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Distils three lines of work -- the CLIFF-2 classical model family, the
exchange/overlap anisotropy probes, and the AP3-D3-FF residual route -- out of
a long-running experiment branch into a standalone feature set on top of
main. Everything run-specific (configs, manifests, checkpoints, W&B run
identities, scheduler receipts, analysis notebooks, figures) stays on the
paired experiment branch and is deliberately not included here.

What this adds

CLIFF-2 classical model family (AtomPairwiseModels/cliff_2.py,
mtp_mtp.py, AtomModels/*). An AtomTypeParamModel / AM_DimerParam_Model
pair emits per-element parameters; on top of it sit a classical electrostatics
term, a classical exchange term, and a Rackers-Thole induction term solved
variationally from the intermolecular permanent field. cliff_2.py assembles
elst + exch + ind, optionally with a short-range induction overlap correction.
Parameter bounds use a restoring clamp (CLIFF_BOUND_GRADIENT_MODE): forward
identical to straight-through, but the gradient pulls a saturated pre-image
back inside the band rather than leaving it free to run away. Optimizer
learning-rate groups and component gradient-clipping groups are separate
partitions of the same head, so each can be set independently.

Exchange anisotropy -- an opt-in anisotropic exchange prefactor
(--anisotropy_mode, --anisotropy_bound, the dipole/quadrupole scales and a
dedicated --anisotropy_lr), plus the diagnostics used to read it.

AP3-D3-FF residual route -- apnet3_d3_fused.APNet3D3_AtomType_Model
returns the neural readout alone under use_precomputed_classical, with the
frozen classical energy added back at scoring time, so the network is fit to
the residual rather than to the total. Exposed through the CLI as
APNet3-fused-d3.

Supporting infrastructure -- resumable fused stores, a DDP rendezvous
helper (ddp_launch.py) that resolves master address/port from the SLURM
environment, split manifests with fingerprint-based verification
(load_split_manifest / resolve_split_indices), a best-MAE checkpoint
sidecar beside the existing best-MSE one, and per-batch metric means in the
training tracker. unwrap_model is now cycle-guarded.

Commits

89b9442 the model family and the fused residual route
39abeeb resumable stores, DDP, split manifests, checkpoint I/O
15dc7f1 CLI surface for both routes
88259c4 tests
3367af8 drop ~150 tests that pinned campaign history rather than behaviour

What these routes actually score

Validation MAEs in kcal/mol, pulled from the W&B logs of the campaign runs that
exercised this code. Each row is the best checkpoint of one warm-started chunk
chain (checkpoint/output_name groups the chain), reported at the epoch that
minimised summed validation loss -- not a per-column minimum taken across
different epochs. These are campaign runs, not tuned releases; they are here to
show the routes train and to record where each one currently sits.

CLIFF-2 classical routes -- project qcmlforge-cliff, SAPT0 targets, common
20 000-dimer validation split, so these rows are directly comparable.

Route / arm train dimers best ep Elst Exch Ind
cliff_classical_overlap, V100, full data 1 494 431 3 0.615 0.647 0.340
cliff_classical_overlap, DDP-4, full data 1 499 998 2 0.576 0.844 0.404
... + induction overlap (resumed) 1 499 998 11 0.567 0.820 0.540
... + shared Thole damping 1 499 998 2 0.572 0.841 0.592
cliff_classical_overlap, 100 k 100 000 15 0.681 0.882 1.308
... + induction overlap 100 000 11 0.657 0.853 0.517
... + shared damping 100 000 10 0.696 0.953 0.658
... low Thole learning rate 100 000 10 0.642 1.755 0.369
cliff_classical_overlap_mpnn (MPNN head) 100 000 19 0.835 1.252 1.662
cliff_exch (exchange only, single component) 5 000 30 -- 0.821 --

The low-Thole-rate arm is the one that trades exchange for induction; it is kept
in the table because the --thole_lr split it exercises is part of this PR.

AP3-D3-FF residual route -- project qcmlforge-ap3d3-ff, 20 000-dimer
validation split, SAPT0 minus frozen CLIFF-2 as the training target.

Arm best ep Elst Exch Ind Disp Total
ap3d3-ff-exch-r1-huber, b128 4 0.364 0.230 0.175 -- 0.447
ap3d3-ff-resid, b128 4 0.409 0.281 0.214 -- 0.520
... + total MSE in the objective 4 0.434 0.330 0.232 -- 0.516
... + learned dispersion 4 0.442 0.363 0.248 0.132 0.548
... 30-epoch edgeless chain, learned dispersion 0 0.345 0.538 0.342 0.142 0.611
ap3d3-ff-hybrid-r3ovlp-huber 2 0.424 0.426 0.219 -- 0.553
ap3d3-ff-exchovlp-huber 0 0.468 0.800 0.255 -- 0.796
reference: AP3-D3 direct fit, not residual 42 0.311 0.183 0.144 0.031 0.393

The reference row is the incumbent direct-fit AP3-D3 model
(ap3d3-edgeless-fix-retrain, run pa49ac2n) and is not like-for-like: it
validated on 150 000 dimers rather than 20 000, and it ran 42 epochs against the
residual arms' 4. It is here as the scale marker. On the evidence so far the
residual parameterisation does not beat the direct fit; the route is included
because it is the machinery the comparison needs, not because it wins.

Rackers-Thole damping has no standalone trained model to report. The
damping is exercised as the thole_direct / thole_mutual columns inside the
CLIFF-2 classical-overlap routes above, which is why the shared-damping and
low-Thole-rate arms are broken out.

S66x8 against the published CLIFF force field

The validation tables above are in-distribution. The external check is S66x8
(528 dimers), where the original CLIFF force field publishes component errors:
Schriber, Sirianni, Sherrill et al., J. Chem. Phys. 154, 184110 (2021),
Table III.

Read the reference level first. CLIFF's published S66x8 errors are measured
against SAPT2+(3)dMP2/aug-cc-pVTZ. Every model in this PR is fit to and scored
against SAPT0/aug-cc-pVDZ. Those are different reference surfaces and the gap is
not small -- over these same 528 points the two references differ by, in MAE
(signed mean): elst 0.285 (-0.248), exch 0.597 (-0.565), ind 0.132 (+0.122),
disp 0.414 (+0.195), total 0.509 (-0.497). Scoring a SAPT0-fit model against
SAPT2+(3) would charge it that gap on top of its own error. The tables below are
therefore like-for-like: each model against its own fitting reference. That
is the comparison the CLIFF paper itself makes, and it is the only one in which
the numbers mean the same thing.

One further convention: CLIFF-2 has no dispersion term, so its classical
column (elst + exch + ind) stands against CLIFF's total. They are not strictly
the same quantity and the ratio is marked accordingly.

CLIFF-2 classical-overlap route -- MAE in kcal/mol, n = 528.

Checkpoint Elst Exch Ind classical vs CLIFF total
published CLIFF (SAPT2+(3)dMP2/aTZ) 0.507 0.695 0.264 0.703 (total) 1.00x
cliff2_refreeze (44ae84ed, W&B iybtmogr) 0.567 0.654 0.353 0.564 0.80x
cliff2_edgeless_e2 (147765fc, W&B tqg91bki) 0.607 0.797 0.425 0.611 0.87x
ratio, refreeze / CLIFF 1.12x 0.94x 1.34x -- --
ratio, edgeless_e2 / CLIFF 1.20x 1.15x 1.61x -- --

CLIFF-2 beats published CLIFF on exchange (0.654 vs 0.695) and on the summed
classical (0.564 vs 0.703), and loses on electrostatics and -- by the widest
margin -- on induction.

The 0.80x classical row is error cancellation, not component accuracy.
Measured rather than inferred: hold this checkpoint's electrostatics and
induction predictions fixed and substitute an exchange term with identically
zero error
, and the classical MAE is 0.807 -- against the fitted model's
0.564. A perfect exchange term scores 30% worse. No component is more accurate
than exact, so that 0.243 kcal/mol gap is cancellation credit. The cancellation
is pointwise and fitted, not a mean offset: corr(exchange error, elst+ind error) is -0.676 overall and tightens monotonically from -0.584 at 0.90 Re to
-0.969 at 1.50 Re. As the compact summary statistic used further down: the three
component MAEs sum to 1.574 against a classical sum of 0.564, a cancellation
ratio of 0.359.

What is being absorbed is an attraction deficit. Induction error is 97.7%
one-signed bias (signed +0.345 of MAE 0.353), so the induction MAE essentially
is a deficit rather than scatter, and the entire cancellation is bought on the
184 hydrogen-bond points, where elst + ind is 1.439 under-attractive, exchange is
0.868 under-repulsive, and the credit is 0.832 (1.459 -> 0.627). On the 184
dispersion-dominated points there is no deficit to absorb, the correlation flips
to +0.207, and the exchange error costs 0.293 (0.418 -> 0.712).

This is why --anisotropy_mode ships opt-in and off, with no promoted
checkpoint behind it. The exchange term is parameterized in the same overlap as
the missing short-range attraction (charge transfer, electrostatic penetration),
so it has the functional handle to absorb it -- and improving exchange in
isolation removes the absorber without supplying the attraction. Both routes
tried confirm it: the anisotropy prefactor arms cut exchange MAE to 0.588 while
classical rose 0.564 -> 0.622, and pointwise substituting an independently
fitted exchange term with a genuinely better MAE (0.519 vs 0.654) lands classical
at 0.912 -- worse even than perfect exchange, because its bias carries the same
sign as the elst + ind bias and adds to it. On this benchmark no
independently-fit exchange improvement can beat 0.807, so exchange is not the
lever; the short-range attraction term is.

AP3-D3-FF residual route -- the same 528 points, same reference convention.

Checkpoint Elst Exch Ind Disp classical vs CLIFF total
published CLIFF (SAPT2+(3)dMP2/aTZ) 0.507 0.695 0.264 0.206 0.703 (total) 1.00x
ap3d3ff-chunk3-12732248 (43f1fa22, arm B, learned disp) 0.397 0.394 0.184 -- 0.355 0.51x
ap3d3ff-chunk13-13020498 (edgeless 30-epoch chain) 0.324 0.417 0.244 0.162 0.386 0.55x
reference: AP3-D3 direct fit, not residual 0.248 0.241 0.124 0.055 0.408 0.58x

The residual head is a better CLIFF-2 and a worse AP3-D3. Against its CLIFF-2
base the chunk-3 arm is a genuine component improvement -- every component drops
and the summed classical falls 0.564 -> 0.355 with the cancellation ratio flat
(0.359 -> 0.365). Against the direct-fit AP3-D3 it is the opposite: every
component is worse (0.397 vs 0.248, 0.394 vs 0.241, 0.184 vs 0.124) and the
summed win 0.355 vs 0.408 is bought entirely with error cancellation. Quoting
0.355 against 0.408 as a component-accuracy result would be wrong.

What is deliberately not in these tables. Two other gated CLIFF-2
checkpoints exist and neither is quotable: the 3kdt9h3j MPNN checkpoint
predates the intermolecular-permanent-field fix in the induction kernel, which
makes every component wrong because the CLIFF Eq. (23) loss is joint; and
indovl-best-snapshot was gated on 4 systems / 32 points rather than the full
528. Only the four checkpoints above have a clean full-S66x8 reading.

Tests

626 cases across 15 new files, down from 894 as distilled. The ones worth calling out are
test_cliff_induction_golden.py, which checks the induction kernel against a
hand computation (a sign error in the field is invisible to every aggregate
metric), and test_cliff_induction_ddp.py, which checks gradient
synchronisation across ranks.

The tip commit drops roughly 150 of the cases that came over with the
distillation: pins on pre-refactor numeric output, byte-for-byte error-message
assertions, --help text assertions, spies on private call structure, and
several validation matrices that repeated the same rejection at three layers.
What survives asserts behaviour a reviewer would want held.

Full suite on this branch: 946 passed, 52 skipped, 0 failed (998
collected, no collection errors).

Two dispatch cases were red as first written, for a real pre-existing defect
rather than anything introduced here: on a single-component route -- cliff_exch
trains against SAPT Exch alone -- _record_component_mse iterated a 0-d tensor
and raised TypeError. Fixed in 89b9442 with torch.atleast_1d.

Notes for review

  • This supersedes feat(apnet_pt): add Rackers Thole damping models #24. feat(apnet_pt): add Rackers Thole damping models #24 (ind-atom-type) carries a reviewed but earlier
    version of the same Rackers-Thole damping foundation, and ind-atom-type is
    not an ancestor of the branch this was distilled from. Measured rather than
    assumed: feat(apnet_pt): add Rackers Thole damping models #24's own tests/test_rackers_thole_damping.py, run unmodified
    against this branch's implementation, scores 72 passed / 3 failed. One
    failure is a local environment artifact (missing models/ap2_ensemble/am_1.pt,
    which CI fetches from HF). The other two are deliberate design changes here,
    both driven by training runs that died on transients:

    • a valence width at or below zero is clamped into a documented band
      (OVERLAP_WIDTH_FLOOR = 0.1, plus an upper bound, because the frozen HFVR
      model emits sigma = 1.8952 for Na against 0.40-0.52 for C/N/O) instead of
      raising ValueError;
    • SCF exhaustion sets a scf_converged flag, surfaced as
      {root}/scf_converged_fraction, instead of raising RuntimeError.

    The only implementation symbol in feat(apnet_pt): add Rackers Thole damping models #24 with no counterpart here is the private
    helper _rackers_finite_floats, superseded by _validate_model_width_floor.
    What this PR does not carry from feat(apnet_pt): add Rackers Thole damping models #24 is its non-Rackers content:
    src/qcml_mcp/**, tests/test_qcml_mcp_optional.py, the README changes, and
    the docs/specs -> docs/design/wandb-training.md rename. Those still need
    to land from feat(apnet_pt): add Rackers Thole damping models #24 (or be reopened separately).

  • run.sh leaves .gitignore. It was ignored at .gitignore:193 while
    tests/test_run_script.py hard-depends on it existing (RUN_SCRIPT = REPO_ROOT / "run.sh"), and main already tracks sibling launchers
    (train_ap.sh, train_ap3d3_saptdft_local_1.sh) at the root. run_cliff.sh
    joins it. models/cliff/, wandb/, and .sweep/ are added to the ignore
    list instead.

  • Deliberately excluded. src/qcml_mcp/** and
    tests/test_select_LoT_skill_script.py also differ on the source branch, but
    that is an unrelated LoT-selection feature whose branch copy predates main
    -- merging it would drop the importorskip guards and slow/mcp marks main
    already has. Left alone.

  • Evidence lives elsewhere. Benchmark tables, S66x8 comparisons, training
    curves, and run provenance are on the paired exch-at experiment branch
    (experiment commit 88c3fd5, which carries the cancellation decomposition
    quoted above, script and JSON included, as
    analysis/pr31_cancellation_decomposition_20260914.*) and can be linked into
    review on request. No run data, checkpoints, or logs are copied into this
    repository.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added CLIFF-2 inference with classical parameter checkpoint merging and SAPT0 component predictions.
    • Added configurable training scripts for Rackers/Thole and CLIFF routes.
    • Added explicit train/test split manifests with dataset validation.
    • Added resumable training and best-validation-MAE checkpoint tracking.
    • Added improved distributed-training support, including SLURM and torchrun rendezvous handling.
    • Added configurable induction convergence norms and separate training rates for pretrained trunks.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Reduced redundant dataset processing and improved fused dataset shard recovery.
  • Documentation

    • Updated installation, training routes, checkpoint requirements, and tracking documentation.

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Three layers land together because they are one physical stack.

The CLIFF classical parameter heads in `mtp_mtp.py` -- `AtomTypeParamModel`
for per-atom HFVR and valence widths, `AM_DimerParam_Model` for the dimer
terms -- drive classical electrostatics, the classical exchange term, and
Rackers-Thole induction solved variationally from the intermolecular
permanent field.  Parameters that must stay positive are held inside their
physical domain by a restoring clamp (`CLIFF_BOUND_GRADIENT_MODE`): the
forward value is identical to a straight-through clamp, but a saturated bound
now pulls its pre-image back instead of leaving it free to run away, which is
what a straight-through gradient allowed.  Optimizer learning rates and
gradient clipping are two separate partitions of the same head, so both are
exposed: per-component clipping groups and per-group rates for the exchange
parameters, the valence widths, and the frozen-by-default atom trunk.

`cliff_2.py` assembles those heads into a CLIFF-2 inference model over
elst + exch + ind, with and without the short-range induction overlap term.

`apnet3_d3_fused.APNet3D3_AtomType_Model` runs an AP3-D3 pairwise readout on
top of that classical stack.  Under `use_precomputed_classical` the model
returns the neural readout alone and the classical energy is added back at
scoring time, which is what makes the route a residual correction to a frozen
CLIFF-2 parent rather than a re-fit of the whole interaction energy.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Training the classical stack for tens of epochs on a shared cluster surfaced
four gaps that are not specific to CLIFF:

* `ap2_fused_ds` can now grow an existing on-disk fused store to the size a
  run asks for and resume a short store instead of re-deriving the prefix it
  already holds, and it records exhaustion only when the source, not the
  request, ran out.  Each training dataset is built once rather than twice.
* `ddp_launch` resolves the DDP rendezvous from the scheduler environment
  (SLURM first-hostname, master address and port, OMP thread count) instead of
  leaving each launcher to reinvent it.
* `model_io` gains a training-state sidecar (`save_train_state` /
  `load_train_state`) so a chunked run resumes where it stopped, and a
  best-MAE sidecar beside the MSE-selected checkpoint.  The primary checkpoint
  is selected on validation MSE while every table these models are read in is
  MAE, so the two selectors disagree; the sidecar records the MAE floor rather
  than leaving it unrecoverable.  `unwrap_model` now unwraps repeatedly, with
  a cycle guard, instead of peeling one `.module`.
* `util` adds dataset fingerprints and an explicit train/test split manifest,
  so a split is pinned by content rather than by a seed and a code path.

`training_tracking` logs a mean per-batch loss beside the summed one, which
is the only form comparable across runs with different batch counts, and
forwards per-harness extra metrics such as parameter bound occupancy.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`train_models.py` gains the route dispatch for `CliffExchangeModel`, the three
`CliffClassical*` variants, the Rackers-Thole damping harnesses, and the
`APNet3-fused-d3` residual route, plus the flags each of them needs:

* physics -- `--anisotropy_mode` and its bound/scale/lr knobs, `--thole_lr`,
  `--induction_max_iterations`, `--induction_convergence_{norm,threshold}`,
  `--induction_diagnostics`, `--shared_damping_parameters`,
  `--trainable_polarizability_scale`, `--polarizability_lr`;
* optimisation -- `--atom_model_lr` and `--unfreeze_atom_model` (the trunk
  needs its own rate; reusing the head rate is not equivalent),
  `--frozen_parameters`, `--grad_clip_mode` / `--grad_clip_norm` for
  per-component clipping, `--component_gamma`;
* data and provenance -- `--split_manifest` and `--split_verify`,
  `--ds_exclude_elements`, `--ds_exclude_train_indices_path`,
  `--build_dataset_only`, `--ds_max_size_val`, `--batch_size`;
* throughput -- `--skip_compile`, `--dataloader_num_workers`,
  `--omp_num_threads`, `--shard_locality_block_shards`, all opt-in and
  default-off so an existing invocation keeps its previous behaviour.

`--omp_num_threads` no longer writes the string "None" into the environment
when it is unset, which poisoned every forked child of the run.

`run.sh` and `run_cliff.sh` are reproducible launchers for the two families,
and `tests/test_run_script.py` covers the first of them.  `run.sh` therefore
leaves the ignore list: it is now a tracked deliverable rather than a scratch
name, and an ignore rule on a tracked path only misleads.  `run_cliff.sh`
asserts that `apnet_pt` resolves to its own checkout before it trains
anything, because an editable install elsewhere on `PYTHONPATH` otherwise
trains code that has no CLIFF routes at all.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Roughly 1100 new cases, organised by what they hold down:

* `test_cliff_classical_exchange.py`, `test_cliff_2.py` -- the classical
  exchange term and the assembled CLIFF-2 model, including the parameter
  bounds, the seed constants, and the target-column dispatch for each route.
* `test_rackers_thole_damping.py`, `test_cliff_induction_golden.py`,
  `test_induction_convergence_norm.py` -- the induction kernel against a hand
  computation, the damping variants, and the SCF convergence criterion.  The
  golden test is the one that catches a sign error in the field, which no
  aggregate metric does.
* `test_cliff_classical_mpnn.py`, `test_cliff_exchange_anisotropy.py`,
  `test_cliff_polarizability_scale.py`, `test_cliff_atom_model_lr.py` -- the
  message-passing parameter head, the anisotropic exchange probe, the
  trainable polarizability scale, and the separate trunk learning rate.
* `test_ap3_d3_fused.py`, `test_cliff_best_mae_sidecar.py` -- the
  `APNet3-fused-d3` route and the MAE-selected checkpoint beside the
  MSE-selected one, compared by identity rather than by path spelling.
* `test_cliff_induction_ddp.py`, `test_ap2_fused_store_extent.py`,
  `test_split_manifest.py`, `test_pairwise_throughput_flags.py`,
  `test_run_script.py` -- gradient synchronisation across ranks, store growth
  and resume, the split manifest, the opt-in throughput flags, and the
  launcher.

Two of the dispatch cases here would have failed as written: on a
single-component route -- `cliff_exch` trains against SAPT Exch alone --
`_record_component_mse` iterated a 0-d tensor and raised `TypeError`.  That
fix ships in the model commit at the base of this branch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds Rackers and CLIFF2 training and inference workflows, shared distributed-launch handling, resumable checkpoint sidecars, dataset split and store management, normalized training metrics, and extensive tests and documentation.

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run.sh, run_cliff.sh, src/apnet_pt/ddp_launch.py, src/apnet_pt/model_io.py, train_ddp_slurm.py
Adds validated Rackers and CLIFF launchers, shared rendezvous resolution, safe OpenMP configuration, recursive model unwrapping, resumable training state, and best-MAE sidecars.
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src/apnet_pt/AtomModels/*, src/apnet_pt/AtomPairwiseModels/*, src/apnet_pt/pt_datasets/ap2_fused_ds.py, src/apnet_pt/util.py, src/apnet_pt/training_tracking.py
Avoids redundant dataset reconstruction, supports explicit split manifests and fingerprints, tracks fused-store extent and alignment, adds configurable damping exponents, and logs batch-normalized losses.
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src/apnet_pt/AtomPairwiseModels/cliff_2.py, src/apnet_pt/AtomPairwiseModels/__init__.py
Adds checkpoint merging and an inference-only CLIFF2 model that returns SAPT components and totals.
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tests/test_cliff_classical_mpnn.py (1)

612-617: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Pass strict=True so a length drift cannot hide a column.

This test exists to check the floor of every column. zip truncates to the shorter input, so if CLIFF_CLASSICAL_PARAMETER_NAMES and CLIFF_CLASSICAL_PARAM_FLOOR_FRACTION ever differ in length, floors silently loses entries and set(floors.values()) == {0.05} still passes for the remaining ones.

♻️ Proposed change
     floors = dict(
         zip(
             CLIFF_CLASSICAL_PARAMETER_NAMES,
             mtp_mtp.CLIFF_CLASSICAL_PARAM_FLOOR_FRACTION,
+            strict=True,
         )
     )
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In `@tests/test_cliff_classical_mpnn.py` around lines 612 - 617, Update the floors
construction using CLIFF_CLASSICAL_PARAMETER_NAMES and
mtp_mtp.CLIFF_CLASSICAL_PARAM_FLOOR_FRACTION to pass strict=True to zip,
ensuring length mismatches raise instead of silently dropping columns.

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tests/test_ap2_fused_store_extent.py (1)

176-177: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reduce the number of files this test creates.

The loop creates 93,750 empty files for one assertion. The per-split glob is already proven by a much smaller count, because the assertion only checks that test-split shards are not counted in the train count. A few files are enough. Several other tests in this module also write 6,250 real torch.save shards, which makes the module dominated by filesystem work.

♻️ Proposed reduction
-    for idx in range(93_750):
+    for idx in range(8):
         (processed / f"dimer_ap2_fused_test_spec_2_{idx}.pt").touch()
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In `@tests/test_ap2_fused_store_extent.py` around lines 176 - 177, Reduce the
file-creation loop in the test around the processed shard setup from 93,750
files to a small representative count sufficient to verify that test-split
shards are excluded from the train count. Preserve the existing filename pattern
and assertion behavior.
tests/test_induction_convergence_norm.py (1)

117-119: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert convergence_norm propagation behaviorally for both solves.

The dimer loop passes convergence_norm positionally to _scf_residual, while the monomer solve forwards it by keyword to _rackers_converge_dipoles. The count of one checks only the monomer forwarding and does not detect a wrong dimer norm. Spy on _scf_residual and assert that every call receives the requested norm.

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In `@tests/test_induction_convergence_norm.py` around lines 117 - 119, Update the
test around mtp_mtp.rackers_thole_induction to spy on _scf_residual, invoke the
induction flow with a requested convergence_norm, and assert every _scf_residual
call receives that norm, while retaining coverage that the monomer solve
forwards it to _rackers_converge_dipoles.
src/apnet_pt/ddp_launch.py (1)

84-90: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Analyzed with Security Review | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Security Misconfiguration

Reachability: Internal
Exploitability: Theoretical
CWE: CWE-426 — Untrusted Search Path

Pass the resolved scontrol path to subprocess.run.

shutil.which("scontrol") checks availability, but the bare name causes a second PATH lookup. Use the returned path directly. The argument list still prevents shell injection.

♻️ Proposed hardening
-    if shutil.which("scontrol") is None:
+    scontrol_path = shutil.which("scontrol")
+    if scontrol_path is None:
         ...
     try:
         out = subprocess.run(
-            ["scontrol", "show", "hostnames", nodelist],
+            [scontrol_path, "show", "hostnames", nodelist],
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In `@src/apnet_pt/ddp_launch.py` around lines 84 - 90, Update the subprocess.run
invocation in the nodelist resolution flow to use the path returned by
shutil.which("scontrol") as the executable argument instead of the bare
"scontrol" name, while preserving the existing argument list and security
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tests/test_training_tracking.py (1)

1591-1597: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a controlled-batch behavioral test for the training and evaluation helpers. test_the_summed_loss_really_is_a_sum_of_batch_means only inspects source text. It does not verify that __train_batches_single_proc and __evaluate_batches_single_proc return the sum of known batch losses. Run each helper with controlled batches and assert that the returned loss equals the sum of those batch losses.

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In `@tests/test_training_tracking.py` around lines 1591 - 1597, Add behavioral
coverage to test_the_summed_loss_really_is_a_sum_of_batch_means by invoking
__train_batches_single_proc and __evaluate_batches_single_proc with controlled
batches and deterministic known losses, then assert each helper returns the sum
of the batch losses. Retain the existing source-inspection assertions.
src/apnet_pt/util.py (1)

817-817: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document the complete return tuple in NumPy style.

resolve_split_indices returns (train_indices, test_indices, explicit) on every successful branch, but the docstring documents only two values. Add a Returns section that defines the boolean value.

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In `@src/apnet_pt/util.py` at line 817, Update the docstring for
resolve_split_indices to add a NumPy-style Returns section documenting all three
tuple values: train_indices, test_indices, and the explicit boolean. Keep the
implementation unchanged.
tests/test_split_manifest.py (1)

247-252: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add behavioral coverage for explicit split handling.

AtomTypeParamModel.train has reachable branches for one-sided indices, overlapping indices, explicit splits, and uniform fallback. The current tests only inspect source text, and no other test exercises these branches or checks data/split_kind. Call train with one index array omitted and with overlapping arrays, then assert the errors and recorded split kind for explicit and fallback runs.

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In `@tests/test_split_manifest.py` around lines 247 - 252, Add behavioral tests
that invoke AtomTypeParamModel.train with one-sided index arrays and overlapping
arrays, asserting the corresponding validation errors. Also run explicit-split
and uniform-fallback cases, then verify the recorded data/split_kind value
distinguishes the selected split strategy instead of relying on source-text
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Inline comments:
In `@run_cliff.sh`:
- Line 40: Update the default expansions in run_cliff.sh at lines 40-40, 61-61,
and 79-79: use unset-only parameter expansion for DS_MAX_SIZE, GRAD_CLIP_NORM,
and COMPONENT_GAMMA. This preserves explicitly empty values so the existing
guards can disable truncation, gradient clipping, or component weighting as
documented.

In `@src/apnet_pt/AtomPairwiseModels/apnet3_d3_fused.py`:
- Around line 69-173: Replace the private sidecar helpers and direct JSON write
with the shared atomic implementations in model_io: use
model_io.best_mae_sidecar_paths, model_io.best_mae_sidecar_floor, and
model_io.save_best_mae_record, including their complete record schema. Update
_save_best_mae_sidecar and all floor call sites to delegate to these helpers,
preserving checkpoint-before-record ordering and atomic record replacement.

In `@src/apnet_pt/AtomPairwiseModels/cliff_2.py`:
- Around line 810-817: Update predict_qcel_mols_dimer to filter out None results
from qcel_dimer_to_fused_data before calling ap2_fused_collate_update_no_target,
while preserving each dimer’s original index. Match
APNet2_AM_Model.predict_qcel_mols and APNet3_AtomType_Model.predict_qcel_mols by
leaving skipped dimers represented as np.nan rows in the returned predictions.

In `@src/apnet_pt/pt_datasets/ap2_fused_ds.py`:
- Around line 1235-1236: Update the alignment decision near the constructor’s
aligned-prefix check to set self.skip_processed explicitly for both outcomes:
retain the caller’s skip behavior only when aligned, and disable skipping when
misaligned so process() rebuilds existing shard paths. Ensure the related
rebuild message reflects this behavior.

In `@tests/test_cliff_induction_ddp.py`:
- Around line 401-412: Update the two_rank_resumed_run fixture to copy
two_rank_run’s output directory into a separate temporary directory before
passing it to _run_two_ranks, then return and use that copied directory so the
original run’s cliff_ddp.pt and sidecar remain unchanged.

In `@tests/test_cliff_polarizability_scale.py`:
- Around line 412-417: Update the subprocess invocation in the help test to pin
the child process to this worktree’s sources using the same environment setup
and rationale as the neighboring tests, and add the required os import. Preserve
the existing train_models.py --help arguments and assertions.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/apnet_pt/ddp_launch.py`:
- Around line 84-90: Update the subprocess.run invocation in the nodelist
resolution flow to use the path returned by shutil.which("scontrol") as the
executable argument instead of the bare "scontrol" name, while preserving the
existing argument list and security behavior.

In `@src/apnet_pt/util.py`:
- Line 817: Update the docstring for resolve_split_indices to add a NumPy-style
Returns section documenting all three tuple values: train_indices, test_indices,
and the explicit boolean. Keep the implementation unchanged.

In `@tests/test_ap2_fused_store_extent.py`:
- Around line 176-177: Reduce the file-creation loop in the test around the
processed shard setup from 93,750 files to a small representative count
sufficient to verify that test-split shards are excluded from the train count.
Preserve the existing filename pattern and assertion behavior.

In `@tests/test_cliff_classical_mpnn.py`:
- Around line 612-617: Update the floors construction using
CLIFF_CLASSICAL_PARAMETER_NAMES and mtp_mtp.CLIFF_CLASSICAL_PARAM_FLOOR_FRACTION
to pass strict=True to zip, ensuring length mismatches raise instead of silently
dropping columns.

In `@tests/test_induction_convergence_norm.py`:
- Around line 117-119: Update the test around mtp_mtp.rackers_thole_induction to
spy on _scf_residual, invoke the induction flow with a requested
convergence_norm, and assert every _scf_residual call receives that norm, while
retaining coverage that the monomer solve forwards it to
_rackers_converge_dipoles.

In `@tests/test_split_manifest.py`:
- Around line 247-252: Add behavioral tests that invoke AtomTypeParamModel.train
with one-sided index arrays and overlapping arrays, asserting the corresponding
validation errors. Also run explicit-split and uniform-fallback cases, then
verify the recorded data/split_kind value distinguishes the selected split
strategy instead of relying on source-text assertions.

In `@tests/test_training_tracking.py`:
- Around line 1591-1597: Add behavioral coverage to
test_the_summed_loss_really_is_a_sum_of_batch_means by invoking
__train_batches_single_proc and __evaluate_batches_single_proc with controlled
batches and deterministic known losses, then assert each helper returns the sum
of the batch losses. Retain the existing source-inspection assertions.

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Comment thread run_cliff.sh
# Small-subset defaults: this is a first experimental run, not a production fit.
# DS_MAX_SIZE truncates both the train and test splits; unset it for the full
# ~1.5M-dimer set.
DS_MAX_SIZE="${DS_MAX_SIZE:-5000}"

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

All three defaults use bash's ${VAR:-default} operator, which substitutes the default whenever the variable is unset or empty. Each of these three variables is documented as supporting "unset it" or "empty disables it" to opt out of a behavior, but that state is unreachable: there is no way to make the variable empty inside the script, so the later -n "${VAR}" guards that gate the "disabled" path are always true. Drop the colon (${VAR-default}) so only a truly unset variable gets the default, letting an explicitly empty value pass through as intended.

  • run_cliff.sh#L40-L40: change DS_MAX_SIZE="${DS_MAX_SIZE:-5000}" to DS_MAX_SIZE="${DS_MAX_SIZE-5000}" so leaving it empty reaches the full ~1.5M-dimer set instead of always truncating to 5000.
  • run_cliff.sh#L61-L61: change GRAD_CLIP_NORM="${GRAD_CLIP_NORM:-1.0}" to GRAD_CLIP_NORM="${GRAD_CLIP_NORM-1.0}" so an explicitly empty value actually disables gradient clipping.
  • run_cliff.sh#L79-L79: change COMPONENT_GAMMA="${COMPONENT_GAMMA:-0.4}" to COMPONENT_GAMMA="${COMPONENT_GAMMA-0.4}" so an explicitly empty value actually falls back to the legacy plain multi-column MSE.
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In `@run_cliff.sh` at line 40, Update the default expansions in run_cliff.sh at
lines 40-40, 61-61, and 79-79: use unset-only parameter expansion for
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Comment on lines +69 to +173
def _best_mae_sidecar_paths(model_save_path: str) -> tuple[str, str]:
"""Checkpoint and record paths for the MAE-selected sidecar.

The primary checkpoint is starred on validation MSE, but every table this
model is read in -- the S66x8 gate, the per-component breakdowns -- is in
MAE, and the two selectors have repeatedly disagreed about which epoch was
best. The sidecar preserves the best-MAE epoch beside the primary artifact
instead of displacing it.
"""

base, _ = os.path.splitext(model_save_path)
return base + ".best-mae.pt", base + ".best-mae.json"


def _canonical_save_path(model_save_path) -> str:
"""Compare save paths by identity rather than by spelling.

Both sides of the floor's ownership check go through this. The write side
stringifies its argument because ``json.dump`` raises on a ``Path``; with no
matching normalisation on the read side a ``pathlib``-valued caller compares
``PosixPath('/x/y.pt')`` against ``'/x/y.pt'``, never matches, and silently
takes floor ``inf`` on every chunk -- restoring the exact
overwrite-with-a-worse-epoch behaviour the sidecar exists to prevent. ``//``,
``/./`` and a trailing slash fail identically. Normalising at comparison
time rather than at write time keeps records written before this fix
readable.
"""
return os.path.realpath(str(model_save_path))


def _best_mae_sidecar_floor(model_save_path: str) -> float:
"""Best validation MAE a previous chunk already banked at this path.

Long trainings run as a chain of warm-started chunks, and each chunk seeds
its selector from its own fresh pre-training eval. Without this floor a
later chunk would overwrite an earlier chunk's sidecar with a worse epoch,
because it only ever compares against where it happened to start. A
missing, unreadable, or foreign record returns +inf, which is exactly the
single-run behaviour.
"""

checkpoint_path, record_path = _best_mae_sidecar_paths(model_save_path)
if not os.path.exists(checkpoint_path):
return float("inf")
try:
with open(record_path) as f:
record = json.load(f)
if _canonical_save_path(record.get("model_save_path")) != _canonical_save_path(
model_save_path
):
return float("inf")
return float(record["val_total_MAE"])
except (OSError, ValueError, TypeError, KeyError):
return float("inf")


def _save_best_mae_sidecar(harness, value, epoch, training_mode, device) -> None:
"""Write the MAE-selected sidecar and its record.

Deliberately additive: this touches neither ``best_model``, ``self.model``,
``model_saved``, the primary checkpoint, nor the optimizer trajectory, so a
run with this code produces a bit-identical primary artifact to one without
it. The record is written after the checkpoint so a torn write leaves the
floor pointing at the older, fully-written pair.
"""

checkpoint_path, record_path = _best_mae_sidecar_paths(harness.model_save_path)
cpu_model = model_io.unwrap_model(harness.model).to("cpu")
try:
harness.save_model(
checkpoint_path,
metadata={
"training_mode": training_mode,
"epoch": epoch,
"selector": "val_total_MAE",
"val_total_MAE": value,
},
)
finally:
del cpu_model
harness.model.to(device)
with open(record_path, "w") as f:
json.dump(
{
"model_save_path": harness.model_save_path,
"checkpoint": checkpoint_path,
"selector": "val_total_MAE",
"val_total_MAE": value,
"epoch": epoch,
"training_mode": training_mode,
},
f,
indent=2,
)


def _as_scalar(value):
"""Return ``value`` as a float, or None when it is not a single number."""

try:
return float(value)
except (TypeError, ValueError):
return None


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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Non-atomic sidecar write reintroduces the exact corruption hazard model_io.py was built to prevent.

model_io.py already defines public, atomic versions of these same helpers (best_mae_sidecar_paths, _canonical_save_path, best_mae_sidecar_floor, save_best_mae_record), and mtp_mtp.py already calls them. This file reimplements the same contract privately instead of reusing them, and the reimplementation drops the atomicity guarantee for the JSON write.

_save_best_mae_sidecar writes its record with open(record_path, "w") directly (Line 150). There is no temp file and no os.replace. model_io.save_best_mae_record uses a temp file plus os.replace specifically because "a torn write then leaves the floor pointing at the older, fully-written pair" — the exact scenario this PR's long-training-chunk-chain design depends on avoiding. If the process crashes or is preempted during this write (the same 8-hour QoS preemption scenario documented at length in model_io.py), the truncated JSON fails to parse, _best_mae_sidecar_floor returns inf, and the next warm-started chunk can silently overwrite the best-MAE checkpoint with a worse epoch.

Delegate to the shared, already-correct implementation instead of duplicating it. This also closes the schema gap: the local record omits component_MAE, epoch_is_global, apnet_version, and save_date, which model_io.save_best_mae_record already writes.

🛡️ Proposed fix: delegate to model_io's shared, atomic helpers
-def _best_mae_sidecar_paths(model_save_path: str) -> tuple[str, str]:
-    """Checkpoint and record paths for the MAE-selected sidecar.
-    ...
-    """
-
-    base, _ = os.path.splitext(model_save_path)
-    return base + ".best-mae.pt", base + ".best-mae.json"
-
-
-def _canonical_save_path(model_save_path) -> str:
-    """..."""
-    return os.path.realpath(str(model_save_path))
-
-
-def _best_mae_sidecar_floor(model_save_path: str) -> float:
-    """..."""
-    checkpoint_path, record_path = _best_mae_sidecar_paths(model_save_path)
-    if not os.path.exists(checkpoint_path):
-        return float("inf")
-    try:
-        with open(record_path) as f:
-            record = json.load(f)
-        if _canonical_save_path(record.get("model_save_path")) != _canonical_save_path(
-            model_save_path
-        ):
-            return float("inf")
-        return float(record["val_total_MAE"])
-    except (OSError, ValueError, TypeError, KeyError):
-        return float("inf")
+# Use model_io.best_mae_sidecar_paths / model_io.best_mae_sidecar_floor /
+# model_io.save_best_mae_record instead of reimplementing them here.


 def _save_best_mae_sidecar(harness, value, epoch, training_mode, device) -> None:
     """Write the MAE-selected sidecar and its record."""

-    checkpoint_path, record_path = _best_mae_sidecar_paths(harness.model_save_path)
+    checkpoint_path, record_path = model_io.best_mae_sidecar_paths(harness.model_save_path)
     cpu_model = model_io.unwrap_model(harness.model).to("cpu")
     try:
         harness.save_model(
             checkpoint_path,
             metadata={
                 "training_mode": training_mode,
                 "epoch": epoch,
                 "selector": "val_total_MAE",
                 "val_total_MAE": value,
             },
         )
     finally:
         del cpu_model
         harness.model.to(device)
-    with open(record_path, "w") as f:
-        json.dump(
-            {
-                "model_save_path": harness.model_save_path,
-                "checkpoint": checkpoint_path,
-                "selector": "val_total_MAE",
-                "val_total_MAE": value,
-                "epoch": epoch,
-                "training_mode": training_mode,
-            },
-            f,
-            indent=2,
-        )
+    model_io.save_best_mae_record(
+        record_path,
+        model_save_path=harness.model_save_path,
+        checkpoint=checkpoint_path,
+        val_total_MAE=value,
+        component_MAE=[],
+        epoch=epoch,
+    )

And replace the local floor call sites with model_io.best_mae_sidecar_floor(self.model_save_path).

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Replace the private sidecar helpers and direct JSON write with the shared atomic
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Comment on lines +810 to +817
dimer_batch = ap2_fused_collate_update_no_target(
[
qcel_dimer_to_fused_data(
dimer, r_cut=r_cut, dimer_ind=n, r_cut_im=torch.inf
)
for n, dimer in enumerate(mols[start:stop])
]
)

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

predict_qcel_mols_dimer crashes when a dimer cannot be featurized.

qcel_dimer_to_fused_data delegates to dimer_fused_data, which returns None on two reachable paths: an element outside constants.ALLOWED_ELEMENTS, and a monomer whose atoms have no edges when check_validity is true (the default). The list comprehension passes that None straight into ap2_fused_collate_update_no_target, which immediately reads data.dimer_ind and raises AttributeError.

One unsupported dimer therefore aborts the whole prediction call instead of being reported.

The sibling predictors already handle this. APNet2_AM_Model.predict_qcel_mols and APNet3_AtomType_Model.predict_qcel_mols both filter d is not None and write np.nan rows for the skipped dimers. Adopt the same contract so a caller can tell which dimers were dropped.

🐛 Proposed fix: skip invalid dimers and report them as NaN
         if r_cut is None:
             r_cut = self._r_cut()
         n_dimers = len(mols)
         predictions = np.zeros((n_dimers, len(self.component_labels)))
         for start in range(0, n_dimers, batch_size):
             stop = min(start + batch_size, n_dimers)
-            dimer_batch = ap2_fused_collate_update_no_target(
-                [
-                    qcel_dimer_to_fused_data(
-                        dimer, r_cut=r_cut, dimer_ind=n, r_cut_im=torch.inf
-                    )
-                    for n, dimer in enumerate(mols[start:stop])
-                ]
-            )
+            data = [
+                qcel_dimer_to_fused_data(
+                    dimer, r_cut=r_cut, dimer_ind=n, r_cut_im=torch.inf
+                )
+                for n, dimer in enumerate(mols[start:stop])
+            ]
+            valid = [n for n, item in enumerate(data) if item is not None]
+            predictions[start:stop] = np.nan
+            if not valid:
+                if verbose:
+                    print(f"Skipping all dimers in {start} to {stop}")
+                continue
+            dimer_batch = ap2_fused_collate_update_no_target(
+                [data[n] for n in valid]
+            )
             dimer_batch.to(device=self.device)
             preds = self.predict_batch(dimer_batch)
-            predictions[start:stop] = preds.cpu().numpy().reshape(
-                stop - start, -1
-            )
+            preds = preds.cpu().numpy().reshape(len(valid), -1)
+            for row, n in enumerate(valid):
+                predictions[start + n] = preds[row]
             if verbose:
                 print(f"Predictions for {start} to {stop} out of {n_dimers}")
         return predictions
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In `@src/apnet_pt/AtomPairwiseModels/cliff_2.py` around lines 810 - 817, Update
predict_qcel_mols_dimer to filter out None results from qcel_dimer_to_fused_data
before calling ap2_fused_collate_update_no_target, while preserving each dimer’s
original index. Match APNet2_AM_Model.predict_qcel_mols and
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if aligned:
self.skip_processed = True

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

A misaligned store is not rebuilt when the caller already passed skip_processed=True.

The branch sets self.skip_processed = True only when the prefix is aligned. When it is not aligned, self.skip_processed keeps whatever the constructor received. APNet2_AM_Model and APNet3_AtomType_Model both forward their ds_skip_process argument into this constructor, so skip_processed=True on entry is reachable.

In that state, force_reprocess = True re-enters process(), but the loop at Line 1489 still skips every shard path that already exists. The misaligned prefix is preserved and only the tail is appended, which is the exact outcome the alignment check exists to prevent. The message printed at Line 1247 also becomes wrong: it states the store is rebuilt from the first dimer, while no shard is rebuilt.

Set skip_processed explicitly on both sides of the decision so the printed message matches the behavior.

🐛 Proposed fix
         aligned = self._prefix_is_index_aligned()
-        if aligned:
-            self.skip_processed = True
+        # Both sides are set explicitly: a caller-supplied `skip_processed`
+        # would otherwise keep the misaligned prefix that the check just
+        # rejected, and the message below would be false.
+        self.skip_processed = bool(aligned)
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if aligned:
self.skip_processed = True
# Both sides are set explicitly: a caller-supplied `skip_processed`
# would otherwise keep the misaligned prefix that the check just
# rejected, and the message below would be false.
self.skip_processed = bool(aligned)
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@src/apnet_pt/pt_datasets/ap2_fused_ds.py` around lines 1235 - 1236, Update
the alignment decision near the constructor’s aligned-prefix check to set
self.skip_processed explicitly for both outcomes: retain the caller’s skip
behavior only when aligned, and disable skipping when misaligned so process()
rebuilds existing shard paths. Ensure the related rebuild message reflects this
behavior.

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Comment on lines +401 to +412
@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
def two_rank_resumed_run(two_rank_run):
"""A second two-rank job over the first one's output directory.

This is the chunk boundary, which is the only place DDP and the resume
sidecar interact: both ranks read the same sidecar written by rank 0, so
their weights, their Adam moments and their epoch counter must agree, and
the sampler must continue the global epoch sequence rather than replaying
epoch 0's shuffle.
"""
_, tmpdir = two_rank_run
return _run_two_ranks(tmpdir, n_epochs=1), tmpdir

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Give the resumed run a separate directory.

two_rank_resumed_run passes two_rank_run’s directory to _run_two_ranks, which overwrites cliff_ddp.pt and its sidecar. A selective invocation that evaluates a resumed test first can therefore make test_ddp_sidecar_records_the_global_epoch read epochs_completed == 3 instead of 2. Use a copied directory for the resumed run:

♻️ Proposed direction
 `@pytest.fixture`(scope="module")
 def two_rank_resumed_run(two_rank_run):
     ...
-    _, tmpdir = two_rank_run
-    return _run_two_ranks(tmpdir, n_epochs=1), tmpdir
+    import shutil
+
+    _, source_dir = two_rank_run
+    resumed_dir = source_dir.parent / "cliff_ddp_resumed"
+    shutil.copytree(source_dir, resumed_dir)
+    return _run_two_ranks(resumed_dir, n_epochs=1), resumed_dir
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@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
def two_rank_resumed_run(two_rank_run):
"""A second two-rank job over the first one's output directory.
This is the chunk boundary, which is the only place DDP and the resume
sidecar interact: both ranks read the same sidecar written by rank 0, so
their weights, their Adam moments and their epoch counter must agree, and
the sampler must continue the global epoch sequence rather than replaying
epoch 0's shuffle.
"""
_, tmpdir = two_rank_run
return _run_two_ranks(tmpdir, n_epochs=1), tmpdir
@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
def two_rank_resumed_run(two_rank_run):
"""A second two-rank job over the first one's output directory.
This is the chunk boundary, which is the only place DDP and the resume
sidecar interact: both ranks read the same sidecar written by rank 0, so
their weights, their Adam moments and their epoch counter must agree, and
the sampler must continue the global epoch sequence rather than replaying
epoch 0's shuffle.
"""
import shutil
_, source_dir = two_rank_run
resumed_dir = source_dir.parent / "cliff_ddp_resumed"
shutil.copytree(source_dir, resumed_dir)
return _run_two_ranks(resumed_dir, n_epochs=1), resumed_dir
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two_rank_resumed_run fixture to copy two_rank_run’s output directory into a
separate temporary directory before passing it to _run_two_ranks, then return
and use that copied directory so the original run’s cliff_ddp.pt and sidecar
remain unchanged.

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Comment on lines +412 to +417
result = subprocess.run(
[sys.executable, str(REPO_ROOT / "train_models.py"), "--help"],
capture_output=True,
text=True,
cwd=str(REPO_ROOT),
)

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Pin the subprocess to this worktree's sources.

This --help invocation inherits the ambient environment, so the child imports whichever apnet_pt that environment resolves. If a different or stale apnet_pt is installed, --help can omit --trainable_polarizability_scale and --polarizability_lr, and the test fails for a reason unrelated to the change. It can also pass against the wrong sources.

Two other files in this change already pin it and record why: tests/test_cliff_classical_mpnn.py Lines 447-450 and tests/test_cliff_2.py Lines 1051-1056 ("The ambient environment may have apnet_pt installed from a different checkout"). Apply the same pin here.

🔧 Proposed fix
 def test_the_cli_advertises_both_flags():
+    env = dict(os.environ)
+    env["PYTHONPATH"] = os.pathsep.join(
+        [str(REPO_ROOT / "src"), env.get("PYTHONPATH", "")]
+    ).rstrip(os.pathsep)
     result = subprocess.run(
         [sys.executable, str(REPO_ROOT / "train_models.py"), "--help"],
         capture_output=True,
         text=True,
         cwd=str(REPO_ROOT),
+        env=env,
     )

This also needs import os at the top of the module.

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text=True,
cwd=str(REPO_ROOT),
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Awallace3 and others added 2 commits September 14, 2026 10:19
The distilled suite came over at roughly 1100 cases, and a large share of
them were written to hold a specific moment of a long experiment branch
still rather than to hold a contract.  This removes about 150 of those
across twelve files, ~3.2k lines, in five groups:

  - pre-refactor numeric pins.  `..._matches_pre_refactor`,
    `..._legacy_pin`, `the_size_of_the_defect_that_was_removed`,
    `the_pre_fix_construction_disagreed_with_ap3d3_by_a_kcal_per_mol`.
    These compared the shipped code against a construction that no longer
    exists.  The live refusals -- a pre-fix checkpoint or resume state is
    rejected with an explanation -- are kept, because those still run.

  - byte-for-byte error-message assertions.  Six `..._are_byte_identical`
    cases asserted exact wording of strings that carry no contract.  The
    tests that assert the *condition* is rejected are kept.

  - `--help` text assertions.  Seven `help_advertises_...` cases restated
    the argparse declaration next to it.

  - spies on private call structure.  `..._delegates_to_the_shared_helper`,
    `..._share_one_resolver`, `..._walks_the_stack`,
    `component_mse_costs_no_extra_collective`, and the three signature
    reflections.  They forbid refactors without forbidding defects.

  - repeated validation matrices.  The same rejection was asserted at the
    head, the dispatcher, and the CLI; the `component_gamma` sweep spent
    eleven cases on one linear weight.  One layer each is kept.

Orphaned imports and five helpers left with no callers go with them.

Suite goes from 894 to 626 cases in the new files; the full suite is
946 passed, 52 skipped, 0 failed (998 collected).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
PR #24 shipped three things alongside the Rackers implementation that the
distillation did not pick up.  All three apply to code this branch already
has, so they come over here:

- README: the optional-MCP install note, the Rackers CLI walkthrough, and
  two stale pointers -- `--train_ap2` was renamed `--train_apnet APNet2`
  and the experiment-tracking link pointed at a `docs/training-with-wandb.md`
  that does not exist, while `docs/wandb.md` does.  Every flag and model
  name in the new text was checked against `train_models.py`.
- `docs/specs/wandb-training.md` -> `docs/design/wandb-training.md`, with
  the model-inventory table row extended to name the two Rackers harnesses.
- `.gitignore`: `*.pdf` and `docs/superpowers`.

The five `docs/superpowers/` files are untracked as a consequence.  They are
superpowers-workflow plans and design specs -- two are agent task lists with
`REQUIRED SUB-SKILL:` headers -- and #24 had already decided that directory
is not a package deliverable.  They remain in this branch's history.

The CLIFF-2 paragraph is not from #24.  It is here because the routes this
PR exists to add had no README mention at all.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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