Milestone v0.15.0: Top-Backlog Quick Wins (phases 10 + 11)

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Summary

Milestone v0.15.0 — Top-Backlog Quick Wins (phases 10 + 11)
Status: Verified ✓ (phase 10: 4/4 must-haves · phase 11: 9/9 must-haves)

Ships the top-4 items from the v0.14.0 audit backlog as real fdars-core code: two capability-gap closures (spline interpolation, functional summary statistics) and two performance wins (parallel CV folds, faer FPCA SVD). Every item lands with inline tests and numerical verification; the full crate suite (1948 tests) is green under both feature configurations, and clippy is clean.

Changes

Phase 10 — Capability Gaps

10-01 · Spline interpolation (FEAT-01)
spline_interpolate(data, argvals, query_points, order) -> Result<FdMatrix, FdarError> in helpers.rs: fits an order-k B-spline per curve over the existing basis/ system (knots → bspline_basis → SVD pseudoinverse → evaluate) and returns a new FdMatrix; re-exported at the crate root. Reproduces input exactly at on-grid points and known cubic-spline values within 1e-10 off-grid; existing linear-interpolation path retained (additive).

10-02 · Functional summary statistics (FEAT-02)
Five public Result-returning functions over FdMatrix in fdata.rs, re-exported at the crate root: functional_variance/functional_std (Bessel-corrected pointwise), functional_covariance (symmetric M×M, checked_mul overflow guard), depth_based_median and trim_mean (via fraiman_muniz_1d self-depth). Verified against hand-computed references + error paths.

Phase 11 — Performance Wins

11-01 · Parallel CV folds (PERF-01)
fclassif_cv's fold loop in classification/cv.rs now runs via iter_maybe_parallel!(0..nfold).map(...).collect() — parallel under the parallel feature, order preserved by indexed collect, bit-for-bit identical to sequential. Proven by test_fclassif_cv_parallel_matches_sequential. No new dependencies.

11-02 · faer FPCA SVD (PERF-02)
fdata_to_pc_1d in regression.rs computes its SVD via faer Svd::new_thin on a zero-copy MatRef::from_column_major_slice under #[cfg(feature = "linalg")] (eliminating the to_dmatrix() copy), retains the nalgebra path under #[cfg(not(feature = "linalg"))], and reconciles singular-vector signs via a shared fix_svd_signs helper. test_faer_svd_matches_nalgebra proves parity within 1e-8·σ₁. No new dependencies.

Source files touched: classification/cv.rs, fdata.rs, helpers.rs, lib.rs, regression.rs, spm/tests.rs (+1036 / −48).

Requirements Addressed

• FEAT-01 — Spline interpolation at off-grid query points (phase 10)
• FEAT-02 — Functional descriptive statistics over FdMatrix (phase 10)
• PERF-01 — Parallelize the fclassif_cv fold loop (phase 11)
• PERF-02 — Swap FPCA SVD to faer thin_svd behind linalg (phase 11)

Verification

• Phase 10 automated verification: passed (4/4 must-haves)
• Phase 11 automated verification: passed (9/9 must-haves)
• Full suite green: 1948 tests, both default and --features linalg/parallel; clippy clean; docs build with -Dwarnings
• Numerical equivalence tests for both perf changes (parallel==sequential; faer≈nalgebra within 1e-8·σ₁)

Advisory (non-blocking) — from phase-11 code review, tracked for follow-up

• The MEWMA SPE-alarm assertion in spm/tests.rs is now guarded against machine-noise reconstruction and is effectively skipped on the current test data — a companion under-fit test would restore coverage.
• fix_svd_signs silently no-ops on NaN rotation columns (no guard).
• test_fclassif_cv_parallel_matches_sequential proves call-to-call determinism rather than cross-mode equivalence (name overstates scope).

Key Decisions

• Both perf changes are additive and equivalence-tested — behavior is preserved bit-for-bit (CV folds) or within 1e-8·σ₁ (SVD); the non-linalg build keeps the nalgebra path verbatim.
• No new dependencies introduced by either performance change; faer is already an optional linalg-gated dep.
• Milestone promoted from the v0.14.0 audit's value-ranked backlog (score = value/√effort).

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