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…itch Adds a Ceres-style numeric-differentiation engine as an alternative to hand-derived analytic Jacobians, selectable globally via MinimizerOptions::jacobian_mode or per factor group via Problem::AddFactorBatch's jacobian_mode_override. The engine lives one layer above FactorBatch (in GaussNewtonMinimizer/NumericDiffJacobianBuilder) since FactorBatch::Evaluate only sees flat device pointers, not the owning StateBatch's manifold retraction; it reuses StateBatch::Plus for correct tangent-space perturbation on SO2/SO3/SE2/SE3/Sim2/Sim3/SL4/Vector states, so every shipped factor gets numeric-Jacobian support for free, and a user-defined factor now only needs to implement a residual (Evaluate can ignore the jacobians argument entirely). The perturbation/differencing engine was profiled with nsys and optimized to cache per-residual-batch perturbation tables (indices, deltas, pinned staging buffers) instead of rebuilding and re-uploading them from pageable memory on every BuildSystem call, cutting numeric-mode overhead by 1.1x-5.7x depending on problem type/scale with no change to analytic-mode performance or the public API. While validating numeric-vs-analytic Jacobian agreement, this also uncovered and fixes two pre-existing bugs in the analytic Jacobians of SO3BetweenFactorBatch and SE3BetweenFactorBatch (wrong operand order/ missing Delta factor in the closed-form blocks, plus a latent bug in the SE3 adjoint used by the SE3 factor) that were masked by identity-delta smoke tests and Gauss-Newton's tolerance to Jacobian-direction error near convergence. Adds examples/pnp/ demonstrating PnPFactorBatch with both Jacobian modes on the same synthetic problem, and correctness/perf tests (tests/numeric_diff_jacobian_test.cpp, numeric_diff_minimizer_test.cpp, numeric_diff_perf_test.cpp). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds configurable finite-difference Jacobians to minimizers, with global and per-batch selection and forward or central differencing. It updates SO(3) and SE(3) between-factor Jacobians and SE(3) adjoints. It also adds validation, benchmarks, documentation, and examples. ChangesNumeric Jacobian support
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant GaussNewtonMinimizer
participant Problem
participant NumericDiffJacobianBuilder
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GaussNewtonMinimizer->>Problem: Resolve Jacobian mode for residual batch
GaussNewtonMinimizer->>NumericDiffJacobianBuilder: Compute numeric Jacobian
NumericDiffJacobianBuilder->>StateBatch: Apply tangent perturbations with Plus
NumericDiffJacobianBuilder->>ResidualBatch: Evaluate residuals for perturbation slots
NumericDiffJacobianBuilder-->>GaussNewtonMinimizer: Write dense Jacobian
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In `@cunls/minimizer/numeric_diff_jacobian.cu`:
- Around line 342-355: Update NumericDiffJacobianBuilder’s staging-buffer
lifecycle so consecutive Compute calls cannot overwrite pinned host data still
used by asynchronous uploads; use per-ComputeCache staging buffers or
synchronize completion of the prior upload before rebuilding shared buffers.
In `@examples/pnp/main.cpp`:
- Around line 182-190: Update the argument-parsing loop around `--num-points`
and `--jacobian-mode` to reject unknown or incomplete arguments with an error
and nonzero exit status. Validate that the parsed `num_points` is positive
before creating the dataset or running the minimizer, and reject zero or
negative input rather than allowing it to produce an empty or oversized dataset.
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…res refs Documents the numeric (finite-difference) Jacobian feature added in the previous commit: a new Sphinx page (docs/sphinx/numeric_jacobians.rst) covering the mechanism, accuracy/performance tradeoffs, and a worked example, cross-referenced from the factor/minimizer API pages and the README. Extends examples/custom_factor (C++ and the Python/Warp port) to show both an analytic-Jacobian factor and a residual-only factor solved via JacobianMode::kNumeric side by side. Exposes JacobianMode, NumericDiffMethod, NumericDiffOptions, and Problem.add_factor_batch's jacobian_mode_override to Python via nanobind, with matching .pyi stubs and new pytest coverage. Removes the last two Ceres Solver references (a test comment and a doc link), rewording the underlying robust-loss-function explanation to stand on its own. Renames the numeric-diff perf benchmarks' small/medium/large scale labels to concrete problem sizes (PGO: 10k/100k/1M poses; SBA: 1k/5k, 5k/25k, 10k/100k pose/landmark pairs with sparse visibility; PnP: 1k/100k/1M correspondences) and adds a full end-to-end Minimize() timing benchmark alongside the existing BuildSystem-only one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@CMakeLists.txt`:
- Around line 222-225: Make the numeric-difference end-to-end performance sweep
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…n, formatting - NumericDiffJacobianBuilder: move the pinned host staging buffers (delta, state-pointer table, index/epsilon arrays) from shared builder-level members to per-ComputeCache members. They were previously reused across residual batches with no synchronization, so a second batch's cache rebuild could overwrite host memory a prior batch's still-in-flight async H2D upload was reading from -- a real race whenever a Problem has more than one numeric-diff residual batch. Device scratch was already correctly per-cache; the host staging buffers were the gap. - examples/pnp/main.cpp: reject unknown arguments, a flag missing its value, and a non-positive/non-numeric --num-points with a clear error and nonzero exit, instead of silently ignoring or falling through to std::stoul's exception. - Make the numeric-diff end-to-end Minimize() perf sweep (tests/numeric_diff_e2e_perf_test.cpp, up to 1M-pose/point problems, several minutes) opt-in via CUNLS_BUILD_NUMERIC_DIFF_E2E_PERF_TEST (default OFF), excluded from the default nls_tests target. The BuildSystem-only sweep and the correctness tests stay in the default target. - Run clang-format (matching .pre-commit-config.yaml's pinned v15.0.7) across every C++/CUDA file touched anywhere in this branch relative to origin/main, not just the most recently edited ones -- CI's `pre-commit run --from-ref origin/main --to-ref HEAD` reformats whole files for anything in that diff, so pre-existing formatting drift in touched-but-not-really-changed files (e.g. cunls/math/so_se_lie_math.cu) was failing lint too. No semantic changes from this pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@cunls/minimizer/numeric_diff_jacobian.cu`:
- Around line 77-81: Update the per-cache staging flow around EnsurePinnedHost
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The previous fix made each ComputeCache's pinned host staging buffers private to that residual batch, closing the cross-batch race. But within a single cache, a later rebuild (options/structure/state-buffer-address change) could still grow, overwrite, or free those same buffers while an earlier rebuild's async H2D upload was still reading from them -- the event/stream waits already in place only order *device*-side consumers, not host-side reuse of the pinned source memory. Cache teardown (e.g. Problem structure changes trigger PrepareResidualBatch's cache erase, or the builder itself is destroyed) had the same gap: freeing pinned memory while a DMA might still be reading it. Records a per-cache completion event after the last upload of a rebuild and synchronizes on it before the next rebuild touches those buffers again and in ComputeCache's destructor before freeing them. No effect on the common case (one rebuild per residual batch's lifetime): the sync is a no-op once the event has already completed, which it always has by the time a second rebuild or destruction actually happens in practice. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟡 Minor · Make the cache completion event cover every Compute call. · numeric_diff_jacobian.cu:88-101
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winMake the cache completion event cover every
Computecall.
pinned_upload_done_eventis recorded only duringneeds_rebuild, beforeNumericDiffColumnKernel. The fast path queuesPlus, residual, and differencing kernels without updating this event. IfPrepareResidualBatchthen erases the cache, its destructor can synchronize the stale event and free cache storage while those kernels are still queued.The normal
GaussNewtonMinimizerpath reuses the cache and synchronizes its stream before return. This issue remains reachable through the public builder's repeated-prepare and asynchronous-use path. Record the event afterNumericDiffColumnKernelon every completedCompute.Suggested fix
- // Mark all of this cache's pinned buffers as "safe to touch again once - // this event completes" -- checked at the top of the next rebuild (or - // in the destructor, on teardown) before any of them are reused, grown, - // or freed. - if (cache.pinned_upload_done_event == nullptr) { - THROW_ON_CUDA_ERROR( - cudaEventCreateWithFlags(&cache.pinned_upload_done_event, cudaEventDisableTiming)); - } - THROW_ON_CUDA_ERROR(cudaEventRecord(cache.pinned_upload_done_event, stream)); - cache.uploaded = true; cache.central = central; cache.step_size = options.relative_step_size; @@ NumericDiffColumnKernel<<<num_blocks, kBlockSize, 0, stream>>>( cache.perturbed_residuals.data(), baseline_residuals, cache.col_idx_scratch.data(), cache.plus_slot_scratch.data(), cache.minus_slot_scratch.data(), cache.eps_scratch.data(), central, static_cast<int>(F), static_cast<int>(W), static_cast<int>(residual_size), static_cast<int>(total_cols), jacobian_out); THROW_ON_CUDA_ERROR(cudaGetLastError()); + + if (cache.pinned_upload_done_event == nullptr) { + THROW_ON_CUDA_ERROR( + cudaEventCreateWithFlags(&cache.pinned_upload_done_event, cudaEventDisableTiming)); + } + THROW_ON_CUDA_ERROR(cudaEventRecord(cache.pinned_upload_done_event, stream)); }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Adds a Ceres-style numeric-differentiation engine as an alternative to hand-derived analytic Jacobians, selectable globally via MinimizerOptions::jacobian_mode or per factor group via Problem::AddFactorBatch's jacobian_mode_override. The engine lives one layer above FactorBatch (in GaussNewtonMinimizer/NumericDiffJacobianBuilder) since FactorBatch::Evaluate only sees flat device pointers, not the owning StateBatch's manifold retraction; it reuses StateBatch::Plus for correct tangent-space perturbation on SO2/SO3/SE2/SE3/Sim2/Sim3/SL4/Vector states, so every shipped factor gets numeric-Jacobian support for free, and a user-defined factor now only needs to implement a residual (Evaluate can ignore the jacobians argument entirely).
The perturbation/differencing engine was profiled with nsys and optimized to cache per-residual-batch perturbation tables (indices, deltas, pinned staging buffers) instead of rebuilding and re-uploading them from pageable memory on every BuildSystem call, cutting numeric-mode overhead by 1.1x-5.7x depending on problem type/scale with no change to analytic-mode performance or the public API.
While validating numeric-vs-analytic Jacobian agreement, this also uncovered and fixes two pre-existing bugs in the analytic Jacobians of SO3BetweenFactorBatch and SE3BetweenFactorBatch (wrong operand order/ missing Delta factor in the closed-form blocks, plus a latent bug in the SE3 adjoint used by the SE3 factor) that were masked by identity-delta smoke tests and Gauss-Newton's tolerance to Jacobian-direction error near convergence.
Adds examples/pnp/ demonstrating PnPFactorBatch with both Jacobian modes on the same synthetic problem, and correctness/perf tests (tests/numeric_diff_jacobian_test.cpp, numeric_diff_minimizer_test.cpp, numeric_diff_perf_test.cpp).
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