NVIDIA / NVIDIA/cccl

[FEA]: Identify gaps in tensor algorithms coverage

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### Is this a duplicate?

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### Area

CUB

### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

As of https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl/issues/7277 @fbusato added tensor copy algorithm. We occasionally get requests for other classes of tensor algorithms, such as reductions and cumulative sums along a dimension. Before opening implementation issues, we should identify which algorithms need `mdspan` overloads or tensor-aware APIs.

### Describe the solution you'd like

As a first step, we should review CuPy (cc @leofang) and similar array libraries to see which generic kernels they had to reimplement to support multidimensional, strided, broadcasted, or axis-based input. This should help us distinguish cases covered by existing primitives from cases where users still need custom tensor kernels.

This issue can be closed with a comment summarizing the findings of
1) Should CCCL add more mdspan-based algorithms?
2.) If so, file issues describing which ones

### Describe alternatives you've considered

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