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anematodeandJoost VandeVondele ab8f901d25 Remove small net
Failed VVLTC non-regression
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/69d562b84088e069540a2288
LLR: -2.96 (-2.94,2.94) <-1.75,0.25>
Total: 386998 W: 99181 L: 99760 D: 188057
Ptnml(0-2): 35, 35792, 122429, 35203, 40

Failed STC non-regression
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/69f3c6601e5788938e86a99e
LLR: -2.93 (-2.94,2.94) <-1.75,0.25>
Total: 33696 W: 8492 L: 8795 D: 16409
Ptnml(0-2): 124, 4209, 8504, 3868, 143

Many thanks to Dubslow, Torom, ces42, Shawn, vondele, Disservin and others for discussion.

## Summary

The venerable small net has been around for quite some time now, and while the big net architecture has substantially advanced with TI, the small net has stayed with plain HalfKA. It therefore presents a few burdens: multiple net architectures to maintain, multiple nets to train, and a whole lot of templates to deal with the variable L1 size.

Locally I measure a slowdown of -2.5% in NPS with this branch – and it's probably more on non-AVX512 architectures – but a pure slowdown of that magnitude would lead to more dramatic losses (even at VVLTC) than exhibited in the above tests, suggesting that the small net's lower eval quality is deleterious.

Bonus: Shawn found this interesting PGN among the VVLTC games: https://lichess.org/study/hvo8jflc/OeTOityv  `master` seems to misevaluate the fortress because all positions go to small net (the material difference is larger than the threshold).

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/6796

Bench: 2877007
2026-05-04 08:32:42 +02:00

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#!/bin/sh
# download commands with a 5min time-out to ensure things fail if the server stalls
wget_or_curl=$( (command -v wget >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "wget -qO- --timeout=300 --tries=1") ||
(command -v curl >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "curl -skL --max-time 300"))
sha256sum=$( (command -v shasum >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "shasum -a 256") ||
(command -v sha256sum >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "sha256sum"))
if [ -z "$sha256sum" ]; then
>&2 echo "sha256sum not found, NNUE files will be assumed valid."
fi
get_nnue_filename() {
grep "$1" evaluate.h | grep "#define" | sed "s/.*\(nn-[a-z0-9]\{12\}.nnue\).*/\1/"
}
validate_network() {
# If no sha256sum command is available, assume the file is always valid.
if [ -n "$sha256sum" ] && [ -f "$1" ]; then
if [ "$1" != "nn-$($sha256sum "$1" | cut -c 1-12).nnue" ]; then
rm -f "$1"
return 1
fi
fi
}
fetch_network() {
_filename="$(get_nnue_filename "$1")"
if [ -z "$_filename" ]; then
>&2 echo "NNUE file name not found for: $1"
return 1
fi
if [ -f "$_filename" ]; then
if validate_network "$_filename"; then
echo "Existing $_filename validated, skipping download"
return
else
echo "Removing invalid NNUE file: $_filename"
fi
fi
if [ -z "$wget_or_curl" ]; then
>&2 printf "%s\n" "Neither wget or curl is installed." \
"Install one of these tools to download NNUE files automatically."
exit 1
fi
for url in \
"https://tests.stockfishchess.org/api/nn/$_filename" \
"https://github.com/official-stockfish/networks/raw/master/$_filename"; do
echo "Downloading from $url ..."
if $wget_or_curl "$url" >"$_filename"; then
if validate_network "$_filename"; then
echo "Successfully validated $_filename"
else
rm -f $_filename
echo "Downloaded $_filename is invalid, and has been removed."
continue
fi
else
rm -f $_filename
echo "Failed to download from $url"
fi
if [ -f "$_filename" ]; then
return
fi
done
# Download was not successful in the loop, return false.
>&2 echo "Failed to download $_filename"
return 1
}
fetch_network EvalFileDefaultName