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Description

This pull request introduces a device callback/UDF API that lets users extend cuDF for reductions and compose cuDF operators with their custom operator implementations.

It uses the UDF interface requested in #23565

It also provides error-propagation support needed for ANSI-compliant error handling.

The reduction kernel can be used at compile time and at JIT-time.

The callback is split into:

• Initialize: Initialize the identity of the reduction (e.g., sum: accum = 0, product: accum = 1)
• Filter: Filter the input data for reduction. This allows supporting Predicate Pushdown and Selection Vectors [1] (e.g., all: true, filtered: b, positive: b > 0)
• Update: Update the state of the reduction (e.g., sum: accum += x, product: accum *= x)
• Merge: Merge partial state across execution units (e.g. sum: accum += accum2, product: accum *= accum2)
• Finalize: Finalize the reduction value (e.g. avg: accum /= n)

The current API is intended for UDF-based consumers. AST API to provide codegen will be added in a separate PR stack.

Validation

The tests cover: fused SQL examples, nulls, predicates, errors, supported inputs, wide optional state, empty state/output lists, and memory resource tests.

See #25037 (comment) for initial benchmark results.

More extensive benchmark coverage will be added in #25039

Stack

1. [FEA] LTO Reduce 1: Add LTO UDF compilation helpers #25036
2. [FEA] LTO Reduce 2: Add Scalar Reductions #25037
3. [FEA] LTO Reduce 3: Add Segmented Reductions #25038
4. [FEA] LTO Reduce 4: Add Reduction Benchmarks #25039

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Prepared-input TPC-H Q6 comparison

Three implementations execute canonical Q6: precompiled binary operations/filter/multiply/SUM; AST interpreter/filter/AST multiply/SUM; and fused JIT reduction using precompiled, embedded LTO callbacks.

Inputs are exact scaled integers: price cents, integer discount percentages, quantity, and timestamp days. Raw revenue has scale -4. Data is generated by DBGEN 2.14.0.

Input generation, upload, expression setup, validation, and JIT warmup are outside timing.
Preparation reads DBGEN's four projected binary columns in 64 MiB chunks and uploads them into final device columns to bound host staging memory. DBGEN generates the complete LINEITEM population; only its output formatting is replaced with binary projection. Each timed invocation includes API calls, intermediate allocation/compaction/copies, reduction, required synchronization, and cleanup.

Maximum common scale

GPU: idle NVIDIA RTX A6000, physical GPU 1, 48 GiB class; CUDA 13.4. SF is DBGEN's scale factor; actual LINEITEM cardinality is measured rather than assumed to be exactly six million rows per SF.

SF271 = 1,626,013,179 rows passed all three implementations in three fresh-process measurement trials. SF272 = 1,632,010,595 rows failed with OOM, attempting a 6,528,042,380-byte allocation. This establishes the adjacent integer-scale boundary for this benchmark and allocator configuration, rather than each implementation's independent capacity ceiling. Input columns alone occupy 39.024316 GB.

Medians across the three trials (each state uses at least 20 samples):

Implementation	Nominal input GB/s	Host-completed time (ms)	GPU-event interval (ms)
tpch_q6_precompiled	232.0	168.240	168.224
tpch_q6_ast	281.1	138.824	138.807
tpch_q6_jit	1020.1	38.254	38.231

JIT is about 4.40x faster than the precompiled pipeline and 3.63x faster than AST at this size. GPU-event intervals include host launch gaps; they are not sums of isolated kernel durations.

Throughput uses the same nominal 24 input bytes per row for every backend. It is not measured DRAM bandwidth: JIT conditionally loads price only for qualifying rows, whereas the other paths reread data and materialize intermediates. Therefore, nominal JIT GB/s can exceed the GPU's rated 768 GB/s DRAM bandwidth.

Peak RMM allocations inside the timed region are 8,625,205,319 bytes for both materialized paths and 12,580 bytes for JIT. These exclude the prepared inputs, CUDA context, and module/code allocations. JSON files retain all native NVBench statistics and GPU metadata.

Benchmark description

The benchmark evaluates the following Q6 expression over four prepared device columns:

SELECT SUM(l_extendedprice * l_discount) AS revenue
FROM lineitem
WHERE l_shipdate >= DATE '1994-01-01'
  AND l_shipdate < DATE '1995-01-01'
  AND l_discount BETWEEN 0.05 AND 0.07
  AND l_quantity < 24;

Price is represented as integer cents and discount as integer percentage points (the predicate uses 5 through 7). The INT64 revenue therefore has an implied scale of -4. The other columns are timestamp days and INT32 quantity. This avoids floating-point rounding differences across implementations. The maximum possible contribution and supported row count bound the result below INT64 overflow.

The three paths compute the same result:

• Precompiled APIs: separate binary comparisons and Boolean combinations build a selection mask; Boolean filtering materializes selected rows; a binary multiplication computes contributions; SUM produces the scalar result.
• AST: the AST interpreter computes the selection mask, followed by Boolean filtering, AST multiplication and SUM. This path still materializes intermediates.
• Fused JIT reduction: embedded, precompiled LTO callbacks implement selection, update, merge and finalization through the reduction API. Selection and accumulation are fused, so rejected rows do not require loading price or materializing contributions. The callbacks are declared infallible for this benchmark.

The performance inputs are DBGEN-generated, non-nullable columns. DBGEN preserves its price/quantity correlations, order-derived shipping dates, and original row order. Generation uses 32 DBGEN partitions, concatenated in partition order; rows are neither sampled nor replicated. At SF271, 30,946,214 rows (1.903%) pass the predicate. An exact CPU accumulation during generation produces raw revenue 334,134,374,105,943, and every backend is checked against it before timing. The binary projection adapter was also verified value-for-value against standard DBGEN text output at SF0.001 (6,005 rows). A separate partitioned SF1 check produced 6,001,215 rows and raw Q6 revenue 1,231,410,782,283.

The benchmark allocates the final columns and uploads them in bounded chunks before measurement. Boundary and NULL semantics are checked separately, including empty input, no matches, and valid zero revenue. Each selected backend's result is also compared against the precompiled pipeline before timing.

Timing starts with prepared GPU columns and an initialized query plan. It includes execution API calls, intermediate allocations, filtering/compaction, reduction, required synchronization, and result cleanup. It excludes generation, upload, plan construction, result validation, and JIT warmup. Accordingly, these figures describe warmed execution, not cold compilation or end-to-end database execution. The main time metric is host-completed elapsed time; the recorded GPU-event interval may include host launch gaps and is not an isolated kernel-time sum.

Figures

The throughput chart includes a vertical line at the device-reported theoretical DRAM bandwidth, 768.096 GB/s. Nominal throughput can exceed this line because its numerator counts all 24 input bytes per row even when JIT conditionally skips price loads. It must not be interpreted as physical DRAM throughput.

The temporary-memory plot uses a logarithmic axis because the measured peaks differ by nearly six orders of magnitude.

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Summary

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• New Features
  • Added support for custom reductions with initialization, filtering, update, merge, and finalization callbacks.
  • Reductions can combine multiple inputs, produce multiple outputs, and use user-provided data.
  • Added support for nullable values and optional row-index-aware callbacks.
  • Added configurable error reporting for failures during device evaluation.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved type handling for timestamp and duration values.

Adds a public JIT-based reduction API with callback and input contracts, a CUDA reduction kernel, and host-side validation, compilation, and launch logic. Adds embedded UDF callbacks and tests for reduction behavior and ABI layouts.

Changes: JIT UDF Reduction

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Reduction API and UDF contracts cpp/include/cudf/reduction.hpp, cpp/include/cudf/types.hpp, cpp/include/cudf/user_data.hpp, cpp/include/cudf/detail/utilities/layout.hpp, cpp/src/jit/udf_abi.cuh, cpp/src/jit/udf_abi.cu, cpp/include/cudf/detail/udf_dispatch.cuh, cpp/include/cudf/utilities/error.hpp	Defines reduction inputs, callback options, fallibility, user data, and ABI layouts. Updates error macros to forward additional constructor arguments and format messages with std::format.
Reduction kernel phases cpp/src/reductions/jit/reduce_kernel.cuh, cpp/src/reductions/jit/reduce_kernel.cu	Implements row filtering and updates, state merging, output finalization, and the REDUCE, MERGE, and FINALIZE kernel phases.
Host validation, compilation, and launch cpp/src/reductions/reduce.cu, cpp/CMakeLists.txt, cpp/src/jit/column_accessor.cuh, cpp/src/jit/util.cpp, cpp/src/jit/cache.cpp, cpp/src/jit/reflect.hpp	Validates and reflects reduction inputs and types, compiles callback forwarding code, stages inputs and outputs, and launches reduction and merge phases. Updates build inputs and JIT type reflection; removes the RTCX conversion helper and reflect_output_column declaration.
Reduction and ABI coverage cpp/tests/reductions/reduce_lto.cpp, cpp/tests/reductions/udfs/udf.cu, cpp/tests/transform/transform_lto_test.cpp, cpp/tests/CMakeLists.txt	Adds embedded callbacks and tests for reduction inputs, filtering, null handling, errors, output types, strings, user data, and large inputs. Tests also check UDF ABI layouts and optional-value offsets.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: kylefromnvidia

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 5cfa7

This PR adds a new opt-in JIT reduction API and does not change existing reduction behavior. No concrete merge-blocking issue was found in the supplied evidence, and the tests cover the main behaviors.

Security architecture risk: Minimal · up to 5cfa7

The extension executes caller-supplied code under the caller’s existing authority. The inspected change establishes no material weakening of security, state ownership, or failure containment; callback errors are checked by default.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Caller-supplied callbacks execute with the calling process’s existing device-memory authority, not an isolation boundary limited to selected columns. Malicious callbacks can therefore affect caller-accessible device data. The base already allowed device code and user-data pointers, so this does not establish a new privilege escalation or cross-tenant exposure.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• inferred — The inspected entrypoint is an in-process native extension contract. Shape validation and callback error propagation do not authenticate code or sandbox pointer access. Any downstream service accepting untrusted fragments must supply its own trust controls; such a consumer was not established by the supplied scope.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Each invocation owns its staging, output, partial-state and scratch storage. Callback error codes accumulate through row processing, merging and finalization rather than being overwritten by later successes.
• inferred — Error propagation is not transactional rollback: callbacks can already have updated state or pointer-referenced data before an error reaches the host. Default failure handling withholds returned columns but does not undo callback side effects.

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Title check		The title "[FEA] LTO Reduce 2: Add Scalar Reductions" matches the main change. The changeset adds a JIT/LTO scalar reduction path with a UDF API (reduce_udf, the reduce overload in reduction.hpp and r…
Description check		The description states the purpose of the PR: a device callback/UDF API for cuDF reductions with initialize, filter, update, merge, and finalize callbacks, plus error propagation for ANSI-compliant ha…
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Add a sliced nullable input case.

Add a slice of values over [1, 4) with expected sum 20 and count 2. Run it through both callback modes in this test. The current whole-column cases cannot detect regressions that ignore the data offset or null-mask offset.

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Add a sliced nullable input case to the `cases` array in this test, using the slice of `values` over [1, 4) with expected sum 20 and count 2. Ensure the new case runs through both callback modes already exercised by the test so it checks data and null-mask offsets.

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