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Add BlockSparseCholesky solver and Schur Complement - #37
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…he default solver - LinearSystem abstraction (NormalEquations, SchurSystem): LinearSystemType:: SchurComplement eliminates the state batches given to Problem::SetEliminatedStateBatches (landmarks) and solves the reduced system; IMU / visual-inertial and cuSFM stereo-loop BA covered. - BlockSparseCholeskySolver (SparseLinearSolverType::BlockSparseCholesky): supernodal sparse Cholesky on the GPU without external dependencies. Analysis: supervariables and their graph on the GPU; approximate minimum degree (quotient graph) or nested dissection (balanced BFS separators), chosen by a cost model; relaxed amalgamation; panels of <= 64 columns; assembly and update maps built on the GPU. Numeric phase: per level a factor kernel (forward substitution folded in) and an update kernel, then a level-scheduled backward substitution. Vanishing pivots (free gauges) fix their unknown; clearly negative pivots are reported. - Schur always solves the reduced system with BlockSparseCholesky (no cuDSS needed); BlockSparseCholesky is also the new default sparse_linear_solver_type (was BlockSparsePCG): faster on pose graphs with local loop closures, BA and VIO, and exact where PCG does not converge (cuSFM, VIO full systems). PCG remains preferable for graphs with many long-range random edges and large well-conditioned systems of small blocks; documented. - Tests: BlockSparseCholesky unit tests, Schur system tests, stereo loop BA, Cholesky in the typed solver lists; SolverBenchmark.DISABLED_* (BENCH_SOLVERS=pcg,chol,cudss) compares the backends. Docs, Python bindings and examples updated.
- BlockSparseCholesky: the 16 x 16 diagonal block is factored in groups of 4 columns (two warp round trips per group instead of one per column): 8-17% faster solves. Device data uses the plan's named structs (Panel, Run, FactorItem, UpdateItem) instead of packed int4/int2; Initialize and AnalyzeCholesky split into named steps. - SchurSystem: Initialize split into setup phases sharing a SetupScratch; members grouped into FactorTables, PairTables and ReducedPattern; setup-only members, duplicated counts and derived arrays removed. - NormalEquations: no cached CSR dimensions; the working left-hand side's pattern is copied once (values only per solve) in both layouts. LinearSystem::StepCurvature is const (ClassifySteps takes a const system), LinearSystem::ClearModifications() replaces three resets. The Schur complement warns when sparse_linear_solver_type is set and ignored. - Docs: new guide docs/sphinx/linear_solvers.rst (choosing a solver, how BlockSparseCholesky and the Schur complement work); API reference for LinearSystemType, linear_system, set_eliminated_state_batches, min_diagonal and BlockSparseCholeskySolver; stale docs fixed. Examples name BlockSparseCholesky and the Schur complement explicitly.
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🟡 Minor · Update the stale default-solver note in sparse_linear_solver_config. · minimizer.h:158-160
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUpdate the stale default-solver note in
sparse_linear_solver_config.This PR changes the default of
sparse_linear_solver_typetoBlockSparseCholesky(Line 147). Thesparse_linear_solver_configcomment still says "Defaults:BlockSparsePCGwith the layout auto-derived …". Users who read the header get the wrong default backend. NameBlockSparseCholeskyas the default. Keep the layout note for theBlockSparsePCGcase only.📝 Proposed fix
- * Defaults: `BlockSparsePCG` with the layout auto-derived from the - * problem's state batches when the structure is set up (the first - * Minimize() call on a problem). + * Defaults: no extra options (BlockSparseCholesky takes none). With + * `BlockSparsePCG`, the block layout is derived from the problem's state + * batches when the structure is set up (the first Minimize() call).🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comments at @cunls/minimizer/problem.h:
- Around line 340-343: Update the supported-dimension documentation in
`problem.h` at lines 340–343 and `minimizer.rst` at lines 589–596 to list only
the accepted (landmark, neighbour) tangent-size pairs: (1, 6), (2, 6), (3, 6),
(3, 3), and (3, 9). Ensure both descriptions state the same combinations.
Review comments at @cunls/minimizer/schur_system.cu:
- Around line 593-596: In BuildEvaluationOrder, validate batches with landmark
factors before reordering: reject residual dimensions above 255 or tangent
dimensions above 127 with an invalid_argument. Apply this guard only when
has_landmarks is set, leaving batches without landmark factors unrestricted.
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Review comments at @cunls/minimizer/minimizer.h:
- Around line 158-160: Update the `sparse_linear_solver_config` comment to state
that `BlockSparseCholesky` is the default and takes no extra options; retain the
layout-derivation note only for the `BlockSparsePCG` case.
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| * Every factor may touch at most one non-constant state of these batches; | ||
| * the batches must share one tangent size of 1 to 3, and the states that | ||
| * share factors with them one tangent size of 3, 6 or 9. Constant states of | ||
| * a listed batch are not eliminated (their factors act on the other states |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Document only the tangent-size combinations that SupportedDims accepts. Both texts say that eliminated batches may have tangent size 1 to 3 and that their neighbours may have tangent size 3, 6 or 9. SupportedDims in cunls/minimizer/schur_system.cu accepts only (1, 6), (2, 6), (3, 6), (3, 3) and (3, 9). ClassifyFactors rejects the other combinations with std::invalid_argument.
cunls/minimizer/problem.h#L340-L343: list the supported (landmark, neighbour) pairs (1, 6), (2, 6), (3, 6), (3, 3) and (3, 9).docs/sphinx/api/minimizer.rst#L589-L596: replace "one tangent size of 3, 6 or 9" with the same list of supported pairs.
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Review comment at @cunls/minimizer/problem.h around lines 340 - 343:
Update the supported-dimension documentation in `problem.h` at lines 340–343 and
`minimizer.rst` at lines 589–596 to list only the accepted (landmark, neighbour)
tangent-size pairs: (1, 6), (2, 6), (3, 6), (3, 3), and (3, 9). Ensure both
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| jacobian_base[e] = batch.jacobian_offset + item * m * n; | ||
| residual_base[e] = batch.residual_offset + item * m; | ||
| meta[e] = slot_offsets[batch.slot_begin + pm_entry_slot[e]] | | ||
| (slot_offsets[batch.slot_begin + factor_eslot[g]] << 8) | (m << 16) | (n << 24); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Reject landmark factors whose sizes do not fit the packed entry_meta fields.
EntryLocationsKernel packs four values into one int: the retained-slot column offset, the landmark-slot column offset, m, and n. Each value gets 8 bits. n << 24 is signed, so n >= 128 gives a negative n after meta >> 24. m >= 256 and slot offsets >= 256 wrap to wrong values. No setup code checks these limits.
Example trigger: a landmark factor with 256 residuals, such as a 16×16 photometric patch. AssemblePairsKernel and EliminatePairsKernel then read Jacobians with the wrong row count and stride. The step is wrong, and no error is reported. Add a host check in BuildEvaluationOrder, where has_landmarks is known. Run it only for batches that contain landmark factors, so other factor shapes stay allowed.
🛡️ Proposed guard
for (int b = 0; b < NumBatches(); ++b) {
+ if (has_landmarks[b] != 0) {
+ const HessianBatchLayout &lb = structure_.Layout()[b];
+ if (lb.residual_dim > 255 || lb.tangent_dim > 127) {
+ throw std::invalid_argument(
+ "LinearSystemType::SchurComplement: factors touching an eliminated state must "
+ "have at most 255 residuals and a tangent dimension of at most 127");
+ }
+ }
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Review comment at @cunls/minimizer/schur_system.cu around lines 593 - 596:
In BuildEvaluationOrder, validate batches with landmark factors before
reordering: reject residual dimensions above 255 or tangent dimensions above 127
with an invalid_argument. Apply this guard only when has_landmarks is set,
leaving batches without landmark factors unrestricted.
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