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to_optimization_problem() was a pure virtual on optimization_problem_interface_t, so it occupied a slot in every implementer's vtable — including cpu_optimization_problem_t, whose vtable then held an entry only libcuopt can define.

Vtable relocations resolve eagerly at load time, so this cannot be deferred or hidden behind lazy binding: any library carrying that vtable is unloadable without libcuopt.so. That blocks the CUDA-free client library (#1804).

It is now a free function declared in optimization_problem.hpp, defined in cpu_optimization_problem_to_gpu.cpp, dispatching on the concrete type:

- auto gpu = problem->to_optimization_problem(&handle);
+ auto gpu = to_optimization_problem(*problem, &handle);

Semantics are unchanged — the GPU override was a one-line return nullptr, so a GPU-backed problem still yields nullptr. Unrecognised implementations now throw instead of returning nullptr, since the documented fallback static_casts the reference and would otherwise be UB. 5 call sites updated.

Breaking: removes a pure virtual from an installed public header. Out-of-tree implementers should delete their override; callers switch to the free function as above.

2 of 4 toward a CUDA-free client library (#1801 merged, #1803, #1804 follow).

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The virtual optimization-problem conversion method was replaced with a standalone to_optimization_problem function. A new implementation transfers CPU problem data to GPU storage. Structural heuristics now run during MIP presolve.

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Optimization problem conversion

Layer / File(s) Summary
Conversion API contract
cpp/include/cuopt/mathematical_optimization/...
The virtual conversion method was removed. The templated free function remains available with CPU-problem friend access. Related documentation was updated.
CPU-to-GPU conversion implementation
cpp/src/pdlp/cpu_optimization_problem_to_gpu.cpp, cpp/src/pdlp/cpu_optimization_problem.cpp, cpp/src/pdlp/optimization_problem.cu, cpp/src/pdlp/CMakeLists.txt
The new conversion function validates inputs, transfers CPU problem data, and provides explicit template instantiations. The source is added to the LP build. Former member implementations were removed.
Call-site and test migration
cpp/src/grpc/server/grpc_worker.cpp, cpp/src/mip_heuristics/solve.cu, cpp/src/pdlp/solve.cu, cpp/tests/linear_programming/unit_tests/solution_interface_test.cu
MIP and LP solve paths and conversion tests now call the standalone function.

Structural MIP heuristics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Structural heuristic startup and incumbent handling
cpp/src/mip_heuristics/solve.cu
Structural heuristics start during original-problem and PaPILO-presolved presolve. Their incumbents share callback state, pass validation, and propagate into solver state.
Structural heuristic lifecycle
cpp/src/mip_heuristics/solve.cu
Structural heuristics stop, report, and release after presolve. The CPU problem overload uses the free conversion helper.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c4b4f

This PR centralizes optimization-problem conversion and adds asynchronous structural-heuristic behavior; for empty presolved problems, the solver may read incumbent state before the background work is stopped, risking a race or lost result. Unsupported conversion requests also still use the wrong error contract. Merge should pause for an owner decision or fix on these current-head issues.

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Test both null-handle branches.

Add a CPU test that to_optimization_problem(*problem) throws for the default null handle. Add a GPU test that the same null handle returns nullptr. This verifies the new free-function contract.

As per path instructions, “Confirm CPU conversions reject null RAFT handles” and “tests validate conversion behavior, including null-handle and GPU-input cases.”

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In `@cpp/tests/linear_programming/unit_tests/solution_interface_test.cu` at line
308, Add coverage around to_optimization_problem for the default null handle:
verify the CPU conversion throws when called without a handle, and verify the
GPU-input conversion returns nullptr for the same null-handle case. Keep the
existing valid-handle test behavior unchanged and place the assertions in the
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In `@cpp/src/pdlp/cpu_optimization_problem_to_gpu.cpp`:
- Around line 40-43: Update to_optimization_problem to explicitly recognize
optimization_problem_t before returning a fallback, and reject any other
unsupported optimization_problem_interface_t implementation with a clear error
instead of returning nullptr. Preserve the existing handling for
cpu_optimization_problem_t and valid GPU-backed optimization_problem_t
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In `@cpp/tests/linear_programming/unit_tests/solution_interface_test.cu`:
- Line 308: Add coverage around to_optimization_problem for the default null
handle: verify the CPU conversion throws when called without a handle, and
verify the GPU-input conversion returns nullptr for the same null-handle case.
Keep the existing valid-handle test behavior unchanged and place the assertions
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@coderabbitai Fixed. The point stands even though only two implementations exist today (cpu_optimization_problem_t and optimization_problem_t): as a pure virtual, the compiler forced every implementer to provide an override, and turning it into a free function silently dropped that guarantee. Combined with the documented fallback static_cast<optimization_problem_t&>(problem), an unrecognised type would have been undefined behaviour rather than an error.

to_optimization_problem() now detects optimization_problem_t explicitly and throws for anything else, instead of returning nullptr for "not a CPU problem".

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@ramakrishnap-nv Confirmed. The updated dispatch explicitly accepts optimization_problem_t, converts cpu_optimization_problem_t, and throws for unsupported optimization_problem_interface_t implementations. This prevents the documented fallback static_cast from operating on an unrecognized type.


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Learning: For the C++ mathematical optimization API, the free `to_optimization_problem(optimization_problem_interface_t<i_t, f_t>&, raft::handle_t const*)` function must return `nullptr` only for `optimization_problem_t<i_t, f_t>`. It must convert `cpu_optimization_problem_t<i_t, f_t>` and throw for any other `optimization_problem_interface_t<i_t, f_t>` implementation, because callers use a `static_cast<optimization_problem_t&>` after a null result.

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- Around line 426-445: Mark removal of the virtual to_optimization_problem
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documentation. Add migration guidance directing callers from
problem.to_optimization_problem(&handle) to the free function, and document that
GPU problems return nullptr while unsupported implementations may throw
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Comment on lines +52 to +64
throw std::runtime_error(
"to_optimization_problem(): unsupported optimization_problem_interface_t "
"implementation. Only optimization_problem_t and cpu_optimization_problem_t "
"are supported.");
}
auto& self = *cpu_problem;

if (handle_ptr == nullptr) {
throw std::runtime_error(
"cpu_optimization_problem_t::to_optimization_problem(): "
"handle_ptr is null. A RAFT handle with CUDA resources is required to convert "
"a CPU-backed problem to a GPU-backed optimization_problem_t.");
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use cuOpt errors for validation failures.

Lines 52-64 throw std::runtime_error for unsupported implementations and null handles. This gives invalid conversion requests a different error contract from other cuOpt validation paths. Replace both throws with the cuOpt validation mechanism and preserve the messages.

As per path instructions: “Use cuOpt exception mechanisms for validation.”

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@ramakrishnap-nv ramakrishnap-nv added breaking Introduces a breaking change and removed non-breaking Introduces a non-breaking change labels Aug 27, 2026
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@coderabbitai You're right on both counts — fixed.

Breaking-change label. I had this as non-breaking, which was wrong. to_optimization_problem was a pure virtual in the installed public header optimization_problem_interface.hpp, so removing it breaks external code two ways: any out-of-tree implementer of the interface loses the override (their override keyword becomes a compile error), and any caller of problem->to_optimization_problem(&handle) no longer compiles. Relabelled breaking.

Migration:

// before
auto gpu = problem->to_optimization_problem(&handle);

// after -- free function in <cuopt/mathematical_optimization/optimization_problem.hpp>
auto gpu = to_optimization_problem(*problem, &handle);

Semantics are unchanged: a cpu_optimization_problem_t is converted, a GPU-backed optimization_problem_t still yields nullptr. Out-of-tree subclasses should simply delete their override — the free function dispatches on the concrete type, and now raises a validation error for an unrecognised implementation rather than returning nullptr (which the documented static_cast fallback would have turned into undefined behaviour).

Error convention. Switched my new validation from throw std::runtime_error to cuopt_expects(..., error_type_t::ValidationError, ...) to match the codebase. Note the adjacent null-handle throw std::runtime_error is pre-existing and moved verbatim from cpu_optimization_problem.cpp — I left it alone deliberately so this PR stays a faithful move rather than quietly changing an existing error type.

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@ramakrishnap-nv The shell output confirms the breaking label update.

However, the checked revision does not contain the reported error-convention update. In cpp/src/pdlp/cpu_optimization_problem_to_gpu.cpp, Lines 52-55 still use:

throw std::runtime_error(
  "to_optimization_problem(): unsupported optimization_problem_interface_t "
  "implementation. Only optimization_problem_t and cpu_optimization_problem_t "
  "are supported.");

The null-handle std::runtime_error at Lines 59-63 is unchanged from the prior member implementation. That part is correct.

My previous confirmation of cuopt_expects(..., error_type_t::ValidationError, ...) was incorrect. The unsupported-type validation finding remains unresolved unless the inspected revision is stale.


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Per review, the predicate now takes cpu_optimization_problem_t and
mip_solver_settings_t directly instead of a pre-extracted var_types vector and a
has_callbacks bool.

This is what makes the generalized name honest: a new unsupported-feature rule can
consult anything either object exposes without changing the signature, threading
another argument through, or adding a branch at the call site. It also moves the
get_variable_types_host() copy inside the predicate, so it is skipped entirely when
no callbacks are registered -- the common case.

The predicate is a template now, so it carries an explicit instantiation. Without
one the test's translation unit cannot generate it from the declaration alone, and
the symbol goes missing at link time.

Tests updated to build real problem/settings objects rather than raw vectors, which
also exercises the actual set_mip_callback() path. All 5 cases still pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramakrishna Prabhu <ramakrishnap@nvidia.com>
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**1 of 4** toward a CUDA-free client library (#1802, #1803, #1804 stack on this one).

## Why

Talking to a remote `cuopt_grpc_server` currently requires the full GPU stack. `pip install cuopt` pulls `cudf`, `cupy-cuda13x[ctk]`, `rmm`, `pylibraft`, `numba-cuda`, `scipy`, `pandas` and `libcuopt` (which itself pulls `cuda-toolkit`) — GB-scale, onto a machine whose only job is to serialize protobuf over a socket.

The motivating consumer is the MCP server in #1701: it imports exactly `Client`, `TlsConfig`, `DataModel`, `Read`, `SolverSettings` — **no `Solve`** — yet installs all of the above.

That coupling is mostly accidental. The gRPC client sources are already GPU-free; what ties them to CUDA is that the host-side implementations they need are compiled into `.cu` translation units, so anything wanting them must link the CUDA library. **This PR only separates those**, so #1804 can place them in a `cuopt_client` library whose `NEEDED` list has no CUDA, rmm or raft.

## What

Several classes are mostly host code but live entirely in `.cu` files, so anything needing their host-side members has to link the CUDA library. This separates them.

| File | Size | CUDA-touching lines |
|---|---|---|
| `math_optimization/solver_settings.cu` → `.cpp` + `_gpu.cu` | 713 | **5** |
| `mip_heuristics/solver_settings.cu` → `.cu` + `.cpp` | 58 | 3 |
| `pdlp/solution_conversion.cu` → + `solution_conversion_cpu.cpp` | 225 | 23 |

`math_optimization/solver_settings.cu` is the clearest case — 713 lines of parameter handling with 5 lines that touch a stream.

## The rule each split follows

Host code moves to the `.cpp`; members taking an `rmm::cuda_stream_view` or returning a `device_uvector` stay in the `.cu`; **every member moved out of the original TU is instantiated explicitly**, because `template class` in the `.cpp` can only emit members whose definitions it can still see.

## Two traps this pattern sets — both hit during development

**1. A moved member with no explicit instantiation silently disappears.** An earlier revision of this PR moved the 19-argument `solver_settings_t::set_pdlp_warm_start_data` into `solver_settings_gpu.cu` but instantiated only its five neighbours. The symbol vanished from `libcuopt.so`. It is the overload the Cython layer binds to, so **every `conda-python-tests` config, `docs-build` and `wheel-tests-cuopt-server` failed while every C++ job passed**. There is no compile or link error locally — the C++ build does not use that overload.

The check that catches this class of bug in one shot:

```bash
nm -D --defined-only libcuopt.so | awk '{print $3}' | sort -u > new.txt
comm -23 main.txt new.txt | c++filt     # anything here is a lost export
```

**2. Guarded instantiations can compile to nothing.** The instantiations sit behind `MIP_INSTANTIATE_*` / `PDLP_INSTANTIATE_*`, so each new file must include `mip_heuristics/mip_constants.hpp`. Without it the guards evaluate false and the TU compiles to **zero symbols** — no error, just a link failure much later. `nm --defined-only` on the object is how you spot it.

## Risk

Moderate, not low — see above. The moved definitions are byte-identical and no build targets change here, so behaviour is unaffected; the risk is entirely in *symbol emission*, which the exported-symbol diff now covers.

## Testing

- Full build + all 126 test binaries: 0 errors
- Exported symbols diffed against `main`: **no losses**
- `ctest`: 119/125. The 6 failures are missing downloaded datasets (`ci/test_cpp.sh` fetches them; I did not locally) — unmodified `main` fails the identical six in a clean worktree.

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Authors:
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Approvers:
  - Rajesh Gandham (https://github.com/rg20)
  - Trevor McKay (https://github.com/tmckayus)

URL: #1801
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cpp/tests/linear_programming/unit_tests/solution_interface_test.cu (1)

308-308: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add regression coverage for rejected conversion paths.

These tests cover only optimization_problem_t and cpu_optimization_problem_t. Add tests for a null handle_ptr with a CPU problem and for an unsupported optimization_problem_interface_t implementation. These branches define the new free-function contract and should remain protected from dispatch regressions.

As per path instructions, conversion tests should cover null-handle validation and unsupported implementations.

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Comment thread cpp/include/cuopt/mathematical_optimization/cpu_optimization_problem.hpp Outdated
The vtable rationale was restated in three places; it now lives once, in
optimization_problem_interface.hpp where the virtual was removed, with short
pointers elsewhere.

Also removes the doxygen block left behind on cpu_optimization_problem.hpp when the
declaration was deleted. Two consecutive /** */ blocks preceded write_to_mps(), so
doxygen silently discarded the first -- the @param/@return/@throws documentation was
already being lost from generated docs. The free function carries those docs.

Fixes an inconsistent doc snippet that named the same variable two ways.

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587-589: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add unit tests for the structural heuristic paths.

Add tests for original-problem and PaPILO-presolved startup. Cover a recognized model, an unsupported model, incumbent propagation, and clean shutdown after presolve.

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approving just the CMake changes (the look non-controversial) for ci-codeowners. I did not look at anything else in the PR.

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