- Clean signature of functions in namespace NNUE
- Add comment for countermove based pruning
- Remove bestMoveCount variable
- Add const qualifier to kpp_board_index array
- Fix spaces in get_best_thread()
- Fix indention in capture LMR code in search.cpp
- Rename TtmemDeleter to LargePageDeleter
Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3063
No functional change
Use TT memory functions to allocate memory for the NNUE weights. This
should provide a small speed-up on systems where large pages are not
automatically used, including Windows and some Linux distributions.
Further, since we now have a wrapper for std::aligned_alloc(), we can
simplify the TT memory management a bit:
- We no longer need to store separate pointers to the hash table and
its underlying memory allocation.
- We also get to merge the Linux-specific and default implementations
of aligned_ttmem_alloc().
Finally, we'll enable the VirtualAlloc code path with large page
support also for Win32.
STC: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5f66595823a84a47b9036fba
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) {-0.25,1.25}
Total: 14896 W: 1854 L: 1686 D: 11356
Ptnml(0-2): 65, 1224, 4742, 1312, 105
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3081
No functional change.
This fixes#3108 and removes some NNUE code that is currently not used.
At the moment, do_null_move() copies the accumulator from the previous
state into the new state, which is correct. It then clears the "computed_score"
flag because the side to move has changed, and with the other side to move
NNUE will return a completely different evaluation (normally with changed
sign but also with different NNUE-internal tempo bonus).
The problem is that do_null_move() clears the wrong flag. It clears the
computed_score flag of the old state, not of the new state. It turns out
that this almost never affects the search. For example, fixing it does not
change the current bench (but it does change the previous bench). This is
because the search code usually avoids calling evaluate() after a null move.
This PR corrects do_null_move() by removing the computed_score flag altogether.
The flag is not needed because nnue_evaluate() is never called twice on a position.
This PR also removes some unnecessary {}s and inserts a few blank lines
in the modified NNUE files in line with SF coding style.
Resulf ot STC non-regression test:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) {-1.25,0.25}
Total: 26328 W: 3118 L: 3012 D: 20198
Ptnml(0-2): 126, 2208, 8397, 2300, 133
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5f553ccc2d02727c56b36db1
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3109
bench: 4109324
1) Only access UCI option if defined
2) disable -Werror for now.
3) disable a few target that don't have _mm_malloc.
4) Add profile-learn target, with small speedup.
5) just test on Linux + gcc (skip macOS, unclear openblas, skip linux+clang, unclear omp/std::filesystem).
covers the most important cases from the user perspective:
It embeds the default net in the binary, so a download of that binary will result
in a working engine with the default net. The engine will be functional in the default mode
without any additional user action.
It allows non-default nets to be used, which will be looked for in up to
three directories (working directory, location of the binary, and optionally a specific default directory).
This mechanism is also kept for those developers that use MSVC,
the one compiler that doesn't have an easy mechanism for embedding data.
It is possible to disable embedding, and instead specify a specific directory, e.g. linux distros might want to use
CXXFLAGS="-DNNUE_EMBEDDING_OFF -DDEFAULT_NNUE_DIRECTORY=/usr/share/games/stockfish/" make -j ARCH=x86-64 profile-build
passed STC non-regression:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5f4a581c150f0aef5f8ae03a
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) {-1.25,-0.25}
Total: 66928 W: 7202 L: 7147 D: 52579
Ptnml(0-2): 291, 5309, 22211, 5360, 293
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3070
fixes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/issues/3030
No functional change.
This patch removes the EvalList structure from the Position object and generally simplifies the interface between do_move() and the NNUE code.
The NNUE evaluation function first calculates the "accumulator". The accumulator consists of two halves: one for white's perspective, one for black's perspective.
If the "friendly king" has moved or the accumulator for the parent position is not available, the accumulator for this half has to be calculated from scratch. To do this, the NNUE node needs to know the positions and types of all non-king pieces and the position of the friendly king. This information can easily be obtained from the Position object.
If the "friendly king" has not moved, its half of the accumulator can be calculated by incrementally updating the accumulator for the previous position. For this, the NNUE code needs to know which pieces have been added to which squares and which pieces have been removed from which squares. In principle this information can be derived from the Position object and StateInfo struct (in the same way as undo_move() does this). However, it is probably a bit faster to prepare this information in do_move(), so I have kept the DirtyPiece struct. Since the DirtyPiece struct now stores the squares rather than "PieceSquare" indices, there are now at most three "dirty pieces" (previously two). A promotion move that captures a piece removes the capturing pawn and the captured piece from the board (to SQ_NONE) and moves the promoted piece to the promotion square (from SQ_NONE).
An STC test has confirmed a small speedup:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5f43f06b5089a564a10d850a
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) {-0.25,1.25}
Total: 87704 W: 9763 L: 9500 D: 68441
Ptnml(0-2): 426, 6950, 28845, 7197, 434
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3068
No functional change
due to downclocking on current chips (tested up to cascade lake)
supporting avx512 and vnni512, it is better to use avx2 or vnni256
in multithreaded (in particular hyperthreaded) engine use.
In single threaded use, the picture is different.
gcc compilation for vnni256 requires a toolchain for gcc >= 9.
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3038
No functional change
Clang-10.0.0 poses as gcc-4.2:
$ clang++ -E -dM - </dev/null | grep GNUC
This means that Clang is using the workaround for the alignment bug of gcc-8
even though it does not have the bug (as far as I know).
This patch should speed up AVX2 and AVX512 compiles on Windows (when using Clang),
because it disables (for Clang) the gcc workaround we had introduced in this commit:
875183b310
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3050
No functional change.
This patch fixes the byte order when reading 16- and 32-bit values from the network file on a big-endian machine.
Bytes are ordered in read_le() using unsigned arithmetic, which doesn't need tricks to determine the endianness of the machine. Unfortunately the compiler doesn't seem to be able to optimise the ordering operation, but reading in the weights is not a time-critical operation and the extra time it takes should not be noticeable.
Big endian systems are still untested with NNUE.
fixes#3007
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3009
No functional change.
Adds support for Vector Neural Network Instructions (avx512), as available on Intel Cascade Lake
The _mm512_dpbusd_epi32() intrinsic (vpdpbusd instruction) is taylor made for NNUE.
on a cascade lake CPU (AWS C5.24x.large, gcc 10) NNUE eval is at roughly 78% nps of classical
(single core test)
bench 1024 1 24 default depth:
target classical NNUE ratio
vnni 2207232 1725987 78.20
avx512 2216789 1671734 75.41
avx2 2194006 1611263 73.44
modern 2185001 1352469 61.90
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2987
No functional change
this workaround is possibly rather a windows & gcc specific problem. See e.g.
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54412#c25
on Linux with gcc 8 this patch brings roughly a 8% speedup.
However, probably needs some testing in the wild.
includes a workaround for an old msys make (3.81) installation (fixes#2984)
No functional change
This patch allows old x86 CPUs, from AMD K8 (which the x86-64 baseline
targets) all the way down to the Pentium MMX, to benefit from NNUE with
comparable performance hit versus hand-written eval as on more modern
processors.
NPS of the bench with NNUE enabled on a Pentium III 1.13 GHz (using the
MMX code):
master: 38951
this patch: 80586
NPS of the bench with NNUE enabled using baseline x86-64 arch, which is
how linux distros are likely to package stockfish, on a modern CPU
(using the SSE2 code):
master: 882584
this patch: 1203945
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2956
No functional change.
despite usage of alignas, the generated (avx2/avx512) code with older compilers needs to use
unaligned loads with older gcc (e.g. confirmed crash with gcc 7.3/mingw on abrok).
Better performance thus requires gcc >= 9 on hardware supporting avx2/avx512
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2969
No functional change
