load with 'Could not find schema'. The freeze seam
(both the plain and the with-comm export) now traces under an explicit
suppression context that keeps the eager scatter; the in-process
inference path is unchanged. Regression: under the context the make_fx
graph carries no operator node and reproduces the unsuppressed values
bitwise.
Two review hardenings on the probe: a torch-version-gated check that
fails (not skips) when registration regresses on a schema-capable
torch, and a mechanism pin for the is_compiling disjunct -- a truthy
probe against real tensors must route through the operator. Empirical
correction recorded while testing: under current dynamo the assembly
graph-breaks out of torch.compile regions, so the compiled route does
not reach that disjunct today; the docstrings now say so and the
fake-mode half remains the live one. Also unify the module import
style flagged by CodeQL.
1. Blocking — export traces keep the eager assembly. New context manager assemble_op_suppressed_for_export() raises a module flag that the probe's traced branch respects; both freeze seams (forward_common_lower_exportable and the with-comm variant, including their torch.export calls) now trace under it, so the exported graph carries the eager scatter AOTInductor can compile instead of the proxy-executor node the C++ loader cannot resolve. The in-process inference path (aot_module_simplified + compile_fx_inner, same-process dispatcher) is unchanged. Regression: under the context the make_fx graph contains no sezm_nn.wigner_d_assemble node and reproduces the unsuppressed trace's values bitwise; without it the node is present (that half was already pinned). I could not run the full dp freeze + C++ load cycle locally — the mechanism-level evidence above is what I can honestly claim.
2. A registration regression now fails instead of skipping.test_operator_registers_on_schema_capable_torch is gated on the torch release (schema accepted from 2.7; CI pins 2.10/2.11) rather than the observed flag, and asserts _wigner_d_assemble_op is not None.
3. The is_compiling half is pinned — and your premise prompted an empirical correction. Testing this exposed that under the current dynamo the assembly graph-breaks out of torch.compile regions: with both a capture backend and real inductor, the operator is never selected on a compiled run (a spy counted zero calls) — the docstring's claim that torch.compile exercises that disjunct was wrong, and the fake-mode half is the live one today. The test now pins the mechanism directly: a truthy is_compiling probe against real tensors must route the assembly through the operator (dropped disjunct or broken lookup ⇒ red), and the docstrings in both the source and the make_fx test state the graph-break reality.
Also unified the module import style CodeQL flagged. Validation: TestSeZMWignerDAssembleOp 9 passed + 6 subtests (three new checks); full triton file 46 passed + 1 skipped.
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One new test-compatibility regression in the export repair: test_export_suppression_keeps_the_eager_assembly is unconditional, but line 2283 requires the unsuppressed graph to contain sezm_nn.wigner_d_assemble. On the supported fallback releases where registration is unavailable/rejected (Torch 2.1–2.6), the intended unsuppressed graph already uses eager assembly, so this assertion fails even though production fallback is correct. backend/find_pytorch.py still declares torch>=2.1.0.
Please gate the operator-present control on successful registration, as the adjacent operator-specific tests do, or assert the expected no-operator graph in both arms when registration is absent. This is distinct from the previous missing registration-regression assertion: the newly added version-gated registration test should remain.
Evidence: exact-head source/control-flow inspection at 1c48825; no native legacy-Torch or full freeze/C++ execution. Current-head Actions remain action_required. No duplicate of the existing production export finding is being opened.
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The Wigner-D math checks out: block offsets and ordering, the l>=11 polynomial placement, dtype/device propagation and the backward slicing were re-derived and match the previous scatter; the export-suppression design also fixes the earlier .pt2 load failure on the CLI path. The blocking items below concern the suppression wiring, one test that cannot pass in an editable install, a Dynamo graph break introduced by the probe, the public export seam left unguarded, and the process-global flag used for suppression.
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The freeze-seam suppression has no regression test. Both .pt2 producers wrap the trace in assemble_op_suppressed_for_export() (here and in _export_with_comm_artifact), because AOTInductor resolves custom ops by name in the C++ runtime where sezm_nn::wigner_d_assemble is not registered. But the only test of the context manager builds its own make_fx trace (test_descriptor_sezm_triton.py:2285), and the only graph inspection reached through the freeze pipeline asserts an unrelated op (dpa4_edge_radial, test_sezm_export.py:969) while mocking _export_with_comm_artifact out. The existing archive tests load in-process via aoti_load_package/DeepPot, where the Python registration is live, so they cannot observe this either.
Deleting either with line therefore leaves the whole suite green while the shipped .pt2 becomes unloadable in DeepPotPTExpt/LAMMPS. Please assert on the graph produced by _freeze_sezm_to_pt2 / _export_with_comm_artifact (for example, no sezm_nn.wigner_d_assemble node), or load the artifact in a subprocess that never imports the descriptor.
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This subprocess test fails in the project's own editable install. The child strips every meta-path finder whose name contains editable, then puts the repository root at sys.path[0]. In the standard scikit-build editable install (pip install -e ., used by CI at test_python.yml:36), deepmd.lib is provided by that redirect finder and mapped to site-packages, while the source tree has no deepmd/lib. The child therefore dies at deepmd/env.py:14 import deepmd.lib with ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'deepmd.lib' in both hide and reject modes, and assertEqual(result.returncode, 0) fails. The method and its class carry no skip guard.
Reproduced end-to-end on an editable install: the same imports succeed with the finder present and fail with this filter applied. Please keep the finder, import deepmd before stripping, or add deepmd.lib's real location to the child's path.
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This probe adds a Dynamo graph break to the hot path.bool(blocks) on a Python list is not traceable: on torch 2.10 the pre-PR module reports graph_break_count=0 and one graph, while this line reports one break and two graphs with the reason Dynamo does not know how to trace builtin operator 'bool' with argument types ['list']. Rewriting only this expression as len(blocks) > 0 restores zero breaks and still selects the operator. torch.compile(..., fullgraph=True) worked before this change and now raises Unsupported.
The comment above attributes the graph break to the assembly, but the assembly (a registered custom op) traces fine — the break is self-inflicted by this line. Please use len(blocks) > 0.
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Suppression is wired only into freeze_pt2.py, not into the traced export.forward_common_lower_exportable* is documented as returning a module that can be handed to torch.export.export (the with-comm variant even names the .pt2 artifact that DeepPotPTExpt consumes), yet _assemble_op_suppressed_for_export is raised only by the two private freeze call sites. Any caller that follows the documented model-level API and then packages with AOTI gets a graph carrying sezm_nn::wigner_d_assemble, which the C++ runtime cannot resolve — the exact failure this suppression exists to prevent. The shipped CLI path is fine; the public seam is not.
Please move the invariant into the tracer (suppress whenever the trace targets an external artifact) or document and enforce the context around these methods.
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The suppression flag is process-global, so interleaved contexts corrupt the export. This context saves and restores a module-level boolean with no thread scoping. With thread A inside the context (saved False, set True) and thread B entering (saved True), A's finally writes False while B is still tracing; B's subsequent forward takes the operator branch and its archive embeds sezm_nn::wigner_d_assemble, which fails at C++ load. After both exit the flag is also left True, permanently routing later in-process traces through the eager scatter. Reproduced with a verbatim copy of these ten lines and forced thread interleaving.
Two concurrent freeze_sezm_to_pt2 calls are neither rejected nor documented as unsupported. Please use a ContextVar or thread-local (or a lock) for this flag.
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Motivation
Each eval frame assembles the block-diagonal Wigner-D rotation matrices by
scattering the per-degree blocks into a dense
(E, D, D)tensor. Tracedthrough Inductor, those in-place slice assignments functionalize into a
chain of full-size
zeros + index_put + addtensors plus a realizedtranspose -- five
(E, D, D)surfaces combined by one kernel, ~4 GB of HBMtraffic per frame at the SeZM N=4096 workload (E ~ 646k, D = 16).
(The inverse rotation
Dt_fullis already a transpose view on master since#6001, with the torch-2.11-only materialization gate; this PR does not
change that behavior -- it shares the same exit between the two assembly
routes and adjusts the comments to describe it.)
Change
Assembly behind a custom op (
sezm_nn::wigner_d_assemble). Theoperator takes the per-degree blocks (plus the polynomial tail when
lmax >= 11) and does the eager scatter: one zeros buffer, in-place blockwrites. The traced forward takes the op whenever a fake-tensor mode is
active (
is_compiling()is not enough -- this module is traced throughmake_fx, where the flag stays False; a fake tensor carries its mode, so the
forward probes for it). The eager path is untouched. An exact autograd
formula returns each block its D-slice.
torch >= 2.1 stays importable. The registration API
(
torch.library.custom_op/register_fake/register_autograd)requires torch >= 2.4 while the package declares
torch>=2.1.0, and thismodule is imported unconditionally through the descriptor chain. The
registration is gated on the API's presence; on a 2.1-2.3 install the
operator stays unregistered and both the eager and the traced route keep
the autograd-through-scatter implementation (a subprocess test reloads the
module with the API hidden and pins import safety, the eager
forward/backward, and the traced fallback).
Measurements
SeZM model, N=4096 atoms (~646k edges), RTX 5090, torch 2.12.1+cu130,
DP_COMPILE_INFER=1,DP_TRITON_INFER=3, throughput mode (16 evals, P50):The time saving is the op: the ~4 GB/frame add-chain disappears (the
compiler-fragment family drops 38.3 -> 25.8 ms of kernel time). Two-state
compiled-eval accuracy at N=4096: energy rel diff 5.8e-10, max force diff
4.8e-6 with max |f| ~ 3.9.
Tests
TestSeZMWignerDAssembleOpinsource/tests/pt/model/test_descriptor_sezm_triton.py:PyTorch -- runs in the CPU CI, no CUDA gate);
torch.library.opcheckschema/fake/autograd contract (CPU CI as well);graph code (the fake-mode half of the tracing probe;
torch.compilecovers the
is_compilinghalf);torch-2.1-2.3 fallback: the module imports, the eager forward/backward
works, and tracing keeps the eager implementation;
source/tests/pt/model/test_descriptor_sezm.py: 61 passed (default config).source/tests/pt/model/test_descriptor_sezm_triton.py: 44 passed, 1 skipped (pre-existing) on this head.source/tests/pt/model/test_sezm_model.py::TestSeZMModelCompile: 9 passed on this branch head (RTX 5090, torch 2.12.1), including the eval cache/shape-change, first-frame and force-loss double-backward tests.Summary by CodeRabbit