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RFC: add bincount

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
data

Research direction

Start with the RFC in issue #812 and compare the linked NumPy, PyTorch, CuPy, JAX, and Dask bincount documentation. Clarify compatible semantics, including JAX's length requirement and Dask's data-dependent shape representation. Done means the project has an agreed bincount specification.

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Description

API extension Needs Discussion RFC

It seems quite widely adopted:

Although I have not checked how compatible they are.

JAX in particular requires an extra length argument to statically define the length of the output array to make JIT possible and dask uses (nan,) shape to represent a data-dependent output shapes.

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