Fix GPUKvaerno3/5 nonsingular mass-matrix explicit stages

[ChrisRackauckas-Claude]

Please ignore until reviewed by @ChrisRackauckas.

GPUKvaerno3/5 treated f(u,p,t) as du/dt in the explicit first stage and FSAL cache even when a nonsingular mass matrix was present, while the Newton residual already used M. This PR solves M * du = f(u,p,t) for those evaluations. User-visible behaviour change: Kvaerno3/5 on singular mass matrices (DAEs) now throw ArgumentError where they previously ran, matching Chris's issue comment "These should error on DAEs".

Fail before / pass after (Float32, CPU)

Negative control (master perform_step sources; Float32 issue reproducer):

(sol.u[1]).u[end] = Float32[0.56738377, 1.1347675]
expected = Float32[0.60653067, 1.2130613]
Test Summary:                   | Fail  Total  Time
Kvaerno nonsingular mass matrix |    4      4  7.9s
ERROR: Some tests did not pass: 0 passed, 4 failed, 0 errored, 0 broken.

After fix (same Float32 command):

(sol.u[1]).u[end] = Float32[0.60652995, 1.2130599]
expected = Float32[0.60653067, 1.2130613]
Test Summary:                   | Pass  Total  Time
Kvaerno nonsingular mass matrix |    4      4  2.9s
Test Summary:    | Pass  Total  Time
Kvaerno singular |    2      2  3.5s

Review round-1 follow-ups

• Mass-matrix regression tests rewritten in Float32 (2.0f0*I, etc.) so Metal/oneAPI CI can run them.
• Host-side singular check moved to batch_solve_up_kernel before _kernel_transfer (also kept in vectorized_* for the lower-level API).
• In-kernel iszero(det(M)) + throw removed; host check is the sole DAE rejection path.
• UniformScaling{Bool} with λ == false (false*I) is now treated as singular via iszero(M.λ).

Verification

export TMPDIR=.../jobs/530-cursor/tmp
timeout 3600 /home/crackauc/.juliaup/bin/julia +1.12 --project=. -e '... Float32 Kvaerno tests ...'

Runic --check and typos clean on touched files.

Not verified

• Metal/oneAPI/CUDA CI backends on this host (no GPU); Float32 rewrite is the intended Metal fix.
• Full ModelingToolkit DAE file end-to-end beyond the @test_throws change.

Reviewer pushback

• Adaptive steps still recompute the explicit stage each attempt (pre-existing).
• Fixed-step FSAL still evaluates at the old t (pre-existing; out of scope).

Fixes #530

Please ignore this draft until reviewed by @ChrisRackauckas.

Risk assessment

• Risk: medium
• Blast radius: GPUKvaerno3/5 EnsembleGPUKernel ODE solves with non-identity mass matrices; DAE callers that previously appeared to run will now get ArgumentError
• Evidence: Float32 fail-before/pass-after on CPU; singular 0f0*I throws ArgumentError before transfer
• Independent review: Claude Code (Opus 5.5) rated it medium; round 1: CHANGES, medium — numerics verified; Float64 tests broke Metal CI; in-kernel guard dead code
• Merge: needs human review — stiff-solver numerics and intentional DAE error behaviour change

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[ChrisRackauckas]

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Independent review (Devin CLI 3000.11.3, model fusion-claude-opus-5-5-high-sidekick-swe-2-medium): CHANGES, risk medium.

Full review

VERDICT: CHANGES
RISK: medium

The numerical fix itself is correct, and I confirmed that by running it: solving M * du = f in the explicit first stage and the FSAL cache restores the expected order for general nonsingular mass matrices, and the new tests fail on master and pass on the PR. One problem blocks the merge. The DAE rejection only checks the base problem, so a singular mass matrix supplied per trajectory now gives NaN with retcode = Success, where master returned the correct answer.

Blocking findings

1. The singular-mass-matrix check can be bypassed through prob_func, giving silent NaN with retcode = Success (a regression; confirmed by running).
   src/solve.jl:409 calls _check_kvaerno_mass_matrix(alg, ensembleprob.prob.f.mass_matrix), so only the base problem is checked. The adapted_probs that actually get transferred and solved are never checked. The PR also removed the in-kernel guard. So when a prob_func supplies a singular M, _mass_matrix_solve_du calls linear_solve on a singular SMatrix inside the kernel (src/ensemblegpukernel/linalg/linsolve.jl:132-134).
   Probe scratch/probe5.jl: the base problem has M = SMatrix(I) and f = -u. A prob_func remakes it with M = [1 0; 0 0]. I ran GPUKvaerno3/GPUKvaerno5 with EnsembleGPUKernel(CPU(), 0.0), fixed dt = 0.01f0:

   • PR: Float32[NaN, NaN] retcode=Success for both algorithms.
   • master (same Manifest): Float32[0.36787954, 0.0] / Float32[0.36787918, 0.0], retcode=Success. This is the correct solution: u2 = 0, u1 = e^-1.

   The PR therefore turns a previously correct result into NaN that still reports success, and the DAE does not raise the ArgumentError the maintainer asked for ("These should error on DAEs").
   Required change: run the host-side check over the mass matrices of adapted_probs, not just ensembleprob.prob. That data is still on the host at solve.jl:409, before _kernel_transfer. For example, iterate over unique(p.f.mass_matrix for p in adapted_probs). Add a regression test where prob_func introduces a singular M and assert @test_throws ArgumentError.

Non-blocking findings

1. Fixed-step Kvaerno is first order on non-autonomous problems. This is pre-existing, but the PR rewrites the offending line (confirmed by running). In gpu_kvaerno3_perform_step.jl:82 and gpu_kvaerno5_perform_step.jl:113, integ.k1 = _kvaerno_explicit_du(f, integ.u, p, t) uses t from before integ.t += dt, so the FSAL derivative is evaluated at the old time.
   Probe scratch/probe_nonauto.jl: u' = cos(t), M = I, t ∈ [0, 2], fixed step. Kvaerno3 errors are 0.0369 at dt=0.1 and 0.0187 at dt=0.05; Kvaerno5 errors are 0.1085 and 0.0529. Halving dt only halves the error, i.e. global order 1. The numbers are bit-identical on master.
   The PR body lists this as out of scope. That is acceptable, but it is a serious correctness bug and should get its own issue. With M ≠ I it also contaminates the fixed-step accuracy: in my P3 probe, fixed-step Kvaerno5 had error 7.7e-6, against 2e-9 adaptive.
2. The behaviour differs from the CPU solver. OrdinaryDiffEqSDIRK Kvaerno3/5 accept singular diagonal M, mapping algebraic rows to z₁ = 0 (generic_imex_perform_step.jl:51-54), and reject non-diagonal M ("Kvaerno3 only works with diagonal mass matrices"; I observed this when I ran it in probe P3). After this PR, GPUKvaerno3/5 accept any nonsingular M and reject every singular one. That matches the maintainer's comment on the issue, and the docstring states it, but the two packages now disagree in both directions.
3. This is a user-visible breaking change with no version bump. Before this PR, the test suite asserted that GPUKvaerno3/5 solve the MTK mass-matrix DAE: test/gpu_kernel_de/stiff_ode/gpu_ode_modelingtoolkit_dae.jl:94-116 checked the constraint residual < 0.01. That is de facto supported behaviour, and it now throws. Converting those tests to @test_throws is authorised by Chris's issue comment, so it is not a silenced test. Under the SemVer rule it is still a breaking change, and nothing in Project.toml reflects that. Decide whether to treat it as minor/major.
4. The check is an exact-zero det test (linsolve.jl:121, iszero(det(M))). A matrix that is singular in theory but has det ≠ 0 after rounding is accepted and solved by in-kernel LU/inverse. For example, [0.1 0.3; 0.3 0.9] in Float32 has det = -7.45e-9 and ran without error in probe P4. I did not establish whether that output is wrong, since the Float32 matrix is technically nonsingular. This is a heuristic limit, not a confirmed bug.
5. Code placement and comments:
   • The algorithm-specific validation (_KVAERNO_SINGULAR_MASS_MSG, _check_kvaerno_mass_matrix) lives in linalg/linsolve.jl. It would sit more naturally next to the algorithms or in solve-time validation.
   • The check runs twice per ensemble solve: in batch_solve_up_kernel, and again in vectorized_solve/vectorized_asolve on the same ensembleprob.prob. This is harmless.
   • src/solve.jl:427 adds a stray whitespace-only blank line.
   • The test comment (issue #530) references the task, which CLAUDE.md asks to avoid.
6. The Runic claim is partly wrong. The PR body says "Runic --check ... clean on touched files". In fact src/solve.jl fails Runic --check. The failing hunks (lines 279, 348, 375) are pre-existing: master's src/solve.jl fails identically, and none of them are lines this PR changed. All the other touched files pass.
7. Overlap with other open PRs: Interpolate to tstops by step length and handle sub-dtmin stop spacing #561, Make adaptive time updates exact at large |t| (fixes #567; stacked on #561) #569 and Fix adaptive last-step overshoot past tf #537 all edit the same two Kvaerno perform-step files. Interpolate to tstops by step length and handle sub-dtmin stop spacing #561 and Make adaptive time updates exact at large |t| (fixes #567; stacked on #561) #569 also edit linsolve.jl and change the linear_solve path, adding _cramer_solve, which _mass_matrix_solve_du now depends on. I compared hunk headers only and saw no textual overlap. Expect a rebase, and re-run the mass-matrix tests after whichever lands first.

What I ran

All runs used the CPU KernelAbstractions backend with Julia 1.12.7. There were two scratch envs with identical Manifests: scratch/env-pr (PR head, dev'd) and scratch/env-master (git archive origin/master). Versions: SciMLBase 3.57.0, OrdinaryDiffEq 7.8.1, OrdinaryDiffEqSDIRK 2.9.7, ModelingToolkit 11.45.3, KernelAbstractions 0.9.44, StaticArrays 1.9.23. The test files were run inside @safetestset with GROUP=CPU.

• PR test files (scratch/logs/pr_*.log):
  • gpu_ode_mass_matrix.jl: 14/14 pass.
  • gpu_ode_modelingtoolkit_dae.jl: 80/80 pass.
  • stiff gpu_ode_regression.jl: 75/75 pass. This covers the identity-M Kvaerno path, which now goes through rhs / true.
• Fail-before (scratch/logs/master_*.log): the PR's test files run against master.
  • Mass-matrix file: 8 pass / 6 fail. The 4 failures in Kvaerno nonsingular mass matrix include Float32[0.5195188, 1.0390376] ≈ Float32[0.60653067, 1.2130613]; the other 2 are Kvaerno rejects singular, with "No exception thrown".
  • MTK DAE file: 78 pass / 2 fail (the two @test_throws).
  • This reproduces the PR body's fail-before/pass-after claim.
• Probes (PR env) — scratch/probe.jl, probe3.jl, probe5.jl, probe_nonauto.jl; logs in scratch/logs/probe*_pr.log:
  • P1, the issue's exact Float64 reproducer with M = 2.0I: endpoint error norms were 2.2e-9 / 2.8e-9 for Kvaerno3 fixed/adaptive and 1.2e-15 / 7.6e-10 for Kvaerno5. This matches the issue's diagnostic numbers.
  • P2, dense non-symmetric M = [2 1; 1 3] with a coupled linear A, exact solution via exp(t M⁻¹A), with saveat interior points so the Hermite interpolant is exercised:
    • Max error at the saveat points was ≤ 3.5e-8 in all four configurations.
    • Fixed-step observed orders were 2.95 / 2.97 for Kvaerno3 and 4.95 / 4.98 for Kvaerno5, which is correct order for a general nonsingular M.
  • P3, a nonlinear 3-state problem with dense M, compared to Rodas5P at tolerance 1e-12: adaptive errors were 6.3e-6 for Kvaerno3 and 2.0e-9 for Kvaerno5. The fixed-step errors are inflated by the non-autonomous FSAL bug above.
  • P4, singular and edge mass matrices:
    • false*I, a singular Matrix, and the MTK DAE throw an ArgumentError with the intended message.
    • I, a nonsingular Matrix, and a nonsingular Diagonal solve correctly: 0.60652995 against exp(-0.5) = 0.60653066.
  • P5: the prob_func bypass described in the blocking finding, also run on master.
  • P6/P7: checked the ArgumentError message from the MTK-style DAE solve, and confirmed that vectorized_solve and vectorized_asolve both throw.
• julia +1.12 --project=@runic -m Runic --check, run on each touched file at the PR head and at master.
• typos over the added lines: clean.
• gh pr list/gh pr diff on the open PRs Interpolate to tstops by step length and handle sub-dtmin stop spacing #561, Make adaptive time updates exact at large |t| (fixes #567; stacked on #561) #569 and Fix adaptive last-step overshoot past tf #537, comparing hunk headers.

What I did not verify

• GPU backends: no GPU backend (CUDA, AMDGPU, Metal, oneAPI, OpenCL) was run; there is no GPU on this host. In particular I did not check that linear_solve on an SMatrix mass matrix compiles inside the kernel on Metal or OpenCL, or that rhs / M.λ stays Float32 on device.
• Mixed precision: I did not test mixed-precision UniformScaling (e.g. a Float32 problem with mass_matrix = 2.0I). I suspect from reading that it promotes k1 to Float64, but the Newton residual already does the same on master.
• Callbacks and u_modified: not tested with mass matrices.
• QA group (Aqua/JET): not run.
• Docs build: not run. The PR touches docstrings only.

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