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Address #269 (comment)

Explicitly pass the device ID to the C++ predict function, since the currently active device context may be different from the model's device context.

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  • New Features
    • GPU predictions can target a specified device, even when a different GPU is currently active. If no device is specified, the current CUDA device is used.
    • GPU arrays are allocated and converted on the model’s device.
  • Bug Fixes
    • CuPy inputs on a different device from the model are rejected to prevent device mismatches.
    • GPU model import and class assignment restore the previously active device afterward, including when class assignment encounters an error.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for predictions on a non-default GPU.

The C++ prediction API accepts an optional device ID. The Python wrapper uses its configured device for GPU model import and inference, and rejects CuPy inputs from a different device. A multi-GPU test compares predictions with scikit-learn.

Changes: Prediction device selection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Prediction API device selection
cpp/include/nvforest/forest_model.hpp, python/nvforest/nvforest/detail/forest_inference.pyx
The raw-pointer predict overload accepts an optional device ID. For GPU input or output memory, it uses the supplied ID or queries the current CUDA device. The Python native declaration adds the optional parameter.
Model device setup
python/nvforest/nvforest/detail/forest_inference.pyx
The Python wrapper stores the configured device ID. GPU model import runs with that device current and restores the previously current device afterward.
GPU inference device handling
python/nvforest/nvforest/detail/forest_inference.pyx, python/nvforest/nvforest/_forest_inference.py, python/nvforest/tests/test_nvforest.py
GPU prediction rejects CuPy inputs on a different device and performs input conversion and output allocation in the model device context. Float and double prediction calls pass the stored device ID. Class assignment switches to the model device and restores the prior device. A multi-GPU test compares predictions with scikit-learn.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

  • rapidsai/nvforest#271: The issue describes broader follow-up work on GPU device-ordinal management and notes that this PR fixes some multi-GPU device-context bugs.

Possibly related PRs

  • rapidsai/nvforest#193: Replaces RAFT handles with explicit CUDA streams and changes the C++ predict interface that this PR extends with a device ID.
  • rapidsai/nvforest#258: Stores the model device ID and performs GPU array operations in that device context, a behavior also handled by this PR.
  • rapidsai/nvforest#269: Adds explicit device selection and GPU prediction in the selected device context, related to this PR’s device-context changes.

Suggested reviewers: csadorf, dantegd

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 6e66e

Multi-GPU prediction may still fail when another GPU is current. Resolve that device-context risk before merging.

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Review comments at @cpp/include/nvforest/forest_model.hpp:
- Line 344: Document the `device_id` parameter in the enclosing declaration’s
parameter documentation: specify that it identifies both GPU buffers, defaults
to the current device, and is ignored for host-only buffers. Verify this
description matches the parameter’s actual type and behavior.
- Line 344: The defaulted device_id parameter changes the predict function type
and breaks existing function-pointer uses. Preserve the original predict
overload without device_id, and add a separate overload that accepts device_id;
have the original overload forward to the new one while retaining existing call
behavior.
- Around line 349-350: Wrap the delegated GPU inference call in the raw-pointer
overload with detail::device_setter<device_type::gpu> for the requested device,
keeping the device active through inference and restoring the previous device on
every exit path.

Review comments at @python/nvforest/nvforest/detail/forest_inference.pyx:
- Line 249: Add a Cython field for device_id to ForestInference_impl and assign
the constructor’s device_id to that field so the prediction path can safely read
self.device_id.
- Line 261: Use device_id to select the target device while converting inputs
with cp.asarray and allocating outputs with cp.empty, including the
double-precision path. Restore the previously active device after these
operations, including when conversion or allocation raises, using the project’s
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- Around line 236-237: Update the cross-device CuPy input handling in
`optimize()` to preserve the existing behavior of copying input data to the
model’s device rather than raising `RuntimeError`; create and normalize
benchmark CuPy data under `self.forest.device_id` so it is allocated on the
correct device.
- Line 240: Update classifier predict flow around self.forest.predict() so
ClassifierMixin.get_class_assignment runs inside the existing model-device
context, ensuring its CuPy operations and resulting labels use the model device.
Preserve the current prediction behavior and reuse the established
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python/nvforest/tests/test_nvforest.py: 1

1038-1038: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Test class assignment on the nondefault device.

predict_proba does not call get_class_assignment, so this test does not cover the new device switching in predict. Also compare model.predict(X) with scikit-learn while device 0 is current, and check that device 0 remains current afterward.

As per coding guidelines: “Test edge cases” and “Verify prediction correctness against known-good values.”

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Review comment at @python/nvforest/tests/test_nvforest.py at line 1038:
Update the test around `model.predict_proba` to exercise `model.predict(X)`
while a nondefault device is current. Compare its predictions with the
scikit-learn reference, then verify that device 0 remains current afterward;
retain the existing probability check if it covers a separate behavior.

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cpp/include/nvforest/forest_model.hpp: 1

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Update the stream-pool raw-pointer overload for device selection.

The new device_id is accepted only by the single-stream raw-pointer overload. The stream-pool overload still calls cudaGetDevice(). A model on GPU 1 therefore fails when GPU 0 is current, because both buffers are labeled as GPU 0 and the model rejects them. Add the same optional device_id, or document and test that this overload supports only the current device. (raw.githubusercontent.com)


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- Line 1038: Update the test around `model.predict_proba` to exercise
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with the scikit-learn reference, then verify that device 0 remains current
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Just out of curiosity, why does nvForest need to handle the device ordinal? Couldn't it be left to the caller of the library?

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@trivialfis I plan to remove the use of device_id in the next release (27.02). See #271.

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Major · Create optimization data on the model device. · forest_inference.pyx:236-244

python/nvforest/nvforest/detail/forest_inference.pyx:236-244
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Create optimization data on the model device.

If the current device differs from the model device, _optimize creates its benchmark array on the current device. The prediction guard then raises, so optimize() cannot complete. Convert both generated and supplied data on the model device.

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-                data = cp.asarray(data)
+                with cp.cuda.Device(self.forest.device_id):
+                    data = cp.asarray(data)

Apply the same change to the other GPU cp.asarray(data) call in _optimize.

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Update _optimize so both generated and supplied benchmark data are converted
with cp.asarray while the model’s device is active, using the forest’s device
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- Around line 336-337: Update the parameter documentation near
decision_forest::predict to describe same-GPU pointer ownership as a caller
precondition, not a condition that guarantees an exception; the buffer
constructor records device_id without validating pointer ownership, so avoid
promising that a mismatched pointer will be detected.

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- Around line 236-244: Update _optimize so both generated and supplied benchmark
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forest’s device ID. Preserve the existing data conversion behavior apart from
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Have you run the test on 2 GPUs? It fails, so something seems wrong with the implementation.

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@RAMitchell The test was working on g4dn.12xlarge, which has 4 GPUs. Let me reproduce the error on 2 GPUs.

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It fails, so something seems wrong with the implementation.

Can you post the error message? I cannot reproduce the failure after setting CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES='0,1'.

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