perf(pt_expt): batch the Hessian-vector products on the graph route by iProzd · Pull Request #6035 · deepmodeling/deepmd-kit

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_cal_hessian_ext_graph built the Hessian through torch.autograd.functional.hessian, which with
vectorize=False evaluates one Hessian row per second-order backward pass: 3 * nloc sequential
passes, each far too small to keep the GPU busy.

This replicates the structure along the frame axis the carry-all graph already has, so one forward and
one first-order backward build a graph that every chunk of seed vectors then reuses, and each
second-order backward returns a whole batch of rows. Frames are independent, so the replicated system's
energy is a sum of independent terms and its Hessian is block diagonal — the result is exact, not an
approximation. No vmap is involved, so custom autograd Functions that lack a batching rule keep
working.

Only the graph route changes. The dense route (_cal_hessian_ext) is untouched, and
DP_HESSIAN_HVP_BATCH=1 restores the previous behaviour exactly.

Exactness

In float64 the two routes agree to 1e-14 relative or better — at machine precision on the small
example model, and within about two orders of magnitude of it on the real checkpoint, whose own
unbatched answer is not exactly symmetric either:

model	comparison	result
`examples/water/dpa4`, 16 / 32 atoms	`max\|H_B − H_1\|`, B=24	8.3e-17 / 1.2e-16
DPA-4.0.1-Pro-MPtrj, 4 atoms	`‖H_8 − H_1‖_RMS / ‖H_1‖_RMS`	2.8e-14
DPA-4.0.1-Pro-MPtrj, 4 atoms	unbatched path's own `‖H − Hᵀ‖_RMS / ‖H‖_RMS`	6.4e-16

In float32 the two differ by 1.0e-6 – 3.6e-6 relative RMS, against the unbatched path's own asymmetry of
3.2e-7 – 9.5e-7. That is the longer summation chain, not a different computation — the float64 agreement
above is what settles equivalence.

Speedup

Measured on one H20, model.eval(), float32, TF32 off, DPA-4.0.1-Pro-MPtrj, rcut 6.0 Å. All batch
sizes timed inside one process (load once, switch batch size, warm up then median of 3), so the
ratios carry no process-to-process term.

system	atoms	edges	B=1	B=2	B=4	B=8	B=16
fcc sites in a fixed 8.1 Å cell	8	72	2.92 s	1.87×	3.24×	5.06×	6.40×
dilute 5 Å lattice	216	1,080	74.55 s	1.86×	3.40×	3.89×	4.04×
fcc Al 2×2×2	32	1,728	10.91 s	1.95×	2.83×	3.04×	OOM
fcc Al 3×3×3	108	5,832	44.96 s	1.18×	1.24×	OOM	—

The speedup tracks edge count, not atom count. A 216-atom dilute system with 1,080 edges still gets
3.40×; a 108-atom solid with 5,832 edges gets 1.24×. Batching recovers kernel-launch overhead, and that
overhead stops mattering once a single Hessian-vector product already saturates the GPU. As a rule of
thumb on this hardware, batching pays below ~2,000 edges and buys little above ~4,000.

Memory

Peak memory is linear in the edge count, in the atom count, and in the batch size. Over 18 points
spanning 54 – 19,008 edges and 8 – 512 atoms, one expression fits every measurement to 0.2%:

peak(MiB) = 782 + [4.497 + 3.268*(B-1)] * edges + [10.88 + 7.96*(B-1)] * natoms

("edges" counts directed neighbour pairs including periodic images.) Fitting each batch size separately
gives per-edge coefficients 4.497 / 7.765 / 14.302 / 27.370 / 53.406 for B = 1 / 2 / 4 / 8 / 16 —
increments of 3.268, 3.268, 3.268, 3.260, with no drift. The fit over the smaller systems predicted
65,776 MiB for 256-atom fcc Al before that point was run; it measured 65,733.

So the batch size divides the system size that fits. On a 96 GiB card:

B	fcc-solid density (54 nbr/atom)	30 nbr/atom	dilute (4.5 nbr/atom)
1	381 atoms	663	3,108
2	221	384	1,798
4	120	209	976
8	63 atoms	109	510
16	32	56	261

Measured boundary: 256-atom fcc Al fits at B=1 (65.7 GiB); 500 atoms runs out of memory.

For reference, the first-order (energy/force/virial) pass obeys
peak(MiB) = 508 + 1.293 * edges + 2.93 * natoms (11 points, 0.1%), so the Hessian's peak converges to
3.4× the first-order peak — that ratio bounds what any block-wise or rematerialising scheme could
recover.

Choosing `DP_HESSIAN_HVP_BATCH`

Left unset, the batch is chosen per call, mirroring what DP_INFER_BATCH_SIZE already does for
inference batches: one Hessian-vector product is run to measure what a replica costs, and the batch
becomes what the free memory affords, capped at 8. That needs no per-model constants, which a fitted
memory model would, and it costs one row out of 3 * nloc.

The measurement covers a whole product, while each batch step past the first adds only its marginal
share, so the estimate reads high and the batch comes out conservative. That is the direction to err: a
batch that turns out too large is recovered by halving and retrying, and nothing recovers the time lost
to one that was too small.

Setting the variable disables the automatic choice and uses the value given, including above the cap.
The out-of-memory fallback still applies to it — halving the batch and warning which one was used —
because halving changes how the Hessian is computed, not what it is, and the alternative is ending a
run that could have finished. DP_INFER_BATCH_SIZE behaves the same way: an explicit value disables
growth, while out-of-memory errors can still reduce the batch.

On a device without CUDA there is no allocator to size against and no recoverable out-of-memory error
to catch, so the automatic choice is 1; an explicit value is still honoured.

Tests

source/tests/pt_expt/model/test_hessian_hvp_batch.py makes the batch size the object under test: a
float64 DPA-1 model meeting the graph-route gate, checked at batch sizes 2, 3, 4, 8 and 16 against the
batch-size-1 result. 3 * nloc is 15, so 2, 4, 8 and 16 leave a partial final chunk and cover the
zero-padding branch while 3 divides evenly, and 16 exceeds 3 * nloc and is clamped. A counter over the
three Hessian implementations asserts that batch sizes 0 and 1 take the unbatched path, that the larger
sizes take the batched helper, and that the dense route neither sees the setting nor changes with it.
The dense Hessian doubles as an independent cross-check, sharing no code with the graph wrapper.

The automatic choice is covered too: that it stays within [1, cap] whatever the free memory, that it
never shrinks as memory grows, that it stays at 1 without CUDA without running the probe, and that the
probe prices one Hessian-vector product rather than the whole Hessian. The fallback is covered by making
the helper refuse batches above 2 and asserting the retry walks 8, 4, 2 and still returns the unbatched
answer, and by making every batch fail and asserting it lands on the original path.

test_dpa2_graph_lower.py already reached the batched helper, but only because the batch it happens to
get exceeds 1 -- that coverage would have vanished silently had the batch become 1, which is exactly
what these tests now prevent.

Scope and compatibility

Eager only. The Hessian route does not export or compile (autograd.functional.hessian cannot),
which the surrounding code already notes; nothing here changes what is exportable.
DP_HESSIAN_HVP_BATCH=1 (or 0) takes the previous one-row-at-a-time path unchanged.
Batch sizes are clamped to 3 * nloc, and a final partial chunk is zero-padded so the retained graph
keeps its shape; the padded rows are discarded.
The dense Hessian route and every other backend are untouched.

Usage note

A model whose descriptor carries use_amp=True gates its bfloat16 autocast on self.training, and a
module returned by deserialize() starts in training mode. Calling such a model for inference
without .eval() therefore runs the descriptor under bfloat16 silently — no warning, and
next(model.parameters()).dtype still reports torch.float32. The symptom is ~1e-3 relative noise
between repeated identical calls and much higher peak memory. Every number above was taken with
.eval() asserted. This is pre-existing behaviour, not introduced here, but it is easy to hit when
benchmarking a Hessian.

How the numbers were taken

One process per measurement point, torch.cuda.max_memory_allocated() reset per point, warm-up before
timing, TF32 disabled, model.eval() asserted at entry. Peak memory is reproducible to the byte across
processes (the same 32-atom structure measured 8,900 MiB at B=1 in two independent runs); wall-clock is
not, which is why every speedup above is an in-process ratio.

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New Features
- Added configurable batching for PyTorch Exportable Hessian computations on GPUs.
- Batch sizes can be set explicitly or selected automatically based on available GPU memory.
- Computation retries with smaller batches when GPU memory is insufficient.
- Hessian results remain unchanged, including when processing the final partial batch.
Documentation
- Documented the DP_HESSIAN_HVP_BATCH environment variable, including defaults and automatic sizing behavior.
- Automatic batching is capped at 8; non-CUDA devices use single-row computation by default.

_cal_hessian_ext_graph called torch.autograd.functional.hessian, which with vectorize=False evaluates one Hessian row per second-order backward pass: for DPA-4 that is 3*nloc sequential passes, each far too small to keep the GPU busy. Replicate the structure along the frame axis the carry-all graph already has, so one forward and one first-order backward build a graph that every chunk of seed vectors reuses, and each second-order backward returns `batch` rows at once. Frames are independent, so the replicated energy is a sum of independent terms and its Hessian is block diagonal -- the result is exact, not an approximation, and no vmap is involved, so custom autograd Functions without a batching rule keep working. Measured on one H20, float64, TF32 off, DPA-4 from examples/water/dpa4: natoms B=1 (old) B=24 speedup max|H_B - H_1| 16 2.876 s 0.264 s 10.9x 8.3e-17 32 6.837 s 0.613 s 11.2x 1.2e-16 Peak memory grows with the batch: at 32 atoms 28.3 GiB (B=1) -> 34.6 GiB (B=24). DP_HESSIAN_HVP_BATCH tunes the trade-off; 1 restores the previous behaviour exactly.

Batching the Hessian-vector products needs a batch size, and there is no good fixed one. Peak memory is linear in it while the speedup is not: batching recovers kernel-launch overhead, which stops mattering once a single Hessian-vector product already saturates the device. Measured on one H20 with DPA-4.0.1-Pro-MPtrj in eval mode, float32, TF32 off, over 18 points spanning 54 to 19008 neighbour pairs and 8 to 512 atoms, peak(MiB) = 782 + [4.50 + 3.27*(B-1)]*edges + [10.9 + 7.96*(B-1)]*natoms fits every measurement to 0.2%, while the speedup falls from 5.06x at 72 edges to 1.24x at 5832. A fixed batch of 8 would cut what fits on a 96 GiB card at fcc-solid density from ~381 atoms to ~63, and buy 1.2x on the systems that large: it would turn systems that ran into systems that do not. So size it per call, as DP_INFER_BATCH_SIZE already does for inference batches. One Hessian-vector product is run to measure what a replica costs, the batch becomes what the free memory affords, and it is capped at 8, where the speedup has flattened on every system measured. The measurement covers a whole product while each step past the first adds only its marginal share, so the estimate reads high and the batch comes out conservative. That is the direction to err: a batch that does not fit is recovered by halving and retrying, and nothing recovers the time lost to one that was too small. Reaching 1 hands over to the original one-row-at-a-time path, so the fallback bottoms out in exactly the code a user who asked for 1 would take. An explicit DP_HESSIAN_HVP_BATCH is used as given, including above the cap. The out-of-memory fallback still applies to it, because halving changes how the Hessian is computed and not what it is, and the alternative is ending a run that could have finished. Without CUDA there is no allocator to size against and no recoverable out-of-memory error to catch, so the automatic choice is 1. This also corrects the measurements the comments quoted. They were taken with the model left in training mode, where this checkpoint's use_amp silently enables a bfloat16 autocast, so they described the bf16 path and overstated peak memory by roughly 18x. Likewise the equivalence claim: against the DPA-4.0.1-Pro-MPtrj checkpoint in float64 the two routes agree to 2.8e-14 relative RMS, not the 1e-16 measured on the smaller example model.

The batched Hessian-vector product path was reached only incidentally. test_dpa2_graph_lower exercises it, but only because the batch it happens to get exceeds 1: a batch of 1 would turn that into coverage of the unbatched path alone, without any test failing. Nothing treated the batch as the object under test, so no test compared one batch against another, and none asserted which branch had run. Add a float64 DPA-1 model that meets the graph-route gate (mixed types plus graph lower) and check, for batches 2, 3, 4, 8 and 16, that the Hessian matches the one produced with a batch of 1. 3*nloc is 15, so 2, 4, 8 and 16 leave a partial final chunk and cover the zero-padding branch, while 3 divides evenly and 16 exceeds 3*nloc and is clamped. A counter over the three implementations asserts that batches of 0 and 1 take the unbatched path, that the larger ones take the batched helper, and that the dense route neither sees the setting nor changes with it -- the dense Hessian doubles as an independent cross-check, since it shares no code with the graph wrapper. Cover the automatic choice too: that it stays within [1, cap] whatever the free memory, that it never shrinks as memory grows (with both ends pinned, so monotonicity cannot pass vacuously), that it stays at 1 without CUDA without running the probe, and that the probe prices one Hessian-vector product rather than the whole Hessian. Cover the fallback by making the helper refuse batches above 2 and asserting the retry walks 8, 4, 2 and still returns the unbatched answer, and by making every batch fail and asserting it lands on the original path. Verified non-vacuous by mutation. Of the 23 tests, these many fail when the implementation is broken in each way: dropping the trim that discards padded rows, 10; shifting the seed vectors by one row, 8; letting a batch of 1 enter the batched helper, 6; removing the batch cap, 5; ignoring free memory and always taking the cap, 1; retrying at 1 instead of halving, 1; running the probe without CUDA, 1; ignoring max_rows so the probe prices the whole Hessian, 1.

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The graph Hessian path now supports configurable GPU Hessian-vector-product batching. It selects batch sizes from configuration or CUDA memory, retries smaller batches after out-of-memory errors, and retains the unbatched fallback. Documentation and float64 tests cover the new behavior.

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Layer / File(s)	Summary
Batch configuration and policy `deepmd/pt_expt/utils/env.py`, `deepmd/pt_expt/model/make_model.py`, `doc/env.md`	Adds environment settings for explicit batch size, automatic batch-size caps, and memory fraction. Documents CPU defaults, CUDA sizing, and retry behavior.
Batched graph execution and fallback `deepmd/pt_expt/model/make_model.py`	Computes multiple Hessian rows per backward pass, probes CUDA memory, halves the batch after out-of-memory errors, and falls back to the original functional Hessian at batch size one.
Graph route integration and validation `deepmd/pt_expt/model/make_model.py`, `source/tests/pt_expt/model/test_hessian_hvp_batch.py`	Uses the configured batching path in graph Hessian computation. Tests cover exactness, padding, automatic sizing, retries, symmetry, bounds, monotonicity, and CPU behavior.

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  participant GraphHessianRoute
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  participant BatchedHvp
  participant Autograd
  GraphHessianRoute->>HvpBatchPolicy: resolve or probe batch size
  HvpBatchPolicy-->>GraphHessianRoute: return selected batch size
  GraphHessianRoute->>BatchedHvp: request Hessian row blocks
  BatchedHvp->>Autograd: compute batched HVP rows
  Autograd-->>BatchedHvp: return HVP rows
  BatchedHvp-->>GraphHessianRoute: return Hessian rows
  BatchedHvp-->>GraphHessianRoute: report OOM for retry
  GraphHessianRoute->>Autograd: use unbatched Hessian at batch size one

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+# Hessian is computed, never what it is, so a run that would have died is
+# finished instead, with a warning naming the batch actually used.
+_hessian_hvp_batch = os.environ.get("DP_HESSIAN_HVP_BATCH")
+DP_HESSIAN_HVP_BATCH: int | None = (


+)
+# Ceiling for the automatic choice. Past this the speedup has flattened on every
+# system measured, so more batch would only cost memory.
+DP_HESSIAN_HVP_BATCH_CAP = 8


+DP_HESSIAN_HVP_BATCH_CAP = 8
+# Share of the free memory the automatic choice plans for. The rest absorbs the
+# gap between one replica's measured cost and the marginal cost of the next.
+DP_HESSIAN_HVP_MEMORY_FRACTION = 0.5


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- Line 434: Update the batching logic around coord_flat so it preserves the
coordinate graph when create_graph is true and detaches only when create_graph
is false; use the resulting source for the reshape, expand, and contiguous
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- Around line 458-473: Update the Hessian computation around the initial total
gradient and HVP loop to support constant and linear outputs: guard
total.requires_grad, use allow_unused=True, and replace missing gradients with
zeros_like(x); before each second derivative call, guard grad.requires_grad,
emit zero HVP rows when false, and materialize unused second gradients as zero
tensors. Add coverage for constant-output and linear-output cases in the
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- Line 460: Update the HVP seed construction around the helper containing eye
and the rows loop to avoid allocating the full ndof × ndof identity. Build each
current nb × ndof seed block directly, populate only the count of requested
diagonal entries while preserving row order, and retain the existing batch-shape
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- Around line 642-651: Wrap the automatic batch-one probe in the hvp_batch
initialization path around _auto_hvp_batch with a torch.OutOfMemoryError
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+    """
+    ndof = nloc * 3
+    nb = max(1, min(batch, ndof))
+    x = coord_flat.detach().reshape(1, ndof).expand(nb, ndof).contiguous()


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Preserve the coordinate graph when create_graph is true.

coord_flat.detach() disconnects the batched Hessian from the caller’s coordinates. Training passes create_graph=self.training, so this path can run with create_graph=True. Coordinate derivatives of the returned Hessian can therefore become unavailable.

Detach only when create_graph is false.

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- x = coord_flat.detach().reshape(1, ndof).expand(nb, ndof).contiguous() + source = coord_flat if create_graph else coord_flat.detach() + x = source.reshape(1, ndof).expand(nb, ndof).contiguous()

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x = coord_flat.detach().reshape(1, ndof).expand(nb, ndof).contiguous()

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+    (grad,) = torch.autograd.grad(total, x, create_graph=True)
+
+    eye = torch.eye(ndof, dtype=x.dtype, device=x.device)
+    rows: list[torch.Tensor] = []
+    wanted = ndof if max_rows is None else min(max_rows, ndof)
+    for start in range(0, wanted, nb):
+        seeds = eye[start : start + nb]
+        if seeds.shape[0] < nb:  # pad so the seed batch keeps the graph's shape
+            seeds = torch.cat([seeds, seeds.new_zeros(nb - seeds.shape[0], ndof)])
+        (hvp,) = torch.autograd.grad(
+            grad,
+            x,
+            grad_outputs=seeds,
+            retain_graph=True,
+            create_graph=create_graph,
+        )


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Materialize zero derivatives for constant and linear outputs.

EnergyModel.enable_hessian() enables Hessian generation for the energy output, and the output contract does not require coordinate dependence. If total has no grad_fn, the first torch.autograd.grad call can raise. If total is linear in x, the first derivative can have no differentiable graph, so the second call can raise.

Guard total.requires_grad before the first call. Use allow_unused=True and replace unused gradients with torch.zeros_like(x). Before the second call, guard grad.requires_grad; emit zero HVP rows when it is false, and materialize unused second gradients as zeros. Add constant-output and linear-output cases to source/tests/pt_expt/model/test_ener_hessian_model.py.

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+    total = atomic_ret[kk].reshape(nb, nloc, -1)[..., ci].sum()
+    (grad,) = torch.autograd.grad(total, x, create_graph=True)
+
+    eye = torch.eye(ndof, dtype=x.dtype, device=x.device)


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Allocate only the current seed block during HVP calculation.

torch.eye(ndof) allocates ndof² elements even when max_rows=1. The automatic probe calls this helper with batch=1 and max_rows=1, so the full identity remains live while the measured HVP runs. This can cause a probe OOM and can reduce the selected batch because the allocation is included in the measured peak.

Construct only the current nb × ndof seed block. The proposed block construction preserves the seed shape, row order, and final-chunk padding.

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- eye = torch.eye(ndof, dtype=x.dtype, device=x.device) rows: list[torch.Tensor] = [] wanted = ndof if max_rows is None else min(max_rows, ndof) for start in range(0, wanted, nb): - seeds = eye[start : start + nb] - if seeds.shape[0] < nb: # pad so the seed batch keeps the graph's shape - seeds = torch.cat([seeds, seeds.new_zeros(nb - seeds.shape[0], ndof)]) + count = min(nb, wanted - start) + seeds = x.new_zeros((nb, ndof)) + replica = torch.arange(count, device=x.device) + seeds[replica, start + replica] = 1

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+            if hvp_batch is None and n_real:
+                hvp_batch = _auto_hvp_batch(
+                    coord.device,
+                    lambda: _hessian_graph_batched_hvp(
+                        coord_flat=coord_flat,
+                        batch=1,
+                        create_graph=create_graph,
+                        max_rows=1,
+                        **hvp_kwargs,
+                    ),


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Route probe OOM failures to the unbatched fallback.

_auto_hvp_batch runs the batch-one probe outside _hessian_graph_row_block's OOM handler. If the probe raises torch.OutOfMemoryError, the exception escapes before the fallback runs. Catch it around the automatic probe, clear the CUDA cache, and set hvp_batch = 1. The next call then uses torch.autograd.functional.hessian, which can succeed when the functional path fits in lower peak memory.

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I reviewed the full current 4-file diff and the existing review threads. The main batching idea is sound, but the current head still has blocking behavioral regressions already captured by the unresolved inline comments, so I am not duplicating those comments.

The two correctness issues are independently reproducible from the PyTorch autograd contract:

_hessian_graph_batched_hvp() unconditionally detaches coord_flat. When create_graph=True (the training path), the returned Hessian is therefore disconnected from the caller coordinates, unlike torch.autograd.functional.hessian(..., create_graph=True). This drops higher-order coordinate derivatives.
The new direct torch.autograd.grad sequence does not preserve the old functional.hessian(strict=False) behavior for coordinate-independent or linear outputs. The old path returns an all-zero Hessian; the new path can raise because total or the first derivative has no differentiable graph.

The automatic batching path also needs the existing probe fixes before it is robust: the probe allocates a full ndof x ndof identity even for max_rows=1, and a probe OOM currently escapes before _hessian_graph_row_block() can fall back to the unbatched implementation.

Please address those unresolved inline findings and add focused regressions for higher-order graph preservation plus constant/linear outputs. Exact-head Test Python and Test C++ are also still running at the time of review; the completed CUDA/build/CodeQL/package workflows are green.

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The automatic batch choice returns 1 immediately on a non-CUDA device and never runs the probe -- there is no allocator to size against and no recoverable out-of-memory error to catch, which is what test_auto_batch_is_one_without_cuda asserts. The test that checks the probe prices a single Hessian-vector product therefore cannot pass there, and it was missing the skip its two sibling tests already carry. On CPU: 1 failed, 14 passed, 8 skipped -> 14 passed, 9 skipped. On CUDA: 23 passed, unchanged.

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Re-reviewed the new head because the SHA changed. The only delta from the previously reviewed 973ad0cef5de08ca82f0627bedacf4398dc1742b is the CUDA-only skip for test_probe_prices_one_product_not_the_whole_hessian; that test-only correction is reasonable, but it does not address the four existing merge-blocking findings in the implementation. The current head still unconditionally detaches coord_flat in the batched HVP path when create_graph=True, still does not materialize zero Hessians for constant/linear coordinate dependence like the previous functional.hessian(strict=False) path, still allocates a full ndof × ndof identity even for the one-row memory probe, and still lets an OOM from the automatic probe escape before the batch-halving/unbatched fallback can run. Those issues remain attached as exact-line unresolved inline threads, so I am not duplicating them.

Exact-head Test CUDA, Build C++, Build C library, CodeQL, and package/PyPI are green; Test Python and Test C++ are still in progress. Please address the existing blocking threads and add the corresponding regressions before requesting another review.

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	x = coord_flat.detach().reshape(1, ndof).expand(nb, ndof).contiguous()
	source = coord_flat if create_graph else coord_flat.detach()
	x = source.reshape(1, ndof).expand(nb, ndof).contiguous()

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