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The Kumo prior uses tail warping to generate skewed and heavy-tailed numerical data. Add a reusable WarpTails processor with generator-controlled fitted randomness, sampled directly in the processor.

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  • New Features
    • Added a numerical data processor that applies configurable power or exponential transformations to selected columns, while leaving other values unchanged.
    • Added uniform and log-uniform random sampling utilities for generating numeric values.
    • Made the numerical processor available through the public processing interface.

Adds uniform and log-uniform tensor sampling helpers. Adds and exports WarpTails, which fits per-column warp parameters and transforms selected numerical columns. Tests check transformation properties and the shared processor contract.

Changes: Numerical tail warping

Layer / File(s) Summary
Tensor sampling helpers
sdm/processing/_random.py
Adds uniform and log_uniform helpers with shape, device, dtype, and optional generator parameters.
WarpTails fitting and transformation
sdm/processing/numerical/warp.py, sdm/processing/numerical/__init__.py, sdm/processing/__init__.py, test/processing/numerical/test_warp.py, test/processing/test_contract.py
Adds WarpTails with sampled power and exponential transforms for selected columns. Exports the processor through both processing packages. Adds transformation and shared contract tests.

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WarpTails can taint gradients at zero-valued inputs and silently select the wrong columns for invalid probabilities. These are bounded edge cases with localized fixes; merge risk is low, with owner follow-up warranted.

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37-37: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject invalid selection probabilities.

If probability exceeds 1, every column is selected; if it is negative or NaN, no column is selected. These invalid values silently produce a different transformation. Validate that probability is finite and lies in [0, 1] during construction.

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Review comment at @sdm/processing/numerical/warp.py at line 37:
In the constructor that assigns self.probability, validate that probability is
finite and within the inclusive range [0, 1] before storing it; reject values
outside that range, including NaN.

80-80: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Mask inactive inputs before the power map.

The public processor API preserves autograd, so direct callers can pass gradient-enabled tensors. When an inactive input is zero and a < 1, the unselected pow branch can contribute a NaN gradient through torch.where. This is a narrow edge case, not a major model-path failure: repository model preprocessing runs under inference_mode, and EnableInputGradients enables gradients only after preprocessing.

Mask inactive magnitudes before pow, and add a zero-input gradient test.

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         x = table.numerical
         magnitude = x.abs()
+        safe_magnitude = torch.where(
+            self.power,
+            magnitude,
+            torch.ones_like(magnitude),
+        )
         a, b = self.column_exponent.unbind(-3)
-        skewed = torch.where(x >= 0, magnitude.pow(a), -magnitude.pow(b))
+        skewed = torch.where(
+            x >= 0,
+            safe_magnitude.pow(a),
+            -safe_magnitude.pow(b),
+        )
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Review comment at @sdm/processing/numerical/warp.py at line 80:
In the numerical warp’s power-map logic, mask inactive magnitudes before
applying either exponent so zero inputs with gradient-enabled tensors cannot
produce NaN gradients when an exponent is below one; add a test that verifies
the zero-input gradient is finite.

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Review comments at @sdm/processing/numerical/warp.py:
- Line 37: In the constructor that assigns self.probability, validate that
probability is finite and within the inclusive range [0, 1] before storing it;
reject values outside that range, including NaN.
- Line 80: In the numerical warp’s power-map logic, mask inactive magnitudes
before applying either exponent so zero inputs with gradient-enabled tensors
cannot produce NaN gradients when an exponent is below one; add a test that
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