pymc-devs / pymc-devs/pytensor

`SpecifyShape` should eagerly raise an error when static shapes disagree

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Description

Description

This came up in #885. The following graph will raise at compile time, but not during graph construction:

x = tensor("x", shape=(None, 5, 3))

# We avoid the helper specify_shape that optimizes some (but not all) cases eagerly
ss = SpecifyShape()
out = ss(x, None, 5, 4)

This should just raise immediately, since x has a static shape 3 on the 3rd dimension, and we're trying to specify a shape of 4.

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Start by locating the SpecifyShape operator and reproduce the example using tensor("x", shape=(None, 5, 3)) with a requested shape of (None, 5, 4). Done means the static mismatch raises during graph construction instead of only at compile time, with coverage for this case.

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Tech stack
python
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backend
Issue type
Bug
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2/5
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1-3 hours
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