[thebreadishard]

Summary

Two small compatibility fixes in pyscf/lno/lnoccsd.py, both hit in production LNO-CCSD(T) runs (benzene and naphthalene, cc-pVDZ/cc-pVTZ, pyscf 2.14.0, NumPy 2):

1. DFLNOCCSD / _DFChemistsERIs._contract_vvvv_t2: pyscf 2.14 changed dfccsd._contract_vvvv_t2 to (mycc, mol, vvL, VVL, t2, out=None, verbose=None). The existing six-argument call shifts the arguments (t2 arrives as out) and every DF-LNO-CCSD run fails. The call now inspects the installed signature and passes vvL twice on pyscf ≥ 2.14, keeping the old call for older pyscf.
2. _cp: np.array(a, copy=False, order='C') raises under NumPy 2 when a copy is unavoidable, which happens on the out-of-core path when the fragment's Lov block is an h5py slice (max_memory below its size). np.asarray(a, order='C') keeps the NumPy 1.x meaning.

Test plan

• python -m py_compile pyscf/lno/lnoccsd.py
• DF-LNO-CCSD(T) on benzene and naphthalene with pyscf 2.14.0 / NumPy 2 (thresholds 1e-5/1e-6 and 1e-6/1e-7; in-core and out-of-core) since 2026-09-10 — identical energies to the patched local copy we have been running.
• The shipped pyscf/lno/test suite in a clean environment (Python 3.12, pyscf 2.14.0, NumPy 2.5.3, this branch built from source against the installed pyscf headers with CMAKE_CONFIGURE_ARGS=-DPYSCF_SOURCE_DIR=<site-packages>/pyscf, BUILD_OCCRI=OFF): 5 passed in 183 s, pytest -q pyscf/lno/test.

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[MatthewRHermes]

Can you show simple example inputs that raise the two errors you describe, assuming pyscf 2.14.0 and numpy 2 are installed? On my machine, which has pyscf 2.14.0 and numpy 2.2.5, all the lno tests pass without incident, including the "main" block of pyscf/lno/lnoccsd.py.

[MatthewRHermes]

Please add regression tests for these two bugs, since currently the entire test suite passes on pyscf:master with PySCF 2.14.0 and NumPy 2 installed.

[thebreadishard]

Thanks for the review, and apologies for the slow reply.

You are right that the shipped suite passes: both fixes sit in the DF-CCSD fragment solver (MODIFIED_DFCCSD / _make_df_eris / _DFChemistsERIs), which lnoccsd.CCSD only selects when a fragment's vvvv block does not fit in 70 % of the available memory (naux <= nvir_pair and nvir_pair**2 * 8 bytes >= 0.7 * mem_avail). The water-dimer tests never reach it; our production runs (naphthalene, cc-pVTZ, large fragments) did.

A minimal reproducer on the test molecule is MODIFIED_DFCCSD(mf, frozen=2) with mycc.max_memory = 1 (forces the blocked loops of _make_df_eris, the arrays stay small): unpatched it raises ValueError in _cp (NumPy 2, non-contiguous Lov[:,:,p0:p1] slice); with _cp alone fixed it raises AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'shape' inside dfccsd._contract_vvvv_t2, because the six-argument call passes t2 as VVL and out as t2.

On your inline point: pyscf's dfccsd._contract_vvvv_t2 has had the VVL argument since at least v2.10, so the six-argument call was wrong for every supported version. I dropped the signature inspection and call it with its real signature, VVL = vvL, as pyscf's own _ChemistsERIs does.

Added test_dfccsd_solver_blocked_df_eris to test_lnoccsd.py: it fails on master (the ValueError above), and passes with the patch, with e_corr equal to cc.CCSD on the same DF mean field to 1e-7. The full pyscf/lno/test suite (6 tests, test_ulnoccsd_t included) passes on this branch with pyscf 2.14.0 / NumPy 2.5.3 on Linux, liblno built from the branch.

[MatthewRHermes]

OK so my previous comment tripped over the fact that you were incorrect earlier, when you said that PySCF 2.14.0 introduced the seven-argument signature. In fact, PySCF 2.9.0 introduced it, so if you'd followed my suggestion to the letter you would have introduced a bug. But at any rate, just removing the conditional altogether is probably the correct move, since the whole point of PySCF-Forge is as a trial ground for code that's going into PySCF core eventually and it would certainly make no sense for PySCF to branch its logic based on its own installed version.

But I have a bone to pick with the commentary lines here. They are sensible in the context of this conversation we're having, but nonsense in the larger context of someone or something reading this whole file a year from now. This looks like a symptom of inadequately supervised AI use: we ordinary working shlubs can't afford billion-token context windows or whatever, so we still have to take responsibility for Big Picture stuff like this.

IDK. I'll probably get over it in 24 hours or less. But I'll post this comment anyway just in case it accomplishes something.

[MatthewRHermes]

concretely: please cut that comment to the single line # VVL = vvL, as in pyscf.cc.dfccsd._ChemistsERIs, and drop the signature restatement and the version history

[MatthewRHermes]

The other comments are fine.