fix: give each solver its own seed instead of a process-wide counter - #1717
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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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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR replaces the global seed generator with per-problem seed generators. Solver settings now support configured seeds, and MIP and routing random operations use the owning problem’s seed state. Determinism tests use configured seeds without global resets. ChangesPer-problem seed management
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR gives routing and MIP their own seed configuration, but the current implementation can still share per-thread generator state, causing repeated seed values when solver calls alternate; it also leaves signed-counter exhaustion undefined and retains a concern about asynchronous GPU errors surfacing late. These concrete risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 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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@mlubin may I get another round of review ? |
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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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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 |
Reapply the configured seed after presolve replaces the problem. solve.cu seeded the generator, then assigned a fresh problem_t built from the reduced problem, which carries a default-constructed generator, so any settings.seed was silently discarded whenever presolve ran. Widen the multi-value seed fold to uint64_t. The pairing arithmetic was evaluated in the input type, and routing folds int problem dimensions, so the product overflowed a 32-bit int once two equal dimensions reached 181. Signed overflow is undefined behaviour; the unsigned type wraps deterministically. Pass the seed into lb_bounds_repair_t's constructor, which has no route back to a problem. That file and lb_constraint_prop.cu are in no source list and are never compiled, so the invalid reference survived a clean build. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ramakrishna Prabhu <ramakrishnap@nvidia.com>
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In my old determinism PR I made the seed thread_local. That should be essentially a single line change. Could we do that before we get the PR in? Caveat: I haven't read most AI replies there |
Adopts the mechanism from Alice's earlier determinism work (3e214a8): each thread keeps its own counter, rebased from the owning solver's base seed whenever that base changes. A thread therefore walks the same sequence from a given base regardless of how workers interleave, so which seed a work item receives no longer depends on scheduling. The previous atomic counter made concurrent access safe but left the order nondeterministic, which is the part that matters for reproducibility across synchronisation points. The base stays per solver, so this composes with rather than replaces the per-problem ownership: the base fixes routing and MIP overwriting each other's seed, the thread-local counter fixes ordering. Also simplifies the class. base_seed_ is a plain int64_t, so the atomic, the mutable, and the hand-written copy and assignment operators are all gone, and problem_t gets its implicit copy and move back. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ramakrishna Prabhu <ramakrishnap@nvidia.com>
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Done in I looked up your original (
The second is the one @akifcorduk was asking about, and you are right that my atomic did not deliver it: it made concurrent access safe but left the order nondeterministic. That is now fixed rather than just documented. It also removed code. One caveat I kept from the original and documented in the header rather than quietly changing: the thread-local state is a function-local static, so it is shared by all generators on a thread and rebases on a change of base. Two solvers configured with the same base seed, used from one thread, continue one sequence rather than each restarting. Happy to key the state per generator if you would rather, though that needs a map and I did not want to change your semantics unasked.
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In `@cpp/src/utilities/seed_generator.cuh`:
- Around line 47-70: Update seed_generator_t::local_state so thread-local state
is keyed by generator identity, giving each generator on a thread its own
counter, last_base, and initialization state. Ensure calls from different
generators cannot rebase or consume one another’s sequence, while preserving
independent sequences even when base seeds match; define copy and move behavior
consistently with the per-generator identity model.
- Around line 88-96: Update get_seed so it handles state.counter == INT64_MAX
before incrementing, avoiding signed overflow while preserving the current seed
return behavior for non-exhausted counters. Define the intended exhaustion
behavior consistently with the generator’s API, and add a unit test covering
seed_generator_t initialized with INT64_MAX.
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| * The counter that hands out seeds is thread-local and is rebased whenever the owning | ||
| * solver's base seed changes. Each thread therefore walks its own deterministic sequence | ||
| * from that base, so the order in which concurrent workers happen to ask for seeds does | ||
| * not change which seed any of them receives. A shared counter would hand out values in a | ||
| * nondeterministic order and break reproducibility across synchronisation points. | ||
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| * Two solvers configured with the *same* base seed and used from one thread continue a | ||
| * single sequence rather than restarting, since the rebase is triggered by a change of | ||
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| class seed_generator_t { | ||
| int64_t base_seed_{0}; | ||
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| struct thread_state_t { | ||
| int64_t counter{0}; | ||
| int64_t last_base{0}; | ||
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Keep thread-local state separate for each generator.
local_state() returns one state for every seed_generator_t on the same thread. It does not identify the owning solver.
If generator A has base 10, generator B has base 20, and calls alternate as A, B, A, then A receives 10 twice. If A and B have the same base, they consume one shared sequence instead of independent solver sequences.
Key the thread-local state by generator identity. Keep a separate counter and last_base for each generator on each thread. Define copy and move identity semantics with this state model.
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In `@cpp/src/utilities/seed_generator.cuh` around lines 47 - 70, Update
seed_generator_t::local_state so thread-local state is keyed by generator
identity, giving each generator on a thread its own counter, last_base, and
initialization state. Ensure calls from different generators cannot rebase or
consume one another’s sequence, while preserving independent sequences even when
base seeds match; define copy and move behavior consistently with the
per-generator identity model.
| int64_t get_seed() const | ||
| { | ||
| set_seed(seed1 + ((seed0 + seed1) * (seed0 + seed1 + 1) / 2), seeds...); | ||
| auto& state = local_state(); | ||
| if (!state.initialized || state.last_base != base_seed_) { | ||
| state.counter = base_seed_; | ||
| state.last_base = base_seed_; | ||
| state.initialized = true; | ||
| } | ||
| return state.counter++; |
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Under the C++ standard supported by CUDA 12 or newer, does incrementing an int64_t value at INT64_MAX have undefined behavior?
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Yes, incrementing an int64_t value when it is equal to INT64_MAX constitutes signed integer overflow, which is undefined behavior under the C++ standard [1][2][3]. CUDA 12 and newer versions support modern C++ standards, including C++20 [4][5][6][7]. The C++ standard defines signed integer overflow as undefined behavior, regardless of the specific C++ version used or the architecture [1][8][2][3]. When an expression results in a value that is not representable in the range of the type, the behavior is undefined [9][10]. This applies to signed integer types such as int64_t [11]. Compilers, including the NVIDIA CUDA Compiler (nvcc), may leverage this undefined behavior to perform optimizations that can lead to unexpected program behavior [8][3]. The fact that many systems happen to use two's complement arithmetic and might "wrap around" in practice does not make the operation well-defined under the C++ standard [11][12][13]. Therefore, such code should be avoided, and explicit checks should be implemented to ensure the value is within a representable range before performing an increment [11][12].
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- 1: https://eel.is/c++draft/basic.fundamental
- 2: https://timsong-cpp.github.io/cppwp/n4868/basic.fundamental
- 3: https://lipeng28.github.io/papers/tosem15.pdf
- 4: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/c-20-concept-support-in-cuda-12/259907
- 5: https://thenewstack.io/nvidias-cuda-12-is-here-to-bring-out-the-animal-in-gpus/
- 6: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70701532/using-c20-in-the-nvcc-compiler-for-cuda
- 7: https://gist.github.com/ax3l/9489132
- 8: https://en.cppreference.com/cpp/language/ub
- 9: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p1407r1.pdf
- 10: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77012403/does-a-variable-holding-result-of-signed-integer-overflow-side-effect-of-post-i
- 11: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50837044/which-integer-operations-are-unsafe
- 12: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4240748/allowing-signed-integer-overflows-in-c-c
- 13: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61624859/why-does-long-long-2147483647-1-2147483648
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Prevent signed counter overflow.
When state.counter == INT64_MAX, state.counter++ has undefined behavior. Define exhaustion behavior before incrementing and add a unit test for seed_generator_t{INT64_MAX}.get_seed().
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In `@cpp/src/utilities/seed_generator.cuh` around lines 88 - 96, Update get_seed
so it handles state.counter == INT64_MAX before incrementing, avoiding signed
overflow while preserving the current seed return behavior for non-exhausted
counters. Define the intended exhaustion behavior consistently with the
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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 receivesSeeds are handed out from a
thread_localcounter, rebased from the owning solver's base seed whenever that base changes, following the mechanism in Alice's earlier determinism work (3e214a86). A thread therefore walks the same sequence from a given base regardless of how workers interleave, so which seed a work item receives does not depend on scheduling — the property that matters for reproducibility across synchronisation points. The base itself lives on the problem, so the two concerns are separate: the base stops the two solvers overwriting each other's seed, the thread-local counter stops ordering from mattering.This also resolves the
// TODO: should be thread local?that sat on the class.Because
base_seed_is a plainint64_t, the class needs no atomic, nomutable, and no hand-written copy or assignment operators, andproblem_tkeeps its implicit copy and move.One inherited caveat, documented in the header: the thread-local state is a function-local static shared by all generators on a thread, rebased on a change of base. Two solvers configured with the same base seed and used from one thread continue a single sequence rather than each restarting.
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.