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populate_from_data_model_view() handled the GPU and CPU warm-start directions in one inlined if/else. Only the GPU direction needs a device, but the compiler instantiated both into every translation unit that includes the header, pulling convert_to_gpu_warmstart and friends into code that never touches a GPU.

Split into three helpers, selected by a kHostOnly template parameter dispatched with if constexpr so a host-only caller never instantiates the GPU branch:

  • apply_warmstart_gpu_target() — real handle; defined in libcuopt
  • apply_warmstart_cpu_target_with_device() — null handle, caller has a device; defined in libcuopt
  • apply_warmstart_cpu_target() — host-only caller; inline in the header

Two CPU-target variants because a kHostOnly caller cannot hold device-resident warm start, while a normal caller passing handle == nullptr can (cython_solve.cu:181) and needs the D2H copy.

Also moves the trivial warm-start accessors into solver_settings_accessors.cpp so host-only consumers resolve them without the CUDA translation unit.

Third of four steps toward a CUDA-free client library, after #1801 and #1802.

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Follow-up for test coverage: #1867

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The PR separates PDLP warm-start accessors from CUDA code. It adds host-only, device-backed CPU, and GPU conversion paths. Remote gRPC clients select host-only population explicitly.

Warm-start refactor

Layer / File(s) Summary
Warm-start storage and accessors
cpp/src/pdlp/solver_settings.cu, cpp/src/pdlp/solver_settings_accessors.cpp, cpp/src/pdlp/CMakeLists.txt
CPU and view accessors move to a CUDA-free translation unit, which is added to the core PDLP build.
Host-only and target dispatch
cpp/include/cuopt/mathematical_optimization/optimization_problem_utils.hpp, cpp/src/grpc/client/cython_grpc_client.cpp
populate_from_data_model_view adds kHostOnly and dispatches warm-start handling by target. Remote gRPC submission selects the host-only instantiation.
Target-specific warm-start conversion
cpp/src/pdlp/optimization_problem.cu
GPU-target conversion handles views, host data, and existing device data. Device-capable CPU conversion preserves host data and copies device data to host storage. The file exports float and double helper instantiations.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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This refactor separates host-only and GPU warm-start handling while preserving the required conversion paths. No current PR-introduced merge-blocking risk remains.

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In `@cpp/include/cuopt/mathematical_optimization/optimization_problem_utils.hpp`:
- Around line 163-170: Update the warm-start handling around
apply_warmstart_cpu_target() so the kHostOnly path remains host-only while the
non-host-only null-handle path converts existing device warm-start data to CPU
data instead of returning when no CPU or host-view data is present. Restore this
behavior through an out-of-line CUDA-capable CPU-target helper, and apply the
same fix to the corresponding logic near the second reported location.

In `@cpp/src/pdlp/optimization_problem.cu`:
- Around line 1672-1674: Update the preprocessor guard around the explicit float
instantiation of apply_warmstart_gpu_target<int, float> so it is emitted when
either MIP_INSTANTIATE_FLOAT or PDLP_INSTANTIATE_FLOAT is enabled, preserving
the existing instantiation declaration.

In `@cpp/src/pdlp/solver_settings.cu`:
- Around line 400-403: Update pdlp_solver_settings_t::get_pdlp_warm_start_data
so it no longer promises noexcept while ensure_pdlp_warm_start_data may allocate
and throw; remove the noexcept qualifier and preserve the existing lazy
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@coderabbitai Good catch — this was a real regression and I've fixed it.

You're right that the device-to-CPU branch was reachable. cython_solve.cu:181 calls populate_from_data_model_view(&cpu_problem, data_model, solver_settings, nullptr) — null handle with the default kHostOnly=false — so a caller holding device-resident warm start would have silently lost it on a remote solve. My original comment claiming the case was "rejected" was also wrong: it just fell through and returned.

Fixed as you suggested, with two helpers:

  • apply_warmstart_cpu_target() stays host-only (already-host data, or a host-span view) and is now only reachable from the kHostOnly path.
  • apply_warmstart_cpu_target_with_device() is declared in the header and defined out-of-line in optimization_problem.cu, restoring the convert_to_cpu_warmstart D2H copy. The non-host-only null-handle path routes here.

Semantics now match main exactly: host data → no-op, view → direct copy, device data → D2H.

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@ramakrishnap-nv Confirmed. The updated branch selection is correct.

For kHostOnly=true, populate_from_data_model_view() uses apply_warmstart_cpu_target().

For kHostOnly=false with handle == nullptr, it uses apply_warmstart_cpu_target_with_device().

The new helper preserves host data, copies a host view, and calls convert_to_cpu_warmstart(...) for populated device data. This restores the device-to-host conversion for the remote solve path.

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Reworked — the shared_ptr mechanism is gone

A code review pass raised several problems with the pdlp_warm_start_data_t pimpl, and on checking they were all real. Rather than patch them I've removed that half of the PR entirely; the title and scope are updated to match.

Why it was wrong. shared_ptr was doing two jobs and I only wanted one. It gave type-erased storage (good), but it also silently turned settings copies into shared aliases. pdlp_warm_start_data_t has an explicit deep-copy ctor that raft::copys each buffer, and settings are copied at solve.cu:1158, :1358 and :1532 — that last one is run_concurrent, which runs PDLP/Barrier/DualSimplex in parallel. So set_pdlp_warm_start_data() (which resize()s and thrust::fills) would have mutated every sibling copy. On top of that the lazy init was unsynchronised, allocated device memory as a side effect of read-only is_populated() checks, and sat behind a noexcept getter that could throw rmm::bad_alloc — turning an allocation failure into std::terminate.

Why not just fix it. Every mechanism that preserves deep-copy semantics needs either a hand-enumerated scalar copy constructor (which silently drops any field added later — a worse trap than the original bug) or the interface restructuring that the header-separation work is going to do anyway.

What is left, and it stands on its own: the kHostOnly / if constexpr split so host-only callers never instantiate the GPU warm-start branch, now with two CPU-target variants — a host-only one, and apply_warmstart_cpu_target_with_device() for the null-handle case where the caller does have a device (cython_solve.cu:181) and its warm start may need a D2H copy. Plus the trivial accessors moving to solver_settings_accessors.cpp.

Cost: libcuopt_client.so keeps one undefined symbol, pdlp_warm_start_data_t(). That is fine for now — the library already has 14 undefined cuopt::routing:: symbols, so it is not standalone-loadable either way, and both belong to the same follow-up.

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`to_optimization_problem()` was a pure virtual on
`optimization_problem_interface_t`, so it occupied a slot in **every**
implementer's vtable — including `cpu_optimization_problem_t`, whose
vtable then held an entry only `libcuopt` can define.

Vtable relocations resolve **eagerly at load time**, so this cannot be
deferred or hidden behind lazy binding: any library carrying that vtable
is unloadable without `libcuopt.so`. That blocks the CUDA-free client
library (#1804).

It is now a free function declared in `optimization_problem.hpp`,
defined in `cpu_optimization_problem_to_gpu.cpp`, dispatching on the
concrete type:

```diff
- auto gpu = problem->to_optimization_problem(&handle);
+ auto gpu = to_optimization_problem(*problem, &handle);
```

Semantics are unchanged — the GPU override was a one-line `return
nullptr`, so a GPU-backed problem still yields `nullptr`. Unrecognised
implementations now throw instead of returning `nullptr`, since the
documented fallback `static_cast`s the reference and would otherwise be
UB. 5 call sites updated.

**Breaking:** removes a pure virtual from an installed public header.
Out-of-tree implementers should delete their override; callers switch to
the free function as above.

2 of 4 toward a CUDA-free client library (#1801 merged, #1803, #1804
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1572-1572: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Synchronize the supplied conversion stream before each destination copy.

gpu_cast runs on stream, while each other.set_* method copies data on other.stream_view_. If these streams differ, the destination copy can read other_* before the conversion completes. Synchronize stream before each other.set_* call, or enqueue both operations on the same stream.

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In `@cpp/src/pdlp/optimization_problem.cu` at line 1572, Update the conversion
flow around gpu_cast and the destination other.set_* calls so the supplied
stream is synchronized before each destination copy when stream and
other.stream_view_ differ. Preserve the existing copy behavior while ensuring
every set_* operation reads only after its corresponding conversion completes.
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1659-1661: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major

Add regression tests for the warm-start conversion paths.

Cover view-to-GPU, host-to-GPU, host-view-to-CPU, and device-to-CPU conversion. Include the null-handle device-to-CPU path and verify vector and scalar values.

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In `@cpp/src/pdlp/optimization_problem.cu` around lines 1659 - 1661, Add
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pdlp_warm_start_data_t and set_pdlp_warm_start_data: view-to-GPU, host-to-GPU,
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Emit the float warm-start helpers for PDLP-only builds.

The float helper definitions use only MIP_INSTANTIATE_FLOAT. A PDLP-only float build can miss apply_warmstart_gpu_target<int, float> and fail to link when the PDLP data-model path references it.

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In `@cpp/src/pdlp/optimization_problem.cu` around lines 1702 - 1705, Update the
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In `@cpp/src/pdlp/optimization_problem.cu`:
- Line 1572: Update the conversion flow around gpu_cast and the destination
other.set_* calls so the supplied stream is synchronized before each destination
copy when stream and other.stream_view_ differ. Preserve the existing copy
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In `@cpp/src/pdlp/optimization_problem.cu`:
- Around line 1659-1661: Add regression tests for the warm-start conversion
paths exercised by pdlp_warm_start_data_t and set_pdlp_warm_start_data:
view-to-GPU, host-to-GPU, host-view-to-CPU, and device-to-CPU. Include the
null-handle device-to-CPU case, and assert both vector contents and scalar
values for each conversion.
- Around line 1702-1705: Update the preprocessor guard around the float explicit
instantiations of apply_warmstart_gpu_target and
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1. Stream sync at optimization_problem.cu:1572 — skipping: not this PR's code. It is pre-existing on main (identical there), last touched by #1858, and this PR's diff in that file starts at line 1637. CodeRabbit flagged it as "outside diff range" itself. It may well be a real latent issue — gpu_cast runs on stream while other.set_* copies on other.stream_view_, and the stream_view_.sync() afterwards syncs the wrong stream if they differ — but it belongs in its own PR against the code's owner rather than riding along here.

2. D2H conversion for the null-handle path — already fixed, in an earlier revision than the one reviewed. apply_warmstart_cpu_target_with_device() exists in both the header and optimization_problem.cu, and the convert_to_cpu_warmstart call is restored at optimization_problem.cu:1698. This was a real regression when first raised, and the fix follows exactly the shape suggested: keep apply_warmstart_cpu_target() host-only for kHostOnly, and route the non-host-only null-handle case to a CUDA-capable variant.

3. Regression tests for warm-start conversion — fair, and not done. The three paths (host-view → CPU, host-data → GPU, device-data → CPU) need a real GPU fixture and a populated warm start to be meaningful, which is more than a unit test around the predicate. Flagging for reviewers rather than silently skipping: worth doing, better as follow-up than expanding this PR.

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@ramakrishnap-nv Thanks for the detailed status.

  1. I agree that the stream synchronization concern is outside this PR scope. It is pre-existing on main. Please address it in a separate PR.

  2. Confirmed. The null-handle path now uses apply_warmstart_cpu_target_with_device(). The device-to-host conversion is restored.

  3. The missing regression coverage remains valid. A follow-up should test host-view-to-CPU, host-data-to-GPU, and device-data-to-CPU warm-start conversion with a GPU fixture.

Would you like me to open GitHub issues for the stream synchronization concern and the regression-test coverage?


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Learning: In `cpp/src/pdlp/optimization_problem.cu`, the `gpu_cast` stream synchronization concern near line 1572 is pre-existing on `main` and is outside PR `#1803`’s warm-start refactor diff. If the issue is addressed, it should be done in a separate PR owned by the relevant code owner.

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Learning: In `cpp/include/cuopt/mathematical_optimization/optimization_problem_utils.hpp`, `populate_from_data_model_view()` can be called with `kHostOnly=false` and `handle == nullptr` by the Cython remote-solve path. This path can contain device-resident PDLP warm-start data, so it must use CUDA-capable device-to-host conversion through `apply_warmstart_cpu_target_with_device()` rather than the host-only `apply_warmstart_cpu_target()` helper.

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The float instantiations were guarded on MIP_INSTANTIATE_FLOAT alone, while the
surrounding instantiations in this file use MIP_ || PDLP_. A PDLP-only build with
float enabled would compile but leave apply_warmstart_gpu_target and
apply_warmstart_cpu_target_with_device undefined at link time.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramakrishna Prabhu <ramakrishnap@nvidia.com>
b809784 widened the float instantiation guard for apply_warmstart_gpu_target
and apply_warmstart_cpu_target_with_device to MIP_INSTANTIATE_FLOAT ||
PDLP_INSTANTIATE_FLOAT. PDLP_INSTANTIATE_FLOAT is hardcoded to 1, so that
instantiated both helpers for float unconditionally.

Both call solver_settings_t<i_t, f_t>::get_pdlp_settings() and
::get_pdlp_warm_start_data_view(), which math_optimization/solver_settings.cpp
instantiates only under MIP_INSTANTIATE_FLOAT -- and CUOPT_INSTANTIATE_FLOAT is
0, so the float accessors do not exist. libcuopt.so was left with undefined
references to them, breaking the cuopt_cli and cuopt_grpc_server links in
wheel-build-libcuopt.

Narrow the guard back to MIP_INSTANTIATE_FLOAT so the float instantiation set
stays internally consistent. No caller needs the float helpers: all three call
sites of populate_from_data_model_view (cython_solve.cu x2, cython_grpc_client.cpp)
are <int, double>.

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* a CUDA runtime. Only call it with a real handle.
*/
template <typename i_t, typename f_t>
void apply_warmstart_gpu_target(solver_settings_t<i_t, f_t>* solver_settings,

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Naming is not intuitive.

You can use either sync_warmstart_data_to_gpu or copy_warmstart_data_to_device

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Renamed in 33e3338, using your direction-based form across all three:

  • apply_warmstart_gpu_targetcopy_warmstart_data_to_device
  • apply_warmstart_cpu_target_with_devicecopy_warmstart_data_to_host
  • apply_warmstart_cpu_targetcopy_warmstart_view_to_host

I went with copy_ over sync_ since each is a one-way transfer, not a reconcile.

* device_uvector-backed warm start that must be brought to host before a remote solve.
*/
template <typename i_t, typename f_t>
void apply_warmstart_cpu_target_with_device(solver_settings_t<i_t, f_t>* solver_settings);

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same here

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Done — copy_warmstart_data_to_host in 33e3338.

This is the device-capable variant: null handle, but the caller still has a device, so it also covers the D2H case that copy_warmstart_view_to_host deliberately cannot.

* construction has no device to have populated it, may use this one.
*/
template <typename i_t, typename f_t>
void apply_warmstart_cpu_target(solver_settings_t<i_t, f_t>* solver_settings)

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same here

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Done — this one is copy_warmstart_view_to_host in 33e3338.

Named for its source rather than something like _no_device: a kHostOnly caller has no device, so a host-span view is the only warm start it can ever be holding. That is also exactly why it stays inline in the header and needs no CUDA.

* a CUDA runtime. Only call it with a real handle.
*/
template <typename i_t, typename f_t>
void apply_warmstart_gpu_target(solver_settings_t<i_t, f_t>* solver_settings,

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void apply_warmstart_gpu_target(solver_settings_t<i_t, f_t>* solver_settings,
void apply_warmstart_gpu_target(solver_settings_t<i_t, f_t>& solver_settings,

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Applied in 33e3338, along with the rename. Left handle as a pointer since the caller passes it through as a nullable value.

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Following up on the one part of your suggestion I did not take: handle is still a pointer.

template <typename i_t, typename f_t>
void copy_warmstart_data_to_device(solver_settings_t<i_t, f_t>& solver_settings,
                                   const raft::handle_t* handle);

The only call site already guards it, so it is non-null by construction here:

if (handle != nullptr) {
  copy_warmstart_data_to_device(*solver_settings, handle);
} else {
  copy_warmstart_data_to_host(*solver_settings);
}

So const raft::handle_t& would encode that invariant the same way the settings reference now does. I left it as a pointer only to keep the diff to what you flagged — happy to convert it too if you would rather have both non-null params expressed as references. Your call.

* device_uvector-backed warm start that must be brought to host before a remote solve.
*/
template <typename i_t, typename f_t>
void apply_warmstart_cpu_target_with_device(solver_settings_t<i_t, f_t>* solver_settings);

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void apply_warmstart_cpu_target_with_device(solver_settings_t<i_t, f_t>* solver_settings);
void apply_warmstart_cpu_target_with_device(solver_settings_t<i_t, f_t>& solver_settings);

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Applied in 33e3338. The sole caller null-checks solver_settings before dispatching, so the reference is safe here.

ramakrishnap-nv and others added 2 commits September 8, 2026 15:19
Review feedback: apply_warmstart_*_target said nothing about direction.

  apply_warmstart_gpu_target          -> copy_warmstart_data_to_device
  apply_warmstart_cpu_target_with_device -> copy_warmstart_data_to_host
  apply_warmstart_cpu_target          -> copy_warmstart_view_to_host

The host-only variant is named for its source rather than a "_no_device"
qualifier: a kHostOnly caller has no device, so a host-span view is the only
warm start it can ever hold, which is also why it needs no CUDA.

Take solver_settings by reference instead of by pointer -- the sole caller
already null-checks it before dispatching.

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Adds `cuopt_client`, a CPU-only library holding the host-side problem representation (parsers, `data_model_view`, `mps_data_model`, writers), the gRPC wire protocol, and the LP/MIP gRPC client. `libcuopt` and `cuopt_grpc_server` both link it, so there is one implementation rather than a client-side fork.

This is the library-level half of letting a remote client talk to `cuopt_grpc_server` without `cudf`, `cupy`, `rmm` or `pylibraft`. The packaging half is not here: `libcuopt_client.so` still ships inside the `libcuopt` package, which depends on CUDA, so a GPU-free install is not yet possible. Tracked in #1872.

Two notes for reviewers:

- The routing gRPC arm stays in `libcuopt`. Its mappers call routing accessors that live in CUDA translation units, so moving it down would create a `libcuopt -> cuopt_client -> libcuopt` cycle.
- Some public API changes which library exports it — `solver_settings_t::get_mip_callbacks()` and siblings now come from `libcuopt_client.so`. `cuopt` links `cuopt::cuopt_client` as `PUBLIC` and both are in `cuopt-exports`, so CMake consumers resolve them transitively; a bare `-lcuopt` link would also need `-lcuopt_client`.

Verified: `libcuopt_client.so` has no CUDA, rmm or raft in `NEEDED`, and no undefined `cuopt::` symbols.

Last of four steps toward a CUDA-free client library, after #1801, #1802 and #1803.

Authors:
  - Ramakrishna Prabhu (https://github.com/ramakrishnap-nv)

Approvers:
  - Trevor McKay (https://github.com/tmckayus)
  - Rajesh Gandham (https://github.com/rg20)

URL: #1804
rapids-bot Bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 10, 2026
Moves the routing gRPC arm into `cuopt_client`, so the CUDA-free client library now covers VRP as well as LP/MIP.

The routing mappers were held back because they reached into the routing engine. Measuring that reach showed it was shallow — 14 symbols, all trivial host-only accessors that happen to live in CUDA translation units:

| Object | Routing-engine symbols needed |
|---|---|
| `grpc_routing_settings_mapper` | 8 — `routing::solver_settings_t` getters/setters |
| `grpc_routing_solution_mapper` | 6 — `routing::assignment_t` getters |
| `grpc_routing_problem_mapper` | 0 |
| `grpc_client_vrp` | 0 |
| `cython_grpc_client_vrp` | 0 |

The VRP client itself needed nothing from the engine.

Two changes free those 14:

- `routing/solver_settings.cu` becomes `.cpp`. The whole file was already host code — plain accessors over scalar members — and `routing/solver_settings.hpp` pulls in no CUDA.
- The six `assignment_t` accessors move to `assignment_accessors.cpp`, instantiated **per member** rather than with `template class`. A whole-class instantiation would also instantiate the device-facing members and pull CUDA back into the translation unit.

This is the same split #1801, #1802 and #1803 applied to the LP/MIP settings, and it is what #1804's own comment anticipated: *"Moving the routing arm down needs those host-only accessors split out first, exactly as was done for the LP/MIP settings."*

## Result

`libcuopt_client.so` grows from 2.3 MB to 2.4 MB stripped and keeps every property that makes it useful:

```
cuda / rmm / raft in NEEDED     0
undefined cuopt:: symbols       0
DT_NEEDED on any libcuopt       0
```

It now exports the 6 routing mappers and the VRP client methods, so a routing-only gRPC client no longer needs the routing engine. That is listed in #1635 as "the only part of the split with real C++ work behind it".

## Testing

- C++: `ROUTING_UNIT_TEST`, `GRPC_ROUTING_PROBLEM_MAPPER_TEST`, `GRPC_CLIENT_TEST`, `GRPC_PIPE_SERIALIZATION_TEST`, `GRPC_INTEGRATION_TEST`, `C_API_TEST` — 6/6 pass.
- Python: `test_routing_grpc_serialization.py` (13) and `test_routing_grpc_client.py` — pass. The two end-to-end VRP cases skip without a server, so they were run explicitly against a local `cuopt_grpc_server` (`CUOPT_GRPC_SERVER=localhost:19555`) and both pass: a VRP problem submitted over gRPC, solved, and mapped back through the code this PR moves.
- Verified the 14 accessors are still exported and that `assignment_t`'s device-facing members (`get_route`, `to_csv`, `get_arrival_stamp`, `print`) survived dropping the whole-class instantiation.

### Tests added

The routing gRPC arm had almost no C++ coverage: `GRPC_INTEGRATION_TEST` held no routing cases, and of the two mappers that read the moved accessors, neither had a test — only the problem mapper did, and it touches no accessors. This PR adds two.

**`DefaultServerTests.SolveVRP`** follows the same shape as the LP and MIP cases in that fixture — submit, poll, fetch, check — so routing is now exercised the same way. The problem is built in code rather than loaded from a fixture, so it does not depend on the routing datasets, and the assertions do not pin a route ordering, only that the solve succeeded and left no order unserved.

**`GRPC_ROUTING_SETTINGS_MAPPER_TEST`** round-trips `routing::solver_settings_t` through the proto. Six of its eight accessors previously had no test at all. It covers the presence semantics an end-to-end solve cannot see: an unset `time_limit` must not be serialized, since the solver derives its default from absence, while an explicit zero must survive.

Both were checked by mutation rather than assumed useful. Removing the `time_limit` presence guard leaves `SolveVRP` passing — it sets an explicit limit, so it never exercises that path — while the mapper test fails. The end-to-end test is the right primary but is not a superset of the mapper test.

Authors:
  - Ramakrishna Prabhu (https://github.com/ramakrishnap-nv)

Approvers:
  - Rajesh Gandham (https://github.com/rg20)
  - Trevor McKay (https://github.com/tmckayus)

URL: #1884
chris-maes pushed a commit to chris-maes/cuopt that referenced this pull request Sep 10, 2026
`to_optimization_problem()` was a pure virtual on
`optimization_problem_interface_t`, so it occupied a slot in **every**
implementer's vtable — including `cpu_optimization_problem_t`, whose
vtable then held an entry only `libcuopt` can define.

Vtable relocations resolve **eagerly at load time**, so this cannot be
deferred or hidden behind lazy binding: any library carrying that vtable
is unloadable without `libcuopt.so`. That blocks the CUDA-free client
library (NVIDIA#1804).

It is now a free function declared in `optimization_problem.hpp`,
defined in `cpu_optimization_problem_to_gpu.cpp`, dispatching on the
concrete type:

```diff
- auto gpu = problem->to_optimization_problem(&handle);
+ auto gpu = to_optimization_problem(*problem, &handle);
```

Semantics are unchanged — the GPU override was a one-line `return
nullptr`, so a GPU-backed problem still yields `nullptr`. Unrecognised
implementations now throw instead of returning `nullptr`, since the
documented fallback `static_cast`s the reference and would otherwise be
UB. 5 call sites updated.

**Breaking:** removes a pure virtual from an installed public header.
Out-of-tree implementers should delete their override; callers switch to
the free function as above.

2 of 4 toward a CUDA-free client library (NVIDIA#1801 merged, NVIDIA#1803, NVIDIA#1804
follow).

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chris-maes pushed a commit to chris-maes/cuopt that referenced this pull request Sep 10, 2026
…nits (NVIDIA#1803)

`populate_from_data_model_view()` handled the GPU and CPU warm-start directions in one inlined `if/else`. Only the GPU direction needs a device, but the compiler instantiated both into every translation unit that includes the header, pulling `convert_to_gpu_warmstart` and friends into code that never touches a GPU.

Split into three helpers, selected by a `kHostOnly` template parameter dispatched with `if constexpr` so a host-only caller never instantiates the GPU branch:

- `apply_warmstart_gpu_target()` — real handle; defined in libcuopt
- `apply_warmstart_cpu_target_with_device()` — null handle, caller has a device; defined in libcuopt
- `apply_warmstart_cpu_target()` — host-only caller; inline in the header

Two CPU-target variants because a `kHostOnly` caller cannot hold device-resident warm start, while a normal caller passing `handle == nullptr` can (`cython_solve.cu:181`) and needs the D2H copy.

Also moves the trivial warm-start accessors into `solver_settings_accessors.cpp` so host-only consumers resolve them without the CUDA translation unit.

Third of four steps toward a CUDA-free client library, after NVIDIA#1801 and NVIDIA#1802.

## Issue

Follow-up for test coverage: NVIDIA#1867

Authors:
  - Ramakrishna Prabhu (https://github.com/ramakrishnap-nv)

Approvers:
  - Rajesh Gandham (https://github.com/rg20)
  - Trevor McKay (https://github.com/tmckayus)

URL: NVIDIA#1803
chris-maes pushed a commit to chris-maes/cuopt that referenced this pull request Sep 10, 2026
Adds `cuopt_client`, a CPU-only library holding the host-side problem representation (parsers, `data_model_view`, `mps_data_model`, writers), the gRPC wire protocol, and the LP/MIP gRPC client. `libcuopt` and `cuopt_grpc_server` both link it, so there is one implementation rather than a client-side fork.

This is the library-level half of letting a remote client talk to `cuopt_grpc_server` without `cudf`, `cupy`, `rmm` or `pylibraft`. The packaging half is not here: `libcuopt_client.so` still ships inside the `libcuopt` package, which depends on CUDA, so a GPU-free install is not yet possible. Tracked in NVIDIA#1872.

Two notes for reviewers:

- The routing gRPC arm stays in `libcuopt`. Its mappers call routing accessors that live in CUDA translation units, so moving it down would create a `libcuopt -> cuopt_client -> libcuopt` cycle.
- Some public API changes which library exports it — `solver_settings_t::get_mip_callbacks()` and siblings now come from `libcuopt_client.so`. `cuopt` links `cuopt::cuopt_client` as `PUBLIC` and both are in `cuopt-exports`, so CMake consumers resolve them transitively; a bare `-lcuopt` link would also need `-lcuopt_client`.

Verified: `libcuopt_client.so` has no CUDA, rmm or raft in `NEEDED`, and no undefined `cuopt::` symbols.

Last of four steps toward a CUDA-free client library, after NVIDIA#1801, NVIDIA#1802 and NVIDIA#1803.

Authors:
  - Ramakrishna Prabhu (https://github.com/ramakrishnap-nv)

Approvers:
  - Trevor McKay (https://github.com/tmckayus)
  - Rajesh Gandham (https://github.com/rg20)

URL: NVIDIA#1804
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