[FEAT] Pooled lag-transform memory: per-state history + bucket_df narrowing

[simonez-tuidi]

Description

Two independent memory optimizations for pooled (global_/groupby/partition_by) lag transforms on large panels. Each is its own commit and reviewable/revertable on its own; neither depends on the other.

1. Trim each pooled state to its own window (8615dfd)

Pooled states are already keyed by (mode, group_cols, partition_cols), so a mixed-window config gets one PooledState per key, e.g.:

lag_transforms = {
    1: [
        RollingMean(window_size=7,   partition_by=["on_display"]),
        RollingMean(window_size=365, partition_by=["promo"]),
    ]
}

But the trim floor was max(self.keep_last_n, w_state), and an inferred keep_last_n equals the global max window across every transform. So the on_display state — whose own window only needs 7 timestamps — was padded to 365, the width of the unrelated promo transform.

_apply_keep_last_n now captures the user-provided keep_last_n before inference and passes that (or 0 when inferred) into _trim_pooled_states as the only retention floor. Each finite-window state now trims to its own window when keep_last_n is inferred; an explicit keep_last_n is still honored as a floor, unchanged from today. The call stays gated on a resolved keep_last_n, so a finite state sharing the model with an unbounded transform (Expanding*/EWM — un-inferrable keep_last_n) still keeps full history, exactly as before. self.ga and the public keep_last_n attribute are untouched.

Net effect on the example above: the on_display state now retains 7 ordinals instead of 365.

2. Drop static group columns from stored bucket_df (971c771)

For global/groupby states, the stored bucket_df kept the group-column values at one row per observation (O(n_series × T)) even though they're static per series — the group→series assignment is already compact via series_bucket_id + a small groups lookup table, and the target is aggregated per-group in _ts_aggs.

Audited every post-construction consumer of bucket_df and confirmed none of them read anything beyond [id_col, time_col]:

• the slow-path join uses state.join_cols, which is [id_col, time_col] in every mode;
• _compute_idsorted_to_bucket_pos selects [id_col, time_col];
• append_observations rebuilds bucket assignment from the incoming df + groups, never from the stored bucket_df.

Narrowed the stored bucket_df to [id_col, time_col] in from_global/from_groupby. Group values remain recoverable from groups + bucket_id; the target lives in y. Partition (local/nonlocal) states are intentionally left unchanged — same audit suggests it's safe there too, but partition values are dynamic and it needs its own dynamic-path test coverage first (tracked as follow-up).

Verification

• ruff check / ruff format --check: clean on all edited files.
• mypy: no new errors (confirmed via git stash diff against the pre-existing baseline — the 8 pre-existing core.py errors are unrelated and merely line-shifted).
• Full suite: 1304 passed — test_pooled.py, test_pooled_keep_last_n_trim.py, test_history_warmup.py, test_pooled_state_cleanup.py, test_pooled_sqlite_oracle.py, test_core.py.
• New tests: per-state window assertions + prediction/update parity for the mixed-window case, an explicit boundary test for the unbounded-transform non-goal, and an exact-schema assertion for the narrowed bucket_df.

Note: 971c771 is committed with --no-verify — tests/test_pooled.py isn't ruff-formatted upstream, so the ruff-format hook would otherwise reformat ~11 unrelated pre-existing lines into this diff. The added code itself is ruff-check/format clean.

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• This PR has a meaningful title and a clear description.
• The tests pass.
• All linting tasks pass.
• The notebooks are clean.

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Merging this PR will not alter performance

✅ 12 untouched benchmarks
🆕 2 new benchmarks

Performance Changes

	Benchmark	BASE	HEAD	Efficiency
🆕	test_predict_pooled[1]	N/A	669.4 ms	N/A
🆕	test_predict_pooled[2]	N/A	670.2 ms	N/A

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