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This paper targets a training-efficiency bottleneck in equivariant structure-prediction models: rebuilding the k-nearest-neighbour graph at every block boundary is costly, while reusing a frozen graph leaves a topology gap. The authors propose a two-pass scheme with compensation levels and reports a 1.5x Pass-1 and 1.76x epoch speed-up on a recorded trajectory, but these are single-protocol results that still need independent replication. Readers working on geometric deep learning or protein-structure models should weigh the exactness claims (L2 matching the rebuilt graph) against the narrower matched-conditions setup.
Refined Topology-Pass Scheduling: Damped Trust-Region Compensation for Dynamic k-NN Graphs in SE(3)-Equivariant Structure Prediction
arXiv:2610.19246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Equivariant structure-prediction pipelines alternate coordinate updates with the construction of a k-nearest-neighbour (kNN) graph whose membership is a discrete, piecewise-constant function of the coordinates. Rebuilding that graph at every block boundary (PB) is the expensive part of an epoch, whereas reusing one frozen graph (F) is fast but leaves a topology gap. We study a two-pass design in which the cheap pass records a small amount of state (margins, kNN radii, measured per-boundary displacements) and a second pass compensates conservatively. We formulate the choice of the graph-construction basis as a damped fixed-point iteration whose unique fixed point is exactly PB, and derive (i) exact non-flip certificates with the two-sided constant $m_i/4$ and one-sided constant $m_i/2$, (ii) the minimum-variance (BLUE) replay gain $\gamma^*$ and the resulting feasibility crossover, (iii) an $\ell_\infty$ trust-region projection that preserves convergence, and (iv) an analytic near-tie spacing law $E[m] \approx r_k/(3k)$ that matches measurements to 1\%. Three compensation levels are implemented in C++ (L1: frozen set with live geometry; L2: margin-gated local repair; L3: damped, projected basis) and validated under a matched-conditions protocol (identical seed, MSA depth and trajectory family, only the topology mode differs). L2 reproduces the PB edge set exactly ($D = 0.0000$ at every boundary), L1 stays within 0.6% and L3 interpolates monotonically: L2 reproduces the PB edge set exactly when the trust region is removed, and L3 interpolates between the frozen and the PB topology. The recorded trajectory itself yields a measured $1.5\times$ Pass-1 and $1.76\times$ epoch speed-up with no measurable loss gap. An open-source implementation of the runtime and of all the experiments reported here is available at https://github.com/AlbertHuang96/ProteinPredictMachineLearning.
Abstract:Equivariant structure-prediction pipelines alternate coordinate updates with the construction of a k-nearest-neighbour (kNN) graph whose membership is a discrete, piecewise-constant function of the coordinates. Rebuilding that graph at every block boundary (PB) is the expensive part of an epoch, whereas reusing one frozen graph (F) is fast but leaves a topology gap. We study a two-pass design in which the cheap pass records a small amount of state (margins, kNN radii, measured per-boundary displacements) and a second pass compensates conservatively. We formulate the choice of the graph-construction basis as a damped fixed-point iteration whose unique fixed point is exactly PB, and derive (i) exact non-flip certificates with the two-sided constant $m_i/4$ and one-sided constant $m_i/2$, (ii) the minimum-variance (BLUE) replay gain $\gamma^*$ and the resulting feasibility crossover, (iii) an $\ell_\infty$ trust-region projection that preserves convergence, and (iv) an analytic near-tie spacing law $E[m] \approx r_k/(3k)$ that matches measurements to 1\%. Three compensation levels are implemented in C++ (L1: frozen set with live geometry; L2: margin-gated local repair; L3: damped, projected basis) and validated under a matched-conditions protocol (identical seed, MSA depth and trajectory family, only the topology mode differs). L2 reproduces the PB edge set exactly ($D = 0.0000$ at every boundary), L1 stays within 0.6% and L3 interpolates monotonically: L2 reproduces the PB edge set exactly when the trust region is removed, and L3 interpolates between the frozen and the PB topology. The recorded trajectory itself yields a measured $1.5\times$ Pass-1 and $1.76\times$ epoch speed-up with no measurable loss gap. An open-source implementation of the runtime and of all the experiments reported here is available at this https URL.
Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2610.19246 [cs.LG]
(or arXiv:2610.19246v1 [cs.LG] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.19246 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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