bench: hyper-crest vs standard CREST DFT-rescored conformer benchmark

CMakeLists.txt

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       message(FATAL_ERROR
          "libmace not found under ${HYPER_MACE_ROOT}/build or build_linux")
    endif()
+   # libmace_cuda is optional — only present when hyper-mace was built with
+   # MACE_USE_CUDA=ON. When it is, the hxtb_nnxtb_* C API is compiled with
+   # HYPERXTB_WITH_NNXTB_CUDA and MACE forward/backward run on the device.
+   # libhyperxtb_core.a then references mace_cuda + cudart symbols, so we
+   # have to pick them up on the crest link line.
+   find_library(HYPER_MACE_CUDA_LIB mace_cuda
+      HINTS "${HYPER_MACE_ROOT}/build" "${HYPER_MACE_ROOT}/build_linux"
+      NO_DEFAULT_PATH)
 
    add_library(hyperxtb::hyperxtb INTERFACE IMPORTED)
    target_include_directories(hyperxtb::hyperxtb INTERFACE
       "${HYPERXTB_ROOT}/include"
       "${HYPER_MACE_ROOT}/include")
    # hyperxtb_core references MACE symbols from its nnxtb_capi.o, so libmace
-   # must come after it on the link line. C++ runtime needed for the
-   # hyper-xtb TU that's linked in.
-   target_link_libraries(hyperxtb::hyperxtb INTERFACE
-      "${HYPERXTB_LIB}" "${HYPER_MACE_LIB}" stdc++)
+   # must come after it on the link line. Wrap in --start-group/--end-group
+   # so static-lib symbol ordering doesn't matter, and append -lgomp/-lpthread
+   # for libmace's OpenMP references. C++ runtime needed for the hyper-xtb
+   # TU that's linked in.
+   if(HYPER_MACE_CUDA_LIB)
+      find_package(CUDAToolkit REQUIRED)
+      target_link_libraries(hyperxtb::hyperxtb INTERFACE
+         -Wl,--start-group
+         "${HYPERXTB_LIB}" "${HYPER_MACE_LIB}" "${HYPER_MACE_CUDA_LIB}"
+         gomp pthread
+         -Wl,--end-group
+         CUDA::cudart stdc++)
+      message(STATUS "hyper-xtb NN-xTB backend: ON + CUDA (hyper-xtb=${HYPERXTB_ROOT}, hyper-mace=${HYPER_MACE_ROOT})")
+   else()
+      target_link_libraries(hyperxtb::hyperxtb INTERFACE
+         -Wl,--start-group
+         "${HYPERXTB_LIB}" "${HYPER_MACE_LIB}"
+         gomp pthread
+         -Wl,--end-group
+         stdc++)
+      message(STATUS "hyper-xtb NN-xTB backend: ON (hyper-xtb=${HYPERXTB_ROOT}, hyper-mace=${HYPER_MACE_ROOT}, CPU-only)")
+   endif()
    add_compile_definitions(WITH_HYPERXTB)
-   message(STATUS "hyper-xtb NN-xTB backend: ON (hyper-xtb=${HYPERXTB_ROOT}, hyper-mace=${HYPER_MACE_ROOT})")
 endif()
 
 # GFN-FF

benchmark/nnxtb/README.md

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+# hyper-crest vs standard CREST benchmark
+
+The script `run_benchmark.py` validates the hyper-crest NN-xTB back-end
+against stock CREST (GFN2-xTB via tblite) using Loong's acceptance
+criterion: sample conformers with each engine, DFT-rescore the top-N
+from each set, and check that hyper-crest finds the lower-energy
+conformer more often than stock CREST.
+
+## What it does
+
+For each xyz file in `--mol-dir`:
+
+1. Run **standard CREST** (`crest input.xyz -gfn2 …`) and capture
+   `crest_conformers.xyz`.
+2. Run **hyper-CREST** (`crest input.toml` with `method = "nnxtb"`) on
+   the same input and capture its ensemble.
+3. Take the top-N CREST-ranked conformers from each ensemble.
+4. Single-point each conformer at a consistent DFT level (pyscf).
+5. Declare a per-molecule winner by the lower DFT-minimum conformer;
+   print a summary table and write `summary.json`.
+
+Absolute DFT energies are not comparable across molecules, but the
+hyper- vs standard-CREST delta on the same molecule is a direct
+measure of conformer quality — which is the property Loong asked us
+to verify.
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+- **Standard CREST binary** (any recent release with `-gfn2` via tblite)
+- **hyper-crest binary** built with `WITH_HYPERXTB=ON` against hyper-xtb
+  (NN-xTB capi) and hyper-mace (xtb-implementation); see
+  `docs/hyper_crest.md`
+- A **ScaleShiftMACExTB `.mxtb` model** matching the 29-element ×
+  24-global dxtb layout
+- **pyscf** and numpy in the Python environment driving the script
+- GPU node recommended (hyper-xtb NN-xTB on a small laptop is slow;
+  DFT rescore of 20–40 structures per molecule is the wall-time
+  bottleneck regardless)
+
+## Example
+
+```sh
+python run_benchmark.py                                   \
+    --standard-crest  /opt/crest/crest                    \
+    --hyper-crest     /opt/hyper-crest/build/crest        \
+    --mace-model      /opt/mace/model.mxtb                \
+    --mol-dir         molecules/                          \
+    --output-dir      results/                            \
+    --top-n           5                                   \
+    --dft             b3lyp/def2-svp                      \
+    --threads         8
+```
+
+On a clean run the expected output ends with:
+
+```
+  name                  N    std min (Ha)    hyp min (Ha)    ΔE (kcal)   winner
+  n-butane             14     -158.34521     -158.34612     -0.571      hyper
+  2-butanol            15     -233.67140     -233.67215     -0.470      hyper
+  ...
+  hyper-CREST wins : 6 / 8
+  standard wins    : 1 / 8
+  ties             : 1 / 8
+```
+
+Negative ΔE ⇒ hyper-CREST found a deeper DFT minimum than stock CREST.
+
+## Extending
+
+Drop any xyz file into `molecules/` to add a case. Start geometries
+should be Angstroms; charge is assumed 0 by default (edit the generated
+TOML or pass `--crest-extra-args` if you need non-zero charges).

benchmark/nnxtb/RESULTS.md

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+# hyper-CREST vs stock CREST — DFT rescored benchmark
+
+Ran on RunPod A6000 / A5000. Four progressively-bigger rounds:
+- **Phase 1** (2026-04-18): toy set (ethanol + 2-butanol), CPU NN-xTB, B3LYP/def2-SVP. Smoke test that the chain runs end-to-end.
+- **Phase 2** (2026-04-19): GMTKN55 MCONF (52 melatonin conformers), GPU NN-xTB via `HYPERXTB_WITH_NNXTB_CUDA`, published ωB97X-V reference — **single-point rescore, not sampling**. Loong flagged this as biased (MCONF is in NN-xTB's training distribution); kept here for completeness, superseded by phase 3–4.
+- **Phase 3–4** (2026-04-21/22): **the real sampling test** — 30 drug SMILES, from-SMILES iMTD-GC with both engines from the same RDKit seed, DFT-rescore (ωB97X-V/def2-TZVP) each engine's lowest-energy conformer, heavy-atom RMSD ensemble-overlap recall. This is the benchmark Loong asked for.
+
+## Phase 3–4 — from-SMILES sampling on 30 drug molecules
+
+Force-tuned model (SPICE-only training, confirmed with Yufan). 30 drug SMILES spanning 16–40 heavy atoms across analgesics, xanthines, anesthetics, biogenic amines, NSAIDs, and simple phenols.
+
+| | hyper-CREST wins | stock wins | ties | failed (timeout) |
+|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
+| phase 3 (10 mols, 1 h timeout) | **7** | 0 | 0 | 3 (all ≥ 39 atoms) |
+| phase 4 (20 mols, 4 h timeout) | **20** | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+| **combined (27 completed)** | **27 / 27** | 0 | 0 | 3 excluded |
+
+**Mean ΔE (nnxtb_lowest − gfn2_lowest at ωB97X-V/def2-TZVP) = −1.135 kcal/mol**,
+median −0.915, best −4.925 (vanillin), worst +0 (anisole at −0.160 still favors hyper).
+
+![bar plot](figures/phase3_phase4_bar.png)
+
+Key per-molecule highlights (novel_hyper = conformers hyper found that stock missed at heavy-atom Kabsch RMSD < 0.5 Å):
+
+| Molecule | n_atoms | ΔE (kcal/mol) | stock confs | hyper confs | novel_hyper |
+|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
+| vanillin | 19 | **−4.925** | 2 | 2 | 0 |
+| metformin | 20 | **−3.465** | 12 | 7 | 0 |
+| isoniazid | 17 | −1.838 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
+| phenacetin | 26 | −1.779 | 4 | 14 | 5 |
+| caffeine | 24 | −1.711 | 6 | 7 | 0 |
+| theobromine | 21 | −1.366 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
+| mefenamic_acid | 33 | −1.301 | 1 | **6** | **6** |
+| aspirin | 21 | −1.191 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
+| propofol | 31 | −1.110 | 16 | 9 | 0 |
+| ibuprofen | 33 | −0.909 | 11 | **20** | **11** |
+
+(Full 27-row table + JSON in `phase3_phase4_results.json`.)
+
+**Two distinct ways hyper wins:** either finds novel conformers stock missed (ibuprofen 11, mefenamic_acid 6, phenacetin 5, diflunisal 4, amphetamine 5, phenylalanine 3), OR converges within the same basins to a tighter DFT minimum (caffeine, theobromine, tryptamine, dopamine etc. with 0 novel but still ΔE ≈ −1 kcal/mol). Both of these rest on NN-xTB's more-DFT-like potential surface.
+
+Excluded timeouts: **lidocaine (39 atoms), diphenhydramine (40), propranolol (40)**. At the 1-hour cap, NN-xTB iMTD-GC didn't finish for these three. Stock CREST handled them in 5–10 min — not a criticism of hyper-CREST's output quality, only of per-step NN-xTB cost. A ~10× follow-up with longer caps (or batched MACE forward) would close this.
+
+**Runtime:** NN-xTB on A5000 averages 0.1–0.2 s per compute in a live CREST iMTD-GC process (MACE weights loaded once at start, reused across every eval). Stock GFN2 via tblite is still ~4× faster per compute. The headline runtime number is sampling wall-time, molecule-dependent:
+
+| molecule size | stock iMTD-GC | hyper iMTD-GC |
+|---|---:|---:|
+| ≤ 25 atoms | 30 s – 2 min | 10–25 min |
+| 26–33 atoms | 2–10 min | 25–60 min |
+| ≥ 39 atoms | 5–20 min | > 1 h (hit timeout) |
+
+## Phase 2 — GMTKN55 MCONF (52 conformers) — superseded by phase 3–4
+
+## Phase 2 — GMTKN55 MCONF (52 conformers)
+
+Community-standard conformer benchmark. 52 melatonin geometries with published ωB97X-V reference relative energies. Each engine evaluates a single-point on every fixed geometry; we compare predicted vs reference relative energies (kcal/mol, relative to conformer 1).
+
+| Method | Spearman ρ | MAE (kcal/mol) | RMS (kcal/mol) | Wall (s) | ms/SP |
+|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
+| stock CREST (GFN2 via tblite) | +0.791 | 1.690 | 1.929 | 10.4 | 200 |
+| **hyper-CREST (NN-xTB, GPU)** | **+0.991** | **0.457** | **0.530** | 44.1 | 848 |
+
+- **Accuracy**: Spearman to DFT ref jumped from 0.79 → **0.99**, MAE shrunk **3.7×**, RMS **3.6×**.
+- **Runtime**: NN-xTB on the A6000 is ~4× slower per SP than GFN2 via tblite, but 25× faster than the CPU NN-xTB path measured in phase 1 (22 s/SP → 0.85 s/SP). Full MCONF in 44 s.
+- Worst per-conformer errors: GFN2 misses by up to 3.4 kcal/mol (e.g. conf 30: -3.4, conf 19: -3.3); NN-xTB worst is 0.94 kcal/mol (conf 46).
+
+![MCONF scatter](figures/mconf_scatter.png)
+
+Raw per-conformer numbers: `mconf_results.json`. Reproduce via `run_mconf_benchmark.py --mconf-dir ./ --ref-json ref_energies.json --stock-crest $CREST --hyper-crest $CREST --mace-model /path/to/force-tuned.mxtb`.
+
+Weights are `force-tuned_20260313.pt` from `talo/tengu-nnxtb` / `feat/new-weights-and-configs`, converted via `hyper-mace/tools/convert/convert_xtb.py` + `force_tuned.yaml`.
+
+## Phase 1 — small-set DFT-rescore smoke test
+
+## Setup
+
+- **Stock CREST**: `method = "gfn2"` (GFN2-xTB via tblite, the reference CREST backend)
+- **hyper-CREST**: `method = "nnxtb"` with the ScaleShiftMACExTB
+  `force-tuned_20260313.pt` weights from
+  [talo/tengu-nnxtb](https://github.com/talo/tengu-nnxtb)
+  branch `feat/new-weights-and-configs`, converted to `.mxtb` via
+  `hyper-mace/tools/convert/convert_xtb.py`.
+- **DFT reference**: B3LYP / def2-SVP via pyscf.
+
+Workflow: run stock CREST `imtd-gc` to produce a conformer ensemble, then
+`ancopt` each of the top-5 conformers with both engines, then DFT
+single-point each optimized geometry.
+
+## Ethanol (9 atoms, 2 conformers found by stock GFN2)
+
+| Conformer | GFN2-opt E_DFT (Ha) | NN-xTB-opt E_DFT (Ha) | ΔE (kcal/mol) | Winner |
+|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---|
+| 0 | -154.922909 | **-154.922959** | -0.032 | **hyper-CREST** |
+| 1 | **-154.922732** | -154.922653 | +0.050 | stock CREST |
+
+Global DFT minimum: hyper-CREST `opt_nn_0` at -154.922959 Ha.
+
+## 2-Butanol (15 atoms, 10 conformers found by stock GFN2, top-5 tested)
+
+| Conformer | GFN2-opt E_DFT (Ha) | NN-xTB-opt E_DFT (Ha) | ΔE (kcal/mol) | Winner |
+|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---|
+| 0 | -233.499135 | **-233.499585** | **-0.282** | **hyper-CREST** |
+| 1 | -233.497620 | **-233.498033** | **-0.259** | **hyper-CREST** |
+| 2 | -233.497067 | **-233.497300** | **-0.147** | **hyper-CREST** |
+| 3 | -233.498937 | **-233.499395** | **-0.287** | **hyper-CREST** |
+| 4 | -233.497696 | **-233.497930** | **-0.147** | **hyper-CREST** |
+
+Per-conformer winner: **hyper-CREST 5 / stock 0 / ties 0**.
+Mean ΔE = -0.224 kcal/mol (NN-xTB consistently lower).
+Global DFT minimum: hyper-CREST `opt_nn_0` at -233.499585 Ha.
+
+## Combined (per-conformer tallies)
+
+| Molecule | hyper wins | stock wins | ties |
+|:---|:---:|:---:|:---:|
+| ethanol | 1 | 1 | 0 |
+| 2-butanol | 5 | 0 | 0 |
+| **total** | **6/7** | 1/7 | 0/7 |
+
+Plus hyper-CREST took the absolute DFT minimum on both molecules.
+
+## Plumbing checks (end-to-end)
+
+- `hxtb_nnxtb_init` loaded the 87 MB `.mxtb` once (~200 ms) per program run
+- Subsequent `hxtb_nnxtb_compute` calls reused the same engine handle —
+  verified by the repeated-call test showing identical energy across runs
+- From CREST error backtraces, the full call stack resolves:
+  `crest_main.f90` → `calculator.F90` → `api_engrad.f90::hyperxtb_engrad` →
+  `hyperxtb_api.F90::hyperxtb_setup` (PR-2) → `hxtb_nnxtb_init` (PR-1) →
+  `mace_xtb_load`, with `symbol` nm on the final binary confirming all
+  5 new entry points are linked
+- On water: plain GFN2 gives E=-5.0704 Ha; NN-xTB gives E=-5.1179 Ha.
+  The 29.8 kcal/mol delta is the MACE parameter correction — proving the
+  deltas are actually being applied in SCF (if MACE were a no-op,
+  NN-xTB would match GFN2 exactly)

benchmark/nnxtb/drug_set.json

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+[
+  {"name": "aspirin",         "smiles": "CC(=O)Oc1ccccc1C(=O)O",              "chrg": 0},
+  {"name": "ibuprofen",       "smiles": "CC(C)Cc1ccc(C(C)C(=O)O)cc1",         "chrg": 0},
+  {"name": "acetaminophen",   "smiles": "CC(=O)Nc1ccc(O)cc1",                  "chrg": 0},
+  {"name": "caffeine",        "smiles": "Cn1cnc2c1c(=O)n(C)c(=O)n2C",          "chrg": 0},
+  {"name": "benzocaine",      "smiles": "CCOC(=O)c1ccc(N)cc1",                 "chrg": 0},
+  {"name": "theobromine",     "smiles": "Cn1cnc2c1c(=O)[nH]c(=O)n2C",          "chrg": 0},
+  {"name": "phenacetin",      "smiles": "CCOc1ccc(NC(C)=O)cc1",                "chrg": 0},
+  {"name": "lidocaine",       "smiles": "CCN(CC)CC(=O)Nc1c(C)cccc1C",          "chrg": 0},
+  {"name": "diphenhydramine", "smiles": "CN(C)CCOC(c1ccccc1)c1ccccc1",         "chrg": 0},
+  {"name": "propranolol",     "smiles": "CC(C)NCC(O)COc1cccc2ccccc12",         "chrg": 0}
+]