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Problem:

When setting up timestep scheduling, start_percent evaluates to different steps depending on the node and model setup.

Every node that uses start_percent converts with percent_to_sigma, but ControlNet, ConditioningSetTimestepRange and hooks compare the float32 sigma tensor directly, while SLG, the LTX guidance nodes, Uni3C and SparseAttention call .item() first and compare in float64. This can result in the evaluations either including or excluding steps that evaluate to the bound exactly (which is pretty common).

Here's a very common setup where it fails often:
Flow model, shift 8, simple scheduler, 8 steps, start_percent 0.5.
ControlNet runs 4 steps, SparseAttention runs 3.
(see top part of image below)

Many models have step-distill versions at 4 or 8 steps so one step is a big chunk of the effect, and which shifts hit it is a rounding coin flip (6, 8, 10, 12 do, 5, 7, 9 don't). It also makes more sense if someone sets the start_percent to 0.5 for half of the steps to be include. Right now only some nodes and shift settings may result in that outcome.

The fix in this PR is to round the result of percent_to_sigma through float32 so every site compares the same two numbers.

percent_8steps_B

The PR also makes EasyCache's end bound inclusive to match every other site, and switches HiDream O1's seam smoothing node to gate on the raw sigma instead of the x1000 timestep, which was scaling the two sides in different precisions.

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This only really applies to the simple scheduler, which matches the expected timesteps of the model modified by shift. ComfyUI has no awareness of the actual sigmas being used so any other schedule may not conform to this mechanism but this change does make every node behave in the same way so one could predict the exact percentage needed reliably with prior knowledge of the schedule.

Update 2026-09-29

I made a stupidly over-complicated tool to visualize how this PR makes timestep scheduling consistent compared to core. It uses github actions to actually pull the two checkouts and runs the nodes to make a database of the real values, which the page accesses as a database.
https://drozbay.github.io/percent-gate-explorer
https://github.com/drozbay/percent-gate-explorer

Update 2026-09-24

  • Start/end windows are now all at [start, end) at every site: the step at start_percent runs, the step at end_percent doesn't. This means end_percent = 0.95 for 20 steps stops at step 19/20. Before it would round up and through step 20/20.
  • HiDream O1 seam smoothing keeps its original timestep gate and converts its bounds with model_sampling.timestep(), instead of reading transformer_options["sigmas"].
  • The EDM percent_to_sigma is left as it is on master, it didn't need the rounding.

This only changes behavior on flow models when a step lands exactly on a percent, which mostly happens with the simple scheduler. For example, BlockSparseAttention on MiniMax H3 with the simple scheduler at its default start_percent=0.2 now runs one more sparse step at 5, 10 and 20 steps:

Steps Before (sparse steps) After (sparse steps)
4 1–3 1–3
5 2–4 1–4
8 2–7 2–7
10 3–9 2–9
20 5–19 4–19

Test workflow

It's hard to come up with a good test for this since it's subtle to see the effects of 1 or 2 steps difference even in low-step workflows. I had Claude come up with a test that showed clearly that the STG and ConditioningSetTimestepRange nodes behave differently before the PR and the same after the PR, and that setting the exact fraction value for the steps only works as expected after the PR. See the workflow below and look through the provided note to understand what you're seeing.

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Percent-to-sigma methods now apply their configured sigma transforms and return scalar values. HiDream seam smoothing converts sigma bounds to timesteps and excludes the end timestep from blending. The conditioning range helper now uses exact boundaries for half-open ranges. Several control, solver, guidance, and model patch checks also change how they handle exact sigma or timestep endpoints.


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Learning: In the ComfyUI sampling pipeline, treat percent_to_sigma(0.0) as a sentinel value (999999999.9) that means starting from pure noise. This is consistent with BasicScheduler via calculate_sigmas. The SamplingPercentToSigma node’s return_actual_sigma flag differentiates this sentinel from sigma_max. Reviewers should not flag CurveToSigmas or similar nodes that rely on percent_to_sigma as bugs; downstream samplers are expected to handle the sentinel correctly. When reviewing related sampling-related code, assume this sentinel semantics unless there is explicit handling for a real sigma_max.

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@alexisrolland Just a nudge to let you know this exists and has gotten kj approval after some revisions. It's worth getting in sooner so that consistency with timestepping can be established before workflow behavior really starts diverging.

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Shouldn't end be inclusive?

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Shouldn't end be inclusive?

The exclusive end just prevents the schedule from running the last step when the end_percent is exactly equal to the value that would give you the penultimate step. Like setting it to 0.95 for 20 steps would make it run through the last step without ending if it was inclusive.

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