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Split from #996 to keep each review focused on one behavior or optimization.

Compute Standardize, ClipSigma and PowerTransform statistics with fewer full-size temporaries: find finite values without an abs() copy, count them without an int64 copy of the mask, and reuse counts instead of recomputing them through nanmean.

Find Yeo-Johnson bounds before allocating the PowerTransform workspaces, and reduce transform temporaries in Standardize, ClipSoft and RobustScale. Keep out-of-place operations where needed for gradients.

Independent of the other memory PRs split from #996; numerical chunking builds on this. Related to #994.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved handling of NaN and infinite values across standardization, scaling, clipping, and power transforms.
    • Updated statistical calculations to use finite values more consistently, improving results when inputs contain non-finite values.
    • Clipping continues to preserve NaNs and map infinite values to the applicable bounds.
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    • Added coverage for standardizing data containing NaN and positive infinity values.

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Numerical preprocessing now uses shared finite-value checks, updated finite-value statistics, and in-place operations in several transforms. A new test checks Standardize output for data containing NaNs and positive infinities.

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Numerical preprocessing

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Finite-value statistics and validation
sdm/processing/numerical/_stats.py, sdm/processing/numerical/sigma_clip.py, sdm/processing/numerical/standardize.py, test/processing/numerical/test_standardize.py
ClipSigma and Standardize use finite-value counts and sums for fitting statistics. The test compares Standardize output with normalization based on finite-value statistics.
Power transform statistics and bounds
sdm/processing/numerical/power.py
Power-transform likelihood and fitting statistics use sums divided by counts. Lambda bounds are adjusted before search workspace allocation.
Clipping and scaling paths
sdm/processing/numerical/clip_soft.py, sdm/processing/numerical/robust_scale.py
ClipSoft computes clipping intermediates in place and replaces non-finite roots. RobustScale uses the shared finite-value helper and in-place transform arithmetic.

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51-57: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve floating-point promotion before the in-place multiply.

An integer numerical block can be passed directly to TableTensor. In the no-gradient branch, numerical.sign() remains integer, so .mul_(bound) attempts to store a floating-point result in an integer tensor and can raise a dtype-cast error. The previous out-of-place multiplication promoted the result and succeeded.

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-        clipped = numerical.sign().mul_(bound).mul_(unit)
+        clipped = numerical.sign() * bound
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Update the no-gradient clipping path in the function containing `clipped` to
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JingangQu and others added 2 commits September 29, 2026 11:33
- Find finite values without an `abs()` copy and count them without an
  int64 copy of the mask, and compute Standardize, ClipSigma and
  PowerTransform statistics with fewer full-size temporaries.
- Find the Yeo-Johnson bounds before allocating the PowerTransform
  workspaces.
- Transform in Standardize, ClipSoft and RobustScale with fewer
  temporaries, keeping out-of-place ops where gradients are required.

Signed-off-by: Jingang Qu <jqu@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Cedric Lorenz <clorenz@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Matthias Fey <matthias.fey@tu-dortmund.de>
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Avoid mutating finite_or_nan during gradient-tracked fitting.

Processor.fit does not disable gradients. When fitting with a gradient-tracked tensor, nansum can retain finite_or_nan for backward, and sub_ can invalidate that saved tensor. Use out-of-place subtraction when gradients are enabled.

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-        var = finite_or_nan.sub_(self.mean).square_().nansum(-2, keepdim=True)
+        centered = (
+            finite_or_nan.sub(self.mean)
+            if torch.is_grad_enabled()
+            else finite_or_nan.sub_(self.mean)
+        )
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Restore the NaN fallback for post-transform statistics.

A finite float32 column containing -torch.finfo(torch.float32).max and +torch.finfo(torch.float32).max can reach this path. The raw variance overflows, so _constant_feature_mask selects lambda = 1.0. The transform then produces opposite-sign infinities.

The base code replaces the NaN mean with zero. Its final constant-feature mask sets the scale to 1.0. The head keeps the NaN mean, computes a zero variance from the all-NaN centered values, and leaves the scale at 0.0. Thus the head changes the fitted parameters; it does not fail identically to the base code.

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             del finite_or_nan
             mean = transformed.nansum(dim=-2, keepdim=True).div_(count)
+            mean.masked_fill_(mean.isnan(), 0.0)
             var = transformed.sub_(mean).square_().nansum(-2, keepdim=True)
             var /= count
+            var.masked_fill_(var.isnan(), 0.0)
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Restore NaN fallbacks in the post-transform statistics: after computing mean
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