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Fix sign() returning 1 for NaN - #215
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NaN compares false against zero in both directions, so it reached the positive branch of the sign tests. Select NaN explicitly instead, and turn the existing test.fails case into a real test.
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np.sign(np.array([-Infinity, -2.5, -0, 0, 2.5, Infinity, NaN]))returns[-1, -1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1]. NumPy returns[-1, -1, 0, 0, 1, 1, nan], and the numpy.sign docs are explicit: "Thesignfunction returns-1 if x < 0, 0 if x==0, 1 if x > 0. nan is returned for nan inputs."jax.numpy.signis the same function, so a NaN that goes into a pipeline throughsign()currently comes back out as a real number.The cause is at
src/library/numpy.ts:2637,where(notEqual(x.ref, 0), where(less(x, 0), -1, 1), 0). Every comparison against NaN is false, sonotEqual(x, 0)is true andless(x, 0)is false, and NaN falls through to the positive branch.test/numpy.test.tshas carried atest.failsfor this since #127 with aTODO: Fix sign(NaN) returning 1 instead of NaNcomment.The fix keeps the existing sign tests and selects NaN explicitly with the
isnan()helper that already sits in this file.isnan()returns an all-false mask for integer and boolean dtypes, so those inputs and the float32 output dtype thatsign()has always produced are untouched, and only the NaN values change. Thetest.failsbecomes a normal test that also pins the two infinities and both signed zeros, guarded byhasStrictNumerics()since webgl does not have dependable NaN semantics.Verified on node 22 with
pnpm test run test/numpy.test.ts -t "sign" --no-browser, covering the cpu and wasm devices: the new assertions fail on unmodified main withexpected 1 to be NaNon both devices and pass with the change, the full--no-browsersuite has an identical failure set before and after (all of itFloat16Array is not definedon this node version, which CI does not hit on node 26), andpnpm check,pnpm lint --max-warnings 0andpnpm format:checkare clean.