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Adds cuml.accel acceleration for sklearn.ensemble.IsolationForest, closes #8468.

The proxy follows the existing RandomForest pattern in this file. Fit attribute conversion back to CPU is not yet supported for a GPU fitted IsolationForest (tracked separately in #8420), so offset_, max_samples_, estimators_, estimators_features_, and estimators_samples_ are listed in _not_implemented_attributes and raise a friendly AttributeError instead of the raw UnsupportedOnCPU that would otherwise surface from _sync_attrs_to_cpu.

fit, fit_predict, predict, decision_function, and score_samples each validate input before dispatching to the GPU and convert non finite or sparse input into UnsupportedOnGPU so those cases fall back to CPU instead of crashing, since cuML's IsolationForest requires dense, finite input internally.

Added integration tests covering proxy identity, fit/predict/decision_function/score_samples parity against sklearn, the not implemented attribute error path, pickling after a GPU fit, and the NaN/sparse fallback behavior. Also updated compatibility.rst with the new estimator's limitations.

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  • New Features

    • Added GPU-accelerated support for scikit-learn’s IsolationForest, including fitting, predictions, decision functions, and score samples.
    • Documented CPU fallback conditions and limitations when converting GPU-fitted models to CPU estimators.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Added clear handling for invalid or unsupported inputs through CPU fallback.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage comparing accelerated results with scikit-learn and validating outlier predictions and unsupported model attributes.

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IsolationForest acceleration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Proxy contract and GPU execution
python/cuml/cuml/accel/_overrides/sklearn/ensemble.py
Exports IsolationForest, validates inputs, and forwards fit, prediction, decision-function, and score-samples operations to cuML.
Integration behavior and compatibility limits
python/cuml/cuml_accel_tests/integration/test_isolation_forest.py, docs/source/cuml-accel/compatibility.rst
Tests GPU and CPU behavior, valid prediction labels, GPU initialization, and unsupported fitted attributes. Documents fallback conditions and conversion limitations.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 909c9

The IsolationForest acceleration change is merge-ready after normal checks; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains. A localized export-order lint cleanup is the only noted follow-up.

Suggested reviewers: betatim

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the addition of cuml.accel support for sklearn.ensemble.IsolationForest.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #8468 by adding the IsolationForest proxy, GPU fit and predict dispatch, tests, and documentation.
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- Around line 108-112: Update _sync_attrs_to_cpu so UnsupportedOnCPU is not
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Thanks for taking this on. A few immediate change requests before we can move forward.

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try:
super()._sync_attrs_to_cpu()
except UnsupportedOnCPU:
self._synced = True

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I'd argue that fitted-model synchronization is a requirement for cuml.accel support. Setting _synced = True here leaves the CPU estimator unfitted, so fitted-attribute access, post-fit CPU fallback, and pickling do not have the state that the proxy contract expects.

We should either implement cuML to scikit-learn synchronization as part of this PR or block this PR on the conversion work that @JulienAu offered to take on (see #8468 (comment)).

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Yes, I'm taking the cuML -> scikit-learn conversion on #8420, and I'd suggest blocking on it rather than duplicating a partial sync here, so cuml.accel gets the real fitted state (attribute access, post-fit CPU fallback, and pickling) once, in one place.

I've already prototyped it end to end against the 26.08 nightly, and the parity is exact: reconstructing the sklearn trees from the Treelite export gives score_samples within ~1e-7 of the cuML model and 100% predict agreement across default, max_features, contamination, and bootstrap configs, and the converted estimator pickles and re-scores identically (which would also let check_estimators_pickle pass through conversion). The one wrinkle is that the Treelite export leaves data_count unpopulated, so I recover per-node sample counts by inverting leaf_value = depth + average_path_length(n); it's exact for realistic max_samples.

That's the open design question I raised on #8420, and it's really the maintainers' call: (1) ship the pure-Python reconstruction now against the current export, or (2) populate data_count in the C++ Treelite export first and read counts directly (cleaner, touches the C++ layer). I lean toward (2) as the robust path but can deliver (1) immediately. @csadorf @betatim which would you prefer? Happy to open the PR as soon as the direction is settled.

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Thanks, this sounds good. As noted in #8420 (comment), my suggestion is to move forward immediately with the pure-Python reconstruction and follow up separately by populating data_count in the Treelite export.

I agree that this PR should block on that conversion rather than adding partial fitted-state synchronization here.

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The fitted-model conversion this PR blocks on is up: #8483. Once it lands, the partial-sync workaround here can be dropped and the proxy gets real fitted state through the standard sync path.

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Add proxy-dispatch coverage for IsolationForest.

Native cuML tests cover fit_predict, decision_function, and score_samples, but no accelerator integration tests cover the sklearn.ensemble.IsolationForest proxy. Add proxy tests for these methods, sparse and non-finite CPU fallback, and GPU-fitted pickle failure.

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In `@python/cuml/cuml_accel_tests/integration/test_isolation_forest.py` around
lines 25 - 53, Extend the IsolationForest accelerator integration tests around
test_isolation_forest_fit_predict_agreement to cover proxy dispatch for
fit_predict, decision_function, and score_samples, plus sparse-input and
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- Around line 52-53: Update the test around the IsolationForest result’s offset_
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pytest.raises(ValueError, match="not supported") assertion.

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In `@python/cuml/cuml_accel_tests/integration/test_isolation_forest.py`:
- Around line 25-53: Extend the IsolationForest accelerator integration tests
around test_isolation_forest_fit_predict_agreement to cover proxy dispatch for
fit_predict, decision_function, and score_samples, plus sparse-input and
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Sort __all__ to satisfy RUF022.

Ruff reports that the export tuple is not sorted. Use alphabetical order.

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 __all__ = (
-    "RandomForestRegressor",
-    "RandomForestClassifier",
     "IsolationForest",
+    "RandomForestClassifier",
+    "RandomForestRegressor",
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Closes #8479. Contributes to #8420 (fitted-model conversion) and unblocks the `cuml.accel` proxy in #8477, which is waiting on fitted-state synchronization.

## What this does

Implements `IsolationForest._attrs_to_cpu`, so `as_sklearn()` and the `InteropMixin` sync path produce a fully functional fitted `sklearn.ensemble.IsolationForest` from a fitted cuML model.

The tree structure comes from `treelite.sklearn.export_model` on the model's existing Treelite bytes, following the same route `RandomForest*._attrs_to_cpu` already uses. The isolation-forest-specific part is the per-node sample counts, which sklearn's scoring requires and the Treelite export does not carry: every leaf value is `depth + average_path_length(n_samples)`, so the integer count is recovered by inverting sklearn's own `_average_path_length`. Internal counts are bottom-up sums, and each tree's root count must equal `max_samples_`, which validates every inversion in the tree at once.

Per the review guidance on #8420, the inversion fails loudly instead of guessing: a value matching no integer count, or more than one within tolerance (adjacent counts separate by roughly `2 / n`, so this can only happen for very large `max_samples`), raises a `ValueError` that names the problem.

## Acceptance criteria from #8479

- `as_sklearn()` succeeds on a fitted model: covered by `test_as_sklearn_scoring_parity` and siblings.
- `score_samples` parity: max abs diff ~1.7e-7 on float32 fits, ~2e-16 on float64 fits.
- Prediction agreement across default, `max_features`, `contamination`, and `bootstrap` configurations: 100% in all four parametrized cases.
- Fitted attributes and sklearn fit caches populated: verified against the attribute set a native sklearn fit creates. `_seeds` and `_n_samples` are deliberately not set because cuML does not record per-tree sample indices, so `estimators_samples_` raises instead of returning wrong indices; this is documented in the class docstring and asserted in tests.
- Pickle round trip of the converted estimator: identical scores and predictions.
- `cuml.accel` synchronization: `test_sync_attrs_to_cpu_populates_target` exercises the exact `_sync_attrs_to_cpu` path the proxy uses.
- Ambiguous count reconstruction fails clearly: negative, no-match, and ambiguous values each raise with a distinct message (`test_invert_average_path_length_fails_loudly`).

The reverse fitted sklearn to cuML conversion and populating `data_count` in the Treelite export stay follow-up work, as agreed on #8420.

## Verification

I do not have a local CUDA toolchain to compile the modified `.pyx`, so local validation extracts the exact helper and method source from the modified file, executes it against the current `cuml-cu13==26.08.00a171` nightly on a GTX 1650 Ti (WSL2), and runs the full `test_isolation_forest.py` suite that way: 96 tests pass, including the 12 new conversion tests, with zero regressions. `cython-lint` is clean and `ruff check` / `ruff format` (0.14.3) pass on the test file; remaining ruff findings on the `.pyx` are pre-existing on `main`.

Edge cases validated on GPU: constant-input degenerate trees (exact parity), float64 fits (parity at machine precision), `feature_names_in_` transfer from DataFrame fits, and exact count inversion up to `n = 5000`.

Authors:
  -  Julien Audibert (https://github.com/JulienAu)

Approvers:
  - Philip Hyunsu Cho (https://github.com/chyunsu3)
  - Simon Adorf (https://github.com/csadorf)

URL: #8483
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