Matthias Boehm created SYSTEMML-2130:
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             Summary: Primitives to check the validity of sparse block 
representations
                 Key: SYSTEMML-2130
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYSTEMML-2130
             Project: SystemML
          Issue Type: Task
            Reporter: Matthias Boehm


This task aims to improve the debugging of our existing sparse block 
representations (MCSR, CSR, COO). We already have internal primitives such as 
{{ProgramBlock.checkSparsity}} and {{MatrixBlock.checkSparseRows}}, which are 
by default disabled but enabled on demand for debugging purposes.

In detail, it would be useful to extend the {{SparseBlock}} abstraction by a 
method {{checkValidity(int rlen, int clen, boolean strict)}} in order to 
validate the correctness of the internal data structures of the different 
sparse block implementations. For example, for CSR this would entail checks for 
(1) correct meta data, (2) correct array lengths, (3) non-decreasing row 
pointers, (4) sorted column indexes per row, (5) non-existing zero values, and 
(6) a capacity that is no larger than nnz times resize factor.    



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