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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.

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.
  • 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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def call(
self,
coord_ext: Array,
atype_ext: Array,
nlist: Array,
mapping: Array | None = None,
fparam: Array | None = None,
comm_dict: dict | None = None,
charge_spin: Array | None = None,
) -> tuple[Array, None, None, None, None]:
out["pair_dist"] = dist
return out

def call(self, descriptor: Array, atype: Array, **kwargs) -> dict[str, Array]: # noqa: ANN003
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Comment on lines +36 to +45
def forward(
self,
coord: torch.Tensor,
atype: torch.Tensor,
box: torch.Tensor | None = None,
fparam: torch.Tensor | None = None,
aparam: torch.Tensor | None = None,
do_atomic_virial: bool = False,
charge_spin: torch.Tensor | None = None,
) -> dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
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def forward_lower(
self,
extended_coord: torch.Tensor,
extended_atype: torch.Tensor,
nlist: torch.Tensor,
mapping: torch.Tensor | None = None,
fparam: torch.Tensor | None = None,
aparam: torch.Tensor | None = None,
do_atomic_virial: bool = False,
comm_dict: dict[str, torch.Tensor] | None = None,
charge_spin: torch.Tensor | None = None,
) -> dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
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This change adds Uni-Mol v1 molecular pretraining support. It includes the descriptor and transformer, pretraining heads and loss, LMDB transforms and conversion, checkpoint loading, backend registrations, exact GELU support, configuration, documentation, and tests.

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Uni-Mol v1 pretraining

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Exact GELU and array support
deepmd/common.py, deepmd/dpmodel/array_api.py, deepmd/*/utils/*, deepmd/tf/common.py
Adds gelu_erf and backend-specific exact GELU implementations.
Descriptor and transformer backbone
deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/..., deepmd/pt_expt/descriptor/...
Adds the Uni-Mol vocabulary, pair-aware transformer encoder, Gaussian distance features, serialization, and PyTorch-Exportable parameter sharing.
Pretraining heads and model routing
deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/unimol_nn/heads.py, deepmd/dpmodel/fitting/..., deepmd/dpmodel/atomic_model/..., deepmd/dpmodel/model/..., deepmd/pt_expt/...
Adds masked-token, coordinate, and distance heads. Routes token-resolution outputs through registered Uni-Mol models.
Corruption, loss, and training wiring
deepmd/dpmodel/utils/unimol_transform.py, deepmd/dpmodel/utils/lmdb_data.py, deepmd/dpmodel/loss/..., deepmd/pt_expt/train/training.py
Adds frame corruption, label generation, the five-term loss, per-dataset transforms, and optimizer epsilon handling.
Configuration, conversion, checkpoint loading, and validation
deepmd/utils/argcheck.py, deepmd/utils/unimol_*.py, doc/model/*, examples/unimol/*, source/tests/**/*unimol*
Adds configuration schemas, LMDB and checkpoint utilities, documentation, an example, parity tests, conversion tests, and training tests.

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deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/unimol_nn/encoder.py (1)

340-348: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

serialize drops scaling_factor and bias, so a round trip can change attention scaling.

__init__ derives self.scaling from scaling_factor, and deserialize calls cls(**data) without it. Restored weights overwrite in_proj and out_proj, but self.scaling keeps the default. A descriptor built with a non-default scaling_factor therefore attends with a different scale after a serialize and deserialize cycle. Uni-Mol always uses the defaults today, so nothing in this PR triggers it.

♻️ Proposed round-trip fix
     def serialize(self) -> dict:
         return {
             "embed_dim": self.embed_dim,
             "num_heads": self.num_heads,
             "dropout": self.dropout,
+            "bias": self.in_proj.b is not None,
+            "scaling_factor": self.scaling**-2 / self.head_dim,
             "precision": self.precision,
             "in_proj": self.in_proj.serialize(),
             "out_proj": self.out_proj.serialize(),
         }
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In `@deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/unimol_nn/encoder.py` around lines 340 - 348,
Update MultiHeadAttention.serialize to include scaling_factor and bias in the
serialized data, using the values consumed by __init__. Ensure deserialize can
pass these fields through cls(**data) so round trips preserve the original
attention scaling and bias configuration.
deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/unimol.py (1)

114-116: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Document the remaining constructor parameters in DescrptUniMol.

The class docstring omits virtual_token_position, gaussian_kernels, and type_map_tokens. Add them to the Parameters section so the API documentation covers the full constructor.

📝 Proposed docstring addition
+    virtual_token_position : str
+        Position of the virtual tokens.
+    gaussian_kernels : int
+        Number of Gaussian basis functions per atom pair.
     precision : str
         Floating-point precision of the parameters.
     seed : int, optional
         Random seed for initialization.
+    type_map_tokens : list[str], optional
+        Explicit token vocabulary. Defaults to the Uni-Mol vocabulary.
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In `@deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/unimol.py` around lines 114 - 116, Update the
Parameters section of the DescrptUniMol class docstring to document the
constructor arguments virtual_token_position, gaussian_kernels, and
type_map_tokens, including their purpose and expected values consistent with the
constructor signature.
deepmd/dpmodel/utils/lmdb_data.py (1)

2623-2623: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Invalidate _per_atom_strides when installing a frame transform.

per_atom_strides() caches the classification from self[0], and batch_layout() reuses that cache. If a transform adds per-atom fields after layout resolution, those fields are absent from layout.strides. _allocate_lmdb_batch() then treats them as frame-level fields, which can produce shape mismatches for mixed-nloc batches and an incorrect layout for ragged batches. The trainer currently installs the transform before layout resolution, but the public setter has no such ordering contract.

         it, and receives ``(frame, frame_index)``. Self-supervised training uses
         it to corrupt inputs and derive labels before the model runs.
         """
         self._decode_config.frame_transform = transform
+        # The transform adds per-atom fields, so which fields carry an atom
+        # axis has to be resolved again from a transformed frame.
+        self._per_atom_strides = None
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installation logic around self._decode_config.frame_transform so it invalidates
the cached _per_atom_strides classification whenever a transform is assigned.
Ensure subsequent per_atom_strides() and batch_layout() calls recompute field
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In `@deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/unimol_nn/heads.py`:
- Around line 88-89: Update the masked-token indexing in the feature-selection
logic to use the boolean mask as the sole index, replacing the combined
mask-and-slice form while preserving the existing mask conversion and
selected-row behavior.

In `@deepmd/dpmodel/loss/unimol.py`:
- Around line 120-122: Update the loss calculation surrounding the picked-atom
reduction to guard against a zero denominator when keep selects no atoms across
the batch. Preserve the existing result for positive counts, and return a finite
zero contribution when the summed keep mask is zero so backpropagation remains
finite.
- Line 201: Propagate backbone["real_mask"] as "mask" through
UniMolPretrainFitting.call_tokens and UniMolAtomicModel.call_lower, and add the
mask to the fitting output definition. Ensure UniMolLoss receives the real-atom
mask so _token_mask_from_atoms and norm-term reductions use masked values.

In `@deepmd/dpmodel/utils/lmdb_data.py`:
- Line 706: Make frame_transform in LmdbDecodeConfig picklable for
ProcessPoolExecutor spawn-based parallel decoding: replace the local transform
returned by make_unimol_data_transform with a module-level callable that stores
its settings, or explicitly reject custom frame_transform when multiple workers
are enabled. Preserve single-worker behavior and ensure
LmdbBatchIterator._submit can pickle the configuration.

In `@deepmd/dpmodel/utils/unimol_transform.py`:
- Line 379: Replace the unbounded visits dictionary in the transform’s
frame-processing logic with bounded per-frame storage sized to the dataset, or
derive the counter from an externally supplied epoch. Preserve the existing
per-frame visit-count behavior while ensuring memory usage does not grow with
the number of distinct frames.
- Around line 200-203: Update the noise_fallback branch in the UniMol transform
logic to reject unknown noise_type values instead of returning 0.0. Preserve a
no-noise mode only through an explicit accepted value such as "none", while
retaining the existing behavior for the four supported noise types.
- Around line 356-359: Update the vocabulary validation in the initializer near
the existing `[MASK]` check to reject any element in `type_map` that cannot be
represented by the Uni-Mol vocabulary, including missing `[UNK]` handling,
instead of allowing `token_to_type` to fall back to the mask index. Preserve the
supported 26-element configuration and ensure invalid mappings fail during
construction before `transform` runs.

In `@deepmd/pt_expt/train/training.py`:
- Around line 1882-1884: Update the dataset setup around frame_transform so
training and validation each receive a separately created transform instance.
Call self.losses[model_key].frame_transform with the type_map once for each
dataset, rather than reusing one transform object across both, preserving
independent per-dataset visit counters.
- Line 2274: Align the optimizer schema and training access for adam_eps: update
optimizer_adamw() to register adam_eps with the same default as optimizer_adam()
if AdamW supports it, then replace the inline fallback in the shared training
path with optimizer_params["adam_eps"]; if AdamW does not support the option,
restrict this lookup and value passing to the Adam path instead.

In `@deepmd/utils/argcheck.py`:
- Line 5611: Remove the max_atoms argument from the loss schema and
implementation, including the Argument declaration, serialization entry, and
loss_unimol() declaration. Do not add replacement cropping logic; preserve
atom-limit enforcement only in convert_unimol_lmdb(), which must receive the
relevant configuration through its existing conversion path.

In `@deepmd/utils/unimol_checkpoint.py`:
- Line 180: Update the architecture construction in apply_unimol_backbone so
overrides cannot change checkpoint-dependent layer counts, dimensions, head
counts, or layer-normalization structure without validation. Restrict
UNIMOL_V1_BASE_ARCHITECTURE overrides to weight-compatible options, or validate
all checkpoint parameters and shapes before returning the descriptor.

In `@deepmd/utils/unimol_data.py`:
- Around line 147-149: Update the conversion flow around lmdb.open so it writes
the new dataset to a temporary sibling directory instead of deleting dst
upfront. Validate the source and complete the LMDB transaction and metadata
write successfully, then atomically replace dst with the temporary directory; on
any failure, preserve the existing destination and clean up the temporary
output.
- Around line 207-210: Update the dataset conversion flow around frame_idx and
the metadata containing frame_system_ids to reject empty output when frame_idx
== 0. Raise a clear conversion error before publishing the dataset, preventing
LmdbDataReader from receiving an empty frame_system_ids array.
- Line 75: Replace the unrestricted pickle.loads call in the Uni-Mol LMDB
value-loading generator with a safe deserialization boundary, such as a
non-executable format, restricted allowlist unpickler, or integrity verification
for trusted artifacts. Ensure CLI-selected src data cannot execute arbitrary
code while preserving supported value loading.

In `@examples/unimol/pretrain/input.json`:
- Line 90: The example currently references ./unimol_valid without documenting
its creation. In examples/unimol/pretrain/input.json at line 90, either remove
the validation dataset reference or retain it only if setup creates it; in
doc/model/unimol.md at line 102, document the validation conversion or
train-validation split procedure accordingly.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/unimol_nn/encoder.py`:
- Around line 340-348: Update MultiHeadAttention.serialize to include
scaling_factor and bias in the serialized data, using the values consumed by
__init__. Ensure deserialize can pass these fields through cls(**data) so round
trips preserve the original attention scaling and bias configuration.

In `@deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/unimol.py`:
- Around line 114-116: Update the Parameters section of the DescrptUniMol class
docstring to document the constructor arguments virtual_token_position,
gaussian_kernels, and type_map_tokens, including their purpose and expected
values consistent with the constructor signature.

In `@deepmd/dpmodel/utils/lmdb_data.py`:
- Line 2623: Update the frame-transform installation logic around
self._decode_config.frame_transform so it invalidates the cached
_per_atom_strides classification whenever a transform is assigned. Ensure
subsequent per_atom_strides() and batch_layout() calls recompute field
classification from the transformed sample, preserving correct layouts for
mixed-nloc and ragged batches.

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) -> tuple[Array, dict[str, Array]]:
"""Evaluate the five terms and their weighted sum."""
del learning_rate, natoms, mae
mask = model_dict.get("mask")

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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fd -t f 'unimol' deepmd | sort

# Test: the fitting/atomic model must place "mask" in its returned dict.
rg -n -C4 '"mask"' deepmd/dpmodel/fitting/unimol_pretrain.py \
  deepmd/dpmodel/atomic_model/unimol_atomic_model.py \
  deepmd/dpmodel/model/unimol_pretrain_model.py \
  deepmd/pt_expt/fitting/unimol_pretrain.py \
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# Test: the token-resolution forward and the model output def.
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Propagate the real-atom mask to UniMolLoss.

UniMolPretrainFitting.call_tokens returns only the head outputs and norm values. UniMolAtomicModel.call_lower passes this dictionary through unchanged, so model_dict.get("mask") is always None. The loss declares only unimol_token_target and unimol_coord_target; therefore, with masked_dist_loss > 0, _token_mask_from_atoms(None, ...) fails. The norm terms also use an unmasked mean. Propagate backbone["real_mask"] as "mask" and declare it in the fitting output definition.

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In `@deepmd/dpmodel/loss/unimol.py` at line 201, Propagate backbone["real_mask"]
as "mask" through UniMolPretrainFitting.call_tokens and
UniMolAtomicModel.call_lower, and add the mask to the fitting output definition.
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Pull request overview

Adds Uni-Mol v1 support (descriptor + pretraining heads + self-supervised objective) across DPModel and PyTorch-Exportable backends, including data conversion utilities, checkpoint import, documentation, and extensive parity/training tests.

Changes:

  • Implement Uni-Mol v1 backbone, pretraining heads, and pretraining model wrappers for DPModel and pt_expt.
  • Add Uni-Mol self-supervised loss with data-pipeline corruption via per-frame transforms, plus LMDB conversion + checkpoint import helpers.
  • Add Uni-Mol docs + example config and comprehensive golden/parity/training tests.

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source/tests/pt_expt/model/test_unimol.py pt_expt end-to-end tests for Uni-Mol model parity, objective, gradients, and training integration
source/tests/common/dpmodel/test_unimol_data.py Tests for Uni-Mol LMDB conversion and corruption transform behavior
source/tests/common/dpmodel/test_unimol.py Golden/parity tests validating DPModel Uni-Mol transform/encoder/heads/loss vs upstream dumps
examples/unimol/pretrain/input.json Example Uni-Mol pretraining configuration (model/loss/optimizer/training)
doc/model/unimol.md Uni-Mol model documentation (architecture, objective, data conversion, checkpoints, caveats)
doc/model/index.rst Adds Uni-Mol page to model docs index
deepmd/utils/unimol_data.py Utility to convert upstream Uni-Mol LMDB dataset into deepmd LMDB layout
deepmd/utils/unimol_checkpoint.py Loader/converter for released Uni-Mol v1 checkpoints into deepmd descriptor weights
deepmd/utils/argcheck.py Adds argcheck schema for unimol descriptor, unimol_pretrain fitting, unimol loss, and pt_expt Adam epsilon
deepmd/tf/common.py Adds exact GELU (gelu_erf) to TF backend activation registry
deepmd/pt_expt/utils/network.py Adds exact GELU (gelu_erf) to pt_expt activation dispatcher
deepmd/pt_expt/utils/lmdb_dataset.py Exposes set_frame_transform passthrough to underlying LMDB reader
deepmd/pt_expt/train/training.py Wires UniMolLoss into pt_expt loss factory and installs per-frame transforms on datasets
deepmd/pt_expt/model/unimol_pretrain_model.py pt_expt Uni-Mol pretraining model wrapper with periodic-cell refusal
deepmd/pt_expt/model/init.py Exports UniMolPretrainModel via pt_expt model package
deepmd/pt_expt/loss/unimol.py Re-exports DPModel UniMolLoss in pt_expt loss namespace
deepmd/pt_expt/loss/init.py Exports UniMolLoss via pt_expt loss package
deepmd/pt_expt/fitting/unimol_pretrain.py pt_expt fitting wrapper for UniMolPretrainFitting
deepmd/pt_expt/fitting/init.py Exports UniMolPretrainFitting via pt_expt fitting package
deepmd/pt_expt/descriptor/unimol.py pt_expt descriptor wrapper with multi-task parameter sharing
deepmd/pt_expt/descriptor/init.py Exports DescrptUniMol via pt_expt descriptor package
deepmd/pt/utils/utils.py Adds exact GELU (gelu_erf) to PyTorch backend activation selection
deepmd/pd/utils/utils.py Adds exact GELU (gelu_erf) to Paddle backend activation selection
deepmd/dpmodel/utils/unimol_transform.py Implements Uni-Mol data-side corruption and frame transform functions
deepmd/dpmodel/utils/network.py Adds array-API exact GELU (gelu_erf) using xp_erf
deepmd/dpmodel/utils/lmdb_data.py Adds per-frame transform hook support to LMDB decoding + reader
deepmd/dpmodel/model/unimol_pretrain_model.py Adds DPModel Uni-Mol pretraining model wrapper with periodic-cell refusal
deepmd/dpmodel/model/init.py Exports UniMolPretrainModel via DPModel model package
deepmd/dpmodel/loss/unimol.py Implements Uni-Mol self-supervised objective and provides frame transform factory
deepmd/dpmodel/loss/loss.py Adds base frame_transform() API to Loss interface
deepmd/dpmodel/loss/init.py Exports UniMolLoss via DPModel loss package
deepmd/dpmodel/fitting/unimol_pretrain.py Implements Uni-Mol pretraining heads as a fitting module
deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/unimol_nn/heads.py Implements Uni-Mol MaskLMHead, DistanceHead, and coordinate update head
deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/unimol_nn/encoder.py Implements Uni-Mol Gaussian basis + transformer encoder with pair representation
deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/unimol_nn/init.py Exports Uni-Mol NN building blocks package
deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/unimol.py Implements Uni-Mol descriptor wrapper around encoder and tokenization/bias construction
deepmd/dpmodel/descriptor/init.py Exports DescrptUniMol via DPModel descriptor package
deepmd/dpmodel/atomic_model/unimol_atomic_model.py Adds atomic model wiring backbone token outputs directly into pretraining heads
deepmd/dpmodel/atomic_model/init.py Exports DPUniMolAtomicModel via DPModel atomic_model package
deepmd/dpmodel/array_api.py Adds xp_erf() backend abstraction used by exact GELU
deepmd/common.py Registers gelu_erf as a supported activation name
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max_atoms: int = 256,
data_seed: int = 1,
**kwargs: float,
) -> None:
self.masked_token_loss = masked_token_loss
self.masked_coord_loss = masked_coord_loss
self.masked_dist_loss = masked_dist_loss
self.x_norm_loss = x_norm_loss
self.delta_pair_repr_norm_loss = delta_pair_repr_norm_loss
self.beta = beta
self.pad_idx = pad_idx
# The corruption settings live here because the objective owns them:
# the labels are whatever the corruption produced.
self.mask_prob = mask_prob
self.leave_unmasked_prob = leave_unmasked_prob
self.random_token_prob = random_token_prob
self.noise_type = noise_type
self.noise = noise
self.max_atoms = max_atoms
self.data_seed = data_seed
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def frame_transform(self, type_map: list[str]): # noqa: ANN201
"""Build Uni-Mol's corruption, which also produces the labels."""
from deepmd.dpmodel.utils.unimol_transform import (
make_unimol_data_transform,
)

return make_unimol_data_transform(
type_map,
seed=self.data_seed,
mask_prob=self.mask_prob,
leave_unmasked_prob=self.leave_unmasked_prob,
random_token_prob=self.random_token_prob,
noise_type=self.noise_type,
noise=self.noise,
)
Comment on lines +353 to +359
type_to_token = np.array(
[token_of.get(sym, unk) for sym in type_map], dtype=np.int64
)
token_to_type = np.array(
[type_index.get(sym, type_index[mask_token]) for sym in vocabulary],
dtype=np.int64,
)
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frame = dict(frame)
frame["coord"] = corrupted["coordinates"].astype(np.float64)
frame["atype"] = token_to_type[corrupted["tokens"]]
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Six findings from the automated review, all local to this feature.

An element the model's type_map cannot express was written back as [MASK],
which quietly turned an ordinary atom into a corrupted one. That happens when
the type_map reaches beyond Uni-Mol's 26 elements, since the extras tokenize to
[UNK] and [UNK] has no type to return to. Such a frame is refused now, with the
offending elements named.

The per-frame visit counter grew one dictionary entry per frame, on a data
format whose own design point is a hundred million frames. One counter for the
whole transform does the same job in constant space.

The training and validation datasets shared a transform, so validation passes
advanced the corruption that training was drawing from. Each dataset gets its
own.

The objective carried a max_atoms it could not apply, since the transform runs
after batching and the converter is what caps the size. It is gone from the
loss, the schema and the example.

Loading a released checkpoint into a descriptor of the wrong shape used to
proceed and ignore the extra layers. The importer checks the layer count and
the key shapes first.

The loss base class deleted a parameter it simply does not use, which a static
analyser flagged; it documents it instead.

Tests cover the two new refusals.
Two more from the review.

The number of corrupted atoms is rounded stochastically, so a frame can draw
none at all, and a batch of one such frame leaves every term a mean over an
empty set. Upstream returns NaN there and it would reach backward, so the one
division is guarded and the smooth-L1 mean returns zero on an empty input.
Batches that select something are bit-for-bit unchanged; the objective still
agrees with upstream to 7.7e-07 on the released weights.

The masked-token branch of the element head indexed with a boolean mask
alongside a slice, which the array API allows only as a sole index.
The reader decodes batches in spawned worker processes, which pickle whatever
the decoder configuration carries. The corruption was a closure, so a run with
the default worker count and a batch no smaller than that count died with
"Can't pickle local object" the moment it drew its first batch. It is a class
now, and a test pickles it.

Being picklable is not enough on its own. Each batch sends the worker a fresh
copy, so a counter standing in for the epoch resets over and over and every
visit corrupts a molecule the same way -- which is what the counter existed to
prevent. The number that stands in for the epoch is therefore drawn from a
generator that lives in the process, keyed by the transform, and the option
documents what that costs: a run is reproducible from data_seed only when one
process decodes it.

The element check moved to the input side. Refusing a frame only when an
unexpressible token survived the corruption meant the refusal depended on the
draw, so the same molecule was refused or silently masked depending on the day.
An element Uni-Mol has no token for is now refused as soon as it is seen.

A misspelt noise_type fell through to adding no noise at all, which trains on
clean coordinates and looks like a converged run. It is rejected.

The converter builds beside its destination and moves it into place, so a
malformed record hours in no longer destroys the dataset it was replacing, and
a conversion that yields no usable frame says so rather than writing a dataset
whose first read raises. The pickle trust boundary is documented where a reader
will meet it.

adam_eps was registered for Adam only, while the trainer passed it to AdamW too,
where a user-supplied value was rejected as unknown. AdamW declares it now.
Setting `precision` on this model failed outright. The backbone hands its
output back at the global precision, because its own forward is wrapped in
cast_precision, so heads configured at anything else were handed the wrong
dtype and torch refused to multiply. The decorator could not cover it: it casts
arrays it is given directly, and what the heads are given is a dictionary. The
fitting casts that dictionary itself now, and casts the results back.

Every test here pinned float64, which is the global precision, so none of them
could see it; the failure turned up on a real training run. The new test asks
for float32 and is in the torch suite deliberately -- NumPy upcasts a float64
activation against a float32 weight without complaint, so the array-API backend
cannot fail this way and a test there would pass either way.

Worth knowing: the released example inherits the float64 default, and float32
is about five times faster on the same data and hardware.

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Preserve dst until replacement succeeds.

shutil.rmtree(dst) completes before os.rename(staging, dst). If the rename fails or the process stops in this gap, the completed destination is lost even though staging is valid. Publish through a stable atomic indirection, or retain and restore a backup until the staging move succeeds.

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Two things the reference dataset at OMat24 settles.

The converter wrote coordinates as float64 and types as int64, and gave every
frame an `atom_names` list and an `orig` vector. The datasets already published
in this format store float32 and int32, carry neither of those fields, and
encode an array with three keys rather than five. The reader discards
`atom_names` and `orig` on the way in, so they were dead weight in all 188
million frames. float32 is also what the source holds: upstream generated these
conformers in single precision, so widening them stored zeros. The converted
validation split goes from 3.6 GB to 1.4 GB and reads about eight percent
faster; the same reader still reads both, and the reference dataset.

The example now trains in single precision, which is what DPA models train in.
The backbone is a transformer, not a potential energy surface, and the
difference is not small: measured over the same 120 steps at the same batch on
the same data, float64 takes 1.0263 s/batch and float32 takes 0.0924, eleven
times faster. At the old default one pass over the pretraining set would have
taken about seventy GPU-days.

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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.

# sequence translation invariant. Upstream centres the coordinates in
# its data pipeline and then places both at the origin, so the two agree
# whenever the data went through that transform.
if self.virtual_token_position == "centroid":

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With the default virtual_token_position="centroid" (argcheck default, and the shipped examples/unimol/pretrain/input.json does not override it), build_tokens places BOS/EOS at the centroid of the coordinates it receives, which during pretraining are the corrupted coordinates. _clean_distances in deepmd/dpmodel/loss/unimol.py (L95-102) puts the virtual tokens at the origin, which is the centroid of the clean coordinates only. On a 6-atom frame with one noised atom the BOS position came out as roughly (-0.07, -0.03, -0.16) Å while the clean centroid is 0, so the two BOS/EOS columns of every masked row's distance target are regressed against the wrong label by an amount of the order of the coordinate noise.

The tests only run with "origin", so the default configuration is not covered. Either compute the target with the same rule as the descriptor, or force "origin" on the pretraining path and cover the default in a test.

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# Identifies this transform's draw sequence within a process, so that
# the training and the validation set do not share one.
self.stream = int(np.random.SeedSequence().generate_state(1)[0])

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np.random.SeedSequence() with no argument draws OS entropy, and _next_epoch(self.stream, self.seed) mixes this into every per-frame draw. So two runs with the same seed and DP_LMDB_NUM_WORKERS=0 produce different masks (verified: two processes, seed=1, same frame, different selections). The argcheck doc for the seed says "A run is reproducible from it only when one process decodes the data", which this contradicts. Deriving stream from seed plus a train/validation discriminator would restore that.

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rmtree(dst) followed by os.rename(staging, dst) is not atomic: an interruption between the two lines removes the previous dataset and leaves nothing in its place, which is exactly what the comment above the staging directory says this code is meant to avoid. Renaming dst aside first (dst -> dst.bak, staging -> dst, then remove dst.bak) keeps a valid dataset on disk at every step.

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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.

Reviewed by ChatGPT (GPT-5.6 Sol).

# sequence translation invariant. Upstream centres the coordinates in
# its data pipeline and then places both at the origin, so the two agree
# whenever the data went through that transform.
if self.virtual_token_position == "centroid":

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With the default centroid, this centroid is computed from the corrupted/noised coordinates. _clean_distances() builds the target virtual tokens at zero from the clean centered coordinates, so masked-atom distances to CLS/SEP are trained against a different geometry whenever the corruption shifts the centroid. Please use one virtual-token convention for both prediction and target, and add a regression for the default centroid setting.

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# Identifies this transform's draw sequence within a process, so that
# the training and the validation set do not share one.
self.stream = int(np.random.SeedSequence().generate_state(1)[0])

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This defeats the configured reproducibility guarantee: an unseeded SeedSequence() draws OS entropy, and _next_epoch() also mixes in the PID. Even with one decoder process, two runs with the same data_seed can produce different masks/noise. Please derive the stream deterministically from seed plus an explicit train/validation (or other stream) discriminator.

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if os.path.exists(dst):
shutil.rmtree(dst)

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The staging write is safe until publication, but publication is still destructive: rmtree(dst) completes before rename(staging, dst). If rename fails or the process is interrupted here, the previous valid dataset is gone. Please rename the old destination to a backup first, publish staging, then remove the backup (restoring it on failure), or use an equivalent recoverable publish scheme.

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