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MS_SSIMLoss.forward only checked that both tensors had the same number of dimensions, so an input of shape (2, C, H, W) against a target of shape (1, C, H, W) silently broadcast and returned a wrong loss (and wrong per-image maps with reduction="none"). The old error message also printed the tensor types instead of the shapes.

This replaces the ndim-only check with KORNIA_CHECK_SAME_SHAPE (the same check used by CharbonnierLoss and MutualInformationLoss), so mismatched shapes raise immediately with a clear message, and updates the existing ndim-mismatch assertion to the shared check's message. A changelog fragment is included.

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Fixes #6157

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New regression test test_shape_mismatch_raises fails before the fix (DID NOT RAISE) and passes after it; the full tests/losses/test_ssim.py module passes with no regressions.

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    • Improved MS_SSIMLoss validation: inputs must be 4D in BxCxHxW format and have matching shapes. Mismatched shapes are rejected even when Kornia checks are disabled.

The forward pass only verified that both tensors had the same number of dimensions, so an input of shape (2, C, H, W) against a target of shape (1, C, H, W) silently broadcast and produced a wrong loss and wrong per-image maps.

Use KORNIA_CHECK_SAME_SHAPE so mismatched shapes raise immediately, and update the existing ndim-mismatch assertion to the shared check's message.

Fixes kornia#6157

Signed-off-by: Charan Rathore <[email protected]>
Add a regression test for kornia#6157: a batch-2 input against a batch-1 target must raise instead of broadcasting silently.

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MS_SSIMLoss.forward now requires 4-D inputs with matching shapes. Tests cover both validation errors, including shape mismatches when Kornia checks are disabled. The changelog records these checks.

Changes: MS-SSIM shape validation

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Validate input shapes
kornia/losses/ms_ssim.py, tests/losses/test_ssim.py, changelog.d/6158.fixed.md
MS_SSIMLoss.forward rejects inputs that are not 4-D and inputs with different shapes. Tests check both errors, including with Kornia checks disabled. The changelog records the validation.

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The current error reports both shapes, but the tests would not catch losing that detail. Adding shape-specific assertions is a bounded follow-up; the changelog filename is corrected.

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Issue #6157 requires MS_SSIMLoss to reject non-4-D inputs and unequal input shapes, with both shapes in the error. The implementation adds separate 4-D checks and an unconditional exact-shape check that raises ShapeError. Tests cover 3-D inputs, unequal 4-D shapes, and the checks-disabled case. The linked coding requirements are met.

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Equal-shaped 3-D inputs passed the shape-equality check and fell through to conv2d's unbatched path, failing deep inside the loss with a confusing unflatten error. Reject non-BxCxHxW inputs up front, the same validation the ssim metric applies.

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Updated `MS_SSIMLoss` to enforce shape validation by rejecting mismatched input and target shapes, ensuring correct loss calculation.
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Good catch - adopted. Equal-shaped 3-D inputs did slip past the equality check into conv2d's unbatched path and died deep in unflatten with a confusing error. Added the same BxCxHxW rank validation the ssim metric applies (with a regression test for equal-shaped 3-D inputs), and extended the existing exception sweep to cover both cases. Full tests/losses/test_ssim.py: 79 passed, 1 skipped.

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… disabled KORNIA_CHECK_SAME_SHAPE is a no-op once Kornia checks are disabled globally, so a mismatched input/target pair could still broadcast silently. Compare the shapes unconditionally instead and raise with both shapes. Add a regression test for the checks-disabled path. Signed-off-by: Charan Rathore <[email protected]>
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Added a test to ensure shape mismatch raises ValueError even when checks are disabled.
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Remove license header and add tests for MS_SSIMLoss shape guard with checks disabled.
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Added comprehensive tests for SSIM and MS-SSIM loss functions, including shape checks, gradient checks, and various input scenarios.
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@coderabbitai Good catch, adopted. KORNIA_CHECK_SAME_SHAPE is a no-op once checks are disabled globally (disable_checks() / KORNIA_CHECKS=0), so the batch-2 vs batch-1 pair could still broadcast in that mode. Replaced it with an unconditional shape comparison that raises with both shapes, and added a regression test that fails on the old code with checks disabled and passes now. Full tests/losses/test_ssim.py run: 80 passed, 1 skipped.

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… shape mismatch; breaking fragment

The checks-disabled test re-enabled Kornia checks unconditionally, so a run with KORNIA_CHECKS=0
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a batch-1, channel-1, height-1 and width-1 target, and the rank test over 3-D, 5-D and 2-D pairs,
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Thanks. The check is right, with one change we pushed: a batch of one keeps broadcasting, because main computed it correctly.

The #6157 repro reproduces on main e057dd459. I went through every kind of mismatch on main. A batch-1 image against a batch-2 or batch-3 one, on either side and with every reduction, returned exactly the loss against the expanded image (bitwise), with only torch's l1_loss warning. That is a working call, not a wrong loss, so it keeps working here, and test_batch_of_one_broadcasts pins it in both argument orders. The wrong results were elsewhere: a height or width of 1 was broadcast and returned a wrong loss, more than 100 off the expanded target, and a 3-D (1, 5, W) pair returned a wrong value with a (5, W) map. Channel, width, height and other batch mismatches, and 5-D, other 3-D, 2-D and 1-D pairs, ended in a torch RuntimeError or IndexError. Only a rank mismatch raised ValueError, and it named the types. Here every one of those raises ValueError (ShapeError for a shape mismatch) and names the shapes. For valid inputs, the loss and both gradients are bitwise main over 240 CPU configurations (float16, bfloat16, float32 and float64; five shapes, three reductions, two sigma sets, two seeds) and 180 on MPS, and the batch-1 broadcast gives main's bits too. TorchScript still compiles the module and now reports the real message. torch.compile(fullgraph=True) builds the same number of frames as main for dynamic, automatic and static shapes, the broadcast included.

On the plain raise versus KORNIA_CHECK_SAME_SHAPE: ssim checks the rank and the shape with plain raises, and so does this function's own type check, so the plain raise follows the closest convention. It also keeps the check under python -O, where Kornia checks are off by default.

We pushed a main merge and two commits:

  • The shape check accepts equal batch sizes or a batch size of 1 on either side, and requires the same channels, height and width. The message says so, and a Convention bullet states the rule.
  • test_shape_mismatch_raises_when_checks_disabled re-enabled checks unconditionally in its finally. 029884e had fixed that, and 20efaf3 brought it back, so a run with KORNIA_CHECKS=0 left checks on for every later test. It now restores the state it found, as tests/contrib/test_extract_tensor_patch.py does.
  • The mismatch test covered only the batch axis, so a check comparing only shape[0], or only shape[:2], passed every test. It now uses a batch-3, channel-1, height-1 and width-1 target. The rank test now covers 3-D, 5-D and 2-D pairs, because an ndim >= 4 check passed before. All the new mismatch cases fail on main.
  • The fragment stays fixed and now says what each kind of input used to do: no call that returned a right value raises.

The two open CodeRabbit threads about the fragment name are stale (it has carried the PR number since 3dbb360), so we resolved them. The description still says the check uses KORNIA_CHECK_SAME_SHAPE; it is plain raises now, so you may want to update that sentence.

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Stale: every requested change is in at the current head (4-D check, shape check that also holds with checks disabled, PR-numbered fragment, concrete-shape assertions, prior check state restored in the disabled-checks test).

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[Bug]: MS_SSIMLoss doesn't check that img1 and img2 have the same shape, so a batch of 1 is silently broadcast

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