Added a check in the HDF5 data reader to check that the metadata for

each field actually matches the dimensions of the data fields.

Added a helper function for conduit to allow the calculation of a
product of a data array's elements.

include/lbann/utils/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ set_full_path(THIS_DIR_HEADERS
   cloneable.hpp
   commify.hpp
   compiler_control.hpp
+  conduit_extensions.hpp
   dataset.hpp
   describable.hpp
   description.hpp

include/lbann/utils/conduit_extensions.hpp

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+// Copyright (c) 2014-2023, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
+// Produced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
+// Written by the LBANN Research Team (B. Van Essen, et al.) listed in
+// the CONTRIBUTORS file. <[email protected]>
+//
+// LLNL-CODE-697807.
+// All rights reserved.
+//
+// This file is part of LBANN: Livermore Big Artificial Neural Network
+// Toolkit. For details, see http://software.llnl.gov/LBANN or
+// http://github.com/LBANN.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "Licensee"); you
+// may not use this file except in compliance with the License.  You may
+// obtain a copy of the License at:
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+// implied. See the License for the specific language governing
+// permissions and limitations under the license.
+////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+
+#include "conduit/conduit_data_array.hpp"
+
+namespace conduit {
+
+template <typename T>
+T
+data_array_prod(DataArray<T> a)
+{
+    T res = 1;
+    for(index_t i = 0; i < a.number_of_elements(); i++)
+    {
+        const T &val = a.element(i);
+        res *= val;
+    }
+
+    return res;
+}
+
+} // conduit

src/data_readers/data_reader_HDF5.cpp

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 //
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 #include "conduit/conduit_relay_mpi.hpp"
+#include "lbann/utils/conduit_extensions.hpp"
 
 #include "lbann/data_readers/data_reader_HDF5.hpp"
 #include "lbann/data_readers/data_reader_sample_list_impl.hpp"
@@ -357,7 +358,23 @@ void hdf5_data_reader::load_sample(conduit::Node& node,
                                       original_path,
                                       node[new_pathname]);
       }
-
+      // Check that the dimensions of each node matches its metadata
+      if (metadata.has_child(HDF5_METADATA_KEY_DIMS)) {
+        int n_elts = node[pathname].dtype().number_of_elements();
+        conduit::int64_array data_array_dims = metadata[HDF5_METADATA_KEY_DIMS].value();
+        auto expected_n_elts = data_array_prod(data_array_dims);
+
+        if (n_elts != expected_n_elts) {
+          LBANN_WARNING("Ingesting sample field ",
+                        pathname,
+                        " for sample ",
+                        sample_name,
+                        " where the dimensions in the metadata don't match the actual field: ",
+                        expected_n_elts,
+                        " != ",
+                        n_elts);
+        }
+      }
       // check to see if there are integer types left in the sample and warn the
       // user
       auto dtype = node[new_pathname].dtype();