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BUG: ufuncs created with np.frompyfunc do not recognize identity in reduce in numpy 1.25.X

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Description

Describe the issue:

Starting in numpy 1.25.0, it appears that the ufunc.reduce method does not recognize the identity argument for ufuncs created with np.frompyfunc

Reproduce the code example:
import numpy as np
import operator

print(np.__version__)

x = np.arange(10)
mask = x % 2 == 0
print(np.add.reduce(x, where=mask))

my_add = np.frompyfunc(operator.add, nin=2, nout=1, identity=0)
print(my_add.reduce(x, where=mask))
Error message:

Result in numpy 1.24.4:

1.24.4
20
20

Result in numpy 1.25.0:

1.25.0
20
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
[<ipython-input-7-a7d31df3c91a>](https://localhost:8080/#) in <cell line: 11>()
      9 
     10 my_add = np.frompyfunc(operator.add, nin=2, nout=1, identity=0)
---> 11 print(my_add.reduce(x, where=mask))

ValueError: reduction operation 'add (vectorized)' does not have an identity, so to use a where mask one has to specify 'initial'
Runtime information:
>>> import sys, numpy; print(numpy.__version__); print(sys.version)
1.25.0
3.10.12 (main, Jun 11 2023, 05:26:28) [GCC 11.4.0]
>>> print(numpy.show_runtime())
[{'numpy_version': '1.25.0',
  'python': '3.10.12 (main, Jun 11 2023, 05:26:28) [GCC 11.4.0]',
  'uname': uname_result(system='Linux', node='e87715ee78c7', release='5.15.109+', version='#1 SMP Fri Jun 9 10:57:30 UTC 2023', machine='x86_64')},
 {'simd_extensions': {'baseline': ['SSE', 'SSE2', 'SSE3'],
                      'found': ['SSSE3',
                                'SSE41',
                                'POPCNT',
                                'SSE42',
                                'AVX',
                                'F16C',
                                'FMA3',
                                'AVX2'],
                      'not_found': ['AVX512F',
                                    'AVX512CD',
                                    'AVX512_KNL',
                                    'AVX512_KNM',
                                    'AVX512_SKX',
                                    'AVX512_CLX',
                                    'AVX512_CNL',
                                    'AVX512_ICL']}},
 {'architecture': 'Haswell',
  'filepath': '/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/numpy.libs/libopenblas64_p-r0-7a851222.3.23.so',
  'internal_api': 'openblas',
  'num_threads': 2,
  'prefix': 'libopenblas',
  'threading_layer': 'pthreads',
  'user_api': 'blas',
  'version': '0.3.23'}]
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Context for the issue:

I am implementing jax.numpy.frompyfunc and had to special-case the tests in order to work around this bug: https://github.com/google/jax/pull/17275

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Research direction

Start by running the provided np.frompyfunc and ufunc.reduce reproduction on NumPy 1.24.4 and 1.25.0, then trace how the identity argument is handled for masked reductions. Done means the frompyfunc-created ufunc recognizes its identity with where=mask and the regression is covered by an appropriate test.

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