OpenEquivariance
[[PyTorch Examples]](#pytorch-examples) [[JAX Examples]](#jax-examples) [[Citation and Acknowledgements]](#citation-and-acknowledgements)
OpenEquivariance is a CUDA, HIP, and SYCL (new! beta) kernel generator for the Clebsch-Gordon tensor product, a key kernel in rotation-equivariant deep neural networks. It implements some of the tensor products that e3nn supports commonly found in graph neural networks (e.g. Nequip or MACE). To get started with PyTorch, ensure that you have PyTorch and GCC 9+ available before installing our package via
pip install openequivariance
We provide up to an order of magnitude acceleration over e3nn perform on par with the latest version of NVIDIA cuEquivariance, which has a closed-source kernel package. We also offer fused equivariant graph convolutions that can reduce computation and memory consumption significantly.
For detailed instructions on tests, benchmarks, MACE / Nequip, and our API, check out the documentation.
⭐️ SYCL (beta): Thanks to @abagusetty, OpenEquivariance now supports Intel XPUs on PyTorch by compiling SYCL kernels. See our installation guide for more details.
⭐️ JAX: We support JAX for NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. For NVIDIA GPUs, install it (after installing JAX) with the following two commands strictly in order:
`` bash
pip install openequivariance[jax]
pip install openequivariance_extjax --no-build-isolation
bash
pip install openequivariance[jax]
JAX_HIP=1 pip install openequivariance_extjax --no-build-isolation
For AMD GPUs:See the section below for example usage and
our API page for more details.
PyTorch Examples
Here's a CG tensor product implemented by e3nn:python import torch import e3nn.o3 as o3gen = torch.Generator(device='cuda')
batch_size = 1000 X_ir, Y_ir, Z_ir = o3.Irreps("1x2e"), o3.Irreps("1x3e"), o3.Irreps("1x2e") X = torch.rand(batch_size, X_ir.dim, device='cuda', generator=gen) Y = torch.rand(batch_size, Y_ir.dim, device='cuda', generator=gen)
instructions=[(0, 0, 0, "uvu", True)]
tp_e3nn = o3.TensorProduct(X_ir, Y_ir, Z_ir, instructions, shared_weights=False, internal_weights=False).to('cuda') W = torch.rand(batch_size, tp_e3nn.weight_numel, device='cuda', generator=gen)
Z = tp_e3nn(X, Y, W) print(torch.norm(Z))
And here's the same tensor product using openequivariance. We require that your
tensors are stored on a CUDA device for this to work:python
import openequivariance as oeq
problem = oeq.TPProblem(X_ir, Y_ir, Z_ir, instructions, shared_weights=False, internal_weights=False) tp_fast = oeq.TensorProduct(problem, torch_op=True)
Z = tp_fast(X, Y, W) # Reuse X, Y, W from earlier print(torch.norm(Z))
python from torch_geometric import EdgeIndexOur interface foroeq.TPProblemis almost a strict superset ofo3.TensorProduct(two key differences: we imposeinternal_weights=Falseand add support for multiple datatypes). You can pass e3nnIrrepsinstances directly or useoeq.Irreps, which is identical.We recommend reading the e3nn documentation and API reference first, then using our kernels as drop-in replacements. We support most "uvu" and "uvw" tensor products; see this section for an up-to-date list of supported configurations.
Important: For many configurations, our kernels return results identical to e3nn up to floating point roundoff (this includes all "uvu" problems with multiplicity 1 for all irreps in the second input). For other configurations (e.g. any "uvw" connection modes), we return identical results up to a well-defined reordering of the weights relative to e3nn.
If you're executing tensor products as part of a message passing graph neural network, we offer fused kernels that save both memory and compute time:
node_ct, nonzero_ct = 3, 4
Receiver, sender indices for message passing GNN
edge_index = EdgeIndex( [[0, 1, 1, 2], # Receiver [1, 0, 2, 1]], # Sender device='cuda', dtype=torch.long)X = torch.rand(node_ct, X_ir.dim, device='cuda', generator=gen) Y = torch.rand(nonzero_ct, Y_ir.dim, device='cuda', generator=gen) W = torch.rand(nonzero_ct, problem.weight_numel, device='cuda', generator=gen)
tp_conv = oeq.TensorProductConv(problem, torch_op=True, deterministic=False) # Reuse problem from earlier Z = tp_conv.forward(X, Y, W, edge_index[0], edge_index[1]) # Z has shape [node_ct, z_ir.dim] print(torch.norm(Z))
python _, sender_perm = edge_index.sort_by("col") # Sort by sender index edge_index, receiver_perm = edge_index.sort_by("row") # Sort by receiver indexIf you can guaranteeEdgeIndexis sorted by receiver index and supply the transpose permutation, we can provide even greater speedup (and deterministic results) by avoiding atomics:
Now we can use the faster deterministic algorithm
tp_conv = oeq.TensorProductConv(problem, torch_op=True, deterministic=True) Z = tp_conv.forward(X, Y[receiver_perm], W[receiver_perm], edge_index[0], edge_index[1], sender_perm) print(torch.norm(Z))python import jax import osNote: you don't need Pytorch geometric to use our kernels. Whendeterministic=False, thesenderandreceiverindices can have arbitrary order.OEQ_NOTORCH=1JAX Examples
After installation, use the library as follows. Setin your environment to avoid the PyTorch import in the regularopenequivariancepackage.
os.environ["OEQ_NOTORCH"] = "1" import openequivariance as oeq
seed = 42 key = jax.random.PRNGKey(seed)
batch_size = 1000 X_ir, Y_ir, Z_ir = oeq.Irreps("1x2e"), oeq.Irreps("1x3e"), oeq.Irreps("1x2e") problem = oeq.TPProblem(X_ir, Y_ir, Z_ir, [(0, 0, 0, "uvu", True)], shared_weights=False, internal_weights=False)
node_ct, nonzero_ct = 3, 4 edge_index = jax.numpy.array( [ [0, 1, 1, 2], [1, 0, 2, 1], ], dtype=jax.numpy.int32, # NOTE: This int32, not int64 )
X = jax.random.uniform(key, shape=(node_ct, X_ir.dim), minval=0.0, maxval=1.0, dtype=jax.numpy.float32) Y = jax.random.uniform(key, shape=(nonzero_ct, Y_ir.dim), minval=0.0, maxval=1.0, dtype=jax.numpy.float32) W = jax.random.uniform(key, shape=(nonzero_ct, problem.weight_numel), minval=0.0, maxval=1.0, dtype=jax.numpy.float32)
tp_conv = oeq.jax.TensorProductConv(problem, deterministic=False) Z = tp_conv.forward( X, Y, W, edge_index[0], edge_index[1] ) print(jax.numpy.linalg.norm(Z))
Test JAX JIT
jitted = jax.jit(lambda X, Y, W, e1, e2: tp_conv.forward(X, Y, W, e1, e2)) print(jax.numpy.linalg.norm(jitted(X, Y, W, edge_index[0], edge_index[1])))## Citation and Acknowledgements
If you find this code useful, please cite our paper:bibtex
@inbook{openequivariance,
author={Vivek Bharadwaj and Austin Glover and Aydin Buluc and James Demmel},
title={An Efficient Sparse Kernel Generator for O(3)-Equivariant Deep Networks},
booktitle = {SIAM Conference on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA25)},
chapter = {},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13986},
publisher={Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics},
year={2025}
}
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Our codebase includes a lightweight clone of
e3nn's frontend interface (in particular, the
TensorProduct and Irreps` classes). We removed references to Pytorch
and separated the implementation from the problem description (for future
frontend support outside of torch). We also extracted the Wigner 3j tensor generating code from QuTiP. Thank you to the current
developers and maintainers!
Copyright
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