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📝 SummarySummaryAdds Boltz-2 ligand affinity support within the family-owned implementation.
Architecture impactFamily ownershipChanged implementation remains under Shared surfacesThe change updates serialized and runtime contracts:
Dependency directionRequest preparation produces affinity features and batched random samples. Package construction consumes the pinned affinity checkpoint and produces two affinity engines. Runtime loading consumes the expanded engine set and emits affinity metadata. Reference validation consumes the same pinned checkpoint. Affected consumersAffected consumers include Boltz-2 package builders, request caches, feature-bundle readers, random-sample readers, engine loaders, runtime callers, and metadata consumers. Existing Boltz-2 bundles require rebuilding. Unresolved blast-radius questions
OutcomeHUMAN REVIEW REQUIRED — The supplied evidence reports passing source-quality checks, impact validation, linting, native tests, selected live E2E tests, structure parity, and affinity accuracy gates. GPU CI, other GPU architectures, other TensorRT releases, artifact deployment, and downstream metadata compatibility remain unqualified. WalkthroughBoltz-2 now supports ligand-aware affinity requests, affinity feature formats, dedicated ensemble TensorRT engines, seeded diffusion samples, runtime affinity prediction, affinity metadata, checkpoint validation, reference parity checks, and end-to-end coverage. ChangesBoltz-2 affinity prediction
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Request
participant FeaturePreparation
participant TensorRTEngines
participant Boltz2Pipeline
participant Metadata
Request->>FeaturePreparation: parse ligands, affinity properties, and constraints
FeaturePreparation->>TensorRTEngines: provide affinity features and random samples
TensorRTEngines->>Boltz2Pipeline: return structure and affinity outputs
Boltz2Pipeline->>Metadata: record aggregate and per-member predictions
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Affinity predictions can use incorrect conditioning, undermining the new workflow’s results. This should be corrected before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 8 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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217-219: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd a CCD-ligand native E2E case.
This PR adds CCD ligand support, but the E2E request still uses
smiles. No non-E2E test reaches the CCD preparation and native consumer path. Add a CCD ligand fixture to the biomolecular request and assert thatprepare_structure_requestand nativepredict-structureboth succeed. This provides the focused coverage required for the new behavior.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@families/boltz2/runtime/pipeline.cpp`:
- Around line 816-818: Update the atom-to-token validation in applyAtomTokenMap
to reject selected token indices at or beyond active_token_count_, not just
unmapped atoms indicated by -1. Throw std::invalid_argument for padding-token
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In `@families/boltz2/tests/test_e2e.py`:
- Around line 217-219: The E2E request currently exercises only the SMILES
ligand path; update the fixture in the biomolecular request to use a CCD ligand
and add assertions covering successful prepare_structure_request and native
predict-structure execution. Keep the test focused on the CCD preparation and
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In `@families/boltz2/runtime/pipeline.cpp`:
- Around line 457-459: The binder-chain validation around affinity_token_mask
must reject partial coverage: after identifying binder_chain, verify every
active non-polymer token with the same asym_id has a nonzero mask, and throw the
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In `@families/boltz2/tests/test_e2e.py`:
- Around line 424-437: Update the affinity comparison helper around the limits
loop to build every check without asserting, record the complete checks through
record_evidence("affinity_reference_comparison", ...) in a finally block, and
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- Around line 412-414: Update the test flow around load_affinity_reference_model
and predict_affinity_reference so model loading, prediction, and comparison
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619-619: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd live SMILES coverage to the Boltz-2 E2E test.
Boltz accepts either
smilesorccd, but these inputs use distinct preparation branches. CCD usesget_molandparse_ccd_residue; SMILES uses RDKit parsing, atom naming, 3D conformer generation, and affinity standardization. Sincetest_model_e2eexercises onlyccd: EOH, regressions in SMILES preparation can pass. Add a SMILES variant with the same native, reference, and affinity assertions.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Line 619: Add a SMILES-based case to test_model_e2e alongside the existing
ccd: EOH case, using the same native, reference, and affinity assertions so the
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Accept SMILES/CCD ligands, affinity properties, and soft bond, pocket, and contact constraints in reusable prepared requests. Build two native TensorRT affinity ensemble heads and reproduce upstream five-sample diffusion selection while preserving fail-closed forced-guidance and static-profile boundaries. Refs: NVIDIA#1111 Signed-off-by: Vivian Chen <140748220+xuanzic@users.noreply.github.com>
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In `@families/boltz2/runtime/pipeline.cpp`:
- Around line 1410-1419: Change the affinity_method buffer in the method-feature
setup to use int32_t values, matching the trt.int32 method_feature expected by
bindFeature and copy_from_host. Preserve the existing per-token values of 0 and
4 and the upload/error handling flow.
- Around line 1359-1360: Update runConfidence and its frame-helper calls to
interpret token_to_rep_atom storage as const int32_t* rather than const float*.
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| const auto* token_to_rep_atom = | ||
| reinterpret_cast<const float*>(feature("token_to_rep_atom").data.data()); |
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Read token_to_rep_atom as int32_t.
Both engine builders declare token_to_rep_atom as trt.int32. FeatureTensor stores its bytes separately from its declared dtype, and bindFeature rejects a dtype mismatch before execution. runConfidence still interprets the int32-encoded storage as const float* and passes it through the frame helpers. The current zero/nonzero test usually preserves the result, but the mismatched typed access can violate alignment and object-access rules and invoke undefined behavior. Use const int32_t* throughout the frame helpers. An additional requireFeatureStorage check is not required for this issue because bindFeature already enforces the dtype for both confidence and affinity engines.
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runConfidence and its frame-helper calls to interpret token_to_rep_atom storage
as const int32_t* rather than const float*. Propagate the int32_t pointer type
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| std::vector<int64_t> affinity_method(static_cast<std::size_t>(token_count_), 0); | ||
| for (int token = 0; token < token_count_; ++token) | ||
| affinity_method[static_cast<std::size_t>(token)] = token_mask[token] == 0.0F ? 0 : 4; | ||
| auto& method_feature = device_features_.at("method_feature"); | ||
| const auto* original_method = feature("method_feature").data.data(); | ||
| if (!method_feature.copy_from_host(affinity_method.data())) | ||
| throw std::runtime_error("Boltz-2 failed to upload affinity method conditioning"); | ||
| try { | ||
| engines_.input->forward_device_async({}); | ||
| runTrunk(5, false, false); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
🔎 Supported by static analysis
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official Boltz-2 source affinity prediction s_inputs_affinity trunk embedding
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<search_synthesis>
In the Boltz-2 architecture, s_inputs_affinity is a processed embedding used as an input to the affinity prediction modules [1]. It is generated by the InputEmbedder, a component of the model's trunk [2][1]. The process generally involves: 1. Input Embedding: The InputEmbedder module (located in src/boltz/model/modules/trunk.py) takes input features (such as residue types, MSA profiles, and pocket features) and computes an initial representation [2]. 2. Affinity Input Preparation: Before reaching the affinity modules, this embedding—often referred to as s_inputs_affinity—is further processed or detached from the structural prediction computation graph to serve as the input for affinity estimation [3][1]. 3. Affinity Prediction: The s_inputs_affinity, along with other tensors like z_affinity (a representation of atom-to-token embeddings) and structural distograms, is passed into the affinity modules (typically self.affinity_module1 and self.affinity_module2) to predict values such as affinity_pred_value and affinity_probability_binary [3][1]. When fine-tuning the Boltz-2 affinity head, structural weights (including the trunk and diffusion modules) are typically frozen, and only the affinity modules are trained using these pre-computed embeddings [4][5].
</search_synthesis>
<source_evidence>
Citations:
- 1: https://cephalochromoscope.net/f7525a02-848b-4131-97ca-7c95f41d33a5
- 2: https://github.com/jwohlwend/boltz/blob/main/src/boltz/model/modules/trunk.py
- 3: https://github.com/jwohlwend/boltz/blob/cb04aecc/src/boltz/model/models/boltz2.py
- 4: https://github.com/molecularinformatics/Boltz2_affinity/blob/main/docs/affinity_finetuning.md
- 5: https://github.com/molecularinformatics/Boltz2_affinity
Use an int32_t affinity method buffer.
method_feature is an trt.int32 input, and bindFeature requires the device feature dtype to match. copy_from_host copies the destination byte count. The current int64_t buffer can therefore upload adjacent 32-bit words, such as 4, 0, 4, 0, instead of one method value per token.
🐛 Proposed dtype fix
- std::vector<int64_t> affinity_method(static_cast<std::size_t>(token_count_), 0);
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| std::vector<int64_t> affinity_method(static_cast<std::size_t>(token_count_), 0); | |
| for (int token = 0; token < token_count_; ++token) | |
| affinity_method[static_cast<std::size_t>(token)] = token_mask[token] == 0.0F ? 0 : 4; | |
| auto& method_feature = device_features_.at("method_feature"); | |
| const auto* original_method = feature("method_feature").data.data(); | |
| if (!method_feature.copy_from_host(affinity_method.data())) | |
| throw std::runtime_error("Boltz-2 failed to upload affinity method conditioning"); | |
| try { | |
| engines_.input->forward_device_async({}); | |
| runTrunk(5, false, false); | |
| std::vector<int32_t> affinity_method(static_cast<std::size_t>(token_count_), 0); | |
| for (int token = 0; token < token_count_; ++token) | |
| affinity_method[static_cast<std::size_t>(token)] = token_mask[token] == 0.0F ? 0 : 4; | |
| auto& method_feature = device_features_.at("method_feature"); | |
| const auto* original_method = feature("method_feature").data.data(); | |
| if (!method_feature.copy_from_host(affinity_method.data())) | |
| throw std::runtime_error("Boltz-2 failed to upload affinity method conditioning"); | |
| try { | |
| engines_.input->forward_device_async({}); | |
| runTrunk(5, false, false); |
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In `@families/boltz2/runtime/pipeline.cpp` around lines 1410 - 1419, Change the
affinity_method buffer in the method-feature setup to use int32_t values,
matching the trt.int32 method_feature expected by bindFeature and
copy_from_host. Preserve the existing per-token values of 0 and 4 and the
upload/error handling flow.
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Background
Issue #1111 established the bounded Boltz-2 structure-prediction foundation. This follow-up adds the ligand and affinity workflow needed for protein-ligand use cases while keeping bundle execution native and family-owned.
Exit Criteria
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Commands and Results
python -m pytest families/boltz2/tests -q: 1 passed and 1 explicitly selected live E2E skipped.python tools/test_impact.py --validate: passed.ruff check families/boltz2/input_embedder_builder.py: passed.clang-format --dry-run --Werror families/boltz2/runtime/pipeline.cpp families/boltz2/runtime/pipeline.h: passed.EOHCCD ligand: structure parity passed with lDDT 0.99777 and Kabsch RMSD 0.16074 A.Hardware, Environment, and Revisions
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Contributor Self-Review
Notes For Future Readers
Review the request contract and preparation path first, then
affinity_builder.py, the engine manifest, and the native pipeline. The affinity heads are family-owned and consume the same pinned common trunk weights as the structure checkpoint. Existing Boltz-2 bundles must be rebuilt because the family bundle contracts and required plan inventory changed.Follow-up to #1111.
Risk level
High because this changes the Boltz-2 request and bundle contracts, adds two plans, and extends native diffusion orchestration. Risk remains isolated to the Boltz-2 family, with explicit profile validation and fail-closed unsupported inputs.