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Both CloneOutputRelativeTolerance => 1.5e-5 overrides on the diffusion fixtures carried their own deletion condition in comments: remove once the clone difference holds at zero on CI, which the bit-identity check no longer running between the two forwards was expected to achieve. #2175 went green and merged, but it was green with the overrides in place, and the clone diagnostic only prints on failure — so nothing has actually tested that condition. This removal makes CI answer it.

The two fixtures are not the same case

With the float family defaults (DiffusionModelTestBase: relative 1.3e-6, absolute 1e-5), and allowed = abs + rel * |expected|:

fixture |expected| default allowance with override observed failure
StyDiff 0.0918 1.0119e-5 1.1377e-5 1.2934e-5 — exceeded both
InstantStyle 4.63 1.602e-5 7.945e-5 1.86e-5 — passes only with the override

StyDiff's override never addressed the failure it was added for. InstantStyle's is load-bearing: removing it restores the exact failing condition. So this is a real probe, not a formality.

What local verification is worth here

Both classes pass 26/26 locally on net10.0. That is a dead control — this machine is AVX2, and the divergence has never reproduced on AVX2 (8 solo and 3 full-shard runs at zero, plus a 4-core AVX2 Linux container running the real shard config). It proves the change compiles and does not regress here, nothing more. CI is the instrument.

If it goes red

That is a useful outcome, not a setback: the on-failure diagnostic that landed in #2175 reports the numeric environment alongside the measurement, which is the evidence this investigation has lacked.

Worth recording about the AVX-512 experiment, run 35471995234: it never produced a verdict. It was killed at 86s with exit code 143 and "The runner has received a shutdown signal" — evicted by a concurrency group, not a genuine failure. It did establish one thing before dying: DOTNET_EnableAVX512F=0 is a no-op on GitHub runners (Avx512F.IsSupported=True in both the default and the "disabled" arm). The toggle that actually moves the reading is DOTNET_PreferredVectorBitWidth=256. Any re-run of that experiment should use it.

The findings each comment held are kept in the comments rather than deleted along with the override.

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  • Tests
    • Updated diffusion model validation to require clone outputs to match exactly.
    • Removed model-specific output tolerance exceptions.
    • Documented prior platform-related output differences and clarified that they are not expected behavior.
    • Added one-time diagnostic output describing the process’s numeric environment and supported vector instruction sets.

Both overrides carried their own deletion condition: remove once the clone
difference holds at zero on CI, which the bit-identity check no longer running
BETWEEN the two forwards was expected to achieve. This is that removal, so CI
answers the question instead of the tolerance hiding it.

The two fixtures are not the same case, and the arithmetic says so. With the
float family defaults (relative 1.3e-6, absolute 1e-5):

  StyDiff, |expected| = 0.0918
    default allowance  1.0119e-5
    with the override  1.1377e-5
    observed failure   1.2934e-5   -- exceeded BOTH, so the override never
                                      addressed the failure it was added for.

  InstantStyle, magnitude 4.63
    default allowance  1.602e-5
    with the override  7.945e-5
    observed failure   1.86e-5     -- load-bearing: removing it restores the
                                      exact failing condition.

So this is a real probe, not a formality. Locally both classes pass 26/26, but
this machine is AVX2 and the divergence has never reproduced on AVX2, so that
run is a dead control and proves only that the change compiles and does not
regress here. CI is the instrument.

If InstantStyle goes red, the on-failure diagnostic now reports the numeric
environment alongside the measurement, which is the evidence that has been
missing. The findings each comment held are kept in the comments rather than
deleted with the override.

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The diffusion model tests remove two CloneOutputRelativeTolerance overrides. The base test now reports processor count and vector ISA details once per process. Comments document prior platform-dependent observations.

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Diffusion test comparison and diagnostics

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Restore strict clone comparison
tests/AiDotNet.Tests/ModelFamilyTests/Diffusion/InstantStyleModelTests.cs, tests/AiDotNet.Tests/ModelFamilyTests/Diffusion/StyDiffModelTests.cs
Both tests remove the CloneOutputRelativeTolerance override. Comments document expected zero divergence and prior AVX2 and AVX-512 observations.
Add numeric environment banner
tests/AiDotNet.Tests/ModelFamilyTests/Base/DiffusionModelTestBase.cs
Initialization writes one [numenv] line per process. The description includes processor count, AVX support, and Vector<float>.Count on supported targets.

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Update the diagnostic wording before merge so future CI investigation does not treat AVX-512 as confirmed when the failure has not been reproduced on that path.

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In `@tests/AiDotNet.Tests/ModelFamilyTests/Diffusion/InstantStyleModelTests.cs`:
- Around line 32-33: Update the fixture comments in InstantStyleModelTests and
StyDiffModelTests to accurately state that clone difference is zero on AVX2
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Comment thread tests/AiDotNet.Tests/ModelFamilyTests/Diffusion/InstantStyleModelTests.cs Outdated
Both tolerance overrides are now removed and both decisive shards are green:
StyDiffModelTests.Clone_ShouldProduceIdenticalOutput passed in 5.52s (Diffusion
Step-Sync, 65/65) and InstantStyleModelTests.Clone_ShouldProduceIdenticalOutput
passed in 133 ms (Diffusion D-I, 247/247).

That green is weaker evidence than it looks, and this commit is why. Grepping
the 20,915-line D-I job log for Avx512, VectorBitWidth, model name, Xeon, EPYC
or a cpuinfo flags line returns nothing at all, because
DescribeNumericEnvironment reported only DeterministicMode, engine and
ProcessorCount -- no ISA -- and ran only from the failure path. The AVX-512
kernel is the one this divergence turns on (SimdGemm.SgemmWithCachedB abandons
its cached path outright when Avx512Sgemm.CanUse) and every local reproduction
has been on AVX2, where the difference measures exactly zero. So a passing run
has never been distinguishable from a run that never exercised the suspect path.

Two changes:

  - DescribeVectorIsa() adds Avx512F.IsSupported, Avx2.IsSupported and
    Vector<float>.Count. The last is included because
    DOTNET_PreferredVectorBitWidth can narrow the selected width on hardware
    that still reports Avx512F.IsSupported = true -- which is also why
    DOTNET_EnableAVX512F=0 turned out to be a no-op on GitHub runners.
    Guarded #if NET8_0_OR_GREATER: the test project multi-targets
    net10.0;net8.0;net471 and System.Runtime.Intrinsics.X86 does not exist on
    net471.

  - DiffusionNumericEnvironmentBanner.WriteOnce prints the reading once per
    process from InitializeAsync, so PASSING shards record it too. It is
    non-generic on purpose: a static on DiffusionModelTestBase<TNum> exists once
    per closed type and would print for float and again for double. It is called
    from InitializeAsync rather than the static constructor because touching
    AiDotNetEngine.Current at type-load time would turn any failure into a
    TypeInitializationException across every test in the class.

Builds clean on all three target frameworks: 0 errors on net10.0, net8.0 and
net471.

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- Around line 853-858: Revise the comments around the AVX-512 ISA banner and the
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Comment thread tests/AiDotNet.Tests/ModelFamilyTests/Base/DiffusionModelTestBase.cs Outdated
Two review points, both about claiming more than the runs support.

The fixture comments in InstantStyleModelTests and StyDiffModelTests said the
clone difference "holds at zero on CI" in the present tense before any CI run
with the overrides removed had reported. The run has now reported, so each
comment states what was actually measured -- Clone_ShouldProduceIdenticalOutput
passed in 133 ms in "ModelFamily - Diffusion D-I" (247/247) and in 5.52s in
"ModelFamily - Diffusion Step-Sync" (65/65) -- and says plainly that this is one
green observation rather than a proof, because the ISA of those runners was not
recorded.

DescribeVectorIsa's remarks asserted AVX-512 was "the variable the diffusion
clone divergence has always turned on". That is a suspicion, not a finding:
there has never been a failing AVX-512 reproduction, only one divergence on
Linux CI whose ISA nobody captured, against zero divergence on Windows/x64 and
on AVX2 Linux. What IS established is narrower and stays: SimdGemm.SgemmWithCachedB
abandons its cached path when Avx512Sgemm.CanUse, so the summation order can
differ. Other causes -- DeterministicMode flipped by a sibling test, for one --
are equally unexcluded. The banner's remarks are softened the same way.

No behaviour change; comments only. Builds clean on net10.0, net8.0 and net471.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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