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fix(pt): name installable packages when no neighbor-list backend is importable - #6037

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This PR has been reduced, and the original description was wrong. It claimed that nothing in
the project metadata declares a neighbor-list backend, and added a dpa4 extra to fix that. The
claim was false: deepmd assembles extras through a custom build backend, and
backend/find_pytorch.py already declares e3nn>=0.5.9, vesin[torch] and
nvalchemi-toolkit-ops>=0.3.1 under the torch extra — visible in the built metadata as
vesin[torch]; extra == "torch", and put there deliberately by #5501. I had checked only
pyproject.toml, where none of those strings appear. The dpa4 extra duplicated an extra that
already exists and has been removed, together with the test that parsed pyproject.toml.

What is left is the half that never depended on that claim: the error message.

The DPA-4 / SeZM descriptor needs vesin or nvalchemiops at runtime, and both ship with the
torch extra. An environment that has the rest of the PyTorch stack but no neighbor-list backend
builds a model and then stops at:

RuntimeError: SeZM neighbor-list construction requires either 'nvalchemiops' or 'vesin',
but neither is importable.

nvalchemiops and vesin are import names. Neither is what a user types into pip: the first comes
from the distribution nvalchemi-toolkit-ops, and the second needs its torch extra, because the
torch bindings ship separately from vesin itself. So the message names two things that cannot be
installed as written.

That gap is not hypothetical. backend/find_pytorch.py records the case in its own comment — conda-forge
ships vesin but not vesin-torch — which is exactly an environment where import vesin succeeds,
is_vesin_torch_available() is false, and this message is all the user gets.

Change

The RuntimeError now gives commands that resolve it, and points at the extra that ships a backend:

SeZM neighbor-list construction requires a neighbor-list backend, but neither 'vesin' nor
'nvalchemiops' is importable. Install one of:
  pip install 'vesin[torch]'        # portable CPU/CUDA cell list
  pip install nvalchemi-toolkit-ops # batched CUDA kernels
'vesin' also ships with the PyTorch extra: pip install 'deepmd-kit[torch]'.

Text only. No dependency, default, or behaviour changes; the selection logic is untouched.

nvalchemi-toolkit-ops is offered as an alternative rather than recommended: it is a CUDA package
restricted to Linux and python>=3.11, whereas vesin[torch] is portable.

Tests

source/tests/pt/test_neighbor_backend_missing.py makes both backends report unavailable and checks
that the message names the installable distributions and the extra. Both tests fail against the old
message and pass against the new one.

Note on the no-extra install

pip install deepmd-kit with no extra — the PyTorch CPU path in doc/install/easy-install.md — does
not reach this message today. e3nn sits in the same torch extra, and
deepmd/pt/model/descriptor/sezm_nn/projection.py imports it at module scope, so that install fails
earlier with ModuleNotFoundError: e3nn. #6036 makes that import lazy; with it applied, the CPU path
reaches this message too.

…ilure

The DPA-4 / SeZM descriptor needs a neighbor-list backend at runtime, and
nothing declared one. `vesin` appears nowhere in the project metadata, and the
`nvalchemi` extra pulls `nvalchemi-toolkit` for `deepmd.pt.nvalchemi`, which is
a different distribution from the `nvalchemi-toolkit-ops` that provides the
`nvalchemiops` import the neighbor list uses. A plain install therefore builds
a model and then stops at

    RuntimeError: SeZM neighbor-list construction requires either
    'nvalchemiops' or 'vesin', but neither is importable.

`pip check` stays clean throughout, because the requirement is never declared.
The message also names import names, which are not what a user installs.

Add a `dpa4` extra covering what the descriptor needs at runtime -- `e3nn` for
the S2 grid projections and `vesin[torch]` for the neighbor list -- and give
the error the pip commands that resolve it.

`nvalchemi-toolkit-ops` is deliberately not in the extra: it is an alternative
neighbor-list backend rather than an addition, and requiring it would tie the
extra to CUDA and to `python<3.15`. It is offered in the error message instead.
The existing `nvalchemi` extra is untouched.
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The missing-neighbor-backend error now recommends the vesin[torch], nvalchemi-toolkit-ops, and deepmd-kit[torch] distributions. Tests simulate unavailable backends and verify the updated message.

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The fallback RuntimeError now recommends installing deepmd-kit[torch] instead of deepmd-kit[dpa4].
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Tests disable both neighbor backends and verify the message names the pip-installable distributions. The previous extra-declaration test was removed.

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- Line 13: Update the test dependency configuration so the test extra includes
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Blocking issue remains in the current head and is already captured by the existing exact-line review thread, so I am not duplicating the inline comment. This repository supports Python 3.10, but the new test imports the stdlib tomllib, which is only available from Python 3.11. The exact-head Test Python workflow is currently failing on Python 3.10 jobs. Please add a Python<3.11 tomli test dependency and use a tomllib/tomli fallback (or otherwise avoid the 3.11-only import) so the test can collect on the supported minimum version.

The dependency extra and the revised missing-backend error itself look consistent with the stated runtime contract; this request is specifically for the supported-version test breakage.

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The premise of the previous commit was wrong. It claimed nothing in the
project metadata declared a neighbor-list backend, having checked only
pyproject.toml. deepmd assembles extras through a custom build backend,
and backend/find_pytorch.py already declares e3nn>=0.5.9, vesin[torch]
and nvalchemi-toolkit-ops>=0.3.1 under the `torch` extra -- visible in
the built metadata as `vesin[torch]; extra == "torch"`. Upstream 99c1ece
put them there deliberately. The dpa4 extra was therefore a duplicate of
an extra that already exists, so it is removed.

What remains is the half that does not depend on that premise. The
documented PyTorch CPU install in doc/install/easy-install.md is

    pip install torch --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
    pip install deepmd-kit

with no extra, so that path has no neighbor-list backend. It reaches a
model build and stops on a message naming the imports 'nvalchemiops' and
'vesin', neither of which is what a user installs. The message now gives
the distributions and points at the extra that ships them, `torch`.

Also drops the test that parsed pyproject.toml: it imported tomllib,
which is stdlib only on 3.11+, while the project supports 3.10, and it
broke collection on every 3.10 CI shard.
@iProzd iProzd changed the title fix(pt): declare the DPA-4 neighbor-list dependency and name it on failure fix(pt): name installable packages when no neighbor-list backend is importable Sep 22, 2026

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Re-reviewed the complete current diff because the head changed from ecf307da92ac8a8e2700b52f96d2ec9979452910 to this head. The previous Python 3.10 blocker is fixed: the tomllib-based metadata test and duplicated dpa4 extra were removed, leaving only the runtime error-message improvement plus focused tests that monkeypatch both neighbor backends unavailable. The old inline thread is now outdated, and I did not find a new high-confidence correctness, compatibility, packaging, or test blocker in the current two-file diff.

Disposition: COMMENT / NEEDS HUMAN REVIEW for now because exact-head CI is still incomplete. Test CUDA, Build C++, Build C library, CodeQL, and package/PyPI are green; Test Python and Test C++ are still running. Once those finish green, this head is suitable for approval absent new changes/discussion.

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Exact-head CI has now completed successfully: Test Python, Test C++, Test CUDA, Build C++, Build C library, CodeQL, and package/PyPI are all green. The complete current two-file diff was substantively reviewed on this same head in the previous monitoring pass; the prior Python 3.10 tomllib blocker is fixed/outdated, and no new high-confidence correctness, compatibility, packaging, or test blocker has appeared. Approving this head.

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