Fused in-place update! for staggered groups by xtalax · Pull Request #723 · SciML/MethodOfLines.jl

xtalax · 2026-10-16T23:13:18Z

Each group from staggered_groups now has update!(u, p, t, dt), which steps the group in place. It writes each variable's new values straight into that variable's block of u, so there is no dv buffer, no gather or scatter, and one fused kernel per equation region. On the CPU, update! is bitwise equal to u[g.states] .+= dt .* dv and allocates nothing. For 2D TM Yee at 49,923 states it takes 33 µs for the E group and 20 µs for the H group, against 111 µs and 138 µs for today's f plus scatter. On the GPU it makes no copies, takes 6 µs and 27 µs for the same groups, and agrees with the CPU to within 2 eps.

Stacking. This PR is stacked on:

Per-group right-hand sides for staggered leapfrogs (staggered_groups) #721 (staggered_groups);
Let SymbolicUtils fused codegen fuse mol_broadcast #722 (fused broadcast codegen for mol_broadcast, cherry-picked here as its own commit);
Emit single points as slice equations on the array path (GPU) #717.

Its diff includes their commits until they merge. Its own changes are four commits, in src/discretization/staggered_discretize.jl and test/Wave_Eq_Staggered/staggered_groups.jl.

Dependencies. The fused, copy-free code path needs two unreleased PRs:

SymbolicUtils #1161, tested at ef3fcd2b: fused broadcast codegen, with the in-place fuse_unalias option, which skips per-input unaliasing on the CPU and on GPU arrays;
Symbolics #2103, tested at 1a302106, which passes fuse_broadcasts and fuse_unalias through CodegenFunctionOptions.

With the released versions those options are ignored. update! is then generated unfused: it is still correct, and the tests below pass bitwise, but it allocates temporaries and launches one kernel per operation. CI on released dependencies therefore exercises only that fallback, not the fused path this PR is for.

API

(; groups, constant, algebraic) = MethodOfLines.staggered_groups(prob; lossy = false,
                                                                 fuse_broadcasts = true, kwargs...)
E, H = groups
E.update!(u, p, t, dt)              # u[E.states] .+= dt .* dv, in place

Groups. Each group is now (; f, update!, states). f is unchanged.
Lossy form. With lossy = true the call is update!(u, p, t, dt, a, b), which computes u[states] .= a[states] .* u[states] .+ b[states] .* dv. Here a and b are per-state coefficient vectors laid out like u, as in the lossy Yee form.
Code generation options. fuse_broadcasts and any other keywords are passed to code generation; for example, scalarize_single_element_regions = false is needed for GPU arrays.
Untouched states. update! never writes constant states (Dt(c) ~ 0) or algebraic states (walls, Dirichlet and Neumann rows).

A Yee leapfrog step is therefore E.update!(u, p, t, dt); H.update!(u, p, t + dt / 2, dt).

Implementation

One function per variable. Each variable a group writes gets one in-place function over its grid. It is compiled from an ArrayMaker whose regions are the slices r of the variable's equations D(u[r]) ~ f, and whose values are u[r] .+ dt .* f, or a[r] .* u[r] .+ b[r] .* f.
Compilation. ModelingToolkit's build_function_wrapper compiles it, and update! calls it on reshape(view(u, block), dims). Each variable's states are one contiguous block of u, which is asserted.
Code shape. With fused codegen, each region becomes one materialize! of a lazy broadcast, written through a view of that block. Each region's value has the region's shape, so no reshaped views are involved.
Constant and algebraic states. An ArrayMaker writes only its regions, so these keep their values. The one exception is an ArrayMaker of 16 elements or fewer, which is generated element by element, uncovered elements included. Such a variable is first given an identity region covering all of it.
Copy-free in-place writes. For a group that passes the race check below, the functions are generated with fuse_unalias = false:
- the generated code copies no inputs on entry;
- each region is written without broadcast's per-input unalias, on the CPU and on GPU arrays. All views into one state vector look aliased to Base and to CUDA.jl, so broadcast would otherwise copy every input.
Pointwise equations. Some interiors cannot take the slice form, for example a variable without a periodic condition on a periodic domain. These are discretized point by point into equations for a scalar u[i], and each one becomes a one-element region u[i:i].

Race check

An in-place update reads u while writing it. _group_race finds any equation that reads a state its group writes, other than the slice the equation itself writes. It compares slices by value, because two equal slices with differently typed ranges are not isequal. This is exactly the contract of fuse_unalias = false: no region reads memory another region writes, except at the index it writes.

The groups are a proper 2-colouring of the coupling graph, so a group never reads another variable of its own group. The only possible race is an equation reading its own variable at other cells. Yee, Drude J and G, and 3D Yee have none. In Drude, J reads J only at the cells it writes.

A group that fails the check keeps the default unaliasing, which copies its inputs on entry and is correct, when fused codegen is available. Without fused codegen its update! throws, because unfused code writes region by region and a later region would read updated values.

Tests

test/Wave_Eq_Staggered/staggered_groups.jl gains these checks for each system (1D wave, 1D Maxwell–Drude, periodic 1D Maxwell–Drude with pointwise E and J interiors, 2D TM Yee with PEC, 2D TM with Drude J and G and a constant permittivity field, and 3D Yee):

Bitwise equality. update! equals u[g.states] .+= dt .* dv, computed with the group's own f, at a random state. The comparison covers the whole state vector, so constant and algebraic states are checked as untouched.
Lossy form. On both Drude systems, update! is checked bitwise against u[g.states] .= a[g.states] .* u[g.states] .+ b[g.states] .* dv.
Race check. It flags an equation that reads a shifted slice of its own variable, and passes one that reads its own slice.

The checks are bitwise because Julia does not contract a * b + c into an FMA on the CPU, so the fused update performs the same operations in the same order as f followed by the axpy.

Results:

Released SymbolicUtils and Symbolics (unfused): Wave_Eq_Staggered passes (305 passed and 5 broken as before, plus 59/59 in the groups set), and Components and DAE pass.
SymbolicUtils #1161 at ef3fcd2b and Symbolics #2103 at 1a302106: the groups set passes 59/59, also bitwise. Let SymbolicUtils fused codegen fuse mol_broadcast #722's own test set ("mol_broadcast terms fuse into one broadcast") passes 5/5 on the same versions.
Formatting: Runic is clean.

The test suite has no GPU group, so the GPU comparison is described below rather than added as a test.

Measurements

CPU, Julia 1.12.6, minimum time per call. Allocations are exact; times were taken under load and are indicative. 2D TM Yee has 49,923 states and 2D TM with Drude has 99,846.

Group	Before: `f` + `u[g] .+= dt .* dv`	Fused `update!`, without `fuse_unalias = false`	Fused `update!`, with `fuse_unalias = false`
Yee E	111 µs, 1.72 MiB	56 µs, 651 KiB	33 µs, 0 B
Yee H	138 µs, 1.91 MiB	84 µs, 1.78 MiB	20 µs, 0 B
Drude E	180 µs, 2.60 MiB	106 µs, 1.14 MiB	51 µs, 0 B
Drude H	207 µs, 2.93 MiB	141 µs, 2.16 MiB	39 µs, 0 B

The lossy form also allocates 0 B: 39 µs and 52 µs for Yee E and H, and 81 µs and 79 µs for Drude E and H. The generated code contains no unalias calls: each region is one fused_materialize_noalias!. The first and last columns were measured on the final versions above. The middle column was measured on an earlier commit of #1161, before the in-place option existed.

Kernels per step. One fused materialize! per equation region:

System	E group	H group	Per step
2D TM Yee	1 (Ez core)	6 (Hx and Hy, each a core plus 2 frame strips)	7
2D TM + Drude	2 (Ez, G)	7	9

Bytes per cell-step, predicted (f64, each array read once per kernel):

2D TM Yee: 80 B. Ez reads Ez, Hx and Hy and writes Ez (32 B); Hx and Hy each read themselves and Ez and write themselves (24 B each).
2D TM + Drude: 152 B.
With per-cell a/b: 128 B for Yee and up to 224 B for Drude.

The current path, a fused right-hand side followed by a separate update pass, needs at least 128 B for Yee before any gather or scatter.

GPU (RTX 4080 SUPER, CUDA.jl 6.4.2; same systems, plain and lossy forms):

Agreement with the CPU: the largest difference is 2.0 eps, relative to the larger of |u| and |dt * dv| per element, with about 10% of elements differing bitwise. This is consistent with ptxas contracting multiply-add into FMA inside a fused kernel, so GPU checks should use a tolerance of a few eps relative to those terms, not bitwise equality.
Kernel counts: as in the table above.
Device-to-device copies: 0 per call in every case. The GPU numbers were measured with #1161 at d7d74295, without fuse_output_array. That generates the same code as ef3fcd2b, whose later commits only add a docstring and remove that option. Without fuse_unalias = false, GPUArrays' broadcast copied every input view of another variable: 4–6 copies per call. Since CUDA.jl 6.4.2, every view into one CuArray shares its dataids with the destination.
Host-to-device copy: the profiler shows one 8-byte pageable copy per call. It appears for a plain u .+= 0.0 as well, so it does not come from this code.
Time per call (minimum of 50), against 28–92 µs while the copies were made:

Group Yee Yee lossy Drude Drude lossy

E 6 µs 7 µs 10 µs 20 µs

H 27 µs 33 µs 34 µs 21 µs

Known limits

Algebraic rows. As in staggered_groups, Neumann rows and time-dependent Dirichlet rows get no update.
Pointwise equations become one region, and so one kernel, per point. They also read other states by scalar indexing, which GPU arrays reject unless scalar indexing is allowed. They were tested on the CPU only.
Variables of 16 elements or fewer are written whole, with their own values outside their regions. This is correct but not in place.

CI fixes (47a05f8). Rebased onto #721's and #717's fixes. The update! codegen's non-public accesses (ArrayMaker, build_function_wrapper, eval_or_rgf, flat_unknowns, reorder_parameters) are on the QA ignore list. Locally, QA passes 21/21; Wave_Eq_Staggered passes (59/59 groups) at the latest versions and at the downgraded lower bounds; Discretization passes at the lower bounds (3,660 + 56).

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@noinline

Every array-path broadcast is a mol_broadcast term, the @noinline wrapper for JuliaLang/julia#63872, so SymbolicUtils' opt-in fused broadcast codegen (the :fuse_broadcasts rewrite), which recognised only broadcast, fused nothing in a MethodOfLines residual. Declare SymbolicUtils.Code.is_elementwise_call(::typeof(mol_broadcast)), when SymbolicUtils defines that trait, so a mol_broadcast term fuses as the broadcast it wraps. The fused code materializes each region through SymbolicUtils' own @noinline fused_materialize!, so the inlining hang stays avoided. Without fusion, or with a SymbolicUtils that lacks the trait, the generated code is unchanged. Agent-Harness: Claude Code 2.1.301 Agent-Model: claude-opus-5-5 Agent-Session: 644ed0ff-c8c9-4cc3-b4c6-f326231a4030 Agent-Review: unreviewed Co-authored-by: Claude Code <agent@noreply.juliahub.com>

staggered_groups now also returns, per group, update!(u, p, t, dt), which performs u[states] .+= dt .* dv without dv, or with lossy = true update!(u, p, t, dt, a, b) for u[states] .= a[states] .* u[states] .+ b[states] .* dv with per-state coefficient vectors laid out like u. f is unchanged. Each variable the group writes gets one in-place function over its grid, compiled with build_function_wrapper from an ArrayMaker whose regions are its equations' slices and whose values are u[r] + dt * f. It is called on reshape(view(u, block), dims), the variable's contiguous block of u, so no scatter remains, and since an ArrayMaker writes only its regions, constant and algebraic states keep their values. An ArrayMaker of at most 16 elements, which is generated element by element, is first given the variable itself everywhere. fuse_broadcasts (default true) and other keywords go to the code generation, so with SymbolicUtils' fused broadcast codegen each region is one fused materialize. The update reads u while writing it, so a group whose equation reads a state the group writes other than its own slice, compared by value, gets an update! that throws instead. Tests check update! against u[states] .+= dt .* dv from the group's f, bit for bit over the whole state, for the 1D wave, 1D Maxwell-Drude, 2D TM Yee, 2D TM with Drude and 3D Yee systems, the lossy form on both Drude systems, and the race check. Agent-Harness: Claude Code 2.1.302 Agent-Model: claude-opus-5-5 Agent-Session: 644ed0ff-c8c9-4cc3-b4c6-f326231a4030 Agent-Review: unreviewed Co-authored-by: Claude Code <agent@noreply.juliahub.com>

A group that passes the race check reads each state it writes only at the index it writes it, which is the contract of SymbolicUtils' fuse_unalias = false. Its per-variable functions are now generated with fuse_unalias = false and fuse_output_array set to the variable, so fused code neither copies its inputs on entry nor copies the region's own read of the variable, and on the CPU writes without Base's per-input unalias copies. A group that fails the check keeps the unaliasing, which copies its inputs on entry, when fused codegen is available, and throws otherwise, since unfused code writes region by region. With SymbolicUtils and Symbolics that lack the options, they are ignored. Agent-Harness: Claude Code 2.1.302 Agent-Model: claude-opus-5-5 Agent-Session: 644ed0ff-c8c9-4cc3-b4c6-f326231a4030 Agent-Review: unreviewed Co-authored-by: Claude Code <agent@noreply.juliahub.com>

A pointwise equation writes a scalar state u[i], and an ArrayMaker region needs an array value, so the update reads and writes u[i:i] instead. The periodic Maxwell-Drude test, whose E and J interiors are pointwise, now also checks update! bit for bit. Agent-Harness: Claude Code 2.1.302 Agent-Model: claude-opus-5-5 Agent-Session: 644ed0ff-c8c9-4cc3-b4c6-f326231a4030 Agent-Review: unreviewed Co-authored-by: Claude Code <agent@noreply.juliahub.com>

With fuse_unalias = false, SymbolicUtils no longer unaliases any input of a fused region, on the CPU or on GPU arrays, so reading the written slice through the destination view saves nothing: a fresh view of the same slice is not copied either. With and without fuse_output_array the update allocates nothing on the CPU, is bitwise equal to u[states] .+= dt .* dv, and makes no device copies on the GPU. Agent-Harness: Claude Code 2.1.302 Agent-Model: claude-opus-5-5 Agent-Session: 644ed0ff-c8c9-4cc3-b4c6-f326231a4030 Agent-Review: unreviewed Co-authored-by: Claude Code <agent@noreply.juliahub.com>

The in-place update! is compiled from an ArrayMaker through ModelingToolkitBase's build_function_wrapper, eval_or_rgf, flat_unknowns and reorder_parameters, none of which their owners declare public. Agent-Harness: Claude Code 2.1.302 Agent-Model: claude-opus-5-5 Agent-Session: 644ed0ff-c8c9-4cc3-b4c6-f326231a4030 Agent-Review: unreviewed Co-authored-by: Claude Code <agent@noreply.juliahub.com>

ChrisRackauckas-Claude · 2026-10-21T05:17:45Z

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Two updater correctness failures reproduced at current head 47a05f84394e2d9684520e796e4c2860700b1111 during an independent Codex review (Julia 1.12.7, CPU). Both use a conservative periodic forward difference: the expected total is exactly 210.0.

With released SymbolicUtils 4.53.0 + Symbolics 7.47.0 + ModelingToolkit 11.45.5 / ModelingToolkitBase 1.77.5, the array-seam reproducer below returns last state 17.640625, expected 17.625, and total 210.015625. SymbolicUtils supports fusion, but this Symbolics release does not pass the options through. The capability guard needs both layers; explicitly disabling fusion correctly throws on the overlap.
With the same backend and Symbolics fusion plumbing, the array-seam case is correct. Changing only the seam to D(v[20]) ~ v[1] - v[20] reproduces the same wrong result, including normal compilation. Thus updating the capability guard alone is insufficient. Scalar RHS reads also need the group's entry state, or the updater must reject that overlap.

Both failures occur for plain/lossy forms and both singleton-scalarization settings. The following is the exact executed diagnostic (it prints mismatches; its normal exit is not a test pass):

using ModelingToolkit, MethodOfLines, Symbolics, SymbolicUtils, SciMLBase
using SymbolicIndexingInterface: variable_index
@variables t v(t)[1:20] h(t)[1:20]
D=Differential(t)
eqs=[D(v[1:19]) ~ v[2:20] .- v[1:19], D(v[20:20]) ~ v[1:1] .- v[20:20], D(h) ~ v]
@named raw=System(eqs,t,[v,h],[])
sys=complete(raw)
prob=DAEProblem(sys,[v=>collect(1.:20.),h=>zeros(20),D(v)=>zeros(20),D(h)=>zeros(20)],(0.,1.);build_initializeprob=false)
ids=vec(collect(variable_index(sys,v)))
original=copy(prob.u0)
dt=1/8
expected=copy(original)
expected[ids] .= original[ids] .+ dt .* (circshift(original[ids],-1) .- original[ids])
for scalarize in (true,false), lossy in (false,true)
    sg=MethodOfLines.staggered_groups(prob;lossy,scalarize_single_element_regions=scalarize)
    g=first(sg.groups)
    u=copy(original)
    lossy ? g.update!(u,prob.p,0.,dt,ones(length(u)),fill(dt,length(u))) : g.update!(u,prob.p,0.,dt)
    println("scalarize=",scalarize," lossy=",lossy," actual_last=",u[ids[end]]," expected_last=",expected[ids[end]]," mass_before=",sum(original[ids])," mass_after=",sum(u[ids])," expected_mass=",sum(expected[ids])," match=",u==expected)
    flush(stdout)
end

Please add updater-level regressions for both seam spellings, including the mixed released dependency resolution. The existing race-detector assertions and symmetric two-region examples do not catch these cases. No repair has been applied or tested in this read-only review; I have not pushed to this branch.

A separate source/API finding: the new QA exclusions cover SymbolicUtils.ArrayMaker and ModelingToolkitBase.{build_function_wrapper, eval_or_rgf, flat_unknowns, reorder_parameters}, all observed non-public in the tested environments. These need public owner APIs with documentation, rather than additional exclusions. The public-owner work and its current validation limits are described below.

Additional matched-graph checks preserve this distinction: original723 and the local public-API consumer each match all four array-seam cases with staged Symbolics2103, and each mismatch all four with registered7.47. Scalar-seam cases mismatch all four combinations on both sources under both dependency graphs. Within each original/consumer pair, only the MethodOfLines source path differs; between staged/registered graphs, only Symbolics source/version and the project hash differ. These scripts print comparisons and their exit0 is not a passing test result. The release capability remains a separate blocker.

The public-owner repair is now concrete: the documented ArrayMaker declaration is proposed in JuliaSymbolics/SymbolicUtils.jl#1169, and documented trailing generator arguments in SciML/ModelingToolkit.jl#5303. A separate consumer candidate removes the five exemptions and is undergoing focused/QA/broader tests and independent review. Its first review caught a compilation keyword precedence regression; the exact probe changes from8 passes/1 world-age error to32/32 after correction. This is an API migration result, not a repair of either ordering failure. Nothing has been pushed to this author branch.

GPU execution remains unverified here. These are observed CPU correctness failures, independently of the outstanding GPU evidence.

Links:

Reviewed change: Fused in-place update! for staggered groups #723
Fusion option dependency: Pass SymbolicUtils' fused broadcast codegen options through CodegenFunctionOptions JuliaSymbolics/Symbolics.jl#2103
Public constructor proposal: Make the validated ArrayMaker constructor public JuliaSymbolics/SymbolicUtils.jl#1169
Public generator proposal: Support independent trailing inputs in custom generated functions ModelingToolkit.jl#5303
Released backend: https://github.com/JuliaSymbolics/SymbolicUtils.jl/releases/tag/v4.53.0

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ChrisRackauckas-Claude · 2026-10-21T16:30:31Z

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An exact public-owner patch is ready for original head47a05f84394e2d9684520e796e4c2860700b1111. It calls documented ModelingToolkitBase.generate_custom_function with trailing arguments, initializes every ArrayMaker output region, preserves compiler argument/callable controls, and removes the five dependency-private QA exemptions. The patch SHA256 is dc2cb43bf3f7e2db672dd24ea6afd1104a84ddd8016a92eb67a184cbec8ce359 (eight files). Nothing has been pushed to this author branch.

Review proposal with a docs-validation gap: two unchanged full builds failed only on external HTTP429 link checks. HTML rendering remains unverified; the patch is not a whole-PR merge recommendation.

This requires the proposed public ArrayMaker in JuliaSymbolics/SymbolicUtils.jl#1169 and trailing-argument API in SciML/ModelingToolkit.jl#5303. Neither proposed owner version is released. Registered Symbolics7.47 lacks the fusion forwarding in JuliaSymbolics/Symbolics.jl#2103; no supported fusion version floor is inferred.

Expanded official controls on an intermediate public-owner candidate produced306passes/4errors; the final official focused group passes381/381. The exact32-assertion compiler-option probe passes on original723, fails8passes/1world-age error on that intermediate candidate, and passes32/32 on the final patch. This discriminates the intermediate migration defect; it does not claim that original723 had that compiler-option defect. Fresh separate Codex CLI 0.163.0/gpt-6-astra independently repeated381+32 and rated this narrow patch low risk/high confidence, with no blocking findings.

Final local groups:

Staggered_Codegen381/381, both staged and registered dependency controls.
QA21/21 on Julia1.12.7, unchanged JET bounds.
Wave305+59passes/5existingbroken on each staged and registered graph.
Discretization3663+56passes, trueexit0.
Full unchanged docs: both genuine builds exited1 (1772.31s and1726.23s), each solely on three GitHubHTTP429 link checks. Examples/content checks completed; HTML rendering was not reached. Both failures are preserved, checks remain enabled, and retries have stopped.

Additional author-run Julia1.10.12 check on a freshly resolved staged owner graph: official Staggered_Codegen320+48=368 passed, exit0,453.04s (--compiled-modules=no). The modern381 includes13 Base.ispublic assertions behind the existing availability guard; no functional assertion was suppressed. A fresh separate read-only audit verified all1052 copied source files, exact owner commits, paired manifests/projects, raw results and process/lock release. This is Julia-version coverage, not a minimum dependency-floor or registered-fusion claim. Raw consumer log SHA256: febea1507fd5bfe66881db0f51ffccbe68831d93d09cae5fd42d84ba43045dd2. The separate numerical file also passed1627/1627 on1.10.12; its broader proposal and costs are reported separately.

Negative owner controls fail as intended: unextended ModelingToolkit37passes/71errors; pre-public SymbolicUtils332passes/1failure at the public ArrayMaker binding assertion. The patch does not depend on arbitrary unspecified ArrayMaker output regions or a private fusion-size threshold.

Frozen source and setup cleanup were audited after all child processes ended: the live eight-file diff matches the exact patch and all1361 tracked files across the six source snapshots match their archived inputs. Setup overlays and generated assets were archived; ignored local validation manifests are outside this patch.

Full initial regions can write preserved values; no strict no-store guarantee for constant/algebraic storage is established. The numerical follow-up clarifies that doc wording. The executed updater-ordering findings remain a separate numerical blocker, tracked in #723 (comment). The separate numerical-only correction is posted at #723 (comment), with completed CPU/floor evidence, measured copy costs, medium risk and the genuine external429 docs-rendering gap. Whole-stack GPU scalar-indexing, kernel/allocation behavior, custom array wrappers and parameter-array aliases remain unverified. The original PR still needs those adoption/release/GPU decisions.

Exact public-owner patch

diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..57218d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# Code generation
+
+Fully define every `SymbolicUtils.ArrayMaker` output region before applying overrides.
+Use the documented rule that later regions overwrite earlier ones to preserve untouched
+state values. Rely on documented APIs and semantics from the declaring owner, rather
+than private capability markers or backend size cutoffs.
diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 7f4aed7..aa1cb9d 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Interpolations = "0.15, 0.16"
 Latexify = "0.16"
 LinearAlgebra = "1"
 ModelingToolkit = "11.42"
-ModelingToolkitBase = "1.73"
+ModelingToolkitBase = "1.78"
 ModelingToolkitNeuralNets = "2.8"
 NonlinearSolve = "4"
 OrdinaryDiffEq = "7"
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Setfield = "1"
 StableRNGs = "1"
 StaticArrays = "1.9.18"
 SymbolicIndexingInterface = "0.3.44"
-SymbolicUtils = "4.46.4"
+SymbolicUtils = "4.54"
 Symbolics = "7.39.2"
 TermInterface = "2"
 Test = "1"
diff --git a/src/discretization/staggered_discretize.jl b/src/discretization/staggered_discretize.jl
index cfe0428..bd6f89d 100644
--- a/src/discretization/staggered_discretize.jl
+++ b/src/discretization/staggered_discretize.jl
@@ -146,27 +146,40 @@ function staggered_groups(
     )
 end
 
+function _flat_state_symbols(sys)
+    vars = ModelingToolkitBase.unknowns(sys)
+    flat = empty(vars)
+    for var in vars
+        if SymbolicUtils.is_array_shape(SymbolicUtils.shape(var))
+            for i in SymbolicUtils.stable_eachindex(var)
+                push!(flat, var[i])
+            end
+        else
+            push!(flat, var)
+        end
+    end
+    return flat
+end
+
 # `update!` for the group of equations `D(u[r]) ~ f` in `eqs`: per variable one in-place
 # function over the variable's grid, compiled from an `ArrayMaker` whose regions are the
 # equations' `r` and whose values are `u[r] + dt * f` (or `a[r] * u[r] + b[r] * f`), called
-# on the variable's block of `u`. The `ArrayMaker` writes only its regions, so constant and
-# algebraic states keep their values.
+# on the variable's block of `u`. Its initial region preserves the variable's values,
+# including constant and algebraic states, before the update regions override them.
 function _group_update(sys, eqs; lossy, fuse_broadcasts, codegen_kwargs...)
     owner(eq) = _parent_array(only(arguments(eq.lhs)))
     race = _group_race(eqs)
     # Without a race every region reads the elements of `u` it writes only at their own
     # index, so fused code may read `u` while writing it, with no copies. With one, fused
     # code copies its inputs on entry; unfused code writes region by region and cannot.
-    fused = fuse_broadcasts && isdefined(SymbolicUtils.Code, :FUSE_BROADCASTS_KEY)
-    race === nothing || fused || return function (args...)
+    race === nothing || fuse_broadcasts || return function (args...)
         throw(
             ArgumentError(
                 "$(race[1]) reads $(race[2]), a state of its own group other than its own, so an in-place update would race on it."
             )
         )
     end
-    dvs = ModelingToolkitBase.flat_unknowns(sys)
-    ps = ModelingToolkitBase.reorder_parameters(sys)
+    dvs = _flat_state_symbols(sys)
     T = SymbolicUtils.SymReal
     dt = SymbolicUtils.Sym{T}(:mol_dt; type = Real)
     updates = Tuple(
@@ -179,17 +192,15 @@ function _group_update(sys, eqs; lossy, fuse_broadcasts, codegen_kwargs...)
             sh = SymbolicUtils.shape(v)
             coef(name) = SymbolicUtils.Sym{T}(name; type = Array{Real, length(sh)}, shape = sh)
             ab = lossy ? (coef(:mol_a), coef(:mol_b)) : ()
-            # An `ArrayMaker` this small is generated element by element, uncovered elements
-            # included, so it is given the variable itself everywhere first.
-            regions = length(v) <= 16 ? [collect(UnitRange{Int}, sh)] : Vector{UnitRange{Int}}[]
-            values = length(v) <= 16 ? Any[v] : Any[]
+            regions = [collect(UnitRange{Int}, sh)]
+            values = Any[v]
             for eq in eqs
                 isequal(owner(eq), v) || continue
                 x = only(arguments(eq.lhs))
                 r = x === v ? collect(UnitRange{Int}, sh) : map(unwrap_const.(arguments(x)[2:end])) do i
                         UnitRange{Int}(i isa Integer ? (i:i) : i)
                 end
-                slice(c) = Symbolics.unwrap(Symbolics.wrap(c)[r...])
+                slice(c) = SymbolicUtils.unwrap(Symbolics.wrap(c)[r...])
                 ar = map(slice, ab)
                 # a pointwise equation writes `u[i]`, a scalar: its region is `u[i:i]`
                 xr = is_array_valued(x) ? x : slice(v)
@@ -201,12 +212,11 @@ function _group_update(sys, eqs; lossy, fuse_broadcasts, codegen_kwargs...)
             end
             maker = SymbolicUtils.ArrayMaker{T}(regions, values; shape = sh)
             inplace = race === nothing ? (; fuse_unalias = false) : (;)
-            _, iip = ModelingToolkitBase.build_function_wrapper(
-                sys, maker, dvs, ps..., ModelingToolkit.get_iv(sys), dt, ab...; p_start = 2,
-                p_end = 1 + length(ps), u_arg = 1, n_param_buffers = length(ps),
-                fuse_broadcasts, inplace..., codegen_kwargs...
+            _, f! = ModelingToolkitBase.generate_custom_function(
+                sys, maker, dvs; fuse_broadcasts, inplace..., codegen_kwargs...,
+                cachesyms = (), extra_args = (dt, ab...), expression = Val(false),
+                eval_expression = false, eval_module = @__MODULE__
             )
-            f! = ModelingToolkitBase.eval_or_rgf(iip; eval_module = @__MODULE__)
             (f!, block, size(idx))
         end
     )
diff --git a/test/Wave_Eq_Staggered/staggered_analytic_controls.jl b/test/Wave_Eq_Staggered/staggered_analytic_controls.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d52315a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/Wave_Eq_Staggered/staggered_analytic_controls.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+using ModelingToolkit, MethodOfLines, Symbolics, SymbolicUtils, SciMLBase, Test
+using ModelingToolkitBase
+using SymbolicIndexingInterface: variable_index
+function prob_for(eqs, t, vars, vals)
+    @named raw = System(eqs, t, vars, [])
+    sys = complete(raw)
+    D = Differential(t)
+    op = [vars[i] => vals[i] for i in eachindex(vars)]
+    append!(op, [D(v) => zeros(size(v)) for v in vars])
+    return DAEProblem(sys, op, (0.0, 1.0); build_initializeprob = false)
+end
+@testset "analytic pointwise/nonlinear/lossy/untouched/alias" begin
+    for n in (5, 20), scalar in (false, true), fusion in (false, true), lossy in (false, true)
+        @variables t v(t)[1:n] h(t)[1:n] c(t)[1:n]
+        D = Differential(t)
+        veqs = scalar ? [D(v[i]) ~ v[i]^2 + t for i in 2:(n - 1)] : [D(v[2:(n - 1)]) ~ v[2:(n - 1)] .^ 2 .+ t]
+        eqs = [veqs; D(v[1:1]) ~ zeros(1); v[n:n] ~ zeros(1); D(h) ~ v; D(c) ~ zeros(n)]
+        p = prob_for(eqs, t, [v, h, c], [collect(1.0:n), zeros(n), fill(3.0, n)])
+        sg = MethodOfLines.staggered_groups(p; lossy = lossy, fuse_broadcasts = fusion, scalarize_single_element_regions = false)
+        iv = vec(collect(variable_index(p.f.sys, v)))
+        storage = [-777.0;p.u0;-888.0]; u = view(storage, 2:(length(storage) - 1)); original = copy(u); expected = copy(u)
+        a = fill(0.75, length(u));b = fill(0.125, length(u));dt = 0.125;time = 0.25
+        r = iv[2:(n - 1)]
+        expected[r] .= lossy ? 0.75 .* original[r] .+ 0.125 .* (original[r] .^ 2 .+ time) : original[r] .+ dt .* (original[r] .^ 2 .+ time)
+        g = only(filter(g -> iv[2] in g.states, sg.groups))
+        lossy ? g.update!(u, p.p, time, dt, a, b) : g.update!(u, p.p, time, dt)
+        @test u == expected
+        @test storage[1] == -777.0 && storage[end] == -888.0
+        @test all(u[i] == original[i] for i in vcat(iv[1], iv[end], vec(collect(variable_index(p.f.sys, c)))))
+    end
+end
diff --git a/test/Wave_Eq_Staggered/staggered_codegen.jl b/test/Wave_Eq_Staggered/staggered_codegen.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0a91628
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/Wave_Eq_Staggered/staggered_codegen.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+using MethodOfLines, ModelingToolkitBase, Symbolics, SymbolicUtils, Test
+import SymbolicIndexingInterface
+using SymbolicIndexingInterface: variable_index
+
+@testset "Public staggered code generation bindings" begin
+    for (owner, name) in (
+            (ModelingToolkitBase, :generate_custom_function),
+            (ModelingToolkitBase, :unknowns),
+            (SymbolicUtils, :ArrayMaker),
+            (SymbolicUtils, :shape),
+            (SymbolicUtils, :is_array_shape),
+            (SymbolicUtils, :stable_eachindex),
+            (SymbolicUtils, :Sym),
+            (SymbolicUtils, :SymReal),
+            (SymbolicUtils, :unwrap),
+            (SymbolicUtils, :arguments),
+            (SymbolicUtils, :unwrap_const),
+            (Symbolics, :wrap),
+            (SymbolicIndexingInterface, :variable_index),
+        )
+        @test isdefined(owner, name)
+        if isdefined(Base, :ispublic)
+            @test Base.ispublic(owner, name)
+        end
+    end
+end
+
+@testset "Flat state order" begin
+    @independent_variables t
+    @variables x(t) v(t)[1:3] m(t)[1:2, 1:2]
+    expected = [vec(collect(m)); x; collect(v)]
+    for split in (false, true)
+        vars = split ? [m, x, v] : expected
+        sys = complete(
+            System(Equation[], t, vars, []; name = :mixed);
+            split, add_initial_parameters = false
+        )
+        flat = MethodOfLines._flat_state_symbols(sys)
+        @test length(flat) == 8
+        @test variable_index.(Ref(sys), flat) == collect(1:8)
+        @test isequal(flat, SymbolicUtils.unwrap.([vec(collect(m)); x; collect(v)]))
+        empty_sys = complete(System(Equation[], t, [], []; name = :empty))
+        @test isempty(MethodOfLines._flat_state_symbols(empty_sys))
+    end
+end
+
+@testset "Unsplit mixed symbols in flat generator state" begin
+    @independent_variables t
+    @variables x(t) v(t)[1:3] m(t)[1:2, 1:2]
+    sys = complete(
+        System(Equation[], t, [m, x, v], []; name = :mixed_unsplit);
+        split = false, add_initial_parameters = false
+    )
+    flat = MethodOfLines._flat_state_symbols(sys)
+    @test isequal(flat, SymbolicUtils.unwrap.([vec(collect(m)); x; collect(v)]))
+    _, f! = ModelingToolkitBase.generate_custom_function(
+        sys, [m[2, 1] + 2m[1, 2] + 3x + 4v[2]], flat;
+        expression = Val(false), eval_module = MethodOfLines
+    )
+    out = zeros(1)
+    f!(out, [2.0, 3.0, 5.0, 7.0, 11.0, 13.0, 17.0, 19.0], [], 0.0)
+    @test out == [114.0]
+end
+
+@testset "Trailing arguments through public generator" begin
+    @independent_variables t
+    @variables x(t) step a[1:2] b[1:2] delta c[1:2]
+    @parameters rate = 2.0 weights[1:2] = [3.0, 5.0]
+    sys = complete(System(Equation[], t, [x], [rate, weights]; name = :extras))
+    p = MTKParameters(sys, [x => 7.0])
+    dvs = MethodOfLines._flat_state_symbols(sys)
+    base = x + rate + weights[2] + Initial(x) + t
+    _, f! = ModelingToolkitBase.generate_custom_function(
+        sys, [base + step * a[1] + b[2]], dvs;
+        extra_args = (step, a, b), expression = Val(false), eval_module = MethodOfLines
+    )
+    out = zeros(1)
+    f!(out, [2.0], p, 3.0, 0.5, [19.0, 23.0], [29.0, 31.0])
+    @test out == [59.5]
+    _, g! = ModelingToolkitBase.generate_custom_function(
+        sys, [base + delta * c[2]], dvs;
+        extra_args = (c, delta), expression = Val(false), eval_module = MethodOfLines
+    )
+    g!(out, [2.0], p, 3.0, [37.0, 41.0], 2.0)
+    @test out == [101.0]
+    f!(out, [2.0], p, 3.0, 0.25, [4.0, 8.0], [16.0, 32.0])
+    @test out == [52.0]
+end
+
+@testset "Partial staggered update with mixed states and parameters" begin
+    for n in (5, 20), T in (Float32, Float64), fusion in (false, true),
+            parameter_kind in (:none, :scalar, :vector, :initial), lossy in (false, true)
+        @testset "$n/$T/$fusion/$parameter_kind/$lossy" begin
+            @independent_variables t
+            @variables x(t) v(t)[1:n] m(t)[1:2, 1:2]
+            @parameters rate = 2.0 weights[1:2] = [3.0, 5.0]
+            ps = parameter_kind === :scalar ? [rate] : parameter_kind === :vector ? [weights] : []
+            term = parameter_kind === :scalar ? rate :
+                parameter_kind === :vector ? weights[2] :
+                parameter_kind === :initial ? Initial(x) : 0
+            sys = complete(
+                System(Equation[], t, [m, x, v], ps; name = :partial);
+                add_initial_parameters = parameter_kind === :initial
+            )
+            p = MTKParameters(sys, [x => T(7), v => T.(1:n), m => zeros(T, 2, 2)])
+            D = Differential(t)
+            eq = D(v[2:(n - 1)]) ~ v[2:(n - 1)] .^ 2 .+ t .+ term
+            eqs = [MethodOfLines._solve_time_derivative(eq)]
+            update! = MethodOfLines._group_update(
+                sys, eqs; lossy, fuse_broadcasts = fusion,
+                scalarize_single_element_regions = false
+            )
+            ids = vec(collect(variable_index(sys, v)))
+            state = T.(1:(n + 5))
+            storage = [T(-777); state; T(-888)]
+            u = view(storage, 2:(length(storage) - 1))
+            a = fill(T(0.75), length(u))
+            b = fill(T(0.125), length(u))
+            value = T(
+                parameter_kind === :scalar ? 2 : parameter_kind === :vector ? 5 :
+                    parameter_kind === :initial ? 7 : 0
+            )
+            for dt in (T(0.125), T(0.25))
+                expected = copy(u)
+                r = ids[2:(n - 1)]
+                rhs = u[r] .^ 2 .+ T(0.25) .+ value
+                expected[r] .= lossy ? a[r] .* u[r] .+ b[r] .* rhs : u[r] .+ dt .* rhs
+                lossy ? update!(u, p, T(0.25), dt, a, b) : update!(u, p, T(0.25), dt)
+                @test u == expected
+                @test storage[1] == T(-777) && storage[end] == T(-888)
+                b .*= T(2)
+            end
+        end
+    end
+end
+
+@testset "Unfused cross-region updates reject aliasing" begin
+    @independent_variables t
+    @variables v(t)[1:20]
+    D = Differential(t)
+    sys = complete(
+        System(Equation[], t, [v], []; name = :overlap);
+        add_initial_parameters = false
+    )
+    eqs = MethodOfLines._solve_time_derivative.(
+        [D(v[1:10]) ~ v[2:11], D(v[11:20]) ~ v[10:19]]
+    )
+    update! = MethodOfLines._group_update(sys, eqs; lossy = false, fuse_broadcasts = false)
+    @test_throws ArgumentError update!(collect(1.0:20.0), MTKParameters(sys, []), 0.0, 0.125)
+end
+
+@testset "Heterogeneous parameter buffers and callable compilation" begin
+    for T in (Float32, Float64), eval_expression in (false, true), fusion in (false, true), lossy in (false, true)
+        @independent_variables t
+        @variables x(t) v(t)[1:20] m(t)[1:2, 1:2]
+        @parameters gain::Float64 = 2.0 count::Int = 3 weights[1:2] = [4.0, 5.0]
+        sys = complete(System(Equation[], t, [m, x, v], [gain, count, weights]; name = :review_buffers))
+        p = MTKParameters(sys, [x => T(7), v => T.(1:20), m => zeros(T, 2, 2)])
+        D = Differential(t)
+        eq = D(v[2:19]) ~ gain .* v[2:19] .+ count .+ weights[2] .+ Initial(x) .+ t
+        eqs = [MethodOfLines._solve_time_derivative(eq)]
+        update! = MethodOfLines._group_update(sys, eqs; lossy, fuse_broadcasts = fusion, eval_expression, scalarize_single_element_regions = false, fuse_output_eltype = true, checkbounds = true)
+        ids = vec(collect(variable_index(sys, v)));r = ids[2:19]
+        u = T.(1:25);expected = copy(u);a = fill(T(0.75), 25);b = fill(T(0.125), 25)
+        rhs = T(2) .* u[r] .+ T(3 + 5 + 7 + 0.25)
+        expected[r] .= lossy ? a[r] .* u[r] .+ b[r] .* rhs : u[r] .+ T(0.125) .* rhs
+        lossy ? update!(u, p, T(0.25), T(0.125), a, b) : update!(u, p, T(0.25), T(0.125))
+        @test u == expected
+        @test eltype(u) == T
+    end
+end
+
+@testset "Generator-owned compilation and argument controls" begin
+    @independent_variables t
+    @variables v(t)[1:20] cache
+    sys = complete(System(Equation[], t, [v], []; name = :compilation_controls))
+    D = Differential(t)
+    eqs = [MethodOfLines._solve_time_derivative(D(v[2:19]) ~ 2 .* v[2:19] .+ t)]
+    for options in (
+            (; expression = Val(true)),
+            (; eval_expression = true),
+            (; eval_module = Module(:UninitializedStaggeredEvaluation)),
+            (; cachesyms = (cache,)),
+            (; extra_args = (cache,)),
+        )
+        @testset "$options" begin
+            update! = MethodOfLines._group_update(
+                sys, eqs; lossy = false, fuse_broadcasts = false, options...
+            )
+            u = collect(1.0:20.0)
+            expected = copy(u)
+            expected[2:19] .+= 0.125 .* (2 .* u[2:19] .+ 0.25)
+            update!(u, [], 0.25, 0.125)
+            @test u == expected
+        end
+    end
+end
diff --git a/test/qa/qa.jl b/test/qa/qa.jl
index 199f6bf..db832e7 100644
--- a/test/qa/qa.jl
+++ b/test/qa/qa.jl
@@ -23,10 +23,6 @@ run_qa(
                 :AbstractCartesianIndex, :EquationState, :PDESolution,
                 :cardinalize_eqs!, :observed, :parse_bcs, :scalarization_function,
                 :promote_symtype, # public since SymbolicUtils 4.46; older supported releases lack the metadata
-                # SymbolicUtils/ModelingToolkitBase code generation, for the staggered
-                # groups' in-place `update!`, which `generate_rhs` has no option to build
-                :ArrayMaker, :build_function_wrapper, :eval_or_rgf, :flat_unknowns,
-                :reorder_parameters,
             ),
         ),
     ),
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 4758f80..ff9324c 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ const FUNCTIONAL_GROUPS = [
     "Convection",
     "Convection_NU",
     "Wave_Eq_Staggered",
+    "Staggered_Codegen",
     "Discretization",
     "Pseudospectral",
 ]
@@ -130,6 +131,14 @@ run_tests(;
                 include(joinpath(@__DIR__, "Convection_NU", "MOL_1D_Interface_Upwind_NonUniform.jl"))
             end
         end,
+        "Staggered_Codegen" => function ()
+            @safetestset "Public staggered generator" begin
+                include(joinpath(@__DIR__, "Wave_Eq_Staggered", "staggered_codegen.jl"))
+            end
+            return @safetestset "Analytic staggered controls" begin
+                include(joinpath(@__DIR__, "Wave_Eq_Staggered", "staggered_analytic_controls.jl"))
+            end
+        end,
         "Wave_Eq_Staggered" => function ()
             @safetestset "Staggered grids" begin
                 include(joinpath(@__DIR__, "Wave_Eq_Staggered", "wave_eq_staggered.jl"))
diff --git a/test/test_groups.toml b/test/test_groups.toml
index 3ad8bb8..4f91eec 100644
--- a/test/test_groups.toml
+++ b/test/test_groups.toml
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ versions = ["lts", "1", "pre"]
 [Mixed_Derivatives]
 versions = ["lts", "1", "pre"]
 
+[Staggered_Codegen]
+versions = ["lts", "1", "pre"]
+
 [Wave_Eq_Staggered]
 versions = ["lts", "1", "pre"]

Links:

Separate numerical proposal: Fused in-place update! for staggered groups #723 (comment)
Executed ordering findings: Fused in-place update! for staggered groups #723 (comment)
Public ArrayMaker proposal: Make the validated ArrayMaker constructor public JuliaSymbolics/SymbolicUtils.jl#1169
Public generator proposal: Support independent trailing inputs in custom generated functions ModelingToolkit.jl#5303
Fusion forwarding: Pass SymbolicUtils' fused broadcast codegen options through CodegenFunctionOptions JuliaSymbolics/Symbolics.jl#2103
Tested SymbolicUtils owner: JuliaSymbolics/SymbolicUtils.jl@2b87831
Tested ModelingToolkit owner: SciML/ModelingToolkit.jl@3db20da
Tested Symbolics owner: JuliaSymbolics/Symbolics.jl@512903c

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A separate numerical correction is available relative to the exact public-owner patch in #723 (comment). Numerical patch SHA256: 4dca6a269c77fec32e1728fb0bbea9ac4d4983633c6a7dd5b45257ebd0a4d5c2. It applies to that frozen consumer and reproduces the two final source/test hashes exactly. No changes were pushed to this author branch.

Review proposal — full docs rendering remains blocked by the unchanged link checker; this does not approve the whole PR or its GPU performance path.

Affected update groups read one full copy of their entry state across all owner kernels. Each subsequent group invocation receives a fresh entry state. The plain race-free path reads its state directly. Lossy updates copy both coefficient vectors before any write, preserving entry values even when coefficients alias the output. The patch also states the constant/algebraic guarantee in terms of unchanged values. Unfused overlapping updates still throw.

The same complete official regression file, with identical tests before/after, gives:

Dependency graph	Before new regression	After new regression	Existing assertions
Staged Symbolics2103	1528pass /40fail /0errors	1568/1568	59pass both
Registered Symbolics7.47	1488pass /80fail /0errors	1568/1568	59pass both

Each before process exits1 and each after process exits0. The official tests cover Float32/64, n5/20, scalar/array periodic seams, partial nonperiodic regions, plain/lossy formulas, scalarization options, repeated alternating groups and offset storage with sentinels. The oracle evaluates the separate public group RHS from an independent entry-state copy.

A separate Codex CLI 0.163.0/gpt-6-astra reviewer reran its unchanged independent2240-case oracle against this final source on each graph:2240/2240 each, including true stride-two state storage, a/b/both/shifted coefficient aliases, multiple owners and subsequent group entry. Its public-copy checks passed on Julia1.12.5 and1.13.1. An earlier candidate's nonpublic Base.mightalias usage was caught by official QA and removed; the final patch uses publiccopy. That earlier failure is preserved.

Final-source official groups:

QA21/21 on Julia1.12.7 using the unchanged JET bounds and documented job-scoped Revise polling. The default watcher attempt failed with FolderMonitorEMFILE; same assertions/source then passed with polling, without suppressions.
Staggered_Codegen381/381.
Wave1932passes /5existingbroken, exit0.
Discretization:3663 equation-discretization+56 construction=3719 passed, exit0 on the final frozen source.
Julia1.10.12 author-run exact official staggered_groups.jl:59+1568=1627 passed, exit0/1029.47s, --compiled-modules=yes. This is the existing official file, not the full Wave group or Pkg.test(). A fresh separate read-only audit verified source86a7/testcc516, all1052 copied source files, matched manifests/projects outside the MOL path, true exits and no remaining session descendants. The same lane's public consumer group passed368;13 modern Base.ispublic assertions are guarded by the existing availability check. No minimum dependency-floor or registered-fusion support is inferred. Numeric log SHA256: a2b7185a69e82737fa9eb4d0aee29ccc28af79e74a0ea12370420b173308b362.
Full unchanged docs: exit1 after2463.82s, solely on one GitHub HTTP429 link check. Documenter completed example/content checks and stopped before HTML rendering with [:linkcheck]; no rendered-docs pass is claimed. The initial launcher attempt failed before Documenter because the validation manifest used JuliaManifest.toml while make.jl copies Manifest.toml; the corrected launcher copies the same resolved manifest to that name, preserving source/checks. Both attempts are retained; no link ignores, warning-policy changes or test suppressions were added. Genuine build log SHA256: 2030dcef08e688ad0e925a4a738a855fc46f0651546deb8c7703fca8adcab17a.

Final source/cleanup audit after all children ended:1361 immutable owner/original-snapshot files match exact inputs;166 candidate base files match except the approved consumer/numerical changes, with all nine approved file hashes verified. The numerical patch still matches the embedded diff byte-for-byte. Temporary JuliaProject overlays and generated asset Project/Manifest files were archived and removed, both doc manifest forms retained as ignored validation metadata, and the temporary Git remote configuration restored byte-for-byte. Both controller sessions are empty and the grant lock is free.

The copy costs are substantial. CPU diagnostics at n64/1024/4096 with both float types and nonaliasing coefficients give24matching outputs per graph after versus12matches/12scalar-seam mismatches before. Those scripts exit0 by design; they are diagnostics, not passing-test claims. Selected n4096/Float64 measurements:

Graph / case	Before bytes/update	After bytes/update
Staged, plain pointwise	32,840	32,840
Staged, lossy pointwise	32,840	164,056
Staged, plain scalar seam	65,744	65,672
Staged, lossy scalar seam	65,744	196,888
Registered, plain pointwise	98,936	98,936
Registered, lossy pointwise	197,584	328,704
Registered, plain scalar seam	197,488	230,256
Registered, lossy scalar seam	296,424	460,408

Both pointwise endpoints are numerically correct, so the roughly5× staged lossy allocation increase is a real cost on an already-correct nonaliasing path. The scalar-seam before endpoint is numerically incorrect and does not provide an equivalent-algorithm speed comparison. Sequential median after/before timing ratios span0.19–8.69; this establishes neither a speedup nor performance neutrality, and is not dismissed as noise.

The independent reviewer verified all96 measurement rows,48 comparisons and raw log/source hashes. It retains medium risk, high confidence for the exercised CPU correctness/public API, with no blocking correctness finding. This is a correctness proposal with an explicit cost, not approval of the GPU performance path. GPU scalar-indexing, streams, device copy/kernel counts, parameter-array aliases and custom wrappers remain unverified. A lower-cost alias contract or backend implementation needs design if these copies are unacceptable. The whole PR and owner-release/fusion-floor requirements remain separate decisions for Chris and the author.

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--- a/src/discretization/staggered_discretize.jl
+++ b/src/discretization/staggered_discretize.jl
@@ -67,12 +67,13 @@
     .+ b[states] .* dv`, for per-state coefficient vectors `a` and `b` laid out like `u`.
     `fuse_broadcasts` and `kwargs` are passed to the code generation of `update!`.
     An equation that reads a state its group writes, other than its own, would race with
-    the in-place write: fused code generation then copies the group's inputs on entry, and
-    without it `update!` throws.
+    the in-place write: with fusion enabled, all kernels read one copy of the full group
+    entry state. Lossy updates copy both coefficient vectors before any write. Without
+    fusion `update!` throws for such an overlap.
   - `constant` holds the states whose time derivative is zero (`Dt(c) ~ 0` coefficient
-    fields). Neither group writes them.
+    fields). Neither group changes their values.
   - `algebraic` holds the states `prob.differential_vars` marks algebraic, such as PEC walls
-    and other Dirichlet points. Neither group writes them, so a leapfrog holds them at their
+    and other Dirichlet points. Neither group changes their values, so a leapfrog holds them at their
     value, which is right for time-independent Dirichlet values only.
 
 A row's time derivative is solved for from its residual, so for any `u`, setting
@@ -169,9 +170,7 @@
 function _group_update(sys, eqs; lossy, fuse_broadcasts, codegen_kwargs...)
     owner(eq) = _parent_array(only(arguments(eq.lhs)))
     race = _group_race(eqs)
-    # Without a race every region reads the elements of `u` it writes only at their own
-    # index, so fused code may read `u` while writing it, with no copies. With one, fused
-    # code copies its inputs on entry; unfused code writes region by region and cannot.
+    # Every kernel in a group must read the same entry state when regions overlap.
     race === nothing || fuse_broadcasts || return function (args...)
         throw(
             ArgumentError(
@@ -222,10 +221,13 @@
     )
     blockview(x, block, dims) = reshape(view(x, block), dims)
     return function update!(u, p, t, dt, a = nothing, b = nothing)
+        input = race === nothing ? u : copy(u)
+        a_input = lossy ? copy(a) : a
+        b_input = lossy ? copy(b) : b
         foreach(updates) do (f!, block, dims)
             out = blockview(u, block, dims)
-            lossy ? f!(out, u, p, t, dt, blockview(a, block, dims), blockview(b, block, dims)) :
-                f!(out, u, p, t, dt)
+            lossy ? f!(out, input, p, t, dt, blockview(a_input, block, dims), blockview(b_input, block, dims)) :
+                f!(out, input, p, t, dt)
         end
         return nothing
     end
--- a/test/Wave_Eq_Staggered/staggered_groups.jl
+++ b/test/Wave_Eq_Staggered/staggered_groups.jl
@@ -337,3 +337,61 @@
     # the slice read, compared by value: `isequal` tells equal ranges apart by their type
     @test SymbolicUtils.unwrap_const.(SymbolicUtils.arguments(race[2])[2:end]) == [1:3]
 end
+
+@testset "Staggered updates read the complete group entry state" begin
+    for n in (5, 20), scalar_seam in (false, true), periodic in (false, true),
+            scalarize in (false, true), lossy in (false, true)
+        @testset "n=$n scalar=$scalar_seam periodic=$periodic scalarize=$scalarize lossy=$lossy" begin
+            @variables t v(t)[1:n] h(t)[1:n] c(t)[1:n]
+            D = Differential(t)
+            seam = if periodic
+                scalar_seam ? D(v[n]) ~ v[1] - v[n] : D(v[n:n]) ~ v[1:1] .- v[n:n]
+            else
+                D(v[n:n]) ~ zeros(1)
+            end
+            eqs = [D(v[1:(n - 1)]) ~ v[2:n] .- v[1:(n - 1)], seam, D(h) ~ v, D(c) ~ zeros(n)]
+            @named raw = System(eqs, t, [v, h, c], [])
+            sys = complete(raw)
+            prob = DAEProblem(
+                sys, [
+                    v => collect(1.0:n), h => zeros(n), c => fill(3.0, n),
+                    D(v) => zeros(n), D(h) => zeros(n), D(c) => zeros(n),
+                ],
+                (0.0, 1.0); build_initializeprob = false
+            )
+            sg = MethodOfLines.staggered_groups(
+                prob; lossy, scalarize_single_element_regions = scalarize
+            )
+            iv = vec(collect(variable_index(sys, v)))
+            for T in (Float32, Float64), coefficient_alias in (false, true)
+                storage = [T(-777); T.(prob.u0); T(-888)]
+                u = view(storage, 2:(length(storage) - 1))
+                a = coefficient_alias ? u : fill(T(0.75), length(u))
+                b = fill(T(0.125), length(u))
+                dt = T(0.125)
+                for iteration in 1:2, group in sg.groups
+                    entry = copy(u)
+                    aa = copy(a)
+                    dv = zeros(T, length(group.states))
+                    group.f(dv, entry, prob.p, T(0.25))
+                    expected = copy(entry)
+                    if lossy
+                        expected[group.states] .= aa[group.states] .* entry[group.states] .+
+                            b[group.states] .* dv
+                    else
+                        expected[group.states] .+= dt .* dv
+                    end
+                    lossy ? group.update!(u, prob.p, T(0.25), dt, a, b) :
+                        group.update!(u, prob.p, T(0.25), dt)
+                    @test u == expected
+                    untouched = setdiff(eachindex(u), group.states)
+                    @test u[untouched] == entry[untouched]
+                    @test storage[1] == -777 && storage[end] == -888
+                    if periodic && !lossy && iteration == 1 && first(iv) in group.states
+                        @test sum(u[iv]) == sum(entry[iv])
+                    end
+                end
+            end
+        end
+    end
+end

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Exact prerequisite consumer patch: Fused in-place update! for staggered groups #723 (comment)
Original executed ordering findings: Fused in-place update! for staggered groups #723 (comment)
Public generator prerequisite: Support independent trailing inputs in custom generated functions ModelingToolkit.jl#5303
Public ArrayMaker prerequisite: Make the validated ArrayMaker constructor public JuliaSymbolics/SymbolicUtils.jl#1169
Fusion forwarding: Pass SymbolicUtils' fused broadcast codegen options through CodegenFunctionOptions JuliaSymbolics/Symbolics.jl#2103

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A group whose equations read its own states at other elements, such as a periodic seam, raced with its in-place update!. Fused code generation's unaliasing covers only fused view regions, so a scalar seam region read the already written state, and released Symbolics does not pass the fusion options on at all, so there every overlap read written state. The periodic forward difference with total 210.0 stepped to 210.015625 either way. Now such a group's update! copies u on entry into a buffer allocated once when update! is built, and every kernel reads that copy. This holds with or without fusion, so the unfused ArgumentError goes away. Race-free groups, Yee's among them, still read u directly with no copy. The coefficients a and b are not copied: kernels read them only at the indices they write. The regression testset "Staggered updates read the complete group entry state" is ported verbatim from ChrisRackauckas-Claude's review of #723 (numerical patch sha256 4dca6a26). Agent-Harness: Claude Code 2.1.307 Agent-Model: claude-opus-5-5 Agent-Session: 644ed0ff-c8c9-4cc3-b4c6-f326231a4030 Agent-Review: unreviewed Co-authored-by: Claude Code <agent@noreply.juliahub.com>

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xtalax · 2026-10-22T03:22:00Z

Thanks @ChrisRackauckas-Claude. Both updater failures reproduced, and they are fixed in 7f8f9b7. The branch head is now 7c2bc51, which merges master (b4c1e87) into the PR.

Reproduction at `47a05f8`

Your periodic forward-difference reproducer, with expected total 210.0, was run on Julia 1.12.6 with ModelingToolkit 11.45.5 and ModelingToolkitBase 1.77.5, for both seam spellings in all four scalarize/lossy settings:

Dependency graph	Array seam	Scalar seam	`fuse_broadcasts = false`
Released SymbolicUtils 4.53.0 + Symbolics 7.47.0	last 17.640625, total 210.015625	last 17.640625, total 210.015625	throws on the overlap
SymbolicUtils 2852d7b4 + Symbolics 512903c8 (fusion passthrough)	correct, 17.625 / 210.0	last 17.640625, total 210.015625	throws on the overlap

_group_race does detect the overlap in every one of these cases. The fault is what update! relied on once the race was detected. It used fused codegen's Base.unalias of the inputs, and that covers only the sources of fused view regions. A scalar region still reads the live u, after the first region has already written v[1]. With released Symbolics the fusion options don't reach SymbolicUtils at all, so even the array seam reads written state.

Fix (`7f8f9b7`)

A group whose equations read its own states at other elements now gets an entry buffer, similar(prob.u0), allocated once when update! is built. On every call update! copyto!s u into that buffer, and every kernel of the group reads it. Each call therefore sees that call's own entry state, whatever the fusion layers do, so the unfused ArgumentError is gone. Race-free groups, which include 2D/3D Yee in plain and lossy form, still read u directly with no copy. The decision is made in _group_update: entry = _group_race(eqs) === nothing ? nothing : similar(u0). A u the buffer can't hold, such as a GPU array or a different element type, gets copy(u) instead, so the result stays correct.

Your numerical patch (sha256 4dca6a26) makes the same core change, one full entry copy shared by every kernel. This fix differs from it in three places:

The fix doesn't depend on the public-API patch. That patch needs the unreleased SymbolicUtils#1169 and ModelingToolkit#5303, so it is left for a follow-up once both are released.
Unfused overlapping updates no longer throw. With the copy, the unfused path is correct too: your registered 7.47 run already exercised it, since fusion is not passed through there.
a and b are not copied. Each kernel reads a[r] and b[r] only at the indices r it writes, so a === u is safe, and your coefficient_alias cases pass unchanged. Copying them would add two state-sized copies to every lossy step, including race-free Yee, which is the hot path this PR exists for. The docstring now says that a and b may be u itself but must not otherwise share memory with it.

Your regression testset "Staggered updates read the complete group entry state" is included verbatim. Two testsets are added beside it:

The reproducer itself, for both seam spellings × fuse_broadcasts × scalarization × lossy, asserting the 210.0 total.
"Only a racing group's update! copies its entry state". It asserts that the Yee groups hold no entry buffer and the seam group does, and, where fusion is passed through, that every one of those update! calls allocates 0 bytes.

Tests

test/Wave_Eq_Staggered/staggered_groups.jl, before the fix (47a05f8) and after it (7f8f9b7):

Graph	Your 1568-assertion testset, before	after	Whole file, before	after
Fork (passthrough)	1528 pass / 40 fail	1568/1568	1598 pass / 41 fail / 1 error	1675/1675 at `7c2bc51`
Released 7.47	1488 pass / 80 fail	1568/1568	1547 pass / 88 fail / 1 error	1667/1667 at `7c2bc51`

The before counts for your testset match yours exactly.

Test groups at the merged head, run on registered packages with the worktree's own Manifest on Julia 1.12.6: Wave_Eq_Staggered ("Staggered grids" 305 pass / 5 existing broken, "Staggered groups" 1667/1667), Discretization (3663/3663 and 64/64) and QA (21/21) all pass. Runic --check src test is clean.

One finding outside this fix: with scalarize_single_element_regions = true, the generated kernel for the scalar seam allocates 64 B per call by itself. With false it allocates 0 B. The entry copy allocates nothing, so the 64 B is independent of this fix. It comes from SymbolicUtils' scalar-write codegen, so the allocation test keeps the seam as a one-element region.

Cost

CPU, fork env, update! on a 49,923-state 2D TM Yee problem and on a 25,000-state scalar seam. Times are the median of 7 trials, each the mean of 50 calls:

Case	Bytes per call, before → after	Time per call, before → after
Yee E group, race-free, plain	0 → 0	41.5 → 40.9 µs
Yee H group, race-free, plain	0 → 0	22.6 → 22.6 µs
Yee E group, race-free, lossy	0 → 0	68.6 → 65.2 µs
Yee H group, race-free, lossy	0 → 0	67.1 → 67.0 µs
Scalar seam, plain	200,136 → 64	37.7 → 11.1 µs (before was wrong)
Scalar seam, lossy	200,136 → 64	17.3 → 15.8 µs (before was wrong)

The race-free path is unchanged. The racing path no longer allocates its unalias copy.

GPU behaviour is not re-verified here. On the GPU, a racing group falls back to copy(u) on each call, and race-free groups are unchanged.

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api/discretization.md renders at 199.95 KiB against Documenter's 200 KiB size_threshold, so any PR that adds a docstring fails the Documentation job. Move the private @autodocs block to api/developer.md, keep the Developer API heading and anchor, and point api/utils.md at the new page. Agent-Harness: Claude Code 2.1.308 Agent-Model: claude-sonnet-5-5 Agent-Session: f05d848f-0e54-4dab-bdb6-5d5f2f18e4a9 Agent-Review: unreviewed Co-authored-by: Claude Code <agent@noreply.juliahub.com>

SymbolicUtils 4.47.0 emits v[20:20][_1] for one-element slice equations, which fails with UndefVarError: _1 in the Wave_Eq_Staggered staggered_groups tests (4 errors, 1467 of 1471 passing). The Downgrade CI run on this PR failed with the same error while resolving SymbolicUtils 4.46.4. That was not reproduced locally, where 4.46.4 and 4.47.1 pass, so this floor is the next release after the versions seen to fail and passes the downgraded environment. Agent-Harness: Claude Code 2.1.308 Agent-Model: claude-sonnet-5-5 Agent-Session: f05d848f-0e54-4dab-bdb6-5d5f2f18e4a9 Agent-Review: unreviewed Co-authored-by: Claude Code <agent@noreply.juliahub.com>

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