Script and tests to generate candidates for training confidence model

[vratins]

• Adding scripts/cache_candidate.py to generate the candidate cache that the confidence model trains on, after the flow model has been trained. Writes one cache file per structure with the candidates' coordinates.
• Contains no self-conditioning code, so it should merge after the SC-removal PR is merged (but free to review right now).
• touches some files where I rename the word "sidecar" to just files for caches for clarity in comments.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added a utility for generating confidence-model candidate caches from trained flow checkpoints.
  • Supports configurable sampling, datasets, devices, checkpoints, output locations, and overwrite behavior.
  • Records generation metadata and statistics for each cache.

• Documentation

  • Documented the new cache-generation utility and clarified filter metadata file terminology.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for cache creation, metadata, overwrite handling, and run-specific output directories.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds a CLI and reusable API for generating candidate-water caches from flow checkpoints. It writes per-structure tensors and generation metadata, supports skipping or overwriting existing files, adds tests, and standardizes filter metadata terminology.

Changes

Candidate cache generation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Generate and validate candidate caches scripts/cache_candidates.py, tests/test_cache_candidates.py, README.md	The new utility loads flow checkpoints, builds protein-water datasets, samples candidates, writes .pt files and generation.json, handles overwrite behavior, and exposes cache-directory naming. Tests cover outputs, metadata, skipping, overwriting, and directory separation.
Clarify filter metadata file terminology README.md, src/dataset.py, tests/test_dataset.py	Documentation, comments, and test names now refer to _filter_meta.json as a file. Legacy-cache and temporary-file descriptions use the updated terminology.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔴 Critical · up to 0ba14

The new candidate-cache script currently fails on its first real inference batch because it omits a required self-conditioning argument, and CUDA runs can write cache files that CPU-only environments cannot load without remapping. These concrete runtime and portability failures should be fixed before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant CacheCandidates as scripts/cache_candidates.py
  participant FlowCheckpoint
  participant ProteinWaterDataset
  participant SharedInference
  participant CandidateCache
  CLI->>CacheCandidates: invoke cache generation
  CacheCandidates->>FlowCheckpoint: load configuration and weights
  CacheCandidates->>ProteinWaterDataset: construct matching dataset
  CacheCandidates->>SharedInference: sample candidate waters
  SharedInference-->>CacheCandidates: return candidates and statistics
  CacheCandidates->>CandidateCache: write .pt files and generation.json

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Actionable comments posted: 2

🧹 Nitpick comments (2)

tests/test_cache_candidates.py (1)

44-97: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a test for the generate_candidate_cache wiring.

These tests inject sample_batch, so the call into run_inference_batch is never exercised. A test that monkeypatches cc.run_inference_batch, cc.load_config, cc.build_model_from_config, cc.load_checkpoint, cc.FlowMatcher, and cc.ProteinWaterDataset, and then asserts the forwarded keyword arguments, would catch signature drift between the two scripts.

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In `@tests/test_cache_candidates.py` around lines 44 - 97, Add a focused test for
generate_candidate_cache that monkeypatches run_inference_batch, load_config,
build_model_from_config, load_checkpoint, FlowMatcher, and ProteinWaterDataset,
then invokes the wiring path and asserts the expected forwarded keyword
arguments. Keep the existing sample_batch-based tests unchanged.

scripts/cache_candidates.py (1)

218-218: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider seeding per structure for resumable determinism.

The seed is set once before the batched loop. Skipped structures change the number of RNG draws, so a resumed run samples different priors than a fresh run for the same structure. A per-structure seed derived from seed and the cache key keeps candidates reproducible across resumes.

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In `@scripts/cache_candidates.py` at line 218, Update the sampling loop in
scripts/cache_candidates.py to derive and apply a deterministic seed per
structure from the base seed and cache key, rather than seeding only once before
the batch loop. Ensure skipped structures do not alter the RNG state used for
other structures, preserving identical candidate priors between fresh and
resumed runs.

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Inline comments:
In `@scripts/cache_candidates.py`:
- Around line 105-108: Update the candidate tensor creation in the sample_batch
loop to detach water_pred and move it to CPU before torch.save, ensuring saved
candidate_pos tensors are device-independent and do not retain autograd graphs.
- Around line 220-228: Update the sample_batch call to run_inference_batch to
pass the recorded self-conditioning setting as use_sc, using
config.get("use_self_cond", False). Also record the same resolved value in
run_info, while preserving the existing batch inference arguments.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@scripts/cache_candidates.py`:
- Line 218: Update the sampling loop in scripts/cache_candidates.py to derive
and apply a deterministic seed per structure from the base seed and cache key,
rather than seeding only once before the batch loop. Ensure skipped structures
do not alter the RNG state used for other structures, preserving identical
candidate priors between fresh and resumed runs.

In `@tests/test_cache_candidates.py`:
- Around line 44-97: Add a focused test for generate_candidate_cache that
monkeypatches run_inference_batch, load_config, build_model_from_config,
load_checkpoint, FlowMatcher, and ProteinWaterDataset, then invokes the wiring
path and asserts the expected forwarded keyword arguments. Keep the existing
sample_batch-based tests unchanged.

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