Increase ensemble member diversity for Kumo Tabular

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• New Features
  • Added rank-based Gaussian preprocessing for numerical data, mapping values to a standard-normal scale while handling ties and missing values.
  • Added a balanced categorical-shuffling option that distributes class shifts more evenly across ensemble members.
  • Updated the default recipe to consider rank-based preprocessing and use balanced categorical shuffling for categorical targets.

Walkthrough

The change adds and exports the RankGaussian numerical processor, adds the balanced_shift strategy to ShuffleCategories, and updates the Kumo tabular recipe to include both preprocessing strategies.

Changes

Preprocessing updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
RankGaussian processor and contract sdm/processing/..., test/processing/numerical/test_rank_gaussian.py, test/processing/test_contract.py	Adds a processor that fits finite-value mid-ranks and transforms values to standard-normal quantiles. Exports RankGaussian and adds numerical and processor contract tests.
Balanced categorical shifts sdm/processing/categorical/shuffle.py, test/processing/categorical/test_shuffle.py, test/processing/test_contract.py	Adds balanced_shift, which draws cyclic offsets without replacement and shares offset sequences across ensemble members. Tests cover balance, value preservation, reproducibility, and processor contracts.
Kumo recipe integration sdm/models/kumo/tabular/recipe.py	Adds RankGaussian as a numerical processor candidate and selects balanced_shift for categorical targets.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f1bf2

Seed the new test fixture for reproducible failures. No production behavior issue was established, so the change is otherwise mergeable.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 1 | ❓ 1

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 19 functions across 8 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Description check	❓ Inconclusive	No pull request description was added, so the changes and their rationale are not documented in the description.	Add a concise description that explains the new RankGaussian processor, the balanced_shift categorical strategy, and how these changes increase ensemble member diversity.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: increasing ensemble member diversity in Kumo Tabular through new preprocessing strategies.
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108-113: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Unseeded torch.randn in a test.

The path instructions require that tests control randomness "via fixed seeds or generators". The assertion compares two deterministic computations, so the outcome is stable. However, an unseeded failure cannot be reproduced. Pass a torch.Generator seed to torch.randn.

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In `@test/processing/numerical/test_rank_gaussian.py` around lines 108 - 113,
Update the test’s `torch.randn` calls that create `context` and `query` to use a
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existing tensor shapes and device.

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In `@test/processing/numerical/test_rank_gaussian.py`:
- Around line 108-113: Update the test’s `torch.randn` calls that create
`context` and `query` to use a fixed-seed `torch.Generator`, so failures are
reproducible while preserving the existing tensor shapes and device.

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• sdm/models/kumo/tabular/recipe.py
• sdm/processing/__init__.py
• sdm/processing/categorical/shuffle.py
• sdm/processing/numerical/__init__.py
• sdm/processing/numerical/rank_gaussian.py
• test/processing/categorical/test_shuffle.py
• test/processing/numerical/test_rank_gaussian.py
• test/processing/test_contract.py

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