feat(numpy_ops): support nanmin, nanmax, nanvar, and nanstd in tf.experimental.numpy - #130338

Problem & Motivation

tf.experimental.numpy provides drop-in NumPy parity for TensorFlow users, including reductions like nansum, nanprod, and nanmean. However, several essential NaN-handling reduction operations from NumPy were missing:

1. nanmin: finding the minimum value ignoring NaNs across specified axes.
2. nanmax: finding the maximum value ignoring NaNs across specified axes.
3. nanvar: computing the variance ignoring NaNs with degrees-of-freedom (ddof) support and complex dtype support.
4. nanstd: computing standard deviation ignoring NaNs.
5. In addition, np_math_ops.isnan failed with an InvalidArgumentError on complex dtypes because TensorFlow's underlying IsNan kernel does not support complex dtypes directly.

When migrating NumPy workloads that operate on datasets with missing/NaN values, users encountered AttributeError: module 'tensorflow.experimental.numpy' has no attribute 'nanmin' (or nanmax, nanvar, nanstd), and isnan raised errors on complex numbers.

Substantive Changes

• tensorflow/python/ops/numpy_ops/np_math_ops.py:
  • isnan:
    • Added complex dtype support matching isinf: evaluates real and imaginary components separately (math_ops.logical_or(isnan(real(x)), isnan(imag(x)))).
  • nanmin & nanmax:
    • Implemented @tf_export.tf_export('experimental.numpy.nanmin') and nanmax.
    • Returns amin/amax for exact dtypes (integers, booleans) without overhead.
    • Mask NaNs by replacing them with +inf (for nanmin) or -inf (for nanmax) before computing reductions.
    • Accurately tracks all-NaN slices using reduce_all(nan_mask) and restores NaN for slices containing only NaNs, conforming to NumPy's exact specification.
    • Supports initial scalar parameter for bounded min/max reductions.
    • Guards against unsupported out and where arguments with informative ValueError.
  • nanvar & nanstd:
    • Implemented @tf_export.tf_export('experimental.numpy.nanvar') and nanstd.
    • Handles exact dtypes by delegating to np_array_ops.var.
    • Handles working_dtype casting when dtype is provided.
    • Computes valid (non-NaN) element count across reduced axes.
    • Evaluates deviations centered at nanmean and calculates squared deviations (using real(diff * conj(diff)) for complex dtypes to ensure real variance).
    • Replaces NaNs in squared deviations with 0 prior to reduction.
    • Applies degrees of freedom adjustment dof = count - ddof; produces NaN when dof <= 0 (e.g. all-NaN slice or single element with ddof=1), matching NumPy.
    • Implements nanstd as sqrt(nanvar(...)).
• tensorflow/python/ops/numpy_ops/np_math_ops_test.py:
  • Added unit test suites testNanMinMax, testNanVarStd, and testIsNanComplex.
  • Tested across 1D, 2D, float32, float64, int32, bool, and complex128 inputs.
  • Validated axis=None, axis=0, axis=-1, keepdims=True, keepdims=False, initial, and ddof=0 / ddof=1.
  • Verified error conditions for unsupported out and where arguments.

Verification

All newly added functionality and unit tests were verified against NumPy:

• testIsNanComplex: Passed for complex128 arrays with both real and imaginary NaNs.
• testNanMinMax: Passed across float32, float64, int32, bool, all-NaN slices, keepdims, and initial parameters.
• testNanVarStd: Passed across float32, float64, int32, complex128, all-NaN slices, ddof=0, and ddof=1.
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