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Fix #879 at the public parallel-analysis validation boundary without changing Horn/Glorfeld factor-retention mathematics or Rust numerical ownership.

Test-first lineage

  • RED c0e5b2b2014852020d5a5e5dd1473a89d634667e adds public regressions requiring rejected controls to fail before native-core discovery and caller-defined Python/NumPy integer subclasses to execute zero conversion/representation callbacks.
  • 3e59acc11b43c77d2104c3b1c7196b912f191070 corrects the domain-control test fixture while preserving the fail-first contract.
  • GREEN 65c9cca7a3b9e323052058f4ec7041798193c192 replaces broad isinstance admission with identity-only trusted integer admission and validates explicit controls before data/native dispatch.
  • ed95eeb48c4831e9a6e137fc6a8eaafd25c55e73 and dea9dcbb825dd217ff77db6aa025d6c00dbf9c18 add canonical changelog and standards-traced doctoring evidence.

Preserved boundary

  • Exact built-in integers and supported concrete NumPy integer scalars remain accepted and normalize to built-in integers.
  • Booleans, caller-defined Python/NumPy integer subclasses, and arbitrary integer-conversion providers fail before callbacks and before native discovery.
  • Existing domains remain unchanged: positive n_iterations, centile 0..99, Rust u64 seed, and the 128 MiB random-eigenvalue workspace ceiling.
  • Correlation/eigenvalue computation, random benchmark generation, bias adjustment, retention scanning, and every result-affecting production operation remain Rust-owned and unchanged.
  • No dependency, provider, persistence, workflow, gate, package-version, or downstream-ownership change.

Evidence state

At creation, protected main is fb67ced09d8ee00542c05d56374537a9a7239751 and this source head is dea9dcbb825dd217ff77db6aa025d6c00dbf9c18, ahead by five and behind by zero. Local network access could not materialize a repository checkout, so no local test result is claimed; exact-head hosted CI/security/package/coverage/review evidence must prove this head before lifecycle promotion or integration.

The security rationale is aligned with current CWE-1287 guidance, OWASP ASVS 5.0.0, final NIST SSDF 1.1, while tracking SSDF 1.2 as an Initial Public Draft rather than final authority.

Fixes #879. Advances #608.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Strengthened validation for parallel-analysis controls before native processing begins.
    • Invalid values—including booleans, nonintegral values, subclasses, and conversion-based inputs—are now rejected consistently.
    • Supported NumPy integer scalars are accepted and normalized correctly.
    • Existing validation for iteration counts, centiles, seeds, workspace limits, and retention settings remains enforced.
  • Documentation

    • Added security guidance and changelog information for parallel-analysis input validation and related standards.

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parallel_analysis() now validates and normalizes integer controls before compiled-core discovery. It rejects booleans, subclasses, nonintegral values, and conversion providers. Tests cover domains, workspace checks, NumPy integer types, callback isolation, and built-in integer dispatch.

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Parallel-analysis control safety

Layer / File(s) Summary
Control validation and pre-discovery ordering
python/fast_mlsirm/parallel_analysis.py, docs/changelog.d/879-parallel-analysis-control-safety.md, docs/doctoring/parallel_analysis_control_safety.md
The validator accepts exact built-in integers and supported concrete NumPy integer scalars. parallel_analysis() performs control, data-shape, and workspace validation before compiled-core discovery. Documentation records the validation boundary and preserved Rust-owned computation.
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tests/test_parallel_analysis_control_bounds.py
Tests reject invalid controls, subclasses, and conversion providers before discovery. Tests verify accepted NumPy scalars become exact Python integers before dispatch.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to dea9d

The validation-boundary change is localized and introduces no actionable merge-blocking risk; remaining follow-ups are limited to documentation wording and a minor conversion-efficiency improvement.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant parallel_analysis
  participant _integer_control
  participant Validation
  participant _core_module
  participant RustCore
  Caller->>parallel_analysis: submit controls and data
  parallel_analysis->>_integer_control: validate and normalize controls
  parallel_analysis->>Validation: check domains, shape, and workspace
  parallel_analysis->>_core_module: discover compiled core
  _core_module->>RustCore: dispatch built-in integer controls
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Possibly related issues

  • ContextualWisdomLab/fast-mlsirm issue 914: Applies the same pre-discovery validation pattern to plausible_values.
  • ContextualWisdomLab/fast-mlsirm issue 909: Hardens security-sensitive integer controls in a separate API.
  • ContextualWisdomLab/fast-mlsirm issue 856: Uses the same validation and normalization approach for CRM controls.
  • ContextualWisdomLab/fast-mlsirm issue 854: Applies subclass and conversion-callback rejection to fit_mixture().

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🧹 Nitpick comments (2)
python/fast_mlsirm/parallel_analysis.py (2)

117-122: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the application-specific interpretation.

Lines 120-122 tie this public API documentation to LLM-as-a-Judge use. Keep the fast_mlsirm documentation domain-neutral. Retain the statistical behavior description.

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In `@python/fast_mlsirm/parallel_analysis.py` around lines 117 - 122, Remove the
LLM-as-a-Judge and judge-rubric interpretation from the documentation near the
compiled-core and workspace descriptions, while retaining the statistical
behavior explanation and keeping the fast_mlsirm documentation domain-neutral.

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133-133: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use a single conversion call.

When data requires dtype conversion and C contiguity, the nested calls can allocate an intermediate array.

Proposed fix
-    x = np.ascontiguousarray(np.asarray(data, dtype=np.float64))
+    x = np.ascontiguousarray(data, dtype=np.float64)
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In `@python/fast_mlsirm/parallel_analysis.py` at line 133, Update the data
conversion expression in the surrounding analysis flow to use a single NumPy
conversion call that enforces float64 dtype and C contiguity, avoiding the
nested np.asarray and np.ascontiguousarray intermediate conversion.

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In `@python/fast_mlsirm/parallel_analysis.py`:
- Around line 117-122: Remove the LLM-as-a-Judge and judge-rubric interpretation
from the documentation near the compiled-core and workspace descriptions, while
retaining the statistical behavior explanation and keeping the fast_mlsirm
documentation domain-neutral.
- Line 133: Update the data conversion expression in the surrounding analysis
flow to use a single NumPy conversion call that enforces float64 dtype and C
contiguity, avoiding the nested np.asarray and np.ascontiguousarray intermediate
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Verdict

No production defect on 88db84b. Identity-only integer admission and fail-before-_core_module() ordering match #879. Horn/Glorfeld arithmetic and Rust ownership are untouched. CodeRabbit nits (domain-neutral docstring, single ascontiguousarray) are already on this head.

Do not APPROVE or merge from this account (author is seonghobae). Do not merge #923 and #938 together.

Next action

Land #938 (test(parallel-analysis): lock remaining pre-discovery oracles) after its exact-head required checks are green, then close #923 as superseded.

If you prefer to keep #923 as the integration PR, cherry-pick 63799d99 onto fix/parallel-analysis-control-safety-879 and close #938 instead.

Either head still needs exact-head python, rust, package, and Security Scan (osv-scan / dependency-review / trivy-fs) green. Queued checks on this synchronize are not a blocker and are not merge evidence.

Residual oracles on this head

These are test locks, not wrapper bugs:

  1. Workspace and seed=2**64 still use a dispatch trap, so they do not prove fail-before-discovery.
  2. np.bool_ is rejected in code and untested here.
  3. Distinct np.longlong / np.ulonglong identities are allowlisted and omitted from the happy-path parametrize.

#938 closes those three oracles. Local tests/test_parallel_analysis_control_bounds.py: 34 passed.

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@@ -64,30 +80,109 @@ def _install_core(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, core: object) -> None:
("seed", "1"),

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Add np.bool_(True) next to True for each control. Sibling control suites already do this; without it, n_iterations=np.bool_(True) becoming 1 would not be caught here. The successor locks this in #938.

assert discovery_calls == []


def test_oversized_random_benchmark_workspace_fails_before_rust_dispatch(

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_install_core(..., _TrapCore()) does not observe _core_module() itself. If discovery moved above _validate_random_workspace, this test would still pass. Point this path at _reject_core_discovery and assert discovery_calls == []. Same for the seed=2**64 test below. #938 does that.

np.uint16,
np.uint32,
np.uint64,
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On current NumPy, np.longlong and np.ulonglong are distinct from int64/uint64. They are in the production allowlist but missing here, so a later allowlist edit could drop them unnoticed. Parametrize the same 12 names the wrapper admits. #938 does that.

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