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Update dependencies to latest versions

Open StatMixedML opened this issue 5 months ago • 1 comments

Updates all project dependencies to their latest stable versions while maintaining compatibility.

Changes

  • Updated 11 dependency versions in setup.py
  • Used conservative version specifiers (~=) to prevent breaking changes
  • Maintained compatibility with existing codebase

Closes #49

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StatMixedML avatar Aug 08 '25 09:08 StatMixedML

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Code Review Complete ✅

I've completed a thorough review of the dependency updates in this PR. Here's my analysis:

Todo List:

  • [x] Check for repository guidelines (CLAUDE.md)
  • [x] Review setup.py changes and dependency updates
  • [x] Analyze version specifiers and compatibility
  • [x] Check for security implications
  • [x] Assess test coverage considerations
  • [x] Provide comprehensive feedback

Review Feedback

✅ Code Quality & Best Practices

  • Good use of conservative versioning: The ~= operator is correctly used, which allows patch-level updates while preventing potentially breaking minor version updates
  • Consistent formatting: All dependency updates follow the same pattern and formatting
  • Appropriate Python requirement: Maintains >=3.10 which aligns with modern Python practices

⚠️ Potential Compatibility Issues

Major version jumps that need attention:

  1. PyTorch: ~=2.1.2 → ~=2.4.0 (setup.py:20)

    • This is a significant jump across multiple minor versions
    • PyTorch 2.4.0 introduced changes to autograd, compilation, and CUDA handling
    • Recommendation: Test thoroughly, especially any neural network components

  2. Optuna: ~=3.5.0 → ~=4.0.0 (setup.py:22)

    • Major version bump likely includes breaking API changes
    • Recommendation: Review Optuna 4.0 migration guide and test hyperparameter optimization code

  3. SciPy: ~=1.11.4 → ~=1.14.0 (setup.py:28)

    • Several minor version jumps may affect statistical functions
    • Recommendation: Test any statistical computations, especially if using advanced SciPy functions

  4. SHAP: ~=0.44.0 → ~=0.46.0 (setup.py:29)

    • SHAP frequently changes explainer interfaces
    • Recommendation: Test model explainability features

⚠️ Version Specifier Inconsistencies

  • NumPy downgrade: ~=1.26.3 → ~=1.26.0 - unusual to downgrade patch versions
  • TQDM downgrade: ~=4.66.1 → ~=4.66.0 - same issue
  • Seaborn: ~=0.13.1 → ~=0.13.0 - same issue

Recommendation: Consider using the latest patch versions (e.g., ~=1.26.4 for NumPy) rather than downgrading.

🔒 Security Assessment

  • Generally positive: Most updates move to more recent versions which typically include security patches
  • No obvious security risks: All dependencies are well-established packages
  • Recommendation: The updates improve the security posture overall

🧪 Test Coverage Considerations

Strengths:

  • Comprehensive test suite exists with good coverage across distributions, utilities, and models
  • CI/CD pipeline (unit-tests.yml:35) runs pytest --cov for coverage analysis
  • Tests are run on Python 3.10 and 3.11

Concerns:

  • No integration tests visible for dependency interactions
  • Missing dependency compatibility tests - tests don't verify that updated packages work together
  • No version constraint validation in tests

Recommendations:

  1. Run the existing test suite to ensure no regressions
  2. Consider adding integration tests that verify key dependency interactions
  3. Test on both Python 3.10 and 3.11 as specified in the CI matrix

🚀 Performance Considerations

  • PyTorch 2.4: May include performance improvements in tensor operations
  • SciPy 1.14: Likely includes optimizations for statistical computations
  • LightGBM 4.5: Newer versions often include training speed improvements
  • Overall impact: Likely positive performance impact

📋 Recommendations Before Merging

  1. Test the full CI pipeline to ensure all tests pass with new dependencies
  2. Run specific tests for PyTorch/Pyro-ppl interactions and Optuna optimization
  3. Consider gradual rollout if this is a production system
  4. Update documentation if any API changes affect usage examples
  5. Fix version downgrades for NumPy, TQDM, and Seaborn to use latest patches

Overall Assessment: ✅ APPROVE with recommendations

The dependency updates are well-structured and use appropriate version specifiers. While there are some compatibility risks with the major version jumps (especially PyTorch and Optuna), the use of conservative versioning (~=) helps mitigate breaking changes. The comprehensive test suite should catch most regressions.

claude[bot] avatar Aug 08 '25 09:08 claude[bot]

Hi, I spent a couple of hours on this this evening. Running the example code on this branch, leaves REPL unresponsive as soon as we hit lgblss.hyper_opt(...) or lgblss.train(...). Pressing Ctrl-C while it's hanging aborts and exits the REPL.

I thought that I could have better luck if I loosened the dependencies so I removed all version specifications from setup.py and re-installed the code of this branch on a clean Python 3.12.11 env using pyenv using pip install -e .. Then I ran pytest and I got a segmentation fault:

❯ pytest -vv tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py --maxfail=1
========================================================= test session starts =========================================================
platform darwin -- Python 3.12.11, pytest-9.0.1, pluggy-1.6.0 -- /Users/tsagias/.pyenv/versions/3.12.11/envs/lightgbmlss/bin/python
cachedir: .pytest_cache
rootdir: /Users/tsagias/work/LightGBMLSS
collected 34 items

tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values[Beta-nll] PASSED           [  2%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values[Cauchy-nll] PASSED         [  5%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values[Gamma-nll] PASSED          [  8%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values[Gaussian-nll] PASSED       [ 11%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values[Gumbel-nll] PASSED         [ 14%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values[Laplace-nll] PASSED        [ 17%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values[LogNormal-nll] PASSED      [ 20%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values[StudentT-nll] PASSED       [ 23%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values[Weibull-nll] PASSED        [ 26%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values[ZABeta-nll] PASSED         [ 29%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values[ZAGamma-nll] PASSED        [ 32%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values[ZALN-nll] PASSED           [ 35%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values[NegativeBinomial-nll] PASSED [ 38%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values[Poisson-nll] PASSED        [ 41%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values[ZINB-nll] PASSED           [ 44%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values[ZIPoisson-nll] PASSED      [ 47%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values[Expectile-nll] PASSED      [ 50%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values[SplineFlow-nll] PASSED     [ 52%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values_mixture[mixture_class0-nll] PASSED [ 55%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values_mixture[mixture_class1-nll] PASSED [ 58%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values_mixture[mixture_class2-nll] PASSED [ 61%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values_mixture[mixture_class3-nll] PASSED [ 64%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values_mixture[mixture_class4-nll] PASSED [ 67%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values_mixture[mixture_class5-nll] PASSED [ 70%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values_mixture[mixture_class6-nll] PASSED [ 73%]
tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py::TestClass::test_calculate_start_values_mixture[mixture_class7-nll] Fatal Python error: Segmentation fault

Thread 0x000000016dc57000 (most recent call first):
  <no Python frame>

Thread 0x00000001fba66080 (most recent call first):
  File "/Users/tsagias/.pyenv/versions/3.12.11/envs/lightgbmlss/lib/python3.12/site-packages/torch/distributions/negative_binomial.py", line 131 in log_prob
  File "/Users/tsagias/.pyenv/versions/3.12.11/envs/lightgbmlss/lib/python3.12/site-packages/torch/distributions/mixture_same_family.pyzsh: segmentation fault  pytest -vv tests/test_distribution_utils/test_calculate_start_values.py

With the help of chatGPT 5.1 Thinking I managed to isolate the source, which seems to be in loss_fn_start_values(). I added a few debug statements therein that print:

========== DEBUG NB MIXTURE START_VALUES ==========
M: 2
param_dict keys: ['total_count', 'probs', 'mix_prob']
total_count shape: (1, 2)
total_count values: [[0.500001 0.500001]]
probs shape: (1, 2)
probs values: [[0.62246037 0.62246037]]
mix_prob shape: (1, 2)
mix_prob values: [[0.0284039  0.97159606]]
target shape: (4,)
target values (first 20): [0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8]
===================================================

I then instantiated a NegativeBinomial directly using torch with the above values. The output is this:

❯ python repro_nb_mixture_exact.py
torch version: 2.9.1
total_count: tensor([[0.5000, 0.5000]], requires_grad=True) torch.Size([1, 2])
probs: tensor([[0.6225, 0.6225]], requires_grad=True) torch.Size([1, 2])
mix_prob: tensor([[0.0284, 0.9716]], requires_grad=True) torch.Size([1, 2])
target: tensor([0.2000, 0.4000, 0.6000, 0.8000]) torch.Size([4])

Calling mixture.log_prob(target)...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/tsagias/work/LightGBMLSS/repro_nb_mixture_exact.py", line 26, in <module>
    logp = mixture.log_prob(target)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/tsagias/.pyenv/versions/lightgbmlss/lib/python3.12/site-packages/torch/distributions/mixture_same_family.py", line 167, in log_prob
    self._validate_sample(x)
  File "/Users/tsagias/.pyenv/versions/lightgbmlss/lib/python3.12/site-packages/torch/distributions/distribution.py", line 322, in _validate_sample
    raise ValueError(
ValueError: Expected value argument (Tensor of shape (4,)) to be within the support (MixtureSameFamilyConstraint(IntegerGreaterThan(lower_bound=0))) of the distribution MixtureSameFamily(
  Categorical(probs: torch.Size([1, 2]), logits: torch.Size([1, 2])),
  NegativeBinomial(total_count: torch.Size([1, 2]), probs: torch.Size([1, 2]))), but found invalid values:
tensor([0.2000, 0.4000, 0.6000, 0.8000])

It says that we try to pass non-integer targets to a discrete distribution. LightGBMLSS disables args validation in all distributions (source) so this doesn't show up. Unfortunately even when I disable the validation I can't reproduce the seg fault.

Here's the python script that I used: repro_nb_mixture_exact.py

This is how far I got. I can't replicate the seg fault as it seems to occur only when we are inside LightGBMLSS loop.

Some final words from chatGPT, in case they inspire someone to investigate this further:

• LightGBMLSS uses PyTorch’s NegativeBinomial as an overdispersed count model, but here it’s being applied to non-integer targets as a pseudo–continuous loss. • On torch 2.1.2 this “abuse” behaved fine (returned finite values). • On torch 2.4+ / 2.9.1, MixtureSameFamily(NegativeBinomial) with validate_args=False plus this usage pattern can segfault inside the NB log_prob kernel on macOS / Python 3.12. • To make the library robust across torch versions, you avoid calling the mixture NB log-likelihood during start-value estimation and instead use the base NB start-values replicated across mixture components with uniform weights.

nucflash avatar Dec 05 '25 06:12 nucflash

Hi @nucflash Thanks a lot for taking this up. I am greatful for support.

Most of the work concerning relaxing dependencies and their updates has been done by @fkiraly for

https://github.com/StatMixedML/XGBoostLSS

So you might want to replicate his steps for LightGBMLSS.

StatMixedML avatar Dec 05 '25 09:12 StatMixedML

Thanks Alexander. This is very helpful. I found the issue, and I'm working on a PR. The segfault related to a known issue on lightgbm and torch and how OpenMP is installed; see here. After fixing that, and following @fkiraly 's changes in XGBoostLSS, I got everything working. I'm running a final test over all python versions [3.10–3.14] and I'll submit a new PR for you to review. Many thanks!

nucflash avatar Dec 05 '25 19:12 nucflash