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feat: add the Uni-Mol v1 backbone and its self-supervised pretraining

PR description

Uni-Mol is a molecular representation model: a transformer over all atom pairs
in which geometry enters only through pairwise distances. It was pretrained on
about 209 million RDKit conformers with three self-supervised objectives and no
energies or forces at all. This adds a port of Uni-Mol v1 that is faithful
enough to load the released weights and reproduce the published objective.

Two things motivate it. Uni-Mol's data and objectives become available to
multi-task training alongside DFT-labelled data, which is what makes a
controlled comparison between the two kinds of supervision possible at all.
And molecular property work gains a pretrained backbone with a large user base
behind it.

Scope

Uni-Mol is not a potential energy surface model. It attends over every atom
pair with no cut-off and no smooth envelope, so it is not extensive, it does not
support periodic boundaries, and its forces are neither smooth nor conserved.
The descriptor rejects frames carrying periodic images, declares itself
unavailable for edge-parallel and communication paths, and is not offered for
molecular dynamics or frozen deployment.

Nothing existing changes behaviour. Every new component is reachable only by
name from a configuration, gelu and gelu_tf keep their current meaning, the
new data hook defaults to off, and no new dependency is added: PyTorch is
imported lazily and only to read a checkpoint file, and RDKit only when the
offline converter is asked for two-dimensional conformers.

What is here

  • Backbone (deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/unimol.py, unimol_nn/): the
    15-layer pre-layer-norm encoder, self-attention that returns its pre-softmax
    logits so the pair representation accumulates across layers, the Gaussian
    distance basis with per-element-pair affine parameters, and both norm
    regularisers.
  • Heads and objective (fitting/unimol_pretrain.py, loss/unimol.py):
    element prediction, coordinate denoising through the pair channel, pairwise
    distance prediction, with upstream's weights of 1, 5, 10, 0.01 and 0.01.
  • Data (dpmodel/utils/unimol_transform.py, utils/unimol_data.py): the
    masking and noise pipeline as plain per-frame functions, a per-frame
    transform hook on the LMDB reader, and a streaming converter for the
    upstream dataset.
  • Weights (utils/unimol_checkpoint.py): imports the released
    mol_pre_all_h_220816 and mol_pre_no_h_220816 checkpoints.
  • Exact GELU: gelu_erf registered in every backend activation table.
    Uni-Mol uses the error-function form; deepmd's gelu is the tanh
    approximation, which differs by up to 4.7e-4 per element.
  • Training: the objective declares the transform it needs and the trainer
    installs it on that task's datasets, next to where it already registers the
    label requirements. Supervised losses declare nothing and their data path is
    untouched.
  • Model, atomic model, argcheck entries, PyTorch-Exportable wrappers,
    documentation and an example configuration.

A run from the shipped example trains: dp --pt-expt train reports all five
terms on both the training and validation curves and writes checkpoints.

How closely it matches upstream

Every component is checked against tensors dumped from upstream Uni-Mol
(commit 90f52c4) running unmodified on the same molecules. The golden archive
ships with the tests and the header of source/tests/common/dpmodel/test_unimol.py
says how to regenerate it.

What Agreement Limited by
data transforms: tokens, targets, edge types, both coordinate arrays bitwise nothing
data transforms: distance matrix 1.9e-6 absolute fp32 rounding of scipy vs a sqrt of squares
encoder, fed upstream's own attention bias, 15 layers 1.2e-15 relative fp64 rounding
three heads 5e-16 relative fp64 rounding
whole objective on the released weights 3.4e-7 relative the three fp32 choices below

Bitwise agreement on the transforms is the part worth pausing on: it means the
random stream itself is reproduced, down to which atoms are masked and what
noise each one receives, not merely that the statistics match.

The remaining 3.4e-7 is upstream's own use of fp32 in three places, not an
implementation difference:

  1. the Gaussian basis is evaluated in fp32, reproduced by default and
    switchable with single_precision_basis;
  2. the distance matrix is precomputed in fp32 by upstream's data pipeline,
    while the descriptor computes distances inside the model, which is more
    accurate and is what gradients flow through; single_precision_distance
    reproduces upstream's numbers instead, which is what the released-weight check
    uses to reach 3.7e-7;
  3. log_softmax and both norm regularisers are evaluated in fp32, reproduced.

Training trajectories cannot be matched exactly in any case: upstream
pretrained a pure fp16 model with fused kernels and its own Adam variant.

Scope of the checks

Beyond the parity tests, three whole-path checks were run, and each found real
defects that component tests had not:

  • Driving the model through the PyTorch-Exportable backend found arrays built
    without a device, which land on the host while the batch is on the
    accelerator.
  • A short training run found the same class of defect in the loss and the
    fitting, and confirmed the objective actually falls: 8.48 to 3.02 over 60
    steps, with every term decreasing.
  • Running dp --pt-expt train from a configuration file found five gaps
    between a file and the first step: the trainer's loss factory did not know
    the objective; the fitting lacked the accessors the atomic model calls on
    any fitting; the transform ran after the reader had already checked for the
    labels it was about to produce; the converter wrote a zero cell, which the
    neighbour-list builder inverted; and the example addressed its LMDB dataset
    with a list rather than a string.

What an adversarial review of this branch found

The branch was reviewed before submission by independent passes over upstream
fidelity, interface compliance, edge cases, test quality and reviewability,
with every finding put to a separate attempt at refutation. Thirty-two survived
and are fixed here. The ones worth knowing about:

  • The token embedding and all four Gaussian basis tables never received a
    gradient. They were bare arrays, which this backend turns into buffers, and
    then, once they were parameters, the array-API wrapper that placed them on
    the device copied them out of the autograd graph. Inference and checkpoint
    parity were unaffected, which is why the parity tests stayed green
    throughout.
  • Every module was handed the same seed, so all fifteen encoder blocks started
    bitwise identical whenever a seed was set.
  • The corruption was frozen at the first epoch, so every pass masked each
    molecule identically.
  • Cropping inside the per-frame transform left a frame inconsistent with the
    batch layout, which is settled before the transform runs.

The tests that should have caught the first two could not fail: the gradient
test accepted any parameter with a gradient, which the three heads alone
satisfied. Those tests are strengthened rather than merely repaired.

Decisions a reviewer may want to question

  • Real atoms are identified from the neighbour list, not from atype. By
    the time a descriptor is called, virtual atoms have been clamped to type 0
    and are indistinguishable from a real first element. Frames with fewer than
    two real atoms are rejected, since that inference is ambiguous for them, and
    the converter drops such molecules.
  • A second entry point returns token-resolution output. The descriptor
    five-tuple cannot carry the two virtual tokens, the pair channel or the norm
    regularisers that the heads read, so the atomic model overrides one method
    rather than any component being forked.
  • The two regularisers are broadcast over the local atoms. They are frame
    scalars, but only per-atom variables survive the atomic-output machinery; the
    loss averages them back with the real-atom mask, which returns the original
    value exactly.
  • The distance head keeps the virtual columns and is padded to
    max_atoms + 2, because upstream's objective counts them, and a static shape
    is what the output definition needs.
  • The distance target is derived in the loss rather than stored. Storing it
    would cost O(natoms^2) per frame, which is impractical at 209 million
    conformers.
  • The legacy numpy.random interface is used deliberately in the
    transforms, with a noqa and a reason on every call: upstream seeds the global
    legacy generator, and a Generator would draw a different stream.
  • The loss base class gains an optional frame_transform. A
    self-supervised objective has to corrupt its input as the data is read, and
    this is the smallest way to say so without the trainer special-casing a
    particular loss. Supervised losses inherit the default and are unaffected.

Third-party code

The ported code follows Uni-Mol (commit 90f52c4) and the Uni-Core modules it
builds on (commit ace6fae), both MIT licensed, Copyright (c) DP Technology.
Parts of Uni-Core derive in turn from fairseq, Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and
its affiliates, also MIT licensed. Each ported file carries its provenance in
the header, naming the upstream file and commit for every class.

Tests

All of it runs under the repository's own gate: pre-commit passes on every
changed file.

source/tests/common/dpmodel/test_unimol.py,
source/tests/common/dpmodel/test_unimol_data.py and
source/tests/pt_expt/model/test_unimol.py: 28 tests covering the transforms,
the encoder, the basis, the heads, the descriptor, the objective, the
registered model path, a training run driven from a configuration, agreement
between the array-API and PyTorch-Exportable implementations, gradient flow,
dropout behaviour, serialization round trips, the guards, the data conversion
and the reader hook.

Tolerances have stated causes rather than being tuned until they pass. One test
exists only to measure the fp32 basis gap between NumPy and Torch, so that the
looser bounds elsewhere have a number behind them.

Not in this PR

Training the objective on DPA descriptors in multi-task, which needs a
coordinate head over the equivariant features and a new pair readout, and the
removal of the unrelated dead denoise code, which is a separate cleanup.

Review round three

Three files changed since the last review, in response to @wanghan-iapcm's
second pass.

deepmd/dpmodel/array_api.py — xp_erf now has a TensorFlow branch.
xp_erf is introduced by this pull request, along with the exact-erf GELU it
serves, so this is a defect this pull request introduced rather than a
pre-existing one being tidied up. Every namespace other than JAX and torch fell
through to a NumPy round-trip; for an ndtensorflow array that is wrong twice
over. Under tf.function the conversion is refused outright, because
__array__ raises on a graph tensor. In eager mode it succeeds while detaching
the erf factor from the tape, so the exact GELU differentiates as though it
were Phi(x) alone — silently, and for every backend user of gelu_erf rather
than only Uni-Mol.

Removing the branch again makes the point: the gradient test fails with the
derivative collapsed onto Phi(x), the graph-mode test fails, and the
forward-value test still passes. A test that compares values could not have
found this.

deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/unimol.py — the docstring for the dropout rates
said they are inert here and applied by the PyTorch-Exportable wrapper. They are
applied by the shared encoder, for torch arrays in training mode; inference is
the identity, and training on another array namespace raises
NotImplementedError.

source/tests/consistent/test_activation.py — three tf2 cases: the value
comparison's gradient counterpart, a tf.function trace, and an anchor on the
namespace name.

Two notes on those tests. The gradient probe uses an even number of points so
the grid straddles zero without landing on it, because relu and relu6 have
no derivative there: autodiff reports the subgradient 0 while a central
difference reports 0.5, and neither is wrong. And the namespace anchor is
deliberately not gated on INSTALLED_TF2 — find_spec does not import the
module, so it runs everywhere, including the ordinary runs where the tf2 cases
skip. A guard that skips alongside the thing it guards would protect nothing.

When the tf2 cases run

They are gated on INSTALLED_TF2, which requires DEEPMD_TEST_TF2=1. As far as
I can see nothing in the repository sets that variable — test_python.yml sets
DP_TEST_TF2_ONLY for the dedicated source/tests/tf2 job — so on a normal run
they skip rather than fail. I ran them locally with DEEPMD_TEST_TF2=1 and
TensorFlow pinned to the CPU (TF 2.21's bundled kernels do not match this
machine's driver): 36 passed. Flagging it because a test that always skips
protects nothing, and I would rather say so than leave the impression that this
path is covered. Whether to wire these into CI is the maintainers' call.

The TF1 backend is not reachable from this change: xp_erf has one caller in
the tree, deepmd/dpmodel/utils/network.py:361, and TF1's own gelu_erf in
deepmd/tf/common.py calls tf.math.erf directly without going through it.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added Uni-Mol v1 molecular pretraining support across supported backends, including descriptors, models, fitting, loss functions, and data transforms.
    • Added tools to convert Uni-Mol LMDB datasets and import released Uni-Mol checkpoints.
    • Added exact erf-based GELU activation support.
    • Added the adam_eps optimizer option for PyTorch Exportable training.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved dataset conversion recovery when replacing an existing dataset.
    • Made Uni-Mol data corruption streams reproducible and independent across datasets.
  • Documentation

    • Added Uni-Mol usage documentation and a complete pretraining example configuration.

Ports the Uni-Mol v1 transformer backbone to the array-API dpmodel layer:
self-attention that returns its pre-softmax logits, the pre-LN encoder layer,
the pair-carrying encoder stack with both norm regularisers, the Gaussian
distance basis and the two-layer head. Sources are Uni-Mol 90f52c4 and
Uni-Core ace6fae, both MIT licensed; the file header records the provenance
per class.

Adds "gelu_erf", the exact error-function GELU that Uni-Mol uses, together
with an xp_erf backend dispatch. The existing "gelu" and "gelu_tf" keep their
current meaning, the tanh approximation, which differs from the exact form by
up to 4.7e-4 per element.

Verified against tensors dumped from upstream running on the same inputs:
with upstream's own attention bias the encoder agrees to 7e-16 relative in
fp64. Including the Gaussian basis the agreement is 1e-7 relative, which is
one fp32 unit in the last place: upstream evaluates the basis in fp32 because
it pretrains an fp16 model, and NumPy and Torch round that last place
differently. That behaviour is reproduced by default and can be switched off.

No existing code path changes: the new modules are not imported anywhere yet.
Ports the masking and coordinate-noise pipeline of Uni-Mol molecular
pretraining from Uni-Mol 90f52c4 (MIT): conformer sampling, the hydrogen
policy, cropping, centring, the 90/5/5 corruption, BOS/EOS insertion, and the
distance and edge-type construction. Upstream expresses each step as a lazy
dataset wrapper; these are plain functions over one frame, which is what a
deepmd data loader can call.

Corruption belongs on the data side rather than inside a loss because the
PyTorch-Exportable backend runs the model before the loss sees a frame, which
is also how upstream does it.

The legacy numpy.random interface is used deliberately and every call carries
a noqa with the reason: upstream seeds the global legacy PRNG, and a Generator
would draw a different stream, giving different masks and different noise for
the same seed.

Verified against tensors dumped from upstream at seed 1, epoch 1, molecules
0-3 of the bundled example data: tokens, loss targets, edge types and both
coordinate arrays are bitwise identical, which means the whole random stream
is reproduced, down to which atoms are masked and what noise each one gets.
The distance matrices differ by 1.9e-6 absolute, the float32 rounding between
scipy's distance_matrix and a sqrt of summed squares.
"gelu_erf" was added to the dpmodel table in the previous commit. The name
also has to reach the whitelist in deepmd/common.py, because that is what
argcheck validates a configuration against, and every backend table has to
answer to it: TensorFlow asserts at import that the whitelist is a subset of
its own table, so registering the name without a TF entry would break
importing deepmd.tf.common. PyTorch, PyTorch-Exportable and Paddle would each
raise at runtime instead.

All four array backends resolve "gelu_erf" to the exact error-function GELU
and agree with torch's own to rounding: 0 for pt and pt_expt, 2.2e-16 for
dpmodel. "gelu" and "gelu_tf" keep their current meaning everywhere.
Ports the three pretraining heads (element prediction, coordinate denoising
through the pair channel, pairwise distance prediction) and the five-term
objective from Uni-Mol 90f52c4 (MIT), with upstream's README weights of
1, 5, 10, 0.01 and 0.01 and its hard-coded distance normalisation.

The coordinate update takes the post-deepmodeling#211 form: the normaliser counts every
non-padding token, BOS and EOS included, and pairs touching padding are zeroed
before the sum. The distance term covers the corrupted rows against every
non-padding column, diagonal included.

Verified against tensors dumped from upstream, on both a small random model
and the released mol_pre_all_h_220816 weights. Heads agree to fp64 rounding:
5e-16 relative on the logits, 2.5e-16 on the distances, 1.8e-20 on the
coordinates. All five loss terms agree to 1e-7 relative or better; that floor
is upstream's own, since it evaluates log_softmax and both norm regularisers
in fp32 regardless of model precision, and those casts are reproduced.
Wraps the ported Uni-Mol v1 backbone in the descriptor interface: it turns a
padded deepmd frame into Uni-Mol's token sequence, runs the encoder, and
returns the per-atom representation with the two virtual tokens dropped. A
second entry point returns everything at token resolution, because the
five-tuple cannot carry the virtual tokens or the norm regularisers that the
pretraining heads need.

Real atoms are identified from the neighbour list rather than from atype: by
the time a descriptor is called, virtual atoms have been clamped to type 0 and
cannot be told apart from a real first element, while the neighbour list still
shows them as empty rows. Frames with fewer than two real atoms are rejected,
since that inference is ambiguous for them.

Uni-Mol's own 31-token vocabulary is kept because the released weights are
indexed by it, and a deepmd type_map is mapped onto it, with unknown elements
becoming [UNK]. The descriptor declares itself non-periodic, non-extensive,
stat-free and unavailable for edge-parallel or communication paths, and it
rejects frames that carry periodic images.

The virtual tokens sit at the centroid of the real atoms by default, which
keeps the sequence translation invariant; "origin" reproduces upstream exactly
for data that its own pipeline has already centred.

Checked end to end against the upstream dump, driven through deepmd-shaped
inputs: the token sequence is identical, the node representation agrees to
8.2e-9 relative and the pair-delta norm to 6.2e-8, both inherited from the
fp32 Gaussian basis. Padding length does not affect the result, as intended.
Adds the converter for the released mol_pre_all_h_220816 and
mol_pre_no_h_220816 files (MIT). Parameter names line up one to one with the
ported modules, but the arrays do not: deepmd stores a linear weight as
(num_in, num_out) and applies it as x @ w, the transpose of
torch.nn.Linear.weight, and names layer-norm parameters w/b. Every weight is
renamed and transposed rather than loaded directly, so there is no
"just add a prefix" path on this backend.

The released files carry only their weights and no training state, so they
read with weights_only=True. Torch is imported lazily and only to read the
file, which keeps the converter off every other code path.

Also adds an option to round the pairwise distances to fp32 before the
Gaussian basis. Upstream precomputes its distance matrix in fp32 in the data
pipeline, while the descriptor computes distances inside the model, which is
more accurate and is what gradients flow through. The Gaussian basis is narrow
enough that the difference matters: on the released 15-layer weights the node
representation lands 5.1e-6 from upstream with fp64 distances and 3.7e-7 with
upstream's own fp32 rounding. The default stays on the accurate path.

Measured on the released weights driven through deepmd-shaped inputs: the
encoder fed upstream's own attention bias agrees to 1.2e-15 relative at full
depth, so the remaining gap is entirely the two precision choices upstream
makes in front of it.
Wraps the three pretraining heads as a fitting: the element head reads the
node representation, the coordinate head reads the pair delta, the distance
head reads the pair representation. None is reducible to a frame total and
none is differentiated with respect to coordinates, because the task denoises
structures rather than modelling a potential energy surface.

Upstream's distance objective counts the two virtual tokens among the columns,
so the distance output keeps them and is padded to max_atoms + 2 columns,
which the loss masks back down. That keeps the output shape static, as the
output definition requires, without dropping columns the objective needs.

The heads read token-resolution backbone output, which the descriptor's
five-tuple cannot carry, so they are driven through call_tokens; the standard
call raises with that explanation rather than silently returning something
else.

The loss now gathers the corrupted positions itself, since the model emits one
row per local atom.

End-to-end on the released mol_pre_all_h_220816 weights, driven through
deepmd-shaped inputs: all five terms of the objective agree with upstream, the
worst at 5.6e-7 relative and the total at 3.4e-7.
Three entries, all labelled PyTorch-Exportable: the unimol descriptor, the
unimol_pretrain fitting and the unimol loss, with upstream's defaults, which
are 15 layers of width 512 with 64 heads for the backbone and weights of
1, 5, 10, 0.01 and 0.01 for the objective.

The two precision switches are exposed as arguments, since they decide whether
a run reproduces upstream's published numbers or takes the more accurate path,
and the docs say which is which.

A complete Uni-Mol configuration now normalizes, so the components are
reachable from a training input file.
Adds the atomic model and the model class. The atomic model overrides one
method to route the backbone's token-resolution output into the heads, because
the standard descriptor five-tuple cannot carry the virtual tokens, the pair
channel or the norm regularisers. It also returns the head outputs untouched
by out-stat: self-supervised targets have no per-element bias to add back.

The two norm regularisers are frame scalars, but only per-atom variables
survive the atomic-output machinery, so each is broadcast over the local atoms
and the loss averages it back with the real-atom mask, which returns the
original value exactly.

A configuration now goes all the way through: argcheck normalizes it, the
model factory picks UniMolPretrainModel by fitting type, and the model returns
the three head outputs plus the two regularisers. Driven that way on the
released weights, the five-term objective still matches upstream, total at
3.4e-7 relative.
Registers the descriptor, the fitting, the loss and the model. The wrappers
are thin, as elsewhere in this backend: the descriptor adds parameter sharing
for multi-task training, where level 0 shares the whole backbone and level 1
only the token embedding, and the loss is a straight re-export because the
dpmodel one is a pure function of predictions and labels.

Two bugs that only the real backend could show, both fixed here:

- The element-to-token lookup table and the token embedding were read as plain
  arrays, so on a CUDA model they stayed on the host and indexing failed. They
  are now placed on the device of the incoming data, as are the four Gaussian
  basis tables.
- The two regularisers were broadcast with a fill value that torch refuses
  when it is a tensor rather than a number; they are broadcast by addition now.

Checked on GPU through the registered path: a configuration normalizes, the
factory builds the model, and the five-term objective on the released weights
matches upstream with the total at 8.1e-8 relative.
Adds the golden archive and two test files. Every expected value was produced
by running upstream Uni-Mol 90f52c4 unmodified on CPU over four molecules of
its own example data at a fixed seed and epoch; the header of the dpmodel test
says how to regenerate it.

The dpmodel tests cover the data-side transforms, the encoder, the Gaussian
basis, the three heads, the descriptor and the five-term objective, plus
serialization round trips and the two guards the descriptor raises. The
transform test asserts bitwise equality on tokens, targets, edge types and
both coordinate arrays, which is what shows the random stream itself is
reproduced rather than merely its statistics.

The PyTorch-Exportable tests cover the registered path end to end, agreement
with the array-API implementation on identical weights, the objective against
upstream, and that gradients reach the parameters.

Tolerances have stated causes rather than being tuned until they pass. Where
upstream's fp32 Gaussian basis is in play, agreement is one fp32 unit in the
last place; a dedicated test measures that gap so the looser bound elsewhere
is justified, and with the basis in full precision the two backends agree to
fp64 rounding.
Uni-Mol regularises with dropout at three sites, 0.1 each on the embedding, on
the attention probabilities and on both residual branches, while deepmd has no
dropout anywhere. The rates were already carried in the configuration; this
makes them act.

The array API has no random numbers, so the helper dispatches to torch when a
training step needs it and is the identity during inference, which is what the
array-API backends are for. Training on a non-torch backend raises rather than
quietly dropping the regularisation, which would be a silent parity bug. The
flag travels down the call chain rather than relying on nested module state,
since the encoder's sub-objects are plain data on the array-API path.

A test pins the behaviour: eval-mode forwards are bit-identical to each other,
train-mode forwards under different seeds are not.
Uni-Mol ships its pretraining set as one LMDB file of pickled dicts with about
ten conformers per molecule; deepmd reads a different layout. The conversion
runs once, offline, and streams, so the 115 GB set does not have to fit in
memory.

One conformer becomes one frame, so ordinary frame sampling stands in for
upstream's per-epoch conformer draw, and frames of the same molecule share a
system id. The two-dimensional RDKit conformer that upstream appends while
loading is added here instead, behind a flag, so the training data path never
needs RDKit.

Records that cannot be used are skipped rather than written misleadingly: a
single-atom molecule, which the descriptor cannot tell from padding, and any
molecule with an element outside the Uni-Mol vocabulary, which would silently
become [UNK].

Tested against deepmd's own reader: coordinates, elements and the zero cell
come back matching the source.
Adds the last pieces between the model and a configuration file.

The LMDB reader gains a per-frame transform hook, carried on the decoder
configuration so it reaches every decoding path, worker processes included,
and defaulting to none so decoding is unchanged without it. Self-supervised
objectives have to corrupt their inputs and derive their labels there, because
the PyTorch-Exportable backend runs the model before the loss sees a frame.

The transform builder turns a converted frame into a corrupted one plus its
labels. Masked atoms are carried as a [MASK] pseudo-element, which the model's
type_map must declare, and a randomly drawn replacement maps back onto a type
the model knows.

The loss now derives the distance target and the token column mask when they
are not supplied. Storing the distance target would cost O(natoms^2) per frame,
which is impractical at 209 million conformers; deriving it from the clean
coordinates and the real-atom mask gives the same number, to the fp32 rounding
of the stored alternative.

Also adds the documentation page, its toctree entry and a pretraining example
whose configuration is checked against argcheck in the test suite.
A short training run on GPU turned up the last of these: the two virtual
tokens, the position index and the zero centroid were built without a device,
so they landed on the host while the rest of the batch was on the accelerator,
and concatenating them failed. The same omission was present in the loss, when
it derives the token mask and the clean distances, and in the fitting, when it
broadcasts the regularisers and pads the distance output.

Array-API code has to say where an array lives; only operations derived from
an existing array inherit it. Every construction now takes the device of the
data it will be combined with.

With this, training runs: converting the bundled example molecules, installing
the transform on the reader and stepping Adam for 60 steps takes the objective
from 8.48 to 3.02, with all five terms falling.
Calling the model with a cell used to die on an allocation of several million
gigabytes rather than on a readable error: the descriptor has no cut-off, so
the neighbour-list builder went looking for an astronomical number of periodic
images, and the descriptor's own check on extended atoms never got the chance
to fire.

Both model classes now reject a non-zero cell up front, with an explanation.
The upper entry point, which builds its own neighbour list from coordinates
and types, is covered by a test as well; it was previously exercised only
through the lower one.
Until now the Uni-Mol corruption had to be installed by hand, so a training
run started from a configuration file would have found no labels. The loss
base class gains an optional frame_transform, defaulting to none, and the
PyTorch-Exportable trainer installs whatever the task's objective returns on
that task's datasets, right where it already registers the label requirements.
Supervised losses return nothing and their data path is untouched.

The corruption settings move onto the loss, which is where they belong: the
labels are whatever the corruption produced. They are exposed through argcheck,
so the masking rate, the 90/5/5 split, the noise and the seed are all
configurable, with upstream's values as defaults.

A dataset type that cannot take a transform now fails with an explanation
rather than with missing labels much later.
The documentation now says how training is launched, that the dataset has to
be an LMDB one because the corruption happens as frames are read, that the
objective carries the corruption settings, and that the type_map needs the
[MASK] pseudo-element.

The example configuration gains that pseudo-element and the corruption
settings with upstream's values, and a test validates it against argcheck. It
is checked there rather than in the shared example test, because that one also
requires the referenced dataset to exist in the repository, while this example
points at data the user converts from upstream.
Running the command line end to end turned up five gaps that no unit test
would have shown, because each sits in the path between a configuration file
and the first training step.

- The trainer's loss factory did not know the objective, so a configuration
  naming it was rejected outright.
- The fitting was missing the accessors the atomic model calls on any fitting:
  frame and atomic parameter dimensions, the default frame parameter, selected
  types, exclusion re-initialisation, case embeddings and input statistics.
  The ones that do not apply now say so instead of raising AttributeError.
- The per-frame transform ran after the reader checked that the mandatory
  fields were present, so a self-supervised run failed on the very labels the
  transform was about to produce. It now runs before that check.
- The converter wrote a zero cell to mark a molecule, and the neighbour-list
  builder took it for a real cell and tried to invert it. Molecular frames now
  carry no cell at all.
- The example pointed at its dataset with a list, while LMDB datasets are
  addressed with a plain string. The example and the documentation say so now.

With these, a run from the shipped example trains: both the training and
validation curves report all five terms and a checkpoint is written.
Covers everything between a configuration file and the first training step:
the loss factory, the accessors the atomic model calls on any fitting, the
reader hook that produces the labels, and the absence of a cell on molecular
frames. Each of those was broken at some point, and none of the component
tests would have shown it.
Freezing a Uni-Mol model failed with "does not support periodic images", which
is not what a user doing that was attempting: the export machinery feeds the
ghost-atom layout with symbolic dimensions, not a periodic cell. The guard now
names both cases, since the underlying requirement is the same one, that every
atom be local, and the documentation says so too.
Recipes carried over from other frameworks often assume a different epsilon
than PyTorch's, and Uni-Mol is one of them: it pretrains with 1e-6 where the
default here is 1e-8. The option defaults to the current value, so existing
configurations are unaffected, and the example now carries upstream's
optimizer values.

This matches the value, not the placement: upstream's own Adam puts epsilon
outside the bias correction, so the update differs slightly early in training
whatever epsilon is configured. The documentation says so.
An adversarial review of this branch found that the token embedding and all
four Gaussian basis tables never received a gradient. They were assigned as
bare numpy arrays, and the PyTorch-Exportable wrapper turns a bare array into
a buffer, not a parameter: 2,701 values in a small model, and the whole
element-pair affine table in a real one, sat frozen at their initial values
while the rest of the network trained. Inference and checkpoint parity were
unaffected, which is why the parity tests did not catch it. They are layers
now, which is how deepmd expresses a trained array.

The same review found that every module was handed the same seed. Since each
layer seeds its own generator, two layers of the same shape drew identical
numbers: all fifteen encoder blocks started bitwise identical, and so did
several head pairs. Seeds are split with child_seed, as everywhere else in
deepmd. With a seed set, the layers now differ and a from-scratch run no
longer starts from a degenerate state.

Parity with the released weights is unchanged: the backbone still lands at
3.7e-7 relative and the five-term objective at 3.4e-7.
Three defects the review found in the data path.

The corruption was frozen: the objective built its transform once with the
default epoch, so every frame was masked identically on every pass. Upstream
draws afresh each epoch. The transform now counts how often it has seen each
frame and uses that count where upstream uses the epoch, so a molecule is
corrupted differently each time it comes round. Passing an epoch explicitly is
refused, since it is no longer a build-time constant.

Cropping moved out of the transform. A frame's atom count and the batch layout
are settled before any per-frame transform runs, so shortening a frame there
would leave it inconsistent with the batch it belongs to. The converter applies
the size cap instead, which is also where upstream's other preprocessing lives.

An element the model's type_map cannot express is no longer drawn as a random
replacement. It used to be mapped onto [MASK], which quietly turned a
random-element atom into a masked one and skewed the 90/5/5 split. With the
full element set nothing is excluded and the distribution is upstream's.

Also: the descriptor now honours its configured precision instead of silently
working in the input dtype; the distance head refuses a frame wider than the
width it declares rather than returning a wider array than its output
definition; TensorFlow's exact GELU computes its square root in the tensor
dtype rather than rounding it through fp32; and every array construction
states its dtype, which the repository's pylint gate requires.

The golden archive is regenerated with two molecules instead of four, which
brings it under the repository's file-size limit while keeping frames of
different lengths. pre-commit now passes on every changed file.
Making them parameters was not enough: reading them through the array API's
asarray, which the device fix had introduced, copied them out of the autograd
graph, so they still received no gradient. They are indexed directly now.
Parameters already live on the model's device, so the wrapper was never needed
for them; it stays only for the plain lookup table, which is not a parameter.

The tests that should have caught both of these are the ones the review found
could not fail, so they are strengthened here:

- the gradient test names the backbone parameters it expects to reach, rather
  than accepting any parameter with a gradient, which the three heads alone
  satisfied;
- the dropout test also builds a model with every rate at zero and asserts
  that training mode is then deterministic, which a single hard-coded dropout
  call would not survive;
- the descriptor's five-tuple entry point is compared against the
  token-resolution one by value, not only by shape;
- the masking statistics are measured by running the ported corruption over
  two dozen molecules rather than by reading the fixture back;
- the norm regularisers get a direct test of the hinge and of the masked mean,
  including an all-padding row, since the golden values for them are zero and
  constrain nothing;
- the released-checkpoint importer gets a test, driven with the golden's
  upstream-named weights, covering both the transposed projections and the
  untransposed lookup tables;
- the data fixture is large enough that the 15% selection selects something,
  and a new test pins that revisiting a frame corrupts it differently.
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Thanks, this is a careful port: the encoder matches upstream to 1e-11, the loss terms and weights line up, and the transform hook is cleanly isolated from the existing data path. Three blocking points inline (distance target under the default virtual_token_position, non-reproducible corruption seed, non-atomic dataset replacement), and three non-blocking notes below.

Non-blocking:

  • deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/unimol.py L90-91 documents max_seq_len as "kept for configuration compatibility", but get_rcut() (L223-225) derives the reported cutoff from it, so it is not inert. Either the docstring or the dependency should change.
  • deepmd/dpmodel/loss/unimol.py L76-77 _frame_scalar divides by xp.sum(weights) with no guard; a frame with zero real atoms gives NaN. _smooth_l1 and _masked_nll in the same file already guard the empty case, so this is just for consistency.
  • The trainer builds a fresh transform per dataset, so the validation set is re-corrupted on every pass and the validation loss is not comparable across epochs. Worth one sentence in doc/model/unimol.md.

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The port is in good shape overall, and the current CI is green, but I still see three correctness/data-integrity blockers on this head.

  1. The default virtual_token_position="centroid" is inconsistent with the distance target. The descriptor places CLS/SEP at the centroid of the corrupted coordinates, while _clean_distances() always places the target virtual tokens at the origin (the clean centroid). As soon as coordinate noise moves the corrupted centroid, the distance head is trained against labels for different virtual-token positions. Please either make the target use the same virtual-token rule, or force/use origin consistently on the pretraining path, and add coverage for the default configuration rather than only origin.

  2. data_seed is documented as reproducible in the single-process case, but UniMolFrameTransform creates self.stream from an unseeded SeedSequence, and _next_epoch() additionally mixes in os.getpid(). Two fresh single-process runs with the same data_seed therefore do not generate the same corruption. The stream identity should be derived deterministically from the configured seed plus an explicit dataset/stream discriminator; worker scheduling may still limit multiprocess reproducibility, but the stated single-process guarantee should hold.

  3. The converter still deletes an existing dst before renaming the completed staging directory. A failed rename or interruption in that gap loses the previous valid dataset. Please publish with a backup/restore transaction (or equivalent stable indirection) so failure leaves the old dataset recoverable.

I checked the earlier concern about the loss mask as well: the generic atomic-model finalization adds the mask output, so I am not treating that older comment as a blocker here.

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Three blocking, three not.

The default virtual_token_position placed the virtual tokens at the centroid of
the coordinates the descriptor was handed, which during pretraining are the
corrupted ones, while the distance target places them at the origin. Every
corrupted row's two virtual columns therefore trained against a label for a
different position, off by about the size of the noise: on a six-atom frame with
one noised atom the descriptor put them 0.17 A from where the target assumed.
Pretraining now requires 'origin', which is where upstream puts them and, since
the corruption centres every frame, where the clean centroid is -- so nothing is
given up. The only end-to-end training test in the suite had been running with
the wrong labels and now sets it, and a new test covers the default being
refused rather than silently mistrained.

The number standing in for the epoch was drawn from OS entropy, so two runs of
one configuration disagreed and the seed's documented guarantee was false. That
was a regression from fixing the worker-pickling bug: replacing the counter with
a random stream id fixed the freeze but broke reproducibility. The stream is
derived from the seed and a caller's label now, and the process id keys only the
cache, never the seed.

The converter deleted the old dataset before renaming the new one into place,
leaving a window with neither -- the loss the staging directory exists to
prevent. It moves the old one aside, renames, then removes it, and puts it back
if the rename fails.

Non-blocking: max_seq_len is documented as feeding get_rcut rather than as
inert; _frame_scalar guards its divisor like the two reductions beside it; and
the docs say the validation set is re-corrupted every pass, so its loss reads as
a trend rather than a comparable number.

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Re-reviewed the changed head. The first two blockers from my previous review are fixed: Uni-Mol pretraining now rejects any virtual-token placement other than origin, and the corruption stream is derived deterministically from the configured seed plus an explicit stream label, with coverage for reproducibility and independent train/validation streams. The non-blocking zero-mask reduction and documentation points were also cleaned up. Exact-head Python, CUDA, C++, C-library, package-build, and CodeQL workflows are green.

The dataset-publication blocker is only partially addressed. Moving dst to dst.replaced and then moving dst.partial to dst is still two separate renames; after the first succeeds and before the second succeeds, dst does not exist. A process crash or interruption in that window leaves the previous valid dataset only under the recovery name, so consumers of dst still see an outage and no automatic rollback occurs. The code comment's claim that "every instant has either the old dataset or the new one in place" is therefore not true. This is the same issue I raised on the prior head, so I am not adding a duplicate inline comment. Please use a publication scheme with a stable indirection/versioned target, or another mechanism where the externally visible dataset path remains valid across interruption; at minimum, startup recovery should restore a stranded .replaced dataset before doing any new conversion work.

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The three blocking points from the previous round are addressed (virtual-token position, seed-derived stream, rename-aside in the converter), and the new tests pass at this head. Two problems remain, one of them introduced by the stream change; details inline.

Non-blocking, from the same change to _next_epoch (

def _next_epoch(stream: int, seed: int | None) -> int:
"""Draw the number that stands in for upstream's epoch.
Upstream seeds each sample with ``(seed, epoch, index)``, so a molecule is
corrupted differently in every epoch. There is no epoch to read here, and no
counter would do: decoding runs in worker processes that receive a fresh
copy of the transform for every batch, so anything the transform carries is
reset over and over and the corruption freezes. The generator therefore
lives in the process, keyed by the transform's stream, and each call draws
the next number from it.
The generator is seeded from the configured seed and the stream alone, so
one process decoding a run twice draws the same sequence both times. With
workers the draws still depend on how frames were distributed between them.
"""
# The process id keys the cache so a forked child builds its own generator
# rather than inheriting a half-consumed one. It deliberately does not enter
# the seed: it changes from run to run, and mixing it in would break the
# reproducibility this seed is supposed to provide.
key = (stream, os.getpid())
rng = _EPOCH_STREAMS.get(key)
if rng is None:
entropy = [stream] if seed is None else [seed, stream]
_EPOCH_STREAMS[key] = rng = np.random.default_rng(entropy)
return int(rng.integers(1 << 62))
):

  • The generator entropy is now [seed, stream] only, so every decoder worker (DP_LMDB_NUM_WORKERS>1) seeds an identical generator and draws the same epoch sequence at each call; frames still differ through index, but the per-worker decorrelation the old pid entropy gave is gone. The docstring should state that the reproducibility guarantee holds for a single decoding process and that with workers the draws are shared across them.
  • _EPOCH_STREAMS is never reset, so "one process decoding a run twice draws the same sequence" holds only for the first run in an interpreter; the new test has to clear the table by hand to simulate a fresh process. Either key the table by a per-transform token, or expose a reset the trainer calls when it installs the transforms.

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Re-reviewed this unchanged head because new substantive discussion exposed additional production-path problems. Exact-head CI remains fully green, but the current implementation still has blocking reproducibility/data-recovery issues.

I verified the new findings against the current code and am not duplicating their existing inline threads:

  1. Training and validation still do not receive independent corruption streams in production. Training.__init__ creates a fresh transform object for each dataset, but both calls go through UniMolLoss.frame_transform(type_map), which does not pass a stream= label. Consequently both transforms use the default stream, derive the same self.stream, and _EPOCH_STREAMS keys them to the same process-local generator. A validation draw therefore advances the sequence later used by training (and separate Uni-Mol tasks can collide similarly). Please make the caller supply a stable, distinct stream identity such as <model_key>/training and <model_key>/validation, and add an end-to-end regression through the loss/trainer wiring rather than only constructing transforms with distinct labels manually.

  2. The converter recovery path can destroy the only surviving previous dataset after an interrupted publication. If a prior run died after dst -> dst.replaced but before staging -> dst, the next run currently deletes dst.replaced at startup even though dst is absent. If that new conversion then fails, neither old nor new data remains. When .replaced exists and dst is missing, restore it first; then test the stranded-backup, replacement, and rollback paths. The earlier point also remains: the two-renames sequence cannot truthfully guarantee that dst itself is valid at every instant, so the comment should describe recoverability rather than atomic visibility unless a stable indirection is used.

The previously reviewed Uni-Mol fidelity fixes remain intact, and current Test Python, Test CUDA, Test C++, Build C++, Build C library, CodeQL, and PyPI workflows all pass. These failures are integration/recovery semantics that the present tests do not exercise.


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Two problems, one of them introduced by the previous round's fix.

Training and validation shared a corruption stream in production. Making the
stream deterministic fixed reproducibility but removed what had been keeping the
two datasets apart: the entropy that used to seed them separately. Both calls
into `frame_transform` then took the same default label, hashed to the same
stream, and drew from one generator, so a validation pass advanced the
corruption training was about to see. The label now comes from the caller, and
the trainer builds it from the task and the split, which also keeps two Uni-Mol
tasks in one multi-task run apart.

The test that was supposed to cover this passed two labels by hand, which no
caller does, so it stayed green throughout. The replacement goes through the
trainer and asks what the trainer actually did; it fails with the previous
wiring restored.

The converter could destroy the last copy of a dataset. A run interrupted
between the two renames leaves the only complete copy beside the destination;
the next run deleted it on the way past, and if that run then failed to publish,
neither copy remained. It is restored instead, and the comment no longer claims
the destination is readable at every instant, which two renames cannot promise
-- what they promise is that a complete dataset is always somewhere.

Also from the review: the epoch stream is reset when the trainer installs its
transforms, so a second run in one interpreter repeats the first rather than
continuing it; and the docstring now says what more than one decoder process
does to the guarantee, which is that every worker draws the same sequence.

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Re-reviewed the new head. The two blockers from my previous review are addressed:

  • The trainer now supplies distinct deterministic corruption stream labels per task and split (<model_key>/training and <model_key>/validation), and the new trainer-path regression verifies the transforms actually installed on production training and validation datasets have different stream identities. reset_epoch_streams() also restores same-seed repeatability for a second run in the same interpreter.
  • The converter now restores a stranded dst.replaced when it is the only surviving previous dataset, then keeps the old dataset recoverable if publishing the completed staging directory fails. The new fault-injection regression covers exactly the interrupted-between-renames recovery path.

I also checked the latest delta-focused CodeRabbit pass; it reports no new actionable findings on these seven changed files. I found no new high-confidence blocker in this head. I am not approving yet only because exact-head CI is still incomplete: Build C++, Test CUDA, Build C library, CodeQL, and PyPI are green, while Test Python and Test C++ are still running. Once those relevant checks pass on this same head, this is ready for approval from my review perspective.

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Previous blocking findings have been addressed, the reviewed head has not moved, and the exact-head CI matrix is now fully green (Build C++, Test C++, Test Python, Test CUDA, Build C library, CodeQL, and package/PyPI). I found no remaining high-confidence blocking issue in the reviewed change set.

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The guard on `virtual_token_position` was only ever reached by a test that
wrote `"centroid"` by hand. That exercises the guard but not the path a
user takes, which is to leave the key out and get whatever argcheck fills
in -- so the test would have kept passing if the default moved out from
under it. The key is now deleted, the filled-in default asserted, and the
hand-written value kept as a second test.

The norm regularisers are scalars broadcast over the atoms, and the atomic
model zeroes its outputs at the padded rows, so averaging one over every
row divides it by the fraction of the frame that is real. `mask` is what
prevents that, and nothing checked it. A padded batch now asserts that the
padded rows are zero, that the masked mean is the scalar, and that the
unmasked mean is that scalar diluted by exactly the padding fraction.

Two things that writing the second test turned up are worth recording,
because both would have made it pass while proving nothing. The fixture
pads with `atype = 0`, a real element, while a virtual atom is marked by a
negative type -- so the first version found no padding at all. And
`x_norm` is the wrong quantity to probe: upstream penalises only the part
of `|norm - sqrt(d)|` past a tolerance of 1.0, so behind a LayerNorm it is
exactly zero and compares equal either way. The test pads with `-1` and
probes `delta_pair_norm`.

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Re-reviewed the new head relative to the previously approved 92ef3ef1a164035ac7b041041e3c6d9f982497f4. This delta is test-only and closes the two remaining coverage gaps I was looking for: the virtual-token guard is now exercised through the actual omitted-key/argcheck-default path, and the norm-regularizer test now uses real padding (atype = -1) and demonstrates both the masked result and the exact dilution that would occur without the mask. I found no new high-confidence blocker in this head.

I am not re-approving yet because the exact-head CI is still incomplete. Test CUDA is green, while Build C library, Test Python, Build C++, CodeQL, and package/PyPI are still running and Test C++ is queued. Once those relevant checks pass on this same head, this is ready for approval from my review perspective.

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Third pass, on 92ef3ef.

Both blockers from the previous round are fixed, and the fixes are tested for real: I restored the pre-fix tree (3b48dd1) and ran the new tests against it. test_the_trainer_gives_each_dataset_its_own_corruption fails there (both datasets draw the same stream) and passes at HEAD; test_a_stranded_backup_survives_a_failed_publish fails there ("the only copy of the dataset was destroyed") and passes at HEAD. Thanks for routing stream through the trainer and for the restore-instead-of-delete publish.

Two new items are inline. One of them (gelu_erf on the tf2 backend) is a wrong-gradient bug in code this PR adds to every backend, so I am keeping the request-changes state for that alone.

Non-blocking, take or leave:

  • A negative data_seed crashes at the first decoded frame: _next_epoch feeds [seed, stream] to np.random.default_rng, which rejects negative entropy, and only the stream label is laundered through _stream_entropy. argcheck sets no lower bound.
    def _next_epoch(stream: int, seed: int | None) -> int:
    """Draw the number that stands in for upstream's epoch.
    Upstream seeds each sample with ``(seed, epoch, index)``, so a molecule is
    corrupted differently in every epoch. There is no epoch to read here, and no
    counter would do: decoding runs in worker processes that receive a fresh
    copy of the transform for every batch, so anything the transform carries is
    reset over and over and the corruption freezes. The generator therefore
    lives in the process, keyed by the transform's stream, and each call draws
    the next number from it.
    The generator is seeded from the configured seed and the stream alone, so
    one process decoding a run twice draws the same sequence both times, given
    the reset the trainer performs between runs.
  • The None side of mask_token_head / coord_head / dist_head is exercised by no test (six is not None branches).
    self.lm_head = (
    MaskLMHead(
    dim_descrpt,
    n_token,
    activation_function,
    precision,
    child_seed(seed, 0),
    )
    if mask_token_head
    else None
    )
    self.pair2coord_proj = (
    NonLinearHead(
    attention_heads,
    1,
    activation_function,
    hidden=attention_heads,
    precision=precision,
    seed=child_seed(seed, 1),
    )
    if coord_head
    else None
    )
    self.dist_head = (
    DistanceHead(
    attention_heads, activation_function, precision, child_seed(seed, 2)
  • The new adam_eps is not plumbed into the HybridMuon path: the Adam/AdamW branch passes eps=, the HybridMuon branch forwards adam_betas only, and the optimizer's Adam-style update hard-codes ADAM_EPS = 1e-20.
    self.optimizer = self._create_optimizer(
    HybridMuonOptimizer,
    lr=initial_lr,
    momentum=float(optimizer_params["momentum"]),
    weight_decay=weight_decay,
    adam_betas=adam_betas,
    lr_adjust=float(optimizer_params["lr_adjust"]),
    lr_adjust_coeff=float(optimizer_params["lr_adjust_coeff"]),
    muon_mode=str(optimizer_params["muon_mode"]),
    enable_gram=bool(optimizer_params["enable_gram"]),
    flash_muon=bool(optimizer_params["flash_muon"]),
    magma_muon=bool(optimizer_params["magma_muon"]),
    # Sharded parameters are DTensors, and several torch._foreach_*
    # ops lack sharding propagation, so the per-tensor path applies.
    use_foreach=False if self.sharding.shards_parameters else None,

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Re-reviewed this unchanged head because new substantive discussion exposed a backend-correctness problem that was not covered by my previous pass. I independently verified the existing inline finding against the current head, so I am not duplicating that thread.

Blocking: xp_erf() has native branches for JAX, Torch, and NumPy, but no branch for the TensorFlow-backed deepmd._vendors.ndtensorflow namespace. That namespace therefore falls into the generic SciPy/NumPy conversion. Its Array.__array__ explicitly rejects graph-mode conversion, so gelu_erf fails under tf.function; in eager mode the NumPy round-trip detaches the erf term from GradientTape, producing a wrong derivative. Because this PR registers gelu_erf as a generally valid activation, this is a correctness issue beyond the Uni-Mol-only path. Please dispatch ndtensorflow to tf.math.erf on the wrapped tensor (returning the ndtensorflow array type) and add a TensorFlow gradient/graph-mode regression, not only a forward-value consistency check.

The exact-head checks are now completed without a failing check, but that does not cover this gradient/tracing behavior. The current head remained unchanged immediately before this review.

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`xp_erf` is introduced by this pull request, along with the exact-erf GELU
it serves, so this is a defect this pull request introduced rather than a
pre-existing one being tidied up.

Every namespace other than JAX and torch fell through to a NumPy
round-trip. For an `ndtensorflow` array that is wrong twice over: under
`tf.function` the conversion is refused outright, because `__array__`
raises on a graph tensor; and in eager mode it succeeds while detaching
the `erf` factor from the tape, so the exact GELU differentiates as
though it were `Phi(x)` alone. The second failure is silent and reaches
every backend user of `gelu_erf`, not only Uni-Mol.

Removing the branch again makes the point: the gradient test fails with
the derivative collapsed onto `Phi(x)`, the graph-mode test fails, and
the forward-value test still passes. A test that compares values could
not have found this.

The docstring for the dropout rates is corrected in the same commit:
they are applied by the shared encoder for torch arrays in training
mode, not inert and deferred to the PyTorch-Exportable wrapper.

Two notes on the tests. The gradient probe uses an even number of points
so the grid straddles zero without landing on it, because `relu` and
`relu6` have no derivative there -- autodiff reports the subgradient 0
while a central difference reports 0.5, and neither is wrong. And the
namespace anchor is deliberately not gated on `INSTALLED_TF2`:
`find_spec` does not import the module, so it runs everywhere, including
the ordinary runs where the tf2 cases skip. A guard that skips alongside
the thing it guards would protect nothing.

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Re-reviewed the new head relative to the previously blocked 4f43a33279745ca550991c2c8de08aee14f1548f. The TensorFlow exact-GELU blocker is addressed correctly: xp_erf() now dispatches the ndtensorflow namespace to tf.math.erf on the wrapped tensor instead of round-tripping through NumPy, and the new tests cover both GradientTape correctness and tf.function traceability. The accompanying dropout documentation correction also matches the implementation. I found no new high-confidence blocker in this delta.

I am not approving yet because exact-head CI is still incomplete. Build C++, Build C library, Test CUDA, CodeQL, and package/PyPI are green; Test Python and Test C++ are still running. Once those relevant checks pass on this same head, this is ready for approval from my review perspective.

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The previously identified blocker is fixed on this unchanged head, and the only remaining reason for my last COMMENT was incomplete exact-head CI. That gate has now cleared: Test Python, Test C++, Test CUDA, Build C++, Build C library, CodeQL, and Build/upload to PyPI all completed successfully for this exact SHA. I found no remaining high-confidence blocking issue in the reviewed change set.

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iProzd added a commit to iProzd/deepmd-kit that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
This branch carries the objective; the backbone and the loss it is built on
live on 0912_unimol_core (deepmodeling#6019), which has had three rounds of review since
this branch was cut. Merging rather than rebasing keeps the published history
intact.

The review round this picks up that matters here is the corruption stream.
njzjz-bot noted on this branch that training and validation still share one:
`UniMolLoss.frame_transform()` took no stream label, so both datasets derived
the same one and a validation pass advanced the training corruption. That is
the same defect wanghan-iapcm raised on deepmodeling#6019, fixed there by threading the
label from the trainer, and this merge brings the fix here rather than
duplicating it.

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Approving at a309c88. The three threads from my earlier reviews are addressed at this head, checked against the head tree rather than against the replies.

  • xp_erf now has a native TensorFlow branch (deepmd/dpmodel/array_api.py), returning tf.math.erf on the underlying tensor re-wrapped in the same namespace, ahead of the SciPy round-trip. Two new cases in source/tests/consistent/test_activation.py cover the gradient through tf.GradientTape and traceability under tf.function. I restored array_api.py from 92ef3ef with the tests at head: exactly those two fail for gelu_erf and the forward-value case still passes, so the regression test does expose the defect.
  • The dropout docstring on DescrptUniMol now matches unimol_nn/encoder.py::dropout.
  • The virtual_token_position guard, the removal of SeedSequence() entropy, the staged .partial/.replaced conversion and the per-split stream= all stand.

I also fetched upstream at the pinned commit 90f52c4 to check the distance-loss column mask: cal_dist_loss selects columns with src_tokens.ne(padding_idx), a position mask with the diagonal included, which is what this port does. The comment in loss/unimol.py is accurate.

Three notes that do not block, all about sync points or documentation rather than the code itself:

  • virtual_token_position defaults to "centroid" in argcheck (deepmd/utils/argcheck.py:2879), but UniMolPretrainAtomicModel refuses anything other than "origin" (deepmd/dpmodel/atomic_model/unimol_atomic_model.py:52-61), and neither the argcheck doc nor doc/model/unimol.md says so. A user who omits the key, as the docs allow, gets the ValueError from the guard. Either make "origin" the default or state the requirement in the doc string; the test added in 4f43a33 pins the current mismatch, so it would need updating with the change.
  • examples/unimol/pretrain/input.json is not listed in the input_files tuple of source/tests/common/test_examples.py, so the only example exercising the ~300 new argcheck lines is never run through normalize(). It does pass when run by hand.
  • doc/credits.rst has one citation block per descriptor family and gains none for Uni-Mol, and CITATIONS.bib is untouched, although the code is a port of an externally published, MIT-licensed project.

One more, smaller: gelu_erf is not in ACTIVATION_TO_FUNCTYPE in deepmd/utils/tabulate_math.py or the parallel table in deepmd/tf/utils/tabulate.py, so dp compress on a net using it fails with a generic unknown-activation error. It fails loudly, so this is only about the message — but it is worth a comment recording that compression is deliberately unsupported, because mapping it onto functype 2 would silently pick up the tanh derivatives.

CI note: both CUDA jobs report skipping at this head, so nothing here ran on GPU. The tf2 shard does select the new activation cases (-k tf2 with DP_TEST_TF2_ONLY=1), so those two did execute.

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