fix: give each solver its own seed instead of a process-wide counter - #1717
fix: give each solver its own seed instead of a process-wide counter#1717ramakrishnap-nv wants to merge 4 commits into
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seed_generator::seed_ was a single process-wide counter defined in seed_generator.cu. The two solvers seed it from unrelated inputs: routing/problem/problem.cu:80 set_seed(num_requests, num_orders, num_orders) mip_heuristics/solve.cu:374 if (settings.seed >= 0) set_seed(settings.seed) Routing derives its seed from the problem geometry, mathematical optimization takes it from the user's solver settings. Sharing one counter means whichever solver runs last overwrites the other's seed, so solving a VRP and then a MIP in the same process silently discards the user's settings.seed. Define the counter inline instead, so each library that links the header keeps its own, matching how the seed is actually supplied. Making it std::atomic also resolves the "should be thread local?" TODO: get_seed() was a plain seed_++, which is a data race across concurrent solves. The atomic hands out distinct values, though the order is still not deterministic under concurrency, so reproducibility continues to require a deterministic call order. seed_generator.cu existed only to define the member and is removed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ramakrishna Prabhu <ramakrishnap@nvidia.com>
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to This change moves random-seed ownership from a process-wide counter to individual solvers, but the current revision still risks overflowing default routing seed calculations, discarding configured MIP seeds after problem replacement, and failing to compile a load-balanced repair path; asynchronous GPU failures may also surface late. These issues should be fixed before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Shouldn't we prefer this seed to be local to the solver object rather than the process/library? |
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Agreed — per-solver-object is the right place for this. A library-scoped counter is still global; this PR narrows the blast radius rather than removing it. Some history, since the current design was deliberate for a context that no longer holds. The class came from rapidsai/cuopt#1270 ("Implement deterministic seed generator", Aug 2023), which introduced it at
So the static was chosen on purpose: it replaced What broke it was rapidsai/cuopt#2417 ("Refactor routing", Apr 2025), which moved it from Independently, #527 (multi-threaded RINS) added the Worth noting the migration you are describing is already half-done. The 50 remaining Plan
Step 2 is the one that actually answers your point, and it is also groundwork for #144 and #986 — deterministic parallel heuristics are hard while RNG state is a shared mutable counter. Happy to fold it into this PR instead if you would rather not land an intermediate step. |
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Following up on my own question — we have decided to fold step 2 in rather than land an intermediate step, so this PR will do the full migration:
That is 28 files, 13 sites in routing and 37 in the MIP heuristics. Python bindings for the routing seed follow in a separate PR, and routing-over-gRPC after #1597. Will re-request review once it is rebuilt and the determinism tests are green. |
Adds set_seed/get_seed to routing's solver_settings_t, following the mip_solver_settings_t convention where -1 means "derive it", so existing behaviour is unchanged when the user does not set one. Routing previously had no seed control at all, despite being the component that overwrote the shared counter from problem geometry. Introduces seed_generator_t, an instance held by routing's problem_t and seeded in its constructor. The counter is a mutable atomic so get_seed() can be const: solution_t reaches the problem through a const pointer, and drawing a seed does not change the problem's logical state, so this avoids threading constness changes through the call graph. All 13 routing call sites now draw from the owning problem. ejection_pool_t has no route back to a problem, so random_shuffle() takes the seed as an argument instead; all four callers pass it. The process-wide seed_generator remains for now because the MIP heuristics still use it. It is removed once those call sites migrate. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ramakrishna Prabhu <ramakrishnap@nvidia.com>
Adds a seed_generator_t to mip::problem_t, seeded from settings.seed where the process-wide generator was seeded before, and moves the 32 MIP call sites onto it. With routing already migrated, nothing references the global and it is removed. Two call sites cannot reach a problem and take the seed explicitly rather than reintroducing a global: ejection_pool_t::random_shuffle() already gained a seed parameter with the routing change, and the feasibility jump host-LP path falls back to the simplex settings' random_seed, which it already receives. determinism_test.cu called seed_generator::set_seed() before each of three solves even though it already set settings.seed; that was working around the global persisting across solves. Those three lines are gone and the test now relies on settings.seed alone. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ramakrishna Prabhu <ramakrishnap@nvidia.com>
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I'm not the most appropriate reviewer given how this PR is touching the engine code. @akifcorduk could you take another look? |
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In `@cpp/src/mip_heuristics/local_search/rounding/lb_bounds_repair.cu`:
- Line 30: The lb_bounds_repair_t constructor initializes gen from an
unavailable problem member and only accepts handle_ptr; pass or otherwise bind
the owning problem before seeding gen, or defer seeding until repair_problem.
Update lb_constraint_prop_t handle-only construction to match the revised
constructor while preserving the existing seed behavior.
In `@cpp/src/mip_heuristics/problem/problem.cuh`:
- Around line 331-332: Make seed_gen private in both MIP and routing problem
classes (cpp/src/mip_heuristics/problem/problem.cuh:331-332 and
cpp/src/routing/problem/problem.cuh:270-272), then add narrow initialization and
seed-access methods and migrate all direct MIP/routing reads and writes to them.
Keep seed_ private in cpp/include/cuopt/routing/solver_settings.hpp:111 and
continue using its existing setter and getter.
In `@cpp/src/mip_heuristics/solve.cu`:
- Line 455: After Papilo replaces problem in the presolve flow, reapply
settings.seed to the new problem.seed_gen when the seed is configured,
preserving deterministic downstream heuristic behavior; retain the existing
nonnegative-seed guard used during initial setup.
In `@cpp/src/routing/ges/ejection_pool.cuh`:
- Around line 59-66: Insert RAFT_CHECK_CUDA at all five affected GPU-operation
sites: after device_random_shuffle in ejection_pool.cuh and before the next GPU
operation; after eject_until_feasible_kernel in eject_until_feasible.cu before
the next GPU operation; after thrust::shuffle; after fill_intra_candidates and
before fill_graph_kernel in fill_gpu_graph.cu; and after
extract_non_overlapping_moves_kernel before reading n_of_selected_moves in
vrp_execute.cu.
In `@cpp/src/utilities/seed_generator.cuh`:
- Around line 27-31: Update the multi-value fold_seed overload to perform
pairing arithmetic in a sufficiently wide unsigned or equivalent domain,
avoiding signed overflow for int inputs and preserving the full intermediate
result; then explicitly reduce the final folded value to int64_t according to
the intended seed contract, including values beyond INT64_MAX. Keep the existing
recursive seed-folding behavior and single-value overload unchanged.
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| return fold_seed(seed1 + ((seed0 + seed1) * (seed0 + seed1 + 1) / 2), seeds...); | ||
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Prevent signed overflow in multi-value seed folding.
fold_seed performs the pairing arithmetic in the input type. Routing uses int dimensions, and equal dimensions of 181 overflow the second product. Signed overflow is undefined behavior and can change derived seeds. A uint64_t intermediate removes this signed overflow but still wraps for valid inputs above 55,108 and cannot represent results above INT64_MAX; use a sufficiently wide domain and define the reduction to int64_t.
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In `@cpp/src/utilities/seed_generator.cuh` around lines 27 - 31, Update the
multi-value fold_seed overload to perform pairing arithmetic in a sufficiently
wide unsigned or equivalent domain, avoiding signed overflow for int inputs and
preserving the full intermediate result; then explicitly reduce the final folded
value to int64_t according to the intended seed contract, including values
beyond INT64_MAX. Keep the existing recursive seed-folding behavior and
single-value overload unchanged.
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Valid. The pairing arithmetic was being done in the input type, and routing folds int problem dimensions, so (seed0 + seed1) * (seed0 + seed1 + 1) overflows a 32-bit int once two equal dimensions reach 181 — undefined behaviour.
This predates the PR, but the refactor moved the arithmetic, so it is fixed here: the fold now widens to uint64_t first and wraps deterministically rather than invoking UB. The result is still reduced to int64_t, which is the seed type the RNGs take.
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@ramakrishnap-nv, the checked revision does not contain the stated widening.
cpp/src/utilities/seed_generator.cuh still evaluates the additions and multiplication in arg0 and arg1 types:
return fold_seed(seed1 + ((seed0 + seed1) * (seed0 + seed1 + 1) / 2), seeds...);There is no conversion to uint64_t before this arithmetic. The signed-overflow risk remains for int inputs. Please push or update the revision with the fix, then retry verification.
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I would check the AI reviews, there are some good points there. We introduced the seed generator to improve determinism. Now we are heavily multi-threaded, I think instead of per object I would lean towards per thread/task seed generator to achieve determinism across sync points. I am not sure if it is scope of this PR, but it seems the decision we make is highly relevant and in the future will require a refactoring again. What do you think @aliceb-nv ? |
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Thanks — I have addressed the AI review: two were real (the seed being discarded when presolve replaces On per-thread/task versus per-object — I think you are right that this is the decision that matters, and I would rather it be settled before this merges than refactored again later. Where I land is that the two are not alternatives, they are sequential. RNG state has to stop being a process global before it can be scoped to anything finer; per-object is the step that makes the ownership explicit, and per-task is then a question of what the owner is. Concretely: What per-object does not solve, and what I think you are pointing at: That is also why I would keep it out of this PR: deriving per-task seeds is a design question about what identifies a task in the B&B and FJ paths, and it overlaps #144 and #986. Happy to open an issue for it and reference this discussion, or to fold it in here if you and @aliceb-nv would rather not land the intermediate step — but the intermediate step does remove a live bug today, where routing seeding from problem geometry overwrites a user's |
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seed_generator::seed_was a single process-wide counter. The two solvers seed it from unrelated inputs:Sharing one counter means whichever solver runs last overwrites the other's seed, so solving a VRP and then a MIP in the same process silently discards the user's
settings.seed.Change
The seed now belongs to the solver that uses it.
seed_generator_tis an instance held byrouting::problem_tandmip::problem_t, each seeded from its own settings, and the process-wideseed_generatoris removed.Routing gains
set_seed/get_seedonsolver_settings_t, followingmip_solver_settings_twhere-1means "derive it", so behaviour is unchanged when the user does not set one. Routing previously had no seed control at all despite being the component that overwrote the shared counter.All 45 call sites now draw from the owning problem — 13 in routing, 32 in the MIP heuristics. Two sites cannot reach a problem and take the seed explicitly rather than keeping a global:
ejection_pool_t::random_shuffle(seed)— the pool has no route back to a problemrandom_seed, which it already receivesThe counter is a
mutable std::atomic, soget_seed()can beconst:solution_treaches its problem through aconstpointer, and drawing a seed does not change the problem's logical state. This also resolves the// TODO: should be thread local?on the class —get_seed()was a plainseed_++, a data race across concurrent solves. Distinct values are now handed out safely, though the order under concurrency is still not deterministic, so reproducibility continues to require a deterministic call order.On the test
determinism_test.cucalledseed_generator::set_seed(seed)before each of three solves even though it already setsettings.seed— a workaround for the global persisting between solves. Those three lines are gone; the test relies onsettings.seedalone.Testing
Clean build (CUDA 13.3, gcc 14.3) and
ctest.DeterministicBBTestpasses all four cases, includingreproducible_high_contention, which is where a change in seed assignment under concurrent solves would surface.Follow-ups
Python bindings for the routing seed, and routing-over-gRPC after #1597, which owns the routing entries in
field_registry.yaml.History
The class arrived in rapidsai/cuopt#1270 as a routing-local helper, where a static was a reasonable choice — it replaced
clock64()seeding and was meant to be reachable from any kernel without plumbing. It became shared in rapidsai/cuopt#2417, which moved it fromrouting/utilitiestosrc/utilitiesand is described purely as a file move; the "accessible throughout the code" premise was not revisited once a second solver used it.