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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tomasz SobczykandDisservin f1bb4164bf Fix process' processor affinity determination on Windows.
Specialize and privatize NumaConfig::get_process_affinity.
Only enable NUMA capability for 64-bit Windows.

Following #5307 and some more testing it was determined that the way affinity
was being determined on Windows was incorrect, based on incorrect assumptions
about GetNumaProcessorNodeEx.

This patch fixes the issue by attempting to retrieve the actual process'
processor affinity using Windows API. However one issue persists that is not
addressable due to limitations of Windows, and will have to be considered a
limitation. If affinities were set using SetThreadAffinityMask instead of
SetThreadSelectedCpuSetMasks and GetProcessGroupAffinity returns more than 1
group it is NOT POSSIBLE to determine the affinity programmatically on Windows.
In such case the implementation assumes no affinites are set and will consider
all processors available for execution.

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5312

No functional change
2024-05-30 23:05:16 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele a169c78b6d Improve performance on NUMA systems
Allow for NUMA memory replication for NNUE weights.  Bind threads to ensure execution on a specific NUMA node.

This patch introduces NUMA memory replication, currently only utilized for the NNUE weights. Along with it comes all machinery required to identify NUMA nodes and bind threads to specific processors/nodes. It also comes with small changes to Thread and ThreadPool to allow easier execution of custom functions on the designated thread. Old thread binding (WinProcGroup) machinery is removed because it's incompatible with this patch. Small changes to unrelated parts of the code were made to ensure correctness, like some classes being made unmovable, raw pointers replaced with unique_ptr. etc.

Windows 7 and Windows 10 is partially supported. Windows 11 is fully supported. Linux is fully supported, with explicit exclusion of Android. No additional dependencies.

-----------------

A new UCI option `NumaPolicy` is introduced. It can take the following values:
```
system - gathers NUMA node information from the system (lscpu or windows api), for each threads binds it to a single NUMA node
none - assumes there is 1 NUMA node, never binds threads
auto - this is the default value, depends on the number of set threads and NUMA nodes, will only enable binding on multinode systems and when the number of threads reaches a threshold (dependent on node size and count)
[[custom]] -
  // ':'-separated numa nodes
  // ','-separated cpu indices
  // supports "first-last" range syntax for cpu indices,
  for example '0-15,32-47:16-31,48-63'
```

Setting `NumaPolicy` forces recreation of the threads in the ThreadPool, which in turn forces the recreation of the TT.

The threads are distributed among NUMA nodes in a round-robin fashion based on fill percentage (i.e. it will strive to fill all NUMA nodes evenly). Threads are bound to NUMA nodes, not specific processors, because that's our only requirement and the OS can schedule them better.

Special care is made that maximum memory usage on systems that do not require memory replication stays as previously, that is, unnecessary copies are avoided.

On linux the process' processor affinity is respected. This means that if you for example use taskset to restrict Stockfish to a single NUMA node then the `system` and `auto` settings will only see a single NUMA node (more precisely, the processors included in the current affinity mask) and act accordingly.

-----------------

We can't ensure that a memory allocation takes place on a given NUMA node without using libnuma on linux, or using appropriate custom allocators on windows (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/memory/allocating-memory-from-a-numa-node), so to avoid complications the current implementation relies on first-touch policy. Due to this we also rely on the memory allocator to give us a new chunk of untouched memory from the system. This appears to work reliably on linux, but results may vary.

MacOS is not supported, because AFAIK it's not affected, and implementation would be problematic anyway.

Windows is supported since Windows 7 (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processtopologyapi/nf-processtopologyapi-setthreadgroupaffinity). Until Windows 11/Server 2022 NUMA nodes are split such that they cannot span processor groups. This is because before Windows 11/Server 2022 it's not possible to set thread affinity spanning processor groups. The splitting is done manually in some cases (required after Windows 10 Build 20348). Since Windows 11/Server 2022 we can set affinites spanning processor group so this splitting is not done, so the behaviour is pretty much like on linux.

Linux is supported, **without** libnuma requirement. `lscpu` is expected.

-----------------

Passed 60+1 @ 256t 16000MB hash: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/6654e443a86388d5e27db0d8
```
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,10.00>
Total: 278 W: 110 L: 29 D: 139
Ptnml(0-2): 0, 1, 56, 82, 0
```

Passed SMP STC: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/6654fc74a86388d5e27db1cd
```
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) <-1.75,0.25>
Total: 67152 W: 17354 L: 17177 D: 32621
Ptnml(0-2): 64, 7428, 18408, 7619, 57
```

Passed STC: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/6654fb27a86388d5e27db15c
```
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <-1.75,0.25>
Total: 131648 W: 34155 L: 34045 D: 63448
Ptnml(0-2): 426, 13878, 37096, 14008, 416
```

fixes #5253
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5285

No functional change
2024-05-28 18:34:15 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandDisservin 1461d861c8 Prevent usage of AVX-512 for the last layer.
Add more static checks regarding the SIMD width match.

STC: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/64f5c568a9bc5a78c669e70e
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) <-1.75,0.25>
Total: 125216 W: 31756 L: 31636 D: 61824
Ptnml(0-2): 327, 13993, 33848, 14113, 327

Fixes a bug introduced in 2f2f45f, where with AVX-512 the weights and input to
the last layer were being read out of bounds. Now AVX-512 is only used for the
layers it can be used for. Additional static assertions have been added to
prevent more errors like this in the future.

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/4773

No functional change
2023-09-11 22:11:30 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandStéphane Nicolet 0d2ddb81ef Fix Makefile for incorrect nnue file
If an incorrect network file is present at the start of the compilation stage, the
Makefile script now correctly removes it before trying to download a clean version.

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/4726

No functional change
2023-08-11 19:20:29 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele c079acc26f Update NNUE architecture to SFNNv5. Update network to nn-3c0aa92af1da.nnue.
Architecture changes:

    Duplicated activation after the 1024->15 layer with squared crelu (so 15->15*2). As proposed by vondele.

Trainer changes:

    Added bias to L1 factorization, which was previously missing (no measurable improvement but at least neutral in principle)
    For retraining linearly reduce lambda parameter from 1.0 at epoch 0 to 0.75 at epoch 800.
    reduce max_skipping_rate from 15 to 10 (compared to vondele's outstanding PR)

Note: This network was trained with a ~0.8% error in quantization regarding the newly added activation function.
      This will be fixed in the released trainer version. Expect a trainer PR tomorrow.

Note: The inference implementation cuts a corner to merge results from two activation functions.
       This could possibly be resolved nicer in the future. AVX2 implementation likely not necessary, but NEON is missing.

First training session invocation:

python3 train.py \
    ../nnue-pytorch-training/data/nodes5000pv2_UHO.binpack \
    ../nnue-pytorch-training/data/nodes5000pv2_UHO.binpack \
    --gpus "$3," \
    --threads 4 \
    --num-workers 8 \
    --batch-size 16384 \
    --progress_bar_refresh_rate 20 \
    --random-fen-skipping 3 \
    --features=HalfKAv2_hm^ \
    --lambda=1.0 \
    --max_epochs=400 \
    --default_root_dir ../nnue-pytorch-training/experiment_$1/run_$2

Second training session invocation:

python3 train.py \
    ../nnue-pytorch-training/data/T60T70wIsRightFarseerT60T74T75T76.binpack \
    ../nnue-pytorch-training/data/T60T70wIsRightFarseerT60T74T75T76.binpack \
    --gpus "$3," \
    --threads 4 \
    --num-workers 8 \
    --batch-size 16384 \
    --progress_bar_refresh_rate 20 \
    --random-fen-skipping 3 \
    --features=HalfKAv2_hm^ \
    --start-lambda=1.0 \
    --end-lambda=0.75 \
    --gamma=0.995 \
    --lr=4.375e-4 \
    --max_epochs=800 \
    --resume-from-model /data/sopel/nnue/nnue-pytorch-training/data/exp367/nn-exp367-run3-epoch399.pt \
    --default_root_dir ../nnue-pytorch-training/experiment_$1/run_$2

Passed STC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.50>
Total: 27288 W: 7445 L: 7178 D: 12665
Ptnml(0-2): 159, 3002, 7054, 3271, 158
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/627e8c001919125939623644

Passed LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,3.00>
Total: 21792 W: 5969 L: 5727 D: 10096
Ptnml(0-2): 25, 2152, 6294, 2406, 19
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/627f2a855734b18b2e2ece47

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/4020

Bench: 6481017
2022-05-14 12:47:22 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele 174b038bf3 Use dynamic allocation for evaluation scratch TLS buffer.
fixes #3946 an issue related with the toolchain as found in xcode 12 on macOS,
related to previous commit 5f781d36.

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3950

No functional change
2022-03-01 17:51:02 +01:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele cb9c2594fc Update architecture to "SFNNv4". Update network to nn-6877cd24400e.nnue.
Architecture:

The diagram of the "SFNNv4" architecture:
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/8037982/153455685-cbe3a038-e158-4481-844d-9d5fccf5c33a.png

The most important architectural changes are the following:

* 1024x2 [activated] neurons are pairwise, elementwise multiplied (not quite pairwise due to implementation details, see diagram), which introduces a non-linearity that exhibits similar benefits to previously tested sigmoid activation (quantmoid4), while being slightly faster.
* The following layer has therefore 2x less inputs, which we compensate by having 2 more outputs. It is possible that reducing the number of outputs might be beneficial (as we had it as low as 8 before). The layer is now 1024->16.
* The 16 outputs are split into 15 and 1. The 1-wide output is added to the network output (after some necessary scaling due to quantization differences). The 15-wide is activated and follows the usual path through a set of linear layers. The additional 1-wide output is at least neutral, but has shown a slightly positive trend in training compared to networks without it (all 16 outputs through the usual path), and allows possibly an additional stage of lazy evaluation to be introduced in the future.

Additionally, the inference code was rewritten and no longer uses a recursive implementation. This was necessitated by the splitting of the 16-wide intermediate result into two, which was impossible to do with the old implementation with ugly hacks. This is hopefully overall for the better.

First session:

The first session was training a network from scratch (random initialization). The exact trainer used was slightly different (older) from the one used in the second session, but it should not have a measurable effect. The purpose of this session is to establish a strong network base for the second session. Small deviations in strength do not harm the learnability in the second session.

The training was done using the following command:

python3 train.py \
    /home/sopel/nnue/nnue-pytorch-training/data/nodes5000pv2_UHO.binpack \
    /home/sopel/nnue/nnue-pytorch-training/data/nodes5000pv2_UHO.binpack \
    --gpus "$3," \
    --threads 4 \
    --num-workers 4 \
    --batch-size 16384 \
    --progress_bar_refresh_rate 20 \
    --random-fen-skipping 3 \
    --features=HalfKAv2_hm^ \
    --lambda=1.0 \
    --gamma=0.992 \
    --lr=8.75e-4 \
    --max_epochs=400 \
    --default_root_dir ../nnue-pytorch-training/experiment_$1/run_$2

Every 20th net was saved and its playing strength measured against some baseline at 25k nodes per move with pure NNUE evaluation (modified binary). The exact setup is not important as long as it's consistent. The purpose is to sift good candidates from bad ones.

The dataset can be found https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UQdZN_LWQ265spwTBwDKo0t1WjSJKvWY/view

Second session:

The second training session was done starting from the best network (as determined by strength testing) from the first session. It is important that it's resumed from a .pt model and NOT a .ckpt model. The conversion can be performed directly using serialize.py

The LR schedule was modified to use gamma=0.995 instead of gamma=0.992 and LR=4.375e-4 instead of LR=8.75e-4 to flatten the LR curve and allow for longer training. The training was then running for 800 epochs instead of 400 (though it's possibly mostly noise after around epoch 600).

The training was done using the following command:

The training was done using the following command:

python3 train.py \
        /data/sopel/nnue/nnue-pytorch-training/data/T60T70wIsRightFarseerT60T74T75T76.binpack \
        /data/sopel/nnue/nnue-pytorch-training/data/T60T70wIsRightFarseerT60T74T75T76.binpack \
        --gpus "$3," \
        --threads 4 \
        --num-workers 4 \
        --batch-size 16384 \
        --progress_bar_refresh_rate 20 \
        --random-fen-skipping 3 \
        --features=HalfKAv2_hm^ \
        --lambda=1.0 \
        --gamma=0.995 \
        --lr=4.375e-4 \
        --max_epochs=800 \
        --resume-from-model /data/sopel/nnue/nnue-pytorch-training/data/exp295/nn-epoch399.pt \
        --default_root_dir ../nnue-pytorch-training/experiment_$1/run_$run_id

In particular note that we now use lambda=1.0 instead of lambda=0.8 (previous nets), because tests show that WDL-skipping introduced by vondele performs better with lambda=1.0. Nets were being saved every 20th epoch. In total 16 runs were made with these settings and the best nets chosen according to playing strength at 25k nodes per move with pure NNUE evaluation - these are the 4 nets that have been put on fishtest.

The dataset can be found either at ftp://ftp.chessdb.cn/pub/sopel/data_sf/T60T70wIsRightFarseerT60T74T75T76.binpack in its entirety (download might be painfully slow because hosted in China) or can be assembled in the following way:

Get the https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/blob/5640ad48ae5881223b868362c1cbeb042947f7b4/script/interleave_binpacks.py script.
Download T60T70wIsRightFarseer.binpack https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_sQoWBl31WAxNXma2v45004CIVltytP8/view
Download farseerT74.binpack http://trainingdata.farseer.org/T74-May13-End.7z
Download farseerT75.binpack http://trainingdata.farseer.org/T75-June3rd-End.7z
Download farseerT76.binpack http://trainingdata.farseer.org/T76-Nov10th-End.7z
Run python3 interleave_binpacks.py T60T70wIsRightFarseer.binpack farseerT74.binpack farseerT75.binpack farseerT76.binpack T60T70wIsRightFarseerT60T74T75T76.binpack

Tests:

STC: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/6203fb85d71106ed12a407b7
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.50>
Total: 16952 W: 4775 L: 4521 D: 7656
Ptnml(0-2): 133, 1818, 4318, 2076, 131

LTC: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/62041e68d71106ed12a40e85
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,3.00>
Total: 14944 W: 4138 L: 3907 D: 6899
Ptnml(0-2): 21, 1499, 4202, 1728, 22

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3927

Bench: 4919707
2022-02-10 19:54:31 +01:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele 4766dfc395 Optimize FT activation and affine transform for NEON.
This patch optimizes the NEON implementation in two ways.

    The activation layer after the feature transformer is rewritten to make it easier for the compiler to see through dependencies and unroll. This in itself is a minimal, but a positive improvement. Other architectures could benefit from this too in the future. This is not an algorithmic change.
    The affine transform for large matrices (first layer after FT) on NEON now utilizes the same optimized code path as >=SSSE3, which makes the memory accesses more sequential and makes better use of the available registers, which allows for code that has longer dependency chains.

Benchmarks from Redshift#161, profile-build with apple clang

george@Georges-MacBook-Air nets % ./stockfish-b82d93 bench 2>&1 | tail -4 (current master)
===========================
Total time (ms) : 2167
Nodes searched  : 4667742
Nodes/second    : 2154011
george@Georges-MacBook-Air nets % ./stockfish-7377b8 bench 2>&1 | tail -4 (this patch)
===========================
Total time (ms) : 1842
Nodes searched  : 4667742
Nodes/second    : 2534061

This is a solid 18% improvement overall, larger in a bench with NNUE-only, not mixed.

Improvement is also observed on armv7-neon (Raspberry Pi, and older phones), around 5% speedup.

No changes for architectures other than NEON.

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3837

No functional changes.
2021-12-07 18:08:54 +01:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele 18dcf1f097 Optimize and tidy up affine transform code.
The new network caused some issues initially due to the very narrow neuron set between the first two FC layers. Necessary changes were hacked together to make it work. This patch is a mature approach to make the affine transform code faster, more readable, and easier to maintain should the layer sizes change again.

The following changes were made:

* ClippedReLU always produces a multiple of 32 outputs. This is about as good of a solution for AffineTransform's SIMD requirements as it can get without a bigger rewrite.

* All self-contained simd helpers are moved to a separate file (simd.h). Inline asm is utilized to work around GCC's issues with code generation and register assignment. See https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101693, https://godbolt.org/z/da76fY1n7

* AffineTransform has 2 specializations. While it's more lines of code due to the boilerplate, the logic in both is significantly reduced, as these two are impossible to nicely combine into one.
 1) The first specialization is for cases when there's >=128 inputs. It uses a different approach to perform the affine transform and can make full use of AVX512 without any edge cases. Furthermore, it has higher theoretical throughput because less loads are needed in the hot path, requiring only a fixed amount of instructions for horizontal additions at the end, which are amortized by the large number of inputs.
 2) The second specialization is made to handle smaller layers where performance is still necessary but edge cases need to be handled. AVX512 implementation for this was ommited by mistake, a remnant from the temporary implementation for the new... This could be easily reintroduced if needed. A slightly more detailed description of both implementations is in the code.

Overall it should be a minor speedup, as shown on fishtest:

passed STC:
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) <-0.50,2.50>
Total: 51520 W: 4074 L: 3888 D: 43558
Ptnml(0-2): 111, 3136, 19097, 3288, 128

and various tests shown in the pull request

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3663

No functional change
2021-08-20 08:50:25 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele ccf0239bc4 Improve handling of the debug log file.
Fix handling of empty strings in uci options and reassigning of the log file

Fixes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/issues/3650

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3655

No functional change
2021-08-20 07:57:09 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele d61d38586e New NNUE architecture and net
Introduces a new NNUE network architecture and associated network parameters

The summary of the changes:

* Position for each perspective mirrored such that the king is on e..h files. Cuts the feature transformer size in half, while preserving enough knowledge to be good. See https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gTlrr02qSNKiXNZ_SuO4-RjK4MXBiFlLE6jvNqqMkAY/edit#heading=h.b40q4rb1w7on.
* The number of neurons after the feature transformer increased two-fold, to 1024x2. This is possibly mostly due to the now very optimized feature transformer update code.
* The number of neurons after the second layer is reduced from 16 to 8, to reduce the speed impact. This, perhaps surprisingly, doesn't harm the strength much. See https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gTlrr02qSNKiXNZ_SuO4-RjK4MXBiFlLE6jvNqqMkAY/edit#heading=h.6qkocr97fezq

The AffineTransform code did not work out-of-the box with the smaller number of neurons after the second layer, so some temporary changes have been made to add a special case for InputDimensions == 8. Also additional 0 padding is added to the output for some archs that cannot process inputs by <=8 (SSE2, NEON). VNNI uses an implementation that can keep all outputs in the registers while reducing the number of loads by 3 for each 16 inputs, thanks to the reduced number of output neurons. However GCC is particularily bad at optimization here (and perhaps why the current way the affine transform is done even passed sprt) (see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gTlrr02qSNKiXNZ_SuO4-RjK4MXBiFlLE6jvNqqMkAY/edit# for details) and more work will be done on this in the following days. I expect the current VNNI implementation to be improved and extended to other architectures.

The network was trained with a slightly modified version of the pytorch trainer (https://github.com/glinscott/nnue-pytorch); the changes are in https://github.com/glinscott/nnue-pytorch/pull/143

The training utilized 2 datasets.

    dataset A - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VlhnHL8f-20AXhGkILujnNXHwy9T-MQw/view?usp=sharing
    dataset B - as described in https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/commit/ba01f4b95448bcb324755f4dd2a632a57c6e67bc

The training process was as following:

    train on dataset A for 350 epochs, take the best net in terms of elo at 20k nodes per move (it's fine to take anything from later stages of training).
    convert the .ckpt to .pt
    --resume-from-model from the .pt file, train on dataset B for <600 epochs, take the best net. Lambda=0.8, applied before the loss function.

The first training command:

python3 train.py \
    ../nnue-pytorch-training/data/large_gensfen_multipvdiff_100_d9.binpack \
    ../nnue-pytorch-training/data/large_gensfen_multipvdiff_100_d9.binpack \
    --gpus "$3," \
    --threads 1 \
    --num-workers 1 \
    --batch-size 16384 \
    --progress_bar_refresh_rate 20 \
    --smart-fen-skipping \
    --random-fen-skipping 3 \
    --features=HalfKAv2_hm^ \
    --lambda=1.0 \
    --max_epochs=600 \
    --default_root_dir ../nnue-pytorch-training/experiment_$1/run_$2

The second training command:

python3 serialize.py \
    --features=HalfKAv2_hm^ \
    ../nnue-pytorch-training/experiment_131/run_6/default/version_0/checkpoints/epoch-499.ckpt \
    ../nnue-pytorch-training/experiment_$1/base/base.pt

python3 train.py \
    ../nnue-pytorch-training/data/michael_commit_b94a65.binpack \
    ../nnue-pytorch-training/data/michael_commit_b94a65.binpack \
    --gpus "$3," \
    --threads 1 \
    --num-workers 1 \
    --batch-size 16384 \
    --progress_bar_refresh_rate 20 \
    --smart-fen-skipping \
    --random-fen-skipping 3 \
    --features=HalfKAv2_hm^ \
    --lambda=0.8 \
    --max_epochs=600 \
    --resume-from-model ../nnue-pytorch-training/experiment_$1/base/base.pt \
    --default_root_dir ../nnue-pytorch-training/experiment_$1/run_$2

STC: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/611120b32a8a49ac5be798c4

LLR: 2.97 (-2.94,2.94) <-0.50,2.50>
Total: 22480 W: 2434 L: 2251 D: 17795
Ptnml(0-2): 101, 1736, 7410, 1865, 128

LTC: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/611152b32a8a49ac5be798ea

LLR: 2.93 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,3.50>
Total: 9776 W: 442 L: 333 D: 9001
Ptnml(0-2): 5, 295, 4180, 402, 6

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3646

bench: 5189338
2021-08-15 12:05:43 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele 26edf9534a Avoid unnecessary stores in the affine transform
This patch improves the codegen in the AffineTransform::forward function for architectures >=SSSE3. Current code works directly on memory and the compiler cannot see that the stores through outptr do not alias the loads through weights and input32. The solution implemented is to perform the affine transform with local variables as accumulators and only store the result to memory at the end. The number of accumulators required is OutputDimensions / OutputSimdWidth, which means that for the 1024->16 affine transform it requires 4 registers with SSSE3, 2 with AVX2, 1 with AVX512. It also cuts the number of stores required by NumRegs * 256 for each node evaluated. The local accumulators are expected to be assigned to registers, but even if this cannot be done in some case due to register pressure it will help the compiler to see that there is no aliasing between the loads and stores and may still result in better codegen.

See https://godbolt.org/z/59aTKbbYc for codegen comparison.

passed STC:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <-0.50,2.50>
Total: 140328 W: 10635 L: 10358 D: 119335
Ptnml(0-2): 302, 8339, 52636, 8554, 333

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3634

No functional change
2021-07-30 17:15:52 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandStéphane Nicolet 2e745956c0 Change trace with NNUE eval support
This patch adds some more output to the `eval` command. It adds a board display
with estimated piece values (method is remove-piece, evaluate, put-piece), and
splits the NNUE evaluation with (psqt,layers) for each bucket for the NNUE net.

Example:

```

./stockfish
position fen 3Qb1k1/1r2ppb1/pN1n2q1/Pp1Pp1Pr/4P2p/4BP2/4B1R1/1R5K b - - 11 40
eval

 Contributing terms for the classical eval:
+------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|    Term    |    White    |    Black    |    Total    |
|            |   MG    EG  |   MG    EG  |   MG    EG  |
+------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|   Material |  ----  ---- |  ----  ---- | -0.73 -1.55 |
|  Imbalance |  ----  ---- |  ----  ---- | -0.21 -0.17 |
|      Pawns |  0.35 -0.00 |  0.19 -0.26 |  0.16  0.25 |
|    Knights |  0.04 -0.08 |  0.12 -0.01 | -0.08 -0.07 |
|    Bishops | -0.34 -0.87 | -0.17 -0.61 | -0.17 -0.26 |
|      Rooks |  0.12  0.00 |  0.08  0.00 |  0.04  0.00 |
|     Queens |  0.00  0.00 | -0.27 -0.07 |  0.27  0.07 |
|   Mobility |  0.84  1.76 |  0.01  0.66 |  0.83  1.10 |
|King safety | -0.99 -0.17 | -0.72 -0.10 | -0.27 -0.07 |
|    Threats |  0.27  0.27 |  0.73  0.86 | -0.46 -0.59 |
|     Passed |  0.00  0.00 |  0.79  0.82 | -0.79 -0.82 |
|      Space |  0.61  0.00 |  0.24  0.00 |  0.37  0.00 |
|   Winnable |  ----  ---- |  ----  ---- |  0.00 -0.03 |
+------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|      Total |  ----  ---- |  ----  ---- | -1.03 -2.14 |
+------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+

 NNUE derived piece values:
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
|       |       |       |   Q   |   b   |       |   k   |       |
|       |       |       | +12.4 | -1.62 |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
|       |   r   |       |       |   p   |   p   |   b   |       |
|       | -3.89 |       |       | -0.84 | -1.19 | -3.32 |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
|   p   |   N   |       |   n   |       |       |   q   |       |
| -1.81 | +3.71 |       | -4.82 |       |       | -5.04 |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
|   P   |   p   |       |   P   |   p   |       |   P   |   r   |
| +1.16 | -0.91 |       | +0.55 | +0.12 |       | +0.50 | -4.02 |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
|       |       |       |       |   P   |       |       |   p   |
|       |       |       |       | +2.33 |       |       | +1.17 |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
|       |       |       |       |   B   |   P   |       |       |
|       |       |       |       | +4.79 | +1.54 |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
|       |       |       |       |   B   |       |   R   |       |
|       |       |       |       | +4.54 |       | +6.03 |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
|       |   R   |       |       |       |       |       |   K   |
|       | +4.81 |       |       |       |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+

 NNUE network contributions (Black to move)
+------------+------------+------------+------------+
|   Bucket   |  Material  | Positional |   Total    |
|            |   (PSQT)   |  (Layers)  |            |
+------------+------------+------------+------------+
|  0         |  +  0.32   |  -  1.46   |  -  1.13   |
|  1         |  +  0.25   |  -  0.68   |  -  0.43   |
|  2         |  +  0.46   |  -  1.72   |  -  1.25   |
|  3         |  +  0.55   |  -  1.80   |  -  1.25   |
|  4         |  +  0.48   |  -  1.77   |  -  1.29   |
|  5         |  +  0.40   |  -  2.00   |  -  1.60   |
|  6         |  +  0.57   |  -  2.12   |  -  1.54   | <-- this bucket is used
|  7         |  +  3.38   |  -  2.00   |  +  1.37   |
+------------+------------+------------+------------+

Classical evaluation   -1.00 (white side)
NNUE evaluation        +1.54 (white side)
Final evaluation       +2.38 (white side) [with scaled NNUE, hybrid, ...]

```

Also renames the export_net() function to save_eval() while there.

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3562

No functional change
2021-06-19 11:57:01 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele 07e6ceacd6 Add basic github workflow
move to github actions to replace travis CI.

First version, testing on linux using gcc and clang.
gcc build with sanitizers and valgrind.

No functional change
2021-06-18 22:05:56 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele 900f249f59 Reduce the number of accumulator states
Reduce from 3 to 2. Make the intent of the states clearer.

STC: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/60c50111457376eb8bcaad03
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) <-2.50,0.50>
Total: 61888 W: 5007 L: 4944 D: 51937
Ptnml(0-2): 164, 3947, 22649, 4030, 154

LTC: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/60c52b1c457376eb8bcaad2c
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <-2.50,0.50>
Total: 20248 W: 688 L: 618 D: 18942
Ptnml(0-2): 7, 551, 8946, 605, 15

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3548

No functional change.
2021-06-14 11:22:08 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandStéphane Nicolet ce4c523ad3 Register count for feature transformer
Compute optimal register count for feature transformer accumulation dynamically.
This also introduces a change where AVX512 would only use 8 registers instead of 16
(now possible due to a 2x increase in feature transformer size).

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3543

No functional change
2021-06-13 13:10:56 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandStéphane Nicolet b84fa04db6 Read NNUE net faster
Load feature transformer weights in bulk on little-endian machines.
This is in particular useful to test new nets with c-chess-cli,
see https://github.com/lucasart/c-chess-cli/issues/44

```
$ time ./stockfish.exe uci

Before : 0m0.914s
After  : 0m0.483s
```

No functional change
2021-06-13 09:39:03 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele 5448cad29e Fix export of the feature transformer.
PSQT export was missing.

fixes #3507

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3508

No functional change
2021-05-30 21:31:58 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele 9d53129075 Expose the lazy threshold for the feature transformer PSQT as a parameter.
Definition of the lazy threshold moved to evaluate.cpp where all others are.
Lazy threshold only used for real searches, not used for the "eval" call.
This preserves the purity of NNUE evaluation, which is useful to verify
consistency between the engine and the NNUE trainer.

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3499

No functional change
2021-05-25 21:40:51 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele e8d64af123 New NNUE architecture and net
Introduces a new NNUE network architecture and associated network parameters,
as obtained by a new pytorch trainer.

The network is already very strong at short TC, without regression at longer TC,
and has potential for further improvements.

https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/60a159c65085663412d0921d
TC: 10s+0.1s, 1 thread
ELO: 21.74 +-3.4 (95%) LOS: 100.0%
Total: 10000 W: 1559 L: 934 D: 7507
Ptnml(0-2): 38, 701, 2972, 1176, 113

https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/60a187005085663412d0925b
TC: 60s+0.6s, 1 thread
ELO: 5.85 +-1.7 (95%) LOS: 100.0%
Total: 20000 W: 1381 L: 1044 D: 17575
Ptnml(0-2): 27, 885, 7864, 1172, 52

https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/60a2beede229097940a03806
TC: 20s+0.2s, 8 threads
LLR: 2.93 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,3.50>
Total: 34272 W: 1610 L: 1452 D: 31210
Ptnml(0-2): 30, 1285, 14350, 1439, 32

https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/60a2d687e229097940a03c72
TC: 60s+0.6s, 8 threads
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <-2.50,0.50>
Total: 45544 W: 1262 L: 1214 D: 43068
Ptnml(0-2): 12, 1129, 20442, 1177, 12

The network has been trained (by vondele) using the https://github.com/glinscott/nnue-pytorch/ trainer (started by glinscott),
specifically the branch https://github.com/Sopel97/nnue-pytorch/tree/experiment_56.
The data used are in 64 billion positions (193GB total) generated and scored with the current master net
d8: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hOOYSDKgOOp38ZmD0N4DV82TOLHzjUiF/view?usp=sharing
d9: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VlhnHL8f-20AXhGkILujnNXHwy9T-MQw/view?usp=sharing
d10: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZC5upzBYMmMj1gMYCkt6rCxQG0GnO3Kk/view?usp=sharing
fishtest_d9: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GQHt0oNgKaHazwJFTRbXhlCN3FbUedFq/view?usp=sharing

This network also contains a few architectural changes with respect to the current master:

    Size changed from 256x2-32-32-1 to 512x2-16-32-1
        ~15-20% slower
        ~2x larger
        adds a special path for 16 valued ClippedReLU
        fixes affine transform code for 16 inputs/outputs, buy using InputDimensions instead of PaddedInputDimensions
            this is safe now because the inputs are processed in groups of 4 in the current affine transform code
    The feature set changed from HalfKP to HalfKAv2
        Includes information about the kings like HalfKA
        Packs king features better, resulting in 8% size reduction compared to HalfKA
    The board is flipped for the black's perspective, instead of rotated like in the current master
    PSQT values for each feature
        the feature transformer now outputs a part that is fowarded directly to the output and allows learning piece values more directly than the previous network architecture. The effect is visible for high imbalance positions, where the current master network outputs evaluations skewed towards zero.
        8 PSQT values per feature, chosen based on (popcount(pos.pieces()) - 1) / 4
        initialized to classical material values on the start of the training
    8 subnetworks (512x2->16->32->1), chosen based on (popcount(pos.pieces()) - 1) / 4
        only one subnetwork is evaluated for any position, no or marginal speed loss

A diagram of the network is available: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/8037982/118656988-553a1700-b7eb-11eb-82ef-56a11cbebbf2.png
A more complete description: https://github.com/glinscott/nnue-pytorch/blob/master/docs/nnue.md

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3474

Bench: 3806488
2021-05-18 18:06:23 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele 58054fd0fa Exporting the currently loaded network file
This PR adds an ability to export any currently loaded network.
The export_net command now takes an optional filename parameter.
If the loaded net is not the embedded net the filename parameter is required.

Two changes were required to support this:

* the "architecture" string, which is really just a some kind of description in the net, is now saved into netDescription on load and correctly saved on export.
* the AffineTransform scrambles weights for some architectures and sparsifies them, such that retrieving the index is hard. This is solved by having a temporary scrambled<->unscrambled index lookup table when loading the network, and the actual index is saved for each individual weight that makes it to canSaturate16. This increases the size of the canSaturate16 entries by 6 bytes.

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3456

No functional change
2021-05-11 19:36:11 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele ca250e969c Add an UCI level command "export_net".
This command writes the embedded net to the file `EvalFileDefaultName`.
If there is no embedded net the command does nothing.

fixes #3453

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3454

No functional change
2021-05-07 09:45:08 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele b748b46714 Cleanup and simplify NNUE code.
A lot of optimizations happend since the NNUE was introduced
and since then some parts of the code were left unused. This
got to the point where asserts were have to be made just to
let people know that modifying something will not have any
effects or may even break everything due to the assumptions
being made. Removing these parts removes those inexisting
"false dependencies". Additionally:

 * append_changed_indices now takes the king pos and stateinfo
   explicitly, no more misleading pos parameter
 * IndexList is removed in favor of a generic ValueList.
   Feature transformer just instantiates the type it needs.
 * The update cost and refresh requirement is deferred to the
   feature set once again, but now doesn't go through the whole
   FeatureSet machinery and just calls HalfKP directly.
 * accumulator no longer has a singular dimension.
 * The PS constants and the PieceSquareIndex array are made local
   to the HalfKP feature set because they are specific to it and
   DO differ for other feature sets.
 * A few names are changed to more descriptive

Passed STC non-regression:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/608421dd95e7f1852abd2790
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) <-2.50,0.50>
Total: 180008 W: 16186 L: 16258 D: 147564
Ptnml(0-2): 587, 12593, 63725, 12503, 596

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3441

No functional change
2021-04-25 13:16:30 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele fbbd4adc3c Unify naming convention of the NNUE code
matches the rest of the stockfish code base

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3437

No functional change
2021-04-24 12:49:29 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandStéphane Nicolet 255514fb29 Documentation patch: AppendChangedIndices
Clarify the assumptions on the position passed to the AppendChangedIndices().

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3428

No functional change
2021-04-15 12:21:30 +02:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele f28303d214 Allow using Intel SDE for PGO builds.
The software development emulator (SDE) allows to run binaries compiled
for architectures not supported by the actual CPU. This is useful to
do PGO builds for newer architectures. The SDE can currently be obtained from
https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/articles/intel-software-development-emulator.html

This patch introduces a new optional makefile argument SDE_PATH.
If not empty it should contain the path to the sde executable

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3373

No functional change.
2021-03-27 16:56:05 +01:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele 6dddcecb09 Optimize generate_moves
This change simplifies control flow in the generate_moves function which ensures the compiler doesn't duplicate work due to possibly not resolving pureness of the function calls. Also the biggest change is the removal of the unnecessary condition checking for empty b in a convoluted way. The rationale for removal of this condition is that computing attacks_bb with occupancy is not much more costly than computing pseudo attacks and overall the condition (also being likely unpredictable) is a pessimisation.

This is inspired by previous changes by @BM123499.

Passed STC:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) {-0.25,1.25}
Total: 88040 W: 8172 L: 7931 D: 71937
Ptnml(0-2): 285, 6128, 30957, 6361, 289
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5ffc28386019e097de3ef1c7

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3300

No functional change.
2021-01-13 22:59:54 +01:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele ba35c88ab8 AVX-512 for smaller affine and feature transforms.
For the feature transformer the code is analogical to AVX2 since there was room for easy adaptation of wider simd registers.

For the smaller affine transforms that have 32 byte stride we keep 2 columns in one zmm register. We also unroll more aggressively so that in the end we have to do 16 parallel horizontal additions on ymm slices each consisting of 4 32-bit integers. The slices are embedded in 8 zmm registers.

These changes provide about 1.5% speedup for AVX-512 builds.

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3218

No functional change.
2020-11-07 16:49:49 +01:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele 3f6451eff7 Manually align arrays on the stack
as a workaround to issues with overaligned alignas() on stack variables in gcc < 9.3 on windows.

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3217

fixes #3216

No functional change
2020-11-04 19:52:42 +01:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele 75e06a1c89 Optimize affine transform for SSSE3 and higher targets.
A non-functional speedup. Unroll the loops going over
the output dimensions in the affine transform layers by
a factor of 4 and perform 4 horizontal additions at a time.
Instead of doing naive horizontal additions on each vector
separately use hadd and shuffling between vectors to reduce
the number of instructions by using all lanes for all stages
of the horizontal adds.

passed STC of the initial version:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) {-0.25,1.25}
Total: 17808 W: 1914 L: 1756 D: 14138
Ptnml(0-2): 76, 1330, 5948, 1460, 90
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5f9d516f6a2c112b60691da3

passed STC of the final version after cleanup:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) {-0.25,1.25}
Total: 16296 W: 1750 L: 1595 D: 12951
Ptnml(0-2): 72, 1192, 5479, 1319, 86
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5f9df5776a2c112b60691de3

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3203

No functional change
2020-11-02 19:41:17 +01:00
Tomasz SobczykandJoost VandeVondele 86ee4eb84d Use a trivially copyable struct for TBTables::Entry instead of a tuple.
fixes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/issues/2673
which is a warning issued by recent gcc (10.1)

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2674

No functional change
2020-05-13 19:50:30 +02:00