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closes #18315

data_profile::set_distribution_params stored parameters in the map selected by the type of the passed bounds, while get_distribution_params reads the map selected by the generated column type. A call such as .distribution(cudf::type_id::FLOAT64, distribution_id::UNIFORM, 0, 100) with integer bounds therefore wrote into int_params and was never read back, so generation silently used that type's default profile instead. For a double column that default is a normal distribution over roughly +/-8.98e307, which is exactly what the issue reports.

Each target type is now routed to the map its getter actually reads, with bounds converted to that parameter type:

  • integer bounds on floating-point and fixed-point columns are converted,
  • floating bounds on integer, chrono, string-length and list-length targets are rounded through helpers that clamp to the representable range and map NaN to zero,
  • calls whose bounds type already matches the column type take the same branches as before,
  • STRUCT and DICTIONARY32 have no range parameters and still ignore the call.

The parameter getters are defined in generate_input.cu but are now called from other translation units by the new tests, so they get explicit instantiations.

Two notes for reviewers:

  1. The cardinality imbalance shown in the issue's int32 experiment is separate from this bug. It comes from the default avg_run_length = 4, which intentionally produces runs of repeated values (measured: 12/20/24 zeros out of 100 rows across seeds at cardinality 2 with the default; 46/53/51 with .avg_run_length(1)). That behavior is unchanged here; benchmarks wanting uniform coverage should set .avg_run_length(1).
  2. Benchmarks that passed mismatched bounds types will now see the distribution they asked for. For example stream_compaction/unique.cpp requests UNIFORM(0, 781) for a float column and previously got the default normal distribution; its numbers will move.

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  • I am familiar with the Contributing Guidelines.
  • New or existing tests cover these changes.
  • The documentation is up to date with these changes.

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Reproduction against libcudf 26.10.00a302 (conda nightly, CUDA 12.9, RTX 5060 Ti sm_120), using the snippet from the issue:

before: double params (int bounds 0..100): id=1 lower=-8.98847e+307 upper=8.98847e+307
        double column from int bounds: 100 values, 100 outside [0, 100]
          first five: -8.98847e+307 -1.9008e+307 5.82371e+306 5.82371e+306 5.82371e+306
        => FAIL
        int32 params (double bounds 0..100): id=1 lower=-1.07374e+09 upper=1.07374e+09
        int32 column from double bounds: 100 outside [0, 100] => FAIL

after:  double params (int bounds 0..100): id=0 lower=0 upper=100
        double column from int bounds: 100 values, 0 outside [0, 100]
        => PASS
        int32 params (double bounds 0..100): id=0 lower=0 upper=100
        int32 column from double bounds: 0 outside [0, 100] => PASS

The before-values match the issue report byte for byte.

  • clang-format --dry-run --Werror on all touched C++ files: pass
  • cmake-format with cpp/cmake/config.json plus the rapids-cmake config on the new CMakeLists block: formatting unchanged
  • nvcc -c compile of the new test translation unit against gtest/gmock and libcudf 26.10 headers: pass
  • The full new gtest suite (GENERATE_INPUT_TEST) was not executed locally because it requires a full libcudf build; CI will run it.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved benchmark input generation when distribution bounds use different numeric types.
    • Added safer conversion, clamping, and saturation for floating-point, fixed-point, integral, timestamp, string-length, and list-length data.
    • Ensured generated values remain within supported type and length limits, including decimal and wide integer ranges.
    • Preserved appropriate behavior for struct and dictionary data.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for bound conversion, clamping, saturation, overflow handling, and supported data types.

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The benchmark input generator now clamps distribution bounds to target-specific ranges. Explicit template instantiations and tests cover numeric, temporal, decimal, string, list, and numeric-group profiles.

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Benchmark input bound conversion

Layer / File(s) Summary
Target-specific bound saturation
cpp/benchmarks/common/generate_input.hpp
Adds representation-range helpers. Integral and floating-point conversions now clamp bounds for numeric, timestamp, duration, decimal, string, and list targets. Struct and dictionary targets are skipped.
Distribution parameter instantiations
cpp/benchmarks/common/generate_input.cu
Adds the cudf timestamp wrapper and explicit data_profile::get_distribution_params instantiations for supported target types.
Build and behavior validation
cpp/tests/CMakeLists.txt, cpp/tests/generate_input/generate_input_tests.cu
Adds the GENERATE_INPUT_TEST target and tests conversion, clamping, saturation, and generated ranges across supported data types.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6b915

The change correctly applies mismatched distribution bounds, but extreme timestamp ranges can still overflow during value generation and floating-point bounds cannot represent INT64_MIN. These edge cases can produce incorrect benchmark data, so merge should wait for fixes or explicit owner acceptance.

Suggested reviewers: bdice, pointkernel, davidwendt

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The PR fixes invalid floating-point ranges but explicitly leaves the linked issue's low-cardinality distribution imbalance unchanged [18315]. Address the low-cardinality imbalance or split this work under an issue scoped to mismatched distribution-bound types.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: applying distribution parameters when bounds and column types differ.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the type-routing bug, conversion behavior, tests, and limitations addressed by the changes.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The implementation, tests, explicit instantiations, and CMake target all support the distribution-parameter type-routing fix.
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In `@cpp/benchmarks/common/generate_input.hpp`:
- Around line 355-357: Clamp the converted lower and upper bounds in the
int_params assignment to the numeric range of the selected target type
represented by tid, after handling NaN and out-of-range inputs. Update the
relevant bound-conversion logic near bounded_llround and add regression coverage
for signed and unsigned narrow integral targets, including NaN and values beyond
their representable ranges.

In `@cpp/tests/generate_input/generate_input_tests.cu`:
- Around line 25-146: Add a unit benchmark alongside the existing
GenerateInputTest coverage for the changed generator path, using cross-type
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create_random_column. Keep the benchmark focused on generated-column performance
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Pushed a follow-up commit addressing both review threads:

  • Integral bounds are now saturated to the target type's own representable range at set time, so the narrowing conversion in get_distribution_params can no longer invert lower and upper. String and list lengths saturate to \[0, UINT32_MAX\] as well. Added regression tests for wide int64 bounds on narrow targets, float bounds like (\u00b11e100) on int32, negative bounds on unsigned targets, and negative string lengths.
  • The integer getters declared in the header but never instantiated (int8/16/64, uint8/16/32/64) now have explicit instantiations; tests exercise two of them.

On the unit benchmark suggestion: this change affects parameter routing, not generator throughput, and the routing behavior is covered by the unit tests above. Happy to add an nvbench case if maintainers want one.

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In `@cpp/benchmarks/common/generate_input.hpp`:
- Around line 248-260: Update integer_type_range to return the signed 64-bit
bounds INT64_MIN through INT64_MAX for TIMESTAMP and DURATION types before the
existing type_id switch. Preserve current ranges for integer types, and add a
cross-type regression case covering chrono targets through
get_distribution_params.
- Around line 407-409: Update the conversion in the int_params assignment to
preserve the full representable range for INT64 and UINT64 targets: make
bounded_llround target-aware or otherwise convert floating-point bounds without
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Raised the bounded_llround clamp from 2^62 to the largest double that still rounds into a long long (2^63 - 1024), so signed 64-bit targets now receive bounds across their full range; added FullRangeFloatBoundsOnInt64 covering it, verified on GPU against nightly libs. Unsigned 64-bit bounds above that limit remain unreachable through floating point and the helper comment says so.

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372-374: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major

Keep integral chrono bounds within the signed 64-bit range.

This branch also handles TIMESTAMP and DURATION. The generic range used by saturate_to_integer_type permits UINT64_MAX, but chrono bounds are stored as int64_t. A uint64_t upper bound above INT64_MAX can wrap to a negative value and invert the generated range.

Add an explicit chrono range of [INT64_MIN, INT64_MAX] before the generic default. Add a regression test with unsigned integral bounds.

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In `@cpp/benchmarks/common/generate_input.hpp` around lines 372 - 374, Update the
chrono-bound handling in the parameter generation path around
saturate_to_integer_type so TIMESTAMP and DURATION use an explicit [INT64_MIN,
INT64_MAX] range before the generic integral default, preventing uint64_t values
above INT64_MAX from wrapping when stored as int64_t. Add a regression test
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In `@cpp/benchmarks/common/generate_input.hpp`:
- Around line 214-223: Update bounded_llround to use asymmetric clamp bounds,
allowing the exact signed 64-bit minimum while retaining the safe upper bound;
then add an assertion in FullRangeFloatBoundsOnInt64 that params.lower_bound
equals std::numeric_limits<int64_t>::min().

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In `@cpp/benchmarks/common/generate_input.hpp`:
- Around line 372-374: Update the chrono-bound handling in the parameter
generation path around saturate_to_integer_type so TIMESTAMP and DURATION use an
explicit [INT64_MIN, INT64_MAX] range before the generic integral default,
preventing uint64_t values above INT64_MAX from wrapping when stored as int64_t.
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Comment on lines +214 to +223
* @brief Rounds a floating point bound to an integer value, clamping to the largest double that
* still rounds into a long long and mapping NaN to zero so that the conversion is always defined.
* Bounds beyond this are unreachable through floating point for unsigned 64-bit targets only;
* every signed target's full range is representable.
*/
inline long long bounded_llround(double value)
{
constexpr double kInt64ClampBound = 9223372036854774784.0; // 2^63 - 1024
if (std::isnan(value)) { return 0; }
return std::llround(std::clamp(value, -kInt64ClampBound, kInt64ClampBound));

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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In C++, the behavior of std::llround when the rounded result falls outside the range of long long (which includes values like INT64_MIN) is implementation-defined [1][2]. According to the C++ standard and POSIX/IEEE standards that many implementations follow: 1. Error Handling: When the result is outside the representable range of the return type (long long), the function is required to raise the FE_INVALID floating-point exception [1][2][3]. 2. Return Value: The return value in such cases is unspecified or implementation-defined [4][3]. Common implementations often return either the minimum or maximum value of the target type (e.g., LLONG_MIN or LLONG_MAX) or another sentinel value, but you should not rely on a specific value across different platforms [1][2][3]. 3. Diagnostic Methods: To robustly detect this error, you should clear the floating-point exception state using feclearexcept(FE_ALL_EXCEPT) before calling std::llround and then test for FE_INVALID using fetestexcept(FE_INVALID) after the call [4][3]. Alternatively, check if the input is within the range [LLONG_MIN - 0.5, LLONG_MAX + 0.5] before calling the function [1][2]. Because the behavior is not guaranteed by the standard, portable code must explicitly check for these error conditions rather than relying on the returned value [4][3].

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Use asymmetric clamp bounds for signed 64-bit values.

-2^63 is exactly representable as double and valid for std::llround, but the symmetric clamp excludes it. Use separate lower and upper bounds, and assert params.lower_bound == std::numeric_limits<int64_t>::min() in FullRangeFloatBoundsOnInt64.

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In `@cpp/benchmarks/common/generate_input.hpp` around lines 214 - 223, Update
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minimum while retaining the safe upper bound; then add an assertion in
FullRangeFloatBoundsOnInt64 that params.lower_bound equals
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- Around line 255-257: Update the chrono-value generation logic around the
timestamp and duration range handling to avoid constructing timestamp_s samples
through an overflowing nanosecond intermediate; generate values directly in
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the representable range. Add coverage for a timestamp_s range whose upper bound
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Comment on lines +255 to +257
if (cudf::is_timestamp(dtype) or cudf::is_duration(dtype)) { return {INT64_MIN, INT64_MAX}; }
if (tid == cudf::type_id::DECIMAL32) { return {INT32_MIN, INT32_MAX}; }
if (tid == cudf::type_id::DECIMAL64) { return {INT64_MIN, INT64_MAX}; }

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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I64_MIN = -(1 << 63)
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for sec in [I64_MAX // NS_PER_S - 1, I64_MAX // NS_PER_S, I64_MAX // NS_PER_S + 1, I64_MAX]:
    ns = sec * NS_PER_S
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Prevent overflow when generating extreme chrono values.

When a timestamp_s range includes values at or above INT64_MAX / 1,000,000,000, the seconds sample can overflow when combined with the nanosecond sample in cudf::duration_s{sec_value} + cudf::duration_ns{nanoseconds_value}. Generate values in T::duration units or avoid the nanosecond intermediate. Add a test with a high timestamp_s upper bound.

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In `@cpp/benchmarks/common/generate_input.hpp` around lines 255 - 257, Update the
chrono-value generation logic around the timestamp and duration range handling
to avoid constructing timestamp_s samples through an overflowing nanosecond
intermediate; generate values directly in T::duration units or otherwise combine
seconds and nanoseconds without exceeding the representable range. Add coverage
for a timestamp_s range whose upper bound is at least INT64_MAX / 1,000,000,000.

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Thanks for the contribution.

Benchmarks and tests are both consumers of libcudf. Testing benchmark code from the test suite crosses a layer that shouldn't exist. I'd drop GENERATE_INPUT_TEST; the explicit instantiations in generate_input.cu only exist to serve it and can go too.

}
}

// Explicit instantiations for the parameter getters used outside this translation unit.

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These only exist so the test TU can link. If the test target goes, these go with it.

*/
inline long long bounded_llround(double value)
{
constexpr double kInt64ClampBound = 9223372036854774784.0; // 2^63 - 1024

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constexpr double kInt64ClampBound = 9223372036854774784.0; // 2^63 - 1024
constexpr double int64_clamp_bound = 9223372036854774784.0; // 2^63 - 1024

cudf doesn't use k-prefixed names.

inline uint32_t bounded_length_round(double value)
{
if (std::isnan(value)) { return 0; }
return static_cast<uint32_t>(std::clamp<long long>(bounded_llround(value), 0, 4294967295LL));

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4294967295LL here vs UINT32_MAX in saturated_length for the same bound, and integer_type_range uses INT8_MIN-style macros except its default branch, which uses std::numeric_limits. Worth settling on std::numeric_limits throughout.

Also NaN silently becoming 0 means a NaN bound generates empty strings with no signal. Intentional?

* @brief Returns the representable range of the integer type identified by `tid`. Chrono types
* parameterize with int64 bounds and fixed-point types with their own rep width.
*/
inline std::pair<__int128_t, __int128_t> integer_type_range(cudf::type_id tid)

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This duplicates default_range<T>() above — same question, keyed by type_id instead of T, with its own switch that re-special-cases timestamps, durations and both decimals. Can it dispatch to default_range via cudf::type_dispatcher instead? Two sources of truth for a type's range in one header will drift.

/**
* @brief Saturates a bound to the range returned by `integer_type_range`.
*/
inline __int128_t saturate_to_range(std::pair<__int128_t, __int128_t> range, __int128_t value)

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This is std::clamp with the bounds in a pair — worth calling std::clamp directly at the use sites and dropping the wrapper. Same for saturated_length, which is a clamp plus a cast.

saturate_to_range(range, static_cast<__int128_t>(lower_bound)),
saturate_to_range(range, static_cast<__int128_t>(upper_bound)),
std::nullopt};
} else if (tid != cudf::type_id::STRUCT and tid != cudf::type_id::DICTIONARY32) {

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BOOL8 reaches this branch — type_group_id::INTEGRAL and NUMERIC both expand through cudf::is_numeric, which includes bool — so it gets written to int_params[BOOL8]. But get_distribution_params<bool> reads only bool_probability_true and ignores int_params, so bounds for bool are still silently dropped. Same bug class this PR fixes.

std::nullopt};
} else if (tid != cudf::type_id::STRUCT and tid != cudf::type_id::DICTIONARY32) {
int_params[tid] = {dist,
saturate_to_integer_type(tid, static_cast<__int128_t>(lower_bound)),

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This turns silent ignoring into silent saturation: INT8 with bounds 0..1000 quietly becomes 0..127. Should that be a CUDF_EXPECTS instead?

decimal_params[tid] = {dist,
saturate_to_range(range, static_cast<__int128_t>(lower_bound)),
saturate_to_range(range, static_cast<__int128_t>(upper_bound)),
std::nullopt};

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Scale is drawn randomly when fixed point comes through this path. Surprising default — worth documenting, or requiring the explicit-scale overload.

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VaggelisGian force-pushed the fix-benchmark-distribution-params branch from 30cc5be to 15c9893 Compare August 24, 2026 21:16
@PointKernel PointKernel added bug Something isn't working non-breaking Non-breaking change labels Aug 24, 2026
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…the column type

data_profile::set_distribution_params stored parameters in the map selected by
the type of the passed bounds, while get_distribution_params reads the map
selected by the generated column type. A call such as
.distribution(cudf::type_id::FLOAT64, distribution_id::UNIFORM, 0, 100) with
integer bounds therefore wrote int_params and was never read back, so
generation silently used that type's default profile instead: a normal
distribution over roughly +/-8.98e307 for double columns. The old comments
documented this drop as intended behavior. Reported in issue NVIDIA#18315.

Each target type is now routed to the map its getter actually reads, with
bounds converted to that map's parameter type: integer bounds reach
floating-point and fixed-point columns, floating bounds reach integer, chrono,
string length, list length, and fixed-point targets, rounded through helpers
that clamp to the representable range and map NaN to zero. Calls whose bounds
type already matches the column type take the same branches as before.
STRUCT and DICTIONARY32 have no range parameters and still ignore the call.

The getters are defined in generate_input.cu but now called from other
translation units by the new tests, so they get explicit instantiations.

Test Plan:
  Standalone repro against libcudf 26.10.00a302 on an RTX 5060 Ti (sm_120),
  reproducing the issue's snippet (int bounds on a UNIFORM double column):
    before: params fall back to "id=1 lower=-8.98847e+307 upper=8.98847e+307",
            100 of 100 values outside [0, 100], first values identical to the
            issue's output (-8.9884656743115785e+307, ...)
    after:  "id=0 lower=0 upper=100", 0 of 100 outside [0, 100]
    Symmetric case (double bounds on int32): before 100/100 outside range,
    after 0/100.
  clang-format --dry-run --Werror on all touched C++ files: pass
  cmake-format with cpp/cmake/config.json plus rapids-cmake config on the new
  CMakeLists block: formatting unchanged
  nvcc -c compile of cpp/tests/generate_input/generate_input_tests.cu against
  gtest/gmock and libcudf 26.10 headers: pass
  Full gtest run requires a local libcudf build; not run here.
Bounds outside the representable range of a target type were narrowed
with wrapping conversions when read back from get_distribution_params,
which could invert lower and upper or produce reversed ranges for
narrower targets. Saturate integral bounds to the target type's own
range at set time, saturate string and list lengths to [0, UINT32_MAX],
and add explicit getter instantiations for the integer types whose
getters were declared but not instantiated.
The conversion clamp sat at +/-2^62, so 64-bit integer targets could
never receive bounds beyond that even though a long long holds up to
2^63 - 1. Raise the clamp to the largest double that still rounds into a
long long; unsigned 64-bit bounds above that stay unreachable through
floating point, which the helper comment now states.
Chrono targets parameterize with int64 bounds and fixed-point targets
with their own rep width, but neither was saturated: an unsigned bound
above int64 max wrapped to a negative chrono upper bound, and wide
bounds narrowed modulo into decimal32/decimal64 reps. Route both target
classes through the same per-type range saturation as integer targets,
skip STRUCT and DICTIONARY32 instead of storing dead parameter entries,
and instantiate the decimal32 getter.
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