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Summary

Replaces the internals of raft::sparse::solver::mst with a solver based on ECL-MST, SC'23. The public API is unchanged. Ties break deterministically on (weight order key, edge index) instead of randomized weight alteration, which both fixes float-precision issues and removes the alteration cost.

Two main features:

  1. Drop-in replacement detail/mst_kernels.cuh, detail/mst_solver_inl.cuh rewritten, MST_solver reduced detail/mst_utils.cuh deleted (its only reference was in the old kernels)
  2. New capability: 64-bit vertex_t/edge_t support (uniform 64-bit and mixed 32-bit vertex / 64-bit edge), validated to 2.25B edges on H200 and 4.29B edges on ~250GB GPU memory (only real limiting factor is GPU memory capacity now, edges more expensive than vertices due to the worklists). When the extra capacity isn't required, the 32-bit instantiations keep the faster performance.

Algorithm overview

ECL-MST is an edge-parallel approach. Setup adds each undirected edge into a worklist (an optional two-phase filter first solves over the light edges when the average degree makes it worthwhile). Each round then runs three edge-parallel steps over the worklist:

  1. Min-selection: every edge whose endpoints have different parents (analogous to colors) proposes itself to both endpoint components via atomicMin on a per-component slot, using a packed (weight order key, edge index) value the index half makes ties deterministic, which is what lets this PR delete weight alteration.
  2. Select + join: an edge that won at least one of its endpoint slots is in the MST. The two components are merged in a lock-free union-find (join by atomicCAS on parent pointers).
  3. Compact: components are flattened, and surviving edges (endpoints still in different components) are compacted into the opposite worklist. Rounds repeat until no edge survives.

There is now a narrow and wide path. The narrow path (4-byte weight and edge index) packs the key into
64 bits and uses hardware atomicMin. This is the path that all the existing downstream implementations (cuGraph, cuML, cuVS) would use.

Changes made for this PR beyond the published algorithm:

  • A wide path for the type combinations the paper's packing cannot represent (8-byte weights and/or 8-byte edge indices) using a 128-bit (key, index) min-selection, implemented as a single-pass 128-bit CAS loop on >sm_89 and a portable two-pass min (weight key, then edge index among key-ties) when <=sm_89. Both produce the same results as each other and as the narrow path. When available, the 128-bit CAS is faster, so it's selected at compile time if the compute capability is there.
  • 64-bit indexing throughout enabling the >2B-edge graphs in the validation section. For speed, 32-bit instantiations keep 32-bit counters.
  • Path halving in the union-find to avoid a possible extreme runtime case. Published ECL-MST's find is vulnerable to a quadratic complexity on large equal-weight tie graphs. This did cost some perf but was negligible when compared to a multi-minute hang.
  • Single-instruction inline-PTX word accessors for the intentionally racy parent[] reads/writes, pinning them against compiler tearing.
  • RAFT API semantics preserved on top of the algorithm resume from prior colors, bounded rounds, optional output symmetrization, and MSF colors.

Correctness fixes over the current solver

  1. Float alteration underflow: the tie-breaking perturbation (bounded by min-weight-gap/2) rounds to zero at weight magnitudes ~1e7. On the SC'23 suite at float: 3 graphs throw the precision guard, 2 return silently wrong results past the guard (I actually observed this when testing back when I was doing ECL-MST, I just didn't know the reason until now).
  2. Thread-index overflow at v > 2^26: kernel_min_edge_per_vertex (launched <<<v, 32>>>) computes its thread id in 32-bit arithmetic. Above 2^26 vertices (int) / 2^27 (int64) vertices silently stop participating and a truncated forest is returned past the guards.

Performance (H200, best-of-9 for both, interleaved, w/ correctness validated)

Geomean vs current solver on the SC'23 suite: 6.25x float (over the 13 graphs the current solver completes correctly), 7.33x double (all 18).

Graph V E old float (ms) new float (ms) float speedup old double (ms) new double (ms) double speedup
internet 124.7K 387K 2.770 0.296 9.36x 2.827 0.327 8.65x
USA-road-d.NY 264K 730K 5.098 0.378 13.49x 5.208 0.453 11.50x
rmat16.sym 65.5K 968K 2.381 0.537 4.43x 2.572 0.572 4.50x
citationCiteseer 268K 2.3M 4.246 0.728 5.83x 4.494 0.903 4.98x
2d-2e20.sym 1.05M 4.2M 12.396 1.343 9.23x 12.718 1.503 8.46x
amazon0601 403K 4.9M 5.395 0.931 5.79x 5.850 1.074 5.45x
as-skitter 1.7M 22.2M 22.247 2.819 7.89x 25.727 3.201 8.04x
in-2004 1.4M 27.2M 20.765 2.843 7.30x 25.228 3.433 7.35x
coPapersDBLP 540K 30.5M 9.190 2.570 3.58x 10.888 2.958 3.68x
cit-Patents 3.8M 33.0M 36.457 6.450 5.65x 38.737 7.375 5.25x
USA-road-d.USA 23.9M 57.7M threw1 10.166 259.236 12.699 20.41x
rmat22.sym 4.2M 65.7M wrong2 7.928 40.865 9.020 4.53x
r4-2e23.sym 8.4M 67.1M 147.712 14.981 9.86x 154.212 16.869 9.14x
soc-LiveJournal1 4.8M 85.7M 48.275 9.816 4.92x 54.698 11.014 4.97x
delaunay_n24 16.8M 100.7M threw1 15.604 194.258 18.624 10.43x
europe_osm 50.9M 108.1M threw1 18.389 1055.941 22.129 47.72x
kron_g500-logn21 2.1M 182.1M 91.920 41.049 2.24x 130.872 46.258 2.83x
uk-2002 18.5M 523.6M wrong2 48.219 311.016 58.048 5.36x
geomean 6.25x (13 graphs) 7.33x (18 graphs)

H200 (sm_90), CUDA 13.3, best-of-9 per graph, H2D transfer excluded, both
binaries built from one harness source in the same session and executed
interleaved per graph; every run validated against a Kruskal oracle.
Colors are FNV-checksum identical to the current solver on every run
where it is correct.

Determinism contract

The forest edge set, edge count, total weight, and colors are deterministic run-to-run, across architectures, and across the CAS128/two-pass implementations. The order of edges within the output COO is unspecified. Note: from the float domain the order key distinguishes -0.0 < +0.0 because of the sign bit.

Observable behavior changes (possible downstream issues?)

Notes for reviewers

  • Toolkit compatibility: the wide worklist entry is longlong4_16a on CUDA >= 13.0 and plain longlong4 on older toolkits (the _16a aligned vector types do not exist before 13.0, and longlong4 is deprecated from 13.0)
  • Kernel launches use the new raft::launch_kernel dispatcher (Implement a kernel dispatcher raft::launch_kernel #3104)
  • Inline-PTX word helpers: I wanted to force non-tearing accesses that wouldn't bypass the L1 like an atomic would. Measured atomics in the find at +27-215% runtime (pretty large perf hit)
  • NaN weights order deterministically by bit pattern
  • Two-pass wide path CI coverage: sm_90+ selects the single-pass 128-bit CAS implementation at compile time, so once CI hardware is all sm_90+ the portable two-pass path is never built. -DRAFT_MST_FORCE_TWOPASS compiles it anywhere if it needs to be tested on 90+ hardware
  • Input CSR must be symmetric (already implicit but not enforced in existing solver)
  • Resume (initialize_colors = false) requires colors from a previous solve (documented precondition; malformed seeds can hang the union-find
  • The e/2+1-entry worklists dominate memory. I found that to actually use memory near device capacity, I had to preallocate the RMM pool. Default pool growth strands some memory preventing full use of the device memory

Validation summary

  • gtests: original 7 fixtures kept; 8 added (Kruskal-exact float ~1e7 regression, symmetrize pairing, resume == one-shot, disconnected colors, uniform-weight path pathology (path compression cause), double weights, integer weights, and the 64-bit/mixed/unsigned instantiations)
  • Differential fuzzing: 50k+ iterations, 13 graph families x 9 weight regimes, exact edge-set/colors equality vs a tie-break-matched Kruskal oracle, including 3-way instantiation cross-checks and resume paths
  • compute-sanitizer memcheck/racecheck/initcheck: clean across gtests, all instantiations, both wide implementations
  • Scale: correct at e = INT_MAX-67 (int32), 2.25B edges (int64, H200), 4.29B edges / 1.35B vertices (~250GB device)

Footnotes

  1. current solver throws its "loss in precision" guard at float precision. 2 3

  2. current solver completes at float but returns a non-minimal/invalid forest (excluded from the float geomean; times against wrong results are not comparable). 2

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  • New Features

    • Improved minimum spanning forest computation for connected and disconnected graphs.
    • Added deterministic edge selection with stable tie-breaking for equal weights.
    • Added support for multiple vertex, edge-index, weight, and output-width combinations.
    • Supports resumable solves, optional sampled filtering, color seeding, and symmetric output.
    • Added stream-aware execution and compatibility with the existing stream-based API.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of large graphs, tied weights, integer and floating-point weights, and output-count limits.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded MST usage guidance, input requirements, output behavior, and iteration details.

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The MST implementation now uses an ECL-MST worklist Borůvka algorithm. It adds deterministic tie-breaking, narrow and wide integer support, sampling, resumable solves, COO extraction, and expanded correctness tests.

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MST solver rewrite

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Public contract and solver state
cpp/include/raft/sparse/solver/mst.cuh, cpp/include/raft/sparse/solver/mst_solver.cuh
The API and solver state document deterministic results, symmetric CSR input, resumable solves, user-provided colors, handle-stream usage, and compatibility parameters.
ECL-MST kernel pipeline
cpp/include/raft/sparse/solver/detail/mst_kernels.cuh, cpp/include/raft/util/device_loads_stores.cuh, cpp/include/raft/sparse/solver/detail/mst_utils.cuh
The kernels implement worklist construction, deterministic minimum-edge selection, union-find joins, sampling, narrow and wide key paths, and COO extraction. The load/store helpers provide constrained 32-bit and 64-bit PTX access. The obsolete MST utility header was removed.
Solver orchestration
cpp/include/raft/sparse/solver/detail/mst_solver_inl.cuh
detail::mst_solve validates inputs, manages colors and sampling, runs bounded Borůvka rounds, and returns COO output. MST_solver::solve() delegates to it.
Oracle and regression coverage
cpp/tests/sparse/mst.cu
Tests add a deterministic Kruskal oracle and cover ties, symmetric output, resumed solves, disconnected graphs, large graphs, numeric types, dry runs, overload compatibility, and index widths.

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cpp/include/raft/sparse/solver/detail/mst_kernels.cuh (1)

219-229: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Extract the CSR row search into one shared device helper.

mst_extract_coo_kernel and mst_init_worklist_kernel contain the same binary search over offsets. One helper removes the duplication and keeps both kernels consistent if the search changes.

♻️ Suggested helper
+template <typename vertex_t, typename edge_t>
+RAFT_DEVICE_INLINE_FUNCTION vertex_t mst_row_of(const edge_t* const __restrict__ offsets,
+                                                const vertex_t v,
+                                                const long long j)
+{
+  vertex_t lo = 0, hi = v;
+  while (lo + 1 < hi) {
+    const vertex_t mid = lo + (hi - lo) / 2;
+    if (offsets[mid] <= j) {
+      lo = mid;
+    } else {
+      hi = mid;
+    }
+  }
+  return lo;
+}

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In `@cpp/include/raft/sparse/solver/detail/mst_kernels.cuh` around lines 219 -
229, Extract the duplicated binary search over offsets from
mst_extract_coo_kernel and mst_init_worklist_kernel into a shared device helper,
then call that helper from both kernels to obtain the CSR row index. Preserve
the current boundary and offset comparison behavior so both kernels remain
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92-99: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use the resource-derived thrust policy, or drop the unused handle.

mst_solve receives handle and never reads it. Line 95 builds a thrust policy from rmm::exec_policy(stream) instead. The developer guide asks for raft::resources for streams and policies. The public API still accepts an explicit stream, so either take the policy from the resource, or mark handle unused to make the intent explicit.

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-    thrust::sequence(rmm::exec_policy(stream), parent.begin(), parent.end());
+    thrust::sequence(raft::resource::get_thrust_policy(handle), parent.begin(), parent.end());

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In `@cpp/include/raft/sparse/solver/detail/mst_solver_inl.cuh` around lines 92 -
99, Update mst_solve to use the resource-derived Thrust execution policy from
handle for the parent initialization sequence, while preserving the explicit
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In `@cpp/include/raft/sparse/solver/detail/mst_kernels.cuh`:
- Around line 28-47: Update the RAFT_MST_HAS_CAS128 preprocessor selection to
require both sm_90-or-newer support and defined __SIZEOF_INT128__; force it to 0
whenever host __int128 support is unavailable, while preserving the
RAFT_MST_FORCE_TWOPASS override. Keep mst_u128 guarded by the resulting
capability macro.

In `@cpp/include/raft/sparse/solver/detail/mst_solver_inl.cuh`:
- Around line 59-73: In the solver input validation alongside the existing
checks in the constructor or entry point containing the vertex and edge
preconditions, validate that the final offsets entry offsets[v] equals e before
launching kernels. Use the existing RAFT_EXPECTS mechanism and report an invalid
offsets/edge-count relationship, while preserving all other preconditions and
narrow-packing checks.
- Around line 134-239: Disambiguate the narrow-branch launches of
mst_filter_min_kernel and mst_select_join_kernel by casting each kernel name to
its intended function-pointer type or routing through an unambiguous wrapper, so
raft::launch_kernel selects the converting overload despite const/volatile
parameter differences. Preserve the existing wide and RAFT_MST_FORCE_TWOPASS
calls unchanged.

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In `@cpp/include/raft/sparse/solver/detail/mst_kernels.cuh`:
- Around line 219-229: Extract the duplicated binary search over offsets from
mst_extract_coo_kernel and mst_init_worklist_kernel into a shared device helper,
then call that helper from both kernels to obtain the CSR row index. Preserve
the current boundary and offset comparison behavior so both kernels remain
consistent.

In `@cpp/include/raft/sparse/solver/detail/mst_solver_inl.cuh`:
- Around line 92-99: Update mst_solve to use the resource-derived Thrust
execution policy from handle for the parent initialization sequence, while
preserving the explicit stream behavior required by the public API;
alternatively, if handle cannot be used here, explicitly mark it unused. Anchor
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Thanks for the PR. It's exciting to see such a perf boost getting merged into raft!

I have a few comments on the usage of raft API at this time. A big refactoring PR #2961 was merged since you opened this one - merging that will need some non-trivial updates.

Comment on lines +88 to +108
template <typename T>
RAFT_DEVICE_INLINE_FUNCTION T mst_atomic_cas(T* addr, T compare, T val)
{
if constexpr (sizeof(T) == 4) {
return static_cast<T>(atomicCAS(reinterpret_cast<unsigned int*>(addr),
static_cast<unsigned int>(compare),
static_cast<unsigned int>(val)));
} else {
return static_cast<T>(atomicCAS(
reinterpret_cast<mst_ull*>(addr), static_cast<mst_ull>(compare), static_cast<mst_ull>(val)));
}
__syncthreads();

// reduce across threads in warp
// each thread in warp holds min edge scanned by itself
// reduce across all those warps
for (int offset = 16; offset > 0; offset >>= 1) {
if (lane_id < offset) {
if (min_edge_weight[lane_id] > min_edge_weight[lane_id + offset]) {
min_color[lane_id] = min_color[lane_id + offset];
min_edge_weight[lane_id] = min_edge_weight[lane_id + offset];
min_edge_index[lane_id] = min_edge_index[lane_id + offset];
}
}
__syncthreads();
}

template <typename T>
RAFT_DEVICE_INLINE_FUNCTION T mst_atomic_add(T* addr, T val)
{
if constexpr (sizeof(T) == 4) {
return static_cast<T>(
atomicAdd(reinterpret_cast<unsigned int*>(addr), static_cast<unsigned int>(val)));
} else {
return static_cast<T>(atomicAdd(reinterpret_cast<mst_ull*>(addr), static_cast<mst_ull>(val)));

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Please replace with primitives from https://github.com/NVIDIA/raft/blob/main/cpp/include/raft/util/device_atomics.cuh (which you can extend if needed)

Comment on lines +112 to +136
// Single-instruction word accesses: racing reads can never see a torn value
// (uniform-size races are defined, PTX ISA 8.7.2) and L1 is kept. Do NOT
// replace with atomics: they bypass L1, causing a large perf hit.
template <typename T>
RAFT_DEVICE_INLINE_FUNCTION T mst_word_load(const T* addr)
{
if constexpr (sizeof(T) == 4) {
unsigned int r;
asm volatile("ld.b32 %0, [%1];" : "=r"(r) : "l"(addr) : "memory");
return static_cast<T>(r);
} else {
unsigned long long r;
asm volatile("ld.b64 %0, [%1];" : "=l"(r) : "l"(addr) : "memory");
return static_cast<T>(r);
}
}

// atomically set min edge per color
// takes care of super vertex case
atomicMin(&min_edge_color[self_color], min_edge_weight[0]);
}
template <typename T>
RAFT_DEVICE_INLINE_FUNCTION void mst_word_store(T* addr, T val)
{
if constexpr (sizeof(T) == 4) {
asm volatile("st.b32 [%0], %1;" ::"l"(addr), "r"(static_cast<unsigned int>(val)) : "memory");
} else {
asm volatile("st.b64 [%0], %1;" ::"l"(addr), "l"(static_cast<unsigned long long>(val))
: "memory");

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Please check if you can use the primitives from https://github.com/NVIDIA/raft/blob/main/cpp/include/raft/util/device_loads_stores.cuh (also can be extended if needed).

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Done, via "extend if needed". The header now has raft::ldg_ca / raft::stg_wb which is single-instruction 4/8-byte global access with the default .ca/.wb cache policy. The existing ldg wasn't a substitute because it bypasses the L1. The union-find takes advantage of the L1 and stale reads are benign. I measured L1-bypassing instructions at 27-215% slower. There's a comment explaining why for anyone who comes by down the road and thinks it's weird. Essentially, I just needed a non-tearing load and store but none of the other stuff that tends to come along with something like an atomic.

Comment on lines +92 to +101
const int vblocks =
static_cast<int>((static_cast<size_t>(v) + mst_block_size - 1) / mst_block_size);
if (initialize_colors) {
thrust::sequence(rmm::exec_policy(stream), parent.begin(), parent.end());
} else {
raft::launch_kernel(
stream, vblocks, mst_block_size, mst_init_parent_kernel<vertex_t>, v, color, parent.data());
}
RAFT_CUDA_TRY(cudaMemsetAsync(minv_raw.data(), 0xFF, minv_bytes, stream));
RAFT_CUDA_TRY(cudaMemsetAsync(in_mst.data(), 0, e * sizeof(bool), stream));

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We have recently merged the dry run PR #2961 . Once you merge the latest main and resolve the conflicts, the coderabbitai bot will likely complain that the dry run compliance is broken here: an unguarded cuda work is performed in thrust::sequence, in the kernel, and in cudaMemSetAsync.
I'd suggest to pass the raft::resources handle to all launch_kernel calls here and replace the thust::sequence and cudaMemsetAsync with raft::linalg::map_offset(handle, ...) and aft::linalg::map(handle, ...).

The rule of thumb: try to always call functions, which take raft::resources handle as the first argument - these are always dry run compliant.

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Done as you suggested. Also added the dry-run stuff which predicts a real solve's peak bc every allocation here is sized from v/e/flags.

stream, 1, 32, mst_sample_keys_kernel<edge_t, weight_t>, ns, e, weights, keys_d.data());
key_t keys[max_samples];
raft::update_host(keys, keys_d.data(), ns, stream);
RAFT_CUDA_TRY(cudaStreamSynchronize(stream));

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RAFT_CUDA_TRY(cudaStreamSynchronize(stream));
raft::resource::sync_stream(handle);

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Done

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Graph_COO<vertex_t, edge_t, weight_t> mst_solve(raft::resources const& handle,
edge_t const* offsets,
vertex_t const* indices,
weight_t const* weights,
vertex_t const v,
edge_t const e,
vertex_t* color,
cudaStream_t stream,
bool symmetrize_output,
bool initialize_colors,
int iterations)

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It is unfortunate that our API here accepts the stream argument separately from the handle argument. We try to gradually cleanup this - always use the stream that is stored in the handle (raft::resource::get_cuda_stream(handle)); this gets somewhat stronger enforced since the recent dry run PR.

To workaround the problem in this function, I'd suggest to copy the handle and set the given stream to the copy. Then use the new handle throughout the function:

auto res = handle;
raft::resource::set_cuda_stream(res, stream);

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We could also make a breaking change

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So, if I'm understanding right, the two options would be:

  1. Change the API to take the handle only (the breaking change), or
  2. Keep the API non-breaking and do the suggested auto res = handle; raft::resource::set_cuda_stream(res, stream);

Which would y'all prefer?

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I'm okay with 1 as you already have downstream PRs open!

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I kinda went in-between for this one. The existing cuVS pr is more of a correctness thing than a full API overhaul so I think it might be better to not do full breaking. I just overloaded the existing API to have the new cleaned up one and the old one but with a deprecation warning. If you want the full breaking change, I can do that, just figured this is a bit lower friction.

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…solver

# Conflicts:
#	cpp/include/raft/sparse/solver/detail/mst_solver_inl.cuh
#	cpp/tests/sparse/mst.cu
… mst() overload

- Merge upstream main (dry run protocol NVIDIA#2961)
- mst_solve: fold the stream argument into a handle copy; launch on the
  resources; replace thrust::sequence/cudaMemsetAsync with
  raft::linalg::map_offset; resource::sync_stream; dry-run guards
- Replace local atomic and word load/store helpers with
  raft/util/device_atomics.cuh primitives and new raft::ldg_ca/stg_wb in
  raft/util/device_loads_stores.cuh
- Gate RAFT_MST_HAS_CAS128 on host __int128; validate offsets[v] == e;
  shared mst_row_of helper
- New handle-only mst() overload; deprecate the stream-taking overload
- Tests: DryRunCompliance (exact dry-run accounting),
  DeprecatedStreamOverload
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cpp/include/raft/util/device_loads_stores.cuh (1)

787-799: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Constrain ldg_ca/stg_wb to integral types, or preserve bits.

The size constraint accepts any 4- or 8-byte T, but the conversions are value casts, not bit casts. For T = float or T = double, static_cast<T>(r) reinterprets the raw word as a numeric value and returns a wrong result. For a 8-byte pointer type, static_cast<T>(r) does not compile. The current MST caller passes an integral vertex_t, so no defect exists today. The helpers are new public API in raft/util, so a future caller can hit the float case silently.

Restrict the constraint to integral types, or copy the bits through the register.

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-template <typename T, typename = std::enable_if_t<sizeof(T) == 4 || sizeof(T) == 8>>
+template <typename T,
+          typename = std::enable_if_t<std::is_integral_v<T> && (sizeof(T) == 4 || sizeof(T) == 8)>>
 DI T ldg_ca(const T* addr)
-template <typename T, typename = std::enable_if_t<sizeof(T) == 4 || sizeof(T) == 8>>
+template <typename T,
+          typename = std::enable_if_t<std::is_integral_v<T> && (sizeof(T) == 4 || sizeof(T) == 8)>>
 DI void stg_wb(T* addr, T val)

Also add @tparam, @param, and @return entries for these two public functions, as required for new public APIs.

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In `@cpp/include/raft/util/device_loads_stores.cuh` around lines 787 - 799, Update
the public helpers ldg_ca and stg_wb to prevent numeric conversions from
changing loaded or stored bit patterns: constrain their templates to integral
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In `@cpp/include/raft/sparse/solver/detail/mst_solver_inl.cuh`:
- Around line 84-86: Update the edge-count validation in the MST solver around
the unsigned edge_t check to depend on sizeof(edge_t) == 4 rather than narrow.
Ensure all 32-bit unsigned edge counts are validated against INT_MAX regardless
of weight_t size, while preserving the existing behavior for other edge types.

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Comment thread cpp/include/raft/sparse/solver/detail/mst_solver_inl.cuh Outdated
wl_size_t is int for any 4-byte edge_t, so <uint32_t, uint32_t, double>
skipped the INT_MAX guard and could wrap wl_capacity. The wraparound was
already contained by the slot bounds check and worklist RAFT_EXPECTS,
but failed with a misleading symmetry error. Adds the instantiation to
the typed test sweep.
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