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package org.nd4j.linalg.api.ops;

import org.nd4j.linalg.api.buffer.DataType;
import org.nd4j.linalg.api.ndarray.INDArray;

public interface ReduceOp extends Op {

    /**
     * Returns the no op version
     * of the input
     * Basically when a reduce can't happen (eg: sum(0) on a row vector)
     * you have a no op state for a given reduction.
     * For most accumulations, this should return x
     * but certain transformations should return say: the absolute value
     *
     *
     * @return the no op version of the input
     */
    INDArray noOp();

    /**
     * This method returns dimensions for this op
     * @return
     */
    INDArray dimensions();

    long[] dimensionsArr();

    @Deprecated
    boolean isComplexAccumulation();

    Type getOpType();

    /**
     * This method returns TRUE if we're going to keep axis, FALSE otherwise
     *
     * @return
     */
    boolean isKeepDims();

    /**
     * This method returns datatype for result array wrt given inputs
     * @return
     */
    DataType resultType();

    DataType resultType(OpContext oc);

    boolean validateDataTypes(OpContext oc);

    Number getFinalResult();

    void setDimensions(long... dimensions);
}
