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Summary

Add end-to-end i-PI numerical parity tests against the direct PyTorch inference API: Unix/TCP sockets, atom-order permutations, periodic images and changing triclinic cells. Check wire energy, forces and virial with independent CODATA conversions, within the driver's existing rounded-constant precision. Document wire units and atom ordering.

The test uses the repository's existing public model, bounded inference thread pools, and bounded socket/exit waits.

Dependencies

This branch includes #6053 (protocol framing/EXIT) and #6052 (legacy scripted-model inputs) as prerequisites. Please review those first; the final commit adds only the numerical regression and documentation.

Validation

Four socket/permutation combinations passed with three frames each (no skips), using the rebuilt #6053 driver and compatible combined Python source. The driver used the supported imported-C-library route with existing compatible PyTorch operators. All applicable native pre-commit hooks passed.

An initial run completed the numerical comparisons but one driver exceeded the exit timeout. Explicit thread-pool limits resolved that test resource issue. No numerical tolerance was relaxed. This is focused interoperability evidence; full official CI remains subject to fork-workflow approval.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved compatibility with older scripted models when optional charge and spin values are not provided.
    • Improved i-PI message handling: initialization payloads are consumed safely, invalid payload lengths and atom counts are rejected, and EXIT stops the driver cleanly.
    • Ensured returned forces follow the atom order in the coordinate file.
    • Improved socket reads so fragmented messages and interruptions are handled, while incomplete messages are rejected.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified i-PI message handling, units, force ordering, and shutdown behavior.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for i-PI socket behavior and inference consistency across socket types and atom orders.
    • Added regression coverage for legacy scripted models and neighbor-list evaluation.

CI follow-up (2026-10-07)

The exact-head Read the Docs build fails while installing doc/requirements.txt, before Sphinx runs: the selected PyTorch headers require C++20, while the current target baseline selects C++17. The same build-standard mismatch appears on all five related contribution heads (#6051 through #6055). Existing issue #6048 and PR #6049 already address this compatibility problem; this PR leaves that repair in its independent upstream review. The Read the Docs check remains failed until that dependency is resolved and the build is rerun. The exact-head pre-commit.ci check passes; GitHub Actions still require maintainer approval.

Review follow-up (2026-10-08)

The current head is bbe4be4203d8800f931367888eb497994739dc9c. The complete-read repair from 59426b7e27e0bdcb91b2765b1f203d0c16a74b7b is now included. Socket reads assemble the entire requested field, retry interrupted reads and reject premature EOF. A failed read may have consumed bytes from the socket, and verbose mode may already have printed earlier complete INIT chunks; the incomplete chunk is not printed. Explicit EXIT remains the clean shutdown request.

The native socket regression covers fragmented reads, interruption, partial EOF, invalid lengths and error returns. The verbose truncated-INIT regression verifies that the incomplete chunk is not printed. The protocol documentation and the INIT fixture description now state this contract.

Fresh local validation passes the native CTest socket target, all nine driver protocol/validation cases and all four Unix/TCP energy-force-virial parity cases, with no skips in those 13 Python cases. Ruff check and format checks pass across the repository. The two PR updates carry identical source/test fixes; no numerical tolerances were changed.

The local PyTorch runtime does not include TensorFlow, which the six existing calculator cases import. Those cases remain assigned to the full hosted TensorFlow/PyTorch workflow; the local 13-case result is not a substitute for that workflow. Updated official workflow results and any maintainer-approval requirement remain separate gates.

INIT has no additional application-level payload cap beyond its signed 32-bit protocol length limit. The final documentation-only commits clarify this bound and partial-read behavior; source and tests are unchanged from the validated follow-up.

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The changes conditionally forward optional charge_spin values, update i-PI initialization and socket-read handling, validate atom counts, and stop the driver on EXIT. Regression tests cover scripted models, socket protocol behavior, numerical inference parity, and neighbor-list backends.

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Scripted model compatibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
Conditional charge_spin forwarding
deepmd/pt/infer/deep_eval.py, deepmd/pt/train/wrapper.py, source/tests/pt/test_wrapper.py
Inference and wrapper calls omit charge_spin when its value is None. Tests cover legacy scripted model signatures and verify that supplied values are forwarded in inference, skip-loss, and training modes.
Legacy model backend comparison
source/tests/pt/model/test_nlist_backend.py
A regression test compares native and Vesin neighbor-list results for a legacy scripted model.

i-PI protocol handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Complete socket-field reads
source/ipi/src/sockets_internal.h, source/ipi/src/sockets.c, source/ipi/include/sockets.h, source/ipi/tests/test_sockets.c, doc/third-party/ipi.md
deepmd_read_all reads the requested byte count, retries interrupted reads, and reports errors for invalid arguments and premature closure. readbuffer_ rejects negative lengths and uses the helper. Tests cover fragmented reads and error cases.
Initialization, input validation, and exit
source/ipi/driver.cc, source/ipi/tests/test_driver_initialization.py, source/ipi/tests/test_driver_exit.py, source/ipi/tests/test_driver_protocol_validation.py, source/ipi/tests/test_driver_input_validation.py, doc/third-party/ipi.md
The driver consumes INIT payloads in chunks, rejects negative payload lengths and invalid POSDATA atom counts, and stops on EXIT. Integration tests cover these behaviors.
Socket inference parity
source/ipi/tests/test_driver_numeric.py, doc/third-party/ipi.md
A socket test compares energy, force, and virial from dp_ipi with direct PyTorch inference across Unix and TCP sockets, original and permuted atom orders, and three frames. The documentation describes protocol units, force ordering, and test coverage.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant NumericParityTest
  participant dp_ipi
  participant PyTorchInference
  NumericParityTest->>PyTorchInference: Compute reference energy, force, and virial
  NumericParityTest->>dp_ipi: Send STATUS, POSDATA, and GETFORCE
  dp_ipi->>PyTorchInference: Evaluate each frame
  PyTorchInference-->>dp_ipi: Return energy, force, and virial
  dp_ipi-->>NumericParityTest: Return socket results
  NumericParityTest->>dp_ipi: Send EXIT
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Reviewed exact head fd3c1da after the prerequisite reviews of #6052 and #6053. No blocking findings in the incremental numerical regression/documentation commit.

Confirmed the protocol prerequisite is the exact #6053 commit and all three charge-spin files are blob-identical to #6052, then concentrated on the two-file final commit. The wire packing matches the driver's transposed cell/virial layout; energy and virial divide by Hartree, and forces multiply by Bohr/Hartree. Atom names and direct-API types follow the same permutation, while the driver must undo its internal type sorting. The repeated frames exercise a lattice-image shift and changed triclinic cell on the same connection. Both socket transports, READY/HAVEDATA transitions, response atom count, payload consumption, EXIT status, and process/socket cleanup are covered. The existing C++ workflow collects source/ipi/tests with pytest, so the new function is discoverable in the PyTorch-enabled job.

Independent focused check: extracted the exact-head receive helper and passed four fragmented-read cases, zero-length payload, and premature EOF. I did not execute the model/driver parity test or rebuild native libraries in this review environment; the author's four passing socket/permutation combinations remain reported evidence. Exact-head pre-commit passes, ReadTheDocs fails, and seven GitHub Actions workflows report action_required. No CI approval or workflow execution was performed.

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Included the test updates from #6052 and #6053. The numeric and protocol tests pass together locally: 12 passed. The TensorFlow/ASE driver suite is not included in that count; the local PyTorch test environment lacks ASE. The upstream Actions runs still require maintainer approval.

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Reviewed delta fd3c1da → 07a8709 after the prerequisite delta reviews. No additional finding in the stack-specific delta.

Only test_wrapper.py and test_driver_protocol_validation.py changed, blob-identical to reviewed #6052/#6053 respectively. Numerical parity tests and documentation are unchanged. The wrapper delta covers legacy omission and exact tensor forwarding in three modes; the timeout path was independently exercised with real early-exit/running subprocesses.

The existing truncated-INIT issue also applies here because driver.cc and sockets.c are blob-identical to #6053: #6053 (review). Fix it once in that prerequisite and propagate it into the stack.

Model inference and numerical parity were not rerun. Exact-head pre-commit passes, RTD fails, and seven Actions workflows remain action_required.

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The complete-read repair from #6053 is now included here at 00fdfb1, preserving this PR's existing numerical-parity tests and commit history.

The socket source and regression changes match #6053. Fresh validation passed the native socket test, all nine protocol/validation cases and all four Unix/TCP energy-force-virial parity cases, with no skips. Ruff checks pass. No unit conversions or numerical tolerances were changed. The full hosted TensorFlow/PyTorch matrix remains a separate check.

Documentation follow-up: the final head is bbe4be4203d8. The text now distinguishes incomplete-read rejection from bytes already read and earlier complete INIT chunks already printed, and states the signed 32-bit payload-length limit. These follow-ups change documentation only.

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Reviewed delta 07a8709 → bbe4be4 after the shared #6053 repair. The inherited incomplete-read issue is resolved; no additional stack-specific finding.

All five changed socket source/header/test files are blob-identical to reviewed #6053 head1960f5b3; the shared native socket regression was independently compiled and passed. driver.cc and test_driver_numeric.py are byte-identical to this delta's base, preserving Unix/TCP cases, atom permutations, repeated frames, unit conversions and numerical tolerances. Final docs retain the parity instructions and accurately bound INIT length/partial-read behavior.

Model inference, verbose driver execution and numerical parity were not independently rerun. Author-reported13 Python cases are distinct from the focused native validation. Exact-head pre-commit/CodeRabbit pass, RTD fails, and seven Actions workflows remain action_required; hosted validation is not green. No source fixes, CI activation or merge actions were performed.

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Commit 9ecbb4822e01de8d66a9dae0865bc2bad2081846 lets the i-PI phase run whenever the native C++ tests pass, even if the preceding LAMMPS pytest phase fails. LAMMPS now runs with verbose test output and Python's fault handler to make another termination easier to locate.

In the previous fork run, all four native CTest targets passed, then LAMMPS exited 143 on all three existing attempts. The subsequent i-PI phase was skipped, so that run did not validate the full 19-case suite. The overall failure gate, retry count and numerical tolerances remain unchanged.

The earlier local 13-case receipt covers the protocol and PyTorch numerical tests, not the complete suite. I am preparing an isolated TensorFlow/PyTorch environment for the full run; the updated upstream workflows currently require approval.

The new-head Read the Docs build 35031572 also fails during installation of doc/requirements.txt, with PyTorch/ATen C++20 header errors. This is the build compatibility issue tracked by #6049, which remains open; I have kept that separate from this patch.

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