fix issue 3259

[lanluo-nvidia]

Description

Fixes # (issue) #3259
Also added testcases to capture the issue

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[narendasan]

Users would avoid this error if they switched from inputs to arg_inputs right? yes.

[narendasan]

We probably need to add error handling such that both arg inputs and inputs dont have something at the same time

[narendasan]

LGTM, make sure to cherry pick onto 2.5