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The SeZM inference path materializes the block-diagonal Wigner rotations as dense (E, D, D) surfaces (D = (lmax+1)^2, three copies alive at the frame peak, e.g. 3 x 663 MB at the production shape) even though the reduced mmax = 1 consumers only ever read the three structural rows per degree block. The flash aggregation kernels already accept a packed (E, 3*D - 2) rotation layout (it is what the CUDA backend's edge_runs produces); this PR adds the missing top half — producing the band at the edge-cache layer and routing every fused Triton consumer to it — behind the opt-in DP_PACKED_D_INFER environment variable (default off).

  • WignerDCalculator.forward_band assembles the (E, 3*D-2) band from the same per-degree blocks the dense layout scatters (per-degree ladder only, lmax < poly_lmin).
  • EdgeFeatureCache gains a D_packed field; when the flag is on and supported, the dense D_full/Dt_full are never materialized.
  • The rotate-mix forward/backward kernels (per-edge and edge-block variants) address the band through compile-time slot constants; the else branch keeps the dense arithmetic bit-for-bit, so the default path is unchanged.
  • The flash aggregation consumes the same tensor unchanged (the band of D is exactly the set of Dt columns it reads); the GIE zonal coupling reads the m = 0 segment.
  • Reference (non-fused) paths still require the dense layout; the flag documentation states this and the Triton launchers raise a clear error if a banded rotation reaches them.

The stored values are the same floats in a different order, so consumer outputs are bit-identical.

Results

RTX 5090, torch 2.12.1+cu130, DP_COMPILE_INFER=1, DP_TRITON_INFER=3, DPA4-Neo OMat24, N = 4096 (E ~ 647k), same-tree two-state A/B:

metric flag off flag on delta
per-eval P50 153.01 ms 144.71 ms -8.30 ms (-5.4%)
peak allocated 23844 MB 21913 MB -1931 MB (-8.1%)
peak reserved 26510 MB 23427 MB -3083 MB (-11.6%)

The peak-moment allocation snapshot shows the three 663 MB dense Wigner surfaces gone (replaced by one 119 MB band plus its gradient).

Correctness:

  • band layout vs dense entries: bit-identical for lmax = 1..5;
  • rotate-mix forward, grad_x, grad_kc, and the three grad_wigner band segments: bit-identical vs the dense kernels;
  • end-to-end two-state (8 frames): max relative energy diff 8.4e-10, max force diff 4.8e-6 — at the noise floor.

Testing

New TestSeZMTritonWignerBand (3 tests: band-vs-dense layout, operator-level bitwise forward/backward, value-path-level bitwise two-state with a shared cotangent). Full source/tests/pt/model/test_descriptor_sezm_triton.py: 40 passed, 1 pre-existing skip.

Note: the packed branch of the edge-block rotate-mix backward follows the same addressing pattern as the per-edge variant but is currently unreachable (the default rotate_mix_bwd_block win-list is empty until the tile sweep populates it).

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  • New Features
    • Supported inference configurations can now store geometric rotations in a compact banded format, reducing the rotation data required. Dense calculations remain available when compact storage is disabled or unsupported.
  • Compatibility
    • Compact rotations are supported for a limited range of configurations. Operations that require dense rotations continue to use them when available.

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The change adds optional packed Wigner-band generation and storage for supported SEZM inference configurations. Model and Triton paths use the band when available. Tests compare packed and dense layouts, outputs, and gradients.

Changes: Packed Wigner inference

Layer / File(s) Summary
Wigner band generation
deepmd/pt/model/descriptor/sezm_nn/wignerd.py
The calculator assembles dense matrices from degree blocks and adds packed-band generation for supported lmax values. It also adds a fused Triton operator and custom backward handling.
Packed cache construction
deepmd/pt_expt/kernels/utils.py, deepmd/pt/model/descriptor/sezm_nn/edge_cache.py
DP_PACKED_D_INFER selects packed inference. Edge-cache builders store and convert D_packed when supported; other cases retain dense Wigner construction.
Model consumers
deepmd/pt/model/descriptor/sezm_nn/embedding.py, deepmd/pt/model/descriptor/sezm_nn/so2.py, deepmd/pt/model/descriptor/sezm.py
Geometric embedding, flash aggregation, and zonal coupling use D_packed when available and retain their existing fallback paths.
Triton kernels and validation
deepmd/pt_expt/kernels/triton/sezm/so2_value_path.py, deepmd/pt_expt/kernels/triton/sezm/sweep_tile_configs.py, source/tests/pt/model/test_descriptor_sezm_triton.py
Rotate-mix forward and backward kernels support packed and dense Wigner layouts. Tile sweeps specify the dense layout. Tests compare packed and dense outputs and gradients.

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  participant EdgeCacheBuilder
  participant WignerDCalculator
  participant EdgeFeatureCache
  participant GeometricInitialEmbedding
  participant TritonSO2ValuePath
  EdgeCacheBuilder->>WignerDCalculator: request packed band for supported inference
  WignerDCalculator-->>EdgeCacheBuilder: return D_packed
  EdgeCacheBuilder->>EdgeFeatureCache: store D_packed
  EdgeFeatureCache->>GeometricInitialEmbedding: provide D_packed when present
  EdgeFeatureCache->>TritonSO2ValuePath: provide D_packed or dense fallback
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With packed inference enabled alongside a reachable cuTile or dense SO2 path, inference can fail because dense Wigner data is absent; correct the cache gate before merge. The sweep note also inaccurately describes the backward path.

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Comment on lines +666 to +681
# ``wigner_calc`` may arrive as the calculator instance (callable through
# ``nn.Module.__call__``) or as a bound forward; accept both.
calc = getattr(wigner_calc, "__self__", wigner_calc)
if (
use_packed_d_infer()
and callable(getattr(calc, "forward_band", None))
and calc.band_supported()
):
# Banded inference storage: the fused reduced-layout consumers (the
# rotate-mix operator and the flash aggregation) read only the three
# structural rows per degree block, so the dense surfaces are never
# materialized. Reference paths that need the dense layout must not
# enable the flag.
return None, None, edge_quat, calc.forward_band(edge_quat)
D_full, Dt_full = wigner_calc(edge_quat)
return D_full, Dt_full, edge_quat
return D_full, Dt_full, edge_quat, None

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Gate packed storage on every selected consumer’s actual packed-layout support.

When packed storage is enabled, _build_edge_wigner() sets D_full and Dt_full to None. Dense SO2 consumers can then fail during rotation. The same gate must also reject cuTile: DP_CUTILE_INFER independently selects a launcher that uses dense offsets for the packed row and can produce incorrect aggregates through zero padding.

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Added two follow-up commits that remove the redundant Wigner runs the banded layout initially paid for on the compiled backward:

  • perf(pt): op-bound banded Wigner assembly with analytic backward — forward_band_fused builds the band behind a custom-op boundary, so AOT saves the (E, 3D-2) band for the backward instead of replaying the whole quaternion → monomial → product chain per backward section. The analytic backward contracts the three stored rows of each degree block against the coefficient rows and hands the result to the monomial operator's own backward (l=1 differentiates the rotation-matrix formula directly).
  • perf(pt): reuse the packed band m=0 group for the GIE zonal coupling — with the dense surface gone, the GIE coupling fell back to a second independent quaternion → monomial → block run; it now reads the band's m=0 columns, which hold exactly those entries.

Numbers on the DPA4-Neo N=4096 frame (RTX 5090, same tree, flag on vs the previous head 0278e45):

before after
per-eval P50 144.76 ms 141.17 ms
peak VRAM (alloc) 22004 MB 21955 MB

Monomial forward launches per frame drop from 4 to 2 (the band assembly only). Correctness against the previous head: energy rel 1.7e-9, forces rel 1.1e-6 (same noise floor as before); the band operator's forward and backward are bitwise-equal to the plain composition in eager tests, and the existing dense/band bitwise suite still passes.

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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.

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Follow-up: fix(pt): pass the banded-layout flag in the rotate-mix tuning sweep launches — the kernel signature gained the PACKED constexpr, so sweep_tile_configs.py's direct launches of the rotate-mix forward and edge-block backward kernels needed the same treatment #6015 gave the flash-bwd sweep. The sweep now runs again over the dense layout; the banded form shares the tile entries.

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One more sweep-tooling fix on this branch (fix(pt): match the fp16x3 operator's two-output contract in the tuning sweep): wins_against_fp32 unpacked three outputs from so2_mixing_stack_fp16x3, but that operator returns (x_local, z_all) — its backward recovers the identity input internally. With this the fp16x3 sweep actually runs; on the RTX 5090 at (32, 3) it measures 0.983x vs the fp32 stack, so the sweep correctly concludes "keep the fp32 stack" and records a None entry.

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The fp16x3 backward does not recover the final identity input. It computes the input gradient from grad_out, the weights, and saved z_all. Update the note:

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I reviewed the exact head. The existing edge-cache finding remains a correctness blocker: packed storage can be selected while dense SO2 or cuTile consumers still use dense offsets, causing failures or incorrect aggregates. Please gate storage on all selected consumers' packed-layout support and fix the failing documentation check.

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I reviewed the exact head. The existing edge-cache finding remains a correctness blocker: packed storage can be selected while dense SO2 or cuTile consumers still use dense offsets, causing failures or incorrect aggregates. Please gate storage on all selected consumers' packed-layout support and fix the failing documentation check.

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