Add experimental infer_stypes(_low_cardinality: bool) - #987
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Type numerical columns with two or three distinct values as categorical on request, and use it in the Kumo TabArena adapter. Signed-off-by: Jingang Qu <jqu@nvidia.com>
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WalkthroughThe change adds an optional policy for inferring low-cardinality numeric columns as categorical across Arrow, pandas, and cuDF. The Kumo tabular model records training categories and applies them during preprocessing. ChangesLow-Cardinality Numeric Categoricals
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new opt-in categorical inference can give different results for the same data on pandas and Arrow. It can also fail on pandas decimal columns. Default behavior is unchanged, but these gaps should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@sdm/stype.py`:
- Around line 383-385: Normalize NaN values to nulls before the distinct-count
checks in the Arrow type-inference path in sdm/stype.py, including the prefix
count around `count_distinct`. Ensure both counts apply the same normalization
so NaN and null are treated as one missing value, matching pandas inference.
- Around line 259-260: Update `_infer_pandas_stype` to recognize object columns
whose values pandas `infer_dtype` classifies as decimal, and apply
`_is_series_low_cardinality` for `low_cardinality="infer"` before the
unsupported-dtype error. Preserve existing behavior for other object columns.
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| if low_cardinality != "off" and _is_series_low_cardinality(ser): | ||
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Support pandas decimal columns in the new policy.
When a pandas column contains Decimal values, its object dtype does not enter this numeric branch. _infer_pandas_stype then raises TypeError, even if 151 rows contain only two decimal values. Detect decimal-valued object columns for low_cardinality="infer", or narrow the documented backend contract. Pandas identifies these values as "decimal" through infer_dtype. (pandas.pydata.org)
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In `@sdm/stype.py` around lines 259 - 260, Update `_infer_pandas_stype` to
recognize object columns whose values pandas `infer_dtype` classifies as
decimal, and apply `_is_series_low_cardinality` for `low_cardinality="infer"`
before the unsupported-dtype error. Preserve existing behavior for other object
columns.
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| options = pc.CountOptions(mode="all") | ||
| prefix = array.slice(0, _LOW_CARDINALITY_PREFIX_ROWS) | ||
| num_unique = pc.call_function("count_distinct", [prefix], options).as_py() |
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Count NaN and null as one missing value in Arrow.
For an Arrow float column containing 1.0, 2.0, null, and NaN across more than 150 rows, this check counts four distinct values and leaves the column numerical. The equivalent pandas check counts three and infers categorical. Normalize Arrow NaNs to nulls before both distinct counts so the backends follow the documented missing-value rule. Arrow treats NaN as distinct from null unless explicitly instructed otherwise. (arrow.apache.org)
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In `@sdm/stype.py` around lines 383 - 385, Normalize NaN values to nulls before
the distinct-count checks in the Arrow type-inference path in sdm/stype.py,
including the prefix count around `count_distinct`. Ensure both counts apply the
same normalization so NaN and null are treated as one missing value, matching
pandas inference.
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low_cardinality to infer_stypesinfer_stypes(_low_cardinality: bool)
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Summary
low_cardinalitypolicy toinfer_stypes. Withlow_cardinality="infer", integer, floating-point and decimal columns with two or three distinct values (missing counted as one) in tables of more than 150 rows are inferred as categorical, since such columns usually hold category codes, such as 0/1 flags. This mirrors TabPFN's categorical inference for numerical columns with fewer than four distinct values. The default,"off", keeps the current behavior. pandas, pyarrow and cudf inputs are supported, and a short prefix of each column is checked first, so most columns are ruled out without a full pass.SDMKumoTabularModel, as AutoGluon's feature generator hands binary columns over asint8. The adapter's recipe runs withoutAlignCategories(Avoid running unnecessaryAlignCategories#973), so the categories of these columns are pinned to those seen in training, in value order, asAlignCategories(sort_by="value")would; unseen values become missing.Result
TabArena (51 datasets, 816 outer splits) on an H100 with the
KumoTabularv1.0.0 weights;largeuses 16 estimators. The left columns are this PR (rule on) and the right columns aremain(rule off), each scored in its own pool. Elo is only comparable within a table.All tasks (51 datasets, 816 splits)
Classification (38 datasets, 594 splits)
Regression (13 datasets, 222 splits)