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Estimate EinFoldExec's rows, so that the plan above it is planned as the host's - #90

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Part of #81, and the rest of #74's remaining cases.

Why. EinFoldExec reported no statistics, so DataFusion's planner knew nothing about the rows it emits. A hash join above it then held whichever side it was given, often the larger.

  • Under a small memory pool, the cases where einfold alone runs out of memory (Run the host's plan where memory runs short, as its spilling operators would #89) came from this. In the one I traced, the host's plan builds its hash join on the fold's few rows. With einfold, the join built on the 26 rows of the other side, and the operators below then ran short.
  • In the GPT of xarray-sql's ML demos (xarray-sql's benchmarks/ml/02_nanogpt.py, a GPT written and trained in SQL), the loss's execution took half again as long as the host's.

What changed.

  • A fold with a domain reports exactly one row per domain row, with the same precision as the domain's count.
  • Any other fold, or a pipeline, reports as many rows as its larger operand, as an estimate, and no more than the pairs the operands make. A matrix product x[s, k] · w[k, e] emits s · e rows. That falls between w's count and x's when k is the smallest extent, as in a model's layers. Attention emits one row per row of its queries. The bytes follow from the rows and the schema's widths.
  • The statistics are computed once and kept. The planner asks at every join above, and without the cache each question walked the whole plan below again: the GPT's planning took 0.8 s longer before the cache.

Measured.

The new memory-pool property test from #89, on the same 2,000 cases:

#89 this pull request
out of memory in einfold only 13, 12 4, 0
out of memory in the host only 18, 19 23, 26

The GPT's loss at the demo's size, through datafusion-python, on an Intel i7-8700 at a load average of 3–5, after the first run:

DataFusion alone einfold, #89 einfold, this pull request
planning 2.45 s 2.73–2.81 s 2.67–2.71 s
execution 0.36 s 0.53 s 0.28–0.30 s

So with this stack, einfold runs the GPT's loss faster than DataFusion alone, and plans it within 0.3 s of it.

Tests. folds_estimate_their_rows checks the two estimates: a fold over 6 and 3 rows reports about 6, and a fold from a 4-row domain reports exactly 4. All the existing tests pass, the Python extension's included.

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  • Rows with a column of variable width, such as text keys, have no size estimate. DataFusion's join selection then goes by the rows.

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EinFoldExec now calculates and caches row-count and byte-size statistics. Tests check estimates for fold and fold-from-domain plans.

Changes: Fold Statistics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Statistics calculation and caching
crates/einfold-datafusion/src/ein_fold_exec.rs, crates/einfold-datafusion/tests/detect_vs_host.rs
EinFoldExec estimates row counts from domain or operand statistics, estimates byte size from schema widths, and caches the result. Tests check row-count precision and byte-size availability for both plan types.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature · Unblocks: 9 PRs

Possibly related issues

  • Issue 81: The issue reports high planning time from repeated statistics walks. This change caches EinFoldExec statistics and skips child-statistics requests after caching.
Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review d501b

Fold estimates support join planning, and no merge-blocking issue has been established.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to d501b

The change affects planning estimates and introduces a per-plan cache, without a demonstrated expansion of access or privileges. Replacing plan inputs creates a fresh cache, and existing execution memory controls remain unchanged. Compatibility with every statistics-request mode remains unverified.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The supported impact is altered planning and memory demand for fold-containing queries in the hosting execution process. The supplied benchmark name matches do not establish cross-component propagation or an independently attackable service boundary.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The reviewed execution path retains memory-reservation enforcement and releases kernel input reservations before host fallback. The PR does not change these execution controls.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The domain fallback construction is consistent with the new one-row-per-domain-row statistic: it preserves a left join onto the fold, requires matching all fold output keys, and projects the domain columns and aggregate value. Duplicate domain rows therefore do not themselves establish a fallback cardinality mismatch.
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🪭 Claude (einfold): This is #91's commit, moved onto `main` so that it
can merge ahead of the stack it was part of. #91 is closed in its favor.

Answers #79's second ask, and opens its third, as design v18.

**The goal.** For models trained in SQL, such as the GPT in the ML demos
of xarray-sql, an XQL Systems project for querying xarray datasets with
SQL (its `benchmarks/ml/02_nanogpt.py`), memory limits model size as
much as time does. Principle 9, "never more memory than the host", says
how einfold's operators keep to it. They reserve what they read, and
what their kernels allocate, from the host's memory pool, before
allocating it. Where the pool can't give it, they run the host's own
plan, whose operators can spill to disk. Every benchmark measures peak
memory next to time.

**What changes in the design.**

- **Section 4** adds principle 9.
- **Section 10.2** gains a bullet on memory: what `EinFoldExec` does
(#89, #90), and what comes next. The positional fold should stream its
larger operand in row blocks, so that its peak stays below the host's
even without a pool to enforce it. That needs each dimension's extent
before reading, and #80's dictionaries answer it: the dictionary's
length, when it is the whole axis. Exact statistics or a first pass over
the keys also give it.
- **Section 15** reports peak memory next to time, which
`python/benchmarks/memory.py` (#85) does for the Python extension.
- **Section 14** opens #79's third ask, dense chains of folds: handing
the dense form from one einfold operator to the next, so the joined
intermediates never exist as rows. It lists what is open: the form
handed on, how a host operator between two folds reads it, and when a
chain is worth keeping dense.
- **`lessons.md`** records what running einfold under the GPT taught
(#77, #79, #81):
  - profile through the real bridge;
  - report statistics, and cache them;
  - plan a fallback only if it runs;
  - batch dimensions are common.

**Where the stack stands on #79**, at its size (128 channels, context
64, batch 12, one layer), through datafusion-python on an Intel i7-8700:

| | DataFusion alone | einfold, before #86 | einfold, with #86–#90 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| the loss | 108 s, 8.9 GB peak | 42 s, 11.8 GB | 13.6 s, 6.9 GB |
| the gradients | 36.5 s, 9.8 GB | | 4.2 s, 1.8 GB |

The peak is above the loaded tables. So the GPT already keeps to the
principle at this size. Streaming in row blocks would make that hold by
construction, not only under a pool.

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* **Documentation**
* Updated the design guidance to cover host-managed memory use, fallback
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* Added lessons on measuring end-to-end performance, reporting row-count
statistics, delaying fallback planning until execution, and supporting
shared batch dimensions.
* Clarified that success benchmarks compare speed while keeping memory
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let request = match self.statistics.get() {
Some(_) => ChildStats::Skip,
None => ChildStats::At(None),
};
vec![request; self.inputs.len()]

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Skip unused operand statistics for domain folds.

When a fold has a domain, statistics_from_inputs reads only input 2. This request still makes DataFusion traverse both operand plans before it computes the domain count. Request ChildStats::Skip for inputs 0 and 1 in this branch. Keep the current requests for folds without a domain and for pipelines. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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🪭 Claude (einfold): Fixed: a fold with a domain asks for the domain's statistics only, and skips its operands'.

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…the host's

EinFoldExec reported no statistics, so DataFusion's planner knew nothing
of the rows it emits. A hash join above it then held whichever side it
happened to be given, often the larger: under a small memory pool, the
cases einfold alone ran short in came from this, and in the GPT of
xarray-sql's ML demos it took the loss's execution from about the host's
time to half again as much.

A fold with a domain now reports exactly a row per domain row, as exactly
as the domain's count is known, and any other fold, or pipeline, about as
many rows as its larger operand, as an estimate. The statistics are kept
once computed, so that the planner's question at each join doesn't walk
the whole plan below again.

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