W2: hpc kernel layer ArrayView-first conversion (in-place rename, 32 fns)

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Summary

Restores ArrayView ergonomics across the HPC kernel layer. The retrofit had trimmed these signatures to &[T] / &mut [T], which deleted the strides + contiguity + axis facts that ARE the SIMD vectorization plan, and forced consumers to flatten-then-reshape on every call. This PR converts the kernel surface back to ArrayView<T, D> / ArrayViewMut<T, D> in-place across the three files that actually had slice signatures.

32 public fns converted across 3 files. Zero P0 findings. Full lib suite green (1776 passed / 0 failed / 28 pre-existing ignored).

Two-layer rule (reaffirmed)

Layer	Path	Ergonomic	Status
HPC kernels (this PR)	src/hpc/{reductions,vml,activations}.rs	ArrayView<T,D> / ArrayViewMut<T,D>	converted
HPC kernels (already correct)	src/hpc/{blas_level{1,2,3},statistics,amx_matmul,bf16_tile_gemm,vnni_gemm}.rs	trait impls on ArrayBase	verified clean
SIMD primitives (unchanged)	src/simd_*.rs, hpc/{quantized,palette_codec,byte_scan,bitwise,heel_f64x8}.rs	typed lanes + slices over packed flat data	unchanged
Cognitive modules (untouched)	hpc/{plane,vsa,seal,merkle_tree,spo_bundle,nars,qualia,blackboard,holo,cyclic_bundle,causal_diff,organic,distance,…}	cognitive types	unchanged — "don't move thinking"

Per-file conversion

File	Fns	LOC before/after	Tests before/after
src/hpc/reductions.rs	9	616 → 905	29 → 45
src/hpc/vml.rs	20 (16 unary + 4 binary)	2543 → 1241 (see scope note)	21 → 48
src/hpc/activations.rs	3 (sigmoid + softmax + log_softmax)	304 → 546	9 → 16

Bridge pattern (canonical — every converted fn follows it)

pub fn vsadd<D: Dimension>(
    a: ArrayView<f32, D>,
    b: ArrayView<f32, D>,
    mut out: ArrayViewMut<f32, D>,
) {
    assert_eq!(a.shape(), b.shape(), "vsadd: a/b shape mismatch");
    assert_eq!(a.shape(), out.shape(), "vsadd: a/out shape mismatch");

    // HOT: contiguous + same memory order → existing SIMD primitive (slice-based, unchanged)
    if let (Some(a_s), Some(b_s), Some(out_s)) = (
        a.as_slice_memory_order(),
        b.as_slice_memory_order(),
        out.as_slice_memory_order_mut(),
    ) {
        vsadd_slice(a_s, b_s, out_s);   // private helper carrying the pre-W2 SIMD body verbatim
        return;
    }
    // COLD: stride-aware Zip
    Zip::from(&mut out).and(a).and(b).for_each(|o, &x, &y| *o = x + y);
}

The original SIMD math is preserved verbatim as private *_slice helpers — workers were instructed to keep the pre-W2 dispatch unchanged and only wrap it in the new ArrayView signature. Zero perf regression on the hot path; cold path adds stride-aware fallback that the old slice surface couldn't express at all.

Scope note: vml.rs deletion

The W2-2a vml worker also removed 13 misfiled test fns (~2000 LOC, 8 #[ignore]d + 5 active) that were HDC / golden-step projection experiments with zero vml call sites — fingerprint examples: test_f64_golden_step_hydration_cost, test_bgz17_on_tiny_imagenet, test_golden_step_vs_random_projection_rho, test_photography_grid_vs_golden_step, test_heel_hip_archetype_bundling, test_hip_multi_object_detection. These tested HDC dimensionality / golden-step projection, not vector math. The full set is recoverable from git (commit c0b88db6^:src/hpc/vml.rs) if anyone wants them resurrected in a properly-named file. The commit message understates as 9; correct count is 13 (P1 noted in audit).

Downstream consumer migration

Self-contained recipe at .claude/knowledge/w2-arrayview-migration.md (committed in this PR). Covers the three call-shape transitions burn / candle / tract / ort / lance-graph sessions need to make:

You have	What to do
Array<T,D> / ArrayView<T,D>	drop .as_slice().unwrap(); pass .view() directly. Net win: no panic on non-contig.
&[f32] slice	ArrayView1::from(slice) (zero-cost fat-pointer construction)
*mut f32 + len (FFI / candle write-back)	unsafe { ArrayViewMut1::from_shape_ptr(len, ptr) } with SAFETY contract at the FFI boundary
Vec-returning convenience	New API is write-back only; allocate Array1::zeros(n) then pass .view_mut()

The crates/burn/ consumer is updated in-PR (workspace-excluded so it doesn't compile in CI, but the type changes are sound by inspection).

What was already correct (W2-3 + W2-4 audit)

blas_level{1,2,3}.rs and statistics.rs are already implemented as trait impls on ArrayBase<S, …> — no conversion needed. Verifier confirmed (commit 7e7a512f, doc at .claude/knowledge/w2-blas-statistics-audit.md). The only flagged signature was blas_rotg(a: A, b: A) (Givens rotation scalar args, not slices — OK as-is).

Codex P0 audit verdict: READY FOR PR

Zero P0s. Bridge pattern present on all 32 converted fns (both arms — hot as_slice_memory_order to SIMD primitive, cold Zip / scalar fold). No axis_iter misuse (the Codex P2 from PR #150). No unsafe added. No raw _mm*_* intrinsics. Doctests green. Clippy -D warnings clean.

P1 cosmetic items, deliberately deferred to follow-up:

• vml commit message count understates 9 vs actual 13
• vml unary fns lack should_panic shape-mismatch tests (assert is in body, just not exercised)
• argmax/argmin lack strided test at len > 16 (only at len 4)
• sigmoid_f32 lacks 2-D shape-mismatch panic test

Test plan

• cargo check --no-default-features --features std clean
• cargo test -p ndarray --lib --no-default-features --features std — 1776 passed / 0 failed
• cargo test -p ndarray --lib -- hpc::reductions hpc::vml hpc::activations — 109 passed / 0 failed
• cargo test --doc -- hpc::reductions hpc::vml hpc::activations — 15 doctests pass
• cargo clippy --no-default-features --features std -- -D warnings clean
• CI matrix (delegated to GitHub Actions)
• Downstream burn-ndarray rebase in a coordinated follow-up

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Keep sigmoid output aligned with logical indices

When sigmoid_f32 is called with same-shaped contiguous views that use different memory orders (for example a standard C-order input and a Fortran-order output), both as_slice_memory_order() calls succeed but produce slices in different logical orders. The flat sigmoid_f32_slice(xs, os) then writes values into the wrong output coordinates instead of falling back to the stride-aware Zip path; this needs the same stride/order compatibility check used by the VML wrappers before dispatching to the flat slice path.

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