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Align KumoForecast input preparation with the Kumo-TS SDK - #1338
KumoForecast now replaces raw NaNs with zeros before preprocessing, matching the original Kumo-TS SDK. Short histories are left-padded with raw zeros before preprocessing so they match caller-padded SDK inputs.
Description of the change
Apply the same preparation to target series and historical covariates before the frozen global standardizer and RevIN compute their inputs. Remove the previous attention-mask changes: leading patches participate in attention as in the original SDK.
For example, a 72-step history is equivalent to the same history preceded by 440 raw zeros; NaNs in either target or covariate values are equivalent to caller-supplied raw zeros. The original SDK itself requires at least 512 steps, so padding short histories remains an SDM extension.
This aligns missing-value and padding semantics; it does not promise bitwise-identical predictions or change the existing forecast-horizon capabilities, DARR policy, or numerical kernels.
Validation
Final validation on current main (3d24f3e): all 96 existing forecast and attention tests passed across CPU and CUDA. Pre-commit hooks for the changed files, including Ruff and ty, passed.
Public inference comparisons use the unchanged original Kumo-TS SDK revision af74798bbf7d020d3298f545fb9be383560a18ce and nvidia/Kumo-Forecast checkpoint revision abff20a58834638b28227ff4ab934f26206e4b09 (run8_best_model_cr.pt). The original MOMENT backbone is pinned to AutonLab/MOMENT-1-large revision ca58581bc7bea2ebed4e80dc0a3e4b8b609c6ecc. See the accompanying local validation report for direct SDK differences and exact comparisons against manually prepared SDM inputs.
Direct comparison: 17 real GIFT-Eval contexts, 1416 forecast values, including short histories, natural NaNs, combined short/missing contexts, and complete inputs. Every automatic-preparation SDM forecast exactly matched SDM with manually zero-padded/zero-imputed input. Against the unchanged SDK, maximum per-context relative RMSE was 0.0018369712 (0.1837%). These are numerical-tolerance results, not bitwise prediction parity. The full 97-configuration benchmark has not been rerun for this change.
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Missing values in forecast context histories are replaced with zero before standardization.
Histories shorter than the model’s context size are left-padded with zeros, while retaining their column names.
Tensor-based target histories are supported alongside table-based inputs.
Forecast outputs remain consistent across histories with missing values or varying lengths.
KumoForecast now converts tensor y_context inputs to TableTensor, zero-imputes missing values in both context histories, and left-pads histories shorter than the model context size. A new test checks output parity across history lengths and missing-value patterns.
Changes: Forecast history preparation
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Prepare histories before encoding sdm/models/kumo/timeseries/forecast/model.py, test/models/kumo/timeseries/forecast/test_model.py
forward converts tensor y_context inputs to TableTensor and prepares both context tables. Preparation replaces NaNs with zero and left-pads histories shorter than the model context size. _forward no longer adds NaN padding. The test checks output parity, target columns, and finite results.
Processing cleanups #105 — This change defines zero-imputation for KumoForecast histories. It does not define a global NaN-processing strategy.
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 6221b
The new input preparation can fail or silently change results for short histories without covariates, with mixed-type covariates, after context callbacks, or when a custom imputation recipe is used. Mismatched x and y history lengths can also pass unnoticed. The common default path should work, but these cases should be fixed before merge.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 6221b
The change alters how missing values and short histories affect forecasts. No new access or privilege path was demonstrated in the reviewed code, but compatibility with external integrations and deployed exposure remains unverified.
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inferred — The demonstrated changed exposure is the forecast invocation and its numerical preprocessing consumers. The inspected changes do not establish broader tenant, service, credential, or data-store authority; deployment-level exposure remains unknown.
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inferred — Caller-controlled forecast values remain data passed through the existing table and base-model interfaces. Earlier normalization changes their numerical meaning, but the inspected path does not introduce execution of input values, a principal transition, or a bypass of an identified security control.
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365-365: Minor · Performance & Scalability · Quick win
Remove the tensor-dependent Python branch.
patch_mask.any() causes a CUDA synchronization on every GPU encode. If a caller wraps this model in torch.compile, the same tensor-dependent branch can also cause a graph break, including when the mask is all-False. ICLBlock treats an all-False mask and None identically, so pass the tensor mask directly.
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- if not patch_mask.any(): # Pay for device sync here:- patch_mask = None-
x = self.revin(x, mean, scale)
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Remove the tensor-dependent patch_mask.any() branch in the model encode flow and
pass patch_mask directly to ICLBlock; preserve the existing mask handling
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- Line 82: Update the bias construction around patch_mask and masked_fill so it
does not materialize the full batch-sized bias before TransformerBlock applies
its batch limit; build the masked bias per chunk or keep the mask compact until
attention, preserving the existing masking semantics.
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- Line 365: Remove the tensor-dependent patch_mask.any() branch in the model
encode flow and pass patch_mask directly to ICLBlock; preserve the existing mask
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756-758: Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win
Use keyword arguments in the multi-line _chunk call.
The repository style rule requires keyword arguments in multi-line calls. This call passes all five arguments by position. Name each argument to match the _chunk signature.
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Update the multi-line _chunk call in the key_padding_mask argument to use
keyword arguments for all five parameters, matching the _chunk signature;
preserve the existing values and behavior.
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Pass outputs and inputs as keyword arguments in the torch.autograd.grad calls.
Both new multi-line torch.autograd.grad calls pass outputs and inputs positionally. The repository rule requires keyword arguments in multi-line calls. This change does not alter the gradients or the assertions.
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Update both torch.autograd.grad calls for expected_grad and actual_grad to pass
outputs and inputs as keyword arguments, preserving retain_graph and the
existing gradient behavior.
Check that masked keys do not change unmasked outputs.
The test checks only output shape, dtype, and device. It still passes if patch_mask is not forwarded or its polarity is inverted. Perturbing only the masked inputs and comparing outputs at unmasked positions detects both regressions.
Clone the input before the first call. In no-grad mode, ICLBlock.forward can write into x, so a clone made afterward would not match the original input.
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x = torch.randn(2, length, 32, device=device)
patch_mask = None
if masked:
patch_mask = torch.zeros(2, length, dtype=torch.bool, device=device)
patch_mask[:, :3] = True
+ x_perturbed = x.clone()+ x_perturbed[patch_mask] += torch.randn_like(x_perturbed[patch_mask])
with torch.no_grad():
out = model(x, patch_mask=patch_mask)
assert out.size() == (2, length, 32)
assert out.dtype == x.dtype
assert out.device == device
++ if masked:+ with torch.no_grad():+ out_perturbed = model(x_perturbed, patch_mask=patch_mask)+ torch.testing.assert_close(out_perturbed[~patch_mask], out[~patch_mask])
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Update the test around the model call to verify masked-input invariance: when
masked, clone x before the first call, perturb only positions selected by
patch_mask in the clone, and compare outputs at unmasked positions using the
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- Around line 831-832: Update the _forward mask construction so that when
is_causal=True and key_padding_mask is provided, attn_mask combines padding and
causal constraints and the attention call uses is_causal=False. Preserve
upper-left causal alignment for non-square query and key shapes, broadcast the
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- Around line 756-758: Update the multi-line _chunk call in the key_padding_mask
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- Line 39: Update the test around the model call to verify masked-input
invariance: when masked, clone x before the first call, perturb only positions
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PyTorch 2.7 torch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention is_causal attn_mask both specified error
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- pytorch/aten/src/ATen/native/transformers/attention.cpp at v2.7.0 · pytorch/pytorch · GitHub — https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/v2.7.0/aten/src/ATen/native/transformers/attention.cpp
- torch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention — PyTorch 2.7 documentation — https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/2.7/generated/torch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention.html
- scaled_dot_product_attention: no error raised when attn_mask and is_causal are both set · Issue #187801 · pytorch/pytorch · GitHub — GitHub issue 187801 in pytorch/pytorch (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- torch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention — PyTorch 2.14 documentation — https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention
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Combine causal and padding constraints in one mask when is_causal=True.
When a caller sets is_causal=True and passes key_padding_mask, _forward creates attn_mask (lines 831-836). The attention wrapper then passes that mask and is_causal=True to F.scaled_dot_product_attention. In PyTorch 2.7, the math backend rejects an explicit attn_mask when is_causal=True, so calls that select this backend can fail.
Build one mask that contains both the causal and padding constraints, and pass is_causal=False for this case. The causal part must follow the wrapper's upper-left alignment for non-square query and key shapes. The final mask must broadcast to [..., Hq, Q, KV]. Combine bool masks with &. For float masks, mark excluded and non-causal positions with -inf.
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Update the _forward mask construction so that when is_causal=True and
key_padding_mask is provided, attn_mask combines padding and causal constraints
and the attention call uses is_causal=False. Preserve upper-left causal
alignment for non-square query and key shapes, broadcast the resulting mask to
[..., Hq, Q, KV], combine boolean masks with &, and use -inf for excluded
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Preserve row-count validation before padding.
If x_context has 37 rows and y_context has 100 rows, both become 512-row tables. The downstream _validate_context then accepts the mismatched inputs. Historical covariates and targets become silently misaligned.
Check that the original row dimensions match before padding. As per coding guidelines, add a runtime check when a bad value could be “silently accepted with wrong semantics.”
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Review comment at @sdm/models/kumo/timeseries/forecast/model.py around lines 177 - 178:
In the context preparation flow, validate that the original row counts of x_context and y_context match before calling _prepare_history on either input; reject mismatched inputs so padding cannot make them appear aligned to _validate_context.
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- Line 177: Update the _forward flow to reapply padding after context callbacks
when they shorten the processed histories, ensuring both histories remain
aligned and meet self.model.context_size before patch unflattening. Preserve the
existing validation and padding behavior for histories that are not shortened.
- Around line 178-180: Update the padding logic for numerical history so a short
tensor with zero covariate columns is handled without calling
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existing padding behavior for tensors with covariate columns.
- Line 176: Update the preprocessing around numerical.masked_fill so zero
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- Around line 183-188: Update the short-history padding logic that constructs
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Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift
Retain padding after context callbacks.
A context callback can shorten both processed histories after this padding step. The base validation accepts matching shortened histories, but _forward no longer pads them: a 100-row result fails during patch unflattening. Handle shortened histories after callbacks as well. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the _forward flow to reapply padding after context callbacks when they shorten the processed histories, ensuring both histories remain aligned and meet self.model.context_size before patch unflattening. Preserve the existing validation and padding behavior for histories that are not shortened.
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Preserve non-numerical blocks during padding.
For a short history with both numerical and categorical covariates, this constructor retains the categorical column names but supplies no categorical block. TableTensor raises before a custom recipe such as ToNumerical can convert those covariates. Pad and retain the other blocks as well. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the short-history padding logic that constructs context_tables[i] with TableTensor so it pads and supplies the non-numerical blocks alongside numerical, keeping each block aligned with its column names. Preserve categorical covariates through construction so custom recipes such as ToNumerical can process them.
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Summary
KumoForecast now replaces raw NaNs with zeros before preprocessing, matching the original Kumo-TS SDK. Short histories are left-padded with raw zeros before preprocessing so they match caller-padded SDK inputs.
Description of the change
Apply the same preparation to target series and historical covariates before the frozen global standardizer and RevIN compute their inputs. Remove the previous attention-mask changes: leading patches participate in attention as in the original SDK.
For example, a 72-step history is equivalent to the same history preceded by 440 raw zeros; NaNs in either target or covariate values are equivalent to caller-supplied raw zeros. The original SDK itself requires at least 512 steps, so padding short histories remains an SDM extension.
This aligns missing-value and padding semantics; it does not promise bitwise-identical predictions or change the existing forecast-horizon capabilities, DARR policy, or numerical kernels.
Validation
Final validation on current main (3d24f3e): all 96 existing forecast and attention tests passed across CPU and CUDA. Pre-commit hooks for the changed files, including Ruff and ty, passed.
Public inference comparisons use the unchanged original Kumo-TS SDK revision af74798bbf7d020d3298f545fb9be383560a18ce and nvidia/Kumo-Forecast checkpoint revision abff20a58834638b28227ff4ab934f26206e4b09 (run8_best_model_cr.pt). The original MOMENT backbone is pinned to AutonLab/MOMENT-1-large revision ca58581bc7bea2ebed4e80dc0a3e4b8b609c6ecc. See the accompanying local validation report for direct SDK differences and exact comparisons against manually prepared SDM inputs.
Direct comparison: 17 real GIFT-Eval contexts, 1416 forecast values, including short histories, natural NaNs, combined short/missing contexts, and complete inputs. Every automatic-preparation SDM forecast exactly matched SDM with manually zero-padded/zero-imputed input. Against the unchanged SDK, maximum per-context relative RMSE was 0.0018369712 (0.1837%). These are numerical-tolerance results, not bitwise prediction parity. The full 97-configuration benchmark has not been rerun for this change.