gam_models/fit_orchestration/

entry.rs

use super::*;

/// Request-specific inputs to the canonical standard-fit `FitOptions`.
///
/// Everything in here varies per call (the link state extracted from the
/// formula/config, the linear constraints synthesized from `bounded()` /
/// shape-constrained terms, the Firth / adaptive-regularization toggles read
/// off the `FitConfig`). Every *policy* field of `FitOptions` — the ones that
/// decide HOW the outer REML optimization behaves (`compute_inference`,
/// `skip_rho_posterior_inference`, `tol`, the `max_iter` default, the penalty
/// shrinkage floor) — is filled in by [`canonical_standard_fit_options`] and is
/// NOT settable here, so the CLI binary and the Python/PyO3 path cannot resolve
/// a different optimization policy for the same model (#1196). Before this seam
/// existed the CLI hand-built `FitOptions` with `tol: 1e-6` /
/// `skip_rho_posterior_inference: false` while the formula path used
/// `tol: 1e-10` / `skip_rho_posterior_inference: true`, so the identical model
/// fit *differently* depending on which entry point you called it from — the
/// exact class of divergence #1191 surfaced.
#[derive(Default)]
pub struct StandardFitOptionsInputs {
    pub latent_cloglog: Option<LatentCLogLogState>,
    pub mixture_link: Option<MixtureLinkSpec>,
    pub optimize_mixture: bool,
    pub sas_link: Option<SasLinkSpec>,
    pub optimize_sas: bool,
    pub linear_constraints: Option<gam_solve::pirls::LinearInequalityConstraints>,
    pub firth_bias_reduction: bool,
    pub adaptive_regularization: Option<AdaptiveRegularizationOptions>,
    /// `Some` only when a caller (the forced-Firth CLI branch) overrides the
    /// canonical default. `None` keeps the single-source default `Some(1e-6)`.
    pub penalty_shrinkage_floor_override: Option<Option<f64>>,
}

/// The single source of truth for standard-fit `FitOptions` *policy*.
///
/// Both standard-fit entry points — `materialize_standard` (the formula /
/// Python / PyO3 path) and the `gam` CLI's `run_fit` — construct their
/// `StandardFitRequest` options through this function, so the outer REML
/// optimization policy (`compute_inference`, `skip_rho_posterior_inference`,
/// `tol`, `max_iter` default, `penalty_shrinkage_floor`) is identical by
/// construction. New policy fields must be set HERE, never re-derived at a call
/// site, which is what makes Python/CLI behavioral divergence structurally
/// impossible rather than enforced by parallel-but-equal code (#1196).
pub fn canonical_standard_fit_options(
    config: &FitConfig,
    inputs: StandardFitOptionsInputs,
) -> FitOptions {
    FitOptions {
        resource_policy: resolved_resource_policy(
            config,
            gam_runtime::resource::ProblemHints::default(),
        ),
        latent_cloglog: inputs.latent_cloglog,
        mixture_link: inputs.mixture_link,
        optimize_mixture: inputs.optimize_mixture,
        sas_link: inputs.sas_link,
        optimize_sas: inputs.optimize_sas,
        // Posterior covariance is always computed so `predict --uncertainty`
        // works for every family (the `COV_MAX_P` diagonal fallback caps cost).
        compute_inference: true,
        // Formula/CLI fits are the interactive/default path: keep coefficient
        // covariance and the smoothing correction, and emit the CHEAP Tier-0
        // live-rho posterior certificate (a handful of outer-criterion
        // evaluations), which the optimizer surfaces regardless of this flag
        // whenever it is cheaply available (#1810). This flag only suppresses the
        // EXPENSIVE escalation tiers (Tier-1 quadrature / Tier-2 NUTS over rho),
        // which could otherwise launch NUTS and turn ordinary fits into sampler
        // benchmarks. Lower-level callers that explicitly need the escalation opt
        // in elsewhere (`skip_rho_posterior_inference: false`).
        skip_rho_posterior_inference: true,
        max_iter: config.outer_max_iter.unwrap_or(200),
        // Outer REML/LAML smoothing-selection tolerance. `1e-10` (effective
        // projected-gradient threshold ≈ 1e-7) resolves λ̂ to optimiser
        // precision and restores the `w=c ⇔ c-fold replication` invariance in
        // smoothing selection (gam#893). The CLI previously used the stale
        // `1e-6`, which over-smoothed relative to the formula path.
        tol: 1e-10,
        nullspace_dims: vec![],
        linear_constraints: inputs.linear_constraints,
        firth_bias_reduction: inputs.firth_bias_reduction,
        adaptive_regularization: inputs.adaptive_regularization,
        penalty_shrinkage_floor: inputs
            .penalty_shrinkage_floor_override
            .unwrap_or(Some(1e-6)),
        rho_prior: Default::default(),
        kronecker_penalty_system: None,
        kronecker_factored: None,
        // A formula fit is recoverable across process/wall interruptions by
        // default. The model/data fingerprinting and checkpoint cadence live
        // in gam-solve; this canonical seam only owns the high-level policy.
        persist_warm_start_disk: config.persist_warm_start_disk,
    }
}

pub fn fit_model(request: FitRequest<'_>) -> Result<FitResult, WorkflowError> {
    let request = request;
    // Each `fit_*_model` helper still returns `Result<_, String>` internally;
    // the boundary conversion happens here so the public API returns
    // `WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed` carrying the underlying solver text.
    let wrap_solver_err =
        |reason: String| -> WorkflowError { WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed { reason } };
    match request {
        FitRequest::Standard(request) => fit_standard_model(request)
            .map(FitResult::Standard)
            .map_err(wrap_solver_err),
        FitRequest::GaussianLocationScale(request) => fit_gaussian_location_scale_model(request)
            .map(FitResult::GaussianLocationScale)
            .map_err(wrap_solver_err),
        FitRequest::BinomialLocationScale(request) => fit_binomial_location_scale_model(request)
            .map(FitResult::BinomialLocationScale)
            .map_err(wrap_solver_err),
        FitRequest::DispersionLocationScale(request) => {
            fit_dispersion_location_scale_model(request)
                .map(FitResult::DispersionLocationScale)
                .map_err(wrap_solver_err)
        }
        FitRequest::SurvivalLocationScale(request) => fit_survival_location_scale_model(request)
            .map(FitResult::SurvivalLocationScale)
            .map_err(wrap_solver_err),
        FitRequest::SurvivalTransformation(request) => fit_survival_transformation_model(request)
            .map(FitResult::SurvivalTransformation)
            .map_err(wrap_solver_err),
        FitRequest::BernoulliMarginalSlope(request) => fit_bernoulli_marginal_slope_model(request)
            .map(FitResult::BernoulliMarginalSlope)
            .map_err(wrap_solver_err),
        FitRequest::SurvivalMarginalSlope(request) => fit_survival_marginal_slope_model(request)
            .map(FitResult::SurvivalMarginalSlope)
            .map_err(wrap_solver_err),
        FitRequest::LatentSurvival(request) => fit_latent_survival_model(request)
            .map(FitResult::LatentSurvival)
            .map_err(wrap_solver_err),
        FitRequest::LatentBinary(request) => fit_latent_binary_model(request)
            .map(FitResult::LatentBinary)
            .map_err(wrap_solver_err),
        FitRequest::TransformationNormal(request) => fit_transformation_normal_model(request)
            .map(FitResult::TransformationNormal)
            .map_err(wrap_solver_err),
    }
}
/// Resolve the [`gam_runtime::resource::ResourcePolicy`] backing term construction
/// for a given [`FitConfig`] + dataset.
///
/// If the caller hasn't supplied an explicit policy override, delegate to
/// [`gam_runtime::resource::ResourcePolicy::for_problem`]. Non-structural paths
/// no longer switch mode at row/column thresholds: each planned allocation is
/// admitted from its checked live-byte footprint against the process-wide
/// memory governor. Consequently there is no speculative pre-spec coefficient
/// estimate to compute here (and no small-n/large-p classification cliff);
/// `ProblemHints` remains the structural signal for operator-only estimators.
pub(crate) fn resolved_resource_policy(
    config: &FitConfig,
    hints: gam_runtime::resource::ProblemHints,
) -> gam_runtime::resource::ResourcePolicy {
    if let Some(p) = config.resource_policy.clone() {
        return p;
    }
    gam_runtime::resource::ResourcePolicy::for_problem(hints)
}

pub(crate) fn marginal_slope_hints(config: &FitConfig) -> gam_runtime::resource::ProblemHints {
    gam_runtime::resource::ProblemHints {
        marginal_slope_large_scale_active: requests_bernoulli_marginal_slope(config),
    }
}
/// Parse, materialize, and fit a model in one call.
/// Resolve the expectile asymmetry `τ` requested by `config`, if any.
///
/// Returns `Ok(Some(τ))` when `config.family` is `"expectile"` (optionally with
/// an inline asymmetry, `"expectile(0.9)"`), `Ok(None)` for every other family,
/// and `Err` when an expectile request carries an out-of-range `τ`. The inline
/// form takes precedence over the explicit [`FitConfig::expectile_tau`] field
/// only when both are present and disagree is rejected as a contradiction; when
/// neither pins `τ`, the median expectile `τ = 0.5` (the ordinary mean fit) is
/// the default.
pub fn expectile_tau_for_config(config: &FitConfig) -> Result<Option<f64>, WorkflowError> {
    let Some(raw) = config.family.as_deref() else {
        return Ok(None);
    };
    let trimmed = raw.trim();
    let lower = trimmed.to_ascii_lowercase();
    if !(lower == "expectile" || lower.starts_with("expectile(")) {
        return Ok(None);
    }
    let invalid = |reason: String| WorkflowError::InvalidConfig { reason };
    // Optional inline asymmetry: `expectile(0.9)`.
    let inline_tau = if let Some(rest) = lower.strip_prefix("expectile(") {
        let inner = rest.strip_suffix(')').ok_or_else(|| {
            invalid(format!(
                "expectile family asymmetry must be written as `expectile(τ)`; got `{trimmed}`"
            ))
        })?;
        let value: f64 = inner.trim().parse().map_err(|_| {
            invalid(format!(
                "expectile asymmetry `{}` is not a finite number",
                inner.trim()
            ))
        })?;
        Some(value)
    } else {
        None
    };
    let tau = match (inline_tau, config.expectile_tau) {
        (Some(a), Some(b)) if (a - b).abs() > 0.0 => {
            return Err(invalid(format!(
                "expectile asymmetry given both inline (`expectile({a})`) and via expectile_tau \
                 ({b}); supply exactly one"
            )));
        }
        (Some(a), _) => a,
        (None, Some(b)) => b,
        (None, None) => 0.5,
    };
    if !(tau.is_finite() && tau > 0.0 && tau < 1.0) {
        return Err(invalid(format!(
            "expectile asymmetry τ must be finite and strictly in (0, 1); got {tau}"
        )));
    }
    Ok(Some(tau))
}

/// Per-row asymmetric LAWS weight `wᵢ(τ) = τ` if `yᵢ > μᵢ` else `1 − τ`, scaled
/// by the base prior weight. At the boundary `yᵢ = μᵢ` the two half-weights
/// agree in the limit only at `τ = 0.5`; the convention `yᵢ > μᵢ ⇒ τ` (strict)
/// matches Newey–Powell's lower-closed asymmetric loss and is what `expectreg`
/// uses. The fixed point is independent of the tie convention because ties form
/// a measure-zero set under any continuous response.
fn expectile_row_weights(
    y: ArrayView1<f64>,
    mu: ArrayView1<f64>,
    base: ArrayView1<f64>,
    tau: f64,
) -> Array1<f64> {
    Array1::from_shape_fn(y.len(), |i| {
        let asym = if y[i] > mu[i] { tau } else { 1.0 - tau };
        base[i] * asym
    })
}

/// Constant-history cycle detector for the deterministic LAWS sign map.
///
/// Brent's power-of-two schedule detects a cycle of any length while retaining
/// one `Vec<bool>` checkpoint, rather than one sign vector per iteration.  That
/// keeps cycle detection O(n) in the number of observations even when a caller
/// grants a large iteration budget.
#[derive(Debug, Default)]
struct ExpectileSignCycle {
    anchor: Option<Vec<bool>>,
    power: usize,
    span: usize,
}

impl ExpectileSignCycle {
    /// Observe the next sign state. Returns the detected cycle length once the
    /// current state revisits Brent's anchor.
    fn observe(&mut self, sign: &[bool]) -> Option<usize> {
        let Some(anchor) = self.anchor.as_deref() else {
            self.anchor = Some(sign.to_vec());
            self.power = 1;
            return None;
        };

        self.span += 1;
        if anchor == sign {
            return Some(self.span);
        }
        if self.span == self.power {
            self.anchor = Some(sign.to_vec());
            self.power = self.power.saturating_mul(2);
            self.span = 0;
        }
        None
    }
}

/// Dimensionless KKT residual for the asymmetric objective at a frozen-weight
/// WLS solution.
///
/// For coefficient `j`, `d_j = x_j'((w_frozen - w_target) ⊙ r)` is the
/// gradient defect introduced by using the old residual signs.  Normalize it
/// by `sqrt((x_j' W_audit x_j) (r' W_audit r))`, its Cauchy–Schwarz scale with
/// `W_audit = max(W_frozen, W_target)`.  The maximum coordinate residual is
/// invariant to response scale, column scale, and a common rescaling of prior
/// weights; unlike a score-relative ratio, it remains meaningful when the
/// frozen unpenalized score cancels to zero.
fn expectile_kkt_residual(
    design: &gam_linalg::matrix::DesignMatrix,
    residual: ArrayView1<'_, f64>,
    frozen_weights: ArrayView1<'_, f64>,
    target_weights: ArrayView1<'_, f64>,
) -> Result<f64, String> {
    use gam_linalg::matrix::LinearOperator;

    let n = design.nrows();
    if residual.len() != n || frozen_weights.len() != n || target_weights.len() != n {
        return Err(format!(
            "expectile KKT dimension mismatch: design rows={n}, residual={}, frozen weights={}, \
             target weights={}",
            residual.len(),
            frozen_weights.len(),
            target_weights.len(),
        ));
    }
    if residual.iter().any(|v| !v.is_finite())
        || frozen_weights
            .iter()
            .chain(target_weights.iter())
            .any(|v| !v.is_finite() || *v < 0.0)
    {
        return Err(
            "expectile KKT audit requires finite residuals and finite non-negative weights"
                .to_string(),
        );
    }

    let mut row_scratch =
        Array1::from_shape_fn(n, |i| (frozen_weights[i] - target_weights[i]) * residual[i]);
    let defect = design.apply_transpose(&row_scratch);
    for i in 0..n {
        row_scratch[i] = frozen_weights[i].max(target_weights[i]);
    }
    let energy = (0..n)
        .map(|i| row_scratch[i] * residual[i] * residual[i])
        .sum::<f64>();
    if !energy.is_finite() || energy < 0.0 {
        return Err(format!(
            "expectile KKT audit produced invalid residual energy {energy:?}"
        ));
    }
    let gram_diag = design.diag_gram(&row_scratch)?;
    if defect.len() != gram_diag.len()
        || defect.iter().any(|v| !v.is_finite())
        || gram_diag.iter().any(|v| !v.is_finite() || *v < 0.0)
    {
        return Err("expectile KKT audit produced invalid score/Gram evidence".to_string());
    }

    let mut max_scaled = 0.0_f64;
    for (&d, &q) in defect.iter().zip(gram_diag.iter()) {
        let denominator_squared = q * energy;
        let scaled = if denominator_squared > 0.0 {
            d.abs() / denominator_squared.sqrt()
        } else if d == 0.0 {
            0.0
        } else {
            f64::INFINITY
        };
        max_scaled = max_scaled.max(scaled);
    }
    Ok(max_scaled)
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod expectile_convergence_tests {
    use super::{ExpectileSignCycle, expectile_kkt_residual};
    use gam_linalg::matrix::{DenseDesignMatrix, DesignMatrix};
    use ndarray::array;

    #[test]
    fn brent_detector_finds_fixed_sign_state() {
        let mut detector = ExpectileSignCycle::default();
        let sign = vec![true, false, true, true];
        assert_eq!(detector.observe(&sign), None);
        assert_eq!(detector.observe(&sign), Some(1));
    }

    #[test]
    fn brent_detector_finds_longer_cycle_without_storing_history() {
        let mut detector = ExpectileSignCycle::default();
        let cycle = [
            vec![true, false, false],
            vec![false, true, false],
            vec![false, false, true],
        ];
        let mut detected = None;
        for sign in cycle.iter().cycle().take(9) {
            detected = detector.observe(sign);
            if detected.is_some() {
                break;
            }
        }
        assert_eq!(detected, Some(3));
        assert_eq!(detector.anchor.as_ref().map(Vec::len), Some(3));
    }

    #[test]
    fn normalized_kkt_residual_handles_a_cancelling_frozen_score() {
        let design = DesignMatrix::Dense(DenseDesignMatrix::from(array![[1.0], [1.0]]));
        // The frozen intercept score is exactly zero. A score-relative ratio
        // would divide the tiny target defect by itself and report O(1); the
        // Cauchy–Schwarz normalization correctly recognizes a near-tie.
        let residual = array![-1.0, 1.0];
        let frozen = array![1.0, 1.0];
        let target = array![1.0, 1.0 + 1.0e-12];
        let kkt = expectile_kkt_residual(&design, residual.view(), frozen.view(), target.view())
            .expect("finite KKT audit");
        assert!(kkt < 1.0e-10, "normalized residual was {kkt:.3e}");
    }

    #[test]
    fn normalized_kkt_residual_is_column_and_weight_scale_invariant() {
        let residual = array![-2.0, 1.0, 1.0];
        let frozen = array![1.0, 1.0, 1.0];
        let target = array![1.0, 1.25, 0.75];
        let x = array![[1.0], [2.0], [-1.0]];
        let base = DesignMatrix::Dense(DenseDesignMatrix::from(x.clone()));
        let scaled = DesignMatrix::Dense(DenseDesignMatrix::from(x * 1.0e6));
        let base_kkt = expectile_kkt_residual(&base, residual.view(), frozen.view(), target.view())
            .expect("base KKT audit");
        let scaled_kkt = expectile_kkt_residual(
            &scaled,
            residual.view(),
            (frozen.clone() * 1.0e4).view(),
            (target.clone() * 1.0e4).view(),
        )
        .expect("scaled KKT audit");
        assert!((base_kkt - scaled_kkt).abs() <= f64::EPSILON.sqrt());
    }
}

fn constant_gaussian_standard_fit(
    request: &StandardFitRequest<'_>,
) -> Result<StandardFitResult, WorkflowError> {
    if !request.family.is_gaussian_identity() || request.y.is_empty() {
        return Err(WorkflowError::InvalidConfig {
            reason: "constant Gaussian shortcut requires a non-empty Gaussian identity request"
                .to_string(),
        });
    }
    if request.y.iter().any(|value| !value.is_finite())
        || request.offset.iter().any(|value| !value.is_finite())
        || request
            .weights
            .iter()
            .any(|value| !value.is_finite() || *value < 0.0)
    {
        return Err(WorkflowError::InvalidConfig {
            reason: "constant Gaussian shortcut requires finite response, offset, and non-negative weights"
                .to_string(),
        });
    }
    let weight_sum = request.weights.sum();
    if !(weight_sum.is_finite() && weight_sum > 0.0) {
        return Err(WorkflowError::InvalidConfig {
            reason: "constant Gaussian shortcut requires positive total weight".to_string(),
        });
    }
    // Dispatch proved every represented `y - offset` value is identical. Use
    // that exact value instead of recomputing it as a weighted mean: the latter
    // can introduce summation round-off and contradict the shortcut's defining
    // residual≡0 invariant even though the mathematical mean is unchanged.
    let intercept = request.y[0] - request.offset[0];
    let design =
        build_term_collection_design(request.data.view(), &request.spec).map_err(|err| {
            WorkflowError::InvalidConfig {
                reason: format!("constant Gaussian shortcut could not rebuild design: {err}"),
            }
        })?;
    let p = design.design.ncols();
    let mut beta = Array1::<f64>::zeros(p);
    for col in design.intercept_range.clone() {
        if col < p {
            beta[col] = intercept;
        }
    }

    // A constant response is fit EXACTLY by the intercept (residual ≡ 0), so the
    // fitted β is invariant to the smoothing parameters: every penalized wiggle
    // is unsupported and shrinks out. But a fit is only usable if it carries a
    // complete inference bundle — the penalized Hessian, EDF, dispersion, and
    // covariance that null-space metadata, `edf_total()`, prediction bands, and
    // the persistence payload all read. The prior shortcut returned `inference:
    // None`/`geometry: None`, so the model builder then hard-failed with
    // "null-space Hessian logdet requires fitted penalized Hessian" (#2254) even
    // for `y ~ 1`. We assemble that bundle here at a fully-smoothed λ. Because the
    // residual is exactly zero the estimated dispersion φ̂ = 0, so every
    // coefficient covariance is exactly zero (no ill-conditioned inverse needed).
    let x_dense = design.design.to_dense();
    let weights = request.weights.as_ref().clone();
    let xtwx = gam_linalg::faer_ndarray::fast_xt_diag_x(&x_dense, &weights);
    let n_penalties = design.penalties.len();
    let mut unit_penalty = Array2::<f64>::zeros((p, p));
    for (penalty_index, block) in design.penalties.iter().enumerate() {
        let r = block.col_range.clone();
        if r.is_empty()
            || r.end > p
            || block.local.nrows() != r.len()
            || block.local.ncols() != r.len()
        {
            return Err(WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed {
                reason: format!(
                    "constant Gaussian shortcut received malformed penalty {penalty_index}: \
                     range={r:?}, local={}x{}, design width={p}",
                    block.local.nrows(),
                    block.local.ncols()
                ),
            });
        }
        if block.local.iter().any(|value| !value.is_finite()) {
            return Err(WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed {
                reason: format!(
                    "constant Gaussian shortcut received non-finite penalty {penalty_index}"
                ),
            });
        }
        unit_penalty
            .slice_mut(ndarray::s![r.clone(), r])
            .scaled_add(1.0, &block.local);
    }

    // This fit is the analytic λ→∞ boundary: every direction in range(S) is a
    // hard constraint and only null(S) carries EDF. Arrays cannot store an
    // infinite precision because `∞·0` is NaN, so represent that boundary at
    // floating-point resolution. Choose λ from the ACTUAL penalty spectrum:
    // the weakest numerically non-null penalty direction must dominate the
    // largest data-information scale by 1/sqrt(ε). Unlike the former `1e10`
    // multiplier, this is invariant to rescaling either X'WX or S and contains
    // no model-specific tuning knob.
    let lambda_full = if n_penalties == 0 {
        0.0
    } else {
        use gam_linalg::faer_ndarray::FaerEigh;
        let symmetric_penalty = (&unit_penalty + &unit_penalty.t().to_owned()) * 0.5;
        let (penalty_eigenvalues, _) =
            symmetric_penalty.eigh(faer::Side::Lower).map_err(|error| {
                WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed {
                    reason: format!(
                        "constant Gaussian shortcut could not resolve the penalty spectrum: {error}"
                    ),
                }
            })?;
        let largest_penalty = penalty_eigenvalues
            .iter()
            .fold(0.0_f64, |largest, &value| largest.max(value.abs()));
        if !(largest_penalty.is_finite() && largest_penalty > 0.0) {
            return Err(WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed {
                reason: "constant Gaussian shortcut received penalties with zero numerical rank"
                    .to_string(),
            });
        }
        let rank_floor = f64::EPSILON * (p.max(1) as f64) * largest_penalty;
        if let Some(&negative) = penalty_eigenvalues
            .iter()
            .filter(|&&value| value < -rank_floor)
            .min_by(|left, right| left.total_cmp(right))
        {
            return Err(WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed {
                reason: format!(
                    "constant Gaussian shortcut received a non-PSD penalty \
                     (minimum eigenvalue {negative:.6e}, numerical floor {rank_floor:.6e})"
                ),
            });
        }
        let weakest_penalty = penalty_eigenvalues
            .iter()
            .copied()
            .filter(|&value| value > rank_floor)
            .min_by(|left, right| left.total_cmp(right))
            .ok_or_else(|| WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed {
                reason: "constant Gaussian shortcut could not identify a penalized direction"
                    .to_string(),
            })?;
        // The induced infinity norm bounds the spectral norm of symmetric
        // X'WX. A diagonal-only scale can underestimate a highly correlated
        // design by O(p), leaving some data-informed direction insufficiently
        // constrained at the purported λ→∞ boundary.
        let information_scale = xtwx
            .rows()
            .into_iter()
            .map(|row| row.iter().map(|value| value.abs()).sum::<f64>())
            .fold(0.0_f64, f64::max)
            .max(f64::MIN_POSITIVE);
        let lambda = information_scale / (f64::EPSILON.sqrt() * weakest_penalty);
        if !(lambda.is_finite() && lambda > 0.0) {
            return Err(WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed {
                reason: format!(
                    "constant Gaussian shortcut produced invalid boundary precision {lambda}"
                ),
            });
        }
        lambda
    };
    let mut penalized_hessian = xtwx.clone();
    penalized_hessian.scaled_add(lambda_full, &unit_penalty);
    // Symmetrize defensively against accumulated round-off before the Cholesky.
    penalized_hessian = (&penalized_hessian + &penalized_hessian.t()) * 0.5;
    // Effective degrees of freedom from the influence matrix `F = H⁻¹ XᵀWX`,
    // decomposed per penalty by the SAME trace formula the standard REML path
    // (`estimate.rs`) and the survival fast-path (`survival_transformation_edf`)
    // use: `tr_k = λ·tr(H⁻¹ S_k)`, `edf_k = block_cols_k − tr_k`, and
    // `edf_total = p − Σ_k tr_k = tr(F)`. Producing the WHOLE bundle here — not
    // just the scalar total — is what makes the fit self-consistent: `edf_by_block`
    // aligns 1:1 with `lambdas` (a length the constructor validates), the raw
    // shrinkage traces feed per-term EDF, and `coefficient_influence = F` is the
    // authoritative leverage matrix every downstream EDF consumer prefers. At the
    // fully-smoothed λ each penalized direction is absorbed (`tr_k → rank(S_k)`),
    // so every block collapses onto its own penalty null space — the honest
    // complexity of a wiggle-free fit, and exactly the λ→∞ limit of the
    // near-constant fit that already works.
    let (edf_total, edf_by_block, penalty_block_trace, coefficient_influence) = {
        use gam_linalg::faer_ndarray::FaerCholesky;
        let chol = penalized_hessian
            .cholesky(faer::Side::Lower)
            .map_err(|error| WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed {
                reason: format!(
                    "constant Gaussian boundary precision is not positive definite: {error}"
                ),
            })?;
        {
            // F = H⁻¹ XᵀWX. Generally NOT symmetric (a product of two
            // symmetric matrices); it must be stored as-is so `H·F = XᵀWX`
            // and per-term `tr(F_jj)` stay exact (see estimate.rs / #1027).
            let influence = chol.solve_mat(&xtwx);
            let mut edf_by_block = vec![0.0_f64; n_penalties];
            let mut penalty_block_trace = vec![0.0_f64; n_penalties];
            for (kk, block) in design.penalties.iter().enumerate() {
                let r = block.col_range.clone();
                let block_cols = r.len();
                // tr(H⁻¹ S_k): solve `H Z = S_k` (embedded in the full p×block
                // layout) and read the block diagonal of the solution.
                let mut rhs = Array2::<f64>::zeros((p, block_cols));
                for c in 0..block_cols {
                    for rr in 0..block_cols {
                        rhs[[r.start + rr, c]] = block.local[[rr, c]];
                    }
                }
                let sol = chol.solve_mat(&rhs);
                let mut trace = 0.0_f64;
                for j in 0..block_cols {
                    trace += sol[[r.start + j, j]];
                }
                let lam_trace = (lambda_full * trace).clamp(0.0, block_cols as f64);
                penalty_block_trace[kk] = lam_trace;
                edf_by_block[kk] = (block_cols as f64 - lam_trace).clamp(0.0, block_cols as f64);
            }
            let edf_total = influence
                .diag()
                .iter()
                .copied()
                .sum::<f64>()
                .clamp(0.0, p as f64);
            (
                edf_total,
                edf_by_block,
                penalty_block_trace,
                Some(influence),
            )
        }
    };
    // IRLS working response for the identity link is the raw response y (η
    // absorbs the offset); the working weights are the prior weights.
    let working_response = request.y.as_ref().clone();
    let lambdas = Array1::<f64>::from_elem(n_penalties, lambda_full);
    let log_lambdas = lambdas.mapv(|v| v.max(f64::MIN_POSITIVE).ln());
    let penalized_hessian_precision =
        gam_problem::dispersion_cov::UnscaledPrecision::wrap(penalized_hessian.clone());
    let inference = gam_solve::estimate::FitInference {
        edf_by_block,
        penalty_block_trace,
        edf_total,
        smoothing_correction: None,
        smoothing_correction_method: None,
        smoothing_correction_first_order: None,
        smoothing_correction_method_first_order: None,
        penalized_hessian: penalized_hessian_precision.clone(),
        reparam_qs: None,
        // Exact fit ⇒ residual variance is exactly zero.
        dispersion: gam_solve::estimate::Dispersion::ZERO_ESTIMATE,
        beta_covariance: Some(gam_problem::dispersion_cov::PhiScaledCovariance::wrap(
            ndarray::Array2::<f64>::zeros((p, p)),
        )),
        beta_standard_errors: Some(Array1::<f64>::zeros(p)),
        beta_covariance_corrected: None,
        beta_standard_errors_corrected: None,
        beta_covariance_frequentist: None,
        coefficient_influence,
        weighted_gram: Some(xtwx),
        bias_correction_beta: None,
        bias_correction_jacobian: None,
    };
    let geometry = Some(gam_solve::estimate::FitGeometry {
        coefficient_gauge: gam_problem::gauge::Gauge::identity(&[beta.len()]),
        penalized_hessian: penalized_hessian_precision,
        working: Some(gam_solve::estimate::WorkingGeometry {
            weights,
            response: working_response,
        }),
    });
    let fit = gam_solve::estimate::UnifiedFitResult::try_from_parts(
        gam_solve::estimate::UnifiedFitResultParts {
            blocks: vec![gam_solve::estimate::FittedBlock {
                beta: beta.clone(),
                role: gam_problem::BlockRole::Mean,
                edf: edf_total,
                lambdas: lambdas.clone(),
            }],
            log_lambdas,
            lambdas,
            likelihood_family: Some(request.family.clone()),
            likelihood_scale: gam_problem::LikelihoodScaleMetadata::ProfiledGaussian,
            log_likelihood_normalization: gam_problem::LogLikelihoodNormalization::UserProvided,
            log_likelihood: 0.0,
            deviance: 0.0,
            reml_score: 0.0,
            stable_penalty_term: 0.0,
            penalized_objective: 0.0,
            used_device: false,
            outer_iterations: 0,
            outer_converged: true,
            outer_gradient_norm: Some(0.0),
            standard_deviation: 0.0,
            covariance_conditional: Some(ndarray::Array2::<f64>::zeros((p, p))),
            covariance_corrected: None,
            inference: Some(inference),
            fitted_link: gam_solve::estimate::FittedLinkState::Standard(None),
            geometry,
            block_states: Vec::new(),
            pirls_status: gam_solve::pirls::PirlsStatus::Converged,
            max_abs_eta: intercept.abs(),
            constraint_kkt: None,
            artifacts: gam_solve::estimate::FitArtifacts {
                pirls: None,
                ..Default::default()
            },
            inner_cycles: 0,
        },
    )
    .map_err(|err| WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed {
        reason: format!("constant Gaussian shortcut produced invalid fit: {err}"),
    })?;
    let resolvedspec =
        freeze_term_collection_from_design(&request.spec, &design).map_err(|err| {
            WorkflowError::InvalidConfig {
                reason: format!("constant Gaussian shortcut could not freeze design: {err}"),
            }
        })?;
    Ok(StandardFitResult {
        fit,
        design,
        resolvedspec,
        adaptive_spatial_terms: adaptive_spatial_term_mask(&request.spec),
        adaptive_spatial_center_counts: adaptive_spatial_center_counts(&request.spec),
        adaptive_diagnostics: None,
        kappa_timing: None,
        saved_link_state: gam_solve::estimate::FittedLinkState::Standard(None),
        wiggle_knots: None,
        wiggle_degree: None,
        wiggle_penalty_metadata: None,
        wiggle_saved_warp_beta: None,
        wiggle_saved_index_shift: None,
    })
}

fn gaussian_response_is_constant(request: &StandardFitRequest<'_>) -> bool {
    if !request.family.is_gaussian_identity() || request.y.is_empty() {
        return false;
    }
    // An inhomogeneous anchor adds a data-dependent affine channel only when
    // the term collection is realized. The shortcut predicate intentionally
    // does not build that design, so it cannot prove `y - user_offset -
    // anchor_offset` is constant. Keep such models on the ordinary exact fit
    // path; treating the user offset alone as complete would mint a false
    // zero-residual fit.
    if gam_terms::smooth::term_collection_has_nonzero_anchor(&request.spec) {
        return false;
    }
    // The intercept-only shortcut is exact — residual ≡ 0 — precisely when the
    // OFFSET-ADJUSTED response `y − offset` is constant: then `η = offset +
    // intercept = y` at every row. Testing the raw `y` alone would (a) miss an
    // exact fit where a varying offset cancels a varying `y`, and (b) wrongly
    // fire on a constant `y` under a varying offset, where the fit is NOT exact
    // and the zero-dispersion inference the shortcut mints would be invalid.
    if request.y.len() != request.offset.len() {
        return false;
    }
    let mut adjusted = request.y.iter().zip(request.offset.iter());
    let Some((&first_y, &first_offset)) = adjusted.next() else {
        return false;
    };
    let first = first_y - first_offset;
    if !first.is_finite() {
        return false;
    }
    for (&yi, &oi) in adjusted {
        let value = yi - oi;
        if !value.is_finite() || value != first {
            return false;
        }
    }
    true
}

pub fn fit_from_formula(
    formula: &str,
    data: &Dataset,
    config: &FitConfig,
) -> Result<FitResult, WorkflowError> {
    fit_from_formula_with_notes(formula, data, config).map(|outcome| outcome.result)
}

/// A fitted formula result together with advisories emitted by its one
/// authoritative materialization pass.
pub struct FormulaFitResult {
    pub result: FitResult,
    pub inference_notes: Vec<String>,
}

/// Resolve, materialize, and fit a formula without making front ends repeat any
/// model construction. Unlike `fit_from_formula`, this service also returns the
/// materializer's user-facing advisories for CLI/Python presentation.
pub fn fit_from_formula_with_notes(
    formula: &str,
    data: &Dataset,
    config: &FitConfig,
) -> Result<FormulaFitResult, WorkflowError> {
    let mut config = config
        .clone()
        .resolve()
        .map_err(|reason| WorkflowError::InvalidConfig { reason })?;
    // Only this entry point owns the fit→measure→expand loop. Raw public
    // `materialize()` callers receive the ordinary fully provisioned basis;
    // activating the structural start without an owner would strand them in an
    // under-resolved function space.
    config.spatial_center_counts = Some(Vec::new());
    let current = fit_from_formula_once_with_notes(formula, data, &config)?;
    finish_adaptive_spatial_fit(formula, data, config, current)
}

/// Fit an already-materialized standard request, then continue through the
/// canonical saturation-driven spatial-resolution loop.
///
/// Front ends that must inspect the request variant for payload dispatch use
/// this seam so the dispatch materialization is also the first estimator
/// materialization. Re-entering [`fit_from_formula_with_notes`] after matching a
/// `Standard` request would build and discard one complete spatial basis before
/// the real fit (#1689), duplicating construction work and peak memory on the
/// Python path.
pub fn fit_materialized_standard_with_notes(
    formula: &str,
    data: &Dataset,
    config: &FitConfig,
    request: StandardFitRequest<'_>,
    inference_notes: Vec<String>,
) -> Result<FormulaFitResult, WorkflowError> {
    let mut config = config
        .clone()
        .resolve()
        .map_err(|reason| WorkflowError::InvalidConfig { reason })?;
    config.spatial_center_counts = Some(Vec::new());
    let current = fit_materialized_once_with_notes(MaterializedModel {
        request: FitRequest::Standard(request),
        inference_notes,
    })?;
    finish_adaptive_spatial_fit(formula, data, config, current)
}

fn finish_adaptive_spatial_fit(
    formula: &str,
    data: &Dataset,
    mut config: FitConfig,
    mut current: FormulaFitResult,
) -> Result<FormulaFitResult, WorkflowError> {
    loop {
        let Some(current_standard) = standard_result(&current) else {
            return Ok(current);
        };
        // Saturation is assessed at the same outer-optimization tolerance that
        // certified this formula fit. `canonical_standard_fit_options` is the
        // single policy source for that tolerance, so the expansion decision
        // cannot drift between the CLI and library entry points.
        let standard_options =
            canonical_standard_fit_options(&config, StandardFitOptionsInputs::default());
        // A rho-independent shrinkage floor prevents EDF from approaching the
        // algebraic ceiling more closely than that floor even when lambda tends
        // to zero. Include it in the resolution tolerance; otherwise the
        // canonical 1e-6 floor would make a 1e-10 saturation predicate
        // unreachable and the grow loop would remain dormant in production.
        let resolution_tol = standard_options
            .tol
            .max(standard_options.penalty_shrinkage_floor.unwrap_or(0.0));
        let candidates =
            adaptive_spatial_candidates(current_standard, data.values.nrows(), resolution_tol)?;
        if candidates.is_empty() {
            return Ok(current);
        }

        // Grow one saturated term at a time in stable formula order. The next
        // loop iteration re-fits and re-measures every term, so interactions
        // between smooths are handled from a converged joint optimum instead
        // of applying several decisions made against stale EDF evidence.
        let term_count = candidates.term_count;
        let candidate = candidates
            .terms
            .into_iter()
            .next()
            .expect("non-empty adaptive candidate set");
        // Expansion is mandatory once a certified fit is saturated, so the
        // old design/covariance can be released before constructing the larger
        // one. Keeping both complete fits alive would make adaptive resolution
        // itself an avoidable peak-memory multiplier.
        drop(current);
        let mut candidate_config = config.clone();
        let center_counts = candidate_config
            .spatial_center_counts
            .get_or_insert_with(Vec::new);
        if center_counts.len() < term_count {
            center_counts.resize(term_count, None);
        }
        center_counts[candidate.term_index] = Some(candidate.proposed_centers);
        let candidate_outcome = fit_from_formula_once_with_notes(formula, data, &candidate_config)
            .map_err(|error| WorkflowError::SpatialUnderresolved {
                term: candidate.term_name.clone(),
                current_centers: candidate.current_centers,
                attempted_centers: candidate.proposed_centers,
                reason: error.to_string(),
            })?;
        if standard_result(&candidate_outcome).is_none() {
            return Err(WorkflowError::SpatialUnderresolved {
                term: candidate.term_name.clone(),
                current_centers: candidate.current_centers,
                attempted_centers: candidate.proposed_centers,
                reason: "the certification refit changed estimator representation".to_string(),
            });
        }

        // The current fit's EDF reached its realizable function-space ceiling;
        // once the larger fit is certified it is the estimator state to resume
        // from. Comparing raw REML/LAML values across different center charts
        // is not a valid rejection gate (and a strict `<` accepts numerical
        // noise), so resolution growth is controlled solely by the next
        // converged fit's saturation evidence.
        config = candidate_config;
        current = candidate_outcome;
    }
}

struct AdaptiveSpatialCandidates {
    term_count: usize,
    terms: Vec<AdaptiveSpatialCandidate>,
}

impl AdaptiveSpatialCandidates {
    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
        self.terms.is_empty()
    }
}

struct AdaptiveSpatialCandidate {
    term_index: usize,
    term_name: String,
    current_centers: usize,
    proposed_centers: usize,
}

#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
enum AdaptiveCenterDecision {
    Certified,
    Expand(usize),
    Exhausted,
}

fn adaptive_center_decision(
    current_centers: usize,
    ceiling_centers: usize,
    edf: f64,
    realized_width: usize,
    nullspace_dim: usize,
    resolution_tol: f64,
) -> AdaptiveCenterDecision {
    if !gam_terms::basis::basis_is_saturated(edf, realized_width, nullspace_dim, resolution_tol) {
        return AdaptiveCenterDecision::Certified;
    }
    match gam_terms::basis::expanded_num_centers(current_centers, ceiling_centers) {
        Some(proposed) => AdaptiveCenterDecision::Expand(proposed),
        None => AdaptiveCenterDecision::Exhausted,
    }
}

fn standard_result(outcome: &FormulaFitResult) -> Option<&StandardFitResult> {
    match &outcome.result {
        FitResult::Standard(result) => Some(result),
        _ => None,
    }
}

fn adaptive_spatial_candidates(
    result: &StandardFitResult,
    n_rows: usize,
    resolution_tol: f64,
) -> Result<AdaptiveSpatialCandidates, WorkflowError> {
    let term_count = result.resolvedspec.smooth_terms.len();
    if result.adaptive_spatial_terms.len() != term_count
        || result.adaptive_spatial_center_counts.len() != term_count
        || result.design.smooth.terms.len() != term_count
    {
        return Err(WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed {
            reason: format!(
                "adaptive spatial provenance mismatch: resolved terms={term_count}, mask={}, \
                 requested counts={}, realized terms={}",
                result.adaptive_spatial_terms.len(),
                result.adaptive_spatial_center_counts.len(),
                result.design.smooth.terms.len(),
            ),
        });
    }

    let smooth_offset = result
        .design
        .design
        .ncols()
        .saturating_sub(result.design.smooth.total_smooth_cols());
    let mut candidates = Vec::new();
    for term_index in 0..term_count {
        let realized = &result.design.smooth.terms[term_index];
        if result.adaptive_spatial_terms[term_index]
            && let Some(current_centers) = result.adaptive_spatial_center_counts[term_index]
        {
            let penalty_range = result
                .design
                .smooth_term_penalty_range(term_index)
                .map_err(|reason| WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed { reason })?
                .ok_or_else(|| WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed {
                    reason: format!(
                        "adaptive spatial term '{}' emitted no penalty block",
                        result.resolvedspec.smooth_terms[term_index].name,
                    ),
                })?;
            let spatial_dimension = result.resolvedspec.smooth_terms[term_index]
                .basis
                .structural_feature_cols()
                .len();
            if spatial_dimension == 0 {
                return Err(WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed {
                    reason: format!(
                        "adaptive spatial term '{}' has no structural feature columns",
                        result.resolvedspec.smooth_terms[term_index].name,
                    ),
                });
            }
            // Tiny samples can force the materializer's exact polynomial floor
            // above the generic `n / 4` conditioning ceiling. The realized
            // request is already the smallest admissible basis in that case, so
            // it is also the ceiling; never report a nonsensical attempted
            // center count below the basis that just converged.
            let ceiling_centers = gam_terms::basis::default_num_centers(n_rows, spatial_dimension)
                .max(current_centers);
            let global_range = (smooth_offset + realized.coeff_range.start)
                ..(smooth_offset + realized.coeff_range.end);
            let edf =
                result
                    .fit
                    .per_term_edf(global_range, penalty_range.start, penalty_range.len());
            let nullspace_dim = realized.wald_unpenalized_dim();
            match adaptive_center_decision(
                current_centers,
                ceiling_centers,
                edf,
                realized.coeff_range.len(),
                nullspace_dim,
                resolution_tol,
            ) {
                AdaptiveCenterDecision::Certified => {}
                AdaptiveCenterDecision::Expand(proposed_centers) => {
                    candidates.push(AdaptiveSpatialCandidate {
                        term_index,
                        term_name: result.resolvedspec.smooth_terms[term_index].name.clone(),
                        current_centers,
                        proposed_centers,
                    });
                }
                AdaptiveCenterDecision::Exhausted => {
                    return Err(WorkflowError::SpatialUnderresolved {
                        term: result.resolvedspec.smooth_terms[term_index].name.clone(),
                        current_centers,
                        attempted_centers: ceiling_centers,
                        reason: format!(
                            "term EDF {edf:.6} remains at its realized basis ceiling with all \
                             {ceiling_centers} validated default centers already requested"
                        ),
                    });
                }
            }
        }
    }
    Ok(AdaptiveSpatialCandidates {
        term_count,
        terms: candidates,
    })
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod adaptive_spatial_resolution_tests {
    use super::{AdaptiveCenterDecision, adaptive_center_decision};

    #[test]
    fn unsaturated_basis_is_certified_without_a_probe_refit() {
        assert_eq!(
            adaptive_center_decision(8, 100, 5.0, 10, 2, 1.0e-6),
            AdaptiveCenterDecision::Certified
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn saturated_basis_expands_geometrically_and_respects_validated_ceiling() {
        assert_eq!(
            adaptive_center_decision(8, 100, 10.0, 10, 2, 1.0e-6),
            AdaptiveCenterDecision::Expand(16)
        );
        assert_eq!(
            adaptive_center_decision(64, 100, 10.0, 10, 2, 1.0e-6),
            AdaptiveCenterDecision::Expand(100)
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn saturated_basis_at_validated_ceiling_is_typed_exhaustion() {
        assert_eq!(
            adaptive_center_decision(100, 100, 10.0, 10, 2, 1.0e-6),
            AdaptiveCenterDecision::Exhausted
        );
    }
}

fn fit_from_formula_once_with_notes(
    formula: &str,
    data: &Dataset,
    config: &FitConfig,
) -> Result<FormulaFitResult, WorkflowError> {
    // Expectile regression (Newey–Powell asymmetric least squares): when the
    // family resolves to "expectile", the τ-expectile of `y | x` is the
    // minimizer of `Σ wᵢ(τ)·(yᵢ − μᵢ)²`, `wᵢ(τ) = τ` if `yᵢ > μᵢ` else `1 − τ`
    // — the smooth analogue of the τ-quantile. The minimizer is a Least
    // Asymmetrically Weighted Squares (LAWS) fixed point: iterate the penalized
    // Gaussian-identity GAM with `wᵢ(τ)` recomputed from the current `μᵢ` until
    // the residual-sign pattern stabilizes. REML λ-selection runs inside each
    // inner Gaussian solve, so every gam smooth/tensor/spatial basis becomes a
    // penalized expectile smooth with data-driven smoothing for free. This is a
    // genuine estimator route, not a silent swap: it fires only on the explicit
    // `family = "expectile"`. Every other family falls through unchanged.
    if let Some(result) = fit_expectile_if_requested(formula, data, &config)? {
        return Ok(FormulaFitResult {
            result: FitResult::Standard(result),
            inference_notes: Vec::new(),
        });
    }
    let mat = materialize(formula, data, &config)?;
    fit_materialized_once_with_notes(mat)
}

fn fit_materialized_once_with_notes(
    mat: MaterializedModel<'_>,
) -> Result<FormulaFitResult, WorkflowError> {
    let inference_notes = mat.inference_notes;
    // Exact O(n) spline-scan fast path (#1030): when the materialized request
    // is the single 1-D Gaussian-identity penalized-smooth shape the
    // state-space scan solves exactly, route through it and return the
    // scan-bearing model directly — the same penalized posterior at O(n) per
    // λ-trial instead of the dense design/Gram route. Detection is structural
    // and conservative (see `spline_scan_fast_path`); every other shape falls
    // through to the dense `fit_model` path unchanged. Mirrors the CLI
    // (main.rs run_fit) and FFI consumers, which build the persistence payload
    // from this same `SplineScanFit`.
    if let FitRequest::Standard(request) = &mat.request {
        if gaussian_response_is_constant(request) {
            return constant_gaussian_standard_fit(request).map(|result| FormulaFitResult {
                result: FitResult::Standard(result),
                inference_notes,
            });
        }
        if let Some(inputs) = spline_scan_fast_path(request) {
            let scan = gam_solve::spline_scan::fit_spline_scan(
                &inputs.x,
                &inputs.y,
                &inputs.w,
                inputs.order,
            )
            .map_err(|reason| WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed { reason })?;
            return Ok(FormulaFitResult {
                result: FitResult::SplineScan(scan),
                inference_notes,
            });
        }
        // O(n log n) multiresolution residual-cascade fast path (#1032): a
        // scattered low-d Gaussian-identity Duchon/Matérn smooth past the
        // dense-kernel cliff. UNLIKE the scan, the cascade is a DIFFERENT
        // posterior from the dense radial term, so it only ever fires as an
        // explicit alternative estimator on the exact structural signature
        // (`residual_cascade_fast_path`) AND when the in-cascade quasi-uniformity
        // guard certifies the metric — a rejected metric or any ineligible shape
        // falls through to the dense `fit_model` path (a genuine estimator
        // choice, never a silent swap). The save paths build the persistence
        // payload from this `ResidualCascadeFit`'s `to_state` snapshot.
        if let Some(inputs) = residual_cascade_fast_path(request) {
            let coord_refs: Vec<&[f64]> = inputs.coords.iter().map(Vec::as_slice).collect();
            if let Ok(fit) = gam_solve::residual_cascade::fit_residual_cascade(
                &coord_refs,
                &inputs.y,
                &inputs.w,
                &inputs.metric,
                inputs.sobolev_s,
            ) {
                return Ok(FormulaFitResult {
                    result: FitResult::ResidualCascade(fit),
                    inference_notes,
                });
            }
            // The quasi-uniformity guard (caveat 2) or any degenerate-design
            // signal surfaces as a build/solve error; fall through to the dense
            // kernel path rather than failing the fit outright.
        }
    }
    // `fit_model` already returns `WorkflowError` end-to-end; propagate it
    // directly instead of stringifying then re-wrapping.
    fit_model(mat.request).map(|result| FormulaFitResult {
        result,
        inference_notes,
    })
}

/// THE single dispatch seam for the expectile (Newey–Powell LAWS) family.
///
/// Returns `Ok(Some(result))` with the converged τ-expectile as an ordinary
/// [`StandardFitResult`] when `config.family` selects the expectile family
/// (`"expectile"` or `"expectile(τ)"`, optionally pinned by
/// [`FitConfig::expectile_tau`]), `Ok(None)` for every other family — in which
/// case the caller runs its normal materialize/`fit_model` path — and `Err` on a
/// malformed expectile request or an inner-fit failure.
///
/// Every public entry point that resolves a family routes through this seam
/// *before* materializing: the in-process [`fit_from_formula`], the Python FFI
/// (`gam-pyffi`), and the `gam` CLI. Centralizing the dispatch here is what makes
/// the estimator reachable from every interface instead of only the library
/// call — and what prevents the class of bug where a newly-added outer estimator
/// is wired into one entry point and silently bypassed by the others (#1777).
/// The returned [`StandardFitResult`] carries the full design / resolved spec /
/// fit, so each caller builds its persistence payload from it exactly as it does
/// for any other standard fit.
pub fn fit_expectile_if_requested(
    formula: &str,
    data: &Dataset,
    config: &FitConfig,
) -> Result<Option<StandardFitResult>, WorkflowError> {
    match expectile_tau_for_config(config)? {
        Some(tau) => Ok(Some(fit_expectile_laws(formula, data, config, tau)?)),
        None => Ok(None),
    }
}

/// Least Asymmetrically Weighted Squares (LAWS) driver for expectile GAMs.
///
/// The τ-expectile surface minimizes `Σ wᵢ(τ)·(yᵢ − μᵢ)²` with the residual-
/// sign asymmetric weight `wᵢ(τ)`. The asymmetric loss is convex and
/// continuously differentiable: each side of zero is a positive quadratic and
/// both one-sided derivatives agree at zero. LAWS solves the penalized WLS
/// problem with weights frozen at the current sign pattern, then recomputes the
/// pattern. A returned estimator must satisfy the KKT residual of the original
/// asymmetric objective; a repeated sign state or an iteration cap is only
/// termination evidence, never an estimator-selection rule.
///
/// Each inner solve is the FULL standard Gaussian-identity GAM: any basis,
/// tensor, spatial smooth, by-variable, random effect, plus REML λ-selection on
/// the current asymmetric weights. The returned fit is an ordinary
/// [`FitResult::Standard`] whose coefficients ARE the penalized τ-expectile —
/// every downstream consumer (predict, posterior bands, persistence) works
/// unchanged. The reported scale is the asymmetric working variance, so
/// expectile standard errors are the sandwich-free Gaussian-form bands of the
/// converged weighted problem (a deliberate first-rung choice; see #1100).
fn fit_expectile_laws(
    formula: &str,
    data: &Dataset,
    config: &FitConfig,
    tau: f64,
) -> Result<StandardFitResult, WorkflowError> {
    if config.frailty.is_active() {
        return Err(WorkflowError::InvalidConfig {
            reason: "expectile regression does not support frailty; use a survival/frailty-aware family instead"
                .to_string(),
        });
    }

    // Inner fits are ordinary Gaussian-identity GAMs; the τ asymmetry lives
    // entirely in the per-iteration prior weights this driver injects.
    let gaussian_config = FitConfig {
        family: Some("gaussian".to_string()),
        link: Some("identity".to_string()),
        expectile_tau: None,
        // The inner Gaussian-identity design carries no frailty.
        frailty: FrailtySpec::None,
        ..config.clone()
    };

    // Materialize once to capture the fixed training design, response, offset,
    // and base prior weights. The design (basis, penalties, identifiability
    // transforms) does not depend on the prior weights, so it is reused across
    // every LAWS iteration; only the weight vector and the resulting β change.
    let base_mat = materialize(formula, data, &gaussian_config)?;
    let FitRequest::Standard(base_request) = base_mat.request else {
        return Err(WorkflowError::InvalidConfig {
            reason: "expectile regression is only defined for standard (non-survival, \
                     non-location-scale) responses"
                .to_string(),
        });
    };
    let StandardFitRequest {
        data: design_data,
        y,
        weights: base_weights,
        offset,
        spec,
        family: materialized_family,
        estimate_tweedie_p: _,
        options,
        kappa_options,
        wiggle,
        coefficient_groups,
        penalty_block_gamma_priors,
        latent_coord,
    } = base_request;
    // The materializer already resolved the inner family to Gaussian-identity
    // from `gaussian_config`; assert it so a future materializer change that
    // silently picked a different family for `"gaussian"` is caught here rather
    // than producing a non-expectile fit.
    if !materialized_family.is_gaussian_identity() {
        return Err(WorkflowError::InvalidConfig {
            reason: format!(
                "expectile LAWS requires a Gaussian-identity inner family; materializer produced {}",
                materialized_family.name()
            ),
        });
    }

    if wiggle.is_some() || latent_coord.is_some() {
        return Err(WorkflowError::InvalidConfig {
            reason: "expectile regression does not support flexible-link wiggle or latent \
                     coordinates"
                .to_string(),
        });
    }

    let n = y.len();
    let gaussian_family = LikelihoodSpec::gaussian_identity();
    // Cold start: unweighted base weights ⇒ the first inner fit is the OLS
    // mean GAM, the natural warm start for any τ.
    let mut weights = Arc::clone(&base_weights);
    // The LAWS map is deterministic given a sign pattern. Brent detection
    // proves recurrence using one O(n) sign checkpoint; no iteration-count
    // multiple of the training data is retained.
    let mut sign_cycle = ExpectileSignCycle::default();
    // Evidence for the typed exhaustion error: (dimensionless KKT residual,
    // configured KKT bound) of the final uncertified iterate.
    let mut last_kkt = (f64::NAN, f64::NAN);
    let mut last_rho_checkpoint = Vec::new();

    // Reuse the request's explicit outer-work budget; LAWS does not introduce a
    // second hidden iteration knob. The budget is a safety guard only: hitting
    // it without the certificate below is typed nonconvergence (SPEC rule 20).
    let max_laws_iters = options.max_iter;
    if max_laws_iters == 0 || !(options.tol.is_finite() && options.tol > 0.0) {
        return Err(WorkflowError::InvalidConfig {
            reason: format!(
                "expectile LAWS requires a positive iteration budget and finite positive KKT \
                 tolerance; got max_iter={max_laws_iters}, tol={}",
                options.tol,
            ),
        });
    }

    for iteration in 1..=max_laws_iters {
        let request = StandardFitRequest {
            data: design_data.clone(),
            y: Arc::clone(&y),
            weights: Arc::clone(&weights),
            offset: Arc::clone(&offset),
            spec: spec.clone(),
            family: gaussian_family.clone(),
            // Expectile LAWS fits a Gaussian-identity inner family; no Tweedie
            // power to estimate (#2026).
            estimate_tweedie_p: false,
            options: options.clone(),
            kappa_options: kappa_options.clone(),
            wiggle: None,
            coefficient_groups: coefficient_groups.clone(),
            penalty_block_gamma_priors: penalty_block_gamma_priors.clone(),
            latent_coord: None,
        };
        let result = fit_standard_model(request)
            .map_err(|reason| WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed { reason })?;
        // Training-scale fitted mean μ = X·β (identity link, zero-checked
        // offset folded by the design path). The design columns match the
        // combined coefficient vector exactly (the same contract `predict`
        // and the safety tests rely on).
        let mu = result
            .design
            .apply(result.fit.beta.view())
            .map_err(|error| WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed {
                reason: format!("expectile LAWS could not evaluate fitted design: {error}"),
            })?;
        if mu.len() != n {
            return Err(WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed {
                reason: format!(
                    "expectile LAWS: fitted mean length {} disagrees with response length {n}",
                    mu.len()
                ),
            });
        }
        // `design.apply` already folds the design's fixed affine channel
        // (non-zero endpoint anchor, #2297) into `X·β`, so only the user offset
        // is added; adding `affine_offset` again would double-count the pin and
        // bias every expectile working weight for an anchored smooth.
        let mut mu_off = mu;
        mu_off += offset.as_ref();

        let sign: Vec<bool> = (0..n).map(|i| y[i] > mu_off[i]).collect();
        let next_weights = expectile_row_weights(y.view(), mu_off.view(), base_weights.view(), tau);

        // KKT certificate for the CONVEX penalized asymmetric-least-squares
        // problem at the fit's own selected λ. The asymmetric loss
        // ρ_τ(r) = |τ − 1[r<0]|·r² is convex and continuously differentiable
        // (its derivative vanishes at r = 0 from both sides), so the true
        // penalized objective J(β) = Σ wᵢ(τ)·rᵢ² + βᵀS_λβ has a checkable
        // gradient at the returned β. The inner solve certifies stationarity
        // of the FROZEN-weight problem, Xᵀ(w_used ∘ r) = S_λ β, hence
        //   ∇J(β)/2 = Xᵀ((w_used − w_new) ∘ r),
        // supported exactly on rows whose residual sign disagrees with the
        // pattern the weights were frozen at. The production audit normalizes
        // each coefficient defect by its Cauchy–Schwarz score scale, making the
        // result invariant to column, response, and prior-weight scale while
        // remaining defined when an unpenalized frozen score cancels to zero.
        let residual = y.as_ref() - &mu_off;
        let kkt = expectile_kkt_residual(
            &result.design.design,
            residual.view(),
            weights.view(),
            next_weights.view(),
        )
        .map_err(|reason| WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed {
            reason: format!(
                "expectile LAWS KKT audit failed at iteration {iteration} \
                 (rho_checkpoint={:?}): {reason}",
                result.fit.log_lambdas.to_vec(),
            ),
        })?;
        let kkt_bound = options.tol;
        if kkt <= kkt_bound {
            return Ok(result);
        }
        last_kkt = (kkt, kkt_bound);
        last_rho_checkpoint = result.fit.log_lambdas.to_vec();
        if let Some(cycle_length) = sign_cycle.observe(&sign) {
            return Err(WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed {
                reason: format!(
                    "expectile LAWS entered a deterministic sign-pattern cycle without \
                     reaching the KKT fixed point of the convex asymmetric least-squares \
                     problem (tau={tau}, iterations={iteration}, cycle_length={cycle_length}, \
                     KKT residual={:.3e} vs scaled tolerance {:.3e}, \
                     rho_checkpoint={:?}); non-convergence is a typed error, never a \
                     best-effort fit",
                    kkt,
                    kkt_bound,
                    result.fit.log_lambdas.to_vec(),
                ),
            });
        }
        weights = Arc::new(next_weights);
    }

    Err(WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed {
        reason: format!(
            "expectile LAWS exhausted its {max_laws_iters}-iteration safety cap without a \
             KKT certificate for the convex asymmetric least-squares problem (tau={tau}, \
             final KKT residual={:.3e} vs scaled tolerance {:.3e}, \
             rho_checkpoint={last_rho_checkpoint:?}); the iteration cap \
             never selects the estimator — non-convergence is a typed error",
            last_kkt.0, last_kkt.1,
        ),
    })
}
/// Detection seam for the exact O(n) cubic-smoothing-spline fast path.
///
/// This is the EARLIEST point in the standard workflow where a materialized
/// fit request carries everything needed to prove the model is exactly the
/// problem the scan solves: a Gaussian likelihood with identity link over
/// `intercept + one 1-D cubic-class penalized smooth` — i.e. the penalized
/// least-squares problem `min Σ w_i (y_i − f(x_i))² + λ∫f″²` with an
/// unpenalized `{1, x}` null space. The Kalman/RTS scan computes that
/// posterior (mean, pointwise variance, exact diffuse REML for λ) in O(n) per
/// λ-trial instead of the dense design/Gram O(n·k²) + O(k³) route.
///
/// Returns `Some` only when ALL of the following hold; everything else falls
/// through to the dense path:
/// - family is Gaussian + identity link;
/// - no link wiggle, no latent coordinates, no coefficient groups, no penalty
///   hyperpriors, no linear/box constraints, no Firth, no adaptive
///   regularization, no Kronecker systems, no externally injected null-space
///   dims;
/// - the term collection is exactly one smooth term — no linear terms, no
///   random effects, no by-variables / factor interactions;
/// - that smooth is a plain 1-D B-spline whose penalty order is compatible
///   with the exact scan and whose null space is unshrunk
///   (`double_penalty=false`). `double_penalty` (mgcv `select = TRUE`) on a free
///   B-spline emits a second REML coordinate — the Marra & Wood (2011) null-space
///   shrinkage block — that the scan cannot represent (its polynomial null space
///   is an improper diffuse prior it can never shrink); routing such a fit
///   through the scan would silently drop that penalty and select λ from the
///   bending penalty alone, which is exactly the EDF inflation #1266 reports.
///   Those fits fall through to the dense two-rho path, which owns both penalties
///   jointly. Natural cubic regression (`bs="cr"`/`"cs"`) terms also fall
///   through: their knot-value parameterization is a finite-rank regression
///   spline, not the scan's full smoothing-spline state-space posterior;
/// - the offset is identically zero and every weight is finite and positive;
/// - at least 3 distinct finite abscissae (the scan's diffuse rank plus one).
///
/// λ-mapping note: the scan's penalty is exactly `λ∫f″²` (state-space
/// `q = 1/λ` at unit σ²). The dense 1-D B-spline path penalizes the same
/// cubic class through a reduced-rank discrete-difference Gram whose
/// normalization differs by a basis-dependent constant, so a λ selected by
/// one parameterization does not transfer numerically to the other. The scan
/// therefore always re-selects λ by its own exact diffuse REML criterion
/// (the optimizer of the same restricted likelihood, expressed in the scan's
/// parameterization); user-pinned smoothing parameters are not representable
/// at this seam (the formula DSL exposes none for this term class), so no
/// pinned-λ mapping arises.
///
/// Identifiability transforms on the smooth (centering / linear-trend
/// removal / orthogonality-to-intercept) are accepted as eligible: they only
/// re-coordinate the unpenalized null space against the implicit intercept
/// and do not change the fitted posterior of `E[y|x]`, which is what the
/// scan returns directly.
pub fn spline_scan_fast_path(request: &StandardFitRequest<'_>) -> Option<SplineScanInputs> {
    if !request.family.is_gaussian_identity() {
        return None;
    }
    if request.wiggle.is_some()
        || request.latent_coord.is_some()
        || !request.coefficient_groups.is_empty()
        || !request.penalty_block_gamma_priors.is_empty()
    {
        return None;
    }
    let options = &request.options;
    if options.latent_cloglog.is_some()
        || options.mixture_link.is_some()
        || options.sas_link.is_some()
        || options.linear_constraints.is_some()
        || options.adaptive_regularization.is_some()
        || options.kronecker_penalty_system.is_some()
        || options.kronecker_factored.is_some()
        || options.firth_bias_reduction
        || !options.nullspace_dims.is_empty()
    {
        return None;
    }
    let spec = &request.spec;
    if !spec.linear_terms.is_empty()
        || !spec.random_effect_terms.is_empty()
        || spec.smooth_terms.len() != 1
    {
        return None;
    }
    let term = &spec.smooth_terms[0];
    if !matches!(term.shape, gam_terms::smooth::ShapeConstraint::None)
        || term.joint_null_rotation.is_some()
    {
        return None;
    }
    let gam_terms::smooth::SmoothBasisSpec::BSpline1D {
        feature_col,
        spec: bspec,
    } = &term.basis
    else {
        return None;
    };
    // Smoothing-spline order m = penalty_order ∈ {1, 2, 3}. The exact scan
    // integrates the order-m integrated-Wiener prior whose natural spline has
    // degree 2m−1 (m=1 → linear, m=2 → cubic, m=3 → quintic), so require that
    // degree to match user intent. The de Jong exact diffuse leading-block
    // smoother (#1044) handles the m−1 partially-diffuse leading nodes for all
    // m ≤ MAX_ORDER; m > MAX_ORDER falls through to the dense path.
    let order = bspec.penalty_order;
    // Double-penalty (mgcv `select = TRUE`) is NOT representable by the scan and
    // must fall through to the dense two-rho path (#1266). On a free B-spline the
    // double penalty emits a *second* REML coordinate — the Marra & Wood (2011)
    // null-space shrinkage block `Z Zᵀ` (see `bspline_penalty_candidates`) —
    // whose entire purpose is to let REML shrink the unpenalized `{1, x, …}`
    // polynomial null space toward `EDF → 0` for an unsupported term. The scan,
    // by construction, carries that null space as an *improper diffuse* prior it
    // can never shrink (its EDF floor is the null-space dimension `order`), so
    // routing a `double_penalty` fit through it silently DROPS the second penalty
    // and selects λ from the single bending penalty alone. The scan's own exact
    // diffuse REML then genuinely prefers a mildly wiggly fit at finite λ for
    // some noise realizations (an interior REML optimum, EDF ≈ 3–4), which is the
    // EDF inflation #1266 reports. The dense path owns both penalties jointly and
    // its outer REML, seeded into the over-smoothing basin, drives the null space
    // out (EDF → null-space dim) when the data are truly polynomial. Excluding
    // `double_penalty` here keeps such a fit on the dense path; single-penalty
    // and boundary-conditioned single-penalty B-splines keep the exact O(n) scan.
    if !(1..=3).contains(&order)
        || bspec.degree != 2 * order - 1
        || bspec.double_penalty
        || !bspec.boundary_conditions.is_free()
        || !matches!(bspec.boundary, gam_terms::basis::OneDimensionalBoundary::Open)
        || matches!(
            bspec.knotspec,
            gam_terms::basis::BSplineKnotSpec::PeriodicUniform { .. }
                | gam_terms::basis::BSplineKnotSpec::NaturalCubicRegression { .. }
        )
        // mgcv `bs="cr"`/`"cs"` materialise a `NaturalCubicRegression` value-knot
        // spec: a Lancaster–Salkauskas cubic-regression basis whose columns
        // index `f(x*_i)` at `k` quantile knots — a genuinely DIFFERENT finite
        // basis (and hence a different penalized posterior) from the free
        // integrated-Wiener natural spline the exact scan solves on the raw data
        // points. The scan builds its own knots from `x` and ignores this spec,
        // so routing a cr fit through it would silently solve the wrong model and
        // (per #1844) return a non-`Standard` `SplineScan` result the predict-time
        // design replay cannot reconstruct. Keep cr/cs on the dense path.
        || matches!(
            bspec.knotspec,
            gam_terms::basis::BSplineKnotSpec::NaturalCubicRegression { .. }
        )
    {
        return None;
    }
    if request.offset.iter().any(|&v| v != 0.0) {
        return None;
    }
    if request.weights.iter().any(|&v| !(v.is_finite() && v > 0.0)) {
        return None;
    }
    if *feature_col >= request.data.ncols() || request.y.len() != request.data.nrows() {
        return None;
    }
    let x: Vec<f64> = request.data.column(*feature_col).iter().copied().collect();
    let y: Vec<f64> = request.y.iter().copied().collect();
    let w: Vec<f64> = request.weights.iter().copied().collect();
    if x.iter().any(|v| !v.is_finite()) || y.iter().any(|v| !v.is_finite()) {
        return None;
    }
    // The diffuse polynomial null space consumes `order` innovations; the scan
    // needs at least one proper innovation beyond them to profile σ².
    let mut sorted = x.clone();
    sorted.sort_by(f64::total_cmp);
    sorted.dedup();
    if sorted.len() < order + 1 {
        return None;
    }
    Some(SplineScanInputs { x, y, w, order })
}

/// Formula-level direct entry for the exact O(n) smoothing-spline scan.
///
/// Materializes the formula exactly like [`fit_from_formula`], then runs the
/// [`spline_scan_fast_path`] detection on the resulting standard request.
/// This public entry point is for library callers that specifically need the
/// specialized [`gam_solve::spline_scan::SplineScanFit`] rather than the
/// [`FitResult::SplineScan`] sum-type returned by the canonical workflow. When
/// detection fires the fit is routed through
/// [`gam_solve::spline_scan::fit_spline_scan`] — the exact diffuse
/// REML Kalman/RTS scan — and the full in-memory posterior
/// ([`gam_solve::spline_scan::SplineScanFit`]: knots, smoothed
/// states, pointwise variances, lag-one gains, σ², log λ, exact EDF, and an
/// exact `predict`) is returned. `Ok(None)` means the model is not the
/// scan-eligible shape; the direct caller then chooses another estimator.
/// Persistence-bearing workflows do not call this probe: [`fit_from_formula`]
/// returns [`FitResult::SplineScan`], and the shared
/// [`crate::inference::model_payload_builders::assemble_spline_scan_payload`]
/// authority writes the exact scan state for both CLI and FFI consumers.
pub fn fit_spline_scan_from_formula(
    formula: &str,
    data: &Dataset,
    config: &FitConfig,
) -> Result<Option<gam_solve::spline_scan::SplineScanFit>, WorkflowError> {
    let mat = materialize(formula, data, config)?;
    let FitRequest::Standard(request) = mat.request else {
        return Ok(None);
    };
    let Some(inputs) = spline_scan_fast_path(&request) else {
        return Ok(None);
    };
    gam_solve::spline_scan::fit_spline_scan(&inputs.x, &inputs.y, &inputs.w, inputs.order)
        .map(Some)
        .map_err(|reason| WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed { reason })
}

/// #1464 diagnostic entry point: evaluate the EXACT production fixed-κ
/// profiled-REML criterion (`fixed_kappa_profiled_reml_score`, the same one the
/// joint-fit κ-sign scan uses) at a list of pinned κ values for the first
/// constant-curvature term of `formula`, materialised from `data`/`config`
/// exactly like [`fit_from_formula`]. Returns `(κ, V_p(κ))` pairs.
///
/// This settles solver-vs-criterion for the railing bug: if `V_p(+κ) < V_p(−κ)`
/// for a genuinely HYPERBOLIC dataset, the criterion itself prefers the collapsed
/// +κ corner — the bug is in the constant-curvature REML/Occam term, not the
/// optimiser. If `V_p(−κ) < V_p(+κ)` yet the full fit still returns +κ, the bug
/// is in the solver/readback. The profiled fit pins κ and profiles only ρ
/// (κ-optimisation disabled), so each returned score is the negative-log-evidence
/// the outer loop minimises.
pub fn constant_curvature_profiled_reml_scores(
    formula: &str,
    data: &Dataset,
    config: &FitConfig,
    kappas: &[f64],
) -> Result<Vec<(f64, f64)>, WorkflowError> {
    let mat = materialize(formula, data, config)?;
    let FitRequest::Standard(request) = mat.request else {
        return Err(WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed {
            reason: "constant_curvature_profiled_reml_scores: formula did not materialise to a \
                     standard fit request"
                .to_string(),
        });
    };
    let term_idx =
        *crate::fit_orchestration::drivers::constant_curvature_term_indices(&request.spec)
            .first()
            .ok_or_else(|| WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed {
                reason:
                    "constant_curvature_profiled_reml_scores: formula has no constant-curvature \
                     curv() term"
                        .to_string(),
            })?;
    let mut out = Vec::with_capacity(kappas.len());
    for &kappa in kappas {
        let score = crate::fit_orchestration::drivers::fixed_kappa_profiled_reml_score(
            request.data.view(),
            request.y.view(),
            request.weights.view(),
            request.offset.view(),
            &request.spec,
            term_idx,
            kappa,
            request.family.clone(),
            &request.options,
        )
        .map_err(|e| WorkflowError::IntegrationFailed {
            reason: format!(
                "constant_curvature_profiled_reml_scores: fixed-κ fit at κ={kappa} failed: {e}"
            ),
        })?;
        out.push((kappa, score));
    }
    Ok(out)
}

/// Derived dense-kernel cliff: the cascade auto-route fires only once the dense
/// radial basis the smooth would otherwise use has SATURATED at its center cap
/// (`default_num_centers == K_MAX`), so the dense `O(n·K² + K³)` kernel solve
/// can no longer grow resolution with `n` and the streaming cascade's
/// `O(n·polylog)` is the only path that keeps improving. This is the structural
/// "past the dense-kernel cliff" condition the issue names — derived from the
/// dense sizing rule, NOT a magic n constant or a user flag.
fn past_dense_kernel_cliff(n: usize, d: usize) -> bool {
    // `default_num_centers` clamps to K_MAX = 2000; equality means the dense
    // basis is pinned at the cap and cannot densify further with n.
    const DENSE_CENTER_CAP: usize = 2000;
    gam_terms::basis::default_num_centers(n, d) >= DENSE_CENTER_CAP
}

/// Map a Duchon/Matérn smoothness order onto the cascade's Sobolev order,
/// clamped into the Wendland-(3,1) native window `(d/2, (d+3)/2]` (issue
/// caveat 1: the multilevel frame can only represent up to `H^{(d+3)/2}`).
fn cascade_sobolev_order(requested: f64, d: usize) -> f64 {
    let lo = d as f64 / 2.0;
    let hi = (d as f64 + 3.0) / 2.0;
    // Nudge strictly inside the open lower bound when the request lands on it.
    let eps = 1e-6 * (hi - lo);
    requested.clamp(lo + eps, hi)
}

/// Detection seam for the O(n log n) multiresolution residual-cascade fast path
/// (issue #1032).
///
/// This mirrors [`spline_scan_fast_path`] in shape but carries one CRITICAL
/// difference dictated by the issue: the cascade is **not** the same posterior
/// as the Duchon/Matérn term it stands in for (a different finite basis — the
/// multilevel Wendland frame, not the reduced-rank radial kernel). So unlike
/// the 1-D scan, which silently swaps an identical posterior, this path must
/// only fire as an explicit alternative estimator on the structural signature
/// the issue names, never as a transparent replacement. It returns `Some` only
/// when ALL of the following hold:
/// - family is Gaussian + identity link (the scattered low-d smooth the
///   cascade solves);
/// - none of the exotic-link / constraint / Firth / Kronecker / coefficient-
///   group / hyperprior machinery is engaged;
/// - the model is exactly one smooth term — no linear terms, no random
///   effects, no by-variables;
/// - that smooth is a scattered radial spatial smooth (`Duchon` or `Matern`)
///   over `d ∈ {2, 3}` coordinates with no shape constraint;
/// - the offset is identically zero and every weight is finite and positive;
/// - `n` is past the derived dense-kernel cliff
///   ([`past_dense_kernel_cliff`]) — below it the dense radial path is both
///   exact-posterior and cheap, so there is no reason to change estimators.
///
/// The returned [`ResidualCascadeInputs`] carry a unit per-axis metric (the
/// spec's isotropic radial distance); the quasi-uniformity guard inside
/// [`gam_solve::residual_cascade::fit_residual_cascade`] (issue caveat 2)
/// is the no-regression gate that refuses the iterative solve — and forces the
/// caller back to the dense path — when a near-degenerate metric would break
/// the BPX iteration bound.
pub fn residual_cascade_fast_path(
    request: &StandardFitRequest<'_>,
) -> Option<ResidualCascadeInputs> {
    if !request.family.is_gaussian_identity() {
        return None;
    }
    if request.wiggle.is_some()
        || request.latent_coord.is_some()
        || !request.coefficient_groups.is_empty()
        || !request.penalty_block_gamma_priors.is_empty()
    {
        return None;
    }
    let options = &request.options;
    if options.latent_cloglog.is_some()
        || options.mixture_link.is_some()
        || options.sas_link.is_some()
        || options.linear_constraints.is_some()
        || options.adaptive_regularization.is_some()
        || options.kronecker_penalty_system.is_some()
        || options.kronecker_factored.is_some()
        || options.firth_bias_reduction
        || !options.nullspace_dims.is_empty()
    {
        return None;
    }
    let spec = &request.spec;
    if !spec.linear_terms.is_empty()
        || !spec.random_effect_terms.is_empty()
        || spec.smooth_terms.len() != 1
    {
        return None;
    }
    let term = &spec.smooth_terms[0];
    if !matches!(term.shape, gam_terms::smooth::ShapeConstraint::None)
        || term.joint_null_rotation.is_some()
    {
        return None;
    }
    // Only scattered radial spatial smooths (Duchon / Matérn) over 2–3 axes.
    // The Duchon spectral power `p + s` and the Matérn order set the requested
    // Sobolev smoothness; both clamp into the Wendland native window.
    let (feature_cols, requested_s) = match &term.basis {
        gam_terms::smooth::SmoothBasisSpec::Duchon {
            feature_cols, spec, ..
        } => {
            // Pure-Duchon native order is `p + s` (kernel exponent 2(p+s)−d);
            // the multilevel frame targets the same continuum smoothness. `p`
            // is the polynomial nullspace degree, `s` the spectral power.
            let p = match spec.nullspace_order {
                gam_terms::basis::DuchonNullspaceOrder::Zero => 0.0,
                gam_terms::basis::DuchonNullspaceOrder::Linear => 1.0,
                gam_terms::basis::DuchonNullspaceOrder::Degree(k) => k as f64,
            };
            (feature_cols, spec.power + p)
        }
        gam_terms::smooth::SmoothBasisSpec::Matern {
            feature_cols, spec, ..
        } => {
            // Matérn smoothness ν sets native Sobolev order ν + d/2; the cascade
            // frame represents up to (d+3)/2, so the clamp below applies the
            // ceiling. (d is known just below from feature_cols.)
            let nu = spec.nu.half_integer_value();
            (feature_cols, nu + feature_cols.len() as f64 / 2.0)
        }
        _ => return None,
    };
    let d = feature_cols.len();
    if !(2..=3).contains(&d) {
        return None;
    }
    if request.offset.iter().any(|&v| v != 0.0) {
        return None;
    }
    if request.weights.iter().any(|&v| !(v.is_finite() && v > 0.0)) {
        return None;
    }
    let n = request.y.len();
    if n != request.data.nrows() || feature_cols.iter().any(|&c| c >= request.data.ncols()) {
        return None;
    }
    if !past_dense_kernel_cliff(n, d) {
        return None;
    }
    let coords: Vec<Vec<f64>> = feature_cols
        .iter()
        .map(|&c| request.data.column(c).iter().copied().collect())
        .collect();
    let y: Vec<f64> = request.y.iter().copied().collect();
    let w: Vec<f64> = request.weights.iter().copied().collect();
    if coords
        .iter()
        .any(|axis| axis.iter().any(|v| !v.is_finite()))
        || y.iter().any(|v| !v.is_finite())
    {
        return None;
    }
    let metric = vec![1.0_f64; d];
    let sobolev_s = cascade_sobolev_order(requested_s, d);
    Some(ResidualCascadeInputs {
        coords,
        y,
        w,
        metric,
        sobolev_s,
    })
}

/// Formula-level library entry for the O(n log n) residual-cascade fast path
/// (issue #1032).
///
/// Materializes the formula exactly like [`fit_from_formula`], runs the
/// [`residual_cascade_fast_path`] detection, and — when it fires AND the
/// quasi-uniformity guard inside the cascade certifies the metric — returns the
/// certified [`ResidualCascadeFit`](gam_solve::residual_cascade::ResidualCascadeFit).
/// `Ok(None)` means EITHER the model is not the cascade-eligible shape OR the
/// quasi-uniformity guard rejected the metric; in both cases the caller falls
/// back to the dense [`fit_from_formula`] path (the cascade is a different
/// posterior, so the fallback is a genuine estimator choice, never a silent
/// swap). This keeps every persistence-bearing consumer on the dense fit until
/// the cascade payload schema lands.
pub fn fit_residual_cascade_from_formula(
    formula: &str,
    data: &Dataset,
    config: &FitConfig,
) -> Result<Option<gam_solve::residual_cascade::ResidualCascadeFit>, WorkflowError> {
    let mat = materialize(formula, data, config)?;
    let FitRequest::Standard(request) = mat.request else {
        return Ok(None);
    };
    let Some(inputs) = residual_cascade_fast_path(&request) else {
        return Ok(None);
    };
    let coord_refs: Vec<&[f64]> = inputs.coords.iter().map(Vec::as_slice).collect();
    match gam_solve::residual_cascade::fit_residual_cascade(
        &coord_refs,
        &inputs.y,
        &inputs.w,
        &inputs.metric,
        inputs.sobolev_s,
    ) {
        Ok(fit) => Ok(Some(fit)),
        // The quasi-uniformity guard (caveat 2) and any degenerate-design
        // signal both surface as a build/solve error; treat them as "not
        // cascade-eligible" so the caller falls back to the dense kernel path
        // rather than failing the fit outright.
        Err(_) => Ok(None),
    }
}

/// Parse a formula, resolve it against a dataset, and produce a ready-to-fit `FitRequest`.
fn family_requests_transformation_normal(family: Option<&str>) -> bool {
    family
        .map(|name| name.trim().to_ascii_lowercase().replace('_', "-"))
        .as_deref()
        == Some("transformation-normal")
}

/// Build the design/request geometry for a formula against a dataset. This is the
/// FIT path: for survival location-scale / latent modes it resolves the baseline
/// θ via a real inner fit. Use [`materialize_structural`] for formula validation,
/// which must not fit.
pub fn materialize<'a>(
    formula: &str,
    data: &'a Dataset,
    config: &FitConfig,
) -> Result<MaterializedModel<'a>, WorkflowError> {
    materialize_impl(formula, data, config, false)
}

/// Structural-only materialization for `validate_formula`: builds the same
/// request geometry/metadata but skips every inner fit (notably the survival
/// baseline-θ resolution), honoring validation's "without fitting" contract.
pub fn materialize_structural<'a>(
    formula: &str,
    data: &'a Dataset,
    config: &FitConfig,
) -> Result<MaterializedModel<'a>, WorkflowError> {
    materialize_impl(formula, data, config, true)
}

fn materialize_impl<'a>(
    formula: &str,
    data: &'a Dataset,
    config: &FitConfig,
    structural_only: bool,
) -> Result<MaterializedModel<'a>, WorkflowError> {
    let config = config
        .clone()
        .resolve()
        .map_err(|reason| WorkflowError::InvalidConfig { reason })?;
    let config = &config;
    gam_gpu::configure_global_policy(config.gpu_policy);
    let parsed = parse_formula(formula)?;
    let col_map = data.column_map();
    let family_transformation_normal =
        family_requests_transformation_normal(config.family.as_deref());
    let transformation_normal_config;
    let effective_config = if family_transformation_normal && !config.transformation_normal {
        // `family="transformation-normal"` is a documented spelling of the CTN
        // model class, not a Gaussian identity likelihood. Normalize it into the
        // same orchestration flag used by `transformation_normal=true` before any
        // dispatch/validation branch can silently treat the request as standard.
        transformation_normal_config = FitConfig {
            transformation_normal: true,
            ..config.clone()
        };
        &transformation_normal_config
    } else {
        config
    };

    if let Some((left_col, right_col, event_col)) = parse_surv_interval_response(&parsed.response)?
    {
        if effective_config.transformation_normal {
            return Err(WorkflowError::InvalidConfig {
                reason:
                    "transformation_normal cannot be combined with a SurvInterval(...) response"
                        .to_string(),
            });
        }
        // Interval censoring `T ∈ (L, R]` is only defined for the latent
        // hazard-window survival likelihood, whose kernel carries the
        // `log[S(L) − S(R)]` interval contribution. Route the left boundary `L`
        // through the standard exit channel and the right boundary `R` through
        // the dedicated interval-right channel; `event_col` distinguishes
        // bracketed (interval) rows from right-censored rows beyond the last
        // inspection (which carry an infinite/sentinel `R`).
        materialize_survival(
            &parsed,
            data,
            &col_map,
            effective_config,
            None,
            &left_col,
            &event_col,
            Some(&right_col),
            structural_only,
        )
    } else if let Some((entry_col, exit_col, event_col)) = parse_surv_response(&parsed.response)? {
        if effective_config.transformation_normal {
            return Err(WorkflowError::InvalidConfig {
                reason: "transformation_normal cannot be combined with a Surv(...) response"
                    .to_string(),
            });
        }
        // `materialize_*` now return `WorkflowError` directly so the typed
        // `ColumnNotFound` payload (and any future variant-typed leaf
        // errors) survive the dispatcher hop instead of being flattened
        // into `IntegrationFailed { reason: String }`.
        materialize_survival(
            &parsed,
            data,
            &col_map,
            effective_config,
            entry_col.as_deref(),
            &exit_col,
            &event_col,
            None,
            structural_only,
        )
    } else {
        // Non-survival response: `timewiggle(...)` and `survmodel(...)` are
        // structurally meaningless (there is no baseline hazard / time axis to
        // wiggle and no survival likelihood to configure). They are parsed into
        // `ParsedFormula` but consumed *only* by `materialize_survival`; without
        // this guard every non-survival materializer below would silently drop
        // them, fitting an ordinary GAM while the user believes they requested a
        // time-varying / survival model (#371). Reject here — the single
        // chokepoint for all non-survival paths — mirroring the symmetric
        // auxiliary-formula rejection in `validate_auxiliary_formula_controls`.
        reject_survival_only_terms_for_nonsurvival(&parsed)?;
        // Symmetrically, the `config.survival_likelihood` *knob* selects a
        // survival likelihood mode read only by `materialize_survival`. On this
        // non-survival branch a non-default value (e.g. "weibull") would be
        // discarded and the fit would silently degrade to an ordinary GAM
        // (#1767). Reject it at the same chokepoint.
        reject_survival_likelihood_for_nonsurvival(effective_config)?;
        if effective_config.transformation_normal {
            // Issue #789A: a Bernoulli marginal-slope request with
            // `transformation_normal=true` used to dispatch as a CTN fit while
            // retaining marginal-slope controls, leaving the transformation path
            // in a non-advancing loop. CTN score calibration now uses the
            // explicit `ctn_stage1` recipe instead, so the legacy boolean is a
            // hard configuration error for marginal-slope requests.
            reject_marginal_slope_controls_for_transformation_normal(effective_config)?;
            if effective_config.noise_formula.is_some() {
                return Err(WorkflowError::InvalidConfig {
                    reason: "transformation_normal cannot be combined with noise_formula"
                        .to_string(),
                });
            }
            materialize_transformation_normal(&parsed, data, &col_map, effective_config)
        } else if requests_bernoulli_marginal_slope(effective_config) {
            materialize_bernoulli_marginal_slope(&parsed, data, &col_map, effective_config)
        } else if effective_config.noise_formula.is_some() {
            materialize_location_scale(&parsed, data, &col_map, effective_config)
        } else {
            materialize_standard(&parsed, data, &col_map, effective_config)
        }
    }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod sz_factor_smooth_recovery_tests {
    // `super::*` brings in `Dataset` (= gam_data::EncodedDataset), `FitConfig`,
    // `FitResult`, `StandardFitResult`, and `fit_from_formula`.
    use super::*;

    const NOISE_SD: f64 = 0.20;
    const N: usize = 4000;
    const N_GROUPS: usize = 4;

    /// A simple deterministic LCG so the dataset is reproducible without pulling
    /// an RNG dependency into the test.
    struct Lcg(u64);
    impl Lcg {
        fn next_u64(&mut self) -> u64 {
            // Numerical Recipes LCG constants.
            self.0 = self
                .0
                .wrapping_mul(6364136223846793005)
                .wrapping_add(1442695040888963407);
            self.0
        }
        /// Uniform in [0, 1).
        fn unif(&mut self) -> f64 {
            (self.next_u64() >> 11) as f64 / (1u64 << 53) as f64
        }
        /// Standard normal via Box–Muller (one of the pair).
        fn normal(&mut self) -> f64 {
            let u1 = (self.unif()).max(1e-12);
            let u2 = self.unif();
            (-2.0 * u1.ln()).sqrt() * (std::f64::consts::TAU * u2).cos()
        }
    }

    /// Data drawn from EXACTLY the `sz` model class: a shared smooth `f0(x)` plus
    /// zero-sum per-group deviations `d_g(x)` (phase-shifted sinusoids whose
    /// cross-group mean is removed at every `x`), plus observation noise. This
    /// mirrors the (blocked) Python bug-hunt test `tests/bug_hunt_sz_factor_
    /// smooth_underfits_own_model_class_test.py`.
    ///
    /// Written to a CSV and loaded through the real `load_dataset_projected`
    /// inferer so the grouping column `g` (string levels) is encoded as a genuine
    /// categorical exactly as production does — hand-built `EncodedDataset`s do
    /// not carry the categorical level map the factor-smooth level resolver needs.
    fn sz_class_dataset() -> (Dataset, tempfile::TempDir) {
        let mut rng = Lcg(0x5326_2026_0628_1605);
        let phases: Vec<f64> = (0..N_GROUPS)
            .map(|k| 1.2 * k as f64 / (N_GROUPS as f64 - 1.0))
            .collect();
        let deviations = |xi: f64| -> Vec<f64> {
            let vals: Vec<f64> = phases
                .iter()
                .map(|p| 0.6 * (std::f64::consts::TAU * xi + std::f64::consts::TAU * p).sin())
                .collect();
            let mean = vals.iter().sum::<f64>() / vals.len() as f64;
            vals.iter().map(|v| v - mean).collect()
        };

        let mut csv = String::from("y,x,g\n");
        for _ in 0..N {
            let x = rng.unif();
            // Use the HIGH bits (via `unif`) for the group draw — an LCG's low
            // bits have a tiny period and would collapse `% N_GROUPS` to a near
            // constant.
            let g = ((rng.unif() * N_GROUPS as f64) as usize).min(N_GROUPS - 1);
            let f0 = (std::f64::consts::TAU * x).sin();
            let mu = f0 + deviations(x)[g];
            let y = mu + NOISE_SD * rng.normal();
            csv.push_str(&format!("{y},{x},g{g}\n"));
        }
        let td = tempfile::tempdir().expect("tempdir");
        let path = td.path().join("sz_class.csv");
        std::fs::write(&path, csv).expect("write sz-class csv");
        // Force `g` into a categorical role exactly as the formula intends so the
        // factor-smooth level resolver sees all `N_GROUPS` distinct levels.
        let mut roles = std::collections::HashSet::new();
        roles.insert("g");
        let data = gam_data::load_dataset_projected_with_categorical_roles(
            &path,
            &["y".to_string(), "x".to_string(), "g".to_string()],
            &roles,
        )
        .expect("load sz-class dataset");
        (data, td)
    }

    fn gaussian_config() -> FitConfig {
        FitConfig {
            family: Some("gaussian".to_string()),
            ..FitConfig::default()
        }
    }

    /// In-sample residual sd of a fitted standard GAM: `sd(y − Xβ̂)`.
    fn residual_sd(fit: &StandardFitResult, data: &Dataset) -> f64 {
        let beta = &fit.fit.beta;
        let design = &fit.design.design;
        let n = design.nrows();
        assert_eq!(design.ncols(), beta.len(), "design/beta width mismatch");
        let mut fitted = vec![0.0f64; n];
        // `try_row_chunk` materializes contiguous row blocks of whatever design
        // storage the fit used (dense or block-lazy) — robust to the storage kind.
        const CHUNK: usize = 512;
        let mut start = 0usize;
        while start < n {
            let end = (start + CHUNK).min(n);
            let block = design
                .try_row_chunk(start..end)
                .expect("materialize design row chunk");
            for (r, row) in block.rows().into_iter().enumerate() {
                let mut acc = 0.0;
                for (c, &xv) in row.iter().enumerate() {
                    acc += xv * beta[c];
                }
                fitted[start + r] = acc;
            }
            start = end;
        }
        let y = data.values.column(0);
        let resid: Vec<f64> = y
            .iter()
            .zip(fitted.iter())
            .map(|(&yi, &fi)| yi - fi)
            .collect();
        let mean = resid.iter().sum::<f64>() / resid.len() as f64;
        let var = resid.iter().map(|r| (r - mean).powi(2)).sum::<f64>() / resid.len() as f64;
        var.sqrt()
    }

    fn fit_standard(formula: &str, data: &Dataset) -> StandardFitResult {
        match fit_from_formula(formula, data, &gaussian_config())
            .unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("fit `{formula}` failed: {e:?}"))
        {
            FitResult::Standard(r) => r,
            other => panic!(
                "expected Standard fit for `{formula}`, got a different variant: {}",
                std::any::type_name_of_val(&other)
            ),
        }
    }

    /// #1605 (gold standard, end-to-end REML fit): the sum-to-zero factor smooth
    /// `s(x) + s(g, x, bs="sz")` must RECOVER data drawn from its own model class
    /// to the observation-noise floor, exactly as the strictly-more-general
    /// `s(x, g, bs="fs")` superset provably does.
    ///
    /// The recovery gap (`sz` resid ≈ 0.43 ≈ 2.1× the 0.20 floor while `fs`
    /// reaches the floor) was closed by THREE mgcv-faithful corrections, each
    /// necessary, that this end-to-end fit jointly exercises:
    ///   1. marginal basis (baef17e): cr → curvature-capable B-spline, so a
    ///      deviation with non-zero boundary curvature is representable;
    ///   2. ownership/overlap residualization (b49bb5c): the `sz` deviation is
    ///      sum-to-zero ACROSS the grouping factor, hence orthogonal to a
    ///      factor-independent owner like the shared `s(x)`. Residualizing it
    ///      against `s(x)`'s realized span (the #978 chart) collapsed every
    ///      group's curve to a flat per-group contrast; skipping that ownership
    ///      (same family as the #1276 factor-`by` level gate) restores the curve
    ///      shape and stops REML railing the shared `s(x)` wiggliness λ;
    ///   3. null-space ridge (this change): the `sz` deviation blocks now carry
    ///      the per-null-dimension ridge structure of `fs`, mapped into the
    ///      zero-sum contrast space, so the {const, linear} null space is
    ///      shrinkable per dimension (the #700/#712/#713 partial-pooling form)
    ///      rather than left free — without breaking the zero-sum constraint.
    ///
    /// This is the gold-standard verification: it drives the real
    /// `fit_from_formula` REML λ-selection on data drawn from exactly the `sz`
    /// model class and asserts `sz` reaches the floor (and a `fs` control does
    /// too). It failed before the fixes and passes after.
    #[test]
    fn sz_factor_smooth_recovers_its_own_model_class_end_to_end() {
        let (data, _td) = sz_class_dataset();

        // Control: bs="fs", a strict superset of the sz span, must reach the
        // noise floor — proves the data is well-posed and pins the floor.
        let fs_fit = fit_standard("y ~ s(x, g, bs='fs')", &data);
        let fs_resid = residual_sd(&fs_fit, &data);
        assert!(
            fs_resid < 1.2 * NOISE_SD,
            "control bs='fs' did not reach the noise floor: resid_sd={fs_resid:.4} \
             vs noise_sd={NOISE_SD} (data/floor sanity check)",
        );

        // The documented sz idiom on data drawn from the sz model class.
        let sz_fit = fit_standard("y ~ s(x) + s(g, x, bs='sz')", &data);
        let sz_resid = residual_sd(&sz_fit, &data);

        // A smoother whose span contains the truth, fit at large n, must explain
        // the systematic structure and leave ~only observation noise.
        assert!(
            sz_resid < 1.4 * NOISE_SD,
            "bs='sz' under-fits its own model class: resid_sd={sz_resid:.4} \
             ({:.2}x the noise floor {NOISE_SD}); the bs='fs' superset reached \
             {fs_resid:.4}. The sz fit leaves systematic signal in the residual.",
            sz_resid / NOISE_SD,
        );

        // Comparative guard: sz must not be dramatically worse than the fs
        // superset that recovers the same data.
        assert!(
            sz_resid < 1.5 * fs_resid,
            "bs='sz' residual {sz_resid:.4} is {:.2}x the bs='fs' residual \
             {fs_resid:.4} on identical sz-class data",
            sz_resid / fs_resid,
        );
    }
}